Dispatches
with Rick MacInnes-Rae
Wednesday May 23, 2012
May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq
From our correspondents around the world...
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Tour participants in Florence eat gelato topped with aged balsamic vinegar, a uniquely Italian treat. (Photo: Luigi Fraboni) |
In Uganda you can inherit a wife, marry more than one, and beating them isn't much of a crime. And changing that is proving problematic.
Then, a young award-winning reporter on shoe leather, social media and his first time in a free-fire zone.
And, Florentine steak, well-aged parmeggiano, and an egg-rich gelato to die for. How to find the best food in Florence.
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Categories: Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday May 16, 2012
May 17 & 20, 2012: from Zimbabwe - Kyiv, Ukraine - Beijing
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A member of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN attacks the UEFA Cup in Kiev. FEMEN says the Euro 2012 soccer tournament markets Ukraine's women to sex tourists. (Photo: Reuters/ GlebGaranich) |
In Ukraine, a political protest that takes its top off. Half-naked women take to the streets saying it's their way of struggling for gender equality.
And from the vaults, Visions Of Joanna: the story of a picture that sent a man in China on a twelve-year quest.
And, we'll re-visit The Tree of Forgetfulness as author Alexandra Fuller recounts her memoir of family madness and colonialism in Africa.
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Categories: Africa, Europe, Past Episodes
Thursday May 10, 2012
May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Alabama has America's toughest laws aimed at undocumented immigrants. It makes the lives of Hispanics so hard they are "self deporting", even if they are not illegal. The approach has also had an impact on Alabama citizens, many of whom have been drawn into the state's war on undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/John Amis) |
The German locomotive hopes to pull Europe's flailing economies out of trouble. But there's a ghost in that machine.
In Brazil, David Rocha makes garbage instruments. Or rather, instruments from garbage. That's why they sound so good.
Illegal immigrant, deport thyself. How an experiment in immigration went wrong in Alabama.
Hotels aren't in the charity business, so why would the Red Cross want into the hotel business, in Haiti?
And from the Netherlands, a cafe where you don't pay for the food. We take repast in a restaurant for these recessionary times.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday May 2, 2012
May 3 & 6, 2012: from China - Toulouse, France - India - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Amsterdam
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China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai is the subject of one of two scandals threatening the Chinese Communist establishment. His wife has been implicated in the death of a British businessman. (Photo: Reuters) |
The F-word erupts into French presidential politics. Are foreigners the future of the Gallic identity or its undoing? The campaign revives a rift.
Then, hate camps versus haute couture. A new documentary examines why some girls in India are subjugated, while others are liberated.
In Haiti, the lacklustre government moves to appease restless former soldiers with the promise of a payday but there's a Fifth Column to worry about.
And, a sting on wheels. Bicycle theft in free-wheeling Amsterdam pushes our correspondent to extremes.
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Categories: Americas, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
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