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This International Dateline episode includes two segments: Rowan Gillies - Medicine Man and Hezbollah TV.

Rowan Gillies - Medicine Man
A fascinating young Australian called Rowan Gillies is the international president of Medicines Sans Frontieres - or Doctors Without Borders -- the Nobel Prize-winning organization regularly saving lives in the world's trouble spots. Dateline producer and cameraman David Brill spent time with Rowan Gillies and a small team of medicos from MSF in the Congo, one of the most strife-torn regions in the world. For more than a fortnight, David spent close to every waking moment with him, up to their necks in life, death and everything in between.

Hezbollah TV
When it comes to politics in the Middle East both sides have recognized the enormous power of the television image. The Israelis are masters at using the media to get their message out to the rest of the world. With Al-Jazeera, the Arab world has also shown that it recognizes the power of propaganda. Most recently the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah has got into the TV act. Five years ago, it started its own satellite channel Al-Manar. Since then, it's begun to rival Al-Jazeera and is currently the most popular channel in the occupied territories. It takes a virulently anti-Israeli editorial line which has caused it to be banned in both America and Europe. Now the Jewish lobby in Australia wants to see it banned as well even though it's not broadcast in Australia at the moment.

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.