为何美国遇上新冠疫情，会出现医疗设备和消耗品短缺的混乱情况？背后原因牵涉到全球防疫物资供应链，并同样影响到各地的抗疫进程，是个人命攸关的议题。今集节目会访查美国本土的医疗用品生产商，并追溯当地早于2009年如何应对猪流感疫情，了解这个大国过份依赖进口货品，会带来什么后果。

Why was the U.S. left scrambling for critical medical equipment as the coronavirus swept the country? With the Associated Press and the Global Reporting Centre, this is an investigation of the fragmented global medical supply chain and its deadly consequences.

Facing a pandemic, an unprecedented economic and social crisis, the United States seems to be on the brink. We followed middle-class Americans who now find themselves on the poverty line.

Marc and Selene, had to close their restaurant and are struggling to pay the rent when their young son breaks his arm. Now they have to find an additional $11,000 in order to have it treated.

A few months ago, Steven was making $ 70,000 a year as a business executive. Today he lives with his wife in their car. But he refuses to give up his belief in capitalism and the American dream and is sure better days are coming. Meanwhile, Kirsin faces deportation after losing her job as a cashier.

英国杰出军人捷臣．霍士曾多次到阿富汗服役，参与英军史上部分最凶悍的战役超过三年。捷臣目睹战友阵亡或重伤，自己亦数次死里逃生。最终他患上了创伤后压力症，并因而退出特种部队，离开他喜爱的工作。相隔近十年后，捷臣以个人身分重游阿富汗，重新了解这个国度，以及他当日的援助对象；他又拜访当地的老朋友，以至昔日的敌方。回望自己所作的牺牲，捷臣反思这一切是否值得他自己、阿富汗居民和一众军人承受庞大的后遗症。

Elite Special Forces soldier Jason Fox served on multiple tours in Afghanistan, spending more than three years fighting in a war that saw some of the fiercest battles in modern British military history. Afghanistan both defined Jason as a soldier and made him the man he is today. He saw friends killed and seriously injured in combat and narrowly escaped death multiple times. This left him with a punishing personal legacy: PTSD. Because of this, Jason was discharged from the Special Forces and made to leave behind the life and job he loved.

Nearly a decade after leaving Afghanistan, Jason is returning on a very personal journey. Now he will seek to understand this complex country and the people he was sent to help, meeting old friends and former enemies, and ask whether the sacrifices are worth the traumatic legacy he, the Afghan people and many of his fellow soldiers have been left to endure.

How did South Korea tackle the Coronavirus pandemic without a damaging national lockdown? What vital lessons Britain could learn and may that reveal what life could be like in the UK when lockdown finally ends? Filmed in hospitals, testing centres and laboratories at the heart of South Korea’s struggle against Coronavirus, and with interviews with top South Korean politicians and scientists, the documentary reveals a relentless national effort that at almost every stage has seemed faster and better planned than the UK effort. Medical experts interviewed for the documentary recount how they dealt with a severe outbreak within the Shincheonji Church of Jesus - a secretive Christian sect with over 200,000 members.

Dr Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor. It's week three of lockdown since Marh 2020 and he’s been asked to support the UCL Hospital’s intensive care unit. As well as treating patients, he wants to understand what the virus is doing to our bodies and why it’s so difficult to treat. To make things more stressful for Chris, his wife Dinah is seven months pregnant with their second child.

Chris’s twin brother, Dr Xand van Tulleken, is a specialist in public health. Xand has worked in medical emergencies around the world. He wants to examine the impact Covid-19 on the UK’s most vulnerable, and lend a hand where he can. Xand contracted Covid back in March and it has left him tired and sluggish. He’s also developed an irregular heart beat which he suspects is part of the aftermath of his Covid infection. The film ends in the middle of June, with lockdown easing and Xand finally able to visit Chris and his family at home. The film ends with Chris wondering how many other people had serious complications after contracting the virus, and articulating the concern about the implications of a second wave...

DEADLY DROPS: TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR takes us into the fascinating world of lifts and the looks at terrifying moments when these everyday machines suddenly cause chaos. Throughout our modern cities, filled with high rise buildings, we depend on lifts to move around. Capable of taking people captive, trapping passengers in doors and suddenly plummeting down shafts, this film meets some of the people who have been most badly affected by lift malfunctions.

DEADLY DROPS: EATEN BY AN ESCALATOR looks at the terrifying moments when these everyday machines suddenly cause chaos. Throughout our modern cities, filled with high rise buildings, we depend on escalators to move around.  These seemingly reliable pieces of engineering are so integrated into our environment we barely notice their existence. Footage shows escalators spiraling out of control, of people being trapped, and even swallowed alive.

Prue Leith has been a household name since the 1970s. 45 years ago she made, what was for the time, the radical decision to adopt a Cambodian baby, Li-Da. Prue gave Li-Da an idyllic English upbringing at her Cotswolds home and, by her own admission, rarely questioned whether she could have helped Li-Da connect more with her Cambodian roots. Now in this intimate and revealing film Prue and Li-Da travel to Cambodia to search for her biological family. Social media and DNA testing are allowing thousands of children who, like Li-Da, were evacuated just before Pol Pot’s genocide to reconnect with lost relatives. For Prue, as she approaches 80, there may not be many more chances to make this journey. And for Li-Da this is her chance to help Prue understand why it’s so important to explore her heritage. What neither of them can predict is how they will react should they find what they are looking for.

The number of climate refugees is rising - and yet the status of ‘climate refugee’ has yet to be officially recognized by national or international law. One factor is illustrative of the devastating impact of climate change on countries and communities: water. Recent years have seen an increasing number of floods and droughts. A third of the global population lives near the coast, and an estimated 700 million people are facing rising sea levels. In the Philippines more than 85 percent of the population say they are feeling the impact of climate change in the rising frequency of flooding and violent typhoons. Farmers in the highlands of Guatemala, on the other hand, are suffering extreme drought. Both water scarcity and flooding are sparking mass migration. 

What do tomatoes have to do with mass migration? Tomatoes are a poker chip in global trade policies. Subsidized products from the EU, China and elsewhere are sold at dumping prices, destroying markets and livelihoods in Africa in the process. Desperate farmers find themselves having to seek work elsewhere, including in Europe. In the surrounding region, the market for tomatoes has collapsed and most farmers are no longer growing what could easily be Ghana’s ‘red gold’. An agricultural advisor is trying to help local tomato farmers, but has little by way of hope to offer. Conditions like this are what drive local farmers to cut their losses and head for Europe. Once in Italy, migrants from Ghana and other African countries are forced to live in desperate conditions near the plantations.