This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko?, Gorillas in Our Midst, and an interview with Aayan Hirsi Ali.

Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko?
The outspoken Russian KGB dissident died in a London hospital late last year from exposure to a radioactive poison. Nick Lazaredes reports on the politics behind the poisoning.

Gorillas in our Midst
In Rwanda's Virunga mountains live some of the last wild mountain gorillas to roam the planet. Their habitat used to be a human battleground but now it's an emerging ecotourism destination, albeit an expensive one. Ginny Stein joins the trek to converse with the mountain gorillas, and gets up close and personal with a silverback.

Aayan Hirsi Ali Interview
In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered over a film that told the story of four abused Muslim women. A note attached to his body threatened Hirsi Ali, who wrote the script. Ali calls herself a Muslim atheist and calls on Muslims worldwide to challenge the teachings of Islam, particularly in regard to violence against women. She tells George Negus, "If we (Muslim) women don't stand up to a set of beliefs, tradition, culture that keep us subordinate, no one is going to get us out of it. All I can do is set the example."

 

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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.