:00:06. > :00:16.the latest. -- They may out of New York. -- the merrier.
:00:16. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:33.Digging up the dirt in India, Andrew North investigates mining
:00:33. > :00:40.can -- corruption in Goa. Who is protecting billionaire's in
:00:40. > :00:46.China? We look into the rise of the female bodyguards.
:00:46. > :00:51.We visit any US city facing bankruptcy, whose mayor has an
:00:52. > :00:57.unusual plan to raise a fistful of Dollars.
:00:57. > :01:02.Welcome to reporters. Official corruption in India has been a
:01:02. > :01:07.running sore in the country for some time. Another scandal has
:01:07. > :01:13.emerged to tarnish its booming economy. This time the focus is on
:01:13. > :01:16.its mining industry. Exports of iron ore have been stopped in the
:01:16. > :01:21.state of Karnataka because of allegations that officials are
:01:21. > :01:25.allowing the spread of illegal mining. Another government inquiry
:01:26. > :01:31.into claims of more serious violations in Gower and the scale
:01:31. > :01:35.of the wrongdoing becomes very apparent.
:01:35. > :01:42.This is the view of goal were tourists never see. A landscape
:01:42. > :01:48.scarred by a new type of gold rush. Almost all of the iron ore is going
:01:48. > :01:52.to China. That has led to over mining, corruption and
:01:52. > :02:02.environmental destruction. They are calling for the industry to be
:02:02. > :02:05.
:02:05. > :02:09.close down. This is making China strong at the expense of the state.
:02:09. > :02:14.The constant flow of trucks carrying iron ore from the mines
:02:14. > :02:19.and leave a cloud of dust. There is no escape from it for the children
:02:19. > :02:24.here. Their uniforms are paid for by the mining industry. The dust
:02:24. > :02:29.causes them breathing problems. Teachers say that is something the
:02:29. > :02:37.industry disputes. Next there on the road to China, the iron ore is
:02:37. > :02:44.loaded on to barges. Mining companies are worried. An inquiry
:02:44. > :02:54.will smother them off. Everyone has benefited from the iron ore bonanza,
:02:54. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :03:04.making it one of the richer states in India. What we have today,
:03:05. > :03:10.compared two other states is negligible poverty. You cannot
:03:10. > :03:15.fight the illegality. The harder part is to say how do we address
:03:15. > :03:21.the without destroying the economy. The next stage for the iron ore,
:03:21. > :03:26.the Slow votes to China. Globalisation in action. Some in
:03:26. > :03:29.India are reaping the benefits. With such needs for steel, they may
:03:29. > :03:36.be sure love. All this iron ore heading to China has made some
:03:36. > :03:39.people very rich -- short lived. Now there's a question of whether
:03:39. > :03:43.it was taken out of the ground illegally. Some people are asking
:03:43. > :03:47.whether it should have been taken out of India at all. The simple
:03:47. > :03:57.answer is that India does not have the technology to use this kind of
:03:57. > :04:01.iron ore. But China does. It allows it to sail ahead.
:04:01. > :04:06.There are still around 30,000 US troops in Iraq but by the end of
:04:06. > :04:15.this year they are expected to have all gone. Washington lobbied the
:04:15. > :04:25.Iraqi government to keep several thousand Sion soldiers but Baghdad
:04:25. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:34.said know. -- said no. Camp Kalsu must be the busiest
:04:34. > :04:41.stock in Iraq. -- stop. Nearly nine years of military presence is
:04:41. > :04:47.coming to an end. But is a lot of equipment to shed. The war has cost
:04:47. > :04:52.America over $700 billion. 4,000 firefighters soldiers have lost
:04:52. > :04:56.their lives and some are asking the question, was it worth it?
:04:56. > :05:01.operation between the US military and the Iraqi government brought
:05:01. > :05:10.civilisation back to a tolerable level here. I am proud every day.
:05:10. > :05:17.Our soldiers are proud. That pride and optimism is not shared in the
:05:17. > :05:22.nearby town of Iskandariya. The Conservative number of deaths here
:05:22. > :05:27.exceed 100,000. People live with a daily fear of filers. The
:05:27. > :05:32.infrastructure is still in tatters. -- violence. Just back we have no
:05:32. > :05:40.water or electricity or reconstruction. -- TRANSLATION:.
:05:40. > :05:46.Where is the Paradise two Iraq has been destroyed. --?
:05:46. > :05:50.There is also democracy and freedom of speech, to an extent. In
:05:50. > :05:57.friendly, as process swept through much of the Arab world, the Rockies
:05:57. > :06:03.took to the streets -- as protest. -- Iraqis.
:06:03. > :06:07.While the world's attentions were focused elsewhere, the crowds here
:06:07. > :06:16.were dispersed by force. Today you can see the places free from
:06:16. > :06:23.demonstrators, many have given up and gone home. They were quite
:06:23. > :06:28.often accuse of being said and Hussain sympathisers. This is
:06:28. > :06:34.torturing. This is the same as the previous regime. This is the
:06:34. > :06:40.mentality of the security in the country. It has not changed. Since
:06:40. > :06:50.2003, Iraqi society has been turned on its head. In the southern ser
:06:50. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :06:56.cities, Shi'ites form their own power. Every week, they call for
:06:57. > :07:04.the Americans to go and the withdrawal will be seen as his
:07:04. > :07:08.victory. There has been a big rise in
:07:08. > :07:13.violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. The
:07:13. > :07:17.United Nations says the number of attacks but says Ms against
:07:17. > :07:27.Palestinians, resulting in injury or property damage, has gone up
:07:27. > :07:32.threefold in the last two years. These are on if farmers from the
:07:32. > :07:37.Palestinian village of Awarta, clashing with Jewish settlers last
:07:37. > :07:44.month. The Israeli army intervened. The Palestinians say they were
:07:44. > :07:51.forced to leave their trees and the settlers said their fields on fire.
:07:51. > :07:56.-- set their fields. A few days later, Nidam Qaraweq shows me the
:07:56. > :08:02.damage. He tells me these settlers attacked him with sticks. As for
:08:02. > :08:09.his trees, he says they are wholly to him, so old he cannot put a
:08:10. > :08:15.value on them. The situation around Awarta is tense. Two Palestinians
:08:15. > :08:20.were convicted of killing a family of settlers in March. Certain of
:08:20. > :08:25.related violence is on the increase across the West Bank. -- sat there.
:08:25. > :08:31.The UN says the number of Palestinians being injured in
:08:31. > :08:35.settler attacks has tripled since 2009. Some sufferers have guns,
:08:35. > :08:43.which the Israeli government allows them to our own -- satellites. It
:08:43. > :08:53.is the Israeli army that often has to intervene -- settler. We go to
:08:53. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:01.the Palestinian village that sits next to a subtle or -- Cecil her
:09:01. > :09:07.village. These clashes are happening on a weekly, if not a
:09:07. > :09:17.daily basis, at the moment. The Israeli army have been firing tear-
:09:17. > :09:17.
:09:17. > :09:23.gas to the Palestinians. They are on the side of the Jewish settlers.
:09:23. > :09:29.Nitzan Alon, the man who has just left his post as commander of the
:09:29. > :09:35.Israeli army, says he is worried about the rise of Jewish violence.
:09:35. > :09:41.Settler leaders say he is wrong. The commander is exaggerating and
:09:41. > :09:49.making a mistake. For Palestinians, continued subtle or expansion,
:09:49. > :09:55.illegal under international law, is unstoppable. They say a viable
:09:55. > :10:05.state requires tens of thousands of sustenance to leave. That would not
:10:05. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:17.Earners Rehabilitation has gained this week. Textile workers have
:10:17. > :10:20.asked for sanctions to be lifted. The British International
:10:20. > :10:23.Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has been on a fact-finding
:10:23. > :10:32.mission to Berber to determine whether reforms there have gone far
:10:32. > :10:35.enough. Our correspondent joined him. Burma is one of the very few
:10:35. > :10:40.countries in the world with his generation is less well educated
:10:40. > :10:46.than the previous 1 point Casualties of military dictatorship.
:10:46. > :10:53.These are one of the La -- some of the lucky ones in a school run by
:10:53. > :10:59.monks and funded by British aid. 6,000 children pack into the school,
:10:59. > :11:04.coming in ships, morning and afternoon. Trade with the West has
:11:04. > :11:09.been banned. It is trade, not aid, that will alter that we bring Burma
:11:09. > :11:12.out of poverty but Europe and America will not let that happen
:11:12. > :11:17.until there is political reform. The textile industry employs half
:11:17. > :11:27.as many people as it used to. They were shaken up as Western sanctions
:11:27. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:36.tightened. Many former textile workers became prostitutes. Most of
:11:36. > :11:46.them went into that kind of business. But that is not all of
:11:46. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :12:02.them. On the Thai border, this is a sad story. The Burmese girls.
:12:02. > :12:05.
:12:05. > :12:11.want to come back home. I cannot so what sorry --, sorry. The human
:12:11. > :12:15.cost has been great so when can sanctions be lifted? This is a rich
:12:15. > :12:20.country that has been brought low by an appalling military regime.
:12:20. > :12:26.Once the regime becomes more open and democratic wishes on the route
:12:26. > :12:32.to do, then the sentence will be swept away and these distortions
:12:32. > :12:37.and trading opportunities will disappear. Do you feel but that is
:12:37. > :12:42.certain? Yes. There is clear evidence of movement. But it is not
:12:42. > :12:52.clear how fast it is going or how far. The questions get harder as
:12:52. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:01.the West tries to work out whether The rise of China's wealthy elite
:13:01. > :13:08.has been well reported. But what may be was - mac was well known is
:13:08. > :13:11.the fact that women make up 30% of the country's millionaires. However,
:13:11. > :13:17.there is growing resentment over the widening gap between rich and
:13:17. > :13:20.poor. So many of these female millionaires are seeking personal
:13:20. > :13:30.protection and that has that to a growing demand for female
:13:30. > :13:35.
:13:35. > :13:41.bodyguards. Out of uniform, they would not stand out in a crowd. But
:13:41. > :13:51.these women are the changing face of China. Mixing brains with brawn,
:13:51. > :13:55.they are all graduates who are training to be bodyguards. Wen Cui,
:13:55. > :14:01.a successful would be neo-, founded the training camp. She came up with
:14:01. > :14:05.the idea after being mugged twice on business trips. TRANSLATION:
:14:05. > :14:13.Having a female bodyguard is a bit like having a sister watching out
:14:13. > :14:22.for you. We can share grew room and she can work as my secretary. If it
:14:22. > :14:28.was a man, people might get the wrong impression. Chen earns up to
:14:28. > :14:33.$100 per day. She is hardly trained. She not only was to protect her
:14:33. > :14:37.clients but learn from them stop or I see how independent women can be.
:14:37. > :14:41.They are often better at their jobs than men stop you were my family
:14:41. > :14:46.are very proud of me. China's growing economy is generating
:14:46. > :14:53.enormous wealth. The number of billionaires in the country has
:14:53. > :15:03.doubled. But not everybody in China has shed in the Chinese burn. The
:15:03. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:10.gap between rich and poor is widening. -- shed in Chinese's boom.
:15:10. > :15:16.As China has developed, its cities have been transformed. But with
:15:16. > :15:21.greater opportunities, business has become walk a throw. Chen is out
:15:21. > :15:27.with a quiet for the day. She used as courting a wealthy entrepreneur
:15:27. > :15:31.to a business meeting. The client is the head of an investment
:15:31. > :15:35.company. She says she feels safer with personal protection stop or
:15:35. > :15:42.some of my friends have been wrought in the streets. A number
:15:42. > :15:46.have been kidnapped. He can be dangerous here. - or rocked. At a
:15:46. > :15:50.jewellery store, at the climax to have a bodyguard. China may be
:15:51. > :16:00.growing richer, but anger is building a month those missing out.
:16:00. > :16:05.That is putting the wealthy elite increasingly on guard. Desperate
:16:05. > :16:08.times call for desperate measures. It used a phrase that has become
:16:08. > :16:15.all too familiar during the troubled economic times we are
:16:15. > :16:19.going through. The state capital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, has been
:16:19. > :16:23.forced into bankruptcy after spending millions of dollars on
:16:23. > :16:29.extravagant projects that have gone bust. Things are so bad they are
:16:29. > :16:33.being forced to sell their historic heritage. Who would think it was
:16:33. > :16:41.anything wrong? It does not look like a city in crisis. But
:16:41. > :16:48.Harrisburg is in dire straits. In a warehouse on the edge of town 8,000
:16:48. > :16:52.what West are the facts are gathering dust. Jesse James, Doc
:16:52. > :16:56.Holliday, the Battle of Little Bighorn, fragments from the
:16:56. > :17:06.country's turbulent for it to history. Collected at great expense
:17:06. > :17:11.for a museum but will never be. is a vampire killer kit. It is all
:17:11. > :17:18.up for sale, a fully worth a lot of money any city desperately short of
:17:18. > :17:22.cash. It would be interesting to see this museum operating. But how
:17:22. > :17:27.economic situation prevents that development. That is putting it
:17:27. > :17:32.mildly. Right next door is the source of harassed but was back
:17:32. > :17:36.troubles. A waste incinerator burning a metaphorical hole in the
:17:36. > :17:43.city's finances top of this is the reason Harrisburg filed for
:17:43. > :17:47.bankruptcy. The debt payments on this incinerator last year alone
:17:47. > :17:53.were $65 million. We cannot bring enough trashy it to pay the
:17:53. > :17:59.interest. The rich red fruit of the incinerator was a disaster,
:17:59. > :18:03.saddling the city with more than $300 million debt. It happened on
:18:03. > :18:11.the watch of the previous mayor, Stephen Reed, a man with a fondness
:18:11. > :18:16.for big projects like the Civil War Museum and several similar schemes.
:18:16. > :18:22.We had one mayor for 28 years. He could do anything he wanted. He
:18:22. > :18:28.believed in borrowing money. We have three times the per capita
:18:28. > :18:31.debt of any other city in Pennsylvania. The result is an
:18:31. > :18:36.acrimonious row over whether harassed Blue should declare
:18:36. > :18:42.bankruptcy or be taken over by the state. With 30% of residents living
:18:42. > :18:47.in poverty, the city does not need this. This city had lofty ambitions.
:18:47. > :18:52.It thought nothing of running up huge debts. But even without the
:18:52. > :18:57.economic downturn, Harrisburg was always good to file. It tries to do
:18:57. > :19:05.with the wreckage but high - but finds itself in a humiliating
:19:05. > :19:14.situation. There is a small occupy harassed boot camp. This draws
:19:14. > :19:19.comparisons with the National saying - mac Harrisburg camp.
:19:19. > :19:28.country is falling apart. A federal judge must decide her to end this
:19:28. > :19:34.crisis. -- decide how to end this crisis. Who could blame you for
:19:34. > :19:39.feeling a little stressed at times. Had Tucci yourself up you need a
:19:39. > :19:44.hard. If that sounds like the answer, I know the woman for you.
:19:44. > :19:48.Anna has been described as the 'Hugging Saint'. She was born into
:19:48. > :19:54.poverty in southern India. She travels the world and praising
:19:54. > :20:02.anybody who turns up to metre. It is believed she has had more than
:20:02. > :20:07.30 million hides. We met her on a visit here in the UK. -- 13 million
:20:07. > :20:14.hugs. Alexandra Palace in north London. It is ten o'clock on a week
:20:14. > :20:21.date and everybody is queuing for a hard. What do you expect. I have no
:20:21. > :20:30.idea. What brings you here today? watched a documentary. I do not
:20:30. > :20:38.know what to expect but I think she is wonderful. I need a hard.
:20:38. > :20:42.McHarg. Giving the hugs his banner. She left school aged 9 to look
:20:42. > :20:48.after her family. Naturally affectionate, she would offer a
:20:48. > :20:53.high to anybody in need. 84, low- caste built hugging strangers
:20:53. > :20:59.challenge more than a few taboos. But she continued and is now
:20:59. > :21:06.reviewed by many as a Mahatma, a great soul. Today up to 9,000
:21:06. > :21:14.people will receive a hunt. Indians, Christians, non-believers, the
:21:14. > :21:24.slightly curious. Each was hard firmly and a few words whispered.
:21:24. > :21:24.
:21:24. > :21:32.And the effect? Unexplainable. We cannot describe how we feel. I am
:21:32. > :21:38.not sure how to explain this. only way to really know is to have
:21:38. > :21:46.a go yourself. The crowds, the charity's chief funds, the
:21:46. > :21:52.lifetime's work, or from a hard. -- charity's chief funds. It doesn't