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On the ground

In-depth Guardian video journalism from around the world

  • The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video

    Ahead of the election in India, the Guardian’s video team travelled through the country to explore how fake news and censorship might shape the outcome.
  • Human or AI? The future of beauty standards – video

    Images created by AI are getting exponentially better and already changing industries such as modelling and marketing, but can they offer a more diverse reflection of humanity than has historically been available – or are they destined to reflect the narrow standards of beauty these industries have long been drawn to?
  • Inside the youth anti-abortion movement in the US: 'Victory is on its way' – video

    Since the US supreme court's overturning of Roe v Wade, 16 states have enacted stringent bans on nearly all abortions. But that is not enough for a new generation of organised and passionate activists intent on pushing even stricter laws across the country. Carter Sherman spends time with students and organisers at the annual March for Life in Washington DC and meets the influential woman spearheading the national movement
  • Has London’s Ulez become a magnet for conspiracy theories? – video

    Since London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, extended the capital’s ultra-low emission zone in the pursuit of cleaner air, the backlash has become increasingly ferocious.
  • How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video

    Masafer Yatta, the most rural and desolate area in the West Bank, is home to about 1,000 Palestinians. But after weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and despite the decades-long fight to remain in their homes, these communities are now being forced off their land. Some have described it as “a new Nakba.”

    The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to Masafer Yatta and heard from Palestinian families how armed settlers have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying children. These West Bank settlements are illegal under international law.
  • 'Don't cry, I'm here now': free after eight years in an Israeli prison – video

    Seven weeks into the new war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, a four-day ceasefire was called and an exchange began of Israeli hostages and imprisoned Palestinians.
    On 24 November, the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, witnessed celebrations at the Betunia checkpoint in Ramallah, and was allowed access to a family awaiting the release of their daughter Noorhan. That night, 39 Palestinian women and children were freed from an Israeli jail. Most of the prisoners were held for minor offences, but some were more serious; though none who had murdered Israelis were released
  • Inside a frontline Ukrainian field hospital – video

    Since the start of 2023, a prolonged and bloody battle has been waged for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. In May Russian forces occupied the city, and during the height of fighting, Ukraine was suffering an estimated 100-200 casualties a day.

    The Guardian's Luke Harding was granted access to one of several Ukrainian medical stabilisation points close to the frontline near Bakhmut. Inside these medical points, frequently targeted with Russian drones and missile strikes, teams of doctors work in makeshift conditions to stabilise patients before they can be evacuated via ambulance to fully equipped hospitals
  • Into the wild to fight Scotland’s addiction problems – video

    Scotland has some of the highest drug deaths in Europe, a deepening mental health crisis and loses between three and four people a day to suicide. Yet at the same time, services are being stripped back leaving a gap in support that is often filled with volunteers who have a personal experience of addiction. Guardian reporter Danny Lavelle, joined one of those organisations, Fire & Peace, which aims to encourage bonds with nature to help people beat the cycle of addiction, on a trip to the Scottish Highlands. As a natural sceptic of alternative therapies, could he be convinced of the benefits?

  • The fall of Nagorno-Karabakh: 'I've lost a child, and now a homeland' – video

    The breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been dissolved after decades of bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The collapse has led to almost all the ethnic Armenians living in the region to flee over the border into neighbouring Armenia. Many say they will never return.

    The Guardian’s Andrew Roth and Christopher Cherry were at the border as the exodus began. They heard the stories of those fleeing their homeland, sometimes for the third and fourth time, in a conflict that has claimed the lives of thousands
  • ‘Unthinkable’ NHS waiting lists force patients to get surgery abroad – video

    When Annabel Harris discovered it would be years until she could get the full hip replacement she needed on the NHS, she joined the growing number of Britons choosing to pay to have surgery in another country
  • Beyond the Troubles: the women building hope along Derry’s peace line – video

    Northern Ireland still has more than 100 'peace walls' separating Catholic and Protestant communities, 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday agreement ended the Troubles
  • Inside the NHS as staff say future hangs in the balance – video

    The NHS was launched in 1948 by the Labour MP Aneurin Bevan, inspired in part by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his constituency. It has since saved the lives of millions and inspired health systems around the world. Seventy-five years on, the Guardian video team was given access to NHS services in the south Wales town, and found residents, patients and staff still proud of Bevan's legacy, but anxious about the future
  • 'I'm a Windrush baby': rebuilding a lost legacy through music – video

    Video producers Christopher Cherry and Maeve Shearlaw join musician Hak Baker on tour, a week before the 75th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, as he reflects on the sacrifices made by previous generations, including his mother and grandmother
  • Ukraine war: saving animals from the flood waters of Kherson – video

    After Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed on June 6th and thousands of people were evacuated from the city of Kherson, hundreds of pets and farm animals were left stranded in flood water. Cats, dogs and chickens had to survive for days without food or family. Volunteers from The Kyiv Animal Rescue Group travelled to the region, navigating inundated towns and treacherous conditions to return animals to their owners
  • The hunt for India's stolen children – video

    The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest, but repeated natural disasters and environmental changes to the region have created a highly vulnerable population increasingly at risk of participating in or becoming victims of child trafficking.
  • 'Every man is struggling': the rising mental health crisis as UK gets poorer

    The north-east has suffered decades of industrial decline and a devastating cost of living crisis, which men say is having a detrimental impact on their mental health. Video producers Maeve Shearlaw and Christopher Cherry follow Earl John Charlton, who is using his experience of homelessness and drug addiction to get other men to open up. From walk and talks to open mic nights, amid the reality of working in a declining industry, he tells men in his community that it’s OK not to be OK
  • The forgotten earthquake survivors that could decide Erdogan’s fate – video

    As voters in Turkey prepare to go to the polls, anger over the government's response to the earthquakes in February is widespread. More than 50,000 people have died and millions more displaced. But it has happened in a region that has already experienced years of discrimination under President Erdoğan.

    The Guardian's video team joined Yeter Erel Tuma who works with children living in a Kurdish majority province. She has witnessed the civil unrest impacting families here, and now volunteers bringing aid to those devastated by the earthquake.
  • Are French protesters more effective? Meet the ‘next level’ climate activists – video

    Damien Gayle visits an Extinction Rebellion protest in London and a demonstration in France against a new motorway project to see how they compare
  • The people against King Charles: how protesters are getting ready for the coronation – video

    As the focus of the country falls on the coronation of King Charles, anti-monarchy activists believe the cause of republicanism is growing. But who are they, and why are they so passionate about this issue?
  • 'It's something I have to do': pilots who fly abortion patients across state lines – video

    Ben is one of hundreds of volunteer pilots in the US flying people across state lines in their small private planes so they can obtain abortion healthcare following the overturning of Roe v Wade
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