Name: China: Covid-19 is Back - ARTE Reportage
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Description: We saw it all this time last year: A recent rise in cases in part of Beijing has led to local lockdowns, more restrictions and an increasing sense of déjà vu.

Chiny: powrót wirusa

Chine : le retour du virus

China: Covid-19 ist zurück

China: Covid-19 is Back

China: el regreso del virus

Cina: il ritorno del virus

We saw it all this time last year: A recent rise in cases in part of Beijing has led to local lockdowns, more restrictions and an increasing sense of déjà vu.

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COVID 19: The Crisis Continues

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In Kabul, Masomah Alizada was part of the women's cycling team. Threatened by the Taliban, her family had to leave Afghanistan and have been living as refugees in France for four years. But her cycling dreams aren't over.

Masomah Alizada had to flee Afghanistan after she was threatened by the Taliban for being part of a women's cycling team

Afghanistan: The Olympic Dream

Since 1989, the Visa Festival has been an unmissable event for photoreporters around the world. It's a chance to visit exhibitions, discover new projects, and meet with the photographers themselves. They tell of their work, what drives them, and their sometimes traumatic experiences in the field.

War photographers explain what drives them, and their sometimes traumatic experiences in the field

France: War Photographers at the Visa Festival

Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.
Maurice Joyeux, from the Jesuit Refugee Service, and his friend Mortaza Behboudi chose this very moment to return to Lesbos, to find the forgotten people of the pandemic, surviving in this squalid and unsanitary camp.

Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.

Greece: Moria - A Living Hell

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in the last 20 years. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of young people deciding to return home. Brexit is also fuelling the trend: a third of the Latvian diaspora currently still live in Great Britain. But after a shrinking population for so long, is it too late to turn the tide?

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in recent decades. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of people returning home

Latvia: Brain Drain

On 4 January 2021, a London court denied the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States - where he faces up to 175 years in prison, accused of publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. But the judicial battle continues: the US government has appealed, while Assange remains in Belmarsh maximum security prison.
Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

The Extradition of Julian Assange

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets by their families. There, they desperately try to earn enough to live by going through rubbish dumps. They are easy targets for predators, and sexual abuse is an every day occurrence.

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets, where they are easy targets for predators

Nigeria: The Plight of the Witch Children

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world. They rely on the mountains for their survival, drinking mountain water and eating fruits that grow in the area, while their cattle graze on the abundant grass.

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world

Sudan: The Last Rebels of Darfur

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back potential asylum seekers towards Turkish waters. That's despite the fact that once in Europe, these people have a right to apply for asylum and to have that application processed. But while this tactic is against EU human rights law, the Greek government have a promise to keep to its electorate: reducing the flow of migrants.

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

The Cabo Delgado region, in north-eastern Mozambique, has been struggling for the past 4 years. Al-Shabab jihadists, affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019, are wreaking havoc there. The number of violent attacks perpetrated tripled throughout 2020 compared to the previous year and many people fear for the future. 

In north-eastern Mozambique, Al-Shabab is terrorising locals

Mozambique: Escape From Al-Shabab

As infection rates reduce across the continent and more people get vaccinated, homeless and migrants remain amongst the most vulnerable in the pandemic.

Europe: Homeless in Covid Times

Twenty years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. But without them, Afghan security forces fear they'll struggle to contain the advance of the insurgents. Terror attacks are on the rise, and the group is said to already control nearly half the country. The return to power of the fundamentalists seems inevitable.

The last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan, leading to fears of a Taliban resurgence

Afghanistan: The Land of the Taliban

Falmata had a price on her head from Boko Haram because she was a businesswoman. She barely survived and lost everything. As for Mala, he survived a recent massacre of farmers - but has not dared to go out to the fields since.
The city of Bama in northern Nigeria, liberated seven months ago, is just beginning to recover after being the centre of a Boko Haram caliphate.

The city of Bama in northern Nigeria, liberated seven months ago, is just beginning to recover after being the centre of a Boko Haram caliphate.

Nigeria: Surviving Boko Haram

Israel is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since the second Intifada in the 2000s. The unrest has spread throughout the country from Jerusalem. Whilst Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of the Gaza Strip, has launched hundreds of rockets towards Israeli cities, Israel has bombed Gaza.

Israel is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since the second Intifada in the 2000s.

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille in northern France have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Hope for an Anti-COVID Drug

At just nine years old, Daniel spends his days picking coca leaves on his family’s farm. In this remote part of Colombia, growing drugs is the only way to make a living. But the state is cracking down on crack, and has started dropping crop killer from the skies. But it hurts the farmers the most, while armed drug traffickers continue to control the region.

At just nine years old, Daniel spends his days picking coca leaves on his family’s farm

Colombia: The Peasants' Revolt

The camel patrol scour the desert for terrorists. The Mauritanian army camels have a strategic advantage over off-road vehicles: they don't make noise like jeeps and, above all, they don't stir up dust that could be seen for miles by jihadists. The camel unit helps protect people and solar power projects based in this arid land, to make Mauritania safer for all.

The camel patrol scour the desert for terrorists

Mauritania: Meharists of the Desert

The kolbars, literally in Kurdish "those who carry on their backs", risk their lives crossing the border into Iran, smuggling in illegal TVs and other products. It's a dangerous job; they risk dying of cold, stepping on a mine, or being shot at by border guards. In 2020, 61 kolbars were killed, while 181 others were injured, maimed or tortured.

Smugglers in Iraq who traffick TVs and other products into Iran risk death, prison, and torture

Iraq: The Forbidden Frontier

India is suffocating to death. Relatives rush from hospital to hospital searching fruitlessly for help as their loved ones die from Covid-19. Some hospitals are so desperate for oxygen they've sued the government. A look at the frontline of the country's devastating oxygen shortage.

Imagine being told that your loved one only has five minutes of oxygen left, and all you can do is watch the minutes tick by

India: Drowned by the Second Wave

It's been three months since Myanmar's coup and the army's subsequent bloody crackdown. The bravery of individual protesters it appears is no match for the junta's war machine. But even as those killed, injured or arrested now number in their thousands, the undercurrent of civil disobedience still runs strong. 

It's been three months since Myanmar's coup and the army's subsequent bloody crackdown

Myanmar: The Death Throes of Democracy

Forty years ago, aged just eight, Riley was repeatedly raped by his boy scout leader. When he complained, the leader was simply moved to another state where he continued to harm other children. He's just one of tens of thousands of people in the United States who say they suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their scout leaders, while the organisation itself turned a blind eye.

Forty years ago, aged just eight, Riley was repeatedly raped by his boy scout leader

USA: The Boy Scout Paedophile Scandal

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Afghan asylum seekers who arrived to Sweden as children are now being told that that they have to go back to Afghanistan

Sweden: Migrants at Point Zero

On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, professor of history at the Conflans Sainte-Honorine college, was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet in class. His murderer was a young Chechen born in Russia, who had been granted refugee status in France through his parents. In Russia, the murder provoked widespread sympathy.

Many Muslims live in Russia, but Russia has an uneasy relationship with Islam

Russia and Islam

Hilda watched her family's livelihood wrecked by increasing extreme weather, which she realised is being made worse by climate change. She's now an activist, and regularly organises protests with her friends from university. She knows that the people of Uganda are going to suffer badly from the changes that are already happening around us.

Hilda watched her family's livelihood wrecked by increasing extreme weather, which she realised is being made worse by climate change

Uganda: Hilda, the Lady of the Lake

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Famine in Madagascar

In response to the COVID pandemic, Thailand has taken drastic action: Its borders are effectively closed and arrivals must spend two weeks in quarantine. These measures mean that tourists are not coming to the holiday island of Phuket and life is hard for local people reliant on visitor trade.

Thailand's borders are effectively closed and arrivals must spend two weeks in quarantine. This means that tourists are not coming and life is hard for local people reliant on visitor trade.

Thailand: No More Tourists

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In 2011 Libya's youth rose up against strongman Muammar Gaddafi, but the revolution never fufilled its promise

Libya: 10 Years After the Revolution

Hooded, dressed in black from head to toe, and in small groups, a new generation of feminists are fighting for women's rights. But these women aren't going to ask politely. They're violent, loud and aggressive. The revolution happens NOW. 

These women are violent, loud and aggressive. They aren't asking for equality; they're taking it

Mexico: The Feminist Revolution

UK fishermen were sold a dream: vote for Brexit and take back control of their waters, as well as the chance to free their industry of European bureaucracy. But the dream turned sour and job cuts loom.

UK fishermen were sold a dream, and now it's time to wake up

Scotland: Brexit Takes Toll on Fishing

Raqqa, capital of the self-proclaimed "caliphate" of ISIS jihadists was one of the first large towns to fall into their hands in 2014. Three years later, supported by an international coalition, the Arab-Kurdish force succeeded in driving them out of the territory. But the city is almost destroyed, including its museum.

Raqqa was practically flattened during the conflict with ISIS, and many of Syria's ancient artefacts were destroyed

Syria: Saving the Past to Build the Future

Kherrata, a Berber town 350 kilometers from Algiers, is the epicentre of the Hirak protest movement. This is where the first demonstrations started on February 16, 2019. Two years on, the protesters are back on the streets.

Kherrata, a Berber town 350 kilometers from Algiers, is the epicentre of the Hirak protest movement

Algeria: The Return of the Hirak

Russian opposition leader Alexeï Navalny has been in prison since his return to Moscow in January 2021. But in his wake a new generation of politically active followers are making themselves heard.

Navalny: Russia's Most Famous Prisoner

Makeshift camps stretch for several kilometers in New Delhi, blocking the higways. These are the farmers who've left their fields to protest tirelessly in the city against agricultural reforms that they say will push them to the brink of ruin.

Punjabi farmers have been protesting tirelessly against agricultural reforms that they say will ruin them

India: Farmers' Fury

Sweden's approach to the pandemic provoked global respect and skepticism by turns. No lockdown, no curfew, no mandatory mask-wearing. But overtime Sweden imposed more restrictive measures, and the economic cost of the virus started to bite.

Sweden's approach to the pandemic provoked global respect and skepticism by turns...

Covid: Sweden Suffers

The Iwate region of Japan was devastated by the 2011 Tsunami with coastal towns swamped. One man has built a phone box in his garden where people can come to talk to their lost loved ones.

After Fukushima: A Telephone to the Afterlife

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2020: A Very Particular Year

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Tourism Post Covid

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Israel: Secrets of the Vaccination Campaign

Across Europe, this winter is proving even more difficult than the first wave of the pandemic last March in 2020.

Re: Europe's Covid Winter

With a high mortality rate, a chronically underfunded health service, and doctors leaving to work in other European countries, Romania is in danger of being overwhelmed by Covid-19.

Romania: Health Service on the Brink

Wuhan was little known in the West before the pandemic. The central Chinese city the size of New York, was a vibrant city before the pandemic. After a strict lockdown, social life in Wuhan seems to have returned to normal with busy streets, lively restaurants and packed nightclubs.

After a strict lockdown, social life in Wuhan seems to have returned to normal with busy streets, lively restaurants and packed nightclubs.

China: The Wuhan Paradox

Living in Guernica, Argentina, is nobody's dream but everybody's last resort. The pandemic left these families no longer able to pay rent, and so instead the shanty town of Guernica sprang up in July in a matter of days. But even this last refuge is under threat, as the land the shacks are built on is private property, earmarked for a luxury development. 

Living in Guernica, Argentina, is nobody's dream but everybody's last resort

The Homeless of the Pandemic

The entire world had closed its doors in a desperate attempt to halt the spread of coronavirus. Africa has learnt techniques from Ebola but doesn't have the health system to cope in the event of a major outbreak. Countries in Asia meanwhile learnt valuable lessons from SARS. But worldwide, confined populations are lonely and isolated, prompting a new way of coping to go viral (metaphorically): the coronavirus blues. 

Worldwide, confined populations are lonely and isolated, prompting a new way of coping to go viral (metaphorically): the coronavirus blues

The Coronavirus Blues

As Europe comes out of lockdown, blinking in the sunlight, life is almost back to normal. But will this normality last?

Coronavirus: Is This the End?

It's impossible to say for sure how many people have been infected with coronavirus in Brazil due to lack of testing, but estimates suggest well over a million cases. The number of deaths has skyrocketed, exacerbating tensions in a nation of extreme inequality.

Brazil: How a Virus Divided a Nation

The red cloth in Colombia that hang out of people's windows are silent cries for help. In lockdown, the nation's poor are starving, and the red flag lets others know that this is a household that is going hungry. Claudia Lopez, Bogota's first female mayor, launched an appeal for donations, and neighbours are banding together to bring help to those who need it the most.

The red cloth in Colombia that hang out of people's windows are silent cries for help

Colombia: The Red Rags of Hunger

In several countries around the world, there are signs that the pandemic may be waning. Small victories against the virus - like being able to leave home without a permission slip - gives many hope. While life is not back to normal and may not be for some time yet, a new normal is emerging. 

In several countries around the world, there are signs that the pandemic may be waning

COVID-19: The Worst is Behind Us?

Coronavirus has turned our lives upside down. Across the globe, ordinary citizens are documenting this strange and difficult time on their smartphones making a collective video diary of the pandemic.

40 Days that Changed the World

Ordinary citizens across the world are documenting the coronavirus pandemic on their smartphones, making a collective video diary of this strange and difficult time.

Corona Chronicles

2.4 million farm workers work in the US, and many are undocumented, without health insurance. While doctors and nurses are cheered on daily, these workers are crucial to the American society, but these farm workers have been forgotten. 

The 2.4 million undocumented farm workers in the US are the forgotten heros of the pandemic

Covid-19 in the USA: A Sickness of the Poor

The global lock down in response to the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a massive spike in food insecurity. Those who were already on the breadline are now desperate, with no way of making money and left dependent on hand outs. While the world's doctors fight the virus, people at home are fighting hunger.

While the world's doctors fight the virus, people at home are fighting hunger

Hungry in Lock Down

Since the appearance of Covid-19 in Lebanon, Hezbollah has mobilised its military and civic sectors, a veritable state within a state, to fight the spread of the virus.

Lebanon: Hezbollah verus Coronavirus

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, different figures have been pouring in. The number of patients, of deaths, the modes of transmission or the incubation period: what does the data tell us? And what do the numbers really mean for us and our families? We decode the story behind the numbers.

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, different figures have been pouring in. But what do they actually mean?

COVID-19 in Numbers

Taiwan is not far from China, where COVID-19 came from, but unlike its giant neighbour, it has had only a handful of deaths, and low numbers of detected cases. How were they able to escape the clutches of the disease and succeed where so many other countries failed? It learnt hard lessons from the 2003 SARS epidemic and wasted no time putting measures into place.

Despite being so close to China, Taiwan succeeded in containing the virus when so many other countries were unable to do so. How did they do it? 

Taiwan: A Role Model?

After weeks of confinement to protect the Chinese capital from COVID-19, Beijing begins to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel as its residents begin to venture outside again. 

After weeks of confinement to protect the Chinese capital from COVID-19, Beijing begins to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel 

China: Life After Coronavirus

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Afghanistan: Lost Soldiers of the Red Army

August 15 2021: The Taliban take Kabul. As the international coalition leaves after 20 years of intervention, there is chaos at the airport with Afghans trying desperately to get out. ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

Afghan Civilians in Danger

ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

Re: The Taliban in Kabul

Report from a dogs’ home that specialises in unmanageable and dangerous hounds. Dog trainer Vanessa Bokr knows better than most how aggressive some breeds of dog can be. She works tirelessly to retrain unwanted dangerous dogs in the hope that they can find new homes rather than be put down.

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Report from a dogs’ home that specialises in unmanageable and dangerous hounds.

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20 years later, the survivors of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are still deeply scarred by their experiences. This report meets these forgotten people as they struggle to overcome the trauma of that tragic day.

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20 years later, the survivors of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are still deeply scarred by their experiences. 

USA: 9-11 Survivors' Long Struggle

Social acceptance becomes especially important during adolescence, as teenagers ask themselves am I attractive? Should I lose weight? However, with social media influencers setting the standards, many develop eating disorders in the quest for the perfect body.

With Instagram influencers setting the standards, many young women develop eating disorders in the quest for the perfect body.

Re: Eating Disorders and Social Media

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. Having lost her husband, the mother makes the heart achingly painful decision to leave her homeland, in search of safety and a brighter future for her children. Filmed over three years, this film chronicles the family's journey from the front-line in Aleppo, to the little town of Goslar in Germany. Escaping the chaos and terror of their war torn homeland becomes a catalyst for a different kind of struggle; the struggle to understand your past and accept your present, to adapt to a new life, to hold on to hope, and the idea of belonging to a homeland.

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. 

Watani: My Homeland

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From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life. Street-photography captured Parisians from all walks of life and conveyed the optimism and elegance of the period.

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Paris in the Belle Epoque

The historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC said that Egypt was "a gift from the Nile", and from the pharaohs to Nasser, the Nile has played a vital role in Egypt's fortunes. But Ethiopia now intends to remind leaders in Cairo that the Nile is not just an Egyptian river.

Ethiopia wants to remind Egypt that the Nile is not just Egyptian

Geopolitics of the Nile

After eight years of restauration, one of the greatest works of art ever made looks once again as its creators intended. The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism. A full immersion into this revolutionary work that looked forward to the modern world.

The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism.