:00:03. > :00:13.to have been seriously hurt. That is the summary for you. Now it is
:00:13. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:33.Welcome to reporters. We send out correspondence to bring you the
:00:33. > :00:38.best stories from across the globe. In this week's programme: Life away
:00:38. > :00:44.from the front line. We meet the ordinary Syrians are trying to lead
:00:44. > :00:54.normal lives in difficult times. What is it like their? Not very
:00:54. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :01:04.good. It is very bad. We have come across what looks like a dead body.
:01:04. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:13.A report on a stowaway from Mozambique. He got into London by
:01:13. > :01:21.travelling on a plane like this. Ken poetry help treat dementia? We
:01:21. > :01:28.visit a care home and were the spoken word is used to stir hidden
:01:28. > :01:34.memories. And the kindness of strangers. The
:01:34. > :01:40.French villages who shot of thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
:01:40. > :01:46.- who sheltered. TRANSLATION: It was incredible that the village
:01:46. > :01:50.acted the way it did. We start with Syria. Could this be a turning
:01:50. > :01:59.point for the West? The prospect of Western countries arming rebel
:01:59. > :02:02.forces appears closer than at any time in the Syrian complete. The
:02:02. > :02:07.American Secretary of State made it his British counterpart, William
:02:07. > :02:14.Hague, to consider options. Washington East sanctions to help
:02:14. > :02:19.people in opposition controlled areas. -- eased sanctions. For many,
:02:19. > :02:29.life carries on in the midst of huge suffering. Our correspondent
:02:29. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:34.has more. In parts of Damascus it is easy to forget there is a war.
:02:34. > :02:41.Maybe that is why this ice-cream shop is so packed. When so much has
:02:41. > :02:48.been destroyed, Syrians hold on to much-loved traditions. This family
:02:48. > :02:55.has been making ice-cream in the old city since 1895. Using the same
:02:55. > :03:02.secret recipe for three generations. War has made real cherries too
:03:02. > :03:10.expensive now. When they come here, they see us and we're still working.
:03:10. > :03:19.They smile and they're happy. We're still working. We put our hoping to
:03:19. > :03:21.ice-cream. In some neighbourhoods, other summer rituals go on as well.
:03:22. > :03:28.Relief that one more exam is out of the way for these high school
:03:28. > :03:33.students. In Syria, nearly one in five schools is now shut. These
:03:33. > :03:43.teenagers are fortunate to live in a safe, government control the area.
:03:43. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:49.You have no worries? They Ensay in unison - no, none at all. -- they
:03:49. > :03:59.answer in a unity. They think the army and the President for keeping
:03:59. > :04:05.them safe. Normal life here is no longer normal. People have had to
:04:05. > :04:15.find ways to live with war. Even when a shell lands nearby, nobody
:04:15. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:24.flinches. They hear it night and day. They do not even look up. Just
:04:24. > :04:31.two streets away, there is no life at all. Like many neighbourhoods,
:04:31. > :04:35.this is now a battleground. Rebel fighters are holed up here. The
:04:35. > :04:45.government responds with overwhelming force. Imagine how
:04:45. > :04:49.
:04:49. > :04:56.many people lived here - they're all gone. The lucky ones find
:04:56. > :05:04.shelter and even a special place for children. This centre is one of
:05:04. > :05:14.a handful in the City run by UNICEF. It is a way to restore some of the
:05:14. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:26.joys of childhood. For this 30 new roles, she still wears her sadness.
:05:26. > :05:35.-- this 13-year-old still wears her sadness. Her family fled. What is
:05:35. > :05:43.it like they? Not very good. It is very bad. I asked to have their
:05:43. > :05:48.problems. -- I ask her if there are problems. A lot of problems, she
:05:48. > :05:55.says. Even in parts of Damascus like this, where it is peaceful
:05:55. > :05:58.enough to still play, the impact of the war is always present. Now that
:05:58. > :06:02.this girl and her friends have coloured in these apples, there
:06:02. > :06:07.will be asked to write what they will do when they are all there.
:06:07. > :06:16.The last time they do this exercise, three children wrote - we want to
:06:16. > :06:21.grow up. She once every detail to be perfect. She has made her wish.
:06:21. > :06:31.She has written, I want to go back to my home. She knows she has no
:06:31. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:38.home to go to any more. It reads like a murder, a mystery.
:06:38. > :06:43.It is a tale of pure human desperation. Last September, a man
:06:43. > :06:48.in his 20s was found dead in a suburban street. He had suffered
:06:48. > :06:53.horrendous injuries to his head and face. The had no identity papers
:06:53. > :06:59.and no-one had reported him missing. So who was he, and how did he end
:06:59. > :07:03.up there? Police spent six months finding an answer to the
:07:03. > :07:12.investigation. We have been speaking to the people involved in
:07:12. > :07:18.this remarkable and tragic story. Hello, police emergency. We are
:07:18. > :07:28.important avenue, and we have come across what looks like a dead body.
:07:28. > :07:31.
:07:31. > :07:35.Where do you think this is? It is outside Number 22. At approximately
:07:35. > :07:38.7:45am I heard a thud and thought nothing of it. The next thing I
:07:38. > :07:45.could remember was my brother telling me there was a man in the
:07:45. > :07:50.street who was dead. He was a black man wearing a pair of speakers,
:07:50. > :07:56.jeans and a T-shirt. He was lying face down. It was a shock,
:07:56. > :08:03.obviously. We thought he had been murdered. That is a shock. His body
:08:03. > :08:07.was twisted. His head had split open. What started out as a crime
:08:07. > :08:14.scene that look like a man had been murdered, I notice they kept
:08:14. > :08:19.looking up at the sky. The way it looked, it looked like he had
:08:19. > :08:23.fallen from a long way. We do not know how he got into the airport,
:08:23. > :08:28.whether he paid someone, whether he jumped over the fence, what we do
:08:28. > :08:33.know is that he got into London by travelling on a plane like this, by
:08:33. > :08:37.climbing into this part of the aircraft - the wheel well. He would
:08:37. > :08:41.have done this while the plane was at the stand. He would have had to
:08:41. > :08:47.climb up as quickly as possible along this piece of metal and into
:08:47. > :08:53.the wheel arch and look for a space to crouch down. Nothing is known at
:08:53. > :08:59.all about him. All this mean you is that he came on a plane from Angola.
:08:59. > :09:03.We initially thought he was from that country. Without the second
:09:03. > :09:07.iPhone Sim card we will have still been in the dark. The data on the
:09:07. > :09:12.card in his pocket included information about a text message.
:09:12. > :09:18.The interesting thing was that the text message was sent to a mobile
:09:18. > :09:24.phone in Switzerland. The policeman on the phone told me that this
:09:24. > :09:29.unknown person had fallen from a plane in Richmond. I do not know
:09:29. > :09:36.what he was talking about. All of a sudden, we heard the penny drop.
:09:36. > :09:42.There was a change in the demeanour. I told him, I know who it is.
:09:42. > :09:47.2010 she was living in South Africa with her husband. When I lived in
:09:47. > :09:53.Cape Town he was my garden or, he also took terror of my home.
:09:53. > :10:00.man whose body was found after falling from the undercarriage of a
:10:00. > :10:04.plane has been identified. He was a Mozambique National. As the plane
:10:04. > :10:09.came in to land, these doors would have opened. The wheels would have
:10:10. > :10:19.come back down. He would have been unable to hold on. At the point the
:10:20. > :10:20.
:10:20. > :10:30.plane was passing over Portman Avenue, he fell. Joseph was really
:10:30. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:42.nice. He was a good person. He had a soft manner. I miss him. He told
:10:42. > :10:47.me about his childhood and how difficult it had been. There were
:10:47. > :10:53.floods in his area. I wish he would have called me before taking the
:10:53. > :10:59.plane. I would have told them to get out of the plane. It is the
:10:59. > :11:03.sort of case it upsets everybody that comes into contact with it. He
:11:03. > :11:11.had such high hopes of finding a different life. He was obviously
:11:11. > :11:17.more optimistic than he should have been, considering the dangers.
:11:17. > :11:27.thought, what has he done? Why did he get into the plane? Why wasn't
:11:27. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:34.he more patient? We believe that when it is a time to die, it is a
:11:34. > :11:42.time to die, no-one can prevent that from happening. The day of
:11:42. > :11:51.your death is written before you were born. It is his resting place.
:11:51. > :11:54.I take comfort in thinking that his soul can find peace. Brazil - the
:11:54. > :11:59.war's seventh largest economy, has long been known for crippling
:11:59. > :12:03.inequality. The country has made huge improvements in recent years.
:12:03. > :12:08.Poverty has been dramatically reduced. The number of resilience
:12:08. > :12:18.living on $2 per day has been halved. Malnutrition has fallen
:12:18. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:27.over similar levels. Our It may boast one of the largest
:12:27. > :12:30.economy in the world but Brazil still has a hugely unequal society.
:12:30. > :12:37.Things are changing. The fight against poverty and malnutrition
:12:37. > :12:42.here starts right at the beginning. But also fear is kept warm by end
:12:42. > :12:45.incubator and light therapy treats her neonatal jaundice. She is also
:12:45. > :12:50.fed calorie rich breast milk through a tube of but it is not
:12:50. > :12:56.from her mother. Like thousands of premature babies in Brazil, Sophia
:12:56. > :12:59.is kept alive things to donated milk. A small army of mothers give
:12:59. > :13:06.their surplus milk as part of a scheme in which generations of
:13:06. > :13:13.women have been encouraged to participate for the good of society.
:13:13. > :13:17.There are now 200 human milk bakes across Brazil. -- milk banks across
:13:17. > :13:21.Brazil. The largest and most successful programme of its kind in
:13:21. > :13:27.the world. We have seen the rates of breast-feeding go up. The
:13:28. > :13:32.Brazilian government made at bees health policies -- made it these
:13:32. > :13:37.health policies. They had been are doing it campaigns and supporting
:13:37. > :13:42.human milk banks. The main focus is on making sure that children from
:13:42. > :13:48.poorer backgrounds are fed well. At school and at home. Brazil wants to
:13:48. > :13:53.go way beyond keeping people out of poverty. Children need education,
:13:53. > :13:58.health, food - to become citizens and workers and students, to become
:13:58. > :14:01.whatever they want. The family allowance is the main -- main
:14:01. > :14:07.pillar of the government effort to improve the purchasing power of
:14:07. > :14:17.poor families. Through it, this woman gets �100 each month but to
:14:17. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:23.qualify, her children must attend We buy rice, beans, and a fair
:14:23. > :14:28.everyone says the father who gets about 25% on top of his minimum
:14:28. > :14:33.wage through the allowance. No sugar and lots of vegetables at a
:14:34. > :14:37.citizen's' kitchen. Feeding people of all ages good food. -- citizens
:14:37. > :14:41.kitchen. The Brazilian success in dealing with malnutrition is
:14:41. > :14:45.because all these elements work together. This is not just a
:14:45. > :14:49.standard soup kitchen. It is part of a structured programme but these
:14:49. > :14:55.feel they are subsidised and healthy meals twice per day. It all
:14:55. > :14:59.comes down to basics. Better fed healthy people contribute more to a
:14:59. > :15:09.country's well-being. Malnutrition does the opposite, costing lives
:15:09. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:14.Can poetry help treat dementia? It affects about 35 million people
:15:14. > :15:18.around the world and it is a condition without a cure. Doctors
:15:18. > :15:24.believe that people with dementia can benefit from being reminded of
:15:24. > :15:28.things from their past in what is known as reminiscence therapy. We
:15:28. > :15:32.have been to a British fare home where the spoken word is being used
:15:32. > :15:39.to stir the memories of its residents. -- care home.
:15:39. > :15:42.I wandered lonely, as a cloud... Familiar words, poems learned of a
:15:42. > :15:47.heart by a ?I ? heart by a resurfacing, offering a fleeting
:15:47. > :15:52.glimpse of a life before dementia. Miriam, do you remember the first
:15:52. > :16:02.time that you read that on yourself? I was about ten years old.
:16:02. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:07.I read it with my English teacher. He was very good. I was little
:16:07. > :16:15.cloud or... At this care home, all of the residents have dementia.
:16:15. > :16:18.They are regularly read poetry as part of reminiscence therapy. A
:16:18. > :16:24.very special recital today from a former poet Laureate Sir Andrew
:16:24. > :16:28.motion who knows how powerful poultry can be. I caught this
:16:28. > :16:36.morning, morning's Minihan and then off, often forced on swing as it
:16:36. > :16:40.escapes heels... I always thought that poetry is the primitive thing.
:16:40. > :16:50.It has been proved especially by the way in which we respond to
:16:50. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:54.things when we are young. Children who respond to poetry respond
:16:54. > :17:00.because they... As a species, we take a pleasure in its rhythms and
:17:00. > :17:05.sounds. There are over 800,000 people in the UK living with
:17:05. > :17:10.dementia and one in three of them - - one in three of people over 65
:17:10. > :17:13.will develop it. Without a cure, it is the knowledge that Thurton --
:17:13. > :17:17.certain therapies will help. People with dementia often struggle
:17:17. > :17:21.to make connections on a daily basis. They may not know how to
:17:21. > :17:24.wash or eat or dress. They know how to make those well-worn connections
:17:24. > :17:31.and can get back their dignity and independence and sense of person
:17:31. > :17:35.that people are struggling to find. Staff and carers have noticed that
:17:35. > :17:38.words can trigger recollections. is astonishing. They remember not
:17:38. > :17:42.just the pondered where they were when they heard it and they will
:17:42. > :17:45.light up as they have a happy memory and become proud and
:17:45. > :17:53.relieved that they found an anchor in what is otherwise a bewildering
:17:53. > :17:56.world. As idle as a painted ship, a pond on a painted ocean. It can be
:17:56. > :18:06.difficult for those with dementia but these familiar words are
:18:06. > :18:08.
:18:08. > :18:12.providing a comforting glance into A pensive mood... What is the mist
:18:12. > :18:22.of solitude and then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the
:18:22. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:26.It is a small village high in the mountains of eastern France and
:18:26. > :18:36.during World War II, the villagers kept an extraordinary secret which
:18:36. > :18:40.helped save many lives. The people took enormous risks in a -- in
:18:40. > :18:45.sheltering from the Nazis of thousands of children. There is now
:18:45. > :18:48.to be a museum to on what the villagers did. We went there to
:18:48. > :18:58.meet some of those who owed their lives to the kindness and courage
:18:58. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:07.It is a steady climb up the altar rail well to the cult of villages
:19:07. > :19:15.of eastern France. -- Auld railway. It is a beautiful landscape. A
:19:15. > :19:18.community is honoured for its part in a remarkable rescue effort.
:19:18. > :19:22.These two were brought here as children, spirited away from
:19:22. > :19:25.another journey, a journey which took Jewish families to their
:19:25. > :19:30.deaths in the concentration camps. At least 1,000 children were
:19:30. > :19:40.brought here, spending the war hidden in the village or on an
:19:40. > :19:41.
:19:41. > :19:44.TRANSLATION: If someone had talked, it would have been all over. It was
:19:44. > :19:48.incredible that the village act like this. I had friends who were
:19:48. > :19:58.not Jewish but Catholic or Protestant and they knew I was
:19:58. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:02.The hands of welcome and friendship were extended across the plateau
:20:02. > :20:12.but the Protestant community which had originally settled here to
:20:12. > :20:18.
:20:18. > :20:21.escape persecution took the lead it. That spirit burns as brightly as a
:20:22. > :20:25.bit here, especially when the surviving children gathered to hear
:20:25. > :20:35.the old songs, to tell their stories and to remember the
:20:35. > :20:42.families to risk everything to Born here while his parents were in
:20:42. > :20:49.hiding, a Jewish film-maker went on to document the wartime secret.
:20:49. > :20:53.always thought that religious people were a little bigoted,
:20:53. > :21:00.narrow-minded, so secured in there but least but they would not leave
:21:00. > :21:04.it in a stranger. The opposite was true here. Visitors enter the
:21:04. > :21:11.village are absorbed by the beauty and tranquillity. At last, they are
:21:11. > :21:17.in here about the acts of kindness that left so many a win so much.
:21:17. > :21:24.They saved our lives. That is what it meant and we are always - we