12/03/2016 Reporters

Welcome to Reporters. From here in the world's newsroom we send

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

week. The Syria war is into its 50, peace talks due to resume purse with

four of the five permanent UN security man is involved in the

conflict Jeremy Bowen asks if it is a new kind of world War. The war in

Syria is now a major front in the conflict between Shia and Sunni

Muslims that stretches right across the Islamic world. Donald Trump

moves closer to securing the Republican nomination. Rajini

Vaidyanathan travels to Detroit to talk to voters about his appeal.

They have always voted Democrat but now they've lost hope with that

party and they feel he is a businessman who can make a

difference. It and to Sweden, Richard West Cobb sees what a

driverless car is like. We're going to ask hundred ordinary people to

commute in a car, not an ordinary car, an autonomous car. And airborne

crime-fighters, how eagles are being trained to take down hostile drones.

His vision is five times better than mine. Don't forget, they are born

hunters. They miss nothing! It has been five years since the start of

peaceful protest in Syria against President al-Assad. The government

crackdown that followed led to a conflict that has left a quarter of

a million dead and over half the population displaced. Peace talks

will resume in Geneva this week but with four out of five permanent UN

security council members involved in the conflict our middle East editor

Jeremy Bowen asks if this is a new kind of world War. This was Damascus

in October last year. The current truce is a respite, not an end. The

war has killed over 200,000, created millions of refugees and reignited

wars in Syria's neighbours. It is also pulled in the world's biggest

military powers. Russia as well as the US, Britain, and France. At the

UN's Geneva headquarters they are trying to end five years of

diplomatic failure. Five years in which Syria's internal uprising has

become a mini world war. Another deadly complication is the fact that

the war in Syria is now a major front in the conflict between Shia

and Sunni Muslims that stretches right across the Islamic world.

Syria has produced layers of war about power as well as identity. It

started with demonstrations five years ago, against the Assad regime.

Now that quickly turned into a shooting war and when the backers of

the two Main site got involved the sectarian dimension deepened. The

Assad regime is dominated by a sect of Shia Islam, their main backers

are in the main Shia as well. There is Iran and also the Lebanese

Hezbollah movement. As well as Russia, who are not Shi'ites. The

armed rebels have been backed by Saudi Arabia, where Turkey, Jordan,

and Qatar. All Sunni Muslim countries. The Saudi Arabians

already saw themselves as regional rivals but that is now a proxy war

with Syria as the battlefield. In Damascus and across Syria each new

layer of war has made peacemaking harder. After five years and has

become complex fight. Deals between Syrians are possible but the war

that ruined Syria left space that has been filled by the jihadists,

who call themselves Islamic State. IS brutality, not the destruction of

Syria, forced a reluctant US and Britain into the fight. But long

before so much was lost, the world's big powers should have acted to stop

the War and the exodus of civilians, says the UN human rights chief. One

of the most upsetting parts of this discussion is that it is the

migrants who have to pay the price for the failure of the international

system. So permanent members

of the Security Council, Britain among them,

should have tried harder? My feeling is yes,

they are the repository They have special responsibilities,

not just special privileges. And because they didn't,

that's a major factor in the last I think it's undeniably so,

it's a major factor, yes. Neutral, quiet Switzerland feels

as if it's a long way Belatedly, Europeans are realising

that Syria's mini world war Trying to contain it or ignore

it is no kind of policy. Donald Shum has moved closer to

securing the Republican nomination for the US election. One is date

where he won was in Michigan. Rajini Vaidyanathan has gone there to find

out. Detroit, Michigan was once the centre of the world of motor

Manufacturing, the financial crisis has hit, taking jobs and prosperity.

We hope with this election we will get some idiot who can bring jobs

back to Detroit, the Motor City -- somebody who can bring jobs back.

Rich is a casualty of the decline, a factory worker laid off, he spends

most of his time composing songs. Most of his fellow union members

support Hillary Clinton yet he backs Donald Trump even though he doesn't

agree with all his controversial policies.

# Talk to you #. I have never been politically

correct and I don't think he is a politically correct because the

time. You have to be if you are President, you could be a world

leader and be like that? Par you are not going to elect a machine, you

are going to elect a human. So they may think things -- they may say

things that you don't agree with, maybe they might seem downright

racist, I think he has a lot of growing to do as we all do. Local

organisers say Donald Trump has broad ranging appeal in Michigan.

Won from bartenders, union workers, people, every day Joes coming

together who possibly did not think there were issues before, they have

to admit they have always voted Democrat yet another. With a party

and they feel that Donald Trump is a businessman who can make a

difference. Here in Detroit, Michigan, and across America,

manufacturing has declined. People have lost their jobs and homes and

they feel abandoned by the political class. The Republican party

establishment might be hoping that anyone that Donald Trump can succeed

but many voters say they want anyone but a politician. And on the other

side of town, and the other side of the political divide, that sentiment

is valid as well. I can see the appeal of an outsider because I see

the appeal of Bernie Sanders. We've been on the decline for too long, we

need something from outside the system. If your Mac I live in

Detroit which has seen its troubles yet is full of hard-working real

people and we are looking for a hard-working real person to lead our

nation. The patrons in the body not see Donald Trump as bad person

although others in the state to do. This promised to be the voice of the

underdog has resonated with many who say they are fed up with politicians

don't listen. Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC News, Detroit. The Swedish car

maker Volvo is about to recruit 100 people to commute to work next year

in driverless cars. They will be asked to read a book, send texts and

read e-mails while behind the wheel. Our transport correspondent Richard

West Court has been given permission to try it out. This report contains

flashing images. Home of Volvo, a place where drivers

need to beware of the elks. On a test track, the company

is showing me its unique experiment. And they will need members

of the public to help. It is an autonomous car.

people to commute in a car, So perhaps they'll

want to send an e-mail. From the track, to

the evening commute. When next year Gothenburg's 100

volunteers will be driverless That's roads with no

cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind

it is Sweden, no snow. The computer needs to

see the white lines. The man in charge of the technology

told me what would If something unexpected happens,

the car needs to be able We cannot count on a driver

to immediately take over. So the car will be able to detect it

and it will slow down in order It is not going to suddenly shove

control back to the driver? No, the driver may be

sitting, relaxing, reading, we cannot count on him

or her to intervene immediately, Things look a bit different

in the UK. In Milton Keynes, public-transport

pods will eventually use the pavements to shuttle people

between the shops and the station. Would you happily share a pavement

with one of those, The choices, it has to decide,

it has to decide in an instant whether it has got to stop or it has

got to carry on going for the safety of who's in it or who

is on the outside. You don't worry about

it bumping into you? No, you can easily

move out of the way. In the US, Google is leading the way

in driverless testing, But they have just had their first

crash, where the computer Experts describe a future straight

out of a science-fiction novel. You're going to see this

technology in forklift trucks, And that, for me, is

extremely interesting. That this technology is not

just about transport, Back on the test track,

time to enjoy a drama on the telly. It could still take a decade or even

two, but eventually children will marvel at the idea that people

actually used to There are increasing concerns that

drones are used around the world to commit crimes. Now the Dutch police

are believed to be the first force to train eagles in the fight against

them. We have had special access to an airbase in the Netherlands with

the birds are being trained. She's been trained to join an elite

squad of airborne crimefighters, and this is their mission -

to bring down hostile drones. Her talons go into the propellers,

and it's instantly disabled. The people who train these birds

describe it as a low-tech So, you are tapping

into the eagles' killer instinct. It's not interested

in people or other animals, it's interested only

in catching that drone. These drones are increasingly

being used by criminals. They have been used to smuggle sim

cards, mobile phones and drugs And there are concerns they could be

used by terrorists, too. The police already

use radio intercepts This bird's unique selling point

is its eagle-eyed vision. His vision is five times

better than a human. Animal welfare charities have

raised some concerns. The police say they are researching

ways to protect these talons, and we have been assured no birds

have been harmed during training. We are just approaching

this baby eagle. What do you have to do in order

to recover this drone? We always try to keep it safe,

because it could be a member of the public looking

at what is going on. Or if he doesn't know

you he flies off. I show him some meat,

and he is protecting the drone, but then I have something better

and then it will jump to me. A huge chunk of fleshy

meat in exchange. London's Scotland Yard

are so impressed it is looking into emulating this

innovative use of nature. T used to be one of the most popular

drinks in Taiwan over these days it has fallen out of favour coffee and

soft drinks. Now some businesses are trying to breathe new life into a

pastime once regarded as an integral part of society. This report from

Taipei. These pills used to be covered with key farms, when it was

a prized commodity and a central part of life in Taiwan. Now only

small plots remain, mostly aged and elderly farmers tend the fields.

This is how most Taiwanese people used to drink tea. It is carefully

brewed and enjoyed one sip at a time from tiny cups. Nowadays it is hard

to find in people drinking TV and traditional way. They call this old

people Steve. This is what is popular today especially among young

people. Cold drinks including Taiwan's world famous bubble tea.

They can be found everywhere and they make up two thirds of total

earnings in the tea industry. They contain very little tea, and sugar

is almost always added. Bottled TE brings in a 20% and tea leaves only

13% of total revenue. Some tea lovers are trying to reverse this

trend. This cafe does not serve coffee, only tea. It also serves tea

flavoured desserts. When I was in Europe I noticed Europeans really

enjoyed drinking tea but one I came back to Taiwan I found our young

people think drinking it is old-fashioned. I want to make it

trendy again. Third-generation farmers like this one are also

trying to repackage tea to make it more appealing. By selling side

products made from tea I make 50% more revenue Dexter I still focus on

tea in my business. It is a part of Chinese people's culture. Tea farms

are also turned into tourist attractions to boost earnings for

the industry and raise interest, brightening the horizon for the

island's home-grown brew. BBC News, Taipei. Five years ago and

earthquake caused a powerful tsunami that devastated swathes of Japan's

coast, triggering a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. About

160,000 people were moved from surrounding pillagers, most still

unable to return home, fearing continuing high levels of radiation.

Rupert Wingfield Hayes sent this report from inside the exclusion

zone. Five years after the nuclear disaster of figure she mother are

still large areas where people are not allowed to return home -- of

figure Shima. This village is ten kilometres from the plant and there

is still the plan for people to be able to return here for the

foreseeable future because this has been declared a high radiation zone.

This used to be a village famous for its pottery. And this has been long

is to the family who have lived here for 300 years. Track this house

belongs to them. He tells me that this point is especially high, the

rain washes the radiation of the roof and it collective. Even if

radiation levels to this place is cleaned it is not clear if people

like him will want to come back and this is the reason. Five years has

done tremendous damage to the houses here. This is the interior of the

house, you can see it's chaos. It was not like this when they left.

Animals have started getting into the house, including wild boar, and

they are causing all sorts of destruction. Let's go in the kitchen

and see. He thinks a wild boar has got

in and turned the place upside down. Seeing all this rekindles his

feelings of anger about what has If anyone came back here, they would

have to start from scratch. They would have to knock this house down

and start again. Inside the house is more chaotic

every time he returns. So this is part of his

pottery workshop. These were the shelves

where he would stack the pots and cups, ready to go

to the kilns to be fired. These are the kilns

where he fired his pots. His family have lived

here for 18 generations, These kilns lost hundreds of dollars

and he has had to replace them. His family have lived here for 18

generations, more than 300 years. Daniel McIntyre is the top Shia in

Australia, he won the record, beating his nearest rival by three

or four minutes. This is his story in his own words. My name is Daniel

McIntyre, I am the current Australian national shearing

champion. I began cheering when I was 17, I grew up on a farm and

ended up falling in love with it. The shearing position, the way that

you hold the sheep, the technique, you need a wider selection, there

are all kinds of different chips are having a bag of columns is good.

Daniel McIntyre, the reigning champion. Before the start I would

take a deep breath and fill my lungs are there and try to relax.

If you go in there tense the sheep will tense up.

You need this sheep in a relaxed state and you can

We are trained to see the flat surfaces of the sheep.

Position the sheep in a way that the sheep flattens out.

You start with the belly, the leg, up the neck,

You have to find the right balance between speed and quality.

It perfectly shorn sheep would look like a hard-boiled egg,

after you've taken the shell of it, no ridges, no cuts.

When you get to the top, the feeling for yourself,

it's more about bettering yourself than beating the block beside you.

That is it from Reporters this week. Goodbye.

Hello, in the winter it is hard enough to get one try day but we

have a week of fine weather in the UK as high pressure becomes

established, benign scenes like this will become