0:00:27 > 0:00:28Welcome to Reporters.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30I'm Karin Giaonone.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32From here in the BBC newsroom, we send out correspondence to bring
0:00:32 > 0:00:34you the best stories from across the globe.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35In this week's programme...
0:00:35 > 0:00:36On the brink of famine.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39We report from Yemen as the United Nations launches
0:00:39 > 0:00:42an emergency appeal for aid.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43The struggle of the smugglers.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46A reporter joins the Kurds desperately trying to make a living
0:00:46 > 0:00:47on the Iraqi border.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Believe it or not, it is impossible to take a sip.
0:00:50 > 0:00:57They say the black is for the majority people like me.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09The UN has appealed for $2 billion to provide life-saving assistance
0:01:09 > 0:01:12to millions in Yemen, who it says face the threat of famine.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Almost 3.3 million people are now suffering from acute malnutrition.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16More than 2 million of them are children.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Aid workers say the situation is catastrophic
0:01:19 > 0:01:21and rapidly deteriorating.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Now there is a new complication.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels
0:01:27 > 0:01:30who control the capital have hit a vital port, which means aid supplies
0:01:30 > 0:01:33cannot be unloaded.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Nawal Al-Maghafi is one of the few Western journalists to have
0:01:36 > 0:01:45travelled to Yemen in recent months and sent this report.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Fatima is the face of hunger in Yemen.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50In the six months since we met her, every day has been
0:01:50 > 0:01:56a struggle to get food.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Her mother says they are barely surviving.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Fatima is not alone.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01There are over two million children like her.
0:02:01 > 0:02:0590% of Yemen's food is imported and most of it arrives here,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09at what was once its busiest port.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12But all the cranes needed to off-load the ships have been
0:02:12 > 0:02:15bombed by the Saudi-led coalition.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20And the port is barely functioning.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22The Saudis have imposed an aerial and naval blockade,
0:02:22 > 0:02:26controlling all imports to the country.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29They say they are stopping arms from getting to
0:02:29 > 0:02:30the Houthis and their allies.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33But that means that very little food is getting through.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37The World Food Programme has bought new cranes for Hodeda's port
0:02:37 > 0:02:40but we have been told the Saudi coalition has refused to allow them
0:02:40 > 0:02:43in for at least two months.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45These delays in bringing foodstuffs onshore, either
0:02:45 > 0:02:48commercially or humanitarian, means there's less
0:02:48 > 0:02:52available and therefore, the prices will go up.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56From what I've heard, the Saudi argument is that firstly,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59the port is in control of the Houthis, so they are handing
0:02:59 > 0:03:04over cranes to a port that is in control of the rebels.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07They also say that these cranes could be used to off-load arms
0:03:07 > 0:03:09for the rebels and therefore, fuel the fight.
0:03:10 > 0:03:11What would you say to that?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Those cranes are for WFP.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Those cranes are brought in and funded for WFP,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20who are the logistics cluster, to bring those food goods off
0:03:20 > 0:03:23ships that are coming in.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25The port is controlled by the same people who have always
0:03:25 > 0:03:27controlled the port, the same as the sea
0:03:27 > 0:03:31offshore is controlled by the Saudi-led coalition.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34So we just want these cranes in so we can do our work,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36to make sure the humanitarian pipeline is a strong
0:03:36 > 0:03:40as it can possibly be.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43The fighting for control of the port has been
0:03:43 > 0:03:49going on for over six months, with neither side winning.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53And it's the most vulnerable that are left suffering.
0:03:53 > 0:04:03Nawal al-Maghafi, BBC News.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Asotthalom is a village in southern Hungary that you've probably
0:04:05 > 0:04:06never heard of until now.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Its population is dwindling, but it's hoping to persuade
0:04:08 > 0:04:10white Christian Europeans, who don't like the idea
0:04:10 > 0:04:13of living in a multicultural society to move there.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16The mayor has already banned Islamic dress and gay kissing in public.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Leslie Ashmall has been to the village where Muslims
0:04:20 > 0:04:22and gays are not welcome.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Asotthalom, a village on the southern Hungary plains,
0:04:26 > 0:04:31just minutes from the Serbian border where in 2015 10,000 migrants a day
0:04:31 > 0:04:35crossed into Hungary.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40The village population is declining and homesteads stand vacant.
0:04:40 > 0:04:50The mayor here wants to attract foreign investors
0:04:50 > 0:04:52but not just any foreigner.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54TRANSLATION: We primarily welcome people from Western Europe.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56People who would not like to live in a multicultural society.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00We would not want to attract Muslim people.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02What if I was black or gay?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04How would you feel about that?
0:05:04 > 0:05:11TRANSLATION: Asotthalom has a by-law which bans homosexual propaganda.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13We adopted it a few weeks ago.
0:05:13 > 0:05:20Think about this, Europe is small, it cannot take in billions of people
0:05:20 > 0:05:25from Africa and South Asia where there is a population boom.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28This would soon lead to the disappearance of Europe.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30I would like Europe to belong to Europeans.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Asia to Asians and Africa to Africans.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37Simple as that.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40He is so serious he has introduced local legislation banning public
0:05:40 > 0:05:44displays of affection by gay people, the wearing of Islamic dress
0:05:44 > 0:05:48like the hijab, and he wants to ban the building of mosques.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51And his views are being pushed by a British organisation called
0:05:51 > 0:06:01Knights Templar International.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06The former British National Party leader Nick Griffin is a member
0:06:06 > 0:06:08and the group is advertising smallholdings for sale
0:06:08 > 0:06:09in Asotthalom.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Hungary is already seen by more and more Western Europeans
0:06:11 > 0:06:14as a place of refuge, a place to get away from the hell
0:06:14 > 0:06:17that is about to break loose in Western Europe.
0:06:17 > 0:06:23There are two Muslims in Asotthalom.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24One of them agreed to speak to us but at the last minute pulled out.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29They have spoken of their fears to Hungarian media in the past
0:06:29 > 0:06:33but other villagers reject the laws are huge concern.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37However, they are the talk of the village pub.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39TRANSLATION: Important issues like this should be dealt
0:06:39 > 0:06:44with by the National government, not local legislation.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48If they take off the veil I'll accept them.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50It does not even matter if they are black, they should
0:06:50 > 0:06:52become Hungarian citizens even if they are
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Muslims or whatever.
0:06:55 > 0:07:03Are you trying to create a white kind of supremacist village?
0:07:03 > 0:07:08I did not use this word white but because we are a white
0:07:08 > 0:07:14European Christian population, we want to stay this...
0:07:14 > 0:07:23Like this, so...
0:07:27 > 0:07:29The refugee crisis has contributed to the anti-immigrant sentiments
0:07:29 > 0:07:31in Europe, like the rise of the
0:07:31 > 0:07:33French Front National and the Dutch Party for Freedom.
0:07:33 > 0:07:43Hungary is no exception.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21To its critics, it was a monstrosity resembling an oil refinery
0:08:21 > 0:08:22more than a museum.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24But as Paris' Pompidou Centre celebrates its 40th birthday this
0:08:24 > 0:08:26week, its reputation as an icon of modern architecture
0:08:26 > 0:08:28is now well established.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30It has been popular with more than 100 million visitors passing
0:08:30 > 0:08:31through its doors since 1977.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Will Gompertz has been speaking to two of the original architects,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano about the Pompidou's
0:08:36 > 0:08:37enduring legacy.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Ah, Paris, beautiful, romantic, and radical.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40A city of revolutions, riots and avant-garde ideas.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Like the Pompidou Centre, which in 1977 was like an electric
0:08:43 > 0:08:44shock for cultural conservatives.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47A daring, inside out building with its guts on show and weird
0:08:47 > 0:08:48caterpillar escalators crawling up its facade.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50These two self-confessed bad boys were behind its creation.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Unknown iconoclasts back then, respected pillars of society today.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55They hadn't expected their design to beat the 680 competing proposals.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58And when it did, a steep learning curve awaited.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01It was a miracle, we had court cases against us, everybody hated it,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03nobody had worse press than we did.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06It was only when it opened and people started to line up
0:09:06 > 0:09:08and people started to come in and the figures were
0:09:08 > 0:09:09fantastic, it changed.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13This building was a shift, it was celebrating a shift, a change.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Yes.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17And when the change occurs in society, it's never
0:09:17 > 0:09:21easy, it's never easy.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23The change was in the air.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27It was in the air of May '68, it was in the air of the time.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28So you've got to have a change.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30We were just simply building the change.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31What were your reference points?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Where had you seen similar ideas executed?
0:09:33 > 0:09:36It was a cross between New York's Times Square,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39which was full of glitter and so on and sex and all the rest
0:09:39 > 0:09:42of it, but it was lovely because people wanted to get there,
0:09:42 > 0:09:44and the British Museum, a symbol of one of the greatest
0:09:44 > 0:09:47museums of the world, where you could sit down and do
0:09:47 > 0:09:48a deep cultural study.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Beauty can change the world.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55It can help to change the world, and become a unifying element.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56I think beauty is tremendously underrated.
0:09:56 > 0:10:03It is the glue which pulls us all togetther.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Their Pompidou was a utopian project where people can
0:10:06 > 0:10:12explore art and ideas.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14A 40-year-old concept that they would argue is even
0:10:14 > 0:10:16more relevant today.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Will Gompertz, BBC News, Paris.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21That's all from Reporters this week.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25From me, Karin Gionnone, it is goodbye for now.