:00:00. > :00:16.Hello. Welcome to Reporters.
:00:17. > :00:20.From here in the BBC newsroom, we send out correspondents
:00:21. > :00:23.to bring you the best stories from across the globe.
:00:24. > :00:30.Life and death on the lost streets of Chicago.
:00:31. > :00:31.It's like you can't make no mistakes.
:00:32. > :00:36.It could cost you your life, literally.
:00:37. > :00:38.Ian Pannell reports from Barack Obama's former home town,
:00:39. > :00:42.where gun attacks have hit a 20 year high.
:00:43. > :00:45.In reality, most gun crime in America actually does not happen
:00:46. > :00:48.in the the massacres that garner large-scale media attention,
:00:49. > :00:51.but they take place in isolated spots like this in
:00:52. > :00:59.Paul Adams visits the far right haven where Hitler salutes
:01:00. > :01:04.and Fascist songs are said to be part of everyday life.
:01:05. > :01:10.If neo-Nazism has a home in this part of eastern Germany, this is it.
:01:11. > :01:15.A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's
:01:16. > :01:22.Ben Moore finds out why the jail cell where Oscar Wilde spent many
:01:23. > :01:25.months has been opened to the public for the first time
:01:26. > :01:30.And moving ice from the Alps to Antarctica.
:01:31. > :01:33.Victoria Gill joins scientists racing against the clock
:01:34. > :01:37.to save samples from the world's shrinking glaciers.
:01:38. > :01:40.That is an ice core coming up from about 30 metres depth.
:01:41. > :01:43.The team will cut it, move it into this tent and then
:01:44. > :01:52.store it in their ice cave, which is their mountain freezer.
:01:53. > :01:55.Hello, we start with evidence of a startling rise in levels
:01:56. > :01:58.of gun violence in parts of the United States.
:01:59. > :02:02.That includes President Obama's political home of Chicago.
:02:03. > :02:05.Killings in the city have hit a 20 year high.
:02:06. > :02:08.A deadly summer of violence, ending with multiple murders over
:02:09. > :02:12.last week's Labor Day holiday, has brought this year's death toll
:02:13. > :02:18.Most of the victims and indeed the killers are young black men.
:02:19. > :02:21.Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway spent a week
:02:22. > :02:26.in Chicago and found a world where gangs and guns rule.
:02:27. > :02:29.DISPATCHER: A 15-year-old male shot in the neck.
:02:30. > :02:39.I'm going to need a wagon with a body bag also.
:02:40. > :02:42.It is one of America's dirty secrets.
:02:43. > :02:46.Welcome to the Chicago they do not want you to see.
:02:47. > :02:49.In a city where some live in peace and prosperity, others
:02:50. > :02:55.# It was crazy growing up where I was raised.
:02:56. > :03:06.CTC Duwop is a rapper, a promoter and a gang member.
:03:07. > :03:09.He is also a father and an Iraq war veteran.
:03:10. > :03:12.When I am passing through certain neighbourhoods, if there is already
:03:13. > :03:16.a heightened alert of violence in that neighbourhood, tension,
:03:17. > :03:19.you have got to hurry up and get from point A to point B.
:03:20. > :03:24.You can't be cruising through neighbourhoods that
:03:25. > :03:28.Nine times out of ten, they probably do not recognise
:03:29. > :03:31.the car you are in at the time and they can mistake
:03:32. > :03:34.you for a shooter from one of the rival gangs
:03:35. > :03:43.It could cost you your life, literally.
:03:44. > :03:45.Many in the gang are still at high school.
:03:46. > :04:01.Strict gun laws have made no difference here.
:04:02. > :04:09.The last day without a shooting or murder was February 2015.
:04:10. > :04:13.The sad fact is that for some a life of drugs and violence has now
:04:14. > :04:18.The real tragedy about Chicago is just how common
:04:19. > :04:23.In reality, most gun crime in America actually does not happen
:04:24. > :04:26.in the massacres that garner large-scale media attention,
:04:27. > :04:29.but they take place in isolated spots like this in inner-city
:04:30. > :04:33.More often than not, the victims are young,
:04:34. > :04:41.black and their cases are largely ignored.
:04:42. > :04:43.The violence swirls around west and southside Chicago.
:04:44. > :04:45.A few weeks ago six-year-old Takara Morgan was wounded
:04:46. > :04:50.Some say they are forced into a life of violence, but even those
:04:51. > :04:55.who do not walk that path, like Takara, are still affected.
:04:56. > :04:57.How common is the shooting around here?
:04:58. > :05:00.Every day. Every day?
:05:01. > :05:10.Childhood ends early on the southside.
:05:11. > :05:13.A party on Duwop's block commemorates his best friend
:05:14. > :05:19.The residents meet to remember and also to forget.
:05:20. > :05:22.The police authority do not like exactly what we do
:05:23. > :05:26.We actually do not like the way that we live.
:05:27. > :05:32.But when you are pushed into a way of life, when you're forced
:05:33. > :05:39.into a way of life, how else can you live?
:05:40. > :05:42.Even though we love the 'hood, outside looking in, it looks
:05:43. > :05:45.like we glorify the 'hood, we want to be out of the 'hood.
:05:46. > :05:49.That is why we work so hard at showing our potential.
:05:50. > :05:53.We want to leave this place, for good.
:05:54. > :05:56.Duwop's family home is now abandoned, a place to record a music
:05:57. > :06:02.video, and a place where drug addicts go to get high.
:06:03. > :06:04.Here in my neighbourhood, they start young, man.
:06:05. > :06:07.When you read the news, that is the age frame, they are all
:06:08. > :06:14.We have got to teach the kids how to defend themselves.
:06:15. > :06:17.It is senseless violence at the end of the day, but what do you do
:06:18. > :06:25.Would you rather be caught with protection or without?
:06:26. > :06:30.We had a lot of guns, but I have never seen
:06:31. > :06:43.Bo Deal is a rapper from the westside, now the most
:06:44. > :06:46.He is a member of the Vice Lords gang.
:06:47. > :06:49.He has been in prison and even he is shocked by what is happening.
:06:50. > :06:52.It is like somebody dropped off crates of guns in everybody's hood.
:06:53. > :07:01.I think that lots of guys need to die in order to make it better.
:07:02. > :07:04.I think some of these BLEEP need to be killed and knocked off,
:07:05. > :07:08.to get them out of the way, to make it a better place.
:07:09. > :07:16.We've been stood here for five minutes, I have seen two police
:07:17. > :07:21.Yes, it is not safe over here at all.
:07:22. > :07:23.Suddenly we were told to leave the area as Bo Deal
:07:24. > :07:32.Hey, Duwop, what happened, why did we have
:07:33. > :07:39.There is a war around, the two gangs.
:07:40. > :07:43.That is why people are getting shot in that area.
:07:44. > :07:46.Somebody got shot a couple of blocks up.
:07:47. > :07:49.More people have been killed here since 2001 than US deaths
:07:50. > :08:05.To be honest, I have got a son that is seven and a daughter
:08:06. > :08:09.I have not taught neither one of them how to ride a bike yet.
:08:10. > :08:12.The environment they live in is not safe.
:08:13. > :08:26.It is hard when you do not really have help.
:08:27. > :08:53.I feel like this is a never-ending cycle, there is no way out
:08:54. > :08:59.We are just trying to cope with this BLEEP.
:09:00. > :09:18.With so many guns and so little control, the murders will rise,
:09:19. > :09:29.Well, from Chicago's gang wars to the rise of the far
:09:30. > :09:34.The north-eastern town of Jamel is being called a neo-Nazi village
:09:35. > :09:38.after it became a haven for extreme right wing supporters.
:09:39. > :09:41.Locals say some people greet each other with "Heil Hitler" salutes
:09:42. > :09:46.But as Paul Adams reports from Jamel, the village's original
:09:47. > :09:56.That gentleman who did not want to talk to us,
:09:57. > :10:02.He is the main driving force behind this community.
:10:03. > :10:04.He is a very famous, notorious right-wing
:10:05. > :10:12.He recently spent four years in jail for possession of a firearm.
:10:13. > :10:16.He is regarded by the police as pretty dangerous.
:10:17. > :10:26.He is a member of a very violent scene.
:10:27. > :10:37.We have to look at him in a very concrete way.
:10:38. > :10:42.If neo-Nazism has a home in this part of eastern Germany,
:10:43. > :10:46.this is it, the community of Jamel, a tiny place, just a few
:10:47. > :10:49.dozen people live here, but they have come here
:10:50. > :10:52.to forge their own separate, distinct community which follows
:10:53. > :11:02.You see that sign there, "To Braunau am Inn",
:11:03. > :11:04.that is Hitler's birthplace in Austria.
:11:05. > :11:08.This is a place that just overtly celebrates Adolf Hitler.
:11:09. > :11:12.We have just spoken to a lady, she did not want to be
:11:13. > :11:17.She says that there are gatherings here involving senior right-wing
:11:18. > :11:21.figures from around Germany, they have parties, they play Nazi
:11:22. > :11:26.She has heard people saying "Heil Hitler" and she has seen
:11:27. > :11:35.Next door to Sven Kruger's far-right stronghold, a couple
:11:36. > :11:41.from the opposite side of the political spectrum,
:11:42. > :11:45.organisers for the past ten years of an antifascist music festival
:11:46. > :12:05.# Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high.
:12:06. > :12:13.One of Germany's biggest hip-hop bands has made a surprise visit
:12:14. > :12:17.They are sort of Germany's Beastie Boys and they really
:12:18. > :12:21.Part of the fun to me, there are people living over
:12:22. > :12:34.Somehow they live with the delusion that they are sort of like the voice
:12:35. > :12:42.Their thinking is totally wrong and they have an awful
:12:43. > :12:53.Paul Adams reporting from what some are calling the home of neo-
:12:54. > :12:59.Now, there can be few people who have witnessed the brutality
:13:00. > :13:04.of the so-called Islamic State more than the Yazidis of northern Iraq.
:13:05. > :13:07.Men were butchered in their thousands, women kidnapped
:13:08. > :13:13.Many children were also taken and forced to enrol in the strict
:13:14. > :13:18.BBC Persian's Nafiseh Kohnevard met one of them, a girl who said
:13:19. > :13:23.she was also forced to make bombs for the militants.
:13:24. > :13:36.It says, if there is a war, it is not our fault.
:13:37. > :13:44.They are lyrics many of these children understand all too well.
:13:45. > :13:47.Like Selda, just eight years old, she was held by the so-called
:13:48. > :14:19.She was one of hundreds of Yazidi children trained
:14:20. > :14:52.At the same time, Selda's mother was forced to take courses on how
:14:53. > :15:28.Eventually mother and daughter managed to flee, yet she still feels
:15:29. > :15:59.trapped in the nightmare that they left behind.
:16:00. > :16:04.She may now be free but thousands of other children are not.
:16:05. > :16:13.They are being trained for a world and a life which is not their own.
:16:14. > :16:17.After the Olympics, the Paralympics got underway this week in Brazil.
:16:18. > :16:21.The Rio games followed the London Paralympics of four years
:16:22. > :16:24.ago, an event which many disabled people felt had a very positive
:16:25. > :16:29.But research for the charity Scope suggests that just 20%
:16:30. > :16:34.feel their lives have improved since 2012,
:16:35. > :16:38.our disability affairs editor looks at the London
:16:39. > :16:47.The Paralympics in 2012 was the most successful games ever.
:16:48. > :16:50.Paralympians were held as heroes and the impact on disability
:16:51. > :16:56.We hear a lot about legacy but what does the Paralympics
:16:57. > :17:00.really mean to these wheelchair basketball players?
:17:01. > :17:03.It lifted a lot of stigma from disabled sports.
:17:04. > :17:08.A lot of the public realise just how difficult and how much training goes
:17:09. > :17:17.People don't feel that they have to hold a door for you.
:17:18. > :17:20.It doesn't mean that they can't do the same everyday things that
:17:21. > :17:28.In the build-up to Rio this advert has been watched by millions
:17:29. > :17:31.but the disability charity Scope is not confident on it
:17:32. > :17:35.having a lasting impact on all disabled people.
:17:36. > :17:44.Four years on from 2012, only 20% felt that their lives had improved.
:17:45. > :17:47.We need to think about a lasting change, the unemployment gap has
:17:48. > :17:54.We still need, to see lots of progress on the built
:17:55. > :18:00.We haven't even scratched the surface on people with hidden
:18:01. > :18:06.impairments that we don't even need to think about.
:18:07. > :18:09.Lucy has a hidden disability, a neurological condition which means
:18:10. > :18:15.that she is unable to walk and is in constant pain.
:18:16. > :18:18.Her husband James is also disabled but as an amputee, his
:18:19. > :18:23.For Lucy, high-profile sporting events haven't had
:18:24. > :18:28.There is already a view amongst able-bodied people that
:18:29. > :18:31.really people like me if we tried a bit harder,
:18:32. > :18:35.we could be like James, like my husband.
:18:36. > :18:39.James is the archetypal person with disability because you can see
:18:40. > :18:45.If you are a visibly disabled man and you can run around a bit,
:18:46. > :18:49.if you have a football and you can kick it a bit and run up a flight
:18:50. > :18:52.of stairs, the impression is well good for you.
:18:53. > :18:59.That could be much more different for disability that is invisible
:19:00. > :19:06.They think they have reason to doubt it.
:19:07. > :19:08.It is hoped that real change will come when there
:19:09. > :19:11.is an understanding that there are some who find sport and life
:19:12. > :19:20.Poets and playwrights get their inspiration in some
:19:21. > :19:24.unusual places sometimes, Oscar Wilde for example wrote one
:19:25. > :19:28.of his best-known works in prison while serving time for gross
:19:29. > :19:33.indecency after his victorian affair with a fellow writer was exposed.
:19:34. > :19:37.While it will always be linked with incarceration,
:19:38. > :19:43.it is Reading Jail, it will now form a centrepiece within this Victorian
:19:44. > :19:47.building as it opens to the public for the first time.
:19:48. > :19:54.A day in prison in which one does not weep, is a day
:19:55. > :20:03.Oscar Wilde, back in residence in jail, somebody will be the first
:20:04. > :20:14.It is a tough gig, 50,000 words and I'm reading it without a break,
:20:15. > :20:20.a straight 4.5 hours and also I'm in this room.
:20:21. > :20:22.This used to be the prison chapel of Reading jail,
:20:23. > :20:29.Every Sunday for two months, actors like Ray Fiennes,
:20:30. > :20:33.Ben Wishaw and Maxine Peake will perform here.
:20:34. > :20:36.The very cell door that he languished behind
:20:37. > :20:41.It is part of an installation taking over the entire prison that includes
:20:42. > :20:45.specially commissioned work from renowned artists like Steve
:20:46. > :20:55.McQueen and Ai Wei Wei exploring separation and confinement.
:20:56. > :21:00.The first exhibit is the prison itself, it is a very powerful
:21:01. > :21:07.setting in which all sorts of ideas and things to do with confinement
:21:08. > :21:12.and separation, and repression, but also celebration and joy come
:21:13. > :21:18.together within this very kind of, this quite impressive place.
:21:19. > :21:21.Oscar Wilde's original cell remains, the very place that De Profundis
:21:22. > :21:25.was written in 1887 and where one of the British literary
:21:26. > :21:38.I feel it feels like a privilege to be here but for many people
:21:39. > :21:41.for the hundreds of years it was anything but a privilege.
:21:42. > :21:45.Here we are, we are in a space where he spent 22 out of 24 hours
:21:46. > :21:53.Since the prison closed in 2013 it has been subject to government
:21:54. > :21:58.U-turns on whether it should be sold or mothballed.
:21:59. > :22:04.Despite the rich history and indeed fame of this place,
:22:05. > :22:06.the public have not been able to wander these corridors
:22:07. > :22:14.This art installation will run until the end of October,
:22:15. > :22:26.when once again Reading prison will be put on lockdown.
:22:27. > :22:28.STUDIO: Well it is a race against time for scientists
:22:29. > :22:31.working the French Alps, they are trying to extract samples
:22:32. > :22:34.from some of the world's most rapidly shrinking glaciers.
:22:35. > :22:38.Temperatures in some of the Alps have risen by 1.5 degrees
:22:39. > :22:41.in the last decade and scientists hope that samples could include
:22:42. > :22:50.We travel to the French Alps to join them.
:22:51. > :22:56.Approaching a very high altitude, this team of scientists is living
:22:57. > :23:02.The cause: climate change is heating and changing the ice
:23:03. > :23:08.So the team wants to rescue the information that is locked deep
:23:09. > :23:13.Snowfalls will collect all of the impurities
:23:14. > :23:18.in the atmosphere and these will be deposited on the glacier.
:23:19. > :23:22.All of this information they have stored, it is like pages in a book,
:23:23. > :23:29.so when you go through this book you can get all of this information.
:23:30. > :23:32.This is a frozen library, tiny air bubbles locked
:23:33. > :23:39.inside the glacial ice is a record of our past atmosphere and climate.
:23:40. > :23:42.That is coming up from about 30 metres depth, they will cut it
:23:43. > :23:45.and move it into this tent and they will store
:23:46. > :23:51.it in their ice cave, a mountain freezer.
:23:52. > :23:54.So precious are the samples that the team has dug
:23:55. > :23:58.To have a storeroom that will keep them cold but they wwill
:23:59. > :24:08.Six months and then they are ready to go.
:24:09. > :24:12.This is the beginning of a very long journey for these ice cores,
:24:13. > :24:15.they will be stored in France for two years but their ultimate
:24:16. > :24:20.destination is the world's most reliable freezer, Antarctica.
:24:21. > :24:24.The idea of getting ice, transporting it to Antarctica
:24:25. > :24:27.could sound very silly but it makes a lot of sense for us.
:24:28. > :24:31.The main thing is to be able to store these ice cores
:24:32. > :24:36.for decades to centuries, we put them in the best position
:24:37. > :24:40.Many of these glaciers all over the world are changing
:24:41. > :24:46.This ambitious archive aims to preserve particles,
:24:47. > :24:51.bubbles and even bacteria trapped in the deepest and oldest ice
:24:52. > :24:54.allowing future scientists to track the planet's past atmosphere
:24:55. > :25:02.and climate and help predict the future.
:25:03. > :25:06.STUDIO: Some beautiful pictures and a fascinating story,
:25:07. > :25:11.That is it from Reporters this week, so from me, goodbye for now.