06/02/2016 Reporters

I'm Phillipa Thomas from here in the world News room, we send

correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. This

week, refugees in their own land. We report from inside Syria, meeting

the Syrian families displaced by war, struggling to survive. We are

told they are 25 families living here. Most of them have been

displaced several times. They actually have to pay rent to live

here even though conditions, as you see, really, really bad. This is a

party that has gone very flat for Donald Trump. And a close call for

Clinton. Jon Sopel analyses the results of America's first electoral

contest in the race for the White House.

Declan Harvey meets the man transgender returning to Jamaica to

reveal his new identity to his family. You are my child. I still

love you, no matter what. And John Sutcliffe joined thousands

of migrants stranded at a train station trying to get home for

Chinese New Year. It is little wonder that some migrant workers

have decided enough is enough. They work long hours are long way from

home and have to face this kind of travel chaos every year.

As the conflict in Syria escalates, the humanitarian situation remains

dire. Millions have fled the country and for those who remained, it is a

struggle to survive. The UN estimates the number of internally

displaced people in Syria at more than 6.5 million. Damascus houses

the second largest number of them after Aleppo in the North. We have

been given access to camps in eastern Damascus to meet the people

who are living like refugees in their own country.

It is a run down and dirty place to play, just a stone pars-macro from

war battered neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Damascus.

These children take us to the unfinished building they call home.

We are told there are about 25 families living here. Most of them

have been displaced several times. They actually have to pay rent to

live here, even though conditions, as you can see, art really do every

bad. Electricity is a luxury. Three hours a day if they are lucky. I

follow one of the residents into their flat. It is lighting a candle

because they have no electricity. Apparently, the place is infested

with mice and rats. Mohammed lives here with her husband and five

children. TRANSLATION: We used to live with dignity in our own houses.

Now we are living with charity, we escaped only with the clothes we

were wearing. We went to the western side of the city to a government run

shelter. Before the war, this was going to be a school but it never

happened. As soon as the displacement crisis began, the

government decided to turn it into a temporary shelter. There are 90

families here but the number keeps changing because people come here as

a first step and they leave as soon as they find someone else to stay.

It is clean and aid is close at hand. But government and charity

hand-outs don't make up for the loss of livelihood. Before the war, this

man was prosperous with a large family. Now, he has lost almost

everything. Mohammed, my 19-year-old son was killed first. 43 days later,

my second son died. In 14 months, lost four sons. Back at the flat,

this girl gets a lesson from her big sister. Despite their displacement,

the girls still get an education. More importantly, their family is

intact. They still live on the edge. TRANSLATION: We are always under

threat of eviction. The owner can kick ass out whenever he wants. Most

of these children's lives, Syria has been at war. Even away from raging

battles, they are still not at peace.

Now, deepening crisis in Ethiopian. The UN Secretary General Wizard of

the country's Brad Pitt region this week to four attention of the

worsening hunger crisis. More than 10 million people are short of food

amid one of the worst droughts for decades. Some aid is coming in but

in eastern Ethiopian, it is far short of what is needed.

The skies are dark but the land is dry. Two people here, the animals

are everything. But drought has taken their cattle. Their carcasses

were scattered everywhere, this cattle herd told me. The stench was

so bad, we had to bury them all. From what survived, there was

nothing to eat. Mother animals or people can live here any more. And

so they have travelled to a far horizon. Hardly an oasis but at

least it is a central axis of the place where the aid can be

delivered. They have known crab here before but none as bad as this, they

say. The area affected is far wider than that hit by famine more than 30

years ago. I lost all my livestock, she told me, so we are here to seek

support. There is no past year, no water, we have never seen anything

like this before. -- no past year. Help is being given to those

sticking it out. This tank has two days of water for five households.

In axis of all places, the government is helping. Food rations

are being given out but the UN world food programme is so underfunded,

Ethiopia is making up the difference for now. Well, the food aid is

getting through, people are not starving. The Ethiopian government

is doing a great deal to deal with this situation but this drought is

over a fast area of the country. There is a shortfall from the amount

of money that is required versus what is being provided. If that

doesn't come over the next few months, these people are facing a

much greater crisis. And, so, the United Nations Secretary General

came here to highlight the problem. Nearly ?1 billion is needed just is

funded. This is not the Ethiopian of 1984 when hundreds of thousands died

of hunger. The new railway line broke here all the way from the

coast. But a serious drought, the impact of El Nino, that has left

more than 10 million people desperate. It is now not whether the

rain comes but whether help arrives. He is the man who hates losers but

this week, Donald Trump have to admit defeat. In the first public

vote in the race to be the Republican presidential candidate,

the billionaire businessman widely seen as the front runner was beaten

by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. The front runner on the Democratic side

Hillary Linton won by just the narrowest of margins. -- Hillary

Clinton. Jon Sopel reports. Donald Trump doing what he does,

projecting his self as life's ultimate winner. This is the fanfare

literally he organised for himself when he arrived in Des Moines this

weekend. The theme tune from the movie Air Force One. But then

reality intervened and the man who hates losers lost. We will go on to

get the Republican nomination and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or

Bernie or whoever the help they throw up there. Thank you very much.

Well, Donald Trump has given, not a victory speech, but a concession to

Ted Cruz. However, he says he will go on and hopes he will win in New

Hampshire. This is a party that has gone very flat for Donald Trump. And

when I caught up with his son, he told me the fight goes on. We are

working just as hard in New Hampshire and Carolina and Nevada

and we're not going to stop. The winner was a Conservative insurgent

Senator Ted Cruz, another figure lowest by the Republican

establishment, not that popular with his daughter either, by the look of

it. But he had a great ground game, typically targeting his right-wing

evangelical face. Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives

across all -- Iowa and across this great nation. The other more

significant victory came for this man with a red tie and the Perma

smile. Yes, Marco Rubio only came third but he exceeded expectations

and has a motion is the clear front runner for mainstream Republicans.

And on the Democratic party site, half a dozen times last night, this

is what it came down to, in the most eye watering early tight contest

ever held. Delicate for this precinct, Hillary Clinton. Hillary

Clinton squeaked it and her victory speech could be summed up in one

word. Few! As I stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief,

thank you, Iowa. Bernie Sanders did spectacularly running her so close.

Next week, he hopes to go one better and beat her. His first campaign

stop on the back of a pick-up at 430 in the morning. Clearly, there is to

be no slackening of the place. -- of the pace.

This week, the threat from the Zika virus became an international

emergency. The mosquito borne disease has been linked to brain

abnormalities in thousands of babies in Brazil and 20 other countries

have reported cases of the disease. Debbie Chipman has been to a

hospital in Brazil's North East where women are waiting to be tested

for blood virus. The young woman four months pregnant

has just heard she may be infected with the Zika virus. An agonising

glimpse into a nightmare now declared a global health emergency.

Another pregnant woman who asked us not to show her face says she

definitely has the virus. She has red eyes, to buckle symptom of the

cover. She is due to give birth in three months' time. She is waiting

for the results tests. I'm feeling worried, she says, because she has

excellent rash and she also -- which are also indicators of the virus.

Here at the present of the outbreak, the worst thing is the uncertainty.

Nobody knows if the cap affects just the beginning of pregnancy all all

of it. Nobody gave us advice, she says. What is so disturbing about

what is happening here is that the women are turning up with a lot of

highly personal very pressing questions with the doctors cannot

answer. Above all, what damage can see could do to their babies. The

painful moment when test results are handed out. Evidence is growing that

the buyer -- viruses to grow -- blamed for... When you see the

ultrasound is something wrong, you have to tell her. And then you know

that after you tell her, she will ask him any questions. If the baby

will walk, will hear properly, will see properly, and we don't know.

Like several thousand babies in Brazil, she's -- she was born with a

small brain. Unless she is rocked all the time, she becomes agitated.

So far, nobody knows whether virus comes from. For medical specialists,

this is uncharted territory and the emergency declaration should bring

them more funding. It is badly needed. It isn't just babies brains

that are being damaged. This tittle boy not only has a small head but

his legs and arms don't work. He is one of six babies with extreme

disabilities blamed on the Zika virus. The problem with these babies

is with the motor neurone that make muscles move. This baby has some

muscles without functions. All this adds to the urgency of killing the

mosquitoes that carry the virus but reaching them is difficult so

officials have a new power, to break into homes that they need to. The

key is public support. So, the authorities are harnessing the

carnival spirit. Ski tow costume raises awareness of the danger.

Anything to get people to join the fight against the insects. The

reality is that where ever you have a sweltering tropical climate, water

everywhere, and poor sanitation, it is going to be almost impossible to

wipe out mosquitoes. That means whatever international action is

taken, one thing is clear, the threat of the Zika virus will be

around for years to come. All day, as Michaela rocks her baby, she

worries about how she is going to cope. This grant shows there is some

brain function but no one can tell how this crisis will unfold.

There has been a significant rise in the number of people in Britain

seeking medical advice about gender reassignment. That is when people

feel they were born in the wrong body. And have treatment to change

it. It is an emotional challenge and it seems even more so if you are

brought up in Jamaica. Romario was born there as a goal but felt he was

a boy. He fled to Britain to escape his abusive father. Declan Harvey

joined him on a journey back to Jamaica to meet his father.

Life is very different form male. He had been living there as a

gay woman but had suffered filers, some at the hands of his father. It

is my opportunity to close that book now. Jamaica has a reputation for

being hostile to gay and transgender people. They are not protected by

anti-discrimination laws, homosexuality is illegal. Being man

in Jamaica is not just about being gay and alpha man, you have to be

head of the household. I remember the nights when I ran away from my

dad. Being in Jamaica was constant year, campaigners held their first

Gay pride here. They said they did not march in the streets but we able

to host the event is a sign of growing acceptance. Judgment Day.

Romario's father had been told about the transition but this is the first

time they have seen or spoken to each other in almost a decade.

Are you disgusted by me whatever? I never used to think something like

that was for real. Deep down I always felt I wanted a son. I cannot

make a promise to refer to you as he. But, the thing is, you are my

child, I still love you, matter what. After filming, his father

posted a photo of his new son on social media, another sign of

attitudes changing. Now, if you think your morning

commute is bad, spare a thought for rail passengers in southern China.

This week, 50,000 of them were stranded by bad weather. It is the

busiest time of year as many as tragic getaway for the Chinese New

Year. Many who found themselves stuck at the station are migrant

workers from the countryside that usually face long difficult journeys

home for this annual holiday. Johnson's worth joined them for

possibly China's worst ever rush hour.

This week, this train station has looked more like the venue for a

giant rock concert. Although it has been a lot less fun. These

extraordinary scenes of congestion are being blamed on the sheer weight

of numbers as well as bad weather. Many of the stranded on migrant

workers, desperate to get home after months away. It is like a dumpling

in a bowl. I feel very tired. But I think about my parents at home, I

feel very warm and eager to come home earlier. But adding to the

holiday woes this year is a far larger concern. China's industrial

landscape is changing, the factories, was the centrepiece of

this economy, are relocating to countries where wages are lower. So,

many migrants are packing their bags for the last time. Fuelling the

first rock in China's migrant population in three decades. Didn't

the president say that if you work hard and stick to your dreams, you

will get your reward? We did but we have nothing to show for it. It is

little wonder that some migrant workers may have decided enough is

enough. They work long hours, long way from home, and have to face this

kind of travel chaos every year. For many of them, it is the only once a

year opportunity they get to reconnect with families, including

young children left behind in the villages. The authorities say the

backlog of passengers has mostly now been cleared after extra trains were

laid on. China's migrants on the move again but into an increasingly

uncertain future. To the Indian state of Corral where

for centuries, they have practised the art of Maskell Indian dance

mixed with drama, elaborate make-up and costumes, it takes of practice.

Of the artform is dying out. -- the state of Kerala.

This dance is developed on the stage around 200 years ago, these

performers were taught by the final graduating class of the school that

closed in the 1940s. These artists may be the last batch of people in

this style of dancing. And they aren't teaching anyone knew, causing

some to worry about the future of traditional dancing. We are at

500-year-old feudal home in the sleepy south Indian village. Up

until the 1940s, it was a dance school run by a family. One of the

artist that danced on the stage was my great-grandfather. He won two of

India's highest civilian borders for his dancing. Even though he was a

student and put it here, he has been here from his very young age. So, he

also studied this dance. This man is the only man alive who

still learned this dance at the dance school.

By the 1940s, changing feudal traditions saw small dance schools

replaced by institutions. Now, students are prepared for the

real world with lessons in English and Hindi replacing 11 hour days of

just dance. But some believe targeted training will lead to the

end of high standard performances like these.

And that is all from us this week. From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye

for now.