Ultimate responsibility for prisoner abuse

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If the U.S. abused and tortured terrorist suspects, and broke the law, why shouldn’t the Obama administration expand its investigation into who was responsible? The World’s Matthew Bell looks at the implications of investigating a former president.>>>The BBC’s Kevin Connolly on President Obama’s dilemma

Ted Kennedy’s fight against apartheid

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Senator Edward Kennedy has died at 77 after a long battle with a brain tumor. The Massachusetts Democrat was a dominant force in American and foreign politics for almost 50 years. The Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa praised Kennedy for making “his voice heard in the struggle against apartheid at a time when the freedom struggle was not widely supported in the West.” Jeb Sharp looked at Kennedy’s role in ending apartheid.
>>> BBC obituary
>>>Read comments from around the world about Kennedy’s legacy
>>>A life in pictures

The global quest for better healthcare

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Washington Post Journalist T.R. Reid has a new book out on a topic that was very close to Ted Kennedy’s heart: healthcare reform. The book is called “The Healing of America – A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care”. It looks to other countries to see what lessons can be applied to the healthcare system here in the U.S. Anchor Katy Clark talked with Reid.

A life in China

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Diane Wei Liang has lived a life framed by events in China’s recent history. She was born in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution. And as a student at Beijing University, she took part in the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. She’s written a memoir about her experiences. It’s called “Lake with No Name: A true story of Love and Conflict in Modern China,” and it’s just come out in paperback. Anchor Katy Clark heard from Liang that the suffering of her parents’ generation in the Cultural Revolution had a powerful effect on her generation.

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Delhi 2 Dublin: An Indian/Irish mash-up

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Delhi 2 Dublin, based in Vancouver, joins Irish fiddles with Indian tablas, sitars with electric guitar in a free-flowing mix of Indian bhangra and Irish jigs. Lonny Shavelson caught up with them in front of an up-and-dancing audience of more than 10,000 in San Francisco’s Stern Grove. >>> Click here to see Lonny’s video of a Delhi 2 Dublin concert.

Entire program – August 26, 2009

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The possible presidential implications of the CIA interrogations probe; also, the story of a former student democracy activist in China; plus, remembering Ted Kennedy’s fight against apartheid.

Following the chain of command

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If the US broke the law by abusing terrorism suspects under President Bush, should the Obama Administration expand the investigation all the way to the former president? The World’s Matthew Bell reports on the implications of investigating a former president.

Cheney’s involvement in interrogation abuse

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with John Nichols, author of an unofficial biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney, about allegations of Cheney’s role in authorizing the CIA interrogation techniques now under investigation.

Remembering Kennedy

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Senator Edward Kennedy was one of the strong voices against the US-led war in Iraq. We feature an exchange he had in 2005 against then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld…and we look back on Kennedy’s legacy later in the program.

China’s organ transplant scandal

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Today a Chinese state-run newspaper appeared to confirmed that dead prisoners supplied almost two-thirds of the human organs used in transplants in China. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story from Beijing.

Love and conflict in modern China

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with author Diane Wei Liang about her memoir, “Lake with No Name: A true story of Love and Conflict in Modern China.” The author grew up during the Cultural Revolution and was later a part of China’s student pro-democracy movement.

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Ted Kennedy’s Legacy

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Senator Ted Kennedy died last night at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. The World’s Jeb Sharp looks back on the legacy of the man called the “liberal lion of the Senate.”

>>> BBC obituary
Have Your Say: read comments from around the world about Kennedy’s legacy
A life in pictures

Foreign models for US health care

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with journalist T.R. Reid about his new book, “The Healing of America — A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.” It explores health care systems in other countries and whether the United States could learn from them.

Geo Quiz

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Our daily geography quiz.

Geo Answer: Japan’s daycare crisis

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For today’s Geoquiz we were looking for a major industrialized nation where a lack of daycare options for young families has become a main topic in this year’s election. The answer is Japan. Reporter Akiko Fukita tells us why the promise of more child care centers carries such weight with voters.

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