Episode 2 Inside Out

at accident and emergency units in England.

Health experts say it's not clear why,

there has not been a big outbreak of flu.

Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan has been jailed for 23

years for raping two of his followers and keeping his daughter

a prisoner for South London for three decades.

This week we are in Birmingham, bringing you in-depth reports on

some of the best stories from around England. Coming up: we go undercover

on the Internet, to expose the online grooming techniques of

so-called Islamic State. Veteran petrol head Angela Rippon asks

whether older drivers should be asked to retake their test. And

Royal Ballet soloist Eric Underwood tries to get young lads to swap

their football boots for ballet pumps.

is increasingly using social media to recruit young people

Syria and Iraq, but what would persuade someone to travel to such a

war-torn part of the world and live under such a brutal regime? Inside

Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have been undercover to find out.

VOICEOVER: Why on earth would you like to come here?

What prompted those people? This man is and I testify to, we filmed him

encouraging an undercover BBC journalist to travel to IST

territory. -- I S territory. We are going to find out just how easy it

is to be sucked in by propaganda and social media, and show the struggle

that a group of parents and families face in their fight against

extremism. I need to protect myself, these people, my children, from

radicalisation. This is a suburb of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, it is home

to Isis recruits. We never knew that they were going to fight for the

Isis, I cannot believe that they did that, still cannot believe it. They

were normal guys, normal teenagers, young people who liked football...

What was happening behind-the-scenes? I don't know. A

few weeks after leaving for Syria, the youngest suicide bomber from

Britain died. That was the point where we felt something had to be

done. Basically, stand up and say, we have a problem in our community,

let's take a look. Arun and his friend has set up a group to engage

the community, organising events like this football tournament to

bring people together and get them talking about difficult topics. --

Haroon. We set this up so that we can stop people from bullying, work

on the radicalisation and engage. 13, 14 very vulnerable children, the

friends of the two lads that went away. Working very closely with

them. We are giving them a safe space to come and let us know what

they are feeling, what they are thinking, what they have seen

online. They worry that other young people in the area may be looking at

the same media sources that could have encouraged the two boys that

left. We cannot know for certain what or who convince these boys to

travel, but they will have had a good chance of learning about IS

online, one researcher monitored IS websites for a month and found 1500

separate pieces of propaganda. Other research claims 50,000 Twitter

accounts have originated in the area. Young people use social media

all the time, we should not be that surprised that Islamic State, made

up predominantly of young people, will use the skills they already

have. Without social media they would struggle to get their message

across, they would struggle to convince young people that it is

possible to travel. What messages are they posting on social media to

bring recruits? There is one way to find out, join the conversation.

Meet Zara, not her real name, she is a journalist, she created an online

ID, and began following IS people on social media. A back story was that

she was 25 years old, she and her family lived in the northern part of

England, and she came across as someone who is young and clean but

did not know how to get into IS. It did not take long for people to

contact her, interesting names cropping up, Omar Hussein,

originally from Buckinghamshire, is now on a list of dangerous

terrorists. From Glasgow, a lady named Mahmoud also on the list, but

one in particular kept her in conversation. His real name was

Mario, half Italian, half German. He converted to Islam just four years

ago, he was living in the IS world that the last two years. We began

researching and found quite a few German articles online.

Marriot began messaging Zara, encouraging her to travel, even

proposing marriage. -- Mario. He begins talking about marriage within

a day... There is a definite sense that that is of primary importance

to him, finding a wife, the speed of which, the focus he has, the

unrelenting focus, about, come and join me, come and join me, that is

interesting. You think this is literally just a personal

communication from him? Do you think that there is some kind of

recruitment drive? Behind this? I have come across Kamina occasions

where they are much more precise about how to travel, where to

travel, having said that, the consistency, the repetition, is

common. -- I have come across communications.

Initially he came across as someone polite and nice but within two or

three daisy-chained, becoming very aggressive, very demanding, very

controlling. He completely missed my head,

sending messages 20 47, I felt like he was constantly online. -- 20 four

sevenths. -- 24/7. If he can make me feel the way I feel, just imagine

what he could do to a young person, I am a journalist, they are 13,

14-year-old boys and girls. A lot of pressure can be very difficult to

resist, you want to demonstrate you are a true and honest and good

person, that makes it much harder to resist. As Prime Minister want to

work with you, to confront and defeat this poison. Before the

attacks in Paris, it was estimated 750 people from the UK had travelled

to join IS. The government's counterterrorism strategy is made up

of four Ps. Prepare, pursue, prevents, pinpoint. Dewsbury is in

one of the prevents strategies priority areas, as a result, it

would seem to attract wondering. -- Prevent. We do not get cash money

from government, we get support with a member of staff, that comes in the

form of a coordinator. A big focus of our workers being in local

schools, working with community groups, parents, young people

themselves, that is very much about raising awareness of online safety.

For the people closest to those at risk, there is a frustration that

the government funded work is having little effect on the most

vulnerable. We are very close-knit, almost ghettoised, we have a lot of

doubt about the Prevent agenda. Engages about promoting respect and

tolerance and that is what we are doing. We're working hard, we are

community people, this is our community, we were born here, we

live here, that is why we care for it. The work we do with Prevented is

safeguarding young people, we will work with anybody across the

district would like to work in partnership with us.

Our undercover reporter has agreed to speak with Mario, through a

webcam. What was it like coming face-to-face with Mario? I was

looking into the eyes of a terrorist, and I was very nervous, I

will be honest, I know that he was miles away, it was just taking

future screen, but my first reaction was, a terrorist, a IS terrorist, an

organisation known for beheading innocent people, raping women,

killing children. They spoke for over now, Mario advised our reporter

how to make the journey to IS territory.

No concept of the play she is going to is violent, that there is bombs

being dropped, that there are shortages of electricity, medical

supply issues, food shortages, he's willing to say almost anything to

get her to join him. After this, Zara cut off all communication, this

was one person he was not going to persuade.

Shortly after we made the call, our reporter got a message from somebody

living in IS, somebody who had been chatting on social media, this time,

warning the reporter against travel. They are taking incredible risks,

communicating that message, that is hugely powerful. And in a way, quite

sad. If that is how she's feeling, and she is stuck there, with the

best will in the world now, she is. We showed a transcript of the

reporters conversations to In gauge Dewsbury. I am a father myself, and

it is frightening that something like this could happen and happen so

quickly. -- Engage. It makes me very angry, that somebody could take

advantage of somebody, in this manner. And with these kind of

words, pretending to be quite holy, but really, they are doing something

so wrong. This report published this month looks at young people and

extremism, it says that the first place they turn to for advice about

radicalisation is their family. The second, the Internet. Possibly a

time before when certain things that would happen around the world that

you would not talk about with your children, but now, it is important

to talk with them about it. STUDIO: There is now more than

formally in drivers over the age of 70, that figure is increasing fast,

10,000 every month, so, is it time to introduce new medical checks? Or

even another test? We asked former Top Gear presenter and veteran

VOICEOVER: There investigate.

VOICEOVER: There is a reason older drivers have a bad reputation... Is

going to hit us! A 77-year-old motorist with dementia was driving

on the road away in the wrong direction, you only way traffic cops

could stop him was by blocking his path, thankfully no one was hurt.

Another lucky escape, and 88-year-old driver ploughed into

this hairdressers, isolated cases of course but something to ignore?

Perhaps not. Elderly drivers can be quite stupid sometimes! Perhaps they

should not be driving. Once they have retired, there should be a

test. When you get to 70, or whatever, you may not be as safe. Is

that true? Do we really get less that true? Do we really get less

sharp behind the wheel as we get older? Even if you are a former Top

Gear presenter, like me! It is likely that my driving skills are

not quite what they were back then, and yet, the government seems happy

for veterans roadsters to drive on and on, all we have to do is sign a

declaration every three years that we are fit to drive. Should millions

of drivers who like me are now more than 70 be forced to retake our

driving test? After all, that is exactly what happens abroad. Time

for international road trip. In parts of the good old US of A, and

even as far away as New Zealand, some older drivers do have to take a

road test of top countries like Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands

insist on older drivers having a medical examination. Hold your

horses, that would not go down well with many pensioners, like this lot.

Most of my friends are 70 plus, I do not know of anyone driving that

should not be driving. I think that I am a safe driver. We are a bit

slow because we are not in a hurry to go anywhere! What difference

would it make to your life if you were not able to drive? I think I

would go into a deep depression, to be honest, really. I would have to

use the bus, until then, no. Should the law change? Time for a

scientific test? To find out whether or not driving skills do deteriorate

as we get older, I have come to the transport research laboratory in

Wokingham, they have a state-of-the-art driving simulator,

and to help me, I have brought along to other drivers. I will be

representing older drivers, Michelle, middle-aged motorist, and

her son, Daniel, young drivers. We each spend 15 minutes in the similar

letter. It tests to things, our ability to keep a safe distance from

the car in front and how well we react to hazards, our back-seat

driver is Sean Hellman, a transport psychologist. Yes, it is a real job!

Is slowing down... What we see her do is take a reasonable amount of

time to react... That was close... Pulled out without indicating. They

do actually indicates... But it is not all bad. Angela is doing well on

some of these tasks. Some praise at last, but how do I compare to young

Daniel? He seems to be rather impatient. That was a bit close...

At the moment, he has done ten heavy braking events, so far, which is

quite a lot. Interesting, I wonder if his mother is any better? She has

only had to apply the brakes really heavily once or twice. Sounds

promising. Timed and for the big reveal. One thing we expected to see

was borne out by the data, as the older driver, you were the slowest

to react. You responded on average within about one second -- 1.5

seconds to the sudden events, Daniel and Michelle were responding in one

second, it is only half a second but it is quite a long time, if you are

travelling at 70 mph, in the second and a half it took you to respond,

you have travelled 100 metres. The others would have travelled two

thirds of that. As the oldest driver, I had the slowest reactions

but Sean reveals was not the worst driver, how was Daniel? He was the

most erratic in terms of his increase in speed and decreases in

speed. 19 occasions in the drive when Daniel had to break quite

heavily, because maybe he had not expected the car in front to slow

down quite as much as it did. Inexperience, hard luck. Who came

out on top? Michelle! By far the smoothest driver. She had only four

heavy braking events. Interestingly, you were in the middle, Angela, with

11. Middle-aged Michelle was the safest driver, quick reactions and

lots of experience. I was second, Daniel last! How representative was

the test? In the real world, older drivers fare even better, last year,

for every 10,000 young drivers, 47 had an accident, middle-aged

drivers, that number was just 16. That makes older drivers

proportionally the safest of all, and Sean reckons he knows why. When

you get older drivers and present them with a hazard, older drivers

are slower to respond but because they are driving more slowly and

cautiously in the first base, the safety margin is bigger, even though

they do not react as quickly, they are managing risk appropriately by

driving in an appropriate way. In other words, older drivers adapt

driving style to compensate for diminishing skills, some even choose

not to drive at night, or in cities. It is a form of self-regulation and

it explains why we have so few accidents. Older drivers do have a

weakness, they are prone to crashing at junctions. This is an area where

in a particularly some older drivers suffer, partly because they have

various things going wrong, visually, but also partly because of

simple things like how much they can turn their head. Turn left at the

crossroads... It seems we do not pay enough attention. It seems I do not

always get it right either, but there is something that older

drivers can do about the problem, it can be assessed and trained by

somebody like Bob, he is from Royal Society for the prevention of

accidents, today he is assessing my driving. The evidence from Germany

is that with focused training, you can help a driver to sustain their

safety on the road for a significantly longer period of time.

Older drivers may have slower reactions and sometimes struggle at

junctions, but we are still statistically the safest on the

road, and with a better extra training with an get even better. --

with a bit of extra training. -- we can get even better. So I can look

forward to putting even more miles on the clock!

Any mention of the word ballet can can drop a whirl of tutus and

raffles, it can seem elitist, and only access a bull by the rich and

the privileged, but one man is on a mission to change all of that. Eric

Underwood is a world renowned soloist for the Royal Ballet, he

wants more children from less affluent backgrounds and more boys

to give Ballet a world, but turning a group of football fanatic from

Hackney in east London into serious dance competitors is a real

challenge. Headteacher is showing them a ballet with all male dancers,

I'm curious to see if they will be embarrassed, just what is their take

on male dancers doing ballet. It is a bit different... I was surprised

when I saw that it was men dancing. I thought it was girls dancing.

Their views do not surprise me, to be honest, at their age I was like a

lot of these kids, but I got an opportunity to try ballet, it has

transformed my life. I want kids from less affluent backgrounds to

have access to the same opportunities that I did, so I am

heading back to the school, in the hope of discovering a few boys who

could pursue a successful career in ballet. We are a creative school, a

lot of boys crave that creativity, because they know that sometimes

that will be the way out for them, to better things, and hopefully have

a better life. Good turnout, excellent. All I do is a jump and

change my feet. I do it once more and point your toes as you do it.

Good... I'm putting in the room their paces to find out if they have

what it takes, I'm looking for pupils who have enthusiasm,

flexibility and strong core muscles. When I first started ballet, there

were few role models who love like me, even now, as a successful

dancer, I have to deal with issues of diversity. It is a little-known

fact, in the UK, ballet pumps are only mass produced for white skin

tones, most black and Asian dancers get around this by using make-up to

paint their ballet shoes, so they become a closer match to their skin

tones, today I have come here to collect my first pair of bespoke

shoes. You have done really well... Slightly to light... I can probably

go a little bit darker... I am excited, my partners will be excited

as well, now they will match really well, and the make-up does not get

onto my partner. Back at school, I think I have found a couple of boys

who have the potential to make it as ballet dancers. Look there, Kayden

is capable of finishing directly, really cleanly, without being

instructed. It is interesting, now you have picked him out. -- Caden.

This guy has turnout and natural flexibility. It is time to tell my

new potential proteges the news. You saw how many other people were

dancing here, at all of them, thought that you had an incredible

amount of talent. What you think about a career as a ballet dancer?

Would you enjoy that? I play rugby. That is really cool. I like to play

for four. Well, not quite the reaction I was expecting, I was

hoping more enthusiastic. I'm not going to give up on Richard and

Caden because I think that a a real difference in the lives of the kids

at this school. We want children to want to come to school, we want them

to be cited about coming to school, this little project here has had

that response, because we are getting creative with these

children, they will get fantastic results.

That is if this week, if you would like to see more stories from your

area, join our team is on Monday evening, 7:30pm, BBC One, or, on the

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