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thousands of jobs are at risk. That is the latest BBC News. Now it is | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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Welcome to Reporters. I am at the heart of the news room, bringing | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
you the best stories from across the globe. On this week's | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
programme: A special report from inside Syria on the plight of the | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
children there, driven underground by violence. Recession hits the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
burger industry in Afghanistan. We find out why sales have dropped | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
sharply. At how you can love of music without hearing it. We meet | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the orchestra are helping deaf children to experience classical | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
music. We start in Syria, where aid agencies say they are shocked by | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
the number of children being killed in the ongoing conflict. In one big | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
reason to, investigators found that at least 70 children had been | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
killed as a result of covert missile strikes on residential | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
areas in the main commercial city of Aleppo. -- in one week recently. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
It is no wonder that civilians are fleeing our urban areas and taking | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
refuge in caves. This report is from Idlib Problems. A beautiful | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
valley, two children lead the way to their new home. They were forced | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
to run away from their village for it was attacked by government | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
forces. This is now where they live, in a cave. It is cold, dirty and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
damp inside. They have been living like this for weeks, unable to | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
escape across the border and too afraid to turn -- run home. -- | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
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return home. The hardest thing is getting water up here for drinking, | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
washing and cooking. Life is so hard but we have to deal with that. | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
The world has forgotten about us. This is not a home. Millions | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Assyrians had been driven from their homes by the war. Many have | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
fled across borders to safety. Most are trapped, refugees in their own | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
country. The world has pledged millions of pounds in foreign aid. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
No one we have met has received any of it. In a conflict where rockets | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
are fired at will, they are never really safe. If you want to know | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
what that feels like, watched the girl's reaction as the area is | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
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suddenly attacked. Where will the shells land? When will they stop? | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Syria's children all these questions well. | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
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- know. It has been one years since we left home. We have to keep | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
moving. We do not have money, we do not have anything. The country is | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
locked in a savage civil war. It is civilians who have consistently | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
suffered the most as conditions steadily grow worse. Some people | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
are so desperate they have been forced to make their homes in | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
underground tunnels like this. You can see matting on the floor, some | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
bedding, some pillows. As many as 20 families crammed into this tight | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
space when the shelling starts. In the last 24 hours, the Government | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
have attacked this area. This is essentially where people came to | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
live and tide. The at -- the atmosphere is appalling. It is dark | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
and dank. We were taken to see another tunnel in the middle of an | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
orchard. It is an old Roman burial chamber. In the gloom, seven small | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
boys in hiding. Their father has been killed and the fighting and | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
their mother has gone looking for food. That was hours ago. The boys | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
were still waiting, cold, hungry and scared. TRANSLATION: It is bad | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
here, says Mohammed. We are scared of the bombing and shelling, that | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
is why we are staying here. The boys asked when their mum would be | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
coming back. It was an impossible question to answer. As we left, | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
they sat staring at the entrance, waiting. This is Syria's tragedy. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
The conflict the world has failed to stop. Victims you go unprotected. | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
A country whose very existence is now in doubt. Barker traders in the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Afghan capital, Kabul, say business is tough and some are going bust, | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
in fact. The long garment was compulsory for all women under the | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
rule of the Taliban. Now, fewer women are choosing to wear them and | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
cheap imports from China have meant the price has fallen by two-thirds. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Afghan traders say there is not enough money to be made. This | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
report is from Kabul. For centuries, the Bob Carr has been the emblem of | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Afghanistan. It was strictly imposed in Taliban fines. In Kabul, | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
it is not so easy to spot. Wholesalers still supply other | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
regions of the country with their own unique ships. A quiet | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
revolution is under way in the capital. Business is taking a bit | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
of a knock. A fall of demand in Kabul has meant reduced profit | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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levels down to Chinese imports. -- coupled with. Up until six months | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
ago, this man was selling because in downtown Kabul. TRANSLATION: | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
People are more free now. There are no longer forced to wear them. It | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
has affected my business. Even a woman who has been stitching in | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
four years has joined the trend, choosing to protect her modesty in | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
other ways. When I first went out without one, I thought everyone was | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
staring with me but I got used to it. On the rare occasions that I do | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
wear it, I cannot breathe. I feel I am going to suffocate. There are | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
still many for whom old habits die hard. The past -- for the past 60 | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
years, Benazir has remained covered up. It is a tradition she says she | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
will uphold. She likes the anonymity it gives us. When asked | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
for for doctors would it, too, her answer is no. -- if her daughters | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
wear it. It has been reclaimed by a female street artists like Shamsia. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
They look at it as a symbol of strength, not submission. For her, | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
it is not the garment holding women back but the thinking behind it. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
People think it is like a caged but it is not like that. If you change | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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the shape of it, it looks stronger. We can do anything, like men. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
is no shortage of strong-willed women in Afghanistan. Despite the | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
challenge to the garment in Kabul, it is an enduring symbol of the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
tension between tradition and change. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Does Japan hold the answer to how the developed world contract itself | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
out of economic recession? Some economists think it might. In | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
January, the new Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, launched a | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
growth programme that is being dubbed Abenomics. It is based on a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
limited monetary easing and the huge government spending programme. | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
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-- a limited. Let's get an idea of how it might work. He is a likely- | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
looking Messiah. Shinzo Abe is the archetypal grey Japanese politician. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Economists all over the world are talking about him. In his private | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
trading room in central Tokyo, Fumiaki Sagara is his biggest fan. | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
So is the election, the stagnant stock market has taken off. In just | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
six weeks, Fumiaki Sagara has made $300,000. TRANSLATION: For us it is | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
all about the foreign money. He has brought back confidence. Money is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
flowing back into the market. When that happens, the market goes up | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
and we make money. That new confidence is built on Shinzo Abe's | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
promised to contents of billions of dollars into building new | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
infrastructure. Japan already has some of the world's best | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
infrastructure. Just look at this. Tokyo's astonishing underground | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
flood control system. Am they call this the underground Parthenon. You | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
can see why. There is nothing quite like this anywhere else in the | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
world. It is an engineering marvel. Japan is a country dotted with | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
engineering marvels, built in large part to boost the economy. Why | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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would it work now for it did not before? What is necessary in is | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
more infrastructure. The economy must be better connected to the | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Asian economies. In particular, of the Government is going in that | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
direction, infrastructure and government spending can be very | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
worthwhile. To get Japan to grow, Shinzo Abe Mr geared ordinary | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
people like the or shimmer to spend more, too. That will be much harder. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
-- Rie Oshima. Japanese people have got used to living on less and less. | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
We have to pay many taxes. We have to pay a lot. We only have a small | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
amount of money. My husband's salary is not going up. I am really | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
squeezed. Japan's small businessman are feeling the squeeze, too. Just | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
ask Susumu Mitsuoka. His little car company handled 400 of these quirky | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
looking cars each year. It is a far cry from the massive factories. | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
That is his problem. TRANSLATION: Folau went to the Ministry in Tokyo | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
to get a licence, their reaction was "why is a country bumpkin tried | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
to make cars?" The regulations make it almost impossible for a small | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
car company like mine to survive in Japan. Japan needs the best | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
regulation and more people like him if they are to survive. For 20 | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
years, this country has felt more and more with the land of the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
setting sun. Everyone is now watching to see the Shinzo Abe's | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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huge gamble can make Japan's There has been a lot of focus on | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
the meat we purchase in recent weeks. IKEA is the latest company | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
to be embroiled in the scandal. Food scandals are also appearing | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
elsewhere. In Kenya, donkey meat has been found in the food chain. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
The beasts of burden are kept busy in Kenya. They are just part of the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
chaotic traffic. Out on the farms every day, donkey's are interrupted | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
from their grazing to do some work. Most homes in this village have a | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
wooden cart, often home-made, and thanks to their four-legged friends, | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
farmers' backs are given some relief. Another trip along the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
rutted tracks. Low-cost transport at a sedate pace. But these animals | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
are in danger. George tells me he has had to build a secure should | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
for his donkey's because after dark, there is a risk they could be | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
stolen and slaughtered for their meat. Kenyans of roasted meat. | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
These goats and beef joints are always busy. In communities in the | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
north-west, people don't eat donkey meat. At least, not knowingly. A | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
butcher's knife is sharpened. These days, some which has secretly used | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
their knives to prepare donkey meat which they pass on to consumers as | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
before. At these places, you can choose what to meet you want to eat | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and you can be certain which animal it has come from but that is not | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
the case everywhere and because of the unscrupulous trade in Bonn to | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
meet, authorities are suggesting it should be regulated so people can | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
be sure of what they are eating. Police say they want to find out | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
where the donkey meat is being sold. Meanwhile, some people have changed | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
their diet. We have resorted to white meat. Chicken, fish. What | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
about you? This has led me to avoid eating red meat. This town is the | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
centre of the hidden trade. Donkey owners say 58 animals were killed | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
here last year but no-one knows who has eaten them. Have you ever | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
tasted donkey meat? I don't know. I have eaten meat but I don't know | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
what animal... Would you ever eat donkey meat? No. What about how? | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
Yes. What is wrong with donkey meat? It is bad! | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
We feel that people might be giving us this made without our knowledge. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
They may be mixed up on the farms but when it comes to mealtimes, | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
Kenyans want their cows and dole queues kept apart. -- donkey. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
There is a new crime that is causing shock and disbelief in | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
South Africa. Dreadlocks have become so popular in South Africa | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
that thieves are now snatching them from people's heads and selling | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
them from a profit of -- for a profit. | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
Downtown Johannesburg. The epitome of South Africa's bustling trade. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
In these overcrowded streets, vendors compete for every square | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
metre of pavement. The goal is simple. To make as much money as | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
possible. Luckily for hairstylists, there is a new money-spinner - | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
dreadlocks. But the house style has become so popular that many people | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
are being robbed of their locks. Quick and ruthless, fee to use | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
anything from Nice to broken glass to steal their hair. 28-year-old | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Jack had been growing his hair for more than three years. They were | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
gone in a matter of minutes. TRANSLATION: I was walking alone | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
one night and a group of men attacked me. They had a knife, took | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
my mobile phone and cut my hair. I know why they cut my hair. Some | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
people will buy the dreadlocks. I guess they cut my hair to grow and | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
sell it. Dread locks can take several years to grow but many | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
people don't want to wait that long. It is this need for instant | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
gratification that is motivating hair thieves. On this street, | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
dreadlocks can sell for up to �200. Local stylists have developed a new | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
technique known as crocheting. Using this, they can weave curled | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
hair into straight hair. This has fuelled demand. This man has been | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
an expert for more than 20 years and even he was taken by surprise | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
by this new crime. This is wrong. People should stop doing it. It is | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
not acceptable. There are people who are happy to sell their hair | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
willingly. Why not wait for those people? Don't take somebody's hair | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
by force. Those who have fallen prey to the Test matches are often | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
too embarrassed to bring the matter to the police. -- to the | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
dreadlocked its matches. Some people live in fear. I am afraid to | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
grew dreadlocks again. I am afraid that they will find me and cut them | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
again. Next time, they might kill me. As the dreadlocks industry | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
continues to strive, more people seem certain to fall victim to the | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
danger was greed of the cut and run gangs. -- dangerous greed. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Helping deaf children appreciate music would appear to be a major | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
challenge but a growing number of orchestras are doing just that. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Musicians from one national orchestra are holding a series of | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
con certs for deaf people. While the audience might not hear a | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
single note, they have found their own way of enjoying the experience. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
It could easily be a regular rehearsal for the National | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Orchestra in Wales. But if you look a little closer, these children are | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
not just listening or watching, they are part of the orchestra. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
They are feeling the music and they are making the music. But many of | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
these children are profoundly deaf and have serious hearing problems. | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
How is it they are appreciating the music? Music can affect people. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
There is an emotional connection. I don't think you have to hear it | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
purely to appreciate that. There is an emotional happen -- connection | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
that just happens. They came up with the idea of letting children | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
use their other senses like touch. Even if you cannot hear the music, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
the vibrations through this soundbox lets people feel it | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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through hands and feet. The orchestra has also composed its | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
own pieces as a result of improvisation with the children | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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It is not just at the rehearsals. The children get to perform for a | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
real audience. They had speakers underneath the seats as well. Many | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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of the popular classic crescendo as Even even has his own songs sung by | :21:04. | :21:09. |