:00:20. > :00:29.of internet grooming. And now on BBC News it is time for reporters.
:00:29. > :00:31.Welcome to reporters. From here in the world 's newsroom we send out
:00:31. > :00:37.correspondence to bring you the best stories from across the globe stop
:00:37. > :00:42.in this week 's programme, Brazil's new thalidomide generation. We
:00:42. > :00:49.investigate a new study that said the drug is still causing birth
:00:49. > :00:59.defects. Feeding the future -- we report on how wild plants could
:00:59. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:08.protect our crops from the effects of climate change. We report on a
:01:08. > :01:16.new wave of black cinema in the United States. He is the boy who
:01:16. > :01:21.would be King but we question whether the wall has gone gaga over
:01:21. > :01:30.Britain's Royal baby. And welcome to Birdland, we meet the couple who
:01:30. > :01:34.live alone on an island with 150,000 birds. This is so much more than a
:01:34. > :01:40.beautiful island. It was written very first word observatory. They
:01:40. > :01:49.had been recording information about birds last year for more than a
:01:49. > :01:56.century. In the 1950s it was billed as a new wonder drug. Thalidomide
:01:56. > :01:59.was -- prescribed for women to overcome the morning sickness. But
:01:59. > :02:04.the side-effects were severe and the drug was banned. A new scientific
:02:04. > :02:10.study seen by the BBC indicate that the leader might is still causing
:02:10. > :02:13.birth defects today. It has been re- licensing Brazil to treat leprosy
:02:13. > :02:16.but millions of pills are distributed every year. But
:02:17. > :02:26.researchers believe that a hundred babies have been born since 2005
:02:27. > :02:27.
:02:27. > :02:32.with injury similar caused by Phyllida my. -- Mark thalidomide. We
:02:32. > :02:40.were told this could never happen again. But this boy who is eight has
:02:40. > :02:47.been horribly damaged by the leader might -- thalidomide. His injuries
:02:47. > :02:57.do not want -- it tends to not want us to show his face. First marketed
:02:57. > :02:58.
:02:58. > :03:08.in the late 1950s, thalidomide always prescribed for women with
:03:08. > :03:11.
:03:11. > :03:15.morning sickness. The -- thalidomide never really went away. This factory
:03:15. > :03:23.produces about 8 million pills per year. It is cheap and highly
:03:23. > :03:28.effective at treating a disease that stalks Brazil's slums. Leprosy.
:03:28. > :03:31.Here, health workers spread across a favela near Rio de Janeiro. They
:03:31. > :03:36.were showing people how to spot signs of the disease and encouraging
:03:36. > :03:46.them to come for free testing. This made from the national leprosy
:03:46. > :03:52.organisation. TRANSLATION: Brazil is number one in the world for leprosy.
:03:52. > :03:59.After Brazil it is Nepal, and East Timor. Brazil is just behind India
:03:59. > :04:05.which has a much eager population. It varies around the country because
:04:05. > :04:11.leprosy is a disease of forgotten populations. On the surface, Rozelle
:04:11. > :04:20.may look like it's booming. It has the sixth biggest economy in the
:04:20. > :04:24.world and a GDP of 1.6 trillion pounds. But it -- there is a very
:04:24. > :04:28.different Brazil behind the playground. The gap between rich and
:04:28. > :04:34.poor is immense. Brazil has as many billionaires as France and Spain put
:04:34. > :04:39.together, 16 million people still have to live on less than a pound
:04:39. > :04:47.per day. With poor healthcare and massive overcrowding, but the
:04:47. > :04:51.conditions for leprosy to thrive. Such is the need for thalidomide
:04:51. > :04:55.that the government has doubled its order from this factory.
:04:55. > :05:05.TRANSLATION: if we inform people about the benefit of thalidomide, we
:05:05. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:13.can dispel the myth that -- myths. It is tightly controlled, there are
:05:13. > :05:17.regular pregnancy test for anyone who takes it. These are just some of
:05:17. > :05:23.the forms a woman have to fill out. But there is evidence that the
:05:23. > :05:27.system is not 100% effective. Researchers analysed 17 million
:05:27. > :05:35.births between 2005 and 2010. In areas where thalidomide was used
:05:35. > :05:40.most, it found a higher than average number of Burke -- birth defects.
:05:41. > :05:45.TRANSLATION: we found after six years of research a strong
:05:45. > :05:51.correlation, a positive correlation between the amount of thalidomide
:05:51. > :05:56.and the type of congenital defects. No one is saying that thalidomide
:05:56. > :06:01.should be banned. It is to import and a medicine for that. But this is
:06:01. > :06:06.a deeply unequal society. It is the poor who suffer the most from
:06:06. > :06:09.leprosy. Because of inadequate education and bad healthcare, it is
:06:09. > :06:14.likely to be the children of the poor who suffer most because of
:06:14. > :06:24.thalidomide. Children like Alan who must live with the consequences of
:06:24. > :06:26.
:06:26. > :06:30.one small mistake made before he was even born. Commemorations have begun
:06:30. > :06:34.to mark 60 years of the Korean War. The three-year conflict, which
:06:34. > :06:40.brought in the United States and Chinese forces on opposite sides,
:06:40. > :06:45.ended in a truce in 1953. But no peace deal has ever been signed so
:06:45. > :06:52.the two sides remain technically, at war. We go to the South Korean
:06:52. > :06:58.capital Seoul and will she looks back at six decades of limbo. 60
:06:58. > :07:04.years on, some of the rawness of Korea's vicious war has faded. These
:07:04. > :07:14.days it is the not blood on the guns of the cadets. But this man and his
:07:14. > :07:20.comrades, the memories of those days are still fresh. TRANSLATION: he
:07:20. > :07:25.shows me where he is unit of the first rounds of Korean fire. They
:07:25. > :07:33.were forced to retreat to the river as mortars shook the ground around
:07:33. > :07:40.him. 60 years on, he said it is still too soon for a peace treaty.
:07:40. > :07:47.TRANSLATION: the very idea of a peace treaty is North Korean tricky
:07:47. > :07:54.-- triggering. It has no debt... It still wants to spread communism
:07:54. > :08:03.through the peninsula. By force if necessary. The irony is, this man is
:08:03. > :08:12.North Korean. He was asked to fight with other men against his own
:08:12. > :08:18.Korean relations ever since. Foremost, the most legacy of the
:08:18. > :08:22.Armistice is the physical division of Korea into two nations. A four
:08:22. > :08:27.kilometre buffer zone which begins just on the other side of this ridge
:08:27. > :08:34.stop it does not just divide two countries, it divides families,
:08:34. > :08:41.families from children, brothers from sisters. Stories of separation
:08:41. > :08:47.and resettlement do not come stranger than this one. This man
:08:47. > :08:53.arrived in the south during the war as a young North Korean gorilla --
:08:53. > :08:58.gorilla fighter. He carried on fighting even after the Armistice
:08:58. > :09:03.was signed. When I first. TRANSLATION: when I first heard
:09:03. > :09:10.about the truce I was depressed. We went into the mountains to fight to
:09:10. > :09:16.the death. Today, the North Korean against
:09:16. > :09:24.against the south. One place where this man and his former coal --
:09:24. > :09:34.comrades can embrace their former opinions. This time, North Korea
:09:34. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:42.one. Could the wild ancestors of some of our most popular food crops
:09:43. > :09:45.help us fight the future. The seeds of wild plants could help feed us
:09:45. > :09:55.but also help protect crops from what they say are the devastating
:09:55. > :10:02.effects of climate change. We report from Italy. The landscape of
:10:02. > :10:08.northern Italy. An agricultural catch -- patchwork forged over
:10:08. > :10:14.millennia of human endeavour. Modern bred to thrive in a highly specific
:10:14. > :10:20.environment. But if the climate changes, our super specialised crops
:10:20. > :10:28.may suffer or fail as weather patterns shift. It is then, a
:10:28. > :10:36.question of food security. The answer may not answer -- may not lie
:10:36. > :10:40.in cultivated areas but with our ancient ancestors. 20,000 -year-old
:10:40. > :10:47.crops are still thriving. There is a treasure trove of untapped genetic
:10:47. > :10:57.the hunt is on for the wild ancestors of our most important to
:10:57. > :10:59.
:10:59. > :11:08.crops. The DNA of these seas is the the future of world farming. While
:11:08. > :11:16.relatives of wheat, oats and corn. They contain characteristics which
:11:16. > :11:26.may help our future. They might have a gene for drug tolerance or a gene
:11:26. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:33.The first job is to find examples of the 450 species on the most wanted
:11:33. > :11:41.list. It is painstaking work to collect the sea. It is a process
:11:41. > :11:49.that engages scientist in dozens of some -- site is around the world.
:11:49. > :11:57.stop we can have a genetic pool to have genetic material for breeders,
:11:57. > :12:06.for agriculture. For the future. Once collected, the seeds are
:12:06. > :12:16.bagged, and shipped out. They are -- arrived here. They receive shipments
:12:16. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:23.from Tonga, from full -- the Falkland Islands, from Mexico. It is
:12:23. > :12:27.to create new food crops. There is urgency. Human encroachment means
:12:27. > :12:35.some of these species are endangered. The seeds must be taken
:12:35. > :12:41.now before it is too late. The new award-winning film based on the
:12:41. > :12:48.fatal shooting of a young black man by a police officer in California in
:12:48. > :12:53.2009, opened in the US this week. Fruit rail station at film festivals
:12:53. > :13:00.has been hailed by some critics as showing a real view of American life
:13:00. > :13:10.rarely seen in Hollywood. It heralds a new way of black cinema, with ten
:13:10. > :13:14.films telling black stories in the next few months. Fruit Vale station
:13:14. > :13:19.chronicles the last 24 hours in the life of this 22 -year-old, leading
:13:19. > :13:23.him being shot by a white police officer in California in 2009. Like
:13:23. > :13:30.the tree on Martin case, it is another example of a young African
:13:30. > :13:35.American being slain. The cast see it as a significant movie. It is
:13:35. > :13:39.important because it is allowing us to have discourse about how we view
:13:39. > :13:49.each other in our society and culture. It is important because it
:13:49. > :13:52.is topical. Fruit Vale station is one of ten films from black
:13:52. > :13:58.filmmakers that will be released in the US before the end of the year.
:13:58. > :14:07.It is an increase since last year. Many of the songs come from the
:14:07. > :14:17.independent searcher -- films come from the independent sector. There
:14:17. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:22.is definitely a lot of movement in India like films now. -- Indy. This
:14:22. > :14:28.new wave is made up of musicals and comedies, not just the crime and
:14:28. > :14:32.drug stories. It is being called a renaissance of black cinema. Support
:14:32. > :14:42.and new cheap production movie have helped black directors move
:14:42. > :14:49.forward. We are a more accessible with new technology. It will lead to
:14:49. > :14:53.more people getting into it. Black filmmakers still face challenges.
:14:53. > :14:59.Their pitches off and do not reach broad audiences. The other -- and
:14:59. > :15:03.the other hurdle is that black films do not sell beyond US shores, it
:15:03. > :15:08.makes getting backing difficult. Even though it is more myth than
:15:08. > :15:12.reality. There is a hope that this renaissance in black cinema can lead
:15:12. > :15:18.to eight growing foothold in the market place. There is a firm
:15:18. > :15:22.resolve that storytelling prevails. We need to start insisting that our
:15:22. > :15:30.stories are told. It is important for our children, it is important
:15:30. > :15:34.for ourselves. To see ourselves in cinema and to be celebrated. Black
:15:34. > :15:44.cinema to make real headway, will have to do well commercially. That
:15:44. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:52.is what executives are taking into account. Wherever you are on the
:15:52. > :15:57.planet, you can't have turned on the news this week without hearing about
:15:57. > :16:02.Britain's Royal baby. The birth of the new rents of Cambridge has
:16:02. > :16:06.dominated headlines both here and around the world. There is plenty of
:16:06. > :16:10.interest in the boy who is destined to be king, but there is also
:16:10. > :16:20.criticism of just how much media coverage the arrival of the new
:16:20. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:33.Prince has generated. Congratulations well and Kate. --
:16:33. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:40.will. Make no mistake, the world media loves this story. I cannot
:16:40. > :16:43.tell you how big it is, especially in the States. They do not have
:16:43. > :16:50.anything equivalent to the royal family. They have gone crazy over
:16:50. > :16:58.the story. They absolutely -- will absolutely love this young glamorous
:16:58. > :17:04.couple. This is why we have been covering this closely. But how much
:17:04. > :17:08.is too much Western mark as head of an antimonarchist pressure group,
:17:08. > :17:11.you would hardly expect to Graham Smith to be draped in a union
:17:11. > :17:17.player, but he believes the union coverage is not just Tyson, it is
:17:17. > :17:21.irresponsible. It is over the top and inappropriate. It is all
:17:21. > :17:30.1-sided. Lord casters have a responsibility to reflect the
:17:30. > :17:38.general public mood, not celebrate. But there is a celebration, isn't
:17:38. > :17:43.it? Most of them are tourists to have a look. Of course, some people
:17:43. > :17:49.love the family, and wanted celebrate, they are free to do
:17:49. > :17:53.that. That is not reflective of public mood. It is ironic. Here I
:17:53. > :17:58.am, a TV reporter, reporting about the fact that there has been too
:17:58. > :18:05.much reporting about the royal birth. This has been a classic case
:18:05. > :18:12.of the media chasing its own tale. Given this baby will be king, this
:18:12. > :18:15.level of fascination is justified. Monarchy is all about continuity,
:18:15. > :18:22.looking for our roots in history, and looking forward. The media is
:18:22. > :18:26.here because they realise that here we have a new generation of the
:18:26. > :18:30.royal family, we can see this institution, for better or worse. It
:18:30. > :18:34.reaches forward into the end of this century and into the next century.
:18:34. > :18:40.Who knows what that will bring? focus of the cameras will shift for
:18:40. > :18:47.some point, for now, fascination continues, amongst the need -- media
:18:47. > :18:57.at least. How would you like to live on an island where you were the only
:18:57. > :19:02.resident apart from a hundred and 50,000 birds. These two are the new
:19:02. > :19:12.wardens of the first ever bird observatory in Britain, on a tiny
:19:12. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:19.island off the coast of Wales. It is the sound you noticed first. The
:19:19. > :19:29.island is just one square mile of rock, but it is home to 150,000
:19:29. > :19:32.birds and two rather adventurous humans. Richard and Gisele argued to
:19:32. > :19:36.monitor the bird population, so they keep a close eye on these checks.
:19:36. > :19:44.The couple arrived in March. Since then they have left the island only
:19:44. > :19:51.once. We miss family and friends. You need to be resourceful. In need
:19:51. > :19:56.to make it on the islands, if you can. This is paradise for nesting
:19:56. > :20:05.and migrating birds. Lots of food, keep it is. Even so, they take no
:20:05. > :20:12.chances. It makes counting storm petrels tricky. They go down and
:20:12. > :20:17.suitable crevasses. Three have started to respond. On a day like
:20:17. > :20:22.this, the area is stunning. But this is so much more than just a
:20:22. > :20:27.beautiful island. It is Britain's first bird observatory. They have
:20:27. > :20:31.been recording information here for 100 years. These days, the job comes
:20:31. > :20:35.with a lighthouse. There is water from a well, solar powered
:20:35. > :20:45.electricity, and supplies arrived I've got. As do the visitors and
:20:45. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:52.volunteers. -- arrive by boat. They are rarely alone. We have always
:20:52. > :21:00.worked together, so we have always worked together. -- we're used to
:21:00. > :21:05.it. It makes you stronger as a couple. You can get lost on the
:21:05. > :21:11.islands are so easily. There is so much to look at. I would never feel
:21:11. > :21:19.claustrophobic. Every job has its perks. The nightlife here is one of
:21:19. > :21:23.them. After dark, something remarkable happens. Birds that
:21:23. > :21:32.borrow all they emerge. Thousands of petrol 's and shearwaters, hunting