06/01/2013 Reporters

Thursday for a new term in office. Silent victims of the Fukushima

disaster. The hear how poor workers who risk their lives to fight the

meltdown now suffer discrimination. -- we hear how power workers. Signs

of change in Afghanistan. A special report from Helmand on the legacy

of Western intervention. And a new front in the battle against HIV and

Aids mac. Our reporter plays cricket with the charity.

Welcome to Reporters. Nearly two years after Japan's Fukushima

nuclear disaster, thousands of people who live near the power

plant have still not been allowed to go home. There is a second group

of victims the outside world hears little about. They are the workers

who stayed on site and are still there today. Some have been exposed

to high levels of radiation and many are suffering from depression

and post-traumatic stress disorder. We report from the radiation zone.

In the early winter sunlight, the fears around Mihama are quiet.

These were once rice paddies. The beads are now as tall as a man.

Washing still hangs where it was left. Damaged roof tiles like where

they fell. This place is really strange. On the surface, it looks

pretty normal. Listen. Nothing. Apart from ourselves, there is

nobody in this village and there has not been for nearly two years.

The people who lived here fled, leaving everything behind. We spent

less than an hour here. All around us, and visible on the buildings

and the soi and the soingers. -- invisible. When the plant

exploded, a cloud of radioactive dust was blown down the valley

above the village, this man watched it happened. The chimneys are

clearly visible on the horizon. Masami Yoshizawa has refused to

leave his farm or slaughter his 400 cattle. They are now worthless.

Their meat cannot be sold and his land has poisoned.

TRANSLATION: We will never be able to grow rice again on this land or

vegetables or fruit. I will not kill my cows. These cows are a

symbol of the nuclear disaster that happened here.

Other victims of Fukushima are invisible. This man should be a

hero. Instead, he hides his face from the camera. He is one of the

hundreds of workers who brave radiation to bring the nuclear

plant under control. Now many of these men are suffering depression

and post-traumatic stress. They feel guilty and rejected by

Japanese society. Since the disaster, I have not had a day when

I have felt good about myself, --. Even when I am it with my friends,

I never feel happy. When people talk about Fukushima, I feel

responsible. The once a month, Masami Yoshizawa takes his anger

and frustration to the strains of Tokyo. There is wide sympathy for

victims like in. The Japanese public appears to have little

sympathy or concern for the When foreign combat troops pull out

of Afghanistan in 2014, Afghan troops will try to fill the gap. In

the troubled province of Helmand, the security effort is being backed

up by local government reform. It is one of the most significant

successes of Western intervention. It has been so successful that the

officials who introduced it have been asked to take aid to other

provinces. -- take it. Lieutenant Colonel

Philip Kimber a rise for a routine dinner with the new young

government of the Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand. -- arrives. It

was the scene of hard fighting until recently. The British base is

in an old Ford in the centre of town. From the watchtower, British

troops can look down on the streets. They do not go out on the ground

much now. Afghan forces have taken over. The sacrifice and the

enormous investment in terms of money and effort provides a space

in which government can develop and the security allows for the

Government to extend his influence into the secure space. At last, the

normal institutions of a state are emerging in Afghanistan. Taxation,

courts and, here, an elected local councils. Helmand has never known

government before, particularly meetings like this where local

officials c officials cnt. It could be one of the things that

last win British combat ships leave in a year or so's time. The

farmland remains fertile to the production of illegally produced

opium. The new governor promised to get tough on drugs in his first

interview. TRANSLATION: Drugs are very bad as people in Helmand have

realised it. It is a cancer for them. Their young people are

addicted and farmers say they do not want to grow crops but a

criminal Mafia at national and international level encourages it

and pace for insurgency. If we prevent the cultivation of poppies,

we will cut terrorism and the insurgency in Helmand. Britain's

exit strategy depends on Governor Naeem, replaced a governor that

President Karzai thought was too close to Britain. Helmand faces

more thoughts than just the Taliban. Old warlords from the 1990s remain

powerful. You don't fear a return to the 1990s? TRANSLATION: no, God

willing. We are not worried about that. You can be confident there

will be no return to the 1990s in Afghanistan. There are signs of

change everywhere. The bazaar emerges in what was a muddy field

18 months ago. Progress came only recently, at huge cost. It could be

reversed. Western governments still insist that their officials were

body armour on the streets. This may not be war but it is not yet

peace either. Research has shown that owning a

pet can help some of us live longer and happier lives. In the US, the

Department of Veterans Affairs has stopped being for a canine

placement programme because it says there is no scientific proof that

dogs can fare any medical benefits. After two years or face

reconstruction, Sergeant Bri Travers is beginning to recover

from the physical injuries of the war in Afghanistan. The mental

scars remain. Her service dog, Seamus, helps you to cope. This dog

is more therapeutic to me than any medicine, any therapist, anything.

How good are you? He fills a very big void. Seamus is trained to act

as a physical barrier when she feels overwhelmed by cramps. He

wakes her from nightmares and keeps a calm. The Government will no

longer pay for such talks because there is no scientific evidence

that they provide medical benefits. Research is under way that could

prove the importance of man's best friend. Abbey is only a few months

old. She has been specially bred for her temperament and her ability

to elicit and transmit oxytocin, a chemical which cams as when we are

feeling stressed. If all goes according to plan, she should be a

fully fledged service dog within a couple of years. Abbey belongs to

the Warrior Keening Connection, which trains dogs and the edges

together. That Training. They have found that oxytocin is

significantly increased by focused and physical contact with dogs.

That reduces the symptoms of mental conditions such as post-traumatic

stress disorder. We believe it may prove to be the most effective non

pharmaceutical intervention that we can offer service members.

theory is being tested by scientists at the top medical

research centre in Maryland which specialises in brain injuries.

Oxytocin does a variety of things. It produces cortisol, the stress

hormone, it can reduce pain levels, increase the feeling of well-being

that allows for closeness and interconnection in interpersonal

relationships. We find that this is one of the linchpins 2YD believe

the dogs are actually having a positive effect. Without their

service stocks, a trip to the shops can be overwhelming for many

veterans battling with brain trauma and stress. -- docks. Their active

military career may be over but they still face an enemy within.

The dogs, they say, are often their Germans are learning the full

extent of their pasts when East was part of the Soviet bloc. North of

Berlin there is a nuclear base which is hidden above which the

East German government itself had little knowledge. Nuclear missiles

were there targeted at Europe. It is the most remote of places, deep

in the Forest of the old East Germany is a bunker covered in

earth. 50 years ago, this is where Soviet warheads designed to

obliterate Britain and France were stored. The nuclear warheads were

stored behind these blast proof doors. In the event of nuclear war,

that would have been well down on trainers and taken to the firing

point about 400 metres away. In this clearing, there is a concrete

base when missiles were tilted up, ready for firing just above the

heat proof metal plates. At the time, Western intelligence agencies

only had clues about suspicious movements in the region. They had

spotted an new type of missile at the Red Square parade in 1957. But

they did not know where it was based. Now, we do. Here in the

forest, a garrison town, a theatre even. Today, with only traces of

the Soviet military. If you want a sense of fallen empire, this is the

place to come. A mural celebrating Soviet industry and might and the

Soviet revolution. So what can Germany do now with a Soviet

garrison town in the middle of a forest? Not much, in truth. Amazing

- BT's but nature is taking it back. -- amazing it is. More and more

black Africans are bleaching this means. In South Africa, researchers

estimate one in three women to use skin whiteness. Some legal and

others illegal. Is it simply vanity or are their perceived advantages

to a lighter skin? Dermatologists say there is an increase in the

cosmetic use of skin and lightness. This is Nomasonto Mnisi, a musician

who has just bleached her skin. Look at the difference between her

and her child. I do not want to change that in dummy. Can you not

be black and beautiful? I did not say that. I am still black. You say

you want to be white. I am black and I'm still beautiful. It is

about my skin being light. I am not white inside. I am not really

fluent in English. My man is black. I am full black. Experts say one in

three women on the continent bleacher best in. An increasing

number of men are also doing it. But what about the dangers? That is

cosmetic ochronosis. Cosmetic ochronosis refers to a combination

of exposure to sunlight and another drug. Ngasa Emmanuel has been using

it for years. Dr Noori Mori Joosub has seen many like him before.

Initially the skin looks likely. But look at this now. Doctors say

the biggest let-down in the fight against the fight against the use

of skin liners is the failure by authorities to implement existing

regulations. With the concentration level of over 2%, Hydroquinone has

been banned since the 1980s but you find them everywhere. The market

right behind us. We took them to a market in Johannesburg where these

products are openly sold. There is steroids. They are available. That

is why they get all these diseases. The sad reality is that regardless

of the well-known dangers associated, millions of people

across the Continent are still willing to take a chance. Cricket

in Africa has been on a winning run in recent years. It is now being

played enthusiastically in countries from Mali to Mozambique.

Now, a UK charity aims to use the game to tackle one of the major

problems affecting the Continent - HIV/Aids. Cricket at its most basic

- it is enough to make the pitch inspectors wins but it is also

cricket with a message. Do you remember about the ad, B, C -

abstain, be faithful, used condoms. Using coaching and lessons about

Aids prevention. I am the batsman, I am protecting myself. It is the

same when you use condoms. wonder, the problem is not as bad

as everywhere else in Africa by with 3% infected, it is still

officially an epidemic. At this night clinic, they provided free

testing and advice but it is also about Education said the idea of

combining the message with cricket has been welcome. When you talk

about sports and HIV, there is a link. You want to be healthy, you

want not to have something inside your body destroying you. If you do

cricket and fight HIV at the same time, it is wonderful. It is just

as much about having fun as learning a serious lesson. For the

next generation, they must also overcome the ghosts of the past.

When you think of Rwanda, you instinctively remember the genocide

of 1994 - this is where one of the worst massacres took place.

Everywhere, there are still physical reminders like bullet-

holes, of what went on. Cricket was introduced boat people returning to

the country after the genocide. Partly thanks to this initiative,

it has already come a long way. Everywhere there is someone chasing

a ball, it is a bounty of joy. Looking at where we have been and

where we are today, it is amazing to see cricket being played in all

sorts of corners. There are plans to build a national stadium but for

the time being, this is it. The outfield is in a dreadful condition

and the facilities for spectators are non-existent. The charity,

cricket without boundaries, has been working in the country for

five years. Half the national team is being coached by ours. Even if

one person has heard a message, we hope it will make a real difference.

They also need Rwanda and coaches to continue spreading the cricket

and a Jovi messages once the UK volunteers have gone. -- H I V

messages. Bagpipes are a traditional part of New Year

celebrations in Scotland but what about in Pakistan? Not only are

bagpipes and drum dance there but it is the biggest bang piping

producing country in the world, often exporting to Europe and the

US. A bagpipe band setting the tune for a wedding in Pakistan. This is

not an unusual sight here. There are few hundred bagpipes and drum

band across the country which play at formal ceremonies. But no only

do we have bagpipes blaring in Pakistan, it claims to be the

biggest bagpipe producing country outside of Scotland in the world.

The city of Sialkot, known for producing sports could, -- sports

goods, is known for its industry. At a factory, it takes between one

and three days to produce a bagpipe - depending on its quality. Each

year, thousands of bagpipes are exported from here to Scotland and

Europe. The roots of the business lying in colonial India.

British people ruled for over 200 used in India. They were playing

these bagpipes all-over. They wanted you to repair their bad

times. Our forefathers repaired it. In the meantime, they copied it and

place before the man, they said which won his jaws and they could

not distinguish it. -- which one is yours? This company has been

exporting back cut since the 1970s, to the surprise of many. People

really do not have an idea that Pakistan really make back part.

People do not think it is a Pakistani thing. They always ask

him request - how do you come up with the idea of making bagpipes?

They may be an instrument more associated with the foggy mores of