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Welcome to Reporters, from the world's newsroom, we send out | :00:00. | :00:28. | |
correspondence to bring you the best stories from across the globe. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
The new frontline in war against Al Qaeda. There is fire coming back in | :00:36. | :00:47. | |
this direction. We joined African militants fighting in Somalia. And, | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
out of the ashes of Libya's bloody civil war. Changing chemistry, we | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
investigate how greenhouse gases are making our seas more toxic, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
threatening mass extinctions. This is more man`made CO2, it is absorbed | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
into the sea water and is turning it more acidic. And, 70 years after the | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
great escape, Robert Holl joins ceremonies in Poland to remember the | :01:20. | :01:37. | |
50 men who never made it out. `` the `` Robert Hall. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Africa has become the latest front in the war on terror against Al | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Qaeda. African Union troops are engaged in a fierce battle against | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Islamist militants linked to Al Qaeda in Somalia. The group, known | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
as al`Shabab, control more territory than any other Al Qaeda affiliate in | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the world. They have been waging war in Somalia for a number of years, | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
and were behind last year's attack on the Westgate shopping mall in | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Nairobi. Mark Doyle joined African Union forces on the frontline | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
against al`Shabab. Soldiers from Uganda had four battle | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
against radical Islamist rebels in Somalia. `` head for. Africa is the | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
new front line in the war against Al Qaeda. Brute force is being used | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
against Islamist insurgents, not only here in Somalia, but in the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
West African nations of Nigeria and Mali as well. These soldiers, | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
marching through the night, face a very powerful Al Qaeda affiliate | :02:55. | :03:08. | |
called al`Shabab, all 'the boys'. Somali government troops are | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
involved as well. They are tough fighters, but they sometimes lacked | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
discipline and are always short of equipment. Without the Ugandans, the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
Somali army wouldn't stand chance. The Ugandans are part of a 22,000 | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
strong African force in Somalia, paid for by the west, to do a job | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
western governments want. `` the West. As the armoured column | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
approaches a target town, al`Shabab are ready. The soldiers I'm with | :03:40. | :03:54. | |
know what is coming. We are very close to the town now, and there | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
appears to be a firefight about 100 metres in front of us. There is | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
another African Union vehicle in front of us, and they appear to be | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
engaging across the embankment where the town is, and there is some fire | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
coming back in this direction. Some of that was coming in this | :04:17. | :04:17. | |
direction. Shoot straight, kill the enemy. | :04:18. | :04:42. | |
Bullets rain on the Ugandans. Fighting vehicles are caught in a | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
traffic jam from hell. This is the main shopping street in the town. | :04:51. | :05:05. | |
Look what has happened to it now. And al`Shabab signboard, the Koran | :05:06. | :05:21. | |
is the only path. After fighting his way into town, the general took | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
control. What I am sure of is that I have adequate manpower, over 1500 | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
soldiers. They won't do it to us. The battle has taken its toll. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Civilians suffer more. This woman's Civilians suffer more. This woman's | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
family was hit by a mortar round. She is the only surviving member. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
The attack was only part of a broader offensive against al`Shabab | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
across an area where 3 million people live. Expect more civilian | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
casualties and more refugees. The governor of the region thanked the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Ugandans for coming, but I put it to him that it was Somalia's deep clan | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
or tribal divisions that meant help was needed to shore it up. Would you | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
say that Somalia needs foreign support? Who is going to teach our | :06:23. | :06:36. | |
youngest how to make suicide, how to make an IED? There are a foreign | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
fighters here. That is the tragedy of Somalia. Foreign troops dig in, | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
foreign Jihadist battle against them. The Ugandans have made a | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
significant military advance by reaching this town, but they don't | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
yet control the whole town. Very soon, the annual rains will come in | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
these big machines of war will be bogged down. Then, al`Shabab will | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
surely regroup to fight, albeit in a more distant part of what often | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
feels like an ungovernable country. It was the city that saw some of the | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
fiercest fighting in Libya's bloody civil war. Now, Misrata is starting | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
to tell a different story, far removed from these sporadic violence | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
in various other parts of Libya, the country's third largest city is | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
getting a name for itself for its safety and booming economy. | :07:38. | :07:49. | |
Misrata witness some of the heaviest and most destructive battles during | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
the war. The gaping scars in the epicentre of the fighting, still | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
remain. They are real building around it now. `` rebuilding. There | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
is construction across the board, and locals are investing in | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
everything from hotels to shopping centres. TRANSLATION: This project | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
is a supermarket in them all for Misrata. There are more | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
opportunities here for economy growth, because it is a secure city. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
It is all being done by businessmen here. It is the gleaming finished | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
projects like this that are the talk of the town, like this new terminal | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
for Misrata's airport. And, the city's new centrepiece, a roughly $2 | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
million investment from Misrata's eager shoppers. As much as Libya's | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
growing increasingly bitter, life is a little sweeter here. Misrata has | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
long been known for businessmen and traders. Unlike the rest of Libya, | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
we get the sense of long`term planning and optimism about the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
future here. It will understand that the Central government is weak, and | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
they have to do it for themselves. Young men seem confident in the | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
direction that their city is going on. It is not like before. Things | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
have become bitter, you can see that with your eyes, you can see that. | :09:25. | :09:36. | |
There is a good secure situation, it is stable in Misrata, and the people | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
have money. Life in Misrata is easier than in other cities. A | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
haunting reminder of the cost of war still lingers here. It will be | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
sometime before is all fixed, but for the people of this city, they | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
have already progressed. From Libya's post`war reconstruction | :09:52. | :10:03. | |
to Afghanistan's presidential elections take place there next | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
month, marking the first democratic chance for power since the American | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
led invasion in 2001. The Taliban have vowed to disrupt the poll, but | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
if Afghanistan descends into conflict again, few have more to | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
lose than young women. Some have now become singers, musicians and | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
artists, something they could never have done under the Taliban. | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
The Afghans of all of this disease sing and studied together at the | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
Institute of music. Among them, this girl, not quite 16, the ambition is | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
to be a pop star. If not a star, at least a singer and musician. As a | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
woman in Afghanistan, that is not easy. Afghanistan is better than the | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
past, ten years ago. It is better now. It is difficult. Even in my | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
family, they do not like this. Just my mum and dad support me. They | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
don't like it but it is my vision and my dreams so they support me. | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
The orchestra is mostly comprised of street children. For years, Nick was | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
forbidden under the Taliban. Some of the children here will form in | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
London this summer. I have a strong belief in the power of music. It can | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
contribute to the rebuilding of Afghanistan. You can see and witness | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
what is happening in social media. You can see the proof in this | :11:52. | :12:03. | |
country. We are not ready to return back. At this centre in Kabul, these | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
female artist hope their vision and voices will not be silenced again as | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
they were for so long. They say there was a sense of powerlessness | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
among women of Afghanistan before the Taliban were finally toppled. As | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
reflected in paintings like this one, a meditation from beneath the | :12:24. | :12:35. | |
burger. `` Burka. Women in the countryside still don't have the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
same chances. The biggest chance is better education. Places like this | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
would have been unthinkable under the Taliban. It is a measure of how | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
much life has changed in Kabul after the past 13 years. This new | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
generation would be an willing to give up the advances they have made. | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
To the seas of New Guinea where a search into climate change is | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
showing omissions are not only causing global warming but are also | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
making the seas more acidic. A report seen by the BBC suggests that | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the chemistry of the sea is changing so fast it could lead to mass | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
extinction. Our reporter has visited the research site to find out more. | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
Corel briefs. The most diverse natural systems in the seas. They | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
are under threat from the weight we live. Omissions of carbon dioxide | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
are unquestionably changing the chemistry of seawater, according to | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
a UN report next week. We need to know how the oceans will react as | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
more of the carbon dioxide dissolves into the seawater making it more | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
acidic. That is what has brought us here to this remote spot off the tip | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
of Papua New Guinea to see a unique site that offers a glimpse into the | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
future of the sea. The sea bed is bubbling. The gas is pure carbon | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
dioxide from volcanic rock. The bubbles turn the seawater locally or | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
acidic. Part of the site shows the same level of acidity predicted for | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
the world 's oceans later this century as mankind continues to omit | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Co2. It seems here that between a third and half of corals cannot | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
survive. In Australia, a new ?20 million centre employs industrial | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
technology to predict how Corel will react to higher Co2 and | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
temperatures. We have got Corel and sponges from different PCs and what | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
we are looking at is trying to tease apart the combined effects of ocean | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
acidification. Sponges like this might thrive under high Co2 but | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
other creatures are likely to be wiped out. This is a baby coral and | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
very vulnerable to acidic situations. It is one example of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
many where scientists are finding more and more that the lot of marine | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
species and ecosystems are likely to be highly affected. It is clear that | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
the branching corals that shelter fish cannot cope with extra Co2. | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
They are missing from the Reef. The scientists warn our emissions could | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
make countless species of sea life extinct. | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
It was the ultimate jackpot for the taxman. Last year during an | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
inspection, German investigators found a priceless collection of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
thousands of pieces of art in the selling of the apartment of a art | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
dealer in Munich. The stash of paintings included masterpieces by | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
18, sedan and Picasso. Many were thought lost for ever. Some were | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
believed looted by the Nazis. The BBC has had a chat to view the | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
collection. In this secret vault is a treasure | :16:28. | :16:39. | |
trove of pictures. Lost until now for more than half a century. Some | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
of the artwork is not in good condition that we have excellent | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
restorations. Bilirubin 2000 works of found crammed into the home of a | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
man who was The Sun of a wartime art dealer. Among them, a portrait by | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
Renoir. They have all been lost for decades until now. Some pictures | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
were bought legitimately by the father but some had been looted from | :17:12. | :17:26. | |
Jewish families. This 18 would fetch 5 million pounds at auction. It | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
shows Waterloo Bridge in London, they did in 1903. We showed a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
photograph of it to one of the world leading art experts. He consulted | :17:40. | :17:51. | |
the catalogue of all known Monets. Up until now, we only had knowledge | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
of this painting. Now, with this photograph, it is wonderful. We have | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
knowledge of the work in colour. The man hid the paintings in his house, | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
Spidey 's `` spiders crawling over the masterpieces. Some of these | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
treasures were stored for decades. Now the task is to find out how much | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
of those works he legitimately owned and how much was looted from others. | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
It is very difficult at this point to find the one`time owners of most | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
of these pieces of art. The survivors were children at the | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
time, how should they remember precisely what a pity looked like | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
hanging in their living room 70 years ago? Womack these works are | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
artistic treasures but a legal and moral nightmare. | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
From stories of Nazi art to Nazi Germany. Most of us know the story | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
of the great escape when 76 allied officers tunnelled their way out of | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
a high security prisoner of war camp in Poland. This week saw the 70th | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
anniversary of escape and ceremonies were held to remember the 50 men who | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
were then killed either Gestapo. 50 photographs carried down the | :19:21. | :19:39. | |
track by 50 of today's Army. 50 men who fought back from inside the wire | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
and who paid the price. Under the blind, was covered foundations are | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
all that remains of the camp which inspired Hollywood to tell its | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
story. The story of an ambitious plan to tunnel out of what was | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
billed as an escape was and allow a record number of airmen to head for | :20:07. | :20:18. | |
home. You had 30 feet of sand above you what we were used to that is | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
that it did not worry me. When the fall happened further up, I was | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
lying on my trolley and I thought, what a way to go. The tunnel emerged | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
just short of the treeline. 76 prisoners got through before the | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
alarm was raised. Britain, Poland and the Commonwealth paid tribute to | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
the prisoners courage and ingenuity. The subsequent executions are still | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
a painful memory for those who laid their wreaths. And those who | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
remember watching friends being taken away. The Gestapo appeared and | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
they took away two or three, four or they took away two or three, four or | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
five from different cells and so on. This was very ominous because they | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
were not just taking you back to the. This is the exact location of | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the event that unfolded 70 years ago. The lion of the tunnel showing | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
just how close it was to the nearest guard post. Today has been about | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
remembering that story but it has also celebrated the spirit of those | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
who never returned. That is all from Reporters. Goodbye | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
for now. As was the case on Saturday, it | :21:47. | :22:12. | |
looks as though Sunday it will deliver some warm sunshine fought | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
some part of the British Isles. You can tell the way that I am hedging | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
might remarks that not everybody will enjoy these conditions. It will | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
be yet again the eastern side of Scotland, the north`east of England | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
that may well have a | :22:27. | :22:27. |