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That is the latest BBC News. It is Does Al-Qaeda have a foothold in

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Syria? A special report from inside the country.

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The doors are no more than prisoners come and go as they

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please. Norway's model prison where few former convicts reoffend.

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And a world of white elephants. Alan Johnson fillets -- visits the

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Sicilian town where grandiose sporting plans (unwanted legacy.

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A rebel group in Syria has told the BBC that Al-Qaeda fighters are

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active inside the country. A commander from the Free Syrian Army

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claims opposition forces have been offered money, weapons and other

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support from Al-Qaeda militants but have turned it down. Syria restrict

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access to journalists but our correspondent and cameraman have

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been back inside the country to try and assess the influence of the

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Islamists in the country's revelation.

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Syrian rebels. This looks like a bloody fight just to survive. But

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the ultimate goal is to overflow -- overthrow President Assad. The

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Americans support them and so does Al-Qaeda. Ironically, they are on

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the same side as Syria. Western governments or worry that the wrong

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people might benefit if they do fear. The front emerged with an

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internet video earlier this year. They say they are to harvests, back

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from other wars to fight in Syria. Some believe this is the future in

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Syria. The numbers were quite small but they have grown. The hard

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element of the opposition, the armed and combat experienced people,

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up from either Libya or Iraq. There at the vanguard but are pushing out

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all other forms of opposition. regime says that this is the result.

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The blame bombings in Damascus on Islamist. Some Syrians did go to

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Iraq to fight. They came back with al-Qaeda ideology. This man fought

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in Iraq. He says he was defending his tripe in both countries.

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Despite appearances, he does not like Al-Qaeda. He fears them. He

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says he does not believe they are behind the recent bombings. This

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lie has been used over and over by the regime, he says. The regime

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lies all the time. They even lie about the weather. Many fighters

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are deeply pious. There is a moderate tradition of Islam here.

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At odds with Al-Qaeda's harsh ideology. The Daily suicide attacks

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have not yet come to Syria. Following this kind of distraction,

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sometimes, there is an offer of help from Al-Qaeda. We have learned

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of a direct approach to a Muslim cleric. Money, weapons and other

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support have been put on the table. The people here turned them away.

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More than a year into the revolution, people are getting

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desperate. They warned that if the West fails to come to their aid,

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Al-Qaeda will step in. At a free army command base, they say they're

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fighting for democracy, not Sharia law. The senior officer has this

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warning... TRANSLATION: I told the UN, the Syrian people can't take it

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any more. Our children killed, are women raped, our houses destroyed.

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If no-one helps us, we will turn to the devil himself. If Al-Qaeda is

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here, the numbers are small. We did not need their supporters will see

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their influence for many months. That could change the longer this

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goes on. They will find plenty of chaos here.

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Now to a shocking report of exploitation of former war young

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woman. Every year, thousands of women are smuggled from Mexico to

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the US and forced to become sex workers. The harbour of this trade

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is a small town in central Mexico where many are involved in this

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form of slavery and everyone knows about it.

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As millions go about their lives in Mexico City, a hidden trade in sex

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trafficking ferocious. This is a hub for Women recruited from across

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Mexico and sold into prostitution in the US. TRANSLATION: At first it

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was 30 clients a night. My pimp was extremely violent. Almost to the

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point of killing me. She was smuggled to New York by her

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trafficker who abducted her own Mexico. This is the epicentre of

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the sex trafficking trade. I met a woman there who works with the

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victims. -- a man who works with the victims. TRANSLATION: They show

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them houses that most people can't afford. The women see an

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opportunity of having a better life. They can't imagine they will end up

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suffering sexual exploitation. went to see for ourselves. The time

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thrives on such trafficking. The traffickers live in mansions like

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this. It does not seem safe to film openly. Virtually everyone is

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either involved in the human trafficking trade or has knowledge

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of what has gone on. If everyone knows, why aren't the traffickers

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prosecuted? Because of corruption. Even the Federal Government

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struggles to make arrests here. TRANSLATION: They're so well

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organised. The traffickers have a network of informers in other towns

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that control who enters. Alyssia's trap per smuggled her to New York

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where she was delivered like a pizza to men who called the numbers

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on these cards. They're treated as cheap take-out food. It is listed

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as delivery, the rate advertised and the women are a commodity to be

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consumed in thrown away. finally escaped. She wants other

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women to be on their guard. TRANSLATION: Don't trust a man.

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Don't just believe the pretty things he will tell you.

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The trial of Anders Breivik has brought Norwegian justice some

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international criticism recently. There is not much arguing with the

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success of the Norwegian prison system. One open prison on an

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island boasts of reoffending rates of just 16% among its former

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inmates. That compares to a European average of more than 70%.

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The prisoners run a self-sufficient community, farming, fishing and

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cooking for themselves. Even the ferry to this island is

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run by the inmates. He community that farms, fishes, feats and

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entertains itself. Although Anders Breivik is highly unlikely to

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experience the relative luxury, some of Norway's most serious

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offenders see out the final years of their sentence here, learning

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new skills and self-awareness. is a place I came to change my

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criminality. It is not all about the work. In summertime, we have

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our own beach. We can lay there all day and enjoy the sun. Do you like

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it here? It is difficult to say you like it but when you're in prison,

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it is a nice place to be. Because reoffending rates are the lowest in

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Europe, the man in charge does not care if he is accused of running a

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holiday camp. If you have a Cordle bad time here, it is not important.

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It is important to create a situation where inmates can

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discover respect for themselves. There are prisons where inmates

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spend 23 hours a day in their cells. This prisoner comes and goes as he

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pleases. There are plenty of home comforts. Here, we have the TV and

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over here at washing and to the pressures, a laptop but no wireless

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connection. Prisoners here can call home when they want. Even those who

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committed the most violent offences in the past can be selected come

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here where unarmed guards and various farm animals are the

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companions. Trying to escape war picture back to -- back in a

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conventional prison. You're so free but you're not free. You go out,

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shop, make food, you can play ping pong. But you still want to leave?

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Of course. I want to go home to my family. For the Ireland's

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attractions, this is not a place any of the inmates say they plan to

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One question which comes up time and again about Afghanistan is what

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will happen after the departure of foreign combat troops. This was

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discussed at the recent NATO summit in Chicago. A possible answer may

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be found in the Afghan city of Jalalabad where Afghan forces are

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already in control. A moment of calm in a city on it. On the

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surface like looks like it is getting better. Regular cricket

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matches attract a sell-out crowd. In the city centre, now under

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Afghan control, signs of a boom. I hitched a ride in one of

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Jalalabad's signature rickshaws to see a city that I last visited

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seven years ago and discover this is still a place of mixed fortunes.

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Rehearsals at the City's only made the studio. But the security has

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allowed more film-making, but it is still a Taliban target. As NATO

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pulls back the director of years a Return to the past. TRANSLATION: I

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am 100% concerned. The Taliban are still threatening us, telling us

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not to work with the government. head out of the city to the

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mountains along the border with Pakistan with an escort of armed

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police, wearing local quotes in an effort to blend in. This is Taliban,

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not NATO, country. The fields are again blaming with opium poppy, the

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source for most of the horror when on Britain's streets. The

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government wants to destroy some of the poppy fields. We have no choice

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but to grow it, claims the farmer. We are very poor and we do not get

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any help. But any deal has been done and the eradication team will

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not go too far. This looks like a serious effort to clear opium poppy,

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but this is just one small area. All around here there are hundreds

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of other fields which have been left untouched. And all the signs

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are that farmers are planning to grow even more opium poppies this

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year because they're worried about the future after NATO pulls out. In

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this border region many fear that next door Pakistani will now roll

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in and squeeze the still fragile country. A decade of NATO

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intervention may not have changed as much as America and its allies

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vote. Andrew North, BBC News, eastern Afghanistan. When it comes

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to architecture or Italy has much it can be proud of. It is home to

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some of the world's most spectacular buildings lie at the

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Coliseum and the watery wonders of Venice. But these days not every

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Italian building project can be seen as a success. Alan Johnston

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has been looking at Mach one particular town in Sicily seems to

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have had more than its fair share of disasters. In the shadow of the

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volcano Mount Etna this was designed, bizarrely, as a polo

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field in a place where nobody plays polo. The money ran out and the

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project was abandoned half finished. Just up the road and elaborate

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Children's park when the job has ever played. And this is the calm

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swimming pool when nobody has said this one. Abandoned nearly 20 years

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ago, it was designed by Salvo Pat donate. He said the funds of just

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dried up, as they did in the other watched projects across this town.

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He spoke of his sadness that Hizbul has never seen a drop of water,

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that a thing that the Tehran wanted has been left to rot away. In the

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old days they finished buildings properly but now it's people live

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with the wreckage of several grand schemes that failed. Local

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community activists are desperate to find some use for these

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crumbling monstrosities. TRANSLATION: The idea is to make an

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agony Museum and start talking about these buildings as works of

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art. They share elements and they have their own in complete

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architectural styles. Now be is a chance that the doors of this

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unfinished theatre just might open after 60 years. There is at last

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eight and completed. The council says hard lessons have been learned.

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TRANSLATION: We have to be sure we have the money to complete the

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buildings from start to finish, otherwise it is better not to

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promise things that will come to nothing. But so much needs to be

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put right, not least these so- called multi-functional Hall where

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there has never been a function. In a way, this time armed's story is

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the story of the whole of Italy. In the past, both here and across the

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country, there was just too much reckless spending. Now the town is

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left wondering what to do well all these useless buildings and at a

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national level it is struggling to cope with its vast national debt.

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Younger Italians are inheriting the mistakes of a previous generation,

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forced to labour under a legacy of waste. BBC News, Sicily. The first

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state of-the-art needed in case of African township of Berkman. The

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stages in probably one of the most famous neighbourhoods and the world,

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so we cloaking Johannesburg, once named to President Nelson Mandela.

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-- Sir -- so we spoke. If the world is a stage and then as though we to

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do once the leading role. Final rehearsals before this season opens

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in a South African township. And where they did to locate it and at

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the heart of the struggle against white minority rule, we are the

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songs and stories of hardship still resonates. The symbolism of these

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is that it is the first the to the new government have built since

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they have been in power. Subsidised by government, it marks a bold

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architectural statement. The aim is to attract visitors from the

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neighbour would and around the world. This massive amphitheatre is

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part of the complex and it is steeped in history. This is the

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very spot where Nelson Mandela's daughter addressed crowds as he

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spent time in jail. She promised them that one day he would return,

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which she did, as Supp Africa's first black President. Eight their

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number of the 5 million residents of superweed may remain poor,

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struggling to afford even the basics. Trying to sell the idea of

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the theatre is difficult. It is a challenge. We have faced bigger

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challenges. In 2010 we were in the midst of recession but we managed

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to pull it off. I am confident that the people of Soweto will come to

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about it. Another challenge is to actually get people to the theatre.

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The vast majority rely on minibus taxis but they do not run or might.

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Transport is not a problem for some. So wet turf is rapidly changing. An

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emerging middle class is transforming what was once the

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neighbourhood of Nelson Mandela into a vibrant economy. Restaurants

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are bringing in Crowle us and said to our fashion stores. Our arts and

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culture are driving development here. There is no shortage of

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talent in the township. A new generation to be targeted players

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