:00:00. > :00:00.has turned down the post of PM, offered by the PM in an attempt to
:00:00. > :00:00.end the violence. Now, this week's edition of
:00:07. > :00:29.Reporters. Welcome to Reporters. From here in
:00:30. > :00:41.the newsroom we send out reporters to bring you the best information
:00:42. > :00:44.from the rest of the world. 13 people were killed inside this
:00:45. > :00:49.hospital when rebel forces swept through, executing people inside
:00:50. > :00:55.their beds. El Salvador's war on gang violence. We speak to gang
:00:56. > :01:02.leaders about whether their fragile truce can and the bloodshed. Andrew
:01:03. > :01:08.Mark asks the Russian leader with the visitors to the Winter Olympics
:01:09. > :01:11.in Sochi will be safe. If we allow ourselves to display weakness, or to
:01:12. > :01:19.show our fear, and we will be helping the terrorists to achieve
:01:20. > :01:21.their aims. The probe comes out of hibernation to try to catch a
:01:22. > :01:27.comment that is speeding through space.
:01:28. > :01:44.First of all, an internal alarm clock goes off... And, tributes to
:01:45. > :01:46.the BBC reporter who died this week. If there is a cool factor, it
:01:47. > :01:56.doesn't hurt. It is now thought that up to 10,000
:01:57. > :02:01.people have been killed in the conflict in South Sudan, and half a
:02:02. > :02:05.million displaced. This week marked a turning point. Troops loyal to the
:02:06. > :02:08.government have recaptured all the major towns that were controlled by
:02:09. > :02:12.the rebels. It led to the historic signing of a peace deal between the
:02:13. > :02:17.government and rebels, but will it lead to a lasting peace? In a
:02:18. > :02:22.moment, we report from one of the last rebel strongholds in the
:02:23. > :02:27.north-east of South Sudan. First, this report from the town of four.
:02:28. > :02:49.A month ago, there was live here. Four, we got a glimpse into the
:02:50. > :02:55.nightmare see. -- Bor. It was a fierce battle. This is an important
:02:56. > :03:02.victory? It was very important to us because we want the people to return
:03:03. > :03:07.to the city. The most horrific scenes are at the hospital. It is
:03:08. > :03:12.still standing, just. It was ransacked twice by rebel forces, who
:03:13. > :03:16.murdered those in their wake. 13 people were killed inside this
:03:17. > :03:21.hospital when rebel forces swept through, executing people in their
:03:22. > :03:25.beds. It is too distressing to show you exactly what is over there, but
:03:26. > :03:29.underneath a bundle of sheets there is a woman's body. Lady who was
:03:30. > :03:35.killed while she was in this hospital to recover. Outside the
:03:36. > :03:42.main entrance, we have just seen two charred, rotting bodies, decaying in
:03:43. > :03:46.the afternoon sun. The stench of death and rotting material is
:03:47. > :03:52.overwhelming. As people return, they speak of the horrors they witnessed.
:03:53. > :03:57.Shot everyone they see. Shot everyone in the town, it is a ghost
:03:58. > :04:07.town. Cowering in the corner, the three who survived. This was
:04:08. > :04:12.originally a political conflict, not an ethnic ones, but reprisals
:04:13. > :04:20.between tribes have taken over, of claiming mass atrocities against
:04:21. > :04:26.each other. TRANSLATION: The rebels shot me for money. They tried to
:04:27. > :04:32.rape me, but said I was too old and were going to kill me instead. If
:04:33. > :04:37.they return here, I will die. In the centre, what is, all was, the
:04:38. > :04:41.thriving market, now mangled and collapsed, it is as though a huge
:04:42. > :04:51.inferno has swept through, devastating everything. Lives put on
:04:52. > :04:58.hold. In 1991, Bor saw a massacre of 2000. The new conflict has now
:04:59. > :05:06.ripped apart this country, and how can these two communities ever
:05:07. > :05:35.together again? A youth militia calls the shots here. A youth
:05:36. > :05:38.militia calls the shots here. The White Army, originally cattle
:05:39. > :05:40.raiders, now some of those fighting government troops. We arrived in
:05:41. > :05:43.their stronghold as peace talks were under way between their leaders.
:05:44. > :05:46.Tonight, a ceasefire was struck, but we found a rebel movement still
:05:47. > :05:49.baying for blood. We got our guns from government soldiers who were
:05:50. > :05:52.killed, this man says. We got them because they were murdering our
:05:53. > :05:55.elders, women and children, and we will use the guns. This has become
:05:56. > :05:58.an ethnic war, both sides allege murder, rape and mutilation.
:05:59. > :06:01.Forgiveness will take long, and a ceasefire may not hold their
:06:02. > :06:04.ultimate goal. These men say that their aim is to go to Juba, the
:06:05. > :06:06.capital of South Sudan, and overthrow the president, who they
:06:07. > :06:26.accuse of mass atrocities against their women and children. They say
:06:27. > :06:28.they will not stop until they get to the capital and overthrow Salva Kiir
:06:29. > :06:31.and reinstall Riek Machar, the former vice president. Fighting
:06:32. > :06:34.could resume. The deal signed tonight could take time to roll out.
:06:35. > :06:37.Towns like these will not give up easily, and a disparate rebel
:06:38. > :06:40.movement will be hard to control. The local governor, speaking before
:06:41. > :06:44.news of the ceasefire, says his men will not be swayed. Do you believe
:06:45. > :06:48.you can win this fight? Yes, we will win it. At any cost? By all means,
:06:49. > :06:54.we will win it. And to count the human cost here. Patients in the
:06:55. > :06:57.local clinic, set up by Medicins Sans Frontieres, have piled up. This
:06:58. > :07:06.man was shot several times, his leg severed by bullets. I feel pain in
:07:07. > :07:09.my heart when I think of the women and children killed by government
:07:10. > :07:16.troops, he says. Even now, I would fight to kill the man who did this
:07:17. > :07:20.to me. Only if the president goes will this end, and we can be one
:07:21. > :07:30.people again. A battle cry from the rebels. South Sudan was born in
:07:31. > :07:32.great hope from decades of conflict. Now, this new country craves an end
:07:33. > :07:45.to its darkest hour. For years, El Salvador was notorious
:07:46. > :07:52.for having the highest murder rate in the world, has gang warfare ruled
:07:53. > :07:54.the streets. But, two years ago, gang leaders agreed a ceasefire, and
:07:55. > :08:00.the murder rate halved within a year. Now, that is rising again. We
:08:01. > :08:05.have been speaking exclusively to the leaders of one of those main
:08:06. > :08:11.gangs. In the dead of night, a rude
:08:12. > :08:15.awakening. In a series of co-ordinated raids, the police
:08:16. > :08:20.seized drugs, guns, and make dozens of arrests of suspected gang
:08:21. > :08:27.members. The suspects say they are being unjustly targeted under a
:08:28. > :08:31.controversial antigang law. The two main gangs in El Salvador declared a
:08:32. > :08:37.truce almost two years ago. Initially, the murder rate dropped
:08:38. > :08:41.by almost half, as gang members began to work in the community to
:08:42. > :08:49.end the decades of violence. Now, there are signs that the murder rate
:08:50. > :08:52.is creeping up again. In this gang controlled neighbourhood, the BBC
:08:53. > :08:57.gained exclusive access to the local leaders. They told me they were
:08:58. > :09:04.being blamed for murders they did not commit, jeopardising the
:09:05. > :09:07.ceasefire. TRANSLATION: Everybody says we don't want this, we don't
:09:08. > :09:11.want to see lots of unemployed people causing problems, making
:09:12. > :09:15.chaos, they are not giving these an opportunity for lending a hand,
:09:16. > :09:22.eating opportunities to work, study or reintegrated into society. The
:09:23. > :09:24.gang leaders who control this neighbourhood insist they are
:09:25. > :09:29.committed to ending the violence. Today, just a few blocks from here,
:09:30. > :09:33.there has been a killing, which suggests that this is a shaky
:09:34. > :09:38.ceasefire at best. At worst, it is falling apart. This woman's
:09:39. > :09:46.son-in-law was not a gang member, but he and two others disappeared
:09:47. > :09:53.weeks ago. Later, their bodies turned up in a roadside.
:09:54. > :09:57.TRANSLATION: The ceasefire isn't doing anything, nothing at all.
:09:58. > :10:01.There is more violence now than before. They say their
:10:02. > :10:09.neighbourhoods that are now free of violence, but that is where most of
:10:10. > :10:13.the killings happen. Corinda authorities are saying gangs are
:10:14. > :10:20.finding ever more inventive ways to dispose of their victims --
:10:21. > :10:26.forensic. TRANSLATION: These people know how to hide their criminal
:10:27. > :10:32.acts, so we need to be just as intelligent. With elections in El
:10:33. > :10:43.Salvador just weeks away, whoever wins faces a huge challenge.
:10:44. > :10:47.The countdown has begun to next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi,
:10:48. > :10:50.and the Russian authorities face possibly their biggest security
:10:51. > :10:58.challenge ever. President Putin has reassured people they will be safe,
:10:59. > :11:03.but his comments come after a series of bombings just a few hundred
:11:04. > :11:13.kilometres from Sochi. Mr Putin has been talking to the BBC's Andrew
:11:14. > :11:18.Marr. It's two weeks until the Winter Olympics and the Russian
:11:19. > :11:23.Black Sea city of Sochi, scene of the world's blood just construction
:11:24. > :11:26.site, is almost open for business. The Russian President Vladimir Putin
:11:27. > :11:33.very rarely get interviews to foreign journalists. -- gives
:11:34. > :11:37.interviews. But this is such a big moment that today he is making an
:11:38. > :11:39.exception. He told me that this was a turning point in the story of
:11:40. > :11:49.Russia itself. TRANSLATION: After the collapse of
:11:50. > :11:53.the Soviet Union and after the tough and bloody events in the Caucasus,
:11:54. > :11:58.our society was in a state of depression. We need to shake that
:11:59. > :12:03.off. We need to understand and feel that we can do great things. ?WHITE
:12:04. > :12:09.But after recent terrorist attacks, security remains the number one
:12:10. > :12:12.concern in Russia. Mr Putin confirmed to us that he has had help
:12:13. > :12:17.from Western security agencies in throwing an iron ring around Sochi.
:12:18. > :12:22.TRANSLATION: If we allow ourselves to display weakness or to show our
:12:23. > :12:32.fear then we will help the terrorists to achieve their aims.
:12:33. > :12:34.The Sochi Games are a huge moment of national pride and prestige
:12:35. > :12:41.involving huge investment in a new roads, new railways, effectively an
:12:42. > :12:44.entire new winter resort. The rest of the world has been looking on and
:12:45. > :12:47.seeing controversy over corruption, the release of political prisoners
:12:48. > :12:57.and, above all, a bitter, bitter row between the West and Russia over gay
:12:58. > :13:00.rights. That remains a philosophical divide on a day when Mr Putin said
:13:01. > :13:07.gays were welcome at the Olympics but they should leave the kids in
:13:08. > :13:20.peace. So, was all the money, the risk, the controversy, really worth
:13:21. > :13:27.it? It's a huge project and a huge gamble but already one that Mr Putin
:13:28. > :13:30.thinks he is winning. Scientists were a great sleeping
:13:31. > :13:34.giant in space this week. The Rosetta spacecraft has been in
:13:35. > :13:41.hibernation, orbiting around the earth for two years. It's on a
:13:42. > :13:45.mission to catch up with the comet speeding through space. It is hoped
:13:46. > :13:53.it will help form an idea of how the solar system looked before the
:13:54. > :13:58.pundits were formed. A giant mass of ice and rock
:13:59. > :14:03.hurtling through space. It hails from the dawn of the solar system
:14:04. > :14:11.and is the target for one of the riskiest missions ever attempted.
:14:12. > :14:17.The Rosetta spacecraft launched a decade ago was the start of an epic
:14:18. > :14:21.journey. But for the past few years, it has been in deep hibernation. Its
:14:22. > :14:26.instruments have been shut down to save energy for the final phase of
:14:27. > :14:31.its mission. Now, it's time to come back online. Let's use this virtual
:14:32. > :14:36.reality studio to understand how the spacecraft wakes up. Right now, it's
:14:37. > :14:41.more than 800 million kilometres away from Earth. First of all, an
:14:42. > :14:47.internal alarm clock goes off, triggering heaters so it can warm
:14:48. > :14:50.up. Aircraft then stops spinning by fire in its thrusters. Once
:14:51. > :14:56.stabilised, it uses navigational instruments to find Earth and angles
:14:57. > :15:00.towards it. Only then can extend its message back home. For the
:15:01. > :15:04.scientists who built some of Rosetta's instruments, it's going to
:15:05. > :15:07.be an anxious wait. Absolutely everything does ride on this
:15:08. > :15:13.particular stage the mission being successful. Have to get control back
:15:14. > :15:19.of the satellite, so we can start it, on its journey to actually
:15:20. > :15:27.rendezvous with the comet. Rosetta should catch up with the comet later
:15:28. > :15:31.this week -- later this year. It will travel at incredible speeds and
:15:32. > :15:36.it will have altered itself down on the icy surface, so it doesn't fly.
:15:37. > :15:42.Nothing like this has ever been attempted before. We are excited
:15:43. > :15:47.about landing on a comet. They act as a time travel Capshaw from the
:15:48. > :15:52.start of the solar system and contain the earliest water and
:15:53. > :15:58.organic material that was there before the planets formed.
:15:59. > :16:03.Understanding comets could answer some of the biggest questions in
:16:04. > :16:07.science and could shed light on how our planets came to be and even how
:16:08. > :16:12.life started here on earth. This week, we here have been
:16:13. > :16:19.mourning the death of a friend and much valued and highly regarded
:16:20. > :16:23.colleague, Komla Dumor. Komla was from Ghana and presented programmes
:16:24. > :16:29.here on the BBC and died of a heart attack at his home in London. He was
:16:30. > :16:35.just 41. The guy named president described him as his country's lift
:16:36. > :16:42.to the world. -- the President of Ghana. Nelson Mandela's daughter
:16:43. > :16:46.called in Africa's shining star. He was a brilliant broadcaster with a
:16:47. > :16:53.big personality and an even bigger heart. His friend and colleague
:16:54. > :17:07.looks back at the career of Komla Dumor.
:17:08. > :17:10.Welcome to Focus on Africa. That rich voice, his huge personality,
:17:11. > :17:17.put him at the heart of Focus on Africa. Always impeccably dressed
:17:18. > :17:23.and ever the professional, he changed the way the story of Africa
:17:24. > :17:27.is told. The most important thing for me is to know what I'm talking
:17:28. > :17:33.about, though the stories. The cool factor doesn't hurt, does it? In
:17:34. > :17:40.just a few hours, kick off is just if few hours from now. He was
:17:41. > :17:46.proudly from Ghana. Here at the World Cup four years ago, he was
:17:47. > :17:50.born in 1972. He started his career as a traffic reporter before going
:17:51. > :17:56.on to be named Ghana journalist of the year in 2003. He then came to us
:17:57. > :18:02.here at the BBC in 2006, working first for radio and then television.
:18:03. > :18:08.On screen, he was polished and professional. Behind the scenes, he
:18:09. > :18:18.was a friend to everyone, always finding time for a hug and a halo.
:18:19. > :18:23.-- hello. This is the BBC's new broadcasting house and this is where
:18:24. > :18:33.he used to start to dominate his day in the morning. -- start his day.
:18:34. > :18:39.Here is the editor of Focus on Africa. You worked on radio and
:18:40. > :18:45.television with Komla. What did he mean to you? Komla personifies our
:18:46. > :18:53.bond. He is the benchmark, the anchor, the ambition, the model. His
:18:54. > :19:02.generosity was boundless because he gave a lot. This is where the BBC's
:19:03. > :19:09.programme presenters sit. Quite often, he would inspire his fellow
:19:10. > :19:13.colleagues at the start of their workday. You were one of the people
:19:14. > :19:18.he would say hello to. What will your lasting memory of him be? Two
:19:19. > :19:23.years ago, when we just started training to be on TV, that's when
:19:24. > :19:27.the Tanzania family accident happened in Zanzibar and I was asked
:19:28. > :19:32.to talk about it. I had never been on TV and I said, I can't do it. I
:19:33. > :19:36.ended up not doing it and then I didn't realise Komla noticed out and
:19:37. > :19:42.called me later and said, why didn't you do it? I said I have never done
:19:43. > :19:46.TV before. He said, never say no. Go for it. You will never know until
:19:47. > :19:52.you do it. That's one thing I will always remember. Never say no.
:19:53. > :19:58.That's why today I said yes. His legacy living on already. As much as
:19:59. > :20:04.he meant to do that -- to those of us inside the BBC, grew one's impact
:20:05. > :20:10.reached far beyond this office. I have been here a few hours and it's
:20:11. > :20:14.clear something special is happening. He was passionate about
:20:15. > :20:22.journalism. A combination of sharp intellect and charm that everyone
:20:23. > :20:26.wanted to talk to him. Is it that sense of responsibility at the time
:20:27. > :20:32.it happened? You were president at the time. Does that drive the
:20:33. > :20:43.position you have? Maybe. Perhaps guilt? Not guilt. Whatever guilt I
:20:44. > :20:48.had run away. Everyone got the same Komla treatment. The former UN
:20:49. > :20:50.Secretary General Kofi Anand is one of the more recent to pay tribute to
:20:51. > :20:57.Komla, saying: Earlier, the country's president
:20:58. > :21:14.said: Folks, that's all from the
:21:15. > :21:21.programme. A big man who lives behind a big legacy, he influenced a
:21:22. > :21:25.generation and changed the way the world sees the continent he loved
:21:26. > :21:32.and was so proud. That's the latest BBC News. He will be remembered as
:21:33. > :21:35.an exceptional journalist, a dear friend but, above all, a husband, a
:21:36. > :21:45.son and a father. Komla Dumor or who died this week.
:21:46. > :22:10.That's all for this week. Goodbye for now.
:22:11. > :22:11.Schoolies winds causing problems on Saturday. The second half of the