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On this week's Inside Out - can we ever stop people | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
who he left his home to bring terror to London? | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Birmingham has a specific problem with Islamic militancy, | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
because it has shown in the past ten years that its conviction rate | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
is second only to London for terror related incidents. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Also on the programme, the medical advances that mean | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
tiny babies are surviving against all odds. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Obviously, she started having contractions, I was on the floor, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
crying my eyes out because they tell you truthfully how it is. | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
And we catch up with the inhabitants of a secluded valley, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
This pine forest, those wolves, this could be Canada, | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
North America, even a remote part of Scandinavia. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
I am Ayo Akinwolere, this is Inside Out West Midlands. | :00:47. | :01:02. | |
Tonight, we are in Birmingham and three years ago, | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
I made a special programme investigating this city's | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Now, I was particularly concerned when I found out the man that | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
carried out the attacks in Westminster actually lived here. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
So is Birmingham, as the tabloids claim, really the Jihadi | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
It's a city I care about, so I worry about the stuff I've been hearing. | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
Birmingham has become the focus of police investigations | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
following the terror attack in Westminster... | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
..west of Birmingham city centre, police search of former home | :01:36. | :01:47. | |
Officers said Massoud clearly had an interest in jihad. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
The city has been attracting attention around the world. | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
Khalid Masood lived in Birmingham for only a short time, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
but the city has been linked with extremism before. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Three Birmingham men have gone on trial accused | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
of plotting a series of suicide bombing attacks... | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
..bombing campaign on a scale greater than | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
So, does Birmingham have a particular problem with extremism? | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
And is it doing enough to prevent it? | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
Three years ago, I asked those exact same questions | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
I examined where people convicted of terror related offences | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
were living and I found that east Birmingham have the highest | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
were living and I found that east Birmingham had the highest | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
concentration of convicted Islamist extremists in Britain. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
But they represented only a tiny proportion of the population. | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Three years on, the anti-extremism think tank, the Henry Jackson | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
It is fair to say that Birmingham has a specific problem | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
with Islamic militancy, because it has shown in the past ten | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
years that its conviction rate is second only to London | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
The Henry Jackson Society's latest report reveals that | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
in the last 20 years, 269 British people have either been | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
convicted of terror related offences or killed as suicide bombers. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
The figures don't include Rashid Rauf, suspected | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
of masterminding the 2005 London bombings for Al-Qaeda. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Or Junaid Hussain, allegedly a key recruiter | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Both from Birmingham and both killed by American drones. | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
But the proportion of offenders from the West Midlands has been rising. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
In the last five years, the region accounted for a quarter | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
So is that simply because Birmingham has a large Muslim population? | :03:26. | :03:37. | |
Well, Kyle believes it is more to do with the nature | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
of those communities, That they are largely | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
The data clearly shows they are in the areas that are most | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Recruiters find it easier to attach themselves to people. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
Islamic State will offer them a sense of unity and purpose | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Islamic State will offer them a sense of community and purpose | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
and then will draw them in and use them for their own purpose. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
And Kyle also tells me that the city's historic links | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
with extremism make it easier to recruit here. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Birmingham has been the site of a lot of networks that laid | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
And they have been reactivated in recent years with | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
And in the intermittent time, they had links to the 7/7 attackers. | :04:09. | :04:22. | |
We have also seen that some of Islamic State's members | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
and operatives have been able to find shelter in the city. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Moazzam Begg is a Muslim from Birmingham who was once himself | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
He was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay without charge. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Now, he is a director of Cage, an organisation that campaigns | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
for committed is affected by the war on terror. | :04:40. | :04:39. | |
Do you think Birmingham has a particular problem | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
If you look at the statistics, approximately there are 36 people | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
over a period of 17 years that have been convicted for | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
That is almost 0.01% of the population. | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
That is almost 0.01% of the Muslim population. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Pretending perhaps that Birmingham is more susceptible | :05:04. | :05:04. | |
because of its Muslim population to terrorism, I think | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
is incorrect and actually makes the people of Birmingham feel | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
that they are being unnecessarily scapegoated. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Last year, one in three arrests for terrorism were for people | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
who were regarded as white supremacist and there has been no | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
such attempt to unpick where they came from. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
But the evidence suggests that some people are being radicalised | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Security intelligence expert Philip Ingram has | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
His company tracks Islamist extremists on the Internet. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
For security reasons, we can't broadcast some | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
A lot of this material was passed around on the dark web | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
on invite-only channels, you need a special | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
It is now onto a platform called Telegram. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Telegram is a messaging service like WhatsApp, | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
where you can chat with people one-on-one or in a group. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Once that interaction has been picked up, they will be | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
providing propaganda, then they will be | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
groomed into further groups depending on what the person | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
that is assessing them thinks they can do. | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
That could be just providing support, giving the materials or it | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Are we saying it is like being invited into a club of some sort? | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Philip has software which shows how complex the process can be. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
You see here, we have got one, two, three, four groups. | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
That one is very small and that one is absolutely massive, | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
but all of the interactions are coming from this individual | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
that there is there, so that is the person that is group | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
manager, that is the most important person and that is the person that | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
has got the knowledge and information that we want | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Now, you've managed to infiltrate some of these groups. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
What we have here is a graphic that Islamic State put out to try | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
and encourage supporters to carry out a Jihadi acts and you can see | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and encourage supporters to carry out Jihadi acts and you can see | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
on there some of the things, it ranges from shouting at people | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
through to they do mention, using a vehicle and everything | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
in there is designed to try and get people to go and do something. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
So what is being done to stop certain people being radicalised | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
and why doesn't it seem to be working? | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Under the Government's prevent strategy, all public sector workers, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
including teachers and social workers, are trained on how to spot | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
and report individuals at risk of Islamist far right extremism. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
A local panel then decides what help that person may need to prevent them | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
That could mean access to housing, employment | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
As was the case for this Birmingham man, who became interested | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
in Islamist ideology after developing an alcohol problem. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
I was drinking a minimum of a litre of vodka a day. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
I was vulnerable, I could have gone down the road of extremism. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
We have individuals who have been vulnerable because of their | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
What we have been able to do is to support those individuals, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
to deal with their intake of substances because whilst | :08:20. | :08:19. | |
they have been high, they have been more vulnerable | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
and therefore have responded to propaganda in a different way. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
I managed to cut down on my alcohol intake and slowly but surely stop... | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
But under Prevent, some individuals are also offered mentoring | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Three years ago, I was granted rare access to a mentor | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Souleiman told me how he dissuaded one young man from sending money | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
to Islamist extremist fighters in Syria. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Rather than arguing and telling him, no, don't do that, that's wrong | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
and telling him he is a bad person, what I did was explained | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
to him that the reason why you are so passionate | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
about going out there to help and sending this money | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
is because you saw all those women and children suffering. | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
So, actually, if you send this money to the people | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
who are out there fighting, is that actually going to feed | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
So I was then able to direct him and say, look, keep that passion, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
but we are going to try and direct that in a more positive way | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
and you could donate that money to Islamic Relief, | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
to the Red Cross, and, actually, I saw the smile come to his face | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
and the realisation that, yes, that makes sense. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
But the Prevent strategy is controversial. | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
Senior figures in both the Conservative and Labour parties | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
have recently claimed it unfairly stigmatises Muslim communities. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
The entire Muslim community has felt that Prevent | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
They feel like they have become targets unnecessarily and in fact, | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
students at the universities have become a programme saying | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
students at the universities have begun a programme saying | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
And teachers are saying "Educators not informants". | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
And that's where we are failing, that is why the United Nations have | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
said that Prevent could be causing extremism, so clearly, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
to stop that extremism, you need to remove Prevent. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
So how do we stop people from being radicalised? | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
We want to get to the heart of why do the very small amount of people | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
feel like they need to act violently towards their own citizens? | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
And the answer is because they don't feel part of society, | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
so make them feel part of society, teach them the contribution | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
of Islam to maths, culture, to history, to language, | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
to architecture, in our schools and people might feel they have more | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
of a vested interest in the future of this country. | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
But the Government has said the Westminster terror | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
attack reinforces the need for the Prevent strategy. | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
Prevent is not about spying on people, it's about helping people | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
at risk in the similar way that they may be at | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
For example, risk to guns and gangs activity, risk to grooming, etc. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
In 2015, 150 journeys to Syria were prevented and I would argue | :11:09. | :11:09. | |
that stopping people from travelling to Syria has potentially save lives. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
So I think success is difficult to quantify, but certainly from some | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
of the examples we have, we can say it has been | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
When I made that special programme three years ago, I was optimistic | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
that the authorities had found a way of preventing people in this city | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
There are examples of Channel mentors doing just that. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
I only hope that in another three years, I won't be back asking | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
the same questions about the city I care so much about. | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
Next, new treatments being tested here in the Midlands | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
are helping premature babies to survive. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
But is neonatal medicine reaching its limits? | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
Lukwesa Burak has been finding out more. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Harry was born four months before his due date | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
When it did occur, when obviously she started having contractions, | :12:05. | :12:21. | |
I was on the floor, crying my eyes out, because they tell | :12:22. | :12:21. | |
Harry had spent only 23 weeks in his mother's womb. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
He weighed just under a pound, less than half a bag of sugar. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
He was very, very tiny and his skin was very delicate | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
and near enough see-through, kind of thing, | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Premature birth is the biggest killer of babies. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Every week - every day - a baby spends in its mother's womb | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
until the age of 37 weeks is vital for its survival. | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
So when it is thrust into the world before it is ready, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Now advances in the way doctors treat such tiny babies are improving | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
It means they can tackle some of the heart and bowel problems | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
And at this hospital, that is how they are helping | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
babies from right across Leicestershire and Warwickshire. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Ten years ago, a baby born at 26 weeks had a 50% chance of making it | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Survival rates are improving every year. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
Leon is one of the lucky babies to benefit from the new science. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
He arrived almost three months early and has already survived several | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
He is being treated for NUC currently and he is the baby | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
who is weaning off CPAP and clinically, he is stable. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Doctors are so worried about his bowels, they've decided | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
A generation ago, he would have had to survive on sugared water | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
You were concerned that there might be some kind of infection, | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
so in this situation, he is getting special nutritional | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
fluids, where we can give him carbohydrates, | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
proteins, lipids, all kinds of vitamins and micro-elements. | :14:16. | :14:28. | |
They said they are going to stop feeding him for one week | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
But, you know, they don't do anything, they don't want to hurt | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
They say everyday is like a roller-coaster, you know? | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
One day it is beautiful, we can just have a cuddle | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
and everything and other days, it can be an infection and he has | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Some babies here are so weak that even the air they breathe must be | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
In the early days of the NHS, no attempt was made to resuscitate | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Neonatal units were basic and so was the treatment. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
This one has to be given nourishment with a feeder. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
The earlier a child is born, the weaker is its hold on life, | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
the greater its helplessness against germs. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Now babies can survive after spending just 23 weeks | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
in the womb, but doctors believe we may have reached the viable | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
I think we're probably around the limit of where we are going | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
to get with the smallest babies, so I don't think there will be | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
a big progression to 22, 21 weeks, and I don't think | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Most neonatologists are not into how small can the baby be to survive | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
but how can we improve the quality of that survival? | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
So we just need to get her gas, probably 15-20 minutes. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Survival rates may be improving, but there are still dozens | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
of possible complications to navigate for every | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
The majority of babies at 23 weeks don't do well and there is a high | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
risk of long-term problems, developmental problems | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
and the condition of cerebral palsy in those babies that of that such | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
and the condition of cerebral palsy in those babies that survive | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
New research has shown that many premature babies also face mental | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
and behavioural problems as they get older. | :16:30. | :16:30. | |
Actually, the most common difficulties premature babies | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
are likely to face as they get older are in the areas of cognition, | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
so difficulties with memory, with thinking, with problem solving. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Particular difficulties with attention. | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
And of course, those kind of problems have a major impact | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Only two in ten babies born at 23 weeks survive and few babies born | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
so early will go on to lead a healthy life. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Because so many face lifelong complications, | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
some doctors question the financial cost of treating them. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
Intensive care is expensive and so intensive care in this | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
hospital costs about ?1000 per day per cot. | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
So if you are testing a new cancer treatment, | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
you say what is the cost of the drug and how many years | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
We are one of the only specialties where you can be talking | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
So if a baby does well and they come out of the neonatal and they go home | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
and have a normal life, then you have gained a huge amount | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
and that has to be offset against the cost. | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
He's just reached his due date and has gone home weighing | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
But you knew they were doing their best for him | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
and without their help, he wouldn't be here. | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
Leon has recovered from his bowel complications and has | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
He is really good, he's a really good boy. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
He don't sleep in the night-time, but that's normal for the baby. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
If you look around the unit, you will see sort of picture boards | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
up with pictures of children going to school pictures of children | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
up with pictures of children going to school, pictures of children | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
going on and getting their degree at University that were ex-patients | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
So whilst there is a lot to lose and it can be a very emotional place | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
from that point of view, there is also the most to gain. | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
There is no other specialty we can get 70 years of usable life. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
There is no other specialty we can get 70 years in useful life. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
When you leave the big city behind, just how wild can life get? | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
David Gregory-Kumar has been finding out. | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
A wild and rugged landscape, exposed to everything the elements | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
can throw at it and in amongst the trees, a wolf. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
For me, this beautiful animal is the spirit of the wilderness. | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
Look at that, with those deer, this pine forest, those wolves, | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
this could be Canada, North America, maybe a remote | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
part of Scandinavia - but actually these wolves are living | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
This valley is home to a unique sanctuary run by a unique man. | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
Tony Haighway has been rescuing wolves for the past 35 years. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
His sanctuary is called Wolf Watch UK and it's been in this secret | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
So, Tony, this is an amazing landscape, why is it | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Well, Shropshire isn't agriculturally manicured like a lot | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
Farming practices here are very much the same as they have been for quite | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
And although it is only a postage stamp of natural | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
environment for the wolves, it's very similar to perhaps | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
how you would find them in their home countries. | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
And this hidden valley will soon be home to two eight-month-old wolf | :20:07. | :20:18. | |
pups who've been driven out of their own pack and need | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
I'll be joining them on their 200 mile journey from Hertfordshire | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Moving two walls isn't easy. -- wolves. | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
The two new wolves will be the latest of about 35 wolves that | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
Tony has taken in over the years but it all began kind of by accident | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
after he came away from a visit to a Warwickshire zoo | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
We learned that the zoo was being closed, so we asked | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
the owner what he was doing with the wolves and his response was | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
that they were going to be put down because they weren't worth anything. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
So out of the blue, and I really don't know | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
to this day why I said it, I simply asked, could I have them? | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
He thought he could get them rehomed in another zoo. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
But he soon discovered that in those day, zoos simply put | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
So the truth dawned upon me very swiftly that I'd got these | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
And that was the start of Wolf Watch. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
He moved from Warwickshire to here in Shropshire | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
as his pack of rescue wolves continue to grow. | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
35 years on, this secret haven is supported by Wolf Watch members, | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
who adopt the animals so Tony and his team can | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
They usually come to us through zoo closures, dominance fights or | :21:33. | :21:47. | |
excessive breeding. We don't breed, we simply keep them until they turn | :21:48. | :21:48. | |
their toes up. And I'm about to meet | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
two wolves who've spent their entire lives here, | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
yes, I'm meeting wolves up close. We've got Maddie on the left, | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
she's the female, and then we've got Kosi behind us, her brother | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
and they're siblings Tony adopted these two | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
as pups and they've lived a long life here at Wolf | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Watch. So are they quite old for wolves? Do | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
they live this old in the wild? The average age in the wild is around | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
eight. These are an extraordinary age. In captivity, the average would | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
be 14 and they are now 18. Kosi and Maddie were only 9 days | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
old when Tony adopted them. They were so little he had | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
to hand rear them, and it's a 24 hour job bringing | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
up baby wolves. They slept with me in a sleeping bag | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
for the first two months of their lives in the kitchen. | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
But after they had moved out of the house, their special bond | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
with Tony continued and that's why he can bring people into | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
So that was just amazing, I didn't really know what to expect, | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
I thought they might be a bit like a big dog or something | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
but actually, when you first get in there they're quite intimidating. | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
They're much bigger, they've got these huge paws | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
and claws and they're very powerful looking but actually | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
after a while it's just a huge privilege to get so close to them. | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
Kosi and Maddie are the oldest residents here but shortly Tony | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Tehau coming from down south and I have come to Hertfordshire to join | :23:14. | :23:27. | |
them. That takes a lot of planning and a man with a gun. | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Wildlife vet John Lewis will dart them to knock them | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
The plan is to get started early so they can be released | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
into their new home at Wolf Watch before dusk - but perhaps | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
unsurprisingly the wolves don't want to be darted. | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
than planned, and well behind schedule , the young | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
wolves are finally safely in their travel crates. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
How are they doing? They are doing all right. The female had quite an | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
easy time of it, it took two minutes to dart her. The mail gave us a bit | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
of a run around and the circumstances beyond our control | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
meant we had to dart him in a wooded area, and they are very good in | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
those areas. These young wolves are brother | :24:16. | :24:16. | |
and sister and were part of a pack But they were being bullied | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
by the other wolves so Paradise Wildlife | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Park in Hertfordshire stepped in to help rehome them | :24:24. | :24:24. | |
and bring them to Tony Wolves are probably one of the most | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
difficult animals to keep in a captive environment. It is natural | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
in a pack that you will get issues, lower ranking Wolf wants to move up | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
the hierarchy of it and in the wild, they can keep away from each other. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
In a captive environment, that doesn't happen. The team from the | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
wildlife park will be looking after the walls on the journey and after | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
another half an hour, John the vet says they are OK to travel -- the | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
wolves. But we're now well behind schedule | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
and the weather is against us. So one van containing two slightly | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
drowsy wolves, they're off to their new home in Shropshire | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
and ahead of them is It's pitch black, windy and raining | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
heavily when the young wolves and the rest of us,finally | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
arrive in Shropshire. The day has been long | :25:21. | :25:21. | |
and bewildering for the pups and the Wolf Watch team now have | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
to work fast to get them settled But moving two big wolves in two big | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
metal crates across a muddy valley And it's all got to be done | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
as gently as possible. On the floor? Yes, nice and steady. | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
Lovely. Getting them out of the van | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
is the easy bit, we've still got to move them right | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
across the sanctuary site to their enclosure, | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
and that takes us a lot of time, involves plenty of people | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
and some heavy machinery. We are going to go around the back | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
of the gate. But eventually both pups | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
are safe in their new home. We're running a bit behind schedule | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
so we're not gonna release the wolves now ? we're going to wait | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
overnight and get used the wolves now ? we're going to wait | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
overnight and get them used to new surroundings, | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
we'll be back in the morning Next morning - and 28 | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
hours after their big move began, it's time | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
to release the pups. Tony tries to tempt | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
them out with chicken. Clearly, he is not raise, just yet | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
and neither is his sister. I will leave now and let them come out on | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
their own and see what happens. So how come after that time cooped up | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
into the great, they are not rushing to get out in the open? It is a | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
sense of security, they have been never such a long time and also it | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
must be quite fearful to brought into no environments with new | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
people, new spells. -- new environment with new people and new | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
smells. So time for us | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
to leave them alone, and it wasn't long before the male | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
pup finally ventured out. No sign of his sister - | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
he's clearly the braver almost painfully unsure | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
about all this. Getting used to their new home | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
is going to take time. But he's not keen to come out | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
and neither is his sister just yet If two months later, we are back. We | :27:23. | :27:36. | |
found in the days afterwards they started to explore more and formed | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
an alliance, which was very reassuring, with other walls and | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
that is who they are spending their time with -- other wolves. Things | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
are working out much better than I hoped. The wall plugs had a really | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
stressful journey to arrive there and when they arrived, they were | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
really unsure -- the wolves. Now we are back here, you consider are much | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
more happy and confident in their new surroundings are not getting to | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
know the other wolves, forming their own Wolfpack, and that is really | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
good news. Wolves have been extinct in England for 500 years but thanks | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
to Tony and to Wolf Watch, there are now eight living in this valley, | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
bringing a little bit of the wilderness back to Shropshire. You | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
know, that is such an unusual film, but I love it. Before we go, don't | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
forget, we are on the BBC iPlayer if you have missed anything and also on | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
Twitter. That is it that this series, hope you have enjoyed | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
watching and we will see you in the autumn. Have a good one. Goodbye. | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
We always love hearing about your story ideas, so please get in touch. | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
See you in September. | :28:48. | :28:50. |