Paris, Delhi, Pyongyang And Tehran

Fronted by Rageh Omaar, ITV News’s award-winning team of specialist journalists contribute in-depth reports from around the world and the stories behind the headlines. Tourism – Iran – Rageh Omaar After an historic deal was agreed earlier this year on Iran’s nuclear programme, relations with the West are finally starting to thaw. With long-standing sanctions finally being eased as part of the deal, the country is now looking forward to a potential boom in tourism and trade. Rageh Omaar travelled to the capital Tehran to find a country of contradictions, preparing to welcome visitors from Britain and the West, yet still deeply suspicious of America and her allies. North Korea – Lucy Watson North Korea is a notoriously secretive place. It’s unusual for journalists to get a sense of life beyond the pomp and ceremony they are invited there to cover. But Lucy Watson did just that when she gained rare access to a new water park built for the people of Pyongyang. The School in the Cloud – Delhi – Alok Jha In 1999 Indian academic Dr Sugata Mitra conducted a simple experiment, placing a computer into a wall in one of Delhi’s sprawling slums. He returned to find children who had never used computers before learning how to use it for themselves. More than a decade later this “Hole in the Wall” experiment has flourished into an innovative model of learning, swapping the conventional classroom for something a little more chaotic. Alok Jha visits the “School in the Cloud” where children are set problems to solve using the Internet. Instead of teachers they are joined on webcams by online “grannies” – women and men across the world who prompt and encourage children to work the answers out for themselves. Can this innovative approach kick-start a revolution in education, particularly in remote parts of the world where good teachers can be hard to find? Wandering Rabbi – Paris - Rageh Omaar Since the Paris terrorist attacks in January 2015 fears of militant Islam have further fuelled long-simmering tensions between French Jews and Muslims. For more than 10 years Rabbi Michel Serfaty has criss-crossed France to combat radicalism and anti-Semitism and forge friendships across religious divides. Attacks on Jews in France have risen sharply in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, going up by 84 per cent. There was also a corresponding rise in attacks on Muslims - 147 in the three weeks following the attacks, compared with 133 in the whole of last year. Rageh Omaar joined Michel on his journey into Paris’ deprived suburbs, home to many Muslims who feel marginalised by the French state.