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