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More in 30 minutes. It is time for We get a rare report from a tent | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
city in Syria. It exposes the ugly side of the cotton industry. Ten- | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
year-old children work in India. Man's gaze of the light, we view | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the latest work of a British artist as a major exhibition opens in | :00:44. | :00:53. | |
London. Welcome To Reporters. It is ten | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
months since demonstration in the Syrian city sparked an uprising | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
against President Assad. Since then, thousands have been killed and the | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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protest spread through the country. We have gained rare access into the | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
regime of. The regime does not like unexpected visitors. We went in on | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
a government trip. This is the town where the uprising started last | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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March. He mastered Syria with a rule of iron. His son, the current | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
President, still promises reform. He is using his father's methods. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
The Governor remained a foreign conspiracy, like his son. Why would | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
it be necessary to have all these Czech wines, sandbags, guns and | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
soldiers? -- checkpoints. TRANSLATION: There are protesters | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
and there are armed people. There are also those who kill for money | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
and they use drugs. People using drugs were involved in the | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
demonstrators there? I will not talk about Gaddafi. On the streets, | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
people were well aware of the cameras and the government as gods. | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
No problems here, said the owner. Syria is in their worst crisis | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
since their independence in 1946. This city is still troubled. Almost | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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one year after the arrest of children. There were after prayers | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
of this task. It is the symbol of the uprising which is why the army | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
is in control of it now. A group of men called to ask when they saw us. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Then they saw we were with a group of secret policemen. They | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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disappeared. Then a man reappeared further up. He gestured towards us. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
He said his position was used by its divers. Our escorts state- | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
backed. TRANSLATION: This is a straightforward martyrs. Come See | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
for yourself. He says there are security man and army all over the | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
place. The Assad gangs are killing people. They break into our houses | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
and arrest us after we are gone, he said. He said 18 had been killed in | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
their street in ten months. This is a portrait of her 13-year-old boy | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
who says they were shot by security forces. Nine decide had been beaten | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
and neither can win. Unless there is a political deal, Syria will | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
continue to -- its slide into civil war. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Major clothing stores across the UK are being urged to do more to stop | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
child labour in their supply chains. The BBC has seen evidence that in | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
India, children as an as 10 are working in bandage -- dangerous | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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conditions for little pay. On a transport system from another age, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the cotton harvest is taken to market. Here in rural India is the | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
bottom end of a global supply changed. -- chain. This auction is | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
an early stage in an industry which generates billions. But local | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
activists showed us how little of that wealth comebacks here. It | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
begins with child workers in the cotton fields. This girl is not at | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
school sheeting she is ten years old but she is not sure. She picks | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
cotton for long hours with her older sister. Their arms are | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
covered in scratches. TRANSLATION: We came up for all five months ago. | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
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The work is hard. The next step is processing the cotton. We found | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
children reading end of thick with cotton dust which can cause chronic | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
lung disease at an early age. No sign of protective clothing or | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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masks. Local activists call it the horror of the White cloud. It is | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
impossible to say but the kids look at no more or older than 11 or 12. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
Many come from far away, send in bulk by Labour agents. Trade | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
unionists say they had been campaigning for change for years. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
The government is getting richer and richer and the lack of the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
worker is getting worse. -- the life. We visited three factories, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
all were pretty much the same. Despite us openly filming, the | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
manager said everything was in order. Further on in the supply | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
chain, working conditions improve dramatically. Here, big British | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
retailers by Dexter's the directly from this company. The workers are | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
well looked after, masks are routine. Most big high-street | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
stores cannot trace their cotton to their souls. Nine a week, -- nine | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
we conducted would be issued. They said they do not tolerate bad | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
labour practices. But does this Prom has extended his factory? We | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
found two children far away from home. A worker would be as they | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
were sent here from a distant village by their parents. They | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
never get paid. They are only 11. Their work is in a well the | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
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industry that does not know how or where much of its cotton is made. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Staying with the theme of Child exploitation, the Swiss government | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
has been asked to apologise to thousands of the country's children | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
who were taken away from their families and sent to work at farms | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
in a scheme that ensued -- ended more than 50 years ago. Many say | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
they were abused and treated as slave labour. It is only now that | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
the story of these children have emerged. This man is remembering | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
his childhood. This is the only picture of himself he has. Behind | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
it lies a story of exploitation and abuse. TRANSLATION: One morning, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
when I was four, my mother took me on a train to the country. He said | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
I had -- she said I had his day there. That is when I lost my faith | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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in people. I had to work on the start and they hit me every day. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
was an indentured child. A common practice in Switzerland until the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
1950s. Children were taken away from parents authorities deemed | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
unfit and sends -- was sent to work on farms. Today, Switzerland is a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
wealthy country but until the mid- 20th century they were poor and | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
rural. Tens of thousands of children were sent away to farms | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
where they had to work for nothing. Many were beaten and abused. But | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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until now, it was not something the After decades of silence, a feature | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
film about this has become a box- office hit. They've got letters | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
e were confiscated. And an exhibition | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
of with detailed accounts. It is forcing Switzerland to face up to | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
the past. It is time to talk about it. We tell our friends. Every | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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third person says, my mother and my grandfather was a victim. | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
publicity cannot give back the lost years and it damaged lives. Peter | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
had little education and now cannot work. TRANSLATION: My child would | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
was stolen from me. One icy little children I feel like saying, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
imagine if someone took your child away and sent him off to strangers. | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
She cannot imagine that. I can scarcely imagine it now. But as | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
awareness grows, pressure is growing as well for more support | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
for surviving contract children for financial compensation, perhaps. Or | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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an official apology at least from Darfur is no longer be headline for | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
humanitarian crisis. The repercussions of the confits is | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
still being felt by refugees. The aid official who tried to raise the | :11:40. | :11:49. | |
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alarm of many years ago has now been expelled from Chad. Our | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
correspondent has been talking to him. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Aisha was just a baby when war and disease took away both her parents | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
in a Darfur. She is one of 200,000 refugees from the conflicts in | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
camps in eastern Chad. It was the first genocide of the 21st century. | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Ten years after the dreadful events in Darfur began, the survivors are | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
still unable to return it to their homes. The world was powerless to | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
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prevent the campaign of murder against the people of Darfur. Now, | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
the man who first revealed what was going on, the former I UN chief in | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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a Darfur, has been banned from visiting the camps. These are | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
reminders of the genocidal war 10 he is ago, which continues to this | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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day. -- ten years ago. It is getting worse, not better. Broken | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
families still come across the border, leaving behind the chaos of | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
Darfur, to live in the refugee camps. | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
Staying in Africa, two well-known aid agencies say thousands of lives | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
lost because of warnings about a family in East Africa were not | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
taken seriously. -- a famine. They say it agencies took months to | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
respond and there are now worries as a new threats in West Africa. -- | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
worries about a new threat. The mothers are waiting for this | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
health clinic to open. Their children need treatment for | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
malnutrition. It is this baby's third visit and she is showing | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
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progress. Many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition across | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
this area of Africa. The last rain stops early in many places and | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
pests it damages to crops. This is supposed to be one of the bread | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
baskets of the country. The water seems more precious than usual. The | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
harbours only gave us 10% of the food we need, this woman says. A | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
husband went to Nigeria to find work. She has to fetch wood and | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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water. This -- there is crane on sale in the markets but the poor | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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cannot afford the prices. -- is grain. There is still a shortage of | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
500,000 tonnes. This places more importance on the way in which | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
sensors like this show mothers have they can reduce the chances their | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
children will become malnourished - - centres. There is a window of a | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
couple of months to get help to the most vulnerable. There is every | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
likelihood the world will have another humanitarian crisis on its | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
hand. Ostrich meat has been growing in | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
popularity in Europe. Supplies from the biggest farming industry in | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
South Africa currently banned from the EU because of but a break of | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
avian flu, which has led to thousands of the birds being | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
slaughtered. Farmers are starting to worry the industry may never | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
recover. The Western Cape it is home to the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
largest population of four hostages in the world but that is now under | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
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threat. -- these birds. It is costing the industry $80 million a | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
month. Zackie Jonker is one of the leading exporters in this area. He | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
has lost more than 6,000 birds in the last two months. Here, he | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
priest hundreds of birds under strict EU regulations. Austerities | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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are culling birds on all properties where even just one animal | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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contracted the disease -- he breeds. The farmers want new rules to be | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
introduced, different from the current protocol. Unlike paltry | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
which is rich in confined places, these birds have asked areas. More | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
than 40,000 birds have been killed in this region alone. On this farm, | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
39 people have lost their jobs. Normally used -- you would see many | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
of people in this area. This is Highgate Ostrich Show Farm, popular | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
with local and international tourists. Hundreds come here to | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
ride and buying the products. -- and buy the products. Arenhold | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
Hooper owns the farm. For the first time in 80 years, the farm is | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
without birds. We have had to switch off lights and try to save | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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wherever we can. Our resources are running out. There is not much time. | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
While he carefully nurtures his baby birds, he does everything he | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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A major exhibition of the landscape work of the British artist David | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Hockney has opened at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is a show that | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
includes enormous canvases drawing form films, displaying up on video | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
screens. It is inspired by the landscapes of his native Yorkshire | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
in northern England. We went to me saying and heard his views on art, | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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and life. -- we went to meet him. As his pictures get bigger, he has | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
bigger queues, and he wants us to step back and think about the | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
bigger picture. The majority of the exhibition is about his recent work, | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
which is the landscape of his home county of Yorkshire. | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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Why Yorkshire? It was not plan. I told my friends in Los Angeles, I | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
am on a location, as they say in Hollywood. How much of the | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
Hollywood hills are in these paintings? California has amazing | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
light. The light is not as intense in Yorkshire but there is more | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
variety. What do you think about wind farms? There is PC in | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
everything. Even in a wind farm. -- beauty. Sometimes they dump rubbish, | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
old refrigerators. Sometimes I think, how can they do it, but | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
other times, I think that looks quite nice next to that tree. | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
of the things you have to live with is the moniker of being written's | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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best artist. -- Britain's. I am not to social, I am to death. Deafness | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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plays a part in all of this. -- I am a too deaf. First there was | :21:47. | :21:52. |