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An Iraqi army doctor dispenses medicine to a mother during a combined medical engagement in Iraq (U.S. Air Force)Iraq's Health Care Meltdown
In Iraq's hospitals, there are not enough medicines to go around, and some patients have even been murdered in their beds. On today's Underreported: how Iraq's health care system is coping with the victims of daily violence there. Then, Vanessa Redgrave talks about the life and work of her late husband Tony Richardson. Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller pay tribute to murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. And we'll look into how tacit support of Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks in the 1980s has come back to haunt the West.
Underreported: Iraq's Health Care Meltdown
What happens to the people who are gravely injured in the almost-daily attacks and bombings in Iraq? Iraq's health care system appears to be in a downward spiral. Hospital beds have been stolen, there are not enough medicines and equipment to go around, and some patients have even been murdered while in the hospital. Science writer Michael Mason traveled to Iraq to see firsthand what's happening in Iraq's health care system. His new article in the August issue of Discover magazine is "Iraq's Medical Meltdown."
Underreported Update: Libya 6
Yesterday, the Libyan Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against the so-called Libya 6, the 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting over 400 children with HIV in Libya. We've been following their case on Underreported for awhile, and today journalist Declan Butler explains yesterday's developments. Butler is a senior reporter with Nature who runs a blog about the case.
Vanessa Redgrave on Tony Richardson
Vanessa Redgrave talks about the life and work of her late husband, filmmaker Tony Richardson. He helped to revolutionize film in 1960s Britain by his work with Woodfall Film Productions. Redgrave will be introducing a screening of Richardson's film The Charge of the Light Brigade as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's two-week showcase Leading the Charge: Woodfall Film Productions and the Revolution in ‘60s British Cinema at the Walter Reade Theater.
Event:
Vanessa Redgrave and Coren Redgrave will introduce a screening
of Richardson's film The Charge of the Light Brigade
on Monday, July 16, at 6:15 p.m
at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater
Tickets and information at filmlinc.org or 212-496-3809
Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller
Dutch director Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004 by a religious extremist. Now Steve Buscemi has paid tribute to the fallen filmmaker by remaking one of Van Gogh's films, "Interview." Leonard talks to Buscemi and one of the film's stars, Sienna Miller.
Weigh in: Have you seen Van Gogh's films? Do you like the idea of paying tribute by remaking his movies?
How the West Supported Saddam's Chemical Attacks
When Saddam Hussein killed thousands in a 1988 chemical attack on Kurdistan, America looked the other way. Joost R. Hilterman joins us to explain how that tacit support of the attack has come back to haunt the West. Hilterman's recent book is A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja.
A Poisonous Affair is available for purchase at amazon.com
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