0:00:26 > 0:00:27Welcome to Reporters.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28I'm Philippa Thomas.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring
0:00:31 > 0:00:34you the best stories from across the globe.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37In this week's programme, on the frontline of
0:00:37 > 0:00:40the battle for Mosul.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Quentin Somerville joins Iraqi forces, as they meet fierce
0:00:42 > 0:00:44resistance to their assault on the last stronghold of
0:00:44 > 0:00:52the so-called Islamic State in Iraq.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54The town of Abu Saif is under attack.
0:00:54 > 0:01:02It is all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Famine in the world's newest nation.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Alistair Leithead reports from South Sudan, a country
0:01:05 > 0:01:12devastated by years of civil war.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Cracking Albania's people trafficking rings.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Reeta Chakrabarti follows the brutal trade to the UK,
0:01:15 > 0:01:21meeting the victims whose lives have been broken.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22You were raped every day.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23TRANSLATION: Yes, every day.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Many men?
0:01:24 > 0:01:29Yes, many.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31What we could do is say that...
0:01:31 > 0:01:34And life behind the camera, but still in the spotlight.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Angelina Jolie talks to Yalda Hakim about directing her new film
0:01:37 > 0:01:45on Cambodia, her family, and her split from Brad Pitt.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48We are a family and we will always be a family.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50And we will get through this time and hopefully be
0:01:50 > 0:01:54a stronger family for it.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01The battle to recapture the last stronghold of the so-called
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Islamic State in Iraq has been long and hard.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Iraqi forces have besieged Mosul, Iraq's second city,
0:02:05 > 0:02:06for the past four months.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10Last month, they captured its eastern region.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Now the battle is on for the west, which has seen some of the most
0:02:14 > 0:02:20ferocious fighting between the two sides this week.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Backed by British and American special forces, helicopter gunships
0:02:22 > 0:02:25now control the skies, but the road to the west
0:02:25 > 0:02:27is littered with bombs, and thousands of IS fighters remain
0:02:27 > 0:02:28in the city.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Quentin Sommerville is the only international journalist
0:02:30 > 0:02:36embedded with Iraqi forces.
0:02:36 > 0:02:43His report contains some graphic images.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Iraq says its Mosul operation is the dawn of victories,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48and on the second day of their offensive, its troops
0:02:48 > 0:02:58again prepared to face the so-called Islamic State.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01An armoured force, set on the city's west.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03All along this route, there are suspected roadside bombs
0:03:03 > 0:03:10laid by the Islamic State.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15Slowed to a crawl at times, bomb disposal technicians
0:03:15 > 0:03:16inched along the road.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20But above, they have full command of the skies.
0:03:20 > 0:03:27In their sights, a small IS-held town, Abu Saif.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32GUNFIRE.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Emptied of people, every home there became a target.
0:03:35 > 0:03:41The town of Abu Saif is under attack.
0:03:41 > 0:03:51It's all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54They managed to get here in record time and now,
0:03:54 > 0:03:57from the air, and from land, they're trying to take Abu Saif.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58And here's why.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01For the first time, these forces have sight of Mosul.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04For Colonel Fallah Ali Wabdan, it is an important prize
0:04:04 > 0:04:09and critical to the campaign.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12TRANSLATION: Abu Saif is very important for us because it's
0:04:12 > 0:04:15on high ground and that is very good in helping us win control
0:04:15 > 0:04:25of the airport, which is below us.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Iraqi forces are using the latest warfare tools.
0:04:28 > 0:04:38During the battle, watch as this gunship strikes.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48American and British special forces are a mostly
0:04:48 > 0:04:49unseen hand helping along.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52The results are deadly.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56This motorbike was cut in half by an air strike.
0:04:56 > 0:05:03The corpses, believed to be two IS fighters, lie in the dirt.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07By the afternoon, Abu Saif was back in government hands,
0:05:07 > 0:05:13but it hadn't slipped fully from the militants' grip.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15They struck back, killing at least two soldiers.
0:05:15 > 0:05:25And the day ended as it began, with IS home-made bombs.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30EXPLOSION.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32So these tactics are designed to slow down the advance
0:05:32 > 0:05:34of the federal troops.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36IS are using them in greater concentration in bigger towns
0:05:36 > 0:05:39and villages, so as these troops move forward, they will experience
0:05:39 > 0:05:42better defences and more resistance, and that can mean more casualties.
0:05:42 > 0:05:51And others were badly injured.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Still, this was another important Iraqi victory.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59But winning against the Islamic State comes at a cost.
0:05:59 > 0:06:08Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Famine has returned to South Sudan, the world's newest country.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Its government and the United Nations say around 100,000 people
0:06:13 > 0:06:15are currently affected and just under 5 million people,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18that's 40% of the population, are in urgent need of food.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21It is the first time famine has been declared in any part
0:06:21 > 0:06:23of the world since 2011.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Alastair Leithead has been to the South Sudanese capital, Juba,
0:06:26 > 0:06:28and found that any hopes of prosperity for the new nation
0:06:28 > 0:06:38have been shattered by years of civil war.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46When famine hits, the smallest suffer.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47There's acute malnutrition here in the children's
0:06:47 > 0:06:49hospital in the capital, but it's far worse upcountry,
0:06:50 > 0:06:56where the fighting goes on.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Paul is two.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59His distended belly and painful skin condition are obvious
0:06:59 > 0:07:06symptoms of hunger.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Malnutrition is really bad because it has increased.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11I am here for some years, but this year, it has really increased.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13The rate has increased.
0:07:13 > 0:07:21Hadiya gets one or maybe two meals a day.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Her mother, Mary, can't afford to feed her amid the economic chaos
0:07:23 > 0:07:29that civil war brings.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31This is Unity State, a rebel stronghold where 100,000
0:07:31 > 0:07:34people now feel the effects of famine, and a million
0:07:34 > 0:07:38more are on the brink.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44Some aid has been delivered but not enough.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Famine is not declared lightly, only when help doesn't reach,
0:07:47 > 0:07:49and when large numbers of people are starving to death every day.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53The real tragedy is that this is largely man-made,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56and we do have famine and food and insecurity has worsened in many
0:07:56 > 0:07:58parts of this country, largely because of this unfortunate
0:07:58 > 0:08:05conflict.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Because of fighting, because of insecurity,
0:08:07 > 0:08:08because of access challenges, also because of attacks
0:08:08 > 0:08:11on humanitarian workers and sometimes the looting of assets.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13We have not been able to provide assistance
0:08:13 > 0:08:22as we would certainly have wished.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25For more than three years, a civil war has been
0:08:25 > 0:08:27fought across South Sudan, largely along ethnic lines.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29We are calling on all the population...
0:08:29 > 0:08:31The former vice president, Riek Machar, and President
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Salva Kiir, in the hat, are from the two main tribes.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Their political spat tore the country in two.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41Well over 3 million people have been forced
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Well over three million people have been forced
0:08:43 > 0:08:45from their homes by the fighting.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Hundreds of thousands of them are in camps set up
0:08:47 > 0:08:49by the United Nations across the country
0:08:49 > 0:08:50for their own protection.
0:08:50 > 0:08:521.5 million have fled to neighbouring countries,
0:08:52 > 0:08:57creating one of the worst refugee crises in the world.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Towns have emptied here in the crop-growing south
0:08:59 > 0:09:01of the country, adding to the food shortages.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04In the last six months, 450,000 people have fled to Uganda.
0:09:04 > 0:09:13Thousands still cross the border every day,
0:09:14 > 0:09:16and describe atrocities, like rape and murder, by
0:09:16 > 0:09:17soldiers from both sides.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20The UN has warned of the potential for genocide and now a deepening
0:09:20 > 0:09:21famine unless the war is stopped.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26Alastair Leithead, BBC News, South Sudan.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34To Albania now, one of Europe's poorest countries, which has been
0:09:34 > 0:09:37a centre for the dark trade in human trafficking for the past 20 years.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Most of the victims are women forced into a life of prostitution
0:09:40 > 0:09:41and terrifying abuse.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44It is estimated there are now around 35,000 Albanian prostitutes walking
0:09:44 > 0:09:46the streets of Europe, many of them trafficked as children.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49The Albanian authorities have been criticised for failing to crack down
0:09:49 > 0:09:51on the problem with just 18 convictions last year.
0:09:51 > 0:10:01Reeta Chakrabarti has been talking to some of the victims
0:10:01 > 0:10:06of the trade in trafficking.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Blessed with natural beauty, but the centre of a dark trade.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Albania has, over two decades, built up a brutal industry
0:10:11 > 0:10:17with human beings the commodity.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19TRANSLATION: I hate them and I want them to get
0:10:19 > 0:10:23the punishment that they deserve.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Saya, now still a teenager, was just 14 when she was sold
0:10:25 > 0:10:28into a trafficking ring by a man she thought was her boyfriend.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32She was forced to sleep with several men a day and tells of a bewildering
0:10:32 > 0:10:38and terrifying world of abuse in which she could trust no-one.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40TRANSLATION: There were other girls there, too, but I did not talk
0:10:40 > 0:10:43to them because you could not tell who was connected to whom.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47We were terrified.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49They would beat us up and not let us go out.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52To be controlled by someone, to be used as I was,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55is totally degrading.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57She lives here, in a refuge for trafficked women
0:10:57 > 0:10:58in the south of the country.
0:10:58 > 0:11:08But these are schoolgirls, and some already have
0:11:09 > 0:11:11children of their own.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14All have escaped their traffickers.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Saya helped put some of hers behind bars.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Several convicted traffickers are held here in Korce
0:11:19 > 0:11:25high security prison.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Last year, 18 people were sentenced.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Some here are serving 20 years or more.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33The Albanian authorities let us talk to one of them.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36This man was sentenced to 15 years for trafficking children to Greece
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and forcing them to work as prostitutes or beggars.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40What made him, a married man with his own children,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43commit such a crime?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45TRANSLATION: It was a time when everyone was doing
0:11:45 > 0:11:50that kind of thing.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52You used a child in order to earn some money.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Isn't what you did entirely wrong?
0:11:54 > 0:11:55It's terrible.
0:11:55 > 0:12:04What if that were my child and someone did that to them?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10He faced justice, but Albania has been criticised for a lack
0:12:10 > 0:12:12of prosecutions and there are concerns over police collusion.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Some senior figures question whether trafficking is a real
0:12:14 > 0:12:16problem but the official line is that there are systems
0:12:17 > 0:12:21to deal with it.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22It's not a big concern.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26It used to be many years ago.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29We had a system in place, and it was not an increasing trend.
0:12:29 > 0:12:36It is constant but it has to be tackled properly and to make
0:12:36 > 0:12:40always all the structures are working together.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43But it is away from the modern capital city that all too often
0:12:43 > 0:12:44traffickers find their victims.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Albania remains a poor country and in many areas a woman's role
0:12:47 > 0:12:53is still seen as being in the home.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Young women in small-town Albania can be easy prey for grooomers,
0:12:56 > 0:12:57seduced by promises of a better life.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00That better life is invariably outside Albania, but Anna
0:13:00 > 0:13:08never dreamt of her fate.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11TRANSLATION: He said he was looking for a girl just like me
0:13:11 > 0:13:13and he wanted to start a family.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15She is now in a safe house in the UK.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Duped into leaving home and then sold into prostitution,
0:13:18 > 0:13:20she weeps throughout our interview but insists she wants
0:13:20 > 0:13:26to tell her story.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28TRANSLATION: I was somewhere underground.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30I had no sense of the world around me.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31They would not let me see.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34I entered the building blindfolded.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36And you were raped every day?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Yes.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Every day.
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Many men?
0:13:41 > 0:13:47Yes, many.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Anna is now supported in this safe house run by the Salvation Army.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53She has a baby, which gives her a reason to carry on.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Her story should trigger alarm in authorities
0:13:55 > 0:14:01here and across Europe.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03A broken life caused by a brutal crime.
0:14:03 > 0:14:08Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Next week, Northern Ireland returns to the polls, just nine months
0:14:10 > 0:14:11after its last election.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13The power-sharing government fell apart last month
0:14:13 > 0:14:15after the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, resigned
0:14:15 > 0:14:17amid a complete breakdown of relations between the Unionist
0:14:17 > 0:14:21DUP and the nationalists of Sinn Fein.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Bitter words between the former coalition partners have fuelled
0:14:23 > 0:14:25memories of divisive elections from Northern Ireland's troubled
0:14:25 > 0:14:34past, as Chris Buckler reports.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Well, one place that the polls so far and our own computer can't
0:14:43 > 0:14:45really help us is Northern Ireland.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47How elections are reported has changed over the decades.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50The real issue before the Ulster voters has not been
0:14:50 > 0:14:54power-saving, but power-sharing.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56But in Northern Ireland, it sometimes feels like the politics
0:14:56 > 0:15:02haven't changed much.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Throughout the years, votes have often been presented
0:15:04 > 0:15:06as a battle between Irish nationalism and British unionism
0:15:06 > 0:15:09and it's clear those old divisions run deep in the bad blood
0:15:09 > 0:15:11of this current campaign.
0:15:11 > 0:15:17Well, the reality is in Northern Ireland,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19we don't have enough respect for Orangemen to walk down
0:15:19 > 0:15:21a road for ten minutes.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23This heated election follows the collapse of Stormont's
0:15:23 > 0:15:24power-sharing government and there is frustration among
0:15:24 > 0:15:26voters following allegations of incompetence and even corruption.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29It's time they all got their act together, learnt to work together
0:15:29 > 0:15:33and put power-sharing and all it stood for into practice.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36And do you know...?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Ian Paisley's hardline voice softened with age and he eventually
0:15:39 > 0:15:41led his Democratic Unionist Party into government with Sinn Fein,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43but ten years later, there's a new DUP leader
0:15:43 > 0:15:46and Irish Republicans are once again being portrayed as the enemy.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49If you feed a crocodile, they're going to keep coming back
0:15:49 > 0:15:57and looking for more.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Arlene Foster was forced from the office of First Minister
0:16:00 > 0:16:02when Sinn Fein walked out of government over a financial
0:16:02 > 0:16:04scandal surrounding a botched green energy initiative.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07She was the minister in charge when the scheme was designed
0:16:07 > 0:16:09inexplicably without cost controls, but she's not asking
0:16:09 > 0:16:12asking for forgiveness.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18She's fighting back with what are, at times, harsh words.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19That's not fair, Chris.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23I mean, if you've listened to what I've said, I said I want
0:16:23 > 0:16:26devolution back up and running again, so that we can have
0:16:26 > 0:16:27stability for our people.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Do you regret any of your words over the last months?
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Well, maybe that's a question you should ask other parties
0:16:32 > 0:16:35because when you look at the brutality of what happened
0:16:35 > 0:16:38to me, in December, in January, when you look at the rhetoric
0:16:38 > 0:16:40that was directed towards me, I think we should all
0:16:40 > 0:16:42look at our words.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Stormont's opposition parties are back out on the road,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46campaigning again, including the nationalist SDLP.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47But they all know that there's no guarantee
0:16:47 > 0:16:51of a new power-sharing deal and that means there is a chance that
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Westminster might have to take over government here,
0:16:52 > 0:17:02at least for a period, through what's known as direct rule.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08We could have exactly the same result or we could have
0:17:08 > 0:17:09change in our politics.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13The problem is, if we get the same result, we end up with direct rule
0:17:13 > 0:17:16and once once we have direct rule, I'm not sure we'll get the Assembly
0:17:16 > 0:17:18back up and running again.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20With all the cosy appearances now gone at Stormont,
0:17:20 > 0:17:22the cross-community Alliance Party believes people have been
0:17:22 > 0:17:26given a taste of just how bitter things have become.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Every time we have an election, we get this sectarian rhetoric,
0:17:29 > 0:17:31we get this divisive rhetoric, and it drags the community back
0:17:31 > 0:17:34to a place that I don't really think we need to be.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37It sometimes feels like all politics here is dominated by unionism
0:17:37 > 0:17:41or nationalism, but there are real issues worrying people too,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44including health, education, the economy and Brexit.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48I think the public, by and large, have moved on and I think us
0:17:48 > 0:17:54as politicians have a bit of catching up to do.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57I don't get depressed too often, but when I listened to one
0:17:57 > 0:18:00of the last debates and possibly the youngest DUP member's
0:18:00 > 0:18:02contribution, it did get me down because he stood up looking
0:18:02 > 0:18:05for sympathy because it had been a very difficult ten years
0:18:05 > 0:18:08for the DUP and it had been difficult because they don't
0:18:08 > 0:18:13want to share power.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Martin McGuinness, who made the journey from IRA leader
0:18:15 > 0:18:17to Deputy First Minister, stepped down ahead of this election.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20The new face of the Sinn Fein leadership in Northern Ireland
0:18:20 > 0:18:25is Michelle O'Neill, and she doesn't have
0:18:25 > 0:18:27the paramilitary past of her predecessor, but she's been
0:18:27 > 0:18:33criticised for speaking at an IRA commemoration during this campaign.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35I attended the commemoration of four young fellows
0:18:35 > 0:18:37who I knew and grew up with.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Four young fellows that found themselves
0:18:38 > 0:18:43in extraordinary circumstances.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46But they were also four young men who were involved in an IRA attack
0:18:47 > 0:18:49on a police station.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51And we'll always have a different narrative on the past,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54but that's where we need to get to in society, where
0:18:54 > 0:18:56we actually understand that we have a different narrative.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58It's undeniable that the peace process has changed Northern Ireland
0:18:58 > 0:19:00for the better, but the pictures of political togetherness
0:19:00 > 0:19:02seem somewhat dated now, and after this election,
0:19:02 > 0:19:05it could take many months to get an agreement that would allow
0:19:05 > 0:19:06power-sharing to return at Stormont.
0:19:06 > 0:19:14Chris Buckler, BBC News, Belfast.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16The Hollywood actor and director Angelina Jolie says she hopes her
0:19:16 > 0:19:18new film about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge will
0:19:18 > 0:19:21help to educate the world about the brutality of the regime.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25First They Killed My Father is based on a true story.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27It is seen through the eyes of a child.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Angelina Jolie, who adopted a child from Cambodia,
0:19:29 > 0:19:32has been speaking exclusively to the BBC's Yalda Hakim about her
0:19:32 > 0:19:35film, and for the first time, about her separation from Brad Pitt.
0:19:35 > 0:19:44The report contains flash photography from the start.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Hollywood royalty meets Cambodian royalty.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53The backdrop?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55An ancient temple.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58It is the biggest movie premiere this country has ever seen.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00The director, Angelina Jolie, says the film speaks
0:20:00 > 0:20:09to this nation's people.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12I'm not here because I'm a director who wanted to make a movie.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15I'm here because 17 years ago, I came to this country and fell
0:20:15 > 0:20:22in love with its people, and learned about its history,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25and in doing so, I realised how little I actually knew,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28in my early 20s, about the world, so for me,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32this country was my awakening.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34And my son changed my life, becoming a Cambodian
0:20:34 > 0:20:39family change my life.
0:20:39 > 0:20:49There was never a plan that we should make this movie.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54I became a film-maker and one day, I thought, what story do I feel
0:20:54 > 0:20:55is really important to tell?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58And I felt that this war that happened 40 years ago,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00and what happened to these people, was not properly understood.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03And not just for the world but the people of the country.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07I felt that I wanted them to be able to reflect on it in a way
0:21:07 > 0:21:09that they could absorb, so it's through eyes of a child
0:21:09 > 0:21:19and it is a lot about love.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24The Khymer Rouge, a radical Communist movement, vowed to take
0:21:24 > 0:21:25the country back to year zero.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Millions were forced out of the cities in an attempt
0:21:28 > 0:21:29to create a rural utopia.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31You could be killed for practising religion, showing emotions
0:21:31 > 0:21:38or even wearing colour.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40In four years, two million people died.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Speaking to people here, I get the sense that they don't
0:21:43 > 0:21:47want to remember the past but they also can't forget it.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49There are 20,000 mass graves across this country,
0:21:49 > 0:21:53like these ones, a visual reminder of what this nation
0:21:53 > 0:21:56nation has been through.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00The haunting portraits of death.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Hundreds of images of those who were tortured at
0:22:02 > 0:22:03the notorious S21 prison.
0:22:03 > 0:22:11More than 12,000 people were killed here.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12In the end, only a handful survived.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17This 86-year-old is one of them.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20They beat me for 12 days and 12 nights, he tells me.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I was so hungry that when I saw a cockroach,
0:22:23 > 0:22:30lizard or mouse I would catch it and eat it.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32If they caught me, they'd beat me up again.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Angelina Jolie is keen to tell this story and focus on this
0:22:35 > 0:22:39country and its past.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42But it has been difficult to keep the spotlight
0:22:42 > 0:22:50off her own personal life.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52We know that an incident occurred, which led to your separation.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55We also know you have not said anything about this.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56But would you like to say something?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Only that I don't want to say very much about that,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family
0:23:02 > 0:23:06and we will always be a family and we will get through this time
0:23:06 > 0:23:16and hopefully be a stronger family for it.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Can I ask how you are coping?
0:23:19 > 0:23:20I'm...
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Many, many people find themselves in this situation.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25My family, we have all been through a difficult time.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27My focus is my children, our children, and my focus
0:23:27 > 0:23:28is finding this way through.
0:23:28 > 0:23:38And as I said, we are and forever will be a family.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52My focus is my children, our children, and my focus
0:23:52 > 0:23:53is finding this way through.
0:23:53 > 0:24:00And as I said, we are and forever will be a family.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02But this moment is about Cambodia and remembering the time
0:24:02 > 0:24:08when this ancient culture was almost wiped out.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Yalda Hakim, BBC News.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13And that is all from Reporters for this week.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Now, we can catch up with the latest weather ouitllok.