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19 Jun 2013

Al-Qaeda’s First Attack

On August 7, 1998, Nairobi was bustling and busy as usual, until at 10.45am, an explosion tore through the American Embassy situated in the heart of the capital killing hundreds of people. The attacks were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

This report presents the memories of those who survived. Caution: The video contains disturbing images of burned bodies and bloodied victims. H/T Journeyman Pictures

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23 Apr 2013

The Shell House Raid

The world is awash with stories from World War Two. Yet every now and again, a tale is told that makes you see the conflict with fresh eyes. For the first time, this intimate and moving doc details one of the most daring missions of the war, bringing the extraordinary bravery of those involved and its costs into stark relief. Martin Sheen narrates the story of the raid on Shell House, Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen. More from Journeyman Pictures.

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10 Apr 2013

Europe’s New Refugees

Waves of immigration have always been a source of political tension in Europe. Now, Europe is facing up to an unusual new migration worry: floods of migrants fleeing from the continent’s faltering economies. More from Journeyman Pictures.

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18 Dec 2012

China’s Rich and Famous

Communist China now has over a million millionaires. But what do China’s richest people do for fun? H/T Journeyman Pictures

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13 Nov 2012

Looking for Love in China

In a strange paradox, the most successful class of women in China is having trouble landing mates, or even dates. This in a country where there’s a pronounced gender gap with 118 men for every 100 women. Conservative cultural norms are partly at the root of the problem. In China, if a woman is too independent, she can be ostracized. She’s also likely to be labeled “leftover” if she’s over 28.

It means that most successful women struggle to get a date and with a third of China’s millionaires now female, an increasing number of China’s women are prioritizing their work life. The result is “200 million singles in China and it keeps growing,” as Johnny Du, the CEO of one of China’s top internet dating sites, explains. Du says the women also set the bar too high. “Woman are really picky; they want the man to be very rich, young, handsome, educated.” SBS Australia and Journeyman Pictures report.

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11 Nov 2012

The Last Generation

Zabno, a small town in southern Poland, was a haven for Jewish families until WWII broke out. In this report, we hear the disturbing stories of people who experienced Nazi cruelty first hand and see just how fresh the wounds left by the Final Solution still are.

Although many Jewish people from Zabno were transported to concentration camps such as Belzec, this moving film focuses on those who were left behind — murdered in their own gardens and buried in unmarked graves, and the lucky few that managed to escape. But were they really lucky? Through startling and frank accounts of their experiences, a small group of surviving women recount how they suffered terrible beatings at German hands and watched with horror as their families were taken away to their deaths. H/T Journeyman Pictures

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09 Nov 2012
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Odessa Girls

Odessa, on the frontier of the former Soviet Union, has become the seedy new tourist magnet for American men of all ages. The attraction: The city in the Ukraine has a seemingly endless supply of beautiful young, single women. Julia’s situation is typical of many. Following an abusive marriage, she signed up with one of the many local agencies that offer the chance to be paired up with hopefuls from abroad. “I’m already too old for the men here… Getting a man here is very competitive, because there are so few of them,” says Julia, living in a city where women outnumber men almost five to four.

But despite accusations of being little more than a legalized pimping service, clients such as Arthur, a 65 year-old veteran of six romance tours, have no qualms with the service they offer. “It’s like purchasing a very nice used Cadillac,” he explains. “I need to drive it before I make a decision about taking it home and putting it in my garage.” H/T Journeyman Pictures

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22 Sep 2012

Arab Spring Begats Bitter Fruits

Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, has sunken into chaos since the toppling of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Jan. 14, 2011. Before the revolution, Muslims, Christians, Jews and atheists lived in relative peace. But in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, radical Islamists have terrorized the nation’s minorities. Roving bands of jihadists and Salafists have desecrated churches, destroyed graves and chanted anti-Jewish slogans outside El Ghriba, Tunisia’s last functioning synagogue. The extremists spread feces on the walls of a Russian Orthodox Church, ordering the priest to remove all Christian symbols.  “And if we didn’t do it, they’d resort to force,” the frightened priest says.

The moderate Ennahda party, which is now running the Tunisian government, insists these are the actions of rogue elements. “We have to convince them. It is a country for all citizens, whether Islamists or not,” says Rachid Ghannouchi, Ennahda’s leader. But his party faces an uphill struggle. Thamina Thabet from the Society for the Support of Minorities notes the Salafists have “taken control of 400 mosques and now they are teaching a new generation the way they think.”  Bill Code reports from Tunisia and asks, “As religious minorities watch with unease the growing strength of puritanical Islamist groups, can a country with a proud secular tradition find its democracy?” H/T Journeyman Pictures

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26 Aug 2012

Inside Syria’s War

Here’s a report from the frontlines in Syria from Yaara Bou Melhem, the first Western journalist given access to the labyrinth of secret caves used as a staging base by the Free Syrian Army in its revolution to topple strongman Bashar al-Assad. The 3,000-year-old caves serve as a huge strategic asset. “The army besieged us many times and we always slipped through,” an FSA leader declares.

But local knowledge will only go so far and the rebels are hard-pressed to counter the might of the Syrian army with limited resources. As one failed test run of a home-made mortar shows, they don’t have much to work with. They are disheartened by months of fighting without help. Says the FSA spokesman, “America and Europe hide behind the Russian veto. They lie to us.”

Even the head of the Free Syrian Army, Col. Riad al-Assad, is unable to help. As rebel groups come to him for guidance, he can only encourage coordination. When asked about the suicide bomb that killed the minister of defense, he says, “This is an integral part of the revolutionary action. It could break the regime’s back.”

In 2011, Yaara Bou Melhem was named Young Australian Journalist of the Year by the Walkley Foundation for her reporting from Syria. She spent 2010 in Beirut and now reports for Australian and International networks around the world. Visit her website at http://yaara.tv/. H/T Journeyman Pictures

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