This episode of International Dateline has three segments:
The Cruellest Cut - Pakistan's Kidney Mafia
How desperately poor do you have to be to sell your kidney? Elizabeth Tadic travels to a region in Pakistan where thousands of people have sold their organs, as a way out of debt. It's entirely legal, business is booming, and Australians in need of a transplant are just some of the many foreigners buying kidneys from Pakistanis. Is this gross exploitation of the poor? Or is it a win-win situation for all parties: a chance for someone to ease their financial debt by selling a kidney to someone else who really needs it?
Dalai Lama Interview
His real name is Tenzin Gyatso, he's a 71-year-old Tibetan living in exile in northern India, but you probably know him better as the 14th Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize winning leader of the world's Buddhists. He's wise, he laughs without a hat even being dropped, and the powerful Chinese Communists who over-ran his tiny Himalayan nation more than 50 years ago attack him as a dangerous troublemaker. Indeed, in a notable display of megaphone diplomacy overnight, the Dalai Lama's Communist detractors in Beijing condemned Australian Prime Minister John Howard for even allowing into his country the man they describe as an exiled Tibetan independence campaigner - a charge he rebuts in this interview. George Negus had his second television audience in a decade with the chortling man in maroon and gold, in Canberra.
Iran's Fearless Feminist Filmmaker
These days when you hear talk of Iran, almost invariably it's to do with the whole nuclear proliferation issue or the Islamic Republic's support for Hezbollah militants or their President's outlandish attacks on Jews. Few, if any, think of Iran and filmmaking. But, over the past decade or so, Iranian films have won critical acclaim at international film festivals. Recently in Tehran, Colin Cosier got a rare opportunity to go on the set of a film being made by Iran's foremost filmmaker - who's also a woman. In itself, this is surprising in Iran's male-dominated Islamic society. Already, she's done one stint in jail because of her uncompromising work.
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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