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Now on BBC News it's time for Reporters. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:03 | |
Welcome to Reporters. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:16 | |
I'm Philippa Thomas. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
In this week's programme... | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
CHANTING: Justice for Michael Brown! | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
The New Black Panthers - as racial tensions rise | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
in the United States, Gabriel Gatehouse meets | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
the African-Americans arming themselves with guns to protect | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
themselves from the police. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
But down that road leads to war, surely? | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
We are at war. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
Yeah, we are already at war. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
Ten years after Israel's war with Hezbollah, Katy Watson joins | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Israeli forces guarding the Lebanese border against attacks by the group. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:54 | |
WHISPERING: We've got to the stakeout. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:55 | |
We had to scramble down the hillside in complete darkness, | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
and we can't talk beyond a whisper. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
We are 500 metres away from Lebanon. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:07 | |
India's fat tax - Sameer Hashmi asks whether one state's idea for making | 0:01:07 | 0:01:12 | |
fast food more expensive is the way to stop obesity. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:18 | |
And a history of the Wimbledon tennis ball. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Graham Satchel takes a trip down memory lane to hear from the former | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
factory workers who made them for decades. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
If it bounces like that, it's no good. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
If it bounces like that, it's fine. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
You have to go back decades to find a time when race relations | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
in the United States were as fraught as they are now. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
But if you do go back to the 60s and 70s, you might remember | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
the Black Panther movement, a party of armed political radicals | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
challenging police brutality. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
Well, now there's a new Black Panther party, | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
and there is a new move among black Americans to carry guns, | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
in what's being seen by some as a kind of arms race | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
with the police. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
Gabriel Gatehouse has been in Dallas meeting some of them. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
GUNFIRE Keep going, back-up, back-up! | 0:02:13 | 0:02:20 | |
My biggest threat is the police department. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
They're the biggest gang in our country. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
CHANTING What is happening? | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
What is happening to our country? | 0:02:34 | 0:02:40 | |
We are already at war. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
We already have casualties of war. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
And we're just sitting there, and all of a sudden | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
we hear tat-tat-tat-tat... | 0:02:52 | 0:02:52 | |
They're shooting now, and there is an officer down... | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
And people are running... | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
It began as a peaceful protest against the killing | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
of black men by police, and it ended with Micah Johnson, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
a black man, shooting five police officers dead. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:13 | |
I felt hurt, but I also felt hurt because we had to march for those | 0:03:15 | 0:03:22 | |
four brothers that had been killed by the police. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
He said we saw Alton Sterling being assassinated... | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
Olinka Green was one of the organisers of the protest, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:37 | |
which marched under the banner Black Lives Matter. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
The killer told police he was not affiliated with any organisation, | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
but he had shown an interest on social media in various black | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
power groups in Dallas. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
I don't know the guy, I don't know the shooter, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
but I can tell you if you opress a people for so long, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:55 | |
the revolt is inevitable. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Can I just be clear - you are not advocating | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
shooting police officers? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:00 | |
Just to be clear. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:01 | |
Not at all. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
We're not advocating shooting police officers at all. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
We are advocating survival, survival of our people. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
Here in Dallas, people really are coming together around | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
the police force, and it is worth just taking a look at the numbers. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
26 police officers have been shot dead in the line of duty | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
across America so far this year. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
The number of people killed, shot dead, by police officers, | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
so far this year, is over 500. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
Just under half of those were white, and around a quarter | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
were black, but when you dig into the demographics, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
you find a stark truth. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
And that is if you are black in America, you are 2.5 times more | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
likely to be shot dead by the police than if you're white. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
CHANTING: Justice for Michael Brown! | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
Justice for Michael Brown! | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
Justice for Eric Garner! | 0:04:53 | 0:04:54 | |
Justice for Eric Garner! | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
A group called the Huey P Newton Gun Club is calling on black people | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
to legally arm themselves. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
Huey P Newton was one of the founders of the Black | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
Panthers. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:05 | |
The Gun Club is affiliated with the New Black Panther Party, | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
which has chapters across the United States. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
They hold occasional demonstrations in the Dallas area, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
where they parade, in public, guns on display, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
which is legal in Texas. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
This man is affiliated with the gun club. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
Then I keep my .40 on me. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:29 | |
This has no safety on it. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
It is fully loaded - there is one in the chamber | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
at all times, so that means that if I need to I just aim and squeeze. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:41 | |
We talked a lot about the police. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
Are they the only threat around? | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
I mean, who is your biggest threat? | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
My biggest threat is the police department. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
There's the biggest gang in our country. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
Like the killing of Philando Castile, one of the deaths that | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
sparked the demonstration in Dallas on Thursday, many fatal | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
shootings by police begin as a simple traffic stop, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
for something as innocuous as a broken tail-light. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
We can't even see past tomorrow, because tomorrow is not | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
promised for me. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
I can leave here right now and be pulled over for a traffic stop, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
like that young man did, Philando Castile, and end up dead | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
and not make it home to my family. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
Against this backdrop, Dallas waited for a visit | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
from America's first black president. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
Among the congregation at the Friendship West Baptist Church, | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
many have mixed feelings about Obama's record | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
on standing up for their court. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
Don't put all this on police - we put this on America. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
Can we hurt for the families of the slain police officers, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
and the families of Alton, and the families of Philando? | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
APPLAUSE. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
All I'm trying to say, Mr President, if you're | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
going to come to Dallas, you need to go to Baton Rouge, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
you need to go to Minnesota, you need to go to Staten Island... | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
You need to go to every place where there has been an unnecessary | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
slaying of a black life - that's what's up. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
APPLAUSE. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
This was a mixed audience, including representatives | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
from mothers' groups, members of the Nation | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
of Islam, and supporters of the Huey P Newton Gun Club. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
There's a lot of talk here about local democracy, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
about making the law work for the black community, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
about building bridges with other communities, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
but there are also some people here who are re-examining | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
the founding principles of American democracy. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
There are some - not all - but some in this room who see | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
the second Amendment, the right to bear arms, | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
that was written into the constitution so that Americans | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
could defend themselves from an oppressive Government that | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
didn't represent them, and here, in the 21st | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
century, they are taking inspiration from that. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
The liberal idea that the solution to America's gun violence | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
is gun-control does not find favour here. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:09 | |
Guns don't kill people. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
Police with guns kill people - we see this every day | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
in our country. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
And they kill people and they go home without any consequence. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
But don't police with guns kill people because they're worried | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
that they've got guns, and isn't that the vicious cycle? | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
That's the rhetoric that they use, that's the propaganda that they use, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
but they've been killing us even before guns. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
They don't even have to have guns to kill us - | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
the killed Eric Garner by choking him to death. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
Guns are the only sanctuary we have to keeping the police off of us. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
But the implication of what you are saying is very | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
scary, because if you are saying that only defence you have | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
from your own weapon, then down that road | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
leads to war, surely? | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
We are at war. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Yeah, we are already at war. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
We already have casualties of war. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
When the Civil War was fought, did the North go to war | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
without guns to face the South? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:01 | |
Doesn't the battlefield need to be even? | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Because, if not, what happens? | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
We lose it. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
What else do we have? | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
We've tried prayer, we've tried everything else. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
We tried dialogue - do you know what I'm saying? | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
I don't want to see it go to war but, hey, what do we have left? | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
I not advocating this, but what is happening? | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
What is happening? | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
What is happening to our country, where you turn on your TV | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
and within two days, two black men, who ain't did nothing | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
to nobody are slaughtered... | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
There are plenty of people who feel deeply uneasy about the idea | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
that their best protection against their own police force | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
is to carry a gun, but advocates of arming the black community | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
are not confined to Dallas, and the killing of five officers | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
here last week seems certain to deepen America's already | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
deadly racial divide. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
Gabriel Gatehouse reporting from Dallas. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
The family of Marie Colvin, the veteran Sunday Times | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
correspondent killed in Syria, are suing the regime | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
of President Assad, accusing it of a policy | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
of deliberately killing journalists. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Lawyers for the family see documents smuggled out of Syria show | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
that the regime tracked Marie Colvin before directing the | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
artillery strike that killed her four years ago. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
A lawsuit has been filed in Washington. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
A warning - Paul Wood's report contains material some | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
of you may find distressing. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
In February of 2012, the Syrian regime was | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
shelling the rebels of Baba Amr into submission. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:42 | |
The area was cut off, the only way it was through an underground | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
tunnel two miles long. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
Among the few foreign journalists to reach | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
Baba Amr was Marie Colvin. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
Driven, gifted, celebrated by her peers, this was | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
to be her last story. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
I watched a little baby die today. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
Absolutely horrific, just a two-year-old being hit. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:13 | |
They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
into the left chest. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
And the doctor just said, "I can't do anything," | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
and his little tummy was just heaving until he died. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
That is happening over and over and over. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:31 | |
The Colvin family believe that broadcast was traced by Syrian | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
intelligence and used to locate the Baba Amr media centre. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:45 | |
The attack on the journalists was ordered that night, the family say. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:51 | |
Marie Colvin and a French journalist, Remi | 0:11:51 | 0:11:52 | |
Ochlik, were killed. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
Marie's photographer, Paul Conroy, was injured. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
What I will say to this day, there is no room for doubt | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
that it was a professional attack, and the location - | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
it was not an accidental strike on that building. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
Once they found it they kept hitting it, which was also unusual. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
They tended to just move on, in Baba Amr. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
So I have no doubt, from the evidence then, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
that it was a deliberate attack. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
This was an assassination, the Colvin family say, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
ordered by the highest levels of the Syrian regime. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
The lawsuit says there was a policy to kill journalists, decided | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
by President Assad's war cabinet. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
The conspirators are said to include the president's brother, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
Maher al-Assad. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
And the President's trusted intelligence chief, Ali Mamlouk. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:48 | |
The deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat is said to have | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
declared, "We could destroy Baba Amr in ten minutes, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
if there were no cameras." | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
One of those who organised the attack was given a reward | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
by the Assad family, it is claimed - a black | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
luxury saloon car. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
I am really proud to be able to bring the lawsuit. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
We know who Marie's killers are now. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
I want them to be brought to justice, I want them | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
to be held accountable. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
I'm very sensitive to the suffering of the Syrian people, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
so I know I'm not the only one who has lost a sister. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
My mum is not only one who is mourning the loss of her daughter. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:33 | |
It is quite possible that the Syrian government simply tries | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
to ignore this lawsuit. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
If so, the court won't get the chance to examine its claims, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
but the murder of journalists is just one more crime among many | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
the Syrian regime stands accused of. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
The Colvin family hope the lawsuit will be a reminder of that, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
as some in the international community seek to rehabilitate | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
President Assad. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:56 | |
Paul Wood, BBC News, Washington. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
It's been ten years since Israel fought a war against Hezbollah | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
in southern Lebanon. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
Some Israelis still refer to the conflict with the Lebanese Shia | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
militant group as a national trauma. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:13 | |
Civilians in the north of the country came under attack, | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
and Israel hit back - hard. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
But many feel the army could have been better prepared and now, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
a decade later, Israel is thought to be readying itself | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
for a new war with Hezbollah. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:28 | |
Katy Watson was given exclusive access to a night-time stakeout | 0:14:28 | 0:14:33 | |
with the Israeli defence forces along the Lebanese border. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
We are with soldiers preparing for a surveillance mission. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:43 | |
Packing up their kit for three days, hiding out in the bush. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:50 | |
The military says it has learned lessons - | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
it has had to raise its game and treat Hezbollah as stronger more | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
professional fighting force. | 0:14:55 | 0:15:00 | |
WHISPERING: We've got to the stakeout. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
We had to scramble down the hillside in complete darkness, | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
and we can't talk beyond a whisper. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
Now over in the distance we are 500 metres away from Lebanon. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:13 | |
They are keeping an eye on the movements of | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Hezbollah operatives. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:16 | |
The soldiers tell me they can see weapons being stored in areas | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
where civilians live. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
EXPLOSION. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:23 | |
The war ten years ago is seen by some Israelis | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
is a national trauma. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
It was a conflict that many feel Israel wasn't prepared for. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
Civilians came under attack, and Israel hit back hard. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:45 | |
Major Levy fought in it. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
He said security has been reinforced since then, and the border's | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
quiet - for now. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
TRANSLATION: The next war is only a matter of time. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
The idea is that next time, if it happens, we will hit Hezbollah | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
so hard that the war after that will be decades from now. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:08 | |
Eddie lives in a village on the border. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
He points out the newly built Hezbollah watchtowers. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
He is worried they may try and kidnap people | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
here in the next war. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:21 | |
TRANSLATION: It is not a secret that Hezbollah wants to do | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
something very audacious. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
I don't think they want to take soldiers - I think they want to take | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
civilians so it hits the headlines. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
For security experts, the build-up of Hezbollah's | 0:16:33 | 0:16:34 | |
strength is worrying. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
Now they have more than 120,000 rockets and missiles, | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
a huge number, that you don't find in any country | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
in Europe, for example. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:50 | |
You see all this airforce and you ask yourself one question | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
- what for? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
But Hezbollah also know is that there will be no holding | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
back if Israel defends itself. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
That perhaps is why there has been relative calm in recent years. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
The feeling is that both sides are deterred from war for now. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
But this is a volatile region where nothing is certain. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
But nobody is in any doubt that if there was to be another war, | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
the scale of it could be far greater. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
Katy Watson, BBC News, on the Israeli-Lebanese border. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
Malnutrition is still a major problem in India, so it is perhaps | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
surprising that many Indians are overweight. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:29 | |
In fact, obesity has become such a major concern that one state has | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
now proposed a so-called fat tax on fast-food restaurants | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
to try to make people more health but as Sameer Hashmi reports | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
from Kochi in Kerala state, some wonder if this is the best approach. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:47 | |
Grabbing your favourite pizza or biting into a burger | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
is about to get more expensive in this part of India. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
Kerala plans to impose a 14.5% tax on fast-food sold | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
by restaurant chains. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
It's a so-called fat tax, something already tried in places | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
including Hungary and Denmark to try to put people off back eating | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
so much junk food, but reaction here has been mixed. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:12 | |
I think it is the right move because when people are not taking | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
care of their health definitely the government should take some | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
initiative so that people go back to the food that helps their diet | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
and, you know, the diseases which are spreading due to the junk | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
food or the improper diet. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
I don't think it will affect that much, I don't think so. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
Because those who are interested will still go after what they want. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
It doesn't matter. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
Kerala has the second highest levels of obesity in the country, | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
and the state government is using that reason | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
to justify its plan to put an extra tax on restaurants like McDonald's, | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
Dominos and Pizza Hut. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:53 | |
They say it is chains like these which are making young people | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
fatter, and they hope higher prices will make them think twice. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
But popular local dishes like banana fry and urad dal that are high | 0:18:59 | 0:19:04 | |
in calories will not come under the new tax rule. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
That means some are seeing this as an attack on multinational food | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
chains rather than just on obesity or other illnesses like diabetes. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:18 | |
The government has defended the plan but many food experts think | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
that taxing food is not the right approach. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:27 | |
I don't think it is the right move where health is concerned, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
because it is not going to have any impact on the health of people, | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
especially in Kerala. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
It is to fill the coffers of the government. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
The emphasis should be on awareness. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:44 | |
People should be made aware of the side-effects are the bad | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
effects of eating high calorie food. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
Whether it is what they eat or a lifestyle that lacks exercise, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
one in five Indians is now overweight or obese. | 0:19:54 | 0:20:01 | |
But with access to Western-style fast food still relatively new here, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
and many still seeing it as a status symbol, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
this is a new tax many will find hard to swallow. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
Sameer Hashmi, BBC News, Kerala. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:13 | |
Now, I'm sure most of you know Andy Murray won Wimbledon this week, | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
his second title in a row, but here's a fact I bet you didn't | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
know - that nearly 55,000 balls were used throughout the tournament. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
The yellow balls were first used 30 years ago and have since been made | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
at a factory in Barnsley, near my home town, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
in the north of England. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:37 | |
Graham Satchell has been finding out about the history of the Wimbledon | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
tennis ball and meeting some of the people who have been making | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
them for decades. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:43 | |
If it bounces like that, it's no good. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
If it bounces like that, it's fine. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:53 | |
On one bench at Barnsley Tennis Club, almost a hundred years | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
of experience at making the tennis balls for Wimbledon. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
Yeah, it is the hand tool we used. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:11 | |
Yeah, you should know a lot about them, Ken. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
It wasn't an easy job. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
And you really had to push to get it together. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
Oh, your fingers ached. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:23 | |
They started making tennis balls in Barnsley in 1945. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
The Wimbledon order always the most important. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:32 | |
The actual tournament only lasted two weeks, | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
but the Wimbledon Department in the Barnsley factory could last | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
two months, making the balls, selecting the balls, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:48 | |
actually choosing the balls that went down there - | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
they had to be absolutely perfect. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:52 | |
Wimbledon, 1958! | 0:21:52 | 0:21:53 | |
That was the year I started. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
A 1958 Wimbledon ball. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
That is the ultimate in our profession, sort of thing. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
If you've got the Wimbledon contract, you'll always | 0:21:59 | 0:22:09 | |
sell tennis balls. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
In nineteen... | 0:22:11 | 0:22:12 | |
might have been 73, 74 - John McEnroe hit a ball and it | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
split, and the main man of Slazenger's came into this | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
department and wanted to know who had caused this problem. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
The ball came back from John McEnroe in this manager's hand, | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
and he's putting it in front of my face. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
I thought, well, I don't know, I don't know. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
You know... | 0:22:27 | 0:22:32 | |
It could have been a number of people who caused this. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
But it wasn't good for John McEnroe. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:45 | |
We grew as a family, you see, in the factory. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
Everybody knew one another. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:52 | |
It was, it definitely was. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:53 | |
Somebody's son worked there, somebody's daughter worked there, | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
and that is how it developed over the years. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:00 | |
We all shared each other's emotions and happiness. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
Sadness, happiness - it was absolutely great. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:08 | |
The factory in Barnsley closed in 2002. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:15 | |
Production moved to the Philippines. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:16 | |
The final batch of tennis balls made at Barnsley. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
Crikey. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
That was a sad day, wasn't it? | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
"Made in Barnsley," and that, for me, is where they | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
should still be made. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:32 | |
But, like I say, unfortunately, living in the real world, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
that's not... | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
Not to be. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:45 | |
And that's all from Reporters this week. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now. | 0:23:47 | 0:24:01 |