The Stream is a daily television show powered by social media. At The Stream, I did research for shows such as WikiLeaks, the labour rights in US prisons and North Dakota pipeline protests, etc.

For months now, the world has watched as more than a million refugees and migrants from countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have risked their lives to try and find safe haven in Europe.

But this influx has created enormous tensions in the European Union about how many newcomers to accept and which countries should take them. Governments in Sweden and Germany have each taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants–and taken criticism both from other European states and their own people.

So, who foots the bill for settling the hundreds of thousands of immigrants? And if no one, where will these people go?

Our guests this week:

• Matthew Cassel, a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He’s gotten up close with some of these people, traveling with them in Turkey, Hungary and Macedonia, telling their stories for al-Jazeera and other news outlets
• Anthony Glees, director for the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham
• Laura Pitel, a foreign correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent
• Parke Nicholson, a senior research associate for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Watch the video program here.

After wars in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda killed nearly a million civilians, 120 nations came together to create what we know as the International Criminal Court. The goal: to prosecute those responsible for future genocides, crimes against humanity and other terrible war crimes.

But 13 years after it was created, the ICC has seen its share of controversy. Some African leaders are threatening to withdraw from the court for what they see as its unfair focus on prosecuting African cases. Others question the usefulness of a court that has convicted just two people in 13 years.

Joining the program are:

• John Dugard, a professor of law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and a UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
• Maxine Kamari Clarke, a professor of international and global studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.
• Beth Van Schaack, a visiting professor in human rights at Stanford Law School and a former deputy to the U.S. ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues.
• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe, an East Africa researcher at Amnesty International.

Listen to the radio program here.

North Korea has long been a forbidden land for journalists, human rights advocates, and pretty much anyone who publicly disagrees with the regime’s philosophies and practices.

But there have been more and more cracks in the facade, and people are beginning to share their stories with the rest of the world.

Our guests this week:

• James Pearson, a correspondent for Reuters, and co-author of the book “North Korea Confidential.”
• Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University in South Korea, and author of the book “The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia.”
• John Sweeney, a documentarian for the BBC, and author of “North Korea Undercover: Inside the World’s Most Secret State.”

Watch the video program here.