20/08/2016 Reporters - Short Edition

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In this week's programme...

Kashmir on a knife edge.

As the violence spirals out of control, Justin Rowlatt asks

if there is any hope for peace in the troubled territory.

The problem for India is that it's running out of options

here in Kashmir.

It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hard-line

separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.

We've got to go, come on.

Watching over Crimea.

Tom Burridge reports from the border as tensions between Russia

and Ukraine over the territory spill onto the beach.

The idea of Russian military action here,

just across the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.

The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part

of a wider strategy.

And Rio, the next generation.

As the Games reach their climax, Chris Mitchell asks what will be

Brazil's lasting Olympic legacy?

This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio.

And yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.

India marked the 65th anniversary of its independence

from Britain this week.

But the celebrations came as its troubled region of Kashmir

has been consumed by some of its worst violence for years.

Around 60 people have been killed, more than 5,000 injured

in Indian-administered Kashmir this month, as the police are pitted

against stonethrowing protesters who want independence

for the region.

Justin Rowlatt filed this report from the troubled region.

Kashmir is at a standstill during the day.

Every evening, the troops pull out.

Then, it's the protesters' turn.

Tear gas and smoke can't protect the soldiers from the stones that

come from all directions.

We don't know where the stones are coming from.

The problem for India is it is running out of options

here in Kashmir.

It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hardline

separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.

We've got to go, come on.

So it has little option but to pour in more forces and hope

the anger dies away.

But it shows few signs of doing that.

This spate of violence in this Muslim majority region,

the worst in years, began more than a month ago when a young

militant, Burhan Wani, was killed by security forces.

Tens of thousands turned out for his funeral.

This is the first time Burhan Wani's father has spoken on television.

TRANSLATION: His death has triggered a revolution,

to get freedom from India.

India is determined that won't be the case and, last week,

the Indian Prime Minister tried to calm Kashmir.

The independence every Indian has, every Kashmiri

has too, Mr Modi said.

But there is a danger the Indian strategy will just entrench

militancy and violence.

In the hospitals, the sunglasses hide horrific eye injuries,

the result of the shotguns used to control the crowds.

And it isn't just shotguns.

This is his blood?

You say this is the bullet that killed your son?

Yes.

Today it is my son, tomorrow it will be somebody else's, he says.

The police defend their tactics.

Our boys are not doing that.

They wear firearms, and they're not using them.

That is restraint, what else?

There are claims that those weapons have been used on protesters,

that protesters have been shot.

Very rarely.

But it has happened?

Yes, very rare, but it has happened only in those

cases where the troops, isolated troops, are almost lynched.

But India's approach doesn't look restrained and Kashmir

is not just a local issue.

India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, claim the region.

Until a long-term solution can be found here, Kashmir will remain

a potential flash point for a much wider and much

more dangerous conflict.

Justin Rowlatt, BBC News, Kashmir.

The festering tensions between Ukraine and Russia took

a sudden turn for the worse this week over Crimea.

The two neighbouring nations have been in bitter dispute over

the peninsula since Russia took control of it two years ago.

It's fuelled a conflict between Russian-backed separatists

and Ukrainian forces that has killed nearly 10,000 people.

Now, Moscow has accused Kiev of armed attacks on Crimea.

Tom Burridge has travelled to the Ukrainian seaside

border to investigate.

This is how a summer holiday here starts or ends.

This is not an international border for much of the world.

Everyone here is Ukrainian.

Their homes, hotels or family on the other side in

Russian controlled Crimea.

After Russian claims of a Ukrainian inspired plot there,

relations between the two countries have hit a new low.

Russia's security agency, the FSB, claims hidden explosives

in its video here were intended for targets in Crimea.

Ukraine says the whole story is a fake.

This FSB video shows one of the accused, Yevgeny Panov.

It's too official language, too official.

The way that he talks?

Yes.

His brother believes that he is talking under

duress and shows signs of torture in another FSB film

in which he makes an apparent confession.

His brother thinks he was abducted and says the idea that he was in

a special forces team, sneaking into Crimea,

is preposterous.

Physically, he couldn't do it.

He's overweight.

He has a knee injury and hard breath.

He is a victim of big political action.

Truth or fake, Ukraine has put its military on high alert

after Russia said it would respond.

But in the Ukrainian region next to Crimea, few fret.

The atmosphere here in southern Ukraine is relaxed.

Because the idea of Russian military action here, just across

the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.

The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part

of a wider strategy.

Russia has moved surface-to-air missiles on to Crimea.

The S-400 can shoot down a plane 400 kilometres away.

At the end of last week, the Russian Navy held drills

to deal with saboteurs in Crimea.

And more Russian war games began today in the eastern Mediterranean.

Crimea's administrative border disrupts Ukrainian lives.

Ratcheting up the tension here destabilises the country.

In the south of Ukraine, calm.

But after Russia's annexation of Crimea more than two years ago,

Ukraine, and its allies like Britain, have learned

to expect the unexpected.

Moscow's strategy is rarely crystal clear.

Before we go, let's not forget the Olympics.

As if we could.

The Rio Games reach their climax, of course, and for the past two

weeks, all that focus on the competition and champions

like Usain Bolt and Simone Biles.

But what happens when they all go?

Will these Rio Games have any long-term impact?

Chris Mitchell has been to see a new project in the very shadows

of the Olympic Stadium, which is hoping to develop Brazil's

next generation of sports stars.

This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio

and yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.

That's because thousands of dollars have been invested

here to provide sporting facilities for underprivileged locals

in the hope that it might inspire them to become active.

The Olympic villages are the heartbeat of their communities.

This is where they come to play.

They own this, the community owns this.

It's a safe space for them.

And, with the five-year commitment, what we're making very sure

of is that we are working together with the city and the community

to make it sustainable.

Ultimately, we want to help transform the community and impact

the lives of these kids so that they grew up loving sport

and being active kids.

It really helps the community.

We believe in that unlimited potential of the kids.

And if you want to inspire a new generation, then why not get

in an athletics superstar?

I'm going to show you how to be a world record sprinter.

Carl Lewis won ten medals at the Olympics for the USA,

nine of them gold.

Getting kids involved in sports young, you can teach

all kinds of lessons, physical activity and

engagement that you can't get a few start older.

And, for me, it's personal because I have a youth programme,

an athletic programme in the United States,

and I started at eight years old in a youth programme

that my parents started.

So, this is really personal to me and I think it is wonderful.

I'm just happy they can bring it into these neighbourhoods

and utilise spaces like this which, in many cases, would not

even be utilised.

The fact that the money for this regeneration is coming

from a sponsor and not the state tells its own story.

Rio is putting on a good show for now but the real test will be

whether it has the vision to make the Olympics pay for years to come.

And that's all from Reporters for this week.

So, from me, David Eades, bye for now.