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He was shot by police who were trying to break up the riot. Now on

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BBC News, we pay tribute to the freelance journalists who risk

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their lives to bring you pictures from the world's most dangerous

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places. We heard the militia smashing doors, breaking windows

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houses... They shot at me as well, they targeted us. I saw people

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being crucified and I wondered if that what was what was going to

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happen to us. This is Al-Qaeda in the Arabian

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Peninsula. They control a whole city. In order to get these shots,

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way.rm's way. There are not enough coffins,

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so men are wrapped in white shrouds. people

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taken at great risk in remote and window

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window on events that affect our lives. The lookout warns that the

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militia was on our street. These are some of the best pictures of

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the year. All shot by freelance video journalists.

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We step behind the camera to those who were filming on the front lines.

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freelance journalists nominated in the categories of the Rory Peck

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Awards. The judges look at more than 70 entrants from around the

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world. They were founded in the name of Rory Peck, a British

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freelancer killed by crossfire in Moscow in 1993. His memory lives on

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it in the trust which works on behalf of freelance camera crews.

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winners. of London went up in flames in the

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summer of 2011, Jason Parkinson captured the widespread rioting

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sparked by the shooting of a young black man by police. As the

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situation quickly deteriorates, Jason rushes to the north of the

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capital. The first thing that struck me was the amount of debris

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in the streets and how much was on fire. It felt as though society was

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starting to collapse. Rioters have vented their anger at police. There

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were reports of journalists being attacked. From Tottenham the unrest

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spreads. Jason is around, filming the turmoil. I think the most

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dangerous point for me was when I was behind the police line and

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there was a huge volley of rocks and other missiles. There were

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several times that I caught on film that I thought we were all going to

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have to run, including the police. It seemed as though they had lost

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control. But their tactics seemed not to work. The judges applauded

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Jason for his courage in getting footage from both sides of the

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police lines. Stories from the Middle East

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feature prominently in these awards. Footage from Egypt earned Roddy

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Hafiz a finalist nomination for news. Thousands turn out in Cairo

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to protest after more than 70 football fans are killed in clashes

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the previou the previou convinces h convinces h to give him a

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camera and starts filming for the first time. As violence engulfs

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downtown, he puts himself in the I am watching the throwing of the

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rocks and looking at the tear gas canisters. It happens fast but I am

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still able to hold the camera steady and look around. Amid the

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chaos, his main concern is staying forces

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You can say that they would shoot energised.

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energised. I felt that what I was witnessing needed to get to the

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outside world. The winner of the filmed

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filmed in Homs as the rebels came under fire at the beginning of the

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year. Homs has become one of the most dangerous places on earth.

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Mani follows soldiers of the Free firefight. He finds himself at a

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headquarters. Rebels go upstairs to flush out snipers. I knew the

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rebels could go upstairs and I had to be careful to be protected by

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the wall. I had to not get too close if they had thrown a grenade

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been... been... That could have been

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extremely dangerous. But they did not. He left teaching three years

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ago and became a photojournalist. This is his first time filming on

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assignment. I was terrified, like zone.

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zone. It is a challenge. As the bullets fly, the fighters that he

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The rebels turn the camera on Mani, as they travel through Homs, his

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escorts make fun of him for lying down. It is a moment of levity

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judges judges said that it was the unique

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combination of combat footage and interviews that set his footage

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apart. For the former primary school teacher, it is the suffering

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of children that affects in the most. One of the most heartbreaking

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moments is the moment when I have to interview children who had just

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been very badly hurt from a mortar attack. They are going through a

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very harsh trauma. You must ask them questions are so that you can

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tell the world what is happening. What the situation is. It is a

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difficult moment. Back to Egypt, and our first finalist in the

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features category. May Abdalla and Inigo Gilmore pose as tourists to

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revolution and the chaotic aftermath. Over the course of one

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year, they follow three young people from different backgrounds.

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The judges The judges hildren of the Revolution for giving a human face

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to an important story. There were so many difficulties about making

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this film. Journalists are suspect. Cameras had to be smuggled in.

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There were times during filming that they were suspected of being

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spies. We had to be very careful and navigate our way very carefully

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through the situations. To ensure that we captured those scenes, but

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we were able to keep on filming without getting roughed up or

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detained. Inigo Gilmore went to Egypt to see what happened to the

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Egyptians. I saw a lot of the darkness. Egypt was very tense. It

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was more violent than people realise. It was a very challenging

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film to make, in that sense. conflict in Libya features twice

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this year. It is summer 2011 and British journalist Patrick Wells

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spends three weeks at embedded with a group of Libyan opposition

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fighters, citizens turned soldiers. Patrick follows the men of the

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Martyrs Brigade, 24 hours a day. was very lucky to meet the people

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that I did. They were a thoughtful bunch of guys. The guys heard this

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gunfire breaking out and they all jumped in their cars and went down

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there. It was as if we were going to the supermarket or something. We

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got out of the car in the middle of a firefight. They are attacking us

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and tried to come here. So now we are defending and trying to attack

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them. We're waiting for the commander. They would stand in

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government troops and we were lucky not to be shelled. They did things

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like that all the time. I think when you're filming in a live

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combat scenario, often once you're in it then fear goes out of your

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mind. You are just concentrating on staying in as much cover as you can

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all the time. Not trying to sacrifice your own safety too much

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for no reason. Even the forward aid station is a target. A medical

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student is one of his main characters. He tends to the wounded

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under constant shellfire. You have to stay here. There is no place

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after the making of this film. He was driving was drivingpeople to

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hospital. What upsets me is the difficulty of filming people while

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they are suffering. You may film someone who is dying. It may turn

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out, in your own mind, that your camera lens is the last thing that

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More remarkable footage from Misrata. The features a award goes

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to the Spanish team of Ricardo Garcia and and his cameraman. They

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provided an startling account of the city under siege. Ricardo and

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Alberto enter the port on board a supply s supply ship charted by the rebels.

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bombardment. The fuel depot has been hit by missiles fired by the

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regime. lose the city, they will kill the

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people. By daylight, Ricardo and D'Alberto find the debris of war

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all round. You are there. You are you ant

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The two men The two men The two men filming as they follow rebel forces.

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These men, many of them office and shop workers, are new to war and

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Covering combat is harrowing business and from the moment they

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arrive, the fighting is non-stop. togeth

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As the rebels conduct house-to- regime, the team capture a moment

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of farce. But the brutality of Now, a special award for global

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impact. One of the first journalists journaliststhe Syrian

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government ban on foreign media. It is October 2011. Posing as tourists,

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they enter the country under cover. As soon as the army is out, the

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people are back on the street. They're fearless. Nothing will stop

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them. They go to meet with longot

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long before we found ourselves in one of the worst possible case

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scenarios. Within just a few hours, we started hear reports that the

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army had surrounded the town we to door searching for activist, the

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safe house does not feel very safe. A woman in the hallway is pleading

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for her son's life. It really was an emotional roller-coaster. While

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we were in hiding, we heard the militia smashing doors, breaking

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windows, taking people from neighbouring houses. While we were

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lucky, unfo lucky, unfo, others were not.

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Next: Safa Al-Ahmade, a Saudi national who managed to get

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extraordinary footage of Al-Qaeda Iraqi reporter and they posed as

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husband and wife. Their mission is to capture the real story behind

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the rise of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula. When I saw the flag, and

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I had previously seen guys crucified, I was wondering it is

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this what is going to happen to us. Did you see that? Two guys with the

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flag of Al-Qaeda. They're fighters from different countries but it is

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risky to spend too much time with Al-Qaeda. There are obvious dangers

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does not what you to go into the Al-Qaeda area. You always risk

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arrest by government or arrest by Al-Qaeda because they might decide

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Wearing a burqa makes it difficult to film. It was physically

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challenging. I had to find the to offend anyone, but it made it

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really difficult to see. scariest moment is what happens

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after this. They're both blindfolded and taken to film

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prisoners Al-Qaeda is holding but guards.

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guards. The leader decided I had filmed the guards. He took the tape

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and asked me to rewind it. You think, maybe I got someone by

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the tape and they watched it. And I'm standing there going... They

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may not return us. They might kidnap us. That was, I think, the

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closest moment when I decided maybe we filmed something we should not

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misrepresent them. I think we were honest about what we saw. We showed

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all sides. A distressi A distressit of impact on

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war on the people of Sudan's Nuba Mountains has won the Sony Impact

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Award. Daniel Bogado uncovers a largely hidden war where thousands

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have been forced to live in caves. For Daniel and reporter, Aidan

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mountains virtually cut off from the outside world. We knew the most

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dangerous part was going in. It was fighting between both sides. We saw

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dead bodies along the path. It was trench warfare. Their guides are

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rebels fighting with government forces of President Omar Hassan Al-

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Bashir. Aircraft's drop bombs daily. It is not long before they come

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under attack. The most dangerous moment was when we were travelling

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with the escort. Suddenly, everybody stopped. At that moment,

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I did not know what was happening so I followed my colleague and we

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out there was a jet fighter and the somewhere in the vicinity. At the

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moment I was thinking, film everything. Keep the camera on and

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keep filming. Tens of thousands of civilians have been forced to take

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refuge in caves to avoid the fighting and bombings. They meet a

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woman whose husband joined the rebels and her family has been

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living in a cave for months. can see two and three year-old

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children, babies. It is a very real danger. The psychological effects

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on the population, on the young population, it must be absolutely

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terrible. The children attend school in a clearing. Daniel thinks

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he's going to get pictures of kids trying to maintain aaintain a

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under constant threat. He is shocked by what happens next.

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thought we would speak to the teachers, talk to the children and

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go away. And then, while they're singing the national anthem, I

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could see one of the children looking up, they stopped singing,

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many looked up and you could see the fear in their face. You have

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haveou have a bomber plane threatening to

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bomb them. They were running into the caves where they were living.

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That for me summarizes what is happening. There is another

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insidious danger - starvation. What is the problem here with this

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little girl? She is suffering from subsisting on one meal a day. The

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