:00:25. > :00:32.More in 30 minutes. It is time for We get a rare report from a tent
:00:32. > :00:40.city in Syria. It exposes the ugly side of the cotton industry. Ten-
:00:40. > :00:44.year-old children work in India. Man's gaze of the light, we view
:00:44. > :00:53.the latest work of a British artist as a major exhibition opens in
:00:53. > :00:57.London. Welcome To Reporters. It is ten
:00:57. > :01:03.months since demonstration in the Syrian city sparked an uprising
:01:03. > :01:13.against President Assad. Since then, thousands have been killed and the
:01:13. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:23.protest spread through the country. We have gained rare access into the
:01:23. > :01:29.regime of. The regime does not like unexpected visitors. We went in on
:01:29. > :01:39.a government trip. This is the town where the uprising started last
:01:39. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:51.March. He mastered Syria with a rule of iron. His son, the current
:01:51. > :01:57.President, still promises reform. He is using his father's methods.
:01:57. > :02:03.The Governor remained a foreign conspiracy, like his son. Why would
:02:03. > :02:12.it be necessary to have all these Czech wines, sandbags, guns and
:02:12. > :02:15.soldiers? -- checkpoints. TRANSLATION: There are protesters
:02:15. > :02:22.and there are armed people. There are also those who kill for money
:02:22. > :02:30.and they use drugs. People using drugs were involved in the
:02:30. > :02:36.demonstrators there? I will not talk about Gaddafi. On the streets,
:02:36. > :02:44.people were well aware of the cameras and the government as gods.
:02:44. > :02:49.No problems here, said the owner. Syria is in their worst crisis
:02:49. > :02:59.since their independence in 1946. This city is still troubled. Almost
:02:59. > :02:59.
:02:59. > :03:03.one year after the arrest of children. There were after prayers
:03:03. > :03:11.of this task. It is the symbol of the uprising which is why the army
:03:11. > :03:14.is in control of it now. A group of men called to ask when they saw us.
:03:14. > :03:24.Then they saw we were with a group of secret policemen. They
:03:24. > :03:28.
:03:28. > :03:33.disappeared. Then a man reappeared further up. He gestured towards us.
:03:33. > :03:42.He said his position was used by its divers. Our escorts state-
:03:42. > :03:50.backed. TRANSLATION: This is a straightforward martyrs. Come See
:03:50. > :03:57.for yourself. He says there are security man and army all over the
:03:57. > :04:02.place. The Assad gangs are killing people. They break into our houses
:04:02. > :04:10.and arrest us after we are gone, he said. He said 18 had been killed in
:04:10. > :04:14.their street in ten months. This is a portrait of her 13-year-old boy
:04:14. > :04:20.who says they were shot by security forces. Nine decide had been beaten
:04:20. > :04:26.and neither can win. Unless there is a political deal, Syria will
:04:26. > :04:31.continue to -- its slide into civil war.
:04:31. > :04:36.Major clothing stores across the UK are being urged to do more to stop
:04:36. > :04:41.child labour in their supply chains. The BBC has seen evidence that in
:04:41. > :04:51.India, children as an as 10 are working in bandage -- dangerous
:04:51. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:03.conditions for little pay. On a transport system from another age,
:05:03. > :05:12.the cotton harvest is taken to market. Here in rural India is the
:05:12. > :05:20.bottom end of a global supply changed. -- chain. This auction is
:05:20. > :05:24.an early stage in an industry which generates billions. But local
:05:24. > :05:33.activists showed us how little of that wealth comebacks here. It
:05:33. > :05:38.begins with child workers in the cotton fields. This girl is not at
:05:38. > :05:41.school sheeting she is ten years old but she is not sure. She picks
:05:41. > :05:50.cotton for long hours with her older sister. Their arms are
:05:50. > :06:00.covered in scratches. TRANSLATION: We came up for all five months ago.
:06:00. > :06:02.
:06:02. > :06:05.The work is hard. The next step is processing the cotton. We found
:06:05. > :06:10.children reading end of thick with cotton dust which can cause chronic
:06:10. > :06:20.lung disease at an early age. No sign of protective clothing or
:06:20. > :06:22.
:06:22. > :06:28.masks. Local activists call it the horror of the White cloud. It is
:06:28. > :06:34.impossible to say but the kids look at no more or older than 11 or 12.
:06:34. > :06:39.Many come from far away, send in bulk by Labour agents. Trade
:06:39. > :06:47.unionists say they had been campaigning for change for years.
:06:47. > :06:53.The government is getting richer and richer and the lack of the
:06:54. > :06:59.worker is getting worse. -- the life. We visited three factories,
:06:59. > :07:06.all were pretty much the same. Despite us openly filming, the
:07:06. > :07:12.manager said everything was in order. Further on in the supply
:07:12. > :07:17.chain, working conditions improve dramatically. Here, big British
:07:17. > :07:25.retailers by Dexter's the directly from this company. The workers are
:07:25. > :07:31.well looked after, masks are routine. Most big high-street
:07:31. > :07:34.stores cannot trace their cotton to their souls. Nine a week, -- nine
:07:34. > :07:42.we conducted would be issued. They said they do not tolerate bad
:07:42. > :07:50.labour practices. But does this Prom has extended his factory? We
:07:50. > :07:53.found two children far away from home. A worker would be as they
:07:53. > :08:02.were sent here from a distant village by their parents. They
:08:02. > :08:12.never get paid. They are only 11. Their work is in a well the
:08:12. > :08:13.
:08:13. > :08:17.industry that does not know how or where much of its cotton is made.
:08:17. > :08:20.Staying with the theme of Child exploitation, the Swiss government
:08:20. > :08:26.has been asked to apologise to thousands of the country's children
:08:26. > :08:32.who were taken away from their families and sent to work at farms
:08:32. > :08:37.in a scheme that ensued -- ended more than 50 years ago. Many say
:08:37. > :08:44.they were abused and treated as slave labour. It is only now that
:08:44. > :08:49.the story of these children have emerged. This man is remembering
:08:49. > :08:57.his childhood. This is the only picture of himself he has. Behind
:08:57. > :09:03.it lies a story of exploitation and abuse. TRANSLATION: One morning,
:09:03. > :09:08.when I was four, my mother took me on a train to the country. He said
:09:08. > :09:18.I had -- she said I had his day there. That is when I lost my faith
:09:18. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:24.in people. I had to work on the start and they hit me every day.
:09:24. > :09:28.was an indentured child. A common practice in Switzerland until the
:09:29. > :09:35.1950s. Children were taken away from parents authorities deemed
:09:35. > :09:38.unfit and sends -- was sent to work on farms. Today, Switzerland is a
:09:39. > :09:42.wealthy country but until the mid- 20th century they were poor and
:09:42. > :09:49.rural. Tens of thousands of children were sent away to farms
:09:49. > :09:59.where they had to work for nothing. Many were beaten and abused. But
:09:59. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:08.until now, it was not something the After decades of silence, a feature
:10:08. > :10:15.film about this has become a box- office hit. They've got letters
:10:15. > :10:19.e were confiscated. And an exhibition
:10:19. > :10:28.of with detailed accounts. It is forcing Switzerland to face up to
:10:28. > :10:38.the past. It is time to talk about it. We tell our friends. Every
:10:38. > :10:38.
:10:38. > :10:44.third person says, my mother and my grandfather was a victim.
:10:44. > :10:49.publicity cannot give back the lost years and it damaged lives. Peter
:10:49. > :10:54.had little education and now cannot work. TRANSLATION: My child would
:10:54. > :10:58.was stolen from me. One icy little children I feel like saying,
:10:58. > :11:05.imagine if someone took your child away and sent him off to strangers.
:11:05. > :11:09.She cannot imagine that. I can scarcely imagine it now. But as
:11:09. > :11:16.awareness grows, pressure is growing as well for more support
:11:16. > :11:26.for surviving contract children for financial compensation, perhaps. Or
:11:26. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:35.an official apology at least from Darfur is no longer be headline for
:11:35. > :11:39.humanitarian crisis. The repercussions of the confits is
:11:40. > :11:49.still being felt by refugees. The aid official who tried to raise the
:11:50. > :11:54.
:11:55. > :12:00.alarm of many years ago has now been expelled from Chad. Our
:12:00. > :12:05.correspondent has been talking to him.
:12:05. > :12:12.Aisha was just a baby when war and disease took away both her parents
:12:12. > :12:18.in a Darfur. She is one of 200,000 refugees from the conflicts in
:12:18. > :12:24.camps in eastern Chad. It was the first genocide of the 21st century.
:12:24. > :12:31.Ten years after the dreadful events in Darfur began, the survivors are
:12:31. > :12:41.still unable to return it to their homes. The world was powerless to
:12:41. > :12:42.
:12:42. > :12:48.prevent the campaign of murder against the people of Darfur. Now,
:12:48. > :12:58.the man who first revealed what was going on, the former I UN chief in
:12:58. > :12:59.
:12:59. > :13:04.a Darfur, has been banned from visiting the camps. These are
:13:04. > :13:14.reminders of the genocidal war 10 he is ago, which continues to this
:13:14. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:20.day. -- ten years ago. It is getting worse, not better. Broken
:13:20. > :13:27.families still come across the border, leaving behind the chaos of
:13:27. > :13:33.Darfur, to live in the refugee camps.
:13:33. > :13:37.Staying in Africa, two well-known aid agencies say thousands of lives
:13:37. > :13:44.lost because of warnings about a family in East Africa were not
:13:44. > :13:53.taken seriously. -- a famine. They say it agencies took months to
:13:53. > :13:58.respond and there are now worries as a new threats in West Africa. --
:13:58. > :14:03.worries about a new threat. The mothers are waiting for this
:14:04. > :14:09.health clinic to open. Their children need treatment for
:14:10. > :14:19.malnutrition. It is this baby's third visit and she is showing
:14:20. > :14:20.
:14:20. > :14:30.progress. Many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition across
:14:30. > :14:36.this area of Africa. The last rain stops early in many places and
:14:36. > :14:45.pests it damages to crops. This is supposed to be one of the bread
:14:45. > :14:51.baskets of the country. The water seems more precious than usual. The
:14:51. > :14:58.harbours only gave us 10% of the food we need, this woman says. A
:14:58. > :15:08.husband went to Nigeria to find work. She has to fetch wood and
:15:08. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:20.water. This -- there is crane on sale in the markets but the poor
:15:20. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:37.cannot afford the prices. -- is grain. There is still a shortage of
:15:37. > :15:42.500,000 tonnes. This places more importance on the way in which
:15:43. > :15:47.sensors like this show mothers have they can reduce the chances their
:15:47. > :15:55.children will become malnourished - - centres. There is a window of a
:15:55. > :15:58.couple of months to get help to the most vulnerable. There is every
:15:58. > :16:06.likelihood the world will have another humanitarian crisis on its
:16:06. > :16:11.hand. Ostrich meat has been growing in
:16:12. > :16:18.popularity in Europe. Supplies from the biggest farming industry in
:16:18. > :16:22.South Africa currently banned from the EU because of but a break of
:16:22. > :16:26.avian flu, which has led to thousands of the birds being
:16:26. > :16:31.slaughtered. Farmers are starting to worry the industry may never
:16:31. > :16:35.recover. The Western Cape it is home to the
:16:35. > :16:45.largest population of four hostages in the world but that is now under
:16:45. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:53.threat. -- these birds. It is costing the industry $80 million a
:16:53. > :16:59.month. Zackie Jonker is one of the leading exporters in this area. He
:16:59. > :17:05.has lost more than 6,000 birds in the last two months. Here, he
:17:05. > :17:15.priest hundreds of birds under strict EU regulations. Austerities
:17:15. > :17:17.
:17:17. > :17:27.are culling birds on all properties where even just one animal
:17:27. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:33.contracted the disease -- he breeds. The farmers want new rules to be
:17:33. > :17:39.introduced, different from the current protocol. Unlike paltry
:17:39. > :17:45.which is rich in confined places, these birds have asked areas. More
:17:45. > :17:54.than 40,000 birds have been killed in this region alone. On this farm,
:17:54. > :18:03.39 people have lost their jobs. Normally used -- you would see many
:18:03. > :18:07.of people in this area. This is Highgate Ostrich Show Farm, popular
:18:07. > :18:15.with local and international tourists. Hundreds come here to
:18:15. > :18:22.ride and buying the products. -- and buy the products. Arenhold
:18:22. > :18:32.Hooper owns the farm. For the first time in 80 years, the farm is
:18:32. > :18:42.without birds. We have had to switch off lights and try to save
:18:42. > :18:42.
:18:43. > :18:51.wherever we can. Our resources are running out. There is not much time.
:18:51. > :19:01.While he carefully nurtures his baby birds, he does everything he
:19:01. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:11.A major exhibition of the landscape work of the British artist David
:19:11. > :19:17.Hockney has opened at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is a show that
:19:17. > :19:23.includes enormous canvases drawing form films, displaying up on video
:19:23. > :19:29.screens. It is inspired by the landscapes of his native Yorkshire
:19:29. > :19:39.in northern England. We went to me saying and heard his views on art,
:19:39. > :19:40.
:19:40. > :19:44.and life. -- we went to meet him. As his pictures get bigger, he has
:19:44. > :19:49.bigger queues, and he wants us to step back and think about the
:19:49. > :19:58.bigger picture. The majority of the exhibition is about his recent work,
:19:58. > :20:08.which is the landscape of his home county of Yorkshire.
:20:08. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:18.Why Yorkshire? It was not plan. I told my friends in Los Angeles, I
:20:18. > :20:27.am on a location, as they say in Hollywood. How much of the
:20:27. > :20:35.Hollywood hills are in these paintings? California has amazing
:20:35. > :20:44.light. The light is not as intense in Yorkshire but there is more
:20:44. > :20:53.variety. What do you think about wind farms? There is PC in
:20:53. > :21:00.everything. Even in a wind farm. -- beauty. Sometimes they dump rubbish,
:21:00. > :21:10.old refrigerators. Sometimes I think, how can they do it, but
:21:10. > :21:19.other times, I think that looks quite nice next to that tree.
:21:19. > :21:29.of the things you have to live with is the moniker of being written's
:21:29. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:42.best artist. -- Britain's. I am not to social, I am to death. Deafness
:21:42. > :21:47.
:21:47. > :21:52.plays a part in all of this. -- I am a too deaf. First there was