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International Dateline: Burma Rebuilds

International Dateline: Burma Rebuilds

In this episode Dateline speaks to one of the front line aid workers who have just returned from cyclone ravaged Burma. Also, a profile of the slums of Paris, and an interview with Cherie Blair.
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International Dateline: Burma Rebuilds

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In this episode Dateline speaks to one of the front line aid workers who have just returned from cyclone ravaged Burma. The Asian Tribal Ministries (ATM) worker, Karenna Laklem, talks about what it was like helping rebuild Burma's Delta region, while distributing aid.

 

While foreign aid is gradually flowing into Burma, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has toured the the hardest hit areas to assess the damage. To this day some foreign nations such as the U.S. and Sweden are still not allowed into the country by the ruling military junta.

So far only a handful of international aid agencies are providing relief efforts.

Headed by her father, Pastor Timothy Laklem, the ATM have been working in war zone areas of Burma along the Thai border for 30 years. In response to the recent cyclone Nargis and the destructive stamp it left upon the Irrawaddy Delta region, ATM will be sending in relief teams to assist with medical needs, food distribution, water purification, and hope. Furthermore, ATM is one of the very few international organisations which has been given permission by Burmese authorities to enter the region.

Also in this episode, a visit to the ghettos of Paris and an interview with Cherie Blair.

 


 

About International Dateline 

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.

 

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