:00:00. > :00:24.There were half a dozen men who attacked with ISIS on both sides.
:00:25. > :00:29.You have to put yourself in difficult and dangerous situations.
:00:30. > :00:36.And when most people would run away, you head towards trouble. Footage
:00:37. > :00:43.from remote and hostile places can be our only window on events that
:00:44. > :00:46.are shaping our world. These are some of the most powerful pictures
:00:47. > :01:31.of the year, all shot by freelancers.
:01:32. > :01:37.Each year, we step behind the camera to speak to those who film on the
:01:38. > :01:41.front line so that we can better understand what happens in our
:01:42. > :01:44.world. We will be hearing from freelance video journalist nominated
:01:45. > :01:48.in the three categories of the Rory Peck awards. This year, the judges
:01:49. > :01:53.looked through more than 100 entries from nearly 40 countries. The awards
:01:54. > :01:58.were founded in the name of Rory Peck, a British freelancer killed by
:01:59. > :02:02.crossfire in Moscow in 1993. His memory lives on through the trust,
:02:03. > :02:07.which -- which works on behalf of freelance camera crews. First up,
:02:08. > :02:14.the news category. The work of Palestinian cameraman Yahya
:02:15. > :02:17.Hassouna. It was his harrowing images of escalating conflict in
:02:18. > :02:25.Gaza between Israel and Hamas that caught the attention of the world.
:02:26. > :02:28.Direct hits from Israeli rockets flattened civilian homes and
:02:29. > :02:35.buildings in Gaza city. The human cost is devastating. Yahya captures
:02:36. > :02:39.countless casualties arriving at the hospital. What struck him is the
:02:40. > :03:29.number of children is coming through the door. -- children.
:03:30. > :03:35.Poignant moments caught by the camera convey tragedy about every
:03:36. > :03:41.corner. Every destroyed home, every pile of rubble is searched for
:03:42. > :03:45.precious mementos. As a local, who has been through this before, Yahya
:03:46. > :04:23.understands why. The Ukraine for our next finalist,
:04:24. > :04:27.Olivier Sarbil, who has extensively covered both sides of the conflict
:04:28. > :04:31.between pro-Russian separatist and Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.
:04:32. > :04:37.Basing himself in the pro-Russian stronghold around Donetsk, Olivier
:04:38. > :04:43.produced a series of reports charting the ceasefire and its
:04:44. > :04:53.eventual collapse. The battle for Donetsk airport and the ceasefire
:04:54. > :04:56.isn't holding. It's at test of Olivier's skills and nerve as the
:04:57. > :05:01.rebels take control. Ukrainian troops are just if you 100 metres
:05:02. > :05:07.away. I was just filming the guys on the frontline and the battlefield.
:05:08. > :05:17.Suddenly, a clash. You have to make a fast decision. What is best?
:05:18. > :05:23.Filming the guy firing the weapons, taking cover, falling back? His
:05:24. > :05:30.training as a paratrooper in the French army equipped him to deal
:05:31. > :05:34.with the chaos of battle. I still have some instincts, some reflex,
:05:35. > :05:38.from those times, so I think that helps me on the field. The
:05:39. > :05:46.adrenaline is pumping. And so the danger is to feel lost in the chaos.
:05:47. > :05:52.The judges commented Olivier's almost cinematic are beautifully
:05:53. > :05:55.framed and atmospheric camerawork, but for Olivier the camera in a war
:05:56. > :06:01.zone provide the necessary window into the dark corners of our
:06:02. > :06:12.civilisation. I am a witness. Pictures of people fighting,
:06:13. > :06:16.civilian innocents being shelled every day. Of course we have to tell
:06:17. > :06:20.the story. If we don't tell the story, we are not there and the
:06:21. > :06:27.situation could be worse. Who knows? What is important is for people to
:06:28. > :06:34.understand what's happening. The winner in the news category, Zein
:06:35. > :06:38.Al-Rifai, was chosen for his coverage of the ongoing conflict in
:06:39. > :06:42.Syria's second city Aleppo. He captures the relentless suffering of
:06:43. > :06:52.a people under siege by both the so-called Islamic State and Syrian
:06:53. > :06:56.government forces. A barrel bomb has devastated a nearby neighbourhood. A
:06:57. > :07:00.native of Aleppo, Zein knows the district well and rushes to record
:07:01. > :07:25.the immediate aftermath. Being first on the scene poses a moral dilemma.
:07:26. > :07:28.Zein is determined to keep showing the plight of the Syrian people to
:07:29. > :07:44.the world. The cost is high for the video
:07:45. > :07:44.journalist. Constantly recording distress and destruction takes its
:07:45. > :08:55.toll. We stay in Syria for the first
:08:56. > :09:00.finalist in the features category, as jihadist factions make
:09:01. > :09:07.unprecedented advances in the strategic city. Salam Rizk gained
:09:08. > :09:10.unique access to rebel groups, government forces and civilians
:09:11. > :09:22.trapped in Syria's grinding four of attrition. The hospital was at the
:09:23. > :09:27.centre of heady -- heavy fighting when he arrives on the outskirts of
:09:28. > :09:33.the conflict. He falls in with the Jabhat al-Nusra rebels. Syrian
:09:34. > :09:44.government troops are in the nearby building. The most dangerous thing
:09:45. > :09:48.in the film was at the hospital, because they were bombed by jets all
:09:49. > :10:07.the time and there were mortars everywhere. It was scary.
:10:08. > :10:11.As he moves around the complex, he very nearly gets hit by a sniper
:10:12. > :10:24.himself. When the machine-gun from the jet
:10:25. > :10:27.fired, I just put the camera like that and I started moving the camera
:10:28. > :10:36.without looking at what I was filming.
:10:37. > :10:42.To work in Syria is now super difficult for all journalists. Dust
:10:43. > :10:49.in the camera, you are a target for everybody. -- Bruce Reid usually the
:10:50. > :11:02.jihadist don't like you. They really don't like the camera. Civilians,
:11:03. > :11:06.when they see the camera, they think they will be bombed. I think it is
:11:07. > :11:13.worth it to risk my life because it is important to show the reality.
:11:14. > :11:26.Next in the features category is the work of Simon Rowles. The British
:11:27. > :11:30.journalist reveals the suffering of mentally ill people in the aftermath
:11:31. > :11:39.of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Simon follows it on a
:11:40. > :11:48.tipoff from a local charity. The shocking sight awaits him. A man,
:11:49. > :11:56.Joel, is imprisoned in a cage by his own family. When we did eventually
:11:57. > :12:01.see Joel, it was pretty hard to comprehend. The cage was very
:12:02. > :12:07.small. It was too small for him to lie down or a stand-up. And he
:12:08. > :12:17.basically slept, eight and defecated there. -- ate. Joel's story is just
:12:18. > :12:23.one of several caged men Simon filmed. It was difficult to pick the
:12:24. > :12:27.camera. There was something that instinctively felt wrong or
:12:28. > :12:33.voyeuristic. The professionalism kicks in and makes sure you treat
:12:34. > :12:39.the story sensitively. Chaining is common practice in a country where
:12:40. > :12:42.families received little professional support. Joel can
:12:43. > :12:47.become aggressive and his mother feels she has no other option. She
:12:48. > :12:52.was somebody who clearly was torn apart by the fact that she was
:12:53. > :12:57.keeping her son trapped in this cage. These families were doing this
:12:58. > :13:04.not out of cruelty but out of desperation. It was a difficult
:13:05. > :13:10.story to walk away from. You hope that there may be some power in
:13:11. > :13:13.covering a story like this. It is about telling the truth and you hope
:13:14. > :13:26.that something good will come out of it. And now the winner in the
:13:27. > :13:33.features category, Zmnako Ismael, who charts the extraordinary exodus
:13:34. > :13:39.of the migratory people to a refugee camp. Zmnako Ismael travels with
:13:40. > :13:42.thousands of people as they flee for their lives from is solid state
:13:43. > :13:51.forces pushing their way across the country. -- Islamic State forces
:13:52. > :13:59.will star in their desperation to escape, the Yazidis have to cross a
:14:00. > :14:03.barren and punishing environment. Zmnako is the only journalist
:14:04. > :14:23.documenting their 200 kilometre journey in search of safety.
:14:24. > :14:26.When he arrives, a steady stream of people emerge from the clouds of
:14:27. > :14:48.rolling dust. It is unknown how many die of
:14:49. > :15:09.exhaustion and dehydration on the long track. -- trek.
:15:10. > :15:16.The UN estimates some 5000 Yazidi men were killed as Islamic State
:15:17. > :15:21.swept through Iraq in the summer of 2014. Their intention was clear, to
:15:22. > :15:44.destroy the Yazidi community and their religion.
:15:45. > :15:55.Now, as every year, a special award for global impact. The first
:15:56. > :15:57.finalist is Palestinian journalists Medyan Dairieh, who spent three
:15:58. > :16:04.weeks embedded with the Islamic State. Medyan gained unprecedented
:16:05. > :16:14.access as they shocked the world by declaring their brutal caliphate
:16:15. > :16:18.across both countries. Once on the inside, IS officials are keen to
:16:19. > :16:23.show Medyan how they operate. Emits a preacher who was left Belgium with
:16:24. > :16:37.his young son and what he films next is deeply disturbing. -- he meets.
:16:38. > :16:44.Trying to understand the mind that would take your child from Belgium
:16:45. > :16:51.to this war zone and then offer him out effectively as a sacrifice just
:16:52. > :16:54.seemed extraordinary to me. Medyan could not speak to us but Kevin
:16:55. > :16:58.Sutcliffe was heavily involved in his deployment. Medyan is the first
:16:59. > :17:03.journalist to get to the heart of the jihadi group. That is why the
:17:04. > :17:07.film is important. It captures things you really need to think
:17:08. > :17:15.about. He brings to that a great knowledge and understanding.
:17:16. > :17:25.He knows how to operate and he knows where the boundaries are, so in that
:17:26. > :17:36.sense, that was part of why we felt comfortable that he could go. I
:17:37. > :17:40.think he is also very, very adept at dealing with the stresses and
:17:41. > :17:47.strains of that situation. He made a great, brave piece of journalism.
:17:48. > :17:58.Our next finalist is Madrid -based documentary maker,
:17:59. > :18:04.Our next finalist is Madrid -based documentary -- Hernan Zim. He
:18:05. > :18:10.focuses on the lives of ten children living in Gaza as Israel begins its
:18:11. > :18:16.fans. Hernan wanted to make a film that different from every other film
:18:17. > :18:21.about the conflict. I wanted to change the point of view not just
:18:22. > :18:29.about the bombs in the blowing up but what goes on inside people, the
:18:30. > :18:42.drama. -- trauma. So we can get an understanding of the meaning of war
:18:43. > :18:48.and its effect on children. A 500 kilograms bomb has landed on
:18:49. > :18:53.six-year-old Bisan's home, instantly killing her immediate family. Bisan
:18:54. > :18:57.has been left badly wounded and is struggling to make sense of it. You
:18:58. > :19:01.just imagine that in one second your life goes away, all the people you
:19:02. > :19:06.love. When I came back afterwards, she could not speak any more. She
:19:07. > :19:10.was trying to understand that her parents were not going to come
:19:11. > :19:14.back. That is what it means to be a child in Gaza. Nothing is certain
:19:15. > :19:21.and everything you have can go away in one second. In total, over 2000
:19:22. > :19:25.Palestinians died in the 50 day offensive, including over 500
:19:26. > :19:26.children. Many of the children Hernan filmed were deeply
:19:27. > :19:42.traumatised. It was the first time I have seen
:19:43. > :19:45.someone who wants to quit and being a child and being so traumatised,
:19:46. > :19:52.that was one of the most overwhelming moments. I don't
:19:53. > :19:56.understand why the world is not doing something. We have to keep on
:19:57. > :20:11.trying. That is the duty of the filmmakers. And finally, the winner
:20:12. > :20:15.of Sony's Impact Award is Haider Ali, who travels to the show are on
:20:16. > :20:25.the Afghan border, where he meets with several young boys and the
:20:26. > :20:29.paedophiles who abuse them. This is one of many boys regularly abused at
:20:30. > :20:32.the bus terminal, who was willing to share his difficult story with
:20:33. > :21:04.Haider. Haider wants to give voice to the
:21:05. > :21:09.children hunted by sexual predators and dares to give the abusers like
:21:10. > :21:27.Arjaz envoys as well. The abusers have no fear of the law
:21:28. > :21:32.and act with impunity. And hearing such rank confessions is a profound
:21:33. > :21:41.effect on the filmmaker. -- frank confessions.
:21:42. > :21:45.Some of the abusers panic after giving such incriminating
:21:46. > :22:06.testimony. The team take the threats seriously
:22:07. > :22:35.and quickly flee Peshawar, but the abuse continues.
:22:36. > :23:00.Haider Ali, winner of the Sony Impact Award That Is? Full Top That
:23:01. > :23:01.Is All -- -- that was Haider Ali, winner of the Sony Impact Award for
:23:02. > :23:08.Current Affairs. From me goodbye. Some of us would have had some
:23:09. > :23:10.wintry weather overnight. Cold air currently coming in all
:23:11. > :23:13.the way from almost the Arctic and the cold air is here to stay
:23:14. > :23:18.through the course of the weekend. It's also going to be very windy,
:23:19. > :23:21.particularly