09/07/2016 Reporters

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And it blew up all the vehicles with him.

As the Chilcot report delivers its verdict on Britain's

wartime legacy, Jeremy Bowen reports on how Islamic State has gained

Welcome to Jupiter Rebecca Morrell joins Nasa scientists as the Juno

space probe arrives at the giant planet after a five-year journey.

After more than a decade's worth of work and a 2.8 billion kilometre

journey through space, Juno is the closest we've

Nancy investigates how low-cost toilets in Nairobi slums

are providing much-needed sanitation and helping the environment.

# Take me out to the ball game...# And the legend of Babe Ruth.

Jane O'Brien reveals the private side of America's superstar athlete.

Babe Ruth really is immortal in many ways.

This week saw the long-awaited publication of the Chilcot report,

the UK inquiry into the Iraq war which heavily criticised the British

government for helping the United States to invade before

all peaceful options had been exhausted.

Since the British and Americans withdrew, Iraq has been gripped

by sectarian violence which has allowed so-called

Suicide car bombings in Baghdad this week killed 165 people, one

The violence followed the Iraqi army success in driving Islamic State out

of the city of Falluja, from where Jeremy Bowen sent this

assessment of the state of Iraq today.

Losing this town so hurt the jihadists of Islamic State

that they lashed out by massacring civilians in Baghdad.

Iraq's perpetual war was caused by a chain of consequences that

Iraq's invaders, the US and Britain, removed a hated dictator

and dissolved his army and state, but then made no real plan

to rebuild the country they had broken.

They improvised and made matters worse.

IS fighters still lie where they died in Falluja streets.

Jihadists were not in Iraq before the invasion and Shia

and Sunni Muslims, whose sectarian civil war started

during the occupation, could coexist.

They bomb because there are a lot of Isis members here.

In this 13th year of war, elite units of the Iraqi army took

the lead in Falluja, helped by American air strikes.

The bodies of more than a dozen jihadists lay rotting in the rubble.

So-called Islamic State grew out of Al-Qaeda which took root in Iraq

in the chaos that followed the invasion.

Before they were killed, IS, also known as Daesh, had rigged

Yes, he just pulled it and then it blows up

So this was intended for a suicide mission.

After defeat in Falluja, IS put a much bigger one into Baghdad.

In a suburban house IS set up a prison.

This isn't the only private jail in Iran.

In a fractured country, arbitary imprisonment

IS chain prisoners in cages the size of the kennels.

To get power and keep it, politicians and warlords in Iraq

The jihadists of Islamic State would not have been able to take

such a grip on Iraq without the sectarian conflict

Now the argument between Shias and Sunnis goes back 1,400 years,

but the invasion in 2003 had the effect of redefining

and supercharging it for the 21st century.

Around 45,000 Sunnis are in a camp outside Falluja.

All displaced by the fighting and seen as potential

IS sympathisers by Shia led security forces.

They get the basics for survival, but most aren't

Unicef says one in five Iraqi children, 3.6 million,

are at serious risk because of the war.

A bullet hit this girl as they escaped Falluja.

Witnesses at the camp said hundreds of men were taken away as they left

the town and beaten by Shia militias looking for IS fighters.

This four-year-old girl is hoping her father will arrive

The men who were beaten are all too frightened to be identified.

One of them said he saw Shia militiamen beat the little

TRANSLATION: One said, the Shia have come for you.

We will take for Sunnis for every man we have lost.

Police try to control food queues by firing into the air.

Iraqis have often made matters worse for themselves, but mistakes made

by the United States and Britain pushed Iraq down the

Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Falluja.

It is the biggest planet in our solar system and the oldest

and yet we still know surprisingly little about Jupiter

But now after a five-year journey the Nasa probe Juno has finally

It hopes to hopes to uncover answers to some of Jupiter's mysteries,

including the influence it had on the formation of planet Earth

Rebecca Morrelle was at mission control in California.

A tense wait at mission control to learn the fate of Nasa's

After a decade's worth of work and a 2.8 billion kilometre

journey through space, Juno is the closest we have ever

So we prepared a contingency communications procedure,

Over the next 20 months Juno will complete 37 orbits.

Skirting just over the top of Jupiter's thick atmosphere,

it will give us our best ever views of the giant red spot.

The colossal storm that has raged for hundreds of years,

and for the first time peer through the clouds to finally reveal

Its raft of scientific instruments could even shed light on the origins

Born from a cloud of gas and dust, Jupiter has

Jupiter is so massive that 1000 Earths could sit inside it and as it

spins every ten hours, it takes everything with it.

Huge storms on its surface and Juno is going to unlock its secrets.

Jupiter's intense magnetic field generates bands of deadly radiation.

As the spacecraft flies through them it will experience the equivalent

Jupiter's just lit up with a spectacular aurora.

Next monthly data begins to pull back, finally eliminating

It was a bit of a roller-coaster week for Hillary Clinton.

First she nearly faced criminal charges after the FBI found she had

used a private e-mail account to receive secret government

material whilst she was Secretary of State, but then she received

an enthusiastic endorsement from President Obama

as he made his first appearance with her during the campaign

He said they had never been any man or woman more

Nick Bryant sent this report from North Carolina.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on an airborne mission

to prevent Donald Trump from ever boarding this plane.

The president is using the form might of his office to help her

become his successor, but it was another branch

of the federal government, the FBI, that has threatened

So today's statement from the FBI director was one of the most eagerly

awaited in years and made all the modern dramatic

because so much of it sounded like the prosecution's opening

Hillary Clinton and her staff had been extremely careless

he said in the handling of very sensitive information.

The FBI discovered more than 100 classified e-mails on the servers,

something she had always claimed was not the case.

But on the central question of whether she should face criminal

Although there is evidence of potential violations

of the statutes regarding the handling of classified

information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor

As they journeyed to their first joint campaign appearance,

an event that was already in the diary, the White House

said they didn't discuss the investigation and no

Instead she turned her fire on to Donald Trump.

Can you imagine him sitting in the Oval Office the next time

The world hangs on every word our president says,

and Donald Trump is simply unqualified and temperamentally

unfit to be our president and commander-in-chief.

Then from her former boss the most glowing of job references.

There has never been any man or woman more qualified

for this office than Hillary Clinton.

President Obama has basically become Hillary Clinton's

character witness in chief, but doubts remain about her

Within minutes Donald Trump had taken to Twitter,

expressing disbelief at the FBI's commend Asian.

The legal cloud that has been hanging over her campaign

may have been lifted, but this e-mail storm

Nick Bryant, BBC News, North Carolina.

Britain's vote to leave the EU, or Brexit as it is known,

has sparked concern across Europe, particularly in places like Greece

which had its own Grexit fears last year and is also a haven

A senior tourism official in Greece has told the BBC that 200,000 fewer

British tourists may travel there next year

As Richard Galpin reports, it will only add to concerns

A thriving family business in the Peloponnese.

This factory processing thousands of tons of currants every year,

all to be packed up and exported to Britain.

But now these currants are more expensive for British buyers

because the pound has fallen against the euro

It's also possible tariffs will be imposed on exports to Britain

because leaving the European Union could mean Britain

For what is an expanding company, tariffs would be disastrous,

This would probably kill the currant trade, not only for us,

but for all Greek exports of currants, which has been

a traditional product and therefore we will try our best to avoid that.

But if it happens, then we must find other markets, which is not easy.

But at least the Papa Demetriou brand has diversified with other

popular food products being sold around the world.

While these are clearly uncertain times

for export companies like this one, there is a very big sector

of the Greek economy which is already feeling

vulnerable and that is the all-important tourism industry.

Tourism brings in around 15 billion euros a year here and Greece

is an extremely popular destination for British holiday-makers.

But now their holidays cost more because the pound has weakened

The bad scenario of an exchange rate of about 1.20 of the pound

to the euro means we are going to lose 200,000 visitors next year

I think this is the most possible scenario, but again,

still very early to talk about numbers because we could get

much worse scenarios or even better ones.

The last thing Greece needs now is for tourism or any other industry

to shrink as it struggles to cope with the continuing

And while the full impact of Brexit on this country is not yet known,

Two years since the British government banned khat,

and African plant used as a stimulant mainly

by the Somali community, the BBC has seen evidence

it is still being sold on the streets of London.

It is understood the substance is now being smuggled

and sold for three or four times its previous value.

Britain was the last country in Europe to ban it.

Salim Kikeke has been to investigate illegal

Bags of dried khat sold in a London shop.

A user will need at least three of these bags to get a fix.

This dried khat I am told is from Ethiopia and the reason it

has been dried is to transport it more easily.

Abdi used to sell khat before the ban.

He claims it is easy to smuggle it in the UK.

For his own safety he did not want to be identified.

It comes through the post and it comes to the airport

A lot of people are involved in this business.

When it was legal, close to 3,000 tonnes of khat was brought

into the UK every year and that's according to the British Advisory

People found with khat for personal use could be fined up to ?60.

Supplying khat, however, carries up to a 14 year jail sentence.

The amount of khat smuggled into the UK at the moment is not

known, but some of the users have started a petition asking

the government to change its mind on the ban, although it has not

This cafe in East London used to be a popular point for chewing khat.

Now most people who used to chew, meet here to smoke shisha.

When khat was here, I was quite bad on it.

Since I stopped it, I am much better.

It is expensive right now compared to before.

Before they used to get cheap money, they used to spend about ?30,

But now it is 100, 150 if they get it.

And some argue that it is the high prices for khat and with customers

who are willing to pay it is motivation enough

for smugglers to keep the Ibeagha trade going.

Salim Kikeke BBC News, London.

More than a third of the global population lacks

In Kenya a new social project is trying not only to

produce access to sanitation, but also to the environment

and as our correspondent has been finding out,

it is doing it all with toilets using sawdust instead of water.

After heavy rains it's almost impossible

to navigate the roads here in this informal settlement in Nairobi.

The rain also fills up the open sewers,

hinting at a much more serious problem.

In places like this proper sanitation is a major issue.

In fact, it's a life-threatening one.

But could a solution to this challenge be found in a challenge

Well this community is certainly hoping so.

By linking a shortage in proper sanitation facilities to a shortage

in local fertiliser, one company is hoping that they can

This man operates one of the toilets as part

of a fresh approach to an old problem.

He charges less than one US cent per use.

There used to be a lot of waste along the fence.

That is certain pads for ladies, diapers for babies.

The girls have been using the toilets now.

Tissue is provided, as well as soap and water to wash your hands.

No need for water to flush with though, just add sawdust.

This doesn't just circumvent the lack of

piped water, it's also important for the next step,

Nairobi is housing about 4 million people and 1 million of those people

These people produce over 10,000 tonnes of waste every day.

Only some of it is formally treated, meaning so much of

this waste is going into the environment.

Waste from these toilets is brought to this treatment

Here it is composted to remove harmful bacteria then matured into

But getting people used to the idea of products from human

waste is taking some deliberate effort.

So we have a system where we harvest the crop from our trial farm

and distribute them to farmers elsewhere and even to our staff,

just to encourage the thought that crops that use fertiliser that is

human derived, human waste derived, is safe to use.

Fertiliser isn't the only by-product.

Some of it is fed to the larvae of these black soldier flies.

They removed the pathogens and turn the waste into proteins,

producing a nutritious feed for animals.

The reusing of waste is a boon to the environment and the toilets

where the process begins address a real need in a place where eight

out of ten people don't have one in their homes.

This is a model that can provide relief in

more ways than one, if communities choose to embrace it.

Now, if you are into baseball, long before Le Bron,

The slugger was America's first superstar athlete and a new

exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery features artefacts

and photos from his extraordinary life.

Is it really possible to say anything new about Babe Ruth?

Almost 70 years after his death, he is

still the world's most famous and best loved baseball player.

But this tiny exhibition at the National Portrait

Gallery offers a more intimate look at the legend.

This family snap shows Babe Ruth with his wife and a toddler

In fact, the child was Babe Ruth's daughter with another woman.

He had a private life and what a private life he had.

It was scandalous, but he knew that things would not be published.

So individuals had a sense of privacy that is gone today.

Babe Ruth was an American original, an icon to

He spent time with children in particular and

despite his fame, remained open and accessible to all his fans.

This is one of the first photographs Babe Ruth signed after transferring

Like all his autographs, it is painstakingly written

with his right hand, even though he was left-handed.

And long after his death, his image endures.

This cover for Time magazine was published in 1976 to celebrate

Babe Ruth will always be Babe Ruth through the ages and even though

his home-run record has been broken by Hank Aaron, that mark of 714

It will be noted the next player to reach 714, it

And there are very few people who will ever reach that.

So Babe Ruth really is immortal in many ways

And indeed the most moving photo in the exhibition is one

Babe Ruth, his face ravaged by cancer, with his back to

the camera, but still the unmistakable star.

And that is all from Reporters this week.

From me, Christian Fraser, goodbye for now.