Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is created by the production company Wall to Wall. The celebrity of this episode is Matt… Read More

Russian gas supplies via Poland to Germany remain suspended and geopolitical tensions over Ukraine continue to run high. President Vladimir Putin has assembled a large force near the Ukrainian border and the United States is reckoning with a Russian invasion. As a result, gas prices… Read More

Although selling cannabis has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades, growing cannabis is still illegal. Soon, this might change. This is because the government is experimenting with growing legal weed. Currently, cannabis procurement is done through ‘the back door’. What is sold legally is… Read More

A lawyer shot dead in the street, a journalist murdered in the center of Amsterdam – in the Netherlands, a drug mafia has developed around the cocaine trade in recent years, earning billions and seemingly stopping at nothing. The murder of crime journalist Peter R…. Read More

Ahead of the climate conference in Glasgow the Japanese public TV channel NHK send reporter Ginga Tamura to the Netherlands to report for several programs on how the Netherlands is threatened by climate change. For two weeks the reporter travels around in the Netherlands with… Read More

He is considered the leading crime reporter in the Netherlands – and an expert on organised crime: journalist Peter R. de Vries. Yesterday evening he was apparently assassinated. He was shot at in the street – in the centre of Amsterdam. De Vries suffers life-threatening… Read More

While the corona virus roams the world the French public news reporter Maryse Burgot makes a report on residents in the Dutch town of Urk that refuse vaccination for religious reasons. She portrays a large family explaining why they do not want to get vaccinations…. Read More

The Marengo trial, also known as the Marengo case (Dutch: Marengo-proces), is a legal proceeding involving alleged high-ranking members of the Mocro Maffia, a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organisation. The trial centers on seventeen defendants accused of participating in numerous murders and attempted murders. The Marengo trial… Read More

The French documentary production company Les Films d’Ici is asked by ARTE to produce a series of nature documentaries about how humans and human behaviour are influencing nature and animals. One of the episodes is Quand passant les oiseaux (When the birds go by), a… Read More

On 20 December 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court, the highest court in the Netherlands, upheld the previous decisions in the so called Urgenda Climate Case, finding that the Dutch government has obligations to urgently and significantly reduce emissions in line with its human rights obligations…. Read More

Over the last years the intercepted shipments of cocaine in the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp seriously increased in number and in quantity. German Europe correspondent Michael Grytz from TV public channel ARD wants to find out what is happening at the Antwerp and Rotterdam… Read More

Serres Séparées is a Covid-19-inspired extension of the Amsterdam art centre Mediamatic’s restaurant. Waterfront greenhouses have been transformed into private dining rooms. The name was inspired by the French chambre séparée; a room in a bar or restaurant that suggests a sexy form of intimacy…. Read More