:00:05. > :00:15.in an internal inquiry afterwards. A zeroes -- those are the latest
:00:15. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:28.Tories. Now it is time for The human face of the victims of
:00:28. > :00:35.severe's civil war. We made a family scarred for life after their
:00:35. > :00:39.home was shelled. Two old enemies battling a common thread. Cuba and
:00:39. > :00:44.the unit he states joined forces to tackle the drug traffickers. -- the
:00:44. > :00:50.United States. And why big is beautiful on the African coast. We
:00:50. > :00:57.made the African artist famous for painting larger ladies. -- we meet.
:00:57. > :01:02.Welcome to Reporters. The United Nations says more than 230,000
:01:02. > :01:08.people have now fled the fighting in Syria, including 100,000 in the
:01:08. > :01:12.last month. Most of the refugees have crossed into Jordan. That is
:01:12. > :01:17.where our correspondent met one family who suffered horrific
:01:17. > :01:25.injuries when their house was shelled. These are the faces behind
:01:25. > :01:31.the statistics of untold suffering that emerge from Syria every day. A
:01:31. > :01:37.close-knit family from Homs, the Khaddors are now confined to a
:01:37. > :01:41.cramped hotel room. They fled here after losing everything they have,
:01:41. > :01:47.everything but their lives. They were fast asleep when a shell hit
:01:47. > :01:53.their home. It started a fire which engulfed the children. Translation
:01:53. > :01:58.mac they were burning. I could hear them crying. I tried to take their
:01:58. > :02:06.clothes off. I tried to put the fire out. I did not feel the pain.
:02:06. > :02:10.I did not feel the fire on my hands. Thank God we managed to save them.
:02:10. > :02:18.This six-year-old escape the flames but his three-year-old sister could
:02:18. > :02:25.not. This four-year-old has third- degree burns all over her body.
:02:25. > :02:32.TRANSLATION: She looked at herself in the mirror and said "Mum, I have
:02:32. > :02:38.been burnt. I used to be beautiful. Why did I become this way?" I told
:02:38. > :02:44.her that she was still beautiful. Today, she will have an operation
:02:44. > :02:47.on her left hand. It is a traumatic experience for a small child. The
:02:47. > :02:53.kier is infinitely better than anything available to civilians in
:02:53. > :02:58.Syria who are bearing the brunt of the concert. Thousands of people
:02:58. > :03:04.injured across the Middle East are being operated on here. -- the
:03:04. > :03:09.conflict. Increasing numbers of them are Assyrians. It is those who
:03:09. > :03:19.cannot get here who doctors are worrying about the most. -- are
:03:19. > :03:21.
:03:21. > :03:29.Syrians. These people are just a normal family. They do not have
:03:29. > :03:34.support. This is war. You can't predict what happens. Every case
:03:34. > :03:39.here is complicated. The girl will have to wait a couple of years to
:03:39. > :03:45.have surgery on her face. No one is counting the injured in Syria. This
:03:45. > :03:51.is the story of the damage done to just one family from just one shell
:03:51. > :03:56.in an escalating war. The British Defence Minister was
:03:56. > :04:00.recently in Afghanistan, assessing the situation. Philip Hammond said
:04:00. > :04:05.he was reassured that political leaders there by taking steps to
:04:05. > :04:11.stop attacks by Afghan troops on foreign soldiers. These are known
:04:11. > :04:15.as green or blue attacks. There is increasing concern over the calibre
:04:15. > :04:20.of political leadership in Afghanistan, just two years before
:04:20. > :04:26.NATO troops pull out. This is one of Afghanistan's few success
:04:26. > :04:30.stories. A confident, well-equipped army trained by British and other
:04:31. > :04:34.Western forces. There have been occasional attacks by rogue
:04:34. > :04:44.soldiers. The Government has announced new measures to prevent
:04:44. > :04:44.
:04:44. > :04:48.them. The instructors are not worried. We have instructed the
:04:48. > :04:52.soldiers. By knowing each other, that is one of the keys to
:04:53. > :04:57.countering the threat. Ordinary life is not a success story here at
:04:57. > :05:03.all. It is a fierce struggle against the odds. Things are
:05:03. > :05:11.improving, at least in the cities, but it is painfully slow. Everybody
:05:11. > :05:21.knows that corruption is rampant. Three years ago, Ramazan Bashardos
:05:21. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:28.campaigned against the election. He unexpectedly came third. It is not
:05:28. > :05:34.a problem with MPs or ministers are judges are prosecutors, it is a
:05:34. > :05:41.problem of the whole state. Is the Afghan stayed too ramshackle to
:05:41. > :05:44.survive? That is a big here among Western governments now. Britain's
:05:44. > :05:49.defence secretary, Philip Hammond, was here to talk about the attacks
:05:49. > :05:54.on Western soldiers but he also needed to check on the health of
:05:54. > :06:02.the government. He found that Hamid Karzai has real problems. Two of
:06:02. > :06:05.his top ministers have been sacked. He himself cannot stand again and
:06:05. > :06:12.the 2014 presidential election and no one knows who will come after
:06:12. > :06:19.him. He remains grimly optimistic. We will have an election. It will
:06:19. > :06:23.be a fair election. If that happens, people will vote for their
:06:23. > :06:28.president and parliament and the country will be in good hands.
:06:28. > :06:32.is a pretty big if. I think it is clear that the political structures
:06:32. > :06:41.are more fragile than the military infrastructure which has been built
:06:41. > :06:47.up. The Afghan forces are becoming effective and combatants and some
:06:47. > :06:51.of the political structures are lacking. Despite the anxieties
:06:51. > :06:55.about a growing political vacuum, the real problem is that the Afghan
:06:56. > :07:00.army, even though it is much better trained and equipped nowadays,
:07:00. > :07:04.simply won't be able to get rid of the Taliban altogether without
:07:04. > :07:14.American and British help. That means that the civil war could
:07:14. > :07:15.
:07:15. > :07:19.simply drag on and on and on. For more than 40 years, America has
:07:19. > :07:25.been fighting a war on drugs. One thing that it has learned is that
:07:25. > :07:30.it pays to have good allies in this battle. Cuba is not an obvious
:07:30. > :07:34.candidate but the island does have as zero-tolerance policy on drugs.
:07:34. > :07:39.They are helping American officials try to stop the flow of narcotics
:07:39. > :07:45.from South America. This report is from a van. Patrolling the coast of
:07:45. > :07:50.Cuba. -- Havana. It looks tranquil but this island is key territory in
:07:50. > :07:55.the fight against international drug trafficking. It was a busy
:07:56. > :08:00.route in the 1990s but Cuba has upped its guard. This video shows
:08:00. > :08:07.what happens now been smugglers try to pass. Most boats are heading for
:08:07. > :08:11.the US, stuffed with up to one ton of narcotics. This crew is under
:08:11. > :08:16.opposite and it tries to dump the evidence in this film. Securing the
:08:16. > :08:21.drugs is the key concern for Cuba. I was given rare access to see how
:08:21. > :08:27.the border guards operate. They once struggled for resources. This
:08:27. > :08:31.boat had been confiscated from traffickers. This was a training
:08:31. > :08:40.drill. The troops are under orders to keep genuine drugs of the shores
:08:40. > :08:46.smugglers themselves, they chase them out of these waters. Q But
:08:46. > :08:52.then passes on real-time data to the US Coast Guard to pick the
:08:52. > :08:56.people up. It is rare team work for old enemies. The simulated drugs
:08:56. > :09:02.have been found unsecured. The priority for the coastguard is
:09:02. > :09:08.making sure that real drugs don't make it onto the domestic market. Q
:09:08. > :09:13.But is so close to America that it is a major obstacle for traffickers
:09:13. > :09:20.trying to reach the world's biggest drugs market. As Cuba. It is a
:09:20. > :09:24.heavily police society. It is no surprise -- it is a surprise it is
:09:25. > :09:29.not a big drug market. 1 joint of money while it can cost one week's
:09:29. > :09:33.wage. Some people still see potential. We have noticed that the
:09:33. > :09:37.high price of drugs has stimulated attempts to bring narcotics into
:09:38. > :09:44.Cuba for the retail market. There has been an increase in operations.
:09:44. > :09:50.The amount of drugs is not huge but it is a concern. This man tried
:09:50. > :09:54.that route. I met him in prison in Havana where he is serving a 23
:09:54. > :10:00.year sentence. He was travertine Duman meals from Ecuador with
:10:00. > :10:09.stomachs full of cocaine. -- travelling human mules. More
:10:09. > :10:19.smugglers have joined them behind bars. You will get caught. That is
:10:19. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:26.what I suppose. The authorities are very efficient. Cuba's security
:10:26. > :10:32.bosses are a leads to the new threat. For now, they say most
:10:32. > :10:39.drugs that the seas were on route to the US. They end up in this
:10:39. > :10:49.factory. Last year, just over nine tons of illicit narcotics went up
:10:49. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:54.The island of Madagascar is renowned across the world for his
:10:54. > :11:00.production of many a liar, but it also produces volumes of highly
:11:00. > :11:04.valuable cocoa that is exploited -- exported to chocolate makers.
:11:04. > :11:09.Farmers and the north-west of the island had come under threat as we
:11:09. > :11:14.report. The fertile north-western region of
:11:14. > :11:18.Madagascar. Here, the tropical climate and rich soil gives farmers
:11:18. > :11:24.an abundance of some of the finest cocoa in the world. Plucked from
:11:24. > :11:32.the trees, these pots produce highly valuable beans, sought after
:11:32. > :11:36.by leading chocolatiers around the world. Taking a hefty price, cocoa
:11:37. > :11:46.provides a much-needed income for entire communities on this island.
:11:47. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:53.But the beans have also become the target of roofless cocoa bandits.
:11:53. > :11:57.At the 62-year-old a person surveys the broken village store. The
:11:57. > :12:01.harbours that they had collected over several weeks had been stolen.
:12:01. > :12:05.He said armed men snuck into a forest and took the whole stock.
:12:05. > :12:10.They have threatened other villages and even taken pot straight from
:12:10. > :12:15.the trees. He is now considering buying a gun in order to protect
:12:15. > :12:25.the villagers' livelihoods. Some farmers are now so fearful they
:12:25. > :12:29.have resorted to hide in the beans in their homes. Madagascar produces
:12:29. > :12:38.about five-600 tons, and it is estimated 10% of it gets stolen. A
:12:38. > :12:41.batch of like a town is worth $6,000. That is a hefty crop. -- a
:12:42. > :12:46.batch of a town. Madagascar does provide greater protection for its
:12:46. > :12:51.largest and most valuable export, of the near laugh. Two-thirds of
:12:51. > :13:00.the world's pots come from the island. The movement is strictly
:13:00. > :13:03.regulated. The penalties for stealing it are harsh. The only
:13:03. > :13:07.international chocolate company that makes its bars on the island
:13:07. > :13:15.says it is vital that cocoa is better protected, otherwise the
:13:15. > :13:25.industry suffers and farmers will struggle to meet demand. It is up
:13:25. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:29.to the government to prevent the theft of cocoa. It is a huge loss.
:13:29. > :13:34.Madagascar is not an industrialised nation. Its people rely heavily on
:13:34. > :13:44.what the island's farmers produce. The celebratory cocoa bean could
:13:44. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:50.become as valuable as gold if it is better protected.
:13:51. > :13:54.In Poland ministers are considering changes to the law on drunk cycling.
:13:54. > :13:59.Nearly two dozen people have been given prison sentences for cycling
:13:59. > :14:04.under the influence of alcohol. Many consider it to be draconian
:14:04. > :14:09.and as we report, a debate on the floor is under way.
:14:09. > :14:14.It is a weekday morning outside Warsaw. The traffic police are on
:14:14. > :14:18.patrol. Speeding and drink-driving are partly the reason why Polish
:14:18. > :14:24.roads up the most dangerous in Europe. But it is not only drunk
:14:24. > :14:27.drivers they are looking for, it is also drummed cyclists. If this man
:14:28. > :14:33.had been drinking alcohol, he could have been fined, banned from
:14:33. > :14:39.cycling or driving, or even given one year in prison. More than 4,000
:14:39. > :14:42.people were sent to prisons like this one for a drink cycling. He
:14:42. > :14:47.was caught after drinking a few beers with a friend that he had not
:14:47. > :14:52.seen since school. He did not want to be identified, because he says
:14:52. > :14:57.he does not feel like a criminal. TRANSLATION: My wife does not work
:14:57. > :15:04.at the moment. We have a nine-year- old boy who is alone at home. It is
:15:04. > :15:07.hard for her when I am not around. I hope the time passes quickly.
:15:07. > :15:14.Some prison experts say the punishment is draconian and
:15:15. > :15:22.inadequate. It is very costly for society. It pays a big cost for
:15:22. > :15:27.sending them to prison. In the end, we have overcrowded prisons. Most
:15:27. > :15:32.European countries punish drunken cyclists with a fine. Poland is
:15:32. > :15:37.unique in sending so many to jail. This debate comes just as Warsaw
:15:37. > :15:42.has begun to promote cycling as a healthy, green and convenient way
:15:42. > :15:47.to get around. Like other European companies, it has started a bike
:15:47. > :15:54.rental scheme. The City authorities had decided to double the size of
:15:54. > :15:59.it because it has become so popular. The government has considering --
:15:59. > :16:02.has considered changing the law. There is a growing feeling that
:16:02. > :16:08.sending so many people to prison may not be the best way to overcome
:16:08. > :16:12.the problem. Back to Afghanistan, one of the
:16:12. > :16:17.world's most dangerous countries is not an ideal place for a round of
:16:17. > :16:23.golf. The Kabul Golf Club was the scene of fighting in the 1990s, and
:16:23. > :16:27.rocket launchers and tends had to be removed to make it workable. We
:16:27. > :16:34.have played around on Afghanistan's only golf course. It may not look
:16:34. > :16:42.like much, but on the upstarts -- outskirts of Kabul, is the city's
:16:42. > :16:47.golf course. It is popular with Western diplomats. Today on the
:16:47. > :16:52.first, is the EU ambassador. To play this course requires some
:16:53. > :17:00.fairly heavy ions. Of all the courses that you have played, this
:17:00. > :17:10.must be the most unusual. It is the most challenging golf course. First
:17:10. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:20.of all, it is hard to find the whole because it is under... and
:17:20. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:24.there are some greens which are sand. You have got a road running
:17:24. > :17:34.through the middle of the course. The power lines, those are the main
:17:34. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:51.hazards. There is some water and some minds. -- land mines. You feel
:17:51. > :18:00.comfortable? I feel comfortable that they have all gone. This is
:18:00. > :18:08.about as extreme as golf can get. We have found your ball. Just watch
:18:08. > :18:18.yourself. Step back. I think any golfer who wants to be called a
:18:18. > :18:20.
:18:20. > :18:25.true golfer should come to Kabul to play. Golf courses have many houses,
:18:25. > :18:30.but few have a hazard like this. There is a road running down the
:18:30. > :18:39.middle of the course. But we think we know where the ambassador's ball
:18:39. > :18:45.is. But we need to find a whole to putt it into. A great deal of
:18:45. > :18:55.determination is required. Thorn bushes and a lack of flags at holes
:18:55. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :19:01.meant thinking a shot was a little difficult. -- sinking.
:19:01. > :19:05.Beauty they say is in the eye of the be Horder, but is there such a
:19:05. > :19:10.thing as a particular African idea of female beauty? One man who
:19:10. > :19:18.believes so is a Augustin Kassi, probably Ivory Coast's best-known
:19:18. > :19:27.artist. He recently put on a new exhibition of paintings in the main
:19:27. > :19:32.city. Big, bald and beautiful. Augustin
:19:32. > :19:42.Kassi's latest giant canvases continue his life work of paying
:19:42. > :19:46.homage to the women that he sees around him in the Ivory Coast. The
:19:46. > :19:51.idea for what has become his life's theme came when he saw a large
:19:51. > :19:55.woman been told to pay for two tickets for a place on one of the
:19:55. > :20:00.local buses. He says it seemed a far cry from his roots back in his
:20:00. > :20:10.village, where larger women were seen as the happiest, healthiest,
:20:10. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:15.and the most beautiful. TRANSLATION: When things started
:20:15. > :20:19.getting modern, with more influences from the rest of the
:20:19. > :20:24.world, Africans learned there were other ideas of beauty from the
:20:24. > :20:30.media. They were tempted to change their thinking. But you cannot move
:20:31. > :20:35.away from me who you really are. His work has become instantly
:20:35. > :20:41.recognisable in Ivory Coast. It has inspired these women to form an
:20:41. > :20:45.association to promote the values of larger body sizes. TRANSLATION:
:20:45. > :20:52.When women see these paintings, they see themselves in them, and
:20:52. > :20:57.say, OK, we are beautiful. I have got big arms, I like my arms. God
:20:57. > :21:02.created me and I will try to keep my shape. His work has attracted
:21:02. > :21:05.interest around the world, but in Ivory Coast, he is working the
:21:06. > :21:14.hardest to make sure the next generation sees the importance of
:21:14. > :21:18.African values and also the importance of art. Through his
:21:18. > :21:22.Foundation, he introduces around 500 children a year to art at
:21:22. > :21:27.workshops like this over the course of the summer holidays. Many of
:21:27. > :21:32.them are from the poorest parts of the city. His parents were totally