09/04/2016 Reporters

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In this week's programme, the Bosnian hotel

Fergal Keane investigates the history of rape

and sexual crimes committed during the Balkan conflict.

Young girls, women, were raped here, murdered.

Some were so desperate to escape their tormentors

that they ran, they jumped over the balcony to commit suicide.

Celia Hatton meets the couriers hoping to smuggle billions

of dollars out of the country by any means necessary.

Customs officers always target people with lots of luggage

The secret Stasi files of Kim Philby.

Gordon Corera examines never-before-seen footage of one

of the most notorious British spies of the Cold War era.

I used to hand them to my Soviet contact in the evening.

Next morning I would get the files back, the contents

I would take the files early in the morning and put them

That I did regularly, year in, year out.

Marc Ashdown investigates new research which suggests that

singing in a choir could be the key to a healthy life.

It gives you a really good feel-good factor.

You come in full of aches and pains and you can skip out.

And rock of ages, Will Gompertz meets the Rolling Stones

at a new exhibition reflecting on more than half a century

It is one of the most important rock bands so far in music history.

20 years after the war in Bosnia, the country is still struggling

to deal with the legacy of that conflict, a legacy which includes

many thousands of sexual crimes committed against women.

Human rights groups say as many as 20,000 women were raped,

often in camps set up for that purpose.

Fergal Keane reports from the Bosnian town of Visegrad,

where one of the worst massacres of the conflict took place.

There are some distressing images from the start of his report.

The Muslims of Visegrad were trapped, lulled

Hundreds were murdered, herded to the banks of the River Drina.

On its famous bridge, the Serbs executed men,

24 years on, the memory of horror is being deliberately erased.

And nowhere is it more obvious than here.

Ramza Muhic was raped here at the Vilina Vlas hotel.

Other survivors say it was used as a rape camp.

One alleged as many as 200 women suffered, though exact numbers may

Ramza says she was attacked by Milan Lukic, a commander

in the White Eagles militia, later jailed for mass murder.

The rape camp has now reopened as a spa hotel.

Tourists from across the region enjoy themselves here.

If you arrived here as a guest, you would never know that these

rooms had been used as torture chambers.

Young girls, women, were raped here, murdered.

Some were so desperate to escape their tormentors

that they ran, they jumped over the balcony to commit suicide.

The White Eagles even allowed a photographer

This man was 21 years old when he was taken to Vilina Vlas.

He is the figure in the black jacket and white jeans.

After this beating, he and the other men were taken away and shot.

Did you recognise your brother in the photo?

The Serbs remember their deadhere above Visegrad.

The town is controlled by the hardline nationalist party

of Radovan Karadzic, which fuelled the descent into genocide.

But in Visegrad today, you dare not use that word.

The council removed the word from the memorial to the victims

And the Vilina Vlas hotel where women were raped and men

tortured by Serb extremists, that too is now run by the party

of Karadzic, which denies it was a place of mass atrocity.

Do you believe it is morally appropriate for your party,

which governs in that area, to run a hotel where such horrific

Most of the killers and rapists of Visegrad have

Only one paramilitary has been convicted of rape at Vilina Vlas.

Across Bosnia, there are many thousands of rapes that

As Bosnia still struggles to rebuild after a war, the chances of justice

In most wars, sexual crimes have gone unpunished.

Now there is an international campaign to change this.

In every country it is very difficult to come to terms

with all the crimes that were committed, but at some stage,

it has to be dealt with, and it has to be dealt

There can be no different standards of justice.

At Vilina Vlas, the memory of atrocity is being erased.

It stands as a symbol of humanity betrayed.

China may be the world's second-biggest economy,

The country's citizens are getting nervous and are sending their money

Analysis of the Panama papers, the leaked document showing how

the world's elite have tried to hide their money,

revealed some of the biggest culprits are in China.

The Chinese authorities limit the amount of money

people can take abroad, but as Celia Hatton has been finding

out, some go to extreme measures to get their millions out

They are desperate to keep their money safe.

Many are anxious to smuggle their wealth out of China, away

I met the man who works as a money mule, carrying cash over the border

TRANSLATION: I strap the money to my body or I carry a small bag.

Customs officers always target people with lots of luggage,

or those who look nervous, so I just try to act normal.

Even China's Communist elite are keeping their money offshore.

We showed you leaked files from Mossack Fonseca that revealed,

right at the top, how the relatives of China's leaders

Now we have learned that China is the firm's biggest market.

Mossack Fonseca manages more than 16,000 offshore companies,

It is not just people with ties to the leadership who are stashing

Growing numbers of people are moving their money out of China

on a scale never seen before, and much of that money passes

And then the money has to go somewhere.

Last year, Chinese buyers snapped up more than ?35 billion in overseas

Sue Jong works for a company that lists properties abroad that may be

For instance, in the UK alone, typically London is very popular,

but just in this past quarter, we have seen that Brighton has seen

a 700% increase in popularity in just the past year.

Every Chinese citizen can transfer ?35,000 a year outside the country.

Anything more than that often has to be moved illegally,

but for those who fear their nest eggs will be wiped out by China's

slowing economy, and for those who want to hide their wealth

from the authorities, money smuggling is a necessary risk.

The outflow of capital is something that the Chinese government

They are aware of the scale of it, but the fact that they are giving it

a fair bit of priority and yet the scale of the problem remains

so large means that they are not entirely on top of it.

Across Hong Kong, it is common to see visitors from mainland China

Think of it as a symbol for what is happening around the globe.

China's richest people, including the country's top leaders,

are choosing to take their money out of the country to spend elsewhere.

They are protecting themselves, but making China more vulnerable.

Celia Hatton, BBC News, Hong Kong.

As Europe hardens its stance against the thousands of refugees

reaching its borders, Greece began returning migrants

The first boats carrying a few hundred migrants deported from

Greece under a new controversial EU deal arrived in western Turkey,

and Mark Lowen was there to see them arrive.

They began a journey they never thought they would make,

the first group of migrants sent back from Greece to Turkey.

The guinea pigs of an EU deal that nobody is sure will actually work.

Around 200 arrived back, mainly Pakistanis, a tiny fraction

of the more than one million people who went the other way

in the past year, crossing these waters to Europe.

This just a symbolic start as the EU closes its doors.

Here they come, the EU's test case, the first migrants to arrive

As far as they are concerned, they have failed.

Their hopes of a new life in Europe have come to an end.

The big question is whether they will try once again at some point,

As the migrants were taken off to be processed,

Some struggled, a reminder of the challenges they overcame

to make it to Europe in the first place.

The local governor said that fingerprints would be taken,

medical checks made, and Syrians would be

They will take the place of other Syrians directly resettled

in the EU, the first ones arriving in Germany later today.

The Pakistanis and others were driven to deportation centres.

Turkey will aim to send them back to their countries of origin,

but worries persist about whether this deal is fair,

and how the migrants will be treated here.

Some locals are voicing their opposition.

I lose all my hopes about human rights in European countries.

I cannot believe it is a democratic system.

Among others, there was anger at the idea of bringing more

migrants here, locals signing petitions against the camp.

We cannot accept them here even though we pity them.

I want them somewhere far from view, where they can be comfortable.

It would be better if they lived in a different place.

Across the port, 55 other Pakistanis were held,

caught by the coastguard trying to get to Greece.

It was an illustration of why this deal may simply not work.

Because fleeing war and poverty, the desperate are still ready

He was one of the most notorious British spies of the Cold War era.

Kim Philby rose up the ranks of the intelligence service MI6

while all the while passing secrets to the Soviet Union and the KGB.

But he has never been seen talking about his 30 years

The BBC has unearthed fascinating video of Philby addressing officers

of the East German intelligence service, the Stasi, back in 1981.

Gordon Corera has been examining this never-

Britain's most famous spy, its greatest traitor.

I must also warn you that I am no public speaker.

Almost all my life I've spent trying to avoid publicity of any kind.

The BBC unearthed this hour-long video, the images

It is 1981 and Philby is addressing the Stasi, East

Never intended for the public, this recording has lain hidden

Looking back on my career in the enemy camp,

Philby offers a masterclass in betrayal, from his recruitment

by Soviet spies after Cambridge, to his joining Britain's

secret service, MI6, whose secrets he stole.

Every evening I left the office with a big briefcase full of reports

which I had written myself, full of files taken out

of the actual documents, the actual archives.

I used to hand them to my Soviet contact in the evening,

the next morning I would get the file back, the contents

having been photographed, and take them back early

in the morning and put the files back in their place.

That I did regularly, year in, year out.

Mr Harold Philby, on the right, holds a press conference to deny

charges that he was involved in the disappearance

Until now, this was the only known video of Philby speaking.

It is 1955, and he was denying reports he was a Communist.

The last time I spoke to a Communist, knowing him to be

Eight years later, he fled to Moscow.

Philby is buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of the Russian

capital, along with other heroes of his adopted homeland.

Philby died in 1988, 25 years after he came to the Soviet

It was a country he regarded as home.

He was the spy who came into the cold.

He may have been regarded as a hero in the Communsit world,

but Philby admits in his Stasi speech that he betrayed a joint

CIA-MI6 operation in Albania, which led to hundreds

He also talks about the other Cambridge spies he recruited,

and how he outwitted MI6 when he escaped, and he finishes

with one piece of advice to the East German spies.

That advice served Philby well during his career.

This secret account of his betrayal emerging only decades

Gordon Corera, BBC News, Moscow.

Now, can singing improve your health?

New research suggests that just one hour of choral singing can

boost your immunity, and even help cancer sufferers.

It has led a group of cancer patients in the Welsh town

As Marc Ashdown reports, it may be just what the doctor ordered.

The musical stars of the Bridgend Sing With Us choir.

Everyone here has had cancer or cared for someone with cancer.

They say there is no doubting the positive benefit of belting

It gives you a really good feel-good factor.

You come in full of aches and pains and you can skip out with a big

Just the kind of vibes you could bottle up as medicine.

New groundbreaking research suggests that might not be

This study tested 193 members of five choirs, including this one,

and found that singing in a choir for just an hour can reduce

stress levels and boost the body's immune system.

Giving Pauline, for example, the very best chance

of being receptive to drugs to fight serious illness.

The choir plays a major part in that.

She was diagnosed with cancer in 2011.

She has had chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a mastectomy.

It has been a long road with some dark days.

If I am being honest, I was very angry about having got cancer.

When you're in treatment, you have to concentrate

Thinking, right, I will get through this one

It really does just narrow down to getting through each day.

It just means an awful lot to be around people.

We do not go there to talk about that.

We go there to be together, knowing that it matters

to share with other people, and also to experience

the joy that singing can bring to your life.

Of course, it is no substitute for traditional drug treatments,

but scientists are optimistic that singing and other group feel-good

activities could be used to help fight all kinds of illness.

This ranges from attending a concert, to learning

an instrument, to singing in a choir.

We have worked with people with mental health conditions

and a range of physical conditions as well.

We have found changes in different components

of the immune system, stress hormones, both in long-term

A more in-depth two-year project is now under way to further

explore just how far you could sing your way

Finally, more than half a century of music and revelry

by the Rolling Stones is being celebrated

at a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

There are instruments, costumes, artwork and many other items

Beginning as a blues band in the early 1960s,

charting the rise to the rock giants they are today.

Will Gompertz has been chatting to them all about the secret

"First, you shock them," Mick Jagger once said,

"and then they stick you in a museum," or

All 54 years of the Stones' rock and roll history is laid out in this

sprawling retrospective, the costumes they wore,

the guitars they played, and the global brand they created.

You must feel this sort of welling up of nostalgia.

What do you think the legacy of the Stones is?

It is one of the most important rock bands,

Because of its longevity, the rock band has a cultural history place,

because as you walk through this exhibition, you can see it goes

through all these different eras, all these different things have

It becomes more than just a rock band.

There is a mock-up of life backstage at a Stones gig,

and a re-creation of the fetid flat they shared as teenagers

Keith, what do you think of the show?

I went past the Edith Grove flat and I wanted to crash out.

What would happen if it was today and you were in Edith Grove today,

and you were a bunch of 19- year-old lads?

Today there is so much variety that I do not think the band could happen

The career-spanning exhibition presents a really vivid reminder

of just how long the Stones have been going.

Have you ever tired of it, have you ever thought...?

Used to quit at the end of every tour, it would drive you up

Playing Brown Sugar for the 50th time?

Most people of your age would have retired by now, Charlie.

That is what you think when you're packing the suitcase

up for the 40th bloody time that week.

The band has travelled the globe over the past five decades and has

just returned from an historic and successful trip to Cuba.

Ronnie, you played all over the world, hundreds of thousands

of people, where would you like to play that you have

Apart from Iceland, Reykjavik.

You have never played that?

I would not mind playing Nairobi or somewhere,

What about a trip to North Korea?

Well, there you have it, the Stones roll on.

And that is all from Reporters for this week.