Ross Kemp: Extreme World

The actor travels to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, uncovering under-reported stories of crime and hardship. His journey begins in Chicago, where he provides an access-all-areas insight into the citys drug epidemic, meeting dealers on the streets and witnessing the lengths to which people will go to get a fix, before spending time with an outreach worker and the police.

Shocks are in store as Ross Kemp travels to the Mexican city of Juarez. Reduced to a warzone, competing cartels fight for ownership of the drug smuggling routes to the US.

Ross Kemps last investigation hits close to home as he exposes the 21st-century slave trade. Entering the world of human trafficking, Ross need look no further than the UK.

Ross makes his way to Caracas, Venezuela to learn how the worlds most oil-rich nation has become one of its most violent.

Ross visits Marseille, and takes a detour into one of the citys most dangerous and secure estates...

Ross is in the African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, where a belief in witchcraft is deadly and deeply entrenched.

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

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

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 thats sweeping through the city. Brazil currently has the seventh-largest economy in the world. A rapidly emerging global power, its on the verge of hosting this years 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 Rios 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.

It’s 20 years since apartheid officially ended in South Africa, but for too many of its citizens, life is still a harsh fight against poverty and other urban ills. Ross Kemp is in the Diepsloot township in Johannesburg, where rape has reached epidemic levels, and where some 45 per cent of reported rapes are against children. Where there’s no electricity for lighting at night, narrow alleys and ready access to drink, drugs and guns, women and children will always be vulnerable, but the stories Kemp hears – from victims, perpetrators, township vigilantes and those trying to help – make for distressing viewing, and leave him reeling, despite his worthy attempt to give everyone a fair hearing. And why do so few rapes end in prosecution? A permanent solution appears to be a long way off.

Ross is in Calais, where thousands of migrants are living in squalor waiting to risk their lives to reach to make their way to Britain and claim asylum.

Ross finds out more about Australias notorious motorcycle clubs as he gains access to a secretive world the legal system is determined to put an end to them FOREVER