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a knockout in the fifth round. Those are the latest headlines on | :00:03. | :00:13. | |
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BBC News. Now it is time for On the smugglers trial. We joined | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
the hunt for the drugs trade is of Thailand's notorious Golden | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Triangle. France's buried secret. Christian | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Fraser grows beneath the battlefields to see what is being | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
done to preserve carvings by soldiers of the First World War. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
And they are counting their sleeps until they are golden moment. We | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
are with the London schoolchildren gearing up for the Olympic Games. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Welcome to reporters. For centuries, the Golden Triangle, | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
where Thailand and Laos meat has been notorious for the production | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
of opium. While the amount of poppies grown there has more than | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
halved over the past decade production of the stimulant | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
methamphetamine has soared. Most of it is produced in Burma and much of | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
it ends up in Thailand. As our correspondent reports trying to | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
stop production is almost impossible. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Night patrol on the mighty Mekong river. The Navy is the first line | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
of defence in what has become a constant struggle to keep drugs | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
from crossing into Thailand. Heavily armed and with the latest | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
in night-vision technology these boats are responding to a tip off. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
An informer has called to say that a package of methamphetamine is | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
about to be moved. The Navy has received some specific information | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
about the possible transfer of drugs from Laos, on that side, to | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
Thailand, over there. Officers were deployed on the river bank after a | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
short wait it was decided that this was a false alarm. Either the | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
smugglers had spotted the track, or more likely they had made it across. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
With just one officer for every three kilometres of river all it | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
takes is a short boat trip to get the drugs across. TRANSLATION: It | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
fetches 50 baht in the Laos. It features 300 by the time it gets to | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Bangkok. I don't want to say it is impossible job but we're just | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
dealing with the end result here. The Golden Triangle was once | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
notorious for its opium smuggling. But it is now methamphetamine that | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
is the region's biggest problem. Seizures of tablets like these have | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
quadrupled in the last four years. Prove experts say of an explosion | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
in both supply and demand. Both countries are major consumers of | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
methamphetamine. The population taking these drugs believe them to | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
be relatively safe, which they are not, and they help individuals | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
party until dawn and do back- breaking work in the fields and | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
roads. Most of South East Asia's methamphetamine is man -- | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
manufactured in Shand stayed in them. From there they are smuggled | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
into China, Thailand, or Laos, and then back into Thailand. Thailand's | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
prime minister oversaw the incineration of the latest haul of | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
21 million tablets. New money is being made available to try to stop | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
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the drugs getting in. But with long Burma's with -- but before long | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
borders with Burma and Laos, it is out of reach and the other side. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
It imagine being forced to flee your home only to end up living in | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
a place where you are in more danger. That is exactly what | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
happened to a group of people who fled their island home of Zanzibar | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
off the coast of East Africa only to end up living in the Somali | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
capital Mogadishu. Now the first of 12 for families have been | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
repatriated back home. A reminder of a troubled past. Mogadishu's | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
airport is one of the most dangerous places on earth. The | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
snipers are no more and traffic flows easily. Today it is saying | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
farewell to some special passengers. These are some of the refugees and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
their new families who fled Zanzibar in 2001. Close to two | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
dozen people were killed, mostly opposition supporters. This man was | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
among a group of 100 who arrived in Mogadishu to a life worse than the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
one they had left behind. Now married to a Somali woman with two | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
children he is part of the first group of refugees the United | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Nations is flying home. My of in Mogadishu was very tough. -- life | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
in. After we saw that the situation in our country was better we said | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
that there was no use in remaining in this country. It is their first | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
ever flight. For many it is the first they are seen their homeland | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
in 11 years. For their wives and children it will be an opportunity | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
to start again. -- for the men. There were more anxious looks and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
smiles as Muhammad step on the home turf. Tanzania's government has | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
given assurances to be islanders that there will not be harassed. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
their own volition they came to UNHCR when we established in | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Mogadishu three years ago. They started talking about repatriation | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
will stop it took us the best part of two years to come to this point. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
A mother's embrace for her son. Though the life Muhammad has come | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
back to won't be as bad as in Mogadishu it will not be easy. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Poverty is rife in this part of Tanzania. But this is home for | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Mohammed and he hopes the remaining family is in Somalia will follow | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
suit. We have been promised by the government that the government will | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
not harass anyone. My message for them is to come back to their | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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country and cooperate to build the future of their country. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
political climate of the silence has improved over the past ten | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
years. The peace and tranquillity that Zanzibar is famed for should | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
offer my Hamed and his family a second wind. -- Mahomed. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Across the globe statues and monuments serve as reminders of the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
human toll of war but beneath the battlefields of the First World War | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
in France there are memorials which remain largely unknown. Hundreds of | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
caves have carvings edged out by frontline troops which serve as | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
tributes to their fallen comrades. Now as Christian Fraser reports the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
fight is underway to preserve a neglected piece of history. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Searching such an inviting looking meadow it is hard to picture the | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
misery of the 1914 battlefield. But in the trees of Confrecourt there | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
is a tangible link to the French Army that fought here. It is | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
written in the darkness of a medieval stone quarry. These are | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the murals and carvings of the frontline troops, the insignia of | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
their regiments, a roll-call of the comrades who fell. This one on as a | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
guard gassed at the entrance to the caves. There is an artistry in here | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
that belies the horrors of the Great War. Such an elaborate | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
portrait of Marianne, an image as dear to French hearts as the | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
vineyards the soldiers still dreamt of. Displayed on the walls are the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
innermost emotions of a soldier, the hope, the fear, the torment, | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
the patriotism. But from the comparative peace of this century | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
it was just a short distance up these steps to the chaos of the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
frontline whether two opposing armies faced each other for four | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
years. -- Sanctuary. The quarries were first used as hospitals. In | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
the depths of winter they were valuable shelter for the troops | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
rotating from the front. They also use them to hold German prisoners | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
whose shoes can still be found on the floor. There are carvings of | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
loved ones, some that were drawn, some that were never finished. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Normally they are anonymous, he says. Sometimes the artist signs in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
pencil or lease the name of his village, children or wife. They all | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
wanted to leave a mark of their passing. There are 500 such caves | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
now being considered for UNESCO status. All are at risk from | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
looters and vandals. It is not a regular part of the battlefield | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
tour, but those who do come are amazed. Boys, men, 15, 16 years of | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
age... No mothers, fathers. They have to go to the tunnel to their | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
deaths. The in 1914 there was no place for fear. In November that | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
year French regiment lost a position to the advancing Germans. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Six of the men who had retreated were chosen and executed as an | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
example. It is these stories of the few that honour the many. And they | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
are stories worth preserving. Wherever they are found. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Now to the present day conflict playing out in many American cities | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
and a most unusual by-product. Every year the city of Los Angeles | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
holds a gun amnesty to get weapons off the streets and hopefully | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
reduce violence there. This year those guns are the basis for a | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
unique art project. We went to have a look. From the hands of criminals | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
into the studio of an artist. Guns from the streets of Los Angeles | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
transformed into sculptures. A portrait of crime, their creator | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
calls them. This is a special piece. It is made out of, this one a man | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
has 50 shotguns. You can see the profile. Can you see the nose? This | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
is the profile. The LAPD collected, decommission, and then delivered | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
two tons of weapons and left the rest to Victor Hugo's science. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
aim is to take these guns, break them down, change them, transform | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
them into something us. But they still have a powerful image. People | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
identify with them. -- something else. They know what it is | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
immediately. It is may be a secondary reading. You get closer | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
and you see they are made out of instruments of death or violence. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
There is no shortage of supply in Los Angeles for the budding artist. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
The police recover thousands of weapons every year from crime | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
scenes, or from buying them back off the streets. Most of them are | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
simply destroyed. But for the high- powered weapons that end up here, | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
many more are still out there are feeling gang related violence. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
is a problem in LA. But it is not like it was years ago. In the early | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
90s we had something like 1,200 murders every year. We are down to | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
less than 300. It is still quite a huge number. But compared to Howard | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
was we have had and nine you decrease in violent and gun crime. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
The guns have gone full circle, returning to the police | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
headquarters to be unveiled in an exhibition to highlight what has | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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been done to reduce the violent I think the message is so positive. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
If fighting get people to look at the differently, then I have | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
achieved something. A solid artistic reminder of the violence | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
with which historically the city has been so closely connected. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
The city of Rome already offers visitors an almost overwhelming | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
variety of things to see and do. It is about to show one more | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
remarkable exhibit. The air raid shelter of Benito Mussolini. It has | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
been shut for years because of a build-up of dangerous gases. But | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
now the problem has been resolved and visitors will soon be able to | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
return and they are likely to come away with a full understanding of | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
the dictator's last days. The Villa Torlonia and its gardens. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
An oasis of calm in the heart of Rome. It is a park now, but this | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
used to be the playground of one of the great dictators, Benito | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Mussolini. The Bilal was his home for 18 years. This is the place | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
where he relaxed. Here, he was surrounded by his wife and children. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
But amid all this luxury, perhaps in his bed in the quiet of the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
night, the dictator began to worry about his safety. What if he were | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
the target of an air raid? TRANSLATION: He had a need for | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
security. But there was also an attempt to imitate Hitler. He had | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
been to Germany and seen the bunkers. So he decided that he | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
needed to go down, not just into his basement area, but down much | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
deeper still. He wanted to go into the depths of the Earth, below the | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
foundations. This is the bunker that Mussolini began to build. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Cylindrical corridors for maximum strength. The walls are four metres | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
thick. Layers of concrete reinforced with iron. Also an | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
escape route up into the garden, in case bombs demolished the house and | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
blocked the bunkers' main entrance. In the start, the date and he | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
replays, Mussolini hoped that he and his children would be safe. As | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
the work dragged on and on, he wrote in his diary that he was | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
worried it would not be finished in time. It seemed to add to a growing | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
sense of unease. Indeed the work was not finished by the time the | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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dictator fell from power. Today it looks as grand as ever. But it | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
hides a Haing -- a stranger struck doubt that his evidence of the | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
darkest fears of Benito Mussolini. There is a major push in South | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
Korea to get more people into work. The country's labour force is | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
shrinking because of their ageing population, and the pressure is on | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
to get more employment hours for mothers returning to work. That is | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
proving to be a bit of a challenge. Hwang Jin-Young does not look like | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
a woman about to go into battle, but this class is part of a quest | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
that will Peter again some of South Korea's most entrenched cultural | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
values. She is looking for a job, specifically one that will also | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
allow her to see her three-year-old son. TRANSLATION: I need to work | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
around my child's schedule. He goes to nursery but there is a limit to | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
how long he can stay there. The company is looking for people who | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
can work until 9pm at night, so it is difficult to find a job. Less | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
than half of South Korea's female workforce is currently employed. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
The government is keen to get more mothers working. It needs the taxes | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
to pay for its ageing population and expanding welfare. The South | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Korea's stubbornly long working hours are only one part of the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
problem. Long working hours are not only for grown-ups. Academic | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
achievement is a National vocation, and the saying goes, a big part of | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
South Korea's academic success is down to the so-called helicopter | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
mum, who hovers over her children night and day as they study. It is | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
something else the government would like to change. TRANSLATION: The | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
reason why South Korea's education is so high is to support children | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
get from their mothers at home. Now there are new demands for women to | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
withdraw it -- rejoin the workforce. It is important to have shorter | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
working hours, not just for women, but men as well, so they can be | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
there to help bring up the children. Shorter working hours, raising the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
minimum wage and be more flexible could boost the numbers of women in | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
work, but the changes are likely to cost companies more, and in the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
current economic climate, many businesses find that idea | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
unattractive. But as its ageing population starts to grow, South | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Korea faces a choice between its economic health and its corporate | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
culture. The simple choice may end up changing a whole lot more. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
The London Olympics I just days away and lots of schools in Britain | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
had had Olympic themed sports days, including Colegrave Primary, our | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
chosen school of 2012. The children can see the Olympic Park from their | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
playground. They are going to be doing a lot more than just watching | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
the games. They are living by the Olympics, | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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they had been learning about it, and now they are holding their own. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Sports days are a great opportunity for them to take part in events | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
that they will be seeing at the Games. What you will always see is | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
a sense of joy. I just like being at sports day because it is great | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
fun. Also the feeling of participating, and feeling good | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
that you have done something. would love to be any Olympian one | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
day. All these events looks so far. Doing them for your country must be | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
the best feeling in the world. only thing that could surpass your | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
very own at in the school day is being part of the real thing. For | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
some kids, that is no longer just a dream. More than 30 of them had | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
been selected to take part in the opening ceremony. They will hit the | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
headlines. Danny Boyle came to Colegrave and fell in love with the | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
children. I was really excited. I was jumping up and down and running | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
around the school. I was amazed. I did not know that I was going to be | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
chosen. My family were so happy. We went out for a special meal. I feel | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
excited. Excited because my family will see me on television. They | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
like seeing me on television. in the opening ceremony has had a | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
positive effect on the whole school. It has really inspired our children. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Their confidence has blossomed over the last few months. They say eat | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
is not the winning but the taking part that counts, but the children | :20:50. | :20:54. |