:00:04. > :00:14.handbag being stolen because it contained her late husband's ashes.
:00:14. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:28.Now it is time for reporters. -- Inside Syria with the fight is to
:00:28. > :00:33.have switched sides. A special report from one of the centres of
:00:33. > :00:37.opposition to the government. Defending the indefensible, Fergal
:00:37. > :00:44.Keane on the Khmer Rouge leader who said the genocide that killed 2
:00:44. > :00:51.million Cambodians was justified. In Colombia, the local drug gangs
:00:51. > :00:54.have a new addiction. They are craving gold.
:00:54. > :01:04.Sweetie and sunshine about to depart from China to take up
:01:04. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:11.residence in Scotland. Welcome to reporters. -- Reporters.
:01:11. > :01:16.The BBC has obtained first-hand evidence that the struggle for
:01:16. > :01:19.democracy in that Syria has become an armed insurgency. The opposition
:01:20. > :01:29.force is known as the free Syria army made up of soldiers that have
:01:30. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:34.the first journalists to spend time with this new force in and around
:01:34. > :01:40.Homs, the scene of the worst violence.
:01:40. > :01:49.Syria's border with Lebanon. These men are taking guns to support a
:01:49. > :01:56.growing insurgency. The area his mind and for Syrian patrols. Hours
:01:56. > :02:04.earlier, a smuggler was captured here. Each man carried two or three
:02:04. > :02:14.Kalashnikovs for the fighters inside. Our guide is a supporter of
:02:14. > :02:24.the revolution. TRANSLATION: The regimes had us under siege for 40
:02:24. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:34.years. We have been starving for 40 years. Into Homs. The Syrian army
:02:34. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :03:01.is all round. -- all around. They The people in this suburb are
:03:01. > :03:06.hemmed in by the security forces. The fear is suffocating. The
:03:06. > :03:14.firepower is no longer all on one side. These are the man of the free
:03:14. > :03:20.Syria army. -- the man. They do not hold this area, they just hope to
:03:20. > :03:24.slow up the security forces. Almost from the beginning, it was Syrian
:03:24. > :03:28.government propaganda that armed gangs as they were called were
:03:28. > :03:38.supporting the opposition. Now aftermath of protesters being shot
:03:38. > :03:40.
:03:40. > :03:47.down in the streets, that myth has become reality. More joy in every
:03:47. > :03:57.day. A gun battle signals another defection. Soldiers are running
:03:57. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:09.into this suburb, fired on by their former comrades. Five made it out.
:04:09. > :04:10.
:04:10. > :04:17.A six but did not. TRANSLATION: We heard him screaming. They could not
:04:17. > :04:24.go back. There were too many troops chasing us. Another explains that
:04:24. > :04:30.they fled after being ordered to shoot unarmed protesters.
:04:30. > :04:35.TRANSLATION: We are all one people, one blood. We can't just kill them.
:04:35. > :04:42.The Rebels believe they can win if there is help from outside. They
:04:42. > :04:47.want a no-fly zone over Syria. The charge of genocide is the most
:04:47. > :04:54.serious for any individual to face. Yet, in Cambodia, the deputy leader
:04:54. > :04:58.of the Khmer Rouge has told a court that he approved the murder of 2
:04:58. > :05:05.million of his fellow citizens. Almost a quarter of the Cambodian
:05:05. > :05:15.population was killed during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. He
:05:15. > :05:21.is standing trial in the capital. From across Cambodia, memory
:05:21. > :05:27.converges on the capital. On the motorbike taxi, a mother who lost
:05:27. > :05:34.four children and her husband. TRANSLATION: I feel pain and anger.
:05:34. > :05:42.It is up to the court to decide what happens. In this public bus,
:05:42. > :05:47.survivors travel together. All hope their journey to court might help
:05:47. > :05:52.reconciliation. Including this man who ordered the deaths of a couple
:05:52. > :05:56.who fell in love with -- in love without the party's permission.
:05:56. > :06:02.Sitting around them, those who knew nothing of the past and those you
:06:02. > :06:05.can never forget it. One of the things you are accused of doing is
:06:05. > :06:09.ordering the killing of two people because they fell in love without
:06:09. > :06:15.permission. Why did you do that? TRANSLATION: It was the wrong thing
:06:15. > :06:19.to do. The decision was made by those above me. If I had disobeyed,
:06:19. > :06:29.I would have been killed. These are images of some of the lives
:06:29. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:32.destroyed. Even children could be declared enemies of the people.
:06:32. > :06:37.This was the number two in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. Now he is a
:06:37. > :06:42.frail old man listening to a prosecutor's denunciation. They
:06:42. > :06:50.murdered, tortured and terrorised their own people. They even banned
:06:50. > :07:00.love between human beings. Today, the court heard the voice of the
:07:00. > :07:00.
:07:01. > :07:06.man once called Brother Number Two. It was defiant. TRANSLATION: What
:07:06. > :07:10.the prosecution it -- has said is untrue. We served the people and
:07:10. > :07:15.wanted to build a society that was clean and independent. This trial
:07:15. > :07:23.is controversial among some survivors because there are only
:07:23. > :07:28.three defendants. Three is not enough. Three men for the lives of
:07:28. > :07:34.2 million people, including my parents. It is not enough. There is
:07:34. > :07:39.no magical number but I know three is not enough. Going back to
:07:39. > :07:43.Nuremberg, no war crimes trial has ever achieved an absolute justice.
:07:43. > :07:51.The number of victims and scale of the crimes is simply too great. In
:07:51. > :07:56.Cambodia, they will not be any grand repenting. Perhaps the best
:07:56. > :08:02.that can be achieved is to write in to the memories of the nation what
:08:02. > :08:07.happened so they can take it as a warning from history.
:08:07. > :08:12.For decades, Colombia has been badgering revolutionaries that --
:08:12. > :08:17.battling revolutionaries and paramilitaries. Authorities have
:08:17. > :08:21.had some success in eradicating cocaine production but illegal gold
:08:21. > :08:25.mining is booming. So much so that it has become a new line of
:08:25. > :08:31.business for the local mark here and armed groups.
:08:31. > :08:36.For centuries, gold has been the sole of Colombia. The heart of its
:08:36. > :08:40.mates and legends, the essence of its history and culture. It has
:08:40. > :08:45.never been as important as today, when the country's future wealth
:08:45. > :08:49.and stability depends on mining this and other precious minerals.
:08:49. > :08:53.Explorers heard people here had so much gold they were throwing it
:08:53. > :08:58.away, and so over centuries he searched for this mythical city of
:08:58. > :09:03.gold. But they never found it. People today are still looking for
:09:03. > :09:11.gold. It is as important for Colombia now as it ever has been.
:09:11. > :09:18.For decades, drugs have tour this country apart. Dangerous cocaine
:09:18. > :09:26.cartels and revolutionary groups and militia. We were taken to the
:09:27. > :09:32.centre of the illegal gold trade. It is almost industrial but it is
:09:32. > :09:36.illegal. This process can collect $1,000 worth of gold in a day. A
:09:36. > :09:40.week ago, there were five a faltering machines. The government
:09:40. > :09:47.is confiscating them as drug smugglers and local Marcia muscle
:09:47. > :09:54.in on the business. The more successful we are against drug
:09:54. > :10:03.trafficking, we can divert into other sources of funds. Especially
:10:03. > :10:08.gold mining. As the drug trafficking has tremendous
:10:08. > :10:11.environmental consequence, sodas illegal mining. There has been
:10:11. > :10:17.traditional mining here for centuries, but the high price of
:10:17. > :10:21.gold has drawn over 100,000 people into illegal gold mining, tearing
:10:21. > :10:27.down forests and pouring Mercury into the rivers. TRANSLATION: We
:10:27. > :10:31.used to live off coca. But not any more. If the government closes this
:10:32. > :10:37.down, what will we live on? They suspect the government wants big
:10:37. > :10:41.mining companies to replace them to make bigger royalties. Local Marcia
:10:41. > :10:51.had a powerful hand in the gold- rush towns, where there is a lot of
:10:51. > :10:57.
:10:57. > :11:01.money to be made. This is worth nearly 50,000 US dollars. For
:11:01. > :11:06.nearly 30 years, Colombia has been torn apart by a revolutionary
:11:06. > :11:10.groups and armed militia, all funded by the illegal drugs trade.
:11:10. > :11:15.The government is winning that war, but unless it acts quickly and
:11:15. > :11:25.effectively, the violence could spark again. Colombia's ancient
:11:25. > :11:25.
:11:25. > :11:28.New Zealand may be going through elections but the people of
:11:28. > :11:36.Christchurch are still struggling with the aftermath of that
:11:36. > :11:42.devastating earthquake nine months ago. 181 people were killed. The
:11:42. > :11:48.tragedy sunk stories and hopes for the local economy. The recovery
:11:48. > :11:54.process has been hampered by a series of aftershocks. We report on
:11:55. > :12:03.the slow recovery in Christchurch. It was the moments that Christ
:12:03. > :12:09.Church changed forever. The 22nd of their very and a 3.3 magnitude
:12:09. > :12:17.earthquake strikes with terrifying force -- February. 181 people were
:12:17. > :12:22.killed and a nation was that in shock. -- was left in shock. New
:12:23. > :12:32.Zealand's famed city remains thin narrowings, the demolition work far
:12:33. > :12:32.
:12:33. > :12:41.from complete. With plans for the week will of the city centre still
:12:41. > :12:48.to be approved, progress is slow. This is proving a long and painful
:12:48. > :12:56.recovery. This is the red zone, 65 hectares of the worst hit in a city.
:12:56. > :13:01.It will not be open until April. With 100,000 homes last as a result
:13:01. > :13:06.of the earthquake, 20,000 people have lapped the City. Among those
:13:06. > :13:16.that remain, there is frustration - - have lacked the city. How is the
:13:16. > :13:17.
:13:17. > :13:21.recovery going? Very slow. -- have left the city. It is worse in the
:13:21. > :13:31.suburbs. There are streets way you cannot drive and if you do you have
:13:31. > :13:38.to cool. They could be a long time, maybe five or six years. I
:13:38. > :13:43.understand the frustrations but I have to keep my head up and make
:13:43. > :13:50.every decision we make will build a more secure future. Seven at
:13:50. > :13:57.different Rugby World Cup were supposed to be played here by the
:13:57. > :14:01.earthquake ended that and the investment has gone to waste. Rugby
:14:01. > :14:09.is a way of life here that the abandoned home of the crusaders may
:14:09. > :14:14.never reopen. A former All Black believes time has come for action.
:14:14. > :14:19.People think things could go quicker. We have a fantastic vision
:14:19. > :14:24.and plan for the City and now we need the insurance companies and
:14:24. > :14:29.City to push things forward, in terms of seeing progress and
:14:29. > :14:33.buildings being rebuilt. This camping retailers on the edge of
:14:33. > :14:43.the condemned city centre and like so many businesses, faces a fight
:14:43. > :14:45.
:14:45. > :14:49.for survival. It is really bad. It is quiet, as you would expect.
:14:50. > :14:59.marquee has been built to provide temporary office spade for some of
:14:59. > :15:04.the top hundred local businesses are now homeless -- space. We have
:15:04. > :15:08.still had seismic events in the last eight months. Until those stop,
:15:08. > :15:14.the insurers will not underwrite new property developments in
:15:14. > :15:18.Christchurch. And it the destruction, there are stories of
:15:18. > :15:28.inspiration. Canterbury see the was one of the worst victims, losing
:15:28. > :15:34.its headquarters and many of its staff -- Canterbury TV. Today, it
:15:34. > :15:39.is back on the air. Conditions are crams but each broadcast speaks of
:15:39. > :15:46.defiance. We have to do it for those that are no longer with us
:15:46. > :15:52.and for Canterbury in general. We are seen as a symbol. People are
:15:52. > :15:59.saying we have 16 out of 27 and you have to come back, if you can do it,
:15:59. > :16:02.Canterbury can do it. Despite such resilience, the second largest city
:16:03. > :16:06.in the New Zealand continues to struggle. The task of recovering
:16:06. > :16:12.from its darkest day is the biggest challenge the country has ever
:16:12. > :16:18.faced. The Democratic Republic of Congo is
:16:18. > :16:24.an emerging from years of war and instability but believe it or not,
:16:24. > :16:28.tourists are travelling from around the world there. Deep in the jungle
:16:28. > :16:36.a new volcano is erupting. Foreign tourists are flocking to see it.
:16:36. > :16:45.The new volcano is in the middle of a national park, which is home to
:16:45. > :16:50.go rulers and dangerous militias. - - guerrillas.
:16:50. > :16:54.In the war ravaged jungle of Eastern Congo an unlikely site.
:16:54. > :17:04.Thousands of tourists venturing into a national park teeming with
:17:04. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:13.rebel armies and militias. The visitors are well guarded. They are
:17:13. > :17:19.urged to keep quiet to be safe. Here is what has lured them. A
:17:19. > :17:26.brand new hole in the earth's crust. A new medicine is growing by the
:17:26. > :17:35.hour. -- mountain. It was incredible. Impossible to explain
:17:35. > :17:39.but definitely worth coming to see. For me, worth the risk. Worth the
:17:39. > :17:47.risk and worth the walk. The guerrillas are just on the
:17:47. > :17:51.mountains. Amazing. It is quite a spectacle. It is remarkable that
:17:51. > :17:56.foreign tourists are daring to come here and see it. That is
:17:56. > :18:03.encouraging news in a country that has been plagued by conflict and
:18:03. > :18:09.chaos for the past 20 years. Nine years ago, lava from another
:18:09. > :18:14.volcano swept through a nearby town. Today, it has been tidied up but
:18:14. > :18:18.the region is still struggling to shake its reputation of danger.
:18:18. > :18:24.People who live here feel the change but for the Assad while the
:18:24. > :18:31.Congo is still considered a war- zone. -- the outside world. With
:18:31. > :18:39.good reason? Yes. For the adventurous, fireworks and a chance
:18:39. > :18:42.to watch a mountain of vice. -- a man's inner thighs.
:18:42. > :18:47.Their names mean sweety and sunshine but the story may not end
:18:47. > :18:53.up with sweetness and light. Two pandas are heading to Edinburgh Zoo
:18:53. > :18:59.from China. They are part of an international conservation efforts
:18:59. > :19:07.and it is hoped they will produce offspring. But one big issue is who
:19:07. > :19:13.is going to foot the bill? Needs sunshine. He is eight years
:19:13. > :19:21.old, a little beads grumpy and his favoured pastime is munching bamboo
:19:21. > :19:28.-- neat. Next door, sweetie. Both are bred in captivity and about to
:19:28. > :19:33.be shipped to Edinburgh Zoo, part of a panda conservation effort. The
:19:33. > :19:38.hope is they will mate. The problem is that pandas are notoriously
:19:38. > :19:44.fickle and only one panda ever born in captivity as be reintroduced to
:19:44. > :19:52.the wild and that died soon after. Honda's do not come cheap.
:19:52. > :20:00.Edinburgh will pay �700,000 a year for each bear -- handers. There is
:20:00. > :20:03.no guarantee sweety and sunshine will pair up. They must like each
:20:03. > :20:07.other for there to be a mutual attraction. If they don't like each
:20:07. > :20:12.other, they will walk away and nothing will happen. China's panda
:20:12. > :20:16.breeding programme is producing 30 cubs a year, most through
:20:16. > :20:22.artificial insemination because they are not good at conceiving
:20:22. > :20:27.naturally. Females are only fertile for one day a year. While they are
:20:27. > :20:37.hampered in captivity, in the wild they are increasingly threatened. -
:20:37. > :20:37.
:20:37. > :20:42.- hamper. Their natural home is under pressure -- Pam purred --
:20:42. > :20:48.pampered. This national park was created 30 years ago to help
:20:48. > :20:51.conserve the panda. Today it gets 2 million visitors a year. Newly
:20:51. > :20:58.wealthy Chinese are starting to spend their money on a less its
:20:58. > :21:02.heart. It has become a favour backdrop for wedding photos --
:21:02. > :21:08.leisure time. The only place you will find a cheap souvenirs. The
:21:08. > :21:15.real ones have died or moved away. Making this national park was the
:21:15. > :21:23.idea of this man. Now he thinks the development has helped push pandas
:21:23. > :21:30.out. How can handers exists with all the tourists? It is not
:21:30. > :21:38.possible -- handers. Sooner sunshine and sweet tea will be
:21:38. > :21:43.moving. They will stay in Edinburgh for ten years. The zoo is hoping