:00:04. > :00:14.popular vote. Those are the latest headlines. It
:00:14. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:41.Looking back over 2012. Our neo- Nazis back on the march in Germany?
:00:42. > :00:48.Mara's 100,000 outcasts. The their Buddhist neighbours.
:00:48. > :00:57.And Brazil starts building for the 2016 Olympics. Could the
:00:57. > :01:00.preparations destroy the country's African heritage.
:01:00. > :01:05.Welcome to this special edition of Reporters, which is looking back at
:01:05. > :01:09.some of the stories we covered in 2012. We start in Germany, where
:01:09. > :01:13.this year the authorities were hunting year Nazi fugitives. This
:01:13. > :01:17.followed revelations that three members of a far-right group had
:01:17. > :01:21.apparently carried out a series of racially motivated murderers over a
:01:22. > :01:27.decade. A parliamentary inquiry was launched as launched asemanded to know
:01:27. > :01:31.the true extent of Germany's extremist problem.
:01:31. > :01:35.This was the scene in Dresden last month. The familiar face of the
:01:35. > :01:42.far-right. Aggressive looking and then calling for a Germany for the
:01:42. > :01:52.Germans. -- young men. German intelligence services say that the
:01:52. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :02:01.cliches or out of date. Take the immortals. Anti- globalisation,
:02:01. > :02:06.Day one of the impending extinction of the German people. They have
:02:06. > :02:11.created spontaneous demonstrations across the country. These groups
:02:11. > :02:16.tend not to call themselves not see or near not see. Rather, the Free
:02:16. > :02:22.forces. They are harnessing social media. They are using modern means
:02:22. > :02:28.and reasons for protest. The security services here in Germany
:02:28. > :02:32.really are out of their depth. Martin is a former neo-Nazi leader.
:02:32. > :02:38.He asked us to hide his identity. TRANSLATION: The leadership is
:02:38. > :02:43.always trying to attract members of the so-called upper classes.
:02:43. > :02:49.Students can can one day act as wearers are doctors. You never
:02:49. > :02:53.support the far-right. They do not make their affiliation and in
:02:53. > :02:59.public. But they are part of the movement. More so now than ever
:02:59. > :03:05.before. The nationalists want a new order in German. They are
:03:05. > :03:12.establishing what they call national li national liones. Like this
:03:12. > :03:19.estate outs estate outssome clashes and even beatings and
:03:19. > :03:24.killings of people. Before start what they call the political enemy.
:03:24. > :03:29.Left wing, Democrats, whatever. This village in north Germany has
:03:29. > :03:36.been pretty much taken over. In this centre is this mural. Claiming
:03:36. > :03:39.the village is free, social and rational. Following recent
:03:39. > :03:46.revelations of right-wing hate crimes and murders, Germany's
:03:46. > :03:55.government government s taking action. There have been indications of
:03:55. > :04:00.right-wing extremism. They were not taken seriously enough. It is very
:04:00. > :04:07.high on the political agenda. a minority movement. But they are a
:04:07. > :04:10.force that need to be dealt with. The question is how.
:04:10. > :04:15.In the north-west of Burma, violence flared up this year
:04:15. > :04:19.between Buddhists and Muslims. The civil strife has overshadowed the
:04:19. > :04:27.political reform process currently underway. Tens of thousands of
:04:27. > :04:31.people were displaced, the majority some time with the Muslims in the
:04:31. > :04:37.state. It took jus It took jusours for fire
:04:37. > :04:46.to consume the village. 1,000 Mohan James Holmes lived here and were
:04:46. > :04:49.driven out by their Buddhist neighbours. -- Rohingya Muslims. It
:04:49. > :04:53.really is hard to imagine when you walk through here that only a few
:04:53. > :04:58.weeks ago this was a vibrant living
:04:58. > :05:07.living here, fishing. In a day of hatred they were driven out. Their
:05:07. > :05:13.presence has been erased. Some Buddhist villagers looked on. The
:05:13. > :05:21.Muslims say they were attacked here. He repeated the story that you
:05:21. > :05:25.would hear in many villages. The Muslims were not in their own homes.
:05:25. > :05:34.Political change has allowed old hatreds to flare. The Buddhists
:05:34. > :05:44.have suffered as well. But most victims are Muslim. Across the bay,
:05:44. > :05:45.
:05:45. > :05:50.we found more than 100,000 refugees. Sheltering in a cowshed. With no
:05:50. > :06:00.medical aid and latrines, they succumbed easy to sickness these
:06:00. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:09.the traumatised. This woman saw her ate mentally ill man has been we
:06:09. > :06:19.must cut down with machetes. An elderly mother being burnt alive.
:06:19. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:26.This 78 to hold his alone. -- 78- year-old. I cannot find my children.
:06:26. > :06:31.I do not know where they are gone, she told me. The state has deployed
:06:31. > :06:36.police to restore order, but still discriminates against the Muslims.
:06:36. > :06:39.Denying most citizenship. They have lived here for generations, but are
:06:40. > :06:47.stigmatised as illegal migrants. A more has Aung San Suu Kyi
:06:47. > :06:52.championed their cause. They are largely friendless. Monks have led
:06:53. > :06:58.calls to exclude them. TRANSLATION: They should move to another country.
:06:58. > :07:03.They are not Burmese. For the generations have been to see a
:07:03. > :07:08.democratic Burma, Buddhist and Muslim, the politics of fear and a
:07:08. > :07:13.threaten the promise of freedom. -- can now threaten.
:07:13. > :07:17.This year saw the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, the
:07:17. > :07:23.closest the world has come to nuclear war and a massive mutual
:07:23. > :07:26.destruction. The tensions started in 1962, when a US spy plane
:07:26. > :07:31.spotted a Soviet military base in northern Cuba, it could with
:07:31. > :07:34.nuclear weapons capable of reaching to Washington and beyond. They were
:07:34. > :07:44.there because you do feared the West was planning to invade and
:07:44. > :07:45.
:07:45. > :07:49.topple its socialist revolution. The crisis was narrowly averted.
:07:49. > :07:55.Taking a ride back in time on the trail of the Cuban missile crisis.
:07:55. > :08:00.I came to the countryside, looking to traces of October 1962. When the
:08:00. > :08:05.world came the closest ever to nuclear war. There are fragments of
:08:05. > :08:11.the past in strange places. This site in shall to use as part of a
:08:11. > :08:19.concrete Silo made to store nuclear warheads. R warheads. Rhe main site,
:08:19. > :08:24.it is a trek into the whole site. - - hillside. Each of these almost 80
:08:25. > :08:30.times more destructive than the bomb at Hiroshima. Historians tell
:08:30. > :08:34.me the whole crisis could have been avoided. TRANSLATION: The Soviets
:08:34. > :08:42.could have hidden the missals if they had asked for Cuban help. They
:08:42. > :08:46.could have disguised them. But they incomprehensible aspects of the
:08:47. > :08:51.crisis that it barely took any camouflage measures. So the
:08:52. > :08:57.military base was spotted by the Americans. 50 years ago, this heap
:08:57. > :09:01.of concrete was where Soviet troops kept 12 nuclear warheads. Cuba
:09:01. > :09:05.allowed all of this on to the island in an act of self-defence.
:09:05. > :09:10.It was a move that brought the two superpowers of the time to the
:09:10. > :09:13.brink of nuclear war. Six days after seeing aerial images of the
:09:13. > :09:19.launch sites, President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of
:09:19. > :09:24.initial initial steps. A Fidel Castro had
:09:24. > :09:34.accepted th accepted th to protect Cuba's revolution. But it would to
:09:34. > :09:41.see high risk strategy. -- was. TRANSLATION: Is something had gone
:09:41. > :09:47.wrong, it was all over. These were massive palace. Armed to the teeth.
:09:47. > :09:56.It was serious. No more so than when a US up by pain were shut down
:09:56. > :10:06.over Cuba. But cool heads prevailed. two days ago, a deal was struck to
:10:06. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:12.remove the missals. TRANSLATION: I stronger. We won the battle. The
:10:12. > :10:17.Americans did not bomb last or invade. We're just a little island.
:10:17. > :10:23.They are the most powerful country It here.
:10:23. > :10:28.It could so have easily ended otherwise.
:10:28. > :10:33.As the successful London Olympics and Paralympics closed this summer,
:10:33. > :10:39.in Brazil to build stadiums and facilities for the next Olympics to
:10:39. > :10:48.be held in 2016. Some projects involved the redevelopment of sites
:10:48. > :10:54.that were linked with the slave trade. One area is the arrival
:10:54. > :11:04.point for half a million slaves and on the World Heritage List. We
:11:04. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:14.report on efforts to preserve the For years in Rio's old port the
:11:14. > :11:24.quiet. quiet. But with some help from an
:11:24. > :11:30.Olympic deadline, all that is about to change. There will be new
:11:30. > :11:40.museums. Better public spaces. And this highway will disappear
:11:40. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:49.underground. But much of this area's future is built on a bad
:11:49. > :11:53.foundation, as the recent renovations uncovered. Right here
:11:54. > :11:56.they have made an extraordinary discovery. This was a Quay where
:11:56. > :12:06.slaves from Africa would arrive in Brazil. Walking across the
:12:06. > :12:12.
:12:12. > :12:16.cobblestones they would arrive in Some ery.
:12:16. > :12:24.the coffee plantations and the sugar plantations of Brazil, would
:12:24. > :12:27.have arrived here. The sea once lapped against the stones. From the
:12:27. > :12:29.centuries-old mud the lives of the first Afro Brazilians are re-
:12:29. > :12:39.emerging. A child's tiny bracelet and a single earring, perhaps from
:12:39. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:48.Mozambique. It is a small jewellery box that is very rare to find,
:12:48. > :12:55.called Little Africa. Long gone are the buildings where slaves were
:12:55. > :13:04.fattened and then sold on. And here on this street the fate of those
:13:04. > :13:14.that made it no further has been uncovered. This woman was carrying
:13:14. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:19.out building work at her home. They uncovered a graveyard of the slaves
:13:19. > :13:26.that had died after the long voyage from Africa. The building work
:13:26. > :13:33.small museum. Here you see two things, a lack of the spectrum life
:13:33. > :13:36.and a lack of respect during death. They did not have graves, the bones
:13:36. > :13:39.were thrown away as if they were trashed. A few blocks away is the
:13:39. > :13:42.Pedro, it is the birthplace of Samba. Most of the residents here
:13:42. > :13:45.are very po are very pothan half are Afro Brazilian. Louise is one of
:13:45. > :13:49.the soundings of the Pedro Colombo, a group that preserves the areas
:13:49. > :13:52.African heritage. He says it is under threat. TRANSLATION: Our
:13:52. > :13:55.new he new investments in the region have
:13:55. > :14:04.not valued our traditions. They have been more interested in
:14:04. > :14:14.looking at years of slavery than our African heritage. Above is the
:14:14. > :14:16.
:14:16. > :14:19.city's oldest favela. A new cable car is being built that will make
:14:19. > :14:29.hundreds hundreds of families will see their
:14:29. > :14:31.neighbourhood neighbourho neighbourhoenovated.
:14:31. > :14:41.Drawing tourists of course provides opportuniti opportunitiing
:14:41. > :14:53.
:14:54. > :14:56.this woman sells sweets and cakes through this neighbourhood. Advice
:14:56. > :15:02.and training came from Geovanni's group which helps Afro Brazilian
:15:02. > :15:05.businesses get off the ground. Rio is becoming a world-class city.
:15:05. > :15:11.Important discoveries like the Quay are helping us better understand
:15:11. > :15:14.that our origins are black. The black city, this was buried.
:15:14. > :15:18.with these discoveries we can re- examine the past and make links
:15:18. > :15:20.with the present. Rio isn't the first city to use the Olympics to
:15:20. > :15:27.try to bring life back to forgotten neighbourhoods. But history is
:15:27. > :15:35.already alive here. At Pedro de Sa the African roots of this
:15:35. > :15:39.neighbourhood run deepest. Celebrating an encouraging the
:15:39. > :15:49.African legacy here may turn out to be one of the grandest feats of the
:15:49. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:07.next Olympic Games. He was dubbed the real Slumdog Millionaire after
:16:07. > :16:11.he won the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. In a
:16:11. > :16:21.story that mirrored the Oscar- winning movie. How has the money
:16:21. > :16:27.
:16:27. > :16:31.was the million dollar moment. But what happens next? 12 months on,
:16:31. > :16:39.Sushil Kumar still shares the same has How
:16:39. > :16:46.has he spent his money? This is a generator. It cost $500. The
:16:46. > :16:51.generator means he no longer has to put up with daily power cuts. But
:16:52. > :16:54.his biggest buy has been this plot of land next door. He is building a
:16:54. > :17:02.large house for himself, his parents, his wife, his brothers and
:17:02. > :17:05.their families. TRANSLATION: After I won the competition, I started
:17:05. > :17:12.getting letters asking for money to pay for operations, land and
:17:12. > :17:21.weddings. But in our society, if you help one person, thousands
:17:21. > :17:25.start to come. We help people close help If I
:17:25. > :17:28.help everyone, I will lose it all in one day. Sushil now spends his
:17:28. > :17:31.days at home with his family. He has bought his first ever computer
:17:31. > :17:35.and dreams of becoming a psychology lecturer. For his parents, it is
:17:36. > :17:42.the little things that matter most. TRANSLATION: Before, we could only
:17:42. > :17:49.buy a half a litre of milk. Now we can afford even three litres and we
:17:49. > :17:59.can afford expensive vegetables. This is a reflection of the new and
:17:59. > :18:02.changing India, where more people are coming into wealth. But just
:18:02. > :18:05.outside his house, we can see the other India, one of immense poverty
:18:05. > :18:11.where 95% of the population lives on less than $10,000 per year. One
:18:11. > :18:14.year ago, Sushil Kumar was making less than t less than the is rubbing
:18:14. > :18:22.shoulders with some of India's best known stars and is a celebrity
:18:22. > :18:30.himself. He was even invited on to TRANSLATION:
:18:30. > :18:36.TRANSLATION: Overnight, I became known across the country and many
:18:36. > :18:42.of my problems were automatically solved. I feel it is miraculous. I
:18:42. > :18:45.never wanted to become a millionaire but God made me one.
:18:45. > :18:49.Now Sushil's new priority is fatherhood. His wife will give
:18:49. > :18:58.birth very soon. His prize money has secured a comfortable future
:18:58. > :19:08.different different life for their child.
:19:08. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:22.Three in December he became the granddaughter of a father. Women in
:19:22. > :19:26.Mali have to cover their heads, bars have been burnt down. Dozens
:19:26. > :19:36.of musicians have had to flee south where singing has not been made a
:19:36. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:52.crime. Islamist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda have taken over the
:19:52. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :20:05.desert's richness. It helps drug trafficking. They are trying to
:20:05. > :20:18.
:20:18. > :20:22.destroy Mali culture. No music, no Mali. No culture in Mali. He is --
:20:22. > :20:32.she is know she is knowvoice of the North, Islamists threaten to cut
:20:32. > :20:39.
:20:39. > :20:49.off her tongue. Her northern home, now all forms of music are banned.
:20:49. > :20:51.
:20:51. > :20:59.They are replacing ring tones with the correct Verses. -- Koranic.
:20:59. > :21:09.Bamako has Attracted many people from Mali hoping to have a say in
:21:09. > :21:19.the crisis. The problem we have in the country, we all made it.
:21:19. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:33.Government, military, students, everybody has his part in this
:21:33. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:43.problem. Like a giant power outage across the North, there are fears
:21:43. > :21:49.that Mali culture will be destroyed. Now a reality. They are determined