Dean Cornish
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Tracked - Jagd durch die Wildnis
In den Neuseeländischen Alpen werden die Teams von zwei erfahrenen "Trackern" der Defence Force verfolgt. Die beiden Männer trainieren Sondereinsatzkräfte aus aller Welt in der Kunst des Spurensuchens und Fährtenlesens. Sie zählen zu den Besten der Besten. Aus Sicherheitsgründen bleibt ihre Identität geheim. Im Basislager sind zudem ein ehemaliger Royal Marine Brigadier und eine Special-Forces-Psychologin stationiert. Die Militärexperten verfügen über Kartenmaterial.
How vaccine fear is tearing apart America's Orthodox Jewish community
Above Preview : 'America Measles Comeback' . Watch the full story Tuesday 9:30pm on SBS. Measles is highly contagious, and the World Health Organisation says the disease is almost all regions across the globe. Albania, Czech Republic, Greece and Britain have all lost their measles elimination status. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, measles has killed more people in 2019 than Ebola. Rockland County, in upstate New York, certainly doesn't feel like the epicentre of a major disease outbreak.
'We will never have champions if fighters can’t start young.' Getting to know Thailand's child fighters
Promo: After the death of a child boxer, is Muay Thai an ancient art form or child abuse? Watch Thailand's Child Fighters, tonight on SBS or On Demand. It’s after 11pm, in a small village in the Thai province of Chaiyaphum. It’s a school night. Two-by-two, young Muay Thai fighters take to the ring. They trade punches, kicks and knees to various parts of their bodies – including their small heads. Each impact sends arcs of sweat flying through bright sodium lighting and into darkness.
After the death of a child Muay Thai fighter, Thailand struggles to change
Promo: After the death of a child boxer, is Muay Thai an ancient art form or child abuse? Watch Thailand's Child Fighters, tonight on SBS or On Demand. When 13-year-old Anucha Tasako was killed after a knock-out punch in a Thai boxing ring on the outskirts of Bangkok, it caused a shock around Thailand. The sport of Muay Thai is highly-revered in parts of the country.
Thailand's Child Fighters
Thailand's Child Fighters Synopsis Muay Thai is one of the toughest martial arts in the world. But after the death of a child boxer, Thailand debates the future of its national sport. Is Muay Thai and ancient art form or child abuse? SHARE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Dateline Unstitched: Filming Korea's Dog Fight
Korea's Dog Fight Do dogs belong on the dinner plate? South Korea is in the middle of a war over a cultural practice as the younger generation defends canines in a battle against customs and tradition
Korea's Dog Fight
Watch Dateline's 'Korea's Dog Fight' in the player above. I've just arrived in South Korea, and as a dog-lover I know this journey will be a difficult one. It’s the last week of BokNal — a festival scheduled around the hottest days of summer. The traditional dish of BokNal is Bosintang — dog meat soup.
Meet the Proud Boys, a group of men who say there’s a war on masculinity
Springtime is struggling this year in New York. Reluctant blossoms bob under a cold wind’s blast. As late, weak red light leaks down 51st St, I’m jumping in the car. Driving along, on the way to my next assignment for Dateline, I know that even if we achieve the most balanced version of the story we’re about to tell – some people will hate it. It’s a strange feeling to start filming with, and it gets stranger throughout the process.
SH: Angry men trying to return to a ‘traditional society’
Mostly pro-Trump, they believe in closing the borders, legalising all drugs, abolishing prison and giving everyone a gun. They also feel that society would be better if women just dropped out of the workforce, and went back to their homes. If this was in a small town in Colorado, it’d probably be called extreme libertarianism — but they’re based in New York, New Jersey and Texas, and their views in an urban context are unusual.
Defending Gender part 1: Proud Boys
In part one of Dateline’s two-part gender special meet the Proud Boys, a group of men who say they are speaking up for a new class of minority: the disenfranchised young male. Airdate: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 21:30
How activist vegans are making their voices heard
Veganism is on the rise, and in the UK battle lines are being drawn between the farming community and those that wish they didn’t exist, writes reporter Dean Cornish. Driving through the misty English countryside, cattle and sheep appear out of the grey – as still as statues on rolling green hills. It’s such a verdant and peaceful scene, it’s hard to see what the fuss is about –but here in the UK, battle lines are being drawn. Activist vegans are rising in numbers, and they’re pissed off.
The Vegan Wars
You’ve heard of militant religious and political groups – but have you heard of militant vegans? Australians are the second biggest meat eaters in the world, the biggest exporters of red meat, and our dairy industry is worth $13.7 billion – but we are also the world's third fastest growing vegan market. In the UK a dramatic rise in veganism has led to clashes between those who want all animal products banned and the livestock farmers whose way of life is under threat - and it’s getting nasty.
The millennial mayors taking America back from Trump
Millennials get a bit of a bad rap. But the generation often written off as Instagramming, self-obsessed and politically inactive has been given a kick in the pants lately – and perhaps we can thank Donald Trump for that. This oldest ever first-term President was elected by older voters on a wave of nostalgia for a bygone America – but his administration’s actions on climate change, sexual politics, race and gun control largely affect the young.
Youth In Revolt
Millennials across America are rising up against President Trump and taking over city hall. Can two millennial mayors beat old politics to save their struggling cities or will youth let them down? Airdate: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 21:30
Swapped: from Manus Island to Missouri
Swapped: from Manus Island to Missouri Dateline meets the refugees swapped in a deal between Australia and the USA. What’s it like arriving in Trump’s America after 4 years on Manus Island? Airdate: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 21:30
Swapped from Manus to Missouri
Abdul Aziz Tirab is living in Kansas City, after four years at the Manus Regional Processing Centre. (SBS Dateline) Dateline meets the refugees swapped in a deal between Australia and the USA. What’s it like arriving in Trump’s America after 4 years on Manus Island? Watch the full story at the top of the page. For everyone caught up in the U.S./Australia refugee swap deal, 2018 will be a strange year.
How has Ireland changed since its same-sex marriage referendum?
Ireland is unbelievably green. A flat emerald landscape doodled on with thin squiggles of road, which give way to tiny and ancient little towns. Post office, town hall, graveyard, churches – so many churches. Stone walls, stained glass, and steeples make their lofty entreats to heaven. When this conservative, largely Roman Catholic country voted ‘yes’ to same-sex marriage two years ago, some people – myself included – were surprised.
Yes or No? | SBS Dateline
With Australians preparing for a national plebiscite on same-sex marriage, we visit Ireland – where it was legalised on one side of the border two years ago – and listen to different sides of the debate. Airdate: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 21:30
Hanging out with an 86-year-old cheerleader in Tokyo
Grey concrete maze streets Sky and old are same colour Nine million of them It’s a long drive out to Tokyo’s suburbs. And my mind has begun to drift to haiku for some reason. 5 syllables 7 syllables 5 syllables A confined and constrained communication form – a little like ancient Twitter. Grow old and die, yes? This country has changed so much Best leave for the young There are nine million senior citizens in Tokyo alone, with precious few young people coming in to take their place.
Japan's Cheerleading Grannies / Not Dead Yet
Can old age be as exciting as youth? On this week’s Dateline we meet people in their 80s and 90s who are looking to the future, not the past – leading fulfilling lives and staying active as they approach their centenary. In Japan’s capital Tokyo, a city with more than 9 million senior citizens and a rapidly ageing population, an urgent point of discussion is how to improve quality of life for the city’s elderly.
Cheerleading Grannies / Not Dead Yet
Cheerleading Grannies / Not Dead Yet What is the secret to living large in old age? This week Dateline meets a squad of octogenerian Japanese cheerleaders and a famous TV writer challenging assumptions about people in their 90s. Airdate: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 21:30
How years of drought led to a fierce battle over water in California
I’ve never met anyone with eyes like Kathy Bancroft’s. They’re deep, dark and sparkling –surrounded by the lines of a million smiles. Even when she talks of the great sadness and injustice her people, the Paiute-Shoshone tribe, have endured, she does so with a kindness that’s disarming. But here, on the edge of what used to be a lake, on a 42 °C day in August 2016, the light has disappeared from those amazing eyes.
California’s Water Wars
After 6 years of drought, California has finally had a deluge of rain. But with much of the state’s water supply being sent to LA, people in drought-affected areas feel they’ve been left high and dry. Airdate: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 21:30
Raven fled violence when she was 9. Now, she lives under a tarp.
I’m driving to Downtown Los Angeles, and my mind is wandering. Did the cheery radio announcer just slip something about mercury rising in your tarpaulin into her traffic report? Shake head, blink in sun. Of course not. I’m thinking of Raven – who I’m going to see again tonight. Raven’s situation is all too common in La La Land these days – she lives under a tarpaulin, next to a freeway. She has been living on the streets for most of her life, after leaving a violent home when she was 9.
Tiny Home Rebel | SBS Dateline
The mayor of Los Angeles has declared a homelessness crisis. As the city struggles to respond, one man has his own unique solution. But can he evade authorities to get people off the streets? Airdate: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 21:30
Love, intimacy and companionship: a tale of robots in Japan
Japan’s ageing population is struggling with a loneliness epidemic, but they may have found a solution; robots. I’ve arrived on a narrow grey lane on the outskirts of Tokyo’s sprawl. All around are modest apartment blocks full of elderly people. It’s unremarkable and quiet, until Rieko Kawachi comes on the scene. She comes quickly down her front stairs, and into the street to greet me. East meets West as we both bow and shake hands.
Robot Love in Japan
In Japan, robots are used for companionship, household tasks, sex. But can they be the remedy for something deeper and more human; loneliness? Airdate: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 21:30
What Trumpcare’s defeat says about the new president
Failing to repeal Obamacare is President Trump’s first major policy defeat and reveals the cynicism of his administration, writes Dean Cornish. But does it make the future of health care in America any more certain? President Donald Trump pulled ‘Trumpcare’, or the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), late last week, before it could even be voted on. Why? Because to do otherwise would have shown the overwhelming lack of support the President’s health care reform bill had.
Trump’s Big Fail
Following the weekend rejection of his healthcare plan, Donald Trump is licking his wounds after failing to deliver on his first big promise – to fix America’s healthcare system. Some are celebrating, but many Americans are now even more unsure about the future. Airdate: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 21:30
Can Trump Cure America?
As the details of Donald Trump’s healthcare plan are debated, we meet people on both sides of one of the country’s most polarising issues. Airdate: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 21:30
Fear and Loathing in the Rust Belt: why swing state towns are turning to Trump
As polling day nears in one of the stranger US elections and scandals continue to engulf Republican candidate Donald Trump, some voters in the American heartland are holding out hope for his victory. The most obvious takeaway from being in the United States during the 2016 election campaign? People here seem have stopped commenting on the strangeness of it all. There’s a resignation that one of two deeply unpopular presidential candidates – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton – will take the top job.
The US has 112 guns per 100 people
Barry Laws is the CEO of the Openrange gun range in Louisville. He blames the authorities for letting Orlando gunman Omar Mateen "fall through the cracks." (SBS Dateline) There’s a certain amount of desensitisation when it comes to gun violence in the US, writes Dean Cornish after reporting for Dateline on the Orlando shooting reaction. Louisville, Kentucky might be best known as the hometown of Muhammad Ali, or as the town that hosts the Kentucky Derby.
Pride Under Fire
In the aftermath of the shootings in Orlando, next week’s Dateline looks at a country divided. And in places like Louisville, Kentucky, all the contradictions of American politics now collide. Airdate: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 21:30 See the story next Tuesday at 9.30pm on SBS.
China's Millionaire Migration
Over 100,000 Chinese millionaires have moved to Vancouver, sparking everything from a reality show to a property boom making housing unaffordable. Dateline asks if the millionaire migrants are a blessing or curse. Vancouver - on the surface it's as close to perfection as a city gets. A stunning place, set between mountains and the sea, it attracts immigrants from all over the world. Among them is Pam Zhao. Her affluent Chinese parents sent her here to study when she was just 12.
Dying To Live | SBS News
South Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, but can experiencing death in a fake funeral be the answer? Dateline looks at the extremes being used to tackle the crisis. Airdate: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 21:30 See the full story on next Tuesday's Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS. Support and Advice If you’re affected by this story and would like to speak to a professional now for support and advice, phone one of these 24 hour helplines:
Korea's Fake Funerals
South Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, but can experiencing death in a fake funeral be the answer? Dateline looks at the extremes being used to tackle the crisis. Airdate: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 21:30 See the full story on next Tuesday's Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS. Support and Advice If you’re affected by this story and would like to speak to a professional now for support and advice, phone one of these 24 hour helplines:
Korea’s Internet Addicts
Some teens in South Korea are so addicted to gaming, they can no longer distinguish what’s real and what’s not. Dateline follows them as they go through intense month-long digital rehab. China is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. But is the government's attempt to stem the 'number one public health threat to teenagers' working - or even warranted? Everyone is guilty of it but is using your mobile phone really an addiction?
Kicked Back to Cambodia
Hong Ung grew up and went to school in western Sydney – part of one of the many thousands of families displaced by the Khmer Rouge, but after calling Australia home for 22 years, he was deported. “I wish I could go back,” he tells Dean Cornish on Tuesday’s Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS.
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