22/04/2012 Reporters

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Now it is time for Reporters. Inside Syria in the week following

the ceasefire, we report from the north of the country on the

continuing violence. The death toll grows on the world's

highest battlefield, but on the geisha, we find most of the

casualties are killed by the harsh weather conditions.

Daniel Sanford Report on the female punk protest is to claim they are

being punished by Vladimir Putin and the Russian patriarchy.

We report from cancers on the army chaplain whose actions in the

Korean war made him not just a hero but a saint. -- from Kansas.

Welcome to Reporters. The death toll has continued to rise in Syria

since the ceasefire brokered by the UN came into effect on 12th April.

UN human rights investigators say they have received reports of

shelling and a rests by government troops. Rebel forces are also not

without blame, they are being accused of executing captured

soldiers. Access to the country for foreign journalists is restricted

that our correspondent and cameraman had been inside Idlib

province in northern Syria and this is a compilation of his reports.

There is supposed to be a truce in Syria, in part, it does not sound

like it. At best, the calm feels uneasy, and the ground remains

highly dangerous. We moved with rebel fighters into an area, and

northern town firmly under the grip of President Assad's men. The Free

Syrian Army relies on stealth and cunning, they know these reads well.

To abandoned flats, they bear the scars of the battles fought in them.

But the rebels are vastly outgunned and are unable to resist it --

resist the ferocious government offensive that swept through this

region just days ago. The international community talks of

ceasefires and peace plans, but the view from the ground is very

different. TRANSLATION: They are buying time. The government lies to

the people, it lies to the whole world so it is not surprising they

were like two Kofi Annan as well. They have not stopped shooting.

Down below, you can see not all government forces have withdrawn.

Every few minutes, there are short bursts of gunfire. We do not know

which side his shooting, but whoever is responsible, they

believe that the peace plan is shaky. We are just overlooking a

town. There is some traffic moving in the distance but the government

is in control. They have set up checkpoints and you can see a tank

moving. You can hear the sound of gunfire. This is a few days after

the ceasefire was supposed to have taken place. We saw government road

blocks on a road into town, stopping and checking vehicles,

looking for the men they caught terraceds, the soldiers of the

rebel army. -- they called terrorists. The rebels are defeated

and bloodied, but not bowed. They have moved back in bypassing main

roads and cities. Their cause, a mission to protect their homes and

families. This is what passes for a ceasefire in President Assad's

Syria. It started early. With the helicopter gunship staking its

claim to the skies. Unleashing its deadly consignment on the ground.

We were told that soldiers were advancing in two villages nearby

and we were told to leave. It was a taste of the fear and panic that

too many Syrians had endured for more than a year. The last half-

hour, this helicopter has been flying over this part of Syria

where we have been living. We have heard the sound of it firing every

few moments down on to the ground. There are a lot of Free Syrian Army

rebels in the area, but also civilians. This is clear proof that

Assad's government is not abiding by the ceasefire. Commander Abu

Muhammed it told us they had been shooting and shelling. There was

supposed to be a ceasefire, but there is not. He and his men stayed

behind in a vain attempt to defend the village. The area is home to

hundreds of civilians, people who say their only crime has to be --

has been to call for freedom. Those who did -- who could get out did.

No time to collect belongings are only seconds to escape. The

children already know the meaning of beer. This ten-year-old said

simply, I am scared. What should I say? Kofi Annan is in his country,

I am in my country. What kind of thing can he do? Nothing to say.

Today was proof that nobody can shield these children. We watched

many families flee to safety and we watched many rebel fighters beaten

back and bloodied. The army shot at us from their vehicles and

helicopters, he says, I was injured were two others. From what we saw,

today's battle was started and finished by the government. Kofi

Annan's peace plan calls for an end to violence, but it seems the words

of the international community mean nothing on the ground in Syria.

This struggle is about their future, the girls of the family may be

young, but they already know the language and the loss of Syria's

revolution. Last week, this area was under attack, but today, women

and girls are Dead are to leave their homes once again. Coming back

onto the streets with a call for a change, baps louder than ever. --

perhaps. It is a mistake to think that all

Syrians share their view. Some see these people as an Islamic -- a

threat. After so much death, oppositions have only hardened.

Fear is never far away. President Assad's army is slaughtering us, he

says. When Kofi Annan left last time, they attacked us, she said.

She has no faith the UN monitors will make a difference. After the

bloodshed of the last few weeks, the truth is that these people have

come too far and lost too much to give up now. In the words of one,

we will carry on protesting until the last man standing.

Three women detained for singing a political punk song in Moscow's

main cathedral had been refused bail and will remain in prison

until they are tried in June. The members of the group called Pussy

Riot, they face seven years in jail. The actions of the group sparked

furious debate about the role of the Church, which has asked for the

women to be treated severely. This frenetic dance in one of the

holiest part of Moscow's main cathedral started a furious debate

in Russia about freedom of speech, politics and the church. The group

of women in balaclavas, shouted a song laced with obscenities,

calling on the Virgin Mary to free Russia From Vladimir Putin. Two

weeks after the provocative performance, the arrests are began.

Plane clothing policemen in expensive cars and carrying guns

started to round of the women up. So far, three members of Pussy Riot

had been caught, two mothers of young children. They are being held

in prison while they await trial for hooliganism. Amnesty

International had declared them to be prisoners of conscience. They

have the right to express views that are secular. In their tiny

flat in north Moscow, Nadia Tolikonikova's family are missing

her badly. Her daughter has been told that her mother is in prison.

The decision to jail the woman goes to the very top of Russia's

politics, to Vladimir Putin. When I heard that she was being held

because some bad people started to lock her up in AKG, this is exactly

what has happened. But the greatest controversy has been the

patriarch's involvement. Heat is the head of the Church. He said

that the Devil was laughing at the faith. That angered many liberals

who believe the Church should have forgiven the women. There

desecration of a holy place had planned to the flames of religious

hatred. -- fanned the flames. have to make sure that nothing of

that kind happens again. She has been imprisoned for six weeks,

caught up in Russia's increase in the Machiavellian world of power,

Pakistan has promised it will not stop until it recovers all of the

bodies of those killed when an avalanche swept through the

Himalayas. The place known as the world's

highest battlefield is a high risk environment.

We were flown in over jagged mountain peaks pristine and

unforgiving. A haunting frozen no man's land. High in the Himalayas,

we received access to the treacherous terrain around the

glacier, one of the world's most remote battlegrounds. The area is

now a scene of continuous searching and unspoken grief. 129 Pakistani

troops like buried here beneath more than 200 feet of snow -- lie.

You can really get a sense of what a challenge this operation is. We

are 13,000 feet above sea level. We are at the mercy of the elements.

The operation continues night and day. But rescuers must contend with

extreme cold, blizzard conditions and the risk of additional

avalanches. But they keep working hour after hour, desperately hoping

to find some of their brothers in arms.

The sense of loss is there because they were our colleagues and we eat,

sleep and live with them every minute. That has not affected or

diminished our morale to get them out.

This tragedy has provoked calls in Pakistan for a pull out from the

glacier. 3,000 Pakistani soldiers have died here since the conflict

began in 1984. 90% were killed by the conditions. Not by combat.

Critics say this Waste Land is not worth one more life. I put that to

the Pakistan army chief of staff. He does not often speak to the

media. What he said was even rarer. He suggested that troops should

leave the glacier because of environmental damage. We cannot

afford to be firing guns in the glacier regions. We understand that.

We are not here because we want to be here.

Could there be a thorn in action -- thaw. Relations between Pakistan

and India heart-warming but for now, these two nuclear-armed nations are

still fighting for the glacier region - whatever the cost.

A row has broken out in the Iraqi government over the construction of

an oil pipeline through the ancient city of Babylon. The Ministry of

Tourism has taken the oil ministry to court, saying that the pipeline

passes through the outer walls of Babylon and is endangering

undiscovered ruins underneath. Oil ministry officials say there is no

proof of any remains in the area. The new pipeline links the southern

oil city of Basra with the capital Baghdad.

These crumbling bricks were once part of the magnificent palace of

King Nebuchadnezzar. Iraqi antiquities officials say there is

more a buried underground and they are worried that undiscovered

treasures are at risk. Buried underneath this hill, according to

the antiquities department, is the wall of the ancient city of Babylon.

It goes down this way, where the oil pipeline will cut through the

wall and into the city. The newly constructed pipeline will carry oil

from Bass for out to bat at -- Basra.

When they lay in the oil pipe, they did not find anything. There is

nothing in that area. When they quit the second one in, they found

nothing. When they put in the third pipe, they found nothing.

Antiquities officials consider the pipeline a threat to what they say

are fragile ruins underneath. They want the pipelines to be diverted.

TRANSLATION: Another problem is that the board of antiquities is

working hard to get Babylon listed as a World Heritage site. The

pipelines threaten this and may even prevent it from happening.

These posters outside the National Museum of Art of a campaign to

protect the ruins and heat is just the beginning.

TRANSLATION: We are taking the Ministry of Oil to court because

they have violated the law. We believe are the result will go in

our favour and will prove that we were correct to take this measure

to protect Babylon. Even if it does, Babylon's status

remains under threat. The criteria for a World Heritage site includes

authenticity and many of these remains lie under a fake

reconstruction. The his palace built by Saddam as

saying overlooks the heart of the ancient city. It is a mixture of

ruins and a new structures built on top of them. It is difficult to

distinguish the old from the new. The Lion of Babylon has survived

almost intact, symbolising the reality of Warriors protecting

their city. Dreams of glory have long-term had the rulers of this

land. Today, it is the dream of oil that could prove impossible to

resist. Now to the heroic service of one US

Army chaplain more than half a century ago. You probably have

never heard of Father Emil Kapaun but his actions during the Korean

war made him not only a hero but some say a saint who should be

canonised by the Roman Catholic Church.

(GUNFIRE). Father Emil Kapaun was a US army

chaplain who came from a small Kansas farming town and ended up on

the front lines of the Korean War. We had a difficult time and were

trapped. I still wonder how we got out alive. No food for two days and

no water for one day. Those words were some of the last he would ever

write. Even the years since, many have called him a hero. Recently,

two groups have investigated his life. First, the Catholic Church.

To prove that Father Emil Kapaun led a life of heroic virtue and

sanctity so that he could possibly be made a saint. And the Kansas

lawmakers the dishing the defence department to get him the metal,

come the highest award any American servicemen can receive. He lived a

life that was unique and I definitely believe he is deserving

of this muddle. A saint and a war hero. It is

unprecedented. But what did he do to deserve this?

Advocates say it began during the winter of 1950. Witnesses said

Father Emil Kapaun's unit was surrounded, that he stayed behind

with the injured even though he might not make it out. During

earlier battles, he went beyond the normal duties of a chaplain and

even ran into the line of fire. There are reports from his soldiers

that talk about him coming to them when they were under fire. Father

Emil Kapaun going out there when there was sniper fire coming on,

coming to them to talk to them. that November, was surrounded, he

ended up in a brutal prison camp. While his strength wasted away, he

still seemed to be everywhere in the prison camp, stealing food for

the sick, comforting the dying and scavenging supplies for everyone

except for himself. Survivors said that he did more than anyone to

keep them alive until he eventually died. One prisoner wrote that he

saved his life. He helped me stay alive when time was so simple. It

was easier to die than to live in those days.

I could not imagine him being that way because I just figured that he

was a good parish priest. News of his exploits overwhelmed his

sister-in-law when the word reached home. For him to take punishment of

the way that he did up their... I figured that he was under God's

care. Father Emil Kapaun's presence looms large in his home town. There

is the Church where he said his first mass and a statue in his