:00:14. > :00:16.Welcome to Reporters, I am Phillipa Thomas.
:00:17. > :00:21.From here in the world's newsroom we send out correspondents to bring
:00:22. > :00:23.you the best stories from across the globe.
:00:24. > :00:28.I think God led this country to put Donald Trump in office.
:00:29. > :00:32.After week two of Donald Trump's unique style of diplomacy,
:00:33. > :00:38.Nick Bryant travels to the Bible belt of Tennessee and finds
:00:39. > :00:42.his supporters fully behind their new President.
:00:43. > :00:45.There are two Americas right now and how you react to Donald Trump
:00:46. > :00:57.The children of LA forced into prostitution.
:00:58. > :01:00.Angus Crawford gets exclusive access to the US police operation to rescue
:01:01. > :01:06.them and meets the girls stuck in a life of hell.
:01:07. > :01:09.What sort of things have happened to you working on the street?
:01:10. > :01:16.Raped, someone pulled a knife out on me, a gun, tried to rob me.
:01:17. > :01:22.One year on from the outbreak, Camilla Costa reports on new health
:01:23. > :01:26.fears for the thousands of babies infected with the disease.
:01:27. > :01:31.Nancy Kacungira finds out how global warming is putting the livelihoods
:01:32. > :01:36.of hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
:01:37. > :01:39.This shoreline here at Lake Turkana has seen some drastic
:01:40. > :01:44.It is here now but just a few months ago it was even
:01:45. > :01:51.further back than this, beyond those trees.
:01:52. > :01:54.We do advise that nobody enter the water.
:01:55. > :01:59.Hywel Griffiths reports on how shark nets are keeping the swimmers safe
:02:00. > :02:07.Last year, they trapped over 130 of the targeted more dangerous
:02:08. > :02:09.sharks but they also trapped another 600 marine animals, including
:02:10. > :02:21.It is two weeks since he took the oath of office
:02:22. > :02:23.and President Trump's administration has already issued dozens
:02:24. > :02:28.of orders, many of them sharply dividing opinion.
:02:29. > :02:30.But the President's supporters say he's simply fulfilling the promises
:02:31. > :02:36.he made on the campaign trail, whether people like them or not.
:02:37. > :02:39.Nick Bryant has travelled to the southern state of Tennessee
:02:40. > :02:43.to see how people are taking to their new President.
:02:44. > :02:48.The hills of eastern Tennessee, a landscape that reminds us that it
:02:49. > :02:51.wasn't just the rust belt that won Donald Trump the presidency,
:02:52. > :02:59.Father God, we are so grateful to meet here together...
:03:00. > :03:01.Chattanooga prides itself on being the buckle of that belt
:03:02. > :03:04.and at this bible study group this morning praise for his socialist
:03:05. > :03:07.conservative Supreme Court nominee and thanks to God for placing him
:03:08. > :03:17.You can just see it in the people he surrounds himself with.
:03:18. > :03:20.And I do believe he's brought a seriousness that people just
:03:21. > :03:23.didn't think were going to come out of Donald Trump.
:03:24. > :03:26.I think God led this country to put Donald Trump in office.
:03:27. > :03:35.Mark West started out as a Never Trump Republican.
:03:36. > :03:38.He is an evangelical Christian who looked upon the New Yorker
:03:39. > :03:42.as a philandering playboy but he's become a convert.
:03:43. > :03:44.Social conservatives and conservatives in general have
:03:45. > :03:47.been so fed up with Washington for so long, for decades,
:03:48. > :03:50.that we wanted someone to go to Washington and blow it up.
:03:51. > :03:53.Whether I was a Trump supporter or not, so many of us are looking
:03:54. > :03:57.for Trump to do exactly what he has been doing so far, to completely
:03:58. > :03:58.change the landscape, figuratively blow up Washington
:03:59. > :04:02.and give us a new American revolution.
:04:03. > :04:06.It has been the pace of the Trump presidency,
:04:07. > :04:08.it's felt like a final furlong gallop, that's impressed
:04:09. > :04:12.We are excited to see what he will continue to do.
:04:13. > :04:16.You think he is making good on his promises?
:04:17. > :04:18.I think he is, I think the implementation of
:04:19. > :04:20.the immigration policy showed that he was not a career politician,
:04:21. > :04:25.but I think that's why he got voted into office,
:04:26. > :04:27.because we don't want career politicians any more.
:04:28. > :04:31.There's no sign here of buyer's remorse.
:04:32. > :04:34.To travel from coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles
:04:35. > :04:37.into these heartland communities feels like crossing
:04:38. > :04:42.There are two Americas right now and how you react to Donald Trump
:04:43. > :04:54.The cannons from the American civil war that dot this landscape can be
:04:55. > :04:57.viewed both as relics of the past and reminders of how conflict
:04:58. > :05:00.and divisiveness is almost written into this nation's DNA and once
:05:01. > :05:03.again it feels like the people of America are sharing the same
:05:04. > :05:17.Well, Donald Trump's election has emboldened Europe's far-right
:05:18. > :05:19.parties ahead of elections this year in France, the Netherlands
:05:20. > :05:21.and Germany where the Alternative Fur Deutschland Party,
:05:22. > :05:23.the AFD is putting up its own candidate directly
:05:24. > :05:34.against the Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
:05:35. > :05:37.Jenny Hill has been to find out what's behind Germany's rising tide
:05:38. > :05:45.Europe's right promises a patriotic spring in communities like this
:05:46. > :05:52.It can be hard to make a living on Germany's north coast and it
:05:53. > :05:58.They've little trust here in Angela Merkel,
:05:59. > :06:06.after all, they say, she has little time for them.
:06:07. > :06:08.TRANSLATION: They just look after the big cities but these small
:06:09. > :06:11.communities up here, no, nothing is being done for us.
:06:12. > :06:15.Nothing gets through to us, they've forgotten us.
:06:16. > :06:20.Good news for Germany's right-wing party Alternative Fur Deutschland.
:06:21. > :06:24.Polls suggest one in every ten voters supports AFD.
:06:25. > :06:27.In this region it is even more popular.
:06:28. > :06:35.TRANSLATION: The other parties avoid the real problems.
:06:36. > :06:37.Merkel just sticks to her views even though she sees
:06:38. > :06:39.what she's got us into, like the terror attacks.
:06:40. > :06:42.If she hadn't brought those people into the country the victims
:06:43. > :06:47.of the Berlin Christmas market would still be alive.
:06:48. > :06:51.This former radio presenter is standing directly
:06:52. > :06:54.against Angela Merkel in her own constituency.
:06:55. > :06:57.He's unlikely to take her seat but it's not impossible.
:06:58. > :07:00.TRANSLATION: We have a big problem with radical Islam
:07:01. > :07:05.It's been taboo in Germany, the AFD broke that taboo.
:07:06. > :07:08.Thank God people now talk about their fears.
:07:09. > :07:11.Just look at who's carrying out terror attacks in Europe.
:07:12. > :07:15.2017 may yet be the year Europe's political landscape
:07:16. > :07:27.There are elections in France and the Netherlands, too.
:07:28. > :07:31.The real election battles will be fought in communities like this
:07:32. > :07:35.where people feel forgotten by their national
:07:36. > :07:39.governments, left behind by the political establishment.
:07:40. > :07:42.If Europe's leaders really want to stop the rise of the right,
:07:43. > :07:45.they must meet this challenge, reconnect with those voters
:07:46. > :07:53.A recent display of right-wing solidarity
:07:54. > :07:59.AFD shares views and now a platform with the French presidential
:08:00. > :08:01.candidate Marine Le Pen and the far-right Dutch
:08:02. > :08:09.They're emboldened by Brexit and Donald Trump's victory
:08:10. > :08:14.but in the shadow of a monument to German unity, AFD's bid
:08:15. > :08:17.for election glory already divides this country.
:08:18. > :08:27.It's thought to be the Los Angeles police department's biggest ever
:08:28. > :08:29.operation to find girls, some as young as 11,
:08:30. > :08:35.and young women who have been forced into a life of sexual exploitation.
:08:36. > :08:40.Officers made almost 500 arrests and rescued more than 50 people.
:08:41. > :08:42.Angus Crawford was given exclusive access to
:08:43. > :08:47.Look beyond the handcuffs and the painted nails,
:08:48. > :08:57.Arrested on the street for prostitution.
:08:58. > :09:02.Once inside, no cell, no bars or locks, just a room.
:09:03. > :09:08.A place of safety where young people can get help and support.
:09:09. > :09:10.We find minors every day that we are out here working,
:09:11. > :09:15.On the street they call The Blade, in the richest country in the world,
:09:16. > :09:20.children are bought and sold at any time of day, every day.
:09:21. > :09:26.Sergeant Brian Gallagher heads the area vice unit.
:09:27. > :09:33.His job tonight - find those girls, get them off the street.
:09:34. > :09:44.It is 4.00am and a routine patrol of the vice squad has pulled over
:09:45. > :09:48.a car driven by a man they know is a pimp.
:09:49. > :09:51.When they stopped it a young woman got out of the car and they're
:09:52. > :09:55.Her parents have reported her missing.
:09:56. > :10:05.A lot of these girls when we talk to them they'll tell us they're out
:10:06. > :10:13.They get abused physically, sexually.
:10:14. > :10:16.It's barbaric what's being done to these little kids.
:10:17. > :10:19.My cousin grabbed me on the way home from school...
:10:20. > :10:21.America is slowly waking up to reality.
:10:22. > :10:25.Thousands of children are being sexually exploited for money.
:10:26. > :10:32.That's why they launched Operation Reclaim and Rebuild,
:10:33. > :10:41.Prostitutes and customers arrested, processed.
:10:42. > :10:50.Just 18, caught for a second time, Treasure.
:10:51. > :10:52.She started on the street in middle school.
:10:53. > :10:54.You were a child when you first started doing this?
:10:55. > :10:59.What sort of things have happened to you working on the street?
:11:00. > :11:04.Raped, someone pulled a knife out on me, a gun, tried to rob me.
:11:05. > :11:09.Crystal is in for an unpleasant surprise.
:11:10. > :11:14.The caller is an undercover officer arranging a sting in a hotel room.
:11:15. > :11:17.Police department, can you turn around.
:11:18. > :11:20.This time the prostitute is an adult.
:11:21. > :11:37.This is the only thing I can do to survive on the streets right now.
:11:38. > :11:40.For detective Brian Gallagher, it seems neverending.
:11:41. > :11:43.Children forced to work the streets turn into women who know only this,
:11:44. > :11:54.Angus Crawford, BBC News, Los Angeles.
:11:55. > :11:58.We have a report now from a region much of which has been closed
:11:59. > :12:02.to the outside world for many years, Myanmar's Rakhine state.
:12:03. > :12:06.It's home to one of the world's most persecuted communities,
:12:07. > :12:08.the Rohingya Muslims who have accused the Burmese Army
:12:09. > :12:09.of gross human rights violations against them,
:12:10. > :12:18.A Government appointed commission set up to investigate these claims
:12:19. > :12:21.Now journalists are normally banned from visiting conflict areas
:12:22. > :12:24.of Rakhine but Jonah Fisher tried to take a trip there
:12:25. > :12:33.It is 6.30am in the morning and I am at the ferry terminal in Sittwe,
:12:34. > :12:36.the capital of Rakhine state and we are waiting to get on board
:12:37. > :12:39.a ferry to go to the northern Rakhine state and where there's been
:12:40. > :12:46.considerable violence in the last three months or so.
:12:47. > :12:49.Up until now all independent observers and journalists have been
:12:50. > :12:56.This time we had been given official permits and travelled
:12:57. > :13:05.four hours up the river, north towards the conflict zone.
:13:06. > :13:08.As our boat docked in one town it became clear
:13:09. > :13:13.We were met by police and security officials.
:13:14. > :13:15.We've been told that our trip has been cancelled,
:13:16. > :13:19.We can't go into the areas where there's been violence over
:13:20. > :13:25.Clearly there are still things they don't want journalists looking
:13:26. > :13:31.into, things they don't want people finding out about.
:13:32. > :13:33.Things like scores of Rohingya women testifying into smartphones that
:13:34. > :13:40.they've been raped and looted by Burmese security forces.
:13:41. > :13:43.Or video of unexplained piles of charred bodies in places
:13:44. > :13:48.where Rohingya have clashed with the Armiy.
:13:49. > :13:50.There is even footage filmed by the police themselves of officers
:13:51. > :13:58.Before being turned back, we insisted that someone addressed
:13:59. > :14:05.TRANSLATION: We have nothing to hide.
:14:06. > :14:07.The national Government is releasing all the true facts
:14:08. > :14:10.The teachings does not allow rapings.
:14:11. > :14:19.The Burmese Government has set up a commission to investigate
:14:20. > :14:22.but it is led by the vice-president who is a former General and seems
:14:23. > :14:31.aimed at proving that the military has done nothing wrong.
:14:32. > :14:33.This is a glimpse of the commission at work, interviewing a Rohingya
:14:34. > :14:40.Incredibly, the footage was broadcast on state TV
:14:41. > :15:11.without subtitles to prove that Rohingya claims of rape are false.
:15:12. > :15:14.Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, seen here meeting British Foreign
:15:15. > :15:16.Secretary Boris Johnson, has asked for time to solve
:15:17. > :15:22.If, as many expect, the Burmese army is exonerated by the commission,
:15:23. > :15:25.it will be clear that establishing the truth is not part
:15:26. > :15:38.One year on since the World Health Organisation declared Zika a global
:15:39. > :15:40.emergency scientists are only now beginning to understand just how
:15:41. > :15:48.The mosquito-borne virus has caused almost 2,500 babies in Brazil to be
:15:49. > :15:49.born with microcephaly, a condition identified
:15:50. > :15:59.But doctors say thousands of other infants are showing signs they too
:16:00. > :16:01.have health complications related to the virus, despite not
:16:02. > :16:06.Camilla Costa reports from Recife in Brazil
:16:07. > :16:16.This is Zika's devastating consequence.
:16:17. > :16:21.These babies will need help for the rest of their lives.
:16:22. > :16:25.Here's the best place for them to get the specialist care they need
:16:26. > :16:30.but there isn't enough money to help all of them.
:16:31. > :16:33.One of those on the waiting list is Jose Wesley.
:16:34. > :16:37.He became the face of Zika after this photo went viral.
:16:38. > :16:40.A year later, Jose is still very small for his age.
:16:41. > :16:45.He has breathing difficulties, trouble swallowing and can't walk.
:16:46. > :16:50.The only way his mother can feed him is through a tube.
:16:51. > :16:53.TRANSLATION: I come here three times a week on Tuesday,
:16:54. > :16:58.I wake up at 4.00am and arrive here at 6.00am because there is no
:16:59. > :17:04.It's very difficult but it's not impossible.
:17:05. > :17:11.If it is for my baby's health, nothing is impossible.
:17:12. > :17:14.A year after Zika was declared a global emergency, doctors believe
:17:15. > :17:20.the number of babies affected could be much higher.
:17:21. > :17:23.I am with this 15-month-old baby and she's one of those cases doctors
:17:24. > :17:31.She wasn't born with microcephaly but later on she showed signs
:17:32. > :17:33.that she too was affected by the Zika virus
:17:34. > :17:37.Her mother thought she had escaped Zika's devastating impact
:17:38. > :17:45.but after a few months something didn't seem right.
:17:46. > :17:48.TRANSLATION: When the doctor said it was Zika I was really surprised.
:17:49. > :17:51.But also relieved, because I had noticed she had motor problems,
:17:52. > :17:55.I wondered why she wasn't developing like other kids.
:17:56. > :17:58.So from then on I knew I was wrong and could treat her
:17:59. > :18:04.They call it congenital Zika syndrome.
:18:05. > :18:06.Even if these babies are born with a normal sized head,
:18:07. > :18:09.they can have poor vision, hearing loss, and other disabilities
:18:10. > :18:16.Research shows that for every baby with microcephaly ten others might
:18:17. > :18:21.We still have a lot to learn but we already know
:18:22. > :18:25.that the microcephaly is just the tip of the iceberg.
:18:26. > :18:28.We expect to determine the risk of early and later symptoms
:18:29. > :18:40.Mirella is now getting the help she needs.
:18:41. > :18:43.Doctors are rushing to identify the thousands of babies
:18:44. > :18:45.like her who will also require treatment but the Brazilian health
:18:46. > :18:48.system is already struggling to cope with Zika's legacy.
:18:49. > :18:57.It's the world's largest desert lake but Kenya's Lake
:18:58. > :19:02.Around 300,000 people live around its waters,
:19:03. > :19:06.many make their living by fishing in it.
:19:07. > :19:09.But now dam and irrigation projects in neighbouring Ethiopia combined
:19:10. > :19:16.with climate change could see it reduced to a small pool of water.
:19:17. > :19:20.The BBC's Nancy Kacungira has been to Lake Turkana to find out more.
:19:21. > :19:23.Once part of Lake Turkana, this land is now as dry
:19:24. > :19:32.About 90% of the lake's water comes from the Omar River in Ethiopia.
:19:33. > :19:35.Water levels here are dropping, partly because dams and irrigation
:19:36. > :19:38.plantations being built in Ethiopia are changing the flow
:19:39. > :19:43.of the Omar River which is the lifeline of this lake.
:19:44. > :19:45.This shoreline here at Lake Turkana has seen some drastica
:19:46. > :19:51.It is here now but a few months ago it was even
:19:52. > :19:52.further back than this, beyond those trees.
:19:53. > :20:04.The low water levels are threatening their only
:20:05. > :20:13.TRANSLATION: What we earn now is so much less.
:20:14. > :20:17.We used to go fishing twice a day but now we only go once.
:20:18. > :20:20.If the water levels keep going down, it will bring a lot of problems.
:20:21. > :20:29.Many other livelihoods here also depend on the lake.
:20:30. > :20:32.This boat-maker is working on the only job he's been able
:20:33. > :20:42.TRANSLATION: I have a few customers now because there are no fish
:20:43. > :20:46.If there are no fish, there is no way I can get business
:20:47. > :20:54.Commercial fishing activity at Lake Turkana and the number
:20:55. > :20:56.of people reliant on it has increased over the years
:20:57. > :21:03.but now that lifeline is not what it used to be.
:21:04. > :21:06.At a makeshift market just a few kilometres away from the lake
:21:07. > :21:10.this is what's on offer, a few small mudfish.
:21:11. > :21:13.You used to be able to get a fish the size of my forearm
:21:14. > :21:16.here but the size of the fish and these women's earnings
:21:17. > :21:21.Temperatures in Turkana have increased by two to three degrees
:21:22. > :21:24.Celsius over the last four decades, a rate much higher than the global
:21:25. > :21:26.average increase of less than one degree Celsius,
:21:27. > :21:35.another factor contributing to changes in the lake's water levels.
:21:36. > :21:37.Normally you have a level to which anybody will
:21:38. > :21:45.This lake is serving the community around.
:21:46. > :21:48.They're already in a hardship area as it is, and the source
:21:49. > :21:54.of livlihood, the fish they sell all the way to the Congo, gone.
:21:55. > :21:57.And as the only water source in what is otherwise a desert,
:21:58. > :21:59.there is worry that if the lake continues to recede,
:22:00. > :22:01.communities on either side will start to fight over
:22:02. > :22:12.Nancy Kacungira, BBC News, Turkana in northern Kenya.
:22:13. > :22:14.From the world's largest desert lake, to the sun-kissed
:22:15. > :22:19.Campaigners there are calling for an end to the use of shark nets
:22:20. > :22:24.because they're killing too many dolphins and turtles.
:22:25. > :22:27.A recent spate of shark attacks on the east coast has forced
:22:28. > :22:29.the authorities to put up more but some nets have
:22:30. > :22:34.been cut deliberately by those who oppose them.
:22:35. > :22:36.As Hywel Griffiths reports from Sydney, there is a fine line
:22:37. > :22:43.between keeping swimmers safe and protecting marine life.
:22:44. > :22:46.In a country where catching a wave is a national obsession,
:22:47. > :22:53.As is the debate over how best to share these waters
:22:54. > :22:59.Shark nets have been Australia's answer since the 1930s,
:23:00. > :23:03.sections are set hundreds of metres out at sea.
:23:04. > :23:08.They don't create an enclosure, but they do offer reassurance.
:23:09. > :23:11.We have got to try to protect our kids.
:23:12. > :23:13.So, that's what it's all about to me.
:23:14. > :23:18.You see creatures in the wildlife getting stuck out there.
:23:19. > :23:20.You take a risk swimming in the ocean and that's
:23:21. > :23:25.That's what the nets are meant to keep out,
:23:26. > :23:27.Great Whites are one of ten species targeted by the programme
:23:28. > :23:32.The nets are put in place from September to April when these
:23:33. > :23:38.Last year, they trapped over 130 of the targeted more dangerous
:23:39. > :23:40.sharks but they also trapped another 600 marine animals including
:23:41. > :23:53.This video shows what happens when one becomes entangled.
:23:54. > :23:57.It group of tourists managed to set this turtle free but 19 others died
:23:58. > :24:03.The nets have whale and dolphin alarms, they're
:24:04. > :24:09.Around half of the animals are set free alive but some campaigners have
:24:10. > :24:14.decided to take matters into their own hands.
:24:15. > :24:16.This is their home, that's where they live.
:24:17. > :24:18.We don't want to exclude them from where they live.
:24:19. > :24:21.They're not coming up into the car parks to get us,
:24:22. > :24:24.so let's not go into the ocean to kill them.
:24:25. > :24:26.Diver Dave Thomas admits he's cut shark nets in the past
:24:27. > :24:30.He argues they don't really protect humans,
:24:31. > :24:37.It's not based on any science or factual data.
:24:38. > :24:40.It is out there killing anything and everything and the risk
:24:41. > :24:53.There hasn't been a fatal shark attack on these beaches in 60 years.
:24:54. > :24:56.The local Government says it is a sign the nets do work
:24:57. > :25:02.People who deliberately tamper with the nets,
:25:03. > :25:05.that have cut the nets, released them from anchors,
:25:06. > :25:07.obviously very dangerous, not only for the individuals
:25:08. > :25:09.involved, but creating a real hazard for the swimmers
:25:10. > :25:17.Finding the right balance between protecting humans
:25:18. > :25:20.and preserving sea life is is as elusive as ever.
:25:21. > :25:32.That's all from Reporters for this week.
:25:33. > :25:56.From me, Phillipa Thomas, goodbye for now.
:25:57. > :26:04.I'd now we have got some very big contrasts in our weather. Clear blue
:26:05. > :26:08.skies across large swathes of the UK but also torrential rain in the
:26:09. > :26:09.South West of England and tomorrow it is looking