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Welcome to Reporters. From here in the newsroom, we send out | :00:00. | :00:26. | |
correspondence to bring us the best stories. In this week's programme, | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
the human avalanche. Tom Burrage meets African migrants risking | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
everything to cross into Europe from Morocco. On this side of the border | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
fence, which stretches for 11,000 kilometres, we are in Spain. On the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
other side is Morocco, Africa. We meet the American man who is father | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
was killed in a mass shooting, running for office to try to change | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the nation's gun laws. It is still difficult to think that somebody | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
could have so much hate in their heart to go and shoot in a church at | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
elderly people at 10am and kill them. Getting smarter, Sarah | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Rainsford reports from one of the world's list connected countries on | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Cuba's internet revolution. And, Jane O'Brien follows the seven ton | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
dinosaur fossil on a road trip across the UK. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
They are stranded in a kind of no man's land inside North Africa, but | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
within touching distance of Europe. Thousands of African migrants are | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
living on a hill in the mountains of Morocco. All that separates them | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
from Europe is a huge border fence built by Spain to keep them out. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Spanish border authorities have said that what they call a human | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
avalanche has tried to cross that fence in recent weeks. | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
A home in a would, in the mountains of North Africa, where they wait. | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
Hungry and desperate to enter a tiny piece of Europe, which they can see | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
down below. Lenny has been living in the forest for four years. 11 of the | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
living here? He travelled away from Cameroon, but now he is trapped. I | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
am a prisoner, because I can't go in the street, I can't just walk in the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
street, they can catch me at any time. Prisoner, and that is why I | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
decided to come in the forest to live. There are thousands living | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
here. An unwelcome community within touching distance of their ultimate | :02:49. | :03:00. | |
goal, Europe. For migrants, the mountain is like... This fence, | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
which stretches from 11.5 kilometres, separate Spain from | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Morocco. It is eight metres high, but the markets have tactics and | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
techniques which have driven effective. In recent weeks, hundreds | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
at a time have scaled the fence, filmed by the police, who call it a | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
human avalanche. Spain is spending more on policing its border, but the | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
Spanish government's representative says the European Union needs to | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
take action to help the country control one of Europe's most | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
southern borders. For those that cross, there is little work. But | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
there is somewhere to sleep. This overcrowded immigration centre. Life | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
here is not all that easy. It is very difficult. No work, nothing to | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
sustain full living over here. We are just like beggars. Some told me | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
they dream of life in Britain, but the authorities here plan to send | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
most back to the country where their journey began. This city managers | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
met tens of thousands of crossings from Morocco every day. It is now | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
calling on European partners for help. To stop those on the mountain | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
who are planning their illegal attempt to enter Europe and Spain. | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
Syrian soldiers, backed by Hezbollah fighters, drove rebels from the | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
agent Kristian town of mother love this week. 60 Kristian children and | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
teachers were also injured in an attack on a school in Damascus `` | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Christian. These take place on a daily basis. Syrian Christians say | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
they are not the only one suffering in this war. But, the question | :05:07. | :05:23. | |
community feels persecuted. For Syria's Christians, the start of | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Holy Week is it time to hold fast to rituals. Especially such joyous | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
occasions in the saddest of times. Memories to treasure for young and | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
old. After years of crisis, they hold the left French high, exclaims | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
the patriarch. Waving a symbol of peace `` the olive branch. But there | :05:49. | :06:01. | |
is no escaping reminders of war. A visiting peace delegation takes up | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
the front pews of the church. They have come from countries as diverse | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
as Iran and Pakistani, Britain and Australia. A peace activist is among | :06:09. | :06:22. | |
them. The only way forward for Syria, as through Northern Ireland, | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
is through dialogue and reconciliation. There is no peace | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
now, just daily violence. A mortar round struck a Christian school this | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
week. It was just a few hundred metres from the church. 60 children | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
and teachers were injured. This nine`year`old waits for surgery on | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
her leg. She tells me it is broken and burning. You are a brave girl, I | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
say. TRANSLATION: Yes, we are brave, but what does it mean? All the | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
children were injured, a lot of blood spilt on the floor in our | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
courtyard. And our principle is in surgery now. A lot of teachers were | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
injured. She and her classmates were playing in their schoolyard in the | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Christian quarter of the old city when a mortar landed. Dozens now | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
strike Damascus every day, believed to be fired by rebels. The Syrian | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Army pounds their positions on the edge of the city. In Syria now, the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
attacks take place on a daily basis. Some are targeted, some like this | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
are indiscriminate. Kristian say they are not the only ones suffering | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
in this brutal law. `` Christians say. For Christians, the pain over | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
their individual losses is deepened by their anxiety over the fate of | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
their entire community. This week, St Pauls Church in Damascus was full | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
of sorrow for Father Franz, a Dutch Jesuit priest murdered in the city | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
of Homs. A towering figure who inspired by his courage and | :07:55. | :08:06. | |
commitment to this country. Another leading Jesuit was kidnapped by | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Islamists last year. Two bishops are also in captivity. I am afraid about | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
the future of the Christian community. The majority of | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Christians, if they had the possibility to get out of Syria and | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
to be elsewhere, they would leave. On the other hand, some people who | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
made the decision to stay. For Christians, this week marks the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
death and resurrection of Jesus. Now, they also pray for the revival | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
of their country and their place within it. | :08:39. | :08:52. | |
There is a rising wave of anti`Semitism in France forcing Jews | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
to leave? A major turning point in France was the murder of a teacher | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
and three students at a Jewish school in Toulouse, two years ago. | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Many who leave also blamed changes in French society sparked by Arab | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
immigration. We report from Paris on Jews who are becoming afraid of | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
being Jews. This doctor is a successful dentist, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
married to an equally accomplished doctor, and he is the president of | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the Jewish community for the greater Paris region. This summer, he will | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
leave France. The house has been sold, the family and his five | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
children will leave with him. On a 1`way ticket to Israel. TRANSLATION: | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
It is not just the attacks, it is the looks, the insults, the pension | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
you feel every day, until life becomes more and more difficult. In | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Hebrew, emigrating to Israel is known as Aliya. 63% more left last | :09:51. | :10:09. | |
year than how many left into 2012. TRANSLATION: They love Israel, and | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
many feel unwelcome here in France. With the economy going so badly, | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
many ask, why stay? This is what many hope to leave behind. A rally | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in Paris in January, the day before Holocaust Memorial Day. At least | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
17,000 people marched, Jews! Get out of France, they shout. It is not | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
just Jews who are leaving France, plenty of other communities are | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
leaving as world. With record unemployment at 11%, compared to 6% | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
in Israel, perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised that more and more | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
young French Jews are thinking of emigrating. The Israeli government | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
is now actively encouraging the immigration of French Jews, with | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
more aid for those who move, and wider recognition of diplomas and | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
qualifications. This rabbi told me he is not unduly worried by recent | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
trends. I get phone calls all the time, saying that it is going | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
crazy, but at the same time, this is only a small percentage. It always | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
existed, and sometimes there are even more numbers. Perhaps it is a | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
matter of perception. An EU survey published recently suggest that 40% | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
of Jews in France will now avoid wearing clothing that identifies | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
them. Jews, afraid to be Jewish. It is the debate that returns after | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
every mass shooting in the United States, would greater controls on | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
gun ownership save lives or limit freedom? There are fewer hot topics | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
in American politics, and for one candidate, there is a personal | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
connection. In August 20 12, six people were shot dead at a Sikh | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
temple. The son of one of the victims is wanting to make his voice | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
heard. He made three calls, each were recorded, and then he took the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
fight to the gunmen. The whole time, my dad is crying, trying his best | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
with the knife. And being shot. He had five gunshots, in all different | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
directions. He was laid to rest here. That emergency call, with the | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
chilling ending, was captured on tape. We have offices there. The | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
temple 's president and founder, one of six victims, one of six victims | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
of a white supremacist. `` officers. It is still difficult to | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
think that someone would have so much hate in the heart to go and | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
shoot at 10am at elderly people and kill them. The people of the | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
community stood alongside the Sikh community after the shootings, but | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
he says that after other mass shootings, the administration 's | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
embrace was quite cool. I was quite disappointed, in the president not | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
showing up and been part of the leadership in this situation. He was | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
in Sandy Hook and Aurora to help clear the narrative. I was | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
disappointed in the federal government 's ability to act. Some | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
rules need to change. Specifically changing the gun laws? Yes. Now, he | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
is turning his frustration with a lack of progress on the gun`control | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
issue in a run for the US Congress. He is planning to challenge the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
former presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, in a district where voters are | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
attached to their guns. I love the smell of gunpowder. As the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
prospective Democratic congressman himself. On this visit to a local | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
firing range, his call for universal background checks on gun owners | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
falls on polite but death ears. ``deaf. It is too expensive, and | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
will affect the good guys like you and I. What about those defects? A | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
famous singer was shot and wounded at the temple when he was visiting. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
He needs constant care 20 months on. It reminds me that that little | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
thing that came out of a gun has a huge impact. Not only cowboys and | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Indians having a little game, it gives me that fuel to keep going and | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
striving for change. The medical challenges huge, but it is a tough | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
and political struggle that this man now faces. He hopes that a campaign | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
driven by the heart will help to change minds. | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
Cuba is getting smarter, but slowly, it is one of the least connected | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
countries in the Western Hemisphere. Only a privileged few have access to | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
the Internet and they are only getting the hang of smart phones | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
now. Cuban officials who restrict the flow of information so they are | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
working to change that by opening up access to the Internet. | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
Cuba is slowly playing catch up with the modern world. It is six years | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
since people here were permitted to own mobile phones. Now, they have | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
been allowed e`mail on them. Some queued for seven hours to sign up | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
for the service, and make their phones a little smarter. Many say | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
they want e`mail to stay in touch with family living abroad. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
TRANSLATION: It is cheaper than phone calls, but also because we | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
want to progress a bit more. And have it the same as the rest of the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
world. Yet, Cuban phones are still not hooked up to the Internet. This | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
is one of the least connected countries in the Western Hemisphere. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Next to the queue at a phone office here, that is one of the latest | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
access centres, people here can now get online. It is a new service with | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
300 of these places opened across the country in the past year. It is | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
expensive, $4.5 to be online for one hour. If you're a state worker here, | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
that is a weak salary. People are finding funds, somehow. This man | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
saves up to come here because, like a vast majority of Cubans, he is not | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
allowed the Internet at home. This a big opening. The price is a problem. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
This man says he would like to read the news and download books while he | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
is online. But, it is expensive, so he sticks to the most urgent thing, | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
e`mail. Communist Cuba has always kept tight control on information. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Without access to the Internet, the revolution risks being left way | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
behind economically. Officials insist that access for all is | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
coming. They will not say when. TRANSLATION: It is about | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
investment. Every service costs money and we have to create | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
infrastructure for a quality products. Politically, the wheel is | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
there. Of course it is. `` the will. Cubans have been finding their | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
way around restrictions, there are no Internet cafes here, but a | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
booming black market in loading flash drives. You can get everything | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
here, from films to magazines. It is like surfing the web. Sometimes you | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
will get the real thing. These people have discovered a network | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
left open by mistake and are frantically logging onto it. It is | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
slow, this man tells me, but something. And, it is free. The main | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
thing, they can make the most of the connection before it is discovered, | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
and before it disappears. It is 65 million years old, weighs | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
about seven tons, and came to the end of a four Day Rd trip across the | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
USA this week. An almost complete fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex was | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
discovered in a museum in Montana, and transferred to the Smithsonian. | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
It has taken months of travelling and careful packing. In a basement | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
at the Museum of the Rookies, one of the most delicate packing jobs in | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
history is under way. This is part of the pelvis of the T`Rex. ``Rocky | :18:50. | :19:10. | |
Mountains. 16 boxes filled with dinosaur bones. The | :19:11. | :19:11. | |
66`million`year`old remains of a T`Rex, down for the Natural History | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Museum in Washington. This doesn't come along very often. It's pretty | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
much a once`in`a`lifetime moment to stand here and pack up the dinosaur | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
and ship it across the country. Most museums, if they are lucky, get one | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
shot at this. The Wankel is named after Cathy Wankel, a rancher who | :19:25. | :19:38. | |
found the bones in 1988. We could tell as soon as it was exposed, that | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
it was one of the most complete skeletons ever found. It includes | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
the first example of a complete T`Rex forearm. The science of | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
discovery can be pretty basic. Always armed with a pickaxe and a | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
pocket knife, those are my tools. Montana is dinosaur country, because | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
of its geology and climate. The fossils are thrown to the Earth 's | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
surface. But how do scientists know if they find one? Just put your face | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
on it. It sticks. Try your tongue on the rock. It doesn't stick. So you | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
can tell dinosaur bones from rocks by putting your tongue on it. Many | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
have left Montana, but few have been packed with so much care. It has | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
taken the best part of the week to get to this stage. Hundreds of T`Rex | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
bones. Some just tiny fragments, all individually wrapped and ready for | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
shipping. The question now is how to get them to Washington. The bones | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
are being transported in a huge, climate`controlled truck. It has | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
added security systems. And the journey across the US is under | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
constant satellite surveillance. Knowing that that skeleton is packed | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
well, it is on that transport to Washington, I can't wait to meet it | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
on the other end. This bronze cast gives an idea of how it will look | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
fully assembled. The first time in 66 million years the nation's T`Rex | :21:17. | :21:33. | |
will stand on its own two feet. That is all from Reporters this week. | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
Goodbye for now. Mixed fortunes weatherwise as we | :21:35. | :21:57. | |
head into Easter Day. The bulk of the UK will stay dry, I think, but | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
the best of the sunshine will be in the north, in southern areas, there | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
is an increasing risk of wet weather initially. The reason is | :22:10. | :22:10. |