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It's complicated

A video explainer series that embraces the nuances of challenging issues

9 May 2024

  • What it takes to prove genocide – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back at historical cases of genocide that have been tried in the international courts to find out why the crime is so much harder to prove than other atrocities, and what bearing this has on South Africa's case against Israel and future cases

7 March 2024

  • How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet

25 January 2024

  • How Russia is taking control of the Arctic – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how Vladimir Putin is gaining control of the polar region

23 November 2023

  • How Israel created a water crisis for Palestinians – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss examines how Israel took control of the region's water and created a deadly problem for Palestinians

12 October 2023

  • How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians

    People of south Asian origin today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people

14 September 2023

  • How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes – video

    Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores what's behind the Italian mafia's involvement in the tomato industry

17 August 2023

  • How killing vultures endangers humans – video

    Africa has lost about 90% of its vultures over the past 50 years. Most of these birds are being poisoned, often unintentionally, by humans. It's a crisis that we know can have a deadly impact on people

13 July 2023

  • Why Barcelona’s beaches are disappearing – video

    In the past 20 years the rate of erosion along Spain’s east coast has been accelerating. It's a situation that could spell the end of Barcelona's beaches

15 June 2023

  • How Haiti came to be run by armed gangs – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores the historical background to the current crisis and discovers how gangs have become so embedded in Haitian politics

18 May 2023

  • Why China just can't quit Hollywood – video

    At a time when the China and the US's political relationship has grown ever more rancorous, China is opening the door to US blockbusters once again. Why is China's film industry so dependent on Hollywood?

20 April 2023

  • How Russian propaganda has been forced to evolve – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how Russian state media has adapted its messaging since the start of the war in Ukraine

23 March 2023

  • Why women are leading the Iranian protests – video

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24 February 2023

  • How killer robots are changing modern warfare – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how the weaponisation of general-purpose robots and the developments of a wider array of advanced mobile robotics and AI powered machine are changing modern warfare

26 January 2023

  • Why rivers shouldn't look like this – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks into how rivers were reshaped by human activity and how river restoration is helping to reestablish biodiversity and combat some of the effects of the climate crisis

1 December 2022

  • How the British crown has more power than you think – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back at the Guardian’s investigation into a secretive procedure that led to more than 1,000 laws being vetted by Queen Elizabeth and then-Prince Charles before they were approved by parliament


3 November 2022

  • How gas is being rebranded as green – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores the lengths fossil fuel companies have gone to in order to try to convince consumers, voters and lawmakers that natural gas is a clean energy source

5 October 2022

  • How Russia’s strategy failed, not the tank – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks into Russia's early deployment and asks: if tanks aren't the problem, why did they fail in Ukraine?

8 September 2022

  • Why self-driving cars have stalled – video

    Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be pepetually just around the corner, but it is still an open question whether self-driving automation is actually possible

11 August 2022

  • How the Amazon has started to heat the planet – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates how the Amazon has reached this point, and how agriculture and Brazilian politics are playing a central role in the fate of the world's largest rainforest

14 July 2022

  • How Kenya is flooding in a drought – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how Kenya's great lakes are flooding and why the government has been so slow to act

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