OCTOBER 2007
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Thursday, 21st August,2008
INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE BACHELET
A couple of weeks back now, George Negus got lucky and met a world leader of the better-than-bland variety here for APEC, one that actually made him sit up and take notice, a pleasant change. Meet President of Chile - Michelle Bachelet.
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Tuesday, 30th October,2007PACIFIC BONANZA
David O'Shea reports from Tonga, where delegates have met for the Pacific Islands Forum.
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Tuesday, 30th October,2007BENAZIR BHUTTO'S DEADLY RETURN
Previously: Mark Davis was just metres away as two explosions ripped through former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade in Karachi, killing at least 125 people and injuring hundreds more.
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Tuesday, 30th October,2007ZIMBABWE - INSIDE A FAILED STATE
Previously: Ginny Stein reports from Zimbabwe, a ruined nation where inflation is spiralling out of control at well over 10,000%.
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Thursday, 18th October,2007A CHANGE IN THE AIR
Previously: Aaron Lewis reports on the green initiative which could spell disaster for third world farmers. He's travelled to the Kenyan highlands where the soil and climate combine to make some of the richest agricultural land in the world.
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Thursday, 18th October,2007NEW ORLEANS - IN KATRINA'S WAKE
Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, much of the jazz capital still remains in ruins.
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Thursday, 18th October,2007SEIN WIN INTERVIEW
Dateline speaks with Doctor Sein Win, the Prime Minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma.
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Thursday, 18th October,2007ISRAEL'S ULTRA ORTHODOX
It seems that the unending conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians is never out of the news, but there is another battle in the Jewish state that is far less obvious to outsiders.
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Friday, 12th October,2007PRAYERS FOR BURMA
David O'Shea reports on all the latest events involving the Burmese monks.
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Friday, 12th October,2007JAILHOUSE ROCK: CEBU'S YOUTUBE CELEBRITIES
Nick Lazaredes reports on a prison in the Phillippines whose inmates are known all over the internet as the 'Thriller' prisoners.
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Wednesday, 3rd October,2007NEW ZEALAND - A GANGSTA'S PARADISE
Reporter David O'Shea meets the Killer Beez, one of several dozen new gangs creating a law and order nightmare for the police in South Auckland.
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Wednesday, 3rd October,2007
MOHAMMAD YUNUS INTERVIEW
Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus is an American-educated economist who believes that being poor should not be a barrier to being able to take out a loan to buy your way out of poverty. He's also toyed with the idea of not just saving Bangladesh's beggars, but also going into politics to try and save the entire nation.
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Wednesday, 3rd October,2007
THE POVERTY BUSTERS: GRAMEEN BANK FOUNDER DR MUHAMMAD YUNUS
A quick turnaround, 24-hour window of opportunity, to be in the country of Bangladesh, for a very special reason, George Negus is actually in Dhaka, the capital of a cripplingly poor, disastrously flood-prone, and currently politically turbulent nation, for a very special reason. Dhaka, by the way, is known as the rickshaw capital of the world. George can't imagine why. And we think we've got traffic problems. George has come to interview arguably one of Bangladesh's most famous sons, Dr Muhammad Yunus. But first this steamy teeming, troubled place, Bangladesh.
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