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Paralympics. Those are the latest headlines. Now on BBC News, time | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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In northern India, tens of thousands of girls trafficked every | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
year because of the shortage of women. Not his time to die. The | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
singing refugee who survived a firing squad. Keeping their heads | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
above water, how one family escaped the searing inferno of the | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Australian bush fires. And say from the poacher's gun. We visit the | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
world's first Rhino orphan in South Africa. Welcome to Reporters. For | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
weeks now, we have seen protests across India after the brutal rape | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
of a young medical student in Delhi. Her case has focused attention on | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the treatment of the country's women, including the trafficking of | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
young girls. In northern India, thousands have been sold into the | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
sex industry, into domestic slavery, and increasingly into marriage. | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
The men of northern India are known for being strong, fit, and single. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
It's hard for them to find a bride here. That's because of an illegal | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
yet widespread practice that started around the time they were | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
born. Female foetus side, a portion of baby girls. It's such a social | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
issue that every house is facing this problem, every house in Punjab, | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
there are people, Young Boys, who are not getting girls. When you | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
talk to them, they are frustrated. This frustration fuels crime across | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the country. We followed police as they raided a house in. This is a | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
girl they have come looking for. She's 14. This woman said she | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
bought her for her son. You can't take her, I paid money for her, she | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
screams. Later the girl tells the police how she was kidnapped, taken | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
across the country, then for a year beaten, raped and abused by those | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
who bought her. Her father listens and is overwhelmed. TRANSLATION: I | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
was walking home from school one day. Three men pushed me into the | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
car. They showed me a knife. They threatened to cut me into pieces. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Once they got me to the house I was made to do all the housework and | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
they beat me if I did not do it well. Every year tens of thousands | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
of girls in India are sold into prostitution, domestic slavery, and | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
increasingly into marriage. Like this girl, many women come from | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
West Bengal, and through this Calcutta train station. This place | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
is just overwhelming, and it is so easy to become invisible in this | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
crowd. I couldn't tell you how many men I just passed, there was a | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
father travelling with his daughter, or was he a trafficker? But what I | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
can tell you is right at this moment, at this very station, there | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
are girls who are being sold. Police sources tell us this train | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
alone carries dozens of trafficking victims every day. Some are as | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
young as 10. We managed to meet a trafficker who operates here. | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
TRANSLATION: The demand is rising. I traffic 150-200 girls every year. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
I tell parents we are taking them to work and I get them to a | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
placement agency in the City, then what happens is not my concern. The | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
police know what I do, I have to pay them in Calcutta, Arianna, if I | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
run into trouble with the authorities, I'm not worried. If I | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
have to go to jail, I'll be able to drive myself out. Police deny | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
specific allegations, but some officials admit corruption is a | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
huge problem. Another issue is that attitudes in India show no sign of | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
changing. Back in Harry Ana, at a centre for victims of trafficking, | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
we met women who had been sold into marriage, then forced to have | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
abortions, because they were pregnant with girls. In India, the | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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Over half a million refugees have now fled the escalating violence in | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Syria, and aid workers say at least 3000 new refugees are crossing the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
border into neighbouring countries every day. Among them is one who | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
says he was the only man to escape a firing squad near the city of | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Aleppo. He's now taken refuge in Turkey. James Reynolds went to hear | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
his story. Mohammed Ali works at a petrol station in southern Turkey, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
customers barely notice him. But the man selling crisps has one of | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
the most astonishing stories of the He tells me he was stopped at a pro | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
government checkpoint in Aleppo in August. The militia men mistrusted | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
his village, so they took him away. TRANSLATION: After three days with | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
no food or water they told me and the other prisoners that they were | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
taking us to another station. They put us in a car and then stopped at | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
a deserted area. This was Aleppo at the time. As rebels, film here by | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
the BBC, go after a suspected pro- government militia men. They are | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
accused of carrying out mass killings. They put us all on our | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
knees, all 21 of us. They began firing. I fainted when they shot at | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
us. I woke up after 10/15 minutes and I saw the gunmen's car leaving | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
and I saw everybody around me was dead. I was hit by five bullets, | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
one in my shoulder, one of them is in my ear, to in my leg and one in | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
my hip. Governments and rebel forces still fight for control of | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Styria's biggest city. They Aleppo produces no winners, only refugees. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Some people might say that it was a miracle that you were the only | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
survivor. I don't know. I don't know. Perhaps it's because I was | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
able to withstand the gunfire. In Islam we one dies before their time. | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
Perhaps this was not my time to die. -- believe no one dies. From his | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
small bedroom as the petrol station, Mohamed reflects what to do with | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
his second life. He trained as a tailor, and may go back into the | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
business, but not back home. Emergency services in Australia are | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
continuing to fight wild fires across a vast area in the south- | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
east of the country. Cooler temperatures have brought some | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
relief, and allow a lull in the efforts, but as Nick Bryant reports | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
from New South Wales, the battle against the Inferno is far from | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
over. Forest land burning out of control after a fire fronts | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
scorched its way through. These were the overnight conditions | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
outside the small New South Wales hamlet of Yasi, they used to be | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
thick green bush here but within minutes it was transformed into a | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
blackened wasteland. An eerie end- of-the-world feel. These images | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
were taken by an astronaut on board the International Space Station. | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
Even miles above the Earth, the smoke plumes can be easily seen. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
130 bushfires are raging still across New South Wales. Given the | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
ferocity of the fires, it's amazing that as yet nobody has lost their | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
life. Stories keep on emerging, though, of extraordinary escapes, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
especially in Tasmania, the first stage to be hit. Tim Homs was | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
babysitting his daughter's young children when they were caught up | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
in the firestorm. The children and their grandparents were forced to | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
seek shelter in the sea as flames engulfed the shoreline. It came | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
from both directions. It came at us and then from the side. We saw | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Tornados of fire coming across towards us. The next thing we knew | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
everything was on fire everywhere all around us. For three horrifying | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
hours they hid under the jetty neck deep in water. There was only 200 | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
and/300 millilitres of air above the water. The atmosphere was so | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
incredibly toxic. All were eventually rescued. At least the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
cool change in the weather has brought some relief to the fire | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
crews. Here they were containing a blaze, literally fighting fire with | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
fire. This gives you an indication of how the conditions have changed | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
in the past 25 hours. Yesterday the flames were in the treetops, fanned | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
by those ferocious winds. Today this fire front is very small, and | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
it's moving very slowly. If only the other fires were so easy to put | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and its | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
conviction rate is over 99%. But while its justice system may have | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
been credited with keeping the society says, there's also been an | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
alarming number of wrongful arrests and innocent people confessing to | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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Death threats in cyberspace. The first one was posted on a local | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
government website in June last year. It warned of an attack on a | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Primus called, threatening to kill the children. Similar posts | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
appeared for a few months, some targeting the Emperor's | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
grandchildren. The threats were not carried out, but four people were | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
arrested. Two of them confessed. But then, the real perpetrators | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
send an e-mail stating that the police and prosecutors had arrested | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
the wrong people. People started asking why did the two people in | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
custody he confessed to a crime they did not commit? Were they | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
forced to make a confession? Could this have happened to anyone? It | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
happened to this man 44 years ago. He was arrested for robbery and | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
murder. He spent 29 years behind bars. There was no physical | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
evidence that his conviction was based on a confession. When he says | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
he was forced to make. It took another 15 years to get the none | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
guilty verdict. TRANSLATION: As soon as they arrested me, they | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
treated me as a criminal. They interrogated me day and night, | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
telling me to confess. After five days, I had no mental strength left. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
I gave up and confessed. His claims are backed up by enforcers who have | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
sat on the other side of the interrogation table. This man was a | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
prosecutor for more than a decade. He lost his job after verbally | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
abusing a suspect, forcing him to confess. TRANSLATION: How was under | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
enormous pressure to get confessions. What I did was wrong. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
But I do not think I was some kind of monster. I have heard of the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
prosecutors yelling at suspects. One of my bosses boasted how he | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
kicked the shin of a suspect underneath the desk. Changes are | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
happening. Not least because of the latest case. The Justice Ministry | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
told the BBC that they have started recording some interviews. It was | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
introduced for the newly implemented lay judge system as | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
cities and judges wanted to know if confessions were made voluntarily. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
These changes may have come too late for some, who spent their | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
entire youths in jail. But he says his battle is far from over. He has | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
now sued the state and it is not money is praying for. He wants to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
change a system that he says still allows authorities to put away | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
innocent people. When it comes to gang culture, more | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
people would think of Los Angeles than of the Danish capital. But in | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
recent years, Copenhagen has been blighted by clashes between Hell's | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Angels and rival gangs. Now the country's Prison Service says that | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
people are looking to leave criminal gangs and trying to | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
abandon their shading past. This former Hell's Angel is | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
frightened for his wife, two children and himself. He has | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
survived three attempts on his life. Retribution for daring to leave. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
just think it is time to do things differently. I have gone | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
underground in the past. This time I have decided to stay. There are | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
an estimated 300 gang members in Denmark's jails. According to the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Prison Service, more than a third of them want to leave the past | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
behind. None of them wanted to talk to us, for fear of being identified. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Some of them want to have family and take care of their children. | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
Some of them are afraid. They are tired of living in a war-zone. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
ban is living proof that it is possible to start a new life. He | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
was a prominent biker gang member. During his time on the dark side, | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
he admitted to about 300 offences. He now runs a fashion business. | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
live a life of crime and gangs. There is another life. You can | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
choose your own destiny. I believe that many criminal people stay on | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
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the criminal path, mostly because of the corporation. It is equally | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
hard for members of the immigrant dominated gangs, to abandon a life | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
of crime. A Palestinian member is using music as a vehicle to bring | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
forward a spirit of peace and reconciliation. It is a fine line | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
to walk on when you leave a gang. Society will not believe you. You | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
have been living dislike for 15 years. Why should I believe you | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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now? Your friends think you are a very lonely road. These exit | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
programmes are undoubtably making inroads. But there are some experts | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
to say that for every game member who lives there are three wannabes | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
to step forward to take his place. Strengthening Denmark's underworld. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
To Greece, where doctors believe they may have discovered the secret | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
of longevity. They have been studying the population of one of | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
the islands where residents live around ten years longer than people | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
in other developed Western countries. What is the secret? | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
Born on New Year's Day in 1915, this man is 98 years old. Every day | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
he is out there with his trees and great fines. I have to do what. -- | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
grape vines. He puts it down to lots of wine drunk with friends and | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
family. It is more surprising considering he had terminal lung | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
live 45 years ago. He was in America at the time. He came home | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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to die. I was waiting for the day. But after a few months, it did not | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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working. The people here are largely self-sufficient. In the | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
hills they gather wild herbs, vegetables and mushrooms. There are | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
no pesticid no pesticideservatives here. It is just a little smack, we | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
are told. -- snack. Their diet involves fruits and vegetables. | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
They eat fish a few times a week. Greek spinach and some wild | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
mushrooms. George is 103. He told us he does not smoke or get | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
stressed. He is not afraid of death. Doctors at the University of Athens | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
use monitors to test their hearts. They have studied their diet and | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
lifestyle extensively. They are more healthy and have this | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
connectivity. There is a lack of smoking. They have a good mental | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
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health. A good quality of life. apart from the food and the wind | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
and socialising, it is the friends and family that holds this place | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
together. It gives them a reason to carry on living. It is not a rich | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
island. Unemployment is high. But this place is rich in other ways. | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
Leaving the secrets of a long and happy life. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
2012 was a Pretoria for the rhino population of South Africa. -- | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
brittle ear. Hundreds of deaths were recorded. A record number that | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
has alarmed conservationists. Poachers kill rhinos for their | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
horns and often leave the carcasses behind. But there are people | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
willing to help. We have visited the world's first. | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
Hidden in the bushes. Away from the prying eyes of poachers. A sexual | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
wary. The world's first rhino orphanage. -- censure wary. Rhinos | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
have been relentlessly hunted. The World rhino population has declined. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
More than 90% has been wiped out. Black rhino tend to be easier to | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
poach, because they live on their own and a very curious. They are | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
wild and they will charge. We want to keep them as wild as we can. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
Humans play the surrogate parents. Charged with a caring and feeding | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
for the orphaned calves. They prepare more than 30 litres of | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
formula for each round every day. Tourists often come to South Africa | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
to see the wildlife. But the animals are often traumatised and | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
injured. The calves are kept far away from tourists for a security | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
reasons. Dogs and helicopters are being used to fund the purchase. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
The revolutionary tracking system that can measure the horn of a | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
rhino to the khakis and it came from has been developed. -- carcass. | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
Lengthy jail sentences are being handed out. Warrants are worth more | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
than the animal. -- warns. More than an ounce of gold. We are | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
losing them at a massive rate. One of the aims of the orphanage is to | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
maximise survival. Every single one counts. If we can keep it alive in | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
a way that it can go back into the wild that can breeder and | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
contribute to conservation is the aim. In order to do that, we have | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
to limit human contact. For now, this rhino is safe, protected by | :21:31. | :21:34. |