Newsline 18 September 2009: As a senior general warns that time is running out for NATO troops in Afghanistan, we ask what plans the Dutch have for their mission in Uruzgan; outrage in Canada as Native American communities ask for help with the flu epidemic and receive body bags, and help for top musicians too frightened to take the stage.

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What next in Uruzgan?
The general soon to take charge of NATO troops in southern Afghanistan warned today that time was against the ISAF mission. Major General Nick Carter said "positive trends" needed to devlop within the next year. We ask what changes the Dutch mission in the southern province of Uruzgan are likely to make in 2010.

Not vaccine but body bags
When A(H1N1)flu threatened to strike native North American communities in Canada for a second time, tribal leaders appealed to the government for help. They were hoping for medicine and doctors. The government sent them body bags. Grand Chief David Harper tells us about the communities'anger. 

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Help for stage fright
Stagefright - some professional artists get it so badly they're incapable of ever performing again. So a Dutch psychiatrist - who also happens to be a professional classical violinist - has set up an out-patient psychiatric clinic to help. Newsline pays a visit to find out why it's needed.

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