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Sunday Night: Oct 23

Sunday Night looks at Juarez, Mexico, the 'murder capital of the world.'

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Sunday Night looks at Juarez, Mexico, the ‘murder capital of the world’ plus stories on gene mutation and an update on two brothers, one of whom has cerebral palsy.

MEAN STREETS
It is a city ruled by drugs and weapons – where money talks, and lives are worth nothing. Juarez, Mexico, is the murder capital of the world – 15,000 people are killed every year. On a good day – there are just a handful of killings. On a bad day, as many as twenty. The city is run by some of the world’s most powerful drug lords, and they will kill anyone who gets in their way. In this exclusive report, Tim Noonan goes undercover for his most dangerous assignment yet, to investigate the masterminds behind this evil trade. And as he discovers they are already expanding their empire here in Australia.

A DILEMMA
Emma Sinclair is beautiful teenager, brave and wise beyond her years. But Emma carries a terrifying gene mutation – one passed on to her through the generations. Her mother and grandmother have it, her great grandmother died from it. What’s in Emma’s DNA could kill her – and now she must make a drastic decision. But as Sunday Night’s Rahni Sadler discovers, Emma won’t just be saving her life with the surgery, she could hold the key to the lives of thousands of Australians.

TATE AND NASH
Tate and Nash broke our hearts and warmed our souls last year. The inspirational brothers are back on Sunday Night this week. Nine year old Tate has cerebral palsy – and he shares a special bond with his big brother Nash. We revisit the best mates – as they embark on their next milestone.

Sunday October 16th 6.30pm on Seven.

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  1. Thanks, msd. Saw an ad during the V8 Supercars telecast and they were still claiming 15,000 murders. Won’t be watching with that amount of obvious inaccuracy.

  3. Not a bad episode of sunday night, might watch. i wonder how the producers of Sunday Night decide what stories to air and how do the journos decide what stories to report on, just curious thats all.

  4. As usual with these sort of sensational stories (Ciudad Juarez) somebody’s maths is way off. If a “bad day” of twenty murders was to occur every day, that would still only be 20 x 365 = 7,300 murders, less than half the 15,000 claimed.

    The murder rate in 2009 was 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants per year. The population then was about 1,300,000, so the total number of murders works out to less than 1,700 in 2009. Are Sunday Night claiming that the number of murders has increased nine-fold in the two years since then? That works out to an *average* of 41 people every single day. That would make “as many as twenty” quite a good day as long as you weren’t one of the twenty.

  5. The latter 2 stories sound a bit naff, but the story about Ciudad Juarez sounds compelling. The place is like a Hollywood movie but 100 times worse. They really do kill everyone, often mass beheadings of all the workers at local police stations. All just south of the border of Uncle Sam

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