World's Biggest Lockdown

Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and Indonesian security forces are involved in a protracted and bloody battle over the issue of Papuan independence.

They sound like science fiction, but radical remedies to slow global warming are on the way. Eric Campbell goes in search of crazy brave ideas to save the world.

In Sweden they’re doing a "lockdown lite." The bars and restaurants have never closed, primary schools and child-care centres have stayed open. Reporter Lisa Millar presents a profile of a country debating the value of human life as the death toll mounts.

This is no armchair spectator sport. David Lipson ventures into the fanatical, often deadly, arena of Indonesian soccer.

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world's biggest lockdown, he gave the nation of 1.3 billion people only four hours' notice, unleashing one of the biggest mass migrations in his nation's history and leaving the poor in cities with no means of earning an income or feeding their families.

Two young men escape the misery of Manus Island to forge new lives in North America. Reporter Eric Tlozek charts their progress and their pitfalls over 18 months.

This is not your typical revolution. It's not just a group of young idealists pushing for the stars. The revolution that has filled Lebanon's streets for months on end has broad-based support. Young and old, rich and poor, Muslim, Christian and Druze are united in their desire to overthrow their corrupt and incompetent leaders and save their country and themselves from economic collapse.

It’s touted as Europe’s most beautiful island — but the people of Sardinia are getting sick and dying mysteriously. Fingers are pointing at secret bomb tests and war games by the world’s armies, as Emma Alberici reports.

When Poland's Archbishop of Krakow talks about fighting a plague, he's not talking about the new coronavirus. He's talking about gay rights. In the 1980s Poland played a central part in liberating the world from communism. Now there's a push to wind back many of those hard-won freedoms.

Vanilla hustlers in dusty streets. Vanilla brokers in vanilla-built palaces. Vanilla crops threatening rare lemurs’ jungle homes. On a wild ride through Madagascar, Adam Harvey finds there’s nothing plain about vanilla.