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Welcome to Reporters, I'm Philippa Thomas. | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
From here in the BBC News room, we send out correspondents | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
In this week's programme: Is America's | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
Justin Rowlatt asks what the Trump administration should do | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
According to the American Government's own estimates, the | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Taliban still controls a third of the country, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
opium production is at record high and corruption is still | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Who are the happiest children in the world? | :00:47. | :00:59. | |
Anna Holligan meets mums who have gone | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
And the future of Formula One, as its legendary leader, Bernie | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Dan Roan examines his legacy, and meets the man | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
It's been running as a one-man dictator for a long, long time. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
I think the sport needs a fresh perspective. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
As Donald Trump settles into his new home in | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
the White House, one of his | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
most pressing issues in is in-tray is Afghanistan. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
In the past he's described America's involvement as a | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
disaster but he's also told the Afghan leader, the US will not | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
The international combat mission there | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
ended in 2014 but 13,000 Nato troops remain and most of them are | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
With the Taliban and other militant groups gaining ground, | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Justin Rowlatt has been trying to find out if the US will cut its | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
losses and bring America's longest war to an end. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
Another team of Afghan soldiers is flying in to Helmand province. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
The BBC got rare permission to join them. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
It has been hard going for the Afghan army since the US and its | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Nato allies pulled out most of their troops at the end of 2014. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
These days, the soldiers don't have far to | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
It is right on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
The Taliban now control more than 80% of | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
the province and, say the soldiers, supplies are low. | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
TRANSLATION: For a month we have been saying we are running out of | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
ammunition but we don't get any new supplies. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Our enemy is firing at us but we don't have enough bullets to | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
His commander urges President Trump to continue to | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
TRANSLATION: As a soldier of Afghanistan, I ask his excellency, | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
Donald Trump, to continue the fight here. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
If he can give us more support we can wipe the terrorists out. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
The West still has 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, most of them are | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
This is their headquarters in Kabul but the truth | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
The West has spent more in real terms on reconstruction | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
here in Afghanistan than America spent on the | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Now despite that, according to the American | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
government's own estimates, the Taliban still controls a third of | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
the country, opium production is at a record high | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Nato commanders say America does have clear | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Afghanistan - Training and assisting the Afghan army and targeting | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
So, specifically, Al-Qaeda, as well as | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
the Islamic State, that is what really keeps direct | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
pressure on the organisations that threaten the West and threaten our | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Nato commanders say America does have clear strategic | :04:18. | :04:40. | |
interests in Afghanistan - Training and assisting | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
the Afghan army and targeting terrorist organisations. | :04:43. | :04:43. | |
And other powers are flexing their muscles in Afghanistan. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Last month Russia hosted a meeting in Moscow about the country's future | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
with senior officials from China and Pakistan and it makes no secret | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
of the fact it has been talking to the Taliban. | :04:52. | :05:19. | |
This doesn't take much, according to the Dutch. They have the most | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
contented baby, the happiest kids and the best work life balance as | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
adults. The lessons start with breakfast. They place a high value | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
on family life, and communication between members of the family and | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
part of eating together is about talking together. The Dutch scored | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
the highest on children aged breakfast before school. That set | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
them up for the day. Chocolate sprinklings clearly contradict | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
healthy eating advice. It Dutch kids have some of the lowest obesity | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
rates, which might be linked to the fact that so many cycle to school, | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
but, as you can see, bikes and cars have separate lanes, so parents | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
don't have the same worries about sending kids out on two wheels. When | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
they get to school, Dutch pupils don't face academic pressure like | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
tests and from work until much later. When there is not so much | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
pressure, children start school in a positive way by enjoying it, by | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
feeling this is something nice to do. That is backed up by the Unicef | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
statistics would suggest these children are more likely to go on to | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
further education than their British counterparts. You will see lots of | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
fathers at the school gates. The Dutch government legislates for | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
unpaid father Davies which encourage families to share the childcare. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Then there is the freedom. We always read in all these books but they | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
should play outside, so I am happy it is part of a culture where they | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
are expected to go out and play. The by-product of giving kids a greater | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
independence, more time for yourself, at least when they are | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
older. Head west from here and you will reach Essex. The UK might be | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
geographically close but there are fundamental differences between our | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
societies and not all of the lessons here can simply be exported over | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
there. But, they might just inspire you. Now, anxious times at Formula 1 | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
after the man who transformed the sport into a billion-dollar global | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
business stood down this week. Bernie Ecclestone Road F1 for nearly | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
40 years wit and irony crib and an astuteness that has been arguably | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
unmatched across business and sporting worlds. But, he has been | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
accused by his successor, Chase Carey, of running the sport like it | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
one-man dictator. The new man at the top of Formula 1 has been talking to | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
us about the future of the sport. There is Bernie Ecclestone, the Czar | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
of Formula 1. He has been a driving force like no other. Having root of | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Formula 1 with an iron grip for decades, Bernie Ecclestone | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
transformed into a global commercial phenomenon on. This is fantastic. At | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
times it seemed as if he would go on for ever but with a | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
multi-billion-dollar American takeover came a sudden change in | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
direction. The new F1 boss said it is the end of the road for the man | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
he has replaced. I expect this is difficult for Bernie, he has run the | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
sport as a one-man, he calls himself a dictator, he has run it as a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
one-man dictator for a long time. I think the sport needs a fresh | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
perspective. From second-hand car salesman to the martial rights | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
holder, the rise of Ecclestone was remarkable. The 86-year-old's deal | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
making skills quite powerful friends and billions in the bank. There was | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
also controversy. Some comments caused offence and he was forced to | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
settle a bribery case in 2014, but this diminutive figure will be | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
remembered as a titan of the sport. You cannot have another Bernie. The | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
conditions and circumstances will never exist and he will go down in | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
history for what he has achieved. This is fantastic. Recently, F1 has | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
struggled to match the thrills of the pass and with declining | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
audiences, the sport needs a revamp. The most important thing is getting | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
back to the basics of great racing, engaging with the fans, engaging | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
with the public and, perhaps, making the cars less confident. I go back | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
to man and machine being at the pinnacle. Formula 1 has been able to | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
depend on its unique mix of speed, glamour and technology to guarantee | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
true global appeal. There is a sense from within the sport that in an | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
ultracompetitive and shifting sports market, there are now needs to be | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
change. We need to use all the digital platforms available and are | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
marketing capability to tell the stories of the rivalries. We have to | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
make are even larger than ever, week-long events, cities at the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
tracks with music and entertainment, with the sport at the Centre. I have | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
talked about 21 super Bowls and that is what we should have. This is a | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
seismic moment. Ecclestone has been offered an advisory role, but the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
man is to bring the puppet master is no longer pulling the strings. The | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
wood of the sport will never see his like again. And that is all from | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
reporters this week. From me, goodbye for now. | :10:46. | :10:53. |