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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 15 sec.) ; 316225287 bytes |
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JAPAN'S CATASTROPHEDateline takes a personal journey into the Japanese disaster zone this Sunday, as video journalist Toshi Maeda goes on a road trip to see for himself how bad the situation really is.It's a difficult journey through swathes of land blocked with debris, to devastated communities mourning hundreds of dead, and people trying to salvage what they can from their ruined homes.The journey takes us to the edge of the nuclear power plant exclusion zone, as Japan struggles with a new crisis on top of the earthquake and tsunami.BATTLE FOR BENGHAZIAs troops loyal to Muammar Gadaffi close in on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, Dateline reports from that city, amid preparations for a final showdown with the Libyan leader.French film maker Gwen Le Gouil takes us into the ranks of the newly-formed revolutionary army - and shows us gruelling images of underground prison cells beneath Gadaffi's abandoned Benghazi residence - where anti-Gadaffi rebels had been held and tortured prior to the revolution. Le Gouil also films the beginnings of Benghazi's free press, as the city celebrates what may be a short-lived liberation. CHINA'S GHOST CITIESVast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns.It's all part of the government's efforts to keep the economy booming, and there are many people who would love to move in, but it's simply too expensive for most.Video journalist Adrian Brown wanders through malls of vacant shops, and roads lined with empty apartment buildings... 64 million apartments are said to be empty across the country and one of the few shop owners says he once didn't sell anything for four or five days.So are the efforts to boost the economy going to end up having the opposite effect and creating a financial crisis for China? |
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Broadcast 2011-03-20 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Buildings -- Salvaging.
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Earthquakes -- Health aspects.
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Local government -- Economic aspects.
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Natural disasters -- Social aspects.
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China.
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Japan.
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Streaming video
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Brown, Adrian, reporter
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Charley, Peter, reporter
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Davis, Mark, host
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Gang, Zhao, contributor
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Gao, Tian Yu, contributor
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Jiao, George, contributor
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Maeda, Toshi, reporter
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Sheng, Zhou Xiao, contributor
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Tulloch, Gillem, contributor
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