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