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mis-selling of payment protection insurance to some customers. Now it | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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is time for cabby mac Reporters. -- time for Reporters. A decade of | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
progress is in danger. Orla Guerin finds that Afghan women are worried | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
about the withdrawal of Western forces. Under fire from the Taliban, | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Quentin Somerville reports from a NATO outpost in eastern Afghanistan | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
that was attacked by militants. Christian Fraser meets the exiled | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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in Paris, fighting to topple Syria's regime. A graffiti artist | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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in New York creating memorials with a very personal connection. Women's | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
rights activists in Afghanistan say the international community is | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
preparing to abandon them in their rush to withdraw troops from the | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
country. Women's rights has been one of the reasons given for | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
toppling the Taliban, but they fear that advances could be reversed if | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
a peace deal is done with the Taliban. They believe women and | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
their concerns could be side land at the conference on the future of | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Afghanistan. Our correspondent reports. Fashioning a new future | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
for themselves and their country. Every stitch is testament to a | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
fragile freedom. Under the Taliban Afghan women were trapped at home, | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
uneducated and unemployed. Scroll forward ten years and they make up | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
half the workforce at this design company where they work alongside | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
men. This woman says she is proud to be the breadwinner for her two | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
younger brothers. The company's founder worries about the outlook | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
if there is reconciliation with the insurgents. None of the Taliban | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
have said they are moderate. We are fooling ourselves if we believe | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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that the Taliban has changed their tune or philosophy on mandate. They | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
have not claimed that they have changed. There are big plans for | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
this business. They hope to begin exporting to the US and Europe and | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
to create a few hundred jobs. All of that might be possible in the | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
future if that future is not shaped by the Taliban. In areas under | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Taliban control women are still voiceless and helpless. This 25- | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
year-old woman's final moments are captured in this January footage. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
For the crime of adultery the Taliban's turned her and then shot | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
her dead. This is another of their targets, a prominent Member of | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
Parliament who survived a Taliban ambush on her car last year. This | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
outspoken activist refuses to be silence, but she fears that Afghan | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
women could soon be abandoned by the international community which | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
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promised them so much. They seemed to turn their face to the wall on | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
the issues and just leave us. That could put us even more at risk | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
because we have been outspoken about what we want. Her eldest | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
daughter is studying hard to be an aerospace engineer. But she and her | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
younger sister are afraid for themselves and their mother. They | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
want a future outside Afghanistan. BBC News, Kabul. Tensions between | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
native forces and Pakistan have he took a low point since the alliance | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
killed 24 Pakistani troops in a cross-border air strike. The | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
government in Islamabad has reacted very angrily. Militants are | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
crossing regularly from Pakistan to attack US and Afghan forces. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Quendon Somerville was with troops when the outpost was attacked by | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
insurgents firing across the Pakistan border. In the skies above | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Afghanistan's most eastern edge, a delivery to a remote American base. | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
The airdrop landed right on target just 5km from the Pakistan border. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
As Afghan and US soldiers go to retrieve the supplies, insurgents | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
in the hills nearby are watching. Suddenly the bases under red-tagged. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
You have just heard another explosion near the base. That is | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
the third we have heard. That landed just outside the perimeter | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
walls. Some of the shelling watch coming from insurgents across the | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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border inside Pakistan. Charlie Company were quick to respond. The | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
company's sergeant to explain the origin of the attacks. It seems | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
like they are coming from the east. They are. And that he is the way we | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
would expect them to fire. It is the quickest way out of the area. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
With each shelling, the insurgents were narrowing their aim and | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
getting closer to their target. As the shells continued to fall, a 16 | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
fighters were called in. Heavy artillery hit positions a few | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
hundred metres inside Pakistan, bringing the attack to an end. No- | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
one on the base was injured. This is a border under strain like never | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
before. Insurgents move freely across it and it hardly seems to | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
exist. BBC News, southern Afghanistan. The Arab League and | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
now be looking more united on Syria, but it is a different story at the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
UN where there are deep divisions within the Security Council. The US | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
and other Western powers want decisive action on the bloodshed in | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Syria, but Russia is sticking to its view that political dialogue is | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
needed. A key question is what kind of government would replace the | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Assad regime? The most prominent opposition groupies the Syrian | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
National Council. Its exiled leadership is based in Paris and | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Christian Fraser has been meeting some of its key figures. It is the | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
kind of VIP security commonly reserved for high-ranking diplomats | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
and politicians. Hurtling to meetings under 24-hour police | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
protection is neither of those, not yet. But as part of the new Syrian | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
opposition, she and her co- conspirators are higher than the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
targets as they attempt to bring down the Assad regime. We have | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
different working habits and come from different professional | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
horizons. We are physically not always able to meet. Skype is our | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
strategic tool to connect with each other. Setting the mechanisms for | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
working is quite a challenge. world leaders are beginning to pay | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
attention. Recently the SNC travel to Russia, Britain, China and | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Turkey. In its bid to win international approval, the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
fledgling opposition is moving quickly to give the appearance of a | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
transitional government in waiting. There are lessons to be learned | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
from other countries which form part of the Arab Spring, but some | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
intellectuals believe that Western powers are putting too much onus on | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the SNC and at the same time playing into the hands of the Assad | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
regime. We are asking it to prove that it is viable, United, coherent, | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
a valid alternative to the regime. And of course it is not because no | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
regime survives for that long by allowing an alternative to survive. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
The French Foreign Minister has now met twice with the SNC leader and | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
there is a complication. The involvement of a free Syrian army, | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the defectors turning their guns on the regime. The normal reaction | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
would provoke civil war inside Syria and could be the worse | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
situation for the country. As the threat of civil war men's, so the | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
shuttle diplomacy gathers phase. Next month the SNC leader well over | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
see the election of an assembly with permanent staff in Paris and | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
Cairo. They hope to bring together as many factions as they can and | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
the greater its success the more isolated President Assad will | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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In Libya is more than one month since the country was declared | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
liberated but there are still stockpiles of weapons around. The | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
West has expressed concern that they could find their way into the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
hands of foreign another -- militants. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Libya is not yet completely at points -- peace. Although it has | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
been an extraordinary few months live almost seems normal -- and | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
life almost seems normal only a fraction of weapons have been | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
returned. Ordinary people took up Ham's -- arms against the regime. | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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Now, with the guns almost silent, we discover the weapons rooms of | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
Colonel Gaddafi. They are almost empty. In the grounds of this | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
nearby hotel are further signs of plunder. This massive trench | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
concealed an arsenal of weapons. In included rocket propelled grenades | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
and machine-guns. We even found fielders from a chemical respirator. | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
-- filters. How much is still out there? We're heading east to find | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
out. My guide gives assurances at the weapons are safe. He says the | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
Web -- rebels will not sell them or smuggle them across the border. He | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
tells -- shows us what they have secured. This is one of 13 Scud | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
missiles salvaged from the desert. It is not these kind of war | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
trophies that are worrying the world. It is these. Picture here is | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
a rebel fighter with a shoulder launched a missile. Portable and | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
easy to use it is also easy to hide. It is the weapon of choice for Al- | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Qaeda. Americans say they could be 20,000 of them. They worried they | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
could end up in the wrong hands. have made an investigation for all | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
those weapons. Despite extraordinary access to such bars | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
of weapons we have seen no evidence of the portable missile so powerful | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
they could bring a plane down. The old military assets of Libya | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
lobbied used by a new army. Reports that some weapons across borders is | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
shaking the confidence of neighbours. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
Iran has more than one million historical sites, many of them | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
dating back thousands of years. They have been given or cockles | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
status by UNESCO. There is concern about damage that has been downed | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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by elements and modernisation. Trying to fix the damage to this | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
monument, the world's oldest. It is under the threat of destruction. | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
Iran has more than one million listed monuments. In recent years | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
many been destroyed during danger of being damaged. The destruction | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
comes in different forms. Some say this site is under threat because | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
of new the discovered oil and gas sites nearby. TRANSLATION: Natural | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
factors including wind and rain for her contributed to the damage to | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
the site. Historical experts say that many sites are badly managed. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
People in charge of doing these things do not know the basics of | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
what they're supposed to be doing. And, to be frank, they don't even | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
bother to consult with specialists. Nature or mismanagement? The cracks | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
are spreading over historical sites. The safety of this 16th century | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
imperial palace is now the centre of attention for archaeologists. | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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They blame it tourists and site Segers -- site Sears. Also at a | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
nearby transport facility. Preservation efforts are now under | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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way but some critics take more than two decades to complete. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
TRANSLATION: Diesel important places and we need to spend more | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
time to keep them in shape -- these are all important. In the past year | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Iran registered more sites on the World Heritage List. Archaeologists | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
say that much more must be done to preserve it even more. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
It is just over one year since the blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
at wreak. And now a new series of world is about the dark in even | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
deeper water. It would take place in Cuban waters not far from the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Florida coast. International oil companies are lining up to take | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
part but the plans have angered environmentalists as well as the | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Cuban-American lobby. Cuba has some oil production | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
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although its small onshore sites do not provide -- only provide a magic | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
-- minority of its oil needs. Offshore they believe there is much | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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wills -- Wells starting from next year. The Cuban ageing leadership | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
hopes that it will make Cuba more independent. It is a nightmare for | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
anti-Cuba and lobbyists. The drilling will take place out at sea. | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
Just 15 -- 50 miles away from a Florida. If there was an accident | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
that is where the oil spill would washer saw -- washed ashore. Under | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
the terms of the trade embargo and nobody could come to the assistance | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
of Cuba. The Barack Obama administration is in a difficult | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
position. An election is looming and the Cuban-American lobbying -- | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
lobby wants action to stop the drilling taking place. | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
Environmentalists and the oil industry want the Americans to work | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
with Cuba. We need to prepare them for the kind of things they need to | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
know it to make sure we are protected in terms of a spill. | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
US clean-up terms -- firms would be allowed to operate in Cuban waters | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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if needed. In return American officials could inspect the Chinese | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
wreak. If you drive through the streets of | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
many major at cities you are bound to see walls covered in graffiti | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
but for some artists in New York there are comes with a stronger | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
message. A group designs memorials to those who have died in the South | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
Bronx. Graffiti murals cannot -- grow out | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
of the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. It was one of the birthplaces of | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
the movement. This is one of the ponies. He is one of the artists in | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
this group. Images and paintings like this | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
belong in neighbourhoods like this because this is what will bring art | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
and culture to a lot of kids in the neighbourhood. Over the years the | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
group has grown from an outside -- outlaw groups to well-respected | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
artists. They have never forgotten their roots. They have never | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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forgotten gun violence. This is mad mark. In one if his gigs his | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
stopped a guide from coming in and the guy came back and shot him. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
lot of things have changed but sadly a lot of things have not. | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
sad Bronx is still one of -- South Bronx is still one of the poorest | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
areas in the country. Since 2009 the murder rate is up by 29%. | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
Notice, like that of a 24-year-old man. His mother and sister asked | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
for a smaller, more personal memorial. I cried myself to sleep | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
every night. Christine is not the anyone who has had to deal with | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
this kind of pain. After her brother spent decades trying to | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
bring attention to the issue of violence it hit him. He was killed | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
by a stray bullet at a barbeque. He was only 24. You never know what's | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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coming around the corner. There is no real guarantee for anyone. I'm | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
still going to write his name and dedicate everything to him. It is | :21:43. | :21:50. |