:00:00. > :00:29.Welcome to reporters. From here the sender correspondence to bring you
:00:30. > :00:33.the best stories from across the globe.
:00:34. > :00:35.In this week's programme, Mayday fun at the fair in
:00:36. > :00:38.And a visit to a state-of-the-art hospital.
:00:39. > :00:39.But Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out that
:00:40. > :00:42.not everything inside the secretive state is what it seems.
:00:43. > :00:53.The ice chasm cutting an Antarctic base adrift.
:00:54. > :00:54.Peter Gibbs visit the research station
:00:55. > :00:59.If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes
:01:00. > :01:03.a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a few kilometres that way.
:01:04. > :01:09.Steve Rosenberg meets the Russian politician turned
:01:10. > :01:22.crooning crusader who dreams of revolutionising Eurovision.
:01:23. > :01:24.North Korea held the first party congress
:01:25. > :01:28.of its ruling elite for nearly 40 years this week.
:01:29. > :01:31.The once-in-a-generation meeting consolidated the power
:01:32. > :01:34.and authority of Kim Jong-un as supreme leader
:01:35. > :01:40.Now journalists rarely get access to North Korea,
:01:41. > :01:44.but in a sign of the state inching open its door to the outside world,
:01:45. > :01:46.a team of Nobel Laureates, led by a European prince,
:01:47. > :01:51.Rupert Wingfield Hayes joined them and was
:01:52. > :01:57.given a rare view of a different side of life in North Korea.
:01:58. > :02:01.Mayday fun in the workers' paradise.
:02:02. > :02:06.These are not the sort of scenes I expected to find in North Korea.
:02:07. > :02:11.There was nothing like this last time I came here.
:02:12. > :02:22.A lot of these kids can speak English.
:02:23. > :02:25.I have taken this several times but at this time I have...
:02:26. > :02:38.What subject are you studying? I know, it's difficult.
:02:39. > :02:42.Finance? Finance.
:02:43. > :02:47.Pampered and privileged but even they live
:02:48. > :02:59.Do you have an opportunity? Foreigners?
:03:00. > :03:00.Like me. It's my first chance.
:03:01. > :03:02.Your first chance to meet a foreigner?
:03:03. > :03:05.I am from England. Oh!
:03:06. > :03:08.While the elite plays, the masses are preparing for
:03:09. > :03:11.the biggest political show in decade.
:03:12. > :03:14.From atop a high monument, we glimpsed thousands of dancers,
:03:15. > :03:19.rehearsing for the opening of the workers' party congress.
:03:20. > :03:24.Its job, to glorify the rule of Kim Jong-un.
:03:25. > :03:28.There is no escaping the Kim dynasty.
:03:29. > :03:30.Even at Pyonghang Children's Hospital.
:03:31. > :03:33.Our Nobel laureates are regaled with tales of how Marshal Kim
:03:34. > :03:40.But the children we are shown look remarkably well.
:03:41. > :03:44.And there isn't a real doctor in sight.
:03:45. > :03:52.Even our VIP, Prince Alfred of Liechtstein, is starting
:03:53. > :03:55.So this is the challenge of trying to
:03:56. > :03:57.understand anything about this country.
:03:58. > :03:58.We're brought to a place like this,
:03:59. > :04:01.it looks very modern, it is very clean, modern equipment.
:04:02. > :04:03.But we are not allowed to talk to ordinary people.
:04:04. > :04:06.If I turn and try to ask these people anything, they run away.
:04:07. > :04:10.Everything we see looks like a setup.
:04:11. > :04:13.It's easier to understand the national sport, tae kwon do.
:04:14. > :04:17.This is how North Korea sees itself - tough,
:04:18. > :04:26.How do you feel about us, the outside world?
:04:27. > :04:30.Who can blame her for losing her tongue
:04:31. > :04:36.For all its tough behaviour, this is a
:04:37. > :04:40.country terrified of the outside world.
:04:41. > :05:07.Rupert Wingfield Hayes, in Pyongyang.
:05:08. > :05:10.Here's a story which brings a whole new meaning to moving house.
:05:11. > :05:13.A British research station in Antarctica is being relocated in its
:05:14. > :05:15.entirety on skis to save it from floating out to sea.
:05:16. > :05:18.The station sits on an ice shelf that is constantly moving
:05:19. > :05:20.and now, a rapidly expanding crack in the ice could
:05:21. > :05:23.see the base marooned on an iceberg and cast adrift
:05:24. > :05:27.Peter Gibbs has been to Antarctica to see what is being done
:05:28. > :05:32.It's the coldest, windiest, driest, one of the most
:05:33. > :05:35.And it's home to the British Antarctic Survey's
:05:36. > :05:38.Here, cutting-edge science is making vital discoveries about how our
:05:39. > :05:41.lives are vulnerable to the Sun's activities and the threat of
:05:42. > :05:56.But Halley Station is itself is under threat.
:05:57. > :05:59.So our journey to resupply the research station is also part
:06:00. > :06:02.Just three years ago, you could drive straight across
:06:03. > :06:06.Now, there is a massive chasm hundreds of
:06:07. > :06:09.metres across, expanding at 15 centimetres a day and extending 1.5
:06:10. > :06:13.If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes
:06:14. > :06:16.a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a few kilometres that way.
:06:17. > :06:17.For this glaciologist, it's like watching
:06:18. > :06:22.So it's constantly monitored and there
:06:23. > :06:24.really is only one way to get a closer look.
:06:25. > :06:27.I'm going to resist the temptation to
:06:28. > :06:40.I've been looking at this, these images, for ages and
:06:41. > :06:45.now to be here, physically, it's just great.
:06:46. > :06:47.And look down, Peter, it's a good view!
:06:48. > :06:56.I'm looking down, it's just phenomenal.
:06:57. > :06:59.Ice shelves grow with time as more and more ice is being added
:07:00. > :07:03.through an event which is basically the breaking off of a
:07:04. > :07:07.chunk of ice shelf which floats away as an iceberg.
:07:08. > :07:11.This is a natural process which we always expect.
:07:12. > :07:13.So, if this chasm continues to expand, with Halley
:07:14. > :07:16.Station where it is right now, the research station
:07:17. > :07:57.As hundreds of millions of viewers around the world tune in,
:07:58. > :07:59.in Russia, one politician is planning an alternative
:08:00. > :08:01.to the song contest, and with a very different sound.
:08:02. > :08:04.Our reporter has been to Saint Petersburg to meet him.
:08:05. > :08:30.Hang on, it feels threatened by that?
:08:31. > :08:38.This man is a Russian MP on a crooning crusade to promote music
:08:39. > :08:46.He loves folk and loathes the Europop invading Russia.
:08:47. > :08:49.TRANSLATION: To conquer any country now you don't need weapons.
:08:50. > :08:54.The minds of our young people are coming under the influence
:08:55. > :08:57.of TV, which is trying to impose a fashion, a certain kind of music.
:08:58. > :09:03.Two years ago, when Eurovision was won by the bearded lady, Conchita,
:09:04. > :09:15.this man was so shocked he did this in Parliament.
:09:16. > :09:20.Black Crow, he sings, why are you circling above us?
:09:21. > :09:27.What the MP wants to hear is more music like this...
:09:28. > :09:31.He is planning a rival to Eurovision, called Good Vision where
:09:32. > :09:39.TRANSLATION: It will be folk music with national instruments and
:09:40. > :09:54.But not everyone here is out of tune with the Eurovision Song contest.
:09:55. > :09:58.This year's Russian entrant believes that it can promote international
:09:59. > :10:13.I like the main message that this Eurovision has.
:10:14. > :10:17.Because music does not have any religion, nationalities,
:10:18. > :10:24.But this MP is sticking with what he knows best.
:10:25. > :10:40.With a chorus like this, perhaps he should enter Eurovision.
:10:41. > :11:12.And on that note, we will end Reporters.
:11:13. > :11:13.Another warm day to come tomorrow and