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08/24/2009
Entire program – August 24, 2009
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Download MP3Today on The World: The Obama administration plans to develop a new elite team for interrogating terrorism suspects; also, Haitian ex-pats get advice from another diaspora: the American Jewish community; and, the songs of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Plans for new interrogation team
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Download MP3The Obama administration is creating a new system for conducting interrogation of terrorism suspects. It’s supposed to be a way to look forward, and avoid mistakes of the past, as The World’s Matthew Bell reports.
Investigating prisoner abuse in the past
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Download MP3Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with Columbia law school professor Scott Horton about the Attorney General’s reported plans to recommend re-opening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases.
Fallout over Lockerbie release
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Download MP3Scotland’s parliament is holding an emergency session to debate the fallout following Scotland’s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber last week. The World’s Laura Lynch has the story.
Treating blindness in Africa
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Download MP3Health problems the afflict the world’s poor have received unprecedented attention in recent years. But medical workers who focus on lesser known diseases say their efforts remain as difficult as ever. Reporter Odette Yousef of Station WABE followed the struggles of one American organization that’s fighting a leading cause of blindness in Africa.
Flagging US support for Afghanistan
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Download MP3President Obama has put Afghanistan at the top of his foreign policy agenda. But polls suggest that many Americans don’t share the President’s view on that. Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with Andrew Exum, a fellow at the Washington think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
Haiti’s diaspora looks for guidance
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Download MP3More than a quarter of the Haitian populations lives outside Haiti. Now there are growing efforts to unify and strengthen that diaspora. Haitian leaders in the US are getting some advice from another more established diaspora… The American Jewish community. Amy Bracken reports.
Geo Quiz
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Download MP3Our daily geography puzzler.
Thousands flee fires in Greece
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Download MP3High winds fanned huge wildfires to the north of Athens this past weekend. Many of those fires are now under control. But thousands there were forced to flee their homes, including the BBC’s Malcolm Brabant. He speaks with anchor Jeb Sharp.
Geo Answer
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Download MP3For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for a Caribbean island that is part of the Netherlands Antilles. The answer is Curacao.
Touring outer space
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Download MP3Matthew Wells reports from New Mexico on the building of a new “spaceport” intended as a launch site for future space tourism flights.
Global Hit: Shimon Peres
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Download MP3Israeli President Shimon Peres celebrated his 86th birthday a week ago. He’s been in Israeli politics for more than half a century. Turns out, that whole time, he’s also been writing poems. And some of those poems have now been set to music. Daniel Estrin has today’s Global Hit.
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