Foreign Correspondent

For the first time ever Palestine's football team qualified for the Asian Cup, played in Australia. We follow the highs and lows as players are caught up in a brutal war at home and dramas on and off the pitch in Australia.

Imagine trying to find your identity among more than 90-million faces in Vietnam. Sophie English was born at the height of the conflict in Vietnam, and was one of the first war babies to be adopted by an Australian family. She was one of hundreds of children flown out to start new lives in the west. Reporter Sally Sara joins Sophie on an emotional journey in search of family and a sense of belonging.

For many, the golden haired Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is almost a cartoon character. He's made his mark through the "Boris" brand - an unconventional, dishevelled, funny politician, who admits his mistakes and entertains at the same time. This week, reporter Philip Williams spends time with the irrepressible Mayor, as he campaigns for a seat in parliament. But is this just the first step in his lifelong ambition, to become the Prime Minister of the UK?

Every summer its numbers swell as some of the world's top international scientists from more than a dozen countries travel to research bases dotted across King George Island. And whether it's to witness darts being shot at elephant seals or the pinning down of penguins, Foreign Correspondent has been invited to experience a side of Antarctica that is rarely seen and find out what life is really like on this wild frontier.

They're mostly young, educated and middle class - yet more than 60 British women and girls have chosen to move to Syria and live in the so called "Islamic State", under a deeply repressive regime. So, according to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, have a number of Australian women. This BBC investigation reveals how the women marry fighters, and become part of a powerful army of online recruiters, persuading other young girls on social media to join them and about 500 other Western women thought to be living in the self-declared caliphate.

An entrepreneurial culture is flourishing in the grim slums of India. Lives are being changed by an Australian enterprise that provides jobs as well as clean energy to some of the poorest people on the planet. In the slums of Bangalore, South Asia correspondent Stephanie March finds that from little things, big things can grow.

Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. Migrant workers now building its multi-billion dollar facilities endure wretched living & working conditions.

A French photo-journalist tells how he survived 10 months as a hostage of Islamic State terrorists while five of his fellow captives were taken away and beheaded. Should ransoms have been paid to save their lives?

Once shackled by mass illiteracy, South Korea now tops global academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.

About a Boy... Foreign Correspondent goes in search of a baby boy who was born via surrogacy in India but left behind by his Australian parents.

With just minutes to spare, mother-of-two Mary Jane Veloso escaped the firing squad that executed Australia's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Find out how she was saved and whether she will make it home to her children.

Every night they land in flimsy rubber boats, trudging ashore drenched and exhausted. It’s a short trip across the sea from Turkey to Kos, in easternmost Greece, but for these people the journey began much further away - in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan.

While Australia agonises over whether to let same sex couples marry, conservative Ireland has come out with a resounding "I do". Sally Sara journeys across Ireland to discover why this deeply Catholic country became the first in the world to say yes to gay marriage in a popular vote.

“So our arrest is not a mistake, and as a journalist this IS my battle. I can no longer pretend it’ll go away by keeping quiet and crossing my fingers.” - Peter Greste’s first letter from prison. For the first time, journalist Peter Greste reports his own story: the fabricated terrorism charges, his 400 days in Egyptian jails, and the long hard fight for freedom of speech.

“Welcome home and welcome to paradise” – Juris Greste to his son Peter With the beaming grin of a newly freed man, Peter Greste strode from his plane into the arms of his family. Hugs, kisses, tears… then a flurry of mock punches from his mum and his nephews. Peter Greste’s own story of his joyful homecoming after 400 days in an Egyptian jail – and the tense build-up to the final verdict on terrorism charges.

A diving stock market, a wobbling economy and a new security crackdown: where is China heading? Tapping into voices you’ve never heard, Stephen McDonell reports on the changing face of the superpower.

In Havana, you can feel the change in the air. For the first time in decades, young Cubans aren’t just hoping for a better future. They’re sure it’s coming. With the US poised to lift its 55 year trade embargo, reporter Eric Campbell tells the remarkable story of how one American farming family befriended Fidel Castro and helped end Cuba’s isolation.

Sally Sara meets the grass roots, social media-driven activists who are turning politics on its head in Spain. Now that they've got the power, what will they do with it?

Donald Trump was supposed to crash and burn but he is streaking ahead of his rivals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Emma Alberici asks why the bombastic billionaire is defying the pundits.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, a brave social experiment is taking place. Eight years ago a former Buddhist monk set up a safe haven for abandoned and troubled children, providing a permanent home where children can receive a good education and learn to live happily and compassionately. But the newest charge, a traumatised little girl called Tashi, is his toughest challenge so far. Will the love and compassion of the community be enough to overcome the suffering in Tashi’s past?

Carpenter Barry Kirby's life turned upside down when he chanced upon a young woman dying on a bush road. The Australian tradie became a doctor with a mission: saving women's lives in the wilds of Papua New Guinea.

It's the war the world forgot. At Europe's side door nearly 8000 people have been killed and 1.5 million have fled their homes. Correspondent Matt Brown reports from devastated eastern Ukraine.

As key climate talks get under way in Paris, Eric Campbell explores potential solutions to global warming – from thermal power in Costa Rican jungles to giant North Sea wind farms and California’s solar start-ups.

Sally Sara takes to the streets of Baltimore and Chicago to investigate a reawakened civil rights movement that’s fighting to stop the killing of black Americans.

In his farewell report for the ABC, correspondent Stephen McDonell looks at the spectacular changes that have swept China during his 10 years there – and the untold sequels to some of the big stories he’s covered.

In an age when everyone has a phone camera and the internet links billions of people anywhere, anytime – has the foreign correspondent become redundant? And does the information blizzard make us better informed?