:00:16. > :00:20.Welcome to Reporters, I'm Philippa Thomas.
:00:21. > :00:23.From here in the world's newsroom, we send our reporters to bring
:00:24. > :00:25.you the best news stories from across the globe.
:00:26. > :00:32.The rockets went off, breaking the fall, the capsule is down.
:00:33. > :00:38.David Shukman joins astronaut Tim Peake as he returns, at last,
:00:39. > :00:45.Tim, it's a remarkable sight, you're looking so well.
:00:46. > :00:54.Wyre Davies meets the indigenous tribes risking their lives
:00:55. > :01:01.to save Brazil's rainforests from the illegal loggers.
:01:02. > :01:06.TRANSLATION: This is our land and we will fight to defend it.
:01:07. > :01:24.The disappearing Dead Sea. How the lowest place on the earth is getting
:01:25. > :01:35.lower. Look how far down it has gone over the course of the century. It
:01:36. > :01:43.is still dropping every single day. And we join a British survivor of
:01:44. > :01:47.the terror attack is in Tunisia. -- attacks. It is hard to process it.
:01:48. > :01:51.Chi Chi Izundu joins party-goers as they go deep underground
:01:52. > :01:57.for the world's first ever live gig inside an Icelandic volcano.
:01:58. > :02:11.Well, in his words, it was the best ride of his life.
:02:12. > :02:13.Britain's best-known astronaut, Tim Peake, touched down back
:02:14. > :02:16.on earth this week after six months on board the International
:02:17. > :02:25.His mission has taken him on around 3,000 orbits of Earth,
:02:26. > :02:28.covering a distance of nearly 125 million kilometres.
:02:29. > :02:32.Now back on land, he's still having trouble adjusting to gravity,
:02:33. > :02:35.but says he'd go back into space in a heartbeat.
:02:36. > :02:43.David Shukman was in Kazakhstan to greet him when his team landed.
:02:44. > :02:46.A race to rescue Tim Peake and his two colleagues.
:02:47. > :02:47.A fleet of helicopters rushes across the empty
:02:48. > :02:58.No-one knows exactly where and when the spacecraft will land.
:02:59. > :02:59.I'm the only British journalist on-board.
:03:00. > :03:07.The pilot spots something high above us.
:03:08. > :03:12.The giant parachute, it looks tiny from here,
:03:13. > :03:17.just drifting down through the clouds.
:03:18. > :03:20.The three astronauts on board, Tim Peake among them,
:03:21. > :03:23.making their way back down to earth and it looks like it's
:03:24. > :03:29.By now, radio contact is established, but one
:03:30. > :03:37.Touchdown approaching any second now, I think.
:03:38. > :03:39.There it goes, the rockets went off, breaking the fall.
:03:40. > :03:48.Minutes later, the whole fleet was on the ground and the three
:03:49. > :03:50.spacemen started to be pulled out of the capsule.
:03:51. > :03:53.After six months without any feeling of weight, they were too
:03:54. > :03:59.Our first sight of Tim Peake, looking happy, his mission
:04:00. > :04:08.Tell me how you're feeling right now.
:04:09. > :04:13.Just the smells of Earth, they're so strong.
:04:14. > :04:16.It's wonderful to be back in fresh air.
:04:17. > :04:24.After half a year without feeling the warmth of summer,
:04:25. > :04:30.and still in his space suit, he was overheating.
:04:31. > :04:32.He managed a quick word with his wife, Rebecca.
:04:33. > :04:41.Then he was carried off for a medical check.
:04:42. > :04:44.He wants his time in space to be useful to research.
:04:45. > :04:46.Tim, it's a remarkable sight, you're looking so well.
:04:47. > :05:00.And do you know how many people have followed you on Twitter now?
:05:01. > :05:02.I know, it's been incredible, it really has.
:05:03. > :05:12.I thank everybody who's helped with this mission.
:05:13. > :05:15.With the astronauts being checked, the capsule was rolled upright
:05:16. > :05:18.so that technicians could get to work.
:05:19. > :05:21.An hour after landing and the capsule is still hot,
:05:22. > :05:23.and being this close I can smell how burnt it is.
:05:24. > :05:27.It became charred as it descended through the atmosphere.
:05:28. > :05:30.The spacecraft was returned laden with research samples.
:05:31. > :05:33.The mission is over, but a lot of science gets
:05:34. > :05:41.For the Russians, this operation is routine,
:05:42. > :05:43.but for Britain, it marks the first government-funded space flight
:05:44. > :05:46.and Tim Peake hopes that more will follow.
:05:47. > :05:52.2015 was the most dangerous year ever for environmental activists
:05:53. > :05:55.That's according to the campaign group Global Witness.
:05:56. > :05:58.It says one of the worst countries was Brazil, where 50 people have
:05:59. > :06:02.been killed fighting against illegal loggers and miners.
:06:03. > :06:05.Wyre Davies has been to the Amazon to meet the indigenous
:06:06. > :06:12.tribes on the frontline of Brazil's land invasion.
:06:13. > :06:20.Brazil's indigenous tribes are as diverse as they are numerous.
:06:21. > :06:23.The one thing they have in common today, perhaps above all else,
:06:24. > :06:25.is the relentless, insatiable pressure on their land
:06:26. > :06:33.The Ka'apor people of the eastern Amazon are fewer than
:06:34. > :06:40.The jungle is their home, their source of food,
:06:41. > :06:43.and they have minimal contact with modern Brazil.
:06:44. > :06:50.But their lives and their lands are under constant threat.
:06:51. > :06:53.This is our land and we will fight to defend it, says the village
:06:54. > :06:58.chief, as the tribal council meets to discuss the latest threat.
:06:59. > :07:00.Since 2008, six Ka'apor leaders have been killed for trying
:07:01. > :07:07.to protect their land from illegal loggers and miners.
:07:08. > :07:10.For the Ka'apor, maintaining a traditional way of life and living
:07:11. > :07:13.in and off the forest is what their existence
:07:14. > :07:16.is all about and they are prepared to defend it at all costs,
:07:17. > :07:19.but it puts them into direct conflict with others
:07:20. > :07:21.from the outside who want access to the Amazon's precious
:07:22. > :07:24.More than 5,000 square kilometres of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
:07:25. > :07:31.80% of that is thought to be illegally cut and exported timber.
:07:32. > :07:37.Brazil's environment agencies are fighting back, but they're
:07:38. > :07:39.often up against powerful and corrupt business interests.
:07:40. > :07:41.TRANSLATION: We're facing a situation of organised crime,
:07:42. > :07:44.well structured and supported by people with money, using poor
:07:45. > :07:57.A new report says at least 50 environmental defenders,
:07:58. > :08:00.indigenous leaders and rural campaigners, were murdered in Brazil
:08:01. > :08:25.The perpetrators are rarely, if ever, caught.
:08:26. > :08:34.The man who she is warm and's husband have never been caught. A
:08:35. > :08:39.cross marks his grave. TRANSLATION: My life has no value. Nothing. I
:08:40. > :08:52.husband was threatened they and night and refused to leave this
:08:53. > :08:54.land. -- my husband. -- my husband. I wanted to stay where he died but
:08:55. > :08:56.my son did not let me. While threats and intimidation have
:08:57. > :08:58.forced some communities to give up the struggle,
:08:59. > :09:02.it's not an option for the Ka'apor. Small in number, with their own
:09:03. > :09:04.language and traditions, this is more than a fight
:09:05. > :09:24.for their land, it's The Dead Sea. For years, there has
:09:25. > :09:29.been fears it might live up to its name and died. There is a plan to
:09:30. > :09:34.build a water carrier from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea which might help
:09:35. > :09:41.solve it. Bart its waters are shrinking at an alarming rate. --
:09:42. > :09:46.But. The surface of the Dead Sea. It is the lowest point on the face of
:09:47. > :09:52.the earth and it is getting lower. The level of the dense mineral rich
:09:53. > :09:57.water is dropping at the rate of more than a metre a year. 100 years
:09:58. > :10:02.ago, British engineers marked the level of the waters of the Dead Sea
:10:03. > :10:07.here, high up on this rock. How much have things changed? Look how far
:10:08. > :10:12.the level has dropped over the course of the century. And it is
:10:13. > :10:18.still dropping every single day. As the waters retreat, thousands or
:10:19. > :10:24.sinkholes are forming. -- of. They are created, and underground pockets
:10:25. > :10:29.of salt collapse. They give the landscape a kind of lunar beauty.
:10:30. > :10:34.But they can be bad for business. The buildings of this beach resort
:10:35. > :10:39.collapsed into a sink all last year and now it has closed down. The
:10:40. > :10:44.effect, like a slow motion earthquake. -- sink hole. Even the
:10:45. > :10:53.resorts that remain are struggling. This one opened 30 years ago on the
:10:54. > :10:57.Israeli sure. The waves reached these beach umbrella is. -- shore.
:10:58. > :11:03.Now it is a two kilometre ride on the tourist train to the water.
:11:04. > :11:11.Every year, the right gets longer and the future seems more uncertain.
:11:12. > :11:15.-- ride. It has been a bad life in the last few years because you are
:11:16. > :11:25.seeing your homeland, your home landscape, disappearing, shrinking,
:11:26. > :11:29.and you know that maybe your children and grandchildren will not
:11:30. > :11:35.be left something that you grew up in. The tourists keep coming. Some
:11:36. > :11:42.like the way in sea of the super salty water that is impossible to
:11:43. > :11:49.sink in. -- buoyancy. Others find something magical and medicinal in
:11:50. > :11:54.the mud. It makes you feel so good, free and stressless, like you are
:11:55. > :12:01.living in another place. The ones mighty river Jordan was the Dead
:12:02. > :12:10.Sea's main source of water. -- once. Now it is dying itself. More people
:12:11. > :12:13.are tapping into the rivers of the Middle East to water their farms and
:12:14. > :12:20.feed their people. This bone dry landscape was once a hydroelectric
:12:21. > :12:27.power station. The river that drove it has dried to a trickle. Jordan
:12:28. > :12:35.and Israel still evaporate the waters for its valuable deposits of
:12:36. > :12:40.phosphates. Salt residue producers a landscape that is almost arctic in
:12:41. > :12:43.the desert sun. A small group of Jordanian families was found here in
:12:44. > :12:49.this harsh landscape and has been here for generations. Now the ground
:12:50. > :13:08.has disintegrated beneath them as sinkholes appear here, too.
:13:09. > :13:15.But where it does retreat, nature sometimes returns. Our cameras
:13:16. > :13:22.filming at this camping ground, abandoned because of sinkholes only
:13:23. > :13:28.last year, caught a lens of this herd of Ibics, a type of desert
:13:29. > :13:32.goat, moving back in. There is a plan to save the Dead Sea by pumping
:13:33. > :13:37.water across the deserts to the south from the Red Sea. It will be
:13:38. > :13:43.expensive, the governments in the region say it is worth it, and it
:13:44. > :13:53.will happen, though. In the meantime, though, the sea continues
:13:54. > :13:58.to dwindle. BBC News. Nigeria has had some limited recent success
:13:59. > :14:01.against the militants of Boko Haram, but the frustration of the campaign
:14:02. > :14:06.of violence has led to a rise in the number of vigilante groups. It was
:14:07. > :14:10.one such group that found the first of the missing Chibok schoolgirls
:14:11. > :14:13.last month. Hundreds of other girls are still thought to be held by Boko
:14:14. > :14:19.Haram since they were kidnapped two years ago. We have been to Boko
:14:20. > :14:24.Haram's former stronghold of Maiduguri to meet the Nigerians
:14:25. > :14:30.taking the law into their own hands. They are preparing for a routine
:14:31. > :14:37.control. These vigilantes are the ever present guardians of eastern
:14:38. > :14:42.Nigeria. Their hunting guns many appear menacing, but they also have
:14:43. > :14:48.local knowledge the enemy and their allies can not match. They were the
:14:49. > :14:56.one group successful in finding some of the missing Chibok schoolgirls.
:14:57. > :14:58.The news was appreciated nationwide, and began when they got an
:14:59. > :15:20.unexpected from the vigilantes. His sister had been missing for two
:15:21. > :15:24.years, but was now back home alive. The news has given the parents of
:15:25. > :15:30.the other missing girls a sense of renewed hope that they also can be
:15:31. > :15:35.just as fortunate. TRANSLATION: When I heard, I said to myself, is it
:15:36. > :15:41.really true? Is it true that she was reunited with her mother? Could my
:15:42. > :15:47.own child be found? If only I could just see my daughter, that would be
:15:48. > :15:52.enough. Combined with the military's own successes, the progress made
:15:53. > :15:59.against the insurgency is good news for the public. Residents in
:16:00. > :16:03.Maiduguri are attempting to restore their will society to what it was
:16:04. > :16:07.before the troubles began. Now there is a sense amongst people here that
:16:08. > :16:11.the worst is now behind them and they can rebuild their city. Schools
:16:12. > :16:15.and public places were common targets for jihad the attacks. But
:16:16. > :16:20.the cloud of fear that would have kept people away has since been
:16:21. > :16:23.lifted in many places. One problem that has emerged, though, is the
:16:24. > :16:27.stigma often faced by the women who are believed to have suffered sexual
:16:28. > :16:31.violence under Boko Haram and had children as a result. How do you
:16:32. > :16:35.think your sister will cope when it comes to getting back into life as
:16:36. > :16:54.normal and reintegrating into society?
:16:55. > :16:59.This might spoil some hope for other former captives of Boko Haram, as
:17:00. > :17:03.they and their communities hope for the end of a painful conflict. The
:17:04. > :17:07.vigilantes might not get a lot of praise for their role in fighting
:17:08. > :17:16.for peace but they are content in keeping themselves and their homes
:17:17. > :17:21.safe. It is almost a year since gunmen opened fire on a beach in
:17:22. > :17:26.Tunisia, killing 38 tourists, 30 of whom were from the UK. It was the
:17:27. > :17:31.greatest loss of British life in a terror attacks in the London
:17:32. > :17:38.bombings in 2005. The self-styled Islamic State claimed responsibility
:17:39. > :17:42.for the result on the -- assault on the resort of Sousse. One survivor
:17:43. > :17:51.wanted to return to Tunisia and the BBC took him back for what he called
:17:52. > :17:56.a journey of healing. Orla Guerin went with him. All right, let's do
:17:57. > :18:01.it. Let's do it. Psyching himself up to face the past and all its trauma.
:18:02. > :18:07.Colin Bidwell returns to the imperial hotel, a difficult journey
:18:08. > :18:32.that he wanted to make. Amateur footage captured the chaos.
:18:33. > :18:46.And here, the gunmen stalking the short where Colin and his wife Chris
:18:47. > :18:50.lay sunbathing. -- shore. He leads me to the beach which became a
:18:51. > :18:55.killing ground. I just had my headphones on, just heard some
:18:56. > :19:00.sounds, just thought fireworks, like everyone else did. Just turned and
:19:01. > :19:05.looked at my wife on the sunbed next to me, and she was already off the
:19:06. > :19:11.sunbed. Running in that direction. I just decided to run straight down
:19:12. > :19:16.the beach. Into the sea. I could still hear everything still going
:19:17. > :19:25.on. You never forget that sound. You never forget the sound. What can I
:19:26. > :19:31.say? Than a reunion with Mahmood. Thank you, thank you. He rescued:
:19:32. > :19:37.and other tourists from the sea. Thank you so much, thank you for
:19:38. > :19:41.what you did. It was a very good thing you did for me, you saved my
:19:42. > :19:47.life -- Colin. I think I was here, was I? Went Colin was pulled from
:19:48. > :19:55.the water he realised he had been grazed by two alerts. You pulled me
:19:56. > :19:59.up there, that is where I was. Yes. Thank you, Mahmood. At the local
:20:00. > :20:03.hospital he searches for the wards where he and other victims were
:20:04. > :20:11.treated by staff who were in shock themselves. I heard someone firing a
:20:12. > :20:17.gun. This was Colin just after the attack. Now he is here with a
:20:18. > :20:20.message of gratitude. Just to say thank you very much, from everybody,
:20:21. > :20:32.from the survivors that you treated here. We were so sorry. So were we.
:20:33. > :20:36.Back at the beach Colin is hoping there will be a full recovery for
:20:37. > :20:40.the victims and for Tunisia. I hope and pray it becomes a safe country.
:20:41. > :20:44.That other people can come back here and help the economy, because the
:20:45. > :20:51.economy has been ruined just because of one person. And there are still a
:20:52. > :20:55.lot of survivors that will be scared to come back, and I understand that.
:20:56. > :21:02.I was scared to come back here but for me it was a process. I had to do
:21:03. > :21:07.it. I had to process it, to put me in a better place, where I am today.
:21:08. > :21:12.But for Colin and other survivors, nothing can wash away the horror of
:21:13. > :21:20.what happened on the Golden sands of Sousse. Now for a festival with a
:21:21. > :21:27.difference. The world's first-ever live music
:21:28. > :21:31.performance inside a volcano. As the festival season gets under
:21:32. > :21:34.way, it is an attempt by organisers to stand out
:21:35. > :21:36.in a crowded market. Chi Chi Izundu joined
:21:37. > :21:38.revellers as they headed down Not your average
:21:39. > :21:45.journey to a festival. For this gig, there are only two
:21:46. > :21:48.ways to get to the venue. A hike across lava fields,
:21:49. > :21:55.with the changeable Icelandic weather,
:21:56. > :21:57.or, if you can afford And the 20 tickets made available
:21:58. > :22:10.sold out in just ten days. This volcano erupted 4,500 years
:22:11. > :22:12.ago, but they only allowed the public to have
:22:13. > :22:18.access five years ago. The journey to get to this part
:22:19. > :22:21.is via this special lift, and it would be the same, nearly,
:22:22. > :22:25.as me scaling Big Ben Over the past decade,
:22:26. > :22:35.the explosion of festivals means Annually, tens of thousands
:22:36. > :22:45.happen across Europe alone and with the summer spent
:22:46. > :22:48.going from one to another, even this is a standout event
:22:49. > :22:50.for the international artist. You know, when I was asked to do
:22:51. > :22:58.this, my first thought was, will I ever get a chance to do
:22:59. > :23:02.something like this ever again? And so it's definitely something
:23:03. > :23:08.different for the festival. But, with the hefty price
:23:09. > :23:12.tag, was it worth it? Even not knowing what bands
:23:13. > :23:14.were performing, I knew that the experience
:23:15. > :23:18.in and of itself was worth it. Also being a part of something
:23:19. > :23:20.for the first time, obviously, I don't want to leave,
:23:21. > :23:31.I don't want to get the lift back up,
:23:32. > :23:33.I want to stay down here. Events like this aren't
:23:34. > :23:35.cheap to put on, either, so it doesn't guarantee
:23:36. > :23:36.the festival's survival. The rapid deterioration
:23:37. > :23:40.of the weather meant an evacuation Trust the weather to put
:23:41. > :23:55.a dampener on things! That's all from Reporters
:23:56. > :23:57.for this week. From me, Philippa Thomas,
:23:58. > :24:16.goodbye for now. As the thunderstorms
:24:17. > :24:21.rattled around once again, our Weather Watchers were out
:24:22. > :24:25.there capturing all sorts