Kveikur

No one foresaw the consequences of Reykjavík Children's Protection when a family was reported there due to the suspicion that a child had been shaken. In the second part of the episode, we will delve into the most significant things in the Paradise Papers.

Skuggaveran í hettupeysunni, óframfærni tölvunördinn, er vissulega til, en sjaldnast er það þessi hakkari sem veldur mesta óskundanum. Kveikur kafar í tölvuöryggismál í fyrsta hluta þáttarins og veltir því upp hvort hægt sé að hakka hvað sem er.

Ítrekað og mikið brottkast á sér stað um borð í íslenskum togara. Regluverkið er þó þannig að auðveldt er að koma sér undan viðurlögum við slíkum brotum. Kveikur skoðar brottkast, svindl á ísprósentu, og uppgjöf Fiskistofu.

Russian activity in the Nordic region, in the area around Iceland, has not been so intense for a long time. Nuclear submarines, which the NATO nations try to closely monitor, sail around the so-called GIUK gate. Kveikur also explores the research of Icelandic scholars on who can and who cannot be the author of Njála.

Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini implanted plastic larynxes in at least eight people. Only one of them is still alive. Macchiarini sat down with Kveik. We then talk to an Icelandic man and his mother, who, together with his wife and four children, were caught in the middle of a terrorist attack in Mali.

Kveikur visited a Rohingya refugee camp. Now the flow of people has almost dried up, because there are virtually no Rohingya left in Myanmar. In the second part of the episode, the Minister of Fisheries is interviewed about discards, bypass landings and the inability of the Norwegian Fisheries Agency, which supervises them.

Jón Björgvinsson is one of the few reporters who has made it beyond the borders of Yemen. For a thousand days there has been a war with associated disasters. In the second part of the episode, we look into the everyday life of funeral home employees.

Minister of Justice Sigríður Andersen is responsible for his decision to appoint three judges to the National Court who were not in the top positions of a list compiled by a special qualification committee. Kveik also examines the state of the book nation, which is finding it increasingly difficult to read.

We take a look behind the scenes at a Red Cross field hospital out in the jungle in Bangladesh. We follow three Icelandic nurses through the day. In the second part of the episode, we look at the situation of teachers in Iceland.

Bitcoin is in vogue and much debated. One makes money, the other loses, the police warn of scams, but still few of us know properly what bitcoin is. In the second part of the episode, we talk about Raufarhöfn. The Settlement Agency assessed that it was the healthiest settlement in the country.

In the first part of the episode, Kveikur visits a factory in the capital area where cannabis is grown commercially. We then go over the fiber optic expansion, what it means for consumers, what the dispute and constant litigation between the companies is based on.

We are talking about the arms shipments of the Icelandic airline Atlanta, which take place with the approval of the Icelandic government. We then continue the coverage of cannabis from last week and look at the issue from different angles.

We get to know Barka's activities and follow the organization's clients in Iceland. In the second part of the episode, we continue to discuss the arms transport to Atlanta and talk to Þórólf Árnason, director of the Transport Agency, who authorized the transport.

The fund management company Stefnir paid Arion Bank's asset management fees for investments that the asset management brokered, including for pension funds that are fully managed by the bank. In the second part of the episode, we continue our discussion of the Barka Association.

Gambling is prohibited in Iceland. However, that does not prevent access to slot machines to be better than is happening in countries where casinos are allowed. We also look at conditions in refugee camps in Uganda. The government in that country has received praise for the way refugees are received

In the first part of Kveik, a case will be discussed, which seems to have been the grain that filled the meter at the Children's Protection Agency last year. In the second part of the episode, we look at bariatric surgery performed by the company Gravitas, two women recently died after gastric sleeve surgery at the company.

The Icelandic working week is one of the longest in Europe and the longest in the Nordic countries, but the nation's productivity is not in line with this much work. Kveikur examines why it is and ideas for shortening the working week. In the second part of the episode, we meet Agnesi M. Sigurðardóttir, bishop of Iceland. A lot has happened since she became bishop.

Kveikur examines the nature of crime in Iceland, which has now become part of organized crime. In the second part of the episode, we talk about a boy who, at just seven weeks old, suffered serious brain damage due to lack of oxygen, which is attributed to mistakes in surgery and aftercare at Landspítalinn.

We look at cancer screening in Iceland, where participation has been declining for twenty-five years. Now it is far below international standards. At the end of the episode, we review some of the things that have been discussed in Kveik this winter.