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ability to protect itself is tested. Now on BBC News - Reporters. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Welcome to reporters. In a special edition of the programme, we are | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
looking back at some of the highlights of the year from our | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
correspondent across the globe. Coming up, as Sri Lanka hosted the | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Commonwealth suburb, we investigated allegations of culture and a | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
deepening climate of oppression. TRANSLATION: They hung me up naked | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
and beat me with iron rods. They don't be with cigarette arts. A | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
nation in hiding, will report from the Central African Republic as | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
thousands flee the escalating violence. TRANSLATION: They killed | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
my father and took his body. I do not know what will happen to me now. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The real great escape. The true life story of the World War II prison | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Break caught on camera. Only a handful may be back here -- made it | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
back here to France, and only one survives. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
The legend of breaking bad. We report from New Mexico on what is | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
being called the greatest TV show ever. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
This American tale may be fed on the myth of the west, but it is grounded | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
firmly in the reality of the sleepless city. | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
It was a brutal chapter in Sri Lanka is turbulent past. In the last few | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
months of the country 's civil war, 40,000 people were killed and tens | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
of thousands more simply disappeared. Their families are | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
still left in the dark. An international enquiry was set up to | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
find out exactly what happened, but even after controversially hosting | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
this year 's Commonwealth summit, the Sri Lankan government says it | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
has no intention of cooperating with this enquiry. It says its own | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
investigation is enough. Just before the summit, we had this report from | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Sri Lanka. A warning, it contains some graphic descriptions of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
torture. In the Tamil north, the young are | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
marching to welcome the Commonwealth. A local television | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
station organised the rally. They passed the giant memorial | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
celebrating the army 's victory over the Tamil Tigers. In this triumphant | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
vision of Sri Lanka is present, peace reigns. The State rejects | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
itself as firm but benign. These are civil defence members, Tamils | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
employed by the government to provide local security. TRANSLATION: | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
At the moment, the situation is good. The government has given us | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
jobs. We are able to carry on with our day-to-day lives happily. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Infrastructure is being repaired. There have been the first provincial | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
elections in decades. As part of what the government calls it | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
reconciliation agenda, some 12,000 former Tamil Tiger detainees have | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
been released. Challenging that official narrative is the evidence | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
of UN investigators and major human rights organisations. They described | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
a country where repression is widespread and security forces can | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
act with impunity. We have spoken with some of those who allege state | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
brutality because they fear reprisal, we have agreed to protect | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
their identity will stop allegations of torture have been levelled at | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
successive governments here, but under the current administration, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
activists say the climate of repression has deepened. During the | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
war, this man was detained on terrorism charges was the war, this | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
man was detained on terrorism charges were only recently | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
released, he says he was tortured to obtain a confession. TRANSLATION: | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
They hung me up naked and beat me with iron rods. They don't be with | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
cigarette butts and four or five people would squeeze my penis. Every | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
time they asked a question, they would squeeze my penis. I used to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
crawl across the floor in pain. The group Human Rights Watch says rape | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
and sexual violence are widely used against detainees, something the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
government denies. We travelled to a safe house where we met a former | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
detainee. She alleges beatings and sexual assault and threats of rape | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
and she says she will overdose if it occurs again. TRANSLATION: I do not | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
want to be sexually molested by the army. If they take me, I know I will | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
talk to -- I know I will be tortured and will not come back again. I keep | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
these tablets because I do not want to be raped by them. She asked me | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
who is going to protect her, for now she will be hiding in this safe | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
house, but long-term, what guarantees are there when the people | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
that she is in mortal terror of have the forces of law themselves? The | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
greatest abuses are alleged to have happened at the war 's end. In this | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
region, where people 's belongings are still scattered, a UN panel of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
experts says cop to 40,000 may have died amid fierce shelling of what | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
were supposed to be safe zones. It is alleged civilians were | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
indiscriminately shelled, prisoners executed and others vanished after | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
surrendering to the army. Charges the government rejects. The | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
government feels it should be congratulated for defeating the | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Tamil Tigers, an organisation accused by the UN of using civilians | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
as human shields and shooting people who tried to flee at the Wallsend. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
The Foreign Minister insists enquiries are independent, not a | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
whitewash, as human rights groups claim. They are questioning our | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
intention to appoint an investigative body. It is something | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
that is already happening and is ongoing. There are circumstances | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
warrant an investigation, not circumstances that warrant a | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
preconception of guilt. If there is any attempt to settle an | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
international investigation, Sri Lanka will not co-operate? We have | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
been saying that it is unwarranted, there is no reason to do this. It is | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
entirely without justification. There is peace of a kind now in the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
north, but it is accompanied by the silence of absences, unanswered | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
questions and of fear. From Sri Lanka is human rights | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
record to a warning of genocide in the Central African Republic. The UN | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
says this country is on the verge of chaos. More than 400,000 people, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
nearly a 10th of the population, have fled their homes as a violence | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
escalates, mainly by Muslim militias against Christian communities, the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
country has been in turmoil since a coup last March. 40,000 refugees are | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
seeking shelter in a town. You may find this report distressing. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
The silence is haunting and unbroken. It lasts for hundreds of | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
miles. Abandoned villages, burned villages. The eerie sense of a | :07:40. | :07:51. | |
nation in hiding. Finally, we spot three nervous, ghostlike figures. On | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the right, the man says we thought you were the rebels. He says his | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
family, six kids and the rest of the village are all hiding out here in | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
the bushes, too scared to come back towards the road. We will see them | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
now. As word spreads, others cautiously approached us. Months of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
conflict here in the Central African Republic have forced perhaps 400,000 | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
people to run for their lives. They are stranded, increasingly desperate | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
and far from help. Disease killed this woman's youngest daughter. The | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
rebels killed her brother. We live like animals, says the local | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
teacher. No clean water, no food. Back on the road and far to the | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
south, we run into the rebels. They are mostly Muslims, some foreign. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
They seized power in the country weeks ago, but their rebellion, no | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
means the first year, has collapsed into a murderous free for all. It | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
now seems no one is in charge. The violence is surging. | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
Suddenly, we stumble across the latest bloodshed. They bring out | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
their dead. Rebel fighters attacked a few hours ago. A young Christian | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
farmer, one of five killed here. Religion now fuelling the violence. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
TRANSLATION: The international community, the French, must protect | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
us. The Muslims are terrorising us. Now the Christians are hitting back. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Nearby, we meet members of a self defence militia. The weapons are | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
home-made. The desire for vengeance is growing. These groups have | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
already carried out brutal reprisals against Muslims. | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
In the middle of the mayhem, this streetsmart child has found a | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
sanctuary in the church compound in town. He ran from his village when | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the rebels came last month and read -- left him as an orphan. 40,000 | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
people have now joined him here. He fights back the tears. TRANSLATION: | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
They killed my father and took his body. I do not know what will happen | :10:44. | :10:57. | |
to me now. It is fear that is trapping tens of | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
thousands of people in one spot and that will not change until people | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
are sure it is safe to go home. French and African forces are poised | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
to arrive here in the next week or so, and things could change or | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
improve quite quickly. But can they protect everyone, and for how long? | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
This is a chronically unstable nation. With trust absent, the only | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
currency that counts is fear. Things have never been this band. -- this | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
bad. To break out of a German prisoner of | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
war camp is remarkable in itself but to escape and capture it all on film | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
is possibly one of the most amazing true stories of the Second World | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
War. The BBC obtained in new footage depending -- depicting an audacious | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
escape by French prisoners filmed by the inmates of themselves. As we | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
report from Paris, it gives us a chilling view of life inside a | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
German prisoner of war camp. 1940. The bleak surroundings of a | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
prison camp in north-east Austria holding 5000 French officers. This | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
rarely seen footage is a 30 minute documentary shot in secret by the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
prisoners themselves. Risking death, they recorded it on a secret | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
camera that was smuggled into the camp in sausages. The team concealed | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
in a hollowed out dictionary. The 8mm reels were hidden in the heels | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
of their shoes. It is an extraordinary story but it is what | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
they filmed which makes it all the more remarkable. This lieutenant was | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
a former inmate and part of the escape committee. TRANSLATION: We | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
dug a number of tunnels from the huts in which we were barracked. The | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
guards always found them, looking for the dearth -- the Earth we dug | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
out. They did eventually find a way. The father of this meant was a | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
prisoner and he showed us the plan. The Germans allowed them to build an | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
open air theatre. They had now half the distance to go and with the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
crudest tools, the malnourished men set to work. TRANSLATION: They were | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
university professors, mathematicians, geologists, and | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
architects so they can't you let the length and direction of the tunnel | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
exactly. -- they cut elated. The tunnel was ventilated with empty | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
tins of Pisa stuck together. They are had teams to get civilian | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
clothes and false identity papers. By September 1943, they were ready | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
to go. TRANSLATION: There was so little space that we were forced to | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
lie in faecal positions. There was little air. Some fainted and all the | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
time, we imagined the worst, the German firing squad that would be | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
waiting at the end of the tunnel. That would be waiting at the end of | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
the once they had gone beneath the wire, | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
they were still deep inside German occupied territory. Of the 132 | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
escapees, 100 35 were recaptured in a week. Only a handful made it back | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
to France and only one survives to this day. To celebrate his 100th | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
birthday, John was honoured by Paris. He found his way to Vienna in | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
1943 where he worked as a nurse. He eventually secured a weekend pass | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
back to Paris. The homecoming was not enough. Within weeks, he | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
rejoined the war effort and was now fighting for the resistance. | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
This may sound rather like life in a prisoner of war camp, working 13 | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
hours a day with four hours of sleep but it is a typical day for South | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Korean children. It is the secret of syrup -- success in their schools. | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
The country was ranked fifth in the OECD league table of educational | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
outcomes. We have been speaking to schoolchildren in Seoul. | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
South Korea wary child's life revolves around education. Regular | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
school is problem -- followed by private school. This makes them some | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
of the most formidable pupils in the world. This 16 -year-old goes to | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
school in Seoul, made famous by the popstar. After school, she leaves | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
with her brother are far from relaxing at home, she sets off again | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
for her second round of study. Even the little ones do it double shift, | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
long after what might be considered bedtime the UK, these tots are still | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
working. She then spend hours here at the | :16:08. | :16:20. | |
private crammer, just like the majority of Korean children. Eight | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
get tired usually but I can forget about this when I see my results. | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
They are kind of good. She gets home after 11:00pm, having spent a | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
mammoth 13 hours studying. It is better to look p.m. And then up at | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
6:30am to do it all over again. TRANSLATION: Korea has few natural | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
resources, we any have people. Anybody who wants to be resourceful | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
has to stand out. I'm not comfortable about this as a mother | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
but it's the only thing she can do to achieve her dream. For the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
economy, this huge investment has taken the country in just two | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
generations from mass illiteracy to technological powerhouse. Korea's | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
success has come at a cost. The pressure on young people is huge and | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
the suicide rate is the highest of all developed countries. Is this | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
pressurised environment and sustainable? TRANSLATION: I don't | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
think any other country has achieved such a rapid growth as South Korea | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
in the past 50 years. We focused on school achievement and that has put | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
a lot of people under stress and that is why we have a high suicide | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
rates. We have long way to go but we are doing some soul-searching and we | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
are trying to make our people happier. In many ways, Korea is the | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
envy of the Western world. Ministers in Westminster and beyond that look | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
longingly at the education record but the phenomenal success has come | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
at a price which is that people are now gradually starting to weigh up. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
It has been called the best thing on television or year, groundbreaking | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
and Shakespearean. Breaking Bag is the story of an American maths | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
teacher -- and strategic who turns to cooking crystal meth for his | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
family. Fans have been hooked on the winning formula for five seasons. As | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the legend came to an end, Johnny Diamond sense us this spoiler free | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
report from the so-called Breaking Bad land of Albuquerque. | :18:32. | :18:43. | |
New Mexico. This is the landscape of bad. Drug deals gone wrong and | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
shootouts at twilight. Very Dusty Rhodes. -- dusty roads. This is just | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
part of Breaking Bad. This is the epic, the mesa, the space will man | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
can lose himself. There is another Breaking Bad, car washes and fast | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
food joints, ordinary and banal. It seems that they are the unlikely | :19:15. | :19:26. | |
stars. This is banal. In the show, this chicken restaurant and crystal | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
meth nerves centre. In reality, and not too bad burrito joint. For some, | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
that dreary as location is a cause for celebration. The locations by | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
and large have not been set decorator. They are what they are. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
They are authentic. It shows that we have a quirky side to this place | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
which we call home in the high desert south-west. It has become an | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
organic element that we are, even natives to Albuquerque will say it | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
looks pretty cool. And when locations are this good, white dress | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
them up? A car wash in real life. In Breaking Bad, this was a car wash. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Not just any car wash, of course. It was also the vehicle for laundering | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
great big bricks of drug money. This is crystal meth candy. We call it | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Breaking Bad candy. The media dubbed it blew meth. Cooking up television | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
-based candy is bring together to real-world addictions. Is this is | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
very good. You don't think it is in our tastes? Not at all. Walter | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
White's character is what they are developing and progressing. Did not | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
-- it is not about this. It is about the development of the character and | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
what happens to him. This is just a prop. | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
The contemporary Western has no heroes, just doubt and death in | :21:15. | :21:28. | |
equal measure. This American tale may be fed on the myth of the West | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
but it is grounded firmly in the reality of the sleepless city. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
That is all from the special edition of Reporters, looking at some of the | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
best stories from 2013. Goodbye. Have a happy New Year. | :21:44. | :22:04. | |
Aloe once again. It looks like we will see further spells of wet and | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
windy weather. Over the next two or three days or so. If you have any | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
concerns about | :22:14. | :22:14. |