:00:00. > :00:00.Calais. More than 1,000 paratroopers have made parachute jumps to mark
:00:00. > :00:00.the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem in World War Two. Now on
:00:00. > :00:26.BBC News, it's time for Reporters. Welcome to Reporters. From here in
:00:27. > :00:32.the world's newsroom, we send out correspondence to find the best
:00:33. > :00:37.stories. In this week 's programme, on the frontline against Islamic
:00:38. > :00:46.State. Jim and new joints Kurdish forces advancing in Iraq. `` Jim
:00:47. > :00:53.Muir. Regaining the ground that they lost is proving a difficult job. The
:00:54. > :00:58.BBC Moscow team investigates in Ukraine and their equipment was
:00:59. > :01:09.tampered with. Someone cleaned the hard drive from my computer. Caught
:01:10. > :01:15.on camera. Andrew Hardy asks whether putting the Oscar Pistorius trial on
:01:16. > :01:18.TV turns it into a media circus. It may well have been in the public
:01:19. > :01:32.interest for all of this to be televised. What about Justice? Is
:01:33. > :01:38.this the source of a deadly virus. We travelled to Saudi Arabia. There
:01:39. > :01:45.is believed to be a strong link between camels, antivirus, but it is
:01:46. > :01:52.not clear how it jumps to humans. The bright lights of Atlantic City.
:01:53. > :01:58.Nick Bryant visits the real`life Boardwalk Empire. He finds there are
:01:59. > :02:06.too many casinos are not enough numbers. And the man who gave up
:02:07. > :02:10.everything to found Pakistan's biggest private welfare
:02:11. > :02:13.organisation. It is everyone's responsibility to take care of
:02:14. > :02:20.others. That is what being human means. They are the frontline on the
:02:21. > :02:36.ground against what has been called the biggest terrorist threat facing
:02:37. > :02:47.the world. Kurdish troops are trying to regain the town of Mosul. Jim
:02:48. > :02:52.Muir Centre for the story. To the skies of northern Iraq at dawn,
:02:53. > :02:58.American jets providing air cover for the latest offensive against I
:02:59. > :03:06.guess. Down below, Kurdish forces prepare for action. American dreams
:03:07. > :03:15.were also upset, but this time they and the jets were just keeping
:03:16. > :03:25.watch. `` drones were also up there. On the ground, the firepower was
:03:26. > :03:38.coming from the Kurds. This is the objective. A village on the plain
:03:39. > :03:41.leading to Mosul. Kurdish forces advanced moving beyond their old
:03:42. > :03:47.lines. Be prepared to move on the village after the bombardment. From
:03:48. > :03:52.this position, you can see how it works. Americans in the sky are
:03:53. > :03:56.providing reconnaissance and airstrikes in some situations.
:03:57. > :04:01.Kurdish forces on the ground bombarded with rockets. Despite that
:04:02. > :04:07.of the ground forces preparing to move in, regaining the ground they
:04:08. > :04:14.lost so swiftly to the Islamic State is a difficult job. On the other
:04:15. > :04:21.side of Mosul, Kurdish forces are pushing forward. They recaptured the
:04:22. > :04:26.nearby Mosul down nearly a month ago. Pushing forward has been
:04:27. > :04:32.painful. The militants have a good technique, he says. They disappear
:04:33. > :04:36.and launch surprise attacks and they leave many forms behind, so we have
:04:37. > :04:42.to be careful. It takes a lot of information and planning to drive
:04:43. > :04:47.them out. Another victim of the IS incursion, coexistence between
:04:48. > :05:00.Iraq's communities. This village was abandoned and partly demolished by
:05:01. > :05:04.the Kurds for retribution. This man was suspected of working with the
:05:05. > :05:15.militants. The other side of the coin. Thousands of Yazidis from
:05:16. > :05:21.Sinjar. They were driven out by IS. The day may never come when they are
:05:22. > :05:27.able to go home. Back on the front, the Kurds keep up the attack. The
:05:28. > :05:39.progress the image shows how hard it will be to eliminate the rest of the
:05:40. > :05:45.militants. The official line from Moscow is that none of their forces
:05:46. > :05:52.are involved in Ukraine, unless they go on holiday. When our team went to
:05:53. > :05:56.investigate, our team was beaten up and the camera was smashed. It is
:05:57. > :06:03.not clear who was behind the attack, at the BBC has launched a protest.
:06:04. > :06:06.Steve Rosenberg reports. This woman tells me about the brother she calls
:06:07. > :06:30.a Russian hero. he was going away he sounded kind of
:06:31. > :06:33.scared. He said, I will be heading south`west. I did not understand. To
:06:34. > :06:36.south`west Ukraine, he said. I thought, he meant the Ukrainian
:06:37. > :06:39.border, stay safe, I told him. Three weeks later her brother was dead.
:06:40. > :06:42.Killed by an artillery shell from Ukraine, one official said. Another
:06:43. > :06:45.claimed he'd died while doing military exercises.
:06:46. > :06:51.TRANSLATION: I asked that official, do you believe what you're telling
:06:52. > :07:00.me? No, he said. So why are you telling me this, I said. I just want
:07:01. > :07:02.to understand how my brother was killed.
:07:03. > :07:06.Perhaps not everyone here is keen on the truth. Later that day, we were
:07:07. > :07:09.attacked by at least three men as we were getting into our car. They hit
:07:10. > :07:15.our cameraman, smashed the camera and drove off with it. We did not
:07:16. > :07:18.expect our day to end here in the hospital. We are here because our
:07:19. > :07:24.cameraman is having X`rays and is being checked out. Someone clearly
:07:25. > :07:31.did not want to see our material broadcast. After four hours of
:07:32. > :07:34.questioning at the police station, back in the car we realised our
:07:35. > :07:38.equipment had been tampered with. Someone has cleaned the hard drive
:07:39. > :07:43.on my computer. Luckily we had made copies of the
:07:44. > :07:48.material. State`controlled media admits Russian soldiers have been
:07:49. > :07:51.killed in Ukraine. But Russian TV portrays them as volunteers who have
:07:52. > :07:58.taken leave of absence to go and fight.
:07:59. > :08:01.Those independent Russian journalists brave enough to conduct
:08:02. > :08:11.their own investigations face threats and intimidation.
:08:12. > :08:25.TRANSLATION: They say there is no war. They say our soldiers are not
:08:26. > :08:29.involved. So who is to blame for his death? How did this happen? I am
:08:30. > :08:39.tortured by this question. It is a simple question, all she wants is an
:08:40. > :08:45.answer. The Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been one of the most
:08:46. > :08:50.watched in history. Was it right to allow the cameras into the
:08:51. > :09:01.courtroom? Was it prejudicial or simply a spectacle? Aalborg has been
:09:02. > :09:08.trying to find out. `` our reporter. A trial or a circus? The world's
:09:09. > :09:14.media outside and cameras inside and what proves to be one of the most
:09:15. > :09:21.watched courtrooms in history. There is even a 24`hour Oscar channel. The
:09:22. > :09:26.South African authorities were keen to show the public justice at work.
:09:27. > :09:30.I think it got people talking and interested in the judicial process.
:09:31. > :09:37.Has it got all South Africans interested? Probably not. It is
:09:38. > :09:40.interested those who have access to the various mediums of
:09:41. > :09:50.communication. That's not true of all of South Africa. I
:09:51. > :10:00.I am satisfied so far. I think that justice has been done. An ordinary
:10:01. > :10:05.person would not have been put on television. It gives you an interest
:10:06. > :10:16.in justice. It may not have been in the public interest for this to be
:10:17. > :10:23.televised, but what about the legal team? We were not able to call a
:10:24. > :10:26.number of witnesses. The legal team of Oscar Pistorius said they were
:10:27. > :10:31.not able to call some witnesses because they were scared off. The
:10:32. > :10:34.judge said that some of the witnesses were influenced by
:10:35. > :10:39.watching the trial on television. The fact that this created much
:10:40. > :10:44.media attention, especially soon after the incident and the fact that
:10:45. > :10:49.it became a topic in many homes did not help. This is a claim much
:10:50. > :10:57.discussed at this middle`class in Johannesburg. Students analysing the
:10:58. > :11:03.case and the coverage blow by blow. No other person is having their
:11:04. > :11:10.trial televised. It puts a strain on any witness. They may well... His
:11:11. > :11:16.defence team may well point to this in applying for an appeal, if indeed
:11:17. > :11:24.he is convicted. You know that the same thing happened to Reeva's head.
:11:25. > :11:28.It exploded. The trial has made for some good viewing, or bad or worse.
:11:29. > :11:35.In South Africans have been that justice system at very near its
:11:36. > :11:36.best. How many other courts will follow suit and allow in the
:11:37. > :11:53.cameras? Mystery virus with no known cure is
:11:54. > :12:00.spreading fast. What a cases have been found in many parts of the
:12:01. > :12:04.Middle East and northern Africa. Usually after travel through Saudi
:12:05. > :12:10.Arabia. Officials are doing all they can to avoid an outbreak of the
:12:11. > :12:14.disease in Mecca, where more than 2 million people are expected to
:12:15. > :12:18.attend. Is this the key source of the deadly
:12:19. > :12:21.MERS virus? Camels are prime suspects for passing the disease to
:12:22. > :12:31.humans which is why health officials are taking samples from these prized
:12:32. > :12:34.animals. There is believed to be a strong link between camels and the
:12:35. > :12:43.virus but very little is known about how it jumped from animals to humans
:12:44. > :12:46.and that is worrying scientists. The virus is fairly harmless in the
:12:47. > :12:49.animals but in humans it can cause pneumonia and kidney failure,
:12:50. > :13:01.killing nearly a third of those infected. But the real problem began
:13:02. > :13:03.when patients ended up here. Poor infection control measures in
:13:04. > :13:08.hospitals like this one meant that when a MERS patient arrived, the
:13:09. > :13:10.virus spread quickly. Doctors admit that staff were not washing their
:13:11. > :13:22.hands between patients or wearing masks properly which means they were
:13:23. > :13:25.helping to pass the virus on. It wasn't until a year and a half into
:13:26. > :13:28.the outbreak when the King sacked his health minister over his
:13:29. > :13:34.handling of the crisis that things began to change. Now hundreds of
:13:35. > :13:37.hospital staff are trained in infection control and the number of
:13:38. > :13:41.MERS patients have fallen dramatically from hundreds in the
:13:42. > :13:44.spring to very sporadic cases now. Deep breathing for one minute. But
:13:45. > :13:53.still relatively little is known about MERS. The government has
:13:54. > :14:04.advised people to wear protective gear when handling camels especially
:14:05. > :14:13.if they are sick. But at this market, we did not see anyone taking
:14:14. > :14:20.much notice. We have intense overcrowding. This is an excellent
:14:21. > :14:23.medium for the virus to spread. But the government is reassuring
:14:24. > :14:32.pilgrims. MERS is not an issue in Saudi Arabia. We do our best and we
:14:33. > :14:35.are continuing to do all we can do to have a safe Hajj for all our
:14:36. > :14:38.guests. The outbreak may be under control for now but the World Health
:14:39. > :14:49.Organization says the situation continues to be a public health
:14:50. > :14:54.concern. It's a gambler's paradise, with too
:14:55. > :14:59.many casinos and not enough gamblers. For decades, Atlantic City
:15:00. > :15:02.was the east coast's Ansett to Las Vegas but over the past eight years
:15:03. > :15:08.revenues have halved, forcing a third of the casinos to close their
:15:09. > :15:10.doors. Nick Bryant travelled to New Jersey to find out if the bright
:15:11. > :15:13.lights of Atlantic City are fading for good.
:15:14. > :15:16.Atlantic City once called itself America's playground. The problem is
:15:17. > :15:27.that not so many Americans are coming here to play. This was the
:15:28. > :15:31.scene at one of the venues, the Trump Plaza. It became the latest
:15:32. > :15:35.casino to shut its doors. Ruth Hardrick was one of the thousand
:15:36. > :15:42.workers laid off. She had been a card dealer for 26 years. 26 good
:15:43. > :15:45.years. Most of it was good. The last couple of years, a little
:15:46. > :15:50.nerve`racking, but I stayed because I was happy here and it was a good
:15:51. > :15:53.house for a while. End of an era. Yeah. Along stretches of the famed
:15:54. > :15:58.boardwalk, dancing neon has been replaced by funereal black. Over the
:15:59. > :16:01.last eight years, casino revenues have plummeted by nearly 50% and one
:16:02. > :16:09.third of the casinos are shrouded in darkness. Atlantic City once enjoyed
:16:10. > :16:11.a casino monopoly not only here on the north`eastern seaboard of
:16:12. > :16:17.America, but east of the Mississippi River. Neighbouring states like New
:16:18. > :16:24.York and Pennsylvania have relaxed the gambling laws and that's
:16:25. > :16:30.saturated the market. There are too many casinos and not enough
:16:31. > :16:33.gamblers. It's been agonising to watch for Donald Trump who, 30 years
:16:34. > :16:38.ago, saw Atlantic City as a rival for Las Vegas. More recently, he has
:16:39. > :16:45.distanced himself from the casinos that bear his name. Casinos are
:16:46. > :16:48.opening all over the east coast and in the end they will cannibalise and
:16:49. > :16:53.kill themselves. It's sad for Atlantic City, because I know so
:16:54. > :16:57.many people there. To this day. They are wonderful people. Now, they
:16:58. > :17:04.don't have jobs, so it's a very sad thing. But, to say that Atlantic
:17:05. > :17:06.City is dying would be to compose a premature obituary. The good times
:17:07. > :17:14.continue rolling at this upmarket casino that has just enjoyed a
:17:15. > :17:16.record`breaking August. Even the most pessimistic forecasts have
:17:17. > :17:23.Atlantic City at a $2 billion market, the third biggest in the US.
:17:24. > :17:34.But it isn't dying, it is changing dramatically.
:17:35. > :17:36.be made by casinos offering more than just gambling, like shows and
:17:37. > :17:38.good food. More famous names are likely to go. And, more employees
:17:39. > :17:56.will make this lonely walk. 60 years ago, Adbul Sattar Edhi gave
:17:57. > :17:58.up everything to dedicate his life to improving the lives of
:17:59. > :18:04.Pakistan's poor. Now his charities the country's biggest welfare
:18:05. > :18:08.organisation, running schools, hospitals, ambulance services. He
:18:09. > :18:12.has also set up homes around the country which are believed to have
:18:13. > :18:16.rescued 50,000 orphaned Pakistani children. 'Glee' bull went to
:18:17. > :18:29.Karachi to meet the man many see as a living state. `` Aleem Maqbool.
:18:30. > :18:32.The emergency services have a tough, often dangerous time here, but for
:18:33. > :18:35.the most part, it's not the Pakistani state that fund them. Most
:18:36. > :18:38.ambulances bear the name of the extraordinary man behind them, Edhi.
:18:39. > :18:43.Now, nearly 90, Adbul Sattar Edhi is perhaps Pakistan's most
:18:44. > :18:47.well`respected figure. For some, he's nothing less than a saint. For
:18:48. > :18:53.the last 60 years, he has dedicated his life to helping others.
:18:54. > :18:59.TRANSLATION: Simplicity, honesty, hard work and punctuality is key to
:19:00. > :19:04.our success. It is everyone's responsibility to care of others.
:19:05. > :19:14.That's what being human means. If more people thought that way, so
:19:15. > :19:15.many problems could be solved. The foundation he started is now one of
:19:16. > :19:19.the biggest welfare anywhere in the world, involved in
:19:20. > :19:27.an impressive array of charitable work. As well as the ambulances,
:19:28. > :19:27.there is one more thing that really does symbolise the foundation run by
:19:28. > :19:31.cradles left up and down this country for Pakistan's unwanted
:19:32. > :19:49.babies. helped around 50,000 Pakistani
:19:50. > :19:55.orphans like these. It's work Adbul Sattar Edhi started with his
:19:56. > :19:58.greatest supporter, his wife. But there was opposition to the
:19:59. > :20:04.orphanages from religious hardliners. TRANSLATION: We used to
:20:05. > :20:06.find a lot of dead babies left in gutters and rubbish dumps, so Edhi
:20:07. > :20:14.said, we will have cradles for people to leave them in. But,
:20:15. > :20:17.extremists said that, by looking after the children, we were
:20:18. > :20:26.encouraging people to have babies outside of marriage. We had so many
:20:27. > :20:30.threats. We still do today. But the Edhis persevere, and many of the
:20:31. > :20:35.children they saved go on to help others. This man doesn't know who
:20:36. > :20:38.left him at the orphanage as a child, but he now works for the
:20:39. > :20:41.charity himself. TRANSLATION: Maybe, without Mr Edhi, you would find kids
:20:42. > :20:49.on every street corner, picking up rubbish. They have given us so much
:20:50. > :20:57.support. If, God forbid, he wasn't around, I wouldn't have been
:20:58. > :21:00.standing in front of you today. Together, the Edhis have won acclaim
:21:01. > :21:03.for their women's refuges, food kitchens, clinics for the mentally
:21:04. > :21:11.ill and their training of tens of thousands of nurses. Adbul Sattar
:21:12. > :21:17.Edhi is becoming more frail, but his passion for humanitarian work is
:21:18. > :21:18.undimmed. His legacy as one of the greatest Pakistanis to have ever
:21:19. > :21:29.lived is already assured. That's all from Reporters for this
:21:30. > :21:53.week. Goodbye for now. We have had quite a mixture of
:21:54. > :21:57.conditions up and down the UK recently. Some places have been
:21:58. > :22:03.relentlessly grey, others humid, with under storms. Today, most of us
:22:04. > :22:09.in the same boat. Sunshine and it will feel pretty fresh. A lovely day
:22:10. > :22:13.to be out and about. A couple of showers close to eastern coastal
:22:14. > :22:14.areas but there won't be many of those and they will fade with