:00:19. > :00:22.President Bashar al-Assad. It is time for Reporters.
:00:22. > :00:32.Three months of fighting and plaintive human rights abuses from
:00:32. > :00:36.
:00:36. > :00:40.roadsides. -- from both sides. The strong man of the North
:00:40. > :00:50.Caucasus. An ageing population. Can the new
:00:50. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:55.generation of leaders in China, but a solution? -- come up with a
:00:55. > :01:01.solution. Both sides in the Syrian conflict
:01:01. > :01:05.stand accused of a sharp rise in human rights abuses. The UN says
:01:05. > :01:10.the number of violations by the regime is so great that it is
:01:10. > :01:20.impossible to investigate every case. The organisation Human Rights
:01:20. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:27.Watch has accused rebel forces of using torture and execution. The
:01:27. > :01:33.fighting has now lasted three months in Aleppo.
:01:33. > :01:43.The regime has tried everything else, but it can't afford to lose
:01:43. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:56.Syria's biggest city. So airstrikes go on all day. In those parts of
:01:56. > :02:02.the City Hall by the Rebels, civilians are paying the price. A
:02:02. > :02:05.jet's can and spits bile. Planes return to trade began and began.
:02:05. > :02:15.The pilots make slow, almost leisurely turned. They know the
:02:15. > :02:20.
:02:20. > :02:27.Rebels have almost nothing. Nothing to shoot them down. Everybody is
:02:27. > :02:35.nervous. That is a plane making a low pass over us. They have had
:02:35. > :02:42.many weeks of this now. Civil war best describes what is happening in
:02:42. > :02:52.Syria. An air strike in his neighbourhood a few minutes ago. A
:02:52. > :02:57.
:02:57. > :03:07.woman flees barefoot from her home. A family is dead. He calls Syria's
:03:07. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:13.President a pig. And an enemy of good. There are no emergency
:03:13. > :03:22.services to speak up. Neighbours come out to do what they can. Then,
:03:22. > :03:30.some good news. Three little girls are pulled alive from the wreckage
:03:30. > :03:37.of the building. It is incredible they survived this. Ten people died
:03:37. > :03:47.here. A three-year-old boy was buried inside. Two girls were
:03:47. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:59.killed, playing in the street. "God is Great" rises from the crowd.
:03:59. > :04:01.
:04:01. > :04:05.Then more planes come in. This is one of the goals we saw rescued. --
:04:05. > :04:10.the girls. Three family members and thank you friends were killed and
:04:10. > :04:16.the attack. Her father is still too afraid of the regime to show his
:04:16. > :04:23.face, but he criticises the Rebels. They put an anti-aircraft gun on
:04:23. > :04:29.the next building. He asked the commander to move it. The bomb
:04:29. > :04:36.seems to have gone through the building, exploding in the family
:04:36. > :04:40.house across the road. People accuse the regime of bombing
:04:40. > :04:47.recklessly or deliberately killing civilians. The Rebels say they have
:04:47. > :04:53.no choice but to fight. TRANSLATION: Why is the whole world
:04:53. > :04:58.watching and do nothing? We bury people in gardens. Why is the world
:04:59. > :05:04.protecting Bashar al-Assad? Western governments do not want to step
:05:04. > :05:14.into Syria. As Aleppo and teas, the turmoil in the rest of the Middle
:05:14. > :05:22.
:05:22. > :05:30.East makes the conflict here uneven. For the time being, Syria's rebels
:05:30. > :05:34.know that on the ground, they are on their own.
:05:34. > :05:38.The leader of church Mayor has been in power for a decade, and his
:05:38. > :05:43.critics say that he has ruled this part of the caucuses with an iron
:05:43. > :05:49.grip. He has been accused of responsibility for the deaths of a
:05:49. > :05:53.number of his opponents in Dubai, Istanbul and Vienna. Our Moscow
:05:53. > :06:03.Correspondent has been to church near to meet him and put those
:06:03. > :06:03.
:06:03. > :06:08.accusations to him. -- Chechnya. Chechnya has never had a king, but
:06:08. > :06:12.this man comes close. He runs the Republic like a personal fiefdom.
:06:12. > :06:19.He was a church and rebel who switched sides. The Kremlin has
:06:19. > :06:23.relied on his army to quell an Islamist insurgency. It has been
:06:23. > :06:31.counting on him to rebuild church near. This was the capital after
:06:31. > :06:34.two wars. The UN described it as the most destroyed city on earth.
:06:34. > :06:41.But under him, it has risen again with the help of billions of
:06:41. > :06:45.dollars of aid for Moscow.New roads, beauty salons, skyscrapers. A new
:06:46. > :06:50.football stadium. Guess who is honorary president of the local
:06:50. > :06:55.teen? He has been in power for nearly a decade. His supporters say
:06:55. > :06:59.that in that time, he has transformed this republic from a
:06:59. > :07:03.battleground into one of the most stable parts of the North Caucasus.
:07:03. > :07:09.But at what price? Human rights groups accuse him of persecuting
:07:09. > :07:15.critics. British court papers have revealed that MI5 considers him
:07:15. > :07:20.responsible for the deaths of political opponents. TRANSLATION:
:07:20. > :07:29.They say he is a bandit. If there is an incident in Europe, they say
:07:29. > :07:33.he is behind it. If a chicken is not laying eggs, it is my fault.
:07:33. > :07:41.They are prepared to do anything to blacken my name. They are claimed
:07:41. > :07:45.to have prepared hit lists of your opponent. -- opponents.
:07:45. > :07:50.TRANSLATION: The person who makes his claim is schizophrenic. Eyes
:07:50. > :07:53.were too are that that idea would never come to my mind. There is
:07:53. > :07:58.concern or sore about religion. He is promoting what he calls
:07:58. > :08:02.traditional Islam. Today, there is no alcohol in shops and a stricter
:08:02. > :08:10.dress code. This woman says she was threatened for not wearing a
:08:10. > :08:14.headscarf. TRANSLATION: Today, clerics are going into schools and
:08:14. > :08:18.telling six-year-old boys to control the sisters. They tell them
:08:18. > :08:27.that if their sisters will not wear headscarves, their boys -- the boys
:08:27. > :08:30.will be punished by God. This Chechnya is the strangest mix. It
:08:30. > :08:39.is still Russia, but feels like it is drifting further and further
:08:39. > :08:44.from Moscow. China's Communist Party is
:08:44. > :08:47.preparing to install a new the country for the next decade.
:08:47. > :08:51.Among the most difficult challenge as they will face is coping with
:08:51. > :08:56.one of the fastest ageing populations in the world. The
:08:56. > :09:00.number of people over 60 in China will double in the next 20 years,
:09:00. > :09:10.and then double again. The shift is likely to slow down China's
:09:10. > :09:12.
:09:12. > :09:18.economic growth. This report comes from central China which has one of
:09:18. > :09:24.the largest populations of the elderly people in the country.
:09:24. > :09:30.This man's story is China's story. He has lived through hardship. His
:09:30. > :09:36.parents died of starvation. He is now 79. Life expectancy here now
:09:36. > :09:40.rivals the West. It is one of China's impressive advances -
:09:40. > :09:44.except China has not yet built a comprehensive system of pensions
:09:44. > :09:50.and old age care. So he and his wife and fend for themselves. Their
:09:50. > :09:55.children have all gone far away, looking for work. TRANSLATION: I
:09:55. > :09:59.never thought about what would happen when I'm old. I don't know
:09:59. > :10:05.when or -- where my kids are. I guess I will die and no-one will
:10:05. > :10:08.know. It is a lonely fate many here will now face. In two decades,
:10:08. > :10:16.there will be more retired people in China than the entire population
:10:16. > :10:23.of western Europe. This is where China's Yeung have come. To the
:10:23. > :10:27.factories. The economic growth is drying up. As the number of
:10:27. > :10:31.Alderley is rising, China's birthrate has collapsed because of
:10:31. > :10:41.its One Child Policy. Where there are six workers to pay for every
:10:41. > :10:44.
:10:44. > :10:48.pensioner today, it will soon be just two. TRANSLATION: The burden
:10:48. > :10:55.will be heavier. Our parents are going to get old. We will have to
:10:55. > :10:58.support them and pay for our children's education. China's
:10:58. > :11:03.economic rise has seemed unstoppable. That may be about to
:11:03. > :11:10.change. This looming population crisis, a shrinking workforce, and
:11:10. > :11:16.a soaring number of elderly may be what ways China's growth down.
:11:16. > :11:21.China has prospered while its workers have been young. This man
:11:21. > :11:26.set up China's biggest online travel agency at the age of 30. It
:11:26. > :11:31.is now worth billions. And all the work force will make China far less
:11:31. > :11:36.competitive. In 30 years from now, China will enter a more developed
:11:36. > :11:43.stage. If you don't have enough entrepreneurs, and of young,
:11:43. > :11:52.innovative firms, he will have trouble competing. This is what
:11:53. > :12:00.awaits China. A feature visible now in a hospice in Beijing. This man
:12:00. > :12:10.is 72. He has Parkinson's disease. This man is 60 and has lung cancer.
:12:10. > :12:12.
:12:12. > :12:17.The offices of an ageing population. This man is 62 and has bowel cancer.
:12:17. > :12:22.TRANSLATION: At night, you realise the guy in the next bed is dying.
:12:22. > :12:31.There was one night when I was the only person alive in here. I'm used
:12:31. > :12:36.to it now. How to make China a caring nation? This will be among
:12:36. > :12:46.the greatest challenges faced by its next communist leaders set to
:12:46. > :12:49.
:12:49. > :12:54.The Spanish prime minister has been meeting the Catalan president amid
:12:54. > :12:59.new calls for independence for the region. Catalonia has the highest
:12:59. > :13:07.regional debt in Spain and has almost run out of money. Many blame
:13:07. > :13:17.the prices on the government in Madrid.
:13:17. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:27.They want Catalonia to be a country. Not a part of Spain. Catalan
:13:27. > :13:32.nationalism is already potent. But it has been energised by the
:13:33. > :13:41.country and region's economic crisis. The government has almost
:13:41. > :13:51.run out of money. The Catalan government needs ask for extra
:13:51. > :13:58.money to pay the salaries. Even the most vulnerable are affected.
:13:58. > :14:08.Elderly patients at this care home have still much received their
:14:08. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:15.payment from July to cover their care. This woman is 90.
:14:15. > :14:24.TRANSLATION: Why are these politicians not helping me as they
:14:24. > :14:28.promised? Most of the money used to care for these people comes from
:14:28. > :14:36.the Catalan government. Many Catalans blame their funding
:14:36. > :14:44.shortage on Spain. They argued that Catalonia pays 15 billion euros
:14:44. > :14:50.more in tax every year to the Spanish government. There is no
:14:50. > :14:54.doubt the economic crisis has galvanised support, not only for a
:14:54. > :15:03.renegotiation for the terms of Catalonia's deal with the central
:15:03. > :15:08.government, but also the idea that Catalonia should be independent.
:15:09. > :15:16.The crisis has caused economic problems and people have realised
:15:16. > :15:22.the only way out of this is independence. Despite a record
:15:22. > :15:30.turnout, independence is a long way from becoming a reality. Economics
:15:30. > :15:33.are changing the politics of this region.
:15:33. > :15:38.Deadly clashes in Kenya have raised fears that the next election in
:15:38. > :15:44.March could again be violent. Politicians tried to exploit tribal
:15:44. > :15:50.rivalries. One minister has been sacked from the Cabinet, accused of
:15:50. > :15:59.inciting conflict. More than 100 people from one region have been
:15:59. > :16:07.killed in the last month. The killers came in the early
:16:07. > :16:14.morning. Several hundred men, armed with spears, machetes and arrows.
:16:14. > :16:24.They set fire to the huts and then killed them. Men, women, children.
:16:24. > :16:24.
:16:25. > :16:29.This was a massacre. The stench is pretty strong here. The carcasses
:16:29. > :16:34.of livestock litter the place. Looking at the scale of the
:16:34. > :16:39.destruction here, it looks like this was something more than a
:16:39. > :16:46.spontaneous outburst of anger. One might wonder whether this was
:16:46. > :16:54.something will well planned. This goal is eight years old. She is
:16:54. > :16:59.still too traumatised to speak. Those who survived and are able to
:16:59. > :17:04.speak told us of organised brutality and terror. TRANSLATION:
:17:04. > :17:08.The attackers were divided into three groups. One would destroy the
:17:08. > :17:17.houses, others would attack the injured and if others would just
:17:17. > :17:25.kill. This is a conflict over access to land and water. Farmers
:17:25. > :17:32.are making a living growing cash crops. On the other a semi nomadic
:17:32. > :17:42.cattle drovers. In the past, disputes were mostly resolved
:17:42. > :17:42.
:17:42. > :17:48.peacefully. But now they are aren't. The spears are for their own
:17:48. > :17:57.protection, they say. They are also the trustee for revenge. Religious
:17:57. > :18:01.leaders and politicians are preaching peace. But land is a
:18:01. > :18:06.valuable commodity. Many are convinced that behind the violence
:18:06. > :18:13.lies politics. If you have political power or you have
:18:13. > :18:21.everything. The politicians will do a lot of power, authority and
:18:21. > :18:27.influence. That is the reason driving this. The key government
:18:27. > :18:31.has belatedly sent in paramilitary reinforcements. But as the scramble
:18:31. > :18:39.for support intensifies, these killings may mark the start of
:18:39. > :18:44.another bloody Kenyan election. Last Wednesday, in a devastating
:18:44. > :18:51.night an attack on a US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the
:18:51. > :18:55.American ambassador, Chris Stevens, and free of his staff were killed.
:18:55. > :19:01.An ultra-conservative Muslim group has denied any involvement in that
:19:01. > :19:09.and other attacks against Western targets. But the group said it
:19:09. > :19:13.rejected what it sees as the imposition of democracy in Libya.
:19:13. > :19:23.Libyans celebrate macho stay as perhaps only they know best. --
:19:23. > :19:30.Martyrs Day. There are reminders every day of the sacrifice is these
:19:30. > :19:35.people made to win their freedom. But there are some here who still
:19:35. > :19:41.refuse to lay down their weapons. Radical Islamist groups say the
:19:41. > :19:50.fight for Libya is not over. Ominously, they completely reject a
:19:50. > :19:56.Western solution. TRANSLATION: We do not believe in the democratic
:19:56. > :20:02.system. Even those countries that pretend they are ruled by democracy.
:20:02. > :20:08.We want to tell the entire world that democracy is not for us. It
:20:08. > :20:12.does not suit Islam. This scrutinised allegations it was
:20:12. > :20:18.responsible for the death of the American ambassador. It supports
:20:18. > :20:23.the right of Muslims to protest against blasphemy. It sympathises
:20:23. > :20:26.with other organisations, including Al-Qaeda. The authorities say they
:20:26. > :20:33.have identified and arrested 50 people in connection with the
:20:33. > :20:41.attack. They will not say who they are. Many of the perpetrators may
:20:41. > :20:45.have already left Libya. Much of this is just for show. Libya's new
:20:45. > :20:55.authorities have been criticised for failing to get on top of the
:20:55. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:07.security situation. We believe that public opinion are pickings these
:21:07. > :21:07.
:21:07. > :21:17.people. Then there is the impact of all of this instability on
:21:17. > :21:23.Benghazi's ambitions to rebuild. This town was abandoned by China's
:21:23. > :21:31.builders and investors. Many people will be hesitant to come back to
:21:31. > :21:36.Benghazi. This is a problem for Libya. It seems that we are
:21:36. > :21:40.shooting herself in the foot. majority of Libyans clearly support
:21:40. > :21:45.the democratic project. This city has an overwhelmingly positive