:00:17. > :00:20.Imams appeal to plaums to help prevent child abuse and sexual
:00:20. > :00:26.exploitation. It is a crime of a twisted bunch of people who are
:00:26. > :00:30.sick to the core, staying silent about T it is in itself a sin.
:00:30. > :00:33.is hard to imagine the Church of England doing anything similar,
:00:34. > :00:38.well intentioned though the appeal may be, is it an acknowledgement
:00:38. > :00:47.that the community has a particular problem? The man who wrote the
:00:47. > :00:51.sermon will be joining us. And then this... Paris Hilton is hosting a
:00:51. > :00:56.party tonight. Where does she live, could we find a way in. Let's go to
:00:56. > :01:02.Paris's, I want to rob. But it is more than robbery, it is greed, it
:01:02. > :01:05.is stupidity and homeage. The The Bling Ring is based on a true story
:01:06. > :01:12.of teenage worship of celebrity and fashion. We will be talking to the
:01:12. > :01:16.writer of this tale of our times. We report from Burma about how a
:01:16. > :01:26.year on from the fighting which drove them from their homes and
:01:26. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:31.despite British aid, the Rohingya people are still desperate.
:01:31. > :01:36.Prominent Muslims in Britain used today's weekly worship to try to
:01:36. > :01:39.get a message through the mosques that certain sorts of behaviour,
:01:39. > :01:44.notably criminal and sexual behaviour, were not acceptable. It
:01:45. > :01:49.was claimed earlier that the message it be read out at 500
:01:49. > :01:54.mosques. Organisations keen to promote good community relations
:01:54. > :01:58.talked up the claim that the figure is a figment of someone's
:01:58. > :02:04.imagination and in Oxford, where this week a gang was sentenced for
:02:04. > :02:14.a series of child sex offences, various mosques refused to read it
:02:14. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:21.out at all. So what did happen? you and me what's happened by those
:02:21. > :02:25.criminals, those thugs is totally condemned. They have no space in
:02:25. > :02:29.our religion, they have no space in our community. So those who think
:02:29. > :02:33.that sex cannot be talked about in our mosques, and I need you to wake
:02:34. > :02:37.up and smell the coffee. Of course you can, there are no topics in
:02:37. > :02:44.Islam that is taboo. The message was hard-hitting, there must be
:02:44. > :02:49.change now and Muslims need to act. Yesterday saw the jailing of seven
:02:49. > :02:54.men from Oxford who plied girls with drugs and alcohol before
:02:54. > :02:57.forcing them to perform sexual acts. As in other cases the abuse was
:02:57. > :03:03.largely perpetrated by Asian men. Sometimes in full view of
:03:03. > :03:09.bystanders. Today was an attempt by religious leaders to urge fellow
:03:09. > :03:14.Muslims not to turn a blind eye but to confront the problems in their
:03:14. > :03:18.midst. What has happened by those criminals and those thugs is
:03:18. > :03:24.totally condemned. Staying silent about it, covering it up is in
:03:24. > :03:29.itself a sin. But the reporting of it doesn't always happen, as an
:03:29. > :03:33.anonymous contributor told a BBC Asian Network debate this morning.
:03:33. > :03:38.How many people in your social circle knew that these guys were
:03:38. > :03:44.bad guys? All of my friends knew that these guys were bad, to be
:03:44. > :03:48.honest. Do you think there were people who actually genuinely knew
:03:48. > :03:52.what they were doing? Yeah.And didn't say anything? Yeah, I think
:03:52. > :03:57.so. I definitely think so. Why do you think that? The group of
:03:57. > :04:03.friends is quite big and obviously as a group of friends boys together
:04:03. > :04:07.they talk. So I'm a sure other people did know. So it wasn't a
:04:07. > :04:12.secret? In the sense it wasn't hidden away. Everybody in the
:04:12. > :04:17.community knows they were bad people. Today's sermons also linked
:04:17. > :04:20.sex before marriage to abuse. Anyone who abuses children, anyone
:04:20. > :04:25.who has sex outside marriage, anyone who exploits other people
:04:25. > :04:29.for sexual favours for us it is all wrong, it is all sins. As far as we
:04:29. > :04:33.are concerned we need to have a holistic and healthy approach to
:04:33. > :04:36.this whole topic otherwise we are sleepwalking into self-destruction.
:04:36. > :04:40.Islam was today described as suffering from a crisis in
:04:40. > :04:47.masculinity. In which distorted views about women had been allowed
:04:47. > :04:54.to develop unchallenged. So was the sermon a good idea? I'm very
:04:54. > :04:59.impressed of the way he actually expressed the idea of sex and
:04:59. > :05:02.sexuality among our youth and the fact that sometimes the community,
:05:02. > :05:06.the Muslim community doesn't usually talk about sex. But he
:05:06. > :05:10.actually expressed it, we are free to talk about it. To speak about it
:05:10. > :05:16.but not in the mosque. I think it should be at a forum, go to the
:05:16. > :05:22.schools, meetings and so on. And discuss it properly, but to come
:05:22. > :05:30.into the mosque and what he's saying to me it is like, it is
:05:30. > :05:33.tantermount to distortion. Street grooming is not something usually
:05:33. > :05:36.spoken about in mosques during Friday prayers. Today many have
:05:36. > :05:41.condemned it saying that it is wrong and society needs to work
:05:41. > :05:45.harder to combat it. Some Muslims say it marks an important moment
:05:45. > :05:49.and a shift in attitude in Islam, but for many others it is something
:05:49. > :05:52.the religion has always spoken out against and ceremony Mondays like
:05:52. > :05:57.this perhaps give the impression -- sermons like this perhaps give the
:05:57. > :06:01.impression this is the first time it has been addressed. It seems it
:06:01. > :06:07.assume that some how Muslims don't know this is a wicked and evil
:06:07. > :06:12.crime. I mean from a very, very early age every Muslim is taught
:06:12. > :06:18.that anything to do with sexual exploitation of children or alcohol
:06:18. > :06:24.or drugs is, you know it is a sinful activity, and it is not
:06:25. > :06:29.something that one should participate in. It is not clear how
:06:29. > :06:32.many mosques delivered the sermon today. The language was certainly
:06:32. > :06:41.bold, but there is no guarantee it will have reached those that need
:06:41. > :06:47.to hear it most. We are joined now from Leeds by Alyas Karmani who
:06:47. > :06:51.wrote today's sermon, and is also a Respect Councillor in Bradford. Can
:06:51. > :06:54.you tell us roughly how many mosques read out this sermon?
:06:54. > :06:58.we haven't got precise numbers but we know it is certainly in the
:06:58. > :07:07.hundreds. If I can give you an example all present Imams were
:07:07. > :07:11.urged to read the sermon today. That is just 200 Imams and we know
:07:11. > :07:15.there were several hundred around the country. How many did read it
:07:15. > :07:19.out? We have the got an exact number in that how many mosques did
:07:19. > :07:23.it. We know there was overwhelming support. All the leading Islamic
:07:23. > :07:26.umbrella organisations have endorsed the sermon, that is across
:07:27. > :07:31.all denominations there is overwhelming support for the
:07:31. > :07:35.project. This is a long-term project. Not just a one-off event.
:07:35. > :07:39.The mosques who chose not to read it out, three out of four in Oxford
:07:39. > :07:42.where the latest crimes were committed or the men were sentenced,
:07:42. > :07:46.of the mosques which chose not to read it out, did they tell you why
:07:46. > :07:51.they wouldn't read it out? I can understand in Oxford there are
:07:51. > :07:55.sensitivites given the verdicts this week. But I think people have
:07:55. > :08:00.to realign back on to the core issue. This is the fact that the
:08:00. > :08:03.victims of this crime are children, 11, 12-year-olds whose lives have
:08:03. > :08:07.been irrevocably destroyed. Sometimes we are forgetting that.
:08:07. > :08:11.We can't be silent when it comes to child abuse, whatever community. If
:08:11. > :08:14.anything the Koran is very explicit about the issues, about child
:08:14. > :08:19.protection and protecting children from all kinds of abuse, whether it
:08:19. > :08:21.is physical or sexual. That Muslims have to be proactive on this issue.
:08:21. > :08:25.The mosque is the perfect place to have that discussion and the Friday
:08:25. > :08:29.prayers is the perfect vehicle for that. Of course there has been some
:08:29. > :08:32.criticisms. But I actually invite and I'm thinking it is really
:08:32. > :08:37.positive that we are having this debate and this discussion and we
:08:37. > :08:40.are all moving forward together. This is an issue that affects
:08:40. > :08:43.everyone in society. It is not just a Muslim issue, that is really
:08:43. > :08:47.important. We need to focus on the criminality, not faith, race and
:08:47. > :08:52.culture. And Muslims are giving leadership and direction to many,
:08:52. > :08:57.many other faith groups in society. A crime is a crime is a crime. Is
:08:57. > :09:00.there a particular problem in your community? In certain sections of
:09:00. > :09:05.the Muslim community due to organised crime groups, yes young
:09:05. > :09:09.men from Muslim backgrounds then do get involved in this reprehensible
:09:09. > :09:13.behaviour, but it is not unique of people of Muslim or south Asian
:09:13. > :09:18.background, our work nationally identifies that the similar kind of
:09:18. > :09:20.gangs operate in all cities and areas around the country, and
:09:20. > :09:24.obviously the Children's Commissioner's report identified
:09:24. > :09:29.that street grooming in inner city deprived areas as well as in leafy
:09:29. > :09:34.suburbs, we all have to be vigilent in terms of identifying those
:09:34. > :09:40.particular, that particular pattern. Your sermon was intended for a
:09:40. > :09:44.particular community. Does that community have a particular
:09:44. > :09:48.problem? Look I think you know we have to sub sume this into a bigger
:09:48. > :09:52.issue. When we talk about crisis of masculinity, this isn't just around
:09:52. > :09:56.Muslims, this is a global issue. How we are constructing masculinity
:09:56. > :10:01.today in society. You know the World Health Organisation brought
:10:01. > :10:04.out a report just recent low that identified one in three women
:10:04. > :10:08.globally experienced sexual and physical violence, that is a global
:10:08. > :10:16.epidemic that has been identified. It is the way that masculinity has
:10:16. > :10:19.been constructed, based on extreme pat arky, misogyny, vie --
:10:19. > :10:23.patriarchy, misogyny, violence, it creates a rape culture, we are
:10:23. > :10:27.seeing it in many parts of the world. It is not unique to Muslims
:10:27. > :10:31.or people of Muslim background. me be quite explicit, I'm not
:10:31. > :10:36.suggesting that for a second. We know this happens in all sorts of
:10:36. > :10:42.communities, I'm asking you because you spoke to your community today,
:10:42. > :10:45.or tried to, what particular problems there are you think in
:10:45. > :10:47.your community? I think there are particular problems in the
:10:48. > :10:51.Pakistani community and in the Muslim community. As I said they
:10:51. > :10:54.are related to organised crime groups that are involved in drug
:10:54. > :10:57.supply, trafficking, kidnapping and pimping. I think in areas where
:10:57. > :11:01.there is large sections of the Muslim community we know it that
:11:01. > :11:04.this behaviour takes place as your report said people were aware of
:11:04. > :11:09.abuse in Oxford, yet they didn't do anything about it. One of the
:11:09. > :11:12.strong messages we put out is where we know that abuse is taking place
:11:12. > :11:15.we have got to speak about it. We have got to challenge it and we
:11:15. > :11:20.have got to work with the agencies to make sure those individuals,
:11:20. > :11:24.those criminals are obviously dealt with. Let me put this very bluntly,
:11:24. > :11:31.this is an accusation I have heard in the white community. That is
:11:31. > :11:36.that some how there are elements of your community, who think if it is
:11:36. > :11:40.done to a white girl it is some how less of a crime? Well absolutely,
:11:41. > :11:44.that is absolutely wrong, and if that view exists again that is why
:11:44. > :11:50.we needed today's sermon to completely challenge that. I began
:11:50. > :11:54.today's sermon by saying Islam digfies all human beings. These are
:11:54. > :11:57.not someone else's, and the "other", they are our society and our
:11:57. > :12:02.children. They are as valuable as our own children. That is the
:12:02. > :12:04.attitude and values we have to get across. The other thing is by
:12:04. > :12:10.creating these stereotypes of particular victims there are other
:12:10. > :12:13.victims that become invisible in the whole process, Asian girls,
:12:13. > :12:17.black girls are other etnisties have been victimised by this
:12:17. > :12:23.terrible crime as well, that is why we have to be vigilent in terms of
:12:23. > :12:27.projecting children. Much Thank you very much indeed. Now that nice
:12:27. > :12:35.Emma Watson, Hermione from Harry Potter told the world today she
:12:35. > :12:39.only had eight payers of shoes. In the -- pairs of shoes. In the 21st
:12:39. > :12:44.century that is like having a hair shirt and whipping yourself on the
:12:44. > :12:49.saints day. A film has just opened in the states called The Bling Ring,
:12:49. > :12:54.Emma Watson is one of its stars. But the story of a gang of vapid
:12:54. > :12:58.spoilt teenagers who break into the homes of their heros is said to
:12:58. > :13:02.have caught part of the zeitgeist of the trivial amoral times in
:13:02. > :13:07.which we now live. In a moment I will be talking to the author who
:13:07. > :13:17.has tried to tell the story of The Bling Ring. Before that here is the
:13:17. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:22.shallowist man on television, Stephen Smith! Being famous for
:13:22. > :13:26.being famous begins to look like a dig nationwide and hard-won
:13:26. > :13:33.discipline when you see what comes next. Being famous for swiping the
:13:33. > :13:36.clothes of the famous. I'm nick y, this is Sam. Oh my God it is Paris
:13:36. > :13:40.Hilton. I think we wanted to be part of the lifestyle, the life
:13:40. > :13:43.style that everybody kind of wants. But that is what happens when you
:13:44. > :13:48.cross teenagers hooked on reality TV shows. Do you think we could
:13:48. > :13:54.find a way in. With websites telling you where the stars live.
:13:54. > :14:01.want to rob! Oh my God.That is a cute dress. Did you get a new
:14:01. > :14:07.dress? It was one of those stranger than faction sales that hits the
:14:08. > :14:11.zeitgeist at its sweet spot, the kids had been advertising their
:14:11. > :14:15.criminal doings on Facebook, reality television and the media
:14:15. > :14:21.itself, all wrapped up in a made for TV movie, that didn't exist yet
:14:21. > :14:24.but it would. I watch a lot of the Kardashians and the Hills, and then
:14:24. > :14:30.it was really trying to understand her psychology more than anything.
:14:30. > :14:33.I thought the whole thing was so fascinating and contemporary the
:14:33. > :14:36.story couldn't have happened ten years a I thought it was an
:14:36. > :14:42.interesting story for a movie and said so much about our culture
:14:42. > :14:46.today. I'm a firm believer in Karma. The teenage wannabes eventually
:14:46. > :14:51.encountered the American judicial process in all its majesty, arrest,
:14:51. > :14:58.charges, TV interviews. She went off the deepend. Please, this is my
:14:58. > :15:03.interview! Fame became synonymous with wealth, success, popularity,
:15:03. > :15:06.self-validation, and now the new generation, my teenage cousins all
:15:06. > :15:11.want to be famous and everybody thinks they can be famous, and with
:15:11. > :15:16.the rise of celebrities who are famous for being famous, like Paris
:15:16. > :15:24.Hilton, there is no reason why these people can't think they can
:15:24. > :15:29.be. Nancy Jo, this is Alexis calling. Sure enough one of The
:15:29. > :15:36.Bling Ring went on to have a reality TV moment, calling the
:15:36. > :15:46.journalist, Nancy Jo Sales to correct her on vital points of fact.
:15:46. > :15:49.
:15:49. > :15:56.Like saying I four six-inch heels from Loubtin, and my tweed shirt, I
:15:56. > :16:01.wore four-inch heels. Every time you do that I have to re-record it.
:16:01. > :16:06.Fading star Norma Desmond said she's still back and the movies
:16:06. > :16:13.have got small, now the stars are small. At least one of The Bling
:16:13. > :16:18.Ring gang gets it. Paris Hilton is famous for what, a sex tape? The
:16:18. > :16:22.values and stuff America has is so wrong, people should focus on
:16:22. > :16:24.politics and inventors and the important things. It shouldn't be
:16:24. > :16:32.celebrity and people famous for doing things that isn't really
:16:32. > :16:37.important and not helping society. Damn that is perfect, check it out.
:16:37. > :16:41.Very sportingly Paris Hilton let film makers shoot in the very
:16:41. > :16:44.boudoir where the bling ringers were light fringeered. She was
:16:44. > :16:50.furious after the first few burglaries when she finally noticed
:16:50. > :16:55.her stuff was missing. I live in a gated community, that wasn't enough,
:16:55. > :16:58.so now I have set up laser systems everywhere and security cameras and
:16:58. > :17:02.24-hour guards I'm very safe now. No more kids breaking in. I think
:17:02. > :17:06.that also says a lot that these people get so much free stuff that
:17:06. > :17:09.you can just rob them and they won't even notice. The only way the
:17:09. > :17:14.celebrities started to notice is when the teenagers got carried away
:17:14. > :17:18.and would make a mess in the houses and take everything in the closets.
:17:18. > :17:24.Everything about this story reflects pretty poorly on America.
:17:24. > :17:28.You can't steal her dog. But he likes me! We're joined now from New
:17:28. > :17:32.York by Nancy Jo Sales, the Vanity Fair journalist who wrote about
:17:32. > :17:38.those wannabe celebrities and has written the book The Bling Ring and
:17:38. > :17:42.was the recipient of the absurd phone call of complaint. What do
:17:42. > :17:48.you think these kids were doing, were they trying to harm their hero
:17:48. > :17:51.or paying them homeage? I think they wanted their stuff! They
:17:51. > :17:56.wanted to live the lifestyle of these celebrities and that involved
:17:56. > :18:02.having the things that the celebrities had. So they were in a
:18:02. > :18:05.sense paying them homeage. This is a belief that some how if you d
:18:05. > :18:10.homeage, this is a belief that if you wear certain clothes you some
:18:10. > :18:20.how become a celebrity, what? are growing up in an age when
:18:20. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:29.celebrity news, if you can call it that, has really exploded. We have
:18:29. > :18:32.blogs 24- 7 and magazines, they are surrounded by images of celebrities
:18:32. > :18:36.all the time. There is a value promoted by celebrity culture
:18:36. > :18:42.saying this is great, this is the lifestyle we should all want to
:18:42. > :18:45.live. You quoted in the piece that being said to me in my book. So I
:18:45. > :18:50.think that where as every kid doesn't walk into a house and steal
:18:50. > :18:56.their stuff. I think that not just in America, but I think in the
:18:56. > :19:00.globalised celebrity culture that we do have, I think a lot of kids
:19:00. > :19:03.are unhelpfully feeling these are things I must have in order to live
:19:03. > :19:10.a good life. Why do you think they feel that. What is the void that it
:19:10. > :19:14.some how would fill for them? I think that these things are
:19:14. > :19:18.glamorised. We live in a very different time than say when I was
:19:18. > :19:25.growing up and there were different values being promoted by television
:19:25. > :19:32.shows and by movies. Now these kids have grown up with shows promoting
:19:32. > :19:38.wealth and a luxury lifestyle and celebrity Gossip Girl, Entourage
:19:38. > :19:41.The Hills, even shows for younger children, Hannah Montana seems to
:19:41. > :19:46.glamorise the celebrity lifestyle being really great and we should
:19:46. > :19:49.all want that. This is a real shift in our values that is really
:19:49. > :19:53.affecting kids. There have always been celebrities, it didn't matter
:19:53. > :19:56.once upon a time they were generals and other times they were sports
:19:56. > :20:00.figures. Sometimes they were industrialists or other wealthy
:20:00. > :20:05.figures. But there is a difference here in the sort of person who
:20:05. > :20:08.becomes a celebrity, isn't there? think there is a bunch of
:20:08. > :20:12.differences, one is that I just spoke about is the amount of
:20:12. > :20:16.exposure to the stuff, to celebrity culture, and then I think there is
:20:16. > :20:24.also a difference, as you say, in who becomes a celebrity. How the
:20:24. > :20:28.celebrity and not celebrity. I mean people now are self-promoting on
:20:28. > :20:31.Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all these different places,
:20:31. > :20:38.that used to be the privvy of celebrities to promote your image
:20:38. > :20:41.all the time. This is now what regular people are doing. With
:20:41. > :20:44.reality TV there is this idea that anybody can become a celebrity. The
:20:44. > :20:51.most successful shows on television ever are the celebrity contestant
:20:51. > :20:56.shows like The Voice and American Idol, these are the most popular
:20:56. > :20:59.shows in television history where you are watching fame happen in
:20:59. > :21:06.real-time. People are absolutely fascinated. By this idea that this
:21:06. > :21:10.could happen to me. There is a sort of circularity to it isn't there?
:21:10. > :21:15.There certainly was in The Bling Ring story. These were kids who
:21:15. > :21:19.wanted to be famous and idolise these other, not really much older
:21:19. > :21:23.than kid like Paris and Lindsay who also really desperately wanted to
:21:23. > :21:26.be famous, and had a lot of the same problems and the same lives
:21:26. > :21:33.that these kids did. When I started to research the book I realised
:21:33. > :21:39.there was a weird mirroring between the victims and the robbers. They
:21:39. > :21:43.had a in common, actually. I said earlier this is a sort of tale of
:21:43. > :21:49.our times, but I wonder actual le if we are already getting slightly
:21:49. > :21:52.beyond the sort of world that is pictured in The Bling Ring, it is
:21:52. > :21:56.almost yesterday's story. Is there any sign of that? I don't think so.
:21:56. > :21:59.I think that Paris and Lindsay are the names connected with the story.
:21:59. > :22:03.This only happened three years ago. But I think if you are talking
:22:03. > :22:13.about celebrity culture it is only becoming more a part of our lives
:22:13. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:19.in the way that we all are sort of engaged in a celebrification of
:22:19. > :22:23.ourselves all the time. I don't think my book or movie sells it at
:22:23. > :22:27.all, these are things we need to talk about and I'm glad we are
:22:27. > :22:30.talking about. Thank you very much indeed. Now to
:22:30. > :22:33.Burma which in moving out of military rule with a terrible human
:22:33. > :22:38.rights reputation has been generally seen as earning the right
:22:38. > :22:41.to readmission to the community of nations. But since then ethnic
:22:41. > :22:45.tensions have exploded in various places, especially in the south of
:22:45. > :22:49.the country. The British have been running an overseas aid programme
:22:49. > :22:53.to try to help many of the Rohingya people who are driven from their
:22:53. > :23:02.homes in their fight. They are Muslims driven out by Buddhists.
:23:02. > :23:09.And a year on, they are still displaced. The camps that sprang up
:23:09. > :23:15.across this water-logged landscape a year ago are still there. As are
:23:15. > :23:21.the people who fled to them, nearly all of them Rohingya Muslims. Last
:23:21. > :23:26.year's sectarian fighting has a long history behind it. A legacy of
:23:26. > :23:30.fear and discrimination that smoldered and of Burma's military
:23:30. > :23:35.Governments. Many of the Buddhists, the majority are determined to
:23:35. > :23:45.drive out the Rohingya, saying they don't belong. So they have been
:23:45. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:50.banished to the margins. Unwanted, unrecognised. At least the official
:23:50. > :23:53.camps are getting help. The International Development Minister
:23:53. > :23:58.Alan Duncan came last week to see how British aid is being spent and
:23:58. > :24:04.to assess the prospects of reconciliation. The Rohingya were
:24:04. > :24:12.quite clear about what they would like. TRANSLATION: We just want to
:24:12. > :24:16.return to our homes. We want our old lives back. But the Burmese
:24:16. > :24:23.authorities are just as clear that this won't happen. Strict
:24:23. > :24:26.segregation, they say, is the safest option. It is a profoundly
:24:26. > :24:30.unequal segregation, that denies only the Rohingya's freedom of
:24:30. > :24:34.movement. But the Government argues that pressure from local Buddhists
:24:34. > :24:38.has forced its hand. It is very easy to say the Government should
:24:38. > :24:44.let as say give them citizenship, or treat them absolutely equally,
:24:44. > :24:48.the trouble is we are looking at an indigenous Burmese population who,
:24:48. > :24:52.I think, have an attitude which is going to take a long time to
:24:52. > :24:58.overcome. They have got a sense of identity that doesn't easily
:24:58. > :25:03.accommodate in comers, even though they have been here for generations.
:25:03. > :25:12.The state capital is now an almost exclusively Buddhist town.
:25:12. > :25:16.Rohingyas need permission to come here, few would dare any way. In
:25:16. > :25:20.the town's main gym I watched young men training. Some are hoping to
:25:20. > :25:24.represent their country when it hosts this year's south-east Asian
:25:24. > :25:29.games. Another milestone on Burma's journey away from its former
:25:29. > :25:34.isolation. But it is not a jouorny they are willing to share with
:25:34. > :25:36.their one-time -- journey they are willing to share with their one-
:25:36. > :25:41.time Muslim neighbours. TRANSLATION: It is not possible to
:25:41. > :25:48.live with them, we don't want to. They invaded our country. It is not
:25:48. > :25:57.just me saying this, if you ask any rakine Buddhist, they would say the
:25:57. > :26:00.same thing. These are the last Rohingyas living inside the town,
:26:00. > :26:04.they are barred from leaving so they have no access to work, food
:26:04. > :26:10.or medical treatment almost. They are in fact imprisoned in what has
:26:10. > :26:13.become a Rohingya ghetto. We were the first foreigners allowed into
:26:13. > :26:23.the town for several weeks. And those who do get out cannot come
:26:23. > :26:26.back. This man is one of the most outspoken Rohingya leaders. A I met
:26:26. > :26:32.him last year when still living in the ghetto. But after being
:26:32. > :26:38.arrested in February he fled here to the outskirts of town. Nearly
:26:38. > :26:43.five months I was separated from my family. That is your wife?Also in
:26:43. > :26:50.the ghetto. So I'm very sorrowful because my own father is 95 years
:26:50. > :26:58.old. So I want to meet him, you know. You didn't get permission?I
:26:58. > :27:01.didn't get permission from the security forces. We travelled two
:27:01. > :27:09.hours north of the town to see how more isolated Muslim communities
:27:09. > :27:15.are coping. Here this ter greatly out-- here they are greatly
:27:15. > :27:19.outnumbered by rakine Buddhists and the tension has increased to
:27:19. > :27:23.violence. This is the last of a ring of Buddhist villages that
:27:23. > :27:26.completely surround a single Muslim community, it is just ahead of us
:27:27. > :27:36.and it leaves the Muslims there completely isolated, cut off and
:27:37. > :27:37.
:27:37. > :27:43.unable to move. The Rohingyas who live here say their village dates
:27:43. > :27:51.back 200 years. They are not, they insist, illegal Bengali immigrant,
:27:51. > :27:54.as most Burmese buddists believe. Ali has been designated the
:27:54. > :27:58.village's medical expert, he's not a doctor. He claimed how the
:27:58. > :28:02.clashes last year had affected his commune toe. They lost all their
:28:02. > :28:11.livestock, he said, and their boats. And now they can't travel, even to
:28:11. > :28:14.reach a clinic or hospital. 18- year-old Morianne has been
:28:14. > :28:18.seriously ill sense the birth of had her son six months ago. Her
:28:18. > :28:26.house was burnt down in the violence and her husband is among
:28:26. > :28:30.170 men from the village who have been imprisoned since the clashes.
:28:30. > :28:35.TRANSLATION: Please someone help cure me from this pain, I have no
:28:35. > :28:39.husband, no money, no-one to care for me.
:28:39. > :28:48.Among the many difficulty these villagers face was the one that all
:28:48. > :28:54.Rohingyas complain about, their lack of citizenship. TRANSLATION:
:28:54. > :28:58.This is so important for us because without proper ID kartdz we can't
:28:58. > :29:03.go anywhere, not even -- cards we can't go anywhere, not even in our
:29:03. > :29:07.own states. We have been given white ID cards but with those we
:29:07. > :29:12.get arrested. There are Buddhists too who suffered last year, who
:29:12. > :29:19.lost their homes. Their numbers are small, the Government has built
:29:19. > :29:23.solid new houses for them to move in to in time for the rainy season.
:29:23. > :29:29.It is in stark contrast to the way the displaced Rohingyas, more than
:29:29. > :29:35.130,000 of them still have to live. An injustice that must cast doubt
:29:35. > :29:40.on the hopes of a better future for this country.
:29:40. > :29:45.Now the Arctic Monkeys, like many of you are waiting for me to shut
:29:45. > :29:49.up so they can start at Glastonbury, we will leave you with something
:29:49. > :29:59.more ethereal. Some of the entrance in the royal observe trees
:29:59. > :30:02.
:30:02. > :30:12.Astronomer of the Year. -- some of the entries for the Royal
:30:12. > :30:32.
:30:32. > :30:34.Observatory's Astronomer of the More cloud than sunshine it has to
:30:35. > :30:37.More cloud than sunshine it has to be said on Saturday. Patchy light
:30:38. > :30:43.rain into Scotland and drizzle into the North West of England and Wales
:30:44. > :30:47.too. Conditions will improve in Northern Ireland but any sunshine
:30:47. > :30:51.will be late in the day. The rain in Scotland will push to eastern
:30:51. > :30:54.areas of the country. We could see low cloud and drizzle coming into
:30:54. > :30:58.the North West of England. Chiefly the Cumbrian fells and always
:30:58. > :31:01.brighter and that bit warmer to the east of the Pennines, in East
:31:02. > :31:05.Anglia we will see a little sunshine at times, it will feel
:31:05. > :31:09.pleasant, 21 not out of the question, it should be dry at
:31:09. > :31:13.Wimbledon as well. We will see a little sunshine now and again in
:31:13. > :31:17.the south west of England, there will be times where we will have
:31:17. > :31:20.low cloud, drizzle for western parts of Wales later on in the day.
:31:20. > :31:24.Brighter skies remaining towards the east. If we look elsewhere
:31:24. > :31:28.across Europe it has been rather cool across central Europe, maybe
:31:28. > :31:33.warming up a touch for our city forecasts by the end of the weekend.
:31:33. > :31:37.The hot weather has been across Spain and Portugal and likely to
:31:37. > :31:40.remain there. 38 degrees in Lisbon. We will warm up on Sunday, not as