Search Party (2023)

The unlikely country taking over sumo And what it means for the most beloved Japanese sport. When most people think of sumo wrestling, they think of Japan. It’s the country's national sport and every match is draped in religious Shinto traditions and symbols. But the days of Japanese wrestlers winning every tournament are over. Today, it's the Mongolians - not Japanese- who dominate sumo wrestling. Since 2003, only Mongolians have become yokozuna, the highest-ranked wrestlers. Watch this video to learn how landlocked Mongolia conquered Japan's most cherished sport. It's the perfect collision of geopolitics and sports.

How this little pill took over the Middle East Inside Assad’s captagon empire. The Assad regime fell swiftly in December 2024 and Syrians are still uncovering the harrowing depths of the regime's abuses. But one of the most curious findings are drug seizures. Massive quantities, hidden all over the country, and all are of one type of drug; captagon. Captagon is a narcotic that has quietly swept through the Middle East over the last decade with estimates suggesting that 40% of Saudi youth use it. And it overwhelmingly comes from Syria. This video will take a deep dive into the Assad regime and reveal how it built a captagon empire, used it as a weapon against its neighbors, and ask the question haunting Syria's reconstruction; who will take control of it now that Assad is gone?

Inside Russia's creepy sport farms. Football doesn’t know how deep its gambling addiction goes. Hidden throughout eastern Europe is a network of "sports-betting farms", where minimum wage workers play an endless succession of games -- soccer, basketball, table-tennis, even "bench-soccer" for people to bet on through the site 1xBet. These farms are controversial and there are arrest warrants out for their founders -- yet some of the world's biggest football clubs count 1xBet as a major sponsor. This episode is a collaboration with the award-winning investigative team, Bellingcat.