:00:00. > :00:00.at accident and emergency units in England.
:00:00. > :00:00.Health experts say it's not clear why,
:00:00. > :00:07.there has not been a big outbreak of flu.
:00:08. > :00:09.Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan has been jailed for 23
:00:10. > :00:12.years for raping two of his followers and keeping his daughter
:00:13. > :00:14.a prisoner for South London for three decades.
:00:15. > :00:17.This week we are in Birmingham, bringing you in-depth reports on
:00:18. > :00:24.some of the best stories from around England. Coming up: we go undercover
:00:25. > :00:30.on the Internet, to expose the online grooming techniques of
:00:31. > :00:33.so-called Islamic State. Veteran petrol head Angela Rippon asks
:00:34. > :00:43.whether older drivers should be asked to retake their test. And
:00:44. > :00:44.Royal Ballet soloist Eric Underwood tries to get young lads to swap
:00:45. > :00:53.their football boots for ballet pumps.
:00:54. > :00:59.is increasingly using social media to recruit young people
:01:00. > :01:06.Syria and Iraq, but what would persuade someone to travel to such a
:01:07. > :01:11.war-torn part of the world and live under such a brutal regime? Inside
:01:12. > :01:17.Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have been undercover to find out.
:01:18. > :01:33.VOICEOVER: Why on earth would you like to come here?
:01:34. > :01:39.What prompted those people? This man is and I testify to, we filmed him
:01:40. > :01:48.encouraging an undercover BBC journalist to travel to IST
:01:49. > :01:52.territory. -- I S territory. We are going to find out just how easy it
:01:53. > :01:57.is to be sucked in by propaganda and social media, and show the struggle
:01:58. > :02:01.that a group of parents and families face in their fight against
:02:02. > :02:09.extremism. I need to protect myself, these people, my children, from
:02:10. > :02:20.radicalisation. This is a suburb of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, it is home
:02:21. > :02:24.to Isis recruits. We never knew that they were going to fight for the
:02:25. > :02:29.Isis, I cannot believe that they did that, still cannot believe it. They
:02:30. > :02:31.were normal guys, normal teenagers, young people who liked football...
:02:32. > :02:38.What was happening behind-the-scenes? I don't know. A
:02:39. > :02:45.few weeks after leaving for Syria, the youngest suicide bomber from
:02:46. > :02:49.Britain died. That was the point where we felt something had to be
:02:50. > :02:56.done. Basically, stand up and say, we have a problem in our community,
:02:57. > :03:00.let's take a look. Arun and his friend has set up a group to engage
:03:01. > :03:03.the community, organising events like this football tournament to
:03:04. > :03:10.bring people together and get them talking about difficult topics. --
:03:11. > :03:18.Haroon. We set this up so that we can stop people from bullying, work
:03:19. > :03:23.on the radicalisation and engage. 13, 14 very vulnerable children, the
:03:24. > :03:30.friends of the two lads that went away. Working very closely with
:03:31. > :03:34.them. We are giving them a safe space to come and let us know what
:03:35. > :03:40.they are feeling, what they are thinking, what they have seen
:03:41. > :03:43.online. They worry that other young people in the area may be looking at
:03:44. > :03:48.the same media sources that could have encouraged the two boys that
:03:49. > :03:52.left. We cannot know for certain what or who convince these boys to
:03:53. > :03:57.travel, but they will have had a good chance of learning about IS
:03:58. > :04:04.online, one researcher monitored IS websites for a month and found 1500
:04:05. > :04:08.separate pieces of propaganda. Other research claims 50,000 Twitter
:04:09. > :04:12.accounts have originated in the area. Young people use social media
:04:13. > :04:16.all the time, we should not be that surprised that Islamic State, made
:04:17. > :04:19.up predominantly of young people, will use the skills they already
:04:20. > :04:22.have. Without social media they would struggle to get their message
:04:23. > :04:28.across, they would struggle to convince young people that it is
:04:29. > :04:34.possible to travel. What messages are they posting on social media to
:04:35. > :04:39.bring recruits? There is one way to find out, join the conversation.
:04:40. > :04:45.Meet Zara, not her real name, she is a journalist, she created an online
:04:46. > :04:51.ID, and began following IS people on social media. A back story was that
:04:52. > :04:55.she was 25 years old, she and her family lived in the northern part of
:04:56. > :05:01.England, and she came across as someone who is young and clean but
:05:02. > :05:05.did not know how to get into IS. It did not take long for people to
:05:06. > :05:08.contact her, interesting names cropping up, Omar Hussein,
:05:09. > :05:14.originally from Buckinghamshire, is now on a list of dangerous
:05:15. > :05:17.terrorists. From Glasgow, a lady named Mahmoud also on the list, but
:05:18. > :05:24.one in particular kept her in conversation. His real name was
:05:25. > :05:28.Mario, half Italian, half German. He converted to Islam just four years
:05:29. > :05:32.ago, he was living in the IS world that the last two years. We began
:05:33. > :05:50.researching and found quite a few German articles online.
:05:51. > :06:05.Marriot began messaging Zara, encouraging her to travel, even
:06:06. > :06:10.proposing marriage. -- Mario. He begins talking about marriage within
:06:11. > :06:15.a day... There is a definite sense that that is of primary importance
:06:16. > :06:19.to him, finding a wife, the speed of which, the focus he has, the
:06:20. > :06:24.unrelenting focus, about, come and join me, come and join me, that is
:06:25. > :06:28.interesting. You think this is literally just a personal
:06:29. > :06:34.communication from him? Do you think that there is some kind of
:06:35. > :06:39.recruitment drive? Behind this? I have come across Kamina occasions
:06:40. > :06:45.where they are much more precise about how to travel, where to
:06:46. > :06:49.travel, having said that, the consistency, the repetition, is
:06:50. > :06:57.common. -- I have come across communications.
:06:58. > :07:03.Initially he came across as someone polite and nice but within two or
:07:04. > :07:05.three daisy-chained, becoming very aggressive, very demanding, very
:07:06. > :07:17.controlling. He completely missed my head,
:07:18. > :07:33.sending messages 20 47, I felt like he was constantly online. -- 20 four
:07:34. > :07:37.sevenths. -- 24/7. If he can make me feel the way I feel, just imagine
:07:38. > :07:42.what he could do to a young person, I am a journalist, they are 13,
:07:43. > :07:46.14-year-old boys and girls. A lot of pressure can be very difficult to
:07:47. > :07:50.resist, you want to demonstrate you are a true and honest and good
:07:51. > :07:54.person, that makes it much harder to resist. As Prime Minister want to
:07:55. > :07:59.work with you, to confront and defeat this poison. Before the
:08:00. > :08:06.attacks in Paris, it was estimated 750 people from the UK had travelled
:08:07. > :08:17.to join IS. The government's counterterrorism strategy is made up
:08:18. > :08:21.of four Ps. Prepare, pursue, prevents, pinpoint. Dewsbury is in
:08:22. > :08:25.one of the prevents strategies priority areas, as a result, it
:08:26. > :08:30.would seem to attract wondering. -- Prevent. We do not get cash money
:08:31. > :08:36.from government, we get support with a member of staff, that comes in the
:08:37. > :08:39.form of a coordinator. A big focus of our workers being in local
:08:40. > :08:45.schools, working with community groups, parents, young people
:08:46. > :08:51.themselves, that is very much about raising awareness of online safety.
:08:52. > :08:55.For the people closest to those at risk, there is a frustration that
:08:56. > :08:59.the government funded work is having little effect on the most
:09:00. > :09:06.vulnerable. We are very close-knit, almost ghettoised, we have a lot of
:09:07. > :09:11.doubt about the Prevent agenda. Engages about promoting respect and
:09:12. > :09:17.tolerance and that is what we are doing. We're working hard, we are
:09:18. > :09:21.community people, this is our community, we were born here, we
:09:22. > :09:26.live here, that is why we care for it. The work we do with Prevented is
:09:27. > :09:29.safeguarding young people, we will work with anybody across the
:09:30. > :09:38.district would like to work in partnership with us.
:09:39. > :09:46.Our undercover reporter has agreed to speak with Mario, through a
:09:47. > :09:51.webcam. What was it like coming face-to-face with Mario? I was
:09:52. > :09:55.looking into the eyes of a terrorist, and I was very nervous, I
:09:56. > :09:59.will be honest, I know that he was miles away, it was just taking
:10:00. > :10:04.future screen, but my first reaction was, a terrorist, a IS terrorist, an
:10:05. > :10:11.organisation known for beheading innocent people, raping women,
:10:12. > :10:18.killing children. They spoke for over now, Mario advised our reporter
:10:19. > :10:52.how to make the journey to IS territory.
:10:53. > :10:57.No concept of the play she is going to is violent, that there is bombs
:10:58. > :11:02.being dropped, that there are shortages of electricity, medical
:11:03. > :11:07.supply issues, food shortages, he's willing to say almost anything to
:11:08. > :11:12.get her to join him. After this, Zara cut off all communication, this
:11:13. > :11:23.was one person he was not going to persuade.
:11:24. > :11:34.Shortly after we made the call, our reporter got a message from somebody
:11:35. > :11:35.living in IS, somebody who had been chatting on social media, this time,
:11:36. > :11:45.warning the reporter against travel. They are taking incredible risks,
:11:46. > :11:52.communicating that message, that is hugely powerful. And in a way, quite
:11:53. > :11:58.sad. If that is how she's feeling, and she is stuck there, with the
:11:59. > :12:04.best will in the world now, she is. We showed a transcript of the
:12:05. > :12:08.reporters conversations to In gauge Dewsbury. I am a father myself, and
:12:09. > :12:17.it is frightening that something like this could happen and happen so
:12:18. > :12:20.quickly. -- Engage. It makes me very angry, that somebody could take
:12:21. > :12:27.advantage of somebody, in this manner. And with these kind of
:12:28. > :12:33.words, pretending to be quite holy, but really, they are doing something
:12:34. > :12:36.so wrong. This report published this month looks at young people and
:12:37. > :12:42.extremism, it says that the first place they turn to for advice about
:12:43. > :12:48.radicalisation is their family. The second, the Internet. Possibly a
:12:49. > :12:52.time before when certain things that would happen around the world that
:12:53. > :12:53.you would not talk about with your children, but now, it is important
:12:54. > :13:04.to talk with them about it. STUDIO: There is now more than
:13:05. > :13:11.formally in drivers over the age of 70, that figure is increasing fast,
:13:12. > :13:17.10,000 every month, so, is it time to introduce new medical checks? Or
:13:18. > :13:19.even another test? We asked former Top Gear presenter and veteran
:13:20. > :13:29.VOICEOVER: There investigate.
:13:30. > :13:31.VOICEOVER: There is a reason older drivers have a bad reputation... Is
:13:32. > :13:36.going to hit us! A 77-year-old motorist with dementia was driving
:13:37. > :13:39.on the road away in the wrong direction, you only way traffic cops
:13:40. > :13:45.could stop him was by blocking his path, thankfully no one was hurt.
:13:46. > :13:49.Another lucky escape, and 88-year-old driver ploughed into
:13:50. > :13:55.this hairdressers, isolated cases of course but something to ignore?
:13:56. > :14:00.Perhaps not. Elderly drivers can be quite stupid sometimes! Perhaps they
:14:01. > :14:06.should not be driving. Once they have retired, there should be a
:14:07. > :14:09.test. When you get to 70, or whatever, you may not be as safe. Is
:14:10. > :14:13.that true? Do we really get less that true? Do we really get less
:14:14. > :14:23.sharp behind the wheel as we get older? Even if you are a former Top
:14:24. > :14:27.Gear presenter, like me! It is likely that my driving skills are
:14:28. > :14:33.not quite what they were back then, and yet, the government seems happy
:14:34. > :14:36.for veterans roadsters to drive on and on, all we have to do is sign a
:14:37. > :14:42.declaration every three years that we are fit to drive. Should millions
:14:43. > :14:48.of drivers who like me are now more than 70 be forced to retake our
:14:49. > :14:55.driving test? After all, that is exactly what happens abroad. Time
:14:56. > :15:00.for international road trip. In parts of the good old US of A, and
:15:01. > :15:11.even as far away as New Zealand, some older drivers do have to take a
:15:12. > :15:14.road test of top countries like Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands
:15:15. > :15:23.insist on older drivers having a medical examination. Hold your
:15:24. > :15:29.horses, that would not go down well with many pensioners, like this lot.
:15:30. > :15:36.Most of my friends are 70 plus, I do not know of anyone driving that
:15:37. > :15:41.should not be driving. I think that I am a safe driver. We are a bit
:15:42. > :15:45.slow because we are not in a hurry to go anywhere! What difference
:15:46. > :15:50.would it make to your life if you were not able to drive? I think I
:15:51. > :15:58.would go into a deep depression, to be honest, really. I would have to
:15:59. > :16:03.use the bus, until then, no. Should the law change? Time for a
:16:04. > :16:07.scientific test? To find out whether or not driving skills do deteriorate
:16:08. > :16:12.as we get older, I have come to the transport research laboratory in
:16:13. > :16:15.Wokingham, they have a state-of-the-art driving simulator,
:16:16. > :16:21.and to help me, I have brought along to other drivers. I will be
:16:22. > :16:25.representing older drivers, Michelle, middle-aged motorist, and
:16:26. > :16:30.her son, Daniel, young drivers. We each spend 15 minutes in the similar
:16:31. > :16:34.letter. It tests to things, our ability to keep a safe distance from
:16:35. > :16:39.the car in front and how well we react to hazards, our back-seat
:16:40. > :16:48.driver is Sean Hellman, a transport psychologist. Yes, it is a real job!
:16:49. > :16:49.Is slowing down... What we see her do is take a reasonable amount of
:16:50. > :17:03.time to react... That was close... Pulled out without indicating. They
:17:04. > :17:10.do actually indicates... But it is not all bad. Angela is doing well on
:17:11. > :17:13.some of these tasks. Some praise at last, but how do I compare to young
:17:14. > :17:22.Daniel? He seems to be rather impatient. That was a bit close...
:17:23. > :17:26.At the moment, he has done ten heavy braking events, so far, which is
:17:27. > :17:32.quite a lot. Interesting, I wonder if his mother is any better? She has
:17:33. > :17:36.only had to apply the brakes really heavily once or twice. Sounds
:17:37. > :17:42.promising. Timed and for the big reveal. One thing we expected to see
:17:43. > :17:46.was borne out by the data, as the older driver, you were the slowest
:17:47. > :17:51.to react. You responded on average within about one second -- 1.5
:17:52. > :17:57.seconds to the sudden events, Daniel and Michelle were responding in one
:17:58. > :18:01.second, it is only half a second but it is quite a long time, if you are
:18:02. > :18:05.travelling at 70 mph, in the second and a half it took you to respond,
:18:06. > :18:09.you have travelled 100 metres. The others would have travelled two
:18:10. > :18:13.thirds of that. As the oldest driver, I had the slowest reactions
:18:14. > :18:20.but Sean reveals was not the worst driver, how was Daniel? He was the
:18:21. > :18:25.most erratic in terms of his increase in speed and decreases in
:18:26. > :18:29.speed. 19 occasions in the drive when Daniel had to break quite
:18:30. > :18:34.heavily, because maybe he had not expected the car in front to slow
:18:35. > :18:39.down quite as much as it did. Inexperience, hard luck. Who came
:18:40. > :18:45.out on top? Michelle! By far the smoothest driver. She had only four
:18:46. > :18:51.heavy braking events. Interestingly, you were in the middle, Angela, with
:18:52. > :18:54.11. Middle-aged Michelle was the safest driver, quick reactions and
:18:55. > :19:01.lots of experience. I was second, Daniel last! How representative was
:19:02. > :19:07.the test? In the real world, older drivers fare even better, last year,
:19:08. > :19:08.for every 10,000 young drivers, 47 had an accident, middle-aged
:19:09. > :19:18.drivers, that number was just 16. That makes older drivers
:19:19. > :19:24.proportionally the safest of all, and Sean reckons he knows why. When
:19:25. > :19:29.you get older drivers and present them with a hazard, older drivers
:19:30. > :19:33.are slower to respond but because they are driving more slowly and
:19:34. > :19:38.cautiously in the first base, the safety margin is bigger, even though
:19:39. > :19:41.they do not react as quickly, they are managing risk appropriately by
:19:42. > :19:45.driving in an appropriate way. In other words, older drivers adapt
:19:46. > :19:51.driving style to compensate for diminishing skills, some even choose
:19:52. > :19:54.not to drive at night, or in cities. It is a form of self-regulation and
:19:55. > :20:00.it explains why we have so few accidents. Older drivers do have a
:20:01. > :20:05.weakness, they are prone to crashing at junctions. This is an area where
:20:06. > :20:10.in a particularly some older drivers suffer, partly because they have
:20:11. > :20:13.various things going wrong, visually, but also partly because of
:20:14. > :20:20.simple things like how much they can turn their head. Turn left at the
:20:21. > :20:28.crossroads... It seems we do not pay enough attention. It seems I do not
:20:29. > :20:31.always get it right either, but there is something that older
:20:32. > :20:37.drivers can do about the problem, it can be assessed and trained by
:20:38. > :20:39.somebody like Bob, he is from Royal Society for the prevention of
:20:40. > :20:48.accidents, today he is assessing my driving. The evidence from Germany
:20:49. > :20:55.is that with focused training, you can help a driver to sustain their
:20:56. > :21:01.safety on the road for a significantly longer period of time.
:21:02. > :21:05.Older drivers may have slower reactions and sometimes struggle at
:21:06. > :21:08.junctions, but we are still statistically the safest on the
:21:09. > :21:14.road, and with a better extra training with an get even better. --
:21:15. > :21:18.with a bit of extra training. -- we can get even better. So I can look
:21:19. > :21:22.forward to putting even more miles on the clock!
:21:23. > :21:29.Any mention of the word ballet can can drop a whirl of tutus and
:21:30. > :21:33.raffles, it can seem elitist, and only access a bull by the rich and
:21:34. > :21:37.the privileged, but one man is on a mission to change all of that. Eric
:21:38. > :21:43.Underwood is a world renowned soloist for the Royal Ballet, he
:21:44. > :21:46.wants more children from less affluent backgrounds and more boys
:21:47. > :21:53.to give Ballet a world, but turning a group of football fanatic from
:21:54. > :21:59.Hackney in east London into serious dance competitors is a real
:22:00. > :22:05.challenge. Headteacher is showing them a ballet with all male dancers,
:22:06. > :22:14.I'm curious to see if they will be embarrassed, just what is their take
:22:15. > :22:22.on male dancers doing ballet. It is a bit different... I was surprised
:22:23. > :22:26.when I saw that it was men dancing. I thought it was girls dancing.
:22:27. > :22:30.Their views do not surprise me, to be honest, at their age I was like a
:22:31. > :22:35.lot of these kids, but I got an opportunity to try ballet, it has
:22:36. > :22:38.transformed my life. I want kids from less affluent backgrounds to
:22:39. > :22:43.have access to the same opportunities that I did, so I am
:22:44. > :22:46.heading back to the school, in the hope of discovering a few boys who
:22:47. > :22:53.could pursue a successful career in ballet. We are a creative school, a
:22:54. > :22:57.lot of boys crave that creativity, because they know that sometimes
:22:58. > :23:06.that will be the way out for them, to better things, and hopefully have
:23:07. > :23:14.a better life. Good turnout, excellent. All I do is a jump and
:23:15. > :23:23.change my feet. I do it once more and point your toes as you do it.
:23:24. > :23:28.Good... I'm putting in the room their paces to find out if they have
:23:29. > :23:34.what it takes, I'm looking for pupils who have enthusiasm,
:23:35. > :23:38.flexibility and strong core muscles. When I first started ballet, there
:23:39. > :23:42.were few role models who love like me, even now, as a successful
:23:43. > :23:48.dancer, I have to deal with issues of diversity. It is a little-known
:23:49. > :23:51.fact, in the UK, ballet pumps are only mass produced for white skin
:23:52. > :23:56.tones, most black and Asian dancers get around this by using make-up to
:23:57. > :24:00.paint their ballet shoes, so they become a closer match to their skin
:24:01. > :24:05.tones, today I have come here to collect my first pair of bespoke
:24:06. > :24:12.shoes. You have done really well... Slightly to light... I can probably
:24:13. > :24:15.go a little bit darker... I am excited, my partners will be excited
:24:16. > :24:20.as well, now they will match really well, and the make-up does not get
:24:21. > :24:23.onto my partner. Back at school, I think I have found a couple of boys
:24:24. > :24:29.who have the potential to make it as ballet dancers. Look there, Kayden
:24:30. > :24:35.is capable of finishing directly, really cleanly, without being
:24:36. > :24:40.instructed. It is interesting, now you have picked him out. -- Caden.
:24:41. > :24:47.This guy has turnout and natural flexibility. It is time to tell my
:24:48. > :24:51.new potential proteges the news. You saw how many other people were
:24:52. > :24:58.dancing here, at all of them, thought that you had an incredible
:24:59. > :25:02.amount of talent. What you think about a career as a ballet dancer?
:25:03. > :25:12.Would you enjoy that? I play rugby. That is really cool. I like to play
:25:13. > :25:15.for four. Well, not quite the reaction I was expecting, I was
:25:16. > :25:22.hoping more enthusiastic. I'm not going to give up on Richard and
:25:23. > :25:27.Caden because I think that a a real difference in the lives of the kids
:25:28. > :25:31.at this school. We want children to want to come to school, we want them
:25:32. > :25:35.to be cited about coming to school, this little project here has had
:25:36. > :25:38.that response, because we are getting creative with these
:25:39. > :25:48.children, they will get fantastic results.
:25:49. > :25:56.That is if this week, if you would like to see more stories from your
:25:57. > :26:06.area, join our team is on Monday evening, 7:30pm, BBC One, or, on the
:26:07. > :26:09.BBC iD player. -- iPlayer.