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a number of those are believed to be Irish citizens. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now on BBC News it's time for Reporters. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
From here in the World Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
In this week's programme, on the front line in the war | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Alastair Leithead joins the rangers in central Africa, | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
fighting to save the elephants from the ivory traffickers. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
30,000 to 40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
year, and with only around 400,000 left It's not going to be long, | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
year, and with only around 400,000 left, it's not going to be long, | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
As Saudi Arabia stages what it says is the largest ever military | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
exercise in the region, Frank Gardner is given rare access | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
This airbase in northern Saudi Arabia is currently playing | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
host to a whole variety of war planes from different Muslim | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
nations, and it's the first test of the Saudi-led Islamic coalition. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
The Iron Lady of Germany's metal is tested. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Katya Adler assesses what major losses to the right wing in regional | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
elections means for Chancellor Merkel's open-door | :01:20. | :01:20. | |
This was more stark warning than boot out the door for Angela | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
She still enjoys popularity ratings at home other European leaders | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
And man versus machine - as a champion player is beaten | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
by a computer, Rory Cellan-Jones asks how concerned we should be | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
about the future of artificial intelligence. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
This is not about the rise of machines - it is about | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
It's a deadly trade that thrives on Asia's insatiable | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Every year, 30,000 to 40,000 African elephants are killed | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
for their tusks, and now fewer than half a million are left. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Rangers are now virtually fighting a war against the traffickers. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
The situation is worst in a number of African countries, | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
with the Democratic Republic of Congo amongst the most dangerous. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Alastair Leithead joined Rangers in the country's | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Garamba National Park, on the front line in the battle | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
It's tough terrain in Garamba National Park, | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
where less than 100 Rangers are trying to protect the last | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
of the elephants, across thousands of square miles of grassland. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
We joined one of their foot patrols, to a place | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
The grass is so high the only way to see a carcass is from the air, | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
Well, this elephant was clearly killed by a poacher. | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread all around | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers, | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
30,000 to 40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa, | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
and with only around 400,000 left, it's not going to be long at this | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
away with the ivory. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
We followed their footprints, one of the rangers told me, | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
There are perhaps 1300 elephants left here. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Garamba was one of Africa's first national parks, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
and a World Heritage site, originally set up to protect | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
the northern white rhino, but that has already been wiped | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
Now they are fighting to save the elephants that are left, | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
in a place surrounded by civil war and heavily armed militia. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
And that's why African Parks, the group managing Garamba, | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
This ranger explained how dangerous the work is. | :04:18. | :04:39. | |
His patrol was ambushed by 40 men, probably from Sudan, | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Training rangers takes a lot of time and money, | :04:42. | :04:53. | |
and the men they are up against are hardened fighters. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
You must just feel like you're fighting a war against poachers? | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
I think Garamba is probably the forefront of conservation | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
I just don't think there are many other places which have quite | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
so many threats to one park as we have here. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
This local man was arrested after a tip-off, and ivory recovered. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
By the time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least ?750. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Then reports came in of another attack. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
And there are the carcasses, just down there by the river. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Five of them, one of them a baby, and six we have just spotted | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
a little bit further up the river there. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
It is hard to make out from here, but you can see that their faces | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
have been cut off and the tusks have been taken. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
They need hundreds more rangers to protect Garamba. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
Alastair Leithead, BBC News, in the democratic public of Congo. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Alastair Leithead, BBC News, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
Saudi Arabia has been accused of not doing enough to help the US confront | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
But the kingdom has been staging what it says is the largest ever | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
20 Islamic countries have been taking part, with thousands | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
of troops, tanks and warplanes deployed in the Saudi desert. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Saudi Arabia says it is currently facing two threats. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
From the so-called Islamic State in the north, and from Yemeni | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
rebels to the south, reportedly backed by Iran. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Frank Gardner has secured rare access to the Saudi air force's | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
operation centre, and this is his exclusive report. | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
Saudi special forces on a desert exercise close to the Iraqi border. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
It is called Northern Thunder, and brings together forces from 20 | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
It is part of a new assertive Saudi policy in the region, | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
but can Saudi Arabia fight two campaigns in two countries | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
I know it is exhausting in terms of resources and people. | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
Today we face challenges in the South and our force is stretched in | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
the north, deployed since 2014. This is why. We feel our national | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
security is in danger. Saudi air force jets, like this F-15, have | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
been carrying out strikes in both Yemen and Syria, supported by their | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
allies like Jordan and Bahrain, but they have also sent warplanes to | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
this exercise. This base in northern Saudi Arabia is currently playing | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
host to a whole variety of warplanes from different Muslim nations, and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
it is the first test of the Saudi led Islamic coalition set up last | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
year. The Saudis help us it has two names, to confront terrorism and | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
combat what they see as the reigning expansionism in the Middle East. -- | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
Iranian expansion. Civilians have also been killed in Yemen, drawing | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
international criticism. What would you say the international human | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
right groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres who say that civilians | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
are being killed in large numbers in Yemen? We regret this general | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
statement which, let's say, deceased audience. Because... The hospitals | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
have been hit three times? Today, as I will tell all the friends of the | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
media, there is no single accident that has happened without | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
investigation. We investigate when there is a result, and we publish | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
this result. We make sure we have very clear intelligence. We use very | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
precise methods. One of them is one the UK sent to us. Why do we use | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
very expensive weapons in such operations? To make sure we have a | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
surgical operation, that we hit the target without collateral damage. We | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
record every single -- regret any single injury, but this is a war. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Stunned by growing international opposition to the air strikes in | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Yemen, the Saudis agree to show me their operation centre, where they | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
select their targets. This is what they term the no strike list, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
buildings they say are off-limits. Of all the pictures you see on the | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
map, they represent the theatre of operation, and if we go to a smaller | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
picture that will give the restrictions for those targets, | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
which go along with the armed conflict, like the medical services, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
certain places, schools, diplomatic quarters... Saudi Arabia denies its | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
warplanes have ever deliberately targeted civilians thought it admits | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
there have been mistakes. The manoeuvres and at a wider strategic | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
interest than Yemen a loan. The Saudi government want to send a | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
message to the region that it has the money and the muscle to read on | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Islamic coalition against what it sees as threats on many fronts -- | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Yemen alone. Frank Gardner, BBC News, in the northern Saudi desert. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
After the closure of the Greek border with Macedonia last week, | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
migrants are finding other routes into Europe. The EU naval force | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
targeting smuggling gangs in the Mediterranean says there has been a | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
sudden increase in the number of boats trying to cross from Libya to | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Italy. Gavin Lee joined one of the European ships hunting for migrants | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
off the Libyan coast. The daily routine in the battle against | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
migrant smugglers. This is an Italian aircraft carrier commanding | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
a fleet of five EU warships, in international waters, off the Libyan | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
coast. Every day, helicopters searched the skies, reporting signs | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
of suspicious activity. The ships have a mandate to seize and destroy | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
in the migrant boats, but the presence of these patrols has turned | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
the operation into a huge search and rescue mission. In the last hours we | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
receive information about the report of a craft, around three migrant | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
boats, seem just outside the waters of Libya. Within minutes of the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
boats being spotted, we join the emergency response team searching | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
for them. The smuggling business has become routine now. A clear sky and | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
a calm sea mean the perfect conditions for this perilous | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
journey. We are 40 nautical miles from the Libyan coast and this is | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
the daily reality for the patrol teams in the sea. Down below, there | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
is a migrant boat with around 100 people on board. It is just being | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
rescued by the British HMS Enterprise and people are now being | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
processed on the ship. You can see quite clearly they are claiming the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
ladder as they are being rescued, but I am told there are still | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
another four migrant boats waiting to be rescued. We flew on the D-mac | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
miles from the British ship and spotted this... A boat full of | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
people desperate for help, with no life children crouched at the front, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
floating in this vastly -- we flew a few miles. Within an hour, HMS | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Enterprise representatives managed to get to the stranded boat. Eight | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
migrant boats were picked up today, 900 people were rescued. The highest | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
in a single day so far this year. But there is growing criticism that | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
these EU ships have become a magnet, with smugglers now directing migrant | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
straight towards them. We have to think about, what if we were not | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
here? Patrolling, creating deterrence and able to support those | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
in danger. I am afraid that a good percentage of the migrants we have | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
saved maybe will not be -- would not be a live any more if we were not | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
there to rescue them. -- alive any more. Senior commanders say migrants | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
are in Libyan safe houses waiting to cross as the weather improves, and | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Navy officials here claim the recent closure of the border at Greece and | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Macedonia will lead to more people choosing this far more dangerous | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
route by sea in the days to come. Gavin Lee, BBC News, off the coast | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
of Libya. Whether migrants manage to reach Europe by the Italian coast, | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
through Turkey or Greece, many will still be heading for Germany. The | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted she will not change her | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
policy on allowing significant numbers of migrants into the | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
country. Despite her party's losses in regional elections. The anti | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
immigration party alternative for Germany won its first seat in the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
states that voted last week and Katya Adler now assesses what this | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
means for Mrs Merkel's open-door policy on migrants. Iron Angie is | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
one of the German Chancellor's nicknames. The migrant crisis has | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
shown her metal like never before. Where there is a will, there is a | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
way, she has insisted. She needs her will and her way. No border | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
closures, no refugee limits for Germany. A policy she is sticking | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
to, despite rising public pressure. I believe the approach is right, she | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
said in Berlin, though she admitted... TRANSLATION: The | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
dominating topic in the vote was refugees and the refugee policy and | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
the fact that people believe this issue has not yet been solved | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
satisfactorily. But be careful about reading too much into these regional | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
elections. Despite some of the doom laden headlines you're probably | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
coming across, this was more stark warning than boot out of the door | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
for Angela Merkel. She still enjoys popularity ratings at home other | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
European leaders would dream of. Many of her countrymen believe she | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
is out of touch with fast changing events here. The arrival of a | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
million asylum seekers in Germany and the effect that is having on | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
their lives. Enter the right-wing populist AFD party which plays on | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
popular fears of refugees. This is one of its campaign posters, | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
demanding better for German wives and daughters, a reference to the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
attacks here linked to migrants. The party secured a seat in all three | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
state parliaments, the best result of any German right-wing populist | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
party since 1945. Considering World War II sensitivities here, it has | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
lead to a major storm. The public face of the AFD was on the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
defensive. She told me the migration crisis was not caused by her party. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
They were offering solutions. One idea of yours that made the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
headlines all over Europe was the idea of the German Army pointing | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
their weapons at migrants on the border of Germany? Which again would | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
be helpful. It would be helped to read the original interview. I never | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
said that I see the German legislation which is a very last | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
resort makes it possible to use weapons. I never said against | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
people, I said to use weapons if there is no other way. The AFD is | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
making a lot of noise in Germany at the moment. But this is especially | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
because yesterday's regional vote is seen as significant a head of a | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
German General Election next year. Can Angela Merkel afford regional | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
upsets in the long run? This is a blip, in my opinion. She the fleet | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
appears weakened, but she is not damaged beyond -- obviously appears | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
weakened. She is canny and knows Germans appreciating the nudity and | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
stability. She will keep pushing migrant politics her way in Europe | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
and hope for the best. Katya Adler, BBC News, Berlin. Donald Trump had a | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
much better week than Angela Merkel with big wins in the race for the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
White House. During the campaign, the Republican presidential | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
frontrunner's comments against Muslims and immigrants may have | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
offended many, but did you know his own mother was a migrant from Lewis | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
in Scotland? Steven Smith has been to the Scottish isle to see what | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
locals there make of their distant American relative. FATHER TED THEME. | :17:41. | :17:53. | |
Richard peat and DeLaet heritage, and totally charming. No wonder | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Donald Trump likes to boast of his links to Lewis. His mother came from | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
here -- rich in peat and its Gaelic heritage. How have the values of | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
these hard-working and plain speaking folk shaped the billionaire | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
developer? They are not ones for fun fearing themselves here. I am really | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
rich, I should say that. Your position in life, you are treated as | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
an equal. We want with poorly educated, I love the poorly | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
educated! The tycoon visited his mother's old home back in 2008, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
spending as much as a minute and a half inside the pedal dashed croft | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
house. All in all, he clocked up almost three hours on the peaty | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
Lewis salt. Sign in all its like the women come back and the main goat to | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
make a buck, and it is very tough to find the time to come back, but this | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
just seems like an appropriate time. I wanted to see it. | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
# I don't mind the politicians, I don't mind the rain... Putting the | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
folk into focus groups, the sponge in Stornoway were among the few | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
willing to share their thoughts about Mr Trump. He does not behave | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
as people up here would behave. He is extremely full of himself which | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
people here are not. They are quite modest, really. Do you know anything | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
about the family? What are they like? They do not play on it? Not at | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
all. They are just normal people. The qualities I would hope they | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
would take from these islands are the qualities of kindness, being | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
accepting of others regardless of their religious beliefs, regardless | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
of what country they are from. Donald Trump is a chip off the old | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
block. He can trace his ancestry to these ancient standing stones. He is | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
from Lewis, to a point, but it would be stretching things to say that he | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
is of Lewis. But just as we were leaving, saying... Pot of gold, | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
attended by mystery and folklore. Who does that remind me of? Finally, | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
it was seen as the ultimate battle between man and machine and it seems | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
the machine won, this time anyway. A computer programme designed by | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Google comprehensively beat a human champion of the ancient Chinese game | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
of Go. Winning the match by four games to one. As Rory Selin Jones | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
explained, this raises new questions about the power of artificial | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
intelligence over human beings -- Cellan-Jones. An epic contest | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
between man and machine, against an artificial intelligence programme | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
that teaches itself to play ever better. At the end of the final | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
game, his face told the story. Although he had fought hard and even | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
won once, the machine, Alpha Go, came out on top. No triumphalism | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
from the designer behind it but instead a note of caution. As with | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
all powerful technologies, they bring opportunities and challenges, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
and we have to make sure that as developers of these kind of systems, | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
all AI developers around the world, we think about the ethics. It is are | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
defending lots of practical uses. Better voice recognition software is | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
one. Cambridge is one of the world's leading centres in the development | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
of artificial intelligence. At Microsoft's Cambridge research lab, | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
you might think this was downtime. In fact it is serious AI research. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Scientists here are using this game to test how AI programmes operate in | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
a complex virtual worlds. The idea is to teach the AI how to interact | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
with people and objects. The programme is all about augmenting | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
the skills... Another example, a system using AI to examine scans of | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
brain jewellers, and give doctors more information. The researchers | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
here insist it is all about collaboration, not competition -- | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
brain tumours. I think we have a choice. We are in control of the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
technology and can choose different futures. I think we should avoid | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
that dystopian future of machines versus humans but I think we should | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
make a conscious decision to create AI at the deep partnership between | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
humans and machines for the betterment of humanity. This is not | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
about the rise of machines. It is about the rise of humans. One of | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Britain's leading scientists says the sheer pace of change means we do | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
need a debate. There is a balance between science and science fiction | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
and we do not know quite where that lies but certainly some people are | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
raising concerns that a computer, as it were, might call Roker, and if we | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
have the Internet of things, the computer could act with the real | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
world by bypassing human agency and obviously if that happened that | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
could potentially be highly risky -- a computer could go rogue. It was | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
not a computer would take another ten years to be a professional Go | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
player. AI has brought its potential and risks into focus. That is all | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
from Reporters this week. From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now. | :23:41. | :23:55. | |
Hello there. It has been a great day once again for most of us today and | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
I will show you the satellite picture which tells the story of the | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
day quite nicely. You can see the extent of the cloud, looking a | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
little like it might break across southern | :24:12. | :24:12. |