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Global Eye

Mon, Sep 8, 2025
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Award-winning investigations - revealing secrets, rooting out injustice, and exposing crime, corruption, and abuse. The biggest stories from BBC correspondents all over the world.

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Episodes

2 seasons · 29 episodes

Running · 29 aired
Season 2025
15 episodes · 15 aired
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  • E1
    Inside Kharkiv
    Aired · Mon, Sep 8, 2025 · 30m

    In the first episode, we hear from residents in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Nawal Al-Maghafi reports on the escalating crisis in Sudan.

  • E2
    The 'Disappeared' Children of Syria
    Aired · Mon, Sep 15, 2025 · 30m

    Jean Mackenzie reports on the political turmoil in South Korea following the short-lived declaration of martial law last year.

  • E3
    Inside a Pro-Russian Fake News Operation
    Aired · Mon, Sep 22, 2025 · 30m

    A BBC Eye undercover reporter exposes a fake news operation in Moldova in Eastern Europe as the country prepares to go to the polls.

  • E4
    Inside Kenya's Brutal Protest Crackdown
    Aired · Mon, Sep 29, 2025 · 30m

    An investigation exposing members of the security forces who shot dead protesters at Kenya's parliament in 2024. And from Nairobi, Waihiga Mwaura explores the aftermath.

  • E5
    Mystery of the Vanished Lebanese Political Leader
    Aired · Mon, Oct 6, 2025 · 30m

    New evidence may hold the clue to the fate of a Middle Eastern political leader missing for more than 40 years, and Will Grant reports from Havana on Cuba's economic crisis.

  • E6
    Investigating West Africa's Opioid Crisis
    Aired · Mon, Oct 13, 2025 · 30m

    This week, an investigation into unlicensed opioids that have been driving a major public health crisis in West Africa, and Diyva Arya is in Indian Administered Kashmir.

  • E7
    Living Under Hong Kong's "Patriot Law"
    Aired · Mon, Oct 20, 2025 · 30m

    BBC Eye uncovers a growing culture of surveillance and informants in Hong Kong, and Carine Torbey reports on how what is happening in Lebanon could shape the future of the entire Middle East.

  • E8
    The Gen Z Protests Shaking the World
    Aired · Mon, Oct 27, 2025 · 30m

    The Eye team uncovers what happened during the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. And Sammy Awami is in Madagascar.

  • E9
    Uncovering the Dark Side of Dubai
    Aired · Mon, Nov 3, 2025 · 30m

    The team goes undercover to expose an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, and Stephanie Hegarty is in Peru to report on the plight of one of the world's largest uncontacted tribes.

  • E10
    Petroleum, Pollution and Paramilitaries in Colombia
    Aired · Mon, Nov 10, 2025 · 30m

    Investigation of a disturbing trend of wildlife deaths along Colombia's lifeblood, the River Magdalena, and Camilla Mota reports from Brazil ahead of the latest United Nations climate talks.

  • E11
    What Really Happened in Haditha
    Aired · Mon, Nov 17, 2025 · 30m

    New evidence raises doubts about the US investigation and trial for the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. And Anna Foster reports from Baghdad.

  • E12
    Unmasking China's Cryptoqueen
    Aired · Mon, Nov 24, 2025 · 30m

    The incredible story of the Chinese woman behind behind the scam that led to the world's biggest bitcoin seizure and Shawn Yuan is in the Pacific Island Nation of Palau.

  • E13
    The Fight For Georgia
    Aired · Mon, Dec 1, 2025 · 30m

    In this week's episode, BBC Eye investigates allegations that police in the former former Soviet republic, Georgia used a chemical weapon against protestors and Elizaveta Fokht reports from Berlin on Russia's shadow war against the West.

  • E14
    Inside South Africa's Hijacked Buildings
    Aired · Mon, Dec 8, 2025 · 30m

    Nomsa Maseko reports from South Africa in the wake of the first-ever G20 on African soil. In two exclusive reports, Eye Investigations hears from residents of abandoned and hijacked buildings just a few kilometres from the summit location and, in the province of Free State, meets some of President Trump's South African refugees.

  • E15
    The Global Scam Exploiting Kids with Cancer
    Aired · Mon, Dec 15, 2025 · 30m

    BBC Eye's Simi Jolaoso reports on a global scam network that claims to raise millions of dollars for children with cancer in war zones and deprived areas, but none of the funds raised ever reach them.

Season 2026
14 episodes · 14 aired
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  • E1
    The Greenlanders Fighting To Get Their Children Back
    Aired · Mon, Jan 5, 2026 · 30m

    In this week's episode, how Greenlandic parents across Denmark are fighting to be reunited with children forcibly taken into care. Andrew Harding reports from Paris on whether the French Republic, created to bring stability after years of upheaval, can still hold together today.

  • E2
    The Next Frontier of Artificial Intelligence
    Aired · Mon, Jan 12, 2026 · 30m

    AI is changing everything – from how we work to how we live. Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy is in Silicon Valley, California, the beating heart of the AI revolution to report on exactly what's at stake.

  • E3
    Giving Birth in the Occupied West Bank
    Aired · Mon, Jan 19, 2026 · 30m

    Emir Nader reports from Jerusalem on the impact of the Israel-Gaza war and there's a special report from the BBC Eye team who spent a year at the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem

  • E4
    Interpol's Russia Problem
    Aired · Mon, Jan 26, 2026 · 30m

    BBC Eye reveals allegations Interpol's systems are being abused by Russia in order to repress dissidents abroad, and Katya Adler reports from Greenland.

  • E5
    Putin's Foreign Fighters
    Aired · Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 30m

    The foreigners lured to fight on the front line for Russia, and more than a year on from the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus on the challenges of building a new Syria.

  • E6
    Ukraine: Growing Up Without Dad
    Aired · Mon, Feb 23, 2026 · 30m

    Zhanna Bezpiatchuk reports from Ukraine's capital Kyiv on four years of war, death, destruction, resilience and hope.

  • E7
    The Untold Story of Nepal's Mass Protests
    Aired · Mon, Mar 2, 2026 · 30m

    We go behind the mass protests in Nepal that toppled the government. Eyewitness accounts reveal how unarmed demonstrators were killed as authorities lost control of the crowds.

  • E8
    The Week That Changed The Middle East
    Aired · Mon, Mar 9, 2026 · 30m

    Carine Torbey is in Lebanon reporting on the impact of the US-Israel war with Iran in an extraordinary week when longstanding tensions finally erupted into open conflict.

  • E9
    Battling Islamic State Group in Somalia
    Aired · Mon, Mar 16, 2026 · 30m

    We follow Puntland forces on the front line in far-eastern Somalia and Kalkidan Yibeltal has rare access to Jonglei state in South Sudan, where conflict threatens a fragile peace.

  • E10
    Inside Australia's Big Social Experiment
    Aired · Mon, Mar 23, 2026 · 30m

    The accounts of women repressed by the Iranian government during the 2022 protests and Katy Watson reports on Australia's first of its kind social media ban for under 16s, three months on.

  • E11
    The global trade fuelling one of the world's biggest wildlife crimes
    Aired · Mon, Mar 30, 2026 · 30m

    BBC Eye reveals how soaring global demand for eels has fuelled a vast illegal trade worth billions and Rebecca Henschke reports from Indonesia on how the archipelago's natural wealth is under threat.

  • E12
    Inside China's Schools for 'Rebellious' Teens
    Aired · Mon, Apr 6, 2026 · 30m
  • E13
    How Pakistan Positioned Itself As a Peace Broker
    Aired · Mon, Apr 13, 2026 · 30m
  • E14
    The Groundbreaking Process Helping Kenyans Find UK Soldier Dads
    Aired · Mon, Apr 20, 2026 · 30m