02/09/2012 Reporters

able to attend. If We report from the Sinai desert

where a fence is being built to stop Islamist extremists crossing

into Israel from Egypt. We meet the only Afghan athlete at

the Paralympics in London. Learning the hard way, we report

from the amazing self-taught musicians in the National Youth

Orchestra of Iraq. Israel's defence minister has

praised Egypt's efforts to stop militants in the Sinai desert. Last

month armed insurgents staged a raid into Israel's territory.

Israel fears that the new government will be less interested

in maintaining control. If good fences make good neighbours,

Israel-Egypt are looking like very good neighbours. The Israeli

government is working on a 240 kilometre fence. The aim, to keep

the uncertainties of the Arab Spring safely on the other side. On

the Israeli side they are working the potato fields as normal. In

August, Islamists crashed through the fence near these fields. They

were intercepted and killed. The attack has changed the atmosphere.

This has always been called the Peace Fence. We have never been

threatened from Sinai. We hope this is an isolated incident and it

doesn't happen again. For more than 30 years the peace treaty has kept

this border quiet. It never created warm relationships, but it meant an

absence of conflict. Things are now Four times Israel and Egypt went to

war in the Sinai desert. These images from 1967. When they finally

stopped fighting in 1969 it brought a kind of stability to the Middle

East. -- 1979. The frontier between Egypt and Israel is long and lonely.

Israelis see it as a soft target for any extremists trying to cross

it. They trusted Hosni Mubarak to keep the border quiet. Now that

Egypt has a President from the Muslim Brotherhood, they are not so

sure. At this Red Sea resort, which is on the border, it is business as

usual. In the hills above the town, an anti-missile battery keeps watch.

TRANSLATION: Peace suits everyone. The Egyptians have poured billions

of dollars into tourism. I hope they protect that investment. We

will certainly protect ourselves. Israel got decades of stability and

of peace in the Sinai. On the border, they watch anxiously for

signs of change. More than 4,000 athletes are in

London competing for the Paralympics. One weightlifter from

Afghanistan stands out for his determination to succeed despite of

difficulties back home. Fahim Rahimi has made it to the

Paralympics but he shouldered his burden on his own. This

weightlifter has got no coach, no financial support, he can only use

the gym in Kabul because they do not charge him. He had his leg

blown off by a mine in Afghanistan's civil war. No

sophisticated prosthetics here. He still has the plastic one he was

given by the Red Cross. TRANSLATION: Every young person

hopes they will do something for their country. I want to fly the

Afghan flag all over the world. It is a big thing for one of us to go

to the Paralympics. Fahim Rahimi is the only athlete who will represent

Afghanistan. One success story in a country where there are so many sad

tales. This is how amputees can end up, beggars on the streets. Thanks

to war, their numbers are being added to all the time. This 18-

year-old was paralysed just a few weeks ago. He was hit by shrapnel

from a Taliban rocket. His ambitions do not extend to the

Paralympics yet. He just wants to be able to move around by himself.

But there is help at hand. The Red Cross factory, the place that gave

Fahim Rahimi his leg, is producing 15,000 artificial limbs a year. In

Afghanistan there are thought to be tens of thousands of people who

have been made disabled by many years of conflict. These people are

just learning to use their new prosthetic limbs. They will need

care in some form or other for the rest of their lives. But sport is

starting to be seen as a factor that could make a difference for

Afghanistan's disabled. There has been a profound change in those who

have taken it up. They were not convinced to be able to do anything.

Rather than just dragging around, now they have seen they can be

players, champions, heroes in a way. Fahim Rahimi says he will not be

satisfied with anything other than a medal, but he is already an

inspiration to those in Afghanistan. Jordan's coach to the polls in

October to elect a new parliament. -- the people of Georgia go to the

polls. A new party funded by a billionaire tycoon has emerged. The

fight is getting nasty. In his James Bond-style fortress

overlooking the capital, Georgia's richest man keeps his billion-

dollar art collection. But some of the pieces are replicas. The

original site kept in London. He says that as Opposition leader he

is being targeted by the Government. He fears is it could be seized. The

authorities have fined him more than $200 million. Allegedly for

illegally funding is part me. -- his party. He says it is the

president's way of crushing opponents. TRANSLATION: He has

managed to persuade the US and Europe he is building a real

democracy. Nothing like that is happening in this country. He is

popular among older and poorer voters. He do it so for $100

million to charity. -- donates over. He says the government does not do

enough to combat poverty. Opposition Mac campaign officers

are springing over the country. But the government says that he is

tampering with the political landscape. His actions are nothing

more than voter breviary. bribery. It is a risky thing for a

Georgia's development at towards democracy. When he came to power in

2003, the President swept aside the Soviet-era elite. He made the

streets safe. There are fears that without him the country would slip

back into chaos. His ruling party is ahead in the polls and is seen

as moderate and pro-Western. The biggest test is whether the

government can treat the opposition fairly.

The government of Mali in West Africa is calling on the

international community to help combat Islamist extremists who have

taken over two-thirds of the country.

We were allowed to spend some time with the Mali Army.

On patrol with the Mali Army. This heavily armed convoy is on the

lookout for Islamist insurgents. They have kicked Mali's honey from

the north of the country. Their commander admits that the morale is

low. He insists that his nation will win the fight to come. Without

any external assistance we can't fully deal with this situation.

Training is being stepped up. But taking the north without new funds

and equipment is way off target. The patrol has stopped. The reason

for that is that beyond this point, the land is under the control of

Al-Qaeda Link Islamic extremists. In the capital, politicians doubt

that Mali can face the extremists alone. They have been trained to

face these kinds of people. But we do not have the numbers, equipment

or training. People have little to sing about here. This volunteer

militia is driven by locals. Many of these people fled their homes in

the north. Now they want them back. What they lack in weapons, they

make up for in enthusiasm. TRANSLATION: I am here for the

laugh of my country. I want to help our fighters, mothers, sisters and

brothers. I do not worry about being killed because the blood that

has already been shed is part of me. The West African regional bloc is

offering to put 3,000 boots on the ground. It lacks international

funding to get them there. This should worry the world, a spokesman

says. All of the region is in danger. All of Africa is in danger.

More than 2,000 people in Mali flee to neighbouring regions. It is

already a regional problem. Military intervention could soon

Half of the 4 million foreigners in Malaysia are thought to be illegal

immigrants. The government has begun to offer amnesty and work

visas last year. The amnesty deadline has passed and there are

still many illegals working in the country.

A wake-up call at 2am at a construction site. Immigration

officials are on the hunt for illegal workers. This man try to

hide underneath the bed. He does not have the proper documents says

the officer. Some did not have time to put on shoes. All of the workers

have been rounded up on this construction site. You can see some

people who have got the wristbands, they tried to run away from the

officials when they were doing the cheque. This raid could have been

avoided. Last year the government began offering illegal immigrants

amnesty and work payments if they registered with officials.

Employers say the system was poorly set up. By the time the amnesty

ended in April, one million illegals were still outside the

system. Selmar admits she is one of them. She is terrified of being

deported back to Indonesia, her job is all she has. I tried to become

legal, I could not afford the registration fees. I have no

savings. It these immigrants will spend the night in detention.

Foreign workers are often blamed for crime and for keeping wages are

low. Malaysia is short of labour. Industries like pig farming rely on

foreigners. Most of collations are Muslim and consider peaks dirty. --

Malaysians. He earns two times more here than he does at Indonesia. He

has now been legalised. Before I had a work permit I was worried I

would be arrested or deported. I never left this farm and I felt

trapped. Now I have been legalised I can go out. But his legal status

in Malaysia is temporary. Once the visa expires next year the

government expects these foreigners to go back. So long as immigrants

and a better immigrant -- a better living here than back home, some

say there will be plenty of illegals willing to replace these

workers. The idea of growing grapes and making wine in a tropical

region was laughed that for years by international experts. As the

popularity of drinking wine has grown in Asia, so has the desire to

make it. We report from Thailand. On the edge of a national park in

the hills of Bangkok, one of four vineyards in Khao Yai. The owners

have ambitious plans to rescue a product that ten years ago was a

culinary joke. Wine connoisseurs have regarded Thailand's wine and

short of unprintable. And vineyards like is that awful reputation is

being turned around. Our climate is not for grapes. Undaunted, she is

growing them all the same. Just 25 years-old, she is the daughter of

the estate owner. She was trained in Australia. She has managed to

sidestep many of the articles for making wine in the tropics. --

obstacles. We have had graduates from overseas who have been

educated overseas and properly trained. We came back and started

to improve the techniques in the vineyards and the winery. To make

our once more complex. Changing the habits of wine-drinkers will take

time. This restaurant stocks 220 different types of wine. None of

them are from Thailand. The wind belong to the Roman Empire. In

Thailand... They do such a good job. -- wine belonged. They are not

there yet in terms of consistency will stop they have to work more on

it. -- consistency. In the short time, Thailand's industry will have

to be happy with picking up awards. Learning an instrument is hard

enough, to do it when you are scared for your life and without

any teachers, that makes it a very difficult task. For one group of

teenagers in Iraq, music practice was not homework, it was an escape

from a world of car bombs and chaos. We have been to meet the group

dubbed the world's greatest musicians. The National Youth

Orchestra of Iraq prepare for their first concert in Britain. I am a

cellist. Teenagers can get up to all sorts of forbidden things in

secret. Tuqa took up the cello, a girl playing a Western instrument,

she lives in fear. When I first started it was very hard for a girl

to play music. I had to walk far from my school. The cello case is

very big. People would always notice what I was carrying. Zuhal

grew up in Baghdad. In 2003 when Britain and America invaded, that

was the end of music lessons. But she persevered. I download sheet

music. I practise and play. teacher? No. She has formed an

orchestra, auditions are sent in on YouTube. Because learning an

instrument is difficult enough, learning instrument in Iraq over

the last ten years, you can only begin to understand the problems.

Some of them discovered their instruments by watching something

on the television and falling in love with it. They had to ask their

friends, what is the name of that instrument? They some have got hold

of one, usually a pretty poor one, they downloaded the fingering from

the internet. They taught themselves to play. I am a flute

player. How long have you have been playing? Five years. Have you ever

had a teacher? No. I am a double bass player. Again, no lessons. He

just watched videos on YouTube. During a ten-minute break during

rehearsals, it is suddenly party time. Too many here grew up indoors,