Foreign Correspondent

Japan is confronting the possibility of war. New military bases on the country's remote southwest islands have the locals worried about the impact on their idyllic life and the prospect of becoming a target.

Independent Russian journalists forced to flee their homes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, have been given sanctuary in neighbouring Latvia where they are broadcasting news of the war to counter Putin's propaganda.

In the Philippines online child sex abuse is flourishing and demand by Australian perpetrators for live streaming is increasing. Reporter Stephanie March embeds with police who are catching abusers and rescuing children.

The extraordinary Sepik River region in Papua New Guinea, known as the second Amazon, is under threat.Tensions are running high over logging and a mine proposal amidst claims of land grabs, police brutality, even killings.

In Cambodia, Chinese organised crime syndicates are running global cyber scam operations using workers who have been trafficked and enslaved in secure compounds. The syndicates have strong ties to the ruling Hun Sen regime.

Somalia is one of the most dangerous places on earth. Almost two decades of terrorism has taken a huge toll. Now the African nation is facing its worst drought in 40 years with significant areas on the brink of famine.

Three years after Brexit and Britain is broken. The country's cost of living crisis is now fuelling separatist movements. In Wales where one in three children live in poverty, the call for independence is getting louder.

Guest reporter Craig Reucassel goes off the tourist track in Fiji to see how communities are dealing with the reality of climate change. Rising sea levels and cyclones are forcing Fijians to change their lives to survive.

Every weekend in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, thousands of young Saudis flock to the city to party. Here they can do things that would be utterly forbidden just over the "Johnny Walker" bridge.

The US State of Florida has become the centre of America's culture wars as Governor Ron DeSantis pursues a right-wing agenda focused on gender and race laws which some hope will take him all the way to the White House.

North Korean defectors overcome huge odds to escape to a new life in the south but instead of finding happiness they are often overcome with loneliness and isolation. Still living in fear, they rarely speak out publicly.

Fentanyl is the main source of drug overdoses in the United States, supplied by the infamous Mexican Sinaloa cartel. The drug is making a fortune for the cartel, we go inside to see the luxurious lifestyle.

It's almost a decade since ISIS forces swept through Iraq and Syria but the legacy of their brutal caliphate remains. The Yazidis of northern Iraq were slaughtered and enslaved by ISIS. Today the search continues for the missing Yazidis who have still not returned home.

A team of art sleuths are on a mission to bring home Cambodia's cultural heritage. South-East Asia correspondent Mazoe Ford travels with them as they journey across the country and over borders to identify, trace and reclaim missing treasures.

In India the Modi government is being accused of waging a war on Bollywood, the country’s most powerful cultural force, effectively turning it into a propaganda tool.

Almost a year since widespread protests erupted on the streets of Iran, young dissidents who continue to defy the country’s repressive regime have participated in secretly recorded interviews with Foreign Correspondent.

Reporter David Lipson goes inside Canada's fireground to see firsthand how a nation better known for snow and ice is coping with the fire catastrophe.

In Germany, a growing far-right 'sovereign citizens' movement believe they are not bound by German laws. Some are now on trial for shooting police, engaging in acts of terrorism and allegedly plotting a coup.

A year after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas the community is still traumatised. They're angry about the inadequate police response on the day and they're determined to change the law on the sale of deadly assault rifles.

It's a small island calling on powerful institutions like the British royal family, as well as the living relatives of past slave owners to make amends for the sins of their ancestors. Reporter Isabella Higgins travels to Barbados where the question is now, who should pay?

NBA superstar LeBron James has put his name and his money behind an extraordinary social experiment in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. The ABC's senior sports reporter Paul Kennedy travels to Ohio to see how the plan is coming to life — and whether it's working.

A billion-dollar illegal drug trade is funding the Syrian regime under President Bashar al-Assad. This week on Foreign Correspondent, insiders detail the vast extent of the drug trade and how members of the president's family and the Syrian Armed Forces are facilitating it.

Argentina was once one of the world’s richest nations but today it’s a country on its knees. With inflation running at 100 per cent, some are now proposing radical solutions to the country's economic crisis.

Just weeks before the outbreak of war, Foreign Correspondent's Stephanie March was in Israel and the occupied West Bank documenting rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.