:00:23. > :00:24.Welcome to Reporters, I'm Phillipa Thomas.
:00:25. > :00:27.From here in the world's newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring
:00:28. > :00:29.you the best stories from around the globe.
:00:30. > :00:30.In this week's programme, a scar on India.
:00:31. > :00:36.Naomi Grimley reports on the women who're victims of acid attacks.
:00:37. > :00:41.After seeing the mirror, I howled and screamed so much.
:00:42. > :00:45.I said things like "my face has been ruined" and "it would have been
:00:46. > :01:08.And, murder, back stabbing and corruption in the American
:01:09. > :01:13.election, but it's not the real thing.
:01:14. > :01:15.We meet Kevin Spacey as he's honoured
:01:16. > :01:21.The most satisfying aspect is when people talk to me
:01:22. > :01:30.about the character I played as if it's a three dimensional person.
:01:31. > :01:33.It's the ultimate act of malice committed by a man on a woman,
:01:34. > :01:37.every year hundreds of Indian women are victims of acid attacks,
:01:38. > :01:41.and its use as a weapon against women seems to be getting worse.
:01:42. > :01:44.It's often a vicious response to rejection of marriage offers
:01:45. > :01:48.or sexual advances and it destroys the women's lives.
:01:49. > :01:51.Victims are frequently shunned by their own communities,
:01:52. > :01:58.But one charity is trying to help acid attack victims
:01:59. > :02:02.to get back their confidence and their lives.
:02:03. > :02:04.Naomi Grimley has been to visit the project
:02:05. > :02:17.You may find some images in her report distressing.
:02:18. > :02:28.In the shadow of the Taj Mahal, they found a sanctuary of normality set
:02:29. > :02:33.up by a local charity. Like any other waitresses, they take orders
:02:34. > :02:34.from tables and chat to the steady stream of backpackers who passed
:02:35. > :02:42.through town. Rani is the newest arrival
:02:43. > :02:45.and the story of her attack which left her blind
:02:46. > :02:48.is all too familiar. It was one-sided love and he used
:02:49. > :02:58.to follow me around. One day he accosted me in the street
:02:59. > :03:02.and tried to force himself on me. So after a few days,
:03:03. > :03:06.he attacked me with acid. They wanted me to agree to that man
:03:07. > :03:11.and let him do as he pleased. But I didn't want to be involved
:03:12. > :03:14.in the trappings of love Rani says the women at the cafe have
:03:15. > :03:19.given her the strength and support Working here isn't just
:03:20. > :03:25.about earning a living, it's also about regaining a life
:03:26. > :03:29.and because many of the women here were scarred when they
:03:30. > :03:31.were very, very young, rediscovering their confidence
:03:32. > :03:38.is part of the key to survival. These women have already
:03:39. > :03:41.become local celebrities. Here, they're filming a video
:03:42. > :03:46.for the cafe website. Dolly was just 12 when she was
:03:47. > :03:49.attacked, yet another case She recalls the moment she first
:03:50. > :03:58.saw her face. TRANSLATION: After seeing
:03:59. > :04:05.the mirror, I cried and howled I said things like "my
:04:06. > :04:10.face has been ruined. And "it would have been better
:04:11. > :04:14.if I died, why did you save me? But my mother told me that
:04:15. > :04:17.I'm still beautiful, I don't cover my face any more,
:04:18. > :04:34.I live my life my way. As evening falls, Dolly
:04:35. > :04:40.and her colleague chat and laugh about the places they would
:04:41. > :04:42.like to go and the things Their advice to other women
:04:43. > :04:45.who've been scarred is, Disfigured once yes,
:04:46. > :05:39.but empowered now too. With a small camera, we film on two
:05:40. > :05:47.awards, patients with a paralysing condition related to the Zika virus.
:05:48. > :05:54.Roxanne mumbles some words to a nurse, hardly able to move any part
:05:55. > :06:01.of her body. She had Zika. There is a drastic shortage of the antibodies
:06:02. > :06:05.needed to treat these people. Doctors are worried the government
:06:06. > :06:11.is grossly under reporting the number of Zika cases. TRANSLATION:
:06:12. > :06:19.Most doctors think there have been anything from 400 to 500 cases of
:06:20. > :06:25.Zika. -- 5000 cases. We know this because of the patients with the
:06:26. > :06:29.tell-tale symptoms. Venezuela is not the only country in the region
:06:30. > :06:33.trying to cope with the Zika outbreak but the crisis here is
:06:34. > :06:38.exacerbated by underfunded hospitals and an almost broken health care
:06:39. > :06:44.system. In Venezuela, people are dying because they cannot get access
:06:45. > :06:47.to basic drugs. Ten-year-old Paolo has survived leukaemia but he is now
:06:48. > :06:52.in another battle to get the drugs he needs to stop the illness
:06:53. > :06:58.returning. Medicine is his family will have to pay for. He will also
:06:59. > :07:03.eventually need a bone marrow transplant. TRANSLATION: It is
:07:04. > :07:08.really expensive says Paolo's mother. It is almost impossible to
:07:09. > :07:14.get a bone marrow transplant in Venezuela. Paolo has lost two many
:07:15. > :07:19.friends in the last year, all of them waiting for an operation. One
:07:20. > :07:25.of Venezuela's leading heart surgeons says the health crisis is
:07:26. > :07:33.so acute, the UN should declare a humanitarian emergency. Most of the
:07:34. > :07:39.patients with cancer we see are dying. People with hypertension are
:07:40. > :07:45.dying. And especially people with heart disease. Health ministry did
:07:46. > :07:48.not respond to requests for an interview. But with hospitals
:07:49. > :07:51.delaying operations because of a lack of equipment, it is the
:07:52. > :08:03.patients who continued to suffer. The National Portrait Gallery
:08:04. > :08:05.in Washington has a complete Now there's also an impostor
:08:06. > :08:08.on the walls, Frank Underwood, the fictitious President
:08:09. > :08:10.from the House of Cards It raises questions
:08:11. > :08:13.about the crossover between popular culture and politics,
:08:14. > :08:15.something many observers of the current presidential campaign
:08:16. > :08:17.have been pondering. Jane O'Brien went to meet
:08:18. > :08:28.President Underwood. They say we get the
:08:29. > :08:32.leaders we deserve... The political machinations
:08:33. > :08:39.of Frank Underwood have mesmerized Now his character, played
:08:40. > :08:46.by Kevin Spacey, has stepped off the screen and on to canvas
:08:47. > :08:48.at Washington's I suppose I should be pleased that
:08:49. > :08:54.I'm going to be hung Of course if they knew
:08:55. > :08:59.what was in my basement, they wouldn't hang me so close
:09:00. > :09:02.to Lincoln, they would hang me It was unveiled at a gala
:09:03. > :09:05.with all the razzamatazz Who is in that portrait,
:09:06. > :09:09.Frank Underwood or Kevin Spacey? This to me is the most satisfying
:09:10. > :09:17.aspect of what I'm able to do for a living, is when people talk
:09:18. > :09:23.to me about the character I played, as if it's
:09:24. > :09:26.a three-dimensional person. The painting is the work of one
:09:27. > :09:28.of Britain's leading portrait artists Jonathan Yeo who's painted
:09:29. > :09:34.Spacey in character before. You are trying to find
:09:35. > :09:37.the inner truth of someone, trying to unmask them and get
:09:38. > :09:40.through to who they are, whether it's something
:09:41. > :09:44.they are trying to show you or not. The actors are basically
:09:45. > :09:46.in the deception business, trying to convince you that
:09:47. > :09:49.they are someone else. The better they do their job,
:09:50. > :09:53.the harder it is for me to do mine The gallery has a long tradition
:09:54. > :09:57.of showing actors in character, but rarely have the lines
:09:58. > :09:59.between reality, fantasy and contemporary culture been
:10:00. > :10:11.so completely blurred. Season four of House of Cards
:10:12. > :10:13.seeing Frank Underwood I'm Frank Underwood
:10:14. > :10:16.and I approve this message... So what does he or Spacey
:10:17. > :10:19.think of the real thing? Americans generally get it right
:10:20. > :10:21.and we'll probably figure it out. We'll look back on this time and go,
:10:22. > :10:25.wow, that was crazy. There have been times
:10:26. > :10:29.when the presidential rest's felt like episodes of the House of Cards,
:10:30. > :10:32.hopefully though no-one will vote That's all from Reporters for this
:10:33. > :10:43.week, from me,