:00:31. > :00:35.Welcome to the programme. We send our correspondent for the best
:00:36. > :00:45.story. This week - new allegations that chemical weapons are being
:00:46. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:53.used in Syria. We are the first people to be at his side. We tried
:00:53. > :00:57.to piece together what happened. The full moon started right here at
:00:57. > :01:01.this vantage point. The artillery shells landed on the other side of
:01:01. > :01:05.the building. A deadly game of hide and seek.
:01:05. > :01:10.We joined an Afghan operation against the Taliban close to the
:01:10. > :01:14.Pakistani border. A new Boral threat from bat. We
:01:14. > :01:19.investigate the latest deadly global outbreak that can be passed
:01:19. > :01:29.on by human contact. P but have always moved around. We
:01:29. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:40.can reach anywhere on earth. Take a picture. You say it and see it. We
:01:40. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:46.try out the new computer. Is it a It is a crucial factor in the West
:01:46. > :01:50.about whether to intervene in the conflict in Syria. A chemical
:01:50. > :01:54.weapons being used by the government or opponents? There has
:01:54. > :01:58.been growing evidence that the Syrian authorities have been using
:01:58. > :02:02.them. We have been shown evidence of an alleged chemical attack
:02:02. > :02:07.involving government forces that took place last month. Similar
:02:07. > :02:17.accusations have been made against rebel fighters. Both sides deny it.
:02:17. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:21.There are tough new course for actions against ASADA. The first --
:02:21. > :02:28.we send the first Western journalists into where the attacks
:02:28. > :02:31.took place. The war in Syria hangs heavy with
:02:31. > :02:34.appalling violence, massacres and abuse. For Britain and America, it
:02:34. > :02:41.has alleged chemical attacks have crossed a red line and raised the
:02:41. > :02:46.spectre of foreign intervention. In April, this area came under attack
:02:46. > :02:53.by government military positions about five miles in that direction.
:02:53. > :02:56.Using eyewitness testimony, we pieced together what has happened.
:02:56. > :03:01.The filming started right here from this vantage point, as the
:03:01. > :03:09.artillery shells landed on the other side of the building. The day
:03:09. > :03:14.ended with what was claimed to be chemical weapons attacks. A local
:03:14. > :03:24.activist gave us this footage. It was taken as the shells landed. We
:03:24. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:31.cannot verify these images. All of the videos you will see were
:03:31. > :03:33.apparently taken on the same day by different people. A helicopter was
:03:33. > :03:40.spotted high above the town. Eyewitnesses alleged at least two
:03:40. > :03:45.canisters were dropped. They say it was shortly after they landed that
:03:45. > :03:55.casualties started to arrive at the hospital. Eight people were
:03:55. > :03:56.
:03:56. > :04:05.admitted - apparently with similar symptoms. They appeared to be
:04:05. > :04:11.vomiting with breathing problems. The worst affected was this woman.
:04:11. > :04:14.Relatives claim a device had landed in her garden. Videos here show her
:04:14. > :04:18.unconscious with constricted pupils. Doctors who treated her claim she
:04:18. > :04:28.had signs of exposure to chemical agents. The mother of eight died
:04:28. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:34.later that day. Her daughter was filmed nearby. The video appears to
:04:34. > :04:38.show her tongue distended. She is frothing at the mouth. Her sons
:04:38. > :04:40.were also on the scene. They had to be treated. Again, they apparently
:04:40. > :04:44.suffered respiratory and vision problems and appeared to have
:04:44. > :04:54.constricted pupils. Muhammad is the oldest son. He tried to help his
:04:54. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :05:04.mother. She collapsed in his arm. TRANSLATION: It was a horrible
:05:04. > :05:07.suffocating smell. You could not see at all. -- breathe. The body
:05:07. > :05:11.would become really tired. You would lose all of your senses. You
:05:11. > :05:15.feel like you are dead. You could not see. You could not see anything
:05:16. > :05:22.for four days. We were taken to the house by one of the nephews. He
:05:22. > :05:26.showed us where the device is said to have landed. Samples have been
:05:26. > :05:31.taken from here and the victims and sent to Britain, France, Turkey and
:05:31. > :05:36.America for testing. Later in the day, four patients were brought
:05:36. > :05:38.here to a hospital near the border. The doctor treated them. They were
:05:38. > :05:48.put through decontamination and given atropine to treat the
:05:48. > :05:49.
:05:49. > :05:51.symptoms. It was too late for the mother. TRANSLATION: The symptoms
:05:51. > :05:58.she displayed - unconsciousness, vomiting, pinpoint pupils - they
:05:58. > :06:08.correspond to poisonous gas exposure. It matches phosphorus
:06:08. > :06:11.poisoning. Sarin gas is a derivative. We cannot be sure until
:06:11. > :06:20.we analyse it. The woman's house lies abandoned. The family is too
:06:20. > :06:24.afraid to return. Experts looked at the material. There is still
:06:24. > :06:26.evidence that nerve agents were used. It does not show who was
:06:26. > :06:36.responsible. In cramped makeshift camps that shelter Syria's homeless
:06:36. > :06:38.
:06:38. > :06:41.families, the issue is not how people were killed but death itself.
:06:41. > :06:51.The tide of violence, the destruction of the country - what
:06:51. > :06:52.
:06:52. > :06:55.they see as the indifference of the world to their plight.
:06:55. > :06:59.Afghan security forces are preparing to take full control of
:06:59. > :07:06.the country. Foreign troops will remain in a support role after the
:07:06. > :07:10.handover is completed next year. Our local forces up to the task? We
:07:10. > :07:17.have been in an operation against the Taliban close to the Pakistani
:07:17. > :07:27.border. Under attack from the Afghan soldiers respond with all
:07:27. > :07:30.they have. Their arsenal includes heavy artillery that can fire
:07:30. > :07:40.accurately from several miles away for the first time, and close range
:07:40. > :07:41.
:07:41. > :07:47.mortars. For the first time, Afghan officers were leading the fight
:07:47. > :07:51.with international advisers staying in the background. But at the
:07:51. > :07:55.height of this battle, US advice came with a hard edge as the
:07:55. > :08:03.Americans fired their weapons. At dawn, the following morning, Afghan
:08:04. > :08:07.soldiers set out into the hills. Rather than waiting at their most
:08:07. > :08:10.forward base in the mountains, the Afghan army are going forward,
:08:10. > :08:14.hoping to attract fire from the Taliban so they can find where they
:08:15. > :08:20.are. It is a deadly game of hide- and-seek on the high peaks of the
:08:20. > :08:26.frontier with Pakistan. For the first time, the Afghan army plot
:08:27. > :08:36.the ground accurately, co- ordinating by radio. The wider war
:08:37. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:43.is far better planned and controlled than it was. Local
:08:43. > :08:51.militias have been given uniforms to defend the villagers. They are
:08:51. > :08:56.taking significant casualties. One commander in a tough area says that
:08:56. > :09:03.when the Americans left, people were defenceless. The General says
:09:03. > :09:09.it is vital support them. TRANSLATION: The police are the
:09:09. > :09:13.only defensive line on the border. They need support from the army. We
:09:13. > :09:17.fight shoulder to shoulder to widen the security zone. We are
:09:17. > :09:26.destroying their enemy's bases. We have meetings with the people to
:09:26. > :09:29.tell them to send their children to school. Back in the mountains,
:09:29. > :09:37.Afghan troops search houses in a remote village, taking down Taliban
:09:37. > :09:41.flags. He says the army now controls these mountains. But the
:09:41. > :09:44.Major knows that when they go back to base, the Taliban will return.
:09:44. > :09:48.The people here are caught between the Taliban and the remote
:09:48. > :09:57.government in a place where no-one has been to school and there is no
:09:57. > :10:01.healthcare. The new police checkpoint do not read this far
:10:01. > :10:04.into the mountains. This army can celebrate more victories on the
:10:04. > :10:07.battlefield than it could before. But it faces formidable challenges,
:10:07. > :10:10.infiltration from across the border in Pakistan close by, but also the
:10:10. > :10:18.remoteness of these regions from Kabul and the failure of the
:10:18. > :10:21.central government to provide basic services. TRANSLATION: After 30
:10:21. > :10:28.years of war, we need everything - reconstruction, clinics, schools,
:10:28. > :10:33.roads. We will have nothing without our security. The challenge, as
:10:33. > :10:38.they head out again to fight in the hills, is to hold the ground they
:10:38. > :10:48.take. On this, the front line for Afghanistan and for the
:10:48. > :10:52.
:10:52. > :10:58.No-one knows exactly where it has come from. It has killed over 30
:10:58. > :11:03.people so far and infected many more. The new global outbreak can
:11:03. > :11:08.be passed on from contact after it was transferred from one hospital
:11:08. > :11:18.patient to another. Most cases have arisen from people who travelled in
:11:18. > :11:21.from the Middle East. The virus appears to be incubated buy-backs.
:11:21. > :11:27.It was the virus that caused widespread alarm in the world's
:11:27. > :11:32.most populated country. 8,000 infections and 800 deaths. The SARS
:11:32. > :11:38.virus back in 2003. A new virus from the same family has signed to
:11:38. > :11:43.score on a low it again. The focus of this time it is not Hong Kong or
:11:43. > :11:49.China but the Middle East. In Saudi Arabia on the weekend, the World
:11:49. > :11:53.Health Organisation gave its latest update. The different clusters seen
:11:53. > :11:57.in multiple countries increasingly have -- support the hypothesis that
:11:57. > :12:02.when there is close contact, the coronavirus can transmit from
:12:02. > :12:07.person-to-person. Since last year, they have been confirmed cases in
:12:07. > :12:13.Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
:12:13. > :12:17.worrying feature of the SARS virus was that a particular individual
:12:17. > :12:22.patient could infect a large number of people. Often, healthcare
:12:22. > :12:27.workers in hospitals. Maybe 70 people were exposed during a single
:12:27. > :12:31.clinical episode. A large number of those people were infected and a
:12:31. > :12:35.large number died. That has not happened with this particular
:12:35. > :12:40.coronavirus. It seems much more limited in its ability to spread
:12:40. > :12:47.from person to person. We had to look quite hard to find this a
:12:47. > :12:52.trust us that a hospital based. virus is a new form of coronavirus,
:12:52. > :12:56.a family that has spike his services. Hence, Corona or crown.
:12:56. > :13:05.Scientists have questions about this latest form, not least when it
:13:05. > :13:10.came from. Most the religious point to the bat. -- virologists. We
:13:10. > :13:16.could overlook the spied for deuce. They were zillions around. They are
:13:16. > :13:21.in great numbers. They are close together. We realise they are
:13:21. > :13:27.sources of many viruses. The finger is pointed at the bat. The last
:13:27. > :13:31.month, there was a French case. A man who recently visited Dubai.
:13:31. > :13:35.Last week, and man in the same hospital room caught the virus from
:13:35. > :13:40.that first case. The new French cases are the first to suggest the
:13:41. > :13:44.virus is passed between people with less close contact them a family
:13:45. > :13:48.scenting and raises the possibility it could be spread in the air.
:13:48. > :13:53.People have always moved around. Now we can beat pretty much
:13:53. > :13:59.anywhere on Earth within 24 hours, and so can a virus. This virus
:13:59. > :14:03.seems to have one home base. It is reassuring. Scientists are watching
:14:03. > :14:11.for any signs it can spread beyond small clusters in a way that so is
:14:11. > :14:17.sustained. Most coronavirus has will live in one host. We have
:14:17. > :14:23.coronavirus us. So do cows. And bats. Normally, they do not like
:14:23. > :14:27.Malta plane in cells from the host that is not their own. This
:14:27. > :14:31.coronavirus is worrying. It will multiply in cells obtained from
:14:31. > :14:35.different animal sources. It might possibly circlet in different
:14:35. > :14:38.animals. It might be able to have different reservoirs and be
:14:38. > :14:43.transmitted to humans from different sources. That is a
:14:43. > :14:51.worrying feature. What is the best way of limiting the spread of the
:14:51. > :14:56.Vivers? There is no anti-viral drug. No magic cure. You feel pretty
:14:56. > :15:04.awful. There is no vaccine. Do not get infected in the first place.
:15:04. > :15:09.How do we avoid that? Would I go to Dubai, avoid going to farms. If I
:15:09. > :15:14.go to desert trips, and looking caves where there could be that, I
:15:14. > :15:18.will increase my hygiene. Wash your hands and distance yourself
:15:18. > :15:24.socially. However awkward that might be with an English person,
:15:24. > :15:29.these away from someone with a cough. We know this virus can kill.
:15:29. > :15:33.We don't know if many other people have been exposed to it and showed
:15:33. > :15:43.milder symptoms. Scientists are waiting for Test results to answer
:15:43. > :15:50.
:15:50. > :15:55.that question. And many others they It was occupied by Germany during
:15:55. > :16:00.the Second World War, and now Greece wants Germany to pay
:16:00. > :16:04.reparations. The bill could add up to 160 billion euros.
:16:04. > :16:09.Understandably, this has led to increase tensions between the
:16:09. > :16:15.countries. 70 years on, a town that cannot forget. 500 people were
:16:15. > :16:21.killed in this town on one day. Every adult male. The town was
:16:21. > :16:26.destroyed. War crimes for which Greece still seeks amends. 250,000
:16:26. > :16:31.Greek people died in the German occupation. The Nazis took a forced
:16:31. > :16:40.loan that was never repaid. Germany gave some Greece some compensation
:16:40. > :16:43.after the war but far less than... At 13 years old, this man was
:16:43. > :16:49.locked in the school with the women and children while his father and
:16:49. > :16:54.uncle were shot. TRANSLATION: Of course they must pay us but we will
:16:54. > :16:58.never forgive them. I remember people screaming, crying, crying.
:16:58. > :17:05.The Sun turned red from the smoke. I can still see my father's body.
:17:05. > :17:09.And when I hear the word in German, I think it is the Devil.
:17:09. > :17:14.memories of 1943 are everywhere. But Greece's wartime enemy is now
:17:14. > :17:18.its Paymaster General, Germany providing the lion's share of the
:17:18. > :17:21.Greek bail out. This country has a choice. Does it pursue its
:17:21. > :17:26.reparations claim to heal wins here or is that too dangerous for
:17:26. > :17:32.today's delicate relationship? The Greek government has cautiously
:17:32. > :17:37.gone ahead, compiling a report on reparations and the loan, and is
:17:37. > :17:42.deciding on whether to pass it to Berlin. We have to be very strong
:17:42. > :17:46.to the East German politicians. They say that Greek people are lazy,
:17:46. > :17:49.they say that Greek people take their money. We have been very
:17:49. > :17:55.clear that we will pay back those loans. But remember, we had a lot
:17:55. > :18:02.of money that was taken from us -- we have never asked for for all
:18:02. > :18:06.these decades. Greek people are furious at German-led austerity.
:18:06. > :18:11.This is how Angela Merkel was greeted by protesters last year.
:18:11. > :18:18.Protesters talk of an economic occupation. But some say that the
:18:18. > :18:22.revelations that were paid in 1960 is Kennedy agreement that they
:18:22. > :18:26.would not ask for more. Germany is shelling solidarity with the
:18:26. > :18:29.difficult situation in Greece and at the end, they will send us a
:18:29. > :18:35.bill for something that is far back in our history and something that
:18:35. > :18:41.has already been sold. Meanwhile, this museum tells of the horrors.
:18:41. > :18:45.70 years on, Greece and Germany are allies in Europe. But for many, the
:18:45. > :18:51.reparations issue means that the shadows of the past still linger.
:18:51. > :18:55.Memories have not been put to rest. They are being billed as the next
:18:55. > :19:02.big thing in the technology world. A computer you can wear, built into
:19:02. > :19:05.a pair of glasses. They allow you to take pictures, sent messages and
:19:05. > :19:10.search the Internet, all while feeling the real world in front of
:19:10. > :19:15.you. But some people have expressed concerns about privacy. Google
:19:15. > :19:23.Glasses are being developed in San Francisco. Our correspondent went
:19:23. > :19:31.to try them out. All eyes are on anyone involved in the biggest new
:19:31. > :19:35.idea - a wearable computer. So far, all the work on Google Glasses,
:19:35. > :19:41.which aims to deliver the internet on a screen you were like classes
:19:41. > :19:44.has been done inside Google. Now, developers like this man have been
:19:44. > :19:48.asked to create applications to turn this into a product consumers
:19:48. > :19:53.might actually buy. Wearable computing will only get smaller and
:19:53. > :19:57.more in that it. We will find more ways to use them. This is
:19:58. > :20:05.discovering what can be built. Just like when smartphones came out.
:20:05. > :20:10.This is my first go. I am seeing a large screen. It looks like a 20
:20:10. > :20:17.inch plasma screen in the distance. You can see what I am seeing
:20:17. > :20:25.through his camera. I can control it by voice. OK, take a picture.
:20:26. > :20:30.And there is a picture of a camera. OK, get directions to the Golden
:20:30. > :20:36.Gate Bridge. It will take some time to find first elections but I am
:20:36. > :20:41.getting them... I can see them. And I will get spoken directions as
:20:41. > :20:46.well. OK, take a picture. This product is a long way from being in
:20:46. > :20:50.the hands of consumers but already, concerns are being raised. Some
:20:50. > :20:59.want to ban it from being used by drivers and casinos say they should
:20:59. > :21:04.not be used there. One question - is this farm or creepy? Creepy.
:21:04. > :21:09.Creepy and call. Are you worried I am recording a video with you right
:21:09. > :21:17.now? It would be creepy if I did not know, yes. I would not want to
:21:17. > :21:21.talk to you. Take a picture. you talking to your glasses? This
:21:21. > :21:27.technology blogger told me that he had hard to take in Google Glasses
:21:27. > :21:31.off since he got them one month ago. This is a better way to live online,
:21:31. > :21:34.doing things with the computer without touching it. And that
:21:34. > :21:39.really changes your relationship with technology in a very deep way
:21:39. > :21:42.and we are just starting to get a taste of what that means.
:21:42. > :21:45.Technology enthusiasts believe wearable computers will make our