SEPTEMBER 2007
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Wednesday, 26th September,2007
MUNIR SAYEED: MYSTERY GROWS OVER ACTIVIST'S DEATH
When Indonesia's leading human rights activist, Munir Sayeed Talib, died from poisoning during a Garuda flight to Europe in 2004, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was adamant that solving the case was a litmus test for Indonesia's new democracy. Three years on, no-one's in jail for the crime. But a judicial review of the case has heard sensational new allegations about the involvement of Indonesia's powerful intelligence agency, BIN, in the murder. Dateline's David O'Shea followed the Munir case closely from the outset.
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Wednesday, 26th September,2007
PALESTINE - FATAH AND HAMAS GO TO WAR
The violent brawling earlier this year in Gaza between Palestinian security forces effectively has created two 'Palestines'. Fatah in the West Bank is propped up by money from the West. Meanwhile, in response to continued Hamas rocket attacks, Israel has declared Gaza a "hostile entity", not exactly good news for the strip's 1.5 million besieged residents. Dateline's Sophie McNeill reports that the divide between the enemy Palestinian factions is growing.
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Wednesday, 26th September,2007
ROBERT TEMPLER: BURMA EXPERT
George Negus spoke from New York with Robert Templer, a Burma expert with the International Crisis Group headed by former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans.
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Wednesday, 26th September,2007
MARK CANNING: UK AMBASSADOR TO BURMA
Burma is on a knife's edge. Those street protests led by the country's Buddhist monks are into their second week. Most outside observers fear the worst that a violent put-down by the military government is imminent. Just before Dateline came on air, George Negus spoke to the UK Ambassador, Mark Canning.
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Wednesday, 19th September,2007FROM CUBA WITH LOVE: HAVANA WITHOUT FIDEL CASTRO
It is actually difficult to gauge what ordinary Cubans think of the Fidel Castro's regime since most of them are afraid of speaking out. But earlier this year, David O'Shea hit the streets of Havana to see what he could find out. He called his story 'From Cuba with Love' for reasons that will become obvious.
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Wednesday, 12th September,2007
STATE OF DESPAIR: THE REFUGEES OF IRAQ
General David Petraeus, George Bush's top commander in Iraq has reported to the US Congress that the military objectives of the troop surge there were largely being met. That will mean precious little to the more than 2 million Iraqis who have already fled their embattled homeland. Olivia Rousset examines the plight of refugees from the Iraq conflict who have fled across the border into Jordan.
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Wednesday, 5th September,2007
GEORGE NEGUS INTERVIEWS PAUL KEATING
George Negus interviews the man regarded as the architect of APEC, former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
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Wednesday, 5th September,2007
REIGNING IN THE PARADE: SYDNEY'S APEC LOCKDOWN
It's ironic that a stellar gathering like APEC that preaches international cooperation and dialogue between nations, should be taking place in a city locked down and barricaded with exclusion zones and where individuals named by police aren't allowed to come into the Sydney CBD to protest.
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Mark Davis tracked a band of young protesters planning what may well be the biggest anti-APEC demonstration, the sort of people John Howard's been telling us are the reason for what some dubbed Sydney's "rabble-proof fence". -
Wednesday, 5th September,2007
THE ICE STORM: THE CRYSTAL METH SCOURGE
It is estimated that 73,000 Australians use crystal methamphetamine, or ice, and 40 per cent of those who take that particularly nasty drug become addicted to it. Australia, of course, is not the only country in the world grappling with ice. In rural USA they've been tackling the demon modern drug for some time.
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