:00:00. > :00:29.From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondence
:00:30. > :00:37.To bring you the best stories from across the globe.
:00:38. > :00:40.In this week's programme, Mayday fun at the fair in
:00:41. > :00:43.And a visit to a state-of-the-art hospital.
:00:44. > :00:45.But Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out that
:00:46. > :00:47.not everything inside the secretive state is what it seems.
:00:48. > :00:52.Jonathan Beale meet the pilots on the US
:00:53. > :00:55.aircraft carrier in the Gulf waging a high-tech war against the
:00:56. > :01:02.so-called Islamic State in a cancer area.
:01:03. > :01:11.The fighters drop bombs, they make the explosions.
:01:12. > :01:13.We do the stuff in the background that most
:01:14. > :01:19.Can a different approach help to save the elephants?
:01:20. > :01:26.Alastair Leithead reports from the media
:01:27. > :01:37.where hunters may hold the key to halting their extension.
:01:38. > :01:39.The fact is, the tourism in this area does
:01:40. > :01:44.The ice chasm cutting and Antarctic base adrift.
:01:45. > :01:46.Peter Gibbs visit the research station
:01:47. > :01:51.If and when that joined up with the sea, then this becomes
:01:52. > :01:53.a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a
:01:54. > :01:58.Steve Rosenberg meets the Russian politician turned
:01:59. > :02:00.crooning crusader who dreams of revolutionising Eurovision.
:02:01. > :02:01.North Korea held the first party congress
:02:02. > :02:04.of its ruling elite for nearly 40 years this week.
:02:05. > :02:06.The once in a generation meeting consolidated the
:02:07. > :02:13.power and authority of Kim Jong-un as supreme
:02:14. > :02:19.Now journalists rarely get access to North Korea,
:02:20. > :02:21.but in the site -- in a sign of the state
:02:22. > :02:27.inching open its door to the
:02:28. > :02:29.outside world, a team of Nobel Laureates,
:02:30. > :02:31.led by a European prince, were allowed to visit.
:02:32. > :02:33.Rupert Wingfield Hayes joined them and was
:02:34. > :02:36.given a rare view of a different side of life in North Korea.
:02:37. > :02:38.Mayday fun in the workers' paradise.
:02:39. > :02:41.These are not the sort of scenes I expected to find in North Korea.
:02:42. > :02:46.There was nothing like this last time I came here.
:02:47. > :02:58.A lot of these kids can speak English.
:02:59. > :03:02.I have taken this several times but at this time I have...
:03:03. > :03:24.Pampered and privileged but even they live an
:03:25. > :03:31.Do you have an opportunity? Foreigners?
:03:32. > :03:36.Your first chance to meet a foreigner?
:03:37. > :03:46.While the elite plays, the masses are preparing for
:03:47. > :03:48.the biggest political show in decade.
:03:49. > :03:50.From atop a high monument, we glimpsed thousands of dancers,
:03:51. > :03:57.rehearsing for the opening of the workers' party conference.
:03:58. > :04:01.Its job, to glorify the rule of Kim Jong-un.
:04:02. > :04:03.There is no escaping the Kim dynasty.
:04:04. > :04:07.Even at Pyonghang Children's Hospital.
:04:08. > :04:10.Our Nobel laureates are regaled with tales of how Marshal
:04:11. > :04:11.Kim personally ordered the CT scanner.
:04:12. > :04:19.But the children we are shown look remarkably well.
:04:20. > :04:20.And there isn't a real doctor in sight.
:04:21. > :04:24.Even our VIP, Prince Alfred of Liechtstein is starting
:04:25. > :04:28.So this is the challenge of trying to
:04:29. > :04:35.understand anything about this country.
:04:36. > :04:36.We're brought to a place like
:04:37. > :04:42.this, it looks for a modern, it is very clean, modern equipment.
:04:43. > :04:44.But we are not allowed to talk to ordinary people.
:04:45. > :04:47.If I turn and to ask these people anything, they run away.
:04:48. > :04:50.Everything we see looks like a setup.
:04:51. > :04:52.It's easier to understand the national sport, tae kwon do.
:04:53. > :04:54.This is how North Korea sees itself, tough,
:04:55. > :05:05.How do you feel about us, the outside world?
:05:06. > :05:09.Who can blame her for losing her tongue
:05:10. > :05:12.For all its tough behaviour, this is a
:05:13. > :05:16.country terrified of the outside world.
:05:17. > :05:19.Rupert Wingfield Hayes, in Pyongyang.
:05:20. > :05:21.Over the past four months, the aircraft carrier USS
:05:22. > :05:25.Harry S Truman, has been sailing somewhere in the North Arabian Gulf,
:05:26. > :05:30.launching wave after wave of attacks on so-called Islamic State.
:05:31. > :05:32.Dozens of jets have been bombing targets in
:05:33. > :05:37.But bombs are not the only weapon they are dropping.
:05:38. > :05:40.Some planes have also been using new forms of electronic
:05:41. > :05:47.and cyber warfare to attack the group and
:05:48. > :05:50.Jonathan Beale has been given access to the
:05:51. > :05:56.USS Harry S Truman and to America's hi-tech war against IS.
:05:57. > :06:09.Fighting an unconventional war, using unconventional means.
:06:10. > :06:11.The fighters drop the bombs, they make the
:06:12. > :06:15.We do the stuff in the background that most people don't
:06:16. > :06:27.And this is what is happening round the clock.
:06:28. > :06:32.A constant stream of jets taking off looking for targets over
:06:33. > :06:37.In less than five months, the jets on this carrier
:06:38. > :06:40.have already said it record, dropping more than 1200 bombs on
:06:41. > :06:51.But these bombs are not the only weapon they
:06:52. > :06:55.Drew, the pilot, and Chris, an electronic warfare
:06:56. > :06:59.officer, fly a jet, but it is loaded with jammers that can block anything
:07:00. > :07:10.Our cameras followed them at the start of emission.
:07:11. > :07:13.Much of what they do is still classified
:07:14. > :07:16.Before and after an attack like this, and what
:07:17. > :07:20.they say was an IS headquarters in Mosul, they are able to jam all
:07:21. > :07:30.You are sitting in your house and all of a sudden, bombs
:07:31. > :07:35.You're scared, your frantic, it's chaotic and now all of a sudden,
:07:36. > :07:38.and things start happening in the electronic spectrum
:07:39. > :07:39.that you don't fully understand.
:07:40. > :07:43.That adds a whole none aspect of fear.
:07:44. > :07:49.It degrades their ability to talk about what is going
:07:50. > :07:50.on and to coordinate any counterattacks.
:07:51. > :07:52.And hopefully, by infusing that fear and confusion,
:07:53. > :07:56.It's all part of a new emphasis on electronic warfare.
:07:57. > :07:59.As well as from the air, US cyber teams on the
:08:00. > :08:01.ground are also disrupting IS's ability to communicate.
:08:02. > :08:04.By computer, phone, or on their radios.
:08:05. > :08:07.We do get the feedback from folks that we are
:08:08. > :08:13.supporting and they say, we knew you were there
:08:14. > :08:15.because either we stopped getting shot at or we weren't
:08:16. > :08:21.So it is tough to measure, but it's absolutely essential.
:08:22. > :08:23.All signs are pointing to it making a huge difference.
:08:24. > :08:26.There is still a tonne of work left to do, everybody can
:08:27. > :08:31.And the proof that this fight is far from over is the
:08:32. > :08:39.Even with all this technology, and military might, two years on,
:08:40. > :08:48.Jonathan Beale, BBC News, on board the USS
:08:49. > :08:52.Africa's elephants are being killed at an
:08:53. > :08:59.30,000 to 40,000 slaughtered for their ivory each year.
:09:00. > :09:02.And it is thought there are now less than half a million left.
:09:03. > :09:05.Saving the elephants has focused on targeting poaching and Asia's
:09:06. > :09:09.But some nations have come up with different approaches.
:09:10. > :09:11.Last week, Kenya publicly burned more than 100
:09:12. > :09:16.tonnes of ivory to help tackle the illegal trade.
:09:17. > :09:19.And Namibia has allowed controlled hunting of
:09:20. > :09:23.elephants which has actually led to an increase in their numbers.
:09:24. > :09:27.Alastair Leithead has travelled to north-east in the media to
:09:28. > :09:46.Tourist travel the world to see them.
:09:47. > :09:48.But at the rate they are currently being killed,
:09:49. > :09:51.this kind of spectacle could be gone in our lifetimes.
:09:52. > :09:53.And here in the, there is a different approach to
:09:54. > :10:00.Few tourists come to this part of the country so trophy
:10:01. > :10:02.hunting is the main source of income.
:10:03. > :10:03.And poachers have actually turned gamekeepers.
:10:04. > :10:06.This group has a licence to kill a buffalo in this
:10:07. > :10:09.A parcel of land managed by the community where
:10:10. > :10:11.animals can roam in and out of the uncensored
:10:12. > :10:26.Only a certain number of each animal can be
:10:27. > :10:29.shot a year with the meat going to the community.
:10:30. > :10:31.And hunters often pay tens of thousands of pounds.
:10:32. > :10:35.Trophy hunting is supposedly to take out
:10:36. > :10:43.It is going to die in two or three years anyway,
:10:44. > :10:46.why let it die of old age when it can raise money
:10:47. > :10:51.Wild animals, buffalo, elephant, anything.
:10:52. > :10:57.You can't run a farm and keep on breeding cattle.
:10:58. > :11:00.Because you're going to have to much and nothing will survive because
:11:01. > :11:08.People can get very emotional about hunting,
:11:09. > :11:10.whether it be for buffalo or for elephants or lions.
:11:11. > :11:13.The fact is, the tourism in this area doesn't bring in enough money.
:11:14. > :11:20.The hunters have to pay, whether they find a buffalo to kill or not.
:11:21. > :11:23.And these are inside the park. They can look, but they can't shoot.
:11:24. > :11:28.So when we come here, when we saw it, we have
:11:29. > :11:32.The local community manages their conservancy,
:11:33. > :11:35.recording which animals passed through to help work out
:11:36. > :11:39.The money paid to the rangers, all to bring electricity to
:11:40. > :11:52.If hunting is not allowed, or stopped, then all the
:11:53. > :11:55.money we are getting from hunting will stop also.
:11:56. > :11:58.So people will be suffering, they'll not be able to take their
:11:59. > :12:06.The rangers, they are employed also, some of the May
:12:07. > :12:15.It's about giving these animals a real
:12:16. > :12:17.value to the people whose crops they destroy, whose children they
:12:18. > :12:21.And not just for Westerners to come and look at.
:12:22. > :12:23.In some places, tourism might be enough
:12:24. > :12:28.And there are less than half a million left in the whole of
:12:29. > :12:31.Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Namibia.
:12:32. > :12:35.Here's a story which brings a whole new meaning to moving house.
:12:36. > :12:39.A British research station in Antarctica is being relocated in its
:12:40. > :12:44.entirety on skis to save it from floating out to sea.
:12:45. > :12:47.The station sits on an ice shelf that is constantly moving
:12:48. > :12:50.and now, a rapidly expanding crack in the ice could
:12:51. > :12:54.see the base marooned on an iceberg and cast
:12:55. > :12:59.Peter Gibbs has been to Antarctica to see what is being done
:13:00. > :13:05.Is the coldest, windiest, driest, one of the most
:13:06. > :13:12.And it's home to the British Antarctic Survey's
:13:13. > :13:20.Here, cutting-edge science is making vital discoveries about how our
:13:21. > :13:22.lives are vulnerable to the sun's activities and the threat of
:13:23. > :13:29.But Halley Station is itself is under threat.
:13:30. > :13:31.So our journey to resupply the research station is also part
:13:32. > :13:37.Just three years ago, you could drive straight across
:13:38. > :13:41.Now, there is a massive chasm hundreds of
:13:42. > :13:45.metres across, expanding at 15 centimetres a day and extending 1.5
:13:46. > :13:55.If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes
:13:56. > :13:57.a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a
:13:58. > :14:05.For this glaciologist, it's like watching
:14:06. > :14:10.So it's constantly monitored and there
:14:11. > :14:14.really is only one way to get a closer look.
:14:15. > :14:20.I'm going to resist the temptation to
:14:21. > :14:29.I've been looking at this, these images, for ages and
:14:30. > :14:32.now to be here, physically, it's just great.
:14:33. > :14:34.And look down, Peter, it's a good view!
:14:35. > :14:38.I'm looking down, it's just phenomenal.
:14:39. > :14:41.Ice shelves grow with time as more and more ice
:14:42. > :14:47.is being added and typically, they then lose mass
:14:48. > :14:51.through an event which is basically the breaking off of a
:14:52. > :14:54.chunk of ice shelf which floats away as an iceberg.
:14:55. > :14:58.This is a natural process which we always expect.
:14:59. > :15:01.So, if this chasm continues to expand, with Halley
:15:02. > :15:04.Station where it is right now, the research station
:15:05. > :15:11.Work has now started to save the base.
:15:12. > :15:13.Temporary accommodation is part of the resupply mission
:15:14. > :15:19.These will act as home for the station staff as Halley's
:15:20. > :15:22.unique design is put into use to ensure that it survives.
:15:23. > :15:28.Sitting on a massive hydraulic jacks means Halley Station
:15:29. > :15:32.keeps itself happily above the snow's surface.
:15:33. > :15:35.But there is another unusual feature in Halley's design.
:15:36. > :15:46.At the bottom of its hydraulic legs are huge skis.
:15:47. > :15:48.Each module will be detached from its neighbour
:15:49. > :15:51.In the same way it was brought here four
:15:52. > :15:55.After extensive surveys, a new location has been found and 20
:15:56. > :16:01.kilometres away, safely on the right side of the chasm.
:16:02. > :16:04.And there, Halley Station can continue its work.
:16:05. > :16:12.Its manifesto says Islam is not part of
:16:13. > :16:18.And it includes a ban on the call to prayer and the wearing
:16:19. > :16:34.But Germany's right-wing Alternative For Germany is gaining support. They
:16:35. > :16:39.made gains in a recent election as a result of the migrant crisis and it
:16:40. > :16:49.has now openly rebranded itself as anti-Muslim.
:16:50. > :16:53.This isn't the Germany AFD wants. Four resilient Muslims live in the
:16:54. > :17:02.country and there religion, tarmac to say is, simply -- 4 million
:17:03. > :17:12.Muslims live in the country and AFD says it does not want its religion.
:17:13. > :17:17.TRANSLATION: For decades we have had to deal with right wingers but they
:17:18. > :17:21.came from fringe parties. The AFD has taken right-wing popular risen
:17:22. > :17:30.to the centre of society. That should be cause concern for
:17:31. > :17:37.everyone. Europe's Populist parties are gaining ground. It is just a few
:17:38. > :17:41.weeks since AFD made significant gains in regional elections. The
:17:42. > :17:45.party is anti-euro, champions the traditional nuclear family, does not
:17:46. > :17:51.believe in climate change and does not like immigrants. In fact, its
:17:52. > :18:04.leader recently suggested German border guards shoot refugees. Our
:18:05. > :18:07.beliefs are within European values. We need to talk about all these
:18:08. > :18:13.problems being connected with this understanding of religion. This is
:18:14. > :18:19.what has been missing in Germany, in European politics, for a long time.
:18:20. > :18:23.AFD is still dismissed by many as a protest party but it has filled a
:18:24. > :18:32.vacuum to the political right. Germany is a pretty stable place,
:18:33. > :18:43.socioeconomically we are OK. We haven't had a terrorist activity on
:18:44. > :18:52.German territory. AFD would be in a position to really build on the fear
:18:53. > :18:58.that German society may experience. There is no doubt that AFD has
:18:59. > :19:01.shaken up Germany's political landscape, not least because it has
:19:02. > :19:10.intensified the pressure on the establishment here to tackle
:19:11. > :19:13.difficult questions and talk about how to integrate the hundreds of
:19:14. > :19:26.thousands of migrants now living in this country. New directions. For
:19:27. > :19:29.AFD, perhaps even for Germany. It is your revision time again. As
:19:30. > :19:42.hundreds of millions of viewers around the world tune in. -- it is
:19:43. > :19:47.Eurovision. In pressure one politician is planning an
:19:48. > :19:50.alternative to the song contest, and with a very different sound. Our
:19:51. > :19:56.reporter has been to Saint Petersburg to meet him.
:19:57. > :20:07.Russia feels threatened by the west, by Nato troops in the Baltic. By
:20:08. > :20:12.Western spies in Moscow. By resolutions on Russia's doorstep.
:20:13. > :20:18.And by the Eurovision Song contest? Hang
:20:19. > :20:28.on, it feels threatened by that? He does. This man is a Russian MP on a
:20:29. > :20:32.crooning crusade to promote music with a Russian soul. He loves folk
:20:33. > :20:39.and loathes the Euro pop invading Russia. TRANSLATION: To conquer any
:20:40. > :20:43.country now you don't need weapons. Culture is the key. The minds of our
:20:44. > :20:47.young people are coming under the influence of TV, which is trying to
:20:48. > :20:58.impose a fashion, a certain kind of music. Two years ago, when
:20:59. > :21:08.Eurovision was won by the bearded lady, this man was so shocked he did
:21:09. > :21:13.this in Parliament. Black Crow, he sings, why are you circling above
:21:14. > :21:19.us? What the MP wants to hear is more music like this... And this...
:21:20. > :21:31.He is planning a rival to Eurovision, called Good Vision where
:21:32. > :21:33.all the songs will be... Well, good. TRANSLATION: It will be focal music
:21:34. > :21:43.with National instruments and costumes. -- it will be folk music.
:21:44. > :21:48.But not everyone here is out of tune with the Eurovision Song contest.
:21:49. > :21:55.This year's Russian entrant believes that it can promote international
:21:56. > :22:00.harmony. I like the main message that this Eurovision has. Come
:22:01. > :22:07.together. Because music does not have any religion, nationalities,
:22:08. > :22:14.sexual orientation... Soap music is for everyone. But this MP is
:22:15. > :22:27.sticking with what he knows best. This song is about a cuckoo.
:22:28. > :22:38.With a chorus like this, perhaps he should enter Eurovision.
:22:39. > :22:41.And on that note, we will end Reporters. Goodbye.