VTM

In Lotgenoten witnesses tell their own story about eight of the greatest tragedies in recent Belgian history. Victims, family members, witnesses, and aid workers describe in impressive ways how they experienced that disastrous day full of drama and tragedy. How they hovered between hope and despair, between joy and sorrow. How they helped each other, how they comforted each other. How they became fellow sufferers.

They call themselves the Lucky Bastards. Not because everything comes naturally. But because they had the courage to venture out into the world and find something along the way that only a few succeed in: raw beauty, pure adventure and moments that stick.

In Woontrends we travel through Flanders every week in search of the latest developments in the field of living and interior design.

Nearly half of all murders in our country are committed within relationships. People who, driven by jealousy, fear of abandonment, sheer hatred, or a combination of all of these, kill their (ex-)partner. Most victims are women, occasionally men. Perpetrators often invoke arguments like love and passion to explain their heinous act. But love is never an alibi for murder. In "Murder Cases: Love is Not an Alibi," crime journalist José Masschelin, along with relatives, lawyers, criminologists, and clinical psychologists, reconstructs eight cases in which the perpetrators were convicted by a jury of the murder or manslaughter of a (ex-)partner. The focus is not only on the murder itself but also on the background. In many cases, alarm bells were already ringing, but no one considered it possible that it would ever actually happen...

In Special Forces you get for the first time a picture of the missions of hyper-trained soldiers, who are 24/7 ready to carry out difficult military assignments all over the world. For two years, a camera crew could follow the training of the Special Forces, and the makers also got access to archive footage of military actions that had never been shown to a large audience before. This yields a unique image of a world that has remained hidden until now. Those of small teams of soldiers who are assigned to each other, and often have to work deep in hostile territory and far from the lines.