09/01/2016 Reporters

Hello and welcome to Reporters, I'm Tim Willcox.

From here, we send out correspondents to bring you the best

On the front line in the fight to for Ramadi.

A week after Iraqi forces say they liberated the city

from Islamic State, we find the battle is far from over.

IS militants still control parts of the

Their flags are still flying a few hundred yards from here

The bridge - Sweden's open door to the rest of Europe closes

for business to stop the flow of migrants.

This is one of the most welcoming countries in Europe.

And South Korea's new obsession with TV chefs.

Stephen Evans asks if more men in the kitchen has brought

Always cooking the big meal for the special

I wonder if these guys ever do the cooking at home.

It is more than a week since the Iraqi

government forces announced they had won the battle for Ramadi,

liberating the key city from so-called Islamic

But large parts are still under extremist control and fighting

Around 200 militants are thought to be holding out,

as thousands of civilians flee the violence.

The BBC was the first international broadcaster to reach

Our reporter travelled into the heart of

the city and sent this exclusive report.

This is what the fight against so-called

Six months of brutal jihadi rule, a government offensive and coalition

air strikes have devastated the city.

We set off with Iraqi special forces to see what the victory they claimed

As we push into the centre, it is clear

the battle for Ramadi is far from over.

This is the front line in Iraq's war against IS.

The soldiers say they have regained much of the city,

but the fight is still going on and IS militants still control

Their flags are still flying a few hundred yards

Peer through the sniper's window and you see the Iraqi flag.

The black banners of Islamic State are flying, defiant.

Government troops say fighting IS is the hardest of all battles.

Much of the front line is rigged with

explosives and IS is an unpredictable enemy.

The west has trained Iraqi soldiers for this

The US, Britain and their partners are conducting air strikes

TRANSLATION: The support from coalition forces is important

because without them we would suffer a lot more casualties.

An air strike is called in as families emerge,

This woman says her house was blown up.

She told me she and her husband were taken by the jihadis and used

TRANSLATION: We were stuck for ten days, each time

there was bombing our homes would shake.

A warm meal and a first taste of freedom.

This woman escaped with her children, still traumatised.

The mother tells me how IS ruled their

You were not allowed out without a man and you were forced

We were not allowed to use mobile phones.

But the war against Islamic State in Iraq will not end

There will be more fighting as soldiers prepare to move

As Islamic State loses control in parts of Iraq and Syria,

it is widening its influence in other areas.

The Swedish Deputy Prime Minister shed tears as she announced new

border controls. The bridge crossing from Sweden to Denmark made famous

by the TV crime drama at the bridge will no longer be open for business

as usual. As Jenny Hill reports, the decision has caused unease in

Sweden. This is a country which likes to get on with its neighbours.

The bridge is a link to Denmark and an open door to the rest of Europe.

Not any more. For the first time in 50 years, there are controls at the

border. Trains are re-routed, commuters delayed, refugees turned

away. No one without a passport get in. Here is why. 160,000 refugees

arrived last year. Sweden is running out of room. This tent city was

hastily built just a few weeks ago. These tents are destined for

disaster zones overseas, right now Sweden is having to use them to do

with the crisis right here on its own doorstep. This is one of the

most welcoming countries in Europe when it comes to refugees, but that

is starting to change. Who knows what that means for Javid. He hopes

his wife and children will join him from Afghanistan. Sweden, he tells

us, has been good to him. People have given you clothes. The border

controls are said to be temporary. Some fear they will do permanent

damage. This is supposed to be the Schengen zone, where European

citizens have the right to borderless travel. No wonder

perhaps, the Deputy premise to shed tears as the decision was announced.

The decision she described as terrible. It has gone down badly

here as well. The people in this coffee shop told us they have

friends, jobs, even homes just across the bridge in Copenhagen. I

had a nightmare the other day that I went to Copenhagen to shop and I

didn't have any passport and I was like how am I supposed to come home?

I think we are going in the wrong direction. I think we probably

should be more into the soul of Sweden and be more welcoming. I

don't think there will be adding the situation is the way to do it. As

Sweden struggles with its decision, the refugee crisis continues to

divide Europe. Exposing its borders, perhaps even changing its horizons.

Finally, the biggest TV shows in South Korea are about cooking and

the stars are men. A lot has changed in the last few years. Male

dominated kitchens would have been to boot. Stephen Evans has been

finding out if more men in the kitchen has brought changes for

South Korean women. Turn on the TV in South Korea and easy these days

is men in the kitchen. Move through the channels and male celebrity

chefs dominate the ratings. Sam Kim is a star in the studio and in his

own restaurant. If you want to spend time with family, if you go

somewhere public, everyone comes to see me and they want to take a

picture together. If I go outside, everyone wants me. The rise of meal

cooking shows how this very traditional country is changing

fast. This is a cooking competition for men. This man is 65. He had a

spell working abroad what his family stayed home in Korea so he did what

his father never did, he learned to cook. In the past in Korea men or

boys could not approach the kitchen and they didn't know how to cook.

Men cannot live without a wife. Men in Abrams is one sign of changing

gender roles as South Korea modernisers, traditional ideas of

what men should do and what women should do our changing. Men, what a

performance. Always cooking the big meet for the special occasion. I

wonder if these guys ever do the cooking at home. While the men

compete at cooking, the women state next door looking after the

children. Young women not get jobs and work just as much as men. The

figures show that when they reach 30, they leave work to have

children. More men in the kitchen doesn't it mean more women in top

jobs in business. That's all for this week. From me and the home team

in London, goodbye.