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