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