16/01/2016 Reporters

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Welcome to Reporters. I am Philippa Thomas.

From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents

to bring you the best stories from across the globe.

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

Swedish police come under fire

over another case of sexual assaults by migrants.

Katie Razzall asks, "Was there a cover-up?"

We didn't tell. That was a mistake, a big mistake.

But of course it wasn't a cover-up.

The Arctic's secret archive of life.

David Shukman visits the deep-freeze buried inside a mountain

that could one day feed millions.

If the worst happens and global warming melts

all of the polar icecaps, this project will still be safe.

Red Squad, Blue Squad, take my lead!

As the Oscar nominations are announced, Stephen Evans asks

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

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

You heard about those new year assaults in Cologne where the German

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

a blind eye to the criminally sexually aggressive behaviour

of gangs of mostly migrants.

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

another European nation which prides itself

on its welcoming attitude to refugees.

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.

MUSIC PLAYS

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 raped by young men.

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.

It was a cover-up, wasn't it?

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

case, we did not tell.

That was a mistake, a big mistake today,

but of course it was not a cover-up.

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.

One person has been prosecuted.

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

This refugee centre used to offer advice

to up to 1,000 refugees a day.

Since the government closed the border this month,

it is down to 20.

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.

What should Sweden do about it?

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 about their approach.

If it is not a cover-up,

what might explain this not emerging for so long?

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

We are afraid of discussing this question

because you can appear like a racist.

This is a cultural thing for us.

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

That is maybe a problem for Swedes.

That report from Katie Razzall in Stockholm.

What happens if war or global warming threatens the key plants

that the world depends on for food?

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 island of Svalbard.

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 the safest place on earth.

Scientists are on their way,

approaching through this isolated and hostile terrain.

I am with them.

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.

There are half a dozen in all.

I have just come down the access tunnel

that is cut into the mountain.

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

and global warming melts all of the polar icecaps,

this project will still be safe.

The deeper inside the mountain we go,

the more the temperature drops.

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 for more than 4,000 years.

You're really imagining this place functioning,

keeping the seeds safe for 4,000 years?

It's difficult to say.

I'm sure that the pharoahs thought their pyramids

would last long, and they did.

The last barrier to the store itself.

Inside here, it is minus 18 Celsius.

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,

brought here just in case.

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

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 stores of seeds.

This happened in the Philippines.

And with industrial scale farming, most food comes from

just a dozen varieties of plants,

so keeping different genetic types helps to guarantee supplies.

It is for the survival of mankind in the future.

We need diversity.

All the different kinds of plant material,

to get food for the future.

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

a safeguard against apocalypse,

an insurance policy for a warming world.

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

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 film The Dark Knight.

Red Squad, 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?

From me, Philipa Thomas, goodbye for now.