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Welcome to reporters. From here the sender correspondence to bring you

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the best stories from across the globe.

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In this week's programme, Mayday fun at the fair in

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And a visit to a state-of-the-art hospital.

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But Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out that

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not everything inside the secretive state is what it seems.

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The ice chasm cutting an Antarctic base adrift.

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Peter Gibbs visit the research station

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If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes

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a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a few kilometres that way.

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Steve Rosenberg meets the Russian politician turned

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crooning crusader who dreams of revolutionising Eurovision.

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North Korea held the first party congress

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of its ruling elite for nearly 40 years this week.

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The once-in-a-generation meeting consolidated the power

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and authority of Kim Jong-un as supreme leader

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Now journalists rarely get access to North Korea,

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but in a sign of the state inching open its door to the outside world,

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a team of Nobel Laureates, led by a European prince,

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Rupert Wingfield Hayes joined them and was

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given a rare view of a different side of life in North Korea.

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Mayday fun in the workers' paradise.

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These are not the sort of scenes I expected to find in North Korea.

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There was nothing like this last time I came here.

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A lot of these kids can speak English.

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I have taken this several times but at this time I have...

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What subject are you studying? I know, it's difficult.

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Finance? Finance.

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Pampered and privileged but even they live

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Do you have an opportunity? Foreigners?

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Like me. It's my first chance.

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Your first chance to meet a foreigner?

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I am from England. Oh!

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While the elite plays, the masses are preparing for

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the biggest political show in decade.

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From atop a high monument, we glimpsed thousands of dancers,

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rehearsing for the opening of the workers' party congress.

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Its job, to glorify the rule of Kim Jong-un.

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There is no escaping the Kim dynasty.

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Even at Pyonghang Children's Hospital.

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Our Nobel laureates are regaled with tales of how Marshal Kim

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But the children we are shown look remarkably well.

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And there isn't a real doctor in sight.

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Even our VIP, Prince Alfred of Liechtstein, is starting

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So this is the challenge of trying to

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understand anything about this country.

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We're brought to a place like this,

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it looks very modern, it is very clean, modern equipment.

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But we are not allowed to talk to ordinary people.

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If I turn and try to ask these people anything, they run away.

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Everything we see looks like a setup.

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It's easier to understand the national sport, tae kwon do.

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This is how North Korea sees itself - tough,

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How do you feel about us, the outside world?

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Who can blame her for losing her tongue

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For all its tough behaviour, this is a

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country terrified of the outside world.

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Rupert Wingfield Hayes, in Pyongyang.

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Here's a story which brings a whole new meaning to moving house.

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A British research station in Antarctica is being relocated in its

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entirety on skis to save it from floating out to sea.

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The station sits on an ice shelf that is constantly moving

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and now, a rapidly expanding crack in the ice could

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see the base marooned on an iceberg and cast adrift

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Peter Gibbs has been to Antarctica to see what is being done

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It's the coldest, windiest, driest, one of the most

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And it's home to the British Antarctic Survey's

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Here, cutting-edge science is making vital discoveries about how our

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lives are vulnerable to the Sun's activities and the threat of

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But Halley Station is itself is under threat.

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So our journey to resupply the research station is also part

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Just three years ago, you could drive straight across

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Now, there is a massive chasm hundreds of

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metres across, expanding at 15 centimetres a day and extending 1.5

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If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes

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a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a few kilometres that way.

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For this glaciologist, it's like watching

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So it's constantly monitored and there

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really is only one way to get a closer look.

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I'm going to resist the temptation to

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I've been looking at this, these images, for ages and

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now to be here, physically, it's just great.

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And look down, Peter, it's a good view!

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I'm looking down, it's just phenomenal.

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Ice shelves grow with time as more and more ice is being added

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through an event which is basically the breaking off of a

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chunk of ice shelf which floats away as an iceberg.

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This is a natural process which we always expect.

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So, if this chasm continues to expand, with Halley

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Station where it is right now, the research station

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As hundreds of millions of viewers around the world tune in,

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in Russia, one politician is planning an alternative

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to the song contest, and with a very different sound.

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Our reporter has been to Saint Petersburg to meet him.

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Hang on, it feels threatened by that?

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This man is a Russian MP on a crooning crusade to promote music

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He loves folk and loathes the Europop invading Russia.

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TRANSLATION: To conquer any country now you don't need weapons.

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The minds of our young people are coming under the influence

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of TV, which is trying to impose a fashion, a certain kind of music.

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Two years ago, when Eurovision was won by the bearded lady, Conchita,

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this man was so shocked he did this in Parliament.

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Black Crow, he sings, why are you circling above us?

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What the MP wants to hear is more music like this...

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He is planning a rival to Eurovision, called Good Vision where

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TRANSLATION: It will be folk music with national instruments and

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But not everyone here is out of tune with the Eurovision Song contest.

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This year's Russian entrant believes that it can promote international

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I like the main message that this Eurovision has.

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Because music does not have any religion, nationalities,

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But this MP is sticking with what he knows best.

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With a chorus like this, perhaps he should enter Eurovision.

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And on that note, we will end Reporters.

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Another warm day to come tomorrow and

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