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through the streets. A national day of mourning has been declared. Now

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Worshipping in fear. Will Ross meets Nigeria's churchgoer was

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caught up in ethnic and religious tensions. Stories of torture. James

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Reynolds meets two men who fled Syria as a report highlights

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increasing violence in the country. And Paul Adams is in Louisiana

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where some enterprising monks have gone to the courts to insure their

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business doesn't die out. Hello and welcome to Reporters with me,

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Zeinab Badawi. This week a suicide bomber targeted a church in

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northern Nigeria where the campaign of violence by the Islamist

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insurgent group known as Boko Haram shows no sign of ending. Several

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hundred people have been killed in recent months. The group, which

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wants Islamic law imposed across Nigeria, has bombed numerous

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attempt to exploit existing divisions in the country. Will Ross

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reports from the city of Jos. A city under siege. Checkpoints to

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counter the Boko Haram threat. The almost impossible task is to stop

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the suicide bombers. This is the work of Boko Haram. The Sunday

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church service was in full swing here when the car bomb exploded.

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The building collapsing on the congregation. 11-year-old Sharon

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was that the injured. She remembers that the pastor was just about to

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start his sermon. The topic was unity. I saw blood rushing from my

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leg. The grave danger for Nigeria now is the retaliatory attacks

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spiralling out of control. Just moments after the bomb was

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detonated groups of angry young Christian men took to the streets

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seeking revenge, and they went for people they believed to be Muslims,

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killing several on the road right in front of the Church. This city

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is on the fault line between the mostly Christians south and the

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Muslim North. The bombings threatened to reignite a festering

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conflict that has caused many deaths. Desperate for peace, Muslim

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women have come to the mosque for special prayers. The violence on

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all sides is strongly condemned. Whoever is putting that on, that

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bomb blast, may got make them be known, and made. -- may God made

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them be known, many got -- may God punish them. Some see an even

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greater danger ahead. The young people are getting out of control.

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They are learning if Boko Haram is getting away with evil, crime and

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criminality, why shouldn't they? After all what have they got to

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lose? They are jobless. They are unemployable. They are hungry. They

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are angry. It is a stark warning. With insecurity so rampant, prayers

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alone are unlikely to fix Nigeria. A report released by Human Rights

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Watch on Tuesday claims that the Syrian government is using

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systematic torture to try to crush the rebellion against President

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Bashar al-Assad. The report gives details of detention facilities and

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the various methods of torture used. The human rights group is now

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calling for those implicated to be prosecuted by the International

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Criminal Court. James Reynolds reports from the turkey/Syria

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border. In this district of Damascus, security forces

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demonstrate their power. The man on the right is led out by the throat.

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Here a man standing by the wall gets punched. The new human rights

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report says what happens to these people if they get taken away. The

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report doesn't cover opposition crimes. These are features

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prominently in northern Syria. They have taken refuge here in Turkey --

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teachers. Last year they were detained for demonstrating. Ahmed

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was beaten so badly he played cards to kill him and end his pain.

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played cards. So he couldn't escape Jake Hyde our hands behind our

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backs and Coverdale eyes. We were bleeding from injuries. -- they'd

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hide our hands. The soldier of group Miley knows -- they each

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Highmead our hands. -- the soldier. You of what until you would need

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two things you haven't done. If you deny again and again and the

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torture gets worse. They threaten with electric shocks and they

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threaten your wife and your children. Opposition activists say

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these pictures show a plainclothes police attacking demonstrators in

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Damascus. Human Rights Watch accuses Syria of carrying out a

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state policy of torture. The orders came from the heads of the security

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forces. They were in direct contact with the President and his on Raj.

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At Human Rights Watch once those responsible for the crimes to be

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tried at the International Criminal Court. But that's a move that can

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be blocked by Syria's ally, Russia. So for now at least, international

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justice stops at this border. Syria is just metres away. But the

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families taking refuge don't dare to go back home. The reports on

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torture helps to explain why. Monasteries have long proved hives

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of industry, making anything from beer to jam. But now the work of

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some Benedictine monks in the US state of Louisiana has landed them

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in a legal battle. At the St Joseph at the Coppins have always been

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docked for personal use, and five years ago they decided to make a

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business out of it. It is a call that did not prove popular with

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local funeral directors and now it has gone to court. The journey

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across the lake feels like an escape from everything. But this is

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a story about government, red tape, and some very unlikely out laws. It

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is time for vespers at the Abbey of St Joseph, the Benedictine monks

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downing their various tools to praise God and perhaps contemplate

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their rather unusual run-in with the law. Before we sold our first

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casket, we received a cease and desist letter from the state of

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Louisiana, its board of the all directors, saying we were in

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violation of the law. This is the scene of the crime. Nothing fancy,

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but fashioned with love and a prayer. These days you can buy a

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coffin online, but here the monks say they are answering a calling.

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think we will continue. It is in God's hands, not mine. For years

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the Abbey has buried its own brothers in its own Coppins. But

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after hurricane Katrina blew away their trees, the monks needed to

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find other ways to pay the bills. They already had the skills and

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there's no problem with the market. There are 40,000 deaths a year in

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Louisiana. It is pretty big if you multiply that. For those that

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control this business in Louisiana, they don't care for the competition.

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They feel state law, which says only licensed funeral directors can

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sell Coppins, is on their side. Lawyers for the funeral border say

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the law in question Shields's grieving people from the trauma

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associated with buying coffins that don't fit in the areas admittedly

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rather than move unique burial stasis. Injuring bereaved customers

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consult with a licence professional is a legitimate process. So far the

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I think the law is economic protectionism. We feel we have a

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right to be able to sell caskets as anyone else. Work starts early in

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the morning and so injuries its small bakery. The bread is given

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away, not sold, no threats of lawsuits here. It is all about

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fulfilling St Benedict's' instruction, to be a true mark, one

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must work with one's hands. To pray and to work. We have always kept

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the tradition of physical work. It is a participation in God's own

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creative work. The battle is not over. But the free marketeers also

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intrudes its abbey think they are on solid ground. If it is what God

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wants them to do, surely the law can follow. The Afghan government

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has blamed the Taliban for a wave of suspected poisonings at girls'

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schools. No-one has died but girls have become sick in more than a

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dozen incidents. Chemical tests have failed to find evidence of any

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poison, but now the government has When the girls arrive at school,

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they are searched before entering the classroom. Here, two months ago,

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class after class became ill. Poisoning was suspected.

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TRANSLATION: At first, one or two of the girls were sick, then it

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increased. One of my classmates was in the playground. She fell down

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and so they took her to hospital. As local TV pictures show, hundreds

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of girls have been taken ill across northern Afghanistan.

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government blamed the Taliban. No physical evidence of poison has

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been found and the girls usually leave hospital shortly afterwards.

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Parents began to demand answers and action from the government.

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Recently we were taken to this Kabul prison where suspects of the

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poisoning are being held. There were no lawyers present and, before

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each man spoke, an intelligence officer directed him on what to say.

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This man says he gave two bottles of poison and money to two girls.

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So you don't think of it as wrong to target young women? Girls who

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were just trying to attend school? TRANSLATION: It was wrong, un-

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Islamic and it was my fault. I made a mistake. This man denies he was

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involved. Where do you think the poison came from? Who is giving

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this poison, directing this attack? TRANSLATION: It came from Pakistan

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but I don't have more information. How can I explain it? On the radio,

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the Taliban have denied they have poisoned girls. The men were led

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back to their cells. But others question whether these attacks are

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real or if mass hysteria is to blame. TRANSLATION: It is basically

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a psychological issue. The medical and criminal investigations

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indicate mental harm, not physical harm, to the victims. Afghanistan

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has been at war for 30 years. People are suffering under great

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stress. At the school, all of the girls have returned. Again, they

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are drinking from the well that they are sure was poisoned. But the

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evidence is far from solid, in fact puzzling. There are some here who

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want to stop girls going to school. But whether they would resort to

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poisoning is a mystery that remains unsolved. At this time of year,

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many parents will be packing their children off to summer camp. For

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many, it can be a rite of passage and perhaps the scene of that first

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teenage romance. Now, an organisation in the Czech Republic

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has put a twist on this tradition and begun offering the first summer

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camp for the over 65s. These pensioners have taken a trip down

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memory lane and deep into memory forest. They have come to relive

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that annual highlight of Czech childhood. The summer camp. An

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idyllic two or three weeks in the woods, playing games and singing

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songs far from the city, school and parents. It is a long time since

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these campers have had any homework but they are happy to be here all

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the same. TRANSLATION: This is a return to childhood. You forget

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your age and imagine you are 15, seven or eight and freely enjoy it.

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The summer camps have long had a Wild West theme, a throwback to a

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rather peculiar obsession with the cowboy and Indian stories of German

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author, Karl May. This one is no exception. TRANSLATION: Yesterday

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we made boomerangs and today we are learning to use them. We are doing

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many interesting things. We also try to learn how to crack a whip.

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Marvellous. There is a serious idea behind the camp, which is run by

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social services in Prague. Many Czech families leave the capital

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for weeks or months on end in the summer and it can be a depressing

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time for elderly people left on their own. This summer camp for

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seniors provides a break from the monotony of hiding from the heat of

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Prague. There is perhaps a bit less romance and heartache here at this

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camp, although the sole male camper is not complaining. TRANSLATION: I

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am happy being here amongst so many women. My wife persuaded me to come

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so there would be at least one man here. One summer camp ritual that

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has not changed from the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire through

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the communist pioneer camps and beyond - grilling sausages over an

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open fire. It is a dinner fit for cowboys and cowgirls of all ages.

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Americans celebrated Independence Day this week amid growing concern

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about the state of the US economy. The International Monetary Fund is

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warning that the recovery is at risk and describes the US economy

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as tepid. This report from Stockton in California, the biggest city in

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the US to declare itself bankrupt. # O say can you see by the dawn's

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early light. At a Californian racetrack, a celebration of

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America's strong sense of self. But these days, there is an uneasy edge

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to the pride and patriotism. Some argue the President has embraced

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decline. Others more generally worry about their country's place

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in the world. It is going in the toilet. Why? The economy is shot,

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the government sucks. People don't cherish what we have here. They

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don't cherish it. Some fret that America is dropping behind as other

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countries show more energy and ambition. One underlying worry,

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that America is broke, is particularly felt here. Stockton is

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the largest city in the US and is the first to declare itself

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bankrupt. Politicians here had large dreams that turned to

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nightmare. Projects like this, a luxury marina, propelled them into

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the red to the tune of more than �400 million. Stockton's plight is

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obvious. This is Main Street. Less visible is the long-term declining

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middle class income in America. For many, the prospect of prosperity

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has evaporated. America has had panic attacks about its place in

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the world before but some argue, this time, it is different and

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decline really will lead to eventual fall. Life has always been

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hard for some. But the fundamental belief that anybody can make it in

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America may now not be true. There are signs of social mobility in

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decline. But I find optimism in an unlikely place. The mayor of

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Stockton thinks her city and her country will find a way out of the

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current situation. We have a good future. We are still figuring out

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how we play that future. What role we have and how we resume again our

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prominence and innovation in manufacturing in a lot of those

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industries. It is a matter of evaluating who we want to be when

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we grow up. There is no doubt America has taken a bit of a

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battering recently. Others are catching up. But that may spare

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this competitive country to look for ways to stay out in front. The

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motto of the London Olympics is inspire a generation'. We have been

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finding out how that has been changing the lives of children at

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the school closest to the Olympic Park in east London. Welcome to our

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school! The faces of Britain's future. These are pupils at a

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school in one of London's most deprived boroughs and is closest to

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the Olympic Park. If the legacy of the Olympics is to inspire a

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generation, this is the place where it needs to begin. Who thinks they

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will be a star? I am going the wrong way. Michael Johnson getting

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down with the kids and helping them keep fit. USA! USA! And he has some

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tips for the next game of twister. Today, the ball has passed to a

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British basketball player. One, two, shoot! Coming to school with young

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kids is a clean slate. It stays with you forever. Being able to see

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the Olympics in their backyard and seeing what athletes can do, that

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dreams are achievable. It is events like this that really brings home

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the Olympics for the kids. To get a sense of how much the community has

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changed, you have to go a bit higher. From the official viewing

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platform, you get a view of the transformation of London. What do

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the kids think? It is a once-in-a- lifetime experience for the people

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around Stratford to finally get something that can change their

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lives forever. If you are still dubious about the ability of the

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