episodes
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1.
De giftige lobby: de macht van chemiebedrijven
Pointer investigates the power of the Brussels pesticide lobby. More and more scientists are concerned about the relationship between pesticides and diseases such as Parkinson's, but plans to reduce t...
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De gehandicaptenzorg moet anders, maar hoe?
Where should people who are dependent on someone else 24 hours a day focus? There is limited space in large healthcare institutions and the number of people working in the institutions has also been d...
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Fillers bij de schoonheidsspecialist: mag niet, gebeurt wel
You can have fillers injected into your face to fill in lines and folds, or, for example, to give your lips more volume. More and more people are using them. Legally, only doctors are allowed to injec...
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Overlast van houtrook
In winter, many people like to light a crackling fire. Cozy right? But wood smoke regularly causes nuisance and can cause health problems, as is the case with Dirk. He experiences nuisance because loc...
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Huurders in de kou
Thousands of tenants are stuck this winter. Their houses are poorly insulated, sometimes with only single glazing in the windows, forcing residents to choose: either high heating costs or wearing swea...
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Lawaai op de werkvloer
About 900,000 people are exposed to harmful noise during their work. And that can, for example, lead to a ringing in your ear, hypersensitivity to sound or hearing loss. Sometimes this is due to a lou...
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Hoogwater
Flooded streets and underwater basements: flooding is becoming increasingly common in large parts of the Netherlands. For example, in 2021, tens of thousands of households in Limburg experienced a dev...
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Mensenhandel en seksuele uitbuiting
There are at least 45,000 advertisements online luring Eastern European sex workers abroad, including the Netherlands. What exactly is hidden behind these advertisements? Last year, journalists in an...
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Maken de vele ongezonde reclames ons dik en ziek?
We receive tens of thousands of food advertisements every year: KFC as a Christmas meal on TV, Snickers bars in online videos and Coca-Cola on billboards. At least three-quarters of all those food adv...
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Onder de Waddenzee ligt een pot met goud verstopt
Will the gas drill go into the bottom of the Wadden Sea one more time? The Dutch Petroleum Company submitted a permit application for the gas field off the coast of the village of Ternaard 9 years ago...
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Buitenspelen in de knel
The outdoor play space of Dutch children is under pressure. At a time when we have to build many new homes and land is scarce, play space sometimes seems to come last, while playing outside is so impo...
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Onrust onder toeslagenslachtoffers
A special scheme should help those affected by the benefits affair to make a new start. But those who turn to the municipality for help often have to wait a long time. As a result, confidence in the g...
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13.
Huurders in de knel
High rent while your house is full of mold and vermin. Young tenants are often the victims of the overstressed rental market. The housing shortage is so great that landlords are asking exorbitant pric...
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14.
Vliegtuigherrie
More than 700 planes overhead in one day. Winnie de Wit from Assendelft has been fighting for years to reduce the number of flights over her house, but so far without success. Local residents of the p...
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Geluidsoverlast straaljagers
Due to the military threat, Defense wants to fly more fighter jets over the Netherlands. There is a good chance that more fighter jets will also take to the air from Leeuwarden air base. Local residen...
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Greenwashing door gasbedrijven
There is a good chance that you pay for CO2 compensation through your gas contract. Gas suppliers would have you believe that 'green' projects elsewhere in the world can eliminate your CO2 emissions,...
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Online haatzaaien, wat doet het met ons?
Anyone who follows the Radio Genoa account on X (Twitter) is inundated with videos of black people committing violence or behaving inappropriately. Radio Genoa's message? "This happens when you let re...
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Straatintimidatie te lijf
Hissing, sexually explicit comments and annoying chasing: many women suffer from street harassment. We investigated where women feel unsafe in the Netherlands and received thousands of responses. Muni...
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Hoe luid mag je buitenspelen?
Playing outside is perhaps more important than ever, especially now that children spend hours in front of a screen every day. But when they play, children make noise. And while one person finds loud c...
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Boerendilemma: geld of de grutto?
The young farmer Burchart (25) is having a hard time. He does his best to save disappearing meadow birds, such as the godwit. But compensation for nature measures often does not outweigh the significa...
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Tot de schijt ons doodt
Where do you put ten billion liters of manure? In the Netherlands we are suddenly faced with a surplus of 300,000 tankers full of manure. Due to new rules, farmers are much less allowed to use their o...
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Dementiezorg: vrijheid versus veiligheid
Since the Care and Coercion Act came into effect in 2020, as little 'involuntary care' may be provided in dementia care. This also means that people with dementia who do not pose a danger to themselve...
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Het PFAS-probleem
At the beginning of this year, one of the largest PFAS contaminations in the Netherlands was found in the water of the Jelsumervaart around Leeuwarden. The poison even exceeded the standard in some pl...
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Kun je me even ophalen van het station?
Who is responsible for the safety of women on public transport? We asked more than 7,000 women where they feel unsafe and en masse they pointed to stations and public transport. For fear of transgress...
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Worden zij-instromers in het onderwijs weggejaagd?
At the start of a new school year, many schools are uncertain whether there will be a teacher for every class. Every little bit helps and lateral entrants are desperately needed. Yet these career chan...
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Eigen schuld, dikke bult?
Many young people still end up in debt. Experts point to the increasing number of digital temptations lurking for young people, such as the option to pay for things afterwards. Is the young brain resi...
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Moeten we jongeren smartphonevrij opvoeden?
Are smartphones indispensable in the lives of young people? Or would they be better off without it? The mental health of young people, especially girls, has deteriorated alarmingly in recent years. Th...
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Is ons land wel voorbereid op Russische dreiging?
Heavily armed soldiers from the Russian army sail through our waters. They keep a close eye on NATO countries on board research ships, which secretly engage in espionage and possible sabotage in the N...
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Zorgcowboys
Helping 1 million elderly people grow old happily, that was the mission of healthcare organization Zorg van Toen. If you are bankrupt, you may not be able to buy it. There are no warnings about the pe...
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Misleidende webshops
How do you prevent online scams? We all do it: online shopping. But it also often goes wrong. For example, you think you are ordering gold jewelry online from an older jeweler couple in the Netherland...
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Jong en geen thuis
More and more young people in the Netherlands are homeless. Vulnerable young people without a social network are often alone from the age of eighteen. Finding affordable housing seems almost impossibl...
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Ik mag niet kleiner wonen
Tenants in social housing are stuck. Often they can only move by exchanging homes. A senior who lives too large and wants a smaller house, for example because the children have left home, can then exc...
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Iedereen samen naar school: een illusie?
By 2035, everyone must attend a regular school in his or her own neighborhood, including children who need extra support or care. But can regular schools offer this? More and more children are at home...
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Arbeidsongeschikt en in de knel
Since Ben was the victim of a serious motorcycle accident four years ago, he has been at loggerheads with the UWV. According to the UWV, he can easily find a job somewhere, but it is impossible for Be...
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Gedwongen opsluiting in de ggz
In 2016, twelve of the largest mental health institutions entered into an agreement to stop seclusion, the forced solitary confinement of patients in a separate room, by 2020. Most of these organizati...
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Zorgcowboys nog steeds actief
Dubious healthcare companies still seem to be able to easily get away with abusing healthcare funds. Five years ago, Pointer journalists came up with a list of possible healthcare cowboys, companies t...
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Gedupeerden Twents kanaaldrama zijn op
The Twente canal Almelo-De Haandrik had to be prepared for larger shipping traffic. But after the work was completed in 2016, residents of about 400 homes around the canal suddenly suffered damage. Th...
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Vergeten veteranen
Hundreds of soldiers who have been on missions come home with mental trauma. Not only do they have to deal with this themselves, but their families are also burdened with this. How is it possible that...
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Conflict om de lelieteelt
Residents living near lily fields are concerned. Many pesticides are used in lily cultivation. These can pose health risks. Over the past year, local residents went to court in various places in the N...
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De verloren thuiszitter
Sick students who are at home for a long time, receive little or no education and over whom compulsory education officials have no control. They often wait for months for care or a suitable place at s...