:00:21. > :00:25.warming. Those are the main stories. Jonathan Head reports from a
:00:25. > :00:29.protest against a copper mine in Burma that has turned into a test
:00:29. > :00:33.of the country's fledgling democracy. How a South Africa
:00:33. > :00:39.neighbourhood managed to get 10 rival drug dealers to sit in the
:00:39. > :00:44.same room, Andrew Harding has the story from Cape Town. And suffering
:00:44. > :00:52.for their art, we find the Greek financial crisis is fuelling a
:00:53. > :00:56.creative explosion. Hello and welcome to Reporters. Burma's
:00:56. > :01:01.President has asked the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to head
:01:02. > :01:05.an inquiry into the violent police crackdown on protesters in a mine
:01:05. > :01:09.in pagoda in November. Some suffered burns and plenty were
:01:09. > :01:13.injured when police took control. For several months farmers have
:01:13. > :01:18.been protesting saying the part Chinese-owned mind would force them
:01:18. > :01:22.to give up their land. -- mine. We visited the demonstrators just
:01:22. > :01:28.before the police operation. Some things haven't changed in
:01:28. > :01:32.Burma. A night-time ride through the cornfields was the only way we
:01:32. > :01:38.could reach a sit in by local farmers on the edge of a giant
:01:38. > :01:45.copper mine. It has now been designated a restricted area.
:01:45. > :01:49.Foreigners are not allowed. Before last month's police operation, this
:01:49. > :01:53.lonely pagoda, all that remains of a demolished monastery, was the
:01:53. > :02:01.front line in a protest that has grown to symbolise a new spirit of
:02:01. > :02:05.public defiance. We had to keep out of sight inside the pagoda. Leonid
:02:06. > :02:14.Razvozzhayev, who owns 13 acres, says she was forced to find over to
:02:14. > :02:17.the mining company --. One of the village leaders said he did not
:02:17. > :02:24.like the deal, then they arrested him, so then we were afraid and
:02:24. > :02:28.they forced us to sign a contract but we did not understand it.
:02:28. > :02:32.Nearby fields are also destined to be swallowed up with the mine as it
:02:32. > :02:36.expands. The Chinese company says the arrangement with farmers was a
:02:36. > :02:46.voluntary one, but it has offered enough compensation. But that deal
:02:46. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:52.was done in the dark era before Burma's Democratic awakening. Now
:02:52. > :02:59.Burma's people have found their voice. When I was there, the mine
:02:59. > :03:02.company's front gate was a venue for daily protests. Activists were
:03:02. > :03:08.coming in from all over the country to show their support for the
:03:08. > :03:16.farmers. This it in had become a test of how old injustices would be
:03:16. > :03:20.dealt with -- this sit in. How much cents descend would be tolerated.
:03:20. > :03:24.Try to think how extraordinary this scene is, unthinkable two years ago,
:03:24. > :03:28.a peaceful march on a public road against a mining company backed by
:03:28. > :03:31.the military and a Chinese multinational. The challenge for
:03:31. > :03:37.the government is that there are protests like this breaking out all
:03:37. > :03:43.over the country. At one point a group of nuns approached the mind,
:03:43. > :03:47.determined to enter. -- mine. The police braced themselves in an
:03:47. > :03:52.unusual tactic. Non-violent crowd control is still something of a
:03:52. > :03:56.novelty. Are unsure what he should do, the police commander eventually
:03:57. > :04:01.allowed them in. -- unsure. Add that point it was possible to
:04:01. > :04:06.believe Burma had changed -- at that point. At another protest camp,
:04:06. > :04:10.we were surrounded by farmers who are still unused to speaking freely
:04:10. > :04:16.to outsiders. They had been here day and night, determined to shut
:04:16. > :04:20.the mine down. All have stories of been bullied or threatened. A new
:04:20. > :04:27.era, they believed, had given them the chance to speak out for the
:04:27. > :04:33.first time. TRANSLATION: Years of enforced silence were broken in a
:04:33. > :04:37.stream of tears. Not just for the loss of her land and livelihood,
:04:37. > :04:44.said this woman, but for the destruction of the monastery and
:04:44. > :04:49.the hills she had grown up with. Huge trucks still move across the
:04:49. > :04:54.beach slopes that tower over a wasted landscape. Below them,
:04:54. > :05:00.people eke out a living from the mine, flushing out the remaining
:05:01. > :05:05.traces of copper in toxic Poms. The mine may one day bring benefits for
:05:05. > :05:11.all of Burma, but it is not hard to see why local communities want it
:05:11. > :05:16.closed down. Persuading some of South Africa's
:05:16. > :05:19.toughest gangsters to make peace sounds like a big ask, but it is to
:05:19. > :05:22.starting to pay off in one region where even children have been
:05:22. > :05:26.killed in the drug-related crossfire. But police aren't
:05:26. > :05:31.abandoning more traditional methods to crack down on drugs. Andrew
:05:31. > :05:39.Harding went to the Cape Flats outside Cape Town to meet the gangs,
:05:39. > :05:46.the victims, and the police. Another day on the front line.
:05:46. > :05:55.South African police raiding a suspected drug den. This time no
:05:55. > :06:02.resistance. The dog quickly finds the stash. But the drug business is
:06:02. > :06:07.booming here. These raids barely seemed to make a dent. Prison
:06:07. > :06:12.tattoos spell out the gangsters' connections. This is one of the
:06:12. > :06:16.most vile and neighbourhoods. The drug-fuelled warfare between rival
:06:16. > :06:20.gangs unrelenting. -- violence. Two weeks ago to young the Eels were
:06:20. > :06:25.killed when they were caught in the crossfire. -- two young girls.
:06:25. > :06:29.Outside we hear three more gang members were killed overnight.
:06:29. > :06:37.is serious. The people are giving up hope. They don't know what you
:06:37. > :06:41.do. They are scared to walk. what to do. Could this be a way
:06:41. > :06:46.forward? Just down the road in a place called Lavender Hill, 10
:06:46. > :06:50.rival gang leaders have come together under pressure from
:06:50. > :06:55.community leaders. It is a tense and extraordinary gathering of drug
:06:55. > :07:00.lords and murderers. These are, for all intents and purposes, the
:07:00. > :07:06.community leaders. This is where the power is and where the money is.
:07:06. > :07:11.You have got to find a way to channel that energy, but at the
:07:11. > :07:16.moment that energy is channelled in the criminal economy. It is the
:07:16. > :07:19.only economy that works here. We have to find a way to sort that.
:07:20. > :07:24.the gangsters don't want to be identified, but they insist they
:07:24. > :07:29.are serious about change. We want to play a positive role. It might
:07:29. > :07:33.not look like that now but we do have the community health. Of the
:07:33. > :07:38.reconciliation talks seem to be helping. On the streets of Lavender
:07:38. > :07:46.Hill a gang truce is now in force. No gang related killings what's the
:07:46. > :07:50.weather in the past few months. That's unprecedented? Especially in
:07:50. > :07:54.this area, absolutely. ceasefire here may not last and it
:07:54. > :07:59.only applies to one small neighbourhood in a very large, very
:07:59. > :08:04.violent area. But it has at least showing people here that peace is
:08:04. > :08:09.possible. For local families the calm is welcome, but there's a
:08:09. > :08:15.nagging feeling that criminals are being treated to gently. It doesn't
:08:15. > :08:20.matter where you stay, you can't bring up your kids properly. It all
:08:20. > :08:27.depends on what the parents are going to do about their kids.
:08:27. > :08:33.for many here it's too late. His tattoos mark him out as a gang hit
:08:33. > :08:38.man. They cheat foot soldier in South Africa's enduring drug wars.
:08:38. > :08:41.-- cheap. 25 years ago thousands of people died in the Kurdish town of
:08:41. > :08:45.Halabja or when Saddam Hussein organised and attacked with
:08:45. > :08:50.chemical gas. To this day parts of the town remain contaminated by
:08:50. > :08:54.lethal toxic gases used in the attack, which the Kurdish opera TVs
:08:54. > :08:58.are trying to establish was an act of genocide. John Simpson reported
:08:58. > :09:02.from Halabja at the time of the attack, a quarter of a century
:09:03. > :09:10.later he returned. -- authorities. I wouldn't have recognised the
:09:10. > :09:15.place. Halabja is nowadays busy and expanding fast. But however
:09:15. > :09:23.bustling it may be, no one here forgets the gas attacks of March
:09:23. > :09:28.1988. For 45 minutes, Saddam Hussein's planes bombarded Halabja
:09:28. > :09:32.with some of the most toxic agents known to science. Nerve gases, and
:09:32. > :09:37.old-fashioned mustard gas. When I arrived there were still dead
:09:37. > :09:41.people everywhere. I went round counting. There were about 5000.
:09:41. > :09:45.The bodies which litter this town are those of people who ran out of
:09:45. > :09:53.their houses to try to escape the gas and were killed out in the open.
:09:53. > :09:58.Since that moment, she was only a teenager then, she lost 17
:09:58. > :10:03.relatives, including her mother, her two brothers, her sister --
:10:03. > :10:12.Nasrin Abdul Qadir was alone in the world. She keeps their pictures
:10:12. > :10:17.with her all the time. TRANSLATION: Everyone wants to live, but what
:10:17. > :10:23.kind of life? For us in Halabja or every day is the day of the attack
:10:24. > :10:28.for asked. The pain is still in our hearts, deep down -- for us. No one
:10:28. > :10:32.has ever cleaned out the cellar where her family was gassed. Even
:10:32. > :10:40.25 years later the stench of mustard gas is still strong, strong
:10:40. > :10:44.enough to kill small creatures. It makes our eyes weep and our heads
:10:44. > :10:49.ache. No doubt about it, things that come down here like the cat,
:10:49. > :10:58.the rats and so on, seemed to die as a result. It may be a good idea
:10:58. > :11:02.not to spend too much time down here. A top British expert on
:11:02. > :11:07.chemical warfare is looking into the lingering danger from gas. He's
:11:07. > :11:11.found low levels of mustard gas in another cellar near by. We have a
:11:11. > :11:17.problem around here when their building new buildings, when they
:11:17. > :11:23.do the foundations, they come upon pockets of mustard gas, and people
:11:23. > :11:28.have died recently when it evaporates. The Halabja victory
:11:28. > :11:33.still lie buried in a few mass graves. -- victims. But the British
:11:33. > :11:37.teams say they could identify the bodies through DNA so they could be
:11:37. > :11:40.re- buried in the individual graves that now are like them, each
:11:40. > :11:47.clearly named. The Kurdistan government wants to demonstrate
:11:47. > :11:53.finally this was a genocide. It was an attempt in part or in whole to
:11:53. > :12:00.eradicate the people, and ethnicity or a CRU, that is the definition of
:12:00. > :12:06.genocide. -- or a group. That is what happened not Justin Hatcher
:12:06. > :12:12.but in the whole of Kurdistan. this day it is part of everybody's
:12:12. > :12:17.life here. -- just in Halabja. Pupils and their teacher. It is not
:12:17. > :12:22.just history. Like Saddam Hussein, Syria has chemical weapons now, and
:12:22. > :12:32.it's not that far away for people here. Gas warfare seems a very real
:12:32. > :12:33.
:12:33. > :12:38.It is one year since parliamentary elections in Russia that triggered
:12:38. > :12:46.a wave of mass protests, when tens of thousands of opponents to
:12:46. > :12:49.Vladimir Putin took to the streets. Some opposition organisers found
:12:49. > :12:57.themselves in prison and later claimed they were subjected to
:12:57. > :13:02.inhumane treatment. This has been an unprecedented year of protest in
:13:02. > :13:07.Moscow, as the opposition condemned unfair elections and Vladimir
:13:07. > :13:11.Putin's return to the presidency. Leonid Razvozzhayev was a young
:13:11. > :13:16.organiser from the left of the movement and his fate is a striking
:13:16. > :13:20.example of the subsequent government clamped down. After the
:13:20. > :13:26.violence of the 6th May protests at with the net closing in on him, he
:13:26. > :13:31.fled to Russia for Ukraine. There, he was discussing political asylum
:13:31. > :13:37.with this UN office in Kiev when he was abducted from the street and
:13:37. > :13:42.disappeared for two days. By the time he reappeared on video link to
:13:43. > :13:47.a Moscow courtroom, he had signed a 10 page confession, which he claims
:13:47. > :13:51.was extracted under torture. He said he was blindfolded and tied to
:13:51. > :13:55.a chair while investigators threatened the lives of his
:13:55. > :14:02.children. He said they had smuggled him back across the border into
:14:02. > :14:07.Russia illegally. His partner, the mother of his two children, says
:14:07. > :14:11.she has still not been allowed to see him. TRANSLATION: I thought
:14:11. > :14:16.things like this only happened in films. It turns out that they can
:14:16. > :14:20.happen in real life. I believe his 10 page confession was dictated to
:14:20. > :14:24.him. If my family had been threatened, I would have written a
:14:24. > :14:29.20 page confession. Since he was brought to Moscow, Leonid
:14:29. > :14:34.Razvozzhayev has been brought to this prison -- held in this prison,
:14:34. > :14:37.the same notorious jail where, in the communist era, the KGB kept its
:14:37. > :14:43.political prisoners. Leonid Razvozzhayev remains behind bars,
:14:43. > :14:48.charged with organising mass riots, something he denies. The
:14:48. > :14:57.government's treatment of him has alarmed human rights groups.
:14:58. > :15:02.believe that this is a sign of a new kind of political repression.
:15:02. > :15:08.Because they never dared to act like this before. 11 people remain
:15:08. > :15:13.in prison awaiting trial following the demonstrations in May. One year
:15:13. > :15:18.on since the protest movement began, no-one is quite sure when the
:15:18. > :15:22.government crackdown it triggered will end.
:15:22. > :15:29.The hustle and bustle of busy city living can be overbearing. Some
:15:29. > :15:36.people move out. What about moving up? The skyscraper continues to
:15:36. > :15:42.appeal to urban planners and it is places like Singapore. There,
:15:42. > :15:45.residents rise of the stress of the streets below. This is Singapore's
:15:45. > :15:51.central business district. Tall buildings and skyscrapers that
:15:51. > :15:57.define the skyline of almost every developed, wealthy nation. Here, in
:15:57. > :16:02.Singapore, these tall buildings are almost imperative. A tiny island
:16:02. > :16:10.with no hinterland, Singapore is one of the most densely populated -
:16:10. > :16:17.- populated cities per capita in the world. Over 5 million
:16:17. > :16:22.inhabitants live in this city, most of them in tall apartment buildings.
:16:22. > :16:28.This is an extreme example of one of those public housing projects.
:16:28. > :16:34.Called the pinnacle, it houses over 18 and apartments in seven towering
:16:34. > :16:38.blocks. -- 1,800 apartments. How to make a building liveable was a
:16:38. > :16:46.struggle for the architects. The answer was to devise Skye bridges
:16:46. > :16:50.linking the towers to provide recreational space. One of the
:16:50. > :16:55.things we like about this project is that when we first designed it,
:16:55. > :17:03.we thought that there would be people everywhere. After looking at
:17:03. > :17:08.it again, two years later, there is an amazing sense of tranquillity.
:17:08. > :17:14.With an 800 metre of jogging track high up on the 26th floor,
:17:14. > :17:18.residents like the idea of being able to live as well as play here.
:17:18. > :17:23.This is one of those residents. A 73-year-old retiree, he says even
:17:24. > :17:33.his health has improved since moving here. For a retired person
:17:34. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:44.like me, every day I do yoga here. The idea of parks in the sky has
:17:44. > :17:49.also been put to commercial use. Here at the casino and hotel
:17:49. > :17:55.complex, one of the world's best known architects has created a sky
:17:55. > :18:01.park the size of three football fields. As we build densities, much
:18:01. > :18:06.more concentrated, multiple high rises as a single complex, the only
:18:06. > :18:11.way to preserve quality of life is to recreate the ground at many
:18:11. > :18:16.levels. As the global population grows beyond 7 billion, and
:18:16. > :18:20.increasingly higher premium will be put on space on the ground and that
:18:20. > :18:25.is when parks and streets in the sky will start becoming a common
:18:25. > :18:30.feature in other cities as well. Greece is set to enter its 6th
:18:30. > :18:36.consecutive year of recession. Every sector has been hit by
:18:36. > :18:40.spending cuts and the Ministry of Culture has received a 30% cut in
:18:40. > :18:45.funding. The financial crisis has also provided artists with new
:18:45. > :18:48.ideas. It was the birthplace of Western civilisation from the
:18:48. > :18:58.theatre of Sophocles to the philosophy of Plato and the ethical
:18:58. > :19:04.poetry of Homer. Greece's court for a legacy is unrivalled. Today's
:19:04. > :19:10.crisis has hit arts funding. But it has also resulted in new ideas as
:19:10. > :19:14.Greece's cultural scene strikes back. Aston's streets - where
:19:14. > :19:23.protest and political graffiti makes. Street art has flourished
:19:23. > :19:26.with the crisis. One mysterious artist inspired by the troubles of
:19:26. > :19:32.Greece. We are lucky to be in this difficult era, even though it is
:19:32. > :19:38.difficult for me as well. We can create images and analyse it. If it
:19:38. > :19:48.was not for this crisis, my art would have been like a voice in the
:19:48. > :19:48.
:19:48. > :19:56.desert. Nobody would listen. Traditional art forms are
:19:56. > :20:06.influenced as well. This new play features riots and Germany's Pro
:20:06. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:16.austerity Chancellor. No, no, No. Crops have had to be cut. Simple
:20:16. > :20:23.humour fills the place. The crisis pushed me to do something. I want
:20:23. > :20:33.to say something. I want to say that this is a bad situation but we
:20:33. > :20:34.
:20:34. > :20:38.will stay, survive, continue working in solving and dancing.
:20:38. > :20:42.This is the sound of the crisis. The Rex hit out against the
:20:42. > :20:48.government and the media for spreading fear. He popped inspiring
:20:48. > :20:55.a generation of protesters. -- hip- hop music. TRANSLATION: With the
:20:55. > :21:00.crisis, my music has become angrier, helping my fans express themselves.
:21:00. > :21:04.Before, least it was entertainment. Now, it has a political message,