1945年，第二次世界大戰後，韓國在經歷了35年日本的佔領後，終於獲得解放，但隨即成為美國及蘇聯之間角力的新戰場，美蘇協議將朝鮮半島劃分為兩個區域。期後，蘇聯控制北韓，美國則控制南韓，達3年之久。韓戰期間，北韓大批地主和基督徒被進行大清洗；南部則發生騷亂、宣傳戰和游擊戰。金日成在北部掌權，李承晚在南部當選總統，他們不惜一切代價，誓要征服對方，統一南北韓。但基於錯誤的估計和誤解，戰爭陷入無休止的狀態，最終招致南北雙方都需要付出沉重的代價。

Our story begins with 35 years of brutal Japanese occupation, a sudden and arbitrary division of the 1000 year-old nation in 1945, followed by three more years of occupation by the U.S.S.R. in the North and the U.S. in the South. Wholesale purges of landowners and Christians ensue in the North, while riots, pitch battles and guerrilla warfare develop in the South. When Kim Il Sung comes to power in the North, and Syngman Rhee in the South, they share a common burning desire to conquer the other and unite Korea. Thus, an endless war is initiated based on mistakes, miscalculations, and misunderstandings that began with major losses for the South.

今集，伊朗及沙特阿拉伯的紛爭將進一步升温，他們各自將其勢力擴展至周邊國家，令中東陷入宗派戰爭。伊朗將其勢力，從伊拉克延伸至敘利亞和黎巴嫩。沙特阿拉伯就在也門展示力量，在區內導致慘痛的人命傷亡。

Part two of this special series about how two rivals have plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. While Iran extends its power from Iraq into Syria and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia is making a stand in Yemen, with deadly consequences for the region.

節目一連兩集，採訪宗教和軍事領導人、民兵指揮官、外交官和政策專家等，透過獨家實地報導，從歷史到現在，探討種種仇恨，如何使伊朗、沙特阿拉伯，以至也門、伊拉克、巴基斯坦、敘利亞和黎巴嫩等國，陷入前所未有的暴力鬥爭。

Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia’s power struggle. It draws on scores of interviews with political, religious and military leaders, militia commanders, diplomats, and policy experts, painting American television’s most comprehensive picture of a feud that has reshaped the Middle East.  

巨型地下迷宮

東京現時有13條地鐵路線，每日服務1000萬名乘客，成為東京的主要幹道。東京的鐵路網絡長達300公里，共有285個站，貫穿整個東京市中心。這個地下迷宮，除了地鐵之外，亦架設了電力、天然氣、下水道和通信電纜等基礎設施。假如將東京所有地下隧道和電纜全部連接起來，長度足以圍繞地球三個圈。隨着2020東京奧運舉行在即，東京這個彈丸之地需要進行大革新，地下世界將會成為發展的最大動力。日本當局正興建新的地下鐵站: 虎之門之丘站，以便連接日後設有多個奧運設施的東京灣區。但由於東京近海，地下水多，土質鬆軟，開拓地下世界遇到不少的阻力。今集將會帶大家前往平時鮮為人知的地下迷宮，直擊地下大改造的最前線。

The Underground - an Expanding Labyrinth

Tokyo's underground is said to be the most densely-packed in the world. Its tunnels house 13 subways, electric cables, gas, water, telecommunications, and more. Connected end-to-end, they would go around the Earth three times. For a city as crowded as Tokyo, the underground is the final frontier. With 2020 approaching, this subterranean world is set to expand even further with the construction of new subway stations and disaster-prevention tunnels. This episode follows this colossal but little known project to transform Tokyo's underground, highlighting the problems unique to the city, including its abundant groundwater.

東京灣區：未來都市的誕生


日本放送協會NHK的《東京再生》系列，由知名漫畫家及導演大友克洋擔任美術總監。一連兩集的《東京再生》，參考《阿基拉》動畫中科技先進、別開生面的城市背景，塑造2020的東京。作品除了有大友克洋監督美術設計，還有《阿基拉》電影作曲家山城祥二及漫畫標題設計師平田弘史參與製作。第一集的主題是東京灣的蛻變，預計2020年將有十五座奧運設施在該處落成。

Bay Area :  City of the Future

NHK enlisted the help of manga artist and director Katsuhiro Otomo for its “Tokyo Reborn” special series. The special remodels Tokyo for the year 2020 while taking notes from Akira to create an eye-popping, futuristic city. Otomo supervised the special's title image design and Akira film composer Shoji Yamashiro and Akira manga logo calligrapher Hiroshi Hirata are also working on the special. The first episode focuses on the Tokyo Bay area where 15 Olympic facilities will be located.

It’s 6:50PM when the unthinkable happens, right before the eyes of thousands of onlookers and of cameras coming from the entire world. Notre Dame’s arrow catches fire and collapses. Since more than an hour now, the older than 800 years old building, the most visited in Europe, is burning. 400 firefighters are fighting the fire, to avoid the vanishing of Notre-Dame. Thanks to the videos, shot by the firefighters and the Paris Police Department, the testimonies of the fire brigade, the residents and the parishioners. We’ll come back, minute after minute, to this tragic event, that moved the entire world.

A documentary about the passionate translators of the book The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry, who fight for the preservation of their endangered languages. The Little Prince is one of the most translated book in the world; in more than 300 languages. Why do people from very diverse cultures choose precisely this book to keep their threatened languages and cultures alive? From Sami in the highlands of Samiland to Tamazight spoken on the desert planes of the Sahara. From Tibetan taught in exile in Paris to Nawat still spoken by a last generation in El Salvador. Every translator has a dramatical story and motivation to translate this book. An inspiring human film which carries out the wisdom of the Little Prince.

亞馬遜雨林的命運與人類的命運息息相關。但多年來，亞馬遜雨林都對着重重挑戰。持續的大火，令大片的雨林被焚毀。另外，自從一九七零年興建跨亞馬遜高速公路，聚居在當地的瓦拉皮提土著，生活受到種種威脅。不足一個世紀，瓦拉皮提土著人口已銳減四分一。巴西總統博爾索納羅鼓勵伐木工人及農夫清理農地，以便進一步擴展經濟活動。大火肆虐及人為干擾為亞馬遜雨林帶來一連串的負面影響。

Large swathes of the Amazon rainforest are burning. There have been more than 80,000 fire outbreaks in Brazil so far, this year. At the table of diplomatic talks, the destiny of the Amazonia and humankind are clearly linked with each other. Now, loggers and farmers are even encouraged by the new president to clear the land in order to open up the region to economic activity. This one-off shows what are the negative visible and invisible consequences of this strategy.

全球氣候變暖，令北極冰川溶化，形成水道。以往荒蕪之地，如今已有船道航行。北極擁有大量礦物、石油和天然氣等資源，引來世界大國前赴後繼到此搶奪，他們進行開採活動，發展旅遊業，甚至軍事擴張，已直接威脅到北極土著的生活。

Now that the Arctic ice is melting due to climate change, waterways are formed in the summer, allowing ships to reach raw materials that were previously inaccessible. The resulting scramble among superpowers for nickel and gold mines puts a strain on geopolitical relations and has major consequences for the lives of the indigenous Arctic peoples. A visual report by photographers Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev.

A democracy should protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. Journalist Chris Hedges, argues that the crisis predates Donald Trump’s election by many years. Like his source of inspiration, the Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul, Hedges regards Trump as the symptom rather than the disease. Decades ago, U.S. democracy began selling its soul to big corporations. Lobbyists and corporatism took control in Washington, gradually undermining the will of the people. Journalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’état”. Hedges and Ralston Saul argue that the real coup took place long before.