For the first time in 40 years the Dutch, English and Germans expect an extremely heavy storm and high tide. The complete Dutch coast is monitored by dyke inspectors and the dams of the Delta Works, the Dutch Delta coast protection system are closed. For… Read More

The TV-program Monitor from the German public broadcaster ARD is producing a reportage about the German links to the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party), a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south eastern Turkey and… Read More

Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum on the treaty. The Dutch opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs… Read More

The American production company NASH Entertainment produces a show called ‘World’s Most Daring Rescues caught on tape.’ One of the clips they want to use concerns a Dutch paraglider who was rescued after getting stuck in high-voltage cables in New Zealand in 2001. At the… Read More

In 2003 Dutch Iraqi Wesam Delaema visits his mother country Iraq after the US and UK invasion. He marries his wife in Bagdad and wants to finally see his family again. To show his friends in The Netherlands the other side of Iraq, he decides… Read More

The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries called e² design. e² design broadcasted on the US public TV channel PBS. The Economies of Being Environmentally conscious is an original HD multipart series that explores the living vitality of the… Read More

The ‘Betuwe Line’, the new cargo railway line from the harbour of Rotterdam to Germany, is opened by the Queen Beatrix on the 16th of June 2007. Different transporters have requested to use the new track. Around ten years ago the Dutch government decided to… Read More

The Dutch public TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Dutch political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN… Read More

Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to produce a reportage for the program ’10 for 10’ about the way the Dutch try to manage the increasing road use on local and national scale. Since a… Read More

A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera’s equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear… Read More

Faith without fear is a bold one-hour documentary special that follows controversial Canadian author, journalist and outspoken Muslim, Irshad Manji on a personal quest to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom. After years of preparation and filming, now the editing of… Read More

Before and during the Dutch national elections Europe correspondent Christoph Nuffer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen reports from the Netherlands on the political situation and the issue’s that play a role in the campaigns. Social democrat leader Wouter Bos, is followed during… Read More