02/06/2013 Reporters

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warn you that it contains some Welcome to Reporters. From here in

the world news room we send out Correspondent to bring you the best

stories from across the globe. In this programme: Syria's darkest

hours. The BBC has evidence of one of the worst atrocities since the

start of the conflict. TRANSLATION: And in her family laid down dead,

slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much blood.

We need some of the women forced to flee the conflict in Syria into a

life of prostitution. The war has created a desperation, pushing

women to sell themselves for money. The surgery of violence. A victim

of can violence gets access to one of the biggest centres for the

treatment of gunshot wounds in the United States. This is pretty much

where I would have been brought in nine years ago. And stepping out

into a new home. Cuba's Ballet School opens after a multi-million-

dollar facelift. Opposition activists say it is the

worst massacre since the start of the Syrian conflict. The BBC has

seen graphic evidence that more than 200 people were brutally

killed in three districts in the west of the country. The Syrian

government does not dispute that an attack took place, but said it was

targeting what it called terrorist fighters. It is lending momentum to

the lifting of the Ben to sending weapons to the Syrian rebels. We

have met with some of the people who witnessed some of Syria's

because Alice. You may find this report distressing. -- darkest hour

was. Rebel fighters in the north it

ready to attack. Few hear talk of freedom and democracy these days.

What motivates these men is revenge. Using rockets they have captured

from one military base, then bombard another. This attack is

retaliation for what they believe is a brutal massacre in the west of

the country. It is a conflict that is increasingly violent, sectarian

and seems unstoppable. Attacks like this are now taking place across

Syria as the rebels grow stronger and so does the government response.

But there are no real winners here, just loses. Syria is consumed by

war. This happened in the town of Banias. It appears to be one of its

darkest hour was. Unverified footage shows the army attacking in

the early May. The government -- rebels killed a number of soldiers.

No decide disputes what -- that this took place. But this is

disputed. This video shows troops in the square. State media says

they killed 40 terrorists. The locals talk about a frenzied

sectarian assault. We met two women who escaped. They say they arch and

afraid to show their faces. But the story is matched by others we have

spoken to. TRANSLATION: There was a black cloud of smoke covering the

village. Her could not see anything. Fire engulfed the pillage. All you

could hear was the screaming of men, women and children. They described

soldiers and pro-government militias coming to the village.

They say men and boys were rounded up and killed. This media,

apparently taken by a government fighter, appears to back up the

story. Activists claimed the offensive left more than 200 dead.

TRANSLATION: I rain down the road and saw 20-30 men lying on the

ground, or shut up. Then I saw my husband and father in war. They

were on the ground, shot in the head. There was nothing left of my

husband's face apart from his move and nose. It was hideous. We tour

that to see is sickening. In Russia then moved on to the neighbouring

Banias. This media claims to show the aftermath of the attack there.

This shows a group of women slumped together. A mother and child,

slaughtered on the bed. There are many images of other families. Most

are too graphic to show. TRANSLATION: There were slaughtered

corpses and charred bodies everywhere. Houses were on fire.

The people inside them were pruning. An entire family lady on it.

Slaughtered in one house. What more can I say? There was so much blood.

Those who escaped from now Refugees, trapped inside their own country.

We cannot be sure what happened. But what seems beyond doubt is that

many innocent people were killed without any plausible reason. And

while nations placed their faith in diplomacy, the country is soaked in

the blood of its own people. Many who flee the conflict in Syria

find new lives in neighbouring Jordan. But it is not always what

they have four. Many leave Syria alone or with their children, with

little swarms of income. Some turn to prostitution. Some are forced

was sold into wit by their families. We have been speaking to some of

those who found the sex trade to be there and the wing it.

There are now more than 500,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. Many are

intense. They fled their homes to become exiles. The majority of

those who have, women and children. They have little or no money and

few possessions. They are told when to move and told when to weight.

For those caught in the mill remained of the Thames, it is easy

to see how the world beyond Kemsing tantalising. But as families

struggle to survive, young Syrian women have become a commodity.

Jordan provides a refuge. There is at least stability here. But with

the economic collapse back in Syria, more women coming here now to work

as prostitutes. We have been talking of growing numbers

operating in Brussels here and on the border. The war has created a

desperation. It is pushing women to sell themselves. Using a hidden

camera, we went to one of the hotels were Syrian women work as

prostitutes. A woman in her 20s told us that she was a fashion

designer in Damascus until the war But prostitution is not the only

way young Syrian women become a commodity. Refugees from

Conservative families are also being married off to older men,

usually from the Gulf states. The bread price is between �1,000-

�2,000. Normally the may reduce the amount to no more than sexual

exploitation. -- marriages. TRANSLATION: Cannot describe him as

a man. The way he treated me, he treated me savagely. He was a

monster. He was hitting me so much. The bruises are still on my body.

He changed and said that I do not love you. That I am the marriage

you for pleasure. -- only. there is no shortage of family

seeking marriage because, like this woman. TRANSLATION: You ask me what

I feel of that to win this? I ask yourself how you would feel if one

of your children did not have anything to eat or drink. How would

you feel? Answer me and then I will answer you. Desperately short of

resources, the UN and Jordan struggled to provide shelter, let

alone trying to end prostitution or the trade in breads. The worse

tackles more women into a world of agonising justice. -- choices.

And nail be said to me of violence. The astonishing and it have come

crime in the United States means that the doctors have more

experience than any other in peacetime of repairing bodies

damaged by bullets. We have been given unique access to one of the

biggest emergency trauma clinics Night shift at LA County Hospital.

A man has been brought in, shot on the streets. It is -- its

pioneering a trauma unit is classed at Level One, that means it

provides the highest level of surgical care for the most

seriously injured. In the Emergency Room, at the age read one quarter

of gunshot wounds in Greater Los Angeles. -- they treat one quarter.

The most serious, life-threatening cases, where there is internal

bleeding, are taken straight up to the operating theatre. Unknown age

mouth shut about 1.5 hour was ago. Two gunshot wounds. The head of

trauma is here. I showed him denotes of mind gunshot wound. --

the Knights of my gunshot wounds. In a Saudi error rear end your

temperature was 30 degrees. -- Saudi Arabia have your temperature.

Your blood was not cutting anymore. Your chances of survival are very

small. The very pleased. You are lucky bed you are alive. The

surgeon did a phenomenal job. You're physiologically... You could

have died. I should not be here. In the operating room, the said

reworked, the patient lived. This is both weird and fascinating for

me. This is how I would have been brought in, scoop up off the

streets nine years ago when I was shocked. Once you get over the

initial gory most of this, it is pretty grisly to look back, it is

extraordinary how quickly they operate. In a city with over 400

known criminal gangs, guns and violence go hand in hand. This is

the reality of daily gun crime in the US. A drive-by shooting like

these were never make the headlines like the recent massacres. In the

few days that we had been here, we have seen a constant stream of

gunshot wound victims been brought in. Many are being caught up in the

crossfire of a gang war but is outside this hospital. The LAPD

estimate there are 45,000 gang members in Los Angeles. Most of

their guns are illegally owned. In South Central LA, I met two

reformed gang members tried to defuse tensions in their

communities. Guns are a serious issue. Be will be fighting a series

water will take all of our reserves and energies to get in front of.

America has a history of academic gun violence. Los Angeles in the

last 25 years, over 25,000 people have been killed in LA County in

gang violence. It's a 300,000 children, under the age of 18, had

been shot in the last to the years. Oh dear Dodie % of children who

live in South Los Angeles expense pros dramatics to stress on

sustainable of violence. To answer your question, what does violence

did to a committee? It devastates it. This woman knows this more than

most. He was such a good boy. Just a loving kid. She has lost two sons

the gun violence. She would never forget the first phone call. It is

going to be all right, that is my baby, my son of. He did not make it.

You did not get to the hospital in time? No.Back in the hospital, a

man who cheated death. Carlos survive being ambushed by a gang

with a pistol, stabbed, and blasted with a shotgun. I thank God that I

am alive and that I am talking to you. They left you for dead?Yes.

Do you think they thought you were dead? Most likely. Getting shot

like that. Getting shot 16 times. The death toll from La's gun crime

is down two-thirds from the early 90s. Yet, tonight, the trauma team

will be bracing themselves for more gunshot wound victims.

Now to an extraordinary story about the Indian justice system. A 50-

year-old woman has been released from prison, at 19 years after she

was granted bail. Her son was born brush a high -- she was behind bars.

He has only been able to raise the $180 to pay for her release.

A bittersweet gift for a mother who has finally come home. She was

convicted of murder in 1994. She was granted bail on appeal. But did

not have the $180 she needed to get out. So she spent all the years in

jail. Lost in the system and forgotten. TRANSLATION: I forgot I

walked -- I thought I would die in prison. They used to tell me that

no-one ever gets out. But one person never forgot her, never gave

up hope. He was born to her in prison. He spent the best part of

his childhood in juvenile homes. -- better part. He now works in a

close its factory and used his salary to engage a lawyer and freed

his mother from the light she was condemned to. TRANSLATION: I used

to think about her and cried. All alone in prison with no-one to

visit her. This is not an isolated case. There are 300,000 inmates in

India's prisoners. 70% of them I get to face trial. Many of them had

already spent years in custody. And it could be some time before they

get out. A result of the sluggish pace of the justice system that has

not kept up with the Times. This is a scene that you would find outside

any major court in India. These little cubicles are the offices of

clerics, lawyers. This is where you process illegal documents. And help

explain what is a lot of laws. This is India's legal system in the 21st

century. Completely unable to cope. In their home, mother and son

contemplate their future. TRANSLATION: I just wish to see my

son well settled. I have no-one else other than him. We are very

poor. The last two decades had been it should really hard on them. Now

it is time to make up for all of the lost years.

Gibber's prestigious ballet school has propelled dozens of dancers to

international fame. -- Cuba's. Their crumbling headquarters as

putting their safety at risk. They are perfecting their moves once

again after their $2 million makeover of their historic home.

Early steps on the long path to becoming a ballet dancer. These as

students at Cupar's prestigious National Ballet School. -- Cuba's.

Their teachers pushed them but up to six hours a day. These students

have fought for their places and they work hard to make sure beacons

day. But in one way, life just got easier. The ballet school is back

home in this vast mansion after a $2 million makeover. 300 students

are busy making the most of all the room they have a Buster it is

better here because the rooms are bleak. We have a lot of space.This

woman has been director of the school for 50 years, ever since it

opened. This was his first dedicated home, a Spanish social

club before the revolution. Its grand halls were divided up for

ballet classes. But in 2011, cities were evacuated for their own safety.

-- students. The Don't sweat the main problem. The rooms

deteriorated. We had to leave the because we thought it would come

down. Now we're back and it is wonderful. The final straw was when

one of the -- was when one of the angels came crashing to the ground.

The school is safely restored and the children have all of their

classes here. Not just ballet. Normal subjects as well. They were

scattered all over the city. The rooms are now full of children, all

of them working extremely hard and dreaming when they are becoming

great dancers. They believe they have the great -- the best

opportunity. Less time travelling between sites means more time for