:00:00. > :00:00.More on those stories at the top of the hour.
:00:00. > :00:16.Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters.
:00:17. > :00:22.I'm David Eades and, from here in the world's newsroom,
:00:23. > :00:24.we send out correspondents to bring you the best stories
:00:25. > :00:39.As the violence spirals out of control, Justin Rowlatt asks
:00:40. > :00:43.if there is any hope for peace in the troubled territory.
:00:44. > :00:45.The problem for India is that it's running out of options
:00:46. > :00:50.It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hard-line
:00:51. > :00:54.separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.
:00:55. > :01:02.Tom Burridge reports from the border as tensions between Russia
:01:03. > :01:07.and Ukraine over the territory spill onto the beach.
:01:08. > :01:09.The idea of Russian military action here,
:01:10. > :01:14.just across the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.
:01:15. > :01:18.The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part
:01:19. > :01:28.Is this man the new political guru of Downing Street?
:01:29. > :01:30.Lewis Goodall assesses the influence of Joseph Chamberlain
:01:31. > :01:35.He promised better housing, he promised old-age pensions,
:01:36. > :01:38.he promised the minimum wage, he promised a crackdown
:01:39. > :01:42.He promised many things that Theresa May
:01:43. > :01:51.As the great survivor marks another decade,
:01:52. > :01:53.Will Grant looks back at some of the influences on the Cuban
:01:54. > :01:57.TRANSLATION: Soon, I'll be like all the others.
:01:58. > :02:01.The time must come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban
:02:02. > :02:11.As the Games reach their climax, Chris Mitchell asks what will be
:02:12. > :02:23.This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio.
:02:24. > :02:28.And yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.
:02:29. > :02:30.India marked the 65th anniversary of its independence
:02:31. > :02:35.But the celebrations came as its troubled region of Kashmir
:02:36. > :02:40.has been consumed by some of its worst violence for years.
:02:41. > :02:43.Around 60 people have been killed, more than 5,000 injured
:02:44. > :02:45.in Indian-administered Kashmir this month, as the police are pitted
:02:46. > :02:47.against stonethrowing protesters who want independence
:02:48. > :02:54.Justin Rowlatt filed this report from the troubled region.
:02:55. > :02:57.Kashmir is at a standstill during the day.
:02:58. > :03:08.Tear gas and smoke can't protect the soldiers from the stones that
:03:09. > :03:17.We don't know where the stones are coming from.
:03:18. > :03:20.The problem for India is it is running out of options
:03:21. > :03:28.It's ruled out independence, it says it won't talk to hardline
:03:29. > :03:31.separatists and has already devolved considerable powers to the region.
:03:32. > :03:38.So it has little option but to pour in more forces and hope
:03:39. > :03:43.But it shows few signs of doing that.
:03:44. > :03:47.This spate of violence in this Muslim majority region,
:03:48. > :03:50.the worst in years, began more than a month ago when a young
:03:51. > :03:55.militant, Burhan Wani, was killed by security forces.
:03:56. > :03:59.Tens of thousands turned out for his funeral.
:04:00. > :04:07.This is the first time Burhan Wani's father has spoken on television.
:04:08. > :04:11.TRANSLATION: His death has triggered a revolution,
:04:12. > :04:18.India is determined that won't be the case and, last week,
:04:19. > :04:25.the Indian Prime Minister tried to calm Kashmir.
:04:26. > :04:27.The independence every Indian has, every Kashmiri
:04:28. > :04:35.But there is a danger the Indian strategy will just entrench
:04:36. > :04:41.In the hospitals, the sunglasses hide horrific eye injuries,
:04:42. > :04:44.the result of the shotguns used to control the crowds.
:04:45. > :04:53.You say this is the bullet that
:04:54. > :05:02.Today it is my son, tomorrow it will be somebody else's, he says.
:05:03. > :05:09.They wear firearms, and they're not using them.
:05:10. > :05:14.There are claims that those weapons have been used on protesters,
:05:15. > :05:20.Yes, very rare, but it has happened only in those
:05:21. > :05:25.cases where the troops, isolated troops, are almost lynched.
:05:26. > :05:27.But India's approach doesn't look restrained and Kashmir
:05:28. > :05:35.India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, claim the region.
:05:36. > :05:41.Until a long-term solution can be found here, Kashmir will remain
:05:42. > :05:43.a potential flash point for a much wider and much
:05:44. > :06:00.For the parents of the missing Nigerian children of Chibok,
:06:01. > :06:03.it may be the first proof that their girls are still alive
:06:04. > :06:05.since they were seized more than two years ago.
:06:06. > :06:07.The Islamist group Boko Haram released a chilling video
:06:08. > :06:09.which it said showed some of the kidnapped schoolgirls.
:06:10. > :06:12.But the video only showed around 50 of the 276 who were abducted
:06:13. > :06:23.In this report from Martin Patience, we have obscured
:06:24. > :06:25.the images of the girls to protect their identity.
:06:26. > :06:26.Masked and menacing, this militant is very
:06:27. > :06:31.Behind him, the kidnapped schoolgirls who, two years on,
:06:32. > :06:41.In this propaganda video, the militant forces
:06:42. > :06:47.She says many of the girls have been severely injured in military air
:06:48. > :06:49.strikes and she calls on the government to release
:06:50. > :06:52.Boko Haram prisoners to secure their release.
:06:53. > :07:00.We woke up to a video on the state of our girls.
:07:01. > :07:08.We are left with mixed feelings of grief, strength and hope.
:07:09. > :07:11.But this mother couldn't be consoled, as the families came
:07:12. > :07:16.One father said he was shocked by his daughter's appearance,
:07:17. > :07:22.When I saw her, I'm really very happy because she's still alive.
:07:23. > :07:24.The students were kidnapped from their school here in Chibok
:07:25. > :07:30.Driven into the forest, their abduction sparked
:07:31. > :07:32.international outrage and shone a spotlight on the brutal
:07:33. > :07:40.But, this May, renewed hope for the families after one
:07:41. > :07:51.Forced to marry a fighter, Amina had a four-month-old baby.
:07:52. > :07:53.The government is under intense pressure to free the girls.
:07:54. > :07:56.It says it is in talks with the militants, but it
:07:57. > :07:58.needs to be doubly sure that it is speaking
:07:59. > :08:04.As for the girls' families, their agony and their anger goes on.
:08:05. > :08:06.Thousands have been killed by the Boko Haram insurgency,
:08:07. > :08:08.and more than 2 million displaced by the fighting.
:08:09. > :08:17.This is a conflict far bigger than just Chibok.
:08:18. > :08:20.The festering tensions between Ukraine and Russia took
:08:21. > :08:24.a sudden turn for the worse this week over Crimea.
:08:25. > :08:26.The two neighbouring nations have been in bitter dispute over
:08:27. > :08:32.the peninsula since Russia took control of the two years ago.
:08:33. > :08:35.It's fuelled a conflict between Russian-backed separatists
:08:36. > :08:38.and Ukrainian forces that has killed nearly 10,000 people.
:08:39. > :08:41.Now, Moscow has accused Kiev of armed attacks on Crimea.
:08:42. > :08:43.Tom Burridge has travelled to the Ukrainian seaside
:08:44. > :08:53.This is how a summer holiday here starts or ends.
:08:54. > :08:56.This is not an international border for much of the world.
:08:57. > :09:06.Their homes, hotels or family on the other side in
:09:07. > :09:12.After Russian claims of a Ukrainian inspired plot there,
:09:13. > :09:16.relations between the two countries have hit a new low.
:09:17. > :09:18.Russia's security agency, the FSB, claims hidden explosives
:09:19. > :09:21.in its video here were intended for targets in Crimea.
:09:22. > :09:27.Ukraine says the whole story is a fake.
:09:28. > :09:30.This FSB video shows one of the accused, Yevgeny Panov.
:09:31. > :09:32.It's too official language, too official.
:09:33. > :09:36.His brother believes that he is talking under
:09:37. > :09:38.duress and shows signs of torture in another FSB film
:09:39. > :09:45.in which he makes an apparent confession.
:09:46. > :09:48.Yes, face is very swollen.
:09:49. > :09:52.Mr Panov did serve until last August in Ukraine's war
:09:53. > :10:00.But until he went missing a few days ago, he was a minibus
:10:01. > :10:05.His brother thinks he was abducted and says the idea that he was in
:10:06. > :10:06.a special forces team, sneaking into Crimea,
:10:07. > :10:18.He has a knee injury and hard breath.
:10:19. > :10:28.He is a victim of big political action.
:10:29. > :10:31.Truth or fake, Ukraine has put its military on high alert
:10:32. > :10:40.But in the Ukrainian region next to Crimea, few fret.
:10:41. > :10:43.Possibly only about less space to sunbathe here, because many
:10:44. > :10:47.Ukrainians won't holiday now in Russian-held Crimea.
:10:48. > :10:52.The atmosphere here in southern Ukraine is relaxed.
:10:53. > :10:54.Because the idea of Russian military action here, just across
:10:55. > :11:02.the water from Crimea, is, on paper at least, unlikely.
:11:03. > :11:04.The increase in tension and rhetoric from Moscow is probably part
:11:05. > :11:13.Russia has moved surface-to-air missiles on to Crimea.
:11:14. > :11:17.The S-400 can shoot down a plane 400 kilometres away.
:11:18. > :11:20.At the end of last week, the Russian Navy held drills to deal
:11:21. > :11:26.And more Russian war games began today in the eastern Mediterranean.
:11:27. > :11:28.Recent tension could be aimed at influencing the failed peace
:11:29. > :11:30.talks over Ukraine's war against Russian-backed
:11:31. > :11:41.Crimea's administrative border disrupts Ukrainian lives.
:11:42. > :11:47.Ratcheting up the tension here destabilises the country.
:11:48. > :11:52.But after Russia's annexation of Crimea more than two years ago,
:11:53. > :11:54.Ukraine, and its allies like Britain, have learned
:11:55. > :12:05.Moscow's strategy is rarely crystal clear.
:12:06. > :12:09.Theresa May has been Prime Minister for over a month now
:12:10. > :12:11.but it still doesn't feel like people really know quite
:12:12. > :12:21.But maybe we do have a clue as to her thinking in the fact that
:12:22. > :12:24.on the steps of Downing Street, she name-checked Joseph Chamberlain,
:12:25. > :12:26.a politician who helped to define modern conservatism.
:12:27. > :12:28.Well, he wasn't really a conservative at all,
:12:29. > :12:30.he was a radical and a liberal who established his career
:12:31. > :12:32.by building a powerhouse in the English Midlands.
:12:33. > :12:34.Lewis Goodall reports on Joseph Chamberlain's legacy
:12:35. > :12:45.In 30 years, Birmingham grew into a dirty,
:12:46. > :12:57.The transformation that was to come was more astonishing.
:12:58. > :13:02.Elegant thoroughfares, sewers, clean water,
:13:03. > :13:06.beautiful civic buildings - like the law courts,
:13:07. > :13:13.One man is responsible for this - Theresa May's new lodestar.
:13:14. > :13:15.You could say that Joseph Chamberlain was Britain's first
:13:16. > :13:19.A reformer, a political organiser, someone who was truly
:13:20. > :13:25.He turned Birmingham from being just a quiet,
:13:26. > :13:28.provincial backwater into one of the most advanced and progressive
:13:29. > :13:40.Joseph Chamberlain became Mayor of the city in 1873.
:13:41. > :13:42.This Victorian chameleon was a radical liberal,
:13:43. > :13:44.a guardian of the working class and a godfather
:13:45. > :13:53.The political hero of one Nick Timothy, Theresa May's chief
:13:54. > :13:58.of staff and most trusted adviser, is none other than Chamberlain.
:13:59. > :14:03.And who should be mentioned in her first policy speech
:14:04. > :14:08.From Robert Peel to Lady Thatcher, from Joseph Chamberlain
:14:09. > :14:11.to Winston Churchill, throughout history, it has been
:14:12. > :14:24.the Conservative Party's role to rise to the occasion and take
:14:25. > :14:31.Listen to the kind of language that she uses.
:14:32. > :14:35.We don't just believe in individualism but in society.
:14:36. > :14:38.We value the role that only the state can play.
:14:39. > :14:41.Chamberlain took the waterworks and gas supply into city
:14:42. > :14:44.This was local nationalisation and the profits were used
:14:45. > :14:53.This was the civic gospel, that famous Victorian morality.
:14:54. > :14:56.The civic gospel was kind of born of a religious idea.
:14:57. > :14:58.Chamberlain was a unitarian and nonconformist.
:14:59. > :14:59.His approach terrified the middle classes of the day,
:15:00. > :15:02.who saw him as a "gas and water socialist".
:15:03. > :15:04.We have not the slightest intention of making profit, he said.
:15:05. > :15:07.We shall get our profit in the comfort and health
:15:08. > :15:15.I think it was Chamberlain's business sense to take that risk,
:15:16. > :15:18.to see that there is a potential that they could gain profit and that
:15:19. > :15:21.profit could fund other ventures such as the building of the museum
:15:22. > :15:33.and art gallery which we're standing in today.
:15:34. > :15:37.The University is one of Chamberlain's most abiding legacies.
:15:38. > :15:39.It represents the power of civic pride that made Birmingham the first
:15:40. > :15:46.In the shadow of the Old Joe Clock Tower, Malcolm Dick explains
:15:47. > :15:49.Chamberlain's primary contribution to Conservative history - the appeal
:15:50. > :15:58.We can see him emphasising a social reform strand, at least insofar
:15:59. > :16:02.as linking working-class aspirations, social and economic
:16:03. > :16:11.And a tradition of strong local authorities,
:16:12. > :16:20.Chamberlain began life as a liberal but split over home-rule,
:16:21. > :16:24.Then he took them into the Conservative Party.
:16:25. > :16:26.He believed in the union and in policies that appealed
:16:27. > :16:36.But Chamberlain was also an avowed imperialist.
:16:37. > :16:40.He was Colonial Secretary and progenitor of the Boer War.
:16:41. > :16:47.He wanted the empire to be a single trade bloc.
:16:48. > :16:50.He designed Corporation Street, a Parisian-style boulevard running
:16:51. > :16:51.through Birmingham to sell its wares.
:16:52. > :16:54.And the taxes on those goods would be used for
:16:55. > :16:57.Imperialism was probably his fatal mistake.
:16:58. > :17:01.But a politically understandable one.
:17:02. > :17:09.He promised a crackdown on immigration.
:17:10. > :17:17.He promised many things that Theresa May promised the other day.
:17:18. > :17:20.It's the only industrial city where the Conservative Party has
:17:21. > :17:32.A strong presence in the council chamber today is part of his legacy.
:17:33. > :17:37.Their local leader relishes a Tory shift to Chamberlainism.
:17:38. > :17:40.I think we'll see a focus on having an industrial strategy
:17:41. > :17:45.for the country and Theresa May talked about the importance
:17:46. > :17:48.of making sure that key industries aren't taken out of the country.
:17:49. > :17:51.And then I think we'll see some big changes on devolution.
:17:52. > :17:54.We will see a real speeding up of the devolving of powers
:17:55. > :17:56.and cutting the strings to allow cities to really make
:17:57. > :18:00.Theresa May has been in politics for 30 years and Home
:18:01. > :18:04.Yet we know surprisingly little about her political beliefs.
:18:05. > :18:07.Chamberlain may well be her lodestar.
:18:08. > :18:12.And if he is, then Conservatives are into a bit of a shock,
:18:13. > :18:14.because he represents a strand of conservatism and conservative
:18:15. > :18:21.thought that would mark the biggest departure for the party since 1979.
:18:22. > :18:23.Churchill said of Chamberlain that he was a politician
:18:24. > :18:32.If Theresa May is serious in reawakening this strand
:18:33. > :18:34.of thinking, she may well yet manage the same.
:18:35. > :18:42.He led Cuba's revolution for decades, survived many
:18:43. > :18:44.presidents of his archenemy, the United States, and also numerous
:18:45. > :18:49.Well, Fidel Castro made it to 90 last week and even though he's
:18:50. > :18:53.retired, he's still revered by many Cubans.
:18:54. > :18:56.Will Grant looks back at Castro's early influences and the enduring
:18:57. > :19:01.impact of the man who said he wasn't born political.
:19:02. > :19:05.I wasn't born political, Fidel Castro once wrote,
:19:06. > :19:08.but from very young, I observed things that helped me
:19:09. > :19:12.understand the realities of the world.
:19:13. > :19:17.He first observed them here, amid the rural poverty
:19:18. > :19:24.His former home is now a museum, painstakingly preserved for tourists
:19:25. > :19:28.and left-wing pilgrims keen to see Castro's roots.
:19:29. > :19:32.His father, Angel, was a Galician immigrant and wealthy landowner.
:19:33. > :19:35.And it's said it was seeing the exploitation of Haitian sugar
:19:36. > :19:37.cane workers that first influenced the young Fidel's
:19:38. > :19:45.His half-brother, Martin Castro, still lives in the town.
:19:46. > :19:49.He would go over to the Haitians' homes, he remembers,
:19:50. > :19:51.and give them vouchers for credit he had taken
:19:52. > :19:57.That rebellious streak eventually saw him expelled from school
:19:58. > :20:00.in Biran and he was sent to study under the Jesuits.
:20:01. > :20:07.First in Santiago, and then here in Havana.
:20:08. > :20:10.TRANSLATION: The Jesuit priests were very concerned with teachings
:20:11. > :20:15.They tried to instil a hard work ethic and
:20:16. > :20:19.Of course, the Havana of Castro's youth was very
:20:20. > :20:25.Gambling, prostitution and vice characterised the Cuban capital
:20:26. > :20:28.in the 1940s and 1950s, something Castro himself
:20:29. > :20:38.Cuban academics consider that it was here, at
:20:39. > :20:40.Havana's university that Fidel Castro finally came
:20:41. > :20:47.In a speech he made in late 1947, he railed against what he called
:20:48. > :20:49.the "country's wealth in foreign hands".
:20:50. > :20:54.And he urged fellow students to militancy, saying,
:20:55. > :20:59."A young nation can never say we surrender."
:21:00. > :21:01.That young student is now the great survivor.
:21:02. > :21:05.One of the world's last Cold War leaders.
:21:06. > :21:09.Recently, to applause and tears, the elder statesman of Cuban
:21:10. > :21:11.politics appeared to bid the National Assembly goodbye.
:21:12. > :21:16.TRANSLATION: Soon, I will be like all the others.
:21:17. > :21:21.The time must come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban
:21:22. > :21:28.Every year, Cuba celebrates Castro's audacious 1953 attack
:21:29. > :21:31.on the Moncada Barracks, the start of the Cuban revolution.
:21:32. > :21:33.Fidel remains the watchword for socialist hardliners opposed
:21:34. > :21:39.They find solace in the words of the man who has shaped modern
:21:40. > :21:44.Before we go, let's not forget the Olympics.
:21:45. > :21:54.The Rio Games reach their climax, of course, and for the past two
:21:55. > :21:56.weeks, all that focus on the competition and champions
:21:57. > :22:05.Will these Rio Games have any long-term impact?
:22:06. > :22:08.Chris Mitchell has been to see a new project in the very shadows
:22:09. > :22:11.of the Olympic Stadium, which is hoping to develop Brazil's
:22:12. > :22:27.This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio
:22:28. > :22:32.and yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.
:22:33. > :22:40.That's because thousands of dollars have been invested
:22:41. > :22:42.here to provide sporting facilities for underprivileged locals
:22:43. > :22:44.in the hope that it might inspire them to become active.
:22:45. > :22:47.The Olympic villages are the heartbeat of their communities.
:22:48. > :22:50.They own this, the community owns this.
:22:51. > :22:55.And, with the five-year commitment, what we're making very sure
:22:56. > :22:59.of is that we are working together with the city and the community
:23:00. > :23:02.Ultimately, we want to help transform the community and impact
:23:03. > :23:05.the lives of these kids so that they grew up loving sport
:23:06. > :23:12.We believe in that unlimited potential of the kids.
:23:13. > :23:15.And if you want to inspire a new generation, then why not get
:23:16. > :23:24.I'm going to show you how to be a world record sprinter.
:23:25. > :23:27.Carl Lewis won ten medals at the Olympics for the USA,
:23:28. > :23:37.Getting kids involved in sports young, you can teach
:23:38. > :23:39.all kinds of lessons, physical activity and
:23:40. > :23:41.engagement that you can't get a few start older.
:23:42. > :23:44.And, for me, it's personal because I have a youth programme,
:23:45. > :23:46.an athletic programme in the United States,
:23:47. > :23:48.and I started at eight years old in a youth programme
:23:49. > :23:54.So, this is really personal to me and I think it is wonderful.
:23:55. > :23:56.I'm just happy they can bring it into these neighbourhoods
:23:57. > :23:59.and utilise spaces like this which, in many cases, would not
:24:00. > :24:02.The fact that the money for this regeneration is coming
:24:03. > :24:05.from a sponsor and not the state tells its own story.
:24:06. > :24:09.Rio is putting on a good show for now but the real test will be
:24:10. > :24:12.whether it has the vision to make the Olympics pay for years to come.
:24:13. > :24:35.And that's all from Reporters for this week.
:24:36. > :24:43.It has been a very, very windy day across most parts of the UK. Our
:24:44. > :24:45.Weather Watchers in south Wales captured this image of a huge wave