07/01/2017 Reporters - Short Edition

Hello and welcome to Reporters.

I'm Karin Giannone.

From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring

you the best stories from across the globe.

In this week's programme, inside Istanbul's Reina nightclub.

Mark Lowen gets exclusive access to the scene

of Turkey's New Year's Eve terror attack, in which 39 people died.

The owners of Reina say they will reopen the nightclub.

It's a sign of the defiant mood here.

The bright lights of Atlantic City, which failed to really shine.

Nick Bryant asks what the project tells us about Donald Trump's

business track record.

So when he says he can make America great again?

I don't think so.

And the power of vinyl.

David Sillito finds out why, in the era of streaming

and downloads, records are making a comeback.

But not everyone is convinced.

It's like a pizza.

That's huge.

That's something that goes round in a circle.

It was a shocking attack, marking a bloody end to a year

which saw Turkey repeatedly targeted by so-called Islamic State.

As people celebrated the New Year at one of Istanbul's

most popular nightclubs, a lone gunman opened

fire, killing 39 people.

Dozens more were injured in the attack, which IS

said they carried out.

As police hunted for the gunman, Mark Lowen was the only foreign

journalist allowed into the club, Reina, where the attack took place,

and sent this report.

Days ago this place was full of joy, of life, of celebration.

Today, Reina nightclub is a crime scene, scarred by terror.

We were the only British media allowed in, briefly.

A rare glimpse of where 39 people were killed on New Year's Eve.

Imagine the horror as 180 bullets were sprayed here.

People jumping into the freezing Bosphorus to escape.

The owners of Reina say they will reopen the nightclub.

It's a sign of the defiant mood here.

Yes, people are sombre, yes, they are fearful,

but Turks have lived with the terror threat for decades,

albeit on a smaller scale, and they are determined not to let

it defeat them.

Watch the right-hand side of this footage from the attack.

A man jumps over a low fence outside the nightclub to avoid the bullets.

Then the gunman runs up to the door, shooting his way into Reina.

That mum on the right of the video was nightclub manager Ali Unal,

who had a miraculous escape.

TRANSLATION: I felt bullets explode next to me.

I threw myself over the fence, tripped and fell.

The bullets were centimetres over my head.

When I fell, he must have thought he had hit me,

so he went inside and I heard the terrible sounds.

The suspect still hasn't been caught.

New pictures show him at the bus station in the central

city of Konya, before travelling to Istanbul.

So-called Islamic State called him their brave soldier.

The Turkish authorities have given no more information about him.

Those tired of terror went to the scene of the massacre.

A quiet commemoration.

Tributes were laid and thoughts gathered about how their country can

rebuild, and how the next generation can regain a sense of safety.

I don't want to cry any more, while I'm watching the news.

It makes me really sad.

And I don't want my daughter to grow up in this kind

of environment, you know?

With this news of the background and everything.

I want her to be happy.

They must wait to see if those who protect this country are really

They must wait to see if those who protect this country are really

closing in on the man who brought horror to New Year's Eve.

It was once billed as the eighth wonder of the world,

a city meant to match the glitz of Las Vegas.

In the 1980s, Donald Trump promised to make Atlantic City great again.

But his companies there went into bankruptcy and now 30 years

later many of his casinos have closed down.

As Mr Trump prepares to take over as US President in two weeks' time,

Nick Bryant has been to Atlantic City to find out

what its fortunes say about his track record in business.

Donald Trump promised to make Atlantic City great again.

In the 1980s he opened a string of casinos to make it an east

coast rival to Las Vegas.

The Trump Taj Mahal, he boasted, would become the eighth

wonder of the world.

But it's decay rather than decadence that greets you now.

We are at the centre of the Trump Taj Mahal.

Local guide Levi Fox runs a Trump tour, telling the story of how

the billionaire's companies went into bankruptcy here four times.

He did never achieve his promises, and it makes me wonder

whether he could achieve that for America, although at this point

we all hope that he can.

It old casino empire was opened with vintage champagne

and vintage Trump showmanship.

He took Michael Jackson on a guided tour.

But the city never did come to rival Las Vegas.

He got out of town seven years ago.

Since then he's taken action to have his name removed

from his old casinos, fearing perhaps they'd be seen

as monuments of failure.

I think he was one of the causes of Atlantic City being

the way it is today.

From his boardwalk buggy, Freddie watched his rise and fall.

In the beginning he was doing good, and then later on, put it like this,

if you have four casinos in Atlantic City and now you have

none, what does that tell you?

So when he says he can make America great again?

I don't think so.

Things that got so bad here that the state

of New Jersey took over the city to save it from bankruptcy.

Even the pawn shops aren't doing much business,

because people here have little left to pawn.

Inside we met a building contractor, Danny McMahon.

Trump's years in Atlantic City, he says, offered proof that all that

glistens isn't gold.

Trump used to run this city.

I used to watch him not pay his bills and screw everybody over,

and pay a penny on the dollars and take them to court,

and I understand that businessman aspect of it.

But you're screwing the little man.

Two years ago we interviewed Donald Trump about Atlantic City,

and he blamed its decline on local politicians and the fact

that he left town.

I decided years ago to get out, and it was a good decision.

But it's a decision very interestingly that coincides

with when Atlantic City started going down.

But I still have a warm spot in my heart for Atlantic City,

because I did great there for a long time.

But does Atlantic City still have a warm spot for him?

The verdict was delivered on election day, where here

they voted for Hillary Clinton.

Nick Bryant, BBC News, New Jersey.

Now we've had Take That, the Backstreet Boys,

Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac, but now it is vinyl making

a comeback in the music industry.

Sales of vinyl records are at their highest for 25 years,

with a new generation of collectors buying albums.

Even if they have no plans to play them.

Streaming sites are still the preferred method

of listening to music, but for some you can't beat

the purity of listening to a record.

David Sillito reports now on the vinyl revival.

MUSIC.

Led Zep II.

A classic album.

For Phil Barton of Sister Ray Records, there is no debate.

Music just sounds better when it comes on a 12 inch disc.

But as a business it's been tough.

However, things have begun to change.

Ten years ago I'd have given you the keys to the shop and said,

look, I can't make any money out of this.

So I didn't realise this stuff was still going

to be hanging around.

David Bowie was the biggest seller last year.

Prince was also in the top ten, along with Amy Winehouse,

Fleetwood Mac and the Beatles.

Over the last ten years sales have grown by 1500%.

However, a recent survey found that nearly half,

48%, were never played.

Of course it's worth putting this into some sort of context,

because imagine that each of these records represents a million sales.

The BPI says if you add in streaming, digital downloads,

CDs, about 123 million albums were sold last year.

The number of vinyl albums sold last year - three million.

But both are dwarfed by the real music titan - streaming.

Streaming is a totally different beast.

45 billion streams, it's at the other end of the spectrum.

It's not really recorded music in the physical

format as we know it.

But it is felt that streaming can help younger listeners

to eventually try the hard stuff.

Quite a lot of people at uni buy vinyls.

Do they?

Yes.

They do, don't they?

They do.

They do.

In the inner sleeve here...

However, for some, this was an entirely new experience.

It's massive, look at it! What's that, 12 inches?

It's like...

like a pizza. It's like pizza.

That's the thing that goes round, the circle.

The spinning thing.

You really have never touched or handled this ever before?

No. No.

It's a first.

Even Drake, the world's most streamed artist,

has now issued his back catalogue on vinyl, after discovering

they were being bootlegged.

But for most fans of Justin Bieber and the other kings of streaming,

this way of listening is ancient history.

David Sillito, BBC News.

It's that crackling sound we love, you just can't beat it.

That is all from Reporters for this week.

From me, Karin Giannone, goodbye for now.