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dedicated to everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
You can't argue with that, can you? Now on BBC News, it's time for | :00:07. | :00:22. | |
Reporters. Welcome to reporters, I am Philippa Thomas. From here, in | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
the world 's newsroom, we send out correspondence to bring you the best | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
stories from across the globe. In this week's programme, battling the | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
traffickers. Reporting from the Amazon on Colombia 's new weapon | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
against the rebels and the drugs trade. These combat hovercraft have | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
been brought from Southampton to the jungle. They will give them a | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
crucial advantage in chasing drug smugglers and insurgents. As South | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Africa votes, we ask whether the Oscar Pistorius trial demonstrates a | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
different rule for black and white South Africans. While rich white | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
people are more fearful of crimes, the bulk of victims are poor and | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
black. After the Typhoon, our correspondent returns to the scene | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
of the biggest typhoon ever to deal with the disaster six months on. And | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
the question of faith, we visit the mosque which is also a Catholic | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
cathedral. There is a new weapon in the war against Colombia's rebels | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
and drug traffickers. The authorities have begun deploying | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
combat hovercraft in some of Colombia's most troubled provinces. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Talks have been taking place between the Colombian government and the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
main rebel group about ending rebel involvement in the drugs trade, but | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
fighting goes on, with no ceasefire yet in place. Our correspondent has | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
been to these remote settlement with the navy, as it tries to tackle the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
traffickers. Deep in the jungle of southern Colombia, there is | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
something new on the river. Our vast, heavily armed group which can | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
reach places others can't get to. I have been given a first look as they | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
go into action. These British built combat have a craft have been | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
brought from Southampton to the Amazon jungle, and the navy is | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
hoping it will give them a crucial advantage in chasing drug smugglers | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
and insurgents here in the heart of the industry. Each hovercraft can | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
carry 14 marines and crew. We watch them practice and assault on a mock | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
camp. In this part of Colombia, they operate in areas where much of the | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
jungle is infiltrated by rebels. Both sides in this conflict have | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
committed human rights abuses. There have been allegations of corruption | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
in the military, and even collusion with drug traffickers. Without a | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
ceasefire, the war continues. TRANSLATION: These hovercraft are | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
going to change the whole dynamics of the war. Because up until now, we | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
have only been able to operate half the year. October to January, we | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
can't move, because the river levels drop so far that our boats hit the | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
rocks. At these hovercraft don't need high water, so we can cut off | :03:34. | :03:45. | |
their supply lines. TRANSLATION: I spoke to a pilot and asked how many | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
troops they can carry and what it is like to drive one on one of these | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
rivers. The maximum speed is 35 knots. It can carry six crew members | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
and eight combat troops. It is very exciting. The hull lift above the | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
surface. You can go at incredible speeds. Three months ago, the pilots | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
had never seen a hovercraft in their lives, nor had anyone else here. We | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
are going up the river with people watching us. When we stop on a | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
sandbank and deflate, the people are astonished because it is something | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
new. They have never seen anything like it. The pilot has a nickname | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
for the craft. Does he think of it as a he or she? for me, it's my | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
girl. I care for her very well because she is my new toy. I flew | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
west with the military to see one of their forward bases. Right on the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
border with Ecuador, where they are facing the deadly scourge. Mines. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
This was a controlled explosion, but the marines have had to create | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
dozens here, they are deployed to protect illegal crops. Peace talks | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
are under way, but there is no ceasefire. And if the deal is | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
signed, will that mean an end to Colombia's drug problem? We have to | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
be realistic. We should expect, as we have seen in the past, that some | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
crimes, and some criminal gangs, may pop up and appear in some areas, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
trying to keep up their activities. Back in town, I asked the Colombia | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
is if they had felt the effects of the violence. The whole culture has | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
grown up around the security problem. It is easy to get a gun and | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
use it. in town, I feel fine, but outside, the security situation is | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
terrible. The new hovercraft are unlikely to change that overnight. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
But they will add to the mounting pressure on insurgents and drug | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
traffickers to end the violence which has plagued Colombia for so | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
long. This week, South Africans went to the polls in the first vote since | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
the death of Nelson Mandela. Security has been a major election | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
issue for those who face everyday violence and sky high crime rates. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
The Oscar Pistorius trial has brought forward some uncomfortable | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
truths about matters like domestic violence and people arming | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
themselves in self`defence because they lack confidence in that police. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
As our correspondent reports from South Africa, few voters believe | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
that the law applies equally to everyone. Johannesburg Metro police | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
have arrested four Zimbabwean man... Police are bracing themselves | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
for more violent clashes tonight. Violence, gun crime, people living | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
in constant fear. The Oscar Pistorius trial is forcing South | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Africa to confront some uncomfortable truths. I fear my | :07:07. | :07:23. | |
children being harmed. My daughter being raped, my granddaughter being | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
raped. It is something that happens in this country. In my children's | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
life. I am all that is there for my children, other than their uncles | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
and aunts. But I have raised them on my own for 16 years. And I am the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
only person who can really take care of them. So I need self defence. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
Many South Africans resort to buying firearms to defend themselves | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
against would`be us. People like Sharleen, who is here to get her | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
down licence, have lost confidence in the police. As a woman, it is not | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
that easy to defend myself. Especially when most of the crime is | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
gang related. It is more than one person attack in you. So if you are | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
proficient in weapon use and confident in it, then you will be | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
able to take care of yourself and your family. 45 people are murdered | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
here everyday. The numbers are down but compared to other countries, | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
still high. The Oscar Pistorius trial and white crime in general | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
grabs headlines, but the truth is that why people are less likely to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
be attacked now in the new South Africa than under apartheid. So | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
while rich whites are more fearful of crime, the reality is that the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
bulk of victims are poor and black. In this township, one of the most | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
dangerous in the country, there is a feeling that the Justice system does | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
not work for ordinary people. The trial has raised concerns about | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
crime and safety in our society, what do you think about that? I | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
think in the last few months, someone was killed there. The police | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
station is two streets away from us. But their response was that we | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
are not safe. We don't trust our own crops. We live in fear in our own | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
homes. That's how it is. If I had shot my girlfriend I would be in | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
jail right now. Right now. With all my money and everything, I would | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
still be in jail. First degree murder. The only person ever to have | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
got bail for first degree murder. Back at home on the out skirts of | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
Johannesburg. The family has had to make its own security arrangements, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
at night her daughter organises the local neighbourhood watch. The | :10:01. | :10:12. | |
Internet is full of Oscar and writings on Oscar. It is unfair that | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
him as a known person and a celebrity, someone who people looked | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
up to, is getting all of this kind of attention. Whereas I had a break | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
in in my house, although not much was taken. It was a small case, I | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
understand. At the case was not even opened. So you obviously have the | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
feelings of self blame, why did I stay that long? You need to go back | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
and look at this issue. At the Oscar Pistorius case has forced South | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Africa to face up to its problems of domestic violence. I don't know what | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
exactly he hit me with. I was trying to defend myself. We were fighting. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Every eight hours a woman is murdered by her intimate partner. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
While I was lying there on the bed in the hospital, there was a big | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
light on my face. Then the decision came to me that I am going to die in | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
this house. I am really going to die if I don't move out. Because I had | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
been advised to move out. And then I decided on the hospital bed that I | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
am moving out. I didn't have a place to go. And the fear disappeared. On | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
that bed. She sought refuge in this orphanage. She became homeless | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
following the divorce from her abusive husband. What is it about | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
South African women that makes them feel so trapped, that they cannot | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
leave these abusive husbands and partners? Most of these women are | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
controlled by culture. They get married to make their parents proud. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
And some of the choices that... We do have knowledge. We get married | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
without knowing what your rights are. It's not about you, it's all | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
about a man. Because they say, you don't ask him where he comes from, | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
his word is final. For many in South Africa, the Oscar Pistorius case is | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
a distraction from fundamental problems facing the country. A lot | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
of families are going through the same thing as these families, and | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
they don't get the same treatment, their trials don't get televised. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
They don't get nearly the same scrutiny as he is. And I don't | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
really think it's there. Oscar Pistorius, and that is all that | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
really matters about this trial. Not the justice system working. It is | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
working now, one rich man and one beautiful girl. It's working now. | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
Who else is it going to work for? The case has brought renewed | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
attention to South Africa's problems. But there is a frustration | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
that politicians lack the will and the ability to deliver real change. | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
It was the biggest`ever to strike land at. Six months ago it hit the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
south`east of the Philippines, with a four metre high storm surge. More | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
than 6000 people died. Our reporter was one of the first foreign to | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
arrive on the scene and he has gone back to find out how people are | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
dealing with the aftermath of the disaster. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
On the Beach, south of the city, they have come to remember Francisco | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Cruise and his two sons. His widow lost them all when the huge wave | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
smashed into their house. Today would have been her son's 31st | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
birthday. It is really painful. I cannot describe the pain. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Sometimes, I wake up early in the morning and I pray and I thank God | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
she left my daughter with me. I cannot stand on my own without | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
them. Six months after the typhoon ripped this city apart, I have come | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
back to see what has happened and try to find some of those that | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
remain. Hello? Hello! How you? How are you? This is what it looked like | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
the last time I was here. His wife's body was stuck. Close by, a mass | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
grave was being filled with dozens of bodies. This region is clearly | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
still struggling. I try not to bring back the memory because it is very | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
painful. I just forget. Just move forward. I just try to avoid going | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
to the grave because when I go there, I weep. It is tough to | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
remember her again. I don't know what will happen. What is really | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
striking, coming back year after six months, is seeing how hard it is for | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
people in a developing country like the Philippines to recover after a | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
major disaster like this. Unlike in Britain or America, people he had no | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
insurance so they lost their homes, their cars, their fishing boats, and | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
now they have nothing. They have no means with which to start over | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
again. Getting people back to work and earning money is the key. This | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
scheme is run by Oxfam, with money donated eye people in Britain. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
20,000 fishing boats were destroyed by the typhoon `` by people in | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
Britain. Wives and widows are being paid to weave new fishing nets. With | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
help, people are slowly getting back on their feet. On our last day, we | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
come across a story almost too painful to tell. It is the story of | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
these people. The wave took away her whole family. She is only six years | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
old. She was grabbed from the raging waters, that in the same moment, he | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
lost his own wife and three children. TRANSLATION: Sometimes, | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
even when I'm drunk I still can't sleep. I see my children's faces | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
calling out to me for help. In my nightmares, they are asking, why | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
wasn't I able to save them? I was able to save others, why not them? | :17:13. | :17:25. | |
Without her parents, she faces a precarious future. Without his wife | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
and children, this man says he has no future. | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
A beacon of religious harmony in Spain has now become the centre of a | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
row over religious freedom. The unique and stunningly beautiful | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
religious building at Cordova is both a mosque and a cathedral. A | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
place where Islamic and Christian symbols sit side`by`side. Now, tens | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
of thousands of people in Spain has signed a petition to stop it | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
becoming the property of the Catholic Church. Our reporter has | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
more from Cordova. Welcome inside an architectural | :18:04. | :18:36. | |
jewel, a forest of pillars where Islamic and Christian building work | :18:37. | :18:55. | |
and symbols sit side`by`side. This is the oldest part of the building. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Built as a mosque in the eighth century by the Muslim Moorish rulers | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
who controlled as part of Spain. What makes this building unique is | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
that, bang in the centre is a cathedral, built in the 15th and | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
16th centuries by Spain's catholic kings. Today, Catholics attended | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
Mass here almost every day. No one currently owns the building, but the | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
church manages it and, under law, in two years it is set to become the | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
owner. Now, 330,000 people in an online petition have called on that | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
decision to be blocked and this is why. They are trying to change the | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
name and name it a cathedral, only cathedral. They are erasing the name | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
of mosque everywhere. Physically, inside the mosque is full of virgins | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
and Christian elements, more and more. For us, it is a manipulation | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
of history and memory of the building. The Spanish Catholic | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
Church recognises that this was a mosque, but says, for centuries it | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
has been a cathedral. The church, however, says the accusation that | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
they are trying to destroy the history of this building is unjust. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
TRANSLATION: It would be impossible to wipe out the history of this | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
building. We don't want to, it symbolises the story of Cordova and | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Spain. So what do the locals call it? Cathedral or mosque? Mosque. | :20:47. | :21:03. | |
Both. The biggest congregation are the tourists, and away from the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
controversy, the fact that most people regard this as a mosque and | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
cathedral is a unique selling point. It draws millions of visitors | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
every year. That's all from reporters this week | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
`` Reporters. Goodbye for now. Hello there. Saturday was a wild | :21:25. | :21:51. | |
day, we thought strong gale force winds. Plenty of blustery showers as | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
well and on Sunday it is a mixture of sunshine and showers. Perhaps not | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
as many as what we saw on Saturday. Plenty of | :22:05. | :22:05. |