Ross Kemp: Extreme World - Season 3

First aired: 1/21/2014 6 episodes

Episodes

1. India

Aired: 1/21/2014

The actor and his documentary team expose stories of crime and hardship around the world, beginning with sex trafficking in India. Ross visits the notorious red-light district of Mumbai, where secretly filmed footage reveals not only the scale of the industry but how young some of the girls trapped in it are. He also travels across country to West Bengal, meeting families whose daughters have been taken from them, and comes face to face with a sex trafficker who confesses to many shocking acts that leave the presenter and his team stunned

2. Papua New Guinea

Aired: 1/28/2014

In a startling installment, Ross Kemp visits one of the most diverse yet chaotic nations on Earth. Contains violence and distressing scenes.

3. Northern Ireland

Aired: 2/4/2014

In an investigation closer to home, Ross and the team travel to Northern Ireland during the July marching season. Ross Kemp looks at the state of play fifteen years after the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland.

4. Beirut, Lebanon

Aired: 2/11/2014

Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies.

5. Las Vegas

Aired: 2/18/2014

Ross travels to the entertainment capital of the world where he discovers how life in Las Vegas is far from fun for many. Contains scenes of drug use.

6. Rio de Janeiro

Aired: 2/25/2014

In the final stage of his latest poke around the inflamed nether regions of the world, our fearless host visits Rio de Janeiro to investigate the drug epidemic that's sweeping through the city. Brazil currently has the seventh-largest economy in the world. A rapidly emerging global power, it's on the verge of hosting this year's World Cup as well as the 2016 Olympics. Yet despite its burgeoning fortunes, it is now the largest consumer of crack cocaine anywhere on the planet. Kemp wades into some of Rio's most lawless districts – known locally as 'cracolandias' - where drug abuse is a 24/7 fact of life and dealers openly carry weapons to combat police raids. He also confronts the harrowing realities of crack addiction, as he meets some of those whose lives have been ruined by this devastating drug.