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Hello, welcome to Reporters. From here in the world's newsroom, we | :00:00. | :00:27. | |
send our correspondence to bring you the best stories from around the | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
globe. South Korea's had problems. Stephen Evans found a growing number | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
of North Korean defectors turning to suicide. When my business failed, I | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
tried to kill myself three times. I kept remembering how I risked my | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
life just to get here. Life after Ebola, as Sierra Leone prepares to | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
declare itself free from the virus, we speak to survivors of the | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
disease, many who have lost loved ones. Three brothers who died? Yeah. | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
I am sorry. Cannabis country, a report from Uruguay, the only nation | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
in the world where marijuana is illegal. Supporters say it is much | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
more than a hippy's Charter, a license to get high. Uruguay is any | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
unique position to develop and exploit the commercial and medicinal | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
uses of cannabis. And before Mickey Mouse, the lucky rabbit. The new | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
film rediscovered after nearly 90 years starring Walt Disney's first | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
creation. Did you think of them as comic animals? Were you thinking of | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
them as human personalities? I would say human personalities but in the | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
body of a cartoon animal. All over the world, people flee in their | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
thousands from what they see as tyrannous regime is. How often do | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
they were hoping for? 25,000 people have escaped the secretive state of | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
North Korea, a country accused of systematic human rights abuses and | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
fled to the south. New statistics show a startling number of defectors | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
end up taking their own lives. Stephen Evans reports from South | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Korea on how for some dreams of a better life do not always come true. | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
They come in hope. In sole, capital of the South, North Korean defectors | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
get married in a mass ceremony. They arrive with virtually nothing. The | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
government paid for a grand wedding. He says it has been a really hard | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
journey to get here. Everything is unfamiliar. We are grateful that our | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
wedding is being paid for. But the honeymoon may not last long. Reality | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
for defectors is tough. This is Kim Song ill's second line of business | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
and the defective 14 years ago. He has been a bust rider, run a | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
restaurant, been a building labourer. Now he is selling chicken | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
pieces. He hopes this works. It has been a hard slog. When my earlier | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
businesses failed, I tried to kill myself three times. I kept | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
remembering how I risked my life just to get here. South Korea is one | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
of the most competitive countries in the world. People crisscrossing | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
trying to get ahead of each other. The suicide rate is the highest in | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the developed world. The suicide rate for defectors is three times | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
the national average. Kim is a 45-year-old dressmaker from North | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Korea who defected to the south four years ago. Now she wants to go back. | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
She says that the materialism of the South is not as precious as her | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
family. She wants to go back to the north even if it means she starves. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
But there are successes. North Koreans who have made the dangerous | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
journey south and succeeded. This North Korean defector makes burritos | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
and profits in South Korea. He has enterprise written right through | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
her. In the north, she had never heard of this classic Mexican dish. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
But when she reached South Korea, But when she reached South Korea, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
she got a job selling kebabs and meat in a role, and she thought Rice | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
would suit Korean taste. She invented a Korean style burrito and | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
it sold like hot cakes. When I first arrived here, the South seemed so | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
different. It could have been in America. In order to succeed, I had | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
to learn everything from scratch. This school for defectors addresses | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
the need for a job. It is run by a church but the nonreligious message | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
is, learn the skills which will make you employable in the capitalist | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
South there is discrimination against north Koreans. Skills like | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
making coffee. To get a job in a restaurant. Grand dreams do not pay | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
bills is the philosophy. Wages do. On South Korean TV, there is a show | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
for defectors who tell their harrowing stories. The programme is | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
changing attitudes to North Koreans among South Koreans. You are able to | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
see not the North Korean government but the people as just ordinary | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
people like themselves with the same basic concerns and very relatable. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
That will help North Korean refugees arriving and it will help | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
interaction between the north and south in the future. Defecting from | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
tyranny is not easy. It can also mean defecting from your friends and | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
family. But still they come, 1400 last year. The pain of uncertainty | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
and change to a different world does not put off defectors. Stephen | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
Evans, BBC News, Seoul. Sierra Leone is getting ready to | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
declare itself free from Ebola. Celebrations have begun but the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
suffering has not ended. Medical workers say up to 80% of people who | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
survived the virus are still survived the virus are still | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
suffering health problems. Tulip has been talking to some of them about | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
coping with life after Ebola. Yes, we have survived. Celebrating | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
life, these women are survivors. But their courage and masks enormous | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
loss. I miss my brother. He died. Three brothers died? Yeah. | :07:32. | :07:43. | |
I'm sorry. These women come together regularly to share their experiences | :07:44. | :07:55. | |
of life after Ebola. All of them have suffered unimaginable trauma, | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
most are now suffering physical pain too. I have sharp pains. Early in | :08:01. | :08:12. | |
the morning, I get pains. My eye. You feel there is something on your | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
eye? It is really worrying me. Many survivors are reporting problems | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
with joint pains, fatigue and loss of vision. This is one of Sierra | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
Leone's survivors clinics. Her eyesight was fine before she was | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
infected. 50% of patient whom are reporting at the clinic present with | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
eye problems. Of that, we have seen quite a handful of them with this | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
condition. She has all but lost her sight now. The medics are taking her | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
as an emergency to a nearby eye clinic to try to do what they can at | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
this very late stage. How are you feeling today? You look very unwell? | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
I feel fine. I don't feel fine at all, she tells me. I have great pain | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
in my eyes. It is unclear why so many people are reporting these | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
kinds of problems. It is known traces of the virus can linger in | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
fluids in the eyeball after a patient recovers. If she comes | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
consistently and receives consistent treatment, the problem she is | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
currently facing could be reversed. But if she does not comply with | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
treatment, the medication, it is likely that it will get worse. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Treatment is not cheap and most survivors, especially in the areas, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
do not have access to this kind of care. In Afghanistan, more than 4 | :09:57. | :10:08. | |
million children do not go to school. This statistic betraying the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
failure of the country's education system. One young activist is trying | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
to change it. 14-year-old has set up classes to teach children to read | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
and write in one of the poorest areas of Kabul. She has been | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
nominated for the 20 international children's peace awards for her | :10:29. | :10:41. | |
work. -- the 2015. It is school time, today's lesson is the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
alphabet. The teacher, however, is not much older than the students. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
She is 14 and when she is not in school, she helps the children here | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
because there are no primary schools in the neighbourhood. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
TRANSLATION: I decided to start classes for the children in the camp | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
because I experienced problems myself in the past. I did not have | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
access to formal education when I was younger. I teach them basic | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
things like the alphabet and then hopefully some will go off to | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
government schools. I feel really happy teaching the kids. It is not | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
just lessons that she offers the children. She has mastered some | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
great circus tricks and they are a favourite in playtime. The circus | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
came to the Camp 1 time. I asked the performers to teach me a few tricks | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
so I can play with the children. This is an area that does not have | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
much going for it. It is made up of mud houses and rundown buildings and | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
heaps of Roger -- of rubbish. This is the one spot where there is | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
laughter and learning and children being children, enjoying themselves. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
It is down to this one teenager who has decided she was going to help | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
her community. Her parents are very supportive. But not everyone is | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
happy about what she is doing. TRANSLATION: Their elders in the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
camp did not like the fact I was teaching the kids. They did not see | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
the point. They were especially critical of me teaching them circus | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
tricks. Despite overall improvements since the fall of the Taliban in | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
2001, Afghanistan is still struggling with education and more | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
than 4 million children are out of school, most of them girls, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
especially in the rural and promote areas. It is not just education. We | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
have so many other problems in the camp. We have no electricity, no | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
running water, some refugees do not have ID cards. When I grow up, I | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
want to be a lawyer, to fight for women and children's writes. | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
Until she gets her law degree, Aziza says she will continue to help the | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
children in her camp with the hope that some of them will get to school | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
one day. As many countries decide what to do | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
about their drugs problems, Uruguay has taken a novel approach. Two | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
years ago it became the first country in the world to legalise | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
cannabis. People are already free to grow it, smoke it, and sell it. Now | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
the government is moving closer to a full commercial market in the drug | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
which is still illegal in most countries. As we did Davis reports, | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
it could lead to breakthroughs in its medical use as well. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
It is the kind of thing that could land you in serious trouble in most | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
countries. But here in Uruguay, growing, selling and consuming | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
cannabis is now illegal. The first country in the world to opt for full | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
legalisation. Number six, LA confidential. The law allows a | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
cannabis club to as -- to have as many as maintain nine plans of being | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
strength is and properties. Supporters than i.e. It will boost | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
the illegal trade in drugs, quite the opposite. They are attacking the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
business, not the people that consume. You need to attack the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
business, you're taking customers away from crime. Supporters say this | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
is more than a charter for hippies, a license to get high. Uruguay is | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
now in a unique position to develop and exploit the medicinal uses of | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
cannabis as well. Across the border in Brazil, this woman is | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
frustrated. She knows that cannabis extract help cut the number of | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
severe's epileptic attacks, but getting hold of it is not easy and | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
it is not an off the shelf remedy. I am always trying to find people who | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
are travelling so they can bring it in front, and when I cannot get hold | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
of it, we have to find a career. This is about mission of three parts | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
olive oil to one part cannabis oil. Even in some US states like Colorado | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
where cannabis is legal, federal law read its medical trials with the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
drug, so some producers are Kieran Uruguay. Once we move beyond | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
anecdotal evidence to the clinical trial is about to happen in Uruguay | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
everything that happens here is going to be watched very carefully | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
by other countries. I believe they will follow suit if good results are | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
fined. By awarding licences to two micro companies to grow cannabis | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
commercially. Uruguay's radical marijuana legislation is almost | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
complete. New businesses are growing and in addition to medical trials, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
tax revenues could be worth millions. Many other countries are | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
keeping a close eye on Uruguay's controversial experiment with weed. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
This week saw the tragic loss of the man who was for so long the voice of | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
BBC Radio 4, Peter Donaldson. If you're a fine of the channel, you | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
will probably know his distinctive sound. He was able to be sombre, | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
subversive, or sympathetic with just a change invoice. Much loved in his | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
years at the BBC, it led us to wonder what it is that makes some | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
voice is so distinctive, authoritative and memorable. We | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
asked one of his colleagues what makes a great broadcaster. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Tonight we are asking have the voices of authority changed? Once | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
upon a time it meant and answers in dinner jackets, now they let anyone | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
have a go. This is an illustrated summary of the news. It will be | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
followed by the latest summary of events and happenings at home and | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
abroad. The American Secretary of State has said. Mac I am really | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
happy I am on BBC Breakfast in cycling shorts, with a padded crotch | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
and agri- singlet. It is all I have ever wanted. Let's remind ourselves | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
of our old friend and colleague, the late, great Peter Donaldson. BBC | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
news added to clock. Throughout the country, thousands of disembodied | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
voices on invading people's homes. Currently the faces behind those | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
voices remain unknown. Years ago, I was asked to record some | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
announcements in case of nuclear attack. This subsequently leaked out | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
to the press and I was dubbed the voice of doom. Now the dead ringer | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
himself, John Culshaw. I have heard he does a very plausible Jonathan | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Dimbleby. There are certain news presenters were, if the news has | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
been particularly serious, you almost need to hear it from them | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
before you believe it in a sense. I am not sure all news presenters can | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
achieve that. Peter Donaldson is certainly one of those. If you heard | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
it from him, you believed it. If the world was coming to an end, you | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
wanted Peter to tell you, and you would have done, because he was the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
voice of the four-minute warning. As to what people thought of me, I do | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
not think I have ever asked. The only postcard I received said, what | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
do you look like, you sound fight, 50 and balding. We asked the speech | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
expert to find out if top people still speak good, like what I do. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
That is unfair. It is my first speech as leader. I have just been | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
elected on a massive mandate. I would say he comes across as humble | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
and fairly unassuming. He is physically leaning back and his head | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
is tilted to one side, which, in animal language, he is slightly | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
cowering. It is not a strong, assertive position. He has rather a | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
scratchy sense of impatience at the time. He will be questioned, and the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
more that he is irritated with the question, the more angry in the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
interview he will become. There has been a very consistent attempt to | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
paint Ukip to be something it is not. He has got a good, resonant | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
voice. It is connected to his diaphragm, not stuck in his throat, | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
which is great. He knows how to use his words and he is giving emphasis | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
on painting a picture. Yes, he has got power as a speaker. He is | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
lending his ideas. Good becoming bad, peace, I am out. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
He is the animated mouse who became a cinema giant, but although Mickey | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
will always be Walt Disney's most famous creation, he was not his | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
first. Believe it or not, that title belongs to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
who was drawn by Walt Disney himself. Now one of the films he | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
starred in, lost in 1928, has been rediscovered in Britain and will be | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
screened again. Meet Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, the | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
original big eared cartoon creation of a young Walt Disney. This silent | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
animated film was thought long last until an eagle eyed experts on | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
online reference to an old friend called sleigh bells, and identified | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
it as the missing 1920 classic. This is it, the small can containing the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
recently discovered film which for decades has been sitting here at the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
British film Institute National archive. An acknowledged and | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
unaccounted for. Let's have a look. This is the only known print of the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
film in the world and it is holding up pretty well for its 87 years, | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
even when shown on the big screen prior to the -- prior to being | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
digitally rematch that. How significant is this? I do not think | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
you can underestimate the importance, both for Walt Disney | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
animation and the history of animation. Oswald is the first | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
cartoon character to really have personality. It is physical comedy, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
more inventive in the way that they use the character. This is at the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
start of the golden age of animation. The Reds to Oswald were | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
owned by the film's distributor, not Walt Disney, who asked to make more | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
for less. He refused and on the way turned the rabbit into a mouse. | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Mickey would much to Oswald, both in terms of drawn style and his | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
larger-than-life personality. Did you think of these characters as | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
comic animals or were you concerned with them as human personalities? I | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
would say human personalities, in the body of the cartoon animal. It | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
was a winning formula. Oswald, like Mickey, was a big hit and now he is | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
making a comeback in this film at the BFI in London in December. After | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
more than 80 years lost without trace, he always was a Lucky Rabbit. | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
That is all from reporters for this week. From me, Tim Wilcox, and the | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
full team in London, goodbye. | :22:56. | :22:58. |