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now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Hello, welcome to Reporters, I'm Christian Frazier. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
From here, in the BBC's Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
As the United States enters a new political era, | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
John Sudworth has been finding out how China is reacting | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Before his election, China could simply dismiss | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Donald Trump's rhetoric as the over-inflated bluster | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Jeremy Bowen reports from the ruins of eastern Aleppo and assesses | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
Foreign intervention has transformed this war | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
and the way it's looking, right now, foreigners, not Syrians, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Is Britain coming together over Brexit? | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
After the Prime Minister clarifies her Brexit strategy, | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Jeremy Cook finds out whether people on both sides of the debate | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Crisis at Stormont, as Northern Ireland's power-sharing | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Executive collapses, forcing new elections. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Gavin Hewitt reports on fears of a return | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
What does all this mean - uncertainty for Northern Ireland, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
without an Executive, key areas of Government | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes finds out why the world's largest seafood market | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
is moving and why some are not happy about it. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
These are the fish that are 200-250 kilos and these are the ones that | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
The current record for one fish here, $1.7 million. | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
Well, there's no doubt what was the biggest | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
international event of this week, it's been trailed for months, | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
but now Donald Trump has finally been sworn in as the 45th President | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
One nation who will be watching the new American | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Mr Trump broke with decades of precedent last month by taking | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
a telephone call from a telephone call the Taiwanese President, | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
a move that has angered Beijing which regards Taiwan | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
State media said China would "take off the gloves" if such | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
As John Sudworth reports, in China, Mr Trump has gone from a figure | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
of fun to someone who's provoking a loft anger. | :02:43. | :02:55. | |
Not everyone in China is taking Donald Trump too seriously. | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
His inauguration this week comes just ahead | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
of the Chinese New Year of the Rooster. | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
And this factory is making, well, giant Trump lookalike | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
"The orders are flowing in, we can barely cope", the boss tells me. | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
But increasingly, Mr Trump is becoming a target of anger, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Mock-ups of Taiwanese ships provide shooting practice at this | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Chinese military museum, just across the Taiwan Strait. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
While US presidents have long avoided challenging Beijing's | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
claim to sovereignty, the so-called one China policy, | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
"China's military, especially our Navy, | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
"We don't fear US provocation", this man tells me. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
"We want peace, but if they cross our red line we have to take | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Last week, in a move seen by some as intended to make that very point, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
China sent its aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
And China's Communist Party-run newspapers have issued a stark | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
warning, telling Mr Trump that if he changes US policy, | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves, | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
and that China will mercilessly combat those who advocate | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
These Chinese workers make luxury marble products for the US market. | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
For them, the biggest fear is not rising military | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Their American boss believes Mr Trump's threatened tariffs | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
will do nothing to change the basic market reality. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Hiring one worker in the states, i could hire five to six in China. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
So moving our business to the states would impinge into our margins | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
which would then reflect on consumer pricing, And it would be | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
very difficult to run a business that way. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
The world's about to find out whether one of the most vital | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
and complex bilateral relationships is to undergo a profound change. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Before his election, China could simply dismiss | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Donald Trump's rhetoric as the overinflated bluster | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
And China is making it increasingly clear that | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
while it has a lot to lose, so, too, does America | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
To Syria now, where the United Nations says 40,000 people have | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
returned to their homes in the east of Aleppo, the city devastated | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Most are living on aid, in very difficult conditions. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Syria's largest city became a major battleground in the summer of 2012, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
but after four years of bloody conflict, government forces cut off | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
the rebels' supply lines and they were able to take full | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Jeremy Bowen has been back to eastern Aleppo and found a city | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
The final battle for Aleppo swept through the city | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
All sides in this war were prepared to destroy Aleppo to possess it. | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
In the end, the firepower of the regime and its Russian | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
and Iranian allies was too much for the fractious rebel coalition | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
This city is the key to northern Syria. | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Right across the country, rebels who are still fighting, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
The battle for Aleppo lasted four years. | :07:04. | :07:16. | |
More than 200,000 civilians were trapped in the heat of the fight. | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
Attacks on civilians by any side in the war are crimes if it can be | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Zakaria Mohammed Juma lost his leg in East Aleppo three months ago. | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
At a clinic run by the International Committee of the Red Cross, he's | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
When you can't walk, supporting a family is even harder. | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
It will take years and billions to rebuild. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
The east side of Aleppo and much of the old city is in ruins. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
With a photo of his clothes shop, Salah stood in front | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
I've seen this much damage elsewhere in Syria, but never | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Abu Mahmoud is one of the first to return to his neighbourhood. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
"If only they'd take away the rubble", he said, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
"all the neighbours would come back." | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
This corpse was still lying on the road a month | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
after the battle, more are certain to be buried in collapsed buildings. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Abu Mohammed, collecting firewood, showed where a mortar | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
"Look", he said, "they took out my spleen, a kidney | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
In every queue for emergency aid, there are tragedies. | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
This child, who is 12, has seen more than anyone | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Her grandmother is using all the strength she has left to care | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
TRANSLATION: My daughter's 15-year-old girl and her son, | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
My son's three-year-old daughter lost a leg. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Another grandson, aged seven, lost a hand. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
My family's houses were all destroyed. | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
TRANSLATION: We don't know what's hidden in our future. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
I saw with my own eyes my other cousin, his intestines | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
President Assad's resurgence in Aleppo means talk | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
about forcing him out sounds more hollow than ever. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
He is the strongest he's been since the war started. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
The empty, ruined, silent streets on the former front | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
No one has tried to move back here, it's haunted by violence and death. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
That is a home-made mortar, designed and built by | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the rebels and in itself, it's a fearsome weapon. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
But it is nothing compared to the power of the Russian air | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
force and the military know-how of the Iranians and | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Foreign intervention has transformed this war and the way | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
it's looking right now, foreigners, not Syrians, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
The sun sets in Aleppo on a dark, cold and broken place. | :11:02. | :11:15. | |
It feels like a post-war city, but this is not a post-war country. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
For the first time, the President and his allies can smell victory, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
There were fears of a return to the tribal politics | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
of the past in Northern Ireland after its power-sharing | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Executive collapsed, triggering new elections | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
It's all over a controversial energy scheme which could cost | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
the taxpayer ?500,000,000, but it's caused a deep riff | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
between the two main partners in the Executive, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Gavin Hewitt reports from Stormont on what it means for | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
The 10 years, power has been shared in Northern Ireland. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
It was one of the foundation stones of peace. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Today, that power-sharing government collapsed. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
I propose that a draft Order in Council be brought forward | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
shortly to set an election date of Thursday, 2nd March. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
No-one should underestimate the challenge faced | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
to the political institutions here in Northern Ireland | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
The trigger for the breakdown was a row over a controversial green | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
energy scheme drawn up by Unionist minister, Arlene Foster. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
But the bitter arguments over the scheme exposed growing | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
tensions between Nationalist and Unionist politicians. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
I think it's both parties, personally, and I find | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
it very disappointing and very, very sad. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
It's the tribal politics, you know, I feel like we're back in the 80s | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
and I was really hopeful that for the future generations that they | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
There's no appetite for a return to any sort of violence at any stage | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
I think that possibly what will happen is we'll be led | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
through another couple of years of political insecurity. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
At Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly depends on unionists | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Today, both main parties were asked to submit a name for one | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
First up, the Democratic Unionist Party. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
And they backed their current leader. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
..nominate Arlene Foster to be the First Minister. | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
There can be no return to the status quo. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
If something is broke, you stop and you fix it. | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
But they refused to put forward a name, so ending | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
What does all this mean - uncertainty for Northern Ireland. | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
Without an Executive, key areas of government | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
will be stalled and then, most importantly, there's Brexit. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Where will be the Northern Ireland voice when crucial | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
We are in a very grave situation going into this election | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
and the timing of it, when Northern Ireland | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
has no budget agreed, when we are facing into Brexit | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
and when we're also coming to the end of the financial year | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
is possibly the worst time that we could be entering | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Recent years have changed Northern Ireland, but the shadows of the past | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
Some still say they're confused, but we did get some clarity this | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
week on Britain's plans for Brexit as Theresa May announced her | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
12-point plan, including a pledge to leave the single market. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
The Prime Minister insisted that people were coming together, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
but she also acknowledged just how divisive last year's | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
We sent Jeremy Cook to see how those on different sides of the argument | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Boston, an ancient English town, a changing landscape. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
On the bus, plenty of support for the Prime Minister's speech, | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
More than one in ten people here are EU migrants. | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
Is it a price worth paying to come out of the single market in order | :15:32. | :15:44. | |
You've got to control it in some way. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
At the Boston Body Hub, it's 60s dance work out. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
The project is largely EU-funded, but most here voted Brexit. | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
Many worried about levels of immigration and the | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
The worry is we might lose some trade with Europe | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
What do you think about that trade off? | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
The trade off, I think, will be worth it because I think | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Britain's big enough to take care of itself. | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
It's Great Britain - it always has been, | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Outside Boston, the agricultural heartland. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Many crops being prepared today will need migrant workers | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Within the industry we need labour and without it we will starve. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
What would you say to Theresa May then in terms of what you need | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
I am hoping from this that she's going to allow skills and labour | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
to be filled in the farming community, within packers, | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
within processing, within the field labour, where's it's required. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
These workers are essential to you, aren't they? | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
An hour's drive and we're on the banks of the Trent. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
In Rushcliffe, they voted 57% to remain in the EU. | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
At the Spoke and Coke cafe and bike shop, a different | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
I voted remain, and I was quite surprised by the outcome | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
of the vote, but Theresa May has outlined today is what the country | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
And I think we need clear leadership to make sure that | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Not everyone here is quite as relaxed. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
I don't think we realise how bad it is yet. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Do you think we're any clearer tonight, after Theresa May's speech, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Essentially, her message was the same - Brexit means Brexit. | :17:32. | :17:45. | |
But we still don't really know what it means! | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
For the Prime Minister then, Brexit remains the greatest | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
of political challenges, in this still divided nation. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
The Lancaster bomber became one of the most famous and effective | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
aircraft to take part in World War II. | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
It played a crucial role in securing victory for the allies, | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
but only two of them are still able to fly. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
One family is hoping that will change thanks to a remarkable | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
30-year restoration project which they hope will see another | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Wartime recordings of a Lancaster aircrew. | :18:17. | :18:28. | |
Although this one hasn't flown for 40 years. | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
It's the sight and sound, when you hear those engines revving, | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
you know, there just isn't another sound like it. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Just over 7,300 Lancasters were built. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
NEWS REEL: Special missions included the Dambusters raid... | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Almost half were lost in combat during World War II. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
But for Harold Panton and his family, the desire to fully | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
It brings many memories back, I think. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
His brother, Christopher, a member of Bomber Command, | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
died on a mission over Germany in 1944. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Harold and his other brother, Fred, wanted to restore an aircraft | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
We knew that it's either now or never because we'd never get | :19:20. | :19:31. | |
Fred died four years ago, before the family dream of seeing | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
this Lancaster back in the sky could be fulfilled. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Fred's grandson, Andrew, is determined to make it happen. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Lancaster parts are very hard to come by, so you snap up parts | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
There are a few companies that did buy up old stock after the war, | :19:47. | :19:59. | |
but then people brought random parts and have had it their house | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Yeah, it's very tight inside, added to by the fact that there's | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
a lot of equipment and the main spars come through as well. | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
So this is like the main backbone of the aircraft? | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
These spars are, as you said, the backbone, it's where | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
So it's very important for our restoration that we check | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
They've got some X-ray later this month. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
I mean, it's going to be such a moment, isn't it, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
I mean, we'll be flying with minimal crew, if we manage | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
to get her airworthy, so it's going to be quite | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Members of RAF Bomber Command faced dreadful odds when embarking | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
on a mission, 44% of aircrew lost their lives during World War | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
II, and on a Lancaster there was one place that was by far the most | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Here where the Rear Gunner or Tail End Charlie, | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
as he was known, did his best to defend the plane. | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
It's the part that was shot at first by any enemy action and life | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
expectancy was about five trips or 40-hours. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Only two other Lancasters are still airworthy, | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
the fundraising and work continues to make this one the third. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
I'll be extremely emotional, as my grandad will... | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Tim Moffatt, BBC News, in East Kirkby, in Lincolnshire. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
Finally, if you like sushi, you're going to love this. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
We're going to take you now to the world's biggest fish | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
market, the legendary Tsukiji Fish Centre in Japan. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
It supplies Tokyo's finest sushi restaurants as well as the general | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
public, but it's being closed down and being moved to a bigger, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
more modern sight and, as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports, | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
many people are not too happy about it. | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
It's 5.00am in the morning inside the world's biggest fish | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
market and the tuna auctions are under way. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
This is the first auction of 2017 and the prices | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
This is going to be the last new year auction held in Tsukiji | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
perhaps ever because this market supposed to close and over here, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
if you come over here, you can see, you can see through here, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
These are the fish that are 200-250 kilos. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
These are the ones that might reach record prices. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
The current record for one fish here, $1.7 million. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Tsukiji Market is like no other, vast and chaotic. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
On a good day, 60,000 people bustle through this maze of alleys shops, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
but soon all of this will be gone, the buildings demolished, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
This man's family have been trading tuna since the days of the Shogun. | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
In Tsukiji, I'm the third generation and we are doing this business | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
So what we feel is, we built this place. | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
I mean, Tsukiji, it's not built by someone. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Actually, we make the history in this place, but why | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
The meat from this 200 kilo monster will go to the top sushi | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
But fish like this are getting hard to find. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
In the Pacific and Atlantic stocks of bluefin tuna have | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
The frozen one is just 1,000 or less each day | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
and the fresh one is like 300, 200, sometimes 100 or less. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
So we don't have enough fish to sell, actually. | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
Do you worry about the future of the industry? | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Maybe it's going to be like the whale, it could be. | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
This new year the top bid went for this 210 kilo bluefin, $632,000. | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Critics say publicity stunts like this ignore the fact that these | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, at the Tsukiji Market, in Tokyo. | :24:10. | :24:25. | |
That's all from Reporters for this week. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
From me, Christian Frazier, goodbye for now. | :24:29. | :24:49. | |
Good evening. The temperature is falling and for some of us, it | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
barely got above freezing all day long. Take the UK as a | :24:57. | :24:58. |