22/07/2012 Reporters

in Paris later this Sunday. The murder capital of the world.

Stephen Sackur reports from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, where the

government admits it has lost control of what is happening on the

street. I am day in Yemen. The food crisis

which is so severe that more than one-quarter -- 250,000 children

could die. How life is changed for the rich

under President Hu Jintao in China. Welcome to Reporters. The Central

American state of Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world.

Last year, someone was killed at an average of every 74 minutes. Much

of the violence is carried out by criminal gangs allied to cocaine

cartels. This report contains a strong images.

A night patrol in San Pedro sort. The world's most lawless city. The

murder count has just gone up by one. Dumped by a House, the body of

a young man. Downed, tortured, then shot. Another gang murder in a city

where justice has gone missing. TRANSLATION: We just don't have the

resources to carry out proper investigations year. That is why a

culture of impunity has developed in this city. The police check the

local area for guns and drugs, but it is a token effort. San Pedro

Sula is Honduras's business hub. Walk through the centre, and there

is a veneer of normality. But look carefully and you see every

business has armed guards. Month after month, the killing here has

increased. Two rival gangs are in a ruthless fight for the city's

cocaine trade and extortion rackets. Human rights activists say the

entire system of policing and justice is broken.

Most people are not seen justice being done by the judicial system.

When you have something like 20 murders a day in a country and you

do not even have enough forensic experts to be able to look at the

bodies, that all the money means that the murderers are walking free.

-- or ultimately means. There is no way to hide. If the city's taxi

drivers refuse to pay protection money, they get a bullet in the

head. One driver told me that police offered no protection.

TRANSLATION: We are afraid of the police. They themselves are bank

robbers, car thieves and extortionists. Dealing with a

police man is like dealing with a gang member. Cocaine is killing San

Pedro sort. Successful seizures are the exception. Criminal gang

culture has engulfed the city. The government promises a crackdown,

but makes this startling admission. Due to all the money that is coming

into the country from drug dealers, the a turning into a society in

which the government has lost control. Another shooting victim is

brought in to the overstretched hospital. The violence here is

spreading like a debt the virus. There is no cure in sight. --

deadly virus. Now for three reports about food

insecurity in different parts of the world. In Nepal, the late

arrival of the monsoon has affected the agriculture. Steep mountains

make it difficult to grow fruit and the lack of rain has made it

difficult for crops to grow. Nepal - one of the poorest

countries in the world. Nearly half of the population lives in property,

-- poverty, largely cut off from the outside world. Travel west and

the prospects are very different. This is Dowler in in the far west

of Nepal. Most of the people here make their living from the land. In

a good year, they can grow enough food to feed themselves for six

months. In a bad year, there is barely enough food to last three

months. TRANSLATION: My seats have dried up because the reins a late.

Where can I get new seed now? said he would have to leave the

village to find work to feed his family. Other travel as far as

India to make money to survive. Villagers rely from help from

overseas. The local schools need food aid from the UN. For many of

the children here, it is the only meal there will get all day.

Sometimes I'm so hungry I want to go home, but I stay for my school

lunch. As well as keeping the children fed, the food is also

keeping them in education. Children as young as six are often forced to

drop out of school to work in the fields and the literacy rate here

is high. -- illiteracy. TRANSLATION: If there were no

school meals, there would not be any children in school. They would

go to work in the fields. When I started work here, there were only

22 students. Now, there are 170. get here, the food has a long and

difficult journey. It is grown in the south and travels by a truck

along a single, winding road along the mountains. When the road runs

out, it is on to mules. TRANSLATION: It is a big challenge.

Sometimes, it can take four or five days. We have been doing this for

ten years. For the families, it is a lifeline. The UN helps to develop

roads and build better irrigation systems. Hit by drought, famine and

a lack of education, coupled with a Shia -- the sheer remoteness of

life, change will not come quickly. Yemen is also suffering from a food

crisis so severe that it is believed that more than 250,000

children could die. The country is in the midst of a Tsonga system --

Hong this season. The month-long fast is pushing up prices in the

market. This is the sound of hunger. The

children are crying out for food. In this one village, we found

dozens of chronically malnourished kids. Some have already died. For

this woman, watching and eight -- eight-month-old son suffer his

agony. TRANSLATION: I'm really scared. I would die if he dies. I'm

sick with worry. It makes me so sad to see my son in pain. This little

boy is typical of so many of the children we have seen. The mothers

are telling us they do not have enough foods -- food in their homes

to keep the children healthy. I go to visit the family and it is

clear that they are dirt poor. Can a common sight? --, inside?

Described heart is a place where six people live and where two

children have already died of malnutrition. Across generations,

hunger is part of what passes for daily life. If there is no food,

what can they do? TRANSLATION: We sleep and we pray. What else can we

do? On the edge of the village, the graves of two more children. Just a

few rocks. This country has always been poor. A toxic combination of

failed harvests, political turmoil and Islamist violence have swept

across the land. The lives of 250,000 children are now in danger

- a crisis threatening catastrophe. The shocking thing is that right in

the heart of the hunger zone, you can find food, but at prices which

are skyrocketing beyond the reach of the poor. This crisis is driven

by poverty for a very lucky few, Oxfam is handing out cash to save

lives. These people walked four miles to wait hours in the sun to

get some money. At the moment, they run over 5 million people who are

going hungry and more than 10 million people at risk. At this

moment, we need to give them help and support. At the local hospital,

there is clear evidence that the need here outstrips any capacity to

help. This may not look like classic images we see from sub-

Saharan Africa, but what better illustration that there is hunger

in this country. The money is running out. The aid agencies make

a united plea to prevent disaster The UN is warning that hundreds of

millions of dollars are required to prevent another humanitarian

disaster in Somalia. One year ago, the UN declared a famine in parts

of the country following the drought that effective fast areas

of East Africa. After a global aid effort, the family was sent to be

over in February. However, another disaster is looming.

Somalia - dry as a bone and as dangerous as ever. We have come

back one year after the Fallon to see how much has changed. Last year,

we found scenes like this. Tens of thousands of people starving. Today,

a much better picture. These families are still dependent on

foreign aid but there is no shortage of that. It is one year

since I was last at this camp at the height of the famine. Looking

around, he is clear that things have improved significantly. That

is largely thanks to foreign aid and one decent harvest. However,

Somalia is in a very precarious situation. Here of the warning

signs. New arrivals fleeing from an area controlled by Al-Shabab. This

40-year-old says there is drought at home once again and out Shiva is

threatening to steal things. Eta may not add up to another famine

but Somalia is still on my support. -- life support. The generosity

from when the Fallon was declared it was wonderful and we are

grateful. But children are continuing to dive and people still

require assistance. We still need help.

Some aid - not enough - is going on longer term projects. We found

these farmers being helped to irrigate their crops to feed their

communities themselves. But most do not have that option and remain at

the mercy of two vehicle enemies - conflict and drought. -- fickle.

Staying with Africa, in Mali, Islamist militants are tightening

their grip in the north of the country. The crisis has already had

a disastrous consequences for Marlene's economy, particularly for

the many people who rely on to resign -- Mali's economy. The right

route capital city of Ballack her. This is the perfect place for an

exotic journey. Now, Mali is divided. With an his list flag

flying in the north, dozens of hotels and tour operators have

closed down. This has resulted either unemployment. This man of

later Timbuktu with a few precious pieces he hopes to sell here. He

worries about the family he left behind. TRANSLATION: I pray that

the trouble will not last long. My family has been doing this work for

generations. I do not know what I will do if I cannot do this anymore.

Why will the government is busy battling with soldiers, the picture

in the north is getting darker. TRANSLATION: The entire local

economy has gone. There is no more free, no more valid, no more credit

agencies and administrative services are non-existent.

Everything has been looted. Computers, heaving chest,

everything. To look to is a ghost town. While the chaos votes in the

north, its impact in the capital is growing.

This market place used to be crowded with tourists. But the

crisis has scared people away. Market sellers say they have not

sold anything in weeks. With no tourists, nothing. Totally

nothing. Nobody can come and buy. African and Western leaders know

too well that there might be no other solution but a military

intervention to dislodge Islamist radicals from the northern desert.

The longer they stay there, the less likely that artists like this

than will see a return to life as it once was.

China is preparing for a major change in its top political

leadership in the autumn, with President Hu Jintao and other

senior leaders stepping down after ten years in charge. President Hu

Jintao has overseen a decade during which China has become a driving

force in the global economy, creating a middle class 300 million

people strong. In one decade, China's leaders have

to live at two extraordinary successes. They have made China

four times richer and they have done that by avoiding political

turmoil. Peace and prosperity. If they had elections here, it would

be a winning slogan. Michael's life has been transformed by China's

success. His parents were illiterate and he now has language

schools all over China with 2.4 million students. Yet, he is modest

for a billionaire. This country has changed so much. Even the

government is making progress. We have hope. 13 years ago, China had

one billionaire. Now, it has 270. This is a gathering to help them

learn how to spend it. An extraordinary statistic: 60% of

China's be your nurse would like to emigrate. You can see why. Life

here he's an unceasing struggle. For the first time, more people now

live in the cities than the countryside, all competing for

resources, room to live and even for the polluted air that they

brief. The middle class has grown sixfold in the past decade. This

couple leave the Chinese dream but part of that dream is to get out.

If you are rich enough, you can take you home family with you. I

would think about Canada. His son takes fencing lessons. Life

in China is a battle against everything. What about those people

whose efforts have created the Chinese miracle? Their lives have

often been badly disrupted as they have flooded into the cities to

work long hours at a mindless tasks. Simply giving people more money has

not had the result that China's leader is expected. Few thought,

improve the economy, people get more income, people would be

happier. But people are still not happy. They are less happy. What

happened in China over the last ten years will probably turn out to be

as important historically as Britain's Industrial Revolution.