and an independent report found local authorities ignored the problem, lawrence lee traveled to the townnd has this report. >> what happened here is another level entirely. it was the exploitation of 1400 young people, mostly poor white girls but boys as well. and when the authorities were told about it, they buried the evidence. local politician the police, social workers, all accused of willful negligence. >> this man still has the documents as well as the scars. he reported to the police being dragged into a shed, and being abused by a middle aged man, the police seemed to believe him, yet they made no arrest. >> it isn't even as though it is a very big place, but hundreds and hundreds of young people, were being systematically sexually abused that many people must have known all about it, and yet the authorities did absolutely nothing. the issues raised from all this, are being viewed as a national disvase. but the bigger really alarming story is the growing fear, that this has been happening all over the country. a full inquiry, let's get this cancer out. >> destroys. everything. an

lawrence lee, al jazeera in sojournesouthern england. >> that's it for us.y with us, going to have more of today's news in just a few minutes. sen >> we made border security a top priority. >> it's not really immigration. it's an invasion. >> they're a constructive part of our society. >> here, taking our resources,

an arrest warrant in sweden of sexual assault and he denies the allegations and we will go to lawrence lees there and he has been across the press conference. is lawrence with us? can lawrence hear? >> can you see the big blue bmw there? that is the ecuador foreign minister that just left the press conference he held jointly and finished a minute or two ago, the foreign minister is gone but he is still up inside and a couple hours ago there has been a question that he may be using this for two years after given asylum saying he will leave and some people calling it surrender which he didn't like but the worst suggestion is he was quite unwell. >> lawrence, can i interrupt you? i think we should hear. >> he might have to leave. >> we should hear a little bit of what julian had to say as he sat next to the ecuador foreign minister inside the embassy and let's listen to what he has to say. >> as you can imagine being detained in various ways in the country without charge for four years and in them ba si for two years which has no outside area and no sunlight, it is an environment in which any

an independent report found local authorities ignored the abuse, and as lawrence lee reports there are fears this could be just the tip of the ice burg. recent months have seen many high profile cases in england, but what happened here is on an entirely different level. this was the exploitation of 1400 young people. mostly poor white girls but boys as well. we groups of mostly asian men. when the authorities were told about it, they buried the evidence. the police, social wrongerrers, all accused of willful negligence. >> this man still has the documents as well as the men stall scars. he effort ares being dragged into a shed, and abused by a middle age men, the police seem to believe him, yet they made no arrest. >> yet the supposition is for more than a decade, hundreds and hundreds of young people, were being systematically sexually abused that many people must have known all about it. and yet the authorities did absolutely nothing. the media here, are focusing on why so few are resigns over this. this has. happening all over the country. >> throughout all the towns in the country.

now as lawrence lee reports, the police are coming under fire. >> recent months have seen many high profileld abuse cases in england, but this is another level. this was not isolated abuse by individuals, it was the exploitation of 1400 young people, mostly poor white girls, but boys, as well, by groups of mostly asian men. when the authorities were told bit, they buried the evidence. local politicians, the police, social workers all accused of willful negligence. this man still has the documents, as well as the mental scars. he reported to the police being dragged into a shed and abused by a middle age man when just 13. the police seemed to believe him yet made no arrests. >> the supposition is that for more than a decade, hundreds of young people were being systematically sexually abused and many people must have known about it and yet the authorities did absolutely nothing. it only just a very big local scandal. the issues raised are fast viewed as a national disgrace. >> the media are focusing on why so few officials have been prepared to resign over all this, but the bigger alarming st

lee's riveting testimony last night live there on the lawrence o'donnell show. msnbc.com national reporter trymaine lee and who have both been on the scene in ferguson, missouri. are other reporters feeling nervous about the situation escalating further like it it did last night? >> i think at this point, earlier this morning it was the calm after the storm and already people are starting to gather. you can hear behind me the horns are honking and people are still chanting, but with all of the leaders in the country with their eyes focused on ferguson and with the world watching and with all of the media surrounding this town to see how it will go next, with will politicians saying that now is the time for peace and it's time to demilitarize the situation, you know, people hope that it will be calm, but once night falls who knows what will happen? >> i was always thinking why don't people protest during the day? they have jobs. they have to go to work and they have to come home and be able to express their own amendment rights to protest. >> president obama met w

around grassroots efforts, not so much iconic figures, or the book on lawrence county, alabama if i could give the commercial year. was lee hogan and her book on mississippi, we will shoot back. a whole group, charles payne, i could give you a whole printed out book list. these are the books you need to remind to be at the top. and quite helpful to people like me and i am a reporter. not a scholar, i tell you a story. and let me tell you a story, and how they worked and how they fit in with snack and core, and officially declared themselves non-violence, when you look that is that story, there are tensions with the possession of guns and use of guns for self-defense and non-violent activism, more often worked in tandem with one another. with my own personal experience in mississippi and if there is time, i will take some questions from the group. one of the county's i worked in was an interesting county because you need to someone who would emerge, women played a powerful role in the movement. you need a black well who would emerge from -- as a leader in the movement, and also become interestingly enough an expert on chin