:00:17. > :00:20.who became involved in the dispute. Right now it is time for Reporters.
:00:20. > :00:26.Marching to the drumbeat of a boom, Mexico's economy is growing fast
:00:26. > :00:29.but can it lift the poor out of poverty?
:00:29. > :00:35.Jonathan Head on the plight of thousands of illegal African
:00:35. > :00:38.migrants in Libya after failing to reach Europe.
:00:38. > :00:47.And now starring behind the camera, Angelina Jolie tells Alan Little
:00:47. > :00:51.why she was so terrified while making a film on the Bosnian war.
:00:51. > :00:55.Hello and welcome to Reporters with Zeinab Badawi. When you think of
:00:55. > :00:58.Mexico it is hard to escape the image of a country blighted by a
:00:58. > :01:01.long and bloody war from drugs. More than 50,000 people have been
:01:01. > :01:05.killed since President Calderon launched his offensive against the
:01:05. > :01:08.cartels five years ago. But still there are surprisingly positive
:01:08. > :01:18.tales to tell, Mexico's economy is improving and it has been for the
:01:18. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:29.last few years. There is more to the country than meets the eye.
:01:29. > :01:33.In this village the school spends Saturdays rehearsing military tunes.
:01:33. > :01:37.Mexicans are famously proud of their country. In this region the
:01:37. > :01:42.drug wars and violence are a world away. The only insecurity is
:01:42. > :01:46.economic. Nearly half the population lives in poverty. Today
:01:46. > :01:50.much of Mexico looks like this. Stuck in agriculture from a
:01:50. > :01:55.different age. But this isn't what the country wants for the next
:01:55. > :01:57.generation. The challenge now for Mexico is can it pull itself up
:01:58. > :02:04.from this and leave behind the relative poverty of a developing
:02:04. > :02:10.country? It is on the verge. There's a surprising story of the
:02:10. > :02:13.economic success here. But Mexico isn't quite what you might think.
:02:13. > :02:18.This is an economy on the move. Last year Mexico grew faster than
:02:18. > :02:25.Brazil. By 2050 it is expected to oust France as the fifth largest
:02:25. > :02:32.economy in the world. It is very complex and very precise and we
:02:32. > :02:37.produce all that stuff here in Mexico. Stephane manufactures jet
:02:37. > :02:41.engines for the French aerospace giant Safran. It is as high tech as
:02:41. > :02:44.any industry anywhere in the developed world. It was lured here
:02:44. > :02:52.by cheap educated labour and proximity to America and has been
:02:52. > :02:59.pleasantly surprised. It is more profitable, easier to work. We have
:02:59. > :03:04.very few turnaround of people. It is far better than what we were
:03:04. > :03:13.expecting. But Mexico's economic promise is hampered most obviously
:03:13. > :03:16.by the government war against the drug cartels. Tourism has been
:03:16. > :03:18.discouraged by the war, industry has been discouraged by the war,
:03:18. > :03:28.other forms of involvement because they ask why they should be
:03:28. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:33.involved if their families are going to be slaughtered or held up.
:03:33. > :03:38.For the pupils of Cinco de Mayo primary school a brighter future
:03:38. > :03:44.also demands a better education. Less than half of Mexican children
:03:44. > :03:50.finish secondary school. But things are slowly improving and the
:03:50. > :04:00.children here have big ambitions. What do they want to be when they
:04:00. > :04:05.
:04:05. > :04:07.grow up? And if they reach those dreams Mexico will be better for it.
:04:07. > :04:10.During Gaddafi the Libyan economy depended on migrant workers from
:04:10. > :04:13.sub-Saharan Africa, but things have changed and one small Libyan town
:04:13. > :04:23.is now pleading for help with the growing influx of illegal
:04:23. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:33.immigrants coming across the border. The road runs south into the
:04:33. > :04:38.vastness of Africa. Bringing trade to Libya but also growing numbers
:04:38. > :04:41.of illegal migrants. This is the main checkpoint between the desert
:04:41. > :04:51.and the capital, Tripoli, and they have just found a Nigerian couple
:04:51. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :05:02.in this car with no visas. They question the man. He has come for
:05:02. > :05:09.work, he says. But black Africans are viewed with suspicion now. Many
:05:09. > :05:12.of them fought for Gaddafi. They have caught more. Authorities here
:05:12. > :05:22.say they have found hundreds trying to get to Tripoli and then Europe
:05:22. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:28.every day and they can barely cope. I want a little bit of money.
:05:28. > :05:32.Isaac is 23 and he is from Ghana. It is his first time in Libya and
:05:32. > :05:39.he and his friends have paid a lot to come this far all in the hope of
:05:39. > :05:42.a better life. Most of the Africans we have seen detained here appear
:05:42. > :05:44.to be no more than economic migrants desperate for work. But
:05:44. > :05:47.the fighters guarding this post are understandably nervous that among
:05:47. > :05:57.them could be Gaddafi loyalists coming in to cause trouble for the
:05:57. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:02.anniversary of last year's uprising. They are running out of space to
:06:02. > :06:05.keep them. More than 600 are being held in this isolated detention
:06:05. > :06:13.centre with just a handful of volunteers to guard them and very
:06:13. > :06:16.little funding. Most of them want to go to Europe, this is just a
:06:16. > :06:22.transit place. They know there's no government in Libya and it is easy
:06:22. > :06:32.here and that is why they come in big numbers. Each of these steel
:06:32. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:35.sheds houses around 50 men. Inside they are subjected to a torrent of
:06:35. > :06:44.complaints. There is no communication, nobody knows our
:06:44. > :06:50.whereabouts. We must communicate to our family. We don't get enough to
:06:50. > :06:54.eat and we're all sick, said this despairing man from Niger. The
:06:54. > :07:00.guards running this camp say they are just as desperate to have these
:07:00. > :07:07.migrants off their hands. But they can't simply release them. It is a
:07:08. > :07:10.humanitarian challenge Libya's new rulers are ill-equipped to meet.
:07:10. > :07:14.The Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has chosen a very
:07:14. > :07:17.controversial and gritty subject for her debut as a film director.
:07:17. > :07:23.Her movie, 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey', is set against the
:07:23. > :07:26.backdrop of the Bosnian war. It is the story of a romance between a
:07:26. > :07:36.Bosnian Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman and what happens when
:07:36. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:41.he becomes an army officer and she is held in a military prison camp.
:07:41. > :07:44.Alan Little reported on the war for the BBC and he returned to Sarajevo
:07:44. > :07:50.to see the film's premiere. For 40 months the streets were
:07:50. > :07:54.besieged and bombarded. The memory is raw and ever present. 20 years
:07:54. > :08:00.on Sarajevo still wants its story told. It has found an unlikely new
:08:00. > :08:02.champion. The demand for tickets was enormous so they moved the
:08:02. > :08:09.screening to a former Olympic sports stadium. The warmth of the
:08:09. > :08:14.welcome was spontaneous, momentarily overpowering. But this
:08:14. > :08:18.is not an easy film. It depicts in bleak and chilling detail the
:08:18. > :08:26.brutal forced removals of non-Serbs, so-called ethnic cleansing. At its
:08:26. > :08:29.heart there is a doomed love story across the ethnic divide. Many
:08:29. > :08:39.people left feeling Bosnia's story has been told at last in unsparing
:08:39. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:49.honesty. Everybody who was here said they knew what happened.
:08:49. > :08:54.
:08:54. > :08:57.year during this war I feel this movie told what happened. Angelina
:08:57. > :08:59.Jolie wrote the script herself. She had been nervous about how Bosnians
:08:59. > :09:03.would react. Will they feel comfortable with this? Will they
:09:03. > :09:11.embrace it, will they be upset? I don't know and I was terrified.
:09:11. > :09:15.When they stood up I just wanted to cry. But the divisions remain. Go
:09:16. > :09:21.to the Serbian half of the country and you enter a parallel universe.
:09:21. > :09:24.Angelina Jolie is not welcome here. TRANSLATION: Serbs have never
:09:24. > :09:29.denied that crimes were committed but by individuals, not by the
:09:29. > :09:36.whole Serbian nation. She rejects the charge that the film is not
:09:36. > :09:39.balanced. The war was not balanced, she says. People are saying it
:09:39. > :09:43.should be 50/50, it should be equal, I don't understand that. The war
:09:43. > :09:46.was not that way. They are looking for a balance that does not exist.
:09:46. > :09:51.They don't want to see these atrocities, they don't want to be
:09:51. > :09:58.reminded of these atrocities. Some people want to deny it even
:09:58. > :10:05.happened. Outside the stadium there is a starkly poignant place. 20
:10:05. > :10:08.years ago it was a playing field. In 1992 it became a cemetery. We
:10:08. > :10:11.came to a lot of funerals here during the war, they happen every
:10:11. > :10:14.day, but the cemetery itself was exposed to shell and sniper fire
:10:14. > :10:17.from the hills around so families would come and bury their dead
:10:17. > :10:27.quickly and say a prayer and then hurry off to find safety. By the
:10:27. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:36.time the war ended this place was full and 2,500 Sarajevans were dead.
:10:36. > :10:41.Bosnia's wounds have not healed. This film, for all its searing
:10:41. > :10:44.honesty, exposes a country divided and unreconcilable to its past.
:10:44. > :10:49.In Helmand Afghan forces have begun their own operations against the
:10:49. > :10:54.Taliban. The BBC was allowed to go on one of the first big missions
:10:54. > :10:57.are entirely planned and executed by the Afghan army in the province.
:10:57. > :11:00.British troops were only supposed to be advising but as Quentin
:11:00. > :11:05.Somerville discovered they did most of the heavy lifting for the Afghan
:11:05. > :11:10.forces. Just before daybreak in northern
:11:10. > :11:17.Helmand province hundreds of soldiers are on the move. This is
:11:17. > :11:21.an Afghan army operation. British soldiers are in the rear. They
:11:21. > :11:24.won't be doing any of the fighting. On the ground these British
:11:24. > :11:28.advisers are trying to get the Afghan army to go it alone as they
:11:28. > :11:36.search for the Taliban. The Afghan general in charge is brimming with
:11:36. > :11:45.He tells me, our foreign friends are in the back giving us support,
:11:45. > :11:49.but we know this area better. Only we can search the houses. Not
:11:49. > :11:53.foreigners. It does not go too badly for the general. They are
:11:53. > :11:57.helped by the fact that there are not many Taliban around. Most had
:11:57. > :12:00.disappeared for the winter. This was supposed to be an Afghan
:12:00. > :12:07.operation. These so-called British advisers are doing a lot more than
:12:07. > :12:12.just advising. They are still performing a most essential task.
:12:12. > :12:17.They go to recover a vehicle hit by a Taliban bomb. But they are
:12:17. > :12:21.stopped in their tracks by another suspect device. Leaving the safety
:12:21. > :12:29.of their armoured truck, they inch closer, reaching out to clear their
:12:29. > :12:32.path. After a tense hour and a half, the bomb is revealed as a decoy.
:12:32. > :12:36.Compare these flimsy Afghan army pick ups, easy for the Taliban to
:12:36. > :12:46.target, to this British Jackal, it is far more deadly and more
:12:46. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:51.difficult to destroy. Tactically, they are very good. When they come
:12:51. > :12:54.to a fight, they are up to it. It is the bigger picture, ensuring
:12:54. > :12:58.they have got the capability to service all their vehicles, to get
:12:58. > :13:02.the logistics up and running, to keep what is actually a huge army
:13:02. > :13:07.on the road and in the fight. is being asked of Afghan security
:13:07. > :13:10.forces. This lot are the Afghan police. Britain wants to speed up
:13:10. > :13:14.the handover, allowing its troops to draw back sooner, but if the
:13:14. > :13:24.transfer comes too early, it runs the risk of Afghan forces being
:13:24. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:28.North Korea has just marked the 70th birthday of its late leader,
:13:28. > :13:33.Kim Jong Il. His cult of personality dominated this nuclear-
:13:33. > :13:36.armed country for more than two decades. But since his sudden death
:13:36. > :13:42.in December, North Korea has been headed by a much less familiar
:13:42. > :13:51.figure, his son, Kim Jong Un. Our correspondent has been looking at
:13:51. > :13:55.their very different personal Identities are Mr Kim's bread and
:13:55. > :14:00.butter. In South Korea, business cards and rubber stamps are
:14:00. > :14:03.essential daily items. Ironic, because when he is not validating
:14:03. > :14:13.other people, he gets paid for being someone else - the former
:14:13. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:16.North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il. It does not take too much to pull
:14:16. > :14:24.off the former dictator, he says, the permed hair, the distinctive
:14:24. > :14:28.jumpsuit, and maybe a bit of Having the former North Korean
:14:28. > :14:31.leader as a guest on your television chat show or a prop for
:14:31. > :14:34.your music video is surprisingly popular in the South, but now that
:14:35. > :14:42.Kim Jong Il is dead, will impersonators such as Mr Kim switch
:14:43. > :14:47.to mimicking his son? He does not know, there is not much similarity
:14:47. > :14:51.between Kim Jong Il and his son. I need to get a different haircut. He
:14:51. > :14:57.would probably need to do much more than that. Kim Jong Un has a very
:14:57. > :15:00.different style to his father, more tactile, more hands-on. North
:15:00. > :15:10.Korean state media has shown him testing soldiers' equipment,
:15:10. > :15:13.tasting their food, sitting on their beds. Even the anchor who
:15:13. > :15:19.carries news of his exploits has been replaced by a younger, softer
:15:19. > :15:23.looking model. The new chummy style has generated a few column inches
:15:23. > :15:27.in the South. This online newspaper for North Korean defectors in South
:15:27. > :15:33.Korea is run by a man better prepared than most to make the
:15:33. > :15:39.comparison. He met and dined with Kim Jong Il before leaving North
:15:39. > :15:43.Korea. TRANSLATION: He had such status that the world did not dare
:15:43. > :15:53.look him in the face, but Kim Jong Un has no choice but to push the
:15:53. > :15:56.people and embrace them. He is begging them for their loyalty.
:15:56. > :16:00.the South, officials say it is new policy they are watching for. On
:16:00. > :16:04.that score, North Korea says that nothing will change. The style may
:16:04. > :16:14.be new, but when it comes to substance, Kim Jong Un is Kim Jong
:16:14. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:18.How does a city of 16 million prepare for a massive natural
:16:18. > :16:21.disaster or terror attack? For the first time ever, disaster
:16:21. > :16:25.management agencies in the Indian capital of Delhi have carried out a
:16:25. > :16:35.huge drill to test the level of preparedness in the event of an
:16:35. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:50.Rush hour at one of Delhi's busiest stations. And then this happens. A
:16:50. > :16:56.siren, an announcement to the city, that it has been hit by a massive
:16:56. > :17:00.earthquake. At first, there is a sense of disbelief, even amusement.
:17:00. > :17:08.Then the reality sinks in. The police and emergency personnel kick
:17:08. > :17:15.into action. The media are right behind them. They are herding
:17:15. > :17:25.everyone out to the nearest exit as quickly as possible. Simultaneous
:17:25. > :17:28.exercises are being carried out across the city. This the dummy is
:17:29. > :17:32.meant to represent a casualty. They have cleared the station of all
:17:32. > :17:37.people. As you can see, the emergency staff and services are
:17:37. > :17:40.tending to people who are injured. Down here, you can see a member of
:17:40. > :17:50.the disaster management team with all his equipment, and doctors and
:17:50. > :17:52.
:17:53. > :17:59.emergency staff tending to people who are injured. Medical staff and
:17:59. > :18:07.volunteers doing their best, making do. But not everything is up to
:18:07. > :18:12.scratch. Still, the assessment is that it is a good start. From what
:18:12. > :18:16.I have seen, as a reaction, they seem to be doing it quite well.
:18:16. > :18:23.Doing it as a one-off is good, but like everything, you need to do it
:18:23. > :18:27.often, to keep the awareness up. I think that has got to be the
:18:27. > :18:30.message. South Asia has a history of devastating earthquakes. The
:18:30. > :18:37.Indian capital lies along a major fault line, making it particularly
:18:37. > :18:47.vulnerable. So the effort is to make sure the city is as prepared
:18:47. > :18:49.
:18:49. > :18:53.More internet users in Indonesia are joining Twitter compared to any
:18:53. > :18:57.other country in the world. The network has been important in
:18:57. > :19:02.tackling corruption and campaigning for social justice. But why has so
:19:02. > :19:12.many ordinary Indonesians adopted this brand of social networking? --
:19:12. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:21.have. We went out to meet the Twitterati of Jakarta.
:19:21. > :19:24.A tale that reflects Indonesia's love affair with Twitter. These
:19:24. > :19:27.days, the people's voice is Twitter's voice. The film is a
:19:27. > :19:33.modern Indonesian romantic comedy about two young people who find
:19:33. > :19:37.each other through social media. This is one of the most Twitter and
:19:37. > :19:41.Facebook friendly nations on earth. That is why popular computer game,
:19:41. > :19:45.Angry Birds, held the global launch of its tie-up with Facebook in
:19:45. > :19:49.Jakarta this week. The company behind the game says that Jakarta
:19:49. > :19:56.was the top choice for the official launch, because Indonesia is the
:19:56. > :20:06.social media capital of the world. Our people are very outgoing and
:20:06. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:14.positive. They have the built-in story telling. You can find that
:20:14. > :20:18.from a rich heritage in social culture. Social media has become
:20:18. > :20:21.one of the most effective ways to reach out to Indonesians. This
:20:21. > :20:25.television talk show host has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter.
:20:25. > :20:30.She has released a book. Her tweets focus on life tips. She says this
:20:30. > :20:34.to communicate. Because of the democratic environment that
:20:34. > :20:38.Indonesia is now in, and it has been in for over a decade, it is
:20:38. > :20:44.very critical of everything, of the government, of the society.
:20:44. > :20:53.Everybody has an opinion on everything. That is what creates
:20:53. > :20:58.this tremendous and exciting noise. That noise is beginning to have an
:20:58. > :21:03.impact off-line as well. This protest was the result of the
:21:03. > :21:05.organisers' efforts online. Most of the people who attended this
:21:05. > :21:08.protest heard about it through Facebook or Twitter. Social media
:21:08. > :21:13.is becoming an increasingly popular and powerful tool to effect change
:21:13. > :21:20.in Indonesia. But as popular as this movement is online, not as
:21:20. > :21:25.many people came to the protest as expected. It is still in its
:21:25. > :21:29.infancy in Indonesia. This demonstration called for more
:21:29. > :21:32.government action against violent hardline Muslim groups. It is
:21:32. > :21:38.unlikely it will lead to any immediate results, but using social