Browse content similar to 16/04/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
We send out correspondents to bring you | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
the best stories from across the globe. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
This week, China's abandoned children. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
We meet the young children left behind at home by their parents | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Some 16 million children are affected | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
nationwide, left behind in villages like this one. | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
Pallab Ghosh investigates an ambitious new | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
project to send a spacecraft to another solar system trillions of | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
miles away, backed by Stephen Hawking. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
we must travel the breadth of the stars. | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
And capturing the cool of Miles Davis. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
We catch up with Hollywood actor Don Cheadle as he | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
takes up the trumpet to play the jazz genius. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Miles is funk and hip-hop and be-bop and rock and swing | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
They are known as China's left behind children. | :01:20. | :01:39. | |
Young people abandoned by their parents so they | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
can go in search of work in the cities. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
It is thought tens of millions of children are involved. | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
Sometimes left in the care of relatives, often unsupervised. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
China's residency laws means that migrant workers of banned from | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
The authorities have lodged a national | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
census to try to provide an accurate measure | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
John Southworth has been to two of the worst affected provinces | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
and reports now on one of China's most pressing social challenges. | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
14-year-old Tao Lan is helping her younger brother with his homework. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
In their remote village, they grow their own | :02:24. | :02:36. | |
Their parents work more than 1000 miles away and come back to visit | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
When you are sad or upset about something at school, | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
it must be very hard not being able to talk to your mummy or your daddy | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Mum and dad lead a hard life outside. | :03:00. | :03:12. | |
I don't want them to worry about me. Alongside the responsibilities of an | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
adult, she carries the vulnerability of a child. In some schools, up to | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
80% of the pupils are growing up without their mums or dads. China's | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
modern economy may have been built on the hard graft of its internal | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
migrants but it has taken a heavy toll on their children, too. The | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
numbers involved are staggering. Some 16 million children are | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
affected nationwide, left behind in villages like this one while their | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
parents work elsewhere. It is arguably one of the most pressing | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
social issues of our time and despite much hand-wringing, it is an | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
issued the Communist Party have so far done very little about. Most | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
left behind children are not alone but kept under the watchful eye of a | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
grandparent. Many still struggle, like this 11-year-old. TRANSLATION: | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
I know it is hard for mum and dad to earn money but I missed them so | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
much. It is very painful. The Chinese government admixed the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
problem is urgent. But until their parents are given full citizenship | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
rights, the true cost of every made in China product will be made -- | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
measured not just in price but in the terrible burden it places on | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
these children. Now for something completely | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
different. Plans by leading scientists, including Stephen | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Hawking, to send a spacecraft to another solar system, and it is as | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
ambitious as it sounds. The ship would need to travel to trillions of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
kilometres much further than ever craft ever before and the plan is to | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
develop a craft about the size of the micro-chipped that could travel | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
at exceptional speed. For thousands of years, people have dreamt of one | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
day travelling to distant stars, the world's most famous scientist | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Stephen Hawking, things that they will come very soon. Astronomers | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
believe there is a reasonable chance of an earth like planet in the Alpha | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Centauri system. There are no greater heights than to aspire to | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
them that stars. Technological development in the last two decades | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
mean it could be possible within a generation. What sort of distances | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
are we talking about written mark already, probe has been said to | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Pluto, that is seven and a half billion mars away. And for your jaw | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
one has reached the edge of our solar system, that is 18 billion | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
miles away. The plan is to send spacecraft to a star in another | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
solar system. That is a staggering 25 trillion miles from Earth. Using | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
current technology, it will take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
our closest star, but by making its smaller, it could take just dirty. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
The size of spacecraft have shrunk dramatically. This was used for | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
Earth observation. In the 1990s, this none supplied was launched for | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
communications. The ultimate aim of the new research programme is to | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
make them even smaller, to cram all the cameras and instruments we have | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
in these onto a single chip. The idea is to launch these mini | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
spacecraft into the earth's orbit. Each would have a solar sail. A | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
giant laser on earth would give each one a powerful push, sending them on | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
their way. Life on Earth faces dangers from astronomical offence | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
but not dangers from ourselves. If we are to survive as a species, we | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
must ultimately spread to the stars. There is still a lot of work needed | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
to develop the technology. Scientists believe that although it | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
will be difficult, it won't be impossible. The distant dream could | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
very soon become reality. He was a musical innovator who revolutionised | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
the world of jazz. Now, the life and career of Miles Davis is being | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
celebrated in a new film directed by and starring Don Cheadle. Mark | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Savage took the Hollywood actor to a record shop in London to find out | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
how Davis is created Jesus inspired. The film is for me something that | :08:24. | :08:40. | |
felt like you are walking around inside Miles is brain. I wanted to | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
use do something that was innovative and impressionistic. If you want to | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
tell us I'm here to did your comeback story. | :08:54. | :09:07. | |
It is not a very sympathetic portrait of him. Did the family | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
object? They must've wanted a family that showcased his genius. That is | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
the genius of Miles, that he always persevered, and that he was | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
constantly creative. That is not a good place to start for a beginning. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
There are people that I have met who never heard of Miles Davis because | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
their entry point to Miles was rock. It depends on what you want to hear. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
He was funk, he was hip-hop, bebop, swing, jazz, soul, R, he touched | :09:43. | :09:54. | |
it all. That last scene of the film you are on stage with Herbie | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Hancock, Howard Dalton was that? It was really fun. Musicians of that | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
calibre, they pull you in. We hung around backstage for an hour | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
afterwards, saying, how can we do this again, can we tour this bad | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
question mark I said, please! Those guys are way too busy. The idea | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
behind making the movie, in part, was to be a part of something that | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
is going on, not just have the movie be some is finite thing, to really | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
bring miles back. Hold it, buddy. Do you have a ticket? You are looked -- | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
you are looking at it. Don't quote jazz, it is a social word. That is | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
it from us. Goodbye for now. | :10:48. | :10:50. |