:00:00. > :00:10.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. The scale of
:00:11. > :00:20.devastation and desperation in the Philippines comes clear. Up to 0
:00:21. > :00:41.million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan. We are very hungry
:00:42. > :00:49.and thirsty. If you have water and food there maybe you can give some
:00:50. > :00:53.to as. The destruction is almost complete.
:00:54. > :01:02.There is the stench of death in the air.
:01:03. > :01:06.Also coming up: It's not the big deal between the Iran and the US but
:01:07. > :01:08.there has been a step forward today with nuclear negotiations.
:01:09. > :01:12.And, the artist allowed to paint at Guantanamo Bay - so long as there
:01:13. > :01:18.are blanks in his canvas. We'll tell you why.
:01:19. > :01:33.Hello and welcome. Massive and unprecedented. That is how the
:01:34. > :01:43.disaster in the Philippines is being described. A state of emergency has
:01:44. > :01:46.been declared but the government is struggling to cope with the
:01:47. > :01:49.aftermath of what looks like the most powerful Typhoon ever to hit
:01:50. > :01:52.land. So many victims desperately need water, food and shelter. Some
:01:53. > :01:56.are turning to looting to survive. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports from
:01:57. > :02:02.the worst hit area we know of - Tacloban city.
:02:03. > :02:19.People are grieving, homeless and hungry. If you have water or food
:02:20. > :02:24.maybe you can give some to as. And makeshift hospital. Some
:02:25. > :02:35.patients are being treated without anaesthetic. This woman has just
:02:36. > :02:45.given birth. A baby born into a world upturned. And another young
:02:46. > :02:51.woman is also in labour. People waiting here are desperate to get
:02:52. > :03:01.out on any plane they can find. This is my father's only chance for life.
:03:02. > :03:11.He needs dialysis. He is in critical condition. Send help. Outside the
:03:12. > :03:25.airport hundreds have been waiting, desperate for any aid they can get.
:03:26. > :03:33.We need food. Please help me. I am still alive. Today there was some
:03:34. > :03:37.hope with the arrival of the American military. An expeditionary
:03:38. > :03:51.force helping to organise the response. The embassy has asked not
:03:52. > :03:57.just for the military, but for international relief organisations
:03:58. > :04:07.to be here. The streets are busy as people search for their loved ones
:04:08. > :04:11.that are still missing. We have seen scores of bodies in the
:04:12. > :04:21.few kilometres we have German and from the airport. -- we have driven
:04:22. > :04:28.from the airport. The devastation is overwhelming So
:04:29. > :04:35.far there is little sign the government is managing to get aid to
:04:36. > :04:38.the many in need. People are doing whatever they can to help
:04:39. > :04:43.themselves. This used to be a supermarket. Those who have nothing
:04:44. > :04:48.are looking for anything they can find. Unless more relief comes
:04:49. > :04:54.quickly the little food there is will run out soon.
:04:55. > :04:56.As we saw Tacloban is a city in name only. From hospitals to shops,
:04:57. > :04:59.nothing is functioning. With authorities largely absent, families
:05:00. > :05:03.of the victims have been burying their own dead, and organising the
:05:04. > :05:15.digging of mass graves. This report from Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
:05:16. > :05:24.The only way to get someone buried in Tacloban is to do it yourself.
:05:25. > :05:33.For three days this body was not covered in the street. Now with a
:05:34. > :05:42.home-made coffin and masks to cover the stench they must march on foot
:05:43. > :05:52.to the burial ground. This man is trying to make a list of
:05:53. > :06:02.all his neighbours who are dead All children? Yes.
:06:03. > :06:09.We found a man and a woman in that housed there.
:06:10. > :06:14.It is impossible to know how many people have died in this
:06:15. > :06:21.devastation. We have been told that in this street 18 people died. That
:06:22. > :06:28.is just in this stretch of road in one neighbourhood. Many of the
:06:29. > :06:49.bodies are still lying around and they are starting to beautify. -
:06:50. > :06:57.starting to putrify. Here the cry is the same, where is
:06:58. > :07:12.the government, where is the help? We need food. That is the most
:07:13. > :07:22.important. All the dead bodies must be buried.
:07:23. > :07:29.They are digging a grave for the mother of these three young men
:07:30. > :07:37.Suddenly one of the men is overcome by grief and frustration. The body
:07:38. > :07:53.of his mother is stuck under a fallen tree and they cannot get it
:07:54. > :08:03.out. I could not sleep. She was a very good mother. I am very
:08:04. > :08:23.hopeless. Everything is gone. A short distance away they have dug
:08:24. > :08:27.a mass grave. We counted at least 30 bodies going on here. How many more
:08:28. > :08:34.informal graves like this are being dug along this coast we do not
:08:35. > :08:41.know, except that it is many. Let's cross live to Manila, and the
:08:42. > :08:45.BBC's Tim Wilcox. We still do not know the full scale
:08:46. > :08:55.of this. The reality is still unfolding.
:08:56. > :09:04.That is the problem. Aid agencies were sending in logistic teams.
:09:05. > :09:17.Nobody has any idea about the scale of this disaster. There are maybe
:09:18. > :09:22.10,000 people in one area alone What about elsewhere? What about
:09:23. > :09:30.those communities where aid agencies have not been able to reach yet
:09:31. > :09:33.Because there are no local authorities for people to
:09:34. > :09:38.communicate with, nobody knows what has happened there.
:09:39. > :09:48.It makes it hard for the government and for aid agencies to prioritise.
:09:49. > :09:54.You quoted the figures at the beginning of the programme about the
:09:55. > :10:01.latest estimates. 9.8 million people have been affected. 660,000 people
:10:02. > :10:05.have been displaced. The United Nations are keen to stress that the
:10:06. > :10:17.initial response from the authorities has been impressive
:10:18. > :10:28.This is the 25th Typhoon since January this year. They had an
:10:29. > :10:38.earthquake last month. They understand, almost the feet, of this
:10:39. > :10:45.area. But there has been nothing of this scale in this country since
:10:46. > :10:53.records began. The last big Typhoon was in 1991. That killed about 000
:10:54. > :10:59.people. It does seem that this one is going to have a much bigger
:11:00. > :11:08.impact. We are seeing some warnings of heavy
:11:09. > :11:15.rainfall. That kind of weather will hamper the relief operations.
:11:16. > :11:24.It is also very humid as well. There is another weather fronts moving in
:11:25. > :11:29.behind. Torrential rain, very high temperatures, when you think of all
:11:30. > :11:34.these bodies lying on the grounds that have not been buried, the
:11:35. > :11:39.threat of disease is very real. The United Nations is prioritising that.
:11:40. > :11:48.The first priority is burying the dead. Then food, shelter, medicines,
:11:49. > :11:51.and evacuating people. Joining me from Geneva is the acting
:11:52. > :11:53.head of Disaster and Crisis Management Unit with the
:11:54. > :12:03.International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
:12:04. > :12:12.I understand you will launch your appeal tomorrow. What will you be
:12:13. > :12:16.asking for? The plan is to launch our appeal tomorrow. The focus of
:12:17. > :12:24.that appeal will be to support 100,000 families. That is 500,0 0
:12:25. > :12:27.people or more. That will be emergency food supplies, non-food
:12:28. > :12:35.items that'll help them with emergency shelter. Tents, blankets,
:12:36. > :12:43.and also good for water and sanitation. We are sending in
:12:44. > :12:46.emergency response units. I would agree with your previous
:12:47. > :12:56.correspondence. Health needs are the biggest needs. Those are our biggest
:12:57. > :13:05.priorities. One of the other issues was the lack of information. There
:13:06. > :13:10.are perhaps large areas that have been affected and they do not know
:13:11. > :13:15.how bad it is. How are you getting information from the ground? We
:13:16. > :13:23.faced similar challenges to other organisations. We worked through our
:13:24. > :13:29.member national societies. They have volunteers and staff on the ground
:13:30. > :13:42.in remote areas. The problem is getting information from them. We
:13:43. > :13:52.still do not know the full extent. There are parts of the country that
:13:53. > :13:56.there is still no news from. The scale of the disaster is likely to
:13:57. > :14:01.increase in the coming days. You have talked about the kind of
:14:02. > :14:12.equipment you need. Do you need more professionals to go then?
:14:13. > :14:19.At the moment we have already mobilised a team of 30 technical
:14:20. > :14:26.professionals. Some of them are on the ground already. Some will be
:14:27. > :14:35.coming in the next day or two. They will be working closely with
:14:36. > :14:49.experience seems helping them with equipment. They will hand over as
:14:50. > :14:55.quickly as possible. E Now a look at some of the day s
:14:56. > :14:58.other news. The Syrian National Council says it
:14:59. > :15:01.will attend peace talks in Geneva - but it's laid out a series of
:15:02. > :15:03.conditions. These include barring the Syria's current leader Bashar
:15:04. > :15:06.al-Assad from the transitional government and giving that
:15:07. > :15:13.government full executive powers over the military and security.
:15:14. > :15:16.A long-running dispute that had led to violent clashes between Cambodia
:15:17. > :15:18.and Thailand over who owns a World Heritage site may be closer to
:15:19. > :15:21.resolution. The United Nations' highest court has ruled that
:15:22. > :15:24.Cambodia should have sovereignty over territory around the ancient
:15:25. > :15:27.Preah Vihear Temple on the border between the two countries.
:15:28. > :15:31.A senior Afghan militant leader has been shot dead near the Pakistani
:15:32. > :15:33.capital, Islamabad. Nasiruddin Haqqani was one of the leading
:15:34. > :15:36.members of the Haqqani network, which has carried out numerous
:15:37. > :15:52.attacks on Western and Afghan forces. He's thought to have managed
:15:53. > :16:13.the group's finances. A deal has been made over Iran's
:16:14. > :16:27.nuclear programme. Britain and Iran have also established direct
:16:28. > :16:32.diplomatic relations. We all got quite excited over the weekend, and
:16:33. > :16:43.then there was a feeling of despair when talks didn't yield a deal. But
:16:44. > :16:47.that is the reality lie here? I think we are closer than we had
:16:48. > :17:03.never been to a deal with Iran, but it's tough. The body negotiating
:17:04. > :17:11.with Iran represents diverging interests and responsibilities
:17:12. > :17:23.concerning the run. -- concerning Iran. But on a very macro level all
:17:24. > :17:30.of these countries don't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon, and they
:17:31. > :17:37.don't want a war with Iran. In that sense, there is forward momentum
:17:38. > :17:41.going forward in the next few weeks. Those negotiations will pick up
:17:42. > :17:45.again on the 20th of November, so not a lot of time. What's the
:17:46. > :17:53.biggest stumbling block they are trying to iron out behind the
:17:54. > :17:59.scenes? In the last 24 hours, one of the things which may have fallen
:18:00. > :18:07.apart is the confidentiality of the negotiations. The United States and
:18:08. > :18:11.Iran have a tough time keeping the details of these negotiations
:18:12. > :18:21.private. In the last hour, I was looking on twitter and there were
:18:22. > :18:29.several quite accuser Tory tweets. If negotiations were only between
:18:30. > :18:35.John Kerry and the Iranian former minister, the likelihood of a deal
:18:36. > :18:38.would be very high. -- quite accusatory. But because there are
:18:39. > :18:44.the interests of so many other countries, it's going to be tough to
:18:45. > :18:54.find a deal in which everyone can be happy. We've heard from Israel as
:18:55. > :19:04.well. Is the President... But Saudi Arabia very interested. That's
:19:05. > :19:09.right. If you are Saudi Arabia, the concerned they have is not about the
:19:10. > :19:14.Islamic Republic of Iran, it's about Iran at large. They filled their
:19:15. > :19:20.relationship in the United States has premised on these mutual
:19:21. > :19:27.concerns about Iranians who Germany in the Middle East. If the US and
:19:28. > :19:33.Iran made peace, they worry about their alliance with the United
:19:34. > :19:40.States. A lot of countries have lots of difference -- difference and
:19:41. > :19:47.concern, but everyone wants an Iranian bomb and wants to prevent
:19:48. > :19:55.Iran becoming Bond. It's a very big challenge for John Kerry as well. --
:19:56. > :20:03.becoming bombed. The irony is that two years ago, it looked like we
:20:04. > :20:09.were far closer to going to war against Iran and getting a nuclear
:20:10. > :20:15.deal. Now, if you are President Obama or John Kerry, the Middle East
:20:16. > :20:20.is all bad news. Syria is in a terrible civil war, Egypt is
:20:21. > :20:27.unravelling, other US allies in the region are facing tremendous
:20:28. > :20:31.difficulty, and the one positive legacy which John Kerry and
:20:32. > :20:35.President Obama may have is reaching a nuclear deal with Iran. I think
:20:36. > :20:40.they are doing everything they can to test whether this is possible.
:20:41. > :20:44.Acts of remembrance have taken place around the UK to mark the
:20:45. > :20:46.anniversary of the World War One armistice with two-minute silences
:20:47. > :20:51.at military bases, town halls, churches, schools and at the
:20:52. > :20:54.National Memorial Arboretum. The day has also been marked in Belgium
:20:55. > :21:06.where where many of World War One's most deadly battles were fought
:21:07. > :21:20.It was the moment when men looked at one another in disbelief. The moment
:21:21. > :21:27.the founder of guns faded. -- the thunder. The moment when the
:21:28. > :21:32.slaughter stopped. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,
:21:33. > :22:11.we paused on a busy Monday and shared the silence.
:22:12. > :22:24.Today, on Dorothy's 93rd birthday, Dorothy Lay her wreath in memory of
:22:25. > :22:29.Wilfred. I have done something today which I feel was worthwhile, but
:22:30. > :22:36.unfortunately, I couldn't do in the way I wanted to. I couldn't stand up
:22:37. > :22:48.and be counted. But I did the best I could. In the classrooms, amid the
:22:49. > :23:05.hushed traffic of Trafalgar Square, the bat on of remembrance has been
:23:06. > :23:08.passed on once more. In art, sometimes it's what you
:23:09. > :23:11.don't see that's important. And that was the challenge for an American
:23:12. > :23:15.painter who was allowed by US military to visit Guantanamo Bay and
:23:16. > :23:18.to sketch some of the prison grounds but not allowed to paint the
:23:19. > :23:20.detainees who are controversially still held there. An exhibit of
:23:21. > :23:24.Steve Mumford's watercolor sketches called The Snow Leopard is now on
:23:25. > :23:28.display at the Postmasters Gallery in New York City.
:23:29. > :23:35.The subject matter of the show is ultimately the prisoners. It wound
:23:36. > :23:41.up being everything but the prisoners. I didn't have many acts
:23:42. > :23:46.bet -- many expectations about Guant?namo. For some reason, it
:23:47. > :23:59.never occurred to me to go to Guant?namo Bay. The place that I
:24:00. > :24:04.really fastened on was camp x-ray. X was the first prison where they
:24:05. > :24:10.brought the prisoners right off the battlefields of Afghanistan, and it
:24:11. > :24:21.was the place where torture was done to the detainees. It's a strangely
:24:22. > :24:29.beautiful place, actually. It's a series of deserted plywood hearts.
:24:30. > :24:35.It's been abandoned for decades and nature has taken over. It feels like
:24:36. > :24:38.this strange, almost nature preserve, but with these haunting
:24:39. > :24:45.places where you know terrible things happen. One of the things
:24:46. > :24:54.that was unique for me in drawing was the censorship there. They were
:24:55. > :25:00.very open about it. Something like a building sitting on a hillside, I
:25:01. > :25:05.could draw the land scheme but not the building. That was artistic
:25:06. > :25:10.gold. I could do a fully fleshed out landscape and then leave this blank
:25:11. > :25:15.place where I could simply write classified on it. There was
:25:16. > :25:27.something so intrinsically funny and absurd about that and playing with
:25:28. > :25:30.the meaning of watercolour. My big disappointment, particularly the
:25:31. > :25:37.second trip, was that I was not able to draw the detainees, and I thought
:25:38. > :25:43.it had been arranged ahead of time. When I arrived at the medium
:25:44. > :25:51.security prison, the head MP looked at me with shock and said, you want
:25:52. > :25:58.to draw what? ! For that week I drew everything but the actual detainees.
:25:59. > :26:03.I drew the chair in which they were force-fed. One early morning, I drew
:26:04. > :26:06.the hallway where they were having a call to prayer, but that was the
:26:07. > :26:10.closest I got a feeling the presence of the people.
:26:11. > :26:29.A reminder of our main news: The full scale of the disaster in the
:26:30. > :26:32.Philippines is still emerging. A state of emergency has been declared
:26:33. > :26:35.but the Government is struggling to cope with the aftermath of what
:26:36. > :26:38.looks like the most powerful typhoon ever to hit land. Many victims
:26:39. > :26:57.desperately need water, food and shelter.
:26:58. > :27:07.Monday was a dull and damp affair for many parts of England and Wales.
:27:08. > :27:11.Thankfully for tomorrow, that brighter regime wins out and turns
:27:12. > :27:12.things drier. That would be the case of