:00:00. > :00:00.ceremony in the Italian city of Venice. That's it for me. Now on BBC
:00:00. > :00:24.News, Reporters. Welcome to Reporters. I'm Philippa
:00:25. > :00:32.Thomas. From here in the world's newsroom we send out correspondents
:00:33. > :00:36.to bring you the best stories from around the globe. And Iraq's
:00:37. > :00:40.forgotten people. We meet the children who have suffered
:00:41. > :00:45.first`hand the brutality of the Islamic State. Everyday or two men
:00:46. > :00:50.would come in and make us take off our headscarf, so they could take
:00:51. > :00:54.whoever they wanted. Many were raped. They were dragged out of the
:00:55. > :01:01.house by their hair. This rebel camp is in one of the most remote parts
:01:02. > :01:13.of the country. You have to walk the final part. The rebel armies of
:01:14. > :01:19.Myanmar. Jonah Fisher meets one group reluctant to sign a peace
:01:20. > :01:25.deal. Will America's gun laws ever hit their targets? We visit
:01:26. > :01:31.Colorado, the scene of one of the worst mass shootings in the US, to
:01:32. > :01:39.find little has changed. How London's buses went to war. We
:01:40. > :01:44.retraced the roots of these buses in Belgium. In the battlefields of
:01:45. > :01:48.Kabul to the playing fields of reason as the Lions of Afghanistan
:01:49. > :01:54.face the Lions of England. Then Walker joins the Afghan football
:01:55. > :02:06.team on tour. It is a big dream, a big achievement for us. They fled
:02:07. > :02:12.their homes from the butchery of Islamic State in their thousands.
:02:13. > :02:16.But Iraq's minority Yazidi community are still facing the horrors of the
:02:17. > :02:21.group's network of terror. As the West wages it airstrikes against the
:02:22. > :02:25.group, there is evidence it is now using rape as a weapon of war. The
:02:26. > :02:31.BBC has been told that Islamic State has captured more than 3000 Yazidi
:02:32. > :02:35.children and is trafficking them for sex. We meet some of the women who
:02:36. > :02:47.escaped. Suffering and alone, tens of thousands from Iraq's Yazidi
:02:48. > :02:50.minority are homeless. They know the full horrors of Islamic State, after
:02:51. > :02:55.fighters forced them off their land last month. But the worst fate was
:02:56. > :02:58.for those who fell into IS hands. This man and his sons tried to
:02:59. > :03:03.defend their village against the heavily armed militants. They bought
:03:04. > :03:07.valuable time for others to escape. But they couldn't help his married
:03:08. > :03:16.daughter. She was held captive with other women and girls, and she is
:03:17. > :03:20.haunted by what she went through. TRANSLATION: Every day or two men
:03:21. > :03:27.would come in and make us take off our headscarves so they could choose
:03:28. > :03:31.which one of us they wanted. Many were raped. They were dragged out of
:03:32. > :03:36.the house by their hair. We don't know what became of them. She is one
:03:37. > :03:44.of the very few who managed to escape. When Yazidi people fled in
:03:45. > :03:52.early August, they were stranded on the barren slopes of Mount Sinjar.
:03:53. > :04:00.When help finally arrived, they were desperate. And now the Yazidi are
:04:01. > :04:10.asking for support to bring back their missing loved ones. Families
:04:11. > :04:13.have drawn up lists of those they're searching for. Human rights
:04:14. > :04:18.activists know of over 5,000 men, women and children who were taken.
:04:19. > :04:21.This young woman was tortured and starved. She got away during
:04:22. > :04:28.airstrikes targeting IS, and walked for three days to find safety.
:04:29. > :04:34.TRANSLATION: They sell girls as young as nine. Some men bought many
:04:35. > :04:37.at once. Two of my friends hanged themselves from the ceiling fans,
:04:38. > :04:47.and one slit her wrists rather than be sold for sex. And that is too
:04:48. > :04:50.much for her aunt to bear. Her other two daughters are still missing.
:04:51. > :05:05.TRANSLATION: They took all our girls. It's all we care about. The
:05:06. > :05:09.world must help us. Islamic State fighters are trading in people.
:05:10. > :05:14.Young girls are treated as spoils of war, and scattered across the
:05:15. > :05:18.region. Families here worry that if they're not found soon, they may
:05:19. > :05:29.never see them again. Yolande Knell, BBC News, Northern Iraq. From the
:05:30. > :05:36.horrors of Iraq's civil war to hopes of peace in Myanmar. After 65 years
:05:37. > :05:38.of civil war and ethnic conflict, a nationwide ceasefire agreement is
:05:39. > :05:42.closer than it has ever been. The result of three years of
:05:43. > :05:46.negotiations between the government and 16 different armed groups. But
:05:47. > :05:49.not everyone is keen to sign up. Jonah Fisher has been to the
:05:50. > :05:53.mountains of northern Myanmar to meet one of the groups most
:05:54. > :05:57.reluctant to accept that peace deal. To avoid the Burmese army, this
:05:58. > :06:00.rebel camp is in one of the most remote parts of the jungle here, in
:06:01. > :06:03.the northern part of Shan state. In order to get there, you have to
:06:04. > :06:07.travel on the back of motorbikes along awful dirt tracks like this
:06:08. > :06:17.one, and then walk the final part into the camp. This is entrance to
:06:18. > :06:25.the training camp of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, or the
:06:26. > :06:30.TNLA. Like all of Myanmar's minority ethnic groups, the Ta'angs have long
:06:31. > :06:38.wanted control of their own affairs. Under a military dictatorship, that
:06:39. > :06:44.is a nonstarter. So for as long as anyone can remember, there have been
:06:45. > :06:47.Burmese rebel uprisings. Many of the fighters, like Miy Naw Tamai,
:06:48. > :06:53.decided to join up after tasting army brutality first`hand.
:06:54. > :07:01.TRANSLATION: The TNLA came to our village to carry out drug
:07:02. > :07:11.eradication. And then the Bouwmeester army arrived and they
:07:12. > :07:14.fought. `` Burmese army. The villagers ran away, and the Burmese
:07:15. > :07:17.soldiers broke into our houses and took everything they could ` even
:07:18. > :07:20.small amounts of money. The rebels are no Saints themselves. They admit
:07:21. > :07:22.forcibly recruiting local villagers, and we see new fighters being
:07:23. > :07:25.trained who are clearly children, not men. Over time, most of
:07:26. > :07:29.Myanmar's ethnic conflicts have ground to a halt. But there are
:07:30. > :07:40.still regular clashes with the army near here. I am told that in July,
:07:41. > :07:44.four Ta'angs were killed, and 28 soldiers. TRANSLATION: When the old
:07:45. > :07:46.Ta'ang rebel group made a ceasefire agreement in 1991, nothing was
:07:47. > :07:59.formalised about what would happen next. So things dragged on until the
:08:00. > :08:02.Burmese army disbanded them in 2005. We formed the TNLA because we'd
:08:03. > :08:09.learnt that each ethnic group needed its own army. Ten, 11, 12. So this
:08:10. > :08:14.is 13 bags of opium. This table is covered with drugs the rebels have
:08:15. > :08:18.confiscated in the last few months. The region is awash with opium and
:08:19. > :08:33.methamphetamine. And the Ta'angs blame both the Burmese army and the
:08:34. > :08:34.militia. The Burmese government says the signing of a national ceasefire
:08:35. > :08:41.will lead on to talks heard it all before. They, and
:08:42. > :08:59.Myanmar's other ethnic armed groups, still have to be convinced that the
:09:00. > :09:02.times really are a`changin'. Malta's Prime Minister has called it
:09:03. > :09:06.an act of mass murder. Hundreds of asylum seekers were killed last week
:09:07. > :09:11.after the vote sank off the Maltese coast. Now two Palestinian survivors
:09:12. > :09:14.have told the BBC that they saw people smugglers deliberately rammed
:09:15. > :09:20.the boats then attack those who clung to the sides of the vessels.
:09:21. > :09:25.Peter Hunt has been to see some of the survivors and heard their
:09:26. > :09:30.stories. This is detention centre, not a dream destination. It is where
:09:31. > :09:36.those rescued off the sea of Malta can end up. And despite the trauma
:09:37. > :09:40.of an uncertain future they are fortunate. Thousands have died in
:09:41. > :09:44.unset and overcrowded vessels. The BBC it was allowed to meet three
:09:45. > :09:48.survivors of what has been called mass murder. A crime the UN says
:09:49. > :09:59.cannot go unpunished. Earlier this month, these men paid smugglers,
:10:00. > :10:02.left Gaza, boarded a boat in Egypt and in the Mediterranean were
:10:03. > :10:13.ordered to switch into a smaller boat. When the captain refused to
:10:14. > :10:20.stop, the smugglers rammed their boat. Around 150 people below deck
:10:21. > :10:25.drowned straightaway. TRANSLATION: When someone tried to cling to the
:10:26. > :10:32.boat, they hacked at his hands with a knife. They also, these men say,
:10:33. > :10:36.laughed as the boat went down. This grim account of lives lost at sea
:10:37. > :10:39.has been backed up of a handful of other survivors in Greece and Italy.
:10:40. > :10:45.What they say happened has been judged to be credible by the UN and
:10:46. > :10:50.by the Maltese government. Day in, day out, the end, you out, the
:10:51. > :10:54.Maltese military is having to rescue migrants from the inhospitable sea.
:10:55. > :10:56.The government and Malta want a Europewide response to people
:10:57. > :11:02.smuggling following this tragedy. That is something you
:11:03. > :11:08.wouldn't even imagine, let alone in real life. It is happening. It is
:11:09. > :11:16.happening each and every week. This is murder at sea. It is. Definitely.
:11:17. > :11:18.Of the worst kind. Those fleeing unrest and seeking a different life
:11:19. > :11:24.in Europe come from North Africa and the Middle East. Their numbers are
:11:25. > :11:31.rising and experts in the field say it is a toxic issue for politicians
:11:32. > :11:34.to resolve. Ultimately asylum seekers and other force migrants
:11:35. > :11:37.aren't citizens. They don't get a vote. So there is a lot of
:11:38. > :11:42.resistance within EU states to address this horror. Back at the
:11:43. > :11:46.detention centre where their freedom is on hold, those who cheated death
:11:47. > :11:51.at the hands of smugglers live with the horror of what they witnessed
:11:52. > :12:02.while hoping for something better. I want to live. I want to live my
:12:03. > :12:10.life. I want to go to Sweden. I have some of my family there. I want to
:12:11. > :12:26.go and study, work, help my family, in Gaza. We have no home their. ``
:12:27. > :12:29.there. Just, I want to live. Idyllic for holidaymakers, the Mediterranean
:12:30. > :12:34.Sea is proving treacherous for those seeking century. There are more
:12:35. > :12:42.migrants, more deaths, and no easy solutions on the horizon.
:12:43. > :12:48.A study by the FBI released this week confirmed that the number of
:12:49. > :12:51.people killed in mass shootings in the US has risen dramatically in
:12:52. > :12:57.recent years. The study came in the wake of the sandy hooks shooting in
:12:58. > :13:03.Connecticut. This prompted President Obama to call for tougher gun
:13:04. > :13:08.controls. `` Sandy Hook. There has now been a ban on some weapons in
:13:09. > :13:15.Colorado but the law isn't being enforced by police and most voters
:13:16. > :13:25.don't care about the issue. This would be my GOTO gun if things
:13:26. > :13:29.got really bad. If we think that reducing the number of rounds in a
:13:30. > :13:38.magazine will change anything, we are fooling ourselves. He was
:13:39. > :13:42.watching the movie one second, the next second he was dead. It was all
:13:43. > :13:53.over in 72 seconds. It makes a difference.
:13:54. > :14:02.People corrupted them, `` grew up with them, those are good stories. I
:14:03. > :14:06.don't have a good story. My son didn't come out of the movie theatre
:14:07. > :14:14.because of the availability of the weapons out there. The changes came
:14:15. > :14:18.last year. Colorado politicians passed a law banning the future sale
:14:19. > :14:30.of ammunition magazines of more than 15 rounds. I just grew up this way.
:14:31. > :14:34.I can have horses, I can shoot, I can let the dogs run out in the
:14:35. > :14:37.backyard. It gives me the freedom I like. As a law`abiding citizen, I
:14:38. > :14:42.should have as many rounds as it takes. This is what sits next to my
:14:43. > :14:46.bed at night for self`defence. It does not seem like anyone is going
:14:47. > :14:55.to come over these hills for you to have to use this gun. Probably not.
:14:56. > :15:02.But if somebody did come out here to do me harm, I'm 30 minutes away from
:15:03. > :15:05.police response. Criminals end up with weapons and so I think a member
:15:06. > :15:11.of the public should at least have the same ability to protect
:15:12. > :15:15.themselves. The county sheriff of Colorado tried and failed to
:15:16. > :15:18.overturn the law in court. They argue that the law is impossible to
:15:19. > :15:22.enforce because so many magazines are already in circulation. Worse,
:15:23. > :15:28.they can also be purchased legally in neighbouring states. My deputies
:15:29. > :15:32.can pull over an individual in a car with a box of 100 of those magazines
:15:33. > :15:36.in the back seat but there's no way to prove that they had them before
:15:37. > :15:39.the 1st of July 2013 or if they bought them afterwards. The reality
:15:40. > :15:47.is that we have other things that we have to do rather than chasing after
:15:48. > :15:49.law`abiding gun owners. In the aftermath of Aurora, gun control
:15:50. > :15:57.campaigners hoped Colorado would lead the way. It is now clear that
:15:58. > :16:04.the state's enduring love affair with guns is set to go on.
:16:05. > :16:12.Many people would recognise the Web double`decker bus as a symbol of
:16:13. > :16:18.London. `` red. What's less well`known is were used as carriers
:16:19. > :16:22.in the First World War. Only a handful survived but one of them is
:16:23. > :16:28.back on the road in Belgium. Robert Holt jumped onboard the bus
:16:29. > :16:31.to retrace its journey. `` Hall. Under the arch of Ypres' Menin Gate,
:16:32. > :16:35.the evening remembrance ceremony draws to a close. On the pavements,
:16:36. > :16:41.heads turn to watch a visitor from the wartime years. Rumbling over the
:16:42. > :16:55.cobbles for the first time in a century. The B`type bus was a
:16:56. > :16:59.regular sight on London streets. In 1914, it was recruited for the war
:17:00. > :17:04.effort. More than 1,000 were sent to France. This is one of only four
:17:05. > :17:07.which survived. About 1,000 buses and each bus could carry about 25
:17:08. > :17:18.soldiers, compared to 34 London passengers. So, 25 soldiers in each
:17:19. > :17:21.bus being ferried in, to and from locations, day in, day out.
:17:22. > :17:24.Obviously quite a sizeable number of troops. This bus, like those before
:17:25. > :17:27.it, has been transformed. Windows boarded up, gloss paint and brass,
:17:28. > :17:30.smothered in regulation khaki. Going to war was a hazardous business for
:17:31. > :17:32.the buses, which struggled on narrow, muddy lanes, and for
:17:33. > :17:41.volunteer drivers, who found themselves under fire. This is the
:17:42. > :18:08.voice of the late George Gwynn. We'd like, through that personal
:18:09. > :18:12.story of London busmen volunteering, bringing their buses to the front,
:18:13. > :18:17.to open up a fresh insight into the nature of the First World War.
:18:18. > :18:24.Eventually, this war veteran will regain its civilian splendour. But,
:18:25. > :18:26.for now, its sight and its sound provide a new way for locals and
:18:27. > :18:41.visitors to reconnect with the past. It's a sign of Afghanistan's return
:18:42. > :18:45.to normality after decades of war but football fever has gripped the
:18:46. > :18:52.nation. The country now has its own Premier League, which kicked off
:18:53. > :18:54.this year. And the Lions of Afghanistan got a chance to meet
:18:55. > :19:05.with the English national side last week.
:19:06. > :19:07.The Afghans and military guys are enthusiastic and they love the game
:19:08. > :19:30.as much as we do. We thought we can make it and be
:19:31. > :19:43.built to our best for Afghanistan. `` we will do our best. Now, 4500
:19:44. > :19:47.miles west, the English and Afghan FAs are reunited at St George is
:19:48. > :19:53.part. It's great to keep the promises and invite the Afghan FA.
:19:54. > :19:56.They look a little bit starstruck, in such a great venue, so it's great
:19:57. > :20:04.to welcome them into our own backyard. It's lovely to see. It
:20:05. > :20:08.seems such a long time ago we met in Afghanistan. How have things
:20:09. > :20:14.changed? Now, in every corner of Afghanistan, even in places where
:20:15. > :20:21.the security is very bad, kids are playing football. I know you are a
:20:22. > :20:25.big Manchester fan. I imagine Rooney is one of your favourites? It's a
:20:26. > :20:32.dream come true, for such a small country. It is a big dream and a big
:20:33. > :20:38.achievement for us. Especially Rooney.
:20:39. > :20:45.It's not easy to form an essay and former real structure in football
:20:46. > :20:53.and certainly even harder in a place like Afghanistan. `` form a FA. All
:20:54. > :20:57.of what we have seen so far, we learnt a lot and we can take a lot
:20:58. > :21:04.of ideas, which encourages us to do more for the development of football
:21:05. > :21:07.in Afghanistan. It's a long road that they are `` that they will be
:21:08. > :21:12.on but they have the appetite and enthusiasm. What is the one thing
:21:13. > :21:16.you will remember and tell your friends and family about when you go
:21:17. > :21:20.back to Afghanistan? Everything is a dream come true. We will never
:21:21. > :21:24.forget the first day we met the Prime Minister, we went to Wembley
:21:25. > :21:34.and today we are here. Everything is unbelievable. Dan walker with the
:21:35. > :21:57.Lions of Afghanistan. That's all for this week. Goodbye for now.
:21:58. > :22:01.Temperatures reached 22 degrees on Saturday afternoon. It will be
:22:02. > :22:06.warmer than that for Sunday. We could see highs of 24. Before we get
:22:07. > :22:08.there, through the night, a few mist and fog that is developing across