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to the border with Ireland could have caused immense loss of life -- | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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van bomb. Time for reporters. -- Reporters. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Liberia's former president is found guilty of aiding and abetting war | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
crimes in Sierra Leone. We returned to Sierra Leone as the shakes off | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
its violent past. Attack to with acid. The Pakistani | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
women's side for life by their husbands. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Reporting from inside America's high-security Research Laboratory, | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
where they are leading the investigation into bovine foot-and- | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
mouth disease. The former president of Liberia, | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Charles Taylor, has been found guilty by a special court in The | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Hague of aiding and abetting war crimes committed by rebels in | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s. The rebels armed by Charles | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Taylor were responsible for crimes against humanity including murder | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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and recruiting child soldiers. Ten years of war reduced Sierra | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Leone to a poverty it has not yet escaped. Here, children scavenge in | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
the rubbish of four pieces of plastic they might sell for pennies. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
This patch of land is still known as the happy t care although it has | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
now long gone. In the 1990s, it was home to a segment of men, women and | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
children who had their limbs severed by a machete or axe. This | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
was the call card of the rebel army. They took my food and cut it off | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
with an axe. Not in one blow. It took five or six times. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
He says he had heard of Charles Taylor on the radio threatening to | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
make Sierra Leone taste of the bitterness of war. This is my | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
strong conviction that everything that happened to Sierra Leone was | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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Charles Taylor's doing. I will be happy if I see him behind bars and | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
not breathing be seen air that we brief -- not breathing the same air | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
that we breathe. If Charles Taylor was the president of the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
neighbouring state of Liberia and has been on trial in The Hague 4th | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
last four hears. The indictment charges him with terrorising | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
civilians, unlawful killings, sexualises, abductions and the use | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
of child soldiers. -- sexual violence. Three hours away from | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Freetown, the memory of war his role. Rolls threat -- swept through | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
here in an orgy of burning and looting. The air is no industry | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
here. This woman is making palm oil with Iron Age technology. They are | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
at last were dumped in the town's water supply. -- they are at last | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
for rebuilding the town's water supply. The war stopped all | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
progress here. Change is coming at last and it is the Chinese and will | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
bring it. Chinese money is about to put a rubber plantation here, a | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
pineapple rove and rice fields. Chinese are making very the loose | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
in Sierra Leone. They have injected $1.2 billion into like a culture. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
That will help to increase the economy and the status of the | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
people. We are expecting 10,000 jobs as a result. In Freetown, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
there is more evidence of Chinese letter change. We ran into a | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
technicians supervising a road- building project. Lives are being | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
changed. They are training me and I am so | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
happy to work with them. They have trained to be as a surveyor. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
So lonely, the wheels of economic activity are turning again. There | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
are vast resources in this country. The red dust indicates high | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
concentration of iron ore. The London mining company has just | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
reactivate of his mind. It has been dormant since the 1960s. Employment | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
will be approximately 2,000 people. In the second phase, that will be | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
another 20 years and it will require a larger workforce. Of this | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
land is astonishingly wealthy in minerals. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
This country and its people's fortunes could be turned around. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
But this is a curse as well as a blessing because this is what | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
brought war to Sierra Leone in the first place and this is what paid | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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for it to continue for so long. It was diamond mines that built | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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Charles -- brought Charles Taylor to Sierra Leone. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Democracy in this country is very securely. This government came to | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
power after winning elections. This does not happen often in many | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
halves of Africa. The transition was very smooth. | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
The trial of Charles Taylor has been an ongoing part of that | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
transition. For many here, if it is a stepping stone on their return to | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
normal life. Acid attacks on women are a horror | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
story of our times. The cruelty, paying an disintegration are almost | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
unimaginable but it is a real and regular danger for women in | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Pakistan and several neighbouring countries. Hundreds of them every | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
year are attacked by men they have supposedly defending. This report | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
contains distressing images. This young woman has been scarred for | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
life with versions of 15% of her body. Her name means candle. Like | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
many of a Pakistani women, she says her husband doused her in acid. She | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
was too proud of her beauty, he said. | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
TRANSLATION: I feel pain at what I was and what I have become. All the | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
colours have gone for my life. I feel like I am a living corpse. | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
She is one of the newest arrivals in this dilapidated hospital. The | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
doctors tried to relieve her pain but cannot ease her despair. | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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TRANSLATION: I cannot say anything about the future. Maybe I will not | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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be alive. I will try to return to how I was. I have to work to build | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
a future for my children and if I cannot, I will do what one or two | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
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of the women have done. They killed themselves. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
This was one of those girls. This is what she looked like 13 years a | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
go before acid was flung in her face. Her former husband from a | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
powerful family was acquitted of the crime. This was her after the | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
attack. She endured almost 40 surgery is before committing | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
suicide of last month. In this hospital, there are new cases of | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
acid attacks every week. The laws here have been tightened. Offenders | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
can be sentenced between 14 years and life imprisonment. Campaigners | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
say most of these women have never get justice. This former MP who | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
sponsored the new law says most attackers still get off Scot free. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
It is the easiest way to punish a woman because if the woman does not | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
want to every two what the man wants to do, you can destroy her | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
entire life in one second and that's all it takes. Them, even if | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
he gets caught, he can pay a drive and get away with it. Another | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
victim has just arrived. The fabric of her clothing is eaten away by | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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the acid. She says her son-in-law to this after a small family | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
dispute. He ate least is in custody. The government admits it has got to | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
do more for women like her but says implementing the new law is a major | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
challenge. Doctors told us many victims are forced to return to | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
road toll mentors, to the houses or in-laws who decided them because of | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
social pressures or money problems. Children come to visit their mother. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
She tells them to the good and pray that she gets better. For their | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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sake, she will try to keep going. In recent weeks barely a day has | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
passed without a new development around the sacked Chinese | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
politician at the heart of a major scandal, Bo Xilai. His wife has | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
been investigated for the murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
It has emerged that Bo Xilai ordered the phone-tapping of many | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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Chinese leaders. It is the question that will not go away, how did Neil | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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Heywood died at this hotels last November? China has promised the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
rule of law will prevail. As more dark secrets emerge, will that | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
happen? The 41-year-old British businessman may have been made if. | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
Bo Xilai has been sacked and is under investigation. -- murdered. | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
There are rumours that Bo Xilai's wife was behind the murder. This | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
city and its surroundings home to 20 million. The signature policy, a | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
crackdown on crime. Smashing mafia gangs. Thousands were arrested. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
Many were businessmen tortured and forced to hand over their wealth. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
This billionaire is in hiding outside of China. He says he was | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
held for three months, accused of crimes he did not commit and | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
tortured by Bo Xilai's henchman. He agreed to pay millions to secure | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
his own freedom. When he fled China, he says his family were arrested as | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
well. My brother was tortured for six days and nights. He is innocent | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
but sentenced to 18 years in prison. He adds there are thousands like | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
him. Bo Xilai chilled able to silence them. He deserves to die. - | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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- killed people. Bo Xilai's city is the fastest-growing in China. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
did many good things. Like many supporters, she wants him | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
reinstated. Bo Xilai's popularity became a threat to the other grey | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
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men of China's Communist Party. Well China now reopen not just Neil | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Heywood's case but hundreds more? This foreign businessman says he is | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
too scared to go back until China has the rule of law and democracy. | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
Many victims wait for the day they will see justice. Sri Lanka remains | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
a world famous for its tea, which is one of the country's major | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
exports. Many of those who work in the industry leave in -- live in | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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poverty. Sales are being delayed, workers are being let off. The | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
landscape is breathtaking. From the forested hillside, to the huge | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
areas clade 40 in the 19th century. The work under the sun is quite | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
gruelling. Normally two leaves and a Bard at every time she plugs. The | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
women's pidgins are carefully weighed. -- pigeons. If it is 18 | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
kilograms, they get $4. Any less they get $2. T worker salaries were | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
recently doubled, their lives are still difficult. They are still | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
some of the world's poorest people. There is no water or electricity. | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
The young family has been hit hard by rising cost. Some days they do | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
not all eat a square meal. Kerosene was raised by 50%. Now they cook on | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
wood. It is very difficult now. Goods are very expensive. My | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
husband does odd jobs with no secure income. We mainly depend on | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
my salary. As soon as I get paid all the shop owners who have given | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
me loans come to my doorstep to take the money. Team moves from | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
bush to Cup in barely 24 hours. It is left for eight hours to weather. | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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It is rolled, fermented, dried and baked. Delicious. Despite the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
world-beating quality of the sale on tea, its markets are under a | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
cloud. Iran, Iraq and Syria are free of the largest buyers. | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
Political turmoil means that prices are falling and orders are delayed. | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
He says they face financial difficulties. Some of their | :17:08. | :17:17. | |
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colleagues face closure. We cannot run our factories. The price of tea, | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
320, the cast is more than that. with plantation owners barely | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
breaking even, producers are finding new ways to add value to | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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the crop. For those who make tea, these are tough times. An outbreak | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
of mad cow's disease in California has highlighted the risk that | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
infection poses to the livestock industry. That is why the US | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
government treats diseases as seriously as terrorist threats. The | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
BBC has gained access to a high facility research facility where | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
scientists have developed a new vaccine against food and now. That | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
vaccine will be licensed in the coming month. -- foot-and-mouth. | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
These were the images that one decade ago shocked the world. The | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
bucolic farmland of Britain scarred by buyers of burning animals. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
Slaughtered to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. US | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
government scientists on an island laboratory have come up with a | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
vaccine they hope will run it -- remove the need for future cars. It | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
has taken me one of to get my security clearance, but I am here | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
on Plum Island. This is where a scientists work with animal viruses. | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Even though foot-and-mouth cannot affect humans, the economic | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
consequences of an outbreak are so severe that the Government treats | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
the disease as a terror threat. have 100 million head of cattle. We | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
export one-third of up pigs. The impact that industry, with a | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
disease that is so rapidly transmissible, would have impacts | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
of $50 billion. Tests on livestock cannot tell the difference between | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
an animal that has been vaccinated and one that has had the disease. | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
That can stop trade. Disease-free countries were not by infected it | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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made. -- will not buy. This has been one of the most important | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
innovations in the last 60 years. As well as conducting research, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
scientists are the first line of defence against any suspected | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
outbreak of foot-and-mouth on mainland America. There has been | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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more than six alerts already. This is where higher priority cases... | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
We need to test that within 24 hours. Usually we get a result | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
within four hours. Foot-and-mouth it is the US government's biggest | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
concern. Other animal diseases are being discovered that could be | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
equally devastating. Last year, Schmallenberg was identified in | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
German livestock. It has spread into other European countries. A | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
new vaccine for foot-and-mouth is within reach. The threat from other | :20:47. | :20:54. |