:00:04. > :00:14.rally on Sunday in support of the President. Those are the headlines,
:00:14. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:33.On the road with the M23 rebels. We witness the fall of Dover in the
:00:33. > :00:36.Democratic Republic of Congo. Daniel Sanford sense an exclusive
:00:36. > :00:45.report from Moscow on the supermarket workers who were kept
:00:45. > :00:55.as slaves. And giving something back. Cuba's ballet superstar tells
:00:55. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:03.Sarah Rainsford about plans to open Welcome to Reporters. We start in
:01:03. > :01:07.central Africa where the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
:01:07. > :01:11.says that he's ready to look into the grievances of the M 23 rebel
:01:11. > :01:16.group who have taken control of the key eastern city of Goma. The
:01:16. > :01:24.United Nations have accused neighbouring Rwanda of supporting
:01:24. > :01:30.the M23 rebel force militarily, an accusation that they see are
:01:30. > :01:34.denying. This is a compilation of the report of the takeover of Goma.
:01:34. > :01:38.The rebels opened fire as they entered Goma from the North,
:01:38. > :01:42.chasing away the last remaining Congolese army positions. With
:01:42. > :01:48.loyalist forces gone, rebel soldiers walked in virtually
:01:48. > :01:52.unopposed. Only a few residents were willing to show their faces on
:01:52. > :01:55.the streets of this city of 1 million people. UN peacekeepers
:01:56. > :02:00.with their mandate to protect the civilian population could only
:02:00. > :02:08.stand by and watch as the rebels marched past their white armoured
:02:08. > :02:12.vehicles towards the border with Rwanda. For the armour -- the army
:02:12. > :02:16.was defeated. This rebellion started as a mutiny back in the
:02:16. > :02:22.spring. The UN report accuses Congo's neighbour, Rwanda, are
:02:22. > :02:26.backing the rebels with money, equipment and troops. The Rwandan
:02:26. > :02:29.government denies the allegations. For nearly two decades the
:02:29. > :02:34.Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of almost
:02:34. > :02:39.permanent conflict involving other regional countries and at a cost of
:02:39. > :02:43.more than 5 million lives. The United Nations mission here is the
:02:43. > :02:49.largest peacekeeping force anywhere in the world. Their commanders are
:02:49. > :02:53.convinced that a few hundred mutineers could not have taken the
:02:53. > :02:57.capital of of this vast mineral- rich province without outside help.
:02:57. > :03:03.Did you see direct support from Rwandan forces during this final
:03:03. > :03:08.assault? I have no evidence to support that. But it surprises me
:03:08. > :03:15.that in about four to six months they can do this to this capacity.
:03:15. > :03:18.-- capacity. Just days ago these men were fighting in the bush.
:03:18. > :03:24.Today they wield the power here in this city of 1 million inhabitants.
:03:24. > :03:31.The rebels summoned the people to the stadium, they wait a little
:03:31. > :03:35.nervously to hear what the future holds in Goma under rebel control.
:03:35. > :03:40.The President of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda have been meeting in Kampala
:03:40. > :03:44.to try to defuse this crisis. But meanwhile the rebels are busy
:03:44. > :03:50.recruiting. They claim more than 2500 policemen joined their ranks
:03:50. > :03:55.today, handing over their guns to rebel commanders. But this police
:03:55. > :04:04.captain told us he was not here willingly. He said he had no choice
:04:04. > :04:10.addresses the crowd. He promises order, security and to improve
:04:10. > :04:15.people's lives. He also vows to continue the fight all the way to
:04:15. > :04:19.the capital if necessary. This rebel commander has just asked the
:04:19. > :04:26.crowd, I be Croad do you won the rebels to stop in Goma or do you
:04:26. > :04:29.want us to carry on? -- "Do you want the rebels. They say carry on.
:04:29. > :04:33.These rebels are now flushed with success. They feel they have all
:04:33. > :04:38.the bargaining chips and it will be up to the Congolese government for
:04:38. > :04:42.them to go to them and negotiate. If the rebels mean what they say
:04:42. > :04:50.then this is a conflict that is now in danger of spreading throughout
:04:50. > :04:54.Congo and possibly beyond. Israeli leaders said the eight day military
:04:54. > :04:57.offensive in Gaza had achieved their goal of restoring calm to
:04:57. > :05:01.southern Israel. But as the ceasefire took effect many
:05:01. > :05:04.Palestinians saw Hamas as the winners because they had stood up
:05:04. > :05:09.to Israeli aggression and established diplomatic links with
:05:09. > :05:14.the new leaders of the Arab world. For the people living in Gaza the
:05:14. > :05:18.truce means the end of eight days of shelling and air strikes. Wyre
:05:18. > :05:28.Davies reported through Gaza City throughout the conflict and sent
:05:28. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:36.this report. -- from. Gaza, hours before the ceasefire was announced.
:05:36. > :05:40.( EXPLOSIONS). In the weeks since Israel began this operation by
:05:40. > :05:47.killing Hamas's military chief, more than 150 people have been
:05:47. > :05:52.killed in Gaza. Half were civilians and many were children. Israel's
:05:52. > :05:56.hitting a wide range of targets here. Some military, some political,
:05:56. > :06:01.or media related. The main civil administration compound was
:06:01. > :06:06.flattened in an air strike. Israel says these targets are directly
:06:06. > :06:16.linked to Hamas militants. For Gazans this is simply part of the
:06:16. > :06:21.
:06:22. > :06:25.political infrastructure. Even before the dust had settled there a
:06:25. > :06:29.word that reconnecting power suppliers and clearing the streets
:06:30. > :06:35.-- they were back. Whether or not there's a seized by her life has to
:06:35. > :06:42.go on. If there's to be a lasting truce this destructive cycle has to
:06:42. > :06:49.be broken. -- whether or not there's a ceasefire life. They need
:06:49. > :06:54.to reconstruct. Palestinians are firing more rockets into Israel,
:06:54. > :06:59.though. There's an overwhelming Israeli military response and much
:06:59. > :07:05.of what has been built up here is destroyed. On both sides civilians
:07:05. > :07:11.always suffer. This man's travel agency has been here for 50 years.
:07:11. > :07:18.It just happens to be on the same street as the Ministry. This is a
:07:18. > :07:24.civilian area, not a military area. I asked my government to help.
:07:24. > :07:29.you have any insurance? No. Many on the ground here want all of this to
:07:29. > :07:37.end. After a day of frantic diplomacy the ceasefire means that
:07:37. > :07:41.Gaza can again start to rebuild. But how long will the peace last?
:07:41. > :07:45.Let's stay with the complete in the Middle East and in Syria more than
:07:45. > :07:52.100,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Turkey. Just weeks ago thousands
:07:52. > :08:02.crossed the border after Syrian bombarded the town metres from
:08:02. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:09.Turkish territory. Early in the morning, when no one's looking, the
:08:09. > :08:15.border is Open. These men make the short run from Syria to Turkey.
:08:15. > :08:19.People are hungry, says Ali. There's no bread on the other side.
:08:19. > :08:24.They are sleeping outside. People were killed when they were in their
:08:24. > :08:31.homes. From here on the southern edge of Turkey you can see the
:08:31. > :08:38.smoke of a single cigarette inside Syria. The town of is just a few
:08:38. > :08:43.metres away. Next to the border fence, rebel gunmen show what.
:08:43. > :08:48.Syria's war is right next door. This makes Turkey extremely nervous.
:08:48. > :08:52.At a playground inside Turkey, Syrian refugees look across the
:08:52. > :09:01.border. They tried to catch sight of friends and family on the other
:09:01. > :09:08.side. Karimi speaks to one of his relatives, still in Syria.
:09:08. > :09:12.TRANSLATION: How are things over there? Do you have enough food?
:09:12. > :09:17.is trying to get 20 members of his family to come across to join him
:09:17. > :09:27.and his daughter. Those who have made it across need something to
:09:27. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:34.eat. And at the local town for Syrian refugees are fed by local
:09:34. > :09:37.Turkish volunteers. Children are given adult portions. Many of these
:09:37. > :09:41.families left everything behind in Syria. Some don't even have a
:09:41. > :09:50.proper change of clothes. They all have to rely on charity for every
:09:50. > :09:56.meal. Some enjoy the break from school. At night the children sleep
:09:56. > :10:02.with their parents in the building. Families here don't want to live in
:10:02. > :10:09.official refugee camps. Turkey's security forces tried to keep the
:10:09. > :10:17.front line clear. This country may hosts tens of thousands of Syrian
:10:17. > :10:23.refugees, but it does not want them to make too much noise. -- host.
:10:23. > :10:26.Now to a disturbing story of modern-day slavery in Moscow. A
:10:26. > :10:30.group of 11 supermarket workers have told the BBC about the
:10:30. > :10:34.horrific treatment they experienced while being held captive by the
:10:34. > :10:44.shop owner. Our Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford cent
:10:44. > :10:48.He looks like a toddler just learning to work, but he is five
:10:48. > :10:53.years old and crippled by rickets caused by a lack of sunlight. Until
:10:53. > :10:58.last week, he had never been outside. For all his short life, he
:10:58. > :11:06.had been a prisoner, born to a mother who was enslaved in a market
:11:06. > :11:11.in a Moscow suburb. They were among a group of people who say they were
:11:11. > :11:18.imprisoned by the shop owner. She was brought from the Speaker's done
:11:18. > :11:21.ten years ago, aged just 16. -- Uzbekistan. She worked long days
:11:21. > :11:27.with little food, was never paid, and lived in constant fear of
:11:27. > :11:33.violence. TRANSLATION: The shop owner beat me a lot. She hit me
:11:33. > :11:43.when I was pregnant. She had no mercy. I still have bruises on my
:11:43. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:47.legs and body. She had two children while being held as a slave. She
:11:47. > :11:55.said the father was one of her captors who regularly beat her. Her
:11:55. > :12:03.daughter is missing. She does not know if she is dead or alive. The
:12:03. > :12:09.11 slaves were freed during this raid. Not by the police, but by
:12:09. > :12:15.campaigners who had been alerted by the mother of one of the women. For
:12:15. > :12:19.over ten years, this market was also the shop workers' prison. They
:12:19. > :12:23.lived and slept downstairs in the basement. They were not allowed
:12:23. > :12:31.beyond the front door. It seems the local police knew about it but were
:12:31. > :12:35.being paid off and brought back anybody who escaped. When three of
:12:35. > :12:39.the freed slaves went to report their imprisonment, they found
:12:39. > :12:46.themselves being detained again by the police as illegal immigrants.
:12:46. > :12:50.The activists had to free them again. When we asked one of the so
:12:50. > :12:55.why he was pursuing the victims and not the perpetrators, he insisted
:12:55. > :12:58.he was just trying to persuade them to co-operate. The shop workers are
:12:58. > :13:03.now trying to have their immigration status was sold.
:13:03. > :13:10.Migrant workers in Russia are often the of
:13:10. > :13:14.the worst cases ever to come to light.
:13:14. > :13:18.You would have heard plenty about the way China has been transforming
:13:18. > :13:21.a economically in the past 30 years. Hundreds of millions have been
:13:21. > :13:27.lifted out of poverty, but the gap between the richest and the poorest
:13:27. > :13:31.is huge, and with the global economy slowed down, it may get
:13:31. > :13:39.rider -- wider. China's Richter's man grew up in poverty and now sits
:13:39. > :13:44.on a fortune of $20 billion. -- richest. It is a retreat for
:13:44. > :13:52.China's emperors over the centuries and it is now home to a new kind of
:13:52. > :13:58.empire. Note the political banner, communism and capitalism since it -
:13:58. > :14:03.- side by side. We got a glimpse of how that works. He is worth up to
:14:03. > :14:08.$20 billion. He is courted by the party. This delegation is from a
:14:08. > :14:14.faraway province. On both sides of the table, the table, that too many
:14:14. > :14:24.are still missing out on China's economic miracle. TRANSLATION: A
:14:24. > :14:29.lot er people are still poor. This gap has become a huge problem.
:14:29. > :14:33.brother, he grew up in poverty. A rags-to-riches story if ever there
:14:33. > :14:39.was one. His first business was selling ice lollies from a bicycle
:14:39. > :14:46.20 years ago. Even now, he eats in the staff canteen and says he lives
:14:46. > :14:51.on $20 a day. TRANSLATION: I spend less than my workers. I believe in
:14:51. > :14:57.the simple life. Even though I am bitch, I would not be hated for it.
:14:57. > :15:02.The rich should earn respect. -- I am rich. But it turns out the
:15:02. > :15:07.frugality gene does not run in the family. The Lamborghini outside
:15:07. > :15:13.belongs to his daughter. The company has 66 factories across the
:15:13. > :15:19.country. This line alone produces bottles of milky tea per hour.
:15:19. > :15:24.Successful as he is, his business empire epitomises China's mass-
:15:24. > :15:28.production model of economic growth. There are limits to that. There
:15:28. > :15:35.will always be someone somewhere trying to compete on cost. There
:15:35. > :15:41.are now calls for China to get created. She is starting from
:15:41. > :15:46.scratch, relying on her parents and a rich patron. She set up her
:15:46. > :15:51.designer label after three years' training in London. D Gough make is
:15:51. > :15:56.good at spotting the Investment Project, seems less adept when a
:15:56. > :16:01.king's -- comes to nurturing creative talent. -- the government
:16:02. > :16:08.that is adept at spotting investment. I think it takes time
:16:08. > :16:16.for them to understand and to find the people who really work in these
:16:16. > :16:23.parts. This country is too big. represents a new generation and a
:16:23. > :16:26.new meaning to be made in China brand.
:16:26. > :16:33.While the government in Chile says way to rebuild the country after
:16:33. > :16:41.the huge earthquake 2.5 years ago is nearly finished. Damage
:16:41. > :16:46.estimated at $30 billion was caused. We report from a remote island on
:16:46. > :16:50.how people there are rebuilding their lives. A cargo of building
:16:50. > :16:55.material for this remote outpost. Concrete, steel, it all has to be
:16:55. > :17:00.brought from the mainland, 24 hours away by ship. Building a house
:17:00. > :17:04.costs four times as more than in continental Chile. But houses have
:17:04. > :17:12.been built. The families who lost their homes have been relocated to
:17:12. > :17:18.the safety areas. If you look at the different aspects of life on
:17:18. > :17:21.the island, trade, fishing, tourism, the main activities, plus education,
:17:21. > :17:26.health and housing, life is starting to return to normal, and
:17:26. > :17:32.that is what we are aiming for. When the tsunami-stricken, the
:17:32. > :17:38.waves were up to six metres high. Just 800 people live over here and
:17:38. > :17:45.16 were killed. He just managed to escape. Four of his relatives round,
:17:45. > :17:52.and his livelihood was smashed to pieces. -- drowned. TRANSLATION: We
:17:52. > :17:57.had beds for 36 tourists. It all went. We lost all of it. This is
:17:57. > :18:01.now the only school on the island. The other one was swept out to sea.
:18:01. > :18:08.In the playground, a memorial to all of those who died. Life is
:18:08. > :18:13.slowly returning to normal for the islanders, but the memories of what
:18:13. > :18:18.happened are likely to live with them for a long time. But they now
:18:18. > :18:28.to have their first pharmacy. Until now, they had to order medicine
:18:28. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:36.from the mainland. I think it is going to be a very good place to go
:18:36. > :18:41.for people in need. They do not have the basic things. This is a
:18:41. > :18:46.good chance for them. Looking around, it is hard to picture just
:18:46. > :18:55.how devastated this place was. The recovery shows that even in the
:18:55. > :19:00.face of tragedy, people can and do pick up their lives and rebuild.
:19:00. > :19:04.One of the Royal Ballet's top international stars, Carlos Acosta,
:19:04. > :19:09.is planning to open a dance school back in his native Cuba. He has
:19:09. > :19:12.chosen a building in Havana which started out as a design for a dance
:19:13. > :19:16.school in the 1960s, but the government stopped building work
:19:16. > :19:26.because it was too extravagant. The dancer is raising money to restore
:19:26. > :19:35.
:19:35. > :19:44.an international ballet staff. But he trains in Havana. On a recent
:19:44. > :19:48.trip home, he revealed plans for a more permanent comeback. This is a
:19:48. > :19:56.place, absolutely stunning. This is what is drawing him, the side he
:19:56. > :20:03.has chosen to create his own dance was originally intended for a
:20:03. > :20:09.ballet score, then communist Cuba project was abandoned. Fidel Castro
:20:09. > :20:19.later had a change of heart, that Cuba had no money. So now Carlos
:20:19. > :20:19.
:20:19. > :20:23.Acosta is raising funds abroad for a major restoration. If he did not
:20:23. > :20:28.create masterpieces in here, you are not going to created anywhere
:20:28. > :20:31.else. He says he was inspired by the beauty of this building. But
:20:32. > :20:36.this place has been mired in controversy for more than five
:20:36. > :20:40.decades, and unwittingly, the ballet dancer may have walked right
:20:40. > :20:45.into the middle of it. The issue is the original Italian architect, who
:20:45. > :20:50.has begun protesting that his creation is in danger. It was the
:20:50. > :21:00.British architect Norman Foster who did the visibility study. The
:21:00. > :21:04.
:21:04. > :21:09.Italian architect is put out. does not want anybody to put their
:21:09. > :21:15.hand in the project that he created. The dancer has strayed onto
:21:15. > :21:19.delicate ground. But after years captivating audiences on the stage,
:21:19. > :21:26.he is looking to a life beyond the spotlight, where he wants to help
:21:26. > :21:31.others achieve their dreams as dancers. As for this extraordinary
:21:31. > :21:37.building, the Dancer believes his project is the best hope in half a
:21:37. > :21:47.century. They have to do something and rescue it. It has been like
:21:47. > :21:51.