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BBC Eye follows Kenyans at the centre of a legal battle to track down their British soldier fathers. And Selin Girit reports on Turkey's reaction to a widening regional conflict.

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April 2026
Farhat Javed reports on Pakistan's role in the US-Iran ceasefire, and we hear how routine visits for medical treatment in Pakistan have led to children becoming infected with HIV.
The Eye team investigates Chinese disciplinary schools promising to ‘fix’ problem children at a devastating cost and Mariko Oi is in Singapore.
March 2026
BBC Eye reveals how soaring global demand for eels has fuelled a vast illegal trade worth billions and Rebecca Henschke reports from Indonesia on how the archipelago’s natural wealth is under threat.
The accounts of women repressed by the Iranian government during the 2022 protests and Katy Watson reports on Australia's first of its kind social media ban for under 16s, three months on.
We follow Puntland forces on the front line in far-eastern Somalia and Kalkidan Yibeltal has rare access to Jonglei state in South Sudan, where conflict threatens a fragile peace.
Carine Torbey is in Lebanon reporting on the impact of the US-Israel war with Iran in an extraordinary week when longstanding tensions finally erupted into open conflict.
We go behind the mass protests in Nepal that toppled the government. Eyewitness accounts reveal how unarmed demonstrators were killed as authorities lost control of the crowds.
February 2026
Zhanna Bezpiatchuk reports from Ukraine's capital Kyiv on four years of war, death, destruction, resilience and hope.
The foreigners lured to fight on the front line for Russia, and more than a year on from the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus on the challenges of building a new Syria.
January 2026
Emir Nader reports from Jerusalem on the impact of the Israel-Gaza war and there’s a special report from the BBC Eye team who spent a year at the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem.
BBC Eye reveals allegations Interpol’s systems are being abused by Russia in order to repress dissidents abroad, and Katya Adler reports from Greenland.
AI is changing everything – from how we work to how we live.
Greenlandic parents across Denmark are fighting to be reunited with children forcibly taken into care. Can the French Republic, created to bring stability, still hold together today?
BBC Eye’s Simi Jolaoso reports on a global scam network that claims to raise millions of dollars for children with cancer in war zones and deprived areas, but none of the funds raised ever reach them.
December 2025
Nomsa Maseko reports from South Africa in the wake of the first-ever G20 on African soil, hearing from residents of abandoned and hijacked buildings just a few kilometres from the summit location.
BBC Eye investigates allegations that police in Georgia used a chemical weapon against protestors and Elizaveta Fokht reports from Berlin on Russia’s shadow war against the West.
The incredible story of the Chinese woman behind the scam that led to the world's biggest bitcoin seizure and Shawn Yuan reports from the Pacific Island Nation of Palau.
November 2025
New evidence raises doubts about the US investigation and trial for the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. And Anna Foster reports from Baghdad.
Investigation of a disturbing trend of wildlife deaths along Colombia’s lifeblood, the River Magdalena, and Camilla Mota reports from Brazil ahead of the latest United Nations climate talks.
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