0:00:05 > 0:00:09Welcome to Reporters. I'm Karen Giannoni.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18Welcome to Reporters. I'm Karen Giannoni.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21From here in the world's newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring
0:00:21 > 0:00:24you the best stories from around the globe.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26In this week's programme:
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Democracy Chinese style.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32John Sudworth in Beijing sees how the Communist Party silences
0:00:32 > 0:00:35independent candidates in one of the world's
0:00:35 > 0:00:38biggest ever elections.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42What we can see here quite clearly is the huge effort and expense that
0:00:42 > 0:00:44China puts in to stopping people exercising their democratic rights.
0:00:44 > 0:00:44A rare look inside Myanmar's secret state where Jonah Fisher finds
0:00:53 > 0:00:54Total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering
0:00:54 > 0:00:56the United States.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Life for Muslims in Trump's America.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Martin Bashir asks whether the divisions which emerged
0:01:00 > 0:01:02during the election can ever be healed.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03America's Muslims, including those here in Michigan,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06must hope that the arc of Mr Trump's presidency will bend
0:01:06 > 0:01:10towards reconciliation and away from the rhetoric that
0:01:10 > 0:01:17marked his campaign.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19And, one of the world's most recognisable faces.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Chris Buckler speaks to the Irish artist commissioned to paint
0:01:22 > 0:01:24a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I can't speak for what necessarily the motivation from the palace
0:01:27 > 0:01:30or from the Queen's point of view was, but I think about the fact
0:01:30 > 0:01:35that she did suffer.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44After America, this week it was China's turn to go
0:01:44 > 0:01:45to the polls.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48The district elections are one of the world's biggest.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52900 million people will vote in the next few weeks.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55In theory, they are open to any candidate.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59In reality, the Communist Party decides on who is on the ballot.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02The Chinese authorities have been highly critical of what they see
0:02:02 > 0:02:04as the farce of American democracy.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07As John Sudworth's been finding out in Beijing, it's not so keen
0:02:07 > 0:02:10on scrutiny of its own system.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17We've turned up as agreed for an interview, but we find our
0:02:17 > 0:02:20way to the front door locked.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Can you explain what you are doing?
0:02:22 > 0:02:27By a group of men.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31The person who lives here is doing something that's very
0:02:31 > 0:02:34brave in China.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Trying to stand for election as an
0:02:36 > 0:02:39independent candidate.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Hello...
0:02:43 > 0:02:48We are hoping we can come in and talk to you?
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Yes, she answers, come in.
0:02:51 > 0:02:52Thank you.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Excuse me.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57I think we have permission to go in and speak to this lady.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01But it's no use.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07It's my right to stand for election, she begins to tell me.
0:03:07 > 0:03:13She tries again.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Why won't you let me open my door, she asks.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24China often uses sinister, unidentified men to do its sensitive
0:03:24 > 0:03:28police work and there are few issues more sensitive
0:03:28 > 0:03:32here than democracy.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Every five years, hundreds of millions of Chinese people
0:03:36 > 0:03:39get their only chance to vote.
0:03:39 > 0:03:45The district elections are in theory open to any candidate.
0:03:45 > 0:03:51In reality, the Communist Party decides who is on the ballot.
0:03:51 > 0:03:57And the Communist Party-run media has this year been handed a gift.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03The US election has been exploited to the full as proof of American
0:04:03 > 0:04:08weakness and division and Chinese stability and strength.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16China of course has its share of discord and dissent.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20China's made huge capital out of what it sees as the farce
0:04:20 > 0:04:23and the circus of the US election, the huge effort and expense that
0:04:23 > 0:04:25goes into an artificial choice.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Who we can see here is the huge effort and expense that China puts
0:04:29 > 0:04:36in to stopping people exercising their democratic rights.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41All this for one independent local election candidate.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49We are dragged away.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53But the heavy handed control is as much a sign of insecurity
0:04:53 > 0:04:57as it is of strength.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00John Sudworth BBC News, Beijing.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15One of the challenges facing a Trump presidency will be healing
0:05:15 > 0:05:17the divisions which emerged during the election campaign.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19American Muslims are seeking reassurance following his call
0:05:19 > 0:05:21for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24The state of Michigan voted for Mr Trump but it is home
0:05:24 > 0:05:25to a large number of Muslims.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Martin Bashir has been to meet some of them to find out what they think
0:05:29 > 0:05:30about life under Donald Trump.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Prayers in North America's largest mosque in a state that
0:05:34 > 0:05:37voted for Donald Trump.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41His campaign has left its mark on Muslims.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44The bigoted rhetoric, the hatred, the racism,
0:05:44 > 0:05:48the xenophobia, the Islamophobia.
0:05:48 > 0:05:54Someone's given a green light to individuals now that it's OK.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57I was walking one way, he was walking the other way.
0:05:57 > 0:06:0015-year-old Safa experienced the Trump effect at school just
0:06:00 > 0:06:04a day after the election.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08There was a boy who like told know take the towel off my head
0:06:08 > 0:06:11so I told him to pull his pants up because he was wearing
0:06:11 > 0:06:13very low saggy pants.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17He thought that since our new President Elect
0:06:17 > 0:06:20thought that, you know, Muslims are all terrorists,
0:06:20 > 0:06:25he can do the same and project that on to others.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28What many in the Muslim community perceived as an attack
0:06:28 > 0:06:34on Islam culminated in the most dramatic proposal.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38The name is there, it's radical Islamic terror,
0:06:38 > 0:06:40total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering
0:06:40 > 0:06:43the United States.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46While Trump's rhetoric horrified Muslims in Dearborn,
0:06:46 > 0:06:51it galvanised voters down the road in the recently bankrupted Detroit
0:06:51 > 0:06:54who felt that immigration and globalisation had
0:06:54 > 0:07:00done nothing for them.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02His messages were very effective with the white working class
0:07:02 > 0:07:06and we saw that with the results of Macon County and Monroe County
0:07:06 > 0:07:08which are largely made up of the white working class,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11they voted in numbers for Mr Trump.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15Since winning in such unexpected fashion, Trump has made little
0:07:15 > 0:07:18mention of Muslims, though his website still promotes
0:07:18 > 0:07:24his proposal to ban them from entering the country.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Is it safe to be a Muslim in a country where Donald
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Trump is the president?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31I believe it is.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34I really believe it is safe.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36We have great confidence in our country and the
0:07:36 > 0:07:38American people.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41We want success.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46We want America to be as good as it can be.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48We want America to be great in his vernacular.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President in January,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55just four days after the annual public holiday honouring the life
0:07:55 > 0:08:01of America's greatest civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04America's Muslims, including those here in Michigan, must hope
0:08:04 > 0:08:08that the arc of Mr Trump's presidency will bend
0:08:08 > 0:08:12towards reconciliation and away from the rhetoric that
0:08:12 > 0:08:15marked his campaign.
0:08:15 > 0:08:24Martin Bashir, BBC News, in Dearborn, Michigan.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Finally, she's one of the world's most famous faces which makes
0:08:28 > 0:08:31the idea of painting a portrait of the Queen a daunting prospect.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Colin Davidson is the latest artist to be given the task
0:08:34 > 0:08:36and the week his picture was unveiled by the Queen herself.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Chris Buckler has been to see it up close.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44It is one of the most prized commissions.
0:08:44 > 0:08:50But for any artist, there are nerves in revealing their interpretation
0:08:50 > 0:08:54of one of the world's most iconic images, a face known
0:08:54 > 0:09:02worldwide but seen through the eyes of one individual.
0:09:02 > 0:09:11I'm very aware of the gravity of an Irish man being invited here.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14The Monarch sits for relatively few portraits and this painting
0:09:14 > 0:09:17was commissioned with a purpose - to mark the Queen's part
0:09:17 > 0:09:21in advancing Anglo-Irish relationships.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25And what I personally brought to it was I think the fact that
0:09:25 > 0:09:30I have witnessed over many years the Queen's actions
0:09:30 > 0:09:34in advancing healing.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37And that probably makes one opinion of this portrait more
0:09:37 > 0:09:41important than any other.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Her Majesty's historic visit to Ireland...
0:09:43 > 0:09:46At an event in London organised by cooperation Ireland
0:09:46 > 0:09:49which commissioned the painting, it was unveiled by the Queen.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53APPLAUSE.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Among those invited were guests who reflect all shades
0:09:57 > 0:09:59of political opinion.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02From the island of Ireland.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05And Colin's work has come to be a glimpse of how
0:10:05 > 0:10:08things have changed.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11His portraits of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness were painted
0:10:11 > 0:10:15to be shown together, a sign of the divisions gone.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20But pictures have also signified what also went before.
0:10:20 > 0:10:25I can't speak for what necessarily the motivation from the palace
0:10:25 > 0:10:29or from the Queen's point of view was to allow me to make this,
0:10:29 > 0:10:35but I think about the fact she did suffer personal loss
0:10:35 > 0:10:42through the conflict.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45That makes this a paining of its time, a portrait of a Queen
0:10:45 > 0:10:47defined by the landscape of a modern Ireland.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Chris Buckler, BBC News, Belfast.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52And that is all from Reporters for this week, from me
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Karen Giannoni, goodbye.