Dateline (AU)

Adam Liaw reports from Vietnam to see if a love of food can help the country’s street kids and orphans find a brighter future. An Australian-run cooking school in Hanoi is training some of Vietnam’s most disadvantaged young people to become five-star chefs. But can the students Adam meets handle the heat in the kitchen? Adam also ventures into Hanoi’s underbelly to meet the 'Children of the Dust' - kids living on the streets in conditions that leave him shocked.

Dateline goes inside the Iowa caucus at the start of the Democratic race to the White House. We ask why this sleepy state is given so much political power, and whether it represents wider America.

In Fiji, reporter Evan Williams gains exclusive access to law enforcement officials, drug dealers and social workers on the frontline of Fiji’s drug war, exploring the devastating impact from this multi-billion-dollar illegal trade.

Dateline explores why disaster prepping has become a government sanctioned pastime in Sweden - but who or what are they afraid of?

New Zealand is in the grip of a housing crisis. Dateline meets the struggling families living in one of the world’s most unaffordable cities, and the man helping the homeless become home owners.

At Easter Australians spend around $200 million on chocolate. Dateline meets cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast to see if are they getting a fair deal

Dateline follows a reverend and his crew as they endeavour to help the homeless community in LA cope with COVID-19. Reverend Andy Bales is getting them off the streets and into shelters, implementing social distancing inside the shelter, setting up santisation stations, and enlisting volunteers to feed the homeless and provide medical care. Andy and his team of staff and volunteers are risking their own health to try and prevent the virus spreading amongst the homeless.

Tourist hotspot Venice is now a ghost town. The water’s clearer, but businesses are going bust. We go inside northern Italy's COVID-19 crisis to see how the area has changed and how locals are coping.

Can ordinary Israeli's and Palestinians succeed where politicians have failed by negotiating a solution for Middle East peace? Will COVID-19 bring solidarity instead of division to the table?

Over half a million tourists visit Machu Picchu in Peru each year. What happens when COVID 19 locks them out? Dateline meets the locals adapting to isolation and a tourist drought.

Spain has had more than 25,000 COVID-19 deaths and endured one of the harshest lockdowns in the world. Dateline looks at how the nation has coped and whether it’s really ready to ease restrictions.

As Paris starts to emerge from a COVID-19 lockdown, Dateline looks at how the pandemic has amplified divisions between the rich and poor.

Before the world went into lockdown, the UK was swamped by a knife crime epidemic. Dateline investigates why Birmingham has seen a 20% rise in fatal stabbings over the last year.

China's other health crisis is obesity, with one in five children severely overweight. Dateline meets the kids battling the bulge at military style weight loss camps.

Could China's rapidly ageing population derail the world's largest economy? Dateline looks at how the breakdown of traditional family values is impacting aged care.

As COVID-19 shuts borders, one Australian with MS is trying to get to Russia for a stem cell transplant, another has just had treatment and can't get home. Dateline follows their remarkable journeys.

Dateline investigates how COVID-19 is disrupting food production in Australia, the UK, and Germany. Are there enough workers to ensure crops are harvested and food makes it the table?

Zoos have been forced to close during COVID 19 with many on the brink of collapse. Dateline meets UK zookeepers fighting to protect animals locked up during lockdown and asks if zoos have a future.

The Greek island of Lesbos needs summer tourists for its COVID-19 recovery, but it's also home to Europe's biggest refugee camp. Dateline meets the locals torn between welcoming tourists, or refugees.

In 2019, 300 children were shot and killed on the streets of Cape Town thanks to escalating gang violence. Dateline meets the teachers and students from a primary school caught in the crossfire.

Finland has pledged to do what Australia says it can’t; become carbon neutral by 2035. Dateline meets the climate warriors working towards this ambitious goal.

Dateline investigates Thailand's most controversial Buddhist sect: the Dhammakaya. Followers say it's Buddhism for the modern age, but critics say it's a money obsessed cult.

An investigation by Britain’s Channel 4 News alleges Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign targeted 3.5 million Black Americans in battleground states to deter them from voting.

Dateline investigates how 128 passengers and crew aboard the Australian Greg Mortimer cruise ship became infected with COVID-19, and how Uruguay came to their rescue.

It started out as the holiday of a lifetime and quickly turned into a ship in lockdown, searching for a port in a COVID-19 storm. Dateline charts the story of the MV Greg Mortimer cruise ship that left Argentina three days after coronavirus was declared a pandemic.

With unprecedented access to the leaders of Thailand's protest movement, Dateline follows their risky campaign for change. Why are thousands challenging the King, and why are some risking jail time?

Dateline travels to Republican heartland Texas to meet Asian American voters. Can the fastest growing ethnic group in the US swing the election by flipping Texas for the Democrats?

When two Inupiat communities in the Bering Strait come together, they find they have a remarkable connection, despite decades of separation under the so-called 'Ice Curtain' of the Cold War.

There's a shortage of women in the Faroe Islands. Dateline looks at how internet dating has boosted the population and brought multiculturalism to this remote community.