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Welcome to Reporters. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:28 | |
I'm Karin Giaonone. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
From here in the BBC newsroom, we send out correspondence to bring | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
In this week's programme... | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
On the brink of famine. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
We report from Yemen as the United Nations launches | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
an emergency appeal for aid. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
The struggle of the smugglers. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
A reporter joins the Kurds desperately trying to make a living | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
on the Iraqi border. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
Believe it or not, it is impossible to take a sip. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
They say the black is for the majority people like me. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:57 | |
The UN has appealed for $2 billion to provide life-saving assistance | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
to millions in Yemen, who it says face the threat of famine. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
Almost 3.3 million people are now suffering from acute malnutrition. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
More than 2 million of them are children. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
Aid workers say the situation is catastrophic | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
and rapidly deteriorating. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
Now there is a new complication. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
who control the capital have hit a vital port, which means aid supplies | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
cannot be unloaded. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
Nawal Al-Maghafi is one of the few Western journalists to have | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
travelled to Yemen in recent months and sent this report. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:45 | |
Fatima is the face of hunger in Yemen. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
In the six months since we met her, every day has been | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
a struggle to get food. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:56 | |
Her mother says they are barely surviving. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
Fatima is not alone. | 0:01:58 | 0:01:59 | |
There are over two million children like her. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
90% of Yemen's food is imported and most of it arrives here, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
at what was once its busiest port. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
But all the cranes needed to off-load the ships have been | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
bombed by the Saudi-led coalition. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
And the port is barely functioning. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
The Saudis have imposed an aerial and naval blockade, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
controlling all imports to the country. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
They say they are stopping arms from getting to | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
the Houthis and their allies. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
But that means that very little food is getting through. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
The World Food Programme has bought new cranes for Hodeda's port | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
but we have been told the Saudi coalition has refused to allow them | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
in for at least two months. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
These delays in bringing foodstuffs onshore, either | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
commercially or humanitarian, means there's less | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
available and therefore, the prices will go up. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
From what I've heard, the Saudi argument is that firstly, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
the port is in control of the Houthis, so they are handing | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
over cranes to a port that is in control of the rebels. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
They also say that these cranes could be used to off-load arms | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
for the rebels and therefore, fuel the fight. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
What would you say to that? | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
Those cranes are for WFP. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
Those cranes are brought in and funded for WFP, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
who are the logistics cluster, to bring those food goods off | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
ships that are coming in. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
The port is controlled by the same people who have always | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
controlled the port, the same as the sea | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
offshore is controlled by the Saudi-led coalition. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
So we just want these cranes in so we can do our work, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
to make sure the humanitarian pipeline is a strong | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
as it can possibly be. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
The fighting for control of the port has been | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
going on for over six months, with neither side winning. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:49 | |
And it's the most vulnerable that are left suffering. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
Nawal al-Maghafi, BBC News. | 0:03:53 | 0:04:03 | |
Asotthalom is a village in southern Hungary that you've probably | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
never heard of until now. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
Its population is dwindling, but it's hoping to persuade | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
white Christian Europeans, who don't like the idea | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
of living in a multicultural society to move there. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
The mayor has already banned Islamic dress and gay kissing in public. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
Leslie Ashmall has been to the village where Muslims | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
and gays are not welcome. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Asotthalom, a village on the southern Hungary plains, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
just minutes from the Serbian border where in 2015 10,000 migrants a day | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
crossed into Hungary. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
The village population is declining and homesteads stand vacant. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
The mayor here wants to attract foreign investors | 0:04:40 | 0:04:50 | |
but not just any foreigner. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
TRANSLATION: We primarily welcome people from Western Europe. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
People who would not like to live in a multicultural society. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
We would not want to attract Muslim people. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
What if I was black or gay? | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
How would you feel about that? | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
TRANSLATION: Asotthalom has a by-law which bans homosexual propaganda. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:11 | |
We adopted it a few weeks ago. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
Think about this, Europe is small, it cannot take in billions of people | 0:05:13 | 0:05:20 | |
from Africa and South Asia where there is a population boom. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
This would soon lead to the disappearance of Europe. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
I would like Europe to belong to Europeans. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
Asia to Asians and Africa to Africans. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
Simple as that. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
He is so serious he has introduced local legislation banning public | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
displays of affection by gay people, the wearing of Islamic dress | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
like the hijab, and he wants to ban the building of mosques. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
And his views are being pushed by a British organisation called | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
Knights Templar International. | 0:05:51 | 0:06:01 | |
The former British National Party leader Nick Griffin is a member | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
and the group is advertising smallholdings for sale | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
in Asotthalom. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:09 | |
Hungary is already seen by more and more Western Europeans | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
as a place of refuge, a place to get away from the hell | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
that is about to break loose in Western Europe. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
There are two Muslims in Asotthalom. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:23 | |
One of them agreed to speak to us but at the last minute pulled out. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:24 | |
They have spoken of their fears to Hungarian media in the past | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
but other villagers reject the laws are huge concern. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
However, they are the talk of the village pub. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
TRANSLATION: Important issues like this should be dealt | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
with by the National government, not local legislation. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
If they take off the veil I'll accept them. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
It does not even matter if they are black, they should | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
become Hungarian citizens even if they are | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Muslims or whatever. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
Are you trying to create a white kind of supremacist village? | 0:06:55 | 0:07:03 | |
I did not use this word white but because we are a white | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
European Christian population, we want to stay this... | 0:07:08 | 0:07:14 | |
Like this, so... | 0:07:14 | 0:07:23 | |
The refugee crisis has contributed to the anti-immigrant sentiments | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
in Europe, like the rise of the | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
French Front National and the Dutch Party for Freedom. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Hungary is no exception. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:43 | |
To its critics, it was a monstrosity resembling an oil refinery | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
more than a museum. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:22 | |
But as Paris' Pompidou Centre celebrates its 40th birthday this | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
week, its reputation as an icon of modern architecture | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
is now well established. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
It has been popular with more than 100 million visitors passing | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
through its doors since 1977. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
Will Gompertz has been speaking to two of the original architects, | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano about the Pompidou's | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
enduring legacy. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:37 | |
Ah, Paris, beautiful, romantic, and radical. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:38 | |
A city of revolutions, riots and avant-garde ideas. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
Like the Pompidou Centre, which in 1977 was like an electric | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
shock for cultural conservatives. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
A daring, inside out building with its guts on show and weird | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
caterpillar escalators crawling up its facade. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:48 | |
These two self-confessed bad boys were behind its creation. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
Unknown iconoclasts back then, respected pillars of society today. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
They hadn't expected their design to beat the 680 competing proposals. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
And when it did, a steep learning curve awaited. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
It was a miracle, we had court cases against us, everybody hated it, | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
nobody had worse press than we did. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
It was only when it opened and people started to line up | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
and people started to come in and the figures were | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
fantastic, it changed. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
This building was a shift, it was celebrating a shift, a change. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
Yes. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
And when the change occurs in society, it's never | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
easy, it's never easy. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
The change was in the air. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
It was in the air of May '68, it was in the air of the time. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
So you've got to have a change. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
We were just simply building the change. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
What were your reference points? | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
Where had you seen similar ideas executed? | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
It was a cross between New York's Times Square, | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
which was full of glitter and so on and sex and all the rest | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
of it, but it was lovely because people wanted to get there, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
and the British Museum, a symbol of one of the greatest | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
museums of the world, where you could sit down and do | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
a deep cultural study. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
Beauty can change the world. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
It can help to change the world, and become a unifying element. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
I think beauty is tremendously underrated. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:56 | |
It is the glue which pulls us all togetther. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:03 | |
Their Pompidou was a utopian project where people can | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
explore art and ideas. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:12 | |
A 40-year-old concept that they would argue is even | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
more relevant today. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
Will Gompertz, BBC News, Paris. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
That's all from Reporters this week. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:21 | |
From me, Karin Gionnone, it is goodbye for now. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 |