:00:23. > :00:27.Unilever says its offer is generous. In his parents' footsteps, we look
:00:27. > :00:33.at the next generation of India's political dynasty are set off on
:00:33. > :00:36.the road to power. Voices of beer and a finance. The
:00:36. > :00:42.accounts of Syrian exiles who say that Arab League managers have
:00:42. > :00:49.failed to stop the violence. And the effect of a Korean pop
:00:50. > :00:56.culture that is now all the rage in Japan -- Japan.
:00:56. > :01:00.Welcome to Reporters. 2011 was a difficult year for India's
:01:00. > :01:05.governing Congress Party. It was under pressure over corruption
:01:05. > :01:09.scandals, rising prices and an ageing readership. The focus is
:01:09. > :01:13.shifting to the young Rahul Gandhi, a member of the country's Nehru-
:01:13. > :01:21.Gandhi dynasty on him that many arresting their hopes of a revival
:01:21. > :01:25.in the party's fortune. We joined him as he campaigned in Uttar
:01:25. > :01:33.Pradesh, India's most politically influential state.
:01:33. > :01:41.They came in their thousands. All eyes on one young man. Rahul Gandhi.
:01:41. > :01:44.The heir to one of the world's most powerful political dynasties. The
:01:45. > :01:53.Congress government has always worked for your interests.
:01:53. > :01:58.TRANSLATION: Farmers, labourers and the poorest of the poor. This
:01:58. > :02:02.massive public rally is just one of several that Rahul Gandhi has
:02:02. > :02:08.addressed. The people had turned out in great numbers as he pushes
:02:08. > :02:12.on with his a campaign to revive his party's fortunes. There are
:02:12. > :02:17.many within the Congress and outside to want to expand it and
:02:17. > :02:21.take on a more active role in national politics. As he heads off
:02:21. > :02:29.to the next rally they surge towards him before being pushed
:02:29. > :02:35.back by his security. In India, the family is political loyalties to
:02:35. > :02:40.the urge to get up close is irresistible. He obliges. He stops
:02:40. > :02:47.for a cup of tea and a chat with the locals. It is this iconic
:02:47. > :02:52.status that has always delivered. Congress wants to cash in on it.
:02:52. > :03:01.is a brand they recognise. There are few political families today in
:03:01. > :03:05.that position. All these things give the family an advantage. This
:03:05. > :03:15.is still a feudal country. Three generations of the family have
:03:15. > :03:16.
:03:16. > :03:23.governed India. This is also a family touched by tragedy. One
:03:23. > :03:27.member was assassinated. Rahul Gandhi lost his father at 21. He
:03:27. > :03:34.now faces his stiffest test, winning over an India that is more
:03:34. > :03:38.politically complex and with a widening economic disparities. This
:03:38. > :03:42.rice farmer attended the latest rally. It is the support of people
:03:42. > :03:47.like him that the young reader is banking on. TRANSLATION: We're
:03:47. > :03:54.hoping he can make our lives better. Otherwise we will hope for someone
:03:54. > :04:00.else. Some believe that a dynasty of in -- is incompatible with
:04:00. > :04:04.modern democracy. Others see his rise to the top job as inevitable.
:04:04. > :04:11.India may be prepared to embrace him but the question is is he ready
:04:11. > :04:15.for it? The Syrian Government has told the
:04:15. > :04:19.United States to stop meddling and Arab League affairs after
:04:19. > :04:24.Washington said it was past time for the UN Security Council to act
:04:24. > :04:28.as torture and murder continues in Syria. Reports and activists tell
:04:28. > :04:32.of grim conditions on the ground and the country. The injured are
:04:32. > :04:37.often too scared to go to government hospital so they are
:04:37. > :04:43.smuggled into 11 on for treatment. Our correspondent recently met some
:04:43. > :04:53.of those who made it to Tripoli in modern mother none. -- more than 11
:04:53. > :04:58.They are being smuggled across the border. This man was shot by a
:04:58. > :05:04.government sniper, they said. He was hit twice and his chances of
:05:04. > :05:13.survival are only 50%. For those who make it there is treatment in a
:05:13. > :05:20.Lebanese hospital. No-one shows the face. Not even a six-year-old boy.
:05:20. > :05:27.That could mean a knock on the door for relatives back home. This man
:05:27. > :05:34.says he was shot as he tried to flee the latest fighting. This man
:05:34. > :05:39.was also shot, but at a demonstration. He tells me he does
:05:39. > :05:44.not believe government promises to the Arab leader will allow peaceful
:05:44. > :05:54.protest. Recent pictures show that people are still being killed in
:05:54. > :05:55.
:05:55. > :06:00.the street. TRANSLATION: I was hit in the Leader. People tried to help.
:06:00. > :06:06.One stood up and was shot in the head. He died instantly. Another
:06:06. > :06:09.one dragging me away was hit as well. Syrian rebels are smuggling
:06:09. > :06:17.people out for treatment. They say that protesters had been murdered
:06:17. > :06:25.in hospital. One former nurse told us he witnessed for patients being
:06:25. > :06:30.killed. They shouted, come see this spy and they beat him. They stabbed
:06:30. > :06:39.him to death with needles. The people doing this for doctors and
:06:40. > :06:48.nurses. The chances of a peaceful end to this are dwindling. We met a
:06:48. > :06:52.soldier injured in one of these fire fights. He told me he had
:06:52. > :07:00.witnessed summary executions of soldiers refusing to shoot
:07:00. > :07:04.protesters. TRANSLATION: Some of us shot in the air. One of us just
:07:04. > :07:11.refused to shoot at all. He laid his gun on the ground. A security
:07:11. > :07:16.officer killed him. We cannot be independently verified his
:07:17. > :07:21.allegations. It would go a long way to explain why the Syrian army has
:07:21. > :07:31.not been split. If that happened, everything would change. For the
:07:31. > :07:35.time there remains a stalemate on the streets.
:07:35. > :07:40.Malaria is one of the world's biggest killers. In parts of Africa
:07:40. > :07:44.a child dies from the disease every minute. A report out this month
:07:44. > :07:50.from the World Health Organisation shows that significant progress is
:07:50. > :07:54.being made against malaria thanks to the insecticide treated bednets.
:07:54. > :08:01.In some countries, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
:08:01. > :08:09.the problem will not go away. A scramble, not for food, but from
:08:09. > :08:14.that. Cheap, simple mosquito nets. They have emerged as the key weapon
:08:14. > :08:17.in a giant, global campaign to eradicate malaria. In the
:08:17. > :08:24.Democratic Republic of Congo the disease remains the number one
:08:24. > :08:28.killer. At the nets making a difference? The main problem is
:08:28. > :08:33.getting enough next to enough people and teaching them to use
:08:33. > :08:40.them properly. In some places they use them for fishing instead. There
:08:40. > :08:49.is no doubt that they do work. A big distribution in this
:08:49. > :08:53.neighbourhood or reported a cases dropping by a third. But that alone
:08:53. > :08:58.will not kill off the disease. That is because Congo is a hard place to
:08:58. > :09:05.help. For decades it has been tormented by conflict and chaos.
:09:05. > :09:10.The overall number of malaria cases does not seem to be dropping.
:09:10. > :09:15.Malaria kills more than 2,000 children a day. The global mosquito
:09:15. > :09:24.net campaign has gathered huge momentum. Critics say there is too
:09:24. > :09:32.much focus on the nets and not enough on a poverty and security.
:09:32. > :09:42.It is not the only answer. It will help. Is there too much focus on
:09:42. > :09:46.bednets? Sometimes. Malaria has already killed a one over this
:09:46. > :09:55.lady's babies. But for the first time in her life she has been given
:09:55. > :10:00.a net to sleep under. I have lost one child, she says, but that 12 of
:10:00. > :10:10.us in the house and we only have one that. The Congo badly needs
:10:10. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:20.more. But that will not be enough There have been protests in
:10:20. > :10:26.Pakistan and Afghanistan about civilian deaths caused by unmanned
:10:26. > :10:29.drones. This technology is big business in the US. Southern
:10:29. > :10:37.California has become a hub for building and developing these
:10:37. > :10:41.devices. They could soon be used inside the US as well. Wars fought
:10:41. > :10:47.with groans in a futuristic world is how the American Air Force is
:10:47. > :10:50.advertising for new recruits. Thousands of Trans are already in
:10:50. > :10:59.use and every year the US government is spending billions on
:10:59. > :11:09.new ones. In California the race is on to develop the latest and
:11:09. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:13.biggest, or small as -- smallest. In a few weeks the US aviation
:11:13. > :11:20.regulator it is bringing in new rules so local authorities can use
:11:20. > :11:26.them as well. Runs come in all sorts of sizes. This is the wasp,
:11:26. > :11:36.one of the smallest. The one overhead was launched by hand and
:11:36. > :11:36.
:11:36. > :11:42.you can see how good the picture in his. This is the Nano hummingbird,
:11:42. > :11:48.it weighs less than a battery and it is designed to blend in. It has
:11:48. > :11:58.a spy camera on board. New grants designed specifically for the
:11:58. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:06.police are being heavily marketed by private companies. they can go
:12:06. > :12:12.we cannot send a manned aircraft, such as into a hostile environment,
:12:12. > :12:19.chemical fires. You can put it in the trunk of a car. His predecessor
:12:19. > :12:29.came up with the idea after said been in Iraq. We did not use them
:12:29. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:34.in the field, only once. The FAA asked us to stop. That is set to
:12:34. > :12:41.change with the new regulations, allowing more eyes in the sky
:12:41. > :12:49.watching people's backyards. We are accustomed to a world where we are
:12:49. > :12:56.not being observed from a pub, but that world is vanishing. -- above.
:12:56. > :13:01.But it raises privacy concerns. I'll the debate continues about the
:13:01. > :13:08.military use abroad, it may seem become a big issue closer to home.
:13:08. > :13:14.BBC News. Live in Libya is slowly getting back to normal after the
:13:14. > :13:20.revolution, but for Tripoli is to the battle is not have yet. Staff
:13:20. > :13:22.say that money to feed the animals is running out. It is not certain
:13:22. > :13:32.whether the new government will foot the bill. Our correspondent
:13:32. > :13:34.
:13:34. > :13:40.reports. Group taking it easy in Libya's hectic capital. And a
:13:40. > :13:47.morning paddle, some gentle exercise. They are the residents of
:13:47. > :13:53.Tripoli you may not have expected to see. 800 animals in the zoo,
:13:54. > :13:58.which hopes to reopen in a few months. It faces a funding crisis.
:13:58. > :14:03.TRANSLATION: We have not got enough money to feed the animals are we
:14:03. > :14:10.depend on charity. We hope the new government will help us so we did
:14:10. > :14:13.not have to close. The zoo is really important. The worst
:14:13. > :14:18.fighting was just a stone's throw away it but the only damage was
:14:18. > :14:25.when part of a need to rocket crashed into beekeeper enclosure.
:14:25. > :14:30.They were not harmed. The animals are art in a remarkably healthy
:14:30. > :14:36.state and their appetite is back. Recovering from the psychological
:14:36. > :14:41.trauma, beating their way through the limited resources of this move.
:14:41. > :14:47.TRANSLATION: The lines changed during the revolution. They became
:14:47. > :14:57.nervous and did not eaten as much. I was very worried they would be
:14:57. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:05.wounded. The sinister relics of the dead at -- Gaddafi era. He didn't
:15:05. > :15:10.doors leading down to observation rooms. Colonel Gaddafi and his men
:15:10. > :15:18.were climbing beneath the zoo into this network of underground tunnels.
:15:18. > :15:26.It is another sign of her secret gig and -- secretive and eccentric
:15:26. > :15:32.the regime was. The remnants of old intelligence equipment. He knows
:15:32. > :15:37.what secrets were found you. Eight release GM that would help the new
:15:37. > :15:45.media stand on its than four feet. The creatures and the country
:15:45. > :15:49.waiting to open up to the outside world. BBC News. A remote corner of
:15:49. > :15:58.Mexico could soon become a multi- million dollar holiday resort,
:15:58. > :16:02.bringing many jobs to do an area in the far south of Baja California.
:16:02. > :16:09.Many feel that building the complex will damage the fragile ecosystem
:16:09. > :16:14.in the nearby a reef. We report on the challenge of managing to reason
:16:14. > :16:23.in the area surrounding the Sea of Cortes. Exploring one of Mexico's
:16:23. > :16:29.best but secrets. Less than 20 years ago it would have been
:16:29. > :16:34.impossible to imagine this amount of fish. But a decision to suspend
:16:34. > :16:41.industrial fishing has made this section of the Sea of courtiers one
:16:41. > :16:50.of the world's richest marine reserves. The number of creatures
:16:50. > :16:56.were once described as Jacques Cousteau as the world's aquarium.
:16:56. > :17:00.Locals say the area is becoming a tourist Magnus and those who can't
:17:00. > :17:06.relish the stunning underwater experience. Everyone agrees that
:17:06. > :17:12.this is a unique place in the world. The question is how to manage the
:17:12. > :17:17.increasing numbers of tourists. Does the future lie in major
:17:17. > :17:22.development? In a couple of decades a massive project planned for this
:17:22. > :17:27.area will accommodate more than 20,000 people. Developers pledge
:17:27. > :17:35.they will protect the area up despite years that they will ruin
:17:35. > :17:45.its echoes system. Out the first interest will be in protecting the
:17:45. > :17:53.weak. We are willing to invest money, studies, anything within our
:17:53. > :17:59.reach to protect the reef. locals are not convinced and argue
:17:59. > :18:06.the area can any sustained small- scale tourism. When we talk about
:18:06. > :18:16.the reef, it is a little town, very quiet. We want to consider it like
:18:16. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:28.this. -- considered it. the natural beauty of the reef is at the
:18:28. > :18:34.crossroads. The debate is about the access of outsiders to what some
:18:34. > :18:44.call Paradise. The outcome of that debate will determine a crowd and
:18:44. > :18:48.
:18:48. > :18:54.these waters will be in the years to come. BBC News. The relationship
:18:54. > :18:59.between Japan and Korea has been tense mainly due to the legacy of
:18:59. > :19:04.Japanese colonisation in the first half of the 20th century. Old
:19:04. > :19:10.attitudes are challenged by the growing popularity of Korean pop
:19:10. > :19:15.music. Our correspondent reports. Saturday night in Tokyo and a huge
:19:15. > :19:21.crowd has gathered to see some of the country's biggest stars. These
:19:21. > :19:26.days the most successful bands are not Japanese, they are from Korea.
:19:26. > :19:36.K-pop has taken over the chars. This is the latest actor to make it
:19:36. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:45.be. Four goals from -- girls from Seoul with ambition. Why is K-pop
:19:45. > :19:54.so popular? I think it is the whole culture. A lot of K-pop singers are
:19:54. > :20:02.in Japan right now. I think it is the whole culture. The trend has
:20:02. > :20:11.turned it Tokyo's Korean on clay it into a bend town. -- enclave in to
:20:11. > :20:21.aid them town. Restaurants have opened up to cater to the growing
:20:21. > :20:22.
:20:22. > :20:26.demand for Korean third. Jet -- Japan's enthusiasm for Korean
:20:26. > :20:31.culture is unexpected. Before the war, the Korean peninsula was a
:20:32. > :20:38.Japanese colony. The Korean minority have long complained about
:20:38. > :20:44.discrimination. Being accepted in Japanese society was not easier for
:20:44. > :20:54.this family. When her grandparents arrived Koreans were brought to
:20:54. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :21:02.Japan as forced labour. Her parents insisted she grow up using a
:21:02. > :21:07.Japanese name to hide her ancestry, but now being Korean his call.
:21:07. > :21:14.TRANSLATION: I think some people, especially those interested in K-
:21:14. > :21:18.pop, asked me to take them to Korea. Some even say they want to become
:21:18. > :21:23.Korean-Japanese like me. But added not think they understand what it
:21:23. > :21:30.is really like to be Korean in Japan. Life for the K-pop Seniors
:21:30. > :21:39.is not all glamour. This one performs five times a day to wait