Past Episodes: December 2011 Archives
Thursday December 29, 2011
Dec 29 & Jan 1: from Artibonite, Haiti - Brazil - New York - Uganda - Saudi Arabia
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Germaine Villeceant Excellente stands in front of her house, which she says was burned by peasants in a dispute over land rights. (Photo/Connie Watson) |
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Thursday December 22, 2011
Dec 22 & 25, 2011: from Seoul, South Korea - Monrovia, Liberia - Kenya - Manila - Zambia
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Members of a North Korean family clap as they watch news of the 2009 test launch of a nuclear-capable rocket. It was declared a triumph though western sources said it fizzled. Photo/AP-Kyodo News |
The bleak legacy of Kim Jong-il. He made North Korea the most secretive country on earth but a few citizen journalists risk their lives to defy it.
We're on patrol with the world's only female peacekeeping units, in a country where police can't be trusted with guns.
What happens to the goat you bought from that charity for a needy village?
A Canadian filmmaker treks to Africa to find his.
We're also in Haiti, where education is rising from the wreckage.
One man's fight against sex trafficking in the Philippines. When to kick, when to run.
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Wednesday December 14, 2011
December 15 & 18: from Rio de Janeiro - Democratic Republic of Congo - Mexico City - Russia - Delhi
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A view of the construction underway at the fabled Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Locals are upset that the stadium is being "upgraded" for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, saying it is losing its character and becoming more elitist. |
In a stadium in Brazil reside the memories of a nation. But in trying to make it better are they about to make it worse?
Congo elects a new president. Or is it two? That's not supposed to happen.
Inside a Mafia State. Russia's efforts to intimidate journalists, one break-in at a time.
And, a swing through a city on a swamp. Never mind New Orleans. Mexico City's sinkin', man.
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Wednesday December 7, 2011
December 8 & 11, 2011: from Santiago - Benghazi, Libya - Zimbabwe - Somalia - Boston - Independencia, Peru
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A student shouts slogans against the riot police during a protest in November 2011 against the government, to demand changes in the public state education system in Valparaiso city (Photo: Reuters: Elisio Fernandez) |
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Thursday December 1, 2011
Dec 1 & 4, 2011: from, Afghanistan - Egypt - The Philippines - Amsterdam - Colombia
From our correspondents around the world...
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Volunteers install an old pop bottle filled with water and bleach through the metal roof of house in Manila. The savings will put meals on the table of its poor occupants. Photo/Simone Orendain. |
A plastic pop bottle is lighting the lives of the poor in the Philippines. You'll wonder why no one thought of it sooner.
Tapping the illiterate vote. How Egyptian politicians are reaching those who can't read.
Blackface characters in a Dutch Christmas tradition set some on edge while others say the country's gone post-racial. See what you think.
Tweets from the Taliban. How the enemy's using social media to take the progaganda war to NATO.
An explorer's story. Why Sir Christopher Ondaatje sold his soul.
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- analysis Neil Macdonald: Washington's obsession with leakers
- Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are just the most prominent targets in an all-out legal and propaganda campaign that America's security apparatus is mounting against leakers everywhere, Neil Macdonald writes.
- Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti
- A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti, under the command of Brazilian forces, in a long-delayed mission that has been kept inexplicably low on the political radar.
- new World's displaced people at 18-year high of 45.2 million
- The Syrian civil war contributed to push the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the UN refugee agency says.
- Google asks secret court to lift gag on surveillance
- Google is asking the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift its long-standing gag order on how often the company is asked to turn over data about its customers to the U.S. government.
- Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government
- Thousands of demonstrators flooded into a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in this booming South American giant.