:00:04. > :00:12.16 million people face chronic food shortages in Africa's Sahara region.
:00:12. > :00:21.We report from Niger, at risk of catastrophe. Hunting the Taliban in
:00:21. > :00:26.Pakistan's commercial capital. Controversy in Indonesia,
:00:26. > :00:35.conservative Muslims on a collision course with the young supporters of
:00:35. > :00:40.erotic dance music. This is Reporters. The threat of a severe
:00:40. > :00:45.food crisis is something people throughout Africa's Sahara region
:00:45. > :00:50.struggled to cope with. Drought, under development, political
:00:50. > :00:54.instability have rated a landscape which the UN says has put more than
:00:54. > :01:04.16 million people in seven countries in danger of chronic food
:01:04. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:11.shortages this year. Niger is particularly at risk.
:01:11. > :01:18.We need an armed escort to venture into the barren fringes of the Saha.
:01:18. > :01:24.Islamist militants are a growing threat here in Niger. So his hunger.
:01:24. > :01:31.In the tiny village of Kassi-Tondi, 50-year-old Maya Halida pounds
:01:31. > :01:37.grain. She has lost her husband and six children to disease and poverty.
:01:37. > :01:47.Now, the rains have failed. This year's bid for crop only fed what
:01:47. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:54.is left of the family for one week. -- pitiful. The rain did not come.
:01:54. > :02:00.It has been getting worse for years. All the men have gone in search of
:02:00. > :02:05.work. There is a food crisis every year in this village now. 2000 and
:02:05. > :02:10.fog is going to be tough. Prices are shooting up, the harvest has
:02:10. > :02:16.failed. There is growing insecurity across the region. The familiar
:02:16. > :02:21.warning signs. 10 severely malnourished children arrive in the
:02:21. > :02:31.local clinic. The UN fears 400,000 children could be in this condition
:02:31. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:40.in Niger within months. It is much worse already this year. We are
:02:40. > :02:49.receiving more children arrive in a state of complete exhaustion. --
:02:49. > :02:53.seeing. Najat is not without hope. -- Niger. A scheme to attract
:02:53. > :02:57.rainwater. They finally have a democratic government that is
:02:57. > :03:06.acknowledging the crisis and co- operating with the outside world.
:03:06. > :03:13.The key to avoiding a famine. She now gets a small wage from the UN.
:03:13. > :03:18.TRANSLATION: Because of this work we can feed our family. Maybe the
:03:18. > :03:24.fields will recover. That does not change the fact that the village
:03:24. > :03:33.well is drying up. She needs a longer route each year. As a child
:03:33. > :03:37.she remembers life was one of four here. Not any more. -- life was
:03:37. > :03:42.wonderful. The Nigerian government has announced that it intends to
:03:42. > :03:47.build hundreds of new religious schools to fight poverty and
:03:47. > :03:56.extremism in the north of the country. We travelled to the north-
:03:56. > :04:02.western state of Sokoto, home to one of these new schools. A call
:04:02. > :04:09.for food from Umar Abubakar's family. He has been forced into
:04:09. > :04:15.begging because of a decision his parents took to send him here. Umar
:04:15. > :04:20.Abubakar is one of millions of Nigeria's Almajiri. Young boys
:04:20. > :04:23.moved far from home to master the Koran at informal schools. The
:04:24. > :04:33.Nigerian government wants to build hundreds of official religious
:04:34. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:49.schools to help the young Almajiris. In soccer -- Sokoto have opened the
:04:49. > :04:50.
:04:50. > :04:56.first. Do you want to close them down? Essentially, yes. This is the
:04:56. > :04:58.principal, a former Almajiri. He says teaching Western as well as
:04:58. > :05:08.Islamic education will help students integrate better into
:05:08. > :05:12.
:05:12. > :05:22.society. Science, mathematics, Arabic as the language. A modern
:05:22. > :05:22.
:05:22. > :05:32.Almajiri School in staccato, the state with the highest proportion
:05:32. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:43.in poverty. -- Sokoto. The government is motivated by a desire
:05:43. > :05:51.to get the minds of those they consider good soldiers... Security
:05:51. > :05:56.concerns have heightened. A failed British-Nigerian rescue attempt
:05:56. > :06:06.took many by surprise. The killing of these two foreigners at this
:06:06. > :06:16.compound was not the first sign of high-profile criminal activity.
:06:16. > :06:17.
:06:17. > :06:26.Boko Haram has said that its members are present here. There is
:06:26. > :06:30.little appetite for change at some of these schools. There is evidence
:06:30. > :06:36.that the Taliban are raising millions of dollars in Pakistan by
:06:36. > :06:39.turning to organised crime. In the country's largest city, Karachi,
:06:39. > :06:46.the police blame the militants for bank robberies, protection rackets
:06:46. > :06:53.and kidnapping. We report on how the Taliban are making inroads into
:06:53. > :07:01.Pakistan's financial capital. Night falls in Karachi and it is time to
:07:01. > :07:08.hunt for the Taliban. We got rare access to the anti-terror unit who
:07:08. > :07:16.battle the militants. They are moving in on the Karachi underworld.
:07:16. > :07:24.We head for one of their strongholds, Gadap. The police
:07:24. > :07:28.chief who fights fire with fire. TRANSLATION: We are ready to die
:07:28. > :07:38.for this country. We are not scared of these people. They should be
:07:38. > :07:39.
:07:39. > :07:47.scared of us. The raid got results. Police arrested a militant without
:07:47. > :07:52.a shot being fired. The suspect is believed to be a bank robber. In
:07:52. > :07:59.this sprawling megacity of 20 million, there are rich pickings
:07:59. > :08:03.for the insurgents. Bank heists, abductions and protection rackets.
:08:03. > :08:13.We are on our way to the outskirts of Karachi to find out more about
:08:13. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:21.how the militants make money here. It is not easy to track them down.
:08:21. > :08:25.We met an insurgent who works for the Taliban finance department.
:08:25. > :08:35.When the militants come calling, locals donate willingly or
:08:35. > :08:37.
:08:37. > :08:47.otherwise. We raised about $80,000 a month. We use the money for the
:08:47. > :08:48.
:08:48. > :08:53.injured and for other needs. Behind bars across town, two Taliban foot
:08:53. > :09:01.soldiers. They are accused of five abductions. When families do not
:09:01. > :09:07.pay up, hostages do not survive. At the police station we met their
:09:07. > :09:15.latest victim. A doctor snatched at gunpoint last month. He was held
:09:15. > :09:21.for almost one week before police stormed the militant's hideout.
:09:21. > :09:25.TRANSLATION: Those six days were like 60 days. I could not see the
:09:25. > :09:30.outside world from morning until night. They were planning to kill
:09:30. > :09:35.me when the raid started but I got away. The doctor is now back at
:09:35. > :09:44.work. He is changing his routine, making his movements less
:09:44. > :09:50.predictable. He knows the Taliban could try again. The German
:09:50. > :09:53.authorities are trying to track down far right fugitives after
:09:53. > :10:00.revelations that neo-Nazis were able to carry out a series of
:10:00. > :10:05.racially motivated murders over a decade. A parliamentary inquiry has
:10:05. > :10:15.begun as people demand to know the extent of Germany's extremist
:10:15. > :10:20.
:10:20. > :10:24.problem. This was Dresden last month, the familiar face of the far
:10:24. > :10:27.right. Aggressive looking young men calling for a Germany of Germans.
:10:27. > :10:37.Germany's intelligence services say the cliches are out of date. You
:10:37. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:47.cannot tell the neo-Nazi on the streets any more. These are the
:10:47. > :10:49.Immortals, anti-democratic, they warn of the impending extinction of
:10:49. > :10:52.the German people using text messaging to organise spontaneous
:10:52. > :11:00.demonstrations across the country. These groups tend not to tell
:11:00. > :11:03.themselves Nazi or neo-Nazi, but the Free Forces. One intelligence
:11:03. > :11:13.agent told me the security services are out of their depth when it
:11:13. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:20.comes to them. This is a former neo-Nazi leader. TRANSLATION: The
:11:20. > :11:27.leadership is always trying to attract members from the upper
:11:27. > :11:30.classes. Students who can act as doctors or lawyers for the team.
:11:30. > :11:33.You would never imagine that those sort of people support the far
:11:33. > :11:40.right. They may deny their affiliation in public. But they are
:11:40. > :11:50.part of the movement. More so now than ever before. The nationalists
:11:50. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:55.want a new order in Germany, not multiculturalism. Years ago we had
:11:55. > :12:05.clashes and beatings between the so-called political enemies, the
:12:05. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:15.left-wing. Jamel has been taken over in north Germany. This Nazi
:12:15. > :12:18.Germany Muriel claiming the village is free and national. Following
:12:18. > :12:21.revelations of hate crimes and murders, the government says it is
:12:21. > :12:29.taking action. There have been hints and indications of right-wing
:12:29. > :12:39.extremism. It was not taken seriously enough. Therefore we have
:12:39. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:43.put this very high on the political agenda. It is a minority movement,
:12:43. > :12:53.but the Free Forces are still a force that need to be dealt with.
:12:53. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :12:59.The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa had held a
:12:59. > :13:05.meeting to discuss their trade links. Financial uncertainty in the
:13:05. > :13:13.West and rising energy costs had taken a toll on the fire's Nations
:13:13. > :13:18.-- on these five Nations. Despite financial setbacks in India's urban
:13:18. > :13:24.economy, there is economic expansion in its rural areas.
:13:24. > :13:32.India is cashing in on its rich farmland. A bounty that is fuelling
:13:32. > :13:38.a revolution. Two decades ago, this was heavily in debt, but as India's
:13:38. > :13:44.economy boomed, so did demand for its oranges. It now fetches
:13:44. > :13:48.$300,000 a year. The money has transformed his life. His family
:13:48. > :13:54.live on a large modern home, and he sent his children to boarding
:13:54. > :14:00.schools. He has developed a taste for the urban luxuries that you
:14:00. > :14:04.would not normally find in the countryside. I have bought my wife
:14:04. > :14:10.all the luxuries you have in the City, a microwave, washing machine,
:14:10. > :14:15.a gas oven. Everything to make her life easy. Increasingly, rule India
:14:15. > :14:20.is where the money is. Insulated from the global meltdown, it has
:14:20. > :14:25.surged ahead, rising food prices may have hit the pockets of those
:14:25. > :14:29.in the City, but it has built the wallets of people here. Most Indian
:14:29. > :14:34.villagers are still really underdeveloped, there are no proper
:14:34. > :14:39.roads, clean drinking water, or even enough electricity. What the
:14:39. > :14:42.government has done, it has pumped enough money into rural welfare
:14:42. > :14:49.programmes, which along with rising farm in comes, have helped
:14:49. > :14:53.everybody here with a bit of cash to spare. But while her been India
:14:53. > :14:57.is spending less, people in the villages are splashing out on a
:14:57. > :15:03.host of products, keeping the cash registers ringing and generating
:15:03. > :15:12.much-needed business. TRANSLATION: People come and buy lots of things,
:15:12. > :15:16.such as mobile top of cards. We are really benefiting. Two thirds of
:15:16. > :15:21.Indians still live in villages. That is a population of nearly 800
:15:21. > :15:28.million people, and a market whose potential is now only now being
:15:28. > :15:34.tapped. It is one reason why India is taking giant economic strides
:15:34. > :15:39.and is hoping to translate that into political clout.
:15:39. > :15:43.Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, wants to
:15:43. > :15:48.register dangdut music as part of its musical heritage with it UNESCO.
:15:48. > :15:53.It takes its influences from Indian, Arabic and Malay music, and is
:15:53. > :16:02.extremely popular. But a growing group of conservative Muslims are
:16:02. > :16:06.unhappy. They say that traditional music is being corrupted.
:16:07. > :16:11.The rain kept coming, but so did the fans, braving the bad weather,
:16:11. > :16:17.hundreds turned out to attend his dangdut music show. No Linda, a
:16:17. > :16:20.popular singer, was invited to perform at a wedding reception.
:16:20. > :16:24.Everybody in the neighbourhood has turned out for the performance,
:16:24. > :16:29.even the young children had been allowed to stay up late. But even
:16:29. > :16:36.though dangdut music as an integral part, it has become increasingly
:16:36. > :16:42.vulgar over the years. This is the singer that clerics have the
:16:42. > :16:48.biggest problem with, Julia Perez, she is on the highest rated morning
:16:48. > :16:52.TV show in the country. The song, where she likes the most, is banned
:16:52. > :16:57.on radio stations in one province, because of racing lyrics suggesting
:16:57. > :17:03.the sexual positions and that she possessed -- prefers. There are
:17:03. > :17:11.concerns that she is corrupting India's young people. In Indonesia
:17:11. > :17:16.as she thinks that sexy is a crime. If you already have a porno in your
:17:16. > :17:22.brain, I cannot blame you. If you see me like this, I am vulgar,
:17:22. > :17:26.there is something wrong in your brain, not my brain. But Muslim
:17:26. > :17:32.clerics say that Julia Perez and singers like her is ruling dangdut
:17:32. > :17:36.music, and turning it into something it is not supposed to be.
:17:36. > :17:45.It is not jazz or rock and roll that you can do it rocket -- erotic
:17:45. > :17:50.things. It should not be erotic. It is just too sexy. But fans may not
:17:50. > :17:54.agree. Back in the neighbourhood concert, Melinda is busy raking in
:17:54. > :17:59.the tips and working the crowd. Dangdut music has always been the
:17:59. > :18:03.music of the masses, it is popular with in Venetians of all ages, even
:18:03. > :18:07.young children. That is why conservative groups want to clean
:18:07. > :18:15.it up, but the majority of Indonesian are dancing to a
:18:15. > :18:19.different tune and they are not complaining.
:18:19. > :18:23.It is a community drama production that has been going on for 700
:18:23. > :18:30.years. The Mystery Plays in York in the north of England are certainly
:18:31. > :18:34.ambitious. Around 1,500 people are taking part as locals enact
:18:34. > :18:37.medieval biblical players from the Creation to the Last Judgement. The
:18:38. > :18:45.curtain goes up in August and we have been along to see how the
:18:45. > :18:49.preparations are getting along. In the beginning, God created the
:18:49. > :18:53.heavens and the Earth, and er there was a void, the darkness was over
:18:53. > :19:00.the face of the deep. The Mystery Plays are a tradition that goes
:19:00. > :19:07.back more than 700 years, York's ts
:19:07. > :19:17.or mysteries of their various craft, the form to the Bible. But the sea,
:19:17. > :19:21.it is going to be rather different. -- --. Walk down any street,
:19:21. > :19:31.and you are almost certain to bump into someone that has that has one
:19:31. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:38.a bit biblical. I think it is a great part. No-one gets to save
:19:38. > :19:48.humanity from the flight. The cast list is approaching the 600. Mary
:19:48. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :20:04.must be a big role. I would like to think so. I am the mother of God.
:20:04. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:09.did not think any of us have got really massive hamlet parts. A no.
:20:09. > :20:17.I auditioned and got the part of an angel so we will be working
:20:17. > :20:22.together. She is not star-struck, is she?
:20:22. > :20:28.There are a lot of people in the Bible, but the characters, the
:20:28. > :20:36.actors, our only the beginning. There are hundreds more. How many
:20:36. > :20:41.costumes? 800, 1,000 costumes. are doing 1,000 costumes? 1,000
:20:41. > :20:50.costumes. The setting for the main performance of the Mystery Plays is
:20:50. > :20:57.on a stage built in the remains of St Mary's Abbey. The celebratory
:20:57. > :21:01.performance for an Olympic year has got rather large.
:21:02. > :21:08.1,500 people you are organising. When you say it like that, it makes
:21:08. > :21:15.me shudder. Of course, many of the volunteers are old hands that have
:21:15. > :21:19.grown up with the plays. The scale may be greater but there is no
:21:19. > :21:23.mystery as to the story. When it starts with these two, you know how
:21:23. > :21:33.it is going to end. This is it for this edition of
:21:33. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:42.journalists. After all the warmth of last week,