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