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Based on the eponymous international bestseller by Richard Preston, The Hot Zone recounts the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus, a highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest and its first arrival on U.S. soil. In 1989, when this killer suddenly appears in chimpanzees in a scientific lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. - a stone's throw away from the White House - there is no known cure. A heroic U.S. Army veterinarian, working with a secret military SWAT team, puts herself in mortal peril when she tries to head off the outbreak before it spreads to the human population. The Hot Zone is a dramatic, hair-raising account of a rare and lethal virus and its impact on the human race.

Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

On a cold November evening, a fatal chain reaction is triggered in the European power grid: Power plants shut down everywhere, elevators get stuck, trains stop - an entire continent disappears into the darkness. As the government and authorities grapple with the effects of the blackout, investigators focus on Pierre Manzano, a former hacker and environmental activist, because he claims that the blackout was a targeted attack. His supposed insider knowledge suddenly make Manzano, who actually wants to help Europol and the BKA, a suspect himself. With the search for the polluters, Manzano begins a race against time.

Imagine that your town, village or home is hermetically sealed off from the outside world and everyone is at risk to become infected with a deadly virus. You will be snatched away from your loved ones, your family, your home and need start living in cordon. The new fiction series Cordon, with Tom Dewispelaere, Liesa Van der Aa, Wouter Hendrickx, Geert Van Rampelberg and Europe's best actress Veerle Baetens as main actresses, takes place in this reality (Belgium, Antwerp).

A heavy northwestern storm is heading towards The Netherlands and Belgium and threatens to break dikes and flood the lower areas of the two countries.

An examination of the U.S. government's role and its response to Hurricane Katrina.