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