Unreported World

The documentary reports from the US state of Minnesota, where a recent surge in immigration raids has left children traumatised across the city of Minneapolis. Paul McNamara investigates the lasting impact on children and also on whole families still living in fear.

Puerto Rico is a critical front line in America's war on drugs. As the US pours billions into military operations across the Caribbean - to seize the former President of Venezuela, and intercept drug shipments - federal agents on the island are stepping up raids against powerful gangs. Reporter Guillermo Galdos joins the Drug Enforcement Agency and police on high-risk operations in San Juan, where major arrests and drug seizures reveal the scale of the trade.

Sahar Zand reports from the Philippines on the controversial world of spiritual healers. Across the country, with high medical costs and difficulties accessing healthcare, patients put their trust in alternative treatments to cure anything from chronic pain to cancer. Faith healers, blending Catholic rituals with centuries-old traditions, promise miraculous recoveries through prayer, herbal remedies and psychic surgery. Their clinics attract patients from across this country of 112 million people, and even overseas. Sahar meets families placing their hopes in these treatments, including those who've turned away from conventional medicine. Some say they've witnessed extraordinary recoveries, crediting healers with saving their lives. On the outskirts of Manilla, three faith healers who claim to treat over 100 people per week believe they've been divinely chosen to cure conditions modern medicine can't detect. But critics warn that the industry is dangerously unregulated. Medical professionals fear that patients are being misled, delaying vital treatment, often fatally. She hears from people who believe that their loved ones paid the ultimate price for putting their trust in miracle cures that they now believe were a scam. With faith healers operating across the country, authorities face mounting pressure to act, but regulation remains limited in a country where faith runs deep.

Darshna Soni reports from Johannesburg on the business of contract killers who are used to silence whistleblowers. South Africa has a thriving marketplace of hitmen, with killings commissioned through middlemen and carried out for relatively small sums. Once the preserve of gangland turf wars, a hitman's services are now used to settle scores across the country, with 141 targeted killings in 2022 alone.