19/05/2013 Reporters

Welcome to the programme. We send our correspondent for the best

story. This week - new allegations that chemical weapons are being

used in Syria. We are the first people to be at his side. We tried

to piece together what happened. The full moon started right here at

this vantage point. The artillery shells landed on the other side of

the building. A deadly game of hide and seek.

We joined an Afghan operation against the Taliban close to the

Pakistani border. A new Boral threat from bat. We

investigate the latest deadly global outbreak that can be passed

on by human contact. P but have always moved around. We

can reach anywhere on earth. Take a picture. You say it and see it. We

try out the new computer. Is it a It is a crucial factor in the West

about whether to intervene in the conflict in Syria. A chemical

weapons being used by the government or opponents? There has

been growing evidence that the Syrian authorities have been using

them. We have been shown evidence of an alleged chemical attack

involving government forces that took place last month. Similar

accusations have been made against rebel fighters. Both sides deny it.

There are tough new course for actions against ASADA. The first --

we send the first Western journalists into where the attacks

took place. The war in Syria hangs heavy with

appalling violence, massacres and abuse. For Britain and America, it

has alleged chemical attacks have crossed a red line and raised the

spectre of foreign intervention. In April, this area came under attack

by government military positions about five miles in that direction.

Using eyewitness testimony, we pieced together what has happened.

The filming started right here from this vantage point, as the

artillery shells landed on the other side of the building. The day

ended with what was claimed to be chemical weapons attacks. A local

activist gave us this footage. It was taken as the shells landed. We

cannot verify these images. All of the videos you will see were

apparently taken on the same day by different people. A helicopter was

spotted high above the town. Eyewitnesses alleged at least two

canisters were dropped. They say it was shortly after they landed that

casualties started to arrive at the hospital. Eight people were

admitted - apparently with similar symptoms. They appeared to be

vomiting with breathing problems. The worst affected was this woman.

Relatives claim a device had landed in her garden. Videos here show her

unconscious with constricted pupils. Doctors who treated her claim she

had signs of exposure to chemical agents. The mother of eight died

later that day. Her daughter was filmed nearby. The video appears to

show her tongue distended. She is frothing at the mouth. Her sons

were also on the scene. They had to be treated. Again, they apparently

suffered respiratory and vision problems and appeared to have

constricted pupils. Muhammad is the oldest son. He tried to help his

mother. She collapsed in his arm. TRANSLATION: It was a horrible

suffocating smell. You could not see at all. -- breathe. The body

would become really tired. You would lose all of your senses. You

feel like you are dead. You could not see. You could not see anything

for four days. We were taken to the house by one of the nephews. He

showed us where the device is said to have landed. Samples have been

taken from here and the victims and sent to Britain, France, Turkey and

America for testing. Later in the day, four patients were brought

here to a hospital near the border. The doctor treated them. They were

put through decontamination and given atropine to treat the

symptoms. It was too late for the mother. TRANSLATION: The symptoms

she displayed - unconsciousness, vomiting, pinpoint pupils - they

correspond to poisonous gas exposure. It matches phosphorus

poisoning. Sarin gas is a derivative. We cannot be sure until

we analyse it. The woman's house lies abandoned. The family is too

afraid to return. Experts looked at the material. There is still

evidence that nerve agents were used. It does not show who was

responsible. In cramped makeshift camps that shelter Syria's homeless

families, the issue is not how people were killed but death itself.

The tide of violence, the destruction of the country - what

they see as the indifference of the world to their plight.

Afghan security forces are preparing to take full control of

the country. Foreign troops will remain in a support role after the

handover is completed next year. Our local forces up to the task? We

have been in an operation against the Taliban close to the Pakistani

border. Under attack from the Afghan soldiers respond with all

they have. Their arsenal includes heavy artillery that can fire

accurately from several miles away for the first time, and close range

mortars. For the first time, Afghan officers were leading the fight

with international advisers staying in the background. But at the

height of this battle, US advice came with a hard edge as the

Americans fired their weapons. At dawn, the following morning, Afghan

soldiers set out into the hills. Rather than waiting at their most

forward base in the mountains, the Afghan army are going forward,

hoping to attract fire from the Taliban so they can find where they

are. It is a deadly game of hide- and-seek on the high peaks of the

frontier with Pakistan. For the first time, the Afghan army plot

the ground accurately, co- ordinating by radio. The wider war

is far better planned and controlled than it was. Local

militias have been given uniforms to defend the villagers. They are

taking significant casualties. One commander in a tough area says that

when the Americans left, people were defenceless. The General says

it is vital support them. TRANSLATION: The police are the

only defensive line on the border. They need support from the army. We

fight shoulder to shoulder to widen the security zone. We are

destroying their enemy's bases. We have meetings with the people to

tell them to send their children to school. Back in the mountains,

Afghan troops search houses in a remote village, taking down Taliban

flags. He says the army now controls these mountains. But the

Major knows that when they go back to base, the Taliban will return.

The people here are caught between the Taliban and the remote

government in a place where no-one has been to school and there is no

healthcare. The new police checkpoint do not read this far

into the mountains. This army can celebrate more victories on the

battlefield than it could before. But it faces formidable challenges,

infiltration from across the border in Pakistan close by, but also the

remoteness of these regions from Kabul and the failure of the

central government to provide basic services. TRANSLATION: After 30

years of war, we need everything - reconstruction, clinics, schools,

roads. We will have nothing without our security. The challenge, as

they head out again to fight in the hills, is to hold the ground they

take. On this, the front line for Afghanistan and for the

No-one knows exactly where it has come from. It has killed over 30

people so far and infected many more. The new global outbreak can

be passed on from contact after it was transferred from one hospital

patient to another. Most cases have arisen from people who travelled in

from the Middle East. The virus appears to be incubated buy-backs.

It was the virus that caused widespread alarm in the world's

most populated country. 8,000 infections and 800 deaths. The SARS

virus back in 2003. A new virus from the same family has signed to

score on a low it again. The focus of this time it is not Hong Kong or

China but the Middle East. In Saudi Arabia on the weekend, the World

Health Organisation gave its latest update. The different clusters seen

in multiple countries increasingly have -- support the hypothesis that

when there is close contact, the coronavirus can transmit from

person-to-person. Since last year, they have been confirmed cases in

Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

worrying feature of the SARS virus was that a particular individual

patient could infect a large number of people. Often, healthcare

workers in hospitals. Maybe 70 people were exposed during a single

clinical episode. A large number of those people were infected and a

large number died. That has not happened with this particular

coronavirus. It seems much more limited in its ability to spread

from person to person. We had to look quite hard to find this a

trust us that a hospital based. virus is a new form of coronavirus,

a family that has spike his services. Hence, Corona or crown.

Scientists have questions about this latest form, not least when it

came from. Most the religious point to the bat. -- virologists. We

could overlook the spied for deuce. They were zillions around. They are

in great numbers. They are close together. We realise they are

sources of many viruses. The finger is pointed at the bat. The last

month, there was a French case. A man who recently visited Dubai.

Last week, and man in the same hospital room caught the virus from

that first case. The new French cases are the first to suggest the

virus is passed between people with less close contact them a family

scenting and raises the possibility it could be spread in the air.

People have always moved around. Now we can beat pretty much

anywhere on Earth within 24 hours, and so can a virus. This virus

seems to have one home base. It is reassuring. Scientists are watching

for any signs it can spread beyond small clusters in a way that so is

sustained. Most coronavirus has will live in one host. We have

coronavirus us. So do cows. And bats. Normally, they do not like

Malta plane in cells from the host that is not their own. This

coronavirus is worrying. It will multiply in cells obtained from

different animal sources. It might possibly circlet in different

animals. It might be able to have different reservoirs and be

transmitted to humans from different sources. That is a

worrying feature. What is the best way of limiting the spread of the

Vivers? There is no anti-viral drug. No magic cure. You feel pretty

awful. There is no vaccine. Do not get infected in the first place.

How do we avoid that? Would I go to Dubai, avoid going to farms. If I

go to desert trips, and looking caves where there could be that, I

will increase my hygiene. Wash your hands and distance yourself

socially. However awkward that might be with an English person,

these away from someone with a cough. We know this virus can kill.

We don't know if many other people have been exposed to it and showed

milder symptoms. Scientists are waiting for Test results to answer

that question. And many others they It was occupied by Germany during

the Second World War, and now Greece wants Germany to pay

reparations. The bill could add up to 160 billion euros.

Understandably, this has led to increase tensions between the

countries. 70 years on, a town that cannot forget. 500 people were

killed in this town on one day. Every adult male. The town was

destroyed. War crimes for which Greece still seeks amends. 250,000

Greek people died in the German occupation. The Nazis took a forced

loan that was never repaid. Germany gave some Greece some compensation

after the war but far less than... At 13 years old, this man was

locked in the school with the women and children while his father and

uncle were shot. TRANSLATION: Of course they must pay us but we will

never forgive them. I remember people screaming, crying, crying.

The Sun turned red from the smoke. I can still see my father's body.

And when I hear the word in German, I think it is the Devil.

memories of 1943 are everywhere. But Greece's wartime enemy is now

its Paymaster General, Germany providing the lion's share of the

Greek bail out. This country has a choice. Does it pursue its

reparations claim to heal wins here or is that too dangerous for

today's delicate relationship? The Greek government has cautiously

gone ahead, compiling a report on reparations and the loan, and is

deciding on whether to pass it to Berlin. We have to be very strong

to the East German politicians. They say that Greek people are lazy,

they say that Greek people take their money. We have been very

clear that we will pay back those loans. But remember, we had a lot

of money that was taken from us -- we have never asked for for all

these decades. Greek people are furious at German-led austerity.

This is how Angela Merkel was greeted by protesters last year.

Protesters talk of an economic occupation. But some say that the

revelations that were paid in 1960 is Kennedy agreement that they

would not ask for more. Germany is shelling solidarity with the

difficult situation in Greece and at the end, they will send us a

bill for something that is far back in our history and something that

has already been sold. Meanwhile, this museum tells of the horrors.

70 years on, Greece and Germany are allies in Europe. But for many, the

reparations issue means that the shadows of the past still linger.

Memories have not been put to rest. They are being billed as the next

big thing in the technology world. A computer you can wear, built into

a pair of glasses. They allow you to take pictures, sent messages and

search the Internet, all while feeling the real world in front of

you. But some people have expressed concerns about privacy. Google

Glasses are being developed in San Francisco. Our correspondent went

to try them out. All eyes are on anyone involved in the biggest new

idea - a wearable computer. So far, all the work on Google Glasses,

which aims to deliver the internet on a screen you were like classes

has been done inside Google. Now, developers like this man have been

asked to create applications to turn this into a product consumers

might actually buy. Wearable computing will only get smaller and

more in that it. We will find more ways to use them. This is

discovering what can be built. Just like when smartphones came out.

This is my first go. I am seeing a large screen. It looks like a 20

inch plasma screen in the distance. You can see what I am seeing

through his camera. I can control it by voice. OK, take a picture.

And there is a picture of a camera. OK, get directions to the Golden

Gate Bridge. It will take some time to find first elections but I am

getting them... I can see them. And I will get spoken directions as

well. OK, take a picture. This product is a long way from being in

the hands of consumers but already, concerns are being raised. Some

want to ban it from being used by drivers and casinos say they should

not be used there. One question - is this farm or creepy? Creepy.

Creepy and call. Are you worried I am recording a video with you right

now? It would be creepy if I did not know, yes. I would not want to

talk to you. Take a picture. you talking to your glasses? This

technology blogger told me that he had hard to take in Google Glasses

off since he got them one month ago. This is a better way to live online,

doing things with the computer without touching it. And that

really changes your relationship with technology in a very deep way

and we are just starting to get a taste of what that means.

Technology enthusiasts believe wearable computers will make our