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That is the latest news. Now it is Welcome to Reporters. I'm in the | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
newsroom where we send out correspondence to review the best | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
stories from across the globe. In this week's programme: What | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
happened to the people of Homs, the cradle of the Syrian revolution? | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
One year on, Paul Wood tracks down the rebels who took on Syria's army. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Kate MacGowan goes on patrol in the southern Philippines where the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Philippines and American troops a winning the war against rebels. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Nigeria are -- Nigeria is reviving the railway. Cannich reconnect | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
divided communities in the north and south of the country? -- can it | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
reconnect. We begin in Syria where the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
conflict has claimed a heavy death toll. The number of people killed | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
is now approaching 70,000 according to the UN. A key turning point in | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
the conflict came with the fall of Baba Amr in the central city of | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
homes to the opponents of President Assad first. Paul Wood met some of | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
the Syrians whose lives are changed dramatically. Many are living in | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
exile in London on. Deserted and destroyed. It is hard | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
to imagine that Baba Amr once symbolised the hopes of Syria's | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
revolution. These streets will once declared a free Syria and then they | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
redeem the crushed Baba Amr. It was the changing point of the | :01:56. | :02:05. | |
revolution. It made people think more and more. This man was a media | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
activist at the centre in Baba Amr. It made people realise that the | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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district -- the regime would never It was a one-sided battle. We | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
watched a bombardment that the rebels were powerless to stop. Most | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
of the victims were civilians. The defence of Baba Amr was led by this | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
captain. TRANSLATION: They are killing civilians because they | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
cannot get to last. He was later killed by a shell. His parents are | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
now refugees. They spoke to me about the day that their son | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
decided to join the rebels. tried to delay it, hoping that | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
things might be resolved. He could just not take it anymore, what was | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
being done to our people. We have paid a high price for freedom. But | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
freedom does not come cheap. Hundreds of thousands of refugees | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
are living in neighbouring countries in miserable conditions. | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
Some wonder if it has been worth it. When the shelling began in Baba Amr | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
one year ago, everyone there was absolutely convinced that they | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
would be helped from the outside world. Nobody thinks that now. The | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
early hopes have been replaced by bitter resignation and anger. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
TRANSLATION: The whole world watched while we were butchered. We | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
do not expect much from the international community any longer. | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
Now we put our faith in God and in the Free Syrian Army. They had it | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
to steal out at night to bury their dead in Baba Amr. No Western | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
intervention followed as they had hoped. Instead, Baba Amr became a | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
rallying cry. Thousands joined the armed uprising and Syria were urged | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
deeper into today's civil war. -- lurched. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
The withdrawal of 30,000 US troops in Afghanistan by the end of this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
year was one of president Obama's key announcements in his State of | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
the Union speech. On the ground in Afghanistan, there are concerned | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
about what the future holds for a group of Afghans who have worked as | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
interpreters for the British. They are now campaigning for the same | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
asylum rights given to interpreters during the Iraq war. From Kumble, | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
our defence correspondents -- defence correspondent Jonathan deal | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
reports. I Ahmed run shows me the death | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
threats that he has received from that Taliban. This was the call | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
that I received last night and I have translated. It calls UN | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
infidel spy and says that you'll receive punishment. Asking working | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
for the British military in Hulman, he's now in hiding waiting to be | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
granted asylum in the UK. So far, his pleas have been in vain. What | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
kind of proof should they show to the British military or government | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
that can convince them that my life is in danger? He is not alone. We | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
were approached by a group of interpreters are still serving with | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
British forces. The fact that we cannot show their faces only | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
highlights the dangers that they face. The withdrawal of the British | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
will lend me in deep trouble. will definitely target me to tell | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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me. To the local people, I'm an infidels, so I am an infidel. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
have put the lives on the line, joining troops on patrol. More than | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
20 interpreters working for the British have already lost their | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
lives. Those who did the same job in Iraq were offered asylum. That | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
adds to their sense of injustice. We want exactly the same. What | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
happened with the other interpreters. They would have been | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
a target. They should think about us. The Ministry of Defence has | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
issued a statement saying that will not abandon its interpreters but so | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
far the UK government has said that it will only consider individual | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
claims based on merit. The senior US general here on the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
right who has just handed over command of NATO forces are believed | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
that the Afghan interpreters are owed a debt. I think we have an | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
obligation to look at. Each country, in its own way, based on | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
immigration regulations will have to comes to grips about. In other | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
conflicts such as this, I think that the nations involved have made | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
special efforts. They have taken sides in this war but their last | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
hope is now in a legal challenge, demanding that they are given the | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
same rights as those who served with the British in Iraq. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
As American troops pull out of Afghanistan, US forces up playing a | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
much less publicised role in combating Islamist saying elsewhere | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
in Asia, in the Philippines. Rebels in the southern island of Sulu had | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
been fighting to establish an old - - and Islamic state for four | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
decades. They are being pushed back but Sulu remains a haven for | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
international extremism. Kate MacGowan was given access to a city. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
Down in this jungle, and a remote tropical island, some of Asia's | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Most Wanted rebels. Philippine troops have been fighting here for | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
more than 40 years. Against militants who wish to establish | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
their own Islamic state. The US military arrive after they | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
discovered that these rebels had sheltered the architect of the 911 | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
attacks. All the attacks that occurred between 1994 and 2001 at | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
least it touched in some part in the southern Philippines. They were | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
used as either a safe haven or used to conduct planning or used it to | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
give training to the individuals down here. That is why American | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
forces came here. To advise the Philippine counterpart. And make | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
sure that these islands are no longer a breeding ground for | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
international terrorism. It seems to be working. They have taken 66% | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
of rebel territory. The main opponent is a group which is | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
currently holding at least six foreign hostages. Other militants | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
have moved here from Indonesia. Some with links to Afghanistan and | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Al-Qaeda. These isolated islands are an ideal place for the rebels | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
to hide. They find support in the local Muslim community. This is the | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
largest city in these islands and yet it is still very underdeveloped. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
The literacy rates alone any infant mortality rates are higher. The | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
violence is holed in the region back. It is fertile recruiting | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
ground for the militants. Many in the population here both the US and | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Philippine security forces with since -- suspicion. We want to | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
build trust again. We have only one country. We have only one race. We | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
may as well start acting that way. The focus is shifting from military | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
strategy to winning over the locals. US forces are letting the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Philippine forces take centre-stage. Stop such as in Afghanistan, the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Afghan Asante -- the Americans are reducing their numbers here. One | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
day they had to leave completely. Not yet. The threat is still very | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
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real. These islands remain as The Israeli Prime Minister, | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Benjamin Netanyahu, has spoken out after two Muslim players were | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
subjected to racist abuse from the football team Beitar Jerusalem. He | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
said there in the light of the troubles that the Jews have faced, | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
such racist abuse is unacceptable. The day after the two players from | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Chechnya out joined, there was an arson attack on the offices of the | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
football team. Anger and hatred on the terraces. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
1,000 gave and Gabriel caregivers was signed up to help Beitar | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Jerusalem qualifies for the end of season play-offs. The reception | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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that the new players got from some fans was hostile and openly racist. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
They've had arisen as a long tradition are not signing Arab or | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Muslim the players. When it news came out at that bit too were | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
signed up, a banner was unfurled that read that Beitar Jerusalem | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
should be forever pure. Rifaat 'Jimmy' Turk was a footballing | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
legend here. An Arab who played more than 30 times for Israel. He | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
also suffered racist abuse on and off the pitch. He says that most | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
clubs have changed except for Beitar Jerusalem. TRANSLATION: For | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
most clubs, it is a pure football thing. Whether to have an Arab | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
player if he is good enough or not. Beitar Jerusalem that seems to take | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
pride in their reputation as the most racist in Israel. Races among | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
the terrorists -- terraces is a blight affecting Israel. Beitar | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Jerusalem acknowledges that they have a long-standing problem but | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
they are determined to stamp it out. Fans angry with the Muslim signings | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
are suspected of setting fire to the club's offices last weekend, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
distrain trophies and football memorabilia. We will not give up | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
because of what happens in the past few days. With a loud minority. We | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
will support our new players. We will still be a football club that | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
uses plays because they're football players and not because of their | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
religion. Some fans had been banned for racist behaviour but there are | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
still strong views on the ground. We will not allow Muslims, this is | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
a Jewish Club, says of this fan. Others disagree. Most of their | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
support as they are here to see supper. They did not care about the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
religion of the player and a not racist and just want to enjoy the | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
game. Beitar Jerusalem admits that potential investors and sponsors | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
have been at put off by the club's potential repetition four races. A | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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reputation that the majority of Train travel in Nigeria is | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
improving, thanks to Chinese Investment. There is hope a realist | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
-- every established a link connecting committees between the | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
north and the south can help defuse the religious tension. The rare | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
where in the Christian south and the mostly Muslim north has | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
reopened. -- Railroad. Slowly but surely, the train is making a | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
comeback here. Decades of neglect saw the network grind to a cot. It | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
is now being modernise. Although tickets are similar to the ones | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
used in colonial days. Debris open line to Kano is popular, it is | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
cheaper bendy by us. We travelled by on time with several armed | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
policemen to keep everyone up say. The train sliced its way it did the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
hustle and bustle of a two life. At a steady for the fivekph, we kept | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
up with the traffic. Six in the city was gone and we were | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
surrounded by green vegetation in the countryside. Passengers say | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
they want modern carriages, but many are just grateful to be | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
offered the roads where there is a higher risk of accidents and even | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
armed robbery. I had been travelling on the train but over | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
three decades. I was happy when it came back onboard. But there is | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
still room boy improvement. course, one of the great end of -- | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
great benefits of this railway is that here you get all sorts of | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Trade going on. At the moment, a train any runs twice a week so | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
shops on ever these platforms, these ball boy shops, are only | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
operating for about ten minutes each week. 24 hours into the | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
journey, we had a close-up meeting with the markets. The train is | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
heading deep into the territory where Islamist militants had been | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
carrying out frequent deadly attacks. On wheat, UCD stark | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
contrast between the relatively fertile south and his environment. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Travel to the north and there is extremely dry savannah landscape. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Not a lot of development compared to the other parts of the country. | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
There is a higher amount of poverty. It is the poverty, but some say is | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
the major can she be dead to the problems facing the north, | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
including the violence. -- consume bigger. Some passages think this | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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train can help unite Nigeria. Muslims, Christians, everybody. We | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
are one. The train could be faster. It took 31 hours to get to Kano. It | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
could be more comfortable. But at least Nigeria's trains are moving | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
Politicians campaigning for the Italian general election had been | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
trying to convince voters that they can lift the country out of | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
recession and create jobs for the unemployed. But the lack of jobs is | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
also at the heart of a musical that has just opened. It is packing a | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
political punch in Rome. It is the Italian version of the Full Monty. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
That is the story of a group of unemployed men who made a new | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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He is living The Full Monty dream. He was a carpenter, unemployed and | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
desperate for work. By Peter great chance, auditioned for the share, | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
and now this is his job. He does it every night. And he knows how lucky | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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he has been. TRANSLATION: I was at the right place at the right time. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
The message for other young people is to keep believing. They have | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
taken a lot from us, but they cannot take away our dreams. When | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
you strip away demerit -- music and fun of the show, you are left with | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
the story that is rooted in the degrading misery of unemployment. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
That his daily life for too many young Italians. Over one third of | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
them are unemployed. The share's director hopes that the story of | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
the Full Monty might serve as an inspiration. This show is a strong | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
push to the people to say find an idea, tried to react, think of | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
yourself in another way. Live your life in a much more positive way | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
and react. This is what is happening. An unemployed factory | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
worker auditions to join the team of strippers. All those jobless | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
young Italians know exactly how it feels to go looking for work. If | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
they can find the money for the ticket price, they might enjoyed | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
the musical and its message. But they will be well aware bed this is | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
showbusiness. And that for most people, in real life, happy endings | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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They maybe a symbol of all that is shiny and new, but high-rise office | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
blocks and apartment buildings around the world are beginning to | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
show their age. Large numbers of them will soon need to be pulled | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
down. Until now, it has been done with a wrecking ball or explosives. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
But in some densely packed cities, that is not possible. A company in | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
Japan has come up with an Tokyo, the biggest city in the | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
world. Home to 30 million people, a jumble of concrete and glass, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
buildings crammed together so tightly, berries often barely room | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
to squeeze between them. -- affair is. At street level, the problem is | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
even clearer. If I stretch my arms out, I can almost touch the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
buildings. That is not a problem when you are putting them up. It is | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
more at a problem when you want to bring them down. This is the normal | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
way of building down of high risers. It is tricky, it said to, and it | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
does not always good quite as it should. In Japan, they have come up | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
with something better. That building behind me is Tokyo's | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
famous Grand Prince Hotel. It looks pretty much like any other 1980s | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
glass skyscraper, except when you see what has happened sit in the | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
last few months. The once swanky hotel is finding new fame as | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
Tokyo's amazing shrinking building. From inside, it is even more | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
dramatic as the building is lowered. From street level, many do not even | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
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notice. Really, says this woman, I did not realise. Yes, says his | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
former, I had a photo of what it used to look like. It was much | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
taller. -- says this woman. The government says it is cleaner, | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
safer, and more environmentally. -- the company had developed this. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
TRANSLATION: In Japan, and many big cities, there are many towers over | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
100 metres. That would need to come down. This way, we can do safe and | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
cleanly. For 100 years, we got used to sink skyscrapers going higher | :21:47. | :21:51. |