This week Dateline invites you to be a fly on the wall, as those hell-bent on disrupting the Olympic Torch Relay plan – and execute – their protests.

Video Journalist David Brill was in New Delhi the day before and the day of the protests. His was the only camera allowed to film with the protestors.

Demonstrators lead Brill through a series of twisting alleyways on the outskirts of the capital before he is allowed into a dark and murky apartment – the war room. Here, the protestors pour over maps of the city, plan their strategy, find out where the police plan to be and build up their numbers.

The heart of New Delhi was almost totally sealed off for the relay which took place over a scaled-back distance of 2.3 kilometers.

While the number of protestors was estimated at around 600, over 16,000 police, soldiers and commandos stood between the public and the torch. Only specially-selected onlookers were allowed to watch.

As the group Brill is with makes their way towards the relay they are stopped and questioned by police. Undaunted, the protestors make a break for it, and surge towards the barrier, with Brill close behind…

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SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.