Crossing Continents

Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa.

David Shukman reports on the thousands who have become ill from the toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11th.

Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the strange story of Dirar Abu Sisi. A Palestinian who disappeared from a Ukrainian train, only to reappear in an Israeli court on terrorism charges.

Rob Walker visits the sleepy Ghanaian city of Takoradi as a massive oil boom gets underway. Can the city - and the country - escape the "oil curse" of violence and corruption?

Thousands of Central Americans travel to the US every year. Now Mexican drug cartels are kidnapping and killing them. Linda Pressly investigates their perilous journey.

Tim Judah reports from Senegal on the rise to prominence and economic power of the Mourides, a Sufi Muslim brotherhood with a powerful work ethic.

Lucy Williamson reports from Seoul on the dangerous trade of the people brokers, smuggling the desperate out of North Korea to the safety of the South.

Crossing Continents joins a British doctor volunteering to help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps while the men fight Gaddafi's forces in the mountains south of Tripoli.

The BBC's Kim Ghattas has gained exclusive, behind the scenes access to the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff during one of her recent overseas trips.

Scientists are hoping for a breakthrough in research into Alzheimer's Disease by investigating a family in Medellin, Colombia, with a rare genetic mutation. Bill Law reports.

Owen Bennett-Jones reports from Pakistan following the killing of Osama bin Laden. For years, observers of Pakistan have accused it of playing a double game: fighting jihadists who threaten the state, while tolerating extremists it thinks might be useful. And the discovery and killing of al Qaeda’s leader has only increased the pressure on a struggling country.

Martin Plaut investigates alleged shortcomings at gold mines in South Africa.

Lucy Ash revisits some of the significant stories covered by Crossing Continents from Kosovo to Tulsa to Turkmenistan and discovers what has changed since our initial reports.

David Goldblatt looks at whether Berlin's alternative culture is under threat from commercial pressures. Or do developers and artists need each other to exist?

The unfolding Egyptian revolution through the eyes of five extraordinary women. Bill Law returns to Egypt and catches up with the women he met three years ago.