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Welcome to Reporters. I'm Philippa Thomas. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
From here in the BBC newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
In this week's programme, the future of fuel in America. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Ahead of the US election, David Shukman assesses | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
whether cleaner energy, like solar power, could be a viable | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
A factory like this one is now producing solar panels that | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
It means that solar power can be roughly comparable in cost | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
Chris Buckler meets the teenagers who have risked their lives to get | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
to Europe, now living alone on the streets of Italy. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Hanan Razek reports from Mauritania, where thousands are hoping | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Can you show me the gold you found? | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Six grams. That is a fortune. | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
After Rio's Olympic success, Secunder Kermani asks whether Brazil | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
now faces its biggest embarrassment, botching the organisation | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
There has been a disrespect for the Paralympic Games, | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
for the potential and the impact that could have made for | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
As the Proms celebrates Quincy Jones' 60-year career, | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
Stephen Smith talks to the jazz legend about music, race, politics | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
I would leave the country if that sucker won. | :01:46. | :02:01. | |
First, to the United States, where the result of November's | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
presidential election is likely to have a far-reaching | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
effect on the future of America's energy policy. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Donald Trump says global warming is not worth worrying | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
about and he has pledged to revive the coal industry. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
But Hillary Clinton is warning that climate change is one of the most | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
She wants the US to invest more in renewable power. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
David Shukman reports from Ohio on the political battle | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
On the Ohio River, a vast fleet of barges laden with coal, | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
part of a massive industry that has powered the American economy | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
But as I visit this sprawling complex, coal is now caught up | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
Put simply, Donald Trump supports it, Hillary Clinton does not. | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
The coal mines here are like underground cities, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
But because of tough pollution controls and cheaper shale gas, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
dozens of mining companies have filed for bankruptcy. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Donald Trump offers them the prospect of revival. | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
By the end of the year, this mine will close. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
The miners blame environmentalists and President Obama's | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
One leading mine owner, a Trump supporter, tells me real | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
If two coalminers are laid off, if they own anything | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
When they get laid off, they have no-one to sell that home too. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Those people who want to work in honour and dignity | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
It is not the America I cherish, which is why I speak out like I do. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
That is why I say Obama is the greatest scourge that America | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
The problem with coal comes when you burn it. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
It releases carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warming. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Donald Trump says that is not a problem but Hillary | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
She is offering a greener future instead. | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
In another corner of Ohio, a clean way of generating power. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
At this local company, First Solar, robots and people | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
churn out a solar panel every single second. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
A new industry is rising as an older one declines. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
While the debate rages over whether climate change is a threat | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
or not, there has been an incredibly rapid industrial transformation | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
so that a factory like this one is now producing solar panels that | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
It means that solar power can be roughly comparable in cost | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Whoever wins the American presidential election, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
low carbon power may make sense anyway. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
There are solar panels at the Museum of Art in Toledo. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Renewable energy is becoming more of a feature of everyday life | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
and great arrays like this one, covering entire fields, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Panel by panel, America is becoming greener without many | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
I just think we have some politicians that are | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
fighting the last war, they are fighting over something, | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
they still believe solar power is somewhere out | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
We've probably passed the tipping point, the turning point, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
All this matters because America is the world's largest economy. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Its decisions on energy could boost or undermine international action | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
on global warming under the Paris Climate Agreement. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Donald Trump says he will pull America out of it. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Hillary Clinton supports it, so a great deal hangs | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
It is still one of the biggest crises facing | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
Latest figures suggest more than 100,000 migrants came to Italy | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
And more and more of them are children. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
The charity Save The Children says as many as 15,000 unaccompanied | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Chris Buckler met some of them as they arrived on a rescue ship | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Arriving from Africa, both young and old see | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
A different world from the poverty and in some cases turmoil that many | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
But each new face that appears in places like Catania adds | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
That is particularly true for the children who arrive | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
It is obvious in the city around this port that many live | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
on the fringes of the system that is supposed to protect them, | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Among the teenagers we found here was Fattah. | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
He travelled by himself from the troubled country of Somalia | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
We are not showing his face because he is only 14. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Are there not dangers for you because your mum is not | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Workers from the charity Save The Children were with us | :07:20. | :08:00. | |
They helped to find him somewhere safe to stay that evening. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
In towns and cities across Italy, that is becoming increasingly | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
difficult, with reception centres filling up as boats continue | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Today, there was one girl who was 15 years old from Eritrea | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Many children choose to continue their journey alone | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
and this is extremely dangerous because they are constantly | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
falling into the hands of smugglers and traffickers. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Many girls are forced into prostitution in order | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Keeping a separation between the worlds of children | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
and adults is proving to be a challenge. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
There are children who simply leave the reception centres | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
and there is little the staff there can do to stop them. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Europe is starting to struggle to provide the education, | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
shelter and stability needed by the unaccompanied children | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
For refugees and migrants of all ages, home is both something | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
that has been left behind as well as something | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Now, this could be the world's newest gold rush. | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
Thousands of people are flocking to a mineral rich area | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
of the Sahara Desert in the hope of making a fortune. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
It follows the Mauritanian government's decision to allow | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
people to dig in the sand, which has seen some give up | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
everything in the hope of striking it rich. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Hanan Razek reports from Mauritania on tales of dreams | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
Here, in the middle of the desert, thousands of Mauritanians | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
are chasing one dream, to become rich. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Tales of making tens of thousands of pounds have | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
In a country of high unemployment, being given the opportunity to dig | :09:53. | :10:10. | |
Some have found enough gold to buy a house. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Firstly, they dig the sand out of these holes, lay it flat, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Whether it is a success or not is really down to luck. | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
In the baking heat, with little water, and no easy medical access, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Only their dreams make these punishing conditions bearable | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Ahmed has put his future on the line. | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
TRANSLATION: I came back from abroad, for the opportunity | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
I sold everything, I wanted to get some gold and have a new life. | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
Before making the long journey, Ahmed needed to buy | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
a digging licence and spend thousands more on equipment. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Now there are calls for Mauritania's government to highlight | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
TRANSLATION: The decision was based on a popular demand. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Since the living standard here is quite low, the government | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
has sought to regulate the digging at an affordable price | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The equipment prices in comparison with average wages are high. | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
Some people make less than a dollar a day. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
But with more than a quarter of Mauritanians living below | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
the poverty line, the government said its decision to allow gold | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
digging will improve the lives of many families. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
After Ahmed's big gamble and spending 27 days here, | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
all he has found is six grams of gold, worth 1% | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Yet, like many others, he still comes back, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
When it came to the Olympics, they got away with it, | :12:02. | :12:14. | |
Whatever the worries, the mishaps, the less | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
than crowded stadiums, the Games were actually great. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
And in a city that does not have the resources | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
of London or Beijing, they showed you can still host | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
But when it comes to the Paralympics, Rio does not seem | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Budget cuts are biting, some teams are not even coming. | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
Secunder Kermani has been finding out how much of the setback | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
the Paralympics could be for Rio's Olympic legacy. | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
Beaming smiles and flashing medals as Olympic Team GB | :12:53. | :13:04. | |
While success in Rio helped overshadow criticism | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
of how the Games were run, there are now concerns over the fate | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Problems like green swimming pools have led to money intended | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
for the Paralympics being spent on the Olympics instead. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
The budget has been slashed, whilst dismal ticket sales | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
It has almost become an Olympic tradition to question how ready | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
a host nation is before the Games begin, but this does feel like it is | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Just the other week, the head of the International | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Paralympic Committee said that the Games had never faced | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
circumstances like these in their entire history. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
The Paralympic cycling team is training here in Newport. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
They are focusing on winning medals, but the controversies | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Is there disappointment about the ticket sales? | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
The last time I read it was about 12%. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Clearly that is a lot of empty seats. | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
It would be nice if they were filled, not just from the athletes' | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
perspective and the spectators' perspective and the atmosphere, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
but from the funding perspective and the exposure to the sport | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
The Paralympic Games is parallel parity. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
We always come afterwards anyway because of the way | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
The way they treat us is not definitely the same, is it? | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
According to official documents, the Brazilian authorities had | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
initially hoped to raise $170 million for the Paralympics. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
But we have been told they are nowhere near the amount they need. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
One reason is just 12% of tickets have been sold compared | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
to 92% of Olympic tickets, although even then there | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
There are also just 28 Paralympic sponsors compared | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
As a result, they have decided to make cuts to the workforce, | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
cuts to transport services for athletes, and changes | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
to the venue of some events, allowing the closure of one | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
London's 2012 Paralympic games were hailed as being | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
The former Paralympic athlete who helped deliver them | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
says that legacy looks like it is in tatters now. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
More than a step backwards, this is a leap into Paralympic prehistory. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
The economic and political backdrop are certainly very different | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
But this does not have so much to do with the economics, this has to do | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
with cannibalisation of the Paralympic budget, | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
to bail out and backfill Olympic elements that did not need to go | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
There has been a disrespect, a misunderstanding, | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
a lack of understanding for the Paralympic Games, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
for the potential, and the impact that could've made | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
A legacy for the 45 million disabled people in Brazil | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Many still struggle with being accepted and feeling included. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
TRANSLATION: I was disappointed, but not surprised at the lack | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
of funding, because historically disabled people have been left | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Having said that, there have been some improvements to public | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Despite everything, Rio is what Paralympic athletes have | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
spent years training for, and all the athletes we spoke | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
to were clear about the need to make the most of the Games. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
People will organise it or they will not organise it, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
We have to deal with it as it happens, whereas the performance | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
of riding the bike as fast as we can, that is totally | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
within our control, so we can make sure we do everything we need to do | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
in training to get the best performances out of ourselves. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Delays to travel grants being paid out by Brazilian Paralympic | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
authorities had raised concerns some countries would not even be able | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
It no longer looks like it will come to that, but many are seeing these | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
He is one of the most influential figures in the history of modern | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
music, who has worked with some of the biggest artists | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Quincy Jones' career spans six decades and | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Now, at the age of 83, some of his most famous work | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
is being celebrated at the Proms here in London and he has been | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
speaking to the BBC's Stephen Smith about his remarkable | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
# Land of hope and glory, mother of the free... | :17:45. | :17:59. | |
Ah, the Last Night Of The Proms, or a young Conservative's | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
idea of New Year's Eve, as one wag has called it. | :18:05. | :18:19. | |
But look what they are doing to the Proms, Ma! | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
They are dropping a bomb on them...with the jazz song | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
I designed these three-quarter sleeves. | :18:33. | :18:49. | |
Every time I go, I get about 28 suits. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Look out, they are behind us, you'd better put your foot down, | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
I had such a good time in England in the '60s, man. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
I know you're asked all the time about Michael Jackson, | :19:07. | :19:21. | |
so do you think, ultimately, that is a tragic story? | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
I said a lot of stupid things after he died. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
Anyway, you cannot make records like that without extreme love, | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
# Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghoul could ever dare try. | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
# So let me hold you tight and share a killer thriller. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
There were stories of him bringing snakes and things... | :19:56. | :20:08. | |
A snake used to wrap around the seat and my leg. | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
It would crawl across the console. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
We went downstairs, and Muscles was in the parrot cage right | :20:22. | :20:36. | |
there, and the parrot, they did not like each other. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
He had just eaten the parrot and his head | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
# Put on your red shoes and dance the blues. | :20:45. | :20:56. | |
We have lost some great people this year. | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
The last two years, George Martin, David Bowie. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Oh, man, it just does not stop. | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
Can you tell us about your time with him? | :21:08. | :21:21. | |
Was he as good as everyone says? | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
The music can never be any more or less than | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
When it comes to the musicians the composer has known and worked | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
with, it is hard keeping up with Jones. | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
What about the presidential election? | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
I would leave the country if that sucker won. | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
I assume you're referring to Mr Trump? | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
He knows how to say what they want to hear, uneducated rednecks. | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
I used to hang out with him. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Yes, but he was not like that at all. | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
He would fly on his helicopter with his name on the bottom of it. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
And what about how things are in your country now? | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
We keep reading reports of these difficulties | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
You should have seen the '30s, '40s and '50s. | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
In the '30s in Chicago, during the Depression, | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
I wanted to be a gangster until I was 11. | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
All I saw were dead bodies and tommy guns and piles of money in back | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
This right there, I was on the wrong street, and they took a switchblade | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Right there, they put an ice pick on that. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
My daddy hit them on the head with a hammer. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
And as for racism, Jones remembers playing in Las Vegas in 1964, | :23:10. | :23:21. | |
backing Frank Sinatra as part of the Count Basie Orchestra. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Belafonte, Lena Horne, they had to eat in the kitchen. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
They slept in a black hotel across town. | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
When we came there, Frank said, we're not going to have that. | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
He said, he old man wants to see you over at the slot machines. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
Basie's old man was there, and 18 goombahs. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
He put one with each guy, like a bodyguard. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
He said, if anybody looks at them funny, break both of their legs. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
So it was burgers with Sinatra on the Strip, but also fish | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
Didn't you live near Picasso for a while? | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
After he finished, he took the bones and pushed them on the Croisette, | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
He pushed it out so the sun could parch the bones, | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
then he took the colours out of his pocket, a blue, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
a yellow, and a red, and drew his designs on it. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
When the check came, he pushed that out there. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Along all of the walls, all of his food was marked up. | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
Unlike his fellow bandleader, the late, great James Brown, | :24:45. | :24:59. | |
Jones says he would not dream of fining musicians for missing | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
What is the secret of getting the best out of them? | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Come on, that is not necessary, to be that kind of disciplinarian. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
What was that movie that won the Oscar? | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
No jazz musician would take that, throwing a chair at | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Thank you very much, everybody, and thank you to Quincy Jones | :25:22. | :25:34. | |
Well, that is all from Reporters for this week. | :25:35. | :25:44. |