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January 7, 13 2008
The death march of the penguins. Our correspondent roams the vanishing polar ice with scientists in search of the deadly tipping points of global warming.
Post-election violence in Kenya. Reports of carnage are still coming in from a state once seen as east Africa's best hope for democracy. We'll survey the damage and latest developments.
The Beautiful Game of soccer. And the ugly truth of it in Kenya. How organised sport is bringing hope to the slum kids of Nairobi, and politicians are trying to skim it off.
And the upset in Iowa. Is Obama the new Bill Clinton? Our correspondent muses on Barack's big win.
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Contents January 7/13
While the democratic process brought crowds to their feet
in Iowa last week --
in Kenya
a disputed election brought crowds -- and murderous mobs -- into the streets.
Later in the program we'll hear from Anjali Nayar in Nairobi -- but first,
some of the sounds she recorded
covering the drama there this week -- in a country where democracy was supposed to be making gains.
Polar meltdown
These are polar penguins,
but they're getting harder to hear every year.
There won't be any for example, on tiny frozen Litchfield Island in the Antarctic this year. Then again, there were none last year. Or the year before.
Which is odd, because until then, the noisy little guys hadn't missed a shift on the ice in 700 years.
The poles are talking to us, warning us there's more to global warming than open water. The knock-on effects will affect every living thing. And it's starting to happen much faster than anybody expected.
Journalist Daniel Grossman spent weeks on land and the frozen sea of both poles with the scientists trying to figure out how much time is left.
listen to Daniel's documentary
Kenya's crisis
No one thought the Kenyan election would come to this: buildings and people, incinerated. Hundreds dead. Hundreds of thousands displaced, and desperate for food and shelter.
President Mwai Kibaki is accused of rigging the ballot by his opponent Raila Odinga and western observers including France and the U.S.
Voting in Kenya has always been violent around the edges, but its democracy and stability never seemed in doubt.
Turns out the combination of poverty, politics and tribal grievance remain hugely combustible.
Our Kenya-based contributor Anjali Nayar, has been covering the contest and joined us from Nairobi.
listen to Anjali's report
Part Two
Kenya's beautiful game
In Kenya, a group of kids with nothing to lose, have discovered there's more than just a game to be won on the soccer fields of Nairobi.
The fields aren't much to look at. But they're an open-air laboratory of sorts, where sport can grow into self-respect.
It all began with a Canadian who had this idea that soccer might help poor kids scale the walls of poverty, and escape the gang violence that's been raging in the country's capital.
And it's working.
So well in fact, it's attracting carpetbaggers trying to turn its success to their own political advantage.
Dispatches contributor Declan Hill looked into it in a documentary we called Slums, Soccer And The Troublesome Canadian, first aired last June. With the political conflict now raging in Kenya, we thought to revisit the badlands of Nairobi, that pass for a playing field.
Listen to Declan's documentary
Since that aired, the Kenyan Football Federation has been told it must protect the game from politics and corruption.
But talks with FIFA, the international soccer body, were put off until after the election -- in which many football officials supported the opposition, so nothing is expected to change very soon.
Democratic solutions
From time-to-time we're going to drop in on the American leadership campaigns for reflections from the CBC correspondents who cover it.
We begin with Michael Colton, CBC Radio's Washington correspondent. He's been on the road with the Democrats in the run-up to Barack Obama's strong showing in Iowa recently.
Michael's thoughts from campaign 2008
This program is the work of producers Donna Cressman, Dawna Dingwall, Alison Masemann and Naheed Mustafa, technical producer Gary Francis and senior producer Alan Guettel.
The theme music for Dispatches is Mark Knopfler's What It Is, from his Sailing To Philadelphia CD (2000).
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