This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Interview, The Priest and the Prisoner, and Shoot the Messenger.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Interview
International commentators are warning that the world's second and third largest economies, Japan and China, are on an inevitable collision course as they jostle for dominance. International Dateline reporter, George Negus, flew to Tokyo to talk exclusively with the charismatic but currently embattled Japanese Prime Minister at his official residence. The Prime Minister is under intense international pressure. He refuses to apologize for Japan's past war-time atrocities against the people of Asia and the current text book scandal over attempts to ignore that history. In this interview, George Negus speaks with the Prime Minister about the recent deployment of additional Australian troops to Iraq, Japan's bid for a seat on the Security Council and the tensions with China.
The Priest and the Prisoner
Dateline reporter Nick Lazaredes investigates the oil-for-food scandal via the case of Father Jean-Marie. Catholic priest, Jean-Marie Benjamin, has a close relationship with the former deputy PM of Iraq, Tariq Aziz and is fending off allegations that he was involved in the scandal that's still embroiling the United Nations. Although the UN Secretary-General's been cleared of any personal wrongdoing, the scandal has implicated both Kofi Annan's son, Kojo, and the former head of the UN program, Benon Sevan.
Shoot the Messenger
Last November when a US marine shot dead an unarmed, wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque, the story created international headlines. In fact, it was the biggest scandal to hit the US military in Iraq since Abu Ghraib. What we still don't know is what actually went on outside the frame of that now infamous image? What were the personal choices involved, the ethical decisions that had to be made? And what did that incident reveal about US reporting from Iraq. In his first international interview, the journalist responsible for capturing that awful shooting spoke with Dateline's Sophie McNeill.
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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