Assignment

Rohit Kachroo is in Puerto Rico to discover what people feel about the possibility of their country becoming the 51st state of America, Juliet Bremner explores how extreme surfing has transformed the Portuguese seaside town of Nazare, and Debi Edward attends an ice and snow sculpture festival in China.

James Mates travels to Lithuania to meet with Russian opposition activists who are regrouping after the incarceration and death of Alexei Navalny and deciding what's next for those who stand against Putin.

Multilayer neural networks based on multi-valued neurons (MLMVNs) have been proposed to combine the advantages of complex-valued neural networks with a plain derivative-free learning algorithm. In addition, multi-valued neurons (MVNs) offer a multi-valued threshold logic resulting in the ability to replace multiple conventional output neurons in classification tasks. Therefore, several classes can be assigned to one output neuron.

Kafui Okpattah reports from on the African American population in Ghana, asking why they chose to make the African nation their permanent home ahead of the upcoming US election. Three young people in Gaza give their unabridged accounts of their year of war. Debi Edward is in Mongolia at a festival showcasing the skills of the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.

James Mates is in Santorini, the latest tourist destination to feel overwhelmed by the numbers of holiday-makers, to find out how the Greek island can manage this growing problem. Barnaby Papadopulos is in Nicosia Cyprus meeting those still searching for lost loved ones from the war that divided the island. Faye Barker is in Cambados Spain meeting the generations of women trying to protect their trade.

With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happened to the journalists who helped uncover the corruption scandal.