Crossing Continents

As Ukrainian holidaymakers stay away from Crimea's beaches following Russia's annexation of the peninsula, Lucy Ash meets the Russians who are reclaiming their bit of paradise.

Tim Whewell meets the dynamic young women in Turkish Kurdistan who are defining the future of their society.

What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds of up to 500 km an hour? Neal Razzell goes out and about with the storm chasers in Oklahoma City, USA.

Simon Cox investigates a notorious miscarriage of justice in Iceland which many see as a stain on the country's justice system.

Across Argentina's vast GM belt, there are claims of an on-going health crisis. One provincial Minister for Public Health wants an independent commission to investigate.

Thousands of Latin American migrants have died in the Arizona desert after illegally entering the USA. The BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant travels to Tucson to meet the founders of The Missing Migrant Project, who undertake painstaking detective work to identify the remains of the dead and return them to their families.

Can a unique friendship between two men of god end the killings in the Central African Republic?

Lucy Ash talks to the Ukrainian volunteers and activists who are painstakingly restoring a stash of documents dumped in a lake on the abandoned estate of ex-president Yanukovich.

Tim Whewell travels to the Turkish border and to Lebanon to talk to the doctors and health care workers struggling to cope with a growing crisis.

Natalia Antelava profiles Gulnara Karimova, the socialite, popstar and philanthropist daughter of Uzbekistan's dictatorial president.

The story of Russia's volunteer diggers armed with spades and metail detectors who search forests and swamps for the remains of Red Army soldiers seventy years after World War Two.

James Fletcher asks if mining for rare earths and uranium will destroy Greenland's environment – or lead the country to independence?

A festive treat - not a Crossing Continents but a programme featuring a visit to perhaps the most remote community in the world. Tom Martienssen meets some of the 62 people who live on Palmerston in the Cook Islands.

Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a committed band of labour inspectors on an alleged slave labour operation in deepest rural Brazil.

Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the conflict of 1971 and asks if the trials are being used to target the opposition.