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Reporters

by FRANCE 24 English · 24 episodes

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An in-depth report by our senior reporters and team of correspondents from around the world. Every Saturday at 10:10pm Paris time. Or you can catch it online from Friday.

Latest episodes

  1. Olympic fever grips Senegal as Dakar hosts Youth Olympic Games

    As Senegal prepares to host the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the first Olympic event ever organised in Africa, the country is pulling out all the stops to be ready on time. FRANCE 24…

    13 min
  2. 'Thanks a lot, Trump': Wyoming conservatives divided ahead of US midterms

    Famous for its cowboy culture, Wyoming is the least populated, the most rural and the most conservative of all the US states. With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, our…

    35 min
  3. India's dowry curse: Outlawed practice remains deeply entrenched

    India recorded 5,737 dowry-linked deaths in 2024, an average of around 16 women a day. Despite being outlawed more than six decades ago, the practice of dowry – the transfer or mon…

    12 min
  4. Paraguay, a tax and political haven for Brazil's far right

    Over the past five years, applications for residence permits submitted by Brazilians in Paraguay have more than doubled. Many of them are Bolsonaro supporters who are afraid Octobe…

    13 min
  5. ICE, Trump and Africa: Secret deals, broken lives

    For this edition of Reporters+, Karina Chabour investigated the dark side of US President Donald Trump’s immigration policy: How ICE deports immigrants to so-called third countries…

    44 min
  6. Fear and broken families: Inside a Texas ICE detention centre

    Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, migrant arrests have surged in the United States. More than 610,000 people have passed through detention centres run…

    13 min
  7. Nepal: Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of a flash flooding disaster

    Two weeks after the devastating flash floods, the number of dead and missing continues to rise. At Kathmandu’s public hospital, as well as outside the military base in Bidur, hundr…

    12 min
  8. US state of Louisiana in battle over electoral map

    With just two months to go before the US midterm elections, the battle for votes is in full swing. Our reporter Fanny Allard has been to the state of Louisiana, where a redistricti…

    12 min
  9. China's lost children: Adoptees search for answers

    At the height of China's controversial one-child policy, children were torn away from their birth families and put up for adoption. FRANCE 24's Yena Lee follows one adoptee, now an…

    13 min
  10. New Caledonia: A deeply divided territory

    Two years after the riots that shook New Caledonia in 2024, FRANCE 24 returns to a French overseas territory still grappling with the consequences of one of the darkest chapters in…

    13 min
  11. 'Project Afrika': Inside Russia's propaganda machine

    This week in Reporters: a special report by FRANCE 24's The Observers. After a leak of confidential documents revealed how Russian agents have been planting hundreds of articles in…

    12 min
  12. The Meloni effect: Has Italy's prime minister delivered on her promises?

    On September 25, 2022, Giorgia Meloni made history by becoming the first female leader of an Italian government, with a powerful personal story – that of a child from a deprived ne…

    13 min
  13. Spain bucks European trend with mass amnesty of migrants

    A mass amnesty of undocumented immigrants is currently underway in Spain. Bucking the trend of its European neighbours, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist government is embra…

    13 min
  14. Tensions rise at Ivory Coast-Burkina Faso border

    In northeastern Ivory Coast, along the border with Burkina Faso, tension has become a permanent reality. The jihadist threat spreading from the Sahel is no longer the only concern.…

    12 min
  15. Escaping Kabul: The secret operation to exfiltrate the Afghan women's cycling team

    Nearly five years ago, the Taliban seized control of Kabul and imposed Sharia law in Afghanistan. The women's cycling team, which was due to take part in international competitions…

    44 min
  16. Drawing for duty: Inside Thailand's controversial military lottery

    Every year, a nationwide military lottery determines the fate of tens of thousands of young men in Thailand. Military conscription is mandatory for all men aged 21 and over. Follow…

    12 min
  17. Kabwe, the African city where children carry the burden of lead poisoning

    Located about 150 kilometres north of Zambia's capital Lusaka, Kabwe is considered one of the most polluted places in the world, following decades of lead and zinc mining. A simple…

    13 min
  18. Latvia: Standing with Ukraine

    Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Latvia has been providing massive support to war-torn Ukraine. Like Estonia and Lithuania, this small Baltic state i…

    13 min
  19. Inside Nigeria's crypto craze

    Over the past few years, cryptocurrency has become part of everyday life for nearly one in 10 Nigerians. Some use it to get around the naira, the Nigerian currency, which has lost…

    13 min
  20. Norway's Svalbard archipelago, a pawn on Russia's chessboard

    Not far from the North Pole, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lies a piece of Russia. In NATO member state Norway, two Russian villages, or "settlements" as Moscow calls t…

    25 min
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