:00:05. > :00:15.Tuesday, coinciding with next week's presidential elections.
:00:15. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:32.We report on the Heysham quake victims who died of cholera,
:00:32. > :00:37.apparently sped by peacekeepers from the United Nations.
:00:37. > :00:42.The contrary in the Kremlin. We look at how President Vladimir
:00:42. > :00:46.Putin is making the legacy of Dmitry Medvedev disappear.
:00:46. > :00:55.And we look at an orchestra of light and hope overcoming
:00:55. > :00:58.disability to make beautiful music. Welcome to Reporters.
:00:58. > :01:04.It had long been suspected, but new evidence indicates that the
:01:04. > :01:08.outbreak of cholera that started in Haiti two years ago was most likely
:01:08. > :01:11.started by a United Nations peacekeepers. Research has found
:01:11. > :01:18.the strain of the disease is identical to that in Nepal, where
:01:18. > :01:26.the UN troops were from. The UN now faces massive compensation claims
:01:26. > :01:32.from victims and their families. This woman needs help. She needs it
:01:33. > :01:39.fast. Cholera can kill within hours. Today this single mother who
:01:39. > :01:43.scrapes a living as a cleaner is saved. She made it to a hospital
:01:43. > :01:52.run by a charity called doctors Without borders in the Asian
:01:52. > :02:01.capital. -- Asian capital. One of more than 200 cases they see at a
:02:01. > :02:09.justice clinic. The suffering we see from our patience is quite bad.
:02:09. > :02:13.It has impacted on our national and international staff. We see about
:02:13. > :02:19.250 patients who are ill from cholera. A disease that is easily
:02:19. > :02:26.treatable. We strongly hope and advocate that in the future this
:02:26. > :02:30.does not happen. The epidemic may well have started here. At the time,
:02:30. > :02:35.this United Nations camp was home to soldiers from a pole. Cholera is
:02:35. > :02:43.widespread there. The disease is spread by water. The base is next
:02:43. > :02:49.to a river. A UN report last year said sanitary conditions but the
:02:49. > :02:52.report said that nobody was to blame for the outbreak. But now one
:02:52. > :02:57.of the authors, a scientists specialising in the disease, says
:02:57. > :03:05.there is new evidence that changes that. I spoke to her at her lap in
:03:05. > :03:08.Boston. We now know that the strain of cholera in Haiti is the exact
:03:08. > :03:18.match to the one from the poll. It is extremely unlikely that could
:03:18. > :03:23.have happened in any other manner. The most likely source of the
:03:23. > :03:30.introduction of cholera in Haiti was someone infected with the No
:03:30. > :03:33.poll strain of cholera who was associated with United Nations.
:03:33. > :03:39.Haiti's poverty and filth caused the disease to explode across the
:03:39. > :03:49.country. Now this a lawyer is preparing to sue the when for
:03:49. > :03:50.
:03:50. > :03:59.compensation. Claims could total billions of dollars.
:03:59. > :04:07.He insists that the cholera was brought here by Nepalese soldiers.
:04:07. > :04:12.In the face of compensation claims, how does the UN answer the charge?
:04:12. > :04:17.The UN has to answer that allegation. It has got to go
:04:17. > :04:23.through the legal proceeding. What I can tell you is that we are
:04:23. > :04:29.responding. We have seen a significant decline in cases over
:04:29. > :04:32.the past year. We should take encouragement from that. It is
:04:32. > :04:40.probably difficult being the person the UN puts up to answer these
:04:40. > :04:48.questions. I cannot give you answers. It is out of my hands.
:04:48. > :04:53.because you feel guilty? The issue is out of my hand because it is
:04:53. > :04:58.part of the legal domain. My job is to work with my humanitarian
:04:58. > :05:02.colleagues to respond to the epidemic and find alternatives for
:05:02. > :05:08.the people in camps. To work with people who are suffering. That is
:05:08. > :05:13.my role. To the people of Haiti, it looks like the UN does not want to
:05:13. > :05:18.do. It is perhaps because the United Nations is facing an
:05:18. > :05:23.unprecedented moral, legal and even financial crisis. The organisation
:05:23. > :05:30.was set up to do good in the world. But they may have caused the deaths
:05:30. > :05:35.of many thousands of people. This doctor was one of the first medics
:05:35. > :05:42.to identify the sickness killing her patience. She was overwhelmed
:05:42. > :05:48.and shocked, because until this epidemic Haiti had not registered a
:05:48. > :05:57.single case of the disease for a century. She is coping now. But
:05:57. > :06:07.sometimes it is hard. People are suffering a lot. Last year I saw a
:06:07. > :06:10.
:06:10. > :06:17.woman who lost her husband. It is not easy.
:06:17. > :06:23.It is barely six months since Dmitry Medvedev left the Kremlin as
:06:23. > :06:27.President. He has seen his power and influence significantly reduced.
:06:27. > :06:32.President Vladimir Putin has been getting rid of many of the liberal
:06:32. > :06:36.policies and reforms that Dmitry Medvedev promoted when he was head
:06:36. > :06:46.of state. He is gradually disappearing from Russia's
:06:46. > :06:49.
:06:49. > :06:55.political stage. The world of magic is strangely
:06:55. > :07:03.similar to the world of Russian politics. Behind the Kremlin walls,
:07:03. > :07:11.it is all smoke and mirrors. To succeed you need it cool header,
:07:11. > :07:17.sleight-of-hand and something else - making people disappear. And
:07:17. > :07:21.Vladimir Putin is the consummate Kremlin conjuror. Since becoming
:07:21. > :07:27.president again, he has Manjit away the memory of Dmitry Medvedev's
:07:27. > :07:33.presidency. Even without a magic wand. He has made many of his
:07:33. > :07:43.predecessor's reforms disappear. There are plenty of examples. He
:07:43. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:51.had decriminalised certain substances. He had worked with
:07:51. > :07:59.America. Even his decision to keep Russian clocks and how were head is
:07:59. > :08:09.now under review. It makes him look weak. His liking no longer exists
:08:09. > :08:09.
:08:09. > :08:19.in Russian politics. Vladimir Putin would like this to be written in
:08:19. > :08:24.marble. Nobody pertain. -- but him. Dmitry Medvedev has not been
:08:24. > :08:28.disappeared completely. He is still Russia's prime minister and leader
:08:28. > :08:34.of the ruling party. But it is his record as President that is being
:08:34. > :08:40.erased. And with it, his reputation as a political player. When he was
:08:40. > :08:48.president, he portrayed himself as a more moderate Russian leader.
:08:48. > :08:53.Westernising, democrat. His decision not to run for a second
:08:53. > :09:00.term led to his liberal supporters feeling tricked. It now seemed like
:09:00. > :09:07.he had been little more than a stop gap Until Vladimir Putin's return.
:09:07. > :09:17.People feel like they have been misled and lied to so many times
:09:17. > :09:18.
:09:18. > :09:25.after Vladimir Putin. There never really was much trust in change.
:09:25. > :09:32.That kind of heritage his simply wrong to believe that people are
:09:32. > :09:35.going to start believing in anything. When you believe and you
:09:35. > :09:41.are fooled, it hurts. He is still the most second burst powerful man
:09:41. > :09:48.on Russia. But today, he cut a lonely figure. Quite a contrast
:09:48. > :09:52.from his days as head of state. But perhaps that is not too surprising.
:09:52. > :09:59.After all, if you take part in spells and sorcery, there is always
:09:59. > :10:04.the risk you will never be quite the same again.
:10:04. > :10:08.There is not long to go before America chooses its next president.
:10:08. > :10:14.As the race gets close to between Barack Obama and his Republican
:10:14. > :10:19.challenger Mitt Romney, the battle is on for women voters. The key
:10:19. > :10:27.demographic will be the so-called Wal-Mart mums. That is women on a
:10:27. > :10:34.budget that shop at a giant retailer.
:10:34. > :10:39.The breathtaking splendour of the Rocky Mountains. Its foothills are
:10:39. > :10:44.home to the Mile High City. Denver, the beating heart of a critical
:10:44. > :10:50.swing state. A state where women voters outnumber men by more than
:10:50. > :10:56.100,000. My Name Is Rebecca. I am a single mother with three teenage
:10:56. > :11:03.children. I am Catherine. My husband is working two jobs.
:11:03. > :11:08.Rebecca and Catherine are called Wal-Mart mums. Women on a budget to
:11:08. > :11:15.come to this giant retailer for cost at a no-frills convenience.
:11:15. > :11:21.make a list. I used to have a corporate job. Then I was laid off.
:11:21. > :11:25.We do not have much money. Over the years, suburban women with children
:11:25. > :11:31.have been hotly pursued group of voters. Bill Clinton famously
:11:31. > :11:37.targeted soccer mums. Sarah Palin rallied hockey mums. In 2012, this
:11:37. > :11:42.latest variation could decide the outcome. That is because in
:11:42. > :11:47.elections, they tended to make up their minds late. Rebecca has a lot
:11:47. > :11:51.more than politics to think about. She has a job as a classroom
:11:52. > :11:55.assistant and a recent divorce. As she cut back on spending she wants
:11:56. > :12:04.a President to do the same. We have to look at our budget and how we
:12:04. > :12:09.fix it. how do we get it back on the right track? It is a mess.
:12:09. > :12:16.Catherine's house it is breakfast time. There is a helping of
:12:16. > :12:22.negative political ads. I get exhausted from hearing both sides
:12:22. > :12:28.tell me, vote for me just because the other side is so bad. There are
:12:28. > :12:31.so rotten and awful. Nobody says, here is what I can do for you.
:12:31. > :12:38.they share is a sense of frustration with the campaigns. The
:12:38. > :12:42.time has come to make a decision. Who are you leaning towards? I am
:12:42. > :12:48.leaning towards Barack Obama again. With Mitt Romney I do not know what
:12:48. > :12:55.we are going to get. I know what we are going to get from Obama. I do
:12:55. > :12:58.not like it. I want something new. So the weekly shop is over. But not
:12:58. > :13:08.this election. The polls suggest the President's lead among women is
:13:08. > :13:11.
:13:11. > :13:16.In India there is growing alarm over a series of brutal gang rapes
:13:16. > :13:21.in the northern state of Haryana. 11 such attacks have been reported
:13:21. > :13:26.in the last month alone. Women campaigners say the situation is
:13:26. > :13:35.made worse by the attitude of the traditional village councils. That
:13:35. > :13:39.right is a typical Haryana village. -- Dabra. Not many outsiders visit
:13:39. > :13:46.the modest times of this poor farming community. For the past six
:13:46. > :13:50.weeks the police have been here. They have been ordered to protect
:13:50. > :13:57.this 15-year-old girl. She was abducted by 12 men when she was
:13:57. > :14:02.walking on the road. They threw me in the back of a car and
:14:02. > :14:09.blindfolded me. I was taken to the side of a river. Seven of the men
:14:09. > :14:15.raped me. Then they left me there. I walked home. Rate is a social
:14:15. > :14:21.stain that hangs heavy in this deeply conservative society. The
:14:21. > :14:29.men also filmed the assault on their mobile phones. They
:14:29. > :14:37.speculated the images. On the wall of the family home, a photo of the
:14:37. > :14:43.girl's father, humiliated, he killed himself. There are two rapes
:14:43. > :14:47.a day in Haryana, must go and reported. Sexual violence against
:14:47. > :14:57.women takes place all over India. What stands out is the social
:14:57. > :14:58.
:14:58. > :15:05.mindset. The attitude towards women. We are only a few hours from Delhi,
:15:05. > :15:10.socially, we could be several hundred years away. Men make the
:15:10. > :15:17.rules. Meeting as they always have in traditional village councils.
:15:17. > :15:27.Not a single woman among them. They pass judgement on social norms,
:15:27. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:34.women and on rape. The main reason they are taking place, look at
:15:34. > :15:39.newspapers, television, they are full of topless women. Now there is
:15:39. > :15:46.a backlash across India. Women are outraged and are calling for action
:15:46. > :15:54.against the council's. The problem comes when they begin acting like a
:15:54. > :16:04.kangaroo court. They make judgements over people's lives.
:16:04. > :16:10.Should they say, this couple should be killed. Out in the countryside
:16:10. > :16:17.modern India and its liberal ideas are a distant dream. Life is hard
:16:17. > :16:22.and for women it can be unbelievably cruel.
:16:22. > :16:27.Think of Afghanistan and you think about war and conflict. It is not
:16:27. > :16:31.at the top of many people's lists of holiday destinations.
:16:31. > :16:41.Afghanistan has opened its first ever national park and is preparing
:16:41. > :16:42.
:16:42. > :16:48.for the day when interests may come and visit. -- tourists. A few of
:16:48. > :16:52.Afghanistan you hardly ever see. -- view. The high mountain lakes of
:16:52. > :16:57.its first ever national park. The biggest threat is not from the
:16:57. > :17:02.Taliban, but drought and over use of the land. Climate change is
:17:02. > :17:07.making things worse. We have come with the Afghan government and the
:17:07. > :17:13.yen for the launch of the first environmental protection programme.
:17:13. > :17:23.-- the United Nations. Going green it is essential for its future.
:17:23. > :17:33.is life. When you know how beautiful this mountain and this
:17:33. > :17:36.
:17:37. > :17:42.air, think about it. To encourage them local people are being offered
:17:42. > :17:47.cleaner fuel stoves that do not use wood for fuel. People tell me they
:17:47. > :17:56.can see the long-term benefits. hope the government will help us.
:17:56. > :18:04.Protecting the environment will also help to bring to -- tourists
:18:04. > :18:10.here. It is hoped this could be one of the major attractions, the
:18:10. > :18:15.ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan. Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
:18:15. > :18:23.The lakes are the other jewel in this the future to arrest Crown. If
:18:23. > :18:30.peace can return, the pristine waters could attract visitors from
:18:30. > :18:38.all around. -- tourist ground. 20 years ago no-one would have
:18:38. > :18:46.believed Cambodia would have become a tourist destination. That is what
:18:46. > :18:51.is being planned here. This is also a country of incredible sights,
:18:51. > :18:56.such as here in its first ever national park. It may sound
:18:56. > :19:02.optimistic now but the plan is to create many more. For a Afghans
:19:02. > :19:06.this is a sacred place. They believe the waters have healing
:19:06. > :19:13.properties. Perhaps one day these lakes could help heal Afghanistan
:19:13. > :19:18.as well. The Orchestra of light and hope is
:19:18. > :19:23.made up of blind women based in Cairo. They have been inspiring
:19:23. > :19:30.audiences around the world for years with their ability to play
:19:30. > :19:40.without seeing the conductor or reading the music.
:19:40. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:49.We have been to watch them. In perfect time, in perfect harmony.
:19:49. > :19:59.The only difference, all the players in this orchestra are
:19:59. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:09.completely blind. All determined to prove that is no handicap at all.
:20:09. > :20:15.We are blind, we try to prove to all the world that we have some
:20:15. > :20:24.abilities. If you search only for disabilities, no, you have to look
:20:24. > :20:31.at our abilities and what can we do. Another violinist, Basma Saad,
:20:31. > :20:37.shows me how she learns a new work. She reads the music on Braille. She
:20:37. > :20:47.then commits the piece to memory. Hard work, but she says intensely
:20:47. > :20:49.
:20:49. > :20:56.satisfying. When I'm playing in the orchestra, I feel like a queen.
:20:56. > :21:02.Then it is the turn of the only sighted person there, in rehearsal
:21:02. > :21:09.the conductor, Ali Osman, literally beats time. To make them play
:21:09. > :21:19.louder he taps harder. To play softer, more gently. By the time of
:21:19. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:30.the performance all this will be completely memorised. All he has to
:21:30. > :21:37.do is start them off. When they are ready and... You go off and have a