The English-language television channel "Volt Lines" has won five nominations this year for the Emmy Awards in various categories, according to the American Academy of Television and Arts in New York in announcing the final list of television works nominated for the Emmy Awards.
The winners of the Emmy Awards will be announced at a special ceremony in October in New York City, in the presence of representatives of institutions and channels competing for the 39th Awards.
The Volt Lines series has won five nominations this year, ahead of a large number of competing media stations and institutions. The documentary series focuses on events in America and the issues that occupy the audience in that country.
A series of episodes from the Volt Lines series entitled "Banning" for the best coverage of an interactive news story were nominated. The episode addresses the human suffering faced by citizens of countries that President Donald Trump issued a decision to ban Americans from entering the United States, January 2016.
A series of "Heroin Kids" was nominated for three Emmy Awards in three different categories: Best Medical Report, Best Story, and Best Editing.
The episode addresses the phenomenon of the spread of heroin addiction in America in a way that represents an unprecedented health threat in the history of the country, has become the use of large doses of drugs the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of fifty.
The episode sheds light on the so-called "hidden victims" of the phenomenon of addiction, or children who have been displaced, abused or lost their parents because of the addiction of their parents to the drug of heroin.
The "Volta Lines" Haiti Bay Force series has been nominated for the Emmy Award for best investigative report. The episode reveals the involvement of members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti in sexual assaults and prostitution cases involving women and people with special needs. The report also reveals that the United Nations peacekeeping mission covers the attacks of some of its members.