14/01/2012 Reporters

spending cuts. Two years after the earthquake that

shattered Haiti, we report from the capital 500,000 people are homeless.

As President Obama struggles to get the US economy back on track, we

travelled to Ohio. And the Australian Gallery that takes a

Welcome to Reporters. It is hard to think about Haiti without

remembering the earthquake. 1.5 million people were left homeless.

Progress towards rebuilding has been slow. 500,000 people are still

living in camps. There are few signs of reconstruction. We have a

In just 35 seconds the earthquake destroyed lives, homes and the

heart of Haiti's government. That night this man lost one daughter

and feared he would lose a second. She is fighting. But there is no

help. As you can see her body was crushed under the rubble. This is

the spot where she almost died. Very little has changed. She has

made a spectacular recovery. She is doing well. Life is not as great.

There are no jobs. We are fighting just so they can go on going to

school. She is fighting. Daily life is a struggle for millions. Half of

the rubble from the earthquake has been removed. But 500,000 people

are still living in tents. The President has promised his

supporters change. We have made massive steps. What do you say to

those people who still do not have homes, jobs and feel frustrated?

Haiti has a big wound. It is deep. You cannot solve everything in a

day. You can only plant the tree. You need to wait to enjoy the

shadow. You need to let it grow. Changing a country is not going to

be easy. This park was a sea of tents immediately after the

earthquake. People who lost their homes settled here. Those families

have moved out. Normal life is returning. It is a small sign of

progress. This woman has been given a grant to move out into this tiny

apartment. She shares it with her five children. It is better than

living in a tent, she says, but how will I pay the rent next year? As

the city prepares to mourn its dead, the ruins of the National Cathedral

are a place for reflection. Monumental loss is still so hard to

As the Republican Party decide who to put up against President Obama

in the presidential election, one thing is in no doubt. The economy

is the central issue. For millions of ordinary people the American

dream of doing better than your parents has taken a battering. The

signs of recovery are fragile and millions of Americans are still out

of work. We travel to the manufacturing heartland of Ohio to

see how residents are coping. The rebirth of the American motor

industry. It was on its knees with incalculable cost to the economy

and the American psyche. Here at the Chrysler plant they were among

the rescued. They were saved by the $60 billion in bailout. We have a

new lease on life. We do what ever it takes to keep this plant open.

The cost of living went away for a while. You are actually getting

less? Yes. Because of the economy. People are willing to do work for

less. We know that the unemployment rate is through the roof. We are

thankful to have a job. Beyond the car plants the old vision of

America as a haven of social mobility has been shaken. In Ohio

and beyond, whole swathes of the American workforce have been

hurting. The question in this election year is when and if that

pain will stop. Here times have rarely been tougher. A large amount

of the population has left. It has reckoned an extra 25,000 families

have been blighted by unemployment. Agents for the sheriff's office say

the value of property has been plummeting. More than one million

are repossessed every year. From the tumble down to the mansion, all

are vulnerable. This house was worth over $1 million. Now it is

only half that. I know that because I am in the real estate business.

Even golf courses are struggling. Golf is an expensive sport. Obama

wants to slow down the foreclosure process to give families more time.

Republicans want it speeded up to liberate a stagnant market. What do

the people in the frontline think? There is so much unemployment.

is not a housing problem? It is an employment problem. The idea of the

bank working with the people is good. It is a mess at the moment?

It is. Be smart. This family watch their youngest shooting hoops. They

have had their troubles. His brother, sister and brother-in-law

all worked in the motor industry. This plant was not saved by the

bailout. They have been out of work and fear that will stay. There is a

massive disparity between the rich and the poor in this country. The

manufacturing jobs are not there anymore. The good paying jobs I

have enjoyed in my life, my kids will not see them. 12 years ago

they built their dream house and it has been in the family since the

1930s. Last week they put it on the market. We have been dodging

bullets. This is the one thing we did not want to sell. Sacrifice has

always been a part of the story that Americans like to tell about

themselves. People here have lost the lot. They fear that much of it

Nearly 2,000 sub-Saharan Africans in Libya have been voluntarily

repatriated since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi. The Transitional

Authority, along with international organisations, are chartering two

flights per week to get them home. But some are not going anywhere.

Thousands of them have been accused of working as mercenaries for

Gaddafi in his final days. The roll-call of Libya's migrants.

Africans from neighbouring states, men and women who feel they are no

longer welcome. Some cannot leave quick enough. I would like to come

back. But I do not know. This is just a fraction of the hundreds of

thousands of economic migrants to clean homes, serve in restaurants

and do the jobs at Libyans do not want to do. Many were branded as

mercenaries. It was just a few months back when the rebels swept

into Tripoli that Africans were gathered on to trucks. They were

made to chant anti-Gaddafi slogans by the NTC fighters and detained.

Many are still being held. This man has only just been released after

the intervention of a friend. He is afraid to show his face. For eight

days I could not even have a place to brush my teeth. After eight days

they took us to a prison. Did they say why they were holding you?

did not tell us anything. We asked what our crime was. They said that

we were loyal to Gaddafi. daughter recounted in graphic

detail that as her father was being taken she was raped by 16 men.

they did to me and my father, I want them punished. Human rights

groups say this is not an isolated case. Allegations of abuse and

detention of African migrants need to be dealt with by the

Transitional Authority. The regime used mercenaries. This is well

documented. Not every African was a mercenary. But we had to take care.

Some of these men are a serious with their weapons. They mingled

with the population and other migrants. Libyans have been freed

from jail, but no-one knows how many African migrants are still

behind bars. The legal system remains in disarray. Authorities

are assisting those who want to fly home. But many find themselves in a

One of the countries in the world that his seen its population in

that decline is Japan. It is forecaster to fall dramatically in

years ahead. The government is introducing payments for parents

end is trying to improve access to childcare. But a government survey

has revealed a big problem of. Over one-third of men and women have no

interest in sex or even say they haven't a version to it. -- have an

aversion to it. The centre of Tokyo in a bustling

afternoon. There seems to be no shortage of people. But to 10's

population is shrinking. -- depend. The expense of raising children,

the pressure of work. A recent government survey has found there

may be a more fundamental reason. Young Japanese are turning their

backs on relationships. The animate film on the television is about

romance. But he admits there is little of that in his life. Over a

third of Japanese men say they have no interest in sex. TRANSLATION:

Are a relationship seems like too much effort. I would have to give

up everything I do on the weekend for her. I do not want to do that.

Fertility experts are worried. Without relationships, government

handouts to encourage people to have more children are bound to

fail. TRANSLATION: We offer a free medical care and the cost of

delivering babies are free. But this is not enough to encourage

people to have children. Many in Japan feel young women are getting

stronger, even as men become a more passive. This group of joggers

meets every weekend to do a lap of the Imperial Palace. Finding men

who can keep up his task. TRANSLATION: People tell me I am

too bubbly. Maybe we are too strong. But I am just living my life in the

way I like. TRANSLATION: Women are more positive and looking to the

future, but men seem a negative. Falling in love with each other

seems increasingly difficult for the young into a pen. A worrying

sign for a country already on the brink of a demographic crisis.

Even half a century that scientists have been listening for

intelligence life, funding has come and gone. The main centre for all

of this is just getting back on track in northern California after

a lack of funds set it down on last year. -- shut it down.

If a signal arrives from an intelligent species, the odds are

rife -- the odds are it will be picked up here. This is part of a

wider effort, the Search for extra- terrestrial intelligence.

someone out there has also invented radio, they may be sending signals

towards us. You just want to build an antenna to around that allows

you -- that allows you to hear anything. That is the nature of the

search. It is the most high-profile. One question that none of these

efforts have had to end see it, is that what was the message received

be? What would be the next step? Now what? Should we reply? Some

experts here you have said that scientists may consider sending the

contents of the internet back to the extra-terrestrials. But sending

a mathematical sequences of numbers or simple images may be more

effective. Something that we send as -- something we see as

particularly important. Perhaps Thatcherism. Putting ourselves in

danger for the benefit of someone else. Helping someone. But funding

is one thing that can stent in the wake of telecommunications. It

costs of $2 billion per year in that private funding. The search

for aliens may halt again. We are looking around and we are seeing

problems with climate end pollution. The interesting thing about

protecting this signal from another technology is that in directly you

learn that it is possible to survive this technological

adolescence that we are going through. Debt is a real signal. You

could ask, is this important with all the problems in the world? Does

it matter? It is curiosity, but if we were to find that someone out

today is clever enough to build a transmitter, we were to know that

we are not a miracle, we are just another duck, and it is very

important to find out that you are not in the centre of the universe.

If you ever visit art galleries or exhibitions, you would be used to

seeing signs everywhere saying, don't touch. Not so at any

exhibition in Sydney Australia. This requires audience

participation forage to work. The aim to make the digital artworks

interactive to encourage more visitors.

The lengths some artist will go to. This mesmerising exhibit is called

tape-recorders. A series of tape measures go up Ms down as you move

past. It is the work -- this is the Pauls Run. Hold this censor, and

the lights flash urge your heart right. Often, museums have a

condescending attitude towards the public. But I think that if you

give the public a chance to represent themselves and to express,

you will be surprised. Surprised at any interactive art gallery? This

is called Deep year's midnight. Watch my eyes. It is all achieved

with something using face a PRI trekking. These are microphones, 17

of them. You speak ended sends back someone else's recording. It is a

complete nightmare, there are so many works of art that should not

be touched. They are delicate, we are giving very mixed messages out.

But our audience does want to interact, and we have been able to

devote an entire floor to this whole variety of different ways of

interaction. The audience is loving yet. You clap here, it draws here.

Another work of high magnitude? They call this a crowd sauced show.

But does not exist unless the audience exists. Just watching the

people interact with it and seeing how they come at it differently is

interesting itself. Is it art? For me and for everyone else.

exhibition is the last one at the museum before it reopens in March.

It is hoping to give -- keeping its finger on the pulse of modern