This week’s Dateline features two segments: Deadly Cluster and Bones of Contention.

Deadly Clusters
The United Nations estimates that in the final 72 hours of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last year, the Israeli army fired up to four million cluster bombs into southern Lebanon. While many detonated on impact, up to 40 per cent didn't. Instead, they lay on the ground or hung from tree branches by their fabric loops: thousands of individual tragedies, just waiting to happen.

And inevitably, tragedy struck: as Dateline's David Brill discovers, a young girl picking oranges accidentally dislodged a cluster bomb hanging from a tree branch. It hit the ground, detonated and blew off her leg.

Brill travels through southern Lebanon, witnessing the ongoing suffering that cluster bombs bring to the civilian population. He films a dangerous treasure hunt, as aid volunteers try to locate and detonate remaining bombs, and is in Norway when Australian munitions expert John Rodsted gets the good news: a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs is on its way.

Bones of Contention
Leading up to Australian Fashion Week, Dateline investigates the fashion industry's divided views on using 'size zero' models. Video journalist Liz Tadic takes her camera behind the scenes of the London and Madrid fashion shows and finds two very different scenarios playing out: in London, ultra-skinny models rule the catwalk. In Spain, however, under-weight models are simply banned.

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.