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Tehran is the plastic surgery capital of the Middle East. Perhaps even more startling than the trend for nosejobs and facelifts is the fact that sex change operations are sanctioned by religious decree, even though homosexuality is banned and gay people can be hanged. Jane Phillipa Corbin, Lady Maples (born 16 July 1954) is a British journalist and film-maker who has made over a hundred documentaries mainly for the BBC and its current affairs programme Panorama. She specialises in covering Central Asia, the Middle East and terrorism and has investigated many of the major human rights issues and global political and military events over the past three decades.

In 2011 and 2012, Corbin covered the uprisings in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, reporting from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak was toppled as Egypt's president. Her report from Syria of human rights abuses against children and women in the town of Dera'a resulted in cases being brought before the International Court of Justice against members of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. In Tuzla, the nearest Bosnian Muslim controlled town, the women and children waited in vain for their menfolk to join them. They never arrived - more than eight thousand had been killed and buried in mass graves in an attempt to cover up the genocide. Jane is an accomplished international media commentator on the Middle East and terrorism author of well-regarded books and many authoritative articles. Regularly contributing to parliamentary committees, think-tanks at government level as well as chairing conferences and public speaking, Jane is an influential figure. Since joining the BBC's current affairs programme Panorama in 1988, Corbin has made over a hundred documentaries working as a reporter in war zones and as an investigative journalist in general for the BBC. She has specialised in making films about Al-Qaeda since 1998, when she was one of the first reporters to identify the threat from Osama bin Laden in Death to America. Jane exclusively revealed to the world who had betrayed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay. She was also the first journalist to interview Dr Rihad Taha, a top Iraqi scientist, known as Dr Germ, for her part in Saddam Hussein's bacterial weapons programme.

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In 1999 she worked on three programmes about the war in Kosovo and carried out the first in-depth investigation into the atrocities in the villages of western Kosovo.

Somehow I found these places before dark and before roaming Serb patrols found us - the barn scarred with huge sprays of bullet holes and smeared with blood. The school just as the survivor had described it to me....and the white house the boy had passed in the video. In the snow around the house I found spectacles, broken shoes and - most valuable of all - identity documents which had been ripped from the men before they were gunned down. I took these as evidence of what had happened. A French detective working for the newly formed International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague had already been to see me. He knew I had the video and that it would provide vital evidence in court although crucial scenes had clearly been edited out. Iran's reformist candidates in Friday's presidential election are hoping that the country's young people turn out in large numbers to vote for that change. liberal Iran - 60% of the population is under the age of 30 - that I found a rapper named 'Nobody' and a blogger named Asieh.

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It showed men herded into houses...bags and belongings in piles - but the following pictures were edited out. It showed women and children on buses and the famous shots of the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic patting children on the head and smiling while his soldiers gave the kids sweets.

Sadly, Corbin couldn’t get face time with president Xi to set out his Taiwanese policy. Instead, she has the wonderful Victor Gao, fluent yet chilling media spokesperson for the Chinese Communist party. Gao only needs a stroked cat on his lap to truly perfect his Bond villain aura, as he tells Corbin: “The future of Taiwan will never be decided by the 23 million people of Taiwan themselves. The future of Taiwan will be decided by the more than 1.4 billion on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.” The knife-maker of Kinmen island, Wu Tseng-dong, has an unusual business model. When he was a boy, in the 1950s, he witnessed explosive shells – launched from the Chinese mainland two miles away – falling on his birthplace. As he explains: “479,000 rounds were fired in 44 days. We lived in fear.” Little did Wu Tseng-dong know then, but the People’s Liberation Army was supplying him with the raw material for his future livelihood: today he makes knives from those shells to sell to tourists from the mainland.

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Calling herself "a pioneer", Asieh says it falls on people like herself to bring about the change that Iran needs. Corbin was educated at King's College London, graduating with a degree in English in 1975. She was part of the first intake of new journalists to be employed by Channel 4 News before its launch in November 1982. While with ITN Corbin covered major news events such as the siege of the Holy Sikh Temple at Amritsar in June 1984 and interviewed Indira Gandhi just before she was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. Corbin reported on the miners' strike in the same year. and accompanied Benazir Bhutto on her return to Pakistan in 1982.