Sunday November 8: Hope for sale

Published: 4:20PM Thursday November 05, 2009 Source: Sunday

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Hope for sale
They are the desperate NZ parents heading off to third world countries to spend tens of thousands of dollars on unproven and unapproved medicine. There are no promises, no guarantees, just bucketloads of hope for their brain damaged children taken there for experimental stemcell injections. The parents will do anything to give their kids a chance but conventional scientists have likened the Mexican clinics to snake oil salesmen. SUNDAY confronts the controversial doctor dispensing the treatment. Is he a visionary or is he a quack?

Correspondent - Simon Mercep
Producer - Joanne Mitchell
Resercher - Chris Cooke
Camera - Clint Bruce
Editor - Will Kong

Winds of Change
Denmark boasts it's one of the greenest, richest happiest countries on earth. Certainly its new clean-green energy solutions are world beaters. Thousands of wind turbines arc the country generating 20% of its power needs - far more than any other nation. There's a whole island of 4,000 people which has abandoned its dependence on imported oil and electricity by burning straw instead of oil and Copenhagen's aims to have half the population cycling to work in the next five years. SUNDAY is in a country with an enviable reputation for environmental leadership.

ABC Foreign Correspondent

Last dance
The Michael Jackson movie This Is It made $4m at its debut screening in America alone. Now it's on wide release with potentially massive earnings. It features the best of MJ's final concert rehearsals and was directed by Kenny Ortega - the choreographer of the Jackson tour that would never happen. So what does the film tell us about the star in his final days?

ABC Nightline

SUNDAY - Where there's a story, we'll find it.

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