In a video companion to a written report filed in The Daily Mail last week, Britain’s Channel 4 News takes viewers beneath the streets of post-Communist Bucharest to a world inhabited by hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse, HIV and tuberculosis.

Channel 4:

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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