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That is the latest. Now on BBC News The agony and grief of Homs. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Residents fleeing the city tell the BBC of atrocities committed their | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
allegedly by Syrian forces. Women's rights under threat in Afghanistan. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Orla Guerin hears from women who say it now feels like life under | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
the Taliban. One year after the Fukushima radiation leak, we find | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
that farmers are trying to make a living despite fears of | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
contamination. And Olympic legacy. We report from | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
the Sydney on a lessons for the UK for when the Olympic flame goes out. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Welcome to Reporters mac. Civilians fleeing Homs have accused | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
the Army of committing atrocities once they had re-entered the city. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Families that have managed to escape have told the BBC that men | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
and boys were killed in front of them. Opposition activists say | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
thousands have fled the city, many from the Baba Amr district. Our | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
correspondent and cameraman or sent this exclusive report from the | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
outskirts of Homs. I should warn you that it contains graphic | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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accounts by eyewitnesses. On a road out of harm's, just part | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
of the exodus from Baba Amr. -- Homs. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
They endured weeks under bombardment, then fled, panic, | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
before troops arrived. TRANSLATION: We have no armed gangs. We and our | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
children are forced to flee under the cover of darkness. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
People are terrified of what government forces will do now. This | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
group walked for three days to avoid the soldiers. Here is why. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
Whoever is taken at a checkpoint will be killed, he says. They took | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
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our husbands, she cries. They took them at the checkpoint. Everyone | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
shares the same fear, that their husbands are not coming back. For | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
now, they are on their own, with nothing. It is absolutely freezing | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
here and these children have got a night in a house with no heat and | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
no electricity. More than that, they are wondering what on earth | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
has happened to their father. These families says they witnessed and | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
massacre. On Friday, troops took 36 men end boys from one district, | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
they say, killing them all. My son's throat was cut, she says. He | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
was 12. TRANSLATION: A Butcher and four people. The soldiers were | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
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killing people like these. The victims' hands were tied up. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
TRANSLATION: We managed to cross the checkpoint but two of my | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
brothers were detained. I managed to save one but they took one with | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
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them and killed him. My father's life is not worth more | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
than the young people we have lost. Can such horror stories be true? | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
These men defected from an elite Army unit are only last week. They | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
told me that civilians were targeted, prisoners killed. A | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
lieutenant gave us the orders, he said. We were told, in this | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
operation, shoot at anything that moves, civilian or military. Orders | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
were given to tell people we were about to execute. This is the price | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
of freedom you were fighting for. People were killed for no reason | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
whatsoever. The people of Baba Amr say they are | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
victims of crime. The outside world will want proof. Briefly, they | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
defied the regime. Now they are scattered, there uprising crushed. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
There is international outrage, but no agreement about how to bring | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
this to an end. The top religious Council in | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Afghanistan says males and females should not be allowed to mix at | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
school, work or in other aspects of daily life. It says women should | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
not travel without a male relative. The statement was welcomed by the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Afghan President. Human rights campaigners say they are worried he | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
is trying to placate the Taliban. News time on Afghanistan's Channel | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
One. With top presenter. Women at newscasters have been in the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
headlines lately after the government told them to wear | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
headscarves and avoid heavy make-up. Now senior clerics say men and | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
women should not work side by side, unwelcome news for this newsreader. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
It is wrong to say we should not work together, she told us. I am | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
proud of my job and the fact that I work outside my home. But | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Afghanistan's top religious Council, which is government-funded, does | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
not want women roaming freely outside. It says that under Islam | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
they should be accompanied by a male relative. This is a request | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
and reminder, the council says. Critics say it is an echo of the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Taliban. There is growing concern among human rights activists and | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
women's groups that the progress made in recent years could be | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
rolled back. The fear is that in the push to do a peace deal with | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the Taliban President Karzai will be willing to sacrifice women's | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
rights. Campaigners warn it that this is just the beginning of a | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
journey back in time. These leading MP, who survived at Taliban ambush, | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
breads and returned to the dark days of the past. We struggled for | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
ten years. We have gained so much. They have started taking some of | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
those basic rights, like working together, living together, going | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
out like a free human being. You are not allowed to do that anymore. | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
For now, in his private university in Kabul, young Afghans are allowed | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
to share a classroom. That is how they want it to stay. Who thinks | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
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men and women should be able to study together? Raise your hands. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
This one plans a career in business. Another wants to going business. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
That is is the Taliban and clerics do not rewrite their future. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
The Somali militant group Al-Shabab has been severely weakened in | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
recent months. The group has become increasingly unpopular in the | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
country, partly because of its strict interpretation of Islamic | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
law. Its stronghold was recently captured by Ethiopian troops | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
fighting alongside Somali solders. Our correspondent was one of the | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
first journalists into the region following its fall. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
A rare chance to go deep inside Somalia, a flight to a town which | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
until a few days ago was a key Al- Shabab stronghold. Lending at the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
airstrip it is immediately clear who controls the town now, | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
Ethiopian soldiers with plenty of firepower. The visit was organised | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
by the Ethiopian Army, keen to show it is winning the war against Al- | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
Shabab. A look inside what was the is a must militants based. On the | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
walls, jihadist graffiti, the images of a war that has drawn in | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
foreign fighters from across the world. The weaponry of the Al-Qaeda | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
linked militants. Some of these were captured, others were | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
abandoned as the Ethiopian and Somali troops advanced across the | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
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country. We did the offensive on these places. A key ally to the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
West, this is Ethiopia's second major military offensive in recent | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
years to stop the Islamists from controlling Somalia. About three | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
years ago Somalis were celebrating on the streets as the Ethiopian | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Army pulled out. Those soldiers are back. The challenge for Ethiopia is | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
to make sure this incursion does not become as unpopular as the last | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
one. It is not seen as a foreign military invasion. On the streets, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
many businesses have stayed shut. That is partly because the battle | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
for the town may not be over. Nobody knows how long the | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Ethiopians will stay, so there is a fear that Al-Shabab could return. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
In the presence of Ethiopian officials, Somali elders said they | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
were grateful for the help in tackling the militants. This man | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
said the is the most fighters were be welcome back home, if they came | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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in peace. The ingredients of terror referred these days by Al-Shabab. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
It has promised bloodshed. The militants are weakened, but not | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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Japan has been limbering be victims of the Earth witness in any wicket | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
be closed when you rigour. 60 doesn't work keel and the area was | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
devastated. Deng's of the dozens of people were evacuated when a | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
nuclear up to be kidding us up at a radiation leak. Residents still | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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only be in a year or radiation. They have come to this sport or to | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
bite vegetables and at your cap and got up. Be used but that will | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
produce, but after the nuclear accident vinegary but viewed from | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
this piece are no longer say it. TRANSLATION: We need to stop kids | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
from it he contaminated food. There were also at Exeter and East from | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
the nuclear accident and we need to prevent them from being exposed for | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
a beer. We cannot trust the government. Expense of mistrust | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
seems to be she. Them acting East and nature of physical damage to | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
you any of the buildings will be residents living in a year of | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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radiation. The community is to buy it. They are still cling to reduce | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
the level of rates years but Bega puts it at a smart be excellent for | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
us and it is safe to be in shimmer. At a view that governments are up | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
its mark you exclusions don't it was neatly in pushing up. This than | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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any case a bit to stay. East will produce this and even in the winter | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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under the snow has. An EU has been a show sharp fall in sales even | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
though he has all its products checked really and radiation has | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
been detected. TRANSLATION: I expect people's for East to eat | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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products from he. People speak only of numbers and the States. Are | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
people be a those numbers. As you wash his peace vegetables he whips | :14:02. | :14:10. | |
public opinion will to do. It hit eight one-year born Formby disaster. | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
The battle to do it regain trust has just begun. 0... just over four | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
months after Kobe for the London Olympics. Him a kiss or we the pro- | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
Russian to live up to the promise of along to Agassi up-to-the as. We | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
report from bolstering we CEP has to the into it doesn't give up what | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
happened up to the Croats winter. We ate Europe in this country you | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
and someone playing something, as long wait. Many of these | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
schoolchildren were not even born when the Olympics went on but were | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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up yet to create it 12 years ago. The job was just beginning win the | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
Olympics ended. And it marked his but for years there was no master | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
plan and put this and it looked like many of the skin is marked up | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
as we looked at. It is not the case at be equipped and. Be it is still | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
plenty of competition and each slit Heath or should we be local | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
community. This venue cupboards costs but the park and needs public | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
subsidy is to stay put. At the Olympic stadium clubs still come in | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
it since, the star and his the of string play India in the close to | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
international cricket match. Even your pose for transports and 50p a | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
year. Begum's float but pop years after the Olympics this stadium | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
still have a very significant legacy. But it looks Sydney along | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
and get it right and that is an important this and all done. Sydney | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
also assumed the us would attract a wave of visitors to its best | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
destinations. But the boom in tourism and amateur career as. And | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
would go up the problem of using the are the bits encourage it was a | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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amongst a poppy populations. have to get the current and the | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
sports or a bit is working together. This was the moment which stop go | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
straight. This victory was a symbol of national unity and as well as | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
sporting success was a problem was that the country, to quote up in | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
iconic minutes lark is. Today Eakring and its to repeat much you | :17:40. | :17:49. | |
its Aqua. Police of the what matters to put. The legacy us into | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
a skip and double what it used, the stories people after it failed | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
because of the MP gains. They can be passed on to an Richens was a | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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people still talk in an act of rape and it happened at is it. -- | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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it you rates are up. To Cuba and the tobacco industry. Teabag, a | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :18:59. | :19:49. | |
prodigious crop. Mr ute peace deal They were discovering what where | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
their favourite cigarettes come from. Sales to Russia rose almost | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
30% last year as the Spanish market fell. The Russians like to smoke. | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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Yes. The second brand his Monte Christow. The Russians like the | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
expensive ones? Yes. All week Cuba has displayed its finest brands in | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
halls that normally host Communist Party congresses. China is also | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
developing a taste for the cigars, sales steady. It is a luxury | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
franchise. We're enjoying the same growth as we have seen worldwide. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
It is boosted by the emerging markets in the high growth | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
countries like China, Brazil and the Middle East. And there is | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
economic problems and tighter regulations that increase the | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
number of up fakes on the market. New security measures like these | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
labels have become a priority. Above all, this week is about | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
celebrating something Cuba makes better than anyone, the Saqba | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
festival is the most glamorous event in the social calendar, | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
drawing enthusiasts from all over the world. This year there is a | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
celebrity guest from America. The ban there has not stopped some | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
people are acquiring a taste for them. Cuba makes the best tobacco | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
in the world. And a cigar smoker, this is a make-up. It is a | :21:39. | :21:44. |