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prosecutor disagreed. Those are the headlines. Now it is | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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Humphrey Hawksley reports from Eastern Congo where illegally mined | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
precious metals could be funding a rebel militias. Canada's black gold, | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
a 21st century oil bonanza. And four years after the Olympic Games | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
in Beijing, David Bond asks what difference the game is made to | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
China. Hello and welcome to this edition | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
of Reporters. Mining companies are being challenged to end the trade | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
in what are known as conflict minerals. Critics say such trade | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
helps fuel bloodshed in central Africa. A system of traceability | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
needs to be implemented. They were students rights violations have | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
been in the Democratic Republic of Congo. -- the worst human rights | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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violations. The children off now more highly are mining for gold. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
They are hoping to trap fragments in the water. -- the children of | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Nyam Mahali. The community sees this as the only way to earn money. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
This man is 48 and has four children. He has word here all his | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
night. We need money to support her family. The work here is very tough. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
What else can we do? Now even this is under threat because the gold | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
from here is a conflict mineral. Its profits have been used to fund | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
wars that have killed millions. Fausten has found some of the | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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precious metal. It is gold, he says. And there are now moves to ban all | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
mining like this. America has passed a law that deters companies | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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from using it. The laws that are preventing foreign companies from | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
buying gold are putting people into trouble. 1,000's gold is now in | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
this old film container. To comply with the new rules, its exact | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
origins would have to be tapped. From here, Gold begins its journey | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
around the world. It underwrites the wealth of Nations and is a | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
symbol for prosperity and success. Very little of that is reflected in | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
this village. The people of at the bottom of the supply chain. Most | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
gold is smuggled out of Congo to neighbouring countries. The roads | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
are appalling. The borders are food. -- fluid. One of the black market | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
destinations is Uganda. Even a legitimate dealer is not sure where | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
his gold supply East origin made. We are not finding any problems | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
with the gold. Even in Congo and Tanzania. It can come from | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
anywhere? Years. You don't know when it comes from? Yes. It is not | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
only jewellery. As you can see, this is gold. Gold is vital for | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
gadgets. It is a resilient conductor of electricity. Laptops, | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
phones, wireless internet equipment, a possible link with killing and | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
exploitation that goes right into our homes. It is chaos. That is why | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
everybody who is human should say "no, we're going to put an end to | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
this". We can make this business more human. In Congo, soldiers keep | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
a fragile peace. The Government says it wants to clear up the gold | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
business so that profits do not fund violence. It comes at a price. | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
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The Nyam Mahali mind is part of the reputation. The miners fear or this | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
will cost them part of their livelihood. Much of the world is | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
facing economic slowdown and recession. Parts of Canada are | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
enjoying a boom. That boom is fuelled by the mining of oil. The | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
country has the third largest reserves globally and those are | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
being exploited on a vast scale. Environmentalists say the | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
development is happening too fast. Katty Kay went to the province of | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Alberta, where many of those reserves live. The breathtaking | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
beauty of the Rocky Mountains. There is something wholesome, | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
pristine, quintessentially pure about this country's image. This is | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
the Canada that you might not think of. Dirty, industrial, focused on | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
proper. Welcome to the world's newest petro-state and the changing | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
country. Canadians have oil, lots of it. It is buried here in the | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
windy Sanz of northern Alberta. -- sands. People are using more and | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
more fuel. The Canadians are developing these sands at | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
breathtaking speed. Digging out the sand and taking out the oil is | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
complicated. It used to be too expensive. New technology has | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
brought the cost of production down. Profits are up. This lucrative mins | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
Date brings investors in from all around the world. -- Women state. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Mitchell that a Manon is a long way from home. She came here from the | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Philippines. -- Mucharata Minong. This tiny woman drives a monster | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
truck in the minds. -- mines. home every year. I can go anywhere | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
I want. I can buy anything I need. I am supporting my family and my | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
relatives. It has changed my life, compared to what I made as a nanny. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
The oil has created a modern-day gold rush. The local town of Fort | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
McMurray has doubled in size in the last decade. You can almost see the | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
horses and saloons through the dust. For people like Ann Dort-Mclean, | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
the speed of development has alarming environmental consequences. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
You have to worry about the wildlife and the Footprint we are | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
leaving on the land and how that is affecting the caribou or the docks | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
of the migratory birds. It is also the greenhouse gas emissions. -- | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
ducks. The sustainability of the environment. Some of these concerns | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
are addressed in a new form of extraction that does not distort | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
the landscape as much. These mines are less ugly. They need be more | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
harmful, emitting even more greenhouse gases. -- they might be. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
We need to take steps to minimise the environmental footprints. Or | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
what the last few years, we have tried to decrease the steam to oil | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
ratio. Emissions are dropping. Environmentalists worry that | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
leaving this to the goodwill of oil companies is a risky strategy. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Canada has a bad record on the issue of climate change. No | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
policies have been put into place, particularly around oil and gas. | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
consumers were conflicted, we want our oil cheap, plentiful and clean. | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
Unfortunately, those demands are not compatible. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Taking prescription pills is for some people in America just a way | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
of life. For every conceivable ailment, there is a drug that | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
promises a quick fix. Pain relief is big business. Many people asked | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
doctors for dropped without understanding their addictive | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
nature. Once hooked, some people turn to backstreet dealers or crime | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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to feed their habit. Laura Rich Elassar reflects on all he | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
lost through his addiction to prescription painkillers. His | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
marriage ended and his business collapsed as his craving for the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
pills increased. In the morning I needed 10 percocet Chesterfield | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
normal. Affected but have them, I would not be able to get up. As his | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
addiction spiralled, he spent $1,500 a week buying bills from | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
dealers. The rock bottom part of my life was when I found myself one | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
morning at realising that I had no money, no-one would lend me the | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
money. It burnt all those pictures. I needed to get those pills. What | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
could lead to? I heard how is it was to rob a bank and I did it. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
many Americans are addicted to prescription painkillers. But | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
communities like this one are feeling the effect. Addicts are | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
desperate to feed their habit. They have started to rub pharmacies. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the advice of the Drug Enforcement Agency, I no longer carry these | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
drugs have high abuse. Howard Levine's pharmacy was robbed twice | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
at gunpoint by an addict. He says the fundamental problem is doctors | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
prescribing too many painkillers. think the epidemic is clear. People | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
are being over prescribed, over medicated. We as a country in the | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
US have the highest uses of oxycodone, hydrocodone in the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
entire world. I would like to know when we became the most painful | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
nation in the entire world? We have become a Society of Wusses. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
medicine cabinets throughout America, and used painkillers | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
create a ready supply of pills waiting to be stolen or sold. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
was prescribed a quantity of 60 and there is probably around 50 left in | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the bottle. This police man sees the consequences of over | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
prescription. It is a nationwide problem but has become an epidemic | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
in suburbia. More people are becoming addicted to these pain | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
medicines. The doctor says it stops your cravings. Richard is weaning | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
himself of his addiction, taking medication to stop his withdrawal | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
symptoms. He is rebuilding his life there. -- his life. | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
To speed up met a's ball back from Afghanistan, the new army has been | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
handed responsibility for procuring the equipment it needs. But a | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
decision by the Afghans to scrap an American contract for making boots | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
has thrown the whole process into confusion. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Afghan boots on the ground. Searching for Taliban roadside | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
bombs. As NATO pulls back, the Afghan army is taking over the lead. | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
It's a huge challenge. Western forces had handed over the business | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
of the quipping thousands of new recruits. Everything from belts to | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
Boots. At the factory there was making the boots, this -- there is | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
confusion. The Afghan Defence Ministry has cancelled the contract | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
the Americans gave them. We were given a chance through the US | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
government and we made it. We showed them that Afghanistan can | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
make quality products. What you think this says? That the contract | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
has been taken away? You can see what is happening. Only 38 workers | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
are left out of 150. This is how the factory looked months ago when | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
there were making hundreds of pairs a day. This is how it looks today. | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
A ghost factory. This is the sign - - arguably a sign of the Afghan | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
government standing on its own feet. But Afghanistan has few large | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
factories like this. With few other jobs around, some workers might | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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even joined the Taliban. Without work Borrie job, we will be going | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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there. -- they will be going there. Maybe they will be going with the | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
Taliban. They are denying reports they are planning to import cheaper | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
bid from China. TRANSLATION: Is two different companies provide the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
same piece of equipment, we will do the contract to the Afghan company, | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
even if the quality is slightly lower. In the factory is keeping | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
things ticking over for now, but as NATO pulls its boots out of | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Afghanistan, there are uncertain times ahead. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Thousands of workers across Europe are enjoying a new craze which is | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
turning lunchtime in to a short but energetic party atmosphere. They | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
are gathering in dance halls for a quick turn across the floor which | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
the organisers claim that makes workers more productive in the | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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afternoon. Promptly at noon, the disco ball | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
attracts ravers for an hour of bopping. Welcome to Lunch Beat. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
is becoming a dancing revolution. When you have been working a lot, | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
it is good to take a break. When you come here ad get to dance with | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
other people, it gives you energy. When you come back to work, you are | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
more creative and happier. This dance craze has taken off in Sweden. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
There are events up in or around the country. It is likely to make | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
inroads into the rest of Europe. Sessions are happening in Serbia, | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Germany, and Britain. This session featured an internet took up with | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Stockholm with the concept of not- for-profit parties began. No | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
alcohol was served and everyone is sober. The Deputy Mayor is an | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
advocate of Lunch Beat after seeing improved productivity. Of course I | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
would recommend as for other employers. I see that they're happy | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
when they come back. They seemed more relaxed. It is quite good for | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
them. The Deputy Mayor gauges the reaction of one of his staff. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
was really fun. It is the first time I have been but it was good. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
It gives you energy for the rest of your day. Everyone is happily | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
dancing in there. Pour it was such approval, the organisers hope to | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
expand the dense network to countries as diverse as the US and | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
India. Just over two months until London | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
host the Olympic Games. Four years ago it was put -- Beijing's time. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
The games helped put the spotlight on China but there have been far | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
fewer signs of any legacy from those games on issues like human | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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rights. A sporting legacy from a different | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
age. Tai chi has been practised in China for centuries. Long before | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
the modern Olympics were born. A time when this vast country was | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
less worried about its place in the world. The Beijing Games was | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
supposed to mark a turning point in history. A carefully choreographed | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
display designed to announce modern China's arrival on the global stage. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
The former gymnast Li Ning was but -- asked to provide a thrilling | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
climax to the opening ceremony. I asked him why the games were so | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
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These days, the Bird's Nest Stadium is more prized for its architecture | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
than its sporting credentials. It hosts concerts and occasional | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
exhibition matches but is mostly a tourist attraction. A shrine to | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
Beijing's moment in the spotlight. Inside the Water Cube, these | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
children are among the privileged few learning to swim in one of the | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
Olympic pools. The aquatic Centre has been more successful but it is | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
still eerily decked out with 2008 branding. Away from the iconic | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Vinnies, there is clear evidence of China's legacy failure. Like other | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
stadiums, the beach volleyball Reena is barely used and has seen | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
better days. -- arena. The Bird's Nest was designed as a lasting | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
symbol of China's emergence as a global superpower. But China also | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
promised the Games would transform the lives of ordinary people. Four | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
years on, there are serious doubts as to whether anything has changed. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Some would argue that on human rights, China has gone backwards. | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
The artist and designer of the Bird's Nest Ai Weiwei is one of the | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Communist government's most vocal critics. The Beijing Olympics will | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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be remembered as the city most quickly been forgotten. If you ask | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
people about the Olympics, people can't really say anything bad about | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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it. Officials here will tell you a Chinese people are still deeply | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
proud of the way Beijing used the Games to send a powerful message to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
the world. London will not be able to match that but will be | :20:41. | :20:45. |