:00:13. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:16. > :00:21.Jailed for fleeing demented violence - Afghanistan's imprisoned
:00:21. > :00:26.women and girls for a so-called moral crimes.
:00:26. > :00:34.No other Government things that running away is ensure area.
:00:34. > :00:39.Afghanistan stands alone in that and termination.
:00:39. > :00:43.Torture of the innocent, the United nation's human rights this area's
:00:43. > :00:48.children have been targeted and that President al-Assad should face
:00:49. > :00:54.charges of crimes against humanity. The man who got his life back,
:00:54. > :00:58.after a face, teeth, tongue and Jock transplant.
:00:58. > :01:02.Also coming up in the programme: Educating children out of extremism.
:01:02. > :01:12.How Nigeria holds a new wave of state schools will help the young
:01:12. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:25.to say no to militants. And the latest Enola -- box-office
:01:25. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:33.treasure. Hello and welcome.
:01:33. > :01:36.Far Afghan women, the decision to flee domestic abuse are forced
:01:36. > :01:41.prostitution mainland and in jail while their abusers walk free.
:01:41. > :01:44.Human Rights Watch says nearly 400 girls and women prisoners have been
:01:44. > :01:49.jailed for what are called moral crimes. The our organisation call
:01:49. > :01:54.such abuse the black eye on the face of a post Taliban Afghan
:01:54. > :01:57.Government. The international community promise
:01:57. > :02:02.that one of the things they would change in Afghanistan after the
:02:02. > :02:06.fall of the Taliban was a oppression of women. But the Human
:02:06. > :02:10.Rights Watch survey of women makes for grim reading. Some have been
:02:10. > :02:15.convicted of offences which were not even considered crimes anywhere
:02:15. > :02:19.else in the world, even in the most Conservative Islamic countries. The
:02:19. > :02:23.report they have been rate, for running away from violent or
:02:23. > :02:28.abusive marriages. But Afghan courts have confirmed these as
:02:28. > :02:33.crimes recently. The Afghan Supreme Court has said that the crime of
:02:34. > :02:40.running away can be found in shinier. But when we looked around
:02:40. > :02:47.the world, no other Government thinks that running away is in
:02:47. > :02:50.Sharia law. Afghanistan stands alone in that interpretation.
:02:50. > :02:57.of the stories in the report tell of women who are jailed after
:02:57. > :03:00.asking strangers far help, only to be turned into the police. After --
:03:00. > :03:08.or after fleeing families where they face constant sexual abuse
:03:08. > :03:12.from male relatives. Most of the time the cases, the punishment is
:03:12. > :03:19.10 years in prison. Why? Because she ran away from home without
:03:19. > :03:25.permission by the husband. Which in this case is not really part off at
:03:25. > :03:29.Dunlop. There has been some progress for women, particularly in
:03:29. > :03:34.education were women are now treated equally. But although
:03:34. > :03:38.President Karzai has spoken sympathetically about the women --
:03:38. > :03:42.a case of women jailed for running away, his presidential pardon has
:03:42. > :03:47.not been acted on in the majority of cases, so the women remain in
:03:47. > :03:51.jail. Just as reform has been slow in coming and was highly tried Atul
:03:51. > :03:56.until recently. Now the international community is seeking
:03:56. > :04:06.to reform Afghan justice, working through the constitution and a less
:04:06. > :04:08.
:04:08. > :04:13.harsh interpretation of Islamic law. But it is a slow process.
:04:13. > :04:17.Earlier I spoke to a member of the Afghan Parliament to defender the
:04:18. > :04:26.Government's laws regarding violence against women. We have a
:04:26. > :04:31.good love for women. For example we have lost far elimination of Women
:04:31. > :04:39.Against Women. But unfortunately the interpretation has been a
:04:39. > :04:44.problem but we still have women who because of running away, or for
:04:44. > :04:49.other reasons, they are in prison. But it has improved a lot. We have
:04:49. > :04:54.achieved a lot. We have a big number of women in Parliament. We
:04:54. > :05:03.have a few women in the Cabinet. We have a lot of girls, they are going
:05:03. > :05:07.to school and university. I think compared to the Taliban time, it is
:05:07. > :05:15.much better and we have achieved a lot. But still women suffer, that
:05:15. > :05:23.is true. Women suffer from violence. They are still at home. They do not
:05:23. > :05:28.have enough education. A lot of women, they cannot go to work. The
:05:28. > :05:33.problem is here. But we have achieved a lot. It is impossible to
:05:33. > :05:40.come here with 10 years before. talk about President cars side's
:05:40. > :05:43.law against violence against women. -- President Karzai. How worried
:05:44. > :05:50.are you about what is going to happen when international forces
:05:50. > :05:57.leave the country and 2014? award came back in Afghanistan, I
:05:57. > :06:07.am sure the women's situation and security will be very bad. I hope
:06:07. > :06:12.that this international community help us after 2014 and support the
:06:12. > :06:18.country end -- and especially the women in Afghanistan. There seems
:06:18. > :06:22.to be two injustices. While the women are jailed for a moral crimes,
:06:22. > :06:27.the perpetrators are not facing justice for at all. I am not sure
:06:27. > :06:32.about the report. This was only bandwith interviews with the
:06:32. > :06:35.victims in prison. It should do more investigated, to be sure that
:06:35. > :06:45.if the women in that prison is there just because of running away
:06:45. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:52.or if there is some other problem. The UN's human rights chief has
:06:52. > :06:56.told the BBC there is enough evidence to indict side they are's
:06:57. > :07:00.that there -- President Assad on charges of crimes against humanity.
:07:00. > :07:05.Navi Pillay says Syrian security forces have detained and tortured
:07:05. > :07:11.children. She was speaking before the news that Syria had agreed to
:07:11. > :07:19.Kofi Annan's ceasefire plan. In a place where we cannot name,
:07:19. > :07:23.with faces we cannot short, this is a kind of therapy first area's tell
:07:23. > :07:29.survivors. These are lessons organised by activists for children
:07:29. > :07:37.who can no longer go to school. Some have seen parents tried do we
:07:37. > :07:42.in the night. Others have fled from the bombardment of Homs. This child
:07:42. > :07:52.describes being at a March, hearing the chanting. And then the moment
:07:52. > :07:55.the army opened fire. Now in an exclusive interview, the UN's top
:07:55. > :08:00.human rights official has accused the Syrian Government of
:08:00. > :08:04.deliberately targeting children. They have gone to the children --
:08:04. > :08:10.for the children in large numbers, detained and tortured. I have seen
:08:10. > :08:16.some of the evidence gathered by the commissioner. I have talk to
:08:16. > :08:21.parents and victims. It is just horrendous. The Syrian Government
:08:21. > :08:30.denies the accusations and accuses a High Commissioner of bias. But
:08:30. > :08:33.under international law, does back -- President al-Assad responsible.
:08:33. > :08:38.That is the evidence. There is enough evidence pointing to the
:08:38. > :08:45.fact that many of these acts committed by the security forces
:08:45. > :08:50.must have received the approval of complicity it at the highest level.
:08:51. > :08:56.Because the President can issue a single order, released all these
:08:56. > :09:00.children and stop the killings. High Commissioner also criticised
:09:00. > :09:04.abuses by opposition groups. But the UN and human rights our
:09:04. > :09:07.organisation say the majority of violations are being carried out by
:09:08. > :09:11.the Government side. Much of what bombs and bullets did to the bodies
:09:11. > :09:19.of children is simply too distressing to shore. And the
:09:19. > :09:29.trauma inflicted on young minds is being -- is beyond calculation. In
:09:29. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:57.Homs, a cameraman met a boy whose Is President al-Assad ever going to
:09:57. > :10:07.face action against his actions? One day he will face justice.
:10:07. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:10.in these days -- rooms in Syria, Justice as far away.
:10:10. > :10:14.UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has urged the Syrian President to
:10:14. > :10:21.immediately implement the six-point peace plan brokered by his
:10:21. > :10:23.predecessor Kofi Annan. Despite its pledge to sign up to the deal wish
:10:23. > :10:27.him as a pillar to Government troops from opposition cities, this
:10:27. > :10:33.latest verified reduce shows continuing Government bombardment
:10:33. > :10:37.in the city Homs. Elsewhere the Syrian army has regained control of
:10:37. > :10:45.another city after four days of fighting opposition activists take
:10:45. > :10:48.40 people died in that conflict. Australia's Communications Minister
:10:48. > :10:51.has called for an investigation into hacking and piracy. There was
:10:51. > :10:56.a report in the Australian Financial Review that news coverage
:10:56. > :10:59.has set up a unit to sabotage his competitors by hacking into the
:10:59. > :11:02.cause required for a subscription television and then make them
:11:02. > :11:09.available on the black market. News Corporation denies all the
:11:09. > :11:13.allegations. Poetic has met Cubans former
:11:13. > :11:22.revolutionary leader Castro father first time. The meeting came after
:11:22. > :11:25.the poll lead a huge open-air Mass in Revolution Square. He told that
:11:25. > :11:30.Yemen Government to give more rights to the Roman Catholic Church,
:11:30. > :11:33.especially the freedom to religious education in schools.
:11:33. > :11:37.Mahli's ousted President says he is safe and well and still in the
:11:37. > :11:43.country. In his first comments since last week's military Cook, he
:11:43. > :11:47.told the AFP news agency that he hoped peace and democracy would
:11:47. > :11:49.triumph and Mahli. He was forced into hiding after a group of
:11:49. > :11:55.soldiers seize control claiming they were unhappy with their way
:11:55. > :11:59.and a rising in the north of the country was being dealt with.
:11:59. > :12:03.And after being taken to court for alleged false advertising for the
:12:03. > :12:08.new iPad, Apple has offered to refund Australian customers who
:12:08. > :12:12.felt misled about his 40 capabilities. Australia's consumer
:12:12. > :12:17.watchdog began legal action because the Tablet does not work on America
:12:17. > :12:22.-- Australia's 40 network. An American gunshot victim has been
:12:22. > :12:30.given a new face, teeth, tongue and Jock and what is urgency is the
:12:30. > :12:34.most extensive facial transplant ever performed. -- in what surgeons
:12:35. > :12:39.say. The man, Richard Lee Norris, has been a Nicholas says he was
:12:39. > :12:44.horribly disfigured an airgun accident 15 years ago. One week
:12:44. > :12:49.after the operation, doctors say he is recovering well.
:12:49. > :12:53.Surgeons at the University of Maryland lead a team of over 100
:12:53. > :12:58.medical staff in a 36 or operation. They believe it is the most
:12:58. > :13:02.expensive face transplant procedure ever carried out. When he was
:13:02. > :13:08.accidentally shot in the face 15 years ago, Richard Lee Norris lost
:13:08. > :13:11.his nose, his lips and most of the movement in his mouth. Surgeons are
:13:11. > :13:14.used finely-tuned computerised techniques to advance on the bones
:13:15. > :13:19.in his nose and the area around it. They then gave my new job,
:13:19. > :13:24.including teeth as well as a new tongue. But finally all his soft
:13:24. > :13:28.tissue was replaced, right from his airline to his neck, including
:13:28. > :13:34.nerves and muscles. Six days on he can move his tongue and he can
:13:34. > :13:39.smell for the first time in 15 years. We look at the donor and
:13:39. > :13:44.Richard, it is the blend of two individuals. Clearly there are some
:13:44. > :13:52.specific features like their nose and that Gen. But behind that
:13:52. > :13:56.skeleton it is Richard Norris. was the woman after her first face
:13:56. > :14:01.transplant in 2005. She made good progress and expose physical
:14:01. > :14:05.recovery is just the first part. With us at a surgery you do not
:14:05. > :14:08.recover quickly. He will gradually come to terms with this new thing
:14:09. > :14:14.that he sees in the mirror which is going to be his face. I hope he
:14:14. > :14:19.will have the support that enables centre his own it, to on his face
:14:19. > :14:23.as his face. Doctors funded by the US military have been developing
:14:23. > :14:28.face transplant techniques for a number of years. The aim is to
:14:28. > :14:33.refine techniques to help veterans returning from Afghanistan. For
:14:33. > :14:40.Richard Norris, after 15 years behind a mask, a chance for a
:14:40. > :14:44.normal life. Let's top to a professor from
:14:44. > :14:48.America who has written about the psychological aspects of face
:14:48. > :14:53.transplants. He seems physically to have made an extraordinary recovery.
:14:53. > :14:57.He is brushing his teeth, he is my lip and he is ducking and smelly
:14:57. > :15:05.things for the first time. Psychologically, how has are going
:15:05. > :15:10.to be? Far my study another recipients, what I think is up for
:15:10. > :15:14.him, there are two pass. One because of the expense of amount of
:15:14. > :15:19.tissue and bone that he received, he is the first person really not
:15:19. > :15:24.to have to worry about scars that will give off the face transplant
:15:24. > :15:29.look. So I think that will be helpful to hand. These multiple
:15:29. > :15:35.surgeries are lending the skin over years, might be avoided. The other
:15:35. > :15:45.path is one that is untested yet. What it would mean is to have a
:15:45. > :15:50.
:15:50. > :15:54.complete facial configuration from the donor, including some of the
:15:54. > :15:58.things that form one's identity. I wonder if his path may be more
:15:58. > :16:03.difficult also because he has spent so much time without being able to
:16:04. > :16:08.be in public. Now he has a completely restored face. A do you
:16:08. > :16:14.think conversely that might help? Further 15 years this man has been
:16:14. > :16:19.a recluse. He has used a mask when he went out in public. Now he has a
:16:19. > :16:23.new phase, perhaps this is all good news. I think it is all good news
:16:23. > :16:28.in the surgery is absolutely remarkable. I am astounded that the
:16:28. > :16:36.surgery could take place since there has only been a few in the
:16:36. > :16:45.United States. However, what I have started to look at our recipients,
:16:45. > :16:50.is what they say after they have been living with the new face. He
:16:50. > :16:57.is an interesting test-case for me in that he is going to be the most
:16:57. > :17:07.completely masked person, in a new way, from a cloth must to a face
:17:07. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:13.mask, that is a donor. I think over time we will know. It is the 23rd
:17:13. > :17:23.phase -- face transplant. How do you give these people the support
:17:23. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:31.Therapeutically, we don't understand yet. It has transformed
:17:32. > :17:38.the way we think about being human. Questions about what it means to
:17:38. > :17:44.wed the face of another person are so new to us as people, that the
:17:44. > :17:50.more exposed we are to Folks That have face transplant, the better.
:17:50. > :17:55.It makes conversations happen and the recipients will have good
:17:55. > :18:00.reception out in the community, especially if the scarring is kept
:18:00. > :18:07.to a minimum. We will know soon if that has to be the way most of
:18:07. > :18:13.these patients are handled in the future.
:18:13. > :18:21.Canada's indigenous communities are in crisis. Addition to prescription
:18:21. > :18:27.painkillers is rife. OxyContin, an opium drug, is widely abused in
:18:27. > :18:31.Canada but on isolated reserves, people talk of an academic. Linda
:18:31. > :18:40.Pressly travelled to Fort Hope to investigate the impact of drug use
:18:40. > :18:46.there. 1200 people live in Fort Hope. In winter, it is minus 30 and
:18:46. > :18:53.the only way to get here is to fly in all try from hazardous ice roads.
:18:53. > :18:57.The beauty can fit -- conceals the fall-out from drug abuse. 80% of
:18:57. > :19:06.the working-age population of Fort Hope are abusing OxyContin. It is
:19:06. > :19:11.as addictive as heroin but this is a prescription drug. Doris
:19:11. > :19:15.Slipperjack was hooked for four years. 180 milligram pale cells on
:19:15. > :19:20.the black market for $600 on the reserve and she spent thousands,
:19:20. > :19:27.all her welfare benefits on getting high. Sometimes her children went
:19:27. > :19:35.without food. It is difficult for me to face them every day because I
:19:35. > :19:39.hurt them so much. I don't even though where to begin. In Fort Hope,
:19:39. > :19:44.everybody knows somebody who is abusing OxyContin and stemming the
:19:44. > :19:53.flow of this addictive drug into the community is one of the biggest
:19:53. > :20:00.challenges. A visit by the native police services is a rare event.
:20:00. > :20:08.This dog has been trained to sniff out OxyContin. They hide it in
:20:08. > :20:14.their bodies and now the winter roads are open so they are coming
:20:14. > :20:21.in through vehicles. It is not just a policing problem, it is a social
:20:21. > :20:30.and community problem. The chief of Fort Hope is worried about the
:20:30. > :20:40.epidemic on the next generation. want to see the parents care for
:20:40. > :20:41.
:20:41. > :20:48.their children that they can't do it because they edit -- -- but they
:20:48. > :20:53.can't do it because they are addicted. They have set up a detox
:20:53. > :20:57.centre but they are 70 people on the waiting list. With so many in
:20:57. > :21:02.this community struggling with addiction to OxyContin, Doris is
:21:02. > :21:09.one of the few that has taken the step to recovery. She has been to
:21:09. > :21:13.rehab and is now one treatment. want to go back to school and
:21:13. > :21:19.hopefully get my high-school diploma and go to college and
:21:19. > :21:28.university. I want to become a Councillor and reach out to people
:21:28. > :21:34.that are struggling like myself. You can watch her film about how
:21:34. > :21:39.prescription drugs is devastating those committees on Our World at
:21:39. > :21:45.the weekend. The north-western Nigerian state of
:21:45. > :21:48.Sokoto hit the news earlier this month after two hostages, Chris
:21:48. > :21:54.McManus and Franco Lamolinara were killed in failed attempts to rescue
:21:54. > :22:00.them. Boko Haram was widely believed to have been behind the
:22:00. > :22:07.kidnapping. Now in an attempt to counter terrorism -- extremism,
:22:07. > :22:17.they want to build hundreds of new religious schools.
:22:17. > :22:18.
:22:18. > :22:28.A call for food. He has been forced into begging because other decision
:22:28. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:34.his parents talk to send him here. He is one of millions of Nigerians.
:22:34. > :22:39.They move far from home to a master of the Koran at informal schools.
:22:39. > :22:49.Now the Nigerian Government wants to build hundreds of official
:22:49. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:57.religious schools. Here in Sokoto, they have opened the first. Is your
:22:57. > :23:07.aim to drain the demand of the informal ones? To close them down?
:23:07. > :23:09.
:23:09. > :23:15.To some extent, yes. The school's principal is a former Almajiri. He
:23:16. > :23:25.says it will help students to integrate better into society.
:23:26. > :23:29.
:23:29. > :23:34.can study science, mathematics, Arabic. A model Almajiri school is
:23:34. > :23:37.an easy sell. The home of their spiritual leader of Nigeria's
:23:37. > :23:41.Muslims and the state that the highest proportion in poverty. The
:23:41. > :23:47.Government's plan to build schools and other northern states is a
:23:47. > :23:53.gimmick driven by security fears, some say. The Government is
:23:53. > :24:00.motivated by a desire to change at the heart and the minds of foot
:24:00. > :24:05.soldiers and ethnic religious violence. Security concerns have
:24:05. > :24:14.heightened. A failed rescue attempt took many by so slapdash by
:24:14. > :24:19.surprise. The killing of the foreigners Christmas virus -- Chris
:24:19. > :24:22.McManus wasn't the first time of criminal activity disturbing a
:24:22. > :24:27.piece for North West of the country. Bercow around have said his members
:24:27. > :24:31.are present here. Whatever the Government's motives, it is the
:24:31. > :24:41.schools that have passed from generation to generation without
:24:41. > :24:43.
:24:43. > :24:46.state health and there is little Animation has proved to be a
:24:46. > :24:52.treasure-trove for the film industry and now the British
:24:52. > :24:57.company have pirates to plunder it. The The Pirates! In an Adventure
:24:57. > :25:01.With Scientists is out in Britain today. It was released as Hollywood
:25:01. > :25:11.struggles to find its next big thing in animation as its
:25:11. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:18.franchises come to an end. The best bit about being a pirate is ham at
:25:18. > :25:23.night. Setting sail on the latest international expedition. It is the
:25:23. > :25:33.pirates in an adventure with scientists. It is a British plot
:25:33. > :25:38.storing a useless parrot and a demented Queen Victoria. It
:25:38. > :25:43.attracted star voices. How could I turn them down? British, never not
:25:43. > :25:53.adored any of their films. Their sense of humour is identical to
:25:53. > :25:55.
:25:55. > :26:04.mine in terms of surreal childishness. I couldn't say no.
:26:04. > :26:12.Fire Cannons! The highest animation house has been in trouble
:26:12. > :26:17.threatening to go overseas. Now, they are more likely to stay put.
:26:17. > :26:24.Three Oscars for Wallace and Gromit doesn't promise them a Hollywood
:26:24. > :26:31.hit. His last film made $46 million at the US box office. That his
:26:31. > :26:39.average. I am confident about it playing around the world. It is
:26:39. > :26:43.just America. Capturing America is tricky. They are less familiar with
:26:43. > :26:51.our style of comedy, apparently. What will please Hollywood is some
:26:51. > :26:57.of the Oscar nominees were obvious. Her first were not. There wasn't
:26:57. > :27:07.much to choose from. Toy story is over, Shreck has gone into Puss in
:27:07. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:17.Boots and Brad Bird is directing live action. Pick Saab does have a
:27:17. > :27:22.new idea rear. A fairy-tale called brave. If this works, the quirky
:27:22. > :27:30.humour could not feel foreign any more. I have always found that the
:27:30. > :27:37.more British you are, do more French, the for -- if you are
:27:37. > :27:44.French, the more French you are, the more chance you have of
:27:44. > :27:54.repealing anyone. It looks great. That is all from
:27:54. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:08.Hello. We has another warm day today. It is cold and clear through
:28:08. > :28:14.the night before tomorrow, a return of the sunshine and temperatures
:28:14. > :28:24.above average. The downside is it stays dry with these high is still
:28:24. > :28:24.
:28:25. > :28:28.dominating our weather forecast. We do have a change in our wind
:28:28. > :28:35.direction and we have more cloud around the coast of Scotland and
:28:35. > :28:43.Northern Ireland. Plenty of sunshine for Northern and central
:28:43. > :28:47.England. We are looking at 23 Celsius in London. Across the
:28:47. > :28:57.south-west, cloudless skies and higher temperatures around the
:28:57. > :28:57.
:28:58. > :29:04.south coast. Through Wales, that north-westerly breeze making it 22
:29:04. > :29:09.Celsius in Cardiff. For Northern Ireland, we have high cloud so the
:29:09. > :29:14.sunshine turning hazy. Much of Scotland stays dry. Further north