:00:00. > :00:16.Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters.
:00:17. > :00:25.Welcome to Reporters, I'm Philippa Thomas.
:00:26. > :00:27.From here in the BBC newsroom we send out correspondents to bring
:00:28. > :00:29.you the best stories from across the globe.
:00:30. > :00:41.The street to street battle for Mosul:
:00:42. > :00:43.Quentin Sommerville joins Iraq's counterterrorism forces,
:00:44. > :00:45.as they face stiff resistance from so-called Islamic State militants.
:00:46. > :00:48.Islamic State are 200 metres in that direction, and look over here,
:00:49. > :00:50.you can see children running, children playing.
:00:51. > :00:53.This war is happening on peoples doorsteps.
:00:54. > :00:55.Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory.
:00:56. > :01:01.The American far right's new awakening.
:01:02. > :01:04.We meet members of the Alt Right, the white nationalist movement that
:01:05. > :01:10.Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority.
:01:11. > :01:15.As the UN calls for an investigation, we hear a report
:01:16. > :01:18.on alleged human rights abuses against ethnic Rohingyas.
:01:19. > :01:20.TRANSLATION: They set our houses and mosque on fire.
:01:21. > :01:33.Jonathan Head reports on how the battle against the illegal
:01:34. > :01:40.wildlife trade in Asia is being lost to the traffickers.
:01:41. > :01:45.And Katie Watson goes on patrol with Mexico's all women
:01:46. > :01:47.all women traffic cops, but are women better at fighting
:01:48. > :01:52.TRANSLATION: Some drivers are aggressive and feel
:01:53. > :01:55.uncomfortable with a woman giving them a fine.
:01:56. > :02:01.They're used to being the strong powerful one.
:02:02. > :02:04.Iraqi forces say they are being slowed down in their advance
:02:05. > :02:08.against so-called Islamic State in the city of Mosul.
:02:09. > :02:10.They are facing stiff resistance from IS, who are fighting
:02:11. > :02:16.back with sniper fire and suicide bombings.
:02:17. > :02:18.The Iraqis are also worried about causing civilian casualties,
:02:19. > :02:21.particularly in the east of Mosul, where street to street
:02:22. > :02:27.Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Nick Millard have
:02:28. > :02:29.have been travelling with Iraqi counterterrorism forces.
:02:30. > :02:37.Their report does contain some distressing images.
:02:38. > :02:40.In a battle for a city this big, progress isn't always easy to map.
:02:41. > :02:43.After five weeks of fighting, much of Mosul has
:02:44. > :02:53.Below in miniature, the war plays out.
:02:54. > :02:58.In Mosul's streets, life or death is decided
:02:59. > :03:10.Just metres away - the so-called Islamic State.
:03:11. > :03:17.Iraqi special forces say he was IS fighter,
:03:18. > :03:21.one of the dozens they have shot dead this week.
:03:22. > :03:24.TRANSLATION: Yes, many civilians have been attacked
:03:25. > :03:26.by Islamic State snipers, but they also use them
:03:27. > :03:38.They sometimes come forward carrying babies, using them as cover.
:03:39. > :03:47.The only safe way past this front line is through walls,
:03:48. > :03:58.Islamic State are 200 metres in that direction,
:03:59. > :04:04.and look over here, you can see children running, children playing.
:04:05. > :04:06.People are living 20 metres away from here.
:04:07. > :04:08.Yesterday there was a car bomb, no military were injured,
:04:09. > :04:17.This war is happening on peoples doorsteps.
:04:18. > :04:19.At house after house white flags are raised.
:04:20. > :04:23.Where else could these children and their families go?
:04:24. > :04:28.An exodus would cause a humanitarian disaster for Iraq.
:04:29. > :04:31.Even the people who were influenced by their talk, by the Isis
:04:32. > :04:33.talk, now they are not, because they endured two
:04:34. > :04:44.They endured two years of deprivation, two years of killing.
:04:45. > :04:46.So, despite the war, the government has
:04:47. > :04:58.Five days of fighting means this man and his family
:04:59. > :05:11.TRANSLATION: I lost a baby in these circumstances.
:05:12. > :05:17.I lost the baby because the doctors were not available.
:05:18. > :05:31.For this three-year-old it will be her first time leaving
:05:32. > :05:38.The government wants people to remain here,
:05:39. > :05:40.but it and its services are mostly absent.
:05:41. > :05:49.It's an armoured Humvee that serves as an ambulance.
:05:50. > :06:01.His son has just been shot in the chest.
:06:02. > :06:13.An IS sniper's bullet, say his brothers.
:06:14. > :06:16.They'd left their house only a few minutes ago to sell eggs.
:06:17. > :06:30.And the appalling truth is his death is one of hundreds here every week.
:06:31. > :06:32.This is the horror of this situation.
:06:33. > :06:35.They can't even take the boy's body down the street because they're
:06:36. > :06:37.worried that the sniper is still down there.
:06:38. > :06:40.You can hear the gunfire all around, you can hear the heartbroken
:06:41. > :06:43.A million people are still trapped in the city, and fighting
:06:44. > :07:00.And this is the moment his brothers realise he's gone.
:07:01. > :07:04.And while people remain here, much more will have to be endured.
:07:05. > :07:10.The fight for Mosul has only just begun.
:07:11. > :07:17.Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Mosul.
:07:18. > :07:19.Donald Trump's election has many people concerned about race
:07:20. > :07:27.One group that has been associated with his campaign is a white
:07:28. > :07:29.nationalist movement, known as the Alt Right,
:07:30. > :07:31.and last weekend they met in Washington to talk
:07:32. > :07:36.about what they see as their new awakening.
:07:37. > :07:38.Hundreds gathered outside that meeting to protest against a group
:07:39. > :07:51.This protest outside this building, very close to the White House
:07:52. > :07:55.is because of an Alt Right conference that's going on inside.
:07:56. > :07:59.We've already seen it get very heated indeed.
:08:00. > :08:01.Particularly when one of the people attending the conference went
:08:02. > :08:06.They started calling us Nazis, which is incorrect,
:08:07. > :08:11.because I'm not a racist, I'm a very tolerant person.
:08:12. > :08:19.Well, it includes white nationalists, white supremacists,
:08:20. > :08:22.anti-Semites, Islamophobes and there are those
:08:23. > :08:24.who feel that Alt Right is essentially code for neo-Nazi.
:08:25. > :08:36.Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory.
:08:37. > :08:38.Filmed by the Atlantic, this was what was going on
:08:39. > :08:42.To be white is to be a survivor, a crusader, an explorer
:08:43. > :08:47.We build, we produce, we go upward.
:08:48. > :08:49.Earlier in the day we were allowed in, too.
:08:50. > :08:54.But with outsiders watching, the tone was different.
:08:55. > :08:57.I do think that we have, you could say, a psychic connection,
:08:58. > :09:01.or a deeper connection with Donald Trump.
:09:02. > :09:04.It was clear that while Donald Trump says he denounces racism,
:09:05. > :09:07.far right leaders here feel their ideas helped shape him
:09:08. > :09:12.as a candidate and will guide him as president.
:09:13. > :09:14.He certainly wasn't elected on repeal Obamacare
:09:15. > :09:17.This is why he was elected, because he was the
:09:18. > :09:23.Many in the room told me of their excitement
:09:24. > :09:27.This is the first time in a very long time I've been interested
:09:28. > :09:31.Because someone was talking your language?
:09:32. > :09:33.Someone was touching on something very real.
:09:34. > :09:37.Can you understand why Muslim Americans, for example,
:09:38. > :09:39.why African Americans might be concerned, might be worried?
:09:40. > :09:44.Can they understand why we might be concerned?
:09:45. > :09:47.That we are being replaced and being forced to become
:09:48. > :09:56.I've spent a lifetime fighting for these causes,
:09:57. > :10:11.I've always felt that a harmogenous state is a happy state.
:10:12. > :10:14.Just imagine by accident of birth that you'd been born
:10:15. > :10:18.If I were African-American I hope I'd feel the way I feel now,
:10:19. > :10:20.that I would dedicate myself to improving my people and living
:10:21. > :10:24.with my people and I would have no trouble with white people who wanted
:10:25. > :10:28.And whether he likes it or not people with these views feel
:10:29. > :10:31.America was, until this past generation, a white country,
:10:32. > :10:32.designed for ourselves and our posterity.
:10:33. > :10:34.It is our creation, it is our inheritance
:10:35. > :10:51.To Myanmar, also known as Burma, where the United Nations has called
:10:52. > :10:54.for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses by the Burmese
:10:55. > :10:58.army against the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
:10:59. > :11:01.Hundreds have crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh,
:11:02. > :11:04.which is already home to up to half a million Rohingya refugees
:11:05. > :11:09.Our reporter has spoken to some of them.
:11:10. > :11:15.A warning, there are some graphic images here.
:11:16. > :11:18.Hated and hounded from Burmese soil, hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have
:11:19. > :11:25.They are bringing with them horror stories of how an army down
:11:26. > :11:32.on militants became a relentless assault on Rohingya communities.
:11:33. > :11:34.TRANSLATION: The Burmese army have set many of our houses on fire.
:11:35. > :11:37.Some men were shot dead and some were slaughtered.
:11:38. > :11:49.They set our houses and mosque on fire.
:11:50. > :11:55.These Rohingya won't be missed, though many families
:11:56. > :11:57.have been in Myanmar, also known as Burma,
:11:58. > :12:00.for generations, most people see them as illegal immigrants
:12:01. > :12:10.The Burmese army doesn't want us to see what it is up to,
:12:11. > :12:16.so it's keeping journalists and international aid workers out,
:12:17. > :12:18.but that's not stopped grim accounts emerging almost every day
:12:19. > :12:23.of abuses being committed against Rohingya civilians.
:12:24. > :12:26.We took a close look at what had happened in and around
:12:27. > :12:36.Speaking to Rohingya and using video they filmed.
:12:37. > :12:41.These people are now living in the open, after they fled
:12:42. > :12:43.soldiers who entered their village on November the 12th,
:12:44. > :12:46.With a helicopter flying overhead the soldiers opened fire,
:12:47. > :12:49.killing men and, we're told, women and children.
:12:50. > :12:55.No one can tell us exactly how many died.
:12:56. > :12:59.When people felt safe enough to return, they found
:13:00. > :13:11.A day later these charred remains were discovered.
:13:12. > :13:21.The official version of events here is that soldiers shot dead 25
:13:22. > :13:33.Rohingya attackers who approached them waving sticks and knives.
:13:34. > :13:35.Campaigners from Human Rights Watch have analysed satellite images
:13:36. > :13:39.and say in the weeks that followed 265 houses were destroyed.
:13:40. > :13:45.The government say the Rohingya are setting fire to their own homes.
:13:46. > :13:51.It's all so different from a year ago, when hopes were high
:13:52. > :13:54.and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi had just won
:13:55. > :14:00.But Miss Suu Kyi's power comes not from principles
:14:01. > :14:03.but partnership with the army, so much to the disappointment
:14:04. > :14:05.of human rights campaigners, she's refused to investigate
:14:06. > :14:14.My worry is the same as your worry and the rest of the world,
:14:15. > :14:19.that we may be seeing something more horrendous than we anticipated,
:14:20. > :14:22.but unless we have a credible investigation we will not know
:14:23. > :14:33.Awful things are taking place, whether it's a crudely managed
:14:34. > :14:37.counter insurgency or, as some say, ethnic cleansing,
:14:38. > :14:45.the continued suffering of the Rohingya is beyond question.
:14:46. > :14:53.It's been a bad week for Nicolas Sarkozy. The former French
:14:54. > :14:57.President's hopes of returning to power were dashed after he was
:14:58. > :15:02.knocked out in the first round of his Republican party's primaries.
:15:03. > :15:08.But his pain was the worst well known President's game. He has
:15:09. > :15:14.emerged as the party's front runner. He could now face the National front
:15:15. > :15:17.leader Marine le Pen in next year's election. Lucy Williamson reports on
:15:18. > :15:26.a surprising week for French politics. Once he was nicknamed Mr
:15:27. > :15:31.nobody. No one calls him that now. He is now the favourite to be his
:15:32. > :15:38.party's presidential candidate, a Catholic Anglophile with an English
:15:39. > :15:42.wife -- Welsh wife and a fondness for Margaret Thatcher. His plans to
:15:43. > :15:46.take on the unions by slashing half a million public jobs on pushing
:15:47. > :15:51.through liberal reforms have won him a lot of right-wing support. As have
:15:52. > :15:58.his calls for quotas on immigration and a ban on adoption by gay
:15:59. > :16:03.couples. He appeared on France's main news bulletin.
:16:04. > :16:12.TRANSLATION: I've always been convinced my project would win over
:16:13. > :16:21.the voters. It's not surprised, and not trying to win anything, it's a
:16:22. > :16:26.sign of my commitment to change. The moderate centrist once tipped as the
:16:27. > :16:33.party favourite is now the outsider. His rival's success was, he said, a
:16:34. > :16:41.surprise. How did Mr Francois Fillon do it? He had the character, the
:16:42. > :16:46.personality, and French people wanted that, someone very serious,
:16:47. > :16:54.very rigorous, and also he was appointing measures that were very
:16:55. > :16:58.on the right, and that was what was expected by the electors. It's early
:16:59. > :17:04.days but for some this primary contest is an unofficial first round
:17:05. > :17:09.in France's presidential race. The current resident of the Elysee
:17:10. > :17:13.Palace is so unpopular that few are counting on a Socialist candidate
:17:14. > :17:17.even reaching the presidential run-off next May. In a head-to-head
:17:18. > :17:23.race with the far right leader Marine le Pen, they could probably
:17:24. > :17:26.count on left-wing votes. The question many are asking now is
:17:27. > :17:32.whether Francois Fillon could do the same. He's more likely to win over
:17:33. > :17:37.some of Marine le Pen's target voters, those who don't really agree
:17:38. > :17:42.with her support for gay rights or her plans to pull out of the EU.
:17:43. > :17:46.Marine le Pen on the other hand has been doing well in previously
:17:47. > :17:53.left-wing areas, with promises of welfare spending and protection for
:17:54. > :17:58.France's economy. Francois Fillon is the first prize in France's
:17:59. > :18:01.residential race. He may not be the last. Lucy Williamson, BBC News,
:18:02. > :18:07.Paris. Let's turn to the battle to save
:18:08. > :18:10.Asia's Tigers. They're among the world's best-known animal species
:18:11. > :18:15.facing extension because of trafficking. Over the last year more
:18:16. > :18:18.than 20,000 elephants, 1000 rhinos have been killed by poachers for
:18:19. > :18:26.their ivory and horns, which are then sold in Asia. India lost more
:18:27. > :18:30.than 70 tigers to poachers and as Jonathan Head found out this illicit
:18:31. > :18:36.trade in is being fuelled in Southeast Asia.
:18:37. > :18:40.When the Thai authorities shut down the famous Tiger Temple earlier this
:18:41. > :18:46.year they made some disturbing discoveries. Clear evidence of
:18:47. > :18:51.illegal trading in tiger parts. At least three adult Tigers had also
:18:52. > :18:57.gone missing. Loose regulations have allowed the captive tiger population
:18:58. > :19:03.in Thailand to expand to around 1500, and some have been sold into
:19:04. > :19:09.the lucrative wildlife trade. TRANSLATION: Tiger trading is hard
:19:10. > :19:13.to verify. The trafficking rings are sophisticated and had to monitor.
:19:14. > :19:19.There are influential people involved in the trade. Thailand has
:19:20. > :19:21.done a lot more recently to intercept contraband wildlife
:19:22. > :19:26.shipments but it hasn't shut down the criminal networks that run the
:19:27. > :19:31.trade. Very few arrests have been made. This is the far north-eastern
:19:32. > :19:37.corner of Thailand, and just over there, across the river is lay-offs,
:19:38. > :19:42.a poor Communist run country where the wildlife trade runs almost
:19:43. > :19:46.uncontrolled on routes through to Vietnam and China. Until the recent
:19:47. > :19:49.past we know they used to drop the carcasses of tigers in the river
:19:50. > :19:55.here to be picked up by smugglers over on the other side. We also know
:19:56. > :19:59.there are still active wildlife trafficking rings operating here in
:20:00. > :20:07.Thailand, and that over there it's a great deal worse. One of them is
:20:08. > :20:12.believed to operate from this nondescript apartment block on the
:20:13. > :20:16.Thai side of the Mekong River. Campaigning group Freeland has spent
:20:17. > :20:21.years covertly monitoring them. Documenting big cash transactions
:20:22. > :20:29.are noting their links with other known figures in the international
:20:30. > :20:32.wildlife trade. Victor, not his real name, is an undercover agent helping
:20:33. > :20:36.the Thai police to track the network. Even with all the evidence
:20:37. > :20:41.they've amassed to date, bringing criminal charges against them is
:20:42. > :20:44.proving difficult. A lot of the believer now I'm not aware of how
:20:45. > :20:50.much money is generated by this particular trade. It's up there on
:20:51. > :20:57.par with trafficking narcotics, billions of US dollars annually.
:20:58. > :21:08.That kind of liquid buys a lot of power behind it, to pay people off.
:21:09. > :21:11.Thai officials are now compiling a database of captive tiger so that
:21:12. > :21:16.for the first time they can be properly traced.
:21:17. > :21:26.This is that Thailand's biggest Tiger zoo with over 300 animals.
:21:27. > :21:29.Conservation groups want these big Tiger facilities shut down
:21:30. > :21:34.completely. With this large-scale exploitation of captive animals,
:21:35. > :21:39.they believe there is always a risk of some being siphoned off into the
:21:40. > :21:44.illegal trade. Jonathan Head, BBC News, north-eastern Thailand.
:21:45. > :21:48.Corruption is a massive problem in Mexico. It costs the country
:21:49. > :21:53.billions of dollars every year and the problem is most acute in Mexico
:21:54. > :21:58.state. Their solution is a police force with fewer men. Katie Watson
:21:59. > :22:00.reports on the all-female traffic cop team that's helping to combat
:22:01. > :22:09.corruption. I'm out on patrol. Together with 400
:22:10. > :22:12.other women, they are part of Mexico state's transit police. Five years
:22:13. > :22:16.ago authorities got rid of all the men in the department and decided
:22:17. > :22:18.only women should do the job because they are more trustworthy, but it's
:22:19. > :22:26.not without its challenges. TRANSLATION: Some drivers are
:22:27. > :22:29.aggressive and feel uncomfortable with a woman giving them a fine,
:22:30. > :22:34.they are used to being the strong and powerful one in control, but
:22:35. > :22:38.these are life experiences that taught us to change attitudes and be
:22:39. > :22:52.emotionally strong. Women are more sensitive. First perpetrator
:22:53. > :22:56.identified, it doesn't seem to be his day but he's not too grumpy.
:22:57. > :23:00.TRANSLATION: Things have improved, because man-to-man it easier for
:23:01. > :23:04.there to be corruption. The treatment you get from women is
:23:05. > :23:09.different. Back at base it's an all girl team. For every 100 complaints
:23:10. > :23:15.they use to get about corruption, they say now they get one or two.
:23:16. > :23:23.TRANSLATION: Study shows woman is more responsible if she does it bad.
:23:24. > :23:27.We have given women ethics training to prepare them, so they don't fall
:23:28. > :23:32.in a trap that could cost them their job. Women's roles as carers others
:23:33. > :23:35.have traditionally held many back from working in the public sphere
:23:36. > :23:40.but it's these very traits being used as a reason why are better in
:23:41. > :23:44.some jobs. The reason being they are socially more responsible. But not
:23:45. > :23:50.everybody is convinced. There are experts question this idea women are
:23:51. > :23:55.inherently less corrupt. I think it's not looking at the structural
:23:56. > :23:57.causes causing people to be corrupt, like police officer. What causes a
:23:58. > :24:02.police officer to be corrupt the incentives they have today, that
:24:03. > :24:06.there are no sanctions, that there is a culture of corruption in
:24:07. > :24:10.Mexico. In the long-term as women take spaces in a public space, if we
:24:11. > :24:15.don't address the structural issues causing corruption I don't think
:24:16. > :24:20.women in general, in the long term will be less corrupt than they are
:24:21. > :24:24.now. Back on patrol a very different situation. One man injured in a hit
:24:25. > :24:28.and run. There's no doubt that mother of two rows is using what she
:24:29. > :24:35.calls her caring side, but whether that makes women inherently lest
:24:36. > :24:38.corrupt is still debatable. That is all from us this week. From
:24:39. > :25:03.me, Philippa Thomas, bye-bye. Double-figure temperatures make for
:25:04. > :25:07.a very different feel to the weather across parts of Scotland this
:25:08. > :25:12.afternoon. Soaking up the warmth, relative warmth, compared to recent
:25:13. > :25:13.days was weather watcher in Aberdeen.