People & Power
People & Power
8.0·2007 - now·25m·6S·returning
People & Power is a current affairs programme on Al Jazeera English which broadcasts once a week, on Wednesdays, and repeated throughout the week. Each half-hour programme features one investigative documentaries on an issue related to power from around the world. The programme occasionally has one hour specials.
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People & Power investigates the plight of children forced to work in Malawi's tobacco industry.
In the midst of a changing criminal underworld, we investigate the spread of mafia-style activity from East to West.
As the economy thrives, we examine the plight of Ethiopians forced from their land to make way for foreign investors.
People & Power goes behind the scenes with UN peacekeepers who are shifting their rules of engagement in the DR Congo.
How are British mining companies impacting the Central Asian nation's worsening environmental track record?
We investigate attitudes towards legalisation, and ask if the Americas are reaching a tipping point in the war on drugs.
In the second half of a special investigation, we look at legalisation and drug violence in the US and Latin America.
People & Power investigates allegations that exiled opponents of the Uzbek regime are being hunted down and killed.
We investigate the worrying rise in suicides among young IT professionals in Bangalore, India's tech capital.
People & Power goes behind the scenes with a famous super cop in Pakistan's fastest-growing and most lawless city.
Twenty years after Rwanda's genocide, should President Paul Kagame be seen as a saviour or a dictator?
An undercover investigation reveals disturbing evidence about the abuse of disabled people in Romania.
People & Power investigates why Bulgarians have been protesting against corruption in the heart of government.
People and Power investigates how Israeli drone technology came to be used by the US.
People and Power investigates how migrants trying to reach Europe fall into the hands of Libya's militias.
As crucial elections approach, is Ukraine really as divided as people have been told?
Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones to rescue its ailing economy?
After a 12 year absence a correspondent returns to the infamous US military prison to ask why it is still open.
People & Power investigates the sinister disappearance of 500 Albanian 'street' children from a Greek State orphanage.
As Scotland prepares to vote on independence, what would a 'Yes' vote mean for the UK's standing in the world?
With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine getting bloodier, fears are increasing that Moldova could be next.
Is the tough application of Canada’s immigration laws justified?
People & Power uncovers the harrowing stories of Afghanistan's prison children.
As Myanmar emerges slowly from five decades of dictatorship, will it ever catch up with its more prosperous neighbours?
People and Power investigates the effects of China's increasing influence in Africa.
The second part of our investigate into the effects of China's increasing influence in Africa.
What impact will America's oil and gas boom from fracking have on US power and global geopolitics?
Behind the scenes with medics who struggle to cope with the deadly effects of barrel bombs dropped by the Syrian regime.
The three-part report goes behind the scenes with a pro-democracy campaign trying to ensure free elections in Hong Kong.
People & Power's three-part report goes behind the scenes with a pro-democracy campaign trying to ensure free elections in Hong Kong.
Can Somalia's embattled president unite his country against the armed group al-Shabab?
Can the Republic of Georgia remain aloof from Russian expansionism or will internal division drag it towards conflict?
Behind the scenes with Colombia's insurgents as they bring their 50-year-long conflict to a close.
Behind the scenes with Colombia’s insurgents as they bring their 50 year bloody conflict to a close (Part 2 of 2).
The damaging health effects of Tunisia's phosphate mines on workers who hoped the Arab Spring would bring change.
This three-part People & Power report goes behind the scenes with a pro-democracy campaign trying to ensure free elections in Hong Kong.
People & Power investigates how a match-fixer and his syndicate corrupted global football.
People & Power investigates the environmental consequences of palm oil plantations in equatorial Africa.
People & Power meets young Muslims who have abandoned the West to fight in Syria.
People & Power investigates whether rising ethnic tensions in Macedonia could result in civil conflict.
Can an international boycott of Israeli goods and services help end its occupation of Palestinian lands?
How Chinese entrepreneurs have taken control of Madagascar's booming vanilla trade and what it means for local farmers.
We investigate the shady world of Britain's fake marriage brokers and how they beat the UK's tough immigration rules.
In the second part of With This Passport I Thee Wed, our undercover reporters turned their attention to those who provide legal advice to migrants seeking visas - in particular two lawyers who were sa…
People & Power investigates how Chad is responding to the threat posed by Boko Haram across West Africa.
Are advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies leading to fewer jobs and more inequality?
As automation gets cheaper than the cost of labour, developing economies are being hit the hardest.
An investigation into the abuse and exploitation of aboriginal women in Canada and the authorities' failure to stop it.
People and Power investigates the sinister impact of a secret cyber war on the Syrian civil war.
We investigate why the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are nervous about Russia's regional ambitions.
The politics of ransom paying: should governments give money to armed groups in exchange for hostages?
People and Power exposes how Peru's Amazonian rainforest is being stripped bare by corruption.
People & Power investigates two deadly attacks by the Israeli army during the 2014 war on Gaza.
People & Power investigates South Korea's disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly.
We investigate allegations that despite its new democratic institutions, police torture continues in Tunisia.
People & Power investigates allegations that Kenya’s police are involved in extra judicial killings.
An investigation into the high rate of child sex abuse in Jamaica and the government's failure to protect its children.
People & Power investigates India's Hindu fundamentalists and their influence on the country's government.
People & Power investigates the use of exploited labour in Italy’s famous tomato industry.
We investigate Romania's efforts to rid the country of corruption amid its powerful political and business elites.
How a pioneering approach to treating mental illness is helping to fight one of the world's most neglected diseases.
We investigate the state of political freedom in Belarus and President Lukashenko's unshakable grip on power.
People and Power investigates the growing global phenomenon of organised begging.
How will improving relations between communist Cuba and the capitalist US affect the lives of people on both sides?
"In Cuba Year Zero part two, we meet members of the revolutionary generation. Inside Cuba, we talk to those who were members of Fidel Castro’s rebel army and sacrificed their individualism to make the…
We investigate the recent economic changes and the effect of property ownership on Cuba's communist legacy.
We investigate the horrifying consequences for civilians under Russian air strikes in Syria.
After welcoming one million refugees, attitudes across Germany are changing with confrontations and vitriol on the rise.
We examine France's aggressive counterterrorism measures and the consequences for the Muslim community.
Five years after the revolution, Tunisia's black minority has yet to experience the freedoms enjoyed by other citizens.
We investigate how the erosion of democracy in the US is being revealed by the 2016 presidential campaign.
Part two of our investigation into the erosion of US democracy and how it is revealed in the 2016 presidential campaign.
We investigate claims that Poland’s new right-wing government is undermining the country’s democratic freedoms.
Inside the people-smuggling rings specialising in getting refugees into Europe.
People and Power goes on the trail of a Somali army commander accused of involvement in mass killings and war crimes.
People and Power goes on the trail of a Somali army commander accused of involvement in mass killings and war crimes.
We investigate how an underground fire that has been burning for 100 years has led to one of India's largest land grabs.
What is behind Venezuela's descent into chaos and the bitter ideological struggle dividing the nation?
What is behind Venezuela's descent into chaos and the bitter ideological struggle dividing the nation?
We investigate how a fight against corruption and pro-Russian oligarchs in Odessa may determine Ukraine's future.
We investigate the events leading up to the Fundao dam disaster. Is enough being done to avoid future recurrences?
People and Power investigates the forgotten war taking place on the borders between North and South Sudan.
People and Power investigates whether India is about to escalate its nuclear arms race with rivals Pakistan and China.
Could a faltering economy, corruption and public disaffection over its relationship with Russia lead to an uprising?
Can the next US president retrieve the secure, well-paid employment enjoyed by previous generations of American workers?
We investigate the race to save Iran's water, before water scarcity dries out entire cities and displaces millions.
People and Power investigates the rise of piracy in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
How states have used Interpol alerts to persecute exiled dissidents and refugees across international borders.
Why a new group of radical activists in Hong Kong are calling for greater autonomy - and even independence - from China.
An investigation into a massacre reveals the lack of political will to unite the country.
We investigate allegations involving a Chinese billionaire and a controversial alternative health scheme in Africa.
People and Power goes behind the scenes with the Taliban in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
Last October, Montenegro's prime minister announced that an attempted coup had been foiled, but was this 'fake news'?
