China’s media strategy

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Xiao Qiang director of the University of California, Berkeley’s China Internet Project, about China’s strategy for handling media coverage of the protests in western China. He says the Chinese government is allowing international journalists to cover the unrest, while cracking down on press coverage.
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Helping Iranians bypass web censorship

Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on how technology activists around the globe are working to help Iranians bypass their government’s Internet censorship.
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Emotions and politics

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with philosopher Dominique Moisi about his new book “The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World.”
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Obama, Russia, and the G8

The World’s Gerry Hadden reports on European reaction to President Obama’s visit to Moscow. Obama headed straight to the G8 summit in Italy after his meeting with Russian President Medvedev.
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Geo Quiz

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US military recruiting immigrants

The US military has launched a pilot project to recruit immigrants to serve in the armed forces. The military wants their language skills. As Jason Strother reports, many of those who’ve answered the call are native Korean speakers.
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Geo Quiz Answer

Today’s Geo Quiz asked you to name the country with the most nuclear fallout shelter space per citizen. The answer is Switzerland. Now tourists can get a taste of life inside one of these shelters in the form of the the Null Stern Hotel. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the man behind the [...]

Global Hit: Michael Jackson in Liberia

For today’s Global Hit, we hear from Emmanuel Gardiner, whose family left Liberia for the United States after a coup in 1980. Among his most treasured possessions was Michael Jackson’s album “Off the Wall.” Listen More Global Hits

Entire program – July 6, 2009

Today on the World: Russian views of the United States and President Obama, as the US president tries to re-start relations with Moscow. Also, more that a hundred people are killed after China cracks down on ethnic Uighur protesters; and on today’s Global Hit, the music band “HAL and the Big 5″ — formed on [...]

When Mr. Obama met Mr. Medvedev

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced agreements on goals for nuclear weapons cuts and transit rights for US planes headed to Afghanistan. They also talked about finding common ground and reducing their differences. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports.
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President Obama’s reception in Russia

President Obama is not as popular in Russia as he is in other parts of the world. Jessica Golloher reports from Moscow on why Russians are less enthusiastic about Mr. Obama, even as the US President tries to re-start relations with Russia on a more positive note.
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British spy agency’s Facebook blunder

Eyebrows were raised when Shelley Sawers posted on Facebook photos of where she and her husband live. She also noted the names of some of their friends and relatives. That’s because Lady Sawers is the wife of the head of Britain’s spy agency MI6. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from Sarah Lyall, London correspondent for the New York Times.
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Violence in western China

Ethnic tensions and a government crackdown in western China have left more than 150 people dead and hundreds more injured. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports on what led to the violence between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China.
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Advertising on the Vatican’s airwaves

Anchor Lisa Mullins has some advertising news from the Vatican and from North Korea.
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The legacy of Robert McNamara

Anchor Lisa Mullins speak with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris about the life of Robert McNamara. Morris made the Academy-award winning documentary “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.”
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