Hotspots

In the first episode, Hotspots takes the viewer to danger zones on four continents.
Alex Crawford is in Raqqa, with roving reports from the frontline of the battle between ISIS and a coalition group of Arabs and Kurds, brought together in a fight to retake the city. US correspondent Hannah Thomas Peter is in the deep American south, identifying victims of sex trafficking, with women and children sold into the sex trade.
In Bangladesh, deeply moving accounts from Myanmar and Bangladesh about the horrors facing the Rohingya refugees.
And in Venezuela, Stuart Ramsay and his production team are caught in the cross-fire as police try to suppress an uprising in Caracas.

Stuart Ramsay reports on the perilous journey taken by thousands of people smuggled into the US.