WBEZ's Worldview

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams turns her attention to killer robots, we trace the story of the taco from Hermosillo, to Australia, and the career of Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja.

China launched the Lioaning amid tensions with Japan over a chain of uninhabited, but highly contested islands between the two nations; last month the Japanese government announced plans to scrap nuclear power by 2040.

Parliamentary elections today in Georgia could significantly alter the small nation’s political landscape, and a survey of women's reproducting health in Haiti and Latin America.

Israel's push for war not backed by public opinion, Milos on The Master, and a music-filled Weekend Passport

A referendum on Scottish independence is scheduled for 2014, Chicago hosts the first International Festival of Table Tennis, and a firsthand story of humanitarian aid from wartime Yugoslavia.

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi addresses the U.N. General Assembly today and the self-constructed funk of Hoquets.

Myanmar democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi is on a U.S. tour, and the U.N. debates a resolution banning blasphemy.

The State Department removes Iranian group M.E.K. from its list of terror groups and Sidney Rittenberg reflects on his years as a soldier, accused spy, prisoner and Chinese revolutionary.

Spanish economy crisis tests national unity, 21st century cinema (so far) and a showcase of South Asian films

Former Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai is now being accused of trying to cover up the murder of a British businessman. Then, the U.S. suspended joint military operations with Afghan troops following an insider attack. And, L’Ecole de Choix, is a first-of-its kind, trilingual school in Mirebalais, Haiti.

A dispute over five uninhabited islands in the East China Sea has inflamed tensions between China and Japan. Anti-Japanese protests, sanctioned by the government, have sprung up in numerous Chinese cities. Then, Malawi is a nation of 15 million with just eight practicing pediatricians. Dr. Martha Sommers has been practicing medicine in rural Malawi since 1997, and spent years as the sole doctor in a region of 120,000. And, Jerome and Radio M and Morning Shift host Tony Sarabia check out some of the artists who will perform at this weekend’s World Music Festival Chicago

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Worldview 9.14.12

Teachers aren’t just on strike here in Chicago. Teachers in Slovakia held a one day strike on Thursday to demand better pay and more funding for education, and in the UK, members of the National Union of Teachers are considering a walkout. We discuss public education systems around the world. Then, Chile has one of the longest running experiments in privatized education. More than half of Chilean students attend a private school, and more than a third attend one that’s for-profit. Students, not teachers, have the power to instigate reform. And, Sandy Haggart, tells us about the work Feed The Dream is doing to provide better nutrition for kids in Guatemala.