0:00:08 > 0:00:14Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters.
0:00:17 > 0:00:18Hello, welcome to Reporters.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22I'm David Eades.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25From here in the BBC Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring
0:00:25 > 0:00:27you the best stories from across the globe.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30In this week's programme.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32The battle for Mosul.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Orla Guerin joins Kurdish forces as they try to retake the last major
0:00:35 > 0:00:40stronghold of so-called Islamic state in Iraq.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43We're now at a distance of about 300 metres
0:00:43 > 0:00:46from the nearest IS positions.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49But this is really just the first stage of what is expected
0:00:49 > 0:00:55to be a long battle.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56How old are you?
0:00:56 > 0:00:5816?
0:00:58 > 0:01:01As tensions rise at the Jungle camp in Calais, Ed Thomas hears
0:01:01 > 0:01:04from the children stranded there, hoping to reach Britain.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Disaster struck suddenly this morning.
0:01:07 > 0:01:1050 years after the Aberfan disaster in Wales, Hugh Edwards reports
0:01:10 > 0:01:15on the story of the community's long fight for truth and justice.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Is this the start of a new space race?
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Rare access to the launch of China's longest manned space mission.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26There it is.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33You stole away the life of an exceptional being.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36The love of my life, the mother of my son.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And the preciousness of grief.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Almost a year after losing his wife in the Paris attacks,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42survivor Antoine Leiris finds a means of escape
0:01:42 > 0:01:46in writing about her loss.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55The long-awaited siege of Mosul began this week as thousands
0:01:55 > 0:01:58of Iraqi and Kurdish forces attacked the last major stronghold controlled
0:01:58 > 0:02:01by so-called Islamic State in Iraq.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03The assault got underway more than two years after IS forces took
0:02:03 > 0:02:06control of the city.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10The Iraqi Prime Minister said the hour of victory had arrived.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13But there were concerns for many thousands of civilians fleeing
0:02:13 > 0:02:18the fighting with no safe routes out of the city.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23Orla Guerin was with Kurdish forces, the peshmerga, north-east
0:02:23 > 0:02:27of Mosul as the first wave of attacks began.
0:02:27 > 0:02:33At first light, the advance on so-called Islamic State.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Zero-hour had finally come, bringing an offensive that
0:02:35 > 0:02:39could decide the fate of the extremists and,
0:02:39 > 0:02:44ultimately, of Iraq itself.
0:02:44 > 0:02:50We joined Peshmerga fighters from the autonomous Kurdish region.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Their name means "those who face death", and they were ready
0:02:53 > 0:02:57to kill and die today.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02GUNSHOTS
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Well, the offensive is now well under way.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07The Kurdish forces have been moving forwards steadily, and we've been
0:03:07 > 0:03:12advancing with them.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14We're now at a distance of about 300 metres
0:03:14 > 0:03:15from the nearest IS positions.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18But this is really just the first stage of what is expected
0:03:18 > 0:03:19to be a long battle.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22It could take months to drive the IS fighters from the city
0:03:22 > 0:03:25of Mosul.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30GUNSHOTS
0:03:30 > 0:03:34First, they have to be flushed out of the villages up ahead.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36There were only a handful of IS remaining, but the Peshmerga
0:03:36 > 0:03:41weren't taking any chances.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Here's what happened when one attacker approached
0:03:43 > 0:03:51with a suspected car bomb.
0:03:52 > 0:03:58GUNSHOTS
0:03:58 > 0:04:06Before he could reach them, his vehicle exploded.
0:04:06 > 0:04:13IS attempted at least three more suicide and truck bomb attacks
0:04:13 > 0:04:15but the Kurds pressed on, with help from air strikes
0:04:15 > 0:04:19by the US-led coalition.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23The Peshmerga say they are fighting a global battle.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26"We have a powerful enemy.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30They are not just fighting the Kurds or the Shia", says this Colonel.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31"They are fighting the whole world.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36We want to defeat them for everyone's sake."
0:04:36 > 0:04:40And this is the territory they took from the enemy today,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42about 80 square miles.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Any civilians were already long gone.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49There was little enough resistance here, but it will be a very
0:04:49 > 0:04:56different picture inside Mosul.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59The Kurds are supposed to clear a path to the city,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01not go inside it.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05But as they drive out IS, they've been adding to their territory
0:05:05 > 0:05:11and what they've captured they intend to keep.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Just one of the ways in which the battle for Mosul
0:05:13 > 0:05:15could spell the end of Iraq.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Orla Guerin, BBC News.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Well, it's now little more than two weeks to go until America goes
0:05:24 > 0:05:26to the polls, and attention is focusing on the so-called
0:05:26 > 0:05:29millennials, that generation who entered adulthood
0:05:29 > 0:05:32at the start of this century.
0:05:32 > 0:05:38Now, those are people who get to vote for the first time,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41and many of them have said they'd sooner die than vote for either
0:05:41 > 0:05:43of the two main parties.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Well, the BBC's Jane O'Brien has gone to the battle ground state
0:05:46 > 0:05:48of North Carolina to find out more.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50The climate has gone to dips and valleys.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Of course, but never such a small period of time, right?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56A chance encounter between a young Trump supporter and a group
0:05:56 > 0:05:58of environmental activists prompts an energetic exchange
0:05:58 > 0:06:01at North Carolina State University.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Wait, wait, wait.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05You just said there is a major consensus.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Those 3%.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Raised sea level.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14But unlike the increasingly ugly national debate, this discussion
0:06:14 > 0:06:18is remarkable for its civility.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20It was great talking to you.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Millennials say they are sick of the tone and the personality
0:06:22 > 0:06:25driven politics of the presidential campaign.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Young Trump supporters in particular say the allegations of sexual
0:06:29 > 0:06:31misconduct are beside the point.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33While I might not agree with everything, I know
0:06:33 > 0:06:39what he says, and I know what he thinks.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I've reached a point where I've just desensitised myself to this kind
0:06:41 > 0:06:43of sleaze and all that kind of stuff.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I'm not going to throw away my vote just because of that.
0:06:46 > 0:06:52Because we have more important issues to get to.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Those issues are much more important than some of the questionable
0:06:54 > 0:07:01and unacceptable things that he has said.
0:07:01 > 0:07:10An estimated 69.2 million millennials are eligible to vote
0:07:10 > 0:07:19this year, making 18 to 35 year-olds a potentially decisive force.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21But they are also notoriously difficult to motivate.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Even though they almost equal the number of baby boomers,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25they are much less likely to vote.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27So early voting starts next Thursday, and then it goes
0:07:27 > 0:07:28until November five.
0:07:28 > 0:07:3119-year-old Tamira is heading a nonpartisan effort to get students
0:07:31 > 0:07:32to register to vote.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34She backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries and now
0:07:34 > 0:07:35supports Hillary Clinton.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37But admits her age group are generally unhappy
0:07:37 > 0:07:39with the choice.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42There's a pessimistic attitude with this election, I think.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46And I can say both for Hillary and Trump there's a bit of fear,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48having to choose between one or the other.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50It's not that exciting for millennials but I think
0:07:50 > 0:07:53an urgency more than ever.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55And even in this hyper partisan atmosphere, there are still some
0:07:55 > 0:07:56millennials who are undecided.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59In the recent debates and everything, we spent so much
0:07:59 > 0:08:03time on them attacking each other about history issues,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05personal issues and things like that.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08But I'm more interested in the policy of things and their
0:08:08 > 0:08:11views on different standpoint.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Hillary Clinton has edged ahead in North Carolina,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18which Barack Obama won in 2008, buoyed by a wave of young voters.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22But interest in this election has waned significantly,
0:08:22 > 0:08:27and the polls show that many millennials are too disillusioned
0:08:27 > 0:08:28to bother with any candidate.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Jane O'Brien, BBC News, North Carolina.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Campaigners are calling on the British government to speed
0:08:37 > 0:08:39up a programme to resettle hundreds of unaccompanied children stranded
0:08:39 > 0:08:43in Calais at the migrant camp known as the Jungle.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Small groups have been allowed into the UK,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48but with the camp due to be demolished, there is
0:08:48 > 0:08:50growing concern for those who are still living there.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Ed Thomas has spent the last week at the camp
0:08:53 > 0:08:55and he sent this report.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Life in Calais.
0:08:59 > 0:09:09The rush to escape the panic and the tear gas.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10REPORTER: How old are you?
0:09:10 > 0:09:1416.
0:09:14 > 0:09:1616-years-old, and like many, a teenager alone, looking
0:09:16 > 0:09:21for a way out.
0:09:21 > 0:09:27Tear gas is being fired all around.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Some of the children trying to get in those trucks were as young
0:09:30 > 0:09:33as 14 or 15.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37These are the images that make many in Britain nervous.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Mohammed says he has no family in the UK,
0:09:39 > 0:09:46but refuses to stay in France.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48But you should be in a school.
0:09:48 > 0:09:54School in the UK.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58But hundreds of teenagers here say they do have relatives in the UK
0:09:58 > 0:10:02and are now stranded in Calais.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Like these brothers, Jamshed and Jamal.
0:10:05 > 0:10:14They are 14 and 16 and say they left Afghanistan six months ago.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Jamshed says he is sad and wants to be with his father
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and cousin in England.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Jamal tells us he is desperate.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25"We have given our names in, we don't know what to do," he says.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28"We are children."
0:10:28 > 0:10:31If their family links are proven, the British Government has promised
0:10:31 > 0:10:36to reunite teenagers in days.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Charities here says some accompanied children have
0:10:39 > 0:10:43been sexually abused.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Others beaten.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48All of honourable to people traffickers.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51One girl who didn't want to go on camera broke down
0:10:51 > 0:10:53as she told us how her friends were raped and stabbed.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56The charity Safe Passage UK estimates that 147 children have
0:10:56 > 0:10:59gone missing from this camp this year alone, and three have been
0:10:59 > 0:11:05killed trying to get to the UK.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08We filmed this young girl in the middle with her back to us.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13She'd just arrived.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17We watched her with a much older man walk from tent to tent.
0:11:17 > 0:11:24A child alone with strangers.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27I don't have family here, just me.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29I have family in the UK.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32So what next for kids like Hasan?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34He's 13 and British officials are now in Calais speaking
0:11:34 > 0:11:37to children like him.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39But still he waits.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42When did you last go to school, how long ago?
0:11:42 > 0:11:44One-year.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45A year ago?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Yes.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Time is running out.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Soon, this camp will be demolished.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56But first, Britain and France must agree who will care
0:11:56 > 0:11:57for the children of Calais.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03Ed Thomas, BBC News.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Now, this week, the people of Aberfan in south Wales had
0:12:09 > 0:12:12to relive the terrible events of half a century ago
0:12:12 > 0:12:15when a mountain of coal waste collapsed onto the village school.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20That claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22The scale of the disaster made headlines around the world
0:12:22 > 0:12:24and people gave very generously to support this
0:12:24 > 0:12:25shattered community.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28But, as Hugh Edwards reports, the families of Aberfan had to fight
0:12:28 > 0:12:34for decades to get justice.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: We are now returning to the newsroom.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Disaster struck suddenly this morning at the small Welsh
0:12:41 > 0:12:45coal-mining village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48At 9.15 on the last morning of lessons before half-time,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Pantglas Junior School was buried underneath a mountain of coal waste.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55The scale of the loss, 116 children and 28 adults,
0:12:55 > 0:13:01is still difficult to comprehend half a century later.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04What happened at Aberfan was one of the greatest disasters
0:13:04 > 0:13:07in the modern history of Wales, indeed the modern history
0:13:07 > 0:13:08of the United Kingdom.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10And it's important to get one thing clear.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13This was no freak of nature.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15It was a man-made disaster, it was entirely foreseeable, and it
0:13:15 > 0:13:18happened because of a combination of negligence, arrogance,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22and incompetence.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26One of those who survived the disaster, her life
0:13:26 > 0:13:29still overshadowed by the events of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32She was eight at the time and lost her brother Carl and sister
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Marilyn on that day.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37She has since written a book about her experiences.
0:13:37 > 0:13:44We met in the Memorial Garden on the site of the old school in Aberfan.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47The ceiling of the school had come in and it landed on half
0:13:47 > 0:13:50the children and I had a radiator which had come off the wall
0:13:50 > 0:13:52and literally landed on my lap.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55I just remember looking at another friend of ours who had literally
0:13:55 > 0:14:01tried to climb up through the roof, which was on top of the children.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04And she said, I'm going to get help, I'm going to get help.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05You know.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08She was only eight, bless her.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I was whisked away in the ambulance to Saint Tydfil's hospital.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12And I remained there, isolated, I feel,
0:14:12 > 0:14:17for over three months.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20And it was then in the evening time that I was told that my brother
0:14:20 > 0:14:21and my sister had died.
0:14:21 > 0:14:29And all my friends had died as well.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Within weeks of the disaster, an official tribunal was set up
0:14:33 > 0:14:35under the Welsh judge, Edmund Davies, and it
0:14:35 > 0:14:38started in robust fashion.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41I should hate to think that anybody would connect me with any
0:14:41 > 0:14:44whitewashing exercise.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46But getting straight answers from the National Coal Board,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49the public body which owned the mines, proved a very different
0:14:49 > 0:14:50matter.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52The chairman of the National Coal Board was Lord Robens,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55and he denied any responsibility for the disaster and kept
0:14:55 > 0:15:01on insisting that it could not have been foreseen.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04We have our normal procedures for ensuring that pits are safe,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07but I'm bound to say that we have no procedure that tells us
0:15:07 > 0:15:11that there is a spring deep down under a mountain.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14This is the site of the old Merthyr Vale colliery.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17This is where coal waste was put in trams and then sent
0:15:17 > 0:15:20across the valley and piled high on the mountains opposite.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22And those tips used to dominate the landscape.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25And there was plenty of evidence, based on previous incidents,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28that piling this waste on wet mountainsides was an exceptionally
0:15:28 > 0:15:32risky and dangerous thing to do.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36And yet those warnings were ignored.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40By the time the report was published, the National Coal
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Board had been forced to admit that the disaster was foreseeable.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45It was blamed unequivocally for what had happened.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49But no one was disciplined or sacked.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51I only wish that Lord Robens was here today.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54They should have been sent to jail, lost their jobs.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57But the battle was far from over.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59There were still coal tips above Aberfan and people quite
0:15:59 > 0:16:01naturally wanted them gone.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03But no one was ready to pay, not the government,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06not the Coal Board.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08The families lobbied the Welsh Office in
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Cardiff, demanding help.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11What they got instead from the Welsh Secretary
0:16:11 > 0:16:14George Thomas, was a bill.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16He wanted the local community to use their charity fund
0:16:16 > 0:16:18to make a contribution.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Of course they will pay what they can afford.
0:16:20 > 0:16:26But the scheme will depend on what they pay.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29It took 30 years for the people of Aberfan to regain
0:16:29 > 0:16:31the money they had lost.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34It was finally repaid by the Welsh Government and today
0:16:34 > 0:16:38the gardens and memorials of the village have been restored,
0:16:38 > 0:16:42giving the families the sense of justice that they surely deserve.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Collectively, we have been able for 50 years to get
0:16:46 > 0:16:48through it as a family.
0:16:48 > 0:16:54I have always said Aberfan is a family.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57We've shared our thoughts and feelings, so many good things
0:16:57 > 0:16:59have come out of Aberfan and you have to think
0:16:59 > 0:17:00like that, you know.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04They are courageous, courageous people.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07They may have been late into space but, boy,
0:17:07 > 0:17:08are they catching up.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11China has put two more astronauts into orbit as it looks
0:17:11 > 0:17:12to build its own space station 2020.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14The launch and indeed the wider programme
0:17:14 > 0:17:15is a huge of national pride.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Billions is being spent on it.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21So how long before China is a match for the Americans and the Russians?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Well, they are also talking of a manned mission to the moon,
0:17:24 > 0:17:25possibly Mars as well.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Steven McDonald was given rare access to the launch of China's
0:17:28 > 0:17:34longest manned space mission.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Seeing this Chinese rocket take-off was every bit as powerful
0:17:42 > 0:17:47as you might imagine.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51And there it is.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56China's latest mission into space.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01This country has great ambitions, when it comes to the stars.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05And there is a feeling that nothing can stop them.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11It is not something a journalist is normally allowed
0:18:11 > 0:18:18to experience in this country.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Our journey here began 28 hours earlier, driving through the night,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25deeper into the Gobi Desert.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Visiting a Chinese space launch, meant being escorted
0:18:28 > 0:18:33into a remote military zone.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35On arrival we saw the preparations to catapult two astronauts
0:18:35 > 0:18:43into space, where they will spend one month carrying out research.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45TRANSLATION: The astronauts will work eight hours a day,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47six days a week on this mission.
0:18:47 > 0:18:53They will follow the same time zone as ours on earth.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55But why would journalists, and especially foreign journalists
0:18:55 > 0:18:59be allowed inside this top-secret facility now?
0:18:59 > 0:19:03For one reason, this country is proud of its space programme.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06And at a time when it is copping flak, especially
0:19:06 > 0:19:09in the South China Sea, this is an image it can
0:19:09 > 0:19:11present as a strong nation, and hopefully get some good
0:19:11 > 0:19:16publicity out of it.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18It's not often you go to a press conference
0:19:18 > 0:19:20with astronauts, and I have to say it's quite exciting.
0:19:20 > 0:19:26We're all here, waiting.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28But if I swing around here, you can see.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30This is the bubble they will appear in.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33The reason they are behind glass, they do not want to get sick.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I suppose if you are blasting off to spend one month on the space
0:19:36 > 0:19:40station, you would not want to do it with the flu.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43TRANSLATION: Being an astronaut is my dream and my duty.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Although the job is full of challenges and risks,
0:19:45 > 0:19:55I love and enjoy my work very much.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00In two days' time they will be on board the space station,
0:20:00 > 0:20:07orbiting the Earth.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10They said they could not wait to look back down on the planet
0:20:10 > 0:20:13that they normally call home.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Stephen McDonnell, BBC News, in the Gobi Desert,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18north-west China.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Now, next month marks a year since the deadly attacks on Paris
0:20:24 > 0:20:26where 130 people were killed, among them was Helene Muyal-Leiris.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31She was in the Bataclan music Theatre.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34You may remember at the time her husband, Antoine,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37wrote a very moving tribute to his wife.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Well, a year later he has been telling his story
0:20:39 > 0:20:44to the BBC's Damian Grammaticas.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48On Friday night you stole away the life of an exceptional being.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50The love of my life, the mother of my son.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54But you will not have my hatred.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57I do not know who you are and I don't want to know.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01You are dead souls.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05That was a year ago.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Today, Antoine Leiris remains defiant, dignified,
0:21:07 > 0:21:13as determined not to hate.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17For me it's the only way to not fall in craziness.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Not turn mad.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24So I stick to it.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Yes, sometimes it's difficult, sometimes hate comes and knocks
0:21:27 > 0:21:29on my door and says, "Hey, I'm there, I'm simple,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31I'm easy, I'm comfortable.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36You can go with me, it will be easier for you."
0:21:36 > 0:21:40But I just let her out of our house and, yes, I think it was
0:21:40 > 0:21:41a good choice for us.
0:21:41 > 0:21:46The only choice.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48But not an easy choice.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51His new book is an intimate diary, how he dealt with the loss
0:21:51 > 0:21:59of his wife Helene at the Bataclan.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02When you close a dead person's eyes, you give them back a little
0:22:02 > 0:22:03bit of life.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06She looks like the woman I watch wake up each morning.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10I want to lie next to her languorous body, warm her up, tell her she's
0:22:10 > 0:22:14the most beautiful woman I ever met.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18It was like the walls of my room when I was alone were about to fall
0:22:18 > 0:22:25on me and I was like suffocating.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29But writing was an open door to learn freedom.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32So writing has been Antoine's escape.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35A way to hold on to his wife.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37She is buried in Montmartre.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40The new book has a new letter.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Imagined to her from their two-year-old son, Melvin.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Papa promised me that we would come to see you tomorrow, the two of us.
0:22:48 > 0:22:56OK, well, I can't wait to see you.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59OK, well, I can't wait to see you tomorrow and the day
0:22:59 > 0:23:02after tomorrow and all the days after that.
0:23:02 > 0:23:09I miss you, mama, I love you. Melvin.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11And while he holds no hate for his wife's killers,
0:23:11 > 0:23:16there is one thing Antoine has refused to relinquish, his grief.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Grief is a companion for me.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19It's precious.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22I want to keep it with me.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Because it's a connection to your wife?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Because it's a testimony of...
0:23:27 > 0:23:31like, even a physical testimony, you know.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35You felt it inside you, very strongly.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It's a testimony of how I loved Helene.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Paris.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Antoine Leiris, a year after the Paris attacks.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45And that's it from Reporters this week.
0:23:45 > 0:23:51From me, David Eades, goodbye for now.
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