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You can have fillers injected into your face to fill in lines and folds, or, for example, to give your lips more volume. More and more people are using them. Legally, only doctors are allowed to inject fillers. Yet you also see many beauticians without the correct papers, a lucrative business in fillers. This is not without risk, because if a filler is injected incorrectly, it can cause serious complications. Is there sufficient supervision of these actions?

We need houses and developers like to build them in meadows. There is a beautiful polder ready for you near Alphen aan de Rijn. But is this Gnephoek the best place for 10,000 new houses, in a deep polder with weak soil? The province and water boards warn: if you build here, society will incur high costs in the future. But the municipality and the government are persevering and want the houses to be built. What interests do they have in going against the advice? In addition to the housing shortage, land purchases appear to be one of the arguments.

We receive tens of thousands of food advertisements every year: KFC as a Christmas meal on TV, Snickers bars in online videos and Coca-Cola on billboards. At least three-quarters of all those food advertisements are about unhealthy food; produce more than a billion euros annually. Meanwhile, 2.6 million Dutch people are already in favor of the government's one lifestyle program after another. The call for an advertising ban - just like with tobacco - is increasing, but doesn't all that temptation make healthy living much more difficult for the vulnerable? Who are actually the biggest advertisers and do they want to stop?

There are at least 45,000 advertisements online luring Eastern European sex workers abroad, including the Netherlands. What exactly is hidden behind these advertisements? Last year, journalists in an international research team investigated how these sex workers can become victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. This digital method of investigation is also a method that the Dutch police and the Public Prosecution Service want to apply, because the underlying criminal networks remain out of reach with the current approach.

Thousands of tenants are stuck this winter. Their houses are poorly insulated, sometimes with only single glazing in the windows, forcing residents to choose: either high heating costs or wearing sweaters on top of each other to fight against moisture, mold and draughts. The government says that landlords must improve homes, homes with poor energy labels first. But Pointer discovered that the energy label does not properly indicate how cold a house is. For example, a home can have a label and still be ice cold due to gaping cracks or incorrect insulation. Why do we focus on energy labels?

In winter, many people like to light a crackling fire. Cozy right? But wood smoke regularly causes nuisance and can cause health problems, as is the case with Dirk. He experiences nuisance because local residents burn wood, it makes him short of breath and keeps him awake at night. If he reports it to the municipality, little happens. What can he do?

Pointer investigates the power of the Brussels pesticide lobby. More and more scientists are concerned about the relationship between pesticides and diseases such as Parkinson's, but plans to reduce the use of pesticides are encountering great resistance. The controversial herbicide Glyphosate may continue to be sold on the European market for the next ten years and an important law to halve the use of pesticides by 2030 is being rejected by the European Parliament. What tactics does the lobby use and why is it so successful?

Russian spy ships secretly visit our coast. For days they lie quietly in our part of the North Sea above important data cables, gas pipelines and near wind farms. Is Russia preparing to sabotage our infrastructure at sea? Pointer follows the ships Admiral Vladimirsky and Yevgeny Gorigledzhan, ships that, according to Russia, only conduct seabed research. But their strange course and their involvement in a secret military program raise questions. What exactly are they doing there and is our infrastructure at sea really well protected?

Migrant workers die due to illness and lose work and often find themselves in a pinch. They do not know their way around the Dutch healthcare system and are hardly helped by employment agencies. For example, many sick employees lose their work and temporary housing and sometimes do not receive benefits. Pointer reconstructs where things went wrong and lets migrants who feel dumped have their say. This year, the judge determined that a temporary worker may no longer be automatically employed in the event of illness. However, it appears that it does not occur regularly. How can it fail so much for the 400,000 people who do poorly paid work here?

We have a major shortage of professionals, especially in construction and healthcare. Yet children are not encouraged to learn a practical trade. It is rather the other way around: schools and parents push children to HAVO or VWO as much as possible. Even if children have other talents, working with their hands makes them happier and even now that you can earn more with practical professions. Why is that? And how do we change it? The cabinet also wants to change course in education, but Pointer encounters a problem: legislation.

By 2050, 1,500 kilometers of dikes must be reinforced in the Netherlands. Our country is vulnerable now that sea levels are rising and the risk of extreme weather is increasing. But what if things go wrong during the work? When houses crack, they subside and some homes even threaten to become uninhabitable, such as the South Holland Lekdijk. Residents have been waiting for compensation for years. What lessons can be learned? An urgent question in view of the major dike reinforcement task that is yet to come.

Behind a simple e-mail in the inbox of Pointer appears to be a network of lighting sites, mailbox companies and more than a hundred victims around the world. Via a wirwar to NEP accounts, the track is followed that leads to two Danish cheaters, which abuse people from people.

A group of Dutch, shady real estate dealers, real estate agents and entrepreneurs earns considerably during the Second World War to trade in Jewish real estate. Millions were involved with the purchase and sale of real estate of led jews. The real estate was - often for amounts that were far below the applicable market prices - purchased from the German occupier that the houses had expropriated. The transactions were kept by the German occupiers in the so-called Verkaufsbücher. Almost all books have been preserved. They contain the addresses and the names of the original owners, the brokers involved and the war copies, plus selling prices. And so a penetrating image of a criminal real estate circuit creates that gold earned money from expropriated, Jewish real estate. Were municipalities informed? Are they aware of the transactions? And how is the relatives? Are they compensated for expropriating the houses of their family?

While 24-hour care becomes increasingly demanding, many parents choose to keep their child with severe multiple disabilities at home. Parents find the care in regular institutions substandard and often find themselves on long waiting lists. Researchers, healthcare professionals and administrators recognize the problems, but cannot arrive at a clear solution.

The e-bike is hip. It has become an indispensable part of the cycle path and, especially since the arrival of the fat bike, more and more young children are cycling on it. Is that wise? Can children's brains handle the speed of an e-bike? Pointer takes children and fat bikes onto the cycle path and tests the consequences of the e-bike for the safety and health of young people. Should we protect young people against the risks that the technological progress of cycling entails or should we teach them to deal with it?

One in five Dutch households faces financial problems. To reduce that number and prevent people from getting into trouble due to electronic debts, municipalities have had to contact their residents since 2021 with payment arrears on rent, energy, water and health insurance. But are those signals coming in properly? Do words work effectively? And are young people sufficiently exposed to beginning comprehension?

Where should people who are dependent on someone else 24 hours a day focus? There is limited space in large healthcare institutions and the number of people working in the institutions has also been declining for years. The attention, regularity and structure of home cannot be guaranteed in such an institution. Families are faced with a dilemma: keep it at home, even if that is no longer possible, or take matters into their own hands? Everywhere in the Netherlands, parents join forces in small-scale housing initiatives that combine care and shelter. How feasible and affordable are these types of alternatives? Which buttons can be turned and by whom?

Citizens are shocked when the municipality of Westerveld creates a cycle path through the middle of a nature reserve. This construction is allowed because a natural test states that there will be no damage. But this key appears to rattle and that happens more often, Pointer discovers. While these types of nature tests determine whether housing construction, festivals or even the insulation of your house can continue. Who makes those tests? Who pays for it? And what if the content is incorrect? Pointer delves into the world of testers and discovers striking things. For example, you can already make a report after a course of a few days and resistance is sometimes very difficult.

Combining informal care and work: it is a tough and sometimes almost impossible combination. Many informal caregivers therefore work less or report sick, research shows. The calculations are that 18 percent of absenteeism due to illness is related to informal care. It is therefore extra important for employers to ensure that their informal caregiver employees remain standing. But are employers ready for that? Are the care leave arrangements adequate? Who will ultimately pay for the aging society, in which we increasingly have to take care of each other?

Police logger Jan-Willem goes into the mistake ... again. Despite the instructions for the use of social media by police, there are still people traceable in videos of the Vlogger. And with that he lays private data from citizens on the street. Pointer investigated the traceability of people in videos of police logger Jan-Willem and it shows that the popular agent rebreeds several privacy rules. That is remarkable, because following earlier research, the police proposed guidelines for improving social media posters. Now it appears that after the tightening of the rules in certain 22 cases that are traceable to a person are visible and audible in videos of Jan-Willem. Social media is indispensable in the police. You see it at all arguing: a detection message via a Twitter or Facebook message.

The number of people requiring intensive care due to dementia will increase in the coming years, but no additional places may be added in nursing homes. Housing associations and healthcare institutions are concerned, because the realization of 40,000 'nursing care places' for people with dementia is also behind schedule. Where can people with dementia live? And why does it take so long to build homes when we have been facing this problem for years?

Who says Schoonebeek, says oil extraction. However, the Drenthe village no longer appears to be as unanimous about this industry as it used to be. There are plans to inject wastewater from extraction into the ground, but not everyone is happy with that. NAM and the ministry want to make agreements, but what are they really worth? And what happens in a small community when a section turns against an old acquaintance?