This week's episode features three segments: Inside Iran, an interview with Morgan Tsvangirai, and My Island Home.
Inside Iran
As international pressure on Iran grows, Bronwyn Adcock gets a rare glimpse inside this country that seems to be on a collision course with the International Community. She speaks to the Iranian Foreign Minister, M.P.'s, government critics and ordinary Iranians to find out what they think of this mounting crisis.
Adcock discovers genuine outrage that the United States is calling for a halt to Iran's nuclear program, but she also finds evidence that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be losing his grip on power. He stands accused of failing to deliver on a key election promise: improving the economy.
Morgan Tsvangirai Interview
It is pretty hard to forget the pictures from Zimbabwe like the ones shown of oppostion leader Morgan Tsvangirai, with his swollen face and his scalp slashed after his savage beating at the hands of Robert Mugabe's henchmen. Like Morgan's Movement for Democratic Change party colleague, former Australian resident and Zimbabwean activist Sekai Holland, who was also viciously battered by Mugabe's thugs, a few days ago Tsvangirai fled to South Africa to get much-needed medical care. George Negus spoke with Morgan Tsvangirai from his safe house in Johannesburg.
My Island Home
Almost five years ago now, Dateline reporter Nick Lazaredes was the first television journalist to report on the fate of the Chagos Islanders - more than three decades ago forced from their homeland, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, when a giant US military base was built there. Since then, these people to-all-intents-and-purposes forgotten have waged a determined, lonely battle through the British courts to win their right to return home. In London recently, Nick caught up with the islanders for the latest round in this classic David and Goliath 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.
