Unreported World - Season 20 / Year 2019

Channel 4's multi-award-winning foreign affairs strand returns for a new series with a film from Brazil exploring the impact of the country's new President, Jair Bolsonaro, on the LGBT community. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Kate Hardie-Buckley travel to Sao Paulo - which holds the world record for the largest gay pride parade ever - as its inhabitants prepare for Carnival. Brazil has an image as an open and permissive melting pot, but they reveal that it's actually one of the most dangerous places in the world to be LGBT, with estimates that someone from the community is killed every 16 hours in the country.

Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Masood Khan travel to Pakistan where they meet people - including children - who have fallen foul of the country's strict blasphemy laws, and the lawyers and activists who hunt them down, determined to ensure the death penalty is carried out as a punishment.

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Nick Blakemore visit southern Italy to meet a fearless TV reporter who's taking on Mafia drug-dealers and gangsters. Vittorio Brumotti is world famous as a daredevil cyclist whose death-defying exploits range from jumping from rock to rock in the Grand Canyon to riding the arches of high-altitude bridges. But Brumotti also has another way of getting his adrenaline fix. He's a reporter for one of Italy's top-rating TV shows, working with an undercover team and confronting Mafia drug-dealers and gangsters. 'This is the sharp razor blade that makes you feel alive,' he tells Guru-Murthy.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Roeland Doust travel to Nicaragua, where President Ortega has launched a crackdown on the independent media in a country gripped by civil disruption and economic chaos. The Unreported World team visits the newsroom of the country's oldest newspaper, independent TV studios and a blogger's home, to meet the journalists risking a beating, or worse, to get their stories out - and others who have decided the only way to survive is to flee. Series Ed: Sue Turton;

In Madagascar, reporter Datshiane Navanayagam and director Leslie Knott gain rare access to some of the hundreds of 'forgotten' children held in the country's jails. The team investigate the extraordinary stories of the children accused of petty crimes who can be locked up in an adult prison for up to three years - sometimes without their parents ever being told where they are - before their cases are heard in court.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Roeland Doust travel to Nicaragua, where President Ortega has launched a crackdown on the independent media in a country gripped by civil disruption and economic chaos. The Unreported World team visits the newsroom of the country's oldest newspaper, independent TV studios and a blogger's home, to meet the journalists risking a beating, or worse, to get their stories out - and others who have decided that the only way to survive is to flee.

Unreported World ventures deep into the rainforests of the Republic of the Congo to meet members of the Baka tribe, who are under threat as the forests they've hunted in for generations are turned into a national park. Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Karim Shah investigate claims that heavily-armed 'eco-guards', part-funded by the World Wildlife Fund, are not only preventing the Baka from hunting the food which keeps them alive, but also abusing and intimidating them to the extent that the whole tribe now lives in fear.

Exploring the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian's rampage through the Bahamas. When Dorian hit the region back in August, it sparked worldwide headlines. In its aftermath, reporter Seyi Rhodes uncovers the dark story of how Haitian migrants have been left homeless and now, prohibited from rebuilding, are being deported by the government. They live with families who are in hiding after their homes were wrecked and their documents lost. Their futures are now uncertain with the government threatening jail sentences and heavy fines.

Adnan Sarwar meet pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in a turf war between lawless drug-dealing gangs in Cape Town, South Africa

Sahar Zand meets Iraq's new social media stars. They've got millions of followers, but, as Unreported World finds out, fame can have deadly consequences.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to Mali, where continual fighting has severely impacted tourism and threatened the upkeep of significant historic sites