:00:26. > :00:30.in Paris later this Sunday. The murder capital of the world.
:00:30. > :00:34.Stephen Sackur reports from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, where the
:00:34. > :00:39.government admits it has lost control of what is happening on the
:00:39. > :00:44.street. I am day in Yemen. The food crisis
:00:44. > :00:49.which is so severe that more than one-quarter -- 250,000 children
:00:49. > :00:59.could die. How life is changed for the rich
:00:59. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.under President Hu Jintao in China. Welcome to Reporters. The Central
:01:04. > :01:10.American state of Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world.
:01:10. > :01:15.Last year, someone was killed at an average of every 74 minutes. Much
:01:15. > :01:23.of the violence is carried out by criminal gangs allied to cocaine
:01:23. > :01:29.cartels. This report contains a strong images.
:01:29. > :01:36.A night patrol in San Pedro sort. The world's most lawless city. The
:01:36. > :01:42.murder count has just gone up by one. Dumped by a House, the body of
:01:42. > :01:48.a young man. Downed, tortured, then shot. Another gang murder in a city
:01:48. > :01:52.where justice has gone missing. TRANSLATION: We just don't have the
:01:52. > :01:57.resources to carry out proper investigations year. That is why a
:01:57. > :02:05.culture of impunity has developed in this city. The police check the
:02:05. > :02:09.local area for guns and drugs, but it is a token effort. San Pedro
:02:09. > :02:14.Sula is Honduras's business hub. Walk through the centre, and there
:02:14. > :02:21.is a veneer of normality. But look carefully and you see every
:02:21. > :02:27.business has armed guards. Month after month, the killing here has
:02:27. > :02:32.increased. Two rival gangs are in a ruthless fight for the city's
:02:32. > :02:39.cocaine trade and extortion rackets. Human rights activists say the
:02:39. > :02:43.entire system of policing and justice is broken.
:02:43. > :02:48.Most people are not seen justice being done by the judicial system.
:02:48. > :02:53.When you have something like 20 murders a day in a country and you
:02:53. > :03:00.do not even have enough forensic experts to be able to look at the
:03:00. > :03:07.bodies, that all the money means that the murderers are walking free.
:03:07. > :03:11.-- or ultimately means. There is no way to hide. If the city's taxi
:03:11. > :03:18.drivers refuse to pay protection money, they get a bullet in the
:03:18. > :03:24.head. One driver told me that police offered no protection.
:03:24. > :03:28.TRANSLATION: We are afraid of the police. They themselves are bank
:03:28. > :03:34.robbers, car thieves and extortionists. Dealing with a
:03:34. > :03:42.police man is like dealing with a gang member. Cocaine is killing San
:03:42. > :03:48.Pedro sort. Successful seizures are the exception. Criminal gang
:03:48. > :03:55.culture has engulfed the city. The government promises a crackdown,
:03:55. > :04:04.but makes this startling admission. Due to all the money that is coming
:04:04. > :04:12.into the country from drug dealers, the a turning into a society in
:04:13. > :04:16.which the government has lost control. Another shooting victim is
:04:16. > :04:22.brought in to the overstretched hospital. The violence here is
:04:22. > :04:30.spreading like a debt the virus. There is no cure in sight. --
:04:30. > :04:38.deadly virus. Now for three reports about food
:04:38. > :04:44.insecurity in different parts of the world. In Nepal, the late
:04:44. > :04:48.arrival of the monsoon has affected the agriculture. Steep mountains
:04:48. > :04:56.make it difficult to grow fruit and the lack of rain has made it
:04:56. > :05:00.difficult for crops to grow. Nepal - one of the poorest
:05:00. > :05:09.countries in the world. Nearly half of the population lives in property,
:05:09. > :05:19.-- poverty, largely cut off from the outside world. Travel west and
:05:19. > :05:20.
:05:20. > :05:24.the prospects are very different. This is Dowler in in the far west
:05:24. > :05:28.of Nepal. Most of the people here make their living from the land. In
:05:28. > :05:33.a good year, they can grow enough food to feed themselves for six
:05:33. > :05:43.months. In a bad year, there is barely enough food to last three
:05:43. > :05:50.months. TRANSLATION: My seats have dried up because the reins a late.
:05:50. > :05:55.Where can I get new seed now? said he would have to leave the
:05:55. > :06:01.village to find work to feed his family. Other travel as far as
:06:01. > :06:07.India to make money to survive. Villagers rely from help from
:06:07. > :06:12.overseas. The local schools need food aid from the UN. For many of
:06:12. > :06:16.the children here, it is the only meal there will get all day.
:06:16. > :06:21.Sometimes I'm so hungry I want to go home, but I stay for my school
:06:21. > :06:26.lunch. As well as keeping the children fed, the food is also
:06:26. > :06:29.keeping them in education. Children as young as six are often forced to
:06:29. > :06:36.drop out of school to work in the fields and the literacy rate here
:06:36. > :06:40.is high. -- illiteracy. TRANSLATION: If there were no
:06:40. > :06:45.school meals, there would not be any children in school. They would
:06:45. > :06:52.go to work in the fields. When I started work here, there were only
:06:52. > :06:56.22 students. Now, there are 170. get here, the food has a long and
:06:56. > :07:06.difficult journey. It is grown in the south and travels by a truck
:07:06. > :07:15.along a single, winding road along the mountains. When the road runs
:07:16. > :07:20.out, it is on to mules. TRANSLATION: It is a big challenge.
:07:20. > :07:30.Sometimes, it can take four or five days. We have been doing this for
:07:30. > :07:31.
:07:31. > :07:36.ten years. For the families, it is a lifeline. The UN helps to develop
:07:36. > :07:41.roads and build better irrigation systems. Hit by drought, famine and
:07:41. > :07:51.a lack of education, coupled with a Shia -- the sheer remoteness of
:07:51. > :07:53.
:07:54. > :08:00.life, change will not come quickly. Yemen is also suffering from a food
:08:00. > :08:05.crisis so severe that it is believed that more than 250,000
:08:05. > :08:12.children could die. The country is in the midst of a Tsonga system --
:08:12. > :08:22.Hong this season. The month-long fast is pushing up prices in the
:08:22. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:32.market. This is the sound of hunger. The
:08:32. > :08:41.children are crying out for food. In this one village, we found
:08:42. > :08:46.dozens of chronically malnourished kids. Some have already died. For
:08:46. > :08:55.this woman, watching and eight -- eight-month-old son suffer his
:08:55. > :09:02.agony. TRANSLATION: I'm really scared. I would die if he dies. I'm
:09:02. > :09:12.sick with worry. It makes me so sad to see my son in pain. This little
:09:12. > :09:12.
:09:13. > :09:17.boy is typical of so many of the children we have seen. The mothers
:09:17. > :09:27.are telling us they do not have enough foods -- food in their homes
:09:27. > :09:37.to keep the children healthy. I go to visit the family and it is
:09:37. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:46.clear that they are dirt poor. Can a common sight? --, inside?
:09:46. > :09:51.Described heart is a place where six people live and where two
:09:51. > :09:57.children have already died of malnutrition. Across generations,
:09:58. > :10:05.hunger is part of what passes for daily life. If there is no food,
:10:05. > :10:15.what can they do? TRANSLATION: We sleep and we pray. What else can we
:10:15. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:30.do? On the edge of the village, the graves of two more children. Just a
:10:30. > :10:34.few rocks. This country has always been poor. A toxic combination of
:10:34. > :10:41.failed harvests, political turmoil and Islamist violence have swept
:10:41. > :10:46.across the land. The lives of 250,000 children are now in danger
:10:46. > :10:51.- a crisis threatening catastrophe. The shocking thing is that right in
:10:51. > :10:58.the heart of the hunger zone, you can find food, but at prices which
:10:58. > :11:05.are skyrocketing beyond the reach of the poor. This crisis is driven
:11:05. > :11:12.by poverty for a very lucky few, Oxfam is handing out cash to save
:11:12. > :11:19.lives. These people walked four miles to wait hours in the sun to
:11:19. > :11:23.get some money. At the moment, they run over 5 million people who are
:11:23. > :11:29.going hungry and more than 10 million people at risk. At this
:11:30. > :11:34.moment, we need to give them help and support. At the local hospital,
:11:34. > :11:42.there is clear evidence that the need here outstrips any capacity to
:11:42. > :11:46.help. This may not look like classic images we see from sub-
:11:46. > :11:53.Saharan Africa, but what better illustration that there is hunger
:11:53. > :12:02.in this country. The money is running out. The aid agencies make
:12:02. > :12:07.a united plea to prevent disaster The UN is warning that hundreds of
:12:07. > :12:13.millions of dollars are required to prevent another humanitarian
:12:13. > :12:17.disaster in Somalia. One year ago, the UN declared a famine in parts
:12:17. > :12:23.of the country following the drought that effective fast areas
:12:23. > :12:31.of East Africa. After a global aid effort, the family was sent to be
:12:31. > :12:38.over in February. However, another disaster is looming.
:12:38. > :12:46.Somalia - dry as a bone and as dangerous as ever. We have come
:12:46. > :12:52.back one year after the Fallon to see how much has changed. Last year,
:12:52. > :12:57.we found scenes like this. Tens of thousands of people starving. Today,
:12:57. > :13:04.a much better picture. These families are still dependent on
:13:04. > :13:10.foreign aid but there is no shortage of that. It is one year
:13:10. > :13:15.since I was last at this camp at the height of the famine. Looking
:13:15. > :13:22.around, he is clear that things have improved significantly. That
:13:22. > :13:28.is largely thanks to foreign aid and one decent harvest. However,
:13:28. > :13:38.Somalia is in a very precarious situation. Here of the warning
:13:38. > :13:40.
:13:40. > :13:45.signs. New arrivals fleeing from an area controlled by Al-Shabab. This
:13:45. > :13:49.40-year-old says there is drought at home once again and out Shiva is
:13:49. > :13:57.threatening to steal things. Eta may not add up to another famine
:13:57. > :14:02.but Somalia is still on my support. -- life support. The generosity
:14:02. > :14:08.from when the Fallon was declared it was wonderful and we are
:14:08. > :14:13.grateful. But children are continuing to dive and people still
:14:13. > :14:20.require assistance. We still need help.
:14:20. > :14:24.Some aid - not enough - is going on longer term projects. We found
:14:24. > :14:29.these farmers being helped to irrigate their crops to feed their
:14:30. > :14:39.communities themselves. But most do not have that option and remain at
:14:40. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.the mercy of two vehicle enemies - conflict and drought. -- fickle.
:14:44. > :14:49.Staying with Africa, in Mali, Islamist militants are tightening
:14:49. > :14:55.their grip in the north of the country. The crisis has already had
:14:55. > :15:02.a disastrous consequences for Marlene's economy, particularly for
:15:02. > :15:09.the many people who rely on to resign -- Mali's economy. The right
:15:09. > :15:16.route capital city of Ballack her. This is the perfect place for an
:15:16. > :15:21.exotic journey. Now, Mali is divided. With an his list flag
:15:21. > :15:28.flying in the north, dozens of hotels and tour operators have
:15:28. > :15:33.closed down. This has resulted either unemployment. This man of
:15:33. > :15:38.later Timbuktu with a few precious pieces he hopes to sell here. He
:15:39. > :15:44.worries about the family he left behind. TRANSLATION: I pray that
:15:44. > :15:50.the trouble will not last long. My family has been doing this work for
:15:50. > :15:55.generations. I do not know what I will do if I cannot do this anymore.
:15:55. > :16:03.Why will the government is busy battling with soldiers, the picture
:16:03. > :16:12.in the north is getting darker. TRANSLATION: The entire local
:16:12. > :16:15.economy has gone. There is no more free, no more valid, no more credit
:16:15. > :16:20.agencies and administrative services are non-existent.
:16:20. > :16:28.Everything has been looted. Computers, heaving chest,
:16:28. > :16:32.everything. To look to is a ghost town. While the chaos votes in the
:16:32. > :16:38.north, its impact in the capital is growing.
:16:38. > :16:42.This market place used to be crowded with tourists. But the
:16:42. > :16:52.crisis has scared people away. Market sellers say they have not
:16:52. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :17:00.sold anything in weeks. With no tourists, nothing. Totally
:17:00. > :17:04.nothing. Nobody can come and buy. African and Western leaders know
:17:04. > :17:09.too well that there might be no other solution but a military
:17:09. > :17:14.intervention to dislodge Islamist radicals from the northern desert.
:17:14. > :17:21.The longer they stay there, the less likely that artists like this
:17:21. > :17:25.than will see a return to life as it once was.
:17:25. > :17:30.China is preparing for a major change in its top political
:17:30. > :17:35.leadership in the autumn, with President Hu Jintao and other
:17:35. > :17:40.senior leaders stepping down after ten years in charge. President Hu
:17:40. > :17:44.Jintao has overseen a decade during which China has become a driving
:17:44. > :17:53.force in the global economy, creating a middle class 300 million
:17:53. > :17:57.people strong. In one decade, China's leaders have
:17:57. > :18:03.to live at two extraordinary successes. They have made China
:18:03. > :18:08.four times richer and they have done that by avoiding political
:18:08. > :18:18.turmoil. Peace and prosperity. If they had elections here, it would
:18:18. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:24.be a winning slogan. Michael's life has been transformed by China's
:18:24. > :18:29.success. His parents were illiterate and he now has language
:18:29. > :18:39.schools all over China with 2.4 million students. Yet, he is modest
:18:39. > :18:44.
:18:44. > :18:54.for a billionaire. This country has changed so much. Even the
:18:54. > :18:54.
:18:54. > :19:01.government is making progress. We have hope. 13 years ago, China had
:19:01. > :19:11.one billionaire. Now, it has 270. This is a gathering to help them
:19:11. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:18.learn how to spend it. An extraordinary statistic: 60% of
:19:18. > :19:24.China's be your nurse would like to emigrate. You can see why. Life
:19:24. > :19:28.here he's an unceasing struggle. For the first time, more people now
:19:28. > :19:35.live in the cities than the countryside, all competing for
:19:35. > :19:42.resources, room to live and even for the polluted air that they
:19:42. > :19:49.brief. The middle class has grown sixfold in the past decade. This
:19:49. > :19:59.couple leave the Chinese dream but part of that dream is to get out.
:19:59. > :19:59.
:19:59. > :20:09.If you are rich enough, you can take you home family with you. I
:20:09. > :20:09.
:20:10. > :20:15.would think about Canada. His son takes fencing lessons. Life
:20:15. > :20:19.in China is a battle against everything. What about those people
:20:19. > :20:23.whose efforts have created the Chinese miracle? Their lives have
:20:23. > :20:29.often been badly disrupted as they have flooded into the cities to
:20:29. > :20:39.work long hours at a mindless tasks. Simply giving people more money has
:20:39. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:45.not had the result that China's leader is expected. Few thought,
:20:45. > :20:52.improve the economy, people get more income, people would be
:20:52. > :20:58.happier. But people are still not happy. They are less happy. What
:20:58. > :21:02.happened in China over the last ten years will probably turn out to be
:21:02. > :21:06.as important historically as Britain's Industrial Revolution.