:00:38. > :00:42.tick dip viewed the best story we examine remarkable new footage
:00:42. > :00:49.obtained by the BBC of a breakout by French prisoners from a World War II
:00:49. > :00:57.prison camp. Only a handful made it back it to France, and only one
:00:57. > :01:01.survives to this day. We report on how plans for mining copper in
:01:01. > :01:09.Alaskan rocks threatens to harm one of the world 's last great wild
:01:09. > :01:14.fisheries. So it is toxic dirt? it is not. You cannot allow it to
:01:14. > :01:20.enter the ecosystem. As America marks 40 years of its war on drugs,
:01:20. > :01:25.we meet some of the victims of the Mexican drugs trade. TRANSLATION: I
:01:25. > :01:33.don't see any sales in the drug war. I don't understand why Mexicans are
:01:33. > :01:39.killing Mexicans. Meet the Burka Avenger. We report on the cartoon
:01:39. > :01:43.caped Crusader that is inspiring women's rights in Pakistan. And the
:01:43. > :01:50.all sure they are back as the legendary Russian ballet company
:01:50. > :01:55.comes to London. We report on the controversy that just won't go away.
:01:55. > :02:04.There is no amount of skill or training that would enable anybody
:02:04. > :02:10.to conceal the strange goings-on backstage of the Bolshoi, of late.
:02:10. > :02:13.To breakout of a German prison of what is remarkable in itself. To
:02:13. > :02:17.escape and to capture it on film is possibly one of the most amazing
:02:17. > :02:20.true stories of the second World War. The BBC has obtained a
:02:21. > :02:26.remarkable new footage depicting an audacious escape by French
:02:26. > :02:32.prisoners, shot by the prisoners themselves. It also gives a chilling
:02:32. > :02:42.view of life inside a German prisoner of war camp. We have been
:02:42. > :02:48.to meet the one SKP who still survives to this day. -- SKP. It is
:02:48. > :02:52.a prison camp in north-east 's -- Austria, holding 5000 French
:02:52. > :02:55.officers. This is a 30 minute documentary, shot in secret by the
:02:56. > :03:00.prisoners themselves. Risking death, they recorded it on a secret camera
:03:00. > :03:07.that was smuggled into the camp in sausages. The team conceal that in a
:03:07. > :03:10.holiday dictionary, the 8mm reels hidden in their shoes. It is an
:03:10. > :03:16.extraordinary story, but it is what their films that makes it all the
:03:16. > :03:23.more remarkable. This lieutenant was a former inmate, and part of the
:03:23. > :03:27.escape committee. TRANSLATION: we dug a number of tunnels. Guards
:03:27. > :03:35.always found them. They were smart. They were looking for the earth we
:03:35. > :03:43.dug out. Eventually, they found a way. This man, whose father was a
:03:43. > :03:46.prisoner, showed us the plans. The Germans built an open air theatre.
:03:46. > :03:52.With the crudest of tools, the malnourished men set to work.
:03:52. > :03:55.TRANSLATION: they were university professors, mathematicians,
:03:55. > :04:02.geologist, architects. They calculated the length and direction
:04:02. > :04:05.of the tunnel exactly. This time, the earth was hidden in the seat of
:04:05. > :04:10.the theatre. The tunnel was ventilated with empty tins of peace
:04:10. > :04:14.that were stuck together. There were teams to make civilian clothes, and
:04:14. > :04:24.the false identity papers they would depend on. By September 18, 1943,
:04:24. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:30.they were ready to go. TRANSLATION: there was so little space in the
:04:30. > :04:35.tunnel, we were forced to lie in a cold up position. There was little
:04:35. > :04:43.air. Some fainted. All the time, we imagined the worst. The German
:04:43. > :04:47.firing squad that could be at the end of the tunnel. Of course, once
:04:47. > :04:52.they had gone beneath the wire, they were still deep inside German
:04:52. > :04:56.occupied territory. 132 prisoners escaped, 125 were recaptured within
:04:56. > :05:02.a week. Only a handful made it back into France. Only one survives to
:05:03. > :05:08.this day. To celebrate his 100th birthday, he was recently honoured
:05:08. > :05:11.by the city of Paris. In 1943, he found his way to Vienna, where he
:05:11. > :05:16.worked as a nurse in a hospital. Eventually, he secured a precious
:05:16. > :05:19.weekend passed back to Paris. The homecoming was not enough. Within
:05:19. > :05:28.weeks, he had rejoined the war effort, and was now fighting for the
:05:28. > :05:32.resistance. Let's go now to the gorgeous landscapes of Alaska, where
:05:32. > :05:38.there are fears that one of the world 's last great wild fisheries
:05:38. > :05:43.is at risk. Britain's Anglo American -- Anglo American and its partner
:05:43. > :05:47.are pushing to develop a vast copper mine, the largest ever in North
:05:47. > :05:51.America. This is in Bristol Bay, the heart of the Alaskan fishing
:05:51. > :05:57.industry. As we report, the issue has divided opinion in America's
:05:57. > :06:02.largest state. It is a wonder of the natural world. Tens of millions of
:06:03. > :06:12.salmon, on an epic migration from the Pacific Ocean back to the
:06:12. > :06:15.streams where they were born. For Alaskan bears, it is a summer feast.
:06:16. > :06:21.High up in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay River system, where
:06:21. > :06:24.salmon come to spawn and to die, there is treasure in the rocks. A
:06:24. > :06:29.vast deposit of copper and gold. A company co- owned by the British
:06:29. > :06:36.mining giant Anglo American, plans one of the biggest copper mines in
:06:36. > :06:40.this wilderness. When you are up in the air, you get a sense of just how
:06:40. > :06:47.remote this place is. They want to dig the big pit down there, they
:06:47. > :06:56.also need to build a power station and develop a road or rail link to
:06:57. > :07:01.the sea, so they can get the copper out. This man is the boss of the
:07:01. > :07:04.Pebble mine project. It could be worth half $1 trillion. A massive
:07:04. > :07:11.open pit would generate billions of tonnes of potentially dangerous
:07:11. > :07:17.waste. There is a lot of waste, but the waste is essentially dirt.
:07:17. > :07:24.People think about waste, they think it is toxic. It is toxic dirt.No it
:07:24. > :07:26.is not. You cannot allow it to enter the ecosystem here. It does have to
:07:26. > :07:35.have long-term monitoring. There is the question about that. Bristol
:07:35. > :07:41.Bay. All -- more than 100 miles from the proposed mine, but connected by
:07:41. > :07:44.streams and rivers. This is the world 's greatest salmon fishery. 25
:07:44. > :07:49.million are caught every summer. It is a billion-dollar business in
:07:49. > :07:55.Bristol Bay. Assessing plans got it, freeze it and can it for
:07:55. > :08:01.supermarkets all over the world. The fishing industry is now scared stiff
:08:01. > :08:04.of a massive mine in their backyard. We have a culture here that is
:08:04. > :08:11.dependent on salmon since God created salmon and man. We are not
:08:11. > :08:15.willing to risk it. Inuit community leader Kim Williams is handing on
:08:15. > :08:23.the salmon culture to the next generation. She has been to London
:08:23. > :08:27.several times to lobby against the British bank -- backed mine. I asked
:08:27. > :08:32.them to divest of this project. It is the wrong place. It is in the
:08:32. > :08:38.wrong location. It has devastating consequences to the people of
:08:38. > :08:42.Bristol Bay and to the commercial fishermen. The mine boss says he is
:08:42. > :08:49.mine could transform local communities for the better. He knows
:08:49. > :08:53.he has to overcome their fears. have a high responsibility to show
:08:53. > :09:01.people that we are not going to do what they are afraid of. Will we be
:09:01. > :09:05.able to do that? I don't know if we can. Thanks to the Pebble mine plan,
:09:05. > :09:09.uncertainty hangs over the bay. Alaska has vast natural resources.
:09:09. > :09:19.The people and the politicians here must decide if some are based left
:09:19. > :09:24.untapped. -- best left. From America's fishing wars to its war on
:09:24. > :09:28.drugs. 40 years ago, the US drug enforcement agency was created to
:09:28. > :09:33.stop the large flow of narcotics into the United States. Now, four
:09:33. > :09:40.decades later, this activity is coming under increased scrutiny with
:09:40. > :09:44.Latin American leaders calling for a news strategy. -- new strategy. We
:09:44. > :09:50.have been to a town on the Mexico US border to investigate. Some images
:09:50. > :09:56.in the report could be distressing. This bridge connecting the Mexican
:09:56. > :10:01.border city and El Paso is one of the main gateways for drugs into the
:10:01. > :10:08.US. Police joke, the only place they have not found is in the car
:10:08. > :10:12.ignition. That is one kilogram of cocaine. What they do find comes
:10:12. > :10:18.here, to the evidence rooms. This is a small fraction of what makes it
:10:18. > :10:21.across the broad -- border. Despite US spending, billions of dollars on
:10:21. > :10:28.the war on drugs, Americans still rank among the biggest users of
:10:28. > :10:32.cocaine and cannabis in the world. But if the cost of America is
:10:32. > :10:37.measured in addicts, across the board in Mexico, it is measured in
:10:37. > :10:41.dead bodies. The previous government policy of deploying the army against
:10:41. > :10:48.the cartels sparked a furious turf war between the gangs. It claims
:10:49. > :10:52.more than 60,000 lives. The other at his efforts were further undermined
:10:52. > :10:58.by corruption in the security called forces, who collude with the gangs.
:10:58. > :11:05.The frontline for that war was Ciudad Juarez. Just like this one
:11:05. > :11:08.are full of gangsters. The story of Carlos is one told time and again
:11:08. > :11:14.here, forced into joining again, and now awaiting sentencing for
:11:14. > :11:21.smuggling cannabis. TRANSLATION: I don't see any sense in the drug war.
:11:21. > :11:27.I don't understand why Mexicans are killing Mexicans. The recently
:11:27. > :11:32.elected president has promised a less aggressive approach, and at
:11:32. > :11:35.least in Juarez, it appears to be working. It is hard to tell now, but
:11:35. > :11:39.this used to be Mexico's most dangerous city. At the height of the
:11:39. > :11:43.violence, its people were murdered each day. The drugs in the cartels
:11:43. > :11:48.may not have gone away, but there is a new sense of hope that the drop in
:11:48. > :11:52.the violence will eject -- inject new business and a sense of life
:11:52. > :12:02.into the city. The local police chief takes credit for this
:12:02. > :12:03.
:12:03. > :12:09.improvement. TRANSLATION: I think the gangs have infiltrated this
:12:09. > :12:14.human is right group to help them defend themselves. These young
:12:14. > :12:18.people, like many others in Mexico, have paid a heavy price in the
:12:18. > :12:22.struggle. 14 of this local team were murdered by gangs. All of them
:12:22. > :12:26.innocent victims. The theory is that the high levels of violence will
:12:26. > :12:36.return and it will be a struggle for these teenagers to stay away from
:12:36. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:39.going live will stop -- gang life. She may be a fictitious character,
:12:39. > :12:46.but she deals with some harsh realities. She is not a Wonderwall
:12:46. > :12:53.and or super girl. Meet worker avenger. She is a mild-mannered
:12:53. > :13:03.teacher at by day, but at night she uses her secret martial arts skill
:13:03. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:19.to fight local thugs to shut down the -- .
:13:19. > :13:26.
:13:26. > :13:29.Meet Pakistan's first Cape crusader, a mild school teacher and superhero.
:13:29. > :13:34.The animated series is the brainchild of a Pakistani pop
:13:34. > :13:41.singer, who wants to help children understand the social and sectarian
:13:41. > :13:44.issues Pakistan is grappling with. As a musician and as an artist you
:13:44. > :13:47.are always inspired by what is happening around you. In Pakistan,
:13:47. > :13:52.the issues are staring you in the face. The whole concept was
:13:52. > :13:59.initially inspired by the girls schools being shut down by extremist
:13:59. > :14:05.elements. The series has been developed in just over a year by a
:14:05. > :14:08.young team operating out of a small production house in Islamabad.
:14:08. > :14:17.went viral on social media even before its launch on the Pakistan TV
:14:17. > :14:23.channel. It has created quite and a impression in Pakistan. A country
:14:23. > :14:28.where the female literacy rate is very low and send hundreds of girls
:14:28. > :14:33.school being blown up. Many real-life crusaders for women's
:14:33. > :14:43.rights do not quite a treat -- did not quite agree with the message.
:14:43. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:52.The use of the worker is seen by many as controversial -- Burke.
:14:52. > :15:02.can you get power from a symbol that is so demeaning to women is power.
:15:02. > :15:09.
:15:09. > :15:19.Walking around in a is really imagining the symbol of depression
:15:19. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:27.as a symbol of resistance. I do not agree with that. The creators think
:15:27. > :15:31.that everyone should hold judgement until they see the series. They are
:15:31. > :15:38.all set to release music videos featuring some of Pakistan's top
:15:38. > :15:42.musicians. They are trying to frame it as the first superhero brand.
:15:42. > :15:48.Meanwhile, for children growing up watching terrorism and violence on
:15:48. > :15:58.their TV screens every day. A superhero armed with nothing but
:15:58. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:09.books and pens might be just what they want to look up to. It has been
:16:09. > :16:13.quite a year for the Bolshoi Ballet, full of drama with on and off the
:16:13. > :16:18.stage. Allegations of corruption and smear campaigns and an attack on its
:16:18. > :16:24.artistic allegedly instigated by one of its own dances. The Russian
:16:24. > :16:29.company is in London for a three-week season. Will they manage
:16:29. > :16:37.to put their scandals and court cases behind them?
:16:37. > :16:47.The legendary Bolshoi Ballet are aka the Royal Opera house. Where they
:16:47. > :16:53.will be performing, among other ballets, Swan Lake. These dancers
:16:53. > :17:02.are some of the very best in the world. They embody the heart and
:17:02. > :17:06.soul of Russia. TRANSLATION: I think the Bolshoi Ballet always
:17:06. > :17:16.represented Russian spirit and Russian music. And that is why it
:17:16. > :17:22.can be considered is the greatest achievement of our culture. Chekhov
:17:22. > :17:25.once said that the only thing he knew about Ballet was that during
:17:25. > :17:30.interviews all -- intervals all ballets stink like horses will stop
:17:30. > :17:35.it was talking about the great illusion of this art form. There is
:17:35. > :17:40.no amount of skill or training that would enable anybody to conceal the
:17:40. > :17:45.strange goings-on backstage at the Bolshoi of late. There have been
:17:45. > :17:51.allegations of corruption and smear campaigns. And then a horrific acid
:17:51. > :17:57.attack on the company 's artistic director. Instigated, it is alleged,
:17:57. > :18:01.by one of his own doubts is. -- cancers. A new boss has been
:18:01. > :18:09.appointed to sort out this troubled institution. TRANSLATION: This kind
:18:09. > :18:12.of event, this tragic event, has a very tough psychological impact on
:18:12. > :18:17.everybody. But these negative events will be in the past and we will move
:18:17. > :18:24.forward. Not before, one would imagine, sorting out the company 's
:18:24. > :18:31.existing problems. It has been suggested the infighting might be
:18:31. > :18:36.around the mentoring system, where promising dancers have a champion
:18:36. > :18:39.amongst the older dancers and teachers. That can lead to a certain
:18:39. > :18:49.amount of fighting and infighting as people tried to get their protege on
:18:49. > :18:56.stage. The Bolshoi was founded in 1776, during the reign of Catherine
:18:56. > :19:00.the great. Since then, the company has survived two world wars and
:19:00. > :19:07.communism. It should survive this crisis too. But the scars will
:19:07. > :19:14.linger. Now to an event at that is as much
:19:14. > :19:17.about cultural identity as it is under way in Israel. This year they
:19:17. > :19:25.are bringing together around 9000 Jewish competitors from more than 70
:19:25. > :19:33.countries. Aiming high, Jewish athletes
:19:33. > :19:38.competing in the Maccabi games. They are are coming from around the world
:19:38. > :19:42.take part in what is known as the Jewish Olympics. Some, like this
:19:42. > :19:48.Cuban archer, I hear against the odds, as Cuba does not have
:19:48. > :19:52.diplomatic relations with Israel. am so proud to be here in Israel. It
:19:52. > :20:00.is the first time Israel participates in these games. -- is
:20:00. > :20:05.the first time Cuba participates in these games. The first games, which
:20:05. > :20:09.was supported by early scientist leaders, were held in the 1930s when
:20:09. > :20:13.rising anti-Semitism in Europe made it hard for Jews to compete in big
:20:13. > :20:23.sporting events. Many athletes chose not to go back to Europe, and
:20:23. > :20:25.
:20:25. > :20:31.settled here. These days, the organisers say the games aimed to
:20:31. > :20:36.forge links between the Diaspora and Israel. The aim is to be attractive
:20:36. > :20:42.to Jewish youngsters with something that nobody can argue about. It is
:20:42. > :20:48.sport. It is something that United everybody. If you come with the
:20:48. > :20:57.start of sport and add to the love of Israel, that is something
:20:57. > :21:01.everybody can agree. These games planned competition with a big
:21:01. > :21:06.Jewish reunion. There is a big range of ages here. The youngest slammers
:21:06. > :21:09.are in their teens and the oldest are in their 80s. While winning is
:21:09. > :21:15.important, many people here would say that these games are as much
:21:15. > :21:19.about Jewish identity as elite sport. While a handful of Israeli
:21:19. > :21:27.Arabs to take part in the games, the organisers say the international
:21:27. > :21:31.athletes are Jewish. Visitors are taught about Israeli institutions
:21:31. > :21:38.leading the army. And there is a chance to get to know and date of a