Global Eye

Award-winning investigations - revealing secrets, rooting out injustice, and exposing crime, corruption, and abuse. The biggest stories from BBC correspondents all over the world.

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Seasons

15 Episodes • Premiered 2025

A weekly programme from the BBC World Service, bringing forensic journalism from all corners of the world by BBC Eye, the World Service’s critically acclaimed investigative unit. It features expert global correspondents getting to the heart of the biggest international stories.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 1: 08/09/2025: Ukraine Under Fire & Sudan’s Crisis

1. 08/09/2025: Ukraine Under Fire & Sudan’s Crisis

In the first episode, we hear from residents in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Nawal Al-Maghafi reports on the escalating crisis in Sudan.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 2: 15/09/2025: Syria’s Lost Children & South Korea’s Martial Law

2. 15/09/2025: Syria’s Lost Children & South Korea’s Martial Law

In this week’s episode: an investigation into the disappearance of children under the Assad regime in Syria and Jean Mackenzie reports on the political turmoil in South Korea following the short-lived declaration of martial law last year.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 3: 22/09/2025: Fake News Network & Melting Alaska

3. 22/09/2025: Fake News Network & Melting Alaska

In this episode, a BBC undercover reporter exposes a fake news operation in a European country about to go to the polls and Anna Holligan is in Alaska, America's last frontier, where rising temperatures are threatening communities, livelihoods and fragile ecosystems.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 4: 29/09/2025: Kenya’s Protest Killings

4. 29/09/2025: Kenya’s Protest Killings

In this week’s episode, an investigation exposing members of the security forces who shot dead protesters at Kenya's parliament last year. And reporting from Nairobi, Waihiga Mwaura explores the aftermath of that brutal crackdown on those who took to the streets.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 5: 06/10/2025: Missing Leader Mystery & Cuba’s Economic Collapse

5. 06/10/2025: Missing Leader Mystery & Cuba’s Economic Collapse

In this week’s episode, significant new evidence that may hold the clue to the fate of a Middle Eastern political leader missing for more than 40 years, and Will Grant reports from Havana on Cuba's worst economic crisis since the Cold War.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 6: 13/10/2025: Opioid Crisis in West Africa & Report from Kashmir

6. 13/10/2025: Opioid Crisis in West Africa & Report from Kashmir

This week, an investigation into unlicensed opioids that have been driving a major public health crisis in West Africa and Diyva Arya is in Indian Administered Kashmir.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 7: 20/10/2025: Spies in Hong Kong & Lebanon's Uncertain Future

7. 20/10/2025: Spies in Hong Kong & Lebanon's Uncertain Future

In this week’s episode, BBC Eye uncovers a growing culture of surveillance and informants in Hong Kong in the wake of the so-called “patriots law” and Carine Torbey reports from Beirut on how what is happening in Lebanon could shape the future of the entire Middle East.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 8: 27/10/2025: Gen Z Uprisings and the Fall of Two Leaders

8. 27/10/2025: Gen Z Uprisings and the Fall of Two Leaders

In this week’s episode we explore the rise of gen Z protests around the world. The Eye team uncovers what really happened during the popular youth uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Sammy Awami is in Madagascar, where another wave of political unrest driven by gen Z anger and frustration toppled President Andry Rajoelina.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 9: 03/11/2025: Dubai’s Hidden Sex Trade – and the Threat Facing Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes

9. 03/11/2025: Dubai’s Hidden Sex Trade – and the Threat Facing Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes

In this episode, the Eye team goes undercover to expose an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, and Stephanie Hegarty is in Peru to report on the plight of one of the world’s largest uncontacted tribes.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 10: 10/11/2025: Wildlife in Colombia’s River Magdalena in Peril as Brazil Prepares for UN Climate Summit

10. 10/11/2025: Wildlife in Colombia’s River Magdalena in Peril as Brazil Prepares for UN Climate Summit

In this episode, BBC Eye investigates a disturbing trend of wildlife deaths along Colombia’s lifeblood, the River Magdalena, and Camilla Mota reports from Brazil ahead of the latest United Nations climate talks.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 11: 17/11/2025: New Evidence Challenges U.S. Probe into 2005 Haditha Killings

11. 17/11/2025: New Evidence Challenges U.S. Probe into 2005 Haditha Killings

In this episode, Anna Foster reports from Iraq and BBC Eye uncovers new evidence raising serious doubts about the American investigation and trial for the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians carried out by US marines in the town of Haditha.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 12: 24/11/2025: Palau’s Role in the World’s Largest Bitcoin Seizure

12. 24/11/2025: Palau’s Role in the World’s Largest Bitcoin Seizure

In this week’s episode, BBC Eye tells the incredible story of the Chinese woman behind behind the scam that led to the world's biggest bitcoin seizure and Shawn Yuan reports from the Pacific Island Nation of Palau.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 13: 01/12/2025: Georgia Police accused of using chemical agent as Russia’s Shadow war expand

13. 01/12/2025: Georgia Police accused of using chemical agent as Russia’s Shadow war expand

In this week’s episode,‌ BBC Eye investigates allegations that police in the former former Soviet republic, Georgia used a chemical weapon against protestors and Elizaveta Fokht reports from Berlin on Russia’s shadow war against the West.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 14: 08/12/2025: South Africa’s G20 - Housing Woes & Trump’s Refugees

14. 08/12/2025: South Africa’s G20 - Housing Woes & Trump’s Refugees

Nomsa Maseko reports from South Africa in the wake of the first-ever G20 on African soil. In two exclusive reports, Eye Investigations hears from residents of abandoned and hijacked buildings just a few kilometres from the summit location and, in the province of Free State, meets some of President Trump’s South African refugees.

Still image for Global Eye season 1 episode 15: 15/12/2025

15. 15/12/2025

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