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By the end of next month, another 240 Australian troops will be deployed to Afghanistan, bringing the Australian total commitment to 540. All of the troops will be stationed in the south, in the towns of Kandahar and Tarin Kot. It just so happens that this area is the hottest part of a country, rapidly descending into full-scale war. The former rulers, the fundamentalist Taliban, have regrouped and, in the last few months, have launched major attacks against coalition forces on a daily basis. The south is now the most dangerous part of Afghanistan and Dateline managed to get on the ground there to reveal just what the diggers will be up against

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.