18/03/2017

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:00:15. > :00:18.Hello, welcome to Reporters. I'm David Eads.

:00:19. > :00:22.We send our correspondents to bring you the best stories

:00:23. > :00:34.As millions face famine in parts of Africa and the Middle East,

:00:35. > :00:37.Clive Myrie reports from northern Nigeria, where tens of thousands

:00:38. > :00:39.of children are at risk of starving to death.

:00:40. > :00:41.For those children, the end is inevitable.

:00:42. > :00:45.Innocent victims of a man-made tragedy.

:00:46. > :00:48.Sleeping on the job - Sally Conway meets the foreign truck

:00:49. > :00:53.drivers who cannot afford to live where they work.

:00:54. > :00:58.He only ever works in Western Europe, sometimes Germany or Norway.

:00:59. > :01:05.He is being paid as if he were driving in Slovakia.

:01:06. > :01:07.After millions of views online, we catch up with the reluctant

:01:08. > :01:10.global internet star, the BBC interviewee whose

:01:11. > :01:39.My wife deserves a medal for taking care of our family.

:01:40. > :01:41.The world is facing its largest humanitarian

:01:42. > :01:43.crisis since the end of the Second World War.

:01:44. > :01:46.20 million people in parts of Africa and the Middle East are at risk

:01:47. > :01:50.The United Nations has issued a plea for help to avoid a catastrophe

:01:51. > :01:53.South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria.

:01:54. > :01:55.Clive Myrie reports from northern Nigeria, where the conflict

:01:56. > :01:57.against Boko Haram is deepened the humanitarian crisis.

:01:58. > :02:16.And through the daily stream of anxious women and their children

:02:17. > :02:36.This treatment feeding centre has been working flat out recently,

:02:37. > :02:39.and in the queue, we found this woman and her ten-month-old baby,

:02:40. > :02:48.Sometimes going to sleep without eating.

:02:49. > :03:01.All these people were driven from their homes by the Islamist

:03:02. > :03:04.group Boko Haram, whose fighters burned villages for seven years,

:03:05. > :03:08.killed thousands and left 2.5 million people homeless,

:03:09. > :03:12.all in the name of strict Sharia Law.

:03:13. > :03:15.Farmers couldn't attend their fields because of the fighting.

:03:16. > :03:30.She is painfully thin and her weight is confirmation.

:03:31. > :03:35.Does that mean the child is malnourished?

:03:36. > :03:45.But her chances of survival are better than Muhammad's.

:03:46. > :03:51.Four years old, he is severely malnourished and weakened by TB.

:03:52. > :04:04.Or this boy, aged five, whose mother sits helpless nearby.

:04:05. > :04:54.But what about those children who don't make it

:04:55. > :04:57.to a treatment centre like this, from areas inaccessible to eight?

:04:58. > :05:00.Where there are no doctors or clinics, where food and water

:05:01. > :05:03.For those children, the end is inevitable.

:05:04. > :05:04.Innocent victims of a man-made tragedy.

:05:05. > :05:07.And with the aid stocks running low, the call for more international

:05:08. > :05:13.Truck drivers moving goods for IKEA and other retailers in western

:05:14. > :05:16.Europe are camping out in their trucks for Monsanto time

:05:17. > :05:18.because they simply can't afford to live in the countries

:05:19. > :05:23.They are being paid as they would in their own countries.

:05:24. > :05:26.A judge has described as inhumane practice companies can exploit

:05:27. > :05:30.In a trailer on the edge of Copenhagen in Denmark, these

:05:31. > :05:33.two men have created their own pop up kitchen, cooking from

:05:34. > :05:37.Is this how you want to have your breakfast?

:05:38. > :05:40.No, I don't want to live like this but this is the condition.

:05:41. > :05:42.He is moving goods for IKEA but they don't employ him.

:05:43. > :05:45.His actual employer is a Slovakian firm.

:05:46. > :06:00.European Union employment rules state:

:06:01. > :06:04.away from home should be granted the home nation's

:06:05. > :06:10.Companies are exploiting loopholes in the law.

:06:11. > :06:16.A Danish driver can expect to take home 2200 euros a month in salary.

:06:17. > :06:19.But this man has been taking home an average monthly

:06:20. > :06:21.salary of 477 euros, or ?418 per month.

:06:22. > :06:34.Danish drivers go home every couple of weeks.

:06:35. > :06:38.But he spends up to four months on the road.

:06:39. > :06:41.The company says he is responsible for taking his rest breaks

:06:42. > :06:46.and that he can go home when every likes.

:06:47. > :06:49.He has just driven some IKEA stock from Denmark and Sweden.

:06:50. > :06:52.He only ever works in Western Europe.

:06:53. > :06:54.Sometimes it might be Germany or Norway.

:06:55. > :06:57.Yet he is being paid as if he was driving in Slovakia.

:06:58. > :07:40.The guys removed the furniture from IKEA. How can you deny... How can

:07:41. > :07:56.you not know what they being paid? Akio made this statement. -- IKEA.

:07:57. > :08:02.It is not just IKEA and the big retailers that are in the firing

:08:03. > :08:05.line. Europe is my politicians are also under pressure to act to stop

:08:06. > :08:08.any further deterioration in the working conditions of Europe's

:08:09. > :08:19.drivers. If you haven't seen this BBC

:08:20. > :08:21.interview, you are one Professor Robert Cowell

:08:22. > :08:24.came World News to talk about South Korean politics last

:08:25. > :08:26.week to my colleague, He had no idea his children

:08:27. > :08:30.would steal the show and his family He hasn't talking to James again

:08:31. > :08:34.about the video that's gone viral. Let's discuss this further

:08:35. > :08:37.with Robert Kelly... It began as Sony BBC interviews do,

:08:38. > :08:41.and international news story, a presenter and an expert to explain

:08:42. > :08:43.what was going on. What happened next, nobody

:08:44. > :08:55.could have predicted that. Last Thursday was an expert

:08:56. > :09:02.on South Korean politics. During his live interview

:09:03. > :09:05.on the impeachment of the South Korean president,

:09:06. > :09:07.his wife and two young children But what was an innocent TV

:09:08. > :09:16.blooper quickly turned People raced to Twitter,

:09:17. > :09:21.YouTube and Facebook Speaking to me for the first

:09:22. > :09:26.time since the incident, I asked Professor Kelly

:09:27. > :09:29.and his family what life had been We didn't expect attention

:09:30. > :09:36.like this at all. We never had anything

:09:37. > :09:39.like this in our life before. We have had to turn off the phones

:09:40. > :09:43.and Facebook and Twitter. His wife said she was busy recording

:09:44. > :09:48.Bob Wylie was live on the TV, and that is why the children

:09:49. > :09:51.could make a break for his study A normal family living a normal

:09:52. > :10:10.life, now turned online legends. I asked Bob if things had calmed

:10:11. > :10:13.down since our last encounter. I don't turn off my phone

:10:14. > :10:18.as much as I used to. There was a suggestion sent to me

:10:19. > :10:21.that you should buy your wife a spa day for everything she did

:10:22. > :10:23.in the video. My wife deserves a medal for taking

:10:24. > :10:27.care of us and our family. Goes to show that anything

:10:28. > :10:32.can happen on live TV. Or perhaps as the saying goes,

:10:33. > :10:47.never work with animals or children. And that is your lot for this week.

:10:48. > :10:51.From me, goodbye for now.