16/01/2016 Reporters

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In this week's programme, after the attacks in Cologne,

Swedish police come under fire over another case of sexual

Katie Razzall asks was there a cover-up.

That was a mistake, a big mistake. But it wasn't a cover-up.

David Shukman visits the deep-freeze buried inside the mountain that

If the worst happens and global warming melts all of the polar

icecaps, this project will still be safe.

Katie Watson finds out how Mexican police stormed this building

to capture their most wanted drug lord.

Our reporter joins conservationists in Tanzania as they take

to the skies for a census of the continent's dwindling wildlife.

Tanzania has lost about 53% of its elephants in just six years,

so this census, it is hoped it will provide important information

to help the government plan better for its conservation.

As the Oscar nominations are announced, Stephen Evans asks

whether China is set to play a bigger role in Hollywood.

And the fight for fair pay in fashion.

But as our reporter has been finding out, it is the men

If people banded together and pushed for it, there would be a change.

Is it a case of too much tolerance, or too little openness?

city's police chief was forced to resign, accused of turning

a blind eye to the criminally sexually aggressive behaviour

Well, there are now reports of a similar experience in Sweden,

another European nation which prides itself on its welcoming

Details are only now coming to light of widespread sexual assaults

involving migrant youths at a music festival in Stockholm last summer.

But at the time, did the police cover it up?

Katie Razzall has been to Stockholm to find out more,

and there are some flashing images in her report.

We Are Stockholm is a music festival for teenagers in the town centre,

devised 16 years ago to keep kids out of trouble, but for the last two

summers, some of the people it was designed to help have used

it as an opportunity for something more sinister.

It looks a little different in the snow but this

is where the festival happened and where teenage girls

say they were groped, harassed and even

Allegedly, in the main, young Afghan asylum seekers,

but it has taken five months and the events in Germany

for the story to emerge because although the police

were aware of the crimes, they did not make them public,

and that has left this country, which has always prided itself

on its welcoming, open attitudes to refugees,

grappling with some awkward questions.

No, of course we did not cover-up, but we did not tell.

There are so many things we do not tell, because we have

so much information, so many different things going on.

We have hundreds of cases every 24 hours, and in this

That was a mistake, a big mistake today,

If teenage girls had reported sexual assaults by white Swedes at this

event, would you have taken this same decision?

We never, in the police, we never talked about if they are

Swedes or if they come from other parts, the media does but we do not.

At the 170,000-strong festival in 2014, 17 teenagers said they had

been sexually attacked and one complained of rape.

A year later, there were 19 assaults and one rape.

These guys, they were like five, ten, 15 sometimes.

Their only goal was to go into this crowd and sexually harass

Roger set up the festival and still runs it for

In the beginning it looks like they're having fun and dancing

Then they start to surround them and suddenly they start

to sexually harass them, touching breasts, crotches,

For some, Swedish culture is under threat.

For others, the ethnic background of the assailants is irrelevant.

What is clear is that Swedes do not know which way to turn,

having taken in more refugees per head of population

The man in charge of policing the festival this week said they had

worried about talking about the assailants' backgrounds

for fear of playing into the hands of the Swedish Democrats.

They are the anti-immigration party riding high in the polls just now.

They should not in any way let political views affect their work

Young men in a group, treating this as a fun way to spend

an evening or to go to a party and pick out women,

that is definitely something that has not been existing here before.

So you do blame migrants more generally?

For these kind of assaults, I blame the culture they come from,

and the fact they do not want to accept that in Sweden

we have a completely different view of women.

Sweden's policy towards migrants has seen an about turn.

This refugee centre used to offer advice to up to 1,000

Since the government closed the border this month,

Right-wing groups blame cultural differences for the new year attacks

in Cologne and the assaults at Stockholm's festivals,

but here they reject that kind of stereotyping.

I might be naive, but I still do not see it as anything to do

with cultural differences or religion and so forth.

It is an individual acting upon themselves and misbehaving.

Take them to justice, just like anywhere else.

In Sweden, it is the police who are under flak.

In this unashamedly liberal nation, there has been some soul-searching

If it is not a cover-up, what might explain this not emerging

I think we all carry a bit of self-censorship.

We are afraid of discussing this question because you can appear

We do not go there, we do not go to dark places.

That report from Katie Razzall in Stockholm.

What happens if war or global warming threatens the key plants

A group of scientists has set up what it believes could be

the answer, a deep freeze for thousands of seeds

to act as a backup that could save millions of lives.

The global seed vault is buried inside a mountain on the Arctic

David Shukman was given special access to what is inside.

In the punishing cold of an Arctic mountain, in the remote Svalbard

islands, a doorway leads to what is meant to be

Scientists are on their way, approaching through this isolated

They are carrying a precious cargo of seeds, to be kept out of the way

of whatever climate change might bring.

How often do you get these deliveries?

We have deliveries three times a year.

The box of seeds is about to go through the first line of security.

I have just come down the access tunnel that is cut

This place is 130 metres above sea level, because if the worst happens

and global warming melts all of the polar icecaps,

The deeper inside the mountain we go, the more

The store is designed to survive any natural disaster.

The seeds can last here for a very long time.

It depends on what the crop is but some of the crops may survive

You're really imagining this place functioning, keeping the seeds

I'm sure that the pharoahs thought their pyramids

The last barrier to the store itself.

The rows of shelves are filling up with seeds from all over the world.

There are samples of nearly half of the most important food crops,

Samples of seeds used to be held in glass test tubes.

Now they are kept in little plastic packets and there are more

than 800,000 of these in this fault, and everywhere you look,

there are examples of why this place matters.

There are seeds from Syria, plants that are good at coping

with drought, and some have just been returned to the Middle East.

When harvests are ruined by extremes of weather,

having backup copies of key seeds is essential.

Another threat is flooding, which can damage national

And with industrial scale farming, most food comes from just a dozen

varieties of plants, so keeping different genetic types

It is for the survival of mankind in the future.

All the different kinds of plant material, to get

We have a lot of problems now, climate change, environmental

problems, and to tackle that, we need genetic variation.

So, in these remote mountains, this place is meant to be

An insurance policy for a warming world.

David Shukman, BBC News, in Svalbard in the Arctic.

Last week, he was Mexico's most wanted. Now the notorious drug

cartel chief, known as El Chapo, is a prisoner in a high security

Mexican jail, that he escaped from six months ago. His escape was a

huge embarrassment, when he got away down a tunnel from his prison cell.

His recapture, last week, is now a source of pride and the Mexican

authorities have been showing Katie Watson how they brought down the

drug Lord for the second time. This was the moment Mexican Marines

closed in on one of the world's most wanted men, bursting into the

property of drug boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. They met fierce

resistance and responded with heavy fire and grenades.

In the firefight, five of El Chapo's gunmen were killed. Four days later,

and the media was allowed in to see the house for themselves. The first

thing you see when you come into El Chapo's house is this kitchen which

has been turned upside down. There are cans in there which have

exploded from the force. There are bullets in the walls. If you look

there, it's still an active crime scene. There's blood on the floor

where somebody died. Incredibly, despite the overwhelming fire power,

El Chapo nearly got away, in what's believed to be his bedroom, there

was a walk-in wardrobe. Inside a full length mirror with a door, and

through this he escaped down a tunnel which led to a storm drain in

the street. I've walked about a kilometre from the house in which El

Chapo was hiding. It looks like an ordinary junction. When the Marines

came and El Chapo escaped, he escaped through the storm drains and

came up in there. Speak to neighbours here and they can't quite

believe El Chapo was hiding out so close.

TRANSLATION: It's a very quiet part of town, a really nice place to

live. About six months ago, you could see mounds of earth, about a

metre-and-a-half high. Not much else going on. We never saw people

outside. It's taken everybody by surprise. Without even knowing,

there's this hugely important person there. El Chapo is now in a high

security jail following his arrest. It's the same one he escaped from

six months ago. But the authorities insist security's been toughened up

since. It'll need to be. It's thought the process to extradite him

to the United States could take up to a year.

It's one of the most difficult jobs in world wildlife control, counting

Africa's elephants. They roam across thousands of kilometres, across 20

different countries. As elephant numbers decline, despite a ban on

the ivory trade, it's the big ambition of the great elephant

census. As our correspondent reports from Tanzania, they're taking to the

skies to do it. Planes fuelled, screws tightened,

these scientists are getting ready for the field. Every tool has to be

perfectly placed. It's about counting the elephants from the air.

These streamers help them calculate the actual distance covered on the

ground. The observers will be spotting. When they take a

photograph. We know the photograph is of an animal. Covering over

600,000 kilometres and spanned over a thousand hours in the air, there's

an army of close to a thousand scientists across the continent.

With the streamers, GPS and cameras, every elephant will be counted. This

is a park at the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro. The park is believed to

have more elephants per square kilometre than anywhere else in the

world. Tanzania has lost about 53% of its elephants just in six years.

So this census it's hoped it will provide important information to

help the government plan better for conservation. The census is a

project backed by organisations and the Tanzania wildlife research

initiative, all fighting for the lives of the elephants. We download

the data from the GPS. Here's a flight that took off... Back on the

ground, photos from the plane and GPS data are being analysed to get

accurate information. The density of elephants that we see is from a

similar period of time and from exactly the same methods. That was a

big advantage for the picture of what happened. We're able to give

not only the Vulcan, the donors providing the money for the census,

a picture what have was going on, but the government could get a

snapshot for the first time in five years. As valuable as the project

is, it's also a very expensive one, begging the question of

sustainability. We have depended on external support to conduct this

census. I'm afraid, I think in the next few years, we will have to do

the same. From within, we can contribute, but I don't think we

have enough resources to cover it Autumn -- all. This project is

evidence that when local and international efforts are combined

and with the right amount of money, more elephants can be saved.

The Hollywood epic the Revenant has led the way in the Oscar nominations

as this year's film awards season kicked off this week. But there were

no nods for Chinese films, in fact only two Chinese films have ever

been nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film. But could that be

about to change? After this week's purchase by a Chinese company of a

controlling stake in the Hollywood film studio Legendary Entertainment,

the makers of Jurassic world, Godzilla and the Batman fill the

Dark Knight. Blue squad, take my lead. Star Wars

opened in China over the weekend. We will crush the resistance. And took

$53 million, enough to make any Hollywood mogul happy. Next year

China's expected to take more at the box office than the US. And this

deal puts the country at the centre of global movie making. China's

richest man takes over Hollywood's legendary entertainment, the maker

of Jurassic world and Godzilla. China's film making has entered a

golden decade, he says. This deal will break America's monopoly in the

global movie industry. China's film fans can't get enough. There are 15

new screens constructed every day. Here in China, the average cinema

goer is about 20. It's a young audience, ripe for megagrowth. In

America, it's about 35. There's one other big difference too - politics.

Thomas Toll runs Legendary Entertainment. He's not worried

about the ultra-strict Chinese censor because his films aren't

political. It's very hard. All we know how to do is to make things

that we want to see, whether that's giant robots versus giant monsters

or whatever it might be. Thankfully our fans here in China, so far, have

liked it. A computer animation of the world's biggest studio complex

now being built in eastern China. Hollywood standards of production at

Chinese costs. But can movie lovers everywhere and the Chinese censor

both be kept happy? We often hear about the gender pay

gap and how women frequently earn less than men. But is there one

industry where that doesn't seem to be the case - fashion. Female models

can often earn double the rates of male models. We've been to meet some

of the men campaigning for fair pay in fashion.

When it comes to the talk about equal pay in the work place, it's

normally about women being paid less than a man.

# Fashion, turn to the left # Fashion... But in the world of

fashion, the very opposite is true. I think it will take bookers

standing up and saying no to rates being different, because such as

myself saying the rates need to be equal to the women, the men are

doing exactly the same thing. Sure the women may take longer to get

ready which is an argument used, but both models will be called to the

shoot for the same time, be there for the same length of time. It's

the same usage for the male and female model. There's no reason to

be paid less. I have some stuff coming out... Female models, even

new ones entering the industry can make more than double what a male

model can. As mason, who's just been modelling for about a year has found

out. Some have been like less, they've been really annoyed about

it. The jurored have been just like, oh, we get this much etc. We're like

oh, we only get this much for doing the same show. Theirs is probably

like 25% more. I'd say roughly around that figure. Hundreds of male

models like these will be strutting their stuff along men's Fashion Week

this week this weekend. This problem of pay extends to things like

catalogues, TV adverts and magazine advertising. It doesn't seem to

matter whether you're a new face on the runway or whether you're at the

top of your game, like model and designer Ti, who says if models

speak out now the work may dry up. I think no models have ever addressed

the issue. A lot of times you're passive. You're happy being paid to

be yourself. It doesn't get to the point where someone puts their foot

down. I think I might do that! You know and says, we need equality. If

people banded together and pushed for it, there would be change. In a

statement, the British Fashion Council says it provides guidelines

for model rates to designers based on the size of their business. Even

though it doesn't get involved in the bookings process, it does

encourage everyone in the business to support all models hired across

financial matters. People in the public eye like the

higher profile models could help by making a stand against equality for

rates for men and female models. Slowly, but surely, change is

coming. The male fashion ind tri-is worth -- industry is worth an

estimated ?14 billion a year. As more men go out and buy clothes, the

industry's growth should mean the men should eventually catch up with

the ladies. That's all from Reporters for this

week from me Philipa Thomas, goodbye for now.

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