:00:03. > :00:13.through the streets. A national day of mourning has been declared. Now
:00:13. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:30.Worshipping in fear. Will Ross meets Nigeria's churchgoer was
:00:30. > :00:34.caught up in ethnic and religious tensions. Stories of torture. James
:00:34. > :00:39.Reynolds meets two men who fled Syria as a report highlights
:00:39. > :00:46.increasing violence in the country. And Paul Adams is in Louisiana
:00:46. > :00:53.where some enterprising monks have gone to the courts to insure their
:00:53. > :00:57.business doesn't die out. Hello and welcome to Reporters with me,
:00:58. > :01:03.Zeinab Badawi. This week a suicide bomber targeted a church in
:01:03. > :01:07.northern Nigeria where the campaign of violence by the Islamist
:01:07. > :01:11.insurgent group known as Boko Haram shows no sign of ending. Several
:01:11. > :01:16.hundred people have been killed in recent months. The group, which
:01:16. > :01:24.wants Islamic law imposed across Nigeria, has bombed numerous
:01:24. > :01:33.attempt to exploit existing divisions in the country. Will Ross
:01:33. > :01:37.reports from the city of Jos. A city under siege. Checkpoints to
:01:37. > :01:45.counter the Boko Haram threat. The almost impossible task is to stop
:01:45. > :01:50.the suicide bombers. This is the work of Boko Haram. The Sunday
:01:50. > :01:56.church service was in full swing here when the car bomb exploded.
:01:56. > :02:00.The building collapsing on the congregation. 11-year-old Sharon
:02:00. > :02:10.was that the injured. She remembers that the pastor was just about to
:02:10. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:21.start his sermon. The topic was unity. I saw blood rushing from my
:02:21. > :02:25.leg. The grave danger for Nigeria now is the retaliatory attacks
:02:25. > :02:30.spiralling out of control. Just moments after the bomb was
:02:30. > :02:34.detonated groups of angry young Christian men took to the streets
:02:35. > :02:41.seeking revenge, and they went for people they believed to be Muslims,
:02:41. > :02:44.killing several on the road right in front of the Church. This city
:02:44. > :02:49.is on the fault line between the mostly Christians south and the
:02:49. > :02:54.Muslim North. The bombings threatened to reignite a festering
:02:54. > :03:02.conflict that has caused many deaths. Desperate for peace, Muslim
:03:02. > :03:08.women have come to the mosque for special prayers. The violence on
:03:08. > :03:18.all sides is strongly condemned. Whoever is putting that on, that
:03:18. > :03:27.bomb blast, may got make them be known, and made. -- may God made
:03:27. > :03:33.them be known, many got -- may God punish them. Some see an even
:03:33. > :03:37.greater danger ahead. The young people are getting out of control.
:03:37. > :03:42.They are learning if Boko Haram is getting away with evil, crime and
:03:42. > :03:48.criminality, why shouldn't they? After all what have they got to
:03:48. > :03:55.lose? They are jobless. They are unemployable. They are hungry. They
:03:55. > :04:01.are angry. It is a stark warning. With insecurity so rampant, prayers
:04:02. > :04:04.alone are unlikely to fix Nigeria. A report released by Human Rights
:04:04. > :04:08.Watch on Tuesday claims that the Syrian government is using
:04:08. > :04:13.systematic torture to try to crush the rebellion against President
:04:13. > :04:17.Bashar al-Assad. The report gives details of detention facilities and
:04:17. > :04:22.the various methods of torture used. The human rights group is now
:04:22. > :04:27.calling for those implicated to be prosecuted by the International
:04:27. > :04:32.Criminal Court. James Reynolds reports from the turkey/Syria
:04:32. > :04:37.border. In this district of Damascus, security forces
:04:37. > :04:43.demonstrate their power. The man on the right is led out by the throat.
:04:43. > :04:48.Here a man standing by the wall gets punched. The new human rights
:04:48. > :04:54.report says what happens to these people if they get taken away. The
:04:54. > :04:59.report doesn't cover opposition crimes. These are features
:04:59. > :05:05.prominently in northern Syria. They have taken refuge here in Turkey --
:05:05. > :05:11.teachers. Last year they were detained for demonstrating. Ahmed
:05:11. > :05:17.was beaten so badly he played cards to kill him and end his pain.
:05:17. > :05:25.played cards. So he couldn't escape Jake Hyde our hands behind our
:05:25. > :05:31.backs and Coverdale eyes. We were bleeding from injuries. -- they'd
:05:31. > :05:40.hide our hands. The soldier of group Miley knows -- they each
:05:40. > :05:44.Highmead our hands. -- the soldier. You of what until you would need
:05:44. > :05:47.two things you haven't done. If you deny again and again and the
:05:47. > :05:53.torture gets worse. They threaten with electric shocks and they
:05:53. > :05:56.threaten your wife and your children. Opposition activists say
:05:56. > :06:01.these pictures show a plainclothes police attacking demonstrators in
:06:01. > :06:08.Damascus. Human Rights Watch accuses Syria of carrying out a
:06:08. > :06:17.state policy of torture. The orders came from the heads of the security
:06:17. > :06:19.forces. They were in direct contact with the President and his on Raj.
:06:20. > :06:23.At Human Rights Watch once those responsible for the crimes to be
:06:23. > :06:30.tried at the International Criminal Court. But that's a move that can
:06:30. > :06:35.be blocked by Syria's ally, Russia. So for now at least, international
:06:35. > :06:44.justice stops at this border. Syria is just metres away. But the
:06:44. > :06:53.families taking refuge don't dare to go back home. The reports on
:06:53. > :06:58.torture helps to explain why. Monasteries have long proved hives
:06:58. > :07:02.of industry, making anything from beer to jam. But now the work of
:07:02. > :07:07.some Benedictine monks in the US state of Louisiana has landed them
:07:07. > :07:11.in a legal battle. At the St Joseph at the Coppins have always been
:07:11. > :07:18.docked for personal use, and five years ago they decided to make a
:07:18. > :07:26.business out of it. It is a call that did not prove popular with
:07:26. > :07:30.local funeral directors and now it has gone to court. The journey
:07:30. > :07:36.across the lake feels like an escape from everything. But this is
:07:36. > :07:41.a story about government, red tape, and some very unlikely out laws. It
:07:41. > :07:45.is time for vespers at the Abbey of St Joseph, the Benedictine monks
:07:45. > :07:51.downing their various tools to praise God and perhaps contemplate
:07:51. > :07:56.their rather unusual run-in with the law. Before we sold our first
:07:56. > :08:03.casket, we received a cease and desist letter from the state of
:08:03. > :08:09.Louisiana, its board of the all directors, saying we were in
:08:09. > :08:13.violation of the law. This is the scene of the crime. Nothing fancy,
:08:13. > :08:19.but fashioned with love and a prayer. These days you can buy a
:08:19. > :08:24.coffin online, but here the monks say they are answering a calling.
:08:24. > :08:29.think we will continue. It is in God's hands, not mine. For years
:08:29. > :08:33.the Abbey has buried its own brothers in its own Coppins. But
:08:33. > :08:38.after hurricane Katrina blew away their trees, the monks needed to
:08:38. > :08:43.find other ways to pay the bills. They already had the skills and
:08:43. > :08:49.there's no problem with the market. There are 40,000 deaths a year in
:08:49. > :08:53.Louisiana. It is pretty big if you multiply that. For those that
:08:53. > :08:57.control this business in Louisiana, they don't care for the competition.
:08:57. > :09:02.They feel state law, which says only licensed funeral directors can
:09:02. > :09:05.sell Coppins, is on their side. Lawyers for the funeral border say
:09:05. > :09:10.the law in question Shields's grieving people from the trauma
:09:10. > :09:17.associated with buying coffins that don't fit in the areas admittedly
:09:17. > :09:27.rather than move unique burial stasis. Injuring bereaved customers
:09:27. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:37.consult with a licence professional is a legitimate process. So far the
:09:37. > :09:38.
:09:38. > :09:45.I think the law is economic protectionism. We feel we have a
:09:45. > :09:47.right to be able to sell caskets as anyone else. Work starts early in
:09:48. > :09:53.the morning and so injuries its small bakery. The bread is given
:09:53. > :09:58.away, not sold, no threats of lawsuits here. It is all about
:09:58. > :10:04.fulfilling St Benedict's' instruction, to be a true mark, one
:10:04. > :10:08.must work with one's hands. To pray and to work. We have always kept
:10:08. > :10:14.the tradition of physical work. It is a participation in God's own
:10:14. > :10:18.creative work. The battle is not over. But the free marketeers also
:10:18. > :10:22.intrudes its abbey think they are on solid ground. If it is what God
:10:22. > :10:27.wants them to do, surely the law can follow. The Afghan government
:10:27. > :10:31.has blamed the Taliban for a wave of suspected poisonings at girls'
:10:31. > :10:35.schools. No-one has died but girls have become sick in more than a
:10:35. > :10:45.dozen incidents. Chemical tests have failed to find evidence of any
:10:45. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:57.poison, but now the government has When the girls arrive at school,
:10:57. > :10:57.
:10:57. > :11:07.they are searched before entering the classroom. Here, two months ago,
:11:07. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:15.class after class became ill. Poisoning was suspected.
:11:15. > :11:18.TRANSLATION: At first, one or two of the girls were sick, then it
:11:18. > :11:27.increased. One of my classmates was in the playground. She fell down
:11:27. > :11:29.and so they took her to hospital. As local TV pictures show, hundreds
:11:29. > :11:35.of girls have been taken ill across northern Afghanistan.
:11:35. > :11:40.government blamed the Taliban. No physical evidence of poison has
:11:40. > :11:46.been found and the girls usually leave hospital shortly afterwards.
:11:46. > :11:49.Parents began to demand answers and action from the government.
:11:49. > :11:56.Recently we were taken to this Kabul prison where suspects of the
:11:56. > :12:00.poisoning are being held. There were no lawyers present and, before
:12:00. > :12:04.each man spoke, an intelligence officer directed him on what to say.
:12:04. > :12:09.This man says he gave two bottles of poison and money to two girls.
:12:09. > :12:14.So you don't think of it as wrong to target young women? Girls who
:12:14. > :12:24.were just trying to attend school? TRANSLATION: It was wrong, un-
:12:24. > :12:24.
:12:24. > :12:29.Islamic and it was my fault. I made a mistake. This man denies he was
:12:29. > :12:35.involved. Where do you think the poison came from? Who is giving
:12:35. > :12:40.this poison, directing this attack? TRANSLATION: It came from Pakistan
:12:40. > :12:47.but I don't have more information. How can I explain it? On the radio,
:12:47. > :12:54.the Taliban have denied they have poisoned girls. The men were led
:12:55. > :13:00.back to their cells. But others question whether these attacks are
:13:00. > :13:06.real or if mass hysteria is to blame. TRANSLATION: It is basically
:13:06. > :13:09.a psychological issue. The medical and criminal investigations
:13:09. > :13:12.indicate mental harm, not physical harm, to the victims. Afghanistan
:13:12. > :13:22.has been at war for 30 years. People are suffering under great
:13:22. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:28.stress. At the school, all of the girls have returned. Again, they
:13:28. > :13:32.are drinking from the well that they are sure was poisoned. But the
:13:32. > :13:37.evidence is far from solid, in fact puzzling. There are some here who
:13:37. > :13:46.want to stop girls going to school. But whether they would resort to
:13:46. > :13:49.poisoning is a mystery that remains unsolved. At this time of year,
:13:49. > :13:52.many parents will be packing their children off to summer camp. For
:13:52. > :14:02.many, it can be a rite of passage and perhaps the scene of that first
:14:02. > :14:05.teenage romance. Now, an organisation in the Czech Republic
:14:05. > :14:09.has put a twist on this tradition and begun offering the first summer
:14:09. > :14:15.camp for the over 65s. These pensioners have taken a trip down
:14:15. > :14:23.memory lane and deep into memory forest. They have come to relive
:14:23. > :14:26.that annual highlight of Czech childhood. The summer camp. An
:14:26. > :14:33.idyllic two or three weeks in the woods, playing games and singing
:14:33. > :14:36.songs far from the city, school and parents. It is a long time since
:14:36. > :14:46.these campers have had any homework but they are happy to be here all
:14:46. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:58.the same. TRANSLATION: This is a return to childhood. You forget
:14:58. > :15:02.your age and imagine you are 15, seven or eight and freely enjoy it.
:15:02. > :15:04.The summer camps have long had a Wild West theme, a throwback to a
:15:04. > :15:13.rather peculiar obsession with the cowboy and Indian stories of German
:15:13. > :15:16.author, Karl May. This one is no exception. TRANSLATION: Yesterday
:15:16. > :15:21.we made boomerangs and today we are learning to use them. We are doing
:15:21. > :15:30.many interesting things. We also try to learn how to crack a whip.
:15:30. > :15:37.Marvellous. There is a serious idea behind the camp, which is run by
:15:37. > :15:41.social services in Prague. Many Czech families leave the capital
:15:41. > :15:44.for weeks or months on end in the summer and it can be a depressing
:15:44. > :15:47.time for elderly people left on their own. This summer camp for
:15:47. > :15:55.seniors provides a break from the monotony of hiding from the heat of
:15:55. > :16:01.Prague. There is perhaps a bit less romance and heartache here at this
:16:01. > :16:06.camp, although the sole male camper is not complaining. TRANSLATION: I
:16:06. > :16:14.am happy being here amongst so many women. My wife persuaded me to come
:16:14. > :16:17.so there would be at least one man here. One summer camp ritual that
:16:17. > :16:20.has not changed from the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire through
:16:20. > :16:30.the communist pioneer camps and beyond - grilling sausages over an
:16:30. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:36.open fire. It is a dinner fit for cowboys and cowgirls of all ages.
:16:36. > :16:46.Americans celebrated Independence Day this week amid growing concern
:16:46. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:49.about the state of the US economy. The International Monetary Fund is
:16:49. > :16:53.warning that the recovery is at risk and describes the US economy
:16:53. > :17:03.as tepid. This report from Stockton in California, the biggest city in
:17:03. > :17:08.the US to declare itself bankrupt. # O say can you see by the dawn's
:17:08. > :17:13.early light. At a Californian racetrack, a celebration of
:17:13. > :17:18.America's strong sense of self. But these days, there is an uneasy edge
:17:18. > :17:22.to the pride and patriotism. Some argue the President has embraced
:17:23. > :17:30.decline. Others more generally worry about their country's place
:17:31. > :17:36.in the world. It is going in the toilet. Why? The economy is shot,
:17:36. > :17:43.the government sucks. People don't cherish what we have here. They
:17:43. > :17:48.don't cherish it. Some fret that America is dropping behind as other
:17:49. > :17:54.countries show more energy and ambition. One underlying worry,
:17:54. > :17:57.that America is broke, is particularly felt here. Stockton is
:17:57. > :18:05.the largest city in the US and is the first to declare itself
:18:05. > :18:09.bankrupt. Politicians here had large dreams that turned to
:18:09. > :18:13.nightmare. Projects like this, a luxury marina, propelled them into
:18:13. > :18:21.the red to the tune of more than �400 million. Stockton's plight is
:18:21. > :18:24.obvious. This is Main Street. Less visible is the long-term declining
:18:24. > :18:29.middle class income in America. For many, the prospect of prosperity
:18:29. > :18:32.has evaporated. America has had panic attacks about its place in
:18:32. > :18:35.the world before but some argue, this time, it is different and
:18:35. > :18:39.decline really will lead to eventual fall. Life has always been
:18:39. > :18:45.hard for some. But the fundamental belief that anybody can make it in
:18:45. > :18:50.America may now not be true. There are signs of social mobility in
:18:50. > :18:54.decline. But I find optimism in an unlikely place. The mayor of
:18:54. > :19:02.Stockton thinks her city and her country will find a way out of the
:19:03. > :19:10.current situation. We have a good future. We are still figuring out
:19:10. > :19:12.how we play that future. What role we have and how we resume again our
:19:12. > :19:16.prominence and innovation in manufacturing in a lot of those
:19:16. > :19:23.industries. It is a matter of evaluating who we want to be when
:19:23. > :19:28.we grow up. There is no doubt America has taken a bit of a
:19:29. > :19:34.battering recently. Others are catching up. But that may spare
:19:34. > :19:41.this competitive country to look for ways to stay out in front. The
:19:41. > :19:44.motto of the London Olympics is inspire a generation'. We have been
:19:44. > :19:49.finding out how that has been changing the lives of children at
:19:49. > :19:59.the school closest to the Olympic Park in east London. Welcome to our
:19:59. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:05.school! The faces of Britain's future. These are pupils at a
:20:05. > :20:09.school in one of London's most deprived boroughs and is closest to
:20:09. > :20:15.the Olympic Park. If the legacy of the Olympics is to inspire a
:20:15. > :20:25.generation, this is the place where it needs to begin. Who thinks they
:20:25. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:36.will be a star? I am going the wrong way. Michael Johnson getting
:20:36. > :20:37.
:20:37. > :20:47.down with the kids and helping them keep fit. USA! USA! And he has some
:20:47. > :20:47.
:20:47. > :20:55.tips for the next game of twister. Today, the ball has passed to a
:20:55. > :21:03.British basketball player. One, two, shoot! Coming to school with young
:21:03. > :21:06.kids is a clean slate. It stays with you forever. Being able to see
:21:06. > :21:14.the Olympics in their backyard and seeing what athletes can do, that
:21:14. > :21:18.dreams are achievable. It is events like this that really brings home
:21:18. > :21:21.the Olympics for the kids. To get a sense of how much the community has
:21:22. > :21:25.changed, you have to go a bit higher. From the official viewing
:21:25. > :21:34.platform, you get a view of the transformation of London. What do
:21:34. > :21:37.the kids think? It is a once-in-a- lifetime experience for the people
:21:37. > :21:43.around Stratford to finally get something that can change their
:21:43. > :21:46.lives forever. If you are still dubious about the ability of the