Snowmail: Cholera in Zimbabwe
Updated on 02 December 2008
Jon Snow writes on tonights' programme lineup starting with the increasingly dire news coming out of Zimbabwe.
The rapid assault on Zimbabwe's people by a major outbreak o f cholera, caused by an almost complete break down in sanitation, is now reaping its grim toll.
Jonathan Miller is on the South Africa/Zimbabwe border at a staging post to which large numbers of sick are coming for help.
We have a major new source of images from inside a country which begins to detail the scale of the outbreak and the terrible threat posed to the country's future.
CCTV FOOTAGE OF MUMBAI ATTACKS RELEASED
The Indian authority has released CCTV footage from the moment of the attack on the Victoria Railway station.
Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in Mumbai looking at this material together with the escalating tension between India and Pakistan.
Watch our exclusive interview with survivor Michael Pollack:
HOSTAGE FRIENDS' TALK
Andy Davies, our home affairs correspondent, has a remarkable report tonight in which he talks to friends of Peter Moore, the IT systems manager who was captured 18 months ago and taken hostage from the ministry of finance in Baghdad.
We know very little until now about Moore or the four other men who were taken with him. The Foreign Office has been keen to keep the entire matter off the front pages and out of the public gaze.
What we learn tonight is much more about what kind of a person Peter Moore is and he seems an exceptional chap.
But there is also a very subtle sense in which those who know him and love him are feeling frustration, not only by his continued detention, but by Foreign Office tactics.
I would qualify Andy Davies's report as a genuine, five-star, must-watch report.
If you were late in tonight it's on after our headlines at 7.30pm or at 8.30pm if you're watching on Channel4+1. For the uninitiated, +1 enables those of you who have multi-channel to watch us one hour later than the normal 7 o'clock.
But of course, I should also tell you that you can watch EVERY NIGHT, ANY NIGHT, ANY TIME right here on our website.
DAMIAN GREEN ARREST FURY WAGES ON
There continues a huge political furore over the arrest and nine-hour detention of Damian Green, Tory frontbench spokesman for immigration.
Gary Gibbon is on the case.
The Tories are after a scalp or two and my sources suggest the head of the sergeant at arms may not be very secure on her shoulders because she it was who gave the police licence to raid Green's office in the commons, which Tony Benn argued on this program on Friday, violated every sense of parliamentary privilege.
Watch our noon report here
And watch the Tony Benn interview here.
ALAS, POOR YORICK
Finally, spare a thought for Yorick. There a major new production of Hamlet opening tomorrow night, starring Dr Who (outgoing) actor David Tennant, and many times sold out well ahead.
Now the fascination is less with Tennant than with the late Yorick.
It seems the skull of the aforementioned Yorick was to have been the ultimate satisfaction of the will of a Polish pianist.
Indeed Stephanie West has been to talk to one of the pianist's best friends about why he was so keen to leave his bones, and most particularly his skull, to the RSC.
But alas, poor Yorick's skull will not be that of the Polish pianist but some miserable, man-made fibre job and that's because the RSC has decided the whole business of putting a real skull on the stage is likely to provoke so much controversy that Tennant fine performance as Hamlet risks being upstaged by the late Yorick.
This old skull will be on your screens at seven with all news fit to print.
Jon
AND ON MORE4 NEWS TONIGHT
Are we falling out of love with Tesco? We report on an already bitter supermarket war, made all the more passionate by falling sales at the cash till.
We're also live at Great Ormond Street Hospital for the very latest on the separation of the conjoined infants, and speaking of Siam, we'll have the latest developments from there too.
See you tonight on More 4 at 8.
