Iraq week kicks off
Updated on 17 March 2008
Inside the morning meeting...
Very busy day today, as the prog editor lamented: "I've got a two hour show, and only one hour to put it all in." So take the below with a pinch of salt.
First up, it's the launch of our week of reports on Iraq - Iraq: the Fallout. Jon Snow is already in Baghdad and Nick Paton Walsh is digging up stories in the north in Mosul. We're kicking it off with a poll on the state of Iraq for the people who live there:
"People have been very honest about how bad their lives are now".
Jon Snow will be interviewing Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zubari, in which he has some "very interesting things to say" according to Mr Snow.
We'll also be talking to an Iraqi doctor who's remained in Iraq since the US troops went in and getting his take on the situation.
Then there will be a piece on Haifa street, a place in Baghdad tracking the changes it's undergone since the invasion - it's seen changes of hands from Saddam's loyalists, insurgents to the surge - "It's kind of a story of what's going on around all of Iraq."
Elsewhere - our Washington team will be watching the markets to see how Wall Street responds to the Bear Stearns banking crisis.
From Tibet, Lindsey Hilsum will be reporting on the Chinese response to the fighting in Tibet, but releasing shots of hospitals and the damage they say is being inflicted by the Tibetans.
Finally Darshna Soni will be presenting a story on Methadone and how several young children, whose parents were prescribed it for drug addiction, were killed after accidentally consuming the drug.
The question is how do you prevent this situation from happening, without completely monitoring every drug addict who's also a parent to small children?
