:00:22. > :00:26.Welcome to Reporters. From the newsroom we send our correspondents
:00:27. > :00:30.to get you the best stories from across the globe. In this week's
:00:31. > :00:35.programme, the new front in the so-called Islamic state's war of
:00:36. > :00:39.terror. Justin Rowlatt reports from eastern Afghanistan where the group
:00:40. > :00:45.is reportedly building a new base for its attacks across the world.
:00:46. > :00:48.The Pentagon analysis is clear. It says Isis is openly fighting the
:00:49. > :00:58.Taliban to create a safe haven in the mountains in the east of the
:00:59. > :01:03.country. Cracking Europe's human trafficking rings, Orla Gearin gets
:01:04. > :01:07.exclusive access to a Spanish raid on a major people-smuggling network.
:01:08. > :01:10.This has been a long time in the planning, the investigation into
:01:11. > :01:14.this criminal network began a year-and-a-half ago.
:01:15. > :01:20.The so-called Islamic state has claimed it as a new province of its
:01:21. > :01:27.caliphate, though this is not Syria or Iraq, it's Afghanistan. In recent
:01:28. > :01:31.months, IS has captured territories straddling the eastern border with
:01:32. > :01:33.Afghanistan. The Afghan President's called on the international
:01:34. > :01:36.community for help, but one year after the end of NATO's combat
:01:37. > :01:42.mission, the Afghan authorities are now struggling to cope with threats
:01:43. > :01:49.from both the Taliban and IS. Justin Rowlatt's been to eastern
:01:50. > :01:54.Afghanistan to find out more. Refugees put up rough shelters on a
:01:55. > :02:00.patch of wasteland outside the Afghan city of Jalalabad.
:02:01. > :02:04.These aren't victims of the Taliban, but of so-called Islamic state. The
:02:05. > :02:09.Islamist militants have seized territory in the remote eastern
:02:10. > :02:13.provinces of Afghanistan, driving the local people from their homes.
:02:14. > :02:20.The refugees tell stories of horrific violence.
:02:21. > :02:25.She says IS, Daesh they call it here, attacked her village.
:02:26. > :02:33.This girl says they took her house, I don't know where my father is, she
:02:34. > :02:37.tells us. Rahman's brother was one of more
:02:38. > :02:41.than 100 men IS abducted from the village.
:02:42. > :02:46.TRANSLATION: At first we had no idea what had happened to him, but three
:02:47. > :02:49.men were released. They said everyone was being held in a small
:02:50. > :03:01.room and IS was torturing and killing them. Then we heard about
:03:02. > :03:07.the video. He recognised his brother in an Isis propaganda video.
:03:08. > :03:13.The video showed him being led with nine other villagers to where a row
:03:14. > :03:21.of bombs had been buried. Each man was forced to sit on a bomb. The
:03:22. > :03:27.bombs were then detonated. IS has struck within an hour of
:03:28. > :03:31.Kabul. The police say it's only a matter of time before it attacks the
:03:32. > :03:38.Afghan capital and the threat isn't just here in Afghanistan. The
:03:39. > :03:42.Pentagon analysis is clear. It says Isis is openly fighting the Taliban
:03:43. > :03:48.to create a safe haven in the mountains in the east of the
:03:49. > :03:53.country, potentially a second stronghold from which to launch
:03:54. > :03:58.attacks across the world. So how serious a threat is IS in
:03:59. > :04:04.Afghanistan? To answer that, you need to leave Kabul.
:04:05. > :04:10.An IS commander has agreed to talk to an Afghan colleague.
:04:11. > :04:17.He meets a rag tag bunch of fighters. This man struggles to
:04:18. > :04:24.assemble his AK-47. But they talk the talk.
:04:25. > :04:33.TRANSLATION: You must fight to the bitter end.
:04:34. > :04:39.These are disaffected former Taliban who want to fight a global Jihad
:04:40. > :04:42.under the black flag of IS. The commander says they plan more
:04:43. > :04:45.attacks. TRANSLATION: At the moment, we exist
:04:46. > :04:52.in three provinces, but we only fight in one. And the others, we are
:04:53. > :04:57.waiting for orders from our leader, then we will fight.
:04:58. > :05:02.IS is reckoned to have hundreds, not thousands of fighters, not a huge
:05:03. > :05:08.force, but enough to bring mayhem and misery.
:05:09. > :05:14.The Afghan Army has struck back against IS. It says IS has little
:05:15. > :05:20.support from locals because it's so barbaric. But, the Defence Minister
:05:21. > :05:25.warns eliminating IS in Afghanistan will require an international
:05:26. > :05:29.response. The key question is that, from where
:05:30. > :05:34.they are getting all the funding, and then how they are transferring
:05:35. > :05:41.the funding and how this movement of goods and money and everything else
:05:42. > :05:44.is happening. So that is why Afghanistan cannot deal with all
:05:45. > :05:47.these challenges because it's coming from outside, it's pushed to us from
:05:48. > :05:50.outside. This isn't the first foreign
:05:51. > :05:56.terrorist organisation to try and establish a base in the mountains of
:05:57. > :06:03.eastern Afghanistan. The Tora Bora cave complex is in the province
:06:04. > :06:12.where IS now operates and Tora Bora is, of course, where Osama Bin Laden
:06:13. > :06:17.built his stronghold. Human trafficking gangs are now
:06:18. > :06:21.increasingly using UK airports as a gateway into Europe. That's
:06:22. > :06:25.according to Spanish police who've given the BBC exclusive access to
:06:26. > :06:30.raids on one of the biggest people smuggling rings in Europe. The
:06:31. > :06:34.organised crime group from Nigeria has trafficked hundreds of women
:06:35. > :06:37.into prostitution. The group is still being investigated and, as
:06:38. > :06:41.Orla Gearin reports from Barcelona, the BBC was asked to delay
:06:42. > :06:47.broadcasting this story to ensure the safety of the women giving
:06:48. > :06:55.evidence in court. Sun rise in Barcelona. The city of
:06:56. > :07:00.dreams. Standing proud with its rich heritage and architectural jewels.
:07:01. > :07:04.But after nightfall in the back streets, a different scene. This is
:07:05. > :07:11.where undercover police have been monitoring a trafficking ring and
:07:12. > :07:16.its victims, watching every move. We joined the assault teams as they
:07:17. > :07:23.prepared to strike at locations in Barcelona and several cities nearby.
:07:24. > :07:28.Around 250 officers taking part in the biggest operation yet against
:07:29. > :07:35.Nigerian crime bosses who call themselves the Air Lords.
:07:36. > :07:46.Around 8am, they close in on an apartment block.
:07:47. > :07:51.In seconds, they're inside, hunting for one of the targets on their
:07:52. > :08:02.list. They find him still in bed.
:08:03. > :08:06.The police are inside now questioning suspects. While they
:08:07. > :08:10.were carrying out the raid here, more than 20 other buildings were
:08:11. > :08:15.being hit simultaneously. This has been a long time in the planning.
:08:16. > :08:19.The investigation into this criminal network began a year-and-a-half ago.
:08:20. > :08:24.The lengthy build-up got results. Police detained the group's main
:08:25. > :08:29.leaders and gathered evidence of their lucrative slave trade. More
:08:30. > :08:36.than 80 women were freed. Some with young children. The gang
:08:37. > :08:43.charges its victims about ?28,000 to get to Spain, then forces them into
:08:44. > :08:47.prostitution to pay off the debt. Police say those arrested are part
:08:48. > :08:51.of a sophisticated criminal enterprise that spans the globe with
:08:52. > :08:57.representatives in cities in the Middle East, Africa, the US and the
:08:58. > :09:01.EU. The head of the anti-trafficking
:09:02. > :09:06.unit told us a key figure is based in London, bringing women into the
:09:07. > :09:10.UK on fake Nigerian passports. He says the gang is looking more and
:09:11. > :09:20.more to Britain as its gateway to Europe.
:09:21. > :09:24.One of the main new ways to enter victims is through the aid ports of
:09:25. > :09:32.Great Britain. It's a different system to trafficking people and it
:09:33. > :09:39.needs all the forgeries and is more expensive but is more secure and we
:09:40. > :09:43.have detected this. Here in down town Barcelona, the
:09:44. > :09:47.Nigerians are believed to have made millions from women working the
:09:48. > :09:53.streets in the shadows. They are kept in line by threats to their
:09:54. > :09:58.families back home and by physical abuse from madams who act as
:09:59. > :10:02.enforcers. We met one young woman who was trafficked from Nigeria with
:10:03. > :10:09.her three-year-old daughter. She says she and her child were
:10:10. > :10:13.brutalised by her madam. TRANSLATION: I have scars all over
:10:14. > :10:17.my body. She hit my face and eyes and beat me until blood came from my
:10:18. > :10:21.ears. One day when she came for the money, I couldn't pay. She hit me on
:10:22. > :10:27.the head with a bottle. My child was hit many times. She promised to kill
:10:28. > :10:32.her. Police hope more women will be able to escape the streets here now
:10:33. > :10:46.the Nigerian traffickers have been rounded up,
:10:47. > :10:49.And that's all from Reporters for this week, from me Phillipa Thomas,
:10:50. > :10:52.goodbye for now.