:00:05. > :00:15.believed that he was electrocuted. Those are the main stories. Now it
:00:15. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:30.is time for Reporters. Will China's new leaders be able to
:00:30. > :00:34.bridge the growing gap between an urban elite and the rural poor?
:00:34. > :00:39.We meet the Iraqi families who found a safe haven in Syria but now
:00:39. > :00:43.face an uncertain future as they flee the violence.
:00:43. > :00:52.We encounter Afghanistan's first female rapper who has a message for
:00:52. > :00:55.her compatriots living abroad. Welcome to Reporters. A new
:00:55. > :01:00.generation of Communist Party leaders is preparing to take up the
:01:00. > :01:07.reins of power in China. The growing gap between rich and poor
:01:07. > :01:12.is one of the biggest problems the country's new leaders is facing. We
:01:12. > :01:19.report from one of China's most impoverished regions.
:01:19. > :01:22.In China's poorest province, deep in its rural heart, the life still
:01:22. > :01:27.ambles by. The economic boom in the cities and along the coast is
:01:27. > :01:36.happening far from here. Nevertheless, today they are
:01:37. > :01:42.celebrating. A first child. There is a banquet, with presents, a
:01:42. > :01:48.refrigerator, a new bed, he could never afford these himself, a
:01:48. > :01:50.farmer and labourer, he has learnt nothing this year. He is one of
:01:50. > :01:58.over 100 million Chinese in its villages still living below the
:01:58. > :02:05.poverty line. TRANSLATION: It is not fair. I have been to the cities.
:02:05. > :02:08.The rich eat in fancy restaurants every day. My life does not compare.
:02:08. > :02:14.China's economic growth has been deeply unfair. Some have not
:02:14. > :02:21.benefited. It is a problem that China's next leaders must tackle.
:02:21. > :02:26.The gap is getting ever wider. It may not be sustainable. A three-
:02:26. > :02:31.hour flight away his Beijing, a mega City of almost 20 million. It
:02:31. > :02:37.feels like a different country. The world's most expensive designer
:02:37. > :02:42.labels targeting a new class of urban elite. The poor are here as
:02:42. > :02:48.well, alongside the fabulously wealthy, he joined the global reach
:02:48. > :02:52.League. One million Chinese are dollar millionaires. They dressed
:02:52. > :02:59.in designer outfits which cost more than the man and his village has
:02:59. > :03:04.had in his lifetime. TRANSLATION: In the West, polo is for the elite.
:03:04. > :03:10.In China, we are rich now so we wanted it is -- what is fashionable
:03:10. > :03:17.and sophisticated. Nearby, a replica chateau, a playground for
:03:17. > :03:22.China's rising classes. They sample the wines. Leisure and luxury, they
:03:22. > :03:31.are all new to China. The most pricey vintage costs �1,000 a
:03:31. > :03:41.bottle. �1,000 is what are these two are paying for their cars or
:03:41. > :03:45.themed wedding photos. It is almost an entire month of their earnings.
:03:45. > :03:53.They are middle class, but they do not feel particularly well off.
:03:53. > :03:57.They cannot of or to buy a flat. -- a Ford. TRANSLATION: our lives are
:03:57. > :04:03.better than the poorest, but far worse than the rich. We are stuck
:04:03. > :04:07.in the middle. The poorest feel stuck as well in the countryside.
:04:07. > :04:12.It is why China's rulers say that tackling inequality is one of their
:04:12. > :04:21.most urgent task, fearing that if they fail, it could undermine the
:04:21. > :04:25.legitimacy of their one-party rule. It is hard to imagine it now, but
:04:25. > :04:30.for several years, Syria was actually a refuge from violence.
:04:30. > :04:35.Many Iraqis is get across the border and tried to make a life
:04:35. > :04:45.there, but as the war in Syria escalated, many Iraqis are fleeting
:04:45. > :04:47.
:04:47. > :04:51.again, returning to their homeland. Once they lined up to leave the
:04:51. > :04:57.country, but many families who sought sanctuary in Syria are back
:04:57. > :05:05.in Baghdad after escaping for their lives for a second time. Here, they
:05:05. > :05:12.are lining up for government grants to help them start again. Stress
:05:13. > :05:18.has taken its toll on this person's health. His Jordan told me they
:05:18. > :05:23.wish Iraq was safer. With no home to come back to, the whole family
:05:23. > :05:31.is staying with relatives. He says he was forced to leave everything
:05:31. > :05:35.he had in Baghdad when his younger brother was killed. TRANSLATION:
:05:35. > :05:42.And the Americans were here and it was chaos. Now some things are
:05:42. > :05:45.better, some are not. The capital is a city on constant guard, a city
:05:45. > :05:50.choked by checkpoints. Police and government officials have been
:05:50. > :05:56.assassinated virtually every day, and officials say that Al-Qaeda in
:05:56. > :06:01.Iraq is now coming back. He now runs his younger brother's
:06:01. > :06:08.restaurant. After watching him die in front of him, he is struggling.
:06:08. > :06:14.A much-loved brother at -- was killed on the footpath outside.
:06:14. > :06:19.What happened that die in -- that day in July still haunts him.
:06:19. > :06:25.TRANSLATION: I cannot sleep at night. Not a wink. Our whole family
:06:25. > :06:29.has been destroyed, especially my mother. Iraqi families are no
:06:30. > :06:34.longer cooped up at home as they were in the darkest days of the
:06:34. > :06:40.Civil War, but a power Shea agreement has led to political
:06:40. > :06:49.paralysis, and sectarian tensions still some are below the surface. -
:06:49. > :06:55.- power-sharing agreement. This is still a deeply divided and
:06:55. > :07:02.traumatise society. There are now fears that the war in Syria could
:07:02. > :07:07.reignite sectarian tensions. More than 2000 civilians have already
:07:07. > :07:14.been killed in violence this month. Many mourn for the future they had
:07:14. > :07:18.hoped for. As we have seen, the violence in
:07:18. > :07:23.Syria has caused thousands of people to flee the fighting. There
:07:23. > :07:27.are more than 100,000 Syrian refugees in neighbouring Turkey.
:07:27. > :07:33.The Turkish government provides education in officially run camps,
:07:33. > :07:38.but many refugees want control over what their children are taught.
:07:38. > :07:44.Some parents have organised their own illegal school.
:07:44. > :07:53.He has had to escape a ball. His father now wants to give him and
:07:53. > :08:02.his brother a normal life. Listen to your teacher, he says. He drops
:08:02. > :08:08.them off at an unlicensed will set up by a Syrian refugees. -- school.
:08:08. > :08:15.In the refugee camp, the classes Irene Turkish, not Arabic. But I
:08:15. > :08:20.want my sons to have the a child would. -- their childhood. More
:08:20. > :08:29.than 300 Syrian refugees study in a converted apartment building. There
:08:29. > :08:33.is barely any room. The bathroom is used to store textbooks. In the
:08:33. > :08:38.single kindergarten class, and there are 70 children. They are
:08:38. > :08:44.taught in Arabic by a volunteer teacher. She asked us not to show
:08:44. > :08:48.her face. No-one knows how much longer at this school will get to
:08:48. > :08:53.stay open. The Turkish authorities in this province what these
:08:53. > :08:59.children to be taught in sight official refugee camps. The parents
:08:59. > :09:08.do not want their children to live all learn inside the camps. Each
:09:08. > :09:13.day, a new family comes to sign up for classes which are free.
:09:13. > :09:19.TRANSLATION: We follow the official Syrian curriculum. But we have got
:09:19. > :09:27.the bit of the lesson praising the President. We have also had
:09:27. > :09:36.psychology lessons. This nine-year- old already knows which job that he
:09:36. > :09:42.once in a be built Syria. A pilot. Why? I love the planes. And the
:09:42. > :09:46.helicopters. During the morning's Koran class, there is little
:09:46. > :09:56.fidgeting. These children have lost a country, some have even lost
:09:56. > :09:58.
:09:58. > :10:03.family members. A normal school day become something to hold on to.
:10:03. > :10:08.In Kenya, it is difficult to get an education, and when you live in one
:10:08. > :10:15.of Africa's biggest slums, it is likely there will be 100 others in
:10:15. > :10:22.your class. It may be crowded, but at least it is an education, fence
:10:22. > :10:32.in part to funding from Britain. -- thanks. The targets expire in 2015,
:10:32. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:39.and the UN is reviewing this development goals.
:10:39. > :10:44.She is nine years old, good at maths, and wants to be an airline
:10:44. > :10:50.pilot. She is one of 100 children in her class, in a school of more
:10:50. > :10:53.than 3,000, bursting at the seams in one of Africa's biggest slums.
:10:53. > :10:58.More than three-quarters of pre- school age children in Africa and
:10:58. > :11:03.now had a school plays, providing this is one of the millennium
:11:03. > :11:09.development goals, targets to focus The Help spending. There is focus
:11:09. > :11:13.on other bowls of cutting disease and improving clean water. Given
:11:13. > :11:19.the of the scale of the task in a place like this, it is easy to be
:11:19. > :11:23.cynical about the goals that have not been fulfilled. But some have
:11:23. > :11:33.been for field, and many lives have been made better. But it is a mixed
:11:33. > :11:38.picture for many of these children. 800 million people in the world are
:11:38. > :11:43.still hungry, and the poverty reduction goal has been made only
:11:43. > :11:50.because of China's economic growth. The West has to keep on giving aid
:11:50. > :11:57.because of the past, according to Kenya's trade minister. Colonialism,
:11:57. > :12:01.slave trade, imperialism, neo- Colin it -- neo- colonialism. It
:12:01. > :12:08.has had an impact on the scale of development. And they justify
:12:08. > :12:15.giving it in the 21st century? Absolutely. We had been kept at the
:12:15. > :12:25.lower end of the development ladder. Africa has been mismanaged. The
:12:25. > :12:29.
:12:29. > :12:38.historical linkages are still there was top -- are still there. A new
:12:38. > :12:42.contract between rich and poor Women make up nearly half of India
:12:42. > :12:45.her's population but as 11% of the parliament. One of India's top
:12:46. > :12:49.business schools wants to change that with a practical course for
:12:49. > :12:58.women who want to go further. But can this kind of formal political
:12:58. > :13:03.education really help? This report from Bangalore.
:13:03. > :13:10.A ceremony to honour one of India's most of comic leaders. Everybody
:13:10. > :13:15.here is in politics but this woman is one of just a handful of women.
:13:15. > :13:21.Indian politics is largely dominated by men so she needs an
:13:21. > :13:25.extra edge. TRANSLATION: Since I got into politics three years ago,
:13:25. > :13:29.I have been attending party events, meeting people and basically
:13:29. > :13:36.learning of the job. But I think it is important to learn and to the
:13:36. > :13:39.job efficiently. So she has gone back to school. She is among the
:13:39. > :13:45.first group of students to take this political leadership programme
:13:45. > :13:50.in specifically -- specifically for women. The three-month course is
:13:50. > :13:55.not cheap but the institute says it is the only programme in the
:13:55. > :14:00.country that focuses on practical political skills. If we have a
:14:00. > :14:03.whole dimension on politics, which we are focusing on Conflict
:14:03. > :14:10.Management, opinion polling, political advertising, brand-
:14:10. > :14:17.building, marketing, even sessions on how to conduct... A Indian women
:14:17. > :14:21.are not new to politics. Back in the 60s, one of the first female
:14:21. > :14:25.prime ministers in the world emerged. Today, her daughter has
:14:25. > :14:31.been fraying -- ranked as one of the world's 10 most influential
:14:31. > :14:36.women. In Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition is also a woman.
:14:36. > :14:42.Cutting across political parties, India has some very powerful women
:14:42. > :14:45.readers. Yet just 11% of India's parliamentarians are women, which
:14:45. > :14:51.means it francs much lower than many developing countries when it
:14:51. > :14:57.comes to representation of women in politics. -- eat francs. And many
:14:57. > :15:01.of those who do make it to national politics are not as representative
:15:01. > :15:06.-- are not representing all women. When you look at some of the
:15:06. > :15:09.leaders, you realise they all come from political families. The
:15:09. > :15:13.political parties want to betray that they share power between men
:15:13. > :15:19.and women and are trying to bring women into politics but it is
:15:19. > :15:24.clearly not working. -- portray. Even so, a new quotas for women in
:15:24. > :15:28.many elections have opened the door for these women. But there are no
:15:28. > :15:36.quotas at the national level. So, she is ready for a struggle to
:15:36. > :15:40.climb to the top. For two members of the Russian
:15:40. > :15:44.process group Pussy Riot have been transferred to continue their
:15:44. > :15:49.sentences in penal colonies hundreds of miles from Moscow. One
:15:49. > :15:53.of them is in a work camp in a Russian republic where she said her
:15:53. > :15:59.first job involved breaking conflict. The present is in a
:15:59. > :16:04.remote area that was once part of Stalin's gulag. This report from
:16:04. > :16:09.there. The anonymous looking penal colony number 14. The new home of
:16:09. > :16:15.one of Russia's best known prisoners. She's the youngest of
:16:15. > :16:20.the two jailed members of the protest group Pussy Riot. The
:16:20. > :16:26.prison is 300 miles from Moscow in a remote and desolate region full
:16:26. > :16:31.of cant. It was once part of Stalin's gulag system. Inside these
:16:31. > :16:35.buildings, the prisoners, all women, sleeping open dormitories.
:16:35. > :16:42.Murderers, pity criminals and business from an, all mixed in
:16:42. > :16:46.together. Back in August, no idea smiled as she was sentenced to two
:16:46. > :16:51.years in prison. She had feared a longer sentence. Now she has
:16:51. > :16:57.arrived at the penal colony, her husband says she is realising the
:16:57. > :17:03.reality of the harsh conditions she faces. She has already been sent to
:17:03. > :17:07.a couple of Labour jobs which she was breaking concrete. So the
:17:07. > :17:17.prison authorities are slowly putting her to work. So far, she
:17:17. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:28.seems fine. Everything is basically quite acceptable and formal so far.
:17:28. > :17:32.Her crime was this dance in Moscow's main cathedral. Pussy Riot
:17:32. > :17:39.insisted it was a political protest against Fallon -- Vladimir Putin
:17:39. > :17:43.but she was convicted of hooliganism, motivated by religious
:17:43. > :17:47.hatred. Another woman was jailed with her but was freed on appeal
:17:47. > :17:52.earlier this month. She says she is concerned about the health of her
:17:52. > :17:56.fellow protester. TRANSLATION: it is very cold there and people are
:17:56. > :18:00.freezing and they are not allowed to wear their warm clothes. They
:18:00. > :18:05.can only wear prison uniforms that can't designed for such terrible
:18:05. > :18:10.cold. This week, people in Moscow have been remembering the hundreds
:18:10. > :18:18.of thousands of victims of Stalin's purges of the 1930s. Nobody saying
:18:18. > :18:26.the current clampdown is in any way similar to that. But Pussy Riot is
:18:26. > :18:31.an uncomfortable reminder of a darker part of Russia's history.
:18:31. > :18:36.It's a country where women's rights are still contested but Afghanistan
:18:36. > :18:40.has got its first female rapper. She made her debut with a song that
:18:40. > :18:45.speaks of her family's suffering and calls on Afghans to return to
:18:45. > :18:50.their country to help build it. Caroline Wyatt went to meet the 23-
:18:50. > :18:55.year-old whose brand of music is becoming Afghanistan's new latest
:18:55. > :19:01.trend. This is the traditional image of
:19:01. > :19:05.Afghan women. But in Kabul, that is slowly changing. This is a
:19:05. > :19:14.heartfelt song about her childhood as an Afghan refugee. And her hopes
:19:14. > :19:24.and fears about her country. She has become Afghanistan's first
:19:24. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:31.female rapper. For -- TRANSLATION: I realised that
:19:31. > :19:35.I can share my feelings with my people by singing rap. I tell
:19:35. > :19:39.people what happened when I was living as a refugee and I can tell
:19:39. > :19:48.all of those sad stories in a peaceful way by wrapping. Before I
:19:48. > :19:53.started, I asked my father's permission and he said yes. Soosan
:19:53. > :19:58.Firooz Has been called by one of Afghanistan's famous musicians who
:19:58. > :20:02.recorded her first track. TRANSLATION: Only one thing can
:20:02. > :20:08.really inspire people and that his music. Over the past ten years,
:20:08. > :20:11.many have become sinners and there are many new radio and TV stations.
:20:11. > :20:16.Music has improved a lot in Afghanistan and this generation has
:20:16. > :20:19.the talent. -- singers. They want to tell people they are not
:20:19. > :20:29.extremists, they are not the Taliban, and they want to help
:20:29. > :20:35.
:20:35. > :20:38.But her career was also driven by financial necessity. Returning to
:20:39. > :20:44.Afghanistan, her family couldn't afford to send her to school and
:20:44. > :20:48.she had to find work. But she now supports her family with her wrap
:20:48. > :20:53.and with s popular soap opera. But even today, there are dangers with
:20:53. > :20:57.her career. -- with a popular. TRANSLATION: My family support me
:20:57. > :21:02.but some people call me and threaten be. They tell me if I
:21:02. > :21:06.continue, they will spray acid of my face. The dye and not afraid. I
:21:06. > :21:11.will keep singing. I want to tell Afghans who are still refugees to