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Welcome to Reporters. I'm Philippa Thomas. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
to bring you the best stories from across the globe. | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
on the frontline of the battle for Mosul. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Quentin Somerville joins Iraqi forces, as they meet fierce | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
resistance to their assault on the last stronghold of | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The town of Abu Saif is under attack. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
It is all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper. | :00:41. | :00:53. | |
Cracking Albania's people trafficking rings. | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti follows the brutal trade to the UK, | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
meeting the victims whose lives have been broken. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Many men? Yes, many. | :00:59. | :01:13. | |
And life behind the camera, but still in the spotlight. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Angelina Jolie talks to Yalda Hakim about directing her new film | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
on Cambodia, her family, and her split from Brad Pitt. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
We are a family and we will always be a family. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
And we will get through this time | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
and hopefully be a stronger family for it. | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
The battle to recapture the last stronghold of the so-called | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Islamic State in Iraq has been long and hard. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Iraqi forces have besieged Mosul, Iraq's second city, | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
Last month, they captured its eastern region. | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
Now the battle is on for the west, which has seen some of the most | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
ferocious fighting between the two sides this week. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Backed by British and American special forces, helicopter gunships | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
now control the skies, but the road to the west | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
is littered with bombs, and thousands of IS fighters remain | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Quentin Sommerville is the only international journalist | :02:06. | :02:19. | |
His report contains some graphic images. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
VOICEOVER: Iraq says its Mosul operation is the dawn of victories, | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
and on the second day of their offensive, its troops | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
again prepared to face the so-called Islamic State. | :02:29. | :02:29. | |
An armoured force, set on the city's west. | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
All along this route, there are suspected roadside bombs | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Slowed to a crawl at times, bomb disposal technicians | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
But above, they have full command of the skies. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
In their sights, a small IS-held town, Abu Saif. | :02:45. | :03:12. | |
Emptied of people, every home there became a target. | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
The town of Abu Saif is under attack. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
It's all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
They managed to get here in record time and now, | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
from the air, and from land, they're trying to take Abu Saif. | :03:22. | :03:35. | |
For the first time, these forces have sight of Mosul. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
For Colonel Fallah Ali Wabdan, it is an important prize | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
TRANSLATION: Abu Saif is very important for us because it's | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
on high ground and that is very good in helping us win control | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Iraqi forces are using the latest warfare tools. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
During the battle, watch as this gunship strikes. | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
American and British special forces are a mostly | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
This motorbike was cut in half by an air strike. | :04:08. | :04:32. | |
The corpses, believed to be two IS fighters, lie in the dirt. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
By the afternoon, Abu Saif was back in government hands, | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
but it hadn't slipped fully from the militants' grip. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
They struck back, killing at least two soldiers. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Still, this was another important Iraqi victory. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
But winning against the Islamic State comes at a cost. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front. | :04:46. | :04:58. | |
STUDIO: To Albania now, one of Europe's poorest | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
a centre for the dark trade in human trafficking for the past 20 years. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Most of the victims are women forced into a life of prostitution | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
It is estimated there are now around 35,000 Albanian prostitutes walking | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the streets of Europe, many of them trafficked as children. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
The Albanian authorities have been criticised for failing to crack down | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
on the problem with just 18 convictions last year. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti has been talking to some of the victims | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
VOICEOVER: Blessed with natural beauty, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Albania has, over two decades, built up a brutal industry | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
TRANSLATION: I hate them and I want them to get | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Saya, now still a teenager, was just 14 when she was sold | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
into a trafficking ring by a man she thought was her boyfriend. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
She was forced to sleep with several men a day and tells of a bewildering | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
and terrifying world of abuse in which she could trust no-one. | :05:42. | :05:55. | |
TRANSLATION: There were other girls there too, but I did not talk | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
to them because you could not tell who was connected to whom. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
They would beat us up and not let us go out. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
To be controlled by someone, to be used as I was, | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
She lives here, in a refuge for trafficked women | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
But these are schoolgirls, and some already have | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Saya helped put some of hers behind bars. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Several convicted traffickers are held here in Korce | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Some here are serving 20 years or more. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
The Albanian authorities let us talk to one of them. | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
This man was sentenced to 15 years for trafficking children to Greece | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and forcing them to work as prostitutes or beggars. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
What made him, a married man with his own children, | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
TRANSLATION: It was a time when everyone was doing | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
You used a child in order to earn some money. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
What if that were my child and someone did that to them? | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Albania remains a poor country and in many areas a woman's role | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Young women in small-town Albania can be easy prey for grooomers, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
seduced by promises of a better life. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
That better life is invariably outside Albania, but Anna | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
TRANSLATION: He said he was looking for a girl just like me | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
She is now in a safe house in the UK. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
Duped into leaving home and then sold into prostitution, | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
she weeps throughout our interview but insists she wants | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
TRANSLATION: I was somewhere underground. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
I had no sense of the world around me. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Anna is now supported in this safe house run by the Salvation Army. | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
She has a baby, which gives her a reason to carry on. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
Her story should trigger alarm in authorities | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
A broken life caused by a brutal crime. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
STUDIO: Next, the Hollywood actor and director Angelina Jolie. | :07:38. | :08:13. | |
She says she hopes her new film about Cambodia | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
help to educate the world about the brutality of the regime. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
First They Killed My Father is based on a true story. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
It is seen through the eyes of a child. | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
Angelina Jolie, who adopted a child from Cambodia, | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
has been speaking exclusively to the BBC's Yalda Hakim about her | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
film, and for the first time, about her separation from Brad Pitt. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
The report contains flash photography from the start. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Hollywood royalty meets Cambodian royalty. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
It is the biggest movie premiere this country has ever seen. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
The director, Angelina Jolie, says the film speaks | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
I'm not here because I'm a director who wanted to make a movie. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
I'm here because 17 years ago, I came to this country and fell | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
in love with its people, and learned about its history, | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
and in doing so, I realised how little I actually knew, | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
in my early 20s, about the world, so for me, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
And my son changed my life, becoming a Cambodian | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
There was never a plan that we should make this movie. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
I became filmmaker, and one day, I thought, what story do I feel | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
And I felt that this war that happened 40 years ago, | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
and what happened to these people, was not properly understood. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
And not just for the world but the people of the country. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
I felt that I wanted them to be able to reflect on it in a way | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
that they could absorb, so it's through eyes of a child | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
The Khmer Rouge, a radical Communist movement, | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
vowed to take the country back to year zero. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Millions were forced out of the cities in an attempt | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
You could be killed for practising religion, showing emotions | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
In four years, 2 million people died. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Speaking to people here, I get the sense that they don't | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
want to remember the past but they also can't forget it. | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
There are 20,000 mass graves across this country, | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
like these ones, a visual reminder of what this nation | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
Hundreds of images of those who were tortured at | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
More than 12,000 people were killed here. | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Angelina Jolie is keen to tell this story and focus on this | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
But it has been difficult to keep the spotlight | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
We know that an incident occurred, which led to your separation. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
We also know you have not said anything about this. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Only that I don't want to say very much about that, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
and we will always be a family and we will get through this time | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
and hopefully be a stronger family for it. | :10:18. | :10:34. | |
Can I ask how you're coping? I'm... | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Many, many people find themselves in this situation. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
My family, we have all been through a difficult time. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
My focus is my children, our children, and my focus | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
And as I said, we are and forever will be a family. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
But this moment is about Cambodia and remembering the time | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
when this ancient culture was almost wiped out. | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
STUDIO: And that's all from Reporters for this week. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now. | :10:55. | :11:18. | |
Hot on the heels of Storm Doris, storm UN. Overnight, some rain | :11:19. | :11:20. |