:00:00. > :00:27.Hello, welcome to Reporters. From here in the world's newsroom, we
:00:28. > :00:32.send our correspondence to bring you the best stories from around the
:00:33. > :00:35.globe. South Korea's had problems. Stephen Evans found a growing number
:00:36. > :00:43.of North Korean defectors turning to suicide. When my business failed, I
:00:44. > :00:47.tried to kill myself three times. I kept remembering how I risked my
:00:48. > :00:53.life just to get here. Life after Ebola, as Sierra Leone prepares to
:00:54. > :00:56.declare itself free from the virus, we speak to survivors of the
:00:57. > :01:08.disease, many who have lost loved ones. Three brothers who died? Yeah.
:01:09. > :01:16.I am sorry. Cannabis country, a report from Uruguay, the only nation
:01:17. > :01:22.in the world where marijuana is illegal. Supporters say it is much
:01:23. > :01:28.more than a hippy's Charter, a license to get high. Uruguay is any
:01:29. > :01:33.unique position to develop and exploit the commercial and medicinal
:01:34. > :01:38.uses of cannabis. And before Mickey Mouse, the lucky rabbit. The new
:01:39. > :01:44.film rediscovered after nearly 90 years starring Walt Disney's first
:01:45. > :01:52.creation. Did you think of them as comic animals? Were you thinking of
:01:53. > :02:01.them as human personalities? I would say human personalities but in the
:02:02. > :02:05.body of a cartoon animal. All over the world, people flee in their
:02:06. > :02:12.thousands from what they see as tyrannous regime is. How often do
:02:13. > :02:17.they were hoping for? 25,000 people have escaped the secretive state of
:02:18. > :02:21.North Korea, a country accused of systematic human rights abuses and
:02:22. > :02:25.fled to the south. New statistics show a startling number of defectors
:02:26. > :02:29.end up taking their own lives. Stephen Evans reports from South
:02:30. > :02:38.Korea on how for some dreams of a better life do not always come true.
:02:39. > :02:45.They come in hope. In sole, capital of the South, North Korean defectors
:02:46. > :02:54.get married in a mass ceremony. They arrive with virtually nothing. The
:02:55. > :02:59.government paid for a grand wedding. He says it has been a really hard
:03:00. > :03:06.journey to get here. Everything is unfamiliar. We are grateful that our
:03:07. > :03:16.wedding is being paid for. But the honeymoon may not last long. Reality
:03:17. > :03:22.for defectors is tough. This is Kim Song ill's second line of business
:03:23. > :03:28.and the defective 14 years ago. He has been a bust rider, run a
:03:29. > :03:32.restaurant, been a building labourer. Now he is selling chicken
:03:33. > :03:40.pieces. He hopes this works. It has been a hard slog. When my earlier
:03:41. > :03:44.businesses failed, I tried to kill myself three times. I kept
:03:45. > :03:50.remembering how I risked my life just to get here. South Korea is one
:03:51. > :03:54.of the most competitive countries in the world. People crisscrossing
:03:55. > :03:59.trying to get ahead of each other. The suicide rate is the highest in
:04:00. > :04:10.the developed world. The suicide rate for defectors is three times
:04:11. > :04:14.the national average. Kim is a 45-year-old dressmaker from North
:04:15. > :04:23.Korea who defected to the south four years ago. Now she wants to go back.
:04:24. > :04:28.She says that the materialism of the South is not as precious as her
:04:29. > :04:35.family. She wants to go back to the north even if it means she starves.
:04:36. > :04:40.But there are successes. North Koreans who have made the dangerous
:04:41. > :04:46.journey south and succeeded. This North Korean defector makes burritos
:04:47. > :04:51.and profits in South Korea. He has enterprise written right through
:04:52. > :04:56.her. In the north, she had never heard of this classic Mexican dish.
:04:57. > :05:01.But when she reached South Korea, But when she reached South Korea,
:05:02. > :05:07.she got a job selling kebabs and meat in a role, and she thought Rice
:05:08. > :05:11.would suit Korean taste. She invented a Korean style burrito and
:05:12. > :05:18.it sold like hot cakes. When I first arrived here, the South seemed so
:05:19. > :05:28.different. It could have been in America. In order to succeed, I had
:05:29. > :05:33.to learn everything from scratch. This school for defectors addresses
:05:34. > :05:36.the need for a job. It is run by a church but the nonreligious message
:05:37. > :05:42.is, learn the skills which will make you employable in the capitalist
:05:43. > :05:50.South there is discrimination against north Koreans. Skills like
:05:51. > :05:58.making coffee. To get a job in a restaurant. Grand dreams do not pay
:05:59. > :06:02.bills is the philosophy. Wages do. On South Korean TV, there is a show
:06:03. > :06:08.for defectors who tell their harrowing stories. The programme is
:06:09. > :06:13.changing attitudes to North Koreans among South Koreans. You are able to
:06:14. > :06:19.see not the North Korean government but the people as just ordinary
:06:20. > :06:23.people like themselves with the same basic concerns and very relatable.
:06:24. > :06:28.That will help North Korean refugees arriving and it will help
:06:29. > :06:35.interaction between the north and south in the future. Defecting from
:06:36. > :06:40.tyranny is not easy. It can also mean defecting from your friends and
:06:41. > :06:45.family. But still they come, 1400 last year. The pain of uncertainty
:06:46. > :06:54.and change to a different world does not put off defectors. Stephen
:06:55. > :06:58.Evans, BBC News, Seoul. Sierra Leone is getting ready to
:06:59. > :07:03.declare itself free from Ebola. Celebrations have begun but the
:07:04. > :07:05.suffering has not ended. Medical workers say up to 80% of people who
:07:06. > :07:10.survived the virus are still survived the virus are still
:07:11. > :07:14.suffering health problems. Tulip has been talking to some of them about
:07:15. > :07:22.coping with life after Ebola. Yes, we have survived. Celebrating
:07:23. > :07:31.life, these women are survivors. But their courage and masks enormous
:07:32. > :07:43.loss. I miss my brother. He died. Three brothers died? Yeah.
:07:44. > :07:55.I'm sorry. These women come together regularly to share their experiences
:07:56. > :08:00.of life after Ebola. All of them have suffered unimaginable trauma,
:08:01. > :08:12.most are now suffering physical pain too. I have sharp pains. Early in
:08:13. > :08:23.the morning, I get pains. My eye. You feel there is something on your
:08:24. > :08:26.eye? It is really worrying me. Many survivors are reporting problems
:08:27. > :08:35.with joint pains, fatigue and loss of vision. This is one of Sierra
:08:36. > :08:38.Leone's survivors clinics. Her eyesight was fine before she was
:08:39. > :08:44.infected. 50% of patient whom are reporting at the clinic present with
:08:45. > :08:55.eye problems. Of that, we have seen quite a handful of them with this
:08:56. > :09:00.condition. She has all but lost her sight now. The medics are taking her
:09:01. > :09:06.as an emergency to a nearby eye clinic to try to do what they can at
:09:07. > :09:14.this very late stage. How are you feeling today? You look very unwell?
:09:15. > :09:21.I feel fine. I don't feel fine at all, she tells me. I have great pain
:09:22. > :09:24.in my eyes. It is unclear why so many people are reporting these
:09:25. > :09:28.kinds of problems. It is known traces of the virus can linger in
:09:29. > :09:36.fluids in the eyeball after a patient recovers. If she comes
:09:37. > :09:42.consistently and receives consistent treatment, the problem she is
:09:43. > :09:46.currently facing could be reversed. But if she does not comply with
:09:47. > :09:52.treatment, the medication, it is likely that it will get worse.
:09:53. > :09:56.Treatment is not cheap and most survivors, especially in the areas,
:09:57. > :10:08.do not have access to this kind of care. In Afghanistan, more than 4
:10:09. > :10:12.million children do not go to school. This statistic betraying the
:10:13. > :10:18.failure of the country's education system. One young activist is trying
:10:19. > :10:24.to change it. 14-year-old has set up classes to teach children to read
:10:25. > :10:28.and write in one of the poorest areas of Kabul. She has been
:10:29. > :10:41.nominated for the 20 international children's peace awards for her
:10:42. > :10:46.work. -- the 2015. It is school time, today's lesson is the
:10:47. > :10:52.alphabet. The teacher, however, is not much older than the students.
:10:53. > :10:55.She is 14 and when she is not in school, she helps the children here
:10:56. > :11:00.because there are no primary schools in the neighbourhood.
:11:01. > :11:04.TRANSLATION: I decided to start classes for the children in the camp
:11:05. > :11:08.because I experienced problems myself in the past. I did not have
:11:09. > :11:14.access to formal education when I was younger. I teach them basic
:11:15. > :11:18.things like the alphabet and then hopefully some will go off to
:11:19. > :11:24.government schools. I feel really happy teaching the kids. It is not
:11:25. > :11:28.just lessons that she offers the children. She has mastered some
:11:29. > :11:35.great circus tricks and they are a favourite in playtime. The circus
:11:36. > :11:41.came to the Camp 1 time. I asked the performers to teach me a few tricks
:11:42. > :11:46.so I can play with the children. This is an area that does not have
:11:47. > :11:54.much going for it. It is made up of mud houses and rundown buildings and
:11:55. > :11:58.heaps of Roger -- of rubbish. This is the one spot where there is
:11:59. > :12:03.laughter and learning and children being children, enjoying themselves.
:12:04. > :12:07.It is down to this one teenager who has decided she was going to help
:12:08. > :12:14.her community. Her parents are very supportive. But not everyone is
:12:15. > :12:17.happy about what she is doing. TRANSLATION: Their elders in the
:12:18. > :12:21.camp did not like the fact I was teaching the kids. They did not see
:12:22. > :12:28.the point. They were especially critical of me teaching them circus
:12:29. > :12:32.tricks. Despite overall improvements since the fall of the Taliban in
:12:33. > :12:38.2001, Afghanistan is still struggling with education and more
:12:39. > :12:41.than 4 million children are out of school, most of them girls,
:12:42. > :12:48.especially in the rural and promote areas. It is not just education. We
:12:49. > :12:55.have so many other problems in the camp. We have no electricity, no
:12:56. > :13:00.running water, some refugees do not have ID cards. When I grow up, I
:13:01. > :13:08.want to be a lawyer, to fight for women and children's writes.
:13:09. > :13:14.Until she gets her law degree, Aziza says she will continue to help the
:13:15. > :13:18.children in her camp with the hope that some of them will get to school
:13:19. > :13:22.one day. As many countries decide what to do
:13:23. > :13:26.about their drugs problems, Uruguay has taken a novel approach. Two
:13:27. > :13:30.years ago it became the first country in the world to legalise
:13:31. > :13:36.cannabis. People are already free to grow it, smoke it, and sell it. Now
:13:37. > :13:41.the government is moving closer to a full commercial market in the drug
:13:42. > :13:45.which is still illegal in most countries. As we did Davis reports,
:13:46. > :13:50.it could lead to breakthroughs in its medical use as well.
:13:51. > :13:54.It is the kind of thing that could land you in serious trouble in most
:13:55. > :13:59.countries. But here in Uruguay, growing, selling and consuming
:14:00. > :14:07.cannabis is now illegal. The first country in the world to opt for full
:14:08. > :14:13.legalisation. Number six, LA confidential. The law allows a
:14:14. > :14:17.cannabis club to as -- to have as many as maintain nine plans of being
:14:18. > :14:20.strength is and properties. Supporters than i.e. It will boost
:14:21. > :14:26.the illegal trade in drugs, quite the opposite. They are attacking the
:14:27. > :14:30.business, not the people that consume. You need to attack the
:14:31. > :14:37.business, you're taking customers away from crime. Supporters say this
:14:38. > :14:45.is more than a charter for hippies, a license to get high. Uruguay is
:14:46. > :14:49.now in a unique position to develop and exploit the medicinal uses of
:14:50. > :14:55.cannabis as well. Across the border in Brazil, this woman is
:14:56. > :14:59.frustrated. She knows that cannabis extract help cut the number of
:15:00. > :15:06.severe's epileptic attacks, but getting hold of it is not easy and
:15:07. > :15:09.it is not an off the shelf remedy. I am always trying to find people who
:15:10. > :15:15.are travelling so they can bring it in front, and when I cannot get hold
:15:16. > :15:22.of it, we have to find a career. This is about mission of three parts
:15:23. > :15:27.olive oil to one part cannabis oil. Even in some US states like Colorado
:15:28. > :15:31.where cannabis is legal, federal law read its medical trials with the
:15:32. > :15:37.drug, so some producers are Kieran Uruguay. Once we move beyond
:15:38. > :15:41.anecdotal evidence to the clinical trial is about to happen in Uruguay
:15:42. > :15:45.everything that happens here is going to be watched very carefully
:15:46. > :15:52.by other countries. I believe they will follow suit if good results are
:15:53. > :15:57.fined. By awarding licences to two micro companies to grow cannabis
:15:58. > :16:01.commercially. Uruguay's radical marijuana legislation is almost
:16:02. > :16:05.complete. New businesses are growing and in addition to medical trials,
:16:06. > :16:13.tax revenues could be worth millions. Many other countries are
:16:14. > :16:17.keeping a close eye on Uruguay's controversial experiment with weed.
:16:18. > :16:22.This week saw the tragic loss of the man who was for so long the voice of
:16:23. > :16:26.BBC Radio 4, Peter Donaldson. If you're a fine of the channel, you
:16:27. > :16:34.will probably know his distinctive sound. He was able to be sombre,
:16:35. > :16:38.subversive, or sympathetic with just a change invoice. Much loved in his
:16:39. > :16:42.years at the BBC, it led us to wonder what it is that makes some
:16:43. > :16:46.voice is so distinctive, authoritative and memorable. We
:16:47. > :16:52.asked one of his colleagues what makes a great broadcaster.
:16:53. > :16:56.Tonight we are asking have the voices of authority changed? Once
:16:57. > :17:00.upon a time it meant and answers in dinner jackets, now they let anyone
:17:01. > :17:05.have a go. This is an illustrated summary of the news. It will be
:17:06. > :17:10.followed by the latest summary of events and happenings at home and
:17:11. > :17:15.abroad. The American Secretary of State has said. Mac I am really
:17:16. > :17:20.happy I am on BBC Breakfast in cycling shorts, with a padded crotch
:17:21. > :17:27.and agri- singlet. It is all I have ever wanted. Let's remind ourselves
:17:28. > :17:34.of our old friend and colleague, the late, great Peter Donaldson. BBC
:17:35. > :17:40.news added to clock. Throughout the country, thousands of disembodied
:17:41. > :17:50.voices on invading people's homes. Currently the faces behind those
:17:51. > :17:53.voices remain unknown. Years ago, I was asked to record some
:17:54. > :17:59.announcements in case of nuclear attack. This subsequently leaked out
:18:00. > :18:06.to the press and I was dubbed the voice of doom. Now the dead ringer
:18:07. > :18:12.himself, John Culshaw. I have heard he does a very plausible Jonathan
:18:13. > :18:19.Dimbleby. There are certain news presenters were, if the news has
:18:20. > :18:23.been particularly serious, you almost need to hear it from them
:18:24. > :18:29.before you believe it in a sense. I am not sure all news presenters can
:18:30. > :18:33.achieve that. Peter Donaldson is certainly one of those. If you heard
:18:34. > :18:39.it from him, you believed it. If the world was coming to an end, you
:18:40. > :18:44.wanted Peter to tell you, and you would have done, because he was the
:18:45. > :18:52.voice of the four-minute warning. As to what people thought of me, I do
:18:53. > :18:56.not think I have ever asked. The only postcard I received said, what
:18:57. > :19:04.do you look like, you sound fight, 50 and balding. We asked the speech
:19:05. > :19:10.expert to find out if top people still speak good, like what I do.
:19:11. > :19:15.That is unfair. It is my first speech as leader. I have just been
:19:16. > :19:22.elected on a massive mandate. I would say he comes across as humble
:19:23. > :19:27.and fairly unassuming. He is physically leaning back and his head
:19:28. > :19:36.is tilted to one side, which, in animal language, he is slightly
:19:37. > :19:41.cowering. It is not a strong, assertive position. He has rather a
:19:42. > :19:46.scratchy sense of impatience at the time. He will be questioned, and the
:19:47. > :19:50.more that he is irritated with the question, the more angry in the
:19:51. > :19:53.interview he will become. There has been a very consistent attempt to
:19:54. > :20:00.paint Ukip to be something it is not. He has got a good, resonant
:20:01. > :20:05.voice. It is connected to his diaphragm, not stuck in his throat,
:20:06. > :20:11.which is great. He knows how to use his words and he is giving emphasis
:20:12. > :20:20.on painting a picture. Yes, he has got power as a speaker. He is
:20:21. > :20:26.lending his ideas. Good becoming bad, peace, I am out.
:20:27. > :20:30.He is the animated mouse who became a cinema giant, but although Mickey
:20:31. > :20:35.will always be Walt Disney's most famous creation, he was not his
:20:36. > :20:40.first. Believe it or not, that title belongs to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,
:20:41. > :20:45.who was drawn by Walt Disney himself. Now one of the films he
:20:46. > :20:49.starred in, lost in 1928, has been rediscovered in Britain and will be
:20:50. > :20:55.screened again. Meet Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, the
:20:56. > :20:59.original big eared cartoon creation of a young Walt Disney. This silent
:21:00. > :21:02.animated film was thought long last until an eagle eyed experts on
:21:03. > :21:08.online reference to an old friend called sleigh bells, and identified
:21:09. > :21:12.it as the missing 1920 classic. This is it, the small can containing the
:21:13. > :21:16.recently discovered film which for decades has been sitting here at the
:21:17. > :21:22.British film Institute National archive. An acknowledged and
:21:23. > :21:26.unaccounted for. Let's have a look. This is the only known print of the
:21:27. > :21:30.film in the world and it is holding up pretty well for its 87 years,
:21:31. > :21:35.even when shown on the big screen prior to the -- prior to being
:21:36. > :21:40.digitally rematch that. How significant is this? I do not think
:21:41. > :21:43.you can underestimate the importance, both for Walt Disney
:21:44. > :21:48.animation and the history of animation. Oswald is the first
:21:49. > :21:53.cartoon character to really have personality. It is physical comedy,
:21:54. > :21:57.more inventive in the way that they use the character. This is at the
:21:58. > :22:02.start of the golden age of animation. The Reds to Oswald were
:22:03. > :22:08.owned by the film's distributor, not Walt Disney, who asked to make more
:22:09. > :22:15.for less. He refused and on the way turned the rabbit into a mouse.
:22:16. > :22:21.Mickey would much to Oswald, both in terms of drawn style and his
:22:22. > :22:24.larger-than-life personality. Did you think of these characters as
:22:25. > :22:30.comic animals or were you concerned with them as human personalities? I
:22:31. > :22:36.would say human personalities, in the body of the cartoon animal. It
:22:37. > :22:42.was a winning formula. Oswald, like Mickey, was a big hit and now he is
:22:43. > :22:45.making a comeback in this film at the BFI in London in December. After
:22:46. > :22:52.more than 80 years lost without trace, he always was a Lucky Rabbit.
:22:53. > :22:55.That is all from reporters for this week. From me, Tim Wilcox, and the
:22:56. > :22:58.full team in London, goodbye.