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On the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, John Simpson tests | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
the mood in Argentina where the government has renewed its claim on | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
the island. We have a special report on the mysterious nodding | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
disease that is affecting children across parts of Uganda and | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
devastating their families. We travelled to Germany to hear a | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
choir that has survived famine and politics and is still going strong | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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after 800 years. Welcome to Reporters. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
30 years ago Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Islands. The ruling Argentine military junta at the time stunned | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
the world when it landed troops at Port Stanley. Britain retaliated by | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
sending a naval task force to reclaim the territory. After 2.5 | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
months the war ended in defeat for Argentina. Both countries mark the | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
anniversary of the conflict. Early morning in Buenos Aires, the | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
elegant, understated memorial to more than 600 Argentine dead in the | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
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war is about to open. Miguel Angel is waiting to pay his respects to | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
friends and comrades. 30 years on he muses, so many lives lost for no | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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reason. It was not worth a single life. Argentina's only real success | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
came from the air, they knocked out several British ships. Captain | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
Armando Mayora was one of the pilots who sank HMS Sheffield. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
TRANSLATION: I'm sorry that 22 Britons died. It was as | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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professionals. We had to do our job. That caused casualties. After 30 | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
years attitudes remain unchanged. The students at a Buenos Aires bar | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
were not even born then, but they think the same way. She says the | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Malvinas are Argentine and were taken from us by an empire. He | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
agrees, the Malvinas are still part of our country. Will there be | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
another war over the Falklands? Yes or no? Argentina could not do it | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
anyway. Ever since the collapse of the military regime here after the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Falklands War, successive civilian governments have been cutting back | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
savagely on military spending. No new planes for 30 years, just | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
enough money to pay the wages. This is a country that has chosen to | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
disarm itself. It is now conducting a diplomatic war to try and get the | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
islands. A political ally for the government thinks it is a success. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
It is the first time that all of Latin America is in some way with | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Argentina in this claim. This is really important for Argentina to | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
show that all South America is supporting Argentina in this claim. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
The British doubt it. Most Latin American countries are saying | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
quietly, they do not want to get involved. People in Argentina would | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
be mistaken if they thought Britain was retreating from the scene or | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
not interested in the region or weakening in any way to our | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
commitment to the people of the Falkland Islands. Critics of the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
government think the reason the diplomatic battle is heating up is | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
that Argentina's economy is in trouble and all this provides a | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
useful distraction. But even the critics think the islands belong to | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
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Argentina. We can go to a special report from | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Uganda where a devastating and mysterious disease has been | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
affecting thousands of children. It is called nodding syndrome, it is | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
usually fatal. For the last 15 years no-one has been able to find | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
a cure. We have been to one area, Kitgum, where almost every home has | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
been touched by the illness. At Kitgum hospital desperate families | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
queue for help. These children have been attacked by a debilitating | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
disease. It severely impairs their mental and physical development. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
This 13-year-old can hardly stand as he has frequent seizures and can | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
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barely utter a word. The disease has struck in South Sudan and | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Tanzania. Cases were documented 50 years ago. The scientists are | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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baffled. They do not know what causes it and have not come up with | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
a cure. In the wards, badly burned children, they had seizures when | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
close to a cooking fire and were unable to move. Some are in | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
critical status. They are unable to eat, unable to walk. If they are | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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not brought to the hospital they are likely to die. Driving through | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
these villages in Kitgum district, it is staggering how widespread the | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
problem is. Every home we have stopped at the parents have said | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
one or more of their children have been affected. This region was | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
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ravaged by war for years. The lasting legacy is deep poverty. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Many parents cannot afford to get their children to a health clinic. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
For those suffering from nodding syndrome, the attacks tend to kick | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
in at meal times. They quickly go into a trance-like state. Their | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
mother has seen the disease rob her of two children. She tells me she | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
looks after them like flowers in the home, knowing they are no use | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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to the family in the future. People pray their own children do not | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
succumb. With no remedy this disease stalks the community. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Britain's Royal Air Force began an intensive training programme for | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
its pilots in the US learning to fly drones. Believe it or not, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
British drones in Afghanistan are controlled from a base in New | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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Mexico because European laws prevent it being done from UK soil. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
The pilots learn on simulations a lot like video games. | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
Around the world countries are scrambling for the technology. This | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
is how British and American forces are teaching a new generation of | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
Top Guns to fight an aerial war from the ground. In New Mexico, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
trainers are using simulators to teach pilots how to fight long | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
distance wars. Billions are spent every year building and developing | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
the latest high-technology drones. Hundreds of pilots are being | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
trained every year to prepare for a new generation of war, thousands of | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
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miles away by remote control. are looking at the front of the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
aeroplane and this is the heart and soul of the system. Is this the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
future? This is not robot wars. There is a person controlling it. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Little consolation to protesters in Pakistan who say civilians are | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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killed and oppose America's covert CIA strikes and assassinations. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
is a complete black hole. Civilians do not know if they are going to be | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
targeted the next day. Are they standing next to someone who is a | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
target? These are unanswered questions. We need more | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
accountability and transparency. Military commanders say drones are | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
like any other manned aircraft with high standards of training. We do | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
everything in our power to minimise civilian casualties. We train the | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
crews to recognise elements on the ground. We bind everything we do to | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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rules of engagement. Drones are controversial. How they are used, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
who they target and where. Moral and legal debates which will | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
increase the more they are used in It is one month since Vladimir | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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Putin was re-elected Russia's President. Ever since his victory | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the anti-government street protests which have dominated life in Moscow | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
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seem to have petered out. Russian people's interest in politics has | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
not disappeared, they are finding other ways to put pressure on the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
authorities. A boxing hall might seem an odd place for a municipal | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
council meeting, this one is about to become a bit of a battleground. | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
First, they argue over who gets to be the chairman. The man with the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
microphone represents the old guard. He says he is in charge. His | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
opponents do not agree. They are part of a new wave of opposition | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
activists who are getting elected in Moscow at municipal level and | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
trying to change the way politics is done. The party in power is | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
about to bite back, quite literally. This is Vladimir Garnachuk's first | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
experience of local politics. He did not expect to be bitten at his | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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first council meeting. It is getting rather chaotic. District | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
councils like this one have few powers. But Russians are getting | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
interested in politics on their doorsteps. A few months ago | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
government meetings in Russia attracted little attention and few | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
visitors. Now Russians interest in politics is much greater. This is | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
people power at the grassroots level. Away from the council | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
chamber, Vladimir Garnachuk campaigns on local issues. Opposite | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
a school the authorities plan to change this building into a centre | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
for drug addicts. He is trying to stop the project. He never planned | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
to go into politics. TRANSLATION: I had never even heard of municipal | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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councils. When the street protests began after the rigged | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
parliamentary election I read on Facebook that new people should run | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
for office. It is not only by becoming councillors that Russians | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
are trying to change their country. Close to Moscow people have been | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
protesting against the destruction of the local forest. The trees are | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
being cut down for a new road. It is an issue that has brought big | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
crowds on to the streets of the small town. A sign that Russians | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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are determined to make their voices heard. Istanbul is one of the | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
world's of this city's and with 15 million inhabitants it is one of | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the most crowded. The arrow- straight that divides the city and | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
connects the Black Sea has been Istanbul's rubbish dump for years. | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
-- the narrow Strait. The busy waters of the Bosphorus. Good for a | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
spot of fishing, maybe sailing. Diving? There is little beauty | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
under the surface of this most open coastline. These divers are not | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
looking for colourful fish, they are after something much easier to | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
find, rubbish. After every dive they amass quite a collection. The | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
idea is not to clean up the Bosphorus, but to draw public | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
attention to what they have dumped in the sea. It is to show the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
people that when they throw something to the sea it cannot be | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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destroyed by itself. The people can see easily, they can hold it, they | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
can smell it. There is no surprise there is plenty of pollution in the | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
waterway. The threat posed to the Bosphorus by the ships that sale on | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
its surface is just as great as the people who live along its shores. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
As the only route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean the buzz | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
phrase is used by ships of all sizes. -- Bosphorus. The tankers | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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door of the waterside houses and pose a pollution has said. -- dwarf. | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
The government have proposed a new canal, but this would take many | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
years to complete if it even got started. The city relies on more | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
modest means to keep the Bosphorus tidy. A kind of floating vacuum- | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
cleaner designed and made in Turkey. Its impact is limited. Its presence | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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reminds his -- Istanbul's people of the vulnerability of the Channel. | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
She is one of the most famous ships in the world. The Mary Rose was the | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
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flagship of Henry VIII's Nadir. A $55 million project will tell us | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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even more. The Mary Rose, as many of us remember her. Seen through a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
mist of water and preservative, only accessible to the conservation | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
team. All that will soon change. Mary Rose has been hidden away for | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
two years behind HMS Victory. Conservation teams have been | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
wrestling with the unique problem, how to develop a new museum around | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
a ship above a Grade 1 listed dock while continuing to treat the | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
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ancient timbers? Week by week, things like these arrows are being | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
prepared for the museum. We remove the air from the chamber so we have | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
low pressure. Under those conditions we can safely move water | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
from these objects without changing the shape of the objects. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Eventually around 14,000 items will be on display. This collection | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
specialist has spent 20 years cataloguing them. I can smell tar. | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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It has helped preserve the rope. Wooden longbows, shoes, personal | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
belongings. You can see some of the nits in that one. You can see one | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
of the gold coins recovered. This was a gold angel. How much would it | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
be worth? It is very difficult to put values on things. For insurance | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
purposes probably around �50,000. It is not just a ship, life-and- | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
death 500 years ago. The Mary Rose was built here 500 years ago. The | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
museum will reunite Mary Rose with her contents for the first time | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
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since she sank. Breathing new life into the ship and her crew. There | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
are not many institutions on their 800th birthday that can still claim | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
to be going strong. This choir in Germany is one. The choir of St | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Thomas Church was founded in 1212 and it is celebrating its | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
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anniversary. One of the choir masters was Johann Sebastian Bach. | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
It is a lot of history, in 1212 a monastery was created in Leipzig. A | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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school for boys was attached. They were to be trained to become | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
priests and they would sing. They still sing, 800 years later the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
music of Bach, who is buried in the same church. He was the choirmaster | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
from 1733-1750. Today there are 92 boys aged between 9-18. They sing | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
for their supper and education. They get up at 6am, shoes shined, | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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faces are bright, the nails are clean. The older boys inspect the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
younger ones. Sometimes the little ones have trouble at school, so | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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they come to the older ones. Altner is one of the people who | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
runs the choir, the same choir in which he sang himself as a boy in | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
the old East Germany. I was proud to go through this origin and get | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
the chance to train the choir. Leipzig was bombed in the war the | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
choir continued to perform in the ruins. Under Communism times it | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
toured the West. In 800 years of this choir has kept on going | :21:07. | :21:17. |