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Paralympics. Those are the latest headlines. Now on BBC News, time

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In northern India, tens of thousands of girls trafficked every

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year because of the shortage of women. Not his time to die. The

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singing refugee who survived a firing squad. Keeping their heads

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above water, how one family escaped the searing inferno of the

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Australian bush fires. And say from the poacher's gun. We visit the

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world's first Rhino orphan in South Africa. Welcome to Reporters. For

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weeks now, we have seen protests across India after the brutal rape

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of a young medical student in Delhi. Her case has focused attention on

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the treatment of the country's women, including the trafficking of

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young girls. In northern India, thousands have been sold into the

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sex industry, into domestic slavery, and increasingly into marriage.

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The men of northern India are known for being strong, fit, and single.

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It's hard for them to find a bride here. That's because of an illegal

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yet widespread practice that started around the time they were

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born. Female foetus side, a portion of baby girls. It's such a social

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issue that every house is facing this problem, every house in Punjab,

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there are people, Young Boys, who are not getting girls. When you

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talk to them, they are frustrated. This frustration fuels crime across

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the country. We followed police as they raided a house in. This is a

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girl they have come looking for. She's 14. This woman said she

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bought her for her son. You can't take her, I paid money for her, she

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screams. Later the girl tells the police how she was kidnapped, taken

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across the country, then for a year beaten, raped and abused by those

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who bought her. Her father listens and is overwhelmed. TRANSLATION: I

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was walking home from school one day. Three men pushed me into the

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car. They showed me a knife. They threatened to cut me into pieces.

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Once they got me to the house I was made to do all the housework and

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they beat me if I did not do it well. Every year tens of thousands

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of girls in India are sold into prostitution, domestic slavery, and

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increasingly into marriage. Like this girl, many women come from

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West Bengal, and through this Calcutta train station. This place

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is just overwhelming, and it is so easy to become invisible in this

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crowd. I couldn't tell you how many men I just passed, there was a

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father travelling with his daughter, or was he a trafficker? But what I

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can tell you is right at this moment, at this very station, there

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are girls who are being sold. Police sources tell us this train

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alone carries dozens of trafficking victims every day. Some are as

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young as 10. We managed to meet a trafficker who operates here.

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TRANSLATION: The demand is rising. I traffic 150-200 girls every year.

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I tell parents we are taking them to work and I get them to a

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placement agency in the City, then what happens is not my concern. The

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police know what I do, I have to pay them in Calcutta, Arianna, if I

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run into trouble with the authorities, I'm not worried. If I

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have to go to jail, I'll be able to drive myself out. Police deny

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specific allegations, but some officials admit corruption is a

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huge problem. Another issue is that attitudes in India show no sign of

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changing. Back in Harry Ana, at a centre for victims of trafficking,

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we met women who had been sold into marriage, then forced to have

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abortions, because they were pregnant with girls. In India, the

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Over half a million refugees have now fled the escalating violence in

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Syria, and aid workers say at least 3000 new refugees are crossing the

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border into neighbouring countries every day. Among them is one who

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says he was the only man to escape a firing squad near the city of

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Aleppo. He's now taken refuge in Turkey. James Reynolds went to hear

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his story. Mohammed Ali works at a petrol station in southern Turkey,

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customers barely notice him. But the man selling crisps has one of

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the most astonishing stories of the He tells me he was stopped at a pro

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government checkpoint in Aleppo in August. The militia men mistrusted

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his village, so they took him away. TRANSLATION: After three days with

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no food or water they told me and the other prisoners that they were

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taking us to another station. They put us in a car and then stopped at

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a deserted area. This was Aleppo at the time. As rebels, film here by

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the BBC, go after a suspected pro- government militia men. They are

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accused of carrying out mass killings. They put us all on our

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knees, all 21 of us. They began firing. I fainted when they shot at

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us. I woke up after 10/15 minutes and I saw the gunmen's car leaving

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and I saw everybody around me was dead. I was hit by five bullets,

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one in my shoulder, one of them is in my ear, to in my leg and one in

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my hip. Governments and rebel forces still fight for control of

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Styria's biggest city. They Aleppo produces no winners, only refugees.

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Some people might say that it was a miracle that you were the only

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survivor. I don't know. I don't know. Perhaps it's because I was

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able to withstand the gunfire. In Islam we one dies before their time.

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Perhaps this was not my time to die. -- believe no one dies. From his

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small bedroom as the petrol station, Mohamed reflects what to do with

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his second life. He trained as a tailor, and may go back into the

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business, but not back home. Emergency services in Australia are

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continuing to fight wild fires across a vast area in the south-

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east of the country. Cooler temperatures have brought some

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relief, and allow a lull in the efforts, but as Nick Bryant reports

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from New South Wales, the battle against the Inferno is far from

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over. Forest land burning out of control after a fire fronts

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scorched its way through. These were the overnight conditions

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outside the small New South Wales hamlet of Yasi, they used to be

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thick green bush here but within minutes it was transformed into a

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blackened wasteland. An eerie end- of-the-world feel. These images

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were taken by an astronaut on board the International Space Station.

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Even miles above the Earth, the smoke plumes can be easily seen.

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130 bushfires are raging still across New South Wales. Given the

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ferocity of the fires, it's amazing that as yet nobody has lost their

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life. Stories keep on emerging, though, of extraordinary escapes,

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especially in Tasmania, the first stage to be hit. Tim Homs was

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babysitting his daughter's young children when they were caught up

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in the firestorm. The children and their grandparents were forced to

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seek shelter in the sea as flames engulfed the shoreline. It came

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from both directions. It came at us and then from the side. We saw

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Tornados of fire coming across towards us. The next thing we knew

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everything was on fire everywhere all around us. For three horrifying

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hours they hid under the jetty neck deep in water. There was only 200

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and/300 millilitres of air above the water. The atmosphere was so

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incredibly toxic. All were eventually rescued. At least the

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cool change in the weather has brought some relief to the fire

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crews. Here they were containing a blaze, literally fighting fire with

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fire. This gives you an indication of how the conditions have changed

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in the past 25 hours. Yesterday the flames were in the treetops, fanned

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by those ferocious winds. Today this fire front is very small, and

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it's moving very slowly. If only the other fires were so easy to put

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Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and its

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conviction rate is over 99%. But while its justice system may have

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been credited with keeping the society says, there's also been an

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alarming number of wrongful arrests and innocent people confessing to

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Death threats in cyberspace. The first one was posted on a local

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government website in June last year. It warned of an attack on a

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Primus called, threatening to kill the children. Similar posts

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appeared for a few months, some targeting the Emperor's

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grandchildren. The threats were not carried out, but four people were

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arrested. Two of them confessed. But then, the real perpetrators

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send an e-mail stating that the police and prosecutors had arrested

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the wrong people. People started asking why did the two people in

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custody he confessed to a crime they did not commit? Were they

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forced to make a confession? Could this have happened to anyone? It

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happened to this man 44 years ago. He was arrested for robbery and

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murder. He spent 29 years behind bars. There was no physical

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evidence that his conviction was based on a confession. When he says

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he was forced to make. It took another 15 years to get the none

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guilty verdict. TRANSLATION: As soon as they arrested me, they

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treated me as a criminal. They interrogated me day and night,

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telling me to confess. After five days, I had no mental strength left.

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I gave up and confessed. His claims are backed up by enforcers who have

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sat on the other side of the interrogation table. This man was a

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prosecutor for more than a decade. He lost his job after verbally

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abusing a suspect, forcing him to confess. TRANSLATION: How was under

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enormous pressure to get confessions. What I did was wrong.

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But I do not think I was some kind of monster. I have heard of the

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prosecutors yelling at suspects. One of my bosses boasted how he

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kicked the shin of a suspect underneath the desk. Changes are

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happening. Not least because of the latest case. The Justice Ministry

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told the BBC that they have started recording some interviews. It was

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introduced for the newly implemented lay judge system as

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cities and judges wanted to know if confessions were made voluntarily.

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These changes may have come too late for some, who spent their

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entire youths in jail. But he says his battle is far from over. He has

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now sued the state and it is not money is praying for. He wants to

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change a system that he says still allows authorities to put away

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innocent people. When it comes to gang culture, more

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people would think of Los Angeles than of the Danish capital. But in

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recent years, Copenhagen has been blighted by clashes between Hell's

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Angels and rival gangs. Now the country's Prison Service says that

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people are looking to leave criminal gangs and trying to

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abandon their shading past. This former Hell's Angel is

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frightened for his wife, two children and himself. He has

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survived three attempts on his life. Retribution for daring to leave.

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just think it is time to do things differently. I have gone

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underground in the past. This time I have decided to stay. There are

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an estimated 300 gang members in Denmark's jails. According to the

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Prison Service, more than a third of them want to leave the past

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behind. None of them wanted to talk to us, for fear of being identified.

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Some of them want to have family and take care of their children.

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Some of them are afraid. They are tired of living in a war-zone.

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ban is living proof that it is possible to start a new life. He

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was a prominent biker gang member. During his time on the dark side,

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he admitted to about 300 offences. He now runs a fashion business.

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live a life of crime and gangs. There is another life. You can

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choose your own destiny. I believe that many criminal people stay on

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the criminal path, mostly because of the corporation. It is equally

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hard for members of the immigrant dominated gangs, to abandon a life

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of crime. A Palestinian member is using music as a vehicle to bring

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forward a spirit of peace and reconciliation. It is a fine line

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to walk on when you leave a gang. Society will not believe you. You

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have been living dislike for 15 years. Why should I believe you

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now? Your friends think you are a very lonely road. These exit

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programmes are undoubtably making inroads. But there are some experts

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to say that for every game member who lives there are three wannabes

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to step forward to take his place. Strengthening Denmark's underworld.

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To Greece, where doctors believe they may have discovered the secret

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of longevity. They have been studying the population of one of

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the islands where residents live around ten years longer than people

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in other developed Western countries. What is the secret?

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Born on New Year's Day in 1915, this man is 98 years old. Every day

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he is out there with his trees and great fines. I have to do what. --

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grape vines. He puts it down to lots of wine drunk with friends and

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family. It is more surprising considering he had terminal lung

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live 45 years ago. He was in America at the time. He came home

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to die. I was waiting for the day. But after a few months, it did not

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working. The people here are largely self-sufficient. In the

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hills they gather wild herbs, vegetables and mushrooms. There are

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no pesticid no pesticideservatives here. It is just a little smack, we

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are told. -- snack. Their diet involves fruits and vegetables.

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They eat fish a few times a week. Greek spinach and some wild

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mushrooms. George is 103. He told us he does not smoke or get

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stressed. He is not afraid of death. Doctors at the University of Athens

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use monitors to test their hearts. They have studied their diet and

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lifestyle extensively. They are more healthy and have this

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connectivity. There is a lack of smoking. They have a good mental

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health. A good quality of life. apart from the food and the wind

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and socialising, it is the friends and family that holds this place

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together. It gives them a reason to carry on living. It is not a rich

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island. Unemployment is high. But this place is rich in other ways.

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Leaving the secrets of a long and happy life.

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2012 was a Pretoria for the rhino population of South Africa. --

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brittle ear. Hundreds of deaths were recorded. A record number that

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has alarmed conservationists. Poachers kill rhinos for their

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horns and often leave the carcasses behind. But there are people

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willing to help. We have visited the world's first.

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Hidden in the bushes. Away from the prying eyes of poachers. A sexual

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wary. The world's first rhino orphanage. -- censure wary. Rhinos

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have been relentlessly hunted. The World rhino population has declined.

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More than 90% has been wiped out. Black rhino tend to be easier to

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poach, because they live on their own and a very curious. They are

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wild and they will charge. We want to keep them as wild as we can.

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Humans play the surrogate parents. Charged with a caring and feeding

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for the orphaned calves. They prepare more than 30 litres of

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formula for each round every day. Tourists often come to South Africa

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to see the wildlife. But the animals are often traumatised and

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injured. The calves are kept far away from tourists for a security

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reasons. Dogs and helicopters are being used to fund the purchase.

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The revolutionary tracking system that can measure the horn of a

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rhino to the khakis and it came from has been developed. -- carcass.

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Lengthy jail sentences are being handed out. Warrants are worth more

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than the animal. -- warns. More than an ounce of gold. We are

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losing them at a massive rate. One of the aims of the orphanage is to

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maximise survival. Every single one counts. If we can keep it alive in

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a way that it can go back into the wild that can breeder and

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contribute to conservation is the aim. In order to do that, we have

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to limit human contact. For now, this rhino is safe, protected by

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