Past Episodes: April 2012 Archives
Wednesday April 25, 2012
April 26 & 29, 2012: from Baku, Azerbaijan - Mumbai, India - Manila, the Philippines - Copenhagen, Denmark - Shanghai, China
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Danish film director Mads Brugger in a scene from The Ambassador. He posed as a diplomat and arranged to smuggle diamonds from Africa. Here he takes a boat ride with his new assistants in the Central African Republic. (Photo/The Ambassador) |
Stop with the honking! The quest for quiet in one of India's noisiest cities.
A Danish filmmaker turns diamond-smuggling diplomat. Mads Brugger sets up a sting in central Africa.
And, the rebellious new farmers of China. Young. Well-educated. And getting no respect.
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Categories: Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday April 18, 2012
April 19 & April 22, 2012 - from Mexico - Cuba - Yemen - Peru - Cairo, Egypt
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Selioua Muhammad, 25, sits inside her rooftop shelter in Sheik Othman, Yemen. Muhammad fled her home in June 2011 and has lived at this school since then. (Photo: Lindsay Mackenzie) |
The new entrepreneurial Cuba. Forget what you thought it was. The Fixer's gonna show you what it is.
Then, the school everyone goes to but no one attends. Children of the Bombardment learn hard lessons in Yemen.
Plus, the View from Peru, of an extraordinary Easter re-enactment.
And, in times of war, this much is true. Everybody lies. That said, we consider the source of reporting from Syria.
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Categories: Americas, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday April 11, 2012
April 12 & April 15, 2012 - from Libya - Ganta, Liberia - Montreal - Paris
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A man points to the place where a bomb exploded. The target was a UN convoy in Benghazi, Libya. The attack reinforces concerns about instability in Libya, since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. (Photo: REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori) |
If a neighbour killed your kin and went unpunished, you'd have an idea what it's like in Liberia, where victims of war crimes live in peace without justice.
And from the archives, we strut with The Society of Revellers and Elegant People. Of course they're French. French-African.
Then, as cholera makes a comback in Haiti, a Canadian author tells why it's poised to become the quintessential disease of our time.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday April 4, 2012
April 5 and April 8, 2012 - from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Kiev, Ukraine - Prato, Italy - Ganta, Liberia - Tel Aviv, Israel
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Haiti's President Michel Martelly (c) leaving a news conference in March, held to dispel rumours that he holds dual US-Haitian nationality. (Photo REUTERS/Swoan Parker) |
Greeks and Turks make nice. Together! A cautious change in a troubled relationship.
And from the vaults, a story of Italian factories powered by Chinese labour. Business turns a profit, but both cultures take a loss.
Then, something few in Israel want to talk about. How the state uses, and abuses, its Arab informers.
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