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.

印度廢除克什米爾的自治地位，令印度和巴基斯坦再起衝突。攝製隊冒險深入克什米爾南北兩地，在印控克什米爾，與印度政府的眼中釘—獨立運動組織的領導人見面。根據非政府組織的統計，數千名獨立分子遭到當局折磨及「被消失」;在巴控克什米爾，當地軍官向攝製隊展示他們如何阻止伊斯蘭激進分子和塔利班再次於當地立足。不過，由於印巴雙方不斷打破停戰協議，平民百姓恐怕將繼續遭受戰火的蹂躪。

As India withdraws Kashmir’s special status, tensions with Pakistan look set to escalate. At great risk, the filming crew was able to enter both parts of Kashmir, filming in areas. In the Indian sector, they met one of the leaders of the independence rebellion who is regularly targeted by the Indian authorities. According to NGOs, thousands of men have been tortured or ‘disappeared’ by the Indian police. On the Pakistani side, General Jawad is keen to show the crew how they prevent Islamic militants and the Taliban from establishing a foothold here again. But regular breakdowns in the ceasefire with India mean that citizens continue to get caught in the crossfire.

The United States overturned the world order in oil that has prevailed since the WWII. In a major strategic change, the Americans are no longer dependent on oil from their Saudi allies, who came under suspicion following the September 11 attacks of 2001. To counter this power grab, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a game of poker. Produce more oil to drive the price of a barrel as low as possible and bring off a triple coup: ruin the American shale oil industry and weaken its worst enemies, Russia and Iran. A highly risky strategy, but this scenario is full of surprising twists. Is this poker game the herald of the post-oil world?

在英國，濫用非處方藥物的浪潮正蔓延全國各地。林林總總的止痛藥能輕易控制，甚至主宰成千上萬濫藥者的生活。本集節目走進三位濫用非處方藥物人士的生活，了解他們如何不知不覺間對這些「無害」藥物上癮，及追蹤他們戒除藥癮的心路歷程。

Over the counter medication dependency is slowly but surely spreading into all corners of the UK, and for the thousands who pop this legal cocktail of pills it can easily take over, control and dominate their every waking moment. This revealing documentary follows three ‘Silent Addicts’, people who have unwittingly become seriously hooked to these so called ‘harmless’ drugs and follow them as they do their best to kick the habit.