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That is the latest BBC News. It is Does Al-Qaeda have a foothold in | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Syria? A special report from inside the country. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
The doors are no more than prisoners come and go as they | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
please. Norway's model prison where few former convicts reoffend. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
And a world of white elephants. Alan Johnson fillets -- visits the | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Sicilian town where grandiose sporting plans (unwanted legacy. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
A rebel group in Syria has told the BBC that Al-Qaeda fighters are | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
active inside the country. A commander from the Free Syrian Army | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
claims opposition forces have been offered money, weapons and other | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
support from Al-Qaeda militants but have turned it down. Syria restrict | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
access to journalists but our correspondent and cameraman have | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
been back inside the country to try and assess the influence of the | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Islamists in the country's revelation. | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
Syrian rebels. This looks like a bloody fight just to survive. But | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
the ultimate goal is to overflow -- overthrow President Assad. The | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Americans support them and so does Al-Qaeda. Ironically, they are on | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
the same side as Syria. Western governments or worry that the wrong | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
people might benefit if they do fear. The front emerged with an | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
internet video earlier this year. They say they are to harvests, back | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
from other wars to fight in Syria. Some believe this is the future in | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
Syria. The numbers were quite small but they have grown. The hard | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
element of the opposition, the armed and combat experienced people, | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
up from either Libya or Iraq. There at the vanguard but are pushing out | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
all other forms of opposition. regime says that this is the result. | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
The blame bombings in Damascus on Islamist. Some Syrians did go to | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
Iraq to fight. They came back with al-Qaeda ideology. This man fought | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
in Iraq. He says he was defending his tripe in both countries. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Despite appearances, he does not like Al-Qaeda. He fears them. He | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
says he does not believe they are behind the recent bombings. This | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
lie has been used over and over by the regime, he says. The regime | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
lies all the time. They even lie about the weather. Many fighters | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
are deeply pious. There is a moderate tradition of Islam here. | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
At odds with Al-Qaeda's harsh ideology. The Daily suicide attacks | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
have not yet come to Syria. Following this kind of distraction, | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
sometimes, there is an offer of help from Al-Qaeda. We have learned | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
of a direct approach to a Muslim cleric. Money, weapons and other | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
support have been put on the table. The people here turned them away. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
More than a year into the revolution, people are getting | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
desperate. They warned that if the West fails to come to their aid, | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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Al-Qaeda will step in. At a free army command base, they say they're | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
fighting for democracy, not Sharia law. The senior officer has this | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
warning... TRANSLATION: I told the UN, the Syrian people can't take it | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
any more. Our children killed, are women raped, our houses destroyed. | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
If no-one helps us, we will turn to the devil himself. If Al-Qaeda is | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
here, the numbers are small. We did not need their supporters will see | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
their influence for many months. That could change the longer this | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
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goes on. They will find plenty of chaos here. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Now to a shocking report of exploitation of former war young | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
woman. Every year, thousands of women are smuggled from Mexico to | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the US and forced to become sex workers. The harbour of this trade | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
is a small town in central Mexico where many are involved in this | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
form of slavery and everyone knows about it. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
As millions go about their lives in Mexico City, a hidden trade in sex | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
trafficking ferocious. This is a hub for Women recruited from across | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
Mexico and sold into prostitution in the US. TRANSLATION: At first it | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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was 30 clients a night. My pimp was extremely violent. Almost to the | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
point of killing me. She was smuggled to New York by her | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
trafficker who abducted her own Mexico. This is the epicentre of | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the sex trafficking trade. I met a woman there who works with the | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
victims. -- a man who works with the victims. TRANSLATION: They show | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
them houses that most people can't afford. The women see an | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
opportunity of having a better life. They can't imagine they will end up | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
suffering sexual exploitation. went to see for ourselves. The time | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
thrives on such trafficking. The traffickers live in mansions like | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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this. It does not seem safe to film openly. Virtually everyone is | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
either involved in the human trafficking trade or has knowledge | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
of what has gone on. If everyone knows, why aren't the traffickers | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
prosecuted? Because of corruption. Even the Federal Government | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
struggles to make arrests here. TRANSLATION: They're so well | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
organised. The traffickers have a network of informers in other towns | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
that control who enters. Alyssia's trap per smuggled her to New York | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
where she was delivered like a pizza to men who called the numbers | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
on these cards. They're treated as cheap take-out food. It is listed | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
as delivery, the rate advertised and the women are a commodity to be | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
consumed in thrown away. finally escaped. She wants other | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
women to be on their guard. TRANSLATION: Don't trust a man. | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
Don't just believe the pretty things he will tell you. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
The trial of Anders Breivik has brought Norwegian justice some | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
international criticism recently. There is not much arguing with the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
success of the Norwegian prison system. One open prison on an | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
island boasts of reoffending rates of just 16% among its former | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
inmates. That compares to a European average of more than 70%. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
The prisoners run a self-sufficient community, farming, fishing and | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
cooking for themselves. Even the ferry to this island is | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
run by the inmates. He community that farms, fishes, feats and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
entertains itself. Although Anders Breivik is highly unlikely to | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
experience the relative luxury, some of Norway's most serious | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
offenders see out the final years of their sentence here, learning | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
new skills and self-awareness. is a place I came to change my | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
criminality. It is not all about the work. In summertime, we have | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
our own beach. We can lay there all day and enjoy the sun. Do you like | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
it here? It is difficult to say you like it but when you're in prison, | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
it is a nice place to be. Because reoffending rates are the lowest in | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Europe, the man in charge does not care if he is accused of running a | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
holiday camp. If you have a Cordle bad time here, it is not important. | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
It is important to create a situation where inmates can | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
discover respect for themselves. There are prisons where inmates | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
spend 23 hours a day in their cells. This prisoner comes and goes as he | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
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pleases. There are plenty of home comforts. Here, we have the TV and | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
over here at washing and to the pressures, a laptop but no wireless | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
connection. Prisoners here can call home when they want. Even those who | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
committed the most violent offences in the past can be selected come | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
here where unarmed guards and various farm animals are the | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
companions. Trying to escape war picture back to -- back in a | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
conventional prison. You're so free but you're not free. You go out, | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
shop, make food, you can play ping pong. But you still want to leave? | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
Of course. I want to go home to my family. For the Ireland's | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
attractions, this is not a place any of the inmates say they plan to | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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One question which comes up time and again about Afghanistan is what | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
will happen after the departure of foreign combat troops. This was | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
discussed at the recent NATO summit in Chicago. A possible answer may | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
be found in the Afghan city of Jalalabad where Afghan forces are | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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already in control. A moment of calm in a city on it. On the | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
surface like looks like it is getting better. Regular cricket | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
matches attract a sell-out crowd. In the city centre, now under | :12:30. | :12:39. | |
Afghan control, signs of a boom. I hitched a ride in one of | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Jalalabad's signature rickshaws to see a city that I last visited | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
seven years ago and discover this is still a place of mixed fortunes. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Rehearsals at the City's only made the studio. But the security has | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
allowed more film-making, but it is still a Taliban target. As NATO | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
pulls back the director of years a Return to the past. TRANSLATION: I | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
am 100% concerned. The Taliban are still threatening us, telling us | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
not to work with the government. head out of the city to the | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
mountains along the border with Pakistan with an escort of armed | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
police, wearing local quotes in an effort to blend in. This is Taliban, | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
not NATO, country. The fields are again blaming with opium poppy, the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
source for most of the horror when on Britain's streets. The | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
government wants to destroy some of the poppy fields. We have no choice | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
but to grow it, claims the farmer. We are very poor and we do not get | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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any help. But any deal has been done and the eradication team will | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
not go too far. This looks like a serious effort to clear opium poppy, | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
but this is just one small area. All around here there are hundreds | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
of other fields which have been left untouched. And all the signs | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
are that farmers are planning to grow even more opium poppies this | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
year because they're worried about the future after NATO pulls out. In | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
this border region many fear that next door Pakistani will now roll | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
in and squeeze the still fragile country. A decade of NATO | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
intervention may not have changed as much as America and its allies | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
vote. Andrew North, BBC News, eastern Afghanistan. When it comes | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
to architecture or Italy has much it can be proud of. It is home to | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
some of the world's most spectacular buildings lie at the | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Coliseum and the watery wonders of Venice. But these days not every | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Italian building project can be seen as a success. Alan Johnston | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
has been looking at Mach one particular town in Sicily seems to | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
have had more than its fair share of disasters. In the shadow of the | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
volcano Mount Etna this was designed, bizarrely, as a polo | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
field in a place where nobody plays polo. The money ran out and the | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
project was abandoned half finished. Just up the road and elaborate | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Children's park when the job has ever played. And this is the calm | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
swimming pool when nobody has said this one. Abandoned nearly 20 years | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
ago, it was designed by Salvo Pat donate. He said the funds of just | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
dried up, as they did in the other watched projects across this town. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
He spoke of his sadness that Hizbul has never seen a drop of water, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
that a thing that the Tehran wanted has been left to rot away. In the | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
old days they finished buildings properly but now it's people live | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
with the wreckage of several grand schemes that failed. Local | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
community activists are desperate to find some use for these | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
crumbling monstrosities. TRANSLATION: The idea is to make an | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
agony Museum and start talking about these buildings as works of | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
art. They share elements and they have their own in complete | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
architectural styles. Now be is a chance that the doors of this | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
unfinished theatre just might open after 60 years. There is at last | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
eight and completed. The council says hard lessons have been learned. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
TRANSLATION: We have to be sure we have the money to complete the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
buildings from start to finish, otherwise it is better not to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
promise things that will come to nothing. But so much needs to be | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
put right, not least these so- called multi-functional Hall where | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
there has never been a function. In a way, this time armed's story is | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
the story of the whole of Italy. In the past, both here and across the | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
country, there was just too much reckless spending. Now the town is | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
left wondering what to do well all these useless buildings and at a | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
national level it is struggling to cope with its vast national debt. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Younger Italians are inheriting the mistakes of a previous generation, | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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forced to labour under a legacy of waste. BBC News, Sicily. The first | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
state of-the-art needed in case of African township of Berkman. The | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
stages in probably one of the most famous neighbourhoods and the world, | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
so we cloaking Johannesburg, once named to President Nelson Mandela. | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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-- Sir -- so we spoke. If the world is a stage and then as though we to | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
do once the leading role. Final rehearsals before this season opens | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
in a South African township. And where they did to locate it and at | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
the heart of the struggle against white minority rule, we are the | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
songs and stories of hardship still resonates. The symbolism of these | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
is that it is the first the to the new government have built since | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
they have been in power. Subsidised by government, it marks a bold | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
architectural statement. The aim is to attract visitors from the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
neighbour would and around the world. This massive amphitheatre is | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
part of the complex and it is steeped in history. This is the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
very spot where Nelson Mandela's daughter addressed crowds as he | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
spent time in jail. She promised them that one day he would return, | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
which she did, as Supp Africa's first black President. Eight their | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
number of the 5 million residents of superweed may remain poor, | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
struggling to afford even the basics. Trying to sell the idea of | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
the theatre is difficult. It is a challenge. We have faced bigger | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
challenges. In 2010 we were in the midst of recession but we managed | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
to pull it off. I am confident that the people of Soweto will come to | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
about it. Another challenge is to actually get people to the theatre. | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
The vast majority rely on minibus taxis but they do not run or might. | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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Transport is not a problem for some. So wet turf is rapidly changing. An | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
emerging middle class is transforming what was once the | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
neighbourhood of Nelson Mandela into a vibrant economy. Restaurants | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
are bringing in Crowle us and said to our fashion stores. Our arts and | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
culture are driving development here. There is no shortage of | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
talent in the township. A new generation to be targeted players | :21:07. | :21:17. |