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it's time for Reporters -- that's Rebels in Syria tighten their grip | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
on the city of Aleppo. His life there any better? We have a special | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
rapport Orla Guerin finds that in spite of legal reforms and billions | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
of dollars in aid, women in Afghanistan still suffer abuse. And | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
there's Chinese architects strive to build distinctive tower blocks, | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
we look at whether they have run out of ideas. Welcome to Reporters. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
It's been two years since the Arab uprising began, and in Syria the | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
conflict continues. The rebels have received a morale boost when Russia, | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
a key ally of the authorities in Syria, said the Damascus government | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
was losing control of more and more territory. Moscow is now working on | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
plans to evacuate its citizens if necessary. With the fighting | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
continuing, Ian Pannell and Darren Conaway managed to get behind the | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
scenes of the desperate struggle going on inside the northern city | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
of Aleppo. In the words of one of its | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
residents, welcome to free Aleppo. Where mounds of rubbish arise, and | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
the destitute struggle to make a living. The rebels now control the | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
large areas of the city, but this is what has become of this ancient | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
city. Ahmed has lost his home and his job. So every day he sifts | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
through the filth and the stench so he can feed his children. | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
TRANSLATION: Life is really bad. There's no work, no money. That's | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
why I come here to collect rubbish. This revolution was supposedly | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
about a better future, a better tomorrow. Many of the residents | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
here still cling to that hope, and they believe the ongoing fighting, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
not just in the City but also outside in the countryside, is | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
worth of that struggle. In three Syria, petrol now comes from a | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
barrel at the side of the road. -- Free. Three times the price it was | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
before the revolution. People queued for hours in the cold for | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
bread. Now ten times more expensive and in short supply. The | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
bombardment has subsided, but the suffering hasn't. And the fighting | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
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has just moved elsewhere. We joined the rebels on an operation. Running | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
across open ground to avoid sniper fire. The fighters are laying siege | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to an infantry training school. The Free Syrian Army controls most of | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the land here, and so the 300 government troops inside know | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
they're surrounded. No reinforcements are coming. The | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
rebels have already overrun other bases, and with each victory they | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
see stronger weapons -- sees. The turret of a tank in front of the | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
base gives away its position -- inside. The gun is loaded and the | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
rebels take aim. They miss, and get ready to try again. But a | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
government fighter jet has been spotted. The fighters have to run | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
for cover. Although the government has been weakened, it really has | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
not been defeated, and what we are looking at the moment is a fighter | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
jet, you can probably hear it, and it has been doing circles around, | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
coming down to dive, essentially trying to bomb the rebels attacking | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
this base. That in Aleppo, the sun has set and the streets start to | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
empty. The power and the water was cut days ago. And as night falls, | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
the dark and began to consume the city. The few hoodoo remain outside | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
are still queuing for bread. -- and the damp. They have been shelled | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
and shot at, and as winter sets in, they are cold, hungry and desperate. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
Normal life has been suspended. Families hunkered down for the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
night on building sites and in empty schools. Railings for a | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
washing line. A classroom for a home. Refugees in their own city. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Where children sleep by candlelight huddle together for warmth. It is | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
hard not to think that like the government that used to watch over | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
them, they too are under siege. More than half-a-million people | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
have now fled from Syria to escape the civil war, that's according to | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
the UN refugee agency. The rear end AGR police those displaced within | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Syria No. 2-3 million more. -- the UNHCR. The government in Damascus | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
have abandoned areas of the countryside to defend urban areas | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
against the armed rebels. Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus, where | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
the conflict has turned the Syrian capital into a divided city. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Damascus is now at the heart of the bloodiest Arab uprising. The regime | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
keeps the city centre under tight security, that squeezes the traffic | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
down the main roads. The regime's capital still functions. But the | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
battle for Damascus is under way. It's happening in the suburbs. This | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
is Douma, after months of shelling and air strikes. It's controlled by | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
the rebels who claim they hold around a third of the city. These | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
were blocks of flats. The laws of war say all sides should | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
distinguish between civilians and fighters. Almost every building in | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Douma or is damaged, suggesting it is all being treated as a military | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
target. They said they saw the bomb, a barrel of explosive, propped up | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
in this neck from a helicopter. The regime's blitz is breaking the city, | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
breaking hearts and lives -- net. It hasn't broken the will of | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
President Bashar al-Assad's enemies. The rebels have shown that they | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
have the stomach for a fight. They have shown that they can endure | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
pain come and they have the conviction that if they don't fight | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
on they will be killed. The question for them is what more they | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
will have to do to get the victory that they insist is coming. The | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
fighters in Douma or, from a group called, say they will do it by | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
slicing more off the regime's territory. They showed off a big | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
army base they captured about a month ago. What do you think will | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
happen to Assad? Killed. He must be killed. How important is it for you | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
to win the battle in Damascus? very important. It's the capital | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
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city. We will catch the capital city from Assad. In a few weeks. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
More than 200 recruits were being trained at the base for the next | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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stages of the battle for Damascus. Their offices, originally in the | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Syrian army, say they defected because the regime killed civilians. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
-- officers. They wear the trappings of Islamic fighters, but | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
deny the regime's claim that they are jihadists inspired by Al-Qaeda. | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
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The trained men showed off what You can see the rebel-held suburbs | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
and the bombing from the windows of the regime's main military hospital. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
The Syrian army no longer gives out casualty figures. A doctor here | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
says they average around 40 new admissions every day. One of the | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
new debt was Ferdie ka noot, who served in the Fiat air force | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
intelligence service. He was killed in June near Damascus airport, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
leaving two small children and a widow. The family are away from the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
same set as the President and they believe they have no future if he | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
goes. TRANSLATION: Of course we need the sacrifice, for the country, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
for us to live, for the children true grow up, he had to sacrifice | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
himself. Other men should sacrifice themselves for the sake of the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
country -- to grow up. presidential palace looms over | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Damascus. Syria has to futures, a political deal between all sides to | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
build a new country, or a long civil war. The most likely option | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
is the matter right now. -- latter. A sobering report was released by | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
the UN recently detailing just how hard it still is for women in | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Afghanistan to get access to justice. Violent attacks on Afghan | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
women are rising, yet there's no sign of a proportional increase in | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
police investigations and prosecutions. Brutal killings of | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
women and girls have increased in recent months, along with | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
assassinations of senior political A peaceful village in northern | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Afghanistan now stained by bloodshed. Locals still struggling | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
to comprehend brutal killings two weeks ago. The bereaved father | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
shows us the alleyway where his daughter was butchered. Her blood | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
was everywhere, he says. This is where her throat was cut. Here is | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
all he has left of the girl who was about 14. Her sandals and her ring. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
TRANSLATION: She was the best one at looking after the family. She | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
helped with the housework and she was kind. Two men have been | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
arrested, one a relative whose marriage proposal was turned down. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
But in a Kabul refuge, we met others who are still waiting for | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
justice. This 20-year-old says when she divorced her abusive husband, | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
he killed both her parents and he is still free. TRANSLATION: He | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
destroyed my life. Every night, I wake up crying. I am worried he | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
might hurt my brothers. It has been a year since he killed my parents. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
He should have been punished by now. In Afghanistan, it is often the | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
victims who are punished. The UN says women here have continued to | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
be prosecuted for fleeing violent homes. The UN says there is still a | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
long way to go for women and girls to get justice. It says there is | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
widespread impunity for perpetrators of violence. Police | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
are often slow to investigate cases and reluctant to make arrests of | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
powerful figures like members of militia and those who can pay | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
bribes. Lawyers representing Afghan women say the victim is often told | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
to keep quiet. She is silenced by the police, by doctors, various | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
people within governmental entity is, unfortunately, to say you | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
should just accept this. What to say it is not that bad, it is OK. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Mahmood praise at his door that pot might grave -- Mahomed a craze at | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
his daughter's grave. At least for him, the killers are behind bars. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Many more still search for justice. Cuba's once-thriving should be | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
industry has begun opening up to foreign investment for the first | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
time since the revolution more than 50 years ago -- sugar industry. A | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
British company is the first to sign a joint venture in the sector. | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
The project will also try to harvest a much-hated we do for use | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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as a biofuel. -- weed. It is one of Cuba's biggest sugar mills and it | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
has seen better days but they are getting ready for big changes. A | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
British company has just signed a ground-breaking deal to invest more | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
than $15 million -- $50 million to run power based on sugar-cane race. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
East German generators will be ripped out and the new plans will | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
feed green energy both to the sugar melt and Cuba's national | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
electricity grid. Cuba there lies on diesel-powered power stations | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
which are even less green Dan Cole and very expensive. On the basis of | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
the sugar industry alone, they generate -- they can generate 40% | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
of their crew today. This is Marabou, the huge weight that has | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
invaded vast swathes of the Cuban countryside, taking over the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
agricultural land here and making it impossible to farm. The British | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
investors see this plant as less of a problem than an opportunity. They | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
plan to cut it down and used it for biofuel. This was all sugar-cane | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
land until the Soviet market and world sugar price collapsed. The | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
challenge for the British team is harvesting the thick, thorny we'd | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
economically. No-one has been able to do it yet. There is an added | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
incentive. They have discovered Marabou also makes ideal activated | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
carbon for filters or even batteries. The war on Marabou has | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
been declared. There will be a war on inefficiency as well. The funds | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
spent here will be the first foreign investment in Sugar since | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the Cuban revolution. It has taken three difficult years to negotiate | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
the deal but the Communist government hopes it will help | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
revitalise a once critical sector of the economy. With this business, | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
the Sugar Mill will improve, will be able to operate at high capacity | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
and I think it is possible. If the pilot project goes well, there will | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
be four more biomass power plants at other sugar mills. First, the | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
team have to prove they can harvest and how this to -- and an Highness | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
the Marabou. China has been at the centre of the tall building boom of | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the last decade and now boasts more than 200 structures over 200m in | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
height across 33 cities. But the trend has not been without | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
controversy. We visited one unusual building project. As Chinese tower | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
blocks get higher and stranger, the debate is getting fiercer. The | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
architects of this building say it is a combination of Western form | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
and Chinese subtlety. Local residents see it differently. | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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TRANSLATION: We call it the giant pair of hands. -- trousers. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
gite trousers is not the only iconic building to have come in for | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
a barrage of barbed criticism from Chinese internet users complaining | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
about what they see as increasingly outlandish foreign designs | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
completely out of keeping with Chinese culture and architectural | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
heritage. The danger for some cities is that they do not have | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
this need and they just construct so many high rise buildings as a | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
symbol. One city constructed 300 high rise buildings. Another | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
constructed 400. And another 600 and so on. This competition is | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
nonsense. The Chinese skyscraper is sprouting fast and might soon get | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
even faster. This took little more than one week and now the company | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
behind it says it will build the world's tallest skyscraper in just | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
three months. Heritage is important, some experts say, but so is solving | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
the problem of China's overcrowded cities. Shanghai has 20 million | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
people already. It could easily go to 30 million people, 40 million | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
people. Spreading that out further and further away from a central | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
core is more detrimental, less sustainable, than keeping things | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
more dense and going vertical. However, with more than 300 | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
skyscrapers currently under construction in China, the debate | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
is only going to intensify. Is the country laying the foundations for | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
a well-planned urban future? Or is it flying by the seat of its | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
architectural trousers? Returning to the second anniversary of the | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Arab uprising. Our correspondent went to Tunisia, where the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
uprisings began. She gained a rare access to one of the grand palaces | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
of the deposed President Ben Ali. The palaces and their contents have | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
been put up for auction. The proceeds will go to the Tunisian | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
people. This week, the lavish palaces go on sale along with their | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
contents. A stunning view of the Mediterranean Sea. President Ben | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Ali of Tunisia had both the money and the power to live here. This is | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
just one of the floors of one of the grand palaces. This is a more | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
internet -- intimate corner. Several copies of the Holy Koran | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
and perhaps the last book he was reading, a book on Carla Bruni, the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
former French First Lady. But come inside and see what is here. This | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
huge informal drawing room for entertaining. Lots of personal | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
mementoes as well. Come and see, if you can, through the paper. | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
Photographs of the family. Inside, President Ben Ali, his second wife | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
and their last child. His only son. He also had five daughters through | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
two marriages. All are covered up now. All of this will go on sale. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Including this glittering collection of prayer beads for | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
worry beads as they are sometimes known. Crystal, gold and candles | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
for the lavish entertaining that must have gone on. Ivory, Jade, | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
even a desert scene for in gold. But this must be for adults. If you | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
have children, you need a place for them as well. Look at this play | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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room. Lots of Tories including this special car for the boy -- toys. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
This is literally the seat of power or at least one of many where | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
President Ben Ali lived and worked. Sitting here, you might think he | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
left yesterday. But it has been almost two years and Tunisians are | :21:17. | :21:23. |