:00:05. > :00:15.Paralympics. Those are the latest headlines. Now on BBC News, time
:00:15. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:30.In northern India, tens of thousands of girls trafficked every
:00:30. > :00:35.year because of the shortage of women. Not his time to die. The
:00:35. > :00:40.singing refugee who survived a firing squad. Keeping their heads
:00:40. > :00:44.above water, how one family escaped the searing inferno of the
:00:44. > :00:52.Australian bush fires. And say from the poacher's gun. We visit the
:00:52. > :00:56.world's first Rhino orphan in South Africa. Welcome to Reporters. For
:00:56. > :01:01.weeks now, we have seen protests across India after the brutal rape
:01:01. > :01:04.of a young medical student in Delhi. Her case has focused attention on
:01:04. > :01:09.the treatment of the country's women, including the trafficking of
:01:09. > :01:15.young girls. In northern India, thousands have been sold into the
:01:15. > :01:20.sex industry, into domestic slavery, and increasingly into marriage.
:01:20. > :01:26.The men of northern India are known for being strong, fit, and single.
:01:26. > :01:30.It's hard for them to find a bride here. That's because of an illegal
:01:30. > :01:38.yet widespread practice that started around the time they were
:01:38. > :01:44.born. Female foetus side, a portion of baby girls. It's such a social
:01:44. > :01:48.issue that every house is facing this problem, every house in Punjab,
:01:48. > :01:54.there are people, Young Boys, who are not getting girls. When you
:01:54. > :02:00.talk to them, they are frustrated. This frustration fuels crime across
:02:00. > :02:06.the country. We followed police as they raided a house in. This is a
:02:06. > :02:13.girl they have come looking for. She's 14. This woman said she
:02:13. > :02:19.bought her for her son. You can't take her, I paid money for her, she
:02:19. > :02:25.screams. Later the girl tells the police how she was kidnapped, taken
:02:25. > :02:32.across the country, then for a year beaten, raped and abused by those
:02:32. > :02:38.who bought her. Her father listens and is overwhelmed. TRANSLATION: I
:02:38. > :02:43.was walking home from school one day. Three men pushed me into the
:02:43. > :02:47.car. They showed me a knife. They threatened to cut me into pieces.
:02:47. > :02:54.Once they got me to the house I was made to do all the housework and
:02:54. > :03:00.they beat me if I did not do it well. Every year tens of thousands
:03:00. > :03:05.of girls in India are sold into prostitution, domestic slavery, and
:03:05. > :03:10.increasingly into marriage. Like this girl, many women come from
:03:10. > :03:14.West Bengal, and through this Calcutta train station. This place
:03:14. > :03:19.is just overwhelming, and it is so easy to become invisible in this
:03:19. > :03:25.crowd. I couldn't tell you how many men I just passed, there was a
:03:25. > :03:30.father travelling with his daughter, or was he a trafficker? But what I
:03:30. > :03:36.can tell you is right at this moment, at this very station, there
:03:36. > :03:43.are girls who are being sold. Police sources tell us this train
:03:43. > :03:48.alone carries dozens of trafficking victims every day. Some are as
:03:48. > :03:54.young as 10. We managed to meet a trafficker who operates here.
:03:54. > :03:58.TRANSLATION: The demand is rising. I traffic 150-200 girls every year.
:03:58. > :04:02.I tell parents we are taking them to work and I get them to a
:04:02. > :04:07.placement agency in the City, then what happens is not my concern. The
:04:08. > :04:11.police know what I do, I have to pay them in Calcutta, Arianna, if I
:04:11. > :04:19.run into trouble with the authorities, I'm not worried. If I
:04:19. > :04:23.have to go to jail, I'll be able to drive myself out. Police deny
:04:23. > :04:28.specific allegations, but some officials admit corruption is a
:04:28. > :04:35.huge problem. Another issue is that attitudes in India show no sign of
:04:35. > :04:41.changing. Back in Harry Ana, at a centre for victims of trafficking,
:04:41. > :04:46.we met women who had been sold into marriage, then forced to have
:04:46. > :04:56.abortions, because they were pregnant with girls. In India, the
:04:56. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:04.Over half a million refugees have now fled the escalating violence in
:05:04. > :05:08.Syria, and aid workers say at least 3000 new refugees are crossing the
:05:08. > :05:12.border into neighbouring countries every day. Among them is one who
:05:12. > :05:18.says he was the only man to escape a firing squad near the city of
:05:18. > :05:22.Aleppo. He's now taken refuge in Turkey. James Reynolds went to hear
:05:22. > :05:27.his story. Mohammed Ali works at a petrol station in southern Turkey,
:05:27. > :05:35.customers barely notice him. But the man selling crisps has one of
:05:35. > :05:41.the most astonishing stories of the He tells me he was stopped at a pro
:05:41. > :05:49.government checkpoint in Aleppo in August. The militia men mistrusted
:05:49. > :05:52.his village, so they took him away. TRANSLATION: After three days with
:05:52. > :05:57.no food or water they told me and the other prisoners that they were
:05:57. > :06:06.taking us to another station. They put us in a car and then stopped at
:06:06. > :06:12.a deserted area. This was Aleppo at the time. As rebels, film here by
:06:12. > :06:21.the BBC, go after a suspected pro- government militia men. They are
:06:21. > :06:26.accused of carrying out mass killings. They put us all on our
:06:27. > :06:32.knees, all 21 of us. They began firing. I fainted when they shot at
:06:32. > :06:38.us. I woke up after 10/15 minutes and I saw the gunmen's car leaving
:06:38. > :06:43.and I saw everybody around me was dead. I was hit by five bullets,
:06:43. > :06:51.one in my shoulder, one of them is in my ear, to in my leg and one in
:06:51. > :06:57.my hip. Governments and rebel forces still fight for control of
:06:57. > :07:02.Styria's biggest city. They Aleppo produces no winners, only refugees.
:07:02. > :07:07.Some people might say that it was a miracle that you were the only
:07:07. > :07:13.survivor. I don't know. I don't know. Perhaps it's because I was
:07:13. > :07:19.able to withstand the gunfire. In Islam we one dies before their time.
:07:19. > :07:24.Perhaps this was not my time to die. -- believe no one dies. From his
:07:24. > :07:28.small bedroom as the petrol station, Mohamed reflects what to do with
:07:28. > :07:35.his second life. He trained as a tailor, and may go back into the
:07:35. > :07:38.business, but not back home. Emergency services in Australia are
:07:38. > :07:42.continuing to fight wild fires across a vast area in the south-
:07:42. > :07:48.east of the country. Cooler temperatures have brought some
:07:48. > :07:51.relief, and allow a lull in the efforts, but as Nick Bryant reports
:07:51. > :07:58.from New South Wales, the battle against the Inferno is far from
:07:58. > :08:02.over. Forest land burning out of control after a fire fronts
:08:02. > :08:06.scorched its way through. These were the overnight conditions
:08:06. > :08:10.outside the small New South Wales hamlet of Yasi, they used to be
:08:10. > :08:17.thick green bush here but within minutes it was transformed into a
:08:17. > :08:22.blackened wasteland. An eerie end- of-the-world feel. These images
:08:22. > :08:31.were taken by an astronaut on board the International Space Station.
:08:31. > :08:35.Even miles above the Earth, the smoke plumes can be easily seen.
:08:35. > :08:40.130 bushfires are raging still across New South Wales. Given the
:08:40. > :08:46.ferocity of the fires, it's amazing that as yet nobody has lost their
:08:46. > :08:50.life. Stories keep on emerging, though, of extraordinary escapes,
:08:50. > :08:54.especially in Tasmania, the first stage to be hit. Tim Homs was
:08:54. > :08:58.babysitting his daughter's young children when they were caught up
:08:58. > :09:03.in the firestorm. The children and their grandparents were forced to
:09:03. > :09:09.seek shelter in the sea as flames engulfed the shoreline. It came
:09:09. > :09:15.from both directions. It came at us and then from the side. We saw
:09:15. > :09:20.Tornados of fire coming across towards us. The next thing we knew
:09:20. > :09:27.everything was on fire everywhere all around us. For three horrifying
:09:27. > :09:31.hours they hid under the jetty neck deep in water. There was only 200
:09:31. > :09:41.and/300 millilitres of air above the water. The atmosphere was so
:09:41. > :09:44.incredibly toxic. All were eventually rescued. At least the
:09:44. > :09:49.cool change in the weather has brought some relief to the fire
:09:49. > :09:53.crews. Here they were containing a blaze, literally fighting fire with
:09:53. > :09:58.fire. This gives you an indication of how the conditions have changed
:09:58. > :10:03.in the past 25 hours. Yesterday the flames were in the treetops, fanned
:10:03. > :10:10.by those ferocious winds. Today this fire front is very small, and
:10:10. > :10:19.it's moving very slowly. If only the other fires were so easy to put
:10:19. > :10:24.Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and its
:10:24. > :10:28.conviction rate is over 99%. But while its justice system may have
:10:28. > :10:31.been credited with keeping the society says, there's also been an
:10:31. > :10:41.alarming number of wrongful arrests and innocent people confessing to
:10:41. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:47.Death threats in cyberspace. The first one was posted on a local
:10:47. > :10:51.government website in June last year. It warned of an attack on a
:10:51. > :10:54.Primus called, threatening to kill the children. Similar posts
:10:54. > :10:59.appeared for a few months, some targeting the Emperor's
:10:59. > :11:04.grandchildren. The threats were not carried out, but four people were
:11:04. > :11:08.arrested. Two of them confessed. But then, the real perpetrators
:11:08. > :11:15.send an e-mail stating that the police and prosecutors had arrested
:11:15. > :11:20.the wrong people. People started asking why did the two people in
:11:20. > :11:25.custody he confessed to a crime they did not commit? Were they
:11:25. > :11:31.forced to make a confession? Could this have happened to anyone? It
:11:31. > :11:38.happened to this man 44 years ago. He was arrested for robbery and
:11:38. > :11:41.murder. He spent 29 years behind bars. There was no physical
:11:41. > :11:47.evidence that his conviction was based on a confession. When he says
:11:47. > :11:51.he was forced to make. It took another 15 years to get the none
:11:51. > :11:55.guilty verdict. TRANSLATION: As soon as they arrested me, they
:11:55. > :12:00.treated me as a criminal. They interrogated me day and night,
:12:00. > :12:06.telling me to confess. After five days, I had no mental strength left.
:12:06. > :12:10.I gave up and confessed. His claims are backed up by enforcers who have
:12:10. > :12:14.sat on the other side of the interrogation table. This man was a
:12:14. > :12:21.prosecutor for more than a decade. He lost his job after verbally
:12:21. > :12:26.abusing a suspect, forcing him to confess. TRANSLATION: How was under
:12:26. > :12:31.enormous pressure to get confessions. What I did was wrong.
:12:31. > :12:35.But I do not think I was some kind of monster. I have heard of the
:12:35. > :12:41.prosecutors yelling at suspects. One of my bosses boasted how he
:12:41. > :12:46.kicked the shin of a suspect underneath the desk. Changes are
:12:46. > :12:51.happening. Not least because of the latest case. The Justice Ministry
:12:51. > :12:55.told the BBC that they have started recording some interviews. It was
:12:55. > :13:01.introduced for the newly implemented lay judge system as
:13:01. > :13:05.cities and judges wanted to know if confessions were made voluntarily.
:13:05. > :13:11.These changes may have come too late for some, who spent their
:13:11. > :13:16.entire youths in jail. But he says his battle is far from over. He has
:13:16. > :13:20.now sued the state and it is not money is praying for. He wants to
:13:20. > :13:28.change a system that he says still allows authorities to put away
:13:28. > :13:33.innocent people. When it comes to gang culture, more
:13:33. > :13:37.people would think of Los Angeles than of the Danish capital. But in
:13:37. > :13:42.recent years, Copenhagen has been blighted by clashes between Hell's
:13:42. > :13:46.Angels and rival gangs. Now the country's Prison Service says that
:13:46. > :13:52.people are looking to leave criminal gangs and trying to
:13:52. > :13:57.abandon their shading past. This former Hell's Angel is
:13:57. > :14:03.frightened for his wife, two children and himself. He has
:14:03. > :14:08.survived three attempts on his life. Retribution for daring to leave.
:14:08. > :14:17.just think it is time to do things differently. I have gone
:14:17. > :14:23.underground in the past. This time I have decided to stay. There are
:14:23. > :14:26.an estimated 300 gang members in Denmark's jails. According to the
:14:26. > :14:32.Prison Service, more than a third of them want to leave the past
:14:32. > :14:37.behind. None of them wanted to talk to us, for fear of being identified.
:14:37. > :14:44.Some of them want to have family and take care of their children.
:14:44. > :14:48.Some of them are afraid. They are tired of living in a war-zone.
:14:48. > :14:53.ban is living proof that it is possible to start a new life. He
:14:53. > :15:01.was a prominent biker gang member. During his time on the dark side,
:15:01. > :15:08.he admitted to about 300 offences. He now runs a fashion business.
:15:08. > :15:13.live a life of crime and gangs. There is another life. You can
:15:13. > :15:23.choose your own destiny. I believe that many criminal people stay on
:15:23. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:30.the criminal path, mostly because of the corporation. It is equally
:15:30. > :15:35.hard for members of the immigrant dominated gangs, to abandon a life
:15:35. > :15:41.of crime. A Palestinian member is using music as a vehicle to bring
:15:41. > :15:46.forward a spirit of peace and reconciliation. It is a fine line
:15:46. > :15:49.to walk on when you leave a gang. Society will not believe you. You
:15:49. > :15:59.have been living dislike for 15 years. Why should I believe you
:15:59. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:06.now? Your friends think you are a very lonely road. These exit
:16:06. > :16:11.programmes are undoubtably making inroads. But there are some experts
:16:11. > :16:18.to say that for every game member who lives there are three wannabes
:16:18. > :16:22.to step forward to take his place. Strengthening Denmark's underworld.
:16:22. > :16:27.To Greece, where doctors believe they may have discovered the secret
:16:27. > :16:30.of longevity. They have been studying the population of one of
:16:31. > :16:38.the islands where residents live around ten years longer than people
:16:38. > :16:46.in other developed Western countries. What is the secret?
:16:46. > :16:53.Born on New Year's Day in 1915, this man is 98 years old. Every day
:16:53. > :16:58.he is out there with his trees and great fines. I have to do what. --
:16:58. > :17:02.grape vines. He puts it down to lots of wine drunk with friends and
:17:02. > :17:09.family. It is more surprising considering he had terminal lung
:17:09. > :17:19.live 45 years ago. He was in America at the time. He came home
:17:19. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:29.to die. I was waiting for the day. But after a few months, it did not
:17:29. > :17:34.
:17:34. > :17:41.working. The people here are largely self-sufficient. In the
:17:41. > :17:45.hills they gather wild herbs, vegetables and mushrooms. There are
:17:45. > :17:52.no pesticid no pesticideservatives here. It is just a little smack, we
:17:52. > :18:00.are told. -- snack. Their diet involves fruits and vegetables.
:18:00. > :18:06.They eat fish a few times a week. Greek spinach and some wild
:18:06. > :18:13.mushrooms. George is 103. He told us he does not smoke or get
:18:13. > :18:17.stressed. He is not afraid of death. Doctors at the University of Athens
:18:17. > :18:22.use monitors to test their hearts. They have studied their diet and
:18:22. > :18:29.lifestyle extensively. They are more healthy and have this
:18:29. > :18:39.connectivity. There is a lack of smoking. They have a good mental
:18:39. > :18:40.
:18:41. > :18:45.health. A good quality of life. apart from the food and the wind
:18:45. > :18:51.and socialising, it is the friends and family that holds this place
:18:51. > :18:57.together. It gives them a reason to carry on living. It is not a rich
:18:57. > :19:06.island. Unemployment is high. But this place is rich in other ways.
:19:06. > :19:11.Leaving the secrets of a long and happy life.
:19:11. > :19:16.2012 was a Pretoria for the rhino population of South Africa. --
:19:16. > :19:19.brittle ear. Hundreds of deaths were recorded. A record number that
:19:19. > :19:23.has alarmed conservationists. Poachers kill rhinos for their
:19:24. > :19:30.horns and often leave the carcasses behind. But there are people
:19:30. > :19:36.willing to help. We have visited the world's first.
:19:36. > :19:42.Hidden in the bushes. Away from the prying eyes of poachers. A sexual
:19:42. > :19:49.wary. The world's first rhino orphanage. -- censure wary. Rhinos
:19:49. > :19:54.have been relentlessly hunted. The World rhino population has declined.
:19:54. > :19:59.More than 90% has been wiped out. Black rhino tend to be easier to
:19:59. > :20:03.poach, because they live on their own and a very curious. They are
:20:03. > :20:09.wild and they will charge. We want to keep them as wild as we can.
:20:09. > :20:15.Humans play the surrogate parents. Charged with a caring and feeding
:20:15. > :20:22.for the orphaned calves. They prepare more than 30 litres of
:20:22. > :20:27.formula for each round every day. Tourists often come to South Africa
:20:27. > :20:32.to see the wildlife. But the animals are often traumatised and
:20:32. > :20:38.injured. The calves are kept far away from tourists for a security
:20:38. > :20:42.reasons. Dogs and helicopters are being used to fund the purchase.
:20:42. > :20:48.The revolutionary tracking system that can measure the horn of a
:20:48. > :20:55.rhino to the khakis and it came from has been developed. -- carcass.
:20:55. > :21:02.Lengthy jail sentences are being handed out. Warrants are worth more
:21:02. > :21:06.than the animal. -- warns. More than an ounce of gold. We are
:21:06. > :21:13.losing them at a massive rate. One of the aims of the orphanage is to
:21:13. > :21:18.maximise survival. Every single one counts. If we can keep it alive in
:21:18. > :21:22.a way that it can go back into the wild that can breeder and
:21:22. > :21:31.contribute to conservation is the aim. In order to do that, we have
:21:31. > :21:34.to limit human contact. For now, this rhino is safe, protected by