For this week’s signature series, Worldfocus ventures to Cuba to take the temperature of a country now helmed by a different Castro: Raul. How has Cuba changed, a year after Fidel stepped down? See stories: they’ll be added through March 13, 2009.
Planet Forward is a new PBS special, hosted by Frank Sesno. The television show, airing April 15, will feature the best online submissions on the topic of ‘moving away from fossil fuels’–discussed on the show by a panel of experts. Submission deadline for broadcast: March 31.
President emeritus of Thirteen Dr. Bill Baker spoke with Charlie Rose last week about his book “Leading with Kindness”. (originally aired: Feb 5, 2009) Watch now.
Some say that without safeguards it is a slippery slope on the road to genetic surveillance. Others are convinced it will bring many more criminals to justice. Watch this week’s story on DNA testing — 8 minutes.
Filmmaker Daniel Junge on his latest documentary: about Sister Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun who was killed on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon she worked tirelessly to save. Watch story.
Get the newest unemployment figures from Asia, Africa, Latin America and more, and watch a discussion with Telis Demos, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been tracking the topic….
In this interview from San Francisco, Charlie talks to Evan Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, one of today’s most popular social networking Web sites. With six million users, it’s an international phenomenon. Watch now.
Driverless cars, intelligent traffic signals, road signs that speak to cars and cars that speak to drivers… these new designs might help save 21,000 of the 43,000 deaths annually recorded on America’s highways. Watch a new report about progress in auto transportation technology.
This week Worldfocus spotlights the issues facing South Africa today, including xenophobic hostilities towards its immigrant population, the devastating AIDS crisis in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, and class divisions and continuing poverty in the post-apartheid era. Watch all.
The situation in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, has become tense between the army and the paramilitary border guards known as the Bangladesh Rifles. Photographer Jessica Lim took these arresting images of the standoff as it was happening on the streets. Watch the slideshow.
