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Hello, you are watching Inside Out Hello, you are watching Inside Out | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
London. He was what is coming up on tonight's show. Making a mint from | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
parking - we investigate how councils are raking it in by hiking | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
up parking charges. Parking is becoming the new poll tax. We have | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
seen in lots of borrowers the charges going up 100%, 150%. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
row to recovery - how these victims of torture are using the land to | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
heal. They have been betrayed by a human | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
beings so they need to find something that will never betray | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
them. And, caught in a crowd, we test out the latest technology for | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
catching criminals. The camera is scanning every face in the crowd. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
It I am on our database, in one second it makes the connection and | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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As many of us will know, parking a car in London can be an infuriating | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
experience. Around here, Westminster Council's controversial | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
plan to introduce night time and weekend charges is just the latest | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
thorn in motorists' sides. To stop things becoming a chaotic free for | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
all, many parts of the capital introduced controlled parking zones. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
In fact, more than 100 such zones have been created in the past five | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
years. But, with the prices of permits soaring, more and more | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
residents feel they're being taken for a very expensive ride by their | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
local council, so we sent Joanna Good to investigate. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
High insurance tariffs, the congestion charge, parking fees... | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Being a motorist in London is incredibly expensive. And for some | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
Londoners, owning a car has just become even more costly! Over the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
last year, London car owners have seen the price of their parking | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
permits rise well above the rate of inflation. In some cases, the cost | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
has more than doubled! It appears there is no free parking left and | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
drivers are just being taken for a ride. The driving public are cash | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
cows and the councils will go out of their way to cream as much as | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
they can off the motorist. parking zone initially was �20 a | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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year, they've gone 500% or 1000%. Today Janis is hosting a tea party | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
for her friends and their children. But she has had to fork out for far | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
more than the cost of the biscuits. The visitors' permits have gone up | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
from �1 per voucher to �4 per voucher which is just outrageous. I | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
didn't feel able to ask each visitor for �4 so I end up paying. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
The change in price for visitors' permits has left Janice with a | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
massive annual bill. I use 200 cards every year so that means... | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
It used to be �200 for the whole year and now that's �800. That's a | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
staggering 300% increase! On top of this Janice has also been hit with | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
a price hike on her annual resident's permit. For our own car | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
we used to pay �40 for the year for a resident's permit and now that's | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
gone up to �100. I think the price hike is absurd! The residents of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Barnet are not the only ones facing eye-watering increases. We sent a | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Freedom of Information request to every borough in the capital. On | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
average, resident parking permits across London's boroughs have gone | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
up by 26% in the last three years and the cost of daily visitor | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
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permits by a whopping 42%. Parking is becoming the new poll tax. We've | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
seen in lots of boroughs, the charges going up 20%, 100% 150%. It | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
appears to be now more about money and not about parking. Six years | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
ago, residents in Stroud Green put up a fight when the council tried | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
to enforce a Car Parking Zone. carried out an extensive campaign | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
and in most of the roads, Haringey did not introduce a CPZ. But that | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
of course is when our problems started. The problem is that Stroud | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Green has become a mecca for motorists trying to avoid car | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
parking zones elsewhere. It's called the domino effect. When it | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
comes to parking there is a domino effect. You get one area close to a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
tube station or railway station that needs residential parking. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
That scheme is put in and then the commuters actually move further out | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
and they go to the next street, the next area. What we've now got is a | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
CPZ just a hundred or so yards away from where we area at the moment | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and what that's done is to make parking in our roads absolute hell. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Five years ago, the streets around Paul's house looked like this. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Today they've become a massive car park! They are literally squashed | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
in like sardines. Jane Forster lives locally and says finding a | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
space to park is a daily nightmare. I may be driving you around for | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
hours because we are not going to get out until I manage to park | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
somewhere. Well let's just go back into your road and see if we can | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
find somewhere. But we're not going anywhere fast. There's a road block, | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
caused by nose to tail parked cars. This is what we're having all the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
time, and we do have a bus that comes up the road as well. There is | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
nowhere to pass and nowhere to park because we've got cars both sides. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
The community in Stroud Green is so fed up with situations like this | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
that they've made something of a U- turn. What do you think is the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
answer to this horrendous situation? We will have to become | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
part of the CPZ. I can't see any other solution to it. Are you | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
worried about the cost and the fact it may go up substantially each | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
year? I'd rather pay to be able to park than to have the situation | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
we've got out here now. inclination is to still to say I | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
don't want a CPZ but there is frankly no alternative. Haringey | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
said last year said we're increasing our parking charges but | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
we're simply taking them up to the London average. Of course the | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
average constantly rises. It does appear in London that car owners | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
are being attacked from all sides whether they're residents, whether | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
they're visitors, whether they're shoppers, whether they're theatre | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
goers. As space in London becomes increasingly tight, it's not just | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
resident's permits that are soaring. Some local authorities are raking | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
in the cash simply by extending parking time restrictions. It's | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
very difficult actually getting into London and transporting my | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
instrument around. At the moment we are quite lucky because as a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
musician I can normally get on to a metered bay from 6.30 onwards and | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
there is no charge. Vicky Tilson has been performing for years. But | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
her career in the West End may sadly be coming to an end. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Westminster council are looking to make parking paid up until midnight | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
daily. On average if I do a gig in central London I might get �50 for | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
it. If I'm paying �4.80 an hour to park that's over half my gig fee | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
just gone. It's not just performers who will be affected by the change. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
Cleaners, waiters, even those working in the emergency services | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
will also be hit by the new fees. Of course there will be an impact | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
but ultimately what we've tried to do is limit the changes that we are | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
making to a specific time of the day in a small area of Westminster | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and if people want to park elsewhere they'll still be able to | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
park elsewhere for free within a couple for minutes of Oxford Street. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Car Parking Zones are clearly lucrative for local authorities. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
Our Freedom of Information request revealed that councils are earning | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
millions from charging residents to simply park outside their own front | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
doors! More than �186 million has been raised from parking permits in | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
London over the past three years. The borough that earned the most, | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
Wandsworth at �25 million. So what are our councils spending all that | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
money on? The money that we get as income from parking permits and so | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
on, we are legally obliged to use it first of all to cover the cost | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
of a parking scheme and then we are allowed to spend it on other | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
transport things. We are not allowed to take it and spend it on | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
social workers or other bits of the council. Many boroughs are using | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
parking charges for other means. It's not just to administer the | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
parking scheme. Campaigners in Barnet believe that's exactly what | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
their local authority is doing. These residents are angry thst | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Barnet council has imposed almost a three-fold increase on their | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
parking permits. Up to �40 a week. We can't do that. They claim the | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
local authority are using the extra money to unlawfully fund other | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
services. They've taken their case to the high court. We are asking | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
the court to consider whether the charges are lawful. What we do not | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
accept is that they can charge money for parking and increase the | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
parking charges in order to make up shortfalls in other budgets | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
elsewhere. Their initial request for a judicial review at the high | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
court has been rejected. The judge ruled there is no evidence that | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Barnet council has acted outside the letter or the spirit of | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
statutory provisions. The next legal option for the residents is | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
to make their case at an oral hearing. The Barnet residents' | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
legal fight is a crucial landmark for all London drivers. If they win, | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
then maybe more communities will unite and make a stand against | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
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high-parking fees. It you have got a parking story to | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
share with us, either as a motorist or a resident, get in touch. | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
Still to come: the regime arrested his father, his mother, his wife, | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
his four year-old child, and the baby he had never seen. They were | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
all killed. It was Saddam Hussein. It might sound like something out | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
of an episode of Spooks, but new technology that recognises the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
faces of criminals is now being used to help solve crime in the | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
capital. Used in the aftermath of the London riots, and with plans to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
use it during the 2012 Olympics, this new face print looks set to | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
become an important tool for police. Wendy Hurrell has been finding out | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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CCTV has been instrumental in catching the rioters. With 40,000 | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
hours' worth of footage captured on camera, searching through it is a | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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tedious task. This is some CCTV footage quite high quality it's of | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
a casino in the Queensway area of Westminster. Code-named Operation | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Withern, DCI Mick Neville is using CCTV to identify those involved in | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
the riots. These offenders not only caused damage to this Casino they | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
also broke the doorman's arm. officers here have seized the CCTV | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
and they've spent a long time viewing that and capturing the best | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
images of the offenders. Then we create a journal called caught on | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
camera and that's circulated to all our officers and we show it to | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
criminals who give information. images are also matched to a | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
central database of known criminals. Identifying a suspect takes time | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
and manpower. But what if a machine could do the job for you in | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
seconds? Face Alert is a facial recognition system basically it's a | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
piece of computer software that matches faces against images on a | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
database. Tim Noest is the man behind it. Lets not discount CCTV, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
particularly with the riots and what's been going on recently, it's | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
been very very important. What this system does is take it to the next | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
level. Everyone has a unique face, ultimately what facial recognition | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
is doing is using a face print a bit like a fingerprint. So how does | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
it actually work? Let's take my face for example. The computer | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
software picks out specific facial points such as my eyes, nose and | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
mouth. It measures between them calculating a unique print of my | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
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face that it can use to identify me The Face Alert camera has been set | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
up at Charing Cross station. I've been entered onto a watch list as a | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
suspect. Now let's see what happens when I arrive. The camera is | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
scanning every face in the crowd and at the same time it's searching | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
for a match on the database. If I'm on that database, within one second | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
it will make a connection and trigger an alarm. You can have, say, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
10 protesters on the watch list and it can be looking for those people | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
and it can alert within a second or so. It also gives notes of how to | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
respond i.e. Whether it's a protestor or a shoplifter or | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
potentially a suspect. Across the road at Gordon's, the oldest wine | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
bar in London, this very system is being used to catch bagsnatchers. | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
Show me these cameras then. Yes, the camera is up there. What | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
they'll do is pick your face up as you walk in here and when you go | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
down the stairs. Known criminals are flagged up on a portable screen | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
when they enter the bar. Every time someone comes in, the system will | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
look and take a picture of their face, store it in the system and if | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
a crime is being committed we go back and say if that person comes | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
in again we'd like to be told. don't want to have any heavies here | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
or doormen or anything like that. I just wanted to have something that | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
if someone did come back who had committed a crime before that we | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
could stop that crime from happening. I'm a great believer in | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
deterrents rather than actually letting something happen and | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
sending them off to prison. The Met does use facial recognition and the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Commissioner is keen to embrace the new technology. But there are | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
limits to using it. It depends on the quality of images in any | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
situation, be it the riots or any type of crime. If the images are | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
that high quality, then it can be put through a system and like all | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
facial recognition systems it compares against a database but | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
never forget that people are good at identifying other people. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Idris's job is to spot criminals he's one of the Met's best officers | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
when it comes to identification. Is there something that actually a | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
human eye picks up on more than what a computer can? The style of | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
walk, the mannerisms and sometimes there's even a look in the eyes. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Are they expecting something as you are identifying them? It goes both | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
ways. So let's put Face Alert to the test. Can a computer really | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
beat the trained human eye when it comes to face recognition? Battling | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
it out for the human eye is Supreme Spotter Idris versus Tim and his | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
face recognition machine. Earlier today we enrolled 30 people on the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Face Alert database. Six of them will appear in the station over the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
next half hour and we're going to see just how many the computer | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
picks up. How confident are you? Quietly confident, man versus | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
machine and today machine should prevail. Idris has been given just | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
five minutes to memorise the same 30 images. But who's more | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
effective? So that's time up, they are all in the computer of your | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
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mind now. Hopefully. Well we'll put it to the test. I'm confident. Nine | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
minutes in, here comes our first suspect. One all at the moment. You | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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got one. One more to the machine. A girl there. This lady here. So, at | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
the end of that experiment, six people have come through the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
computer successfully matched four of them. Idris here successfully | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
matched two of them so it shows that there are limitations on both | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
sides still impressive though. Were you impressed with the machine? | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Yeah, to pick out in that sort of crowd it would be good in football | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
grounds or in the future. It will be a good tool. So, Tim, four out | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
of six for the computer how do you feel about that? Well we got 400% | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
match, the other two we didn't see come into the camera view so that | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
was disappointing. The key problem seemed to be this line of sight | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
thing, it has to be caught on the camera for you to make that match. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Of course if you were to properly seal this off then you would need | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
more cameras to cover the areas and we were restricted due to the | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
access around here of where we can film and where we can't. So there | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
are limitations but as our experiment shows a system that | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
scans 25,000 faces every second has enormous potential. I've no doubts | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
as time progresses it will get better and better. We only have to | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
look at the mobile phones we used in the 1980s and what we've got now. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
As far as facial recognition improving, the more images we can | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
feed into that as the standard of facial recognition gets better. If | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
it can deal with lower quality images then that's even better, but | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
I think we've got to make sure the public are assured that we are | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
using it to target criminals. plans to use this type of system | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
more and more at major events like the Olympics, criminals beware - | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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Fascinating stuff, though nipping out for a sneaky pint one never be | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
the same again. Who knows who could be watching? Allotments in London | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
are scarcer than gold dust, but for those lucky enough to have one, | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
they are at great weight of that being fit and active, with a great | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
way of growing food. But there is one allotment in Barnard that | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
offers something unique and incredibly valuable for people who | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
work the land, a way for them to escape the horrors of this past as | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
victims of torture. Some viewers may find the accounts in this film | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
disturbing. This ramshackle place is full of tranquillity and beauty, | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
but there are gardeners here getting a lot more out of this soil | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
than just the flowers and vegetables they grow. I come here | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
because of the conflict between the Tutsi and the food to in my country, | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
Burundi. I am growing some potatoes, carrots. I am from Sierra Leone. We | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
are growing lettuce, tomatoes and we grow spring onions and all sorts | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
of vegetables. I was a carpenter and teacher in Cameroon. When I see | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
maize growing like this I feel like it just reminds me of my country. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
His allotment is a council owned site and the charity Freedom From | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Torture rents six plots here. They are used to aid the well-being of | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
people from all over the world and their stories are hardly does of | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
typical gardeners. I leave the Ivory Coast because the war started | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
and because I was in a political movement. All my family was killed | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
and I saved my life to come here. After killing my father, a gang of | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
boys and soldiers kept coming to our house, beating us, as my | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
husband was burnt alive in the presence of my children, my mum and | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
myself. I had to run to the bullish for safety. Those people came, they | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
started raping me, beating me. They left me half dead. I met a man, he | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
told me he is going to free me from the country. I am taking you to my | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
friends in this country. There were four men, they would force me to | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
have sex, they would rape me. They locked me in the house for three | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
and-a-half years. One of the commanders of the Revolutionary | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
United Front was threatening to wipe my entire family and he | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
demonstrated that by burning my dad's house by killing members of | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
my family whilst I was there. When he came there he arrived at the | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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house... When he came back at the house... Sorry about that... He | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
stripped everyone naked and asked everyone to come out and raped all | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
the women including my grandmother. I arrived in the UK in 2007. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
received a message of the remaining members of my family have been | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
killed, my dad and my little sister. Two psychotherapists and a | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
horticulturalist work with these gardeners using nature to lift them | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
from the depths of their despair. bring them into the allotments | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
straight away. That calms of their mind, calms of their whole being. I | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
cannot calm them down by what I say, it is also what they do, and what | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
the land does, through working on the land. The biggest problem is | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
they are so involved in their emotions. They are full of fear and | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
anxieties and terror and it overwhelms them. There is nothing | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
left of them, just that intense emotion. They come and suddenly | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
they care about plants, about watering, about something else. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
approach is to do anything that the client wants to try. You can grow | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
grapes, you can grow potatoes, and there is a reliability in the | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
natural world. Because they have been betrayed by human beings they | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
need to find something which does not betray them and will never | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
betray them. The victims of torture are referred to the charity by | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
doctors and lawyers and are often so traumatised that sending them | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
straight on to the allotment would be too much for them, so their | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
first received therapy in a specially designed garden in | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
Finsbury Park. Mary Raphaely works with the most vulnerable. There is | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
one plant that stands right out. The young man who planted it came | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
from a Middle Eastern country where he was imprisoned and very badly | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
tortured. What the regime did was they arrested his brother, his | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
mother, his wife, his four-year-old child and the baby he had never | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
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seen and they were all killed. It was Saddam Hussein. The first day | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
he came we planted three plants in a pot and I said, who a day? He | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
told me the names of his wife and two children. We needed to plant a | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
shrub that would last, because those were just plans that would | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
last the season. He said it must be evergreen and have tiny flowers | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
because his little face was so small. Torture destroys, fractures | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
and fragments and so what people have to do is gather themselves | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
together again and that is a lot of what we are doing here. I have been | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
attending some psychotherapy assassins and finally I started | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
developing my confidence defaults. Before I could not talk the way I | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
am talking. When you force yourself to engage yourself doing something | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
continuously you are concentrating on one particular thing. For | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
example if you are doing weeding, you make sure you concentrate on | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
putting the weeding downwards and you do not just pick the leaves. | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
Your mind is connected with what you are doing. It has given me life. | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
I was with a woman who was so severely tortured she hadn't spoken | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
for three years. She was sitting and watering the plants, no | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
movement, no feeling, and I encouraged her to splash my feet a | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
little. I looked at her and I have never seen it so vividly. Suddenly | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
it was as if somebody turned on a dull light switch in her eyes. She | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
took the hose and soaked me from head to toe and screamed, laughed, | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
and she could not stop herself. We were all stunned and we were all | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
crying and laughing because it was as if something just broke through. | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
I compare a plant growing with my growing, human growing, human being | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
growing, so it is very, very wonderful. Most of the time when | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
I'm in my room I'd get nightmares. I feel traumatised, I feel lonely. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
But when I am with people in my community, I feel cheerful. You | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
know when you have lost all your family and you do not have a family | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
in the world, you get friends and such people all care, you feel | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
really you are back with your family. Now these are my family. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
That is nearly all for it this evening, but before we go, here is | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
a quick taste of next week's show. Cosmetic procedures gone bad. We | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
expose the dangers world of cut- price treatments. My chest was | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
covered in red burn marks. You know when you plant and animal? | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
reveal the shocking amounts of rubbish they are dumping in the | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
Thames. You are seeing less than two week's rubbish just by Big Ben. | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
We reckon in a typical year that could be 1000 cubic metres. | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
will this new mountain bike circuit be rough and tough enough for the | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
Olympic Games? It is tough, fun and fast and it will be a great show | :28:32. | :28:40. |