tom burridge, bbc news in avdiivka, eastern ukraine.ce the us, including in president obama's political home, chicago. killings in the city have reached a 20—year high. a deadly summer of violence brought this year's death toll to 500. most of the victims and their killers were young men. ian pannell and cameraman darren conway spent a week in chicago and found a world where gangs and guns rule. here in my neighbourhood, they start young. when you hear the news, that's the age frame, they're all dying from guns and violence. we have to teach children how to defend themselves. it's senseless violence at the end of the day but what do you do when you're caught in that moment, you'd rather be caught with protection than without protection. i have never seen so many gui'is. like, we have so many guns. but i have never seen as many as now. this is a rapper from the west side, now, the most violent part of chicago. he is a member of the vice lords gang. he has been imprisoned. and even he is shocked by what has happened. it is like somebody d

tom burridge and his team meet one of the conflict's most volatile hotspots where the fragile ceasefirelapsed. you can't make no mistakes, it cost you your life, literally. ian pannell reports from barack 0bama's former hometown and finds gun crime is out of control. and battle of the sexes. we meet the moroccan warrior women taking on and beating the berber men of north africa at their own game. the bbc went to extraordinary lengths this year to get a rare glimpse of china's determined expansion in the south china sea, one of the most contested areas anywhere in the world. beijing is building huge artificial islands on the spratly island chain, which the americans and others insist are illegal. the area is difficult to get to, but rupert wingfield—hayes flew in a small civilian aircraft into china's self—declared security zone 200 kilometres off the coast of the philippines. this is what he found. it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on