Off The Grid: Recent Episodes
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Off The Grid is a character-driven highly produced documentary series that tells compelling human stories from across the globe.
As Kenya battles its worst drought in decades, Off the Grid travels to the most affected parts of a country where climate change is a reality and people are fighting for survival.Watch more episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUW304lJeu3VO2Ucasj8kk1NokTDcrSWQ
As Russian troops withdraw, the brutality of their occupation in Ukraine is revealed. Liberated areas become crime scenes and suspicion of war crimes starts to emerge. Under the laws of war, civilians should have been protected, but instead it looks like they were targeted. Some were held captive, others were killed or left for dead. Off The Grid follows local and international teams in their search for justice Off The Grid is TRT World's multi-award-winning current affairs and investigative documentary series covering global stories through personal journeys. Watch more episodes here: http://trt.world/f12v
As a new war rages in Europe, the ghosts of an old one are resurfacing.
Almost three decades after guns went silent in Bosnia and Herzegovina, survivors of sexual violence and their unwanted children are still facing discrimination. Off The Grid met some of them.
BosniandHerzegovina #Conflict #Sexualviolence
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As Lebanon is falling apart, so are its people. It's a perfect scenario for criminal gangs. Off the Grid meets the people who are resorting to crime to survive.
Once dubbed the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon now lacks basically everything from fuel to medicine. Being smuggled into war-torn Syria next door only makes things worse.
But one commodity is widely available: weapons. We explore how the rise of poverty has led to a surge in violence in a country where life is becoming harder by the day.
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Lebanon #Crime #Poverty
Thousands of women are still going through hell inside the Syrian regime's detention centres. Many more died, and only a few have managed to get out alive.
Off the Grid speaks to survivors who are willing to tell their story so that justice can be done.
EXCLUSIVE: Darfur, a region cut off from the world. A volatile area that still bears the scars of genocide. Many are looking for a better future elsewhere. A quest that led them to battlefields in Libya. Some are tricked. Others are trapped. All are forced to kill.
MORE: From Darfur to the capital Khartoum, we've uncovered ruthless recruiting networks and spoken to those who risked a terrifying escape to break free from a conflict that isn't theirs. Abdelrazak went to look for gold. But he was kidnapped and sold to Libyan militias who forced him to fight alongside Khalifa Haftar's troops as they tried to get hold of the capital Tripoli. He ended up taking part in massacres similar to those that decimated his family in the early 2000s.
Ayman signed a contract for a security job in the United Arab Emirates. But he landed in the Libyan desert where he received three months of intense military training, ranging from using Kalashnikovs, digging trenches and drafting battle plans.
When his fellow recruit Abuelmuali tried to get an explanation from the recruitment agency, one employee almost ran us over with his car as we were filming.
Sudan’s Soldiers of Misfortune is a documentary from the multi-award winning series Off The Grid.
*At 4’08 it should read, 'What happened here has been described as the first genocide of the century'.
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Darfur #Investigative #HumanTrafficking #Sudan #UAE
Malaysia's Plastic Jungle investigates the consequences of illegal foreign plastic waste recycling on Malaysian people's health and environment. And meet the people who refuse to be the world's dumping ground.
plasticwaste #Malaysia #dumpingground
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From the slums of India to Pakistan’s hospitals and Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps… The majority of people across South Asia simply can’t afford life under lockdown. Pakistan lifted its lockdown earlier this month, but India and Bangladesh have extended theirs until the end of the month. Our special edition On The Map, South Asia The unaffordable lockdown took an in-depth look at the impact of the coronavirus in South Asia. The unaffordable lockdown is part of our Documentary Series: On The Map - Coronavirus Editions.
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coronavirus #covid-19 #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #Rohingyas #Amphan
Some African countries have implemented lockdowns to contain the coronavirus, but others fear these measures could be more deadly than the virus itself.
africa #coronavirusinafrica #coronavirusafrica
As much of the world has shut down to combat the coronavirus pandemic, we look at conflict zones... where people are now fighting on two fronts. We got rare access to Northern Syria, where millions are cramped in squalid camps... and where COVID-19 is just another catastrophe waiting to happen. In Yemen, the health system has collapsed after 5 years of war. Clean hands and drinkable water are a privilege, and wearing a mask is a luxury. In Libya, virus or no virus, the civil war continues. Warring parties now seem to be exploiting the pandemic itself. Fighting on Two Fronts is part of our Documentary Series: On The Map - Coronavirus Editions. Watch other episodes here: http://trt.world/1wv4
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across Latin America, not all political leaders have the same views on how to combat the virus.
From war zones in the Middle East to favelas and indigenous communities in South America. And from African megacities to South Asia refugee camps, as the coronavirus pandemic rages Off The Grid flagship documentary series puts the most vulnerable people On The Map.
OnTheMap #Covid19 #Coronavirus
Serbia Missing Babies has been highly commended at the 2020 London AIBs. The Association of International Broadcasting rewarded a "moving tale with a strong narrative."
Hundreds of Serbian parents are looking for their child that has gone missing. Their story is similar: a baby declared dead a few hours or days after birth. But no body, no grave and major inconsistencies in the documents…All these parents believe their baby has been stolen and given away for illegal adoption… Off The Grid follows their quest for truth.
Serbia #Crime #MissingBaby #HumanTrafficking
Emmy Nominee Director / Producer Mouhssine Ennaimi Executive Producers Alexandra Pauliat Mouhssine Ennaimi Pictures Hakan Hocaoglu Suad Fazlic (Strasbourg) Editor Fatih Kibar Motion Graphics Emrah Akyon Translation Dzevad Arnautovic Teida Imamovic Producer/Fixer Sanela Makic Script Editors Alexandra Pauliat Gemma Harries Narration Kamali Melbourne
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A few weeks before unprecedented protests against the regime, Off the Grid met Iranian people inside and outside the capital to talk about the effect of US sanctions. And found out that people’s anger was not only directed at the old enemy.
Iran #Sanctions #Medicalsector #Zarif #Hosseinsheikoleslam
Off the Grid goes to India-administered Kashmir where daily humiliation by Indian forces seems to be pushing more and more people towards militancy.
The episode features an interview with the father of the Pulwama suicide bomber, testimonies of pellet-gun victims (Including an 18 month old girl), and a Kashmiri student who was forced to leave his campus after retaliatory attacks on Kashmiris following the Pulwama attack.
Article370 #Kashmir #India #documentary
Award winner: Outstanding Documentary Production at BroadcastPro Middle East Awards, Dubai 2017
An exclusive report on the Syrian city of Jarablus, which is rebuilding itself a year after the city was liberated from Daesh
Production team: Alexandra Pauliat, Mouhssine Ennaimi, Alican Ayanlar, Semir Sejfovic, Oguz Atabas
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Seeking asylum in the UK can be a long and painful process that leads many to detention. Off the Grid meets some former detainees who spent years behind bars.
OffTheGrid #asylum #immigration
Half a million Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee Myanmar and now live in camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, with not much hope to return. Off The Grid met some of them at the border.
Production team: Alexandra Pauliat, Shamim Chowdhury, Nicolas Davies-Jones, Ilkay Erkoc, Engin Uzun
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More than a year after the start of the Great March of Return, we met the people risking it all for the right to return to the land of their ancestors.
OffTheGrid #Gaza #GreatMarchOfReturn
Remember the Thai cave rescue? When trapped children were miraculously saved? The story gripped the world… But there is something you weren’t told. When the 12 players and their coach got out. Thailand realised that some of its new heroes were not Thai citizens. TRT world OFF THE GRID documentaries series travelled there to find out more about the people that some are calling ‘The invisibles’.
OffTheGrid #GhostCitizens #CaveRescue
Off the Grid meets people who put on their yellow vests to find out the cause of the protests
FranceProtests #YellowVests #ParisRiots
La Linea is a Spanish coastal city built on the drug trade. Smugglers and policemen often come from the same street. Off the Grid met people on both sides of the divide.
OffTheGrid #DrugSmuggle #Europe
After the latest round of violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka, Off the Grid went there to meet some of the victims and the hardline Buddhist monk accused of fueling the attacks.
OffTheGrid #SriLanka #antimuslimviolence
Off the Grid meets the survivors of a dramatic boat rescue who got separated during the operation. Months later, they still haven’t been reunited.
OffTheGrid #migrants
Off the Grid gained exclusive access to Yemen’s main front line… The besieged city of Taiz
Some civilians like Nadhem took weapons to defend their city. While others like Abdulrahman, Marwan and Abdulkalfi are trying to carry on with their life among rubble.
Life in Yemen’s second most city is getting tougher and people are struggling. Food prices have skyrocketed, black-market oil’s price is booming. The few hospitals that are still operating are overwhelmed. And don’t have the means to deal with serious injuries. Aber,15, couldn’t be treated there and died after a coalition air strike hit her school. Aalaa, 2 years old lost her leg after being hit by shrapnel.
Two-third of Taiz’s population have already left. And those who are still there live in fear of air strikes, shelling, snipers and armed groups with different agendas. Power vacuum, chaos as well as people’s despair make the conflict almost incurable. A conflict that has become a proxy war between the two regional powers: Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Taiz is one small corner of the war in Yemen. A country deeply divided over who is to blame, and what the solution is.
OffTheGrid #Taiz #Yemen
This documentary was nominated for the International Emmy Awards in 2018. He already won the Investigative Medium Award 2018 at the DIG Awards in Italy and is now part of the official 2020 selection of Los Angeles International Film Festival.
We expose a booming illegal trade in the Middle East: organ trafficking. Producer/Director Mouhssine Ennaimi visits Lebanon where hundreds of thousands of desperately poor Syrians have taken refuge. With little money for food and shelter, Abu Ahmed and Abdallah have sold their kidneys to organ traffickers. One of them was given only a fraction of the sum promised and now faces health complications. The other one is recovering in a filthy room in a dirty slum hoping to be smuggled to Europe by the organ trafficker.
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OffTheGrid #OrganTrafficking
The AIBs (Association of International Broadcasting) highly commends Syria’s Slaughterhouses documentary for its rare access to men and women who survived years of torture inside Syria’s prisons. The recognition was given in London, UK in November 2018. “Syria’s slaughterhouses” provides a rare insight into Bashar Al-Assad’s detention system. Including the account of a former guard of Saydnaya, the most infamous prison in Syria. Prisoners are sent there to die and have to endure constant torture and inhuman treatment.
This network of prisons has been running for decades and is often described as a state killing machine. According to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, almost 18 000 people were killed in government custody between March 2011 and December 2015, an average of 300 deaths each month. Detainees not only endure torture, but are also forced to commit crimes. Women are not spared and many had to undergo surgery after constant beating and repeated rape. Off the Grid, is an award-winning, character-driven documentary series which tells compelling and in-depth stories from around the world.
Director and producer: Mouhssine Ennaimi Executive Producer: Alexandra Pauliat Pictures: Ensar Arvas Hatay Producer: Sena Baran Editor & colourist: Oguz Atabas, Deniz Salmanli Motion Graphics: Zlatan Nezirovic, Selim Durak, Selim Buyukguner Narrator: Adnan Nawaz
OffTheGrid #Syria #slaughterhouses
Deadly protests, food shortage and hyperinflation. Off The Grid travels to Venezuela to find out how the country with the world largest oil reserves can be heading towards a breaking.
Production team: Alexandra Pauliat, Mouhssine Ennaimi, Christopher Healy, Anelise Borges
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Agadez, is at the heart of Europe migrant crisis. The last stop for West Africans before the most dangerous leg of their journey: crossing the Sahara desert. Europe wants to stop them from coming. And Niger is now trying to stop them from going. We went to Agadez to meet the people risking it all to fulfill their European dream. And those still trying to smuggle them into Libya despite the government crackdown.
Production team: Nicole Johnston, Sara Monetta, Mouhssine Ennaimi and Alexandra Pauliat
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OffTheGrid #Agadez #MigrantCrisis
TRT World travels to Guantanamo to find out whether President Trump’s plan to fill the controversial prison up with “bad dudes” will help or harm the US so-called ‘war on terror’.
Production team: Alexandra Pauliat, Anelise Borges, Engin Uzun
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