:00:00. > :00:07.Twickenham in the Rugby World Cup vinyl. The scorers currently 3-3.
:00:08. > :00:21.Now on BBC News it is time the Reporters.
:00:22. > :00:29.Hello and welcome to Reporters. We send out correspondents to bring you
:00:30. > :00:36.the best stories from across the globe. 23 years in jail for a murder
:00:37. > :00:40.that another man was convicted of. A report on what could be one of
:00:41. > :00:48.America's worst miscarriages of justice in decades. Can you feel
:00:49. > :00:55.confident Robert Jones played no part in the murder of Julie Stott?
:00:56. > :01:00.Oh, yes. These war games are designed not
:01:01. > :01:06.just to test the battle readiness of the troop is. It is also testing how
:01:07. > :01:16.well different nationalities are able to communicate and coordinate.
:01:17. > :01:19.We slept here. Sarah Ransome to meet the Syrian refugee family who have
:01:20. > :01:27.been stuck at a Moscow Airport for six weeks. The real James Bond, the
:01:28. > :01:32.latest 007 film premiers in London and Frank Gardner talks exclusively
:01:33. > :01:42.to MI6 spies about leading a double life. You have a secret, something
:01:43. > :01:45.you can't tell anyone. And Jane O'Brien reports from women's
:01:46. > :01:53.voices, a festival in Washington trying to bridge the gender gap in
:01:54. > :01:59.American theatre. If we keep seeing the same play from the same point of
:02:00. > :02:04.view, we are going to die. It has been called one of America's
:02:05. > :02:17.worst racially inspired miscarriages of justice in decades. An
:02:18. > :02:22.African-American man has been in prison for 23 years for the rape and
:02:23. > :02:31.murder of Julie Stott in New Orleans in 1992. The courts later found her
:02:32. > :02:48.guilty -- another man guilty, but Robert Jones is still behind bars.
:02:49. > :03:07.Julie Stott was shot in the head and died when walking with fiance.
:03:08. > :03:19.Police brought in Robert Jones, a night senior roles. The murder of
:03:20. > :03:24.Julie Stott was part of a crime spree that was happening here in the
:03:25. > :03:27.city's French Quarter at the time. Robberies, rape and killing, and in
:03:28. > :03:36.each case, there were similar descriptions of the car that was
:03:37. > :03:43.used and the attacker, but an early indication was that the crime spree
:03:44. > :03:53.continued. This man, Lester Jones, no relation to Robert, was arrested
:03:54. > :03:56.and the crime spree ended. Lester Jones was later convicted of Julie
:03:57. > :04:02.Stott's murder, but Robert Jones was never released. The murdered tech
:04:03. > :04:15.tiff from the time was shot years later to find two men were serving
:04:16. > :04:19.time for the same killing. We always felt as though there was only one
:04:20. > :04:25.person involved in a murder, and that was Lester, because everything
:04:26. > :04:29.tied to him. Can you feel confident that Robert Jones played no part in
:04:30. > :04:35.the murder of Julie Stott? I believe that to this day.
:04:36. > :04:37.In a trial that lasted less than ten hours, crucial evidence was
:04:38. > :04:43.withheld, and Robert was convicted of several of the crimes in the
:04:44. > :04:46.spree, including rape for which he got a life sentence, and the killing
:04:47. > :04:52.someone else had already gone to prison for. He has been behind bars
:04:53. > :05:02.ever since. Do you remember the moment the verdict was announced? I
:05:03. > :05:26.felt like I died in that moment. I thought, it can't be true. At this
:05:27. > :05:33.time, the state seems to be trying to get young black men jailed. The
:05:34. > :05:38.way we used to look at it, if he didn't do it this time, he has got
:05:39. > :05:42.away with doing something else. And therefore his punishment is not
:05:43. > :05:47.justified for this particular act, but for other things he did and got
:05:48. > :05:50.away with. The district attorney, who has the power to dismiss the
:05:51. > :05:56.case of Robert Jones today, says he is trying to correct the wrongs of
:05:57. > :05:59.the past. The reputation of this office traditionally has been
:06:00. > :06:04.stained. There is no question about that. There is no question that
:06:05. > :06:09.there have been cases. This is not the only case, there have been other
:06:10. > :06:14.cases where prosecutors either intentionally or negligently
:06:15. > :06:21.withheld evidence. So I don't think there is a question about that. The
:06:22. > :06:25.best I can do is let's move forward. So long after the murder of Julie
:06:26. > :06:30.Stott, Robert Jones is still waiting for news she can walk free. Many now
:06:31. > :06:41.feel every new day he is denied his freedom is a tragedy.
:06:42. > :06:45.13 years after it was first conceived, Africa is about to get
:06:46. > :06:48.its own army. It will be able to respond to crises on the continent
:06:49. > :06:53.from civil war and genocide to humanitarian disasters. The African
:06:54. > :06:56.union force which will begin operations in January is seen as a
:06:57. > :07:01.significant step in being able to look after some of its own security
:07:02. > :07:05.problems. Karen Allen has been given special access to the training
:07:06. > :07:14.exercises in the Northern Cape region. The new landscape of the
:07:15. > :07:17.African battlefield. As early as next year, these troops could be
:07:18. > :07:23.scrambled to crises rather than rely on foreign boots on the ground. The
:07:24. > :07:30.African stand-by force has been put through its final paces in this
:07:31. > :07:40.major exercise. Many languages, one drill. Part of a multinational
:07:41. > :07:47.force. Capable of being deployed, but just a fortnight's notice. These
:07:48. > :07:52.war games are designed not just to test the battle readiness of these
:07:53. > :07:55.troops, many of them have combat experience, but it is also testing
:07:56. > :08:02.how well the different nationalities are able to communicate. The clear
:08:03. > :08:07.message, this is an African solution to an African problem. But Africa's
:08:08. > :08:12.problems are fast becoming the world's. Thousands of miles from
:08:13. > :08:21.here refugee is a surging into Europe. Conflicts no longer respect
:08:22. > :08:26.borders, they are transnational. Conflict today could be in your
:08:27. > :08:30.backyard and today it is in mine. We are all in this together. Which is
:08:31. > :08:36.ride a rich world is lobbying to get on board. It is expected to cost $1
:08:37. > :08:42.billion to make this stand-by force operational. We want to have the
:08:43. > :08:47.African military and police and civilians to create this peaceful
:08:48. > :08:52.environment in which you can get development, economic development,
:08:53. > :08:55.social development. Once you have got back on the sure there is not
:08:56. > :09:01.such great desire to want to move to another country. The troops may be
:09:02. > :09:04.trained, but it is the politicians who need to be primed to support a
:09:05. > :09:12.force favourable of intervening early to stop conflict spiralling
:09:13. > :09:16.into all-out wars. Throughout Europe's migrant crisis,
:09:17. > :09:24.we have seen refugees stranded at Port in Europe. Not so often at an
:09:25. > :09:32.airport, and not in Russia. One Syrian family has been stuck in
:09:33. > :09:35.Moscow over six weeks. They applied for asylum in Russia but their
:09:36. > :09:52.request was turned down. Sarah Raynsford has been to meet them.
:09:53. > :10:01.I have been told we have to come up here to find them to the departures
:10:02. > :10:06.area. And follow the corridor right to the end where there is an old
:10:07. > :10:16.what used to be smoking area. Family have now been living here for more
:10:17. > :10:24.than a month. Hello. What is your name?
:10:25. > :10:32.TRANSLATION: We arrived here on September ten, but we didn't expect
:10:33. > :10:37.to end up living here. In an airport, people are usually arriving
:10:38. > :10:41.or departing, but not us. We now have to live here. How can people
:10:42. > :10:44.just watched this happen? How can they be so heartless when people are
:10:45. > :10:58.fleeing war. I just don't understand.
:10:59. > :11:10.This is transit for coming here for one or two hours coming but ours is
:11:11. > :11:26.40 days. We don't know. Where do you sleep? We sleep in this. But we
:11:27. > :11:37.can't sleep all stop the mattress Roque? It is a tube but for one
:11:38. > :11:46.person. We can't sleep much. Sometimes we are called, it is very
:11:47. > :11:57.cold. The radiator didn't work. Because of that,.
:11:58. > :12:04.TRANSLATION: Here they say to us, go to Europe. There is nothing for you
:12:05. > :12:08.here. It is not humane. Russia is helping Syria by dropping bombs. It
:12:09. > :12:22.costs millions. But what about helping us?
:12:23. > :12:30.Bond was back this week with his latest spy thriller Spectre starring
:12:31. > :12:36.Daniel Craig. But is it anything like the life of a real MI6 spy? BBC
:12:37. > :12:41.managed to secure a rare interview with serving British intelligence
:12:42. > :12:45.officers. The agents identities have been concealed, but they have been
:12:46. > :12:48.telling Craig Gardner what it is like to spend your career leading a
:12:49. > :12:57.double life. The threat are numerous and
:12:58. > :13:01.complex. Stealing the secrets of countries and organisations that
:13:02. > :13:06.could threaten Britain is the job of the secret intelligence service,
:13:07. > :13:17.better known as MI6. It is famous for being the home of James Bond.
:13:18. > :13:21.You have a secret, something you can't tell anyone.
:13:22. > :13:27.Disappointingly to many, it is not what her Majesty is Secret Service
:13:28. > :13:36.actually does. So how do we separate fact from fiction. We have managed
:13:37. > :13:40.to secure an interview. In order to persuade them to come out of the
:13:41. > :13:41.shadows, we have had to agree to disguise both their faces and their
:13:42. > :14:07.voices. We all come from a riot if
:14:08. > :14:15.backgrounds. What was the job of a modern MI6 officer entail? The first
:14:16. > :14:20.is establishing what needs doing, to make sure the UK remains safe. Then
:14:21. > :14:24.the job is to target the people with access to the secret intelligence,
:14:25. > :14:29.to approach them securely and that I obtained secrets for the benefit of
:14:30. > :14:32.the UK. One thing I have constantly seen throughout my career is that
:14:33. > :14:39.people recognise that the UK as a force for good in the world. Mostly,
:14:40. > :14:43.not always. The thing that underpins all of this is that these
:14:44. > :14:47.individuals will only enter into a relationship, passing intelligence
:14:48. > :14:48.to the United Kingdom, and their reasons for doing so I down to their
:14:49. > :14:58.circumstances. Presumably you can't be expected to
:14:59. > :15:03.keep it completely to yourself if you work for MI6, who can you tell
:15:04. > :15:07.and how much can you tell Our parents and them? Our partners. How
:15:08. > :15:10.much can you tell them? Where we work, but any of our operational
:15:11. > :15:15.detail, we would refrain from telling anyone. There are some
:15:16. > :15:20.people who think that MI6 operates outside the law. It is almost like a
:15:21. > :15:25.rogue agency. What reassurance can you give people that it operates
:15:26. > :15:31.within the law? Everything that we do, must adhere to UK law.
:15:32. > :15:35.MI6 has given just a glimpse of the secrets contained within its walls.
:15:36. > :15:44.It is now likely to withdraw once more into the shadows.
:15:45. > :15:49.The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba led to a record year for
:15:50. > :15:52.tourism for the Caribbean nation. People aren't just flocking to
:15:53. > :16:03.Havana for the boom as patients seek treatment from
:16:04. > :16:08.inn five-star reports. As Will Grant reports, it is creating a two-tier
:16:09. > :16:14.health system. One for tourists and one for Cubans. It looks like
:16:15. > :16:17.pool-side aerobics, but this is a resort with a difference. The guests
:16:18. > :16:22.aren't just tourists, they're patients!
:16:23. > :16:25.These visitors and their families have come not in search of the
:16:26. > :16:29.island's famous beaches, but it's healthcare system.
:16:30. > :16:32.For a price, foreign patients can receive treatments that are either
:16:33. > :16:36.unavailable or too extensive in their home countries. But
:16:37. > :16:42.controversially the five-star resort is not open to ordinary Cubans.
:16:43. > :16:48.This is one of the finest healthcare facilities in Cuba and can count
:16:49. > :16:53.some superstars among its patients, but it has its critics who say this
:16:54. > :16:56.degree of attention is only afforded to foreigners in Cuba, not to Cubans
:16:57. > :17:02.themselves. As he shows me around, the centre's
:17:03. > :17:05.director says Cuba is right to commerciallise its unique conditions
:17:06. > :17:13.for health holidays. Top doctors at low prices in a tropical setting.
:17:14. > :17:17.TRANSLATION: This combination of tourism and healthcare we offer is
:17:18. > :17:23.also a form of generating funds and subsidies for our national health
:17:24. > :17:25.system, our ministry, our Government so that we can better attend to the
:17:26. > :17:31.Cuban people. All the men we met doing
:17:32. > :17:35.rehabilitation exercises were gunshot injury patients from
:17:36. > :17:39.Venezuela, victims of the country's spiralling crime. This man was left
:17:40. > :17:45.paralysed after he was shot in a robbery. He says the programme of
:17:46. > :17:54.intensive rehabilitation helped him regain some movement in his upper
:17:55. > :18:02.body and arms. He the centre offers speech therapy
:18:03. > :18:06.and deafness treatments. Specialists in Cuban health tourism
:18:07. > :18:12.say as the country's economy opens up, the sector will expand fast.
:18:13. > :18:18.Neurological therapy in Canada for a physiotherapist is $150 an hour.
:18:19. > :18:23.Whereas you come here for instance and you're getting treatment for the
:18:24. > :18:28.whole day, six or seven hours a day and it is a multidisciplinary
:18:29. > :18:30.approach that they take and say in a month's time you're noticing
:18:31. > :18:35.improvements that you would take you years to notice elsewhere.
:18:36. > :18:42.Cuba's health system is considered by its Government as the jewel in
:18:43. > :18:46.the crown of the revolution. Decades of the US economic embargo and
:18:47. > :18:51.uninvestment left their mark, but with travel from the United States
:18:52. > :18:57.due to get easier, this may become one of the most popular resorts in
:18:58. > :18:59.Havana. Australia's restaurants maybe
:19:00. > :19:03.getting smarter. Some are starting to use new technology to try to work
:19:04. > :19:08.out the tastes of its customers to help them cater better for them. One
:19:09. > :19:13.company has developed an app which creates detailed profiles of diners,
:19:14. > :19:19.but as Katie Beck reports from Sydney, some people think more
:19:20. > :19:21.privacy ought to be on the menu! What does your restaurant know about
:19:22. > :19:25.you? From when we dine to what we like to
:19:26. > :19:32.drink, each decision we make is a piece of data that can now be stored
:19:33. > :19:36.by restaurants for later use. Created in Sydney, this is an app
:19:37. > :19:41.which links bookings to tills, to reviews, to create and store
:19:42. > :19:44.detailed profiles of customers. We have had restaurants completely
:19:45. > :19:49.change the menu that they offer because they know that 20%, 30% of
:19:50. > :19:54.their customers are vegetarian or they can't have dairy. That's an
:19:55. > :19:58.example of how we use big data. Customer feedback in an automated
:19:59. > :20:03.way to help restaurants deliver a better experience for their
:20:04. > :20:06.customers. The idea, according to the company, is if restaurants
:20:07. > :20:11.better understand who they are serving they can improve experiences
:20:12. > :20:15.and increase sales as a result, but do diners mind restaurants keeping
:20:16. > :20:20.tabs on them? It is another service that's jumping on the bandwagon and
:20:21. > :20:29.it is the digital age. If I want something, I would ask for it. Not
:20:30. > :20:32.have it recorded on some file. I would rather someone humanly
:20:33. > :20:35.remembered my name, humanly remembered what I ordered and had
:20:36. > :20:41.that real connection rather than just checking data and trying to
:20:42. > :20:45.make sure that they upsolve me. Some people think this type of data
:20:46. > :20:48.collection oversteps the boundaries of reasonable privacy. If it is
:20:49. > :20:52.required that the restaurants actually reveal to people, have a
:20:53. > :20:56.sign saying, "Our staff are spying on you and we are keeping records on
:20:57. > :21:02.you, that's OK, isn't it?" You might find the benefits for the restaurant
:21:03. > :21:09.from having a good relationship with their customers are burned up by the
:21:10. > :21:13.lack of trust. Demi maintains that information is securely served and
:21:14. > :21:17.is not shared with third parties. Using detailed customer profiles is
:21:18. > :21:26.the norm for airlines and hotels, so it seems only a matter of time
:21:27. > :21:29.before more restaurants follow suit. Struggling artists are nothing new,
:21:30. > :21:39.but if you have written a play and you're a woman, the odds of getting
:21:40. > :21:44.it performed in the US are stacked against you. A festival in
:21:45. > :21:48.Washington is trying to address the gender gap. There will be 56 world
:21:49. > :21:50.premieres penned by women. Jane O'Brien has been to meet some of
:21:51. > :22:19.them. Listen. For Marsha Cole it was a
:22:20. > :22:23.story she had to tell. I wasn't too surprised that I was dismissed that
:22:24. > :22:27.is what a lot of female playwrights face. Maybe they think it is going
:22:28. > :22:32.to be girlie things, I don't know, but they don't take women as
:22:33. > :22:37.seriously as they might. Cole's play is one of 56 new works
:22:38. > :22:42.making their debut during the women's voices theatre festival, the
:22:43. > :22:45.first major event to raise the issue of gender disparity in American
:22:46. > :22:53.theatres. Barely one in five plays to hit the stage in the last few
:22:54. > :23:01.years was written by a woman. But why does that matter? We don't
:23:02. > :23:06.need women's plays. We don't need anybody's plays, but what we need is
:23:07. > :23:09.a diversity of voices. We keep seeing the same play from the same
:23:10. > :23:13.kind of person, from the same point of view with the same background and
:23:14. > :23:25.the same prejudice, we are going to die! As an artistic field. Sheila
:23:26. > :23:32.Callaghan is a screenwriter. Her play, Women Laughing Alone with
:23:33. > :23:39.Salad, look at the way advertisers use body image to manipulate women.
:23:40. > :23:43.We have got you, girl. The women's voices festival isn't trying to
:23:44. > :23:50.promote female subjects, so much as show case the diversity of women
:23:51. > :23:54.writers. At historic Ford's Theatre, the
:23:55. > :24:02.stage is being prepared for a very different play, the Guard by Jessica
:24:03. > :24:08.Dickie which exams our relationship with art over time. Why aren't more
:24:09. > :24:12.plays by women being produced? Most of the artistic directors are men
:24:13. > :24:16.and men tend to produce male playwrights, you produce what you
:24:17. > :24:22.know and who you know. They are simply, they don't think about
:24:23. > :24:25.producing women as often. We have to be more conscious about saying who
:24:26. > :24:29.are the playwrights we are producing within a season. 46 theatres have
:24:30. > :24:34.been taking part in the festival and other regions may follow suit. But
:24:35. > :24:37.many say the gender gap won't be narrowed until women are viewed
:24:38. > :24:43.differently both on and off the stage.
:24:44. > :24:46.And that's all from Reporters for this week. From me Tim Willcox and
:24:47. > :25:08.the team in London, bye-bye. Good evening.
:25:09. > :25:09.Well, two very mild Hallowe'ens in a row. Yes, this