"Assad's Syria" - After six years of civil war, Syria's longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad is now poised to re-take full control of his country. Backed by Russian forces and a relentless bombing campaign, Assad's army rolled into Aleppo in late 2016, toppling the rebel resistance. Isobel Yeung travels through regime-controlled Syria to see how Assad prevailed and to find out what might happen next in his crippled country.

"Cost of Climate Change" - The first effects of climate change are being felt across the U.S., and projections show $40 Trillion in damage worldwide over the next five decades. As costs begin to mount, so do allegations that powerful interests in the oil and gas industry, like ExxonMobil, denied climate science and delayed corrective measures. Now, in the face of a scientific consensus, and with the Trump administration ushering some of these very same climate deniers into the highest levels of government, Shane Smith follows the money to see the true economic stakes of decades of denial.

Vice Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
• s05e02 - Trans Youth
• s05e03 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
• s05e04 - Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness
• s05e05 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
• s05e06 - End of Amateurism
• s05e07 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
• s05e08 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
• s05e09 - Medical Détente & Bananas
• s05e10 - Taliban Resurgence
• s05e11 - Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution
• s05e12 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
• s05e13 - Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation
• s05e14 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
• s05e15 - Future of Firearms & Russia 'Wins' Climate Change
• s05e16 - Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising
• s05e17 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
• s05e18 - Power to the President
• s05e19 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
• s05e20 - Autism Under the Lens
• s05e21 - Show of Force & Return to Somalia
• s05e22 - Controlling the Narrative & Power to Congo
• s05e23 - Dawn of a Dictator
• s05e24 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs
• s05e25 - Dark Web & Future of Appalachia
• s05e26 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras
• s05e27 - Russian Hacking & Contagion
• s05e28 - Post-Truth News & Microbiome
• s05e29 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.