Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?

Every single second, 20,000 single-use drinking bottles are sold around the world

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What would war with North Korea look like?

We reveal the conversations inside the war rooms

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Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?

You might think simple rules decide the creation of nation states. You'd be wrong.

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Are South Africa's Police Failing?

A story of crime and often no punishment

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How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?

Smears, bots and bags of cash - stories of old tricks and new.

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Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

Gaming is replacing work for some young men in the US

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How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?

Why the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan continues to exist

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What Can We Do With Our Dead?

Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.

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How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?

Do we have the power to avoid the natural forces of intense rainfall?

• 22 mins

Can China solve the North Korea problem?

Can China persuade North Korea to step back from its nuclear ambitions?

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Could We Ban the Sale of Petrol and Diesel Cars Now?

Can the electric car rule the road?

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Is Privacy Dead?

Can we protect our privacy in the digital age?

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Can We Teach Robots Ethics?

From driverless cars to "carebots", machines are entering the realm of right and wrong.

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Is the Pope Catholic?

Inside the fierce debate dividing the Roman Catholic Church

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How Do You End A Civil War?

Why internal conflicts end and what it might mean for Syria.

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How Powerful is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard?

The growth and reach of a group labelled a ‘terror force’ by President Trump

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Is the Knowledge Factory Broken?

Dodgy data, contradictory findings, perverse incentives – the challenges facing academia

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What Does the Saudi Crown Prince Want?

He has pushed through reforms but some fear there is a darker desire driving the ruler

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Why Doesn’t Apple Pay More Tax?

Examining claims that the world’s most profitable company is aggressively dodging tax

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What Would an Iran-Saudi Arabia War Look Like?

Tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia are at an unprecedented level

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Are We Missing a Bigger Opioid Crisis?

While the US suffers an overdose epidemic, most of the world misses out on painkillers

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How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

What does Facebook’s computer code do with the data we give it?

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How Do We Rule The Universe?

Governing moon miners, asteroid hunters and space junk

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North Korea deep dive

Nuclear ambitions and a war of words, a deep dive into the North Korea crisis

• 49 mins

What’s The Point Of Bitcoin?

Making sense of the digital currency and the ideology of its founders, fans and future

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Is Zero Tolerance the Right Approach for FGM?

Some experts are questioning the international campaign against Female Genital Mutilation

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What is IS doing in the Philippines?

In 2017 the black flag of the Islamic State group flew over the city of Marawi

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What’s the Greatest Threat to Poland?

The EU’s triggered the ‘nuclear option’ against Poland, is something bigger at stake?

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What Does China Want in the South China Sea?

The South China Sea's hotly contested waters could be a flashpoint for conflict in 2018

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How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?

The story of how the search for a material to replace ivory changed our lives forever

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