This World: One Day of War

Mention "war" at the moment and most people will think of Iraq. But, as this documentary demonstrates, at any given moment there are a host of wars raging around the globe.

The programme takes a single day - 22 March this year - and follows people involved in 16 conflicts.

Mukhtar, orphaned by war in Somalia, is now a "gun for hire" ... yet aged only 14. He sleeps rough and is used by the country's various militia groups. Five days after the filming he was shot and died.

Shushila is a 24-year-old Maoist rebel on her first mission - learning to lay a pipe bomb in Nepal.

There are jungle fighters and desert warriors, young soldiers and old campaigners. This is the sort of film that makes you realise there is much more going on in the world, and much more sadness, than we ever hear about in the usual news programmes.