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In the last 50 years, the proportion of asthma and allergy sufferers in industrialised countries has risen from five to 30 per cent. This is likely due to the lack of diversity of microbes in our increasingly germ-free environment. This documentary look at how microbes affect our health and how we can plan urban space to renew our contact with the natural world.

Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

The Power of Microbes

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Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni's far right is set to make access to Italian nationality easier. The country follows the example of Germany which also relaxed the requirements for acquiring citizenship in June. But with almost one million people having obtained the nationality of a European Union member state by 2022 - is a brighter and more diverse future ahead for the EU?

European Citizenship: How easy is it to obtain?

ARTE Europe Weekly

In recent years, works by photographers who lived in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall have been rediscovered and reappraised.  An exclusive look at a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photoshoot: Propaganda and Daily Life

An exclusive look at photography from the GDR, a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photo Shoot

For decades there has been bloody fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. Numerous peace negotiations in recent years have failed, with only occasional fragile ceasefires. On Saturday, 7 October, hundreds of Israelis were killed and thousands injured in a Hamas attack on Israel. Israel's counter-attack has led to over 35,000 in Gaza dying.

Israel-Palestine: ARTE's coverage of the long-running conflict

Focus on the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict and its wider repercussions.

Israel-Palestine: A Never-Ending Conflict

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder for the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra at Munich's Isar Philharmonic.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder at Munich's Isarphilharmonie.

Simon Rattle conducts Schoenberg

Enclaves, loaned territories, disputed areas and microstates: This is the series that looks at places with absurd borders.

More absurd geopolitics: A new season of Crazy Borders

The series that looks at 10 places with complicated and absurd borders.

Crazy Borders

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Climate change is making the weather increasingly unpredictable and volatile. Extreme weather events are on the increase: In a matter of minutes, hailstorms can destroy an entire year's harvests and flash floods can take lives and destroy homes. What are the causes of these extreme phenomena? And how bad could they become in future?

Hail, thunderstorms, flash floods: Why are these extreme weather events happening?

Extreme Weather Events

Forty years ago, in June 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israelis. A small guerrilla group came together in secret to resist this offensive. Formed and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, it officially declared itself in 1985 as Hezbollah: The Party of God.
Four decades later, this small group has grown to become one of the most important military and political forces in the Middle East. A party of resistance for some, a terrorist group for others, Hezbollah is admired as much as it is feared. But the organisation, practically a state within a state, is living through turbulent times as Lebanon is experiencing a major political and economic crisis.

Focus on Lebanon's state within a state

As Hezbollah attacks Israel:Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group supported by Iran.

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah

In Ireland, the River Shannon meanders between wet marshes and green plains before ending its journey at Limerick, in an estuary populated by dolphins. A trip along Ireland’s longest river to discover the people and landscapes of the Emerald Isle.

A trip along Ireland’s longest river to discover the people and landscapes of the Emerald Isle.

The Shannon: Ireland's Great River

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into the political landscape and daily life. But behind an increasingly smooth and respectable façade lies an ideology that remains fundamentally racist and violent. An in-depth focus into an ecosystem of extreme ideology in France, Germany, and Belgium.

Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into politics and daily life, but remains fundamentally violent and racist. 

White Power

The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh are losing their colours. The paints he used were vibrant, but cheap, and degraded within months of painting. It's now impossible to appreciate the true beauty of his works, as his flamboyant flare for colours has slowly turned drab. If nothing is done, the Sunflowers which are still a beautiful gold today could well turn brown. Should we just accept they can't be saved?

Why are their colours fading?

Saving Van Gogh's Works

The immune system is as vital to the human body as the heart or the lungs. It protects us from harm survival but can also turn against us. This documentary looks at the latest scientific discoveries around this complex and fascinating system, and how it can be strengthened.

In-depth doc: How our immune systems protect us, but can harm us too

The immune system is vital to the human body and protects us from harm, but it can also turn against us. 

Our Immune System - A Powerful Guardian

The number of migrants crossing the border from Mexico into the USA has increased over the last few years. The USA’s southern frontier and how to welcome (or not) migrants into the states is a major issue at this year’s presidential elections. ARTE visited both sides of the border to find out more about this burning issue.

USA: Trump's Wall

Migration continues to be a burning issue, and could be a decisive topic at November's presidential election.

ARTE Reportage

The Kills are back, and they have every intention of putting the rock into La Route du Rock! Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince combine the classic hits with new material for a sardine-packed audience.

The Kills electrify La Route du Rock 2024

Rock duo The Kills electrify La Route du Rock!

The Kills

Rowing, and the eight in particular, has a long tradition that is not just about sport: political influence, relationships and women's fight for equal rights have also played a major role. This documentary follows the German men's eight as it prepares for Paris 2024 as well as the historic Boat Race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

With all eyes on the Olympic Games in Paris, the documentary sheds light on the myth of the eight-man rowing team.

Eight on Board: A History of Rowing

Alternative icons Arcade Fire are known for their rousing performances, and this one, captured at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival, is no exception. A journey of pure poetic energy

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Canada's Arcade Fire live up to their storming reputation in Bilbao.

Arcade Fire

Alice and Gabrielle are expecting a child. After three years of IVF they are final they are finally going to become mothers. While Alice watches her belly grow, Gabrielle tries to find her role. Even if it means taking on a little too much in the living room...

Alice and Gabrielle are expecting a child. In this tender and funny series, two women build a family in a heteronormative world.

Two Mothers, One Child

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How are extremist Israeli settlers taking over land on the West Bank? Data Sources reveals the extent to which illegal outposts contribute to harassing and ultimately driving out the Palestinians from their homes. A strategy supported by the Israeli government.

Colonisation on the West Bank

How extremist Israeli settlers are using violence to seize the land from Palestinians on the West Bank.

Data Sources

The attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 shocked the whole world. While Israeli bombardments continue to claim countless victims in Gaza, a group of Israelis and Palestinians are seeking to break the vicious cycle of violence. All of them have lost loved ones and all want the same thing: a lasting peace.

A group of Israelis and Palestinians are seeking to break the vicious cycle of violence and build a lasting peace.

Re: Dialogue in the Middle East

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society, awakening terrible memories of pogroms and the Holocaust. As Israel tries to deal with this trauma, attitudes are hardening to the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Israel: Commemorating October 7th

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

In a derelict hotel known as a Hezbollah stronghold, a few kilometres north of Nabatiyeh, around sixty Shia families have found refuge. They all come from villages close to the border with Israel.

Lebanon the War with No Name

The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on Lebanon's southern border is turning villagers' lives upside down.

 "Gaza. Life" is the name of journalist Rami Abu Jamus' WhatsApp group, in which he has been sharing news from his everyday life in Gaza with his friends for many years. From 7 October 2023, "Gaza. Life" became his digital diary about the war.

Surviving in Gaza: One journalist's experience

A year of war in Gaza: the digital diary of journalist Rami Abu Jamus and his family. 

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war. Their ideology is as ferociously anti-American and antisemitic, as it is pro-Palestine with young people indoctrinated into a strict religious view of the world that burns with anger.

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war.

Yemen: Houthi Fury

The number of Israeli operations in Palestinian resistance strongholds in the West Bank is increasing. Operation Summer Camps, launched at the end of August 2024, is the longest Israeli military operation in the West Bank since the battle of Jenin during the second intifada.

West Bank: The Battle of the Camps

The number of Israeli operations in Palestinian resistance strongholds in the West Bank is increasing.

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

West Bank: Prisoners of War

For 15 years, Edward Kaprov has been photographing Israelis and Palestinians along Israel's borders, the dividing lines between two visions of the same land. In the kibbutzes around Gaza, in the Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements of the West Bank, and in the Bedouin hamlets close to Lebanon.

Israël-Palestine: Borderlines

Photographer Edward Kaprov has been taking photos along Israel’s borders for the last 15 years.

While some are killing, others are trying to save lives: In Gaza, where hospitals are overwhelmed or out of action, the task is proving almost impossible. In Israel, health workers are struggling to overcome the trauma of 7 October.

Focus on health care workers in Gaza and Israel who are trying to save lives in war.

Saving Lives in Gaza and Israel

What exactly is Hamas? Is it the Muslim Brotherhood's instrument to keep people in Gaza under Islamic law? Has it been manipulated by Israel to discredit the Palestinian Authority and sabotage the two-state solution? Or is it a pawn of Iran to attack Israel?
In this documentary, journalist Sofia Amara gained access to key figures in order to understand Hamas and its aims, as well as to paint a picture of the current state of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Hamas: Creating a Monster

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Hidden from the world's attention, radical settlers in the occupied Bank have been displacing more and more Palestinians from their villages in recent weeks. Faced with threats and violence, residents of the Bedouin village of Wadi Al Siq in the Jordan Valley abandoned their hills. South of Hebron, in Wadi Al Tiran, some families are still holding out. The inhabitants of the nearby village of Zanuta have already left.

Palestinians are being displaced from their villages in the occupied West Bank by settlers.

Occupied West Bank: The Hidden Conflict

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.
With reports coming in of multi-story homes being leveled in the area and dead children being brought to a nearby hospital, Alaloul received the devastating news that four of his children, four brothers, and three nephews had been killed in the airstrike.

Gaza: A Reporter under Fire

Mohammed Alaloul was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

War in the Middle East

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China. Inspired by Ukraine's surprisingly successful resistance, some civilians are studying the basics of civil defense, others are taking urban warfare courses, and some are considering how to renovate old bomb shelters.

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China.

Taiwan: Learning from Ukraine

Before the Russian invasion began in February 2022, Ukrainian women were not allowed to occupy certain roles, deemed too dangerous. The war has changed everything and women are now working as minors and other male-dominated sectors, in a society that is still patriarchal.

The war in Ukraine has meant women taking on jobs in traditionally male-dominated sectors.

Re: Ukrainian Women in 'Male' Jobs

Since 15 April 2023 war in Sudan has been plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis. The ongoing conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF paramilitary group has led to thousands of casualties and countless acts of rape and violence.

Since 15 April 2023 war in Sudan has been plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis.

Sudan: The Forgotten War

In eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border, an archaeological site highlights the difficult past between Turks and Armenians. Ani was the old capital of Armenia, and it’s restoration by Turkish is a bone of contention between the two countries.

In eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border, an archaeological site highlights the difficult past between Turks and Armenians.

Turkey-Armenia: Peace in Ruins?

As  Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group Hezbollah, a controversial organisation supported by Iran.

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay, where prisoners of George Bush’s War on Terror have been held, without trial for years, is still open. Almost forgotten by the outside world, there are still 30 inmates at the facility when once there were more than 700. ARTE Reportage managed to visit the detention camp.

Many in Washington would prefer to forget the US prison at Guantanamo. ARTE Reportage managed to visit the detention camp.

Guantanamo: Still Not Closed

After two and a half years of war, Ukraine remains a major exporter of grain. Production levels prior to 2022 have been restored, a sign of the country's resilience. But what does the future hold for agriculture in this vast country? And how might it integrate in the European Union?

After two and a half years of war, Ukraine remains a major exporter of grain, a sign of the country's resilience. 

Ukraine: Agricultural Resistance

The United Kingdom, with its four constituent nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, has seen a number of crises in recent years with the Scottish independence movement, Brexit, and tensions in the Royal family weakening the UK’s unique political system.

UK: A Disunited Kingdom

The United Kingdom, with its four constituent nations, has been shaken by a number of crises in recent years.

Mapping the World

Marine biologist Andrej Gajić is fighting to save sharks in Albanian waters; more than 60,000 sharks and rays die each year caught up in fishermen’s nets. With his girlfriend Emina they go out to sea with the fishing boats to investigate the effects of industrial fishing on endangered species and try to work with the fishing industry to improve biodiversity in the seas.

Marine biologists Andrej and Emina are fighting to save sharks, which are important for the ecosystem in the Adriatic.

Saving Sharks in the Adriatic

Saudi Arabian citizens are languishing in prison, and some have even been sentenced to death. Their crime: they resisted expropriation of their homes for the Neom project, the city of the future built on a 170km line in the desert that is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s pet project.

Saudi Arabia: Victims of Neom

Opposing the Neom project in Saudi Arabia can get you put in prison or killed.

Théo Curin is a French Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, he made a daring attempt, together with two able-bodied swimmers, to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Théo Curin: Paralympic swimmer.

In November 2021, the Frenchman made a daring attempt to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Swimming through Adversity

Antonio Basa is an olive grower in the Extramadura region of Spain. At night, he has to patrol his olive groves to chase away thieves who try to steal from his trees. Drought has halved the harvest in the last two yearsin Spain, making the price of olive oil skyrocket.

With the price of olive oil skyrocketing, Spain’s olive producers have to defend their crop from organised gangs.

Re: Olive Thieves in Spain

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In 2014, Islamic State fighters massacred thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq, abducting women and children and turning them into slaves. Many of the survivors later found refuge in Germany. How are the Yazidis who survived the massacres faring in Europe?

10 years after the genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq: What has happened to survivors who fled to Germany?

Re: Yazidis in Germany and Iraq

A single industrial trawler can take the equivalent of the catches of a thousand small-scale fishing boats, seriously depleting fish stocks. To counter this unfair competition, small-scale fishermen in Normandy are waging a David versus Goliath battle against the mega-trawlers and finding new ways to sell their catch.

Fishermen in Normandy are waging a David versus Goliath battle against the mega-trawlers and finding new ways to sell their catch.

Re: New Small-Scale Fishing in the Channel

Re: Saving Sharks in the Adriatic

One third of the Latvian population is Russian, a hangover from the Soviet past. The Latvian and Russian speaking communities have been living side by side since independence in 1991 but this cohabitation is not always easy. The government has taken a tougher stance on the integration of Russian speakers since the war in Ukraine, with some now risking deportation.

The Latvian authorities are taking a tougher stance with the country’s Russian-speaking minority since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Re: Latvia’s Unwanted Russians

Ever more people are travelling abroad for medical procedures. Hungary is a major destination for dental health tourism from Germany as the price for implants and crowns are significantly cheaper whereas wealthy individuals from Russia and the Arab world come to Germany for the health sector’s reputation for quality care.

Going Abroad for Treatment

Ever more people are travelling abroad for medical procedures with Hungary a major destination for dental health tourism.

Re: Health Tourism

The Ponant college is the smallest school in France, spread across several remote islands in Britanny. Teachers brave the sometimes rough waters to offer an education to a handful of children in these small isolated communities.

The Ponant college is the smallest school in France, spread across several remote islands in Britanny.

Re: An Island School in Britanny

After the deadly and destructive megafires of October 2017, Portugal has developed a system of preventive firefighting which could inspire other European countries to follow suit.

Re: Fighting Megafires in Portugal

Werner Pfeiffer is an experimental archaeologist and museum educator. Together with his colleague Pedro Cura and a team of archaeologists, he is returning to the Stone Age for four weeks. Living as hunter-gatherers for a month aims to gain insight into what life was really like thousands of years ago.

A team of archaeologists live as hunter-gatherers for a month to understand what life was really like thousands of years ago.

Re: Back to the Stone Age

12 June is a very important date for the small Scottish island of Eigg. On this day in 1997, the islanders purchased their home from their landlord and took control of their destiny. More than 25 years later, how have the local people managed the community owned Eigg?

A Green Utopia for All?

26 years ago, 65 inhabitants of a Scottish island bought their home from their landlord.

Re: The Isle of Eigg

Giorgi has no thoughts of leaving Tusheti, he loves his home in the Georgian Caucasus. The villages in the high mountains can only be reached by car for five months of the year. And there are hardly any jobs or young people left. Horse guide Girogi wants to bring new life to the area with adventure tourism.

Horse guide Girogi wants to bring new life to his mountainous region with adventure tourism.

Re: The Horse Guide of Georgia

In Sweden the supreme court has granted to the Sami people exclusive fishing and hunting rights in reindeer-herding areas. A victory for an ancient indigenous people is a scandal for many Swedish hunters as the decision revives old tension in Swedish far north.

Re: Hunting in the Arctic Circle

In Sweden the supreme court has granted to the Sami people exclusive fishing and hunting rights in in reindeer-herding areas. A victory for an ancient indigenous people is a scandal for many Swedish hunters as the decision revives old tension in Swedish far north.

The Sami and the Swedish State

Midwifery has traditionally been a female profession. Of the 27,000 or so midwives in Germany, only around thirty are men, with similar statistics in other European companies. Why is it such a female dominated sector?

Of the 27,000 or so midwives in Germany, only around thirty are men. Why is it such a female dominated profession?

Re: The Midwife is a Man!

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left big cities in the north of the country for modest towns in the south, in search of a new life. In Calabria, where the mafia and unemployment reign supreme, we follow Angelo, Rocco, Francesco and Nunzia – who have all decided to reinvent themselves by moving back to their hometowns.

Starting a new life in southern Italy

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left wealthy cities in the north for poorer towns in the south of the country.