06/08/2016 Reporters

attack happened and those are the only details we have at the moment.

Now it's time for reporters. Welcome to Reporters. We send out

correspondence to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In

this week's programme, two years after so-called Islamic State

enslaved thousands in northern Iraq, Frank Gardner get exclusive access

to the team trying to bring the perpetrators to justice. The key for

us is to establish the criminal responsibility not of Daesh as a

whole but individual leaders within Daesh. The food queues of Venezuela.

We find a country with an economy that has gone badly wrong.

China's lawyers on trial. We report on the latest human rights

crackdown. And the Tunisians trying to change public perception of

tattoos. Many women come and want to get tattooed by a woman. Some still

hide it. Pushing the limit. With the Olympics under way, we find out why

a country the size of India has such a dismal record at the games. Two

years ago so-called Islamic State launched an assault on Mount Sinjar

in Iraq. Most of the men were killed. The attacks spurred the

international community into action against Islamic State. Now the BBC

has been given exclusive access to a group of lawyers and investigators

trying to bring the perpetrators to justice. Frank Gardner went to meet

them. On the run, dehydrated, and

terrified. Hundreds of your CD -- hundreds of Yazidi families had to

leave after their home was attacked by Islamic State. Two years on, the

women and girls captured on the ground are still in during a living

hell. Where is my Yazidi girl, demands this Islamic state fighter.

They are discussing a modern slave market for sex with the girls, which

persists today. Investigators are working to identify those

responsible. Here among these documents in a European capital

we've been asked not to name is the evidence that war crimes

investigators say points to the culpability of senior Islamic State

leaders for the sexual slavery of possibly thousands of women in Iraq.

Bill Wylie is heading the investigation. His team's research

into war crimes by Islamic State is being funded by Germany and Canada.

We have a lot of evidence that there was a policy, an unwritten policy,

that this was permissible. The key for us is to establish the criminal

responsibility not of Daesh as a whole but individual leaders within

Daesh. Tracing the leadership's involvement in sexual slavery has

identified over 40 slave owners and 30 senior figures. Beneath the

leader of the Islamic State are those believed responsible like this

former schoolteacher. He is now believed killed. Still believed to

be at large are the economic and finance emirs full stop -- economic

and finance emirs. This investigator asked to Remain anonymous for his

own safety. I asked him how optimistic he was but these men

would face justice. Our focus is to ensure the failures of the past are

not repeated. It is for that reason that we think first and foremost we

need to do the job of evidence collecting while we can. Justice for

the Yazidi people may be years away. There is no court to try their

tormentors and some have already died. The investigators are adamant.

Sooner or later, they say those who ordered the atrocity will be held to

account. You don't need to go back too far to remember Hugo Chavez's

Venezuela being hailed as a beacon of socialist success. Not any more.

When oil prices started falling, money ran out. Inflation is running

at nearly 500%. Vladimir Hernandez drop in Venezuela and has returned

to find an economy in crisis. This is what a trip to the supermarket

looks like in Venezuela. People tell us how angry they are, they've been

here for more than 12 hours. We are surrounded by soldiers.

Welcome to my country, Venezuela, a country of food queues that the

government does not want us filming, in the grip of hunger. I'm heading

out to the countryside. There is a roadblock ahead, people have started

shouting and telling us they are hungry. They told me they've been

protesting for three days with no government representative.

The Venezuelan president faces an economic crisis unlike any they've

seen before. His predecessor began the socialist state but it is

failing, triggering massive food shortages. The president inherited

the socialist experiment but not the high oil prices that finance that. A

meal of plain rice. This man is blind and relies on

government food aid. This woman is feeding her baby with

water, she cannot produce breastmilk because she is too malnourished. She

had eaten three times a day when she took this picture a year ago. Her

other children play at cooking. There is some food on sale but most

people cannot afford to buy it. Venezuela has the highest inflation

in the world and it is hurting the poor hardest. The government has

made some staples available at a lower price but there is not enough

to go around. That is the supermarket and those queues of

people who have been there since the early hours were told there was

flour. These cues go around all the building, downstairs into the

basement, then come up again until they are able to get into the

supermarket to get slower. -- to get flour. The president took over when

Hugo Chavez died three years ago. Its popularity has plunged as many

Venezuelans blame the hunger on his economic mismanagement. The

government says it is not to blame, that it is the victim of an economic

war waged by speculators and foreign powers intent on regime change in

Venezuela. This is where the Venezuelan

government shows its military strength, with planes, tanks,

missile launchers. This is a country in crisis but trying to show that

they are still strong. The President's official term lasts

until 2019. They are pushing for a referendum to remove him from office

early but for now, the Venezuelans will need to wait in line. To China,

where last year, more than 300 lawyers were rounded up in a major

crackdown by the government. On Tuesday, the first of a number of

trial took place and those in court were accused of subverting state

power. There is particular concern that lawyers are being targeted in

an attempt to discourage the political activities of those they

represent. John Sutton worth was outside court in the north of the

country. China's human rights crackdown finally reached court with

official state media saying the trial would be open. Not to ask,

though. We were told to stop filming. This man is a veteran human

rights campaigner and one of around 20 activists and lawyers who has

been detained since the sweeping crackdown last year. His suppose it

can fashion has already been aired on state TV and today he was the

first to be convicted. The charge is subversion. This woman is the wife

of one of the human rights lawyers caught up in the crackdown.

Relatives of the other defendants have been prevented from attending

the trial and soon enough she too was sent away. A few hours later the

BBC caught up with her back in Beijing along with her

four-month-old baby. TRANSLATION: It was only after my

husband was arrested that I realised I was pregnant. They haven't let me

see him since, so he may not even know he has a new baby, a baby that

misses him. I haven't named her yet. I want him to do that.

This week, just before the trials began, Wong Yu, another prominent

defence lawyer, was also paraded in front of the TV cameras. The main

thrust of China's case is that she and her colleagues have used their

human rights work to undermine the government, but China's critics see

an ulterior motive. For many, -- for many outside of service, there is

only one conclusion to be drawn from what happened inside this court, and

that is that China is engaged in an effort to ratchet up repression, to

rein in dissent and to cement 1-party rule. Today, she was handed

a suspended sentence. Given that subversion carries a maximum of life

in prison, the relative leniency might be a sign that China is paying

some heed to the international concern.

It is permanent, it is art and, in some cultures, it can be incredibly

divisive. There have long been mixed views over getting a tattoo and in a

Muslim country like Tunisia, the controversies are still there. But

with the rise in demand for body art, the country has also seen a

rise in tattoo artists challenging the status quo.

This man did not think he would still be working from a small room

in a beauty salon six years after he went into this business. He had a

bigger dream but it nearly cost him his life. Shortly after he opened

Tunisia's first licensed tattoo parlour in April, people condemned a

logo he used for his business which resembled a Freemasons sign. This

evolved into a hate campaign on social media, and then a gang of men

ambushed him on a public street and beat him unconscious.

Though unpopular with some, he still has clients on a near daily basis.

Tunisians from all walks of life want to get ink these days and it's

slowly breaking the taboo once attached to body art. But you can

never be too old to be wary of your elders here. Before he started

getting his tattoo, he told me this was a decision that was six years in

the making, quite a big one because it is permanent, and he's getting a

stop, record, play and pause to two. What are you going to tell your

family? Because I understand they don't particularly know. I'm kind of

relaxed with them. He is one of the -- this woman is one of the first

few female tattoo artist in Tunisia. She sometimes works from this

cultural cafe downtown but mostly does house calls for our clients.

She tells me the public attitude towards tattoos has changed a lot

since he was a teenager. Some just follow fashion, some traitor, well,

come for personal reasons. -- some try to. And there's a lot of women

who come to me and they want to get a tad too from a woman. Some still

hide it. Even me, I still hide it. I'm a tattoo artist, I still hide it

from my family. They know about it but they've never accepted it.

Tunisians still face a combination of religious, social and cultural

obstacles when it comes to body art, but perhaps the rise in demand for

tattoos means that public perception is proving to be a bit less

permanent than ink. Now, the countdown to Rio 2016 is

over, the Olympics are underway. One country, though, that has never made

much of an impact at the Games is India. But this year it has sent its

largest ever team, more than 100 athletes. It is hoped they can help

improve the country's terrible Olympic medal record. Its best ever

achievement came in London 2012 with six medals. If you care -- compare

that with their population, it is one medal for every 200 million

people. Just row that has been examining why India is so bad at the

Olympics. This is the fastest woman in India.

And one of the country's best hopes for a medal in the most competitive

or Olympic disciplines, athletics. TRANSLATION: We have never won a

medal for running but with God 's grace I will get to the finals and

win one. But you need more than just confidence to win an Olympic medal.

As this man knows all too well. It is dangerous! He competes in Lodz. A

winter sport. It is a type of superfast sledge but there are no

tracks in India so he has no choice but to train on the open road. --

luge. Like many Indian athletes, he says he just doesn't have the money

he needs. At one couldn't sustain my career, I couldn't go for training

or competition because I didn't have the money, so I started looking for

sponsorship. And I actually went to 100 companies before one of them

said yes. Even India's Olympic movement admits the country hasn't

always done enough to support its athletes. It says the country is

poor and sport isn't at the top of any's agenda. Sport has always taken

a back-seat vis-a-vis education. Families tend to go for more

education for their children, you know, go to school, concentrate on

education, not sport. The basic feeling is that sport doesn't bring

in the money required to run a family. India is investing more, but

even that may not be enough. The caste system is also one of the

reasons India hasn't done well in sport. You must remember the lower

constitute the bulk of India's population and they are also the

ones who are either ones who don't have access to education or good

nutrition or health, which has meant a large part of India's population

hasn't been able to take part in sports and hasn't had access to

sporting facilities. But credit companies are stepping in,

supporting underprivileged athletes like this. What we bring to the

table for these athletes is the ability to bridge that gap between

those test practices which are unavailable to them otherwise and

the final performance at the Olympic Games. That's what we bring to the

table. -- those best practices. We improve air conditioning, physical

and mental, by leaps and bounds. -- of their physical conditioning. The

world's second most populous country will be hoping to bring back its

biggest ever medals haul as it sends its biggest ever team to Rio.

Finally, it is 50 years since England won the football World Cup,

but despite the expectations of millions of fans, the team have

never come close to repeating the feat since. Allan Little looks back

on that victory and what it reveals about the sort of nation England was

in the summer of 1966. Why does this moment still resonates

so powerfully in England's national memory? 50 years on, it looks like a

moment of transition, from the monochrome grind of post-war

recovery to the Technicolor explosion of 60s modernity. Post-war

Britain was a country in retreat from global power. Internationally,

there had been little cause to cheer. Football was about to change

that. It is a different stadium now, mind, without the twin towers. They

made a difference. Two brothers-in-law from Teesside walked

down Wembley way after that match is -- half a century ago. What you

think of mostly when you think of that match there? Just the elation.

The success. The fact that we won. Yes, definitely. I came out one of

the twin towers and slid down like a cartoon figure! Completely drained!

And I thought, you know, what else can happen now? That's it! What have

we achieved now? What have they achieved? They had reconnected with

a bye then fading sense of British greatness, the idea that this was an

exceptional nation. This replica of the original World Cup was used by

the team during the victory celebrations in 1966. It is now in

the national football Museum in Manchester. To my generation,

children who grew up in the 1960s, the trophy was probably the most

glamorous, most thrilling 12 inches of metal anywhere in the world.

There was something almost mystical about the power of it. And five

decades on, I can still feel it, even now. It seemed like we had done

nothing but lose before. It was defeat after defeat, whether that

had been out in the Empire getting reports from a or somewhere in

Africa, Borneo or wherever. The British were on the retreat. In the

went for football. The flags in the stadium that day were union flags,

and English and British identity was still fused. But not for much

longer. All the players were mostly working-class and live the same

lines as those who cheered them from the stands. For this was the tail

end of an older Britain. Not yet multicultural, not yet the age of

the super-rich sporting celebrity. Geoff Hurst's third goal secured

victory. The next day, he went home and moved his lawn. After his

football career, he took a job selling insurance. Changed days.

That is all from Reporters this week. From me and the team in

London, goodbye for now. Hello. What a beautiful day for most

of us with hardly a cloud in the sky, but there was a change to come.

Someone warm sunshine will continue