27/11/2011 Reporters

handbag being stolen because it contained her late husband's ashes.

Now it is time for reporters. -- Inside Syria with the fight is to

have switched sides. A special report from one of the centres of

opposition to the government. Defending the indefensible, Fergal

Keane on the Khmer Rouge leader who said the genocide that killed 2

million Cambodians was justified. In Colombia, the local drug gangs

have a new addiction. They are craving gold.

Sweetie and sunshine about to depart from China to take up

residence in Scotland. Welcome to reporters. -- Reporters.

The BBC has obtained first-hand evidence that the struggle for

democracy in that Syria has become an armed insurgency. The opposition

force is known as the free Syria army made up of soldiers that have

the first journalists to spend time with this new force in and around

Homs, the scene of the worst violence.

Syria's border with Lebanon. These men are taking guns to support a

growing insurgency. The area his mind and for Syrian patrols. Hours

earlier, a smuggler was captured here. Each man carried two or three

Kalashnikovs for the fighters inside. Our guide is a supporter of

the revolution. TRANSLATION: The regimes had us under siege for 40

years. We have been starving for 40 years. Into Homs. The Syrian army

is all round. -- all around. They The people in this suburb are

hemmed in by the security forces. The fear is suffocating. The

firepower is no longer all on one side. These are the man of the free

Syria army. -- the man. They do not hold this area, they just hope to

slow up the security forces. Almost from the beginning, it was Syrian

government propaganda that armed gangs as they were called were

supporting the opposition. Now aftermath of protesters being shot

down in the streets, that myth has become reality. More joy in every

day. A gun battle signals another defection. Soldiers are running

into this suburb, fired on by their former comrades. Five made it out.

A six but did not. TRANSLATION: We heard him screaming. They could not

go back. There were too many troops chasing us. Another explains that

they fled after being ordered to shoot unarmed protesters.

TRANSLATION: We are all one people, one blood. We can't just kill them.

The Rebels believe they can win if there is help from outside. They

want a no-fly zone over Syria. The charge of genocide is the most

serious for any individual to face. Yet, in Cambodia, the deputy leader

of the Khmer Rouge has told a court that he approved the murder of 2

million of his fellow citizens. Almost a quarter of the Cambodian

population was killed during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. He

is standing trial in the capital. From across Cambodia, memory

converges on the capital. On the motorbike taxi, a mother who lost

four children and her husband. TRANSLATION: I feel pain and anger.

It is up to the court to decide what happens. In this public bus,

survivors travel together. All hope their journey to court might help

reconciliation. Including this man who ordered the deaths of a couple

who fell in love with -- in love without the party's permission.

Sitting around them, those who knew nothing of the past and those you

can never forget it. One of the things you are accused of doing is

ordering the killing of two people because they fell in love without

permission. Why did you do that? TRANSLATION: It was the wrong thing

to do. The decision was made by those above me. If I had disobeyed,

I would have been killed. These are images of some of the lives

destroyed. Even children could be declared enemies of the people.

This was the number two in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. Now he is a

frail old man listening to a prosecutor's denunciation. They

murdered, tortured and terrorised their own people. They even banned

love between human beings. Today, the court heard the voice of the

man once called Brother Number Two. It was defiant. TRANSLATION: What

the prosecution it -- has said is untrue. We served the people and

wanted to build a society that was clean and independent. This trial

is controversial among some survivors because there are only

three defendants. Three is not enough. Three men for the lives of

2 million people, including my parents. It is not enough. There is

no magical number but I know three is not enough. Going back to

Nuremberg, no war crimes trial has ever achieved an absolute justice.

The number of victims and scale of the crimes is simply too great. In

Cambodia, they will not be any grand repenting. Perhaps the best

that can be achieved is to write in to the memories of the nation what

happened so they can take it as a warning from history.

For decades, Colombia has been badgering revolutionaries that --

battling revolutionaries and paramilitaries. Authorities have

had some success in eradicating cocaine production but illegal gold

mining is booming. So much so that it has become a new line of

business for the local mark here and armed groups.

For centuries, gold has been the sole of Colombia. The heart of its

mates and legends, the essence of its history and culture. It has

never been as important as today, when the country's future wealth

and stability depends on mining this and other precious minerals.

Explorers heard people here had so much gold they were throwing it

away, and so over centuries he searched for this mythical city of

gold. But they never found it. People today are still looking for

gold. It is as important for Colombia now as it ever has been.

For decades, drugs have tour this country apart. Dangerous cocaine

cartels and revolutionary groups and militia. We were taken to the

centre of the illegal gold trade. It is almost industrial but it is

illegal. This process can collect $1,000 worth of gold in a day. A

week ago, there were five a faltering machines. The government

is confiscating them as drug smugglers and local Marcia muscle

in on the business. The more successful we are against drug

trafficking, we can divert into other sources of funds. Especially

gold mining. As the drug trafficking has tremendous

environmental consequence, sodas illegal mining. There has been

traditional mining here for centuries, but the high price of

gold has drawn over 100,000 people into illegal gold mining, tearing

down forests and pouring Mercury into the rivers. TRANSLATION: We

used to live off coca. But not any more. If the government closes this

down, what will we live on? They suspect the government wants big

mining companies to replace them to make bigger royalties. Local Marcia

had a powerful hand in the gold- rush towns, where there is a lot of

money to be made. This is worth nearly 50,000 US dollars. For

nearly 30 years, Colombia has been torn apart by a revolutionary

groups and armed militia, all funded by the illegal drugs trade.

The government is winning that war, but unless it acts quickly and

effectively, the violence could spark again. Colombia's ancient

New Zealand may be going through elections but the people of

Christchurch are still struggling with the aftermath of that

devastating earthquake nine months ago. 181 people were killed. The

tragedy sunk stories and hopes for the local economy. The recovery

process has been hampered by a series of aftershocks. We report on

the slow recovery in Christchurch. It was the moments that Christ

Church changed forever. The 22nd of their very and a 3.3 magnitude

earthquake strikes with terrifying force -- February. 181 people were

killed and a nation was that in shock. -- was left in shock. New

Zealand's famed city remains thin narrowings, the demolition work far

from complete. With plans for the week will of the city centre still

to be approved, progress is slow. This is proving a long and painful

recovery. This is the red zone, 65 hectares of the worst hit in a city.

It will not be open until April. With 100,000 homes last as a result

of the earthquake, 20,000 people have lapped the City. Among those

that remain, there is frustration - - have lacked the city. How is the

recovery going? Very slow. -- have left the city. It is worse in the

suburbs. There are streets way you cannot drive and if you do you have

to cool. They could be a long time, maybe five or six years. I

understand the frustrations but I have to keep my head up and make

every decision we make will build a more secure future. Seven at

different Rugby World Cup were supposed to be played here by the

earthquake ended that and the investment has gone to waste. Rugby

is a way of life here that the abandoned home of the crusaders may

never reopen. A former All Black believes time has come for action.

People think things could go quicker. We have a fantastic vision

and plan for the City and now we need the insurance companies and

City to push things forward, in terms of seeing progress and

buildings being rebuilt. This camping retailers on the edge of

the condemned city centre and like so many businesses, faces a fight

for survival. It is really bad. It is quiet, as you would expect.

marquee has been built to provide temporary office spade for some of

the top hundred local businesses are now homeless -- space. We have

still had seismic events in the last eight months. Until those stop,

the insurers will not underwrite new property developments in

Christchurch. And it the destruction, there are stories of

inspiration. Canterbury see the was one of the worst victims, losing

its headquarters and many of its staff -- Canterbury TV. Today, it

is back on the air. Conditions are crams but each broadcast speaks of

defiance. We have to do it for those that are no longer with us

and for Canterbury in general. We are seen as a symbol. People are

saying we have 16 out of 27 and you have to come back, if you can do it,

Canterbury can do it. Despite such resilience, the second largest city

in the New Zealand continues to struggle. The task of recovering

from its darkest day is the biggest challenge the country has ever

faced. The Democratic Republic of Congo is

an emerging from years of war and instability but believe it or not,

tourists are travelling from around the world there. Deep in the jungle

a new volcano is erupting. Foreign tourists are flocking to see it.

The new volcano is in the middle of a national park, which is home to

go rulers and dangerous militias. - - guerrillas.

In the war ravaged jungle of Eastern Congo an unlikely site.

Thousands of tourists venturing into a national park teeming with

rebel armies and militias. The visitors are well guarded. They are

urged to keep quiet to be safe. Here is what has lured them. A

brand new hole in the earth's crust. A new medicine is growing by the

hour. -- mountain. It was incredible. Impossible to explain

but definitely worth coming to see. For me, worth the risk. Worth the

risk and worth the walk. The guerrillas are just on the

mountains. Amazing. It is quite a spectacle. It is remarkable that

foreign tourists are daring to come here and see it. That is

encouraging news in a country that has been plagued by conflict and

chaos for the past 20 years. Nine years ago, lava from another

volcano swept through a nearby town. Today, it has been tidied up but

the region is still struggling to shake its reputation of danger.

People who live here feel the change but for the Assad while the

Congo is still considered a war- zone. -- the outside world. With

good reason? Yes. For the adventurous, fireworks and a chance

to watch a mountain of vice. -- a man's inner thighs.

Their names mean sweety and sunshine but the story may not end

up with sweetness and light. Two pandas are heading to Edinburgh Zoo

from China. They are part of an international conservation efforts

and it is hoped they will produce offspring. But one big issue is who

is going to foot the bill? Needs sunshine. He is eight years

old, a little beads grumpy and his favoured pastime is munching bamboo

-- neat. Next door, sweetie. Both are bred in captivity and about to

be shipped to Edinburgh Zoo, part of a panda conservation effort. The

hope is they will mate. The problem is that pandas are notoriously

fickle and only one panda ever born in captivity as be reintroduced to

the wild and that died soon after. Honda's do not come cheap.

Edinburgh will pay �700,000 a year for each bear -- handers. There is

no guarantee sweety and sunshine will pair up. They must like each

other for there to be a mutual attraction. If they don't like each

other, they will walk away and nothing will happen. China's panda

breeding programme is producing 30 cubs a year, most through

artificial insemination because they are not good at conceiving

naturally. Females are only fertile for one day a year. While they are

hampered in captivity, in the wild they are increasingly threatened. -

- hamper. Their natural home is under pressure -- Pam purred --

pampered. This national park was created 30 years ago to help

conserve the panda. Today it gets 2 million visitors a year. Newly

wealthy Chinese are starting to spend their money on a less its

heart. It has become a favour backdrop for wedding photos --

leisure time. The only place you will find a cheap souvenirs. The

real ones have died or moved away. Making this national park was the

idea of this man. Now he thinks the development has helped push pandas

out. How can handers exists with all the tourists? It is not

possible -- handers. Sooner sunshine and sweet tea will be

moving. They will stay in Edinburgh for ten years. The zoo is hoping