ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCHOR: With each passing day, more and more Iraqis are venturing out of their homes in a bid to get their lives back on track. However, the task of rebuilding is enormous, both in terms of money and in hardships facing Iraqis everywhere. Mark Webster of Britain's ITV News reports from Iraq's second largest city of Basra.</s>MARK WEBSTER, ITV NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Trade is flourishing on the streets of Basra, as the local economy lurches back into life. Everything from pharmaceuticals to vegetables have started to reappear, but at a price, and it's a price many Iraqis can't afford. Along with Saddam Hussein, the local currency has collapsed. And money changers desperately try to offload the old notes. They are virtually worthless. Traders crowded roundly at the chance of trading hard currency offering rates for sterling, deutsch marks, but above all the American dollar. (on camera): What I have done is</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are, in a sense, they are doing nothing to the injured</s>WEBSTER: His patients, 20-year-old Amjad Ali Al-Solecki (ph) is one of those who may not have long to live. Injured in the shelling of Nasiriya, his leg has been amputated. But as a hemophiliac, he will die without the blood clotting agent Factor 8 (ph). It's the only English he knows. His family's scouring every town to try and save him, but in the meantime, his life blood literally seeping away. Mark Webster, ITV News, Basra.
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