This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Safe and Sound? The Abortion Pill in New Zealand, Zaki Chehab Interview, and The Karen: Death or Democracy.
Safe and Sound? The Abortion Pill in New Zealand
Dateline travels to New Zealand to learn more about the controversial abortion pill RU486. The pill, which has been at the center of much political controversy, has actually been available in New Zealand since 2001. Dateline's Bronwyn Adcock travels to the neighboring country to investigate, visiting one of just two clinics in Auckland licensed to prescribe the abortion pill. She finds that New Zealand has tight regulations governing access to the drug. One woman offers a sober account of her experience of termination using the abortion pill.
Zaki Chehab Interview
As the deep divisions between the Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites continue to thwart attempts to form a stable government in Iraq, the insurgent attacks are unabating. Foreign reporters now enter Iraq at their peril. Zaki Chehab is a Palestinian journalist based in London. He was the first reporter to broadcast interviews with members of the insurgency. Dateline's George Negus speaks with Zaki Chehab who was visiting Australia to promote his new book, Iraq Ablaze, an insider's account of the Iraqi resistance.
The Karen: Death or Democracy
Earlier this year, the US Government offered what looked like a lifeline to the long-suffering ethnic Karen people who had been stuck in refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. The government agreed to accept 10,000 refugees for resettlement in the US. However, many Karen would rather stay and fight to regain their homeland than acknowledge defeat in more than half a century of conflict. Despite the international resettlement plans, for the guerillas, exile is not the answer.
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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