Correspondents Report

Middle East Correspondent, Matt Brown, reflects on the rich history in his neighbourhood in Beirut

It's been a tumultuous few weeks in China, with the death in custody of the country's most famous dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Bassel Khatabil Safadi was a passionate technology entrepreneur who played a key role in getting the story of pro-democracy protests into the world.

This week we look at the legacy of two activists who recently died in the countries they were trying to change.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill speaks to the friends and fellow activists of one of Syria's best-known pro-democracy activists, Bassel Khatabil Safadi, executed by the Syrian regime in 2015; China correspondent Bill Birtles interviews Jonathan Kamm - an American businessman who has spent almost three decades presenting prisoner lists to China's government, in the hope of highlighting specific cases; And Middle East Correspondent, Matt Brown, has been reflecting on the rich history in his neighbourhood in Beirut.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: Former Middle East and Washington Correspondent Ben Knight travels back to America taking us on a journey around the monuments to past presidents and chaos of the current Trump presidency; And Indonesia Correspondent Samantha Hawley talk to Si Yi Chen, another of the Bali Nine imprisoned in Kerobokan.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: Papua New Guinea correspondent Eric Tlosek reports on the ongoing national election; Europe Correspondent James Glenday examines the latest media storm raging through London as a five- year-old and her father are slapped with a near $250 fine for having a lemonade stand without a permit; And our Samantha Hawley travels to Bali to interview Matthew Norman, convicted drug smuggler, serving a life sentence in the infamous Kerobokan prison.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: North America correspondent Stephanie March spends a day with a Washington based midwife reporting on the controversial home birth tradition; Sophie McNeill speaks with a midwife working a busy shift on a labour ward in Jerusalem; And Africa correspondent Sally Sara travels to Kenya's Rift Valley to meet a traditional midwife from the Maasai tribe.

On Saturday's program: Europe Correspondent Steve Cannane visited the offices of satirical magazine Private Eye in Soho in London to see how they’re managing to grow their readership while the rest of print media declines; After the devastating series of disasters in London, Philip Williams and Lisa Millar take a restorative stroll along the Thames and find a man who lives on a barge; and China Correspondent Matthew Carney risks life and limb on a trekking expedition on the Great Wall - without the benefits of Australia’s stringent Occupational Health and Safety regulations.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: Africa correspondent Sally Sara reports from the General Hospital in the city of Burao where the children of Somaliland are dying from sickness and starvation as their nation struggles with crippling drought and a lack of international aid; South-east Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane investigates Thailand's media obsession with the 'murder babes', the three women who went on the run after killing and dismembering a young bar worker; And James Bennett reports from Old Delhi where India's Muslims celebrated Eid, the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan this week, with many doing with a sense of unease as hostility grows between Muslims and Hindu nationalists.