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This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Putin's Media War, West Papua Miltia, and Anwar Ibrahim Interview. 

Putin's Media War examines why Russia's media freedom is dangerously unfree. As a result, many Russian journalists are literally putting their lives on the line for their stories.  The show dissects, in detail, the Russian media's coverage of the siege of Beslan and provides viewers with frightening insight into what many fear is the re-emergence of old-style Soviet era propaganda.

The West Papua Militia report features footage smuggled out of West Papua by human rights investigators on the Indonesian province of West Papua -- Irian Jaya -- where locals are seeking independence from Jakarta.  From this struggle, there have been serious claims that Indonesian army-backed militias and Islamic extremists are working in tandem, provoking some damning allegations of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Anwar Ibrahim, ex-deputy prime minister of Malaysia, was released last September after spending five years locked away in prison charged with corruption and sodomy.  Before his arrest he was being widely touted to succeed his mentor, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, as Malaysia's next leader. Many observers believe that Anwar was set up by the vocally anti-Western Mahathir.  Dateline catches up with Anwar Ibrahim and questions him about allegations that have linked him with international Muslim organisations suspected of funding terrorism.

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.