:00:04. > :00:14.-- a tornado. It is not an Reporters. We should
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:00:24. > :00:27.warn you that it contains some Welcome to Reporters. From here in
:00:27. > :00:33.the world news room we send out Correspondent to bring you the best
:00:33. > :00:38.stories from across the globe. In this programme: Syria's darkest
:00:38. > :00:43.hours. The BBC has evidence of one of the worst atrocities since the
:00:43. > :00:51.start of the conflict. TRANSLATION: And in her family laid down dead,
:00:51. > :00:55.slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much blood.
:00:55. > :01:02.We need some of the women forced to flee the conflict in Syria into a
:01:02. > :01:11.life of prostitution. The war has created a desperation, pushing
:01:11. > :01:16.women to sell themselves for money. The surgery of violence. A victim
:01:16. > :01:23.of can violence gets access to one of the biggest centres for the
:01:23. > :01:28.treatment of gunshot wounds in the United States. This is pretty much
:01:28. > :01:33.where I would have been brought in nine years ago. And stepping out
:01:33. > :01:38.into a new home. Cuba's Ballet School opens after a multi-million-
:01:38. > :01:43.dollar facelift. Opposition activists say it is the
:01:43. > :01:47.worst massacre since the start of the Syrian conflict. The BBC has
:01:47. > :01:51.seen graphic evidence that more than 200 people were brutally
:01:51. > :01:54.killed in three districts in the west of the country. The Syrian
:01:55. > :02:03.government does not dispute that an attack took place, but said it was
:02:03. > :02:09.targeting what it called terrorist fighters. It is lending momentum to
:02:09. > :02:13.the lifting of the Ben to sending weapons to the Syrian rebels. We
:02:13. > :02:17.have met with some of the people who witnessed some of Syria's
:02:17. > :02:21.because Alice. You may find this report distressing. -- darkest hour
:02:21. > :02:26.was. Rebel fighters in the north it
:02:26. > :02:34.ready to attack. Few hear talk of freedom and democracy these days.
:02:34. > :02:40.What motivates these men is revenge. Using rockets they have captured
:02:41. > :02:44.from one military base, then bombard another. This attack is
:02:44. > :02:50.retaliation for what they believe is a brutal massacre in the west of
:02:50. > :02:54.the country. It is a conflict that is increasingly violent, sectarian
:02:54. > :02:58.and seems unstoppable. Attacks like this are now taking place across
:02:58. > :03:04.Syria as the rebels grow stronger and so does the government response.
:03:04. > :03:10.But there are no real winners here, just loses. Syria is consumed by
:03:10. > :03:17.war. This happened in the town of Banias. It appears to be one of its
:03:17. > :03:23.darkest hour was. Unverified footage shows the army attacking in
:03:23. > :03:29.the early May. The government -- rebels killed a number of soldiers.
:03:29. > :03:34.No decide disputes what -- that this took place. But this is
:03:34. > :03:38.disputed. This video shows troops in the square. State media says
:03:38. > :03:47.they killed 40 terrorists. The locals talk about a frenzied
:03:47. > :03:51.sectarian assault. We met two women who escaped. They say they arch and
:03:51. > :03:56.afraid to show their faces. But the story is matched by others we have
:03:56. > :04:03.spoken to. TRANSLATION: There was a black cloud of smoke covering the
:04:03. > :04:09.village. Her could not see anything. Fire engulfed the pillage. All you
:04:09. > :04:12.could hear was the screaming of men, women and children. They described
:04:12. > :04:18.soldiers and pro-government militias coming to the village.
:04:18. > :04:22.They say men and boys were rounded up and killed. This media,
:04:22. > :04:26.apparently taken by a government fighter, appears to back up the
:04:26. > :04:31.story. Activists claimed the offensive left more than 200 dead.
:04:32. > :04:37.TRANSLATION: I rain down the road and saw 20-30 men lying on the
:04:37. > :04:42.ground, or shut up. Then I saw my husband and father in war. They
:04:42. > :04:49.were on the ground, shot in the head. There was nothing left of my
:04:49. > :04:54.husband's face apart from his move and nose. It was hideous. We tour
:04:54. > :05:02.that to see is sickening. In Russia then moved on to the neighbouring
:05:02. > :05:07.Banias. This media claims to show the aftermath of the attack there.
:05:07. > :05:13.This shows a group of women slumped together. A mother and child,
:05:13. > :05:17.slaughtered on the bed. There are many images of other families. Most
:05:17. > :05:22.are too graphic to show. TRANSLATION: There were slaughtered
:05:22. > :05:30.corpses and charred bodies everywhere. Houses were on fire.
:05:30. > :05:40.The people inside them were pruning. An entire family lady on it.
:05:40. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:48.Slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much blood.
:05:48. > :05:53.Those who escaped from now Refugees, trapped inside their own country.
:05:53. > :05:57.We cannot be sure what happened. But what seems beyond doubt is that
:05:57. > :06:05.many innocent people were killed without any plausible reason. And
:06:05. > :06:10.while nations placed their faith in diplomacy, the country is soaked in
:06:10. > :06:14.the blood of its own people. Many who flee the conflict in Syria
:06:14. > :06:19.find new lives in neighbouring Jordan. But it is not always what
:06:19. > :06:24.they have four. Many leave Syria alone or with their children, with
:06:24. > :06:30.little swarms of income. Some turn to prostitution. Some are forced
:06:30. > :06:35.was sold into wit by their families. We have been speaking to some of
:06:35. > :06:43.those who found the sex trade to be there and the wing it.
:06:43. > :06:51.There are now more than 500,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. Many are
:06:51. > :06:56.intense. They fled their homes to become exiles. The majority of
:06:56. > :07:04.those who have, women and children. They have little or no money and
:07:04. > :07:09.few possessions. They are told when to move and told when to weight.
:07:09. > :07:13.For those caught in the mill remained of the Thames, it is easy
:07:13. > :07:18.to see how the world beyond Kemsing tantalising. But as families
:07:18. > :07:24.struggle to survive, young Syrian women have become a commodity.
:07:24. > :07:30.Jordan provides a refuge. There is at least stability here. But with
:07:30. > :07:33.the economic collapse back in Syria, more women coming here now to work
:07:33. > :07:39.as prostitutes. We have been talking of growing numbers
:07:39. > :07:47.operating in Brussels here and on the border. The war has created a
:07:47. > :07:51.desperation. It is pushing women to sell themselves. Using a hidden
:07:51. > :07:57.camera, we went to one of the hotels were Syrian women work as
:07:57. > :08:07.prostitutes. A woman in her 20s told us that she was a fashion
:08:07. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:19.designer in Damascus until the war But prostitution is not the only
:08:20. > :08:22.way young Syrian women become a commodity. Refugees from
:08:22. > :08:28.Conservative families are also being married off to older men,
:08:28. > :08:34.usually from the Gulf states. The bread price is between �1,000-
:08:34. > :08:40.�2,000. Normally the may reduce the amount to no more than sexual
:08:40. > :08:49.exploitation. -- marriages. TRANSLATION: Cannot describe him as
:08:49. > :08:59.a man. The way he treated me, he treated me savagely. He was a
:08:59. > :09:00.
:09:00. > :09:06.monster. He was hitting me so much. The bruises are still on my body.
:09:06. > :09:16.He changed and said that I do not love you. That I am the marriage
:09:16. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:26.you for pleasure. -- only. there is no shortage of family
:09:26. > :09:31.seeking marriage because, like this woman. TRANSLATION: You ask me what
:09:31. > :09:35.I feel of that to win this? I ask yourself how you would feel if one
:09:35. > :09:43.of your children did not have anything to eat or drink. How would
:09:43. > :09:47.you feel? Answer me and then I will answer you. Desperately short of
:09:47. > :09:53.resources, the UN and Jordan struggled to provide shelter, let
:09:53. > :10:03.alone trying to end prostitution or the trade in breads. The worse
:10:03. > :10:03.
:10:03. > :10:07.tackles more women into a world of agonising justice. -- choices.
:10:07. > :10:10.And nail be said to me of violence. The astonishing and it have come
:10:11. > :10:14.crime in the United States means that the doctors have more
:10:14. > :10:23.experience than any other in peacetime of repairing bodies
:10:23. > :10:33.damaged by bullets. We have been given unique access to one of the
:10:33. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:49.biggest emergency trauma clinics Night shift at LA County Hospital.
:10:49. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:55.A man has been brought in, shot on the streets. It is -- its
:10:55. > :10:58.pioneering a trauma unit is classed at Level One, that means it
:10:58. > :11:05.provides the highest level of surgical care for the most
:11:05. > :11:14.seriously injured. In the Emergency Room, at the age read one quarter
:11:14. > :11:19.of gunshot wounds in Greater Los Angeles. -- they treat one quarter.
:11:19. > :11:24.The most serious, life-threatening cases, where there is internal
:11:24. > :11:34.bleeding, are taken straight up to the operating theatre. Unknown age
:11:34. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:44.mouth shut about 1.5 hour was ago. Two gunshot wounds. The head of
:11:44. > :11:51.trauma is here. I showed him denotes of mind gunshot wound. --
:11:51. > :11:56.the Knights of my gunshot wounds. In a Saudi error rear end your
:11:56. > :12:06.temperature was 30 degrees. -- Saudi Arabia have your temperature.
:12:06. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:15.Your blood was not cutting anymore. Your chances of survival are very
:12:15. > :12:24.small. The very pleased. You are lucky bed you are alive. The
:12:24. > :12:33.surgeon did a phenomenal job. You're physiologically... You could
:12:33. > :12:38.have died. I should not be here. In the operating room, the said
:12:38. > :12:44.reworked, the patient lived. This is both weird and fascinating for
:12:44. > :12:49.me. This is how I would have been brought in, scoop up off the
:12:49. > :12:54.streets nine years ago when I was shocked. Once you get over the
:12:54. > :13:00.initial gory most of this, it is pretty grisly to look back, it is
:13:00. > :13:05.extraordinary how quickly they operate. In a city with over 400
:13:05. > :13:10.known criminal gangs, guns and violence go hand in hand. This is
:13:10. > :13:13.the reality of daily gun crime in the US. A drive-by shooting like
:13:13. > :13:17.these were never make the headlines like the recent massacres. In the
:13:17. > :13:22.few days that we had been here, we have seen a constant stream of
:13:22. > :13:32.gunshot wound victims been brought in. Many are being caught up in the
:13:32. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:35.crossfire of a gang war but is outside this hospital. The LAPD
:13:35. > :13:41.estimate there are 45,000 gang members in Los Angeles. Most of
:13:41. > :13:44.their guns are illegally owned. In South Central LA, I met two
:13:44. > :13:53.reformed gang members tried to defuse tensions in their
:13:53. > :13:58.communities. Guns are a serious issue. Be will be fighting a series
:13:58. > :14:03.water will take all of our reserves and energies to get in front of.
:14:03. > :14:08.America has a history of academic gun violence. Los Angeles in the
:14:09. > :14:12.last 25 years, over 25,000 people have been killed in LA County in
:14:12. > :14:17.gang violence. It's a 300,000 children, under the age of 18, had
:14:17. > :14:21.been shot in the last to the years. Oh dear Dodie % of children who
:14:21. > :14:26.live in South Los Angeles expense pros dramatics to stress on
:14:26. > :14:32.sustainable of violence. To answer your question, what does violence
:14:32. > :14:39.did to a committee? It devastates it. This woman knows this more than
:14:39. > :14:43.most. He was such a good boy. Just a loving kid. She has lost two sons
:14:43. > :14:53.the gun violence. She would never forget the first phone call. It is
:14:53. > :15:01.going to be all right, that is my baby, my son of. He did not make it.
:15:01. > :15:07.You did not get to the hospital in time? No.Back in the hospital, a
:15:07. > :15:13.man who cheated death. Carlos survive being ambushed by a gang
:15:13. > :15:20.with a pistol, stabbed, and blasted with a shotgun. I thank God that I
:15:20. > :15:25.am alive and that I am talking to you. They left you for dead?Yes.
:15:25. > :15:34.Do you think they thought you were dead? Most likely. Getting shot
:15:34. > :15:41.like that. Getting shot 16 times. The death toll from La's gun crime
:15:41. > :15:49.is down two-thirds from the early 90s. Yet, tonight, the trauma team
:15:49. > :15:54.will be bracing themselves for more gunshot wound victims.
:15:54. > :15:58.Now to an extraordinary story about the Indian justice system. A 50-
:15:58. > :16:04.year-old woman has been released from prison, at 19 years after she
:16:04. > :16:14.was granted bail. Her son was born brush a high -- she was behind bars.
:16:14. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:23.He has only been able to raise the $180 to pay for her release.
:16:23. > :16:28.A bittersweet gift for a mother who has finally come home. She was
:16:28. > :16:36.convicted of murder in 1994. She was granted bail on appeal. But did
:16:36. > :16:42.not have the $180 she needed to get out. So she spent all the years in
:16:42. > :16:47.jail. Lost in the system and forgotten. TRANSLATION: I forgot I
:16:47. > :16:54.walked -- I thought I would die in prison. They used to tell me that
:16:54. > :17:00.no-one ever gets out. But one person never forgot her, never gave
:17:00. > :17:05.up hope. He was born to her in prison. He spent the best part of
:17:05. > :17:09.his childhood in juvenile homes. -- better part. He now works in a
:17:09. > :17:15.close its factory and used his salary to engage a lawyer and freed
:17:15. > :17:20.his mother from the light she was condemned to. TRANSLATION: I used
:17:20. > :17:30.to think about her and cried. All alone in prison with no-one to
:17:30. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:36.visit her. This is not an isolated case. There are 300,000 inmates in
:17:36. > :17:40.India's prisoners. 70% of them I get to face trial. Many of them had
:17:40. > :17:47.already spent years in custody. And it could be some time before they
:17:47. > :17:52.get out. A result of the sluggish pace of the justice system that has
:17:52. > :17:57.not kept up with the Times. This is a scene that you would find outside
:17:57. > :18:04.any major court in India. These little cubicles are the offices of
:18:04. > :18:10.clerics, lawyers. This is where you process illegal documents. And help
:18:10. > :18:17.explain what is a lot of laws. This is India's legal system in the 21st
:18:17. > :18:23.century. Completely unable to cope. In their home, mother and son
:18:23. > :18:28.contemplate their future. TRANSLATION: I just wish to see my
:18:28. > :18:38.son well settled. I have no-one else other than him. We are very
:18:38. > :18:46.poor. The last two decades had been it should really hard on them. Now
:18:46. > :18:50.it is time to make up for all of the lost years.
:18:50. > :18:55.Gibber's prestigious ballet school has propelled dozens of dancers to
:18:55. > :19:02.international fame. -- Cuba's. Their crumbling headquarters as
:19:02. > :19:09.putting their safety at risk. They are perfecting their moves once
:19:09. > :19:15.again after their $2 million makeover of their historic home.
:19:15. > :19:20.Early steps on the long path to becoming a ballet dancer. These as
:19:20. > :19:25.students at Cupar's prestigious National Ballet School. -- Cuba's.
:19:25. > :19:29.Their teachers pushed them but up to six hours a day. These students
:19:29. > :19:35.have fought for their places and they work hard to make sure beacons
:19:35. > :19:41.day. But in one way, life just got easier. The ballet school is back
:19:41. > :19:46.home in this vast mansion after a $2 million makeover. 300 students
:19:46. > :19:56.are busy making the most of all the room they have a Buster it is
:19:56. > :19:59.better here because the rooms are bleak. We have a lot of space.This
:19:59. > :20:04.woman has been director of the school for 50 years, ever since it
:20:04. > :20:08.opened. This was his first dedicated home, a Spanish social
:20:08. > :20:14.club before the revolution. Its grand halls were divided up for
:20:14. > :20:20.ballet classes. But in 2011, cities were evacuated for their own safety.
:20:20. > :20:24.-- students. The Don't sweat the main problem. The rooms
:20:24. > :20:29.deteriorated. We had to leave the because we thought it would come
:20:29. > :20:33.down. Now we're back and it is wonderful. The final straw was when
:20:33. > :20:36.one of the -- was when one of the angels came crashing to the ground.
:20:37. > :20:41.The school is safely restored and the children have all of their
:20:41. > :20:46.classes here. Not just ballet. Normal subjects as well. They were
:20:46. > :20:50.scattered all over the city. The rooms are now full of children, all
:20:50. > :20:57.of them working extremely hard and dreaming when they are becoming
:20:57. > :21:04.great dancers. They believe they have the great -- the best
:21:04. > :21:11.opportunity. Less time travelling between sites means more time for