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NBC's Ian Williams filed for the fourth time this week on the dreadful plight of Bangladeshi after Cyclone Sidr. Monday he surveyed the damage; Wednesday he covered the six-day wait for aid; Thursday (no link) he profiled a relief delivery organizer. Now he concentrates on the contaminated lakes and ponds, the only supply of water. "Medical teams are inundated with waterborne disease cases." He showed us thirsty villagers "scramble for water purification tablets" even as doctors warned "they may not be effective because the water is so filthy."
Also from overseas, NBC's Tom Aspell rounded out a week of encouraging news from Iraq with a cautionary antidote. So far we have been told about the improving security in the Baghdad neighborhoods of Dora (The New York Times' Damien Cave for NBC), Adamiyah (CBS' Lara Logan) and Ghazaliyah (ABC's Miguel Marquez). ABC's Terry McCarthy has shown us the optimism of Gen Raymond Odierno as he talks to field commanders. Now Aspell turns to the worsening situation for women in the southern city of Basra. In the past five months, 50 women have been murdered as "Shiite militiamen and religious zealots are using Islam to tighten their control." The women's offenses include going outside without a veil, wearing cosmetics, even holding a profession. "Iraqi women were once the most emancipated in the Arab World," Aspell lamented.
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