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That's the latest BBC News. Now On the front line in Aleppo. Ian | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Pannell turned a special report, uncovering new evidence that | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
weapons meant for Saudi Arabia may be in the hands of Syrian rebels. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Healing of wounded city. Steven Rosenberg meets the man helping | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
beat Chesham capital rise from the ruins. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And once a dream, now a reality. Education for girls in Afghanistan. | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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A special report from Andrew North. Welcome to Reporters. A BBC TV has | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
uncovered -- uncovered evidence that could prove that soon rebels | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
are getting military assistance from the Gulf region. They found | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
crates from an arms manufacturer, addressed to Saudi Arabia, at a | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
base used by rebel fighters. Ian Pannell and Cameron and Danilo -- | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Darren Conway are among few Western journalists to have witnessed the | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
start of the battle in July. They have just arrived to the city and | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
sent this report. Thousands of years of history have | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
marched through the streets. An ancient city that has been fought | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
over many times before. Today, Aleppo was at war again. And the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
further you age into the old city, so the sound and fury of battle | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
grows. -- edge. Those who stayed behind must cheat death every day. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
A simple sign reads, do not cross. Sniper to your left. Seven or eight | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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people were killed here last week, he says. Both sides are shooting. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
The rebels have moved into the heart of the old city. And media | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
activist took us there. A World Heritage site, where the scars of | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
battle run deep and the devastation is mounting. Aleppo is a city under | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
siege. The fighting is now street by street, house by house. The | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
fighters have been calling for outside help for many months. Now, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
for the first time, a strong indication they are getting it. The | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Ukrainian weapons firm that made the box and its contents for the | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Royal Saudi army. What is in it and how it ended up in Aleppo is | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
unclear. But it suggests someone in the Gulf is helping those trying to | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
overthrow President Assad. In truth, both sides now get help from abroad | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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in a war that threatens a fragile The atmosphere here on the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
frontline is incredibly tense and almost eerily quiet. Every now and | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
again, you can hear the sound of battle going on and the scars of | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
this intense fighting are obvious everywhere. Snipers have been | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
shooting into this position. There is a mirror here that rebels have | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
been using to try to get a sense of what is going on. If you look out | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
onto the street, you can see what the government response has been. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Massive firepower to try to crush the rebellion. This remains an | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
uneven battle. The rebels and residents have no answer to a | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
barrage of artillery and bombs that does not discriminate between | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
fighting and civilians. -- fighters. And so they try to move on scene | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
towards loyalist forces. Despite its overwhelming strength, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
government forces have been made few -- have made few inroads. We | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
were shown one of their checkpoints, just 200 metres away. They may be | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
fighting for the future of Syria but both sides are struggling over | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
small bits of her. The empty streets are testament to the | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
thousands who fled Aleppo. But some say they have nowhere to go. But | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
nowhere is safe. -- that nowhere. This man lost his wife and six | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
children. All of them were killed when a rocket landed on his house. | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
TRANSLATION: To live is to die. Men, animals and buildings. Bashar Al- | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Assad his farming us. It is death were you go. They say foreign aid | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
is being provided but we saying -- see nothing. Just let us die and | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
get it over with. A Aleppo has become the defining battle in this | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
brutal civil war. Night defied can afford to lose. -- Aleppo. But in | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
truth, neither is willing. What does seem to be happening is the | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
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To the United Nations once described the tertian capital as | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
the most of destroyed city on earth. A place reduced to rubble by two | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
walls between Russian roubles and separatists. It's believed more | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
than 150,000 civilians were killed over a decade of conflict. Today, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
with the help of large subsidies from Moscow, it is rising from the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
ruins. But as Stephen Rosenbaum discovered, for some, the memories | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
of war refuse to fade. Russia fought two devastating wars | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
in Cheshire here. To many here, this place was hell on earth. -- | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Chechnya. But in this hell, there were heroes. After his local | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
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hospital was destroyed, Dr que son by -- Doku Dr Khassan Baiev turned | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
this room into a hospital. I had 4,600 patients. Every day, there | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
was bombing and shelling. This roof was always shaking. Always shaking. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
His house was shelled twice during the fighting. But he refused to | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
leave. By the start of the second war, the hospital had reopened and | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
the doctor was busier than ever. doesn't matter. Whoever they were, | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
at will come to my operation room, from who were there was most | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
seriously injured. I work without electricity during the bombings. I | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
work without general anaesthetics. In February 2000, the most wanted | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
man in Russia was on his operating table. The rebel leader. The doctor | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
amputated his fault. By now, the doctor feared for his own life. -- | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
foot. He received threats from both sides. He fled his home town and | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
escape to America. Today, the doctor it is back in Cheshire here. | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
Now a US citizen, he spends half the year here treating children. -- | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
Chechnya. It's a difficult situation because many doctors | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
escaped. That is why we need help. He doesn't like being called a hero. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
But there is no word -- better word for a man who spent years risking | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
his life to save others. More than 3 million girls now go to | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
school or get some education in Afghanistan and that is a dramatic | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
rise from the Taliban era, when they were not allowed to go to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
school. But girls and women still face many restrictions in | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Afghanistan's male-dominated society. This report from Kabul. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
And cold seen in a change in Afghanistan. -- and bold scene. It | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
is the time of the potato harvest. Children are working in the fields, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
as they have done for centuries. Families still depend on their | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
labour. But while this ten-year-old helps out with the farming, she | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
also goes to school, making the long walk there every day. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
TRANSLATION: I am in the second class. We didn't have school before. | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
I am really happy I am going to school now. Today it's a lesson in | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Dari, the local language. Barely one-fifth of Afghan women can read | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
or write but that is still a big improvement from one decade ago. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
New schools in remote areas are helping. There is a big turnout for | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the launch of this government school. More than 3 million Afghan | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
girls are now getting some education. That still leaves 2 | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
million who have never been to class. But attitudes are changing. | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
I bring the women of Afghanistan with -- so they can feel they are | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
owners of this nation. They are owners of the future. The owners of | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
all that is happening. Is it -- it's a new era for these girls. Now | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
they are learning to play cricket. They would have had to stay home if | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the Taliban were still in power. Safe inside the walls, they are | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
like children anywhere. Curious about me and keen to talk. But | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
outside, they still face many restrictions and uncertainty about | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
their future after NATO forces pull out. This is just one example of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the progress there has been in getting girls to school over the | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
past ten years. But this is Kabul and the less Secure areas still | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
seen many girls who are not getting any kind of education and are under | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
pressure to get married while they are still of school age. It is | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
still tough being a girl in Afghanistan. But they are making a | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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In a few weeks' time United States voters will cast their ballots, | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
many suffering from deep recession. We visited the western state of | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Nevada where many have struggled to keep their homes. It is morning | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
after the big spend in Las Vegas. Know where have they partied harder | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
and nowhere has the clean-up been more painful. They did not just | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
gamble with chips. They twist the future. Terry Grayson bought this | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
house for $825,000 in 2005. I spent beyond my means. It was a fun time. | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
But the fund did not last - three years later at the value of her | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
home fell by half. She lost her home and her life savings. There | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
was a gorgeous view. It was lush and green, beautiful. 90% of houses | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
of the market in Las Vegas are in a similar position - sales with the | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
owner bought the home for much more than it is worth today. The boom | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
times are over. What happened in Las Vegas is the story of America. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
The most pressing issue facing the next President is the housing | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
crisis. Until that is done, the economy will not recover. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
Campaigning in the area, Mitt Romney has promised help. We must | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
reignite the housing economy so that her values go up again. | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
President Barack Obama it insists he has already helped. What | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
remained out is what has already happened to houses next to this big | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
farm. -- by turning out. At the height of the boom, the pigs were | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
acceptable neighbours, but not after the crash. Owners know the | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
value will not come back for. have to pull the fey you up. Let | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
people buy homes. Only in Las Vegas would a foreclosure Moira be famous. | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
He is in the frontline of the council in -- housing process. He | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
believes more credit is needed. Home owners need financing. | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Investors but not buying houses, unless they are foreign investors. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
People from other countries are coming in and buying up these | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
houses? Who is coming? A lot of Asian countries. Canadian money. A | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
lot of Australians. The same crash that has made bargains for foreign | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
investors has increased the lines of welfare officers in Nevada have | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
forced some unemployment is up. The people do not believe politicians | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
can help. They want somebody to go over -- after the banks. They feel | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
helpless. Business has returned to Los Vegas. The tourists and | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
gamblers are back -- it is a fantasy land - the golden shimmer a | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
fragile facade for a floundering economy. In Cuba, the buying and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
selling off houses was braided speculation and banned after the | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
revolution. The only way to move was to swap houses. That severely | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
restricted mobility. But the ban was lifted last year. It was a | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
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popular shift. Sales have been rising. But so have prices. It | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
looks pretty retro, but in the Cuban terms this is ground-breaking. | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Fidel Castro banned commercials as brainwashing and banned property | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
sales. Yet, this is state television advertising private | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
houses for Sale. The director tells me they get countless letters from | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
people who want their ads read out on air. The freedom to sell is a | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
big change here. All over Cuba, people seize the opportunity. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Eduardo it showed me around his two-bedroom flat in a suburb of | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Havana. He is selling up to emigrate enjoyed his wife in | :15:59. | :16:08. | |
America. In the old days, the state would have claimed everything. | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
TRANSLATION: You had to leave them everything - car, house. Now we can | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
sell it. The television advertisement slots are limited: --, | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
so our internet ads. People must improvise. This is the Cuban | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
equivalent of an estate agent. People put up posters advertising | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
the property forced on officially, houses have only been swapped. But | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
now that is changing. It has shifted from swaps to sales. House | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
exchanges are slow and restrictive, meaning many illicit deals are done | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
for cash. Now you can buy and sell in the open. This man is looking to | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
downsize - something banned under the swap system. Many are doing the | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
same to raise badly needed money. The property market in Cuba is | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
certainly attractive. It is not open to foreign buyers, so. Locals | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
can only owned one home, to stop speculation. Most places need a lot | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
of work, just like the cars here. The issue for people like this is | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
the price. He sold his house but cannot find a new place he can | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
afford. It is partly the fee charged by middlemen. Partly that | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
cash is coming from rich Cuban relatives abroad. TRANSLATION: It | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
is complicated. You have 3,000 to spend but it is nothing. It is | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
5,000 or 10,000. The prices are sipping inflated. Ordinary Cubans | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
don't have that money is. So the new property market it has its | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
problems. But at least it is legal, giving Cubans more freedom to make | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
choices and decisions for their families. The Northern Lights are | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
triggered by violent storms warned the Sun. But the particles creating | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
a piece displays can cause trouble. Navigation systems can lose | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
accuracy during the worst solar storms. From the Arctic islands it | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
here is how science editor. A remote valley in the High Arctic | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
least to one of the loneliest research stations in the world. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Instruments perched on a mountain side. It is a steep climb to reach | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
it, but this is the best location to investigate the power of the Sun | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
forced on a giant flair Arabs from its surface - a solar storm. A | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
mesmerising sight. Signed just stay -- this weather can disrupt modern | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
life by disruption navigation systems forced on the scientist | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
must come - may carry a gun because of polar bears. She needs to be hit | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
to measure how solar activity can affect satellite navigation. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
take satellite navigation for granted. We need to research how | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
these navigation systems are affected by solar storms and these | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
huge amount of energy coming into the earth, affecting the Sea Eagles. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
When that solar energy strikes, you get the northern lights, the famous | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
well of particles in the upper atmosphere. This can seriously | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
distort B GPS system. Signed to son discovering the true extent of that | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
effect. Severe conditions can lead to a huge loss in actuary. How much | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
of a distortion could you get during a solar flare? If you have a | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
very large Silo storm UK and lose tens of metres of accuracy. -- | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
Solar Storm you can get up to tens of metres. In the Arctic, accurate | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Sandip -- satellite navigation is essential - especially for rescue | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
searchers. It can be a matter of life and dirt. The more we rely on | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
things involving satellite technology, the more important | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
research like this becomes forced on trying to understand space | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
weather and a way of forecasting its most damaging aspects. There is | :20:58. | :21:03. |