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1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 min. 17 sec.) ; 273358926 bytes |
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Australian Troops head into unchartered territory, tryig to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.Last week reporter Chris Masters went with Mentoring Team Alpha as they confronted the Taliban. This week he details the company's efforts to forge a relationship of trust with the local people in the Miribad Valley. He shows the progress that's been made as schools and medical facilities are constructed and we see first-hand the terrible price paid to protect them when two Australian soldiers are killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)."The day before we were having a conversation, I'm thinking of how well he, how much he loved his job, how much he loved being here, like doing the job. We do all this for our mates. The reason we get up each morning and get out there and go and find this shit is for our mates."In early June this year an IED exploded killing two Australian engineers, Sappers Jacob Moerland and Darren Smith. They died defending the people of the Miribad Valley from Taliban insurgents. A Four Corners team was there the day the men left base, and they were there when the news came through of the fatal attack.This week, Chris Masters looks at the work going on to create a decent society in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan - the kind of society that will give the people access to schools, vocational training and medical care. The Four Corners team goes with Mentoring Team Alpha as the Australians meet with locals. They go to the vocational training schools where young men are learning to be carpenters and builders.In the Miribad Valley the work of constructing a new social infrastructure has been done with the assistance and overall command of Dutch forces. In a few months the Dutch will withdraw from the region. Four Corner looks at the situation they leave and how the Australians will continue the work when they go.In this week's story we come to see that Australian soldiers are called on to be defenders, diplomats and social workers... sometimes all in the same day. Their task is tough. If they make a mistake in any one of their roles, they can pay for it with their lives |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-07-12 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management.
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International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)
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Military assistance, Australian.
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Military bases -- Security measures.
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Primary health care -- Administration.
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Soldiers -- Psychology.
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Afghanistan.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Basir, Abdul, contributor
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Blain, Jason, contributor
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Cantwell, John, contributor
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Cimbaljevic, Aaron, contributor
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Corrigan, Brett, contributor
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Daud, Mohammed, contributor
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de Mol, Jennes, contributor
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Deitz, David, contributor
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Dolan, Kev, contributor
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Drake, Sam, contributor
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Groat, Jason, contributor
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Heemskirk, Adam, contributor
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Hemat, Juma Gul, contributor
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Jansen, Jasper, contributor
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Jenkins, Brian, contributor
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Johnson, Brendan, contributor
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Khan, Maji Mohammed Nabi, contributor
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Lobbezoo, Ernst, contributor
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Masters, Chris, host
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McKeever, Matthew, contributor
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Milburn, Spencer, contributor
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Murray, Tyson, contributor
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Nolan, Sean, contributor
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Noor, Ajab, contributor
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Pahl, Jeremy, contributor
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Roberts, Luke, contributor
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Smith, James, contributor
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Strub, Peter, contributor
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Tanner, Jamie, contributor
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van den Heuvel, Kees, contributor
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