:00:03. > :00:07.Reporters. Andrew Harding reports from the front line of salmon in
:00:07. > :00:12.Mogadishu were hundreds of thousands go hungry as the fighting
:00:12. > :00:20.continues. Lyse Doucet close to Afghanistan with America's top
:00:20. > :00:30.military man. Stephen Evans joins opera-lovers in Bavaria to here a
:00:30. > :00:34.90-minute version of Wagner's Ring cycle. Welcome to Reporters. The US
:00:34. > :00:40.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Al-Shebab Islamic
:00:40. > :00:44.militants to stop blocking aid to famine hit areas of Somalia. The UN
:00:44. > :00:52.has described the situation as the most civvy humanitarian crisis in
:00:52. > :00:57.the world today. The area's most stricken by drought are held by the
:00:57. > :01:02.militants trying to overthrow Somalia's government. Andrew
:01:02. > :01:06.Harding has reported frequently from Somalia over the years. He was
:01:06. > :01:11.one of the few television reporters to venture into Mogadishu
:01:12. > :01:21.independently and his report on the salmon contains distressing images.
:01:22. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:27.Visiting Mogadishu? At his best to be prepared. We're heading into a
:01:27. > :01:34.city that has forgotten the meaning of safety. It is our gunmen against
:01:34. > :01:41.the rest. Neither front lines we file the latest fugitives. Of the
:01:41. > :01:48.famine. Tens of thousands of come seeking food and taking for
:01:48. > :01:55.security. They are in bad shape. The familiar images are as shocking
:01:55. > :02:00.as ever. Twins, both fighting for life. All the mothers have fled
:02:00. > :02:05.from territory controlled by the Islamist group Al-Shebab. This
:02:05. > :02:10.woman says the militants killed her son. They tied him up, then shot
:02:10. > :02:16.him, she says, because he was carrying a bag of food aid which
:02:16. > :02:22.they said came from the infidels. The world is getting more supplies
:02:22. > :02:27.into Mogadishu now. Soup kitchens in every district. It is not here
:02:27. > :02:31.that Somalia's famine must be defeated. This is an almost
:02:31. > :02:36.impossibly difficult, dangerous place for foreigners to operate.
:02:36. > :02:41.You see how much security we need just to move around the centre of
:02:41. > :02:47.Mogadishu. The battle is to find how to move across the front lines
:02:47. > :02:51.and get the aid it to where it is needed most. Here is one way. UN
:02:51. > :03:01.Food blocked by Al-Shebab is handed over to trusted local charities
:03:01. > :03:05.that do have access throughout Somalia. We can deliver food to
:03:05. > :03:13.anywhere in the country. There is could be the solution to end the
:03:13. > :03:20.salmon. Yes, in a way. One of these solutions. He needs are
:03:20. > :03:27.overwhelming. But the politics are Messi. Somalia is not an easy place
:03:27. > :03:33.to help. BBC News, Mogadishu. America's top military officer
:03:33. > :03:38.Admiral Mike Mullen completed a farewell visit to troops on
:03:38. > :03:42.America's battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq. The outgoing
:03:42. > :03:48.Chief of Staff tells soldiers in Afghanistan that America is winning
:03:48. > :03:52.the war but it is time to hand over the fighting to the Afghans. Our
:03:52. > :03:57.correspondent Lyse Doucet knows the challenge is better than most. She
:03:57. > :04:02.has been reporting from Afghanistan for 20 years and was given rare
:04:02. > :04:07.access to the at role from this report. Admiral Mike Mullen knows
:04:07. > :04:12.the drill. He has been here many times. But every detail is
:04:12. > :04:18.organised in his world, even where he stands when he takes questions.
:04:18. > :04:25.I tried to go during the summer because it is prettily hot.
:04:25. > :04:30.engine's are already revving. It is a tense time, a worrying time for
:04:30. > :04:36.Afghans and their supporters. What are you thoughts? Baguette that it
:04:36. > :04:46.is tense and worrying but this has been intense engagement and a
:04:46. > :04:47.
:04:47. > :04:55.worrying campaign for years. It is going to be a long flight. We are
:04:55. > :05:02.flying cargo. There are not many direct flights between Washington
:05:02. > :05:06.and Kandahar that it this is how you have to do it, with US military.
:05:06. > :05:12.There are not many luxuries although they do have these flatbed
:05:12. > :05:22.seats so you can sleep on the way. We touch ground in Kandahar and at
:05:22. > :05:24.
:05:24. > :05:31.immediately on the road. First stop the 64-year-old and rubble likes to
:05:31. > :05:35.share his experience with the troops will start you see that a
:05:35. > :05:44.way to make a difference in someone's live. And more
:05:44. > :05:49.importantly to hear from them. He is said to love this: Meeting the
:05:49. > :05:54.soldiers and taking their questions. Morale is high among these troops
:05:55. > :06:03.but some are still not clear why they are here. What is the official
:06:03. > :06:08.answer for why we are still here? The Afghans say: You have that Bin
:06:08. > :06:18.Laden, you where you find him. There is a lot more to it than Bin
:06:18. > :06:20.
:06:20. > :06:30.Laden. If we left the Taliban would choose to kill as many Americans as
:06:30. > :06:34.a quid. Back to the tarmac. Admiral Mullen has some help to chew up the
:06:35. > :06:44.troops. Everyone wants their picture taken with a basketball
:06:45. > :06:45.
:06:46. > :06:53.giant and the magician and comedian John Stewart. None of the stars
:06:53. > :06:58.have been to Afghanistan before. As the next stop is Helmand province.
:06:58. > :07:02.All this is a novelty for them but it is their way of showing
:07:03. > :07:08.appreciation for what the troops to every day. A main reason we came
:07:08. > :07:16.was to let them know that we are thinking about them. It is a long
:07:16. > :07:21.war, a tough for and they have borne the burden of this
:07:21. > :07:27.overwhelmingly. Just let them know people are thinking about them.
:07:27. > :07:34.What we tell the world backing your TV studio? This is for me. This is
:07:34. > :07:39.between myself and then. Taliban are still able to carry out
:07:39. > :07:44.major attacks and assassinations. The US sent in terms of thousands
:07:44. > :07:54.of extra troops last year to try to turn the tide but this war has gone
:07:54. > :07:58.on for a decade now. This is also about putting the Afghan security
:07:58. > :08:02.forces in charge of their own destiny. Over the next few months
:08:02. > :08:08.some of the US soldiers could be going home as part of President
:08:08. > :08:18.Obama's exec plan. By 2014 the accounts are meant to be fully in
:08:18. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:26.charge. The question is: Will they be ready? These at and say that
:08:26. > :08:30.they will be. We are soldiers, they proudly seen, we defend our the
:08:30. > :08:38.country like lions. There is concern they will not be enough
:08:38. > :08:46.well-trained troops and police to take on a determined enemy like the
:08:46. > :08:52.Taliban. This Colonel hence the troops. He says: We are Afghan two.
:08:52. > :08:58.We can defend our country from any threat. The US and other NATO
:08:58. > :09:03.armies also had dreams that they would now be living in peace. There
:09:03. > :09:10.is not much time left. Soon these American soldiers will be going
:09:10. > :09:15.home, hoping they did some good in Afghanistan. Not only for America,
:09:15. > :09:20.mostly for the civilians of Afghanistan. To better the place.
:09:20. > :09:27.So you think this is a war worth fighting? Yes ma'am, I do think it
:09:27. > :09:33.is. Admiral Mullen knows this is likely to be the last time he is he
:09:33. > :09:38.with his troops. He knows he leaves behind a country beset by major
:09:38. > :09:44.problems, bad government, corruption. He feels he fought the
:09:44. > :09:54.good fight, even if he knows he is not over. Lyse Doucet, BBC News,
:09:54. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:08.The country's Ullman passed a new law to restrict internet use, there
:10:08. > :10:13.have been a variety of solutions proposed. -- parliament. If you're
:10:13. > :10:20.going head-to-head with the most exciting online games, you would
:10:20. > :10:28.want more than an microphone, especially if your audience were
:10:28. > :10:33.some of the most sophisticated game has. He is not shooting monsters or
:10:33. > :10:38.scoring points. He is making a scarf with his father. This is a
:10:38. > :10:47.new weapon in the battle against internet addiction. And a tent at
:10:47. > :10:53.prevention rather than a cure. -- an attempt. This is the family life
:10:53. > :10:57.that parents understand. Walks in the countryside. They did not grow
:10:58. > :11:03.up with computers in the way that their children has. South Korea's
:11:03. > :11:13.obsession with the internet is very recent. Many parents say they have
:11:13. > :11:22.
:11:22. > :11:28.no clue how to deal with it. The children are not clinical addicts.
:11:28. > :11:33.I am being angry when I am on the internet. I do not know why. I am
:11:33. > :11:43.trying to fix it but it is very hard. This is a different case. He
:11:43. > :11:44.
:11:44. > :11:49.gets angry as well, aggressive, he plays games all night. He is having
:11:49. > :11:56.dozens of electrodes attached to his skull to watch his brainwaves.
:11:56. > :12:06.Part of a government scheme to treat addiction. The brains of
:12:06. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:12.internet addicts look the same to other addicts. They are given anti-
:12:12. > :12:18.depressants as well as therapy. There are two types of internet
:12:18. > :12:23.addicts. The shy ones, the others who like the power and the violence.
:12:23. > :12:29.This patient is probably the latter. How much the games themselves are
:12:29. > :12:34.to gain his hotly-contested. new law stopping those under 16
:12:34. > :12:39.playing games past midnight is due to come into effect later this year.
:12:39. > :12:44.Game makers say people will switch to gains made overseas. They are
:12:44. > :12:52.not covered by the law. That could mean more patient spending their
:12:52. > :12:56.summer holidays in things like this one. Contaminated milk and
:12:57. > :13:01.exploding melons, safety food scandals have hit China recently.
:13:01. > :13:06.In a country with more than 1 billion mouths to feed, there is
:13:06. > :13:12.growing concern about what is safe to eat. It has affected the
:13:12. > :13:19.people's trust in the authorities. We travelled to farmland outside
:13:19. > :13:24.the capital to investigate. It is back to the soil for some of
:13:24. > :13:28.China's city slickers. During the week they are teachers, PR
:13:28. > :13:35.consultants, computer programmers, at the weekend they get their hands
:13:35. > :13:42.dirty. When we do not grow things by ourselves, we worry about the
:13:42. > :13:50.safety. People are increasingly worried about what they feed their
:13:50. > :13:59.children. At this farm, children are free to pick and choose. The
:13:59. > :14:04.last food scandal is fresh in parents' minds. He was a victim.
:14:04. > :14:13.His parents fed him a baby formula they thought was safe. It turns out
:14:13. > :14:19.to contain the chemical melamine. Six children died in the scandal
:14:19. > :14:28.and 250,000 fell ill. He continues to worry about his son's health. He
:14:28. > :14:34.was just us. -- justice. government needs to bear
:14:34. > :14:41.responsibility. The court case keeps getting delayed. The latest
:14:41. > :14:45.scandal to hit China was the case of the exploding melons. He was one
:14:46. > :14:55.of thousands of farmers affected by the problem. It was caused by the
:14:56. > :14:58.
:14:58. > :15:04.over use of a group accelerant. -- growth. He says 25% of his crop
:15:04. > :15:07.exploded. When I was walking in the field I could hear them explode.
:15:07. > :15:13.With over 1 billion mouths to feed in China there is a fundamental
:15:13. > :15:18.issue at stake. It is one of trust. When people start worrying whether
:15:18. > :15:23.their food is safe or not, implicitly it starts raising
:15:23. > :15:29.questions about the authorities' ability to protect them. Back home
:15:29. > :15:35.the city slickers cook a meal with the produce of the farm. They are
:15:35. > :15:43.the lucky few with the time and the money to ensure their food is safe.
:15:43. > :15:48.For many others, there is little choice in what they eat. What do
:15:48. > :15:56.you do with gardens already immortalised in pains by one of the
:15:56. > :16:05.Impressionist greats?: they lived in Paris for nearly 40 years. --
:16:05. > :16:11.Monet. The gardens attract millions of visitors every year. There is a
:16:11. > :16:17.new head gardener who is British. We see what his impressions were of
:16:17. > :16:27.the new jobs. It is not a French garden. It is
:16:27. > :16:28.
:16:29. > :16:34.not an English garden. It is of course, a painter's garden. The
:16:34. > :16:44.artist spent 50 trivia is in his home immortalising the gardens he
:16:44. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:55.created. -- 50 years. The head gardener has to bring the
:16:55. > :16:59.Impressionist masterpieces back to life. Everyone knows the pictures.
:16:59. > :17:09.They want to see what they saw in the pictures. There is something
:17:09. > :17:14.romantic about this garden. Anyone with a bit of sensitivity and
:17:14. > :17:22.poetry in them can find beauty in this garden. The artist did not
:17:22. > :17:30.like organised gardens. He let flowers grow freely. Before long he
:17:30. > :17:35.diverted a river to create is on which he painted repeatedly. He was
:17:35. > :17:45.obsessed with this image, he sent gardeners out to collect the hour
:17:45. > :17:51.
:17:51. > :17:55.he. -- algae. The scooping continues to this day. He dedicated
:17:55. > :18:01.himself less to the flowers but more to the light and reflection of
:18:01. > :18:09.the ponce. It receives 500,000 visitors every year he tried to do
:18:09. > :18:19.the same. Never before had a painter shake his landscape like
:18:19. > :18:32.
:18:32. > :18:42.the artist had done. Looking at his paintings... You must put down the
:18:42. > :18:52.
:18:52. > :18:56.drought and try and see it with a brush. -- towel. Wagner's ring
:18:56. > :18:59.cycle is 15 hours long. He was adamant only the full version
:18:59. > :19:09.should be performed. It has been shortened to 90 minutes to get
:19:09. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:18.children interested. We go to see the condensed version. This is a
:19:19. > :19:28.shrine. In 1872 Richard Wagoner built his own Opera House. In it he
:19:29. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:44.played his great operas, exactly the way he wanted them played. This
:19:44. > :19:44.
:19:45. > :19:48.is not the ring as he wrote it. Normally 17 hours over four nights,
:19:48. > :19:58.the opera has been turned into a fraction by this lady. An accordion
:19:58. > :19:59.
:19:59. > :20:02.has replaced some of the instruments. The plot has been
:20:02. > :20:06.shortened. Do you feel that Richard Wagner is sitting on your shoulder?
:20:06. > :20:13.Yes, he is there and very strict. As he sits on your shoulder, does
:20:13. > :20:23.he approve? He might approve. We try and be very respectful. Richard
:20:23. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:34.Wagner took these things very seriously indeed. He wanted the
:20:34. > :20:38.four operas played in succession, all together. The question now is,
:20:38. > :20:41.is he turning in his grave at the very thought of his work being
:20:41. > :20:47.compressed into 90 short minutes? Who better to ask than his great-
:20:47. > :20:53.granddaughter? Now in charge of this festival. Would the great man
:20:53. > :21:03.be turning in his grave? I do not think so. Why not? He was always
:21:03. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:15.very innovative. If he had known that his audience was children...
:21:15. > :21:25.He cared very much about his music. Even adapted, the music remains
:21:25. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:42.absolutely gorgeous. That's all from Reporters for this
:21:42. > :21:47.
:21:47. > :21:50.That's all from Reporters for this week. Goodbye for now. One week ago
:21:50. > :21:56.we were suffering with uncomfortably warm night, at the
:21:56. > :22:00.moment it is much fresher. Today it is going to be a cool day.
:22:00. > :22:10.Temperatures disappointing for August. It is feeling fresher
:22:10. > :22:10.
:22:10. > :22:15.because of the strength of the wind. Parts of north-east England and the
:22:15. > :22:18.Midlands will have some sunshine. It will be fresh early on but it
:22:18. > :22:24.will be blue skies for East Anglia and the south-east. Heavy downpours
:22:24. > :22:33.from overnight are lingering. Sunny spells for much of the south of
:22:33. > :22:36.England. Showers are not far away from the south-west. Much of the
:22:36. > :22:42.south-east of Wales and the West Midlands start off with some
:22:42. > :22:46.sunshine. It is cloudy at a North Wales. There is a brisk breeze and
:22:46. > :22:50.that means the showers will be moving through. It will feel
:22:50. > :22:59.particularly miserable on the Moray coastline. Temperatures struggling
:22:59. > :23:04.through the day. Some sunny spells in south-west Scotland. The
:23:04. > :23:09.sunshine disappears across the southern areas. Some places will
:23:09. > :23:16.stay dry. Nowhere is going to be particularly warm. Temperatures
:23:16. > :23:26.that their very best will be 20 Celsius. The rain does Peter out
:23:26. > :23:27.
:23:27. > :23:35.later in the afternoon. Most of us look like having a dry night. It
:23:35. > :23:40.will be a chilly night. A fresh start to Tuesday, Tuesday does look
:23:40. > :23:50.like being a dry day. High pressure is cheating there is fine and
:23:50. > :23:57.