Unreported World

UNREPORTED WORLD: SRI LANKA

The series starts with a film from Sri Lanka, where the ceasefire between Tamil Tiger rebels and the government is breaking down, and a resumption of the 30-year war, which has cost tens of thousands of lives, looks increasingly likely.

Friday 21 April 2006 7.35pm & Monday 24 April 2006 4.45am

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy interviewing in South Africa

With unprecedented access to Tiger training camps, Unreported World offers a rare glimpse into a culture of extremism amongst an armed force that "invented" the suicide bomber and where 11-year-old recruits are ready to martyr themselves to bring about an ethnically separate state.

NIGERIA: FIRE IN THE DELTA Unreported World reported from one of Nigeria's most unstable regions. It's home to one of the richest oil fields in the world, but its people are living in extreme poverty and a polluted environment, caught in the crossfire between armed gangs sabotaging the oil production and harsh reprisals from security forces. Reporter Matt McAllester and director Tim Hetherington investigate. More

WEST PAPUA: RAINFOREST WARRIORS Unreported World travelled to one of the remotest places on earth, where journalists are forbidden to work and usually arrested when they arrive, and where a bloody conflict between government forces and locals is rarely glimpsed by the outside world. More

SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID The series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg's most dangerous quarters to investigate. More