:00:16. > :00:19.We send our correspondents to bring you the best stories
:00:20. > :00:27.In this week's programme, two years after so-called
:00:28. > :00:30.Islamic State enslaved thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq,
:00:31. > :00:37.to the team trying to bring the perpetrators to justice.
:00:38. > :00:40.The key for us is to establish the criminal responsibility not
:00:41. > :00:44.of Daesh as a whole but individual leaders within Daesh.
:00:45. > :00:53.We report on the latest human rights crackdown.
:00:54. > :01:00.With the Olympics under way, we find out why a country the size
:01:01. > :01:03.of India has such a dismal record at the games.
:01:04. > :01:09.We have never won a medal for running but with God's grace,
:01:10. > :01:21.Two years ago, so-called Islamic State launched an assault
:01:22. > :01:26.Thousands of members of the ancient Yazidi
:01:27. > :01:33.hundreds of women forced into sexual slavery.
:01:34. > :01:36.The attacks spurred the international community
:01:37. > :01:38.into military action against Islamic State,
:01:39. > :01:43.Now the BBC has been given exclusive access to a group of lawyers
:01:44. > :01:46.and investigators trying to bring the perpetrators to justice.
:01:47. > :02:16.On the run, dehydrated, and terrified.
:02:17. > :02:18.Hundreds of Yazidi families fled for their lives when
:02:19. > :02:24.Islamic State militant attacked their villages.
:02:25. > :02:27.Two years on, the women and girls captured on the ground
:02:28. > :02:31.Where is my Yazidi girl, demands this Islamic State fighter.
:02:32. > :02:34.They are discussing a modern slave market for sex with the girls,
:02:35. > :02:41.Investigators are working to identify those responsible.
:02:42. > :02:44.Here among these documents in a European capital we've been
:02:45. > :02:48.asked not to name the evidence that war crimes investigators say
:02:49. > :02:53.points to the culpability of senior Islamic State leaders
:02:54. > :03:07.for the sexual slavery of possibly thousands of women in Iraq.
:03:08. > :03:09.Bill Wylie is heading the investigation.
:03:10. > :03:12.His team's research into war crimes by Islamic State is being funded
:03:13. > :03:17.We have a lot of evidence that there was a policy,
:03:18. > :03:20.an unwritten policy, that this was permissible.
:03:21. > :03:24.The key for us is to establish the criminal responsibility not
:03:25. > :03:30.of Daesh as a whole but individual leaders within Daesh.
:03:31. > :03:35.Tracing the leadership's involvement in sexual slavery has identified
:03:36. > :03:40.over 40 slave owners and 30 senior figures.
:03:41. > :03:43.Beneath the leader of the Islamic State are those
:03:44. > :03:48.believed responsible, like this former schoolteacher.
:03:49. > :03:56.Still believed to be at large are the economic and finance emirs.
:03:57. > :04:07.This investigator asked to remain anonymous for his own safety.
:04:08. > :04:11.I asked him how optimistic he was that these men
:04:12. > :04:17.Our focus is to ensure the failures of the past are not repeated.
:04:18. > :04:25.It is for that reason that we think first and foremost we need to do
:04:26. > :04:33.the job of evidence collecting while we can.
:04:34. > :04:36.Justice for the Yazidi people may be years away.
:04:37. > :04:40.There is no court to try their tormentors and some
:04:41. > :04:50.Sooner or later, they say those who ordered the atrocity will be
:04:51. > :05:49.To China, where last year, more than 300 lawyers were rounded
:05:50. > :05:51.up in a major crackdown by the government.
:05:52. > :05:54.On Tuesday, the first of a number of trials took place and those
:05:55. > :05:56.in court were accused of subverting state power.
:05:57. > :05:58.There is particular concern that lawyers are being targeted
:05:59. > :06:00.in an attempt to discourage the political activities
:06:01. > :06:03.China's human rights crackdown finally reached court with official
:06:04. > :06:05.state media saying the trial would be open.
:06:06. > :06:11.This man is a veteran human rights campaigner and one of around 20
:06:12. > :06:13.activists and lawyers who has been detained since the sweeping
:06:14. > :06:17.His campaign has already been aired on state TV and today
:06:18. > :06:23.This woman is the wife of one of the human rights lawyers caught
:06:24. > :06:26.Relatives of the other defendants have been prevented from attending
:06:27. > :06:29.the trial and soon enough she too was sent away.
:06:30. > :06:32.A few hours later the BBC caught up with her back in Beijing along
:06:33. > :06:35.TRANSLATION: It was only after my husband was arrested that
:06:36. > :06:40.They haven't let me see him since, so he may not even know he has
:06:41. > :06:48.This week, just before the trials began, Wong Yu, another
:06:49. > :06:50.prominent defence lawyer, was also paraded in front
:06:51. > :06:56.The main thrust of China's case is that she and her colleagues have
:06:57. > :06:59.used their human rights work to undermine the government,
:07:00. > :07:03.but China's critics see an ulterior motive.
:07:04. > :07:06.For many outside of service and of government, there is only one
:07:07. > :07:09.conclusion to be drawn from what happened inside this
:07:10. > :07:15.court, and that is that China is engaged in an effort to ratchet
:07:16. > :07:18.up repression, to rein in dissent and to cement one-party rule.
:07:19. > :07:23.Today, she was handed a suspended sentence.
:07:24. > :07:29.Given that subversion carries a maximum of life in prison,
:07:30. > :07:34.the relative leniency might be a sign that China is paying some
:07:35. > :08:05.Now, the countdown to Rio 2016 is over, the Olympics are underway.
:08:06. > :08:07.One country, though, that has never made much
:08:08. > :08:11.But this year it has sent its largest ever team,
:08:12. > :08:15.It is hoped they can help improve the country's terrible
:08:16. > :08:18.Its best ever achievement came in London 2012 with six medals.
:08:19. > :08:20.If you compare that with their population,
:08:21. > :08:23.it is one medal for every 200 million people.
:08:24. > :08:25.Justin Rowlatt has been examining why India is so bad at the Olympics.
:08:26. > :08:31.And one of the country's best hopes for a medal in the most competitive
:08:32. > :08:35.TRANSLATION: We have never won a medal for running
:08:36. > :08:40.but with God's grace I will get to the finals and win one.
:08:41. > :08:46.But you need more than just confidence to win an Olympic medal.
:08:47. > :09:06.It is a type of superfast sledge but there are no tracks in India
:09:07. > :09:12.so he has no choice but to train on the open road.
:09:13. > :09:18.Like many Indian athletes, he says he just doesn't
:09:19. > :09:22.I couldn't sustain my career, I couldn't go for training
:09:23. > :09:25.or competition because I didn't have the money, so I started
:09:26. > :09:33.And I actually went to 100 companies before one of them said yes.
:09:34. > :09:36.Even India's Olympic movement admits the country hasn't always done
:09:37. > :09:42.It says the country is poor and sport isn't at the top
:09:43. > :09:47.Sport has always taken a back-seat vis-a-vis education.
:09:48. > :09:52.Families tend to go for more education for their children,
:09:53. > :09:56.you know, go to school, concentrate on education, not sport.
:09:57. > :10:00.The basic feeling is that sport doesn't bring in the money
:10:01. > :10:07.India is investing more, but even that may not be enough.
:10:08. > :10:11.The caste system is also one of the reasons India
:10:12. > :10:16.You must remember the lower castes constitute the bulk of India's
:10:17. > :10:19.population and they are also the ones who don't have access
:10:20. > :10:25.to education or good nutrition or health,
:10:26. > :10:30.which has meant a large part of India's population hasn't been
:10:31. > :10:32.able to take part in sports and hasn't had access
:10:33. > :10:40.But credit companies are stepping in, supporting
:10:41. > :10:51.The world's second most populous country will be hoping to bring
:10:52. > :10:54.back its biggest ever medals haul as it sends its biggest
:10:55. > :11:06.That is all from Reporters this week.
:11:07. > :11:13.From me and the team in London, goodbye for now.
:11:14. > :11:17.Good evening. For most of us, it was a lovely start of the weekend,
:11:18. > :11:19.perfect