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Welcome to Reporters. From here, we send out correspondents to bring you | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
the best stories from across the world. In this programme, Ukraine's | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
dark side. We investigate the rise of the far right in the capital, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Kiev. Are you a Nazi? No, I don't think I am a Nazi, I am a Ukrainian | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
nationalist. The Kamikaze legacy, as Japan pushes for their place in | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
world history. We meet the suicide bomber who is still standing. Japan | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
needed us to be warriors, to stop the invasion. Our minds were set. We | :01:04. | :01:16. | |
had no doubt. We meet the North Korean defectors | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
who want to go back home. And the true story that inspired the story. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
We visit the plantation behind the film 12 Years A Slave. It is now a | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
working farm. This is a reminder of what this place once was. As the | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
highs of the world focus on the crisis in Crimea, events are playing | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
into the hands of Ukraine's nationalists. As the Black Sea | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
region moves towards Russia, the influence of the far right far away | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
in Kiev is growing. It was ordinary Ukrainians whose show of people | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
power brought down the government of Viktor Yanukovych but the most | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
organised and possibly the most effective were the nationalists. As | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
we report, the group has its own dark political agenda. | :02:04. | :02:27. | |
In place of the defiant speeches, the sombre strains of Beethoven now | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
ring out over Independence Square. This revolution is moving into a new | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
phase. But amid the flowers and the children's tributes, flashes of | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
something more sinister. Groups of armed men strut through the square, | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
with dubious iconography. That yellow armband is a German symbol | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
used by several SS divisions in the Second World War. Far right graffiti | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
is appearing, daubed on the walls of the city. The people who brought | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
down the government were overwhelmingly ordinary Ukrainians. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Students and doctors, workers and even families, people who simply | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
refused to back down. But the most organised and perhaps the most | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
effective were a small number of far right groups. When it came to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
confrontations with the police, it was often the nationalists who were | :03:30. | :03:42. | |
the loudest, and the most violent. A group calling itself the Right | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Sector is the largest. Its members can be seen marching around Kiev in | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
columns of a dozen. Mostly they carry baseball bats. Sometimes they | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
carry guns. We met these men, posing for pictures outside the burned out | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
remains of what was once their headquarters. I asked them about | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
their political beliefs. What about the east, I asked, what about | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Crimea? Where many Ukrainians feel close | :04:04. | :05:14. | |
historical ties to Russia. Police have largely disappeared from the | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
street of Kiev. Law and order is maintained by so-called self-defence | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
groups. Not all hold extreme views but those who you are often shy of | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
the cameras. We got a late-night phone call from another group, known | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
as C 14, inviting us to meet their leader at their new base. It turned | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
out to be the former headquarters of the Communist Party. It's now | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
occupied by the far right. It's our general mission to totally ruin | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
chains that connect our country with imperial power from the past. And | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
that being Russia? Yes, Russia. Not only Russia, Soviet Union. Are you a | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
Nazi? No, I don't think I am a Nazi, I am a Ukrainian nationalist. What | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
does that mean? The main confrontation is about some ethnic | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
groups, have control. Many business structures, some politicals forces. | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
Which ethnic groups? Russians and Jews, some non-Ukrainian groups | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
control huge percent of economic or operational power. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
And of course in this situation, Ukrainian people have some tension | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
between them and it causes conflict. He says his group consists of around | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
200 men. C14 is affiliated with a political party, which controls four | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
ministries in the new government, including the Ministry of Defence. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Two of the MPs were photographed brandishing well-known far right | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
numerology. 88 stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet. HH. Heil | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Hitler. We in no way espouse Nazism. Nazism and Communism are two sides | :07:14. | :07:26. | |
of the same coin. They destroyed the Ukrainian nation in the 20th century | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
and killed millions of Ukrainians. of the same coin. They destroyed the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Ukrainian nation in With their anti-Russian rhetoric, events in | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Crimea will certainly play into the hands of the nationalists. No-one | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
knows exactly how strong they are in terms of numbers but the influence | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
of the far right in Ukraine is growing. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
From nationalism in Ukraine to Japan's wartime nationalist, the | :07:46. | :08:00. | |
kamikaze. Their suicide missions, flying head long into allied | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
targets, was seen as terrifying. Now, 70 years after the end of World | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
War II, Japan wants to commemorate the thousands of pilots who died by | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
seeking World Heritage status, for a collection of their letters. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
However, as Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports from Nagoya, some are | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
concerned it is an attempt to glorify aggression. | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
What are the kamikaze letters? Why are they so important that Japan | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
wants them to have UNESCO heritage status? Find out, I am going to meet | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
the man who has the collection and went on two kamikaze missions. For | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
those of us who grew up after the war, it is still hard to comprehend | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
the kamikaze. The squadrons were formed in the final months of the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
war and most of the pilots were between 17 and 20 years old. Their | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
job was simple. Slam their planes into as many Allied ships as | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
possible and to hold the invasion of Japan. It's not every day you get to | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
meet a real kamikaze. In 1945, at the age of 19, this man was | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
recruited into Japan's special attack squadrons. Today, the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
cheerful 89-year-old doesn't look like a fanatic. So why did he | :09:33. | :09:44. | |
volunteer to die? TRANSLATION: Commonsense says you only have one | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
life, so why would you want to give it up? But at the same time, all of | :09:49. | :10:00. | |
us wanted to volunteer. Okinawa was being attacked by the Americans. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Japan needed us to be warriors, to stop the invasion. On his first | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
mission his engine broke down and he was forced to ditch. The second was | :10:09. | :10:20. | |
called off because of bad weather and so, unlike so many of his | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
comrades, he survived. When you look back today at what happened and all | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the young people who died, doesn't it feel like a waste? TRANSLATION: I | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
never look back with regret. The people who died did so willingly. If | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
they were forced to go, I would not be collecting all this stuff. They | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
must not be forgotten. These are the kamikaze letters. He has collected | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
them from families of kamikaze pilots across Japan. Many like this | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
express pride in the coming sacrifice. | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
Others show clear disillusionment in Japan's war. | :10:54. | :11:12. | |
Close to an old airfield near his house stands a memorial to the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
kamikaze. The names of those who died are carved across its back. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
There are dozens like this scattered across Japan. When I first came | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
across one of these memorials, I have to admit I was taken aback. It | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
felt like a shrine to fanaticism, to blind loyalty to the emperor. And to | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
some on the far right of Japanese politics, the kamikaze are still | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
very much held up as an ideal of Japanese man hood. -- manhood. That | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
is why the issue has potency today. But to most Japanese, this isn't | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
really about glorifying Japan's military's past. It's much more | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
about remembering the young men who sacrificed their lives selflessly to | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
defend their nation. If the kamikaze letters gain World Heritage status, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
will it help Japan to examine this dark episode of its past? Or will it | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
strengthen those who still seek to worship it as a lost ideal? | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
For North Koreans, defecting to the south has been seen as the ultimate | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
suicide mission. More than 25,000 of them have risked their lives to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
escape the brutal regime in Pyongyang. They took a long and | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
dangerous journey. Yet once in South Korea, there were guaranteed | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
citizenship. But somehow found life as a defector tough. Some want to go | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
back home. Today's lessons at the heavenly | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
dream boarding school in steel, trust, self-sufficiency and Korean | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
literature. The children are all North Korean is learning to speak | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
the cultural language of the South. Fitting into South Korea's highly | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
competitive society is a struggle for many of them, with high | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
unemployment and no direct contact with their families back home. This | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
man, I all defectors, receives government support on arrival, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
including this flight. But problems meant he lost his fridge and washing | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
machine and he now stores his rations on the balcony. He has | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
appealed to the government to allow him to go back to North Korea, | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
partly as a protest against the isolation many feel. TRANSLATION: | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
Over the years I have noticed the political defectors in the south and | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the material circumstances they grapple with. They have been days | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
when I asked myself why I chose to do it in the first place. Anywhere | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
in North Korean defector goes, he could face difficulties and | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
discrimination. The discrimination can feel a lot colder. Some have | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
made it back to North Korea. 13 of them, according to the South Korean | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
government. Activists say the real number is higher. Each return is | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
celebrated with a press conference. Like that of this man and his family | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
18 months ago. He told them that the factors like him who escaped to | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
South Korea were the victims of human rights activists conspiring | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
against the North Korean state. Except if you months later he came | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
back to the South. The authorities were not so welcoming a second time. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
He was brought in front of this caught behind me and asked to | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
explain his erratic debut. His lawyer cited financial difficulties | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
in the north. Other reports suggested he may have feared for his | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
safety. Either way, the court was unamused and gave him a three-year | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
jail sentence. In a letter sent from his prison cell, he told us that he | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
had been forced to take part in the press conference and that he was | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
appealing his sentence. At the heavenly dream school, the | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
students have moved on to a class and arrest the skills. Part of a | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
plan to steer them towards jobs that do not require high levels of | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
English, IT or social skills. Life may be tough for defectors, but the | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
vast majority choose to stay. And the challenge for South Korea is | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
less about preventing those who want to leave and integrating those who | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
remain. Is peace and quiet a human right? In | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
the view of Denmark's highest environmental authority it is. A | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
special tribunal ruled that the physical and psychological suffering | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
of Copenhagen residents due to the sound of building work is | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
unacceptable. The ruling has left the authorities are struggling to | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
pacify angry residents as well as trying to complete the project on | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
time. For residents living near | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Copenhagen's Church, the soundscape is rarely divine. As workers | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
borrowed to build an underground station, decibel levels of around | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
and sometimes exceeded those determined as dangerous by the World | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Health Organization. This is the view from the apartment of one | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
psychologist who wears earplugs. I am worried about my children. The | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
World Health Organization says this will give concentration | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
difficulties, difficulties of motivation and communication. The | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
environmental tribunal ruled that Denmark broken interventional | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
liftback broke and international convention. With round-the-clock | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
construction continuing at these neighbours, one of whom suffers from | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
depression because of the noise. It is incredible in a country like | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Denmark that prides itself on being respecting of human rights and | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
respecting this and that. It is just despicable. The construction company | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
needs to work around the clock if it is to meet its deadline. It is | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
trying to achieve 30m of new title every day. Anything less will not be | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
viable. The project is dependent on us completing this to a programme. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
We are very, very restrict it in being able to achieve that | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
programme. The new Metropolitan line was scheduled to be completed by | :17:57. | :18:08. | |
2018 at a cost of $3.9 billion. The tribunal's adjudication could result | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
in a substantial delay and an increase in costs. You have to make | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
sure that the Metro is done on time. But we have to make sure that people | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
in Copenhagen are not bothered. That is a complication. You cannot do | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
both at the same time. What is the priority? For me the priority is to | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
try and do both. I could see only one solution. That is a settlement. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
The government wants to solve the problem quickly. It has set aside | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
$55 million to help thousands of residents move. Exposure to sustain | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
excessive noise is unacceptable. They are unimpressed with the buyout | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
plan. It is a hard-hitting, powerful story | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
and is not only true, but a bestselling book in the 19th century | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
and is now in the 21st-century and Oscar-winning film. The historical | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
drama 12 Years A Slave is based on a memoir written over 160 years ago by | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Solomon Northop, a free black man who was forced to work on an | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
American cotton plantation. We have been to visit the plantation that | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
inspired the story of 12 Years A Slave. Wanted by history. | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
The fields of Louisiana, America's deep South. Thousands of slaves | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
served, struggled and suffered. Solomon Northop was one of the few | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
who got to tell his story. His story is now the Oscar-winning film 12 | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
Years A Slave, . Born a free man in the north, he was kidnapped and | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
taken south. Two central Louisiana. He spent several years working as a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
slave on this plantation. It is now a working farm. The slave quarters | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
behind me are a reminder of what it once was. The story of Solomon | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Northop might never have come to light if it was not for the tireless | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
efforts of one woman. A local academic found one of the last | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
surviving copies of the book. It had been out of print for almost a | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
century. This is her great-nephew. She bought it at a local campus | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
bookstore and told that it was a pack of lies. There is a great quote | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
from her. She spent the next 70 years of life chasing down the story | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
and proving him wrong. Solomon suffered the most at the hands of | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
his master. Played by Michael Fassbender. This is the house today. | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
Where she worked to get it restored, she was told people in the area did | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
not want to be reminded of their connections to slavery. It was very | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
painful. It is difficult to build a community when there is that giant | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
psychic wound that slavery inflected. Which is yet to heal. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
These derelict slave quarters are among the last still standing. More | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
than 150 years on, the legacy of Solomon Northop and that slavery | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
remained and uncomfortable truth. -- remain and. That is all for this | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
week. Goodbye. | :21:46. | :22:05. | |
There was quite a contrast in weather fortunes across the British | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Isles thanks to the presence of an area of low pressure with this | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
attendant front. The wind was quite a factor through Saturday with quite | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
a number of isobars across | :22:19. | :22:19. |