Assignment is a weekly 23-minute current affairs programme reporting from locations around the world.
BBC correspondents report first-hand and in-depth on topical issues and events shaping our world.
It's a personal journey, highly reactive to global events and always looking for the human story – those most affected, whether the victims, the witnesses, or even the perpetrators.
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Allan Little returns to the scene of the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster in India.
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Did Argentine officers commit war crimes against their own troops in the Falklands War?
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Assignment goes on the trail of a deadly African militia operating out of Euorpe.
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Available since Thu, 19 Nov 2009.
An investigation into new dealing practices by some banks.
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Available since Mon, 16 Nov 2009.
Assignment hears harrowing eye-witness accounts of a massacre in Guinea.
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