| Interviewing 'Home Boy' author H.M. Naqvi | Lahore, Pakistan - No one who has ever driven in Karachi will doubt when one of it’s residents claims to have been stuck in traffic. When gridlock clamps the city in it’s sweaty, seething, steely grip it’s as if the key has been thrown away. So we weren’t just relieved when H.M. Naqvi our guest [...] | | Пятница, 14 Мая 2010 года 17:20:25 |
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| Fire and blood on the streets of Athens | Athens, Greece - Angry protest turned to tragedy on Athens' streets today. Demonstrators threw a petrol bomb into the Marfin Egnantia Bank in Central Athens. Three employees were killed in the blaze, two women and a man. The civil protection ministry just told us that one of the women was pregnant. Outside crowds watched the [...] | | Среда, 5 Мая 2010 года 17:53:17 |
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| World Expo fatigue sets in early | Shanghai, China - On the opening day of the World Expo, we set up our live shot on the corner of gate 5, in the shadow of the towering China Pavilion. Two hours before the park officially opened, Chinese visitors had already lined up in at least ten wide lines, spilling out onto the street. [...] | | Понедельник, 3 Мая 2010 года 06:23:06 |
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| Kathmandu protest a peaceful affair | Kathmandu, Nepal - I am standing in the middle of a mass of red flags held up by an ocean of people in the capitol of Nepal, Kathmandu. Printed in white on the flags is the sickle, the sign of the United Communist Party of Nepal Maoists. Some of the protestors are chanting as loud [...] | | Воскресенье, 2 Мая 2010 года 04:58:05 |
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| International Correspondents: The Internet election? | London, England – The UK election leads our coverage this month, not because of its significance for Britain and beyond but for the manner in which this election is being conducted. Some say this is Britain's first social media election; others couldn't disagree more. To that end we're talking to Professor Roy Greenslade who writes for the [...] | | Пятница, 30 Апреля 2010 года 10:33:03 |
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| Up against a solid wall near Jerusalem | Seven in the morning. my phone rings: a text message from the International Solidarity Movement, which describes itself as a "Palestinian-led organization committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles." The text message reads: "Israeli bulldozers leveling and uprooting land in al-Walaja village south of Jerusalem for the [...] | | Вторник, 27 Апреля 2010 года 18:42:41 |
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| Meeting Jackson Kaujeua, Namibia's musical hero | The voice that once gave melody to a movement is now, at times, no louder than a whisper. Ill heath has taken its toll one of Namibia’s best-known musicians, Jackson Kaujeua. But on the 20th anniversary of his country’s independence the 57-year-old singer’s message is as clear as ever. “I lived it, I ate it, [...] | | Понедельник, 26 Апреля 2010 года 16:58:55 |
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| United in sorrow in Poland | It was 3 a.m. in Los Angeles when I got the call from the office: The Polish President had been killed in a plane crash in Russia. That is all we knew at that point. When I put the phone down I thought it was a dream, but I checked the phone again and realized [...] | | Понедельник, 19 Апреля 2010 года 04:21:01 |
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| Warsaw: a thousand miles from home | Across Europe - Like hundreds of thousands if not millions of others I found myself a considerable distance from home when the volcanic ash from Iceland grounded my flight. As it turns out, I was almost a thousand miles away from my family, friends and my building site of a kitchen. It was Thursday and [...] | | Понедельник, 19 Апреля 2010 года 02:47:42 |
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| World's busiest airport falls silent | London, England - As I sit in the car park of a hotel just outside Heathrow's perimeter fence, I can actually hear the conversations emanating from the dozen or so other TV crews camped here. The world's busiest airport remains shut. Earlier a dozen or so maintenance workers walked the length of the northern runway, [...] | | Пятница, 16 Апреля 2010 года 14:51:58 |
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