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on BBC News it is time for Reporters. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
Iain Pannell joins the Syrian army defector leading the fight against | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
President Assad in the north of the country. On pirate patrol - we join | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Australian surveillance cruise on a counter piracy mission in the | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Somali basin. We need Canadian researchers there are so -- fitting | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
cameras to sea lions to see why they are dying out. Welcome to | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Reporters. According to the UN, Syrian women and children and are | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
being killed on orders from the highest level of army and | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
government. It is thought that President Assad's name is on a list | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
of people with the UN says could face investigation over crimes | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
against humanity. The Syrian government has denied killing | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
civilians. Iain Pannell follows opposition forces rallying support | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
in the north of the country. It is a call for a revolution the world | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
cannot ignore any longer. Huddled in a safe house in northern Syria, | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
lightly armed rebel fighters scene of freedom and defiance. They are | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
led by a military defector. Many of the men who come to pay their | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
respects are ordinary citizen soldiers. Labourers, farmers, even | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
a graduate in English literature. They are fed a diet of rebellion | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
and hot sweet tea. I will protect my people, protect my children. To | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
make lives better. What do you want? What I want? Freedom. | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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Political freedom. Social freedom. Freedom in all of its concepts. | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
the last few days we have gone from town to village. He calls this a | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
free Syria, the area is highly dangerous. 24 hours a day you feel | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
in danger from this regime. It is deadly. President Assad is supposed | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
to protect us, he just protects himself. We raced to another town | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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and an opposition rally. Their rebellion is almost one year older | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
and gathering pace. They chant for the downfall of Bashar al-Assad. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Not everyone is against the President. Some are afraid of what | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
these people want. What we are watching is. -- is the beginning of | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
an Islamic takeover. Ethnic and religious differences could become | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
the vision and still be on the Syria's borders. -- spill. There | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
are many from lines in this battle, we were taken to one of them. -- | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
front lines. Many have died here as the present and forces his will | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
through the barrel of a gun. Government troops have moved into | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
this area, where homes have been shelled and civilians killed. We | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
have just been brought into this building by members of the Free | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Syrian Army. Government positions are a few hundred metres out in | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
that direction. We are told they are using snipers and they have | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
brought tanks and troops. We have to keep low and be careful. In the | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
distance, you can make out a tank. A reminder of the force at the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
government's disposal. This is what the locals have to defend against | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
it. A road block and a few old rifles. At sundown we moved again | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
to one last found also in the throes of its own particular | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
revolution. It might seem a world away from home, but we are just be | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
on the fringes of Europe. A conflict like civil war is raging. | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
So far, the world has been powerless to help. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
World leaders have pledged new leader at -- new measures to help | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Somalia tackle terrorism and piracy at a major meeting in London. | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
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Piracy costs lives and money. Frank Gardner was given rare access on | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
board an Australian maritime patrol as it took part in a counter piracy | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
mission around the Somali basin. The Royal Navy facing off with | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
pirates off the Somali coast. It is an uneven match. Outgunned, the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
pirates surrender. Marines seized the pirates and the weapons. Many | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
other attacks go unchallenged. How to patrol more than one million | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
square miles of ocean? This Australian crew have brought their | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
long-range surveillance planes from Adelaide, they make a huge | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
difference. They are going to take us out over the Indian Ocean. The | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
area were they think they are most likely to see pirates. I was told | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
we were the first British media to be allowed on board. Flying out of | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
an air base in the Emirates, this Orion plane allows missions to look | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
far out over the horizons, patrolling down to the Horn of | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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Africa. INAUDIBLE. Flying, the Australians record every vessel in | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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a designated a search area. We are taking photos... INAUDIBLE. Like | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
these two fishing boats we saw, film on the plane's electronic | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
camera. Something about them made the Australian suspicious. The | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
pictures are beamed back to headquarters on land. If pirates | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
were confirmed on board, a warship would investigate. What happens | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
when the ship is approached by pirates? On land in Dubai, this is | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
UK Maritime Trade Operations, the UK's link with merchant shipping. | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
Are they following year at the moment? This ship e-mailed them a | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
photo of the pirates following them. A crew that does get captured, and | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
attack is terrifying. They are going to be in a massive panic. | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
They are going to be hiding. Sometimes they lock themselves into | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
the ship. This tiny room inside the British Embassy is the nerve centre | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
for the charter piracy operation against Somali pirates. It goes out | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
to all the navies in the region. The whole area is huge. It is 2 | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
million square miles. There are 4,000 vessels out there, those are | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
just the ones they know about. They cannot stop the attacks entirely. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Often it is too late. Once pirate state control of the ship, the crew | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
become hostages. Without the international patrol aircraft, even | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
more sailors would be targeted. patrol aircraft in this region are | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
a crucial part of the jigsaw. The contributors are far and wide. We | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
have Japanese, we have them from every other contributor as well. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
The reason they are so vital is because of the distances involved. | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
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They can cover the required areas, they have the ability to report to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
surface units he can affect disruption. Pirate success rates | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
are coming down. They are now attacking further afield. They are | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
resilient, they are determined, they are performing to a very | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
lucrative business model. If I was a pirate, I would rather hope for | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
complacency on departure of the International Committee. Successful | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
attacks have been reduced. -- international community. | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
everyone agrees the solution is not at sea, it is on land. Until that | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
happens, sailors risk of death to this multi- billion pounds business. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
When the mafia make you an offer you cannot refuse, you usually pay | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
up. One town in southern Italy has been bucking the trend. For | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
generations the Camorra preyed on the people around Naples, forcing | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
small businesses of all kind to pay protection money. As Alan Johnston | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
has been finding out, the people of Ercolano have stirred up to the man | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
of the mafia. She is an unlikely heroine. Everything that happened | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
here began with this lady. One day the Camorra came calling. Gangsters | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
walk into this clothes shop. As so often in this town, they demanded | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
protection money. Raffaella Ottaviano would not pay. | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
TRANSLATION: I told them. I do not want to have anything to do with | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
you. I do not want you to step forward in my shop. Never come back. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
In these streets, Vera kept people quiet. But Raffaella Ottaviano | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
broke the silence. She went to the police, they arrested the gangsters | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
and protected her. Gradually, others began speaking out as well. | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
Today, more than 80 businesses refuse to pay the Camorra. Saying | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
no to the thugs who come to demand your money takes real courage. That | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
is what shop owners are doing. They are breaking the power of the mafia | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
clans in this area. What happened to this once thriving restaurant | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
reveals how dangerous it can be to defy the Camorra. Raffaele Rossi | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
was shot at and his business PHI bond. He says he will rebuild and | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
re- opened. -- firebombed. He says he will never pay the gangsters. | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
TRANSLATION: We are humbled. We are human. We cannot deny the fear that | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
we feel even today the stock we do have to destroy this kind of | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
pressure. -- today. In this place, brave shopkeepers, the police and | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
local councillors have worked together. There has been many | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
arrests. These people are facing down the gangsters. Now it is hoped | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
that other mafia played towns in Italy might draw on the experience | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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of Ercolano. The place that said no Polio is one of the world's oldest | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
and most crippling diseases. Scientists believe they could be | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
close to eradicating it altogether. It mainly affects children under | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
the age of five. India has now been polio free for just over one year | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
as a result of immunisations. Two drops is all it takes to | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
prevent polio. Imagine repeating that 170 million times, tracking | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
down every young child across India and you begin to get an idea of | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
what it has taken to get rid of polio here. The mark on the finger | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
shows they have received the vaccine. What has been achieved is | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
remarkable. India wants hat will polio cases than anywhere else but | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
political will, resources and dedication have finally wipe it out | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
-- India once had more polio cases than anywhere else. The volunteers | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
here are from Britain, members of a global network of professionals. | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Rhodri has been at the forefront of the fight against polio for a | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
generation, raising awareness. -- rotary. We have done it with | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
smallpox, we should be able to do it with polio. I vaccinate dailies | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
every day and coming here and doing this is an extension of that. I'm | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
really love people and I want to see healthy children worldwide. | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
This hospital still has a backlog of patients paralysed by polio. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Muhammad caught polio as a baby and will need repeated surgery before | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
he can work -- Walker with the aid of callipers. It is painful to see | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
the suffering. There is so much stick love. If the world could be | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
rid of polio, that would be the greatest thing. Polio used to | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
spread of fire contaminated water and raw sewage. -- spread it as a | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
result of. India has shown that global eradication is possible but | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
the war is not won yet. India's paly own free status is under | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
threat. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria also an increase in cases | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
last year. This virus respects no borders. That is why it is vital | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
mass immunisation campaigns like this continue until every child in | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
every country is protected. Poorly run immunisation programmes and | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
families who refuse the vaccine by what is preventing those countries | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
from match in India's success. It will take unswerving commitment if | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
this disabling disease is to be consigned to history. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
The floods in December in the south of the Philippines killed more than | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
1,000 people and caused widespread devastation. Many survivors are | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
still homeless and living in temporary shelters. It is now clear | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
that deforestation caused much of the disruption despite government | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
regulation preventing many trees from being cut down. The yonks that | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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destroyed the town are now being used to rebuild it. -- logs. Here, | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
there is a growing realisation that it was not the water but the long | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
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it brought with it that was the biggest killer. -- logs. If we have | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
something like 750 people who died, maybe half of those lives were | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
caused by a beech tree trunks. than 1,000 people died when the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
tropical storm hit in December. The rivers burst their banks and cut | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
trees smashed into people's homes. The President has banned all | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
lobbying in the Philippines but it depends on where you live as to how | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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strictly it is enforced. -- logging. Here, it is almost impossible to | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
get a permit but upstream, where much of the debris came from, it is | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
much easier. We travelled into the mountains. Rebel groups operate | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
here. Central government's ability to enforce the law is weak. At a | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
local sawmill, villagers spoke openly about their dependence on | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
illegal logging. This woman says she sees big companies doing it | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
anyway. What her community is doing is only small scale. He says he has | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
got to support his family. He has got no other choice but to keep | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
cutting down trees. And so it continues. This consignment was | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
only caught because the vehicle was involved in a traffic accident. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Inside, mahogany. It is worth nearly $10,000. The police say they | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
are doing their best but for local campaigners, that is still not good | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
enough. Here, we have very good policies. A number of them. Very | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
good policies but the problem is the implementation. Those who lost | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
their homes in the floods now live in temporary campsites. For them, | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
life changed overnight. Stopping of the loggers is going to take much | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
longer. Now for a scientific experiment in | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
listing some very special sea lions in Canada. The mammals are dying | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
out and to find out why, some of them have been fitted with special | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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cameras and tracking equipment. Hazy this the line. She is no | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
ordinary sea lion. She is not just a performing seal, she is the first | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
sea lion in the world to be taught voice commands and hand signals so | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
she can work with scientists. It has taken years of patient effort. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
We spend a lot of time with the animals and it is very important to | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
have that bond of trust. Sometimes we spend more time with them and | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
than our own families. She and her kind are dying out and no-one knows | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
why. Canadian researchers are fitting and three other animals | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
with tracking equipment and cameras. She does not seem bothered. Hazy is | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
taking on her own personal speedboat to the fjords of British | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Columbia. The icy waters are more than one mile deep. It is the | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
perfect place to study how she hafts her food. Time to put her to | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
the test. Using this equipment, researchers hope to learn more | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
about what happens when she goes under the water. She finds her way | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
into an enclosure just underneath the platform. Pieces of fish are | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
pushed down a pipe that goes right down to the bottom of the water and | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
then... The sense saws that measure precisely the amount of energy she | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
uses and she's been so downwards to catch the fish. They have | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
discovered it is much harder for her to feed it closer to the | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
surface - one clue as to why her kind are dying out. We have learned | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
that you really understand their daily life, you have to spend 24 | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
hours with them per day to find out what time of the year is critical | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
for them, how they operate. Here, we are getting into the hands of | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
the sea lions. For the first time, researchers are looking at the | :21:31. | :21:36. |