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believed that he was electrocuted. Those are the main stories. Now it

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is time for Reporters. Will China's new leaders be able to

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bridge the growing gap between an urban elite and the rural poor?

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We meet the Iraqi families who found a safe haven in Syria but now

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face an uncertain future as they flee the violence.

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We encounter Afghanistan's first female rapper who has a message for

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her compatriots living abroad. Welcome to Reporters. A new

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generation of Communist Party leaders is preparing to take up the

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reins of power in China. The growing gap between rich and poor

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is one of the biggest problems the country's new leaders is facing. We

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report from one of China's most impoverished regions.

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In China's poorest province, deep in its rural heart, the life still

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ambles by. The economic boom in the cities and along the coast is

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happening far from here. Nevertheless, today they are

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celebrating. A first child. There is a banquet, with presents, a

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refrigerator, a new bed, he could never afford these himself, a

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farmer and labourer, he has learnt nothing this year. He is one of

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over 100 million Chinese in its villages still living below the

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poverty line. TRANSLATION: It is not fair. I have been to the cities.

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The rich eat in fancy restaurants every day. My life does not compare.

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China's economic growth has been deeply unfair. Some have not

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benefited. It is a problem that China's next leaders must tackle.

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The gap is getting ever wider. It may not be sustainable. A three-

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hour flight away his Beijing, a mega City of almost 20 million. It

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feels like a different country. The world's most expensive designer

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labels targeting a new class of urban elite. The poor are here as

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well, alongside the fabulously wealthy, he joined the global reach

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League. One million Chinese are dollar millionaires. They dressed

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in designer outfits which cost more than the man and his village has

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had in his lifetime. TRANSLATION: In the West, polo is for the elite.

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In China, we are rich now so we wanted it is -- what is fashionable

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and sophisticated. Nearby, a replica chateau, a playground for

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China's rising classes. They sample the wines. Leisure and luxury, they

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are all new to China. The most pricey vintage costs �1,000 a

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bottle. �1,000 is what are these two are paying for their cars or

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themed wedding photos. It is almost an entire month of their earnings.

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They are middle class, but they do not feel particularly well off.

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They cannot of or to buy a flat. -- a Ford. TRANSLATION: our lives are

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better than the poorest, but far worse than the rich. We are stuck

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in the middle. The poorest feel stuck as well in the countryside.

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It is why China's rulers say that tackling inequality is one of their

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most urgent task, fearing that if they fail, it could undermine the

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legitimacy of their one-party rule. It is hard to imagine it now, but

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for several years, Syria was actually a refuge from violence.

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Many Iraqis is get across the border and tried to make a life

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there, but as the war in Syria escalated, many Iraqis are fleeting

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again, returning to their homeland. Once they lined up to leave the

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country, but many families who sought sanctuary in Syria are back

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in Baghdad after escaping for their lives for a second time. Here, they

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are lining up for government grants to help them start again. Stress

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has taken its toll on this person's health. His Jordan told me they

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wish Iraq was safer. With no home to come back to, the whole family

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is staying with relatives. He says he was forced to leave everything

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he had in Baghdad when his younger brother was killed. TRANSLATION:

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And the Americans were here and it was chaos. Now some things are

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better, some are not. The capital is a city on constant guard, a city

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choked by checkpoints. Police and government officials have been

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assassinated virtually every day, and officials say that Al-Qaeda in

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Iraq is now coming back. He now runs his younger brother's

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restaurant. After watching him die in front of him, he is struggling.

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A much-loved brother at -- was killed on the footpath outside.

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What happened that die in -- that day in July still haunts him.

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TRANSLATION: I cannot sleep at night. Not a wink. Our whole family

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has been destroyed, especially my mother. Iraqi families are no

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longer cooped up at home as they were in the darkest days of the

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Civil War, but a power Shea agreement has led to political

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paralysis, and sectarian tensions still some are below the surface. -

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- power-sharing agreement. This is still a deeply divided and

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traumatise society. There are now fears that the war in Syria could

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reignite sectarian tensions. More than 2000 civilians have already

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been killed in violence this month. Many mourn for the future they had

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hoped for. As we have seen, the violence in

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Syria has caused thousands of people to flee the fighting. There

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are more than 100,000 Syrian refugees in neighbouring Turkey.

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The Turkish government provides education in officially run camps,

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but many refugees want control over what their children are taught.

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Some parents have organised their own illegal school.

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He has had to escape a ball. His father now wants to give him and

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his brother a normal life. Listen to your teacher, he says. He drops

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them off at an unlicensed will set up by a Syrian refugees. -- school.

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In the refugee camp, the classes Irene Turkish, not Arabic. But I

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want my sons to have the a child would. -- their childhood. More

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than 300 Syrian refugees study in a converted apartment building. There

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is barely any room. The bathroom is used to store textbooks. In the

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single kindergarten class, and there are 70 children. They are

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taught in Arabic by a volunteer teacher. She asked us not to show

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her face. No-one knows how much longer at this school will get to

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stay open. The Turkish authorities in this province what these

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children to be taught in sight official refugee camps. The parents

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do not want their children to live all learn inside the camps. Each

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day, a new family comes to sign up for classes which are free.

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TRANSLATION: We follow the official Syrian curriculum. But we have got

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the bit of the lesson praising the President. We have also had

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psychology lessons. This nine-year- old already knows which job that he

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once in a be built Syria. A pilot. Why? I love the planes. And the

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helicopters. During the morning's Koran class, there is little

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fidgeting. These children have lost a country, some have even lost

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family members. A normal school day become something to hold on to.

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In Kenya, it is difficult to get an education, and when you live in one

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of Africa's biggest slums, it is likely there will be 100 others in

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your class. It may be crowded, but at least it is an education, fence

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in part to funding from Britain. -- thanks. The targets expire in 2015,

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and the UN is reviewing this development goals.

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She is nine years old, good at maths, and wants to be an airline

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pilot. She is one of 100 children in her class, in a school of more

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than 3,000, bursting at the seams in one of Africa's biggest slums.

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More than three-quarters of pre- school age children in Africa and

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now had a school plays, providing this is one of the millennium

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development goals, targets to focus The Help spending. There is focus

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on other bowls of cutting disease and improving clean water. Given

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the of the scale of the task in a place like this, it is easy to be

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cynical about the goals that have not been fulfilled. But some have

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been for field, and many lives have been made better. But it is a mixed

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picture for many of these children. 800 million people in the world are

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still hungry, and the poverty reduction goal has been made only

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because of China's economic growth. The West has to keep on giving aid

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because of the past, according to Kenya's trade minister. Colonialism,

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slave trade, imperialism, neo- Colin it -- neo- colonialism. It

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has had an impact on the scale of development. And they justify

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giving it in the 21st century? Absolutely. We had been kept at the

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lower end of the development ladder. Africa has been mismanaged. The

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historical linkages are still there was top -- are still there. A new

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contract between rich and poor Women make up nearly half of India

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her's population but as 11% of the parliament. One of India's top

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business schools wants to change that with a practical course for

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women who want to go further. But can this kind of formal political

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education really help? This report from Bangalore.

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A ceremony to honour one of India's most of comic leaders. Everybody

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here is in politics but this woman is one of just a handful of women.

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Indian politics is largely dominated by men so she needs an

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extra edge. TRANSLATION: Since I got into politics three years ago,

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I have been attending party events, meeting people and basically

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learning of the job. But I think it is important to learn and to the

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job efficiently. So she has gone back to school. She is among the

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first group of students to take this political leadership programme

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in specifically -- specifically for women. The three-month course is

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not cheap but the institute says it is the only programme in the

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country that focuses on practical political skills. If we have a

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whole dimension on politics, which we are focusing on Conflict

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Management, opinion polling, political advertising, brand-

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building, marketing, even sessions on how to conduct... A Indian women

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are not new to politics. Back in the 60s, one of the first female

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prime ministers in the world emerged. Today, her daughter has

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been fraying -- ranked as one of the world's 10 most influential

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women. In Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition is also a woman.

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Cutting across political parties, India has some very powerful women

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readers. Yet just 11% of India's parliamentarians are women, which

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means it francs much lower than many developing countries when it

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comes to representation of women in politics. -- eat francs. And many

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of those who do make it to national politics are not as representative

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-- are not representing all women. When you look at some of the

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leaders, you realise they all come from political families. The

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political parties want to betray that they share power between men

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and women and are trying to bring women into politics but it is

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clearly not working. -- portray. Even so, a new quotas for women in

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many elections have opened the door for these women. But there are no

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quotas at the national level. So, she is ready for a struggle to

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climb to the top. For two members of the Russian

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process group Pussy Riot have been transferred to continue their

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sentences in penal colonies hundreds of miles from Moscow. One

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of them is in a work camp in a Russian republic where she said her

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first job involved breaking conflict. The present is in a

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remote area that was once part of Stalin's gulag. This report from

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there. The anonymous looking penal colony number 14. The new home of

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one of Russia's best known prisoners. She's the youngest of

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the two jailed members of the protest group Pussy Riot. The

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prison is 300 miles from Moscow in a remote and desolate region full

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of cant. It was once part of Stalin's gulag system. Inside these

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buildings, the prisoners, all women, sleeping open dormitories.

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Murderers, pity criminals and business from an, all mixed in

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together. Back in August, no idea smiled as she was sentenced to two

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years in prison. She had feared a longer sentence. Now she has

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arrived at the penal colony, her husband says she is realising the

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reality of the harsh conditions she faces. She has already been sent to

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a couple of Labour jobs which she was breaking concrete. So the

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prison authorities are slowly putting her to work. So far, she

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seems fine. Everything is basically quite acceptable and formal so far.

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Her crime was this dance in Moscow's main cathedral. Pussy Riot

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insisted it was a political protest against Fallon -- Vladimir Putin

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but she was convicted of hooliganism, motivated by religious

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hatred. Another woman was jailed with her but was freed on appeal

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earlier this month. She says she is concerned about the health of her

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fellow protester. TRANSLATION: it is very cold there and people are

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freezing and they are not allowed to wear their warm clothes. They

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can only wear prison uniforms that can't designed for such terrible

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cold. This week, people in Moscow have been remembering the hundreds

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of thousands of victims of Stalin's purges of the 1930s. Nobody saying

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the current clampdown is in any way similar to that. But Pussy Riot is

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an uncomfortable reminder of a darker part of Russia's history.

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It's a country where women's rights are still contested but Afghanistan

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has got its first female rapper. She made her debut with a song that

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speaks of her family's suffering and calls on Afghans to return to

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their country to help build it. Caroline Wyatt went to meet the 23-

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year-old whose brand of music is becoming Afghanistan's new latest

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trend. This is the traditional image of

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Afghan women. But in Kabul, that is slowly changing. This is a

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heartfelt song about her childhood as an Afghan refugee. And her hopes

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and fears about her country. She has become Afghanistan's first

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female rapper. For -- TRANSLATION: I realised that

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I can share my feelings with my people by singing rap. I tell

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people what happened when I was living as a refugee and I can tell

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all of those sad stories in a peaceful way by wrapping. Before I

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started, I asked my father's permission and he said yes. Soosan

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Firooz Has been called by one of Afghanistan's famous musicians who

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recorded her first track. TRANSLATION: Only one thing can

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really inspire people and that his music. Over the past ten years,

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many have become sinners and there are many new radio and TV stations.

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Music has improved a lot in Afghanistan and this generation has

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the talent. -- singers. They want to tell people they are not

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extremists, they are not the Taliban, and they want to help

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But her career was also driven by financial necessity. Returning to

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Afghanistan, her family couldn't afford to send her to school and

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she had to find work. But she now supports her family with her wrap

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and with s popular soap opera. But even today, there are dangers with

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her career. -- with a popular. TRANSLATION: My family support me

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but some people call me and threaten be. They tell me if I

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continue, they will spray acid of my face. The dye and not afraid. I

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will keep singing. I want to tell Afghans who are still refugees to

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