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I'm Ben Bland and from here, in the world's | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
newsroom, we sent our correspondents to bring | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
you the best stories from | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
In this week's programme: inside one of Europe's | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Ed Thomas gets exclusive access to Wandsworth in | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
south London where overcrowding, drugs, violence and corruption are | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
among the challenges facing the Prison Service. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
It's so short-staffed in here, this place | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Even a lot of the staff here are in fear. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
And finding the dolphins of the Ganges. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Justin Rollins discovers the elusive creatures are surviving despite all | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
I never expected to see anything like as many dolphins | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
And it's such incredibly good news because what it | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
tells us is that this river is capable of supporting these | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
The British government is promising the biggest | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
shake-up since Victorian times of the prison system in England and | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
The move comes as concerns about safety standards have | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The Chief Inspector of Prisons has said too many jails are | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Under the plans, six prisons will be overhauled. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Ed Thomas has spent the | :01:34. | :01:34. | |
last week at one of them, Wandsworth prison in south London, where | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
overcrowding, drugs and violence are rife. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
The BBC has been given unprecedented access inside a | :01:43. | :01:54. | |
Over seven days, we saw the fear and violence. | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
You've got to be able to defend yourself. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
If you can't defend yourself, then you will | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
And the prison officers pushed to the very edge. | :02:11. | :02:23. | |
I think I'm probably the most stressed | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
A prisoner has refused to go back to his cell. | :02:26. | :02:43. | |
20 years ago, the inmate in the middle of all of this | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
We can't identify him but he told us he was trapped in a | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
I've had warfare with politics in jail. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
I got sliced down the side of the face. | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
I've had my arm broken, I've got three broken bones | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
I've had murders in here left, right and centre. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
And I've gone to them and said, look, at the | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
end of the day, you are putting me in a predicament where I have no | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
alternative but to utilise violence for my safety. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
And with the greatest of respect, they are so | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
short-staffed in here, this place can't run, it's unsafe. | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Even a lot of the staff that are in here are in | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Lads, that smell of cannabis is really... | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Next, B Wing, and the smell of cannabis is everywhere. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
And then we see it, a group smoking below us, in full view. | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
How do you feel about people smoking cannabis is out there? | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
Imagine they can't get it next week, there are going to be fights | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Where can you get cannabis from around here? | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
If you want cannabis, I can get you some. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
It defeats everything that we're trying | :04:04. | :04:17. | |
You don't have to look far to find drugs in | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
He says all drugs are available at all | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
You can get spice, you can get heroin, you can get crack, you | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Right now, all you've got to do is go down to the twos, to the | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
threes, to the ones, everything is there, anything you like. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Then there is that alcohol brewed in cells. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
And the mobile phones, too, all smuggled into Wandsworth. | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
For a smartphone, ?700 they go for, retail price. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
This prisoner asked us not to show his face. | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
Are you just saying that, though, to get officers in trouble? | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
I know officers that charge you ?500 a parcel the size of, say, | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
three tennis balls full of drugs, phones, whatever you want. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
The BBC was invited here to hear the stories, to see the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
pressure from a governor who is demanding change. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Corruption is the one thing that I absolutely cannot | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
One of the first things we would do with reform is to think | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
very carefully about how do we deal with those | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
issues of corruption and | :05:52. | :05:52. | |
what do we do to tackle those staff bringing those drugs in because that | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
will deal with some of the issues that you have highlighted and that | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
But how long will this prison reform take? The pressure inside is | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
building now and officers are getting hurt. At the moment, he has | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
been the victim of an assault. If she could, she would have be out the | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
job. For Andy, it cannot get any worse. It's because I care, I want | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
to make a difference, I believe my staff want to make a difference. We | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
are struggling, we haven't got the staff. I do think people care. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
People don't care about my long-term health. I think I'm probably the | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
most stressed I been in 24 years in this job. What will happen to you? | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
If I'm like my colleagues, when I retire, I will die. Desperately | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
reform now. This prison revolution promised to fix broken jails and so | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
many broken lives. India has launched an ambitious $3 billion | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
programme to clean up the Ganges, India's greatest and most sacred | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
river. It's a huge challenge not least because the river is a sewer | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
carrying away waste from 450 billion people but they are also home to | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
rare dolphin which somehow survives despite all the pollution. Justin | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
has been out along the river in search of the elusive creatures. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Farrah Naseem is the holiest city in all of India. But just take a look | :07:48. | :08:02. | |
at this. It is also a huge source of pollution. The ancient practices of | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Riverside cremation one tiny part of it. A far bigger problem is the | :08:10. | :08:23. | |
waste of the living. We can only treat third of the sewage. The city | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
generates more than 300 million litres of waste and 100 million | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
litres are treated. The rest go straight into the Ganges. Figures | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
elsewhere on the river I even worse. Independent study show 80% of sewage | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
is untreated. The government says it plans to build massive new waste | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
treatment infrastructure. Environmentalists say it can't come | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
soon enough for at least one key species. We have come down to the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Ganges and the hope was we might be able to spot the incredibly rare | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
dolphin and incredibly, within minutes of arriving here, I saw the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
dorsal fin of one of them break the water. The real challenge I think | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
will be filming them. We have hired a little boat, this is it. And this | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
is the cameraman. How difficult will it be to film the Dolphins? It's | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
tough. They pop-out suddenly. You are an expert on the Dolphins here. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
One of the programmes is to protect this rare animal. How rare is the | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
dolphin now? It's an endangered species and it's pretty rare to spot | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
these animals. But today, there seemed to be Dolphins all around us. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Six, seven! They have to surface every two minutes or so to breathe. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
The challenge is getting where they will be. But after a bit, Sanjay | :10:02. | :10:14. | |
gets his eye in and look at this. This has been extraordinary. I never | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
expected to see anything like as many Dolphins as we have seen and | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
it's such incredibly good news because what it tells us is this | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
river is capable of supporting these wonderful animals. It also shows us | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
what's at stake, why it's so important that the Indian | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
government's efforts to clean up river succeed. | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
And that's all from us for this week. Goodbye for now. | :10:46. | :10:55. |