Living with crocodiles in Mali

The residents of Borko town in central Mali have lived alongside crocodiles for years.


The mystical Dogon community believe the animals are positive entities. So they watch over them and regard them as their relatives.


This is an excerpt of a report in the Reuters' weekly TV programme, Africa Journal.

Obama's Half Brother Writes About Abusive Father

Shenzhen - China
November 3rd, 2009
Associated Press


President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel.


The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, Barack Obama, Sr.

A Panther in Africa

On October 30, 1969, Pete O'Neal, a young Black Panther in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested for transporting a gun across state lines.


One year later, O'Neal fled the charge, and for over 30 years, he has lived in Tanzania as one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the U.S. government.


Today, this community organizer confronts very different challenges and finds himself living between two worlds — America and Africa, his radical past and his uncertain future.

A Young Girl in Danger: What Would You Do?

John Quinones asks What Would You Do if you witnessed a person trying to abduct a child.


One More Time Abc 20/20 program put american citizens under test.


Let see the results!

Sex Change Surgery

That video from "Taboo" Program takes you on a journey beyond the comfort zones and across cultural borders to explore rituals and customs that are acceptable in some cultures, but forbidden, illegal or, reviled in others.


Understand seemingly bizarre and shocking practices from around the world.


Enter the transgender community, where people undergo surgery to become the sex they believe they truly are.

Story of Stuff

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.


The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.


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Racial Segregation In Prison

From: The Documentary "Behind Bars"

 The documentary "Behind Bars" is made by the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award winning presenter Louis Theroux; he is travelling to northern California to visit America's notorious San Quentin State Prison.

Built in 1852, San Quentin is one of America's oldest prisons and suffers from chronic overcrowding. Although famous for its death row the prison's main task is to house a transient population of 3,000 murderers, sexual predators and small-time criminals.

Louis spends two weeks with these inmates and quickly discovers that they inhabit a strange world within a world with its own rules and its own brutal code of conduct.

He meets amongst others David Silva who is serving 521 years and 11 life sentences and is locked down for 23 hours a day. Silva's crimes as he describes them 'would never be forgotten' and he talks of how he faces up to the prospect of never leaving prison.

Louis meets Deborah and Rob a transgender couple who live like husband and wife and how Deborah feels that after 20 years of continual offending, San Quentin now feels like home.