This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Heintze Family Interview, Yushchenko V Tymoshenko, and Timor Gap Widens.
Heintze Family Interview
When the Berlin Wall came crashing down 16 years ago, it was replaced by a new era of hope. Recently in Berlin, Dateline met three generations of one former East German family whose lives actually span the entire 38 years of the wall's infamous existence. Grandma Margarete Heintze is revelling in her newfound freedom, particularly the freedom to travel abroad. Her son, Gerd, has achieved his dream of a comfortable house in the Berlin suburbs. And grandson, Philip, has embarked on a promising academic career and will soon do postgraduate studies at Oxford. So how do the Heintzes add and subtract the pluses and the minuses of a reunified Germany? How do they compare their life now with the one they led behind the wall?
Yushchenko V Tymoshenko
And now to another country dealing with its dark Soviet past - Ukraine. Two years ago, Ukraine had its own Orange Revolution that promised a Western-leaning democracy. But after an election in March that revolution soured with its leaders turning on each other, leaving an intriguing young politician, Yulia Tymoshenko, waiting in the wings.
Timor Gap Widens
Recently, Dateline's David O'Shea was caught in the middle of the cross-fire in East Timor. He survived that incredible ordeal; explaining that what we are witnessing right now in the world's newest nation, is a good old-fashioned political power struggle.
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.
