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Welcome to Reporters. From the world's newsroom, we send out | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
this week 's programme, we're with half a dozen men trapped by ISIS on | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
three sides. The road to Baghdad ` as Iraqi | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
militants marched on the capital, Paul Wood joined forces fighting | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
back against their advance. The peshmerga thought they had secured | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
this place. But they have just been told 75 vehicles with ISIS fighters | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
are making their way here to try to cut them off. With Iraq on the brink | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
of civil war. Lyse Doucet asks Hamid Karzai whether Afghanistan faces a | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
similar fate. Operation Predator, Angus Crawford | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
reports on the global online trade in child sex abuse, which police say | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
is now out of control. One giant leap for the Isle of Man, | :01:05. | :01:19. | |
Mikey reports on a third era of space in Britain's new cosmic | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
frontier. I'm sitting in the Russian space capsule, all in a hangar in | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
the Isle of Man. It is quite bizarre. | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
Sectarian conflict in Iraq threatened to trigger a wider | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
catastrophe. Sunni militant cold their way through the country. The | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
militant from ISIS continued their band on the capital. After taking | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Iraq's second city, Mosul, the night before. President Obama considered | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
airstrikes as the Prime Minister, Nouri al`Maliki told the BBC he felt | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
abandoned by the rest of the world. At the height of the militant | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
advance, Paul Wood said this report. East of Baghdad, a strategically | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
vital battle is being fought. These are Kurdish forces, they are trying | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
to help the Iraqi army stop ISIS from marching on the capital. This | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
is Jalula, the next town is in the hands of ISIS. The Kurds believe | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
there are a small amount of foreign jihadis backed by about 600 Sunni | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
tribal fighters. At the Kurdish base, the general begs a Sunni sheik | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
to change sides. He asks them to abandon ISIS to | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
avoid the bloodshed that is surely coming. It does not work. The Kurds | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
know they have to stop ISIS here or the jihadis will go into the nearby | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
town of Baquba. The Iraqi army is making a desperate stand there. It | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
is the last big town before the capital. The Kurds send | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
reinforcements to the frontline. We stayed behind in Jalula. The town is | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
secure, they say. Down! They spot movement. Three or four | :03:18. | :03:41. | |
gunmen. Come with me! Down here! Bullets seem to come in from two or | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
three directions at once. Snipers, they say. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
The peshmerga thought they had secured this place. They have just | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
been told of 75 vehicles of ISIS fighters making their way here to | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
try and cut them off. The battle is going backwards and forwards. Things | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
are still very fluid here. We are with half a dozen men are trapped | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
with ISIS on three sides. You need to find the most senior commander | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
that you can find. Can you hear me? There is growing panic. They think | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
the jihadis are coming in through the back of the building. They are | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
right there, he says. They are behind us. Can't you see them? | :04:30. | :04:42. | |
A man was shot through the leg, he survived. Eventually, the fighting | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
starts to die down. The cause was probably just a few gunmen left | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
behind by ISIS in Jalula. It was not a mass attack the Kurdish troops | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
feared. But it is in skirmishes like this in small towns on the road to | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the capital that the fate of Baghdad may be decided. | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
The violence has pushed the Middle East to the brink of war. President | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
Assad's forces are not only battling extremists like ISIS but also more | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
audit groups. One of them is the free Syrian Army which is leading | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
the fight around the capital. Jeremy Bowen crossed from Damascus for this | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
report. When supporters of as an aside want | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
to celebrate, the race around the massacres as if Syria has won the | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
World Cup. `` Damascus. In their world, their president is the man | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
who stands between them and the extremist of ISIS and Al Qaeda. | :06:01. | :06:18. | |
But just 20 minutes away from the streets of central Damascus, there | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
are Syrians who see their country very differently. This is the road | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
to Qaboun, one of the suburbs of the city that are held by armed rebels. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
This place has been fought over for close to three years. On the rebel | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
side is the Free Syria Army. There is supposed to be a local ceasefire | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
but it is fragile. TRANSLATION: This is the main road | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
to Qaboun. The Syrian army used to be 50 metres away and now they are | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
150 metres from here. How well is the ceasefire holding? TRANSLATION: | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Not very well. You can hear the clashes. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
In this dusty, broken place, only small fragments are left of the | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
lives people used to have here. They keep the cemetery for the war dead | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
green and well watered. Why did you become a fighter? TRANSLATION: To | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
defend our families. The regime is attacking us. There is no freedom in | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
our country. As long as Bashar Al`Assad stays, we will keep | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
fighting. Some civilians have stayed, despite | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
shelling and gunfire. This man, too scared to be identified, watching | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
his three children play outside, said they had nowhere else to go. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
What will happen in the war and who will win? TRANSLATION: The rebels, | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
God willing. The regime is not fair. History shows injustice does not | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
last. Because of so much shelling on the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
streets, the rebels here moved essential services underground. They | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
have a network of small hospitals in basements. In them, they can carry | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
out complex war surgery. And from this underground kitchen, they feed | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
up to 2,500 people per day. The men here said they were good Muslims and | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
not extremists. They wanted Syria to be like Turkey and Malaysia. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
The Free Syria Army has lost the north of the country to the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
jihadists of Al`Qaeda and ISIS and to other less extreme Islamist | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
fighters, who are better armed and trained. But these men did not seem | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
war weary. They rejected the recent election and said the destruction of | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
their neighbourhood would not stop them. It is not a question of damage | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
but the mentality about the war. Not 20 minutes' drive from here, there | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
is President Bashar al`Assad's palace, and as far as he is | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
concerned, he has won an overwhelming seven`year mandate. And | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
yet these men are determined to fight on. When we crossed the front | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
lines back into regime`held territory, the urban battlegrounds | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
of Damascus were still close by. Recent local ceasefires have given | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
people confidence enough to fill the streets again but there is still a | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
gulf between those who took up arms against the regime and those who | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
fight to defend it, like Maleki, whose son was killed last year in | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
one of the Damascus suburbs along with 41 other Syrian army soldiers. | :09:27. | :09:41. | |
TRANSLATION: We will continue fighting until the last drop of our | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
blood, until we have dealt with the very last of the rebels. We will | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
keep at them and we will smash them. From central Damascus, the heart of | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
the regime's power, people hear the war in the suburbs rather than see | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
it. Syria's neighbours can feel the war. Violence is crossing borders | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
and into Iraq most of all. Without any kind of peace in sight, it is | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
hard to see how that stops. With Iraq on the brink of a civil | :10:16. | :10:35. | |
war, is there a similar danger in Afghanistan when international | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
troops and combat operations later in the year? Both candidates to | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
become the next president have said they will sign a deal to allow an | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
American presence to say in this country. Our correspondent has been | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
speaking to the outgoing president, Hamid Karzai. I hope you are not | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
very exhausted! Every morning, President Karzai walks to the | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
office, with bodyguards and armoured vehicles. He lives and works inside | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
this heavily protected palace. The Taliban threat means that he rarely | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
leaves the fortress. The men in his security Cabinet worked alongside | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
NATO forces for more than one decade. But like Iraq, foreign | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
combat troops are pulling out, and there is concern that Al Qaeda | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
linked groups could come back. Many around the world are now asking, | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Afghans are asking whether what is happening in Iraq could happen in | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Afghanistan. Never, not at all. What makes you confident? I am confident | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
about the Afghan people, yes, we need international support. Where we | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
do not have the means to sustain ourselves. That is welcome, for that | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
we are grateful. But the keeping of the country, the protection of the | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
country is the work of Afghans. This government refused to take up the | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
offer of a strategic pact with the United States which would have meant | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
a long`term military presence in the country. But the two men vying to be | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
the next president have both said they will sign a deal. And that | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
could help Afghanistan avoid some of the worst of what is happening in | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Iraq. For years, many doubted there would even be a peaceful transfer of | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
power here. Now, the president checks goodbye letters that he will | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
soon send to foreign leaders, including this one to David Cameron. | :12:21. | :12:30. | |
Mr President, what will you say to the Prime Minister in your letter? I | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
will thank him, and the British people, for the help they have given | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
to Afghanistan. You have said NATO forces have done nothing before | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Afghanistan, and that includes British forces? I have said as I | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
have done on lots of occasions, that the war on terror was not to be | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
fought in Afghan villages or in Afghan homes. The real war on terror | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
is in the sanctuary beyond our walls. As far as Prime Minister | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
Cameron is concerned, he has been a good friend, and a real English | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
gentleman. As President Karzai prepares to move out of the palace | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
with his young family, his country moves towards an uncertain future. | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
They discussed how the fingers of Afghans who voted in the elections | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
were chopped off. What is happening in this country? He says. As Hamid | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
Karzai repairs to move out of this palace with his young family, his | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
country moves towards an uncertain future. Without the peace that he | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
and his allies promised when he first came to power. Security forces | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
in the US say the global online trade in child sex abuse images is | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
now out of control. The BBC was given exclusive access to what is | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
known as the Predator Unit of US Homeland Security, which tracks | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
paedophiles all around the world. Just this year it says it has been | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
behind 1000 arrests across the globe. Angus Crawford joined | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
officers from Operation Predator, you may find his report disturbing. | :14:13. | :14:24. | |
They go in with quiet force. Their mission, to arrest child abusers and | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
stop the trade in obscene images. We have a search warrant! Groggy and | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
confused, a suspect is led away. We do it three to five times a week. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Just a matter of how many tips we get and what we find on the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Internet. What does that tell you about the scale of the problem you | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
are dealing with? It is out of control. But armed raids are only | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
one of the tactics being used to tackle this growing threat. I'm a | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
dad offering my children for sex. It doesn't get any worse than this. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Posing as a paedophile to catch paedophiles. This special agent is | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
online and undercover, offering children for sex to men and women | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
across the world. Including from Britain. It is more than 3000 miles | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
from the hi`tech cybercrime centre in Washington, DC, to this place, a | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
village in rural Dorset. But information from an agent in the US | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
led to a man here called Mark Luscombe. Luscombe had asked the | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
undercover agent to abuse a child live on a webcam. From his home, he | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
sent obscene images as payment. The US passed the evidence to Dorset | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Police. Luscombe was sent to prison for five years. I think we are very | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
grateful they passed the information to UK law enforcement and within 48 | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
hours, we acted on it and we had the offender in custody. In Los Angeles, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
an extraordinary computer programme allows officers to monitor | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
paedophiles across the world. The software has never been filmed here | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
before. Each coloured dot is another possible offender. The software | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
programme that we utilise is capturing information of when images | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
or videos of child abuse are uploaded or traded on this network. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
This is in real`time. This is real time, yes. From what I can see, just | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
above Croydon, there is a red dot. That means there is an individual | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
there who, at this moment, is exchanging images of child sexual | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
abuse. Accessing, yes. The message is clear. International cooperation | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
means there is nowhere to hide. Angus Crawford, BBC News, Los | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
Angeles. Think of space, and you think of NASA or the Kennedy Space | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Centre, but you wouldn't think of the Isle of Man. 45 years since man | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
first walked on the moon, the conquest of space has changed beyond | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
all recognition. Space is more about commerce, and the newest commercial | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
centre for cosmic researchers in the middle of the Irish Sea. We report | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
from the Isle of Man on NASA's new rival. I think there is some real | :17:22. | :17:33. | |
space treasure here. This is fantastic. I've always wanted to see | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
one of these. These Russian`built spacecraft were designed in the | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
1970s. They have proved themselves in space. An American lawyer has | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
bought them with the aim of putting space tourists into orbit. I think | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
these Russians were slightly smaller than me. They would cost upwards of | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
350 million pounds to do it. This has been in space. There is hardly | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
any legroom at all. But I would do it. Even though it's not | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
comfortable, I would bet money and get out there. What I find slightly | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
freaky is I'm sitting in a Russian space capsule in a hangar in the | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Isle of Man. Who would have thought it? It is quite bizarre. These | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
spaceships are part of a space revolution. The Island is 32 miles | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
long, with a population of 85,000 people. But it is prosperous, | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
because it is not part of the EU or the UK, which means it can set low | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
taxes, and give generous government grants. There are 30 space`related | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
companies on the island, including four of the well`stocked satellite | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
organisations. `` world's top satellite organisations. Together | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
with world experts. This builds up to a $300 million a year industry. | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
The island's government has a history of chasing new areas of | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
business. Lovely to see you in the Isle of Man. The space breakthrough | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
came in 2001. We were looking for new things for the Isle of Man to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
do. We have a very successful shipping industry, a very successful | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
aircraft registry, and the government had the vision to get | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
involved in acquiring these things. Satellites sweep around the earth in | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
their own protected area of space. What gives the island and advantage | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
is that satellite operators have two apply for those slots through a | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
country. Even one as tiny as the Isle of Man. All of this reflects | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
the island's attempt to capitalise on what is effectively a third year | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
space. Space exploration started in the 1950s as a competition. A race | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
to be the first into orbit at the first to the moon. By the 1970s, the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
race was over and collaboration was the key. Apollo and other astronauts | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
literally shook hands in space in 1975. In by the 21st century, the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
space station was a multinational project. But it was still dominated | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
by nation states. I believe we are entering the third era of space, an | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
era of commercialisation. We launch more and more satellites every day. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Space tourism is taking off, and the global space industry is booming on | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
the Isle of Man. It looks small`scale, but this company is | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
part of the new era. His team built space optics for NASA's Mars radar. | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
`` Rover. The Isle of Man has links to the International Space | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
University in Strasbourg. 60 of their graduates work on the island. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
The unemployment rate is just 2%. The advantages of the Isle of Man, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
it is a very stable and low`crime environment. If you look around you, | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
there is lots of expensive equipment. We know that we can lock | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
up on Friday or Saturday, and on Monday everything will be in place. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
The Isle of Man 's success brings home the economic opportunities that | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
have been created now space exploration is moving from a state | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
funded model to a commercial business. That is all from Reporters | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
this week, from me and the team, goodbye. | :21:38. | :21:54. | |
Hi there. Most of us had a glorious day with sunshine around on | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
Saturday. Warmest place in the British files was towards | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Southampton, with highs of 25 degrees. Overnight we had thicker | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
cloud across northern Scotland bringing some showers, otherwise | :22:11. | :22:11. |