Last year Carlos Ghosn publicly condemned the “unjust” judicial system and the “inhumane” penitentiary system in Japan which the former CEO of Renault-Nissan experienced recently. We gained unprecedented filming access to two Japanese prisons to find out whether these accusations were founded.

How Clean Is Your House follows two Midlands couples as they learn how to protect themselves against COVID-19 - which can live on cardboard for 24 hours and on steel and plastic for up to five days. Expert explain extra precautions need to be taken by everyone to stop the spread of the virus, and in particular to protect those who are currently shielding.

An epidemic is spreading across the entire planet. It’s known as obesity and it’s a “time bomb.” How can it be stopped? This documentary is an unconventional, surprising international investigation that will quash many prejudices around the issue and sort facts from fiction.

Thanks to the appearance of low-cost fitness centres, everyone is getting into shape, a widespread trend that can find several generations of the same family working out together - and that has seen a steep rise in trafficking in anabolic steroids. Death may call when physical activity is taken to excess.

In May 2017, militants affiliated with the “Islamic State” terrorist movement seized power in the city of Marawi on the Philippine island of Mindanao. The Filipino army needed five months to liberate Marawi from the Islamists. The result: more than 1,000 dead and a city in ruins. More than 60,000 people from Marawi are still living in refugee camps and other emergency accommodation. The conflict between Muslims and Catholics, stoked by the Islamists, continues to impact upon the political situation in the southern Philippines. And President Rodrigo Duterte is known less for his talents as a peacemaker, and more for this hardline policies. Is the Islamist threat in the Philippines now a thing of the past?

Secular bloggers risk their lives by speaking out, opponents of the government disappear without trace, the Hindu minority is under attack: In Bangladesh headlines are dominated by violence. The country that wants to reconcile democracy and Islam appears to be finding it harder and harder to strike a balance between the two. But the political elite refuse to recognize the growth of violent Islamism in the country. Just how influential are the Islamists in Bangladesh?

Today China’s rivalry with the West is focused on the fate of one Chinese group: Huawei. How did this tech giant present in 170 countries with over 200 million phones sold last year become the West’s biggest bugbear? The “Huawei affair” is the latest illustration of China’s rise to power and the world’s attempts to grapple with it. Technology theft, trade wars and espionage--just some of the issues accompanying the company’s meteoric rise--have shuffled the geopolitical deck, making China “public enemy number one” for Western economies.

The story of the Australian bushfires that stopped a nation and stunned the world. Incredible footage from ordinary Australians captured the ferocity of the bushfires that raged across the country. These videos have been viewed tens of millions of times across the world, but who filmed them and how did their stories end? A team of reporters and producers fanned out across the country to track down the people who found themselves in the centre of the firestorms. What emerges are incredible stories of survival, bravery and heartbreak.

In recent years, Russian hackers have been on the front page of Western media. In the United States, they are accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign by hacking emails from the American Democratic Party. In Kiev, Ukraine, cyberattacks wreak havok. The culprits are designated: Russia and its mercenaries, hackers. But who are they really?