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>> pelley: a great city that people is on the edge of surrender after five years of siege and starvation. ep dictatorship of baar and this past week assad and his russian ally intensified their air strikes against aleppo's dense neighb for civilians under this bombardment, the greatest fear is to be buried alive, to suffocate or bleed to death ine. their only hope is the syrian themselves the white helmets. the air strikes, day and night, obliterate apartments and shatter the nerves. often, the bombs are not aimed f

a helicopter onto any dictatorship does not control. >> rami jarrah: it's to terrorize op it's to tell these people that "you're not welcome here, and we want you out." >> pelley: rami jarrah is a syrian reporter who's followed the white helmgsetfro today's trained force of 3,000 rescue so of security or safety or some sort of hope to civilians that live in this area, that even if you are attacked, even if your building comes dow >> pelley: this little boy was the white helmets happened toen

pulverized concrete of his homeh suffocation. it's luck. rubble that they see to get those people out. thraarra how many hours? six, seven hours. i've seen them operate continus boy, his face freed.ho. ets say e saved 70,000, and, with each, they shout their gratitude to god. majd kha been white helmets three years.f

the joy at that moment is indescribable."tell mabout the e you've ever done."d r husband," he told us." wer sticking out of the rubble.ut and the first they'd been married for ten days.rete. the leg , life is resurrected from a shallow grave. faces covered with dust and the

eyes open, wha t rady saad told us, "i don't have any feelin gs, i me. but when i go home, i've spent victim after victim, how do you keep going?" there's a 50% chance in every chance that i'll die. i've left children who are going to live and complete our future."the white helmets

themselves are targets of the assad regime. so, the civil defense e to actually continue doing their work even undeta that plane is waiting for people to gatup come back and attack when er >> pelley: the white helmetsm, . raed saleh wears the loss of his men and his country. the white helmets in more thanhd

be of last week saleh has lost 154? "after several bombi said, "there were individual initiatiby carpenters, university students, doctors; people from different respond to emergencies in a more organized fashion.ter that, the" this is the training in a elite disaster teams from other nations teach the use of million for this, about a quarter of the white helmets' budget.

this home was blasted into a the only thing escaping was one faint voice. a white helmet, searching, calls out, "brother, can you see our light?" the voice replies, "something's on my back." it's the roof.t for an inch, thd boy would be dead. you're looking at him right there, face down. rit no architect's calculation of blast loading or later simple miracles of survival. after seven hours, it appears the boy emerged an orphan and only child.

everyone else in the house was dead. journalist who posts stories of the white helmets on youtube." if there is meaning to the word 'courage,'" he said, "it is represented by the civil defense." abdullah's stories caught the disapproving notice of the assad door of his apartment buildingwy explosion," he said, "there was an rescue workers he'd covered came to uncover him." civil defense bulldozer, i started to feel some h slowly, the stone started to be removed, rock by rock. all of the weight started to less."

just hearing their voices gave you hope that you would live?" exactly," he said." s it was difficult to open my eyes, but i opened them a little and saw them wearing their white helmets. thai was out of the rubble." they said you were going to die, and then you returned to life. abdullah endured more than halfd to syria in a wheelchair to continue his reporting in turkey, we visited this you find most everyone owes severed?"e to the white helmetsy yes," he told us." when the civil defense came, they tied my leg for me from here, with a cord." they tied a tourniquet around your leg." then they put us ostand took usd hospital.""

they didn't leave me there to bleed to death," she said." i would be in heaven if t it seems, in every rescue, there are children. this man flailed for freedom, head, inches this side of the living. this woman told us her entire family was buried, and she was rescued first." i didn't expect my son would survive," she told us." he was only ten days old." but after 16 hours of labor, her baby was brought into the world a second time. "

everyone told me that he's a miracle child. it really is a miracle." two years later, her son is all she has. her husband and daughter are dead. the man who saved her boy, 3 year-old khaled harrah, was later killed in a double tap. he had two children and another on the way. the white helmets respond to an average of 35 attacks a day. fighting for life in a vicious war, they were nominated this year for the nobel peace prize. syria has descended into murder on an industrial scale, but, on the outer limits of cruelty, humanity begins. the white helmt wear helmets. the women of the white helmets on 60minutesovertime.com sponsored by pfizer.

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>> rose: it is the oldest choir in the world. evidence of its existence dates back to the seventh century. today, it's called the sistine chapel choir but is more commonly known as the pope's ide for all of the important papal celebrations.

this coming week, during pope's christmas eve mass, the choir will perform in st. peter's basilica, and, just yesterday, the choir sang at a o pope francis. the choir may be dedicated to the pope, but historically it has held concerts on its own, pecially at its home base, the magnificent sistine chapel. ♪ ♪ it was here, beneath mian frescoes in one of the world's greatest wonders, where we recently attended a concert staged by the pope's choir. ♪ ♪ ( "gloria" from palestrina's "missa papae marcelli" ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ the music is sacred, contemplative, mystical. it soars whether in concert attg mass next door at st. peter's basilica. when the pope presides, the choir provides a holy soundtrack made up of 30 boys and 22 men. the choir helps spread the pope's message. ♪ ♪ >> mark spyropoulos: we have a job to inspire people. they may not understand a word singing, we have to direct them transcendent and divine. that's our job. >> rose: mark spyropoulos, a baritone from britain; vittorio

catarci, a bass from italy; and cezary arkadiusz stoch, a tenor from poland, consider themselves more than just voices of the pope. what does it mean that you're called the pope's choir? >> catarci: well, we are, we are. >> stoch: the family. c catarci: yes. his personal choir. >> rose: pope francis is the most popular pope in a generation. he spends much time tending to the poor and the dispossessed.io makes his choir feel at home, as mark spyropolous learned when he joined last year. >> spyropolous: when i first met him, the whole thing was completely overwhelming. and he said, "you're from . ( laughs ) well, welcome to the vatican," like this. and i was expecting, you know, sort of... i was so welcomed by this. i... it was very surprising and very impressed by quite how... what a personal touch he had. ♪ >> rose: as it tours itang in se

country's great cathedrals, the choir sings in harmony. ( cremona concert, alle but until recently, the pope's choir wasn't worthy of the name or the settings where it sang. for decades, the choir lacked cohesion. many members came from opera and made sure they were heard. ♪ ♪ the choir was called the" sistine screamers." >> catarci: we were aware that we were singing too loud. >> rose: vittorio catarci remembers the era of the booming voices.

he's been with the choir for 30 years and three popes. can you sing for me the difference between the way it was and the way it is now? >> catarci: oh, for example we used to sing: ♪ sicut cervus. and now we sing: ♪ sicut cervus. it's completely different very spiritual sound, not a meaty sound. >> rose: the choir turned around after maestro massimo palombella was hired in 2010, only the sixth man to be appointedf the n 200 years. >> palombella ( translated ): i didn't have to invent a sound, i had to rediscover a sound which was the sound the choir once >> rose: palombella went back to and ancient texts.

fo studied endlessly, looking palestrina originally intended when he wrote the sacred music that provides the bulk of the choir's repertoire. palestrina composed his music after michelangelo had finished >> spyropolous: palestrina was writing when thent frescoes. and when we sing palestrina, it's not like looking at a fresco; it's the equivalent of ♪ ♪ ( "credo" from palestrina's "papae marcelli" ) >> rose: the troe by hardening the workload. the choir went from rehearsing three hours a week to three hours a day. yo

tough. >> palombella ( translated ): that's exactly right. of excellence, how far along are you on your journey? >> palombella: circa a ta you sound like an american sports coach. >> catarci: a choir is a very, very terrifying beast because if you are not able to handle it, it goes away. it runs away. >> stoch: this not safari. this is more dangerous. >> catared to u ferrari, but you have to drive ferrari to do dressage like, you know, liku know, very light dressage. dressage, not vroom! ♪ >> rose: at rehean concert, palombella conducts th.

the maestro was born on christmas day, but, with his choir, he's not always in a holiday mood. >> palombella: blah, blah, blahe cbe jting. and when he's not happy, lorenzo? >> malizia ( translated ): eh, eh, he has moments of... >> malizia ( translated ): he has some explosions of anger, but th >> rose: 13-year-old lorenzo malizia is one of the boys, all produce the high notes that give the choir its celestial sound. just listen to how the boys warm up.

♪ ♪ the "white voices" for the purity of their sound. >> choir: ♪ ave maria. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

italian boys their age, theyeir walls. and then, there are reminders of why the boys are extraordinary. so, whenat do pplu tell them? >> catapano ( translated ): they ask us, "how is the pope? is he fun? does he always crack jokes?" we say, "yes, yes, it's true." yearsca if i re singing in front of the pope. >> catapano ( translated ): i am little anxious, but then i t understand anything about music. so, i continue to sing. aoss ros for the choir are heth fanut toe who has the right timbre. ♪ ♪

♪ all. few make it. >> rose: only a dozen t the chosen ones are sworn in during an elaborate mo each are given five-year scholarships at a special school they aren't studying to become priests; their curriculum runs >> are you italian? >> i am. >> rose: they may be known as choir boys on sundays, but the rest of the week they arf their teenage years.

e boys, until the day arrives when leave the pope's choir. 11-year-old emanuele buccarella fears what's coming soon. will that be a sad day? >> buccarella ( translated ): for me, it will be an ugly moment when thatwi in which my voice will no longer be ready to sing the way we sing now.the mo of everything now until that day will come in which they tell me my voice is no lonod ♪ ♪ with the choir, their voices brethren to bring the sounds of heaven to earth. the music of the pope's choir speaks to the soul. >> palombella ( translated ): we recently did a concert, and ad e

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denzel has committed to producing all of them, nine for hbo. clear to everybody on the set,i. you're after great. and that anybody who's cto >> washington: where'd you hear that? >> whitaker: ...has to want great. >> washington: there's nothing wrong with that. >>ell, whitahe best you can be. >> troy, you ought to stop that lying. >> whitaker: "fences" is sets ad >> he ain't said nothing. he told me to go down t 53-year-old troy maxson, whose personality and his bigger disappointments.>> gonna fire md a question? that's all i did. man who had great ability to beg

at a time blacks weren'tcepted . so, he was frustrated by that.is driving and the colored lifting? >> rolling. fences" in the hill district of pittsburgh neighborhood where august wilson grew up. the peophoheir families here inspired many of >> washington: it's a pittsburgh story, and i wanted to be in pittsbe stories i get from peop, all of that helps to fd this vacant hill district he familiar to many of us who grew. i swear i know this house. >> washington: yeah, man. ( laughs ) now, now, okay, now,nt led in this house. >> washington: yeah? >> whitaker: and i... >> washington: the front room and... >> whitaker: uh-huh. uh-huh. the parlor. i'll take you for the tour. this is the dining room. >>it gta jesus, martin luther king.

>> whitaker: in the '60s, this i ha to... >> whitaker: ...house. >> washington: ...put that hain there. >> whitaker: every... >> washington: you know it. >> whitaker: ...afri ca you know, that black... whatever that felt stuff, right? of course, you got jesus, martin luther king and john f. kennedy, and ba laughs ) she... you notice she don't have no pictures of troy up there. this is the backyard. >> whitaker: the action takes place right out here.? >> what you worried about what we getting into for? this is men ta story of a family unraveling; troy from his wife, rose, and from his son, cory. ain't gonna let you get nowhere with no football no way. no, you get yo b so you can work your way up at the a&p, learn how to fix cars or build houses, get you a trade. can't nobody take away from you. >> whitaker:yo >> washington: in some regards. he couldn't read well. he had the same conversation

with me about getting a good hed for the water department in new (nlaughsa)d, "you know, i could he's like, "you get a good job, you get a trade." >> whitaker: get a secure job. >> washington: yeah, a secure job, exactly. an mother, could see further, you know. "no, he's gotta get an education. he's gotta go to college."that . >> times have changed, troy. people change.you can't even see it. >> woman, he i come in here every friday. bucket of lard. you all line up at the door with your hands out. i give you the lint from m gono tears. i done spent them.wn oyou and try to blast a hole into forever.

lunch on the table, go out, make my w ayfi through to next friday.. >> dveway, listening to the ballgame.. he had his foot out, and he's just listening to the ballgame. and i realize, as when i got where he had a chance to... he now, he's about to go in the house, and my mother's in there. the other boss. and he had maybe ten minuto >> whitaker: in the driveway. >>ng to the ballgame. >> washington: listening to the ballgame and... because he had to come home and e do you tap io that, to t >> washington: it's in there. >> vioke davis told us she admired denzel washingtoney" fences" together on broadway. av so, i was like, "denzel is so

good looking." having him as both leading man of those two things effortlessly. he never gets in the way. him as an artist that his ego a role of a lifetime for her, and she bites down and she... she tears it up. >> it's not easy for me to admi. >> well, i been standing with you. i been right here with you, troy. i gave 18 years of my life to st t i had dreams andi ever wanted hopes? what about my life? what about me? in film is small, every moment is small. and sometimes moments are not small.ke it's painful to watch.

he didn't write small. >> whitaker: august wilson's his plays chronicle the wants-- dignity, love, security- - across generations and in the face of overwhelming his genius was capturing the ib cadences of african american >> washington: there's a line i say: "what that mean to i don't care if she working. go ask her f $ >> washington: so, i >> washington: ...there's a rhythm to it. "what... what that mn? he wrote, "what that mean to me, 'bonnie working'? i don't care if she working. go ask her for $10 if sh why ain't you working?" up if you just play the music. >> whitaker: at a scoring

session, we found washington >> washington: so,ca i just dig the process. days like today, man, it don't ge >> whitaker: august wilson >> whitaker: he got his wish.la. so... >> wkelaughs) yeah. i dn >> whitaker: he said he didn't able to get it... give it justice.asngton: it's cul... its cultu... i think it's a cultur u understand... >> washington: i... oh, no wtaker: ...you understand this place and these people? >> washington: no, no question. little for the boys upstate, i mean, i grew up with that. alwse liquor for the guys that wereitn >> whitaker: sunday morning. hi >> whitaker: denzel washington class suburb of new york city.

his mother owned a beauty salon. to keep him off the streets, she scraped together the money to hollywood took notice.>> whingte he went to fordham univers in 1978 called "flesh and blood." we filmed here you got the guts. all, my blue-eyed friend, most >> whitaker: it may surprise you, but i... i saw that. >> washington: "flesh and blood"?hita r: that's it. and... >> washington: had a gap in my teeth then.>>ashington: and bro. >> whitaker: he went on to win his first oscar for his role in >> davis: watching him in it means to an actor to see a performance like that because it