On Assignment - Season 10

Season 10

Episodes

Episode 1
Dan Rivers returns to Australia three years after the country experienced its worst bushfires on record to catch-up with residents trying to return to normal life and finds out how those who volunteered to fight the fires have been preparing for more extreme weather. Elsewhere, John Ray investigates the story of Sally Hafez, a mother of two who walked into a Beirut bank brandishing a toy pistol and demanding the withdrawal of $14,000 of her own money, and Rageh travels to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, a place which has become another front line in the migrant crisis.

Episode 2
Peter Smith reports from Turkey near the epicentre of the deadly earthquake that has cost tens of thousands of lives, and Rageh Omaar travels to South Africa to uncover the truth about the country's devastating energy crisis. Elsewhere, Rebecca Barry is in New York, another US state that has made recreational use of cannabis legal in recent months, as it prepare to hand out its first licenses to sell the drug.

Episode 3
James Mates investigates a controversial euthanasia law in Portugal, Dan Rivers explores the experience of Australia's Indigenous population, and Sangita Lai reports from Denmark.

Episode 4
Rhys Williams investigates the deadly rail disaster in Greece in February, when an InterCity passenger train collided head-on with a freight train, killing 57 people. He meets victims, bereaved families and those in the industry who issued multiple warnings in the lead up to the disaster. Elsewhere in a Mexico City suburb, Rageh Omaar visits the altar of 'Santa Muerte' or Holy Death, a 21st century deity that accepts and nurtures the outcasts who feel neglected and rejected by mainstream religion.

Episode 5
Rageh Omaar explores a controversial new train system in Mexico, Dan Rivers probes a new law in Tennessee, and Rachel Townsend examines a new approach to later life care in France.

Episode 6
Lucy Watson is in the capital city of Rome where she gains special access to one of Italy's most infamous prisons as it takes a bold step to accommodate trans women prisoners. Elsewhere, Nina Nannar is in the mountains of Bulgaria discovering how the ancient pagan tradition of firewalking is being kept alive.

Episode 7
Rohit Kachroo travels to East London and finds a grieving community still seeking answers in the wake of the deaths of 21 teenagers in a South African nightclub. Ellie Pitt examines a new Spanish law that requires employers to give paid 'menstrual leave" to women who suffer from disabling periods, and Amy Lewis travels to Slovenia to explore how the country is trying to shake off its past.

Episode 8
Amanda Walker travels to Centralia - a small town near Seattle - to witness doctors working on a new treatment for addicts of America's deadly fentanyl epidemic. Rohit Kachroo is in Turkey to meet the Russians who've fled the war back home trying to find a new place to call home, and Julie Etchingham is in Berlin to travel back in time with the archives of the Stasi secret police.
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