MIDDLE EAST
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Monday, 29th September,2008JORDAN – JAILING THE INNOCENT
Dateline speaks exclusively to women in Jordan who've been sent to prison to keep them from being 'honour killed' by members of their own families.
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Monday, 8th September,2008EGYPT'S RISING TIDE
This week Sophie McNeill meets some concerned Egyptians, who are pleading to the rest of the world to take climate change seriously.
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Tuesday, 2nd September,2008
US HANDS CONTROL OF ANBAR BACK TO IRAQ
Iraqi forces on Monday took control of the Sunni Anbar province, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the US military, symbolising the growing security gains in the war-torn country.
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Thursday, 21st August,2008TALES FROM KARRADA
Meet Fouad Hady, a former film student in Iraq who returns to his home country every so often to document the changes there.
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Monday, 21st July,2008INSIDE IRAQI TV
Dateline takes you inside a TV station, Iraqi style.
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Monday, 30th June,2008EGYPT'S FACEBOOK FACE OFF
This week Dateline invites you into the virtual world of Egypt's online community.
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Wednesday, 11th June,2008LEBANON - DEAL OR NO DEAL
Just weeks ago more than 60 people were killed in fighting between the Lebanese government and the militant organisation Hezbollah but now, the two have struck a deal for peace.
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Friday, 4th April,2008THE KURDISH QUESTION
This week Video Journalist Sophie McNeil tackles the perplexing question of independence of Iraq's Kurds.
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Monday, 17th March,2008THE YAZIDIS - DOUBLY DAMNED
This week Sophie McNeill travels to Northern Iraq, where almost one year ago, one of the world's most notorious terrorist attacks left hundreds dead.
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Monday, 25th February,2008THE GAZA TUNNELS
Welcome to the hellish conditions of the Gaza strip. Unemployment is now at a record high and the need for basic supplies has given birth to a black market economy and a flow of contraband.
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Thursday, 1st November,2007FOUAD'S BAGHDAD
Previously: Contributing Video Journalist Fou'ad Hady takes us on a journey through dangerous Baghdad.
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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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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, 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, 22nd August,2007
IRAQ'S DEATH VALLEY
Earlier this year with great fanfare, George W. Bush as US commander-in-chief ordered an extra 30,000 American troops into Iraq. They were meant to spearhead his controversial surge strategy, with his initial efforts concentrated in Baghdad. Faced with this sudden hike in American troop numbers, insurgents in the city fled. The US military says they're now largely hold up in the Diyala River Valley in the so-called Sunni triangle to the battered Iraqi capitals east. Just a couple of weeks back, John Martinkus, on his first visit to Iraq since he was kidnapped there three years ago, got himself embedded with the Americans in what John quite justifiably describes as death valley.
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Wednesday, 15th August,2007
IMRAN KHAN INTERVIEW
Pakistan is in political turmoil. Far from the dream of peace and harmony of its traumatic birth as a separate Muslim identity back in 1947, for six decades Pakistan has been an unholy mess that many fear with India remains a time bomb waiting to explode. Even as it rumbles towards a national election later this year, a military dictator ship under Pervez Mushareff since 1989, it's recent history has been punctuated by rising Muslim extremism. Some see it
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as the nursery of anti-western terrorism. Huge street protests against the increasingly unpopular dictator, the judicial backlash and threats of military intervention by its long time ally the US, if Pakistan won't take out al-Qaeda, it will or make for a particularly volatile mix. Now there is serious talk after a power sharing deal between Mushareff and the self exile former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Acknowledged as one of world cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, Imran Khan is no slouch when it comes to politics. These days he is an MP and leader of his own Movement for Justice party. Lately he has been extremely vocal on his country's precarious future so George Negus spoke to the legendary Lion of Lahore from Islamabad. -
Wednesday, 18th July,2007
DR KIMBERLY KAGAN & MICHAEL WARE
The so-called US surge in Iraq, basically, an extra 30,000 troops, is aimed at pacifying the violence in Bagdad. But it has actually provoked another war, a war of words, in Washington. Daily, rebel Republicans are queuing up to dump on George W’s increasingly unpopular Iraq strategy. The dissident senators are urging a phased US withdrawal by April next year. Unimpressed, George Bush says he won’t budge until he hears a progress report from his commander in Iraq, due in September. So with a raging debate in Washington, all but non-existent here, Dateline took up the contentious surge issue with Michael Ware, CNN’s correspondent in Bagdad and war historian and leading neo-conservative Dr Kimberly Kagan in Washington.
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Wednesday, 18th July,2007
HUGH WHITE INTERVIEW
George Negus spoke with Professor Hugh White, head of the Strategic Studies Centre at the ANU in Canberra.
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For video see "The Surge" video
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Wednesday, 4th July,2007
THE SIEGE OF NAHR EL-BARED
Seven weeks ago outside Tripoli in Northern Lebanon, the Lebanese army began shelling Islamic militants holed up in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp. Since the battle began more than 80 Lebanese soldiers have been killed but the militants are still holding on to the camp. Thousands of Palestinian refugees have been forced to flee, others are still trapped inside. This is the worst internal violence in Lebanon since the civil war ended in 1990. And Sophie McNeill, now living in Beirut, has been following the plight of the refugees.
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Wednesday, 27th June,2007
INTERVIEW WITH DR HANNAN ASHRAWI
Effectively, last week's street battles on the Gaza Strip have left the Palestinians with two governments - a new cabinet in the West Bank run by Fatah, and Gaza, now controlled by Hamas, virtually isolated from the outside world. The Fatah government in the West Bank - installed by Mahmoud Abbas - excludes Hamas and has already received support from Western powers. That said, it wasn't so long ago - early last year, in fact - that Hamas won a clear democratic victory in elections held throughout the Occupied Territories. Meanwhile, the long-held dream of a united Palestinian state has turned into a nightmare. Earlier, George Negus spoke with the respected Palestinian MP, Hanan Ashrawi.
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