31/10/2011 BBC News Special


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licensing them will minimise the risks. So more of them are cowboys

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but some of them are very professional. If you have men

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working on the ship's you want to ensure they have the highest

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professional standards and they understand force and how to use it

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rather than escalating the situation. As well as the danger of

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escalating violence, negotiating for weapons to be carried in other

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countries and their waters may be complicated but the hope will be

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that the threat of force will act as a deterrent.

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Sebastian Vettel took the flag at the first ever Grand Prix in India,

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notching up his 11th win of the season. Jenson Button finished

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second. Lewis Hamilton was in 7th after a controversial incident with

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Felipe Massa. While many people had been looking

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forward to the first Indian Grand Prix those involved at the sharp

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end felt a duty to look back. One minute's silence before the race to

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remember the recent loss of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli.

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Sebastian Vettel started from pole position and as usual, raced up

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into the distance leaving others to fight amongst themselves. Jenson

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Button started 4th and was soon up to second. Mark Webber fought hard

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to regain his place. Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa clashed for the

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6th time this season. They never seem to learn. The stewards decided

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the Brazilian was to blame. It is a feud that is unlikely to be to

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resolve to soon. We had the one minute's silence and he has not

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spoken to me and I put my arm around him, he tried to overtake in

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the race. We collided. Again, really sorry. Sebastian Vettel

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steered clear of trouble. During the race, he broke a 19 year record

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for the most... Headlines and and the rest of the

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day's news coming up but now it is As the world population tops 7

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billion, we report from Zambia where the population is expected to

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triple in 40 years. The mother of all mix-ups. The two

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Russian girls who were swapped at birth.

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The end of empire. A special report from America's newest ghost town.

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Welcome to this edition of Reporters with me, Zeinab Badawi.

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Population growth has long been a controversial topic. It is hitting

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the news again as the world's population is about to hit 7

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billion. The United Nations says the global population is rising by

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18 million per year. They warned that this may threaten the growth

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and prosperity of many poorer countries, especially in Sub-

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Saharan Africa. Our correspondent reports from Zambia where the

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population is expected to triple by 2050.

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Welcome to the world. Like each and every one of us, these newborns

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help make up the 7 billion people on our planet. Catherine has just

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given birth for the fourth time to a daughter. Hours old, she does not

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yet have a name. Despite living in poverty the parents want more

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children. And they are ambitious for their future. TRANSLATION: I

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want my daughter and my sons to become important people. Then they

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can help us. But I do not know if there will be enough money for them

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all to go through school. Most women do not use modern

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contraception. Some cannot afford to travel to health clinics. Big

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families are the norm. Six children is the average. Zambia's population

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is expected to triple by 2050 and keep rising. Half the people in

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Zambia are aged 16 or under and more families are leaving the

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countryside to be in the capital Lusaka in search of work.

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Population growth can be good for the economy, with a young workforce

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and relatively few elderly. But the increase is so rapid it could

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perpetuate poverty. Zambia is barely able to feed 13 million

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people, so how will it cope with 100 million by the end of the

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century? And how do you encourage the young to have fewer children

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than their parents? Aid agencies say it starts with more rights for

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women. If you are married to a man who decides to have ten children,

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you have no say. Even when you know they will not be looked after

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properly. We need to empower women so they can make decisions about

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their lives. What can the government do for you? That begins

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in the classroom, where attitudes are changing. These teenagers want

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careers first and motherhood second. I want to have two children. One

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boy and a girl. I want to reduce the population. Zambia is a big

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country, three times the size of Britain, so there is plenty of room.

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But the expanding population will need more schools, jobs, hospitals

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and homes if it is to be lifted from poverty to prosperity.

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Now to a tragedy involving two families in Russia. An

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investigation has started after it emerged that two babies had been

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mixed up at birth in a maternity hospital 12 years ago. The families

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have already launched a civil case against the hospital. From the town

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of Kopeisk in the Ural Mountains, Steve Rosenberg has the details.

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Family photos normally bring back happy memories. But for Yulia

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Belyaeva the past has turned into a nightmare. She has discovered that

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her 12-year-old daughter, the girl she thought she gave birth to, is

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not her child. TRANSLATION: I only found this out when my husband

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refused to pay any maintenance. He did not believe he was Irina's

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father. The results of the blood- test was a total surprise. Not only

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does my ex-husband have no biological link to Irina, neither

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do I. Police believe that 12 years ago there was a terrible mix-up at

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the local maternity hospital. Two babies had been given the wrong

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name tags and the wrong parents. TRANSLATION: My whole world had

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turned upside down. I kept worrying about what she would say and

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thinking about my real daughter. Maybe she had been abandoned or

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perhaps she was begging in the streets. If this mother had been

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given the wrong baby, then where was her real daughter? She was

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desperate to find out so she went to the police and they began a

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search for her biological child. They found her living just a few

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miles away in this house. She had been brought up a devout Muslim.

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When the police told her father Naimat Iskanderov about the mistake

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at the maternity hospital, he did not want to believe it.

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TRANSLATION: The detective showed me a photo of the other girl. The

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one they said was my real daughter. When I saw her face it was like

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seeing myself. My arms and legs began shaking. It was awful to

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think that my child had grown up with another family. And that I had

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brought up someone else's daughter. The two families have now met and

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are getting to know each other. Together they are suing the

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hospital and struggling to come to terms with what has happened.

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TRANSLATION: I tried to show her motherliness but she does not

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accept it. She has been brought up differently. We do not really

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understand each other and when your only daughter looks at you like a

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stranger it is painful. TRANSLATION: It is difficult. They

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are Christian, we are Muslim. We have different customs. I am aware

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that my daughter might end up drinking in bars, and I fear that

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she will lose their religion. girls say they do not want to swap

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parents. They are just happy to have found each other. TRANSLATION:

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We were a bit shy at first, but we are now the best of friends. They

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were born 15 minutes apart. Now the truth about what happened in

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hospital has brought them together. A miracle for one family in Turkey.

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Two days after an earthquake struck the east of the country rescuers

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pulled a 2-week-old baby, her mother and grandmother alive from

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under tons of rubble. The father of the child is still missing. Our

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correspondent sent this report from the town of Ercis.

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This rescue operation began in the best possible way. A 16-day-old

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baby was gently brought out through a tiny hole in the broken concrete.

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She was premature, she had been born a month early. Then, two weeks

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into her life she has just escaped death. With the tiny baby safely on

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the way to hospital, rescuers are working hard to bring out through

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the same small gap her mother and grandmother, both of whom are still

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alive. In the crowd, sheltering from the cold and rain, we found

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the baby's grandfather nervously waiting for news of his wife and

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daughter-in-law. TRANSLATION: At the moment the earthquake struck

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they were with me but the baby was in another room. We ran to leave

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the building but then the other two rushed inside to get the baby. For

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two days I have just been waiting for a miracle. For the next two

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hours amidst the ruins of the city the rescue teams slowly expanded

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the hole in the rubble, working their way toward the trapped women.

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They cannot move down there, this man told me. They have been like

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that for more than two days. Then the breakthrough. The baby's mother

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was brought up out of the block and carefully carried down to safety.

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Ten minutes later the baby's grandmother followed. She was also

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alive. The baby is now safely in an incubator and has been taken away

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for treatment in a specialist hospital. Doctors say she is doing

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well and much better than expected. But her family is not complete. Her

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father has not been heard from since the earthquake struck. Like

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hundreds of others, he is still Venezuela is home to many

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indigenous people who have had to fight to gain recognition. Now they

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are one step away from gaining state support for an indigenous

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university. A 30-minute walk through rainforest is the daily

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commute for the students from some of the country's 30 indigenous

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groups. They come from all over Venezuela to live on this 5,000

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acre campus in the south of the country. In the past indigenous

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communities have largely been forgotten by Venezuela's Spanish-

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speaking majority. These people are demanding their rights. Most

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students stay for 3-4 years. The curriculum is the same for everyone.

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Teachers want to equip students with skills and knowledge to become

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leaders in their communities. Students take classes in subjects

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like indigenous law and mythology. They also get practical experience

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in agriculture and land management. The campus is designed to be a

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home-from-home for young indigenous students. TRANSLATION: This place

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is very important for me because it is as if I was in my own community.

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This is normal for us, we are used to living like this. It is a world

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away from conventional colleges in the capital, Caracas. For teachers

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and students at the indigenous university, they hope that soon

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their institution will be just as legitimate. They are waiting for a

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presidential decree that will see them recognised as a university by

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the state and give them access to funding. With the future of the

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institution secured, teachers will be able to concentrate on training

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the next generation of indigenous leaders to preserve and strengthen

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their unique cultures. The main plank of South Korea's

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ambitious Four Rivers regeneration project is almost complete. It is a

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project to regenerate the four main river systems and came with a high-

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profile promise made by President Lee Myung-bak at the start of his

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term four years ago. Now that South Korea is heading towards a round of

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national and local elections, the project has become for some, a

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symbol of the country's new political dissatisfaction.

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President Lee Myung-bak knows how to make an impression. The hallmark

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project is renovating South Korea's national waterways. Four major

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rivers dredged, 16 weirs built, riverside areas will be developed

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throughout the country. This is a vast project. 1,000 kilometres of

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South Korea's waterways to prevent flooding and water shortages across

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the country. There are not many governments in the West who could

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justify the $20 billion price tag and even here, in rising Asia, it

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is proving controversial. Who is really going to benefit from this?

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How to spend taxpayers' money is becoming a key election issue for

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South Korea. The country will choose a new president and

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parliament next year. Campaigning has already started. This local

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poll has highlighted a fresh twist in South Korea's new democracy.

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Growing support for candidates who have nothing to do with the

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political establishment. Like Park Won-Soon, a civic activist, who has

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emerged as the main opposition candidate. I think the big parties

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have lost touch with the working class. That is why people are going

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for outsiders. I think the political landscape has changed.

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They are going for those with no political experience because

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existing politicians see their jobs as for their own benefit rather

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than helping the people. Some South Koreans facing rising inflation,

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worries over the global economy say projects like the Four Rivers are

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symbols of how the big parties on both sides have lost touch with

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voters. President Lee Myung-bak has faced this criticism before, when

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he was mayor of Seoul. He pushed through with his project to clean

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up a filthy underground stream, then being used as a sewer, now one

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of the capital's most popular attractions. The question is,

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whether the public will be won over again by a big ticket project.

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America's economic woes spelled the end of Empire. That is the name of

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a former company town in the north- west of Nevada. The town has been

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shut up since the local mine shut down. We visit what is left of the

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community in America's newest ghost town. In a land so remote some

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thought it could never be touched, this is a story about the

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recession's march, about lives turned upside down, a story about

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the end of Empire. From the edge of town, the Bollingers can still see

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their old neighbourhood. A thriving community, swimming pool, golf

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course, all is now silent. There is only about 2% of us now. Everyone

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is gone. We believed as a community and a company, that we were beyond

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the effects of the economy. bottom had already fallen out of

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the housing market at the end of last year, US Gypsum decided the

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mine, here since the 1920s, was no longer viable. The families had to

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go. The company says all this is necessary. It wants to protect the

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plant and the town. They will not let us into have a look around, but

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they are mowing the lawn and keeping up the homes as well.

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Perhaps, when the recession ends, Empire could have a future. For now,

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the general store is all that survives, just. Without the old

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regulars, it has to make do with occasional passers-by. Sunny

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deForest watched as everyone left. Everyone cried. We hugged each

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other and cried some more. Across the valley another town blighted by

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the closure of Empire. The school has been utterly transformed.

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are not many kids. There are nine kids. Until June, it was 80, with

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three remaining members of staff, everything happens in two rooms.

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is a challenge for everyone. For the students there was some

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confusion, a lot of anxiety about what is going to happen in the

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future. In this part of America mining towns come and go, there

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remains little of the landscape. -- their remains litter. Phillip

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Bollinger is still here thanks to a job in a nearby gold mine. Other

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families are scattered, he does not think they will come back. I do not

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believe it will ever open again. The film the Sound of Music has

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enduring appeal to this day. The stage production of the Sound of

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Music is being performed in the Austrian city of Salzburg for the

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first time. Although the Hollywood film is set in Salzburg and brings

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thousands of tourists to the city every year, many Austrians are

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unfamiliar with it. How do you solve a problem like the

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Sound of Music in Austria? The film about Maria, the nun who marries

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Captain von Trapp and flees the Nazis, has a fanatical following in

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the English-speaking world. Most Austrians do not know what to make

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of it. The musical is coming home to Salzburg where the movie was

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shot. The film has brought more tourists to the city than anything

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apart from Mozart. Some think the locals find hard to understand.

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heard it was a musical many years ago. I have never seen it. It seems

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to be quite popular in the US. Many people in Austria did not see it.

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do not know. Because I am not English. Even Captain von Trapp,

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the star of the show, had never seen the film. I liked the show but

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I did never really like the music. I was never into it. When you see

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the movie for the first time, the first images of the mountains in

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Salzburg, this is an homage to this city and country. It touches on

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Austria's Nazi past. Many are put off by that. The Sound of Music is

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not one of Salzburg's favourite things. The city prefers to think

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of itself as a centre of high culture and Mozart. This production

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is hoping to change all of that. Even if Salzburg has to be

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