The year began with natural disaster and human tragedy on a staggering scale. As many as 150,000 people are dead in South Asia.
The international clean-up effort is underway, and aid is beginning to reach some of the needy, but health experts predict the worse for people left without clean water and struggling to find food in contaminated conditions. The disaster has already ruined the lives and livelihoods of millions of families. We look at what the future holds for the countries hit by the tsunamis, and a broader look at what it means in the global picture for 2005.
Guests:
Riyadi Suparno, managing editor of the Jakarta Post;
Daniel Franklin, editor of the Economist’s publication “The World in 2005″ ;
Kishore Mahbubani, former U.N. ambassador and dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore;