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`` is the best stories. Two weeks on from the fall of Gaddafi. We report

from Libya and worst violence since 2011. Getting over the legacy of 40

years of dictatorship has proved to be much harder than anyone here

expected. David Loyn X `` inspects the war against the opium trade, as

Afghanistan 's harvest reaped `` reaches a record high. The rise of a

corporate woman. We report on a new revolution in India's boardrooms.

Women have always worked in India but their rise has proved a success.

It is remarkable given the conservative attitudes towards

women. The barefoot diplomat. We meet the Japanese envoy using

wrestling to help unite the people of Sudan. You will be back? I will

be back. Two years from the fall of Gaddafi, Libyans are still yearning

for peace and order to replace the guns and instability. This week

brought some of the worst violence since 2011, as missionaries went

into the capital Tripoli. Libya has been massive tribes, militias and

city states. As many as 1700 different armed groups operate

within the country. As we report from Tripoli, the government has

been unable to bring many of the groups under control. Tripoli can

look calm, but it is in little kind of quiet. `` it is a brutal. There

has been the worst violence since the fall of Gaddafi, in 2011. It

started with a shootout between rival militias, and when civilians

protest at my they were attacked and killed. Armed groups often take

differences to the streets. Some militia started out fighting the

Gaddafi regime. Others, often no more than criminal gangs, have

appeared since the civil war. All of them and so only to themselves.

National security forces are being created, slowly. The interim

government hope they will help by a cover new constitution and

elections. These men proclaimed loyalty to the Prime Minister, but

the politicians bicker or supper they are nowhere close to taming

Libya. It has been a mess of city states and tribes since Gaddafi

fell. When Colonel Gaddafi went, so did his institutions, starting with

the security forces. They have had to rebuild from the bottom up. Doing

that, and getting over the legacy of 40 years of dictatorship, has proved

to be much harder than anyone here expected. The abandoned prison in

Tripoli is a symbol of the Gaddafi regime is brutality. The random

violence left behind. For any minute, we are waiting to be go cold

`` to go, to be killed. He was a prisoner for 30 years, but says he

was still hopeful, but fears that the thirst for revenge are ruining

the future for every Libyan family. We have to fight for tolerance. Even

the enemies who were tortured, we need a state of rights, a ret ``

state of rule. We live in a fraternal society. Many Libyans to

feel the same way. There is a risk that newly trained government

security courses will get caught up in political battles as well a

street violence. If the new army ends up as just one week player in a

country full of competing armed groups, Libya 's unhappy, I'm stable

and violent persons will the future, too. `` unstable. All Libyans feel

insecure about the future. In this, there are families whose men fought

for Gaddafi. The men were accused of killing and rape. He was arrested by

fighters, tortured and killed. She said, I do not want to be here.

Libya is a country any more. `` not my country. Reconciliation can take

generations. Without security for everyone, lives will go on being

blighted. Libya cannot escape Gaddafi 's poison legacy. It is a

trade that scars Afghanistan and the world outside. Despite efforts to

stamp out opium, a United Nations report has found the country 's

drugs harvest has a record high. Opium production has risen by more

than one third in a year. This applies Afghanistan is millionplus

addicts, as was the global demand for the refined form, heroine. We

report on the uranium border, where police are struggling to stop the

flow of drugs flooding out of Afghanistan. Flowers, being picked

in Afghanistan, where most of the world 's opium poppies are grown.

These are not opium poppies. They are the only crop that brings a

higher price. Saffron. The fragile flowers are carefully weighed, and

then each are picked apart to reveal the three red cords that give the

taste and colour of the spice that is literally worth its weight in

gold. The saffron, used to grow opium poppies. He has persuaded his

neighbours all to move to saffron. TRANSLATION: if every farmer had

access to saffron, there would be freed from poverty. `` they would

be. The Afghan government is sponsoring saffron growing in this

neighbouring area, a desperate attempt in the year of a record

harvest to reduce poppy growing, there. Nothing else has worked, and

signs of the failure to stop poppies are everywhere. Afghanistan has more

than 1 million addicts, living on the margins of society. The police

to seize some drugs. Locked in a storeroom, we found losing sacks of

opium. In the refined form, heroine. This is raw opium, the product of

poppies, most of which in Afghanistan are grown in this area.

British forces came here 12 years ago, with the principal reason of

stopping poppy growing. A record harvest in the year that they leave

is a mark of failure. We went to the rhenium border, with police who are

trying to stop the tide of drugs flooding out of the country. They do

a random search of some trucks. The deputy head of the board of police

said that he thought every day, up to ten trucks get through, carrying

drugs. TRANSLATION: they worked tirelessly, but the drugs are often

built into the vehicles. They cannot take apart every truck. The van

arrived with seats tied to the roof, giving space to a coffin being

collected at the border by the family of this man, killed by

uranium police trying to cross over it legally. `` Iranians. One place

close to the border is now called Widows Village, since so many people

have been killed going into Iran, carrying drugs. The village elder

said that only women and small children are left. The young men are

rolled dead, shot by Iranians on the border, who captured and hung the

smugglers. She is bitter that a home is now called Widows Village. She

lost three sons, and her husband. A short walk up the hill from Widows

Village, here is the evidence as to how it got it's rather grim name.

The graveyard, with many recent graves of young men, whose bodies

have been brought back across the border. Many of course, after being

hanged, remain in Iran, causing more grief to the widows and children.

The results of the failure to stop this trade style Afghanistan and the

world outside. There is a quiet revolution going on in the

boardrooms of India. Eight of the country 's top banks are now run by

women. Compare that with London, the world 's biggest financial centre,

which has no women at the helm of any of the British banks. Reeta

Chakrabarti has been to India's financial capital to find out what

is making the women flourish there. Banking has been one of the engines

driving the Indian economy and its growth has seen a startling rise in

the success of women, not just on the shop floor, but right at the

top. This woman has worked at the second`largest bank in the country

for 30 years and she now leads it. How is it that women like her have

done so well? The banks are making a decision based on merit. They are

picking the candidate that they think is most meritorious. Without

any inhibition in the mind of whether it is a male or female. As

banking has grown, so has female talent. Since the 1980s, this bank

has nurtured promising women and there are now eight that are headed

by female executives. They include this woman who says that women in

India have an advantage as there is always extended family. I think

family support is a huge distinction. My mum or my

mother`in`law or even my father and father`in`law would come by and help

me when I was stuck in a situation. These other corporate bosses of the

future, competition to get into this management college is unbelievably

faced with around 1,000 applications per place. The girls are determined

to succeed. I wanted to study hard. I want to work and make a

contribution. Many more women are breaking a glass ceiling and it is

now about the talent you have and less about the social constraints.

It is 20 years... The first funeral banking boss was in the 1990s and

she says it was a lonely business. Banking has always been seen as a

good option for women. These women join because it is a dream job for

them. Families don't object to them doing this. They meet so many people

deal with money. Women have always worked in India, but their rise in

the last two decades has proved a phenomenal success. It is all the

more remarkable given each additionally conservative attitudes

towards women in many parts of the country. With much of the population

still lacking basic education, those attitudes won't disappear soon, but

the educated middle class is growing and now equals around 250 million

people. With numbers like that, India's female corporate revolution

may have only just begun. For women leading the way in India, there is

been a quiet revolution in the boardrooms. It may just be the

beginning. This week saw two of America's biggest anniversaries.

Hundred and 50 years since Ibrahim Lincoln delivered to get a speed

address during a civil war in the 50th anniversary of the

assassination of John F. Kennedy. Both events changed America and

history rates the two men as amongst its most significant leaders. But

although the two men occupied the White house a century apart, both of

them presided over a divided nation. It is burden 1863, 50 1,000 men

killed in Jeddah and three days of battle. To honour the dead,

President Lincoln gave to get as Burke address. On the stamp fields,

he rededicated the American republic to its original ideals. For school

in seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a

new nation, is `` conceived and liberty and dedicate to the

proposition that all men are created equal. We are resolved that the

government of the people by the people for the people shone not

perish from the earth. For him, the American revolution was unfinished.

They work only thus far. Hundred and 50 years on, it is still unfinished,

Americans are still arguing about how to live the ideal is the

republic is founded on. Still bitterly divided about what

government of the people for the people by the people should mean in

practice. Get as Burke and John F. Kennedy are connected. Both

presidents sought to use the power of the Federal government to force

change on conservative states. Both trying to force America to live up

to its founding ideals as they saw them. Both made fierce enemies as a

result. What the war was doing was preserving this unique system of

democracy, of Republican rule. It is testing whether this can survive.

And Kennedy, the parallel is, what to see speak of in has inaugural

address and focus on and has a stray should, the struggle for freedom and

liberty to preserve the democracy we have here and around the globe. But

black America was excluded from the get as Burke promised. The post`

slavery south are PAL racial segregation for a century. That

century separates Lincoln from John F. Kennedy and when Kennedy began to

challenge white supremacy, the white South revolted. That revolt is what

bought John F Kennedy to Dallas that fateful day 50 years ago. His

challenge to white privilege of reawaken the old fault line in

America. Conservative fears of an overweening Federal government.

Right`wing extremists did not kill Kennedy but his visit to Dallas to

try to appease them did. What was the nature of the anti` Kennedy

sentiment in the South? It is better understood less as anti` Kennedy

sentiment than antifederal government sentiment. The two

driving elements in American political street going back to the

revolution are how are we going to deal with race, and what role the

government should play in telling individuals how to live their lives.

This was the exact cause of the civil war. The same argument that

animates civil rights. It is one of the tensions that drives American

politics today. There is an unbroken line of continuity that runs from

get as Burke from Dallas to our own age. A struggle for ascendancy

between two Americas, conservative America that seeks to champion the

sovereignty of the individual citizen against the State and

another America that claims to speak for progress and seeks to harness

the power of the state to impose it. An argument about what it means

to be a true American. What it means to be a true American was the issue

at get as Burke. Who was embraced by the founding ideals and who was

excluded. Americans remain divided about what it really means to be a

new nation conceived in Liberty and how to advance that opposition that

all men are created equal. Adam Little reporting. Appearances can be

deceptive. Yasuhiro Murotatsu is the political officer at the Japanese

Embassy in Sudan. Out of the office, he is known as the barefoot

diplomat. He practices an unusual form of physical diplomacy, taking

on some of Sudan's biggest wrestlers. He says he hopes his

fights can help bring the Sudanese people together. From the outside,

this looks like a regular Japanese embassy with its small displays of

national pride and ordinary officials in smart suits

representing their nation on foreign soil. Sometimes appearances can be

deceptive. This diplomat is also a wrestler. What's more, he hopes that

fighting against local champions can help unite the Sudanese. I hope

peace and stability will be achieved. I am very happy if all

Sudanese tribes come to support my opponents. Murotatsu had been an

able wrestler as a schoolboy. When he read about Sudanese wrestling,

one of the oldest forms, he decided to join in. The barefoot diplomat as

they call him has a problem. So far, Murotatsu has fought for times and

always lost. Could this be the moment when the Japanese challenger

finally overcomes a Sudanese wrestler? Once the fight begins,

Murotatsu launches into an attack. Sometimes bouts last for several

minutes, this one ends quickly. Another fight, another fall for the

barefoot diplomat. The loss has not dented his popularity, it has

perhaps enhanced it. The Sudanese are delighted that a foreigner is

taking them on at one of their national sport. Does this unlikely

wrestler feel he has achieved his goal? Not yet. I need to be

stronger. I need to make Sudanese unified against the Japanese

wrestler. I shall continue. I will wind. Murotatsu will have one last

chance to wow the crowds and score the first victory before his

diplomatic posting in Sudan comes to an end. That is all from Reporters.

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