06/02/2016

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:00:00. > :00:24.From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondents

:00:25. > :00:26.to bring you the best stories from across the globe.

:00:27. > :00:28.refugees in their own land.

:00:29. > :00:30.We report from inside Syria, meeting the Syrian families

:00:31. > :00:40.displaced by war, struggling to survive.

:00:41. > :00:44.This is a party that has gone very flat for Donald Trump.

:00:45. > :00:47.Trump gets trumped, and a close call for Clinton.

:00:48. > :00:49.Jon Sopel analyses the results of America's first electoral

:00:50. > :01:01.contest in the race for the White House.

:01:02. > :01:03.And rush-hour, Chinese style - we join thousands of migrants

:01:04. > :01:06.stranded at a train station, trying to get home for Chinese new year.

:01:07. > :01:08.It's little wonder that some migrant workers may have decided

:01:09. > :01:12.They work long hours a long way from home,

:01:13. > :01:25.and have to face this kind of travel chaos every year.

:01:26. > :01:32.As the conflict in Syria escalates, the humanitarian situation remains

:01:33. > :01:36.dire. Millions have fled the country, and for those who remain,

:01:37. > :01:39.it is a struggle to survive. The UN estimates that the number of

:01:40. > :01:44.internally displaced people in Syria is more than 6.5 million, and

:01:45. > :01:52.Damascus houses the second-largest number of them after Aleppo in the

:01:53. > :01:55.north. We but given access to camps in eastern Damascus to meet the

:01:56. > :02:00.people living like refugees in their own country.

:02:01. > :02:04.It is a and dirty place to play, just a stone 's throw from a war

:02:05. > :02:12.battered neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Damascus. These

:02:13. > :02:23.children take us into the unfinished building they call home. We are told

:02:24. > :02:28.there are about 25 families living here. Most of them have been

:02:29. > :02:31.displaced several times, and they actually have to pay rent to live

:02:32. > :02:37.here, even though conditions, as you can see, are very bad. Electricity

:02:38. > :02:42.is a luxury, perhaps three hours a day if they are lucky. Muhammad

:02:43. > :02:48.lives this woman lives here with her husband and five children.

:02:49. > :02:52.TRANSLATION: We used to live in dignity in our own houses. Now we

:02:53. > :02:57.are named after charities, because we lost everything. We escaped only

:02:58. > :03:03.with the clothes we were wearing. Not all the displaced lives like

:03:04. > :03:09.this. We went to the western side of the city to a government run

:03:10. > :03:13.shelter. Before the war, this was going to be a school, but it never

:03:14. > :03:17.happened. As soon as the displacement crisis began, the

:03:18. > :03:21.government decides to turn it into a temporary shelter. There are

:03:22. > :03:24.currently about 90 families here, but the number keeps changing

:03:25. > :03:29.because people come here as a first step and leave as soon as they find

:03:30. > :03:38.somewhere else to stay. It is clean, and aid is close at hand. But

:03:39. > :03:43.government and charity hand-outs don't make up for the loss of

:03:44. > :03:46.livelihood. Before the war, Abu was a prosperous man with a large

:03:47. > :03:58.family. Now, he has lost almost everything. TRANSLATION: Mohammed,

:03:59. > :04:05.my 19-year-old son, was killed first. 43 days later, my second son,

:04:06. > :04:16.Khaled, died. In 14 months, I lost four sons. Back at the flat, a girl

:04:17. > :04:22.gets a lesson from her big sister. Despite their displacement, the

:04:23. > :04:27.girls still get an education. More importantly, their family is intact.

:04:28. > :04:30.But they still live on edge. TRANSLATION: We are always under

:04:31. > :04:37.threat of eviction. The owner can kick us out whenever he wants. The

:04:38. > :04:42.most of these children's lives, Syria has been at war. Even away

:04:43. > :04:50.from the raging battles, they are still not at peace.

:04:51. > :04:54.He is the man who hates losers, but this week, Donald Trump had to admit

:04:55. > :05:03.defeat. In the first public vote in the race to be the United States'

:05:04. > :05:07.rest -- Republican candidate, he was beaten by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

:05:08. > :05:11.The front runner on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton, won by the

:05:12. > :05:20.narrowest of margins. Jon Sopel reports on the start of America's

:05:21. > :05:24.race for the White House. Donald Trump, doing what he does,

:05:25. > :05:29.projecting himself as life's ultimate winner. This is the

:05:30. > :05:31.fanfare, literally, that he organised for himself when he

:05:32. > :05:38.arrived in Des Moines this weekend. The theme tune from the Reavie Air

:05:39. > :05:43.Force One. -- from the movie. But then reality intervened, and the man

:05:44. > :05:49.who hates losers, lost. We will go on to get the Republican nomination,

:05:50. > :05:55.and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or burning or the hell they

:05:56. > :06:01.throw there. Thank you Ray much. Well, Donald Trump has given not a

:06:02. > :06:05.victory speech, but I concession to Ted Cruz. However, he says he will

:06:06. > :06:12.go on, and hopes he will win in New Hampshire. This is a party that has

:06:13. > :06:17.gone very flat for Donald Trump. When I caught up with his son, he

:06:18. > :06:21.told me the fight goes on. We will be working just as hard in New

:06:22. > :06:28.Hampshire and then South Carolina. We are not going to stop. The winner

:06:29. > :06:31.was a conservative insurgent, Senator Ted Cruz, another figure

:06:32. > :06:34.loathed by the Republican establishment and not that popular

:06:35. > :06:41.with his daughter Eve, by the look of it. But he had a brilliant ground

:06:42. > :06:46.game, clinically targeting his right-wing evangelical base. Tonight

:06:47. > :06:52.is a victory for courageous Conservatives across Iowa and all

:06:53. > :06:56.across this great nation. The other perhaps more significant victory

:06:57. > :07:03.came for this man, with a red tie and the Perma smile. Yes, Marco

:07:04. > :07:06.Rubio only came third, but he way exceeded expectations and has

:07:07. > :07:14.emerged as the clear front runner for mainstream Republicans. Tales.

:07:15. > :07:19.And on the Democratic party side, half a dozen times last night, this

:07:20. > :07:24.is what it came down to. In the most eye-wateringly tight contest ever

:07:25. > :07:29.held. The delegate for this precinct is Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton

:07:30. > :07:35.squeaked it, and her victory speech could be summed up in one word -

:07:36. > :07:42.phew! As I stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief,

:07:43. > :07:45.thank you, Iowa! The left-wing senator from Vermont, Bernie

:07:46. > :07:48.Sanders, did spectacularly in running her so close, and in the

:07:49. > :07:53.middle of the night flew straight New Hampshire, where next week, he

:07:54. > :07:59.hopes to go one better and beat her. His first campaign stop on the back

:08:00. > :08:05.of a pick-up at 4.30 in the morning. Clearly, there is to be no

:08:06. > :08:09.slackening off the pace. Now, if you think your morning

:08:10. > :08:13.commute is bad, spare a thought for rail passengers in southern China.

:08:14. > :08:16.This week, 50,000 of them were stranded by bad weather. It's the

:08:17. > :08:20.busiest time of year, as millions tried to get away for the Chinese

:08:21. > :08:27.new year. Many of those who found themselves stuck at the station are

:08:28. > :08:30.migrant workers from the countryside who usually face long and difficult

:08:31. > :08:34.journeys home for this annual holiday. Our reporter joined them

:08:35. > :08:40.for possibly China's worst ever rush-hour.

:08:41. > :08:44.This week, Guangzhou train station has looked more like the venue for a

:08:45. > :08:51.giant rock concert, although it has been a lot less fun. These

:08:52. > :08:57.extraordinary scenes of congestion are being blamed on the sheer weight

:08:58. > :09:01.of numbers as well as bad weather. Many of the stranded are migrant

:09:02. > :09:09.workers, desperate to get home after months away. It is like a dumpling

:09:10. > :09:18.in the bowl. Like dumplings boiling in a pot, it is that crowded! I feel

:09:19. > :09:26.very tired. When I think about my parents are home, I am eager to come

:09:27. > :09:30.home earlier. But adding to the holiday woes this year is a far

:09:31. > :09:36.larger concern. China's industrial landscape is changing. The

:09:37. > :09:42.factories, once the centrepiece of this economy, are relocating to

:09:43. > :09:47.countries where wages are lower. So many migrants are packing their bags

:09:48. > :09:54.for the last time, fuelling the first drop in China's migrant

:09:55. > :09:56.population in three decades. TRANSLATION: Didn't President Xi

:09:57. > :10:00.Jinping say that if you work hard and stick to your dreams, you will

:10:01. > :10:06.get your reward? Well, we did work hard and have a dream, but we have

:10:07. > :10:11.nothing to show for it. It is little wonder that some migrant workers may

:10:12. > :10:15.have decided enough is enough. They work long hours, a long way from

:10:16. > :10:21.home, and have to face this kind of travel chaos every year. For many of

:10:22. > :10:24.them, it is the only one see your opportunity they get to reconnect

:10:25. > :10:28.with families including young children left behind in the

:10:29. > :10:34.villages. The authorities say the backlog of passengers has mostly now

:10:35. > :10:39.been cleared after extra trains were laid on. China's migrants on move

:10:40. > :10:45.again, but into an increasingly uncertain future.

:10:46. > :10:47.And that is all from Reporters for this week. From me, Philippa Thomas,

:10:48. > :10:48.goodbye for