On Assignment - Season 9

Season 9

Episodes

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4
As India prepares to mark 75 years since partition this August, Ria Chatterjee travels to New Delhi to explore intensifying divisions between Hindus and Muslims in the country. Nina Nannar is in Los Angeles asking whether the trillion-dollar wellness industry, offering treatments like oxygen tanks, ice baths, infrared lamps and intravenous nutrients, really can offer people a happier and healthier life.

Episode 5
Ria Chatterjee investigates dowry abuse in India, a marriage custom which is banned there but still rife and is leading some women to take their own lives. Elsewhere, Antoine Allen is in Sweden looking at how the country is tackling an alarming rise of gun violence.

Episode 6
John Ray travels to Kenya's capital Nairobi to investigate how the country is coping with a growing economic crisis caused in part by the war in Ukraine and global inflation. Daniel Hewitt visits the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a province of France since the 18th century, to find out why violence erupted on the streets earlier this year.

Episode 7
Neil Connery heads to Poland to find how the country is coping with caring for the millions of refugees who crossed into the country when the war in neighbouring Ukraine started. Elsewhere, Deborah Cohen is in Spain, where the country is suffering its driest climate in more than 1,000 years. As water grows scarcer, she learns that some are using illegal means to tap into sources deep below the surface.

Episode 8
John Ray investigates the devastating affects flooding has had in Kenya's great lakes region, where swelling waters have swallowed schools, villages and whole forests. Geraint Vincent travels to Bulgaria to meet an architect fighting to save the greatest icon to the country's communist past, as it re-evaluates its relationship with Soviet-era monuments and statues. And, In the remote forests of Romania, Romilly Weeks is on the hunt to find Europe's largest wild mammal, the bison.

Episode 9
Rageh Omaar travels to Taiwan, where tensions between the island state and China, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province, are at an all-time high. Lucy Watson is in the West Bank following the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead while covering a raid by the Israel Defence Force, while Rachel Younger heads to Germany where businesses, local governments and households have been asked to slash energy consumption to tackle a looming energy crisis caused by the country previous reliance on Russian gas - but how solid is resolve there in the face of the hardship that restrictions may bring?

Episode 10
A decade has passed since shockwaves reverberated around the world at the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut. Robert Moore reported on the massacre at the time and returns to the local town of Newtown to meet two parents who lost children that day.
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