:00:00. > :00:00.of a 28-year-old woman from Bradford who was killed
:00:00. > :00:00.while visiting her family in Northern Punjab.
:00:00. > :00:17.Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters.
:00:18. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to Reporters. From here in the world's newsroom, we
:00:25. > :00:31.send out correspondent to bring you the best stories from across the
:00:32. > :00:33.globe. This week: Trapped by the siege of Aleppo.
:00:34. > :00:42.Quentin Sommerville speaks to some of the millions of Syrians in
:00:43. > :00:46.desperate need of aid. And we talked to rebel fighters who rejected the
:00:47. > :00:49.ceasefire. TRANSLATION: We only recognise this
:00:50. > :00:53.call for a ceasefire by the UN to be nothing but the chance to give the
:00:54. > :00:58.regime a chance to catch its breath after the defeat they suffered.
:00:59. > :01:01.Life after a bowler. Two years after the first outbreak, Tulip Mazumder
:01:02. > :01:05.returns to Sierra Leone to see how its health system is coping.
:01:06. > :01:07.This hospital has received more than ?1 million from the British
:01:08. > :01:13.government, so I have come back to see how that money has been spent.
:01:14. > :01:17.Good killer whales solve the mystery of the menopause? Victoria Gill
:01:18. > :01:26.joins scientists trying to find out what Walker is some having babies so
:01:27. > :01:29.early in life. -- walkers. This is a unique population of killer rails.
:01:30. > :01:32.40 years, and it is only in that 40 years, and it is only in that
:01:33. > :01:37.time there were -- all that time that has made this response
:01:38. > :01:43.possible. This man came up to me and he went always, you pakki! Go back
:01:44. > :01:51.to India! Time for some serious Kammy. --
:01:52. > :01:56.serious comedy. We find that the Edinburgh festival that the news is
:01:57. > :02:01.giving comedians and ever-increasing source of material.
:02:02. > :02:04.And what a marvellous moment! Silver wins gold!
:02:05. > :02:10.And from the favelas of Rio to Olympic gold, we meet the Brazilian
:02:11. > :02:14.judo champion whose success has brought cheer to the host nation.
:02:15. > :02:23.I think it is very important to show the world that the child of a father
:02:24. > :02:27.like world. -- child of a father left can conquer the world.
:02:28. > :02:31.The world looks on this week at the desperation of civilians caught up
:02:32. > :02:36.in the Civil War in Syria deepened. The ceasefire calls came and went,
:02:37. > :02:40.the fighting deepened. Civilians without food were forced to cook
:02:41. > :02:42.leaves on trees, doctors warned that if attacked and medical facilities
:02:43. > :02:46.continue, they would be none left within a month. The city is split
:02:47. > :02:49.between the rebel held east and the regime controlled West. Quentin
:02:50. > :02:54.Sommerville has gained exclusive access to the homes of some
:02:55. > :02:54.civilians and two fighters on the front line.
:02:55. > :03:10.He sent this report. Can Aleppo still be called the City?
:03:11. > :03:14.-- a city? In this neighbourhood, the shops and the factories are
:03:15. > :03:20.gone. Here, there are only battlefields and front lines.
:03:21. > :03:29.These rebels, along with jihadists, attack the regime's siege. They say
:03:30. > :03:34.they have destroyed it. Thank God, says a fighter, we made it, we
:03:35. > :03:41.stepped on you, and we took away your uniforms.
:03:42. > :03:52.The miracle of Aleppo is the people still surviving here.
:03:53. > :04:01.A clockwork lamp is Mohammed's only light. The situation he has become
:04:02. > :04:08.even more desperate. TRANSLATION: We wash with our hands. There is no
:04:09. > :04:12.water. Sometimes, we are cut off for four or five days, even ten days.
:04:13. > :04:20.You have to go outside to the well. We have nothing here.
:04:21. > :04:22.She is just one woman with six children, and they are among 2
:04:23. > :04:28.million people be UN says Arnell suffering across rebel held East and
:04:29. > :04:33.regime held West Aleppo. TRANSLATION: I used to cook from age
:04:34. > :04:40.we got a while back, but that is finished. We don't have any food,
:04:41. > :04:47.nothing. We cook leaves off the trees. The situation is her endless.
:04:48. > :04:51.The UN wants a ceasefire for the The UN wants a ceasefire for the
:04:52. > :04:53.city, but a rebel commander a spokesman remotely dismisses the
:04:54. > :04:57.idea. TRANSLATION:, to be honest, this UN
:04:58. > :05:01.stance is biased. When Aleppo was under siege, and the injuries and
:05:02. > :05:05.wounds were becoming rotten because of the lack of medical care, and
:05:06. > :05:09.people suffered from shortages, we did not hear anything from the UN.
:05:10. > :05:11.We as military fighters only understand these calls for a
:05:12. > :05:15.ceasefire by the UN to be nothing but to give a chance for the regime
:05:16. > :05:22.to catch its breath after the big defeat they suffered in this battle.
:05:23. > :05:27.One of his men to our cameraman on a tour, and they are keen to show that
:05:28. > :05:32.they have regained control of this part of Aleppo, and claimed that
:05:33. > :05:36.relief is at hand. Now you can see, the road is open.
:05:37. > :05:44.Today, lots of cars managed to enter the city. Loaded by materials. The
:05:45. > :05:51.main food materials, and also medical materials.
:05:52. > :05:58.But Hayden is only trickling through these ruins. Aleppo is still them I
:05:59. > :06:05.did I wore. -- aid is only trickling through. Aleppo is still divided by
:06:06. > :06:09.war and united by suffering. To Turkey, where there are growing
:06:10. > :06:13.concerns about the government crackdown that followed last month's
:06:14. > :06:15.attempted coup. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would reprove
:06:16. > :06:20.the introduction of the death penalty if it were backed by
:06:21. > :06:23.Parliament, and parents of some of the young conscripts killed taking
:06:24. > :06:27.sons when told what was happening. sons when told what was happening.
:06:28. > :06:35.Our correspondent has talked to some of them.
:06:36. > :06:47.They gave their summer hero's burial. But there was nothing
:06:48. > :06:50.Turks, he was a traitor. He was Turks, he was a traitor. He was
:06:51. > :07:01.killed taking part in last month's failed coup. He was a conscript and
:07:02. > :07:10.worked in the Army canteen, but his family say he had no idea what he
:07:11. > :07:14.was involved in. TRANSLATION: My son didn't know
:07:15. > :07:18.anything about a coup. They woke him up in the night and told him there
:07:19. > :07:22.was an operation on the Bosporus Bridge. Those commanders led my son
:07:23. > :07:25.to death on purpose. This was the moment the soldiers on
:07:26. > :07:34.the Bosphorus Bridge surrendered. Moments later, these pictures. This
:07:35. > :07:37.footage shows his last moments. In the background, the voice says,
:07:38. > :07:42.stop beating him. He is already dead.
:07:43. > :07:49.TRANSLATION: My child was battered and murdered. He was covered in
:07:50. > :07:52.blood. He was bleeding like a slaughtered cow.
:07:53. > :07:59.But it was the civilians who died But it was the civilians who died
:08:00. > :08:03.that were remembered. Hundreds of thousands of people, with one
:08:04. > :08:17.message. The crowds here are chanting,
:08:18. > :08:22."Martyrs will never die. The country will be divided". And inside, there
:08:23. > :08:30.was a clear display of national unity. Crowds never seen before, all
:08:31. > :08:40.waving one flag, and mostly waiting for one man. If President Erdogan
:08:41. > :08:47.had been shaken by last month's failed coup, you would not know it.
:08:48. > :08:48.He calls the national unity, and said the people behind the crew were
:08:49. > :09:02.terrorists. -- behind the coup. But that is not how this man is
:09:03. > :09:06.remembered by his family. TRANSLATION: We have died 1000
:09:07. > :09:11.deaths. I have been crying ever since. This pain is killing me. I am
:09:12. > :09:16.burning on the inside, and I hope whoever did this will burn like me.
:09:17. > :09:26.In some ways, the coup has brought parts of Turkey together. But it has
:09:27. > :09:39.also destroyed many lives. So, it is not a question of if but
:09:40. > :09:44.when there will be another outbreak of a deadly disease like ebola in
:09:45. > :09:47.Sierra Leone at some point. But two years since the World Health
:09:48. > :09:52.Organisation declared the outbreak a global health emergency, the UN
:09:53. > :09:57.agency says there are still major shortcomings, but the country's
:09:58. > :10:00.health system is recovering. G Live is underreported from Sierra Leone
:10:01. > :10:04.throw the epidemic. She has now returned to the capital Freetown to
:10:05. > :10:06.see how the country's heart hospitals and health systems are
:10:07. > :10:10.coping. It was once the jewel in the crown
:10:11. > :10:14.of Britain's $500 million response of the Ebola outbreak. When I was
:10:15. > :10:22.here during the peak of the epidemic, the UK built centre was a
:10:23. > :10:24.buzzing lifeline to hundreds of people. Its first survivors were
:10:25. > :10:31.18-year-old Daniel and his sister Cecilia. Their brother Ambrose did
:10:32. > :10:38.not pull through, though. This is where he died.
:10:39. > :10:42.In total, they lost 27 members of their family. Daniel had high hopes
:10:43. > :10:47.for the site's future after the British government handed it back to
:10:48. > :10:52.the Ministry of health. It is a suitable place where they
:10:53. > :10:59.can establish a standard hospital that is available for the people
:11:00. > :11:06.living in this area so they can have access to good medical care, and it
:11:07. > :11:09.is a total mess to see it like this. The Ministry of health says it is
:11:10. > :11:16.planning to build a maternity unit here, but we saw no work underway
:11:17. > :11:20.yet at the decaying site. After almost two years and virtual
:11:21. > :11:25.lockdown, Sierra Leone is back to its vibrant and bustling self.
:11:26. > :11:29.I have returned to Freetown's main hospital. When I was here at the
:11:30. > :11:34.heart of the outbreak, there were attempts either side of here,
:11:35. > :11:37.dealing with the overflow of Ebola patients, and medics had to look
:11:38. > :11:41.after people dressed in full while Hazard gear. This hospital has
:11:42. > :11:44.received more than ?1 million from the British government, so I have
:11:45. > :11:48.come back here to see how some of that money has been spent. The
:11:49. > :11:52.unrecognisable. Before the outbreak, unrecognisable. Before the outbreak,
:11:53. > :11:57.these sorts of modern and be looters were very rarely seen here. So this
:11:58. > :12:00.was the red zone, wasn't it? That is right.
:12:01. > :12:04.This is where you bowl a patient used to be cared for, but the
:12:05. > :12:07.revamped wards, complete with new revamped wards, complete with new
:12:08. > :12:17.oxygen supplies and heart monitors, and are providing emergency care.
:12:18. > :12:21.I believe we would have lost more people without this, because the
:12:22. > :12:24.services were not readily available. Obviously, ebola was a very
:12:25. > :12:29.difficult time here, what I think that if there has been one big
:12:30. > :12:32.change and one consequence of that, it has been a real focus on the
:12:33. > :12:36.health care system. Daniel invited me back to see his
:12:37. > :12:42.home. He's been staying on different friends' floors for nearly a year
:12:43. > :12:46.now. His place is right next to his school. The charity Save The
:12:47. > :12:52.Children is paying his fees here. He's studying hard to back into
:12:53. > :12:55.medical school, inspired by the British medics who saved his life.
:12:56. > :13:05.Going through this horrible situation has taught me a lot of
:13:06. > :13:10.lessons, not devoting yourselves is one of the best things you can do.
:13:11. > :13:11.With so few doctors in Sierra Leone, Daniel's ambition is crucial for his
:13:12. > :13:20.country. China has warned that failure to go
:13:21. > :13:25.ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear-power station could threaten
:13:26. > :13:28.Britain future's relationship with Beijing. The plant in Somerset is
:13:29. > :13:33.due to be built with financial backing from the Chinese. China's
:13:34. > :13:36.ambassador to the UK has warned that the British government's recent
:13:37. > :13:41.decision to delay the deal has brought the two countries to a
:13:42. > :13:43.crucial historical juncture. Here is an assessment of what the deal means
:13:44. > :13:54.for UK- Chinese relations. China has its own version of
:13:55. > :13:59.Valentines. Tonight is the night, a kissing competition. Not everyone is
:14:00. > :14:04.in a loving mood. After working hard at their relationship, Beijing and
:14:05. > :14:13.London have lost the magic. Is it just a lovers tiff, or wedding of?
:14:14. > :14:16.Golden memories. It was only eight months ago that the Chinese
:14:17. > :14:22.president was in London. His host couldn't have done more, but now,
:14:23. > :14:27.David Cameron and George Osborne our history, and as for the shared
:14:28. > :14:34.nuclear future they promised, well, what Beijing thought was a done deal
:14:35. > :14:37.has now been delayed. Hinkley Point matters to China. With 30
:14:38. > :14:42.nuclear-power plants back home and many more on the way, Beijing's
:14:43. > :14:48.looking for new markets to conquer, and where better than the UK? But
:14:49. > :14:53.reports that security concerns may be behind this project's delay and
:14:54. > :15:02.now damaging china's brand. The UK brand is under threat two. Post
:15:03. > :15:07.Brexit Britney 's Chinese money even more than before. This investor
:15:08. > :15:11.alone manages ?120 billion. London's still a magnet for his money, but
:15:12. > :15:16.could Hinkley Point chill damage business? Yeah, absolutely. Purely
:15:17. > :15:21.for security, national security concerns, then to put that on hold
:15:22. > :15:26.is definitely going to affect the relationship between the UK and
:15:27. > :15:34.China. I think people take that as an indication of how the integration
:15:35. > :15:36.is going to be, so I think in talent to a certain degree, it is going to
:15:37. > :15:40.affect our decision. Ultimately, the affect our decision. Ultimately, the
:15:41. > :15:46.Chinese government can pull the plug on any deal. China's economic Midas
:15:47. > :15:49.now so great that it can inflict real pain in countries that don't do
:15:50. > :15:54.what it wants. It wants Hinkley Point. If London cancels the
:15:55. > :16:02.project, make no mistake, Beijing will punish it by turning out the
:16:03. > :16:07.lights and the Golden Age. But if the Hinkley Point deal does finally
:16:08. > :16:11.go ahead as expected, the delay has soured the mood.
:16:12. > :16:17.No flowers for London tonight, a Chinese valentine's to forget.
:16:18. > :16:22.Now, you wouldn't normally associate killer whales with the menopause,
:16:23. > :16:25.but British scientists have been studying them for the past 40 years
:16:26. > :16:30.to understand the condition. Humans and killer whales are two of only
:16:31. > :16:34.three species that are involved to stop having babies about halfway
:16:35. > :16:39.through their lives. Victoria Gill joined researchers in a very unusual
:16:40. > :16:44.whale watching trip. Visibly close family bonds, and these orcas have
:16:45. > :16:49.something else in common with humans, something very rare.
:16:50. > :16:56.Female killer whales go through a kind of menopause. So this team has
:16:57. > :17:02.come to the Pacific coast to work out why any species should evolve to
:17:03. > :17:06.stop reproducing so early in life. They will have their last calf in
:17:07. > :17:12.their late 30s or 40s, but potentially can level until 80, 90,
:17:13. > :17:16.or possibly the oldest estimate is 100 years. So our interest in this
:17:17. > :17:20.from an evolutionary perspective, because that is really hard to
:17:21. > :17:27.explain. Who just came up there? That is the four-year-old offspring.
:17:28. > :17:32.While it is familiar to us, it is a phenomenon seen only in humans and
:17:33. > :17:39.two marine mammal species. Even long live wild apes and elephants don't
:17:40. > :17:42.go through this change. To study it, the scientists work with
:17:43. > :17:43.conservationists here who have painstakingly documented the lives
:17:44. > :17:50.of these orchids. -- orcas. This is of these orchids. -- orcas. This
:17:51. > :17:53.a unique population of killer a unique population of killer
:17:54. > :17:56.whales, in that they have been followed unmonitored, watched
:17:57. > :17:59.closely for 40 years, and it is only all of that time that has made this
:18:00. > :18:04.new research possible. There we go!
:18:05. > :18:07.We take photographs and get individual pictures, identification
:18:08. > :18:12.pictures, on everybody, and then we see who has new babies, and we see
:18:13. > :18:15.who is missing, and we do this over and over overall the years, and we
:18:16. > :18:22.have kept very good track of what the total population has.
:18:23. > :18:25.This is what has given insight into the crucial role that females are
:18:26. > :18:29.playing in their later, post-productive lives.
:18:30. > :18:32.So we have got a mail here, and his mother is just close by, just here
:18:33. > :18:35.in front of the boat. This is the kind of social
:18:36. > :18:41.interaction? That is an adult male? And his mum, yes. Just the kind of
:18:42. > :18:45.social interaction just didn't. Yes, just this kind of bond between
:18:46. > :18:49.The centre's vast library of killer The centre's vast library of killer
:18:50. > :18:52.whale data has allowed the team to reveal how menopause benefits this
:18:53. > :18:57.species. They discovered that all the females leave their part as it
:18:58. > :19:03.hunts, and adult sons depend on their postmenopausal mothers for
:19:04. > :19:07.their very survival will. They keep the group alive, they help
:19:08. > :19:11.support individuals, they survived for longer, and by unpicking the
:19:12. > :19:14.importance of these killer whale, we can start to unravel business three
:19:15. > :19:17.of the menopause. The team here will continue to watch
:19:18. > :19:25.from the service is these animals reveal the Revolutionary Guard and
:19:26. > :19:31.key parts of our own lives. -- reveal these Revolutionary Guard 's.
:19:32. > :19:36.It is not easy to find humour in the news, but as everyone who is anyone
:19:37. > :19:40.in the world of comedy has to Edinburgh for the French Festival
:19:41. > :19:44.this year, they are making fun of the news. Given things like Brexit
:19:45. > :19:46.and the other extraordinary news events of this year, comedians have
:19:47. > :19:50.had no problems finding new material.
:19:51. > :19:54.I'm not going to lie, this show was originally going to be about how we
:19:55. > :19:57.have these turbulent times in politics, but in the end, sense
:19:58. > :20:02.prevails, and thank God we stayed in the EU.
:20:03. > :20:07.Right now, life is good for political satirists like Matt Forde.
:20:08. > :20:10.That show ain't happening no more! There is a brand-new show ridden
:20:11. > :20:15.since June 20 three. There is a seemingly endless supply
:20:16. > :20:24.of new material on which to riff, and an audience eager for some
:20:25. > :20:28.insight into worrying world. If you -- if you think about it, people are
:20:29. > :20:31.going to be going to nosing homes a good three decades earlier because
:20:32. > :20:35.of the referendum. There seems to be a distinctly political edge to this
:20:36. > :20:39.year's fringe. I know there is racism, and people
:20:40. > :20:40.are angry, but I take comfort in knowing that racist and not that
:20:41. > :20:44.bright. Is it different this year?
:20:45. > :20:48.It is, because so much has happened. If I go on and start at about my
:20:49. > :20:51.moustache, everyone will start thinking, yes, fair enough, but what
:20:52. > :20:55.do you think about this, and what you think about what is happening?
:20:56. > :20:58.How does that affect you, because you are brown, UR woman, you are
:20:59. > :21:01.I was in London, and they went down I was in London, and they went down
:21:02. > :21:07.the street. This man in the street shouted at me, or a! You Pakki! Go
:21:08. > :21:08.back to India! LAUGHTER
:21:09. > :21:13.Brexit is a hot topic, as is Trump Brexit is a hot topic, as is Trump
:21:14. > :21:16.I mean, I considered myself a I mean, I considered myself a
:21:17. > :21:21.foreigner, obviously, but never an immigrant.
:21:22. > :21:26.The idea behind the show came to me when I was asked to front a TV
:21:27. > :21:28.programme called An Immigrant's Guide To Better, for immigrants and
:21:29. > :21:32.by immigrants. I thought, I am not an immigrant! I
:21:33. > :21:36.thought about it, and it is probably the lack of hardship in my story.
:21:37. > :21:42.Like, I feel to qualify as an Like, I feel to qualify as an
:21:43. > :21:48.immigrant, you have to have clung onto a banana boat, or hidden in the
:21:49. > :21:51.back of a lorry at least for some of the journey.
:21:52. > :21:55.LAUGHTER Taboos are being tackled as well.
:21:56. > :22:02.Would you guys want to talk about? Isis?, really? This guy said to me
:22:03. > :22:05.recently, you are Muslim, that mean you support Isis?
:22:06. > :22:09.I said, I said, are you serious? Just because I'm Muslim doesn't mean
:22:10. > :22:13.I support Isis, you idiot. I mean, some others like Al-Qaeda. There is
:22:14. > :22:18.the Taliban... Ann Budge is altogether like that!
:22:19. > :22:22.This take on Islamophobia is one of many examples at this year's French
:22:23. > :22:26.for the public's appetite was in serious comedy.
:22:27. > :22:31.Now, to undoubtedly the biggest event of the week now, the Olympics.
:22:32. > :22:35.Every nation has their Olympic heroes, but for the host nation,
:22:36. > :22:40.Brazil, there can be no one who has brought such joy as Raffaele
:22:41. > :22:48.Sollecito is to take gold medal in judo marks a fairy tale rise from an
:22:49. > :22:52.-- from a childhood in one of Rio's most terriers favelas. We have met
:22:53. > :22:55.the Olympic champion who learn judo just so she could defend herself
:22:56. > :23:06.growing up. Brazil's first gold medal in the Rio
:23:07. > :23:10.Olympics, a lifetime achievement for the judoka Rafaela Silva. She came
:23:11. > :23:14.from the favela, the City Of God, and rose to the top of the podium.
:23:15. > :23:16.TRANSLATION: I lived in a very aggressive world.
:23:17. > :23:20.The children couldn't play, and we had to rush home another there were
:23:21. > :23:23.shoot outs. Now the girl who fled stray bullets is being chased for
:23:24. > :23:27.photos and interviews. I think it is very important to show a detail from
:23:28. > :23:35.a FibrLec and conquer the world. Rafaela won the women's 50 kilometre
:23:36. > :23:39.final -- 50 kilograms final. Like, poor, woman. It is a highly symbolic
:23:40. > :23:49.bigotry for Brazil. This is the home where she grew up, just outside the
:23:50. > :23:52.City Of God. Her mother told me that she put her in judo as a little girl
:23:53. > :23:55.because she was getting into fights in the streets. Now, her face is on
:23:56. > :24:03.every newspaper and on the family T-shirts. In London 2012, her father
:24:04. > :24:08.was disqualified early on, and suffered a wave of racist attacks.
:24:09. > :24:15.She almost gave up her career. She proved to everyone that she
:24:16. > :24:19.doesn't belong to anywhere other than the fight, fighting for her
:24:20. > :24:24.goods and their will to win. A short drive away, this is
:24:25. > :24:31.Rafaela's second home, her training centre, one of the judo schools run
:24:32. > :24:35.by the Reaction Institute, an NGO that takes judo to poor children
:24:36. > :24:40.from Rio's favelas. Here, her victory is shared by
:24:41. > :24:43.everyone. We are very proud, because it is someone who came from the same
:24:44. > :24:47.place we did, so then you think, wow, I can get there as well.
:24:48. > :24:53.Rafaela says she has no idea where she would be if it were not for this
:24:54. > :24:56.judo school. TRANSLATION: The goal isn't just to
:24:57. > :25:01.develop high-performance athlete, but also to educate citizens. The
:25:02. > :25:04.children have access to scholarships and better education through sport.
:25:05. > :25:08.The teachers don't just demand a good performance in judo, but also
:25:09. > :25:16.important. With other scepticism important. With other scepticism
:25:17. > :25:19.ahead of the Rio Olympics, Rafaela's story has ignited Brazilian pride
:25:20. > :25:28.and will inspire many children like air for years to come.
:25:29. > :25:31.-- children like her. The inspiring story of Rafaela Silva.
:25:32. > :25:33.And that is all from Reporters this week. From me and the whole team
:25:34. > :25:37.here in London, goodbye for now.