:00:15. > :00:22.From here in the BBC newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring
:00:23. > :00:26.you the best reports from across the globe.
:00:27. > :00:30.In this week's programme: Defectors from Daesh.
:00:31. > :00:33.Quentin Somerville gets exclusive access to a Syrian camp for former
:00:34. > :00:35.so-called Islamic State jihadists and their families
:00:36. > :00:39.TRANSLATION: They use people like human meat.
:00:40. > :00:45.I hope I can get out soon and live my life normally.
:00:46. > :00:50.Hello, my name is Cathy Ingram, and I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
:00:51. > :00:54.I am Jay Ingram and this is my son Cade, and we are voting for Trump.
:00:55. > :00:59.With less than four weeks to go until the US election,
:01:00. > :01:01.Rajini Vaidyanathan meets one of many families divided
:01:02. > :01:14.Chris Buckler visits Londonderry in Northern Ireland and asks,
:01:15. > :01:16.could there be some truth in the legend?
:01:17. > :01:18.Do you object to being called a giant?
:01:19. > :01:21.No, not at all, people call me what they like, and many's
:01:22. > :01:31.They're jihadist fighters, many who have come from all over
:01:32. > :01:33.the world, but share one thing in common.
:01:34. > :01:35.They have defected from the so-called Islamic State.
:01:36. > :01:38.The BBC has had exclusive access to a secret internment camp
:01:39. > :01:40.for around 300 former IS militants and captured fighters,
:01:41. > :01:43.including French, Dutch and Polish nationals
:01:44. > :01:49.They are being held at the prison, operated by a rebel group that
:01:50. > :01:52.claims it is trying to rehabilitate them, and in some cases,
:01:53. > :01:54.then release them, and as Quentin Sommerville reports,
:01:55. > :02:05.Where do jihadists go when their beloved Islamic State
:02:06. > :02:15.Some are being held here, at a secret camp in northern Syria.
:02:16. > :02:17.The men are from Europe, across the Middle East,
:02:18. > :02:23.They are defectors and prisoners of war, so few want
:02:24. > :02:32.In retreat, many have brought their families with them.
:02:33. > :02:37.He joined the so-called Islamic State from Holland.
:02:38. > :02:41.Now a captive, he renounces the group.
:02:42. > :02:45.TRANSLATION: They use people like human meat.
:02:46. > :02:48.You give your life to them, so they are going to start to take
:02:49. > :02:52.I know I will get into trouble, but this is what I choose,
:02:53. > :03:03.I hope I can get out soon and live my life normally.
:03:04. > :03:05.These are Egyptians, Tunisians, Holland...
:03:06. > :03:08.The camp is run by the rebel group Jaish Al Tahrir.
:03:09. > :03:11.Its commander showed me the details of dozens of prisoners.
:03:12. > :03:14.Some will be returned to Europe if the authorities promise to jail
:03:15. > :03:23.them, but others will face Syrian justice.
:03:24. > :03:25.TRANSLATION: We refer them to courts and they rule according
:03:26. > :03:29.If they have committed murder, then they might be executed.
:03:30. > :03:31.Some are jailed just because they still hold
:03:32. > :03:40.The Islamic State's core is collapsing.
:03:41. > :03:42.They are losing territory, and an increasing number of people
:03:43. > :03:49.Joining IS was relatively easy, but leaving is difficult.
:03:50. > :03:52."It was hard, really hard," says this defector,
:03:53. > :04:02.We have also learned that European intelligence agencies
:04:03. > :04:05.are on a mission in northern Syria to find, capture
:04:06. > :04:13.They are working alongside some rebel groups to create a kind
:04:14. > :04:15.of underground railroad which will bring IS group supporters
:04:16. > :04:23.For now, they are held in Syria, but these European jihadists
:04:24. > :04:31.Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Istanbul.
:04:32. > :04:34.In four weeks' time, Americans will finally vote
:04:35. > :04:36.in their presidential election, which makes the fact that
:04:37. > :04:39.Donald Trump is waging war on his own Republican party
:04:40. > :04:44.But it's not just the Republicans who are divided.
:04:45. > :04:48.Many families are finding themselves at odds, some siding
:04:49. > :04:52.with Hillary Clinton, others with Donald Trump.
:04:53. > :04:54.Rajini Vaidyanathan has gone to meet one such
:04:55. > :04:55.family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, facing
:04:56. > :05:03.In the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, the Ingram family
:05:04. > :05:13.Hello, my name is Cathy Ingram, and I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
:05:14. > :05:16.I'm Jay Ingram, this is my son Cade, and we're voting for Trump.
:05:17. > :05:18.I think she's totally crazy because she's voting for Hillary,
:05:19. > :05:21.and she thinks I'm totally crazy because I'm voting for Trump.
:05:22. > :05:22.And obviously one of us is right.
:05:23. > :05:29.His questions were all attacks on Trump.
:05:30. > :05:32.At dinner, talk of politics is unsurprisingly lively.
:05:33. > :05:34.Jay's vote for Donald Trump is as much a vote against
:05:35. > :05:40.Hillary Clinton, the candidate his wife Cathy is supporting.
:05:41. > :05:42.She wants to do the best for the country, so even though
:05:43. > :05:48.she has a little bit of a storied past, and she has some ideas that
:05:49. > :05:51.really need to be pushed through that on the Democratic side
:05:52. > :05:54.she hasn't been able to push through...
:05:55. > :05:56.You believe she comes off as a good person,
:05:57. > :06:05.She reminds me of the evil schoolmarm, the schoolteacher.
:06:06. > :06:07.I mean, you know, she's old, she's overweight, just like...
:06:08. > :06:16.No, he is, what, he's 230 and hits a golf ball 280, so he's fine.
:06:17. > :06:19.A self-confessed liberal, Jay backed Bernie Sanders
:06:20. > :06:22.in this year's primaries and voted for Barack Obama
:06:23. > :06:28.I really believed he was going to do things.
:06:29. > :06:31.I believed what he said, the fool that I am.
:06:32. > :06:35.He seemed to like to just sit around and tell jokes and look pretty.
:06:36. > :06:38.Their elder son Cade is getting ready to cast his ballot
:06:39. > :06:40.for the first time, and he's with his dad.
:06:41. > :06:43.I could not bring myself to vote for Hillary,
:06:44. > :06:47.there's just too many strikes against her.
:06:48. > :06:50.A lot of people like to make excuses for what happened, but...
:06:51. > :06:52.She'll literally say anything to get elected.
:06:53. > :06:53.He never threw one attack at Hillary.
:06:54. > :07:03.The table's as split as this state, where it is looking close between
:07:04. > :07:08.I golf every day of the week, and I meet a lot of people,
:07:09. > :07:14.and nobody comes out and goes "I'm voting for Trump."
:07:15. > :07:17.But they'll come up to me after I've made a putt, and say,
:07:18. > :07:21.I just don't think the passion is out there behind anyone,
:07:22. > :07:28.The undecided voters in Pennsylvania are key this election.
:07:29. > :07:33.Whatever the outcome, expect sparks to fly in this house
:07:34. > :07:44.Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC News, Lancaster.
:07:45. > :07:46.Ireland is rich in mythical tales about giants, and now
:07:47. > :07:49.there is a thought that those legends may be built more
:07:50. > :07:53.Scientists are working to identify people carrying
:07:54. > :07:57.Researchers have found it is more commonly carried by people
:07:58. > :08:00.in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
:08:01. > :08:02.Chris Buckler has been there to find out, is there any
:08:03. > :08:13.These stone circles are not the only link to history here in Mid Ulster.
:08:14. > :08:17.This is a land of giants, and that's a title that comes not
:08:18. > :08:26.That's me when I was seven, eight years old.
:08:27. > :08:31.At his height, he stood almost six feet 11 inches tall,
:08:32. > :08:34.and it's likely he would have grown to well over seven feet tall
:08:35. > :08:36.if he hadn't been treated for a genetic disorder
:08:37. > :08:39.Do you object to being called a giant?
:08:40. > :08:41.No, not at all, people can call me what they like,
:08:42. > :09:02.However, gigantism is a condition that can be life-threatening.
:09:03. > :09:04.My mother passed it to me, and she never knew that.
:09:05. > :09:07.And many people still, to this day, are passing the gene
:09:08. > :09:13.on without knowing it, and that will continue.
:09:14. > :09:17.DNA evidence shows Brendan is related to Charles Byrne.
:09:18. > :09:20.Born in Mid Ulster in the 1700s, he became famous in London
:09:21. > :09:47.-- his skeleton is still part of a museum.
:09:48. > :09:50.Irish folklore is full of tales of giants, not least Finn McCool,
:09:51. > :09:52.who is claimed to have built Antrim's famous Giant's Causeway.
:09:53. > :09:55.Researchers believe in at least some of the many stories,
:09:56. > :09:59.And with the gene still present in the population here,
:10:00. > :10:01.they have been carrying out tests to try to identify
:10:02. > :10:07.It is keeping 63, but you do not want to be seven food. Both -- most
:10:08. > :10:11.giants wish they were normal. There was probably at least some
:10:12. > :10:13.truth in the centuries of stories told about giants,
:10:14. > :10:16.but it's likely that at their heart was a gene that caused
:10:17. > :10:18.considerable pain and problems. That's why many want the idea
:10:19. > :10:21.of generations of giants to be Chris Buckler, BBC News,
:10:22. > :10:32.Mid Ulster. And that's all from us this week.
:10:33. > :10:35.From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now.