:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. They need food
:00:10. > :00:13.they need water, they need shelter. We will have the latest on the
:00:14. > :00:17.international effort to get help to the millions in need in the
:00:18. > :00:21.Philippines and we will hear from those who wait for help to come We
:00:22. > :00:28.need food. Only food. No money, no places. No televisions. No cell
:00:29. > :00:33.phones. No technology. Food. We need food. The government in Egypt is
:00:34. > :00:36.expected to lift the state of emergency and curfew, but the
:00:37. > :00:44.country remains bitterly divided. So, with a's the authorities' next
:00:45. > :00:48.step? Also coming up, a second day of protests in Bangladesh. Garment
:00:49. > :00:52.factory workers demanding better pay and conditions. The story behind
:00:53. > :00:54.these haunting images of vanishing tribes. The photographer joins us in
:00:55. > :01:15.the studio. Hello and welcome. There is growing
:01:16. > :01:20.desperation among survivors of the super typhoon that hit the
:01:21. > :01:22.Philippines as many face a fifth night without food, without clean
:01:23. > :01:25.water and without shelter. Many of them in the pouring rain with
:01:26. > :01:31.another storm approaching. The UN has launched an appeal for more than
:01:32. > :01:35.$300 million to help relief efforts. The focus right now is on
:01:36. > :01:38.distributing aid. The BBC's correspondents have the story for
:01:39. > :01:42.you from the communities still waiting for aid and from the
:01:43. > :01:46.epicentre of the disaster, the coastal capital of Tacloban on the
:01:47. > :01:53.island of Leyte. First, Jon Donnison. Rain was the last thing
:01:54. > :01:59.people needed here today. After a night of thunderstorms, the homeless
:02:00. > :02:11.and the helpless are doing what they can to put a roof over their heads.
:02:12. > :02:16.In the neighbourhood of this village the clean-up has begun. It may look
:02:17. > :02:21.futile, people are doing their best to restore order. They are wondering
:02:22. > :02:25.when help will arrive. People are having to help themselves. They are
:02:26. > :02:31.whatever they can to rebuild their homes and their lives and survive.
:02:32. > :02:39.The question surely, where do you start? This is just one block in one
:02:40. > :02:46.neighbourhood in one city. Everyone here has remarkable stories of how
:02:47. > :02:58.they survived the typhoon. My house collapse. I go into my toilet, I
:02:59. > :03:05.hold the toilet. The survivors are still vulnerable. Clean water is in
:03:06. > :03:11.short supply. Here they are using a T-shirt to filter out the filth so
:03:12. > :03:15.it can be used to cook with. People here are resilient, determined to
:03:16. > :03:27.get their lives back. They need help and soon. We can survive without
:03:28. > :03:32.these houses. It's OK for us, we can sleep anywhere. We need food. Only
:03:33. > :03:38.food. No money, no place, no televisions, no cell phones, no
:03:39. > :03:43.technology. Food. We need food. To get it, some are increasingly taking
:03:44. > :03:49.matters into their own hands. Another big food warehouse was
:03:50. > :03:55.ransacked here today. As the word got out, hundreds rushed to grab
:03:56. > :04:01.what they could. Five days after the typhoon struck, people here are
:04:02. > :04:06.still having to help themselves It's clear that getting aid into the
:04:07. > :04:11.country is one thing, getting aid out to those who need it is another.
:04:12. > :04:15.George Alagiah flew from Cebu City on an aid flight into Tacloban,
:04:16. > :04:21.seeing for himself the difficulties involved. Flying time to Tacloban,
:04:22. > :04:27.the heart of the disaster zone, is about 45 minutes. The captain warned
:04:28. > :04:32.us he might have to dodge a few storms on the way. So far, much of
:04:33. > :04:39.the aid effort is concentrated on the big towns. It gets worse than
:04:40. > :04:43.this. It gets worse as we get nearer Tacloban. From 300 feet above ground
:04:44. > :04:48.you can see how many villages have been affected. Helicopter mercy
:04:49. > :04:55.missions would be ideal, but there is a problem. One of the pilots had
:04:56. > :05:00.a bad experience. They land and the people just ran towards the
:05:01. > :05:04.helicopter and grabbed everything they could. It posed a danger to the
:05:05. > :05:08.helicopter, crew and the people who rushed in. You can't really blame
:05:09. > :05:15.them, they are just desperate? Exactly, sir. They are really
:05:16. > :05:21.desperate. They really need immediate help. They are really
:05:22. > :05:25.desperate at times. Roads have been cleared in this area, other
:05:26. > :05:30.infrastructure from electric pylons to factories have been destroyed.
:05:31. > :05:37.Much of Leyte province is given over to agriculture, mostly coconuts
:05:38. > :05:42.sugar cane and rice. You can see mile upon mile of crops has been
:05:43. > :05:47.destroyed. Rural farmers here have lost a whole growing season. They
:05:48. > :05:51.will be dependant on food aid for months. Tacloban lies on the other
:05:52. > :05:55.side of a ridge of mountains. Our pilot tried several passes, but the
:05:56. > :06:00.weather was closing in, no choice but to turn back. It was too risky.
:06:01. > :06:04.The rain is too thick. The clouds are too close to the ground, we
:06:05. > :06:09.really couldn't get through. You get a sense of how difficult the aid
:06:10. > :06:13.operation must be. Philippine owes are a resilient people. This is not
:06:14. > :06:16.the first storm they have had to weather, it won't be the last. If
:06:17. > :06:23.nothing else, they have their faith to cling on to. The Filipino
:06:24. > :06:26.government has pledged to leave "not one living person behind", no matter
:06:27. > :06:32.where they are. Of the millions affected by Typhoon Haiyan, many are
:06:33. > :06:36.in remote and inaccessible parts of the island country. Our
:06:37. > :06:40.correspondent travelled from road from Cebu City to the far north of
:06:41. > :06:51.the island where so far no aid has reached. On Cebu Island the road is
:06:52. > :06:56.littered with the remains of what the storm left behind. Homes turned
:06:57. > :07:02.to matchsticks. Trees stripped or flattened. Every village has a
:07:03. > :07:07.terrifying story of the night the storm hit. Where is your house? My
:07:08. > :07:13.house is there. This is your house here? Yes. Gina was inside with her
:07:14. > :07:17.husband and three children when the roof flew off. This is the roof
:07:18. > :07:22.here, it came straight off? Yes They had to battle the wind to reach
:07:23. > :07:25.the safety of a neighbour's home. The rain is still falling. We saw
:07:26. > :07:33.two small teams working on the power lines, a desperate task for so few
:07:34. > :07:42.people. All along the road children have been sent out to the ask for
:07:43. > :07:46.help. It's been slow in coming. These people collected a few sacks
:07:47. > :07:50.of rice together and drove up to the first place where they found people
:07:51. > :07:56.in need. It didn't take long. The line was soon up the road. We are
:07:57. > :08:01.packing rice, canned goods and medicines. The further you go north,
:08:02. > :08:08.it's very badly affected. She was right. The wind tore this roof off
:08:09. > :08:15.in one piece. So much damage and four days on, help has not arrived.
:08:16. > :08:25.# Please, if we could have, for our people, some of them are dying for
:08:26. > :08:31.hunger. We need help and assistance of some kind-hearted people. On the
:08:32. > :08:35.northern tip of Cebu Island the storm hit the hardest. Some were
:08:36. > :08:39.lucky and needed to patch holes Other also have to start from
:08:40. > :08:42.scratch. As we made our way into this area, where the majority of the
:08:43. > :08:46.damage has been done, pretty much every house has either been
:08:47. > :08:51.flattened or had its roof taken off. The people here say the island
:08:52. > :08:59.surround -- islands surrounding it are even worse. There are so many
:09:00. > :09:03.remote places along the typhoon s trail of disaster where people are
:09:04. > :09:07.waiting for help. The British public has been urged to help victims of
:09:08. > :09:15.the typhoon in a video appeal by 14 UK charities. On 8th November,
:09:16. > :09:20.Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines. It was one of the
:09:21. > :09:24.most... The Disasters Emergency Committee has asked for money to
:09:25. > :09:30.help survivors. The British government has promised to match the
:09:31. > :09:37.first ?5 million given by members of the public. With me is Rachel
:09:38. > :09:44.Obordo, a British-Filipino journalist. She has written about
:09:45. > :09:48.the people living in the Philippines who are no strangers to natural
:09:49. > :09:53.disasters. You have been trying to get in touch with your father? We
:09:54. > :09:57.have been trying o contact him for a few day, not heard anything. No one
:09:58. > :10:03.is picking up on the tone or not getting a dial tone? The best I can
:10:04. > :10:06.try is ringing or texting him. I think I've accepted this is the
:10:07. > :10:10.reality that it is for many people who have family there and are
:10:11. > :10:13.waiting to hear from them. It does add that personal element, doesn't
:10:14. > :10:16.it, to everything we have been saying about the impossibility, even
:10:17. > :10:21.of knowing the scale of the trouble. We haven't really got a handle on it
:10:22. > :10:26.all yet? No, of course. There are plenty of places in the Philippines,
:10:27. > :10:41.I'm sure, TV crews haven't managed to reach there. There are places you
:10:42. > :10:47.hear about all the time, but other places we really don't know. The
:10:48. > :10:51.Philippine people are used to natural disasters. Typhoons happen,
:10:52. > :10:55.perhaps a o dozen a year, in a sense people might have thought we will
:10:56. > :11:00.get through this one as well. It was on such a scale it has taken
:11:01. > :11:08.everyone by surprise? Yes, Philippine owes experience 24
:11:09. > :11:13.typhoons a year. The problem is we tend to have only one word for
:11:14. > :11:18.storm, you can say that to people in English it won't register, they
:11:19. > :11:23.think it's another one, we have had it before. I just think many people
:11:24. > :11:28.just couldn't estimate just how badly this was going to hit us. The
:11:29. > :11:35.government was trying to prepare, wasn't it? There were evacuations
:11:36. > :11:40.and warning, didn't quite register? Of course. There isn't blame on
:11:41. > :11:44.anybody's part. It's the reality of living in that country and being
:11:45. > :11:49.used to typhoons. I think the government has done everything that
:11:50. > :11:54.it can to try and evacuate people, a lot of people, for them, their home
:11:55. > :11:59.is the most important place for them. I wouldn't be surprised if a
:12:00. > :12:04.lot wanted to stay there. People are pretty ril sellient, they are pretty
:12:05. > :12:09.well used to having to cope with this kind of weather disaster. The
:12:10. > :12:12.pictures we have seen, one of the problems, if aid can't get through,
:12:13. > :12:16.if food can't get through, when it does people rush for it, of course
:12:17. > :12:20.they do, there is the danger of order breaking down? Of course.
:12:21. > :12:23.There has been reports of looting. I don't think this is a reflection on
:12:24. > :12:28.any of the people there. This doesn't make them bad people, they
:12:29. > :12:32.are very, very desperate. This is why it's important that anybody who
:12:33. > :12:39.can help in anyway to provide relief to people on the ground should
:12:40. > :12:41.donate if they can. We heard all the appeals and the money coming in
:12:42. > :12:45.Thank you for joining us and providing some insight. Reports from
:12:46. > :12:49.Egypt say the government is in the process of litting the state of
:12:50. > :12:54.emergency and curfew. The restrictions were imposed three
:12:55. > :13:22.months ago after the overthrough of the president, Mohamed Morsi. Heba
:13:23. > :13:28.Morayef is director of Human Rights Watch in Egypt joins us from Cairo.
:13:29. > :13:35.What is the position there? Thursday is clearly the day when it will end,
:13:36. > :13:39.for sure. The the lack of clarity is today's administrative court ruling.
:13:40. > :13:43.It ex-spires because to extend it further there would need to be a
:13:44. > :13:46.referendum. The government isn't lifting the state of emergency, that
:13:47. > :13:52.is an important distinction. What do you think the government's next move
:13:53. > :13:56.might be? They clearly want to maintain control? Well, they have
:13:57. > :14:01.been drafting a very repressive demonstrations law. Today sources
:14:02. > :14:05.within the presidency were saying that the President, interim
:14:06. > :14:09.president, with legislative power, will issue that new protest law
:14:10. > :14:13.within hours and ahead of the full lifting of the state of emergency.
:14:14. > :14:17.That is bad news for Egypt because this would effectively allow the
:14:18. > :14:22.Ministry of interior to ban any protests it has the discretion to do
:14:23. > :14:27.that. Looking at the state of life in Egypt today, something else that
:14:28. > :14:31.was issued today was a report by the Thompson Reuter's Foundation saying
:14:32. > :14:35.if you look at the Middle East, 22 Arab countries, Egypt is the worse
:14:36. > :14:39.place to be a woman. Now, how do you read that? Is it because of a rise
:14:40. > :14:47.in sexual violence or is there more to it than that? The rankings are
:14:48. > :14:51.problematic they look at particular aspects of human rights. In terms of
:14:52. > :14:57.sexual violence in the public's fear that is a very, very serious problem
:14:58. > :15:01.for women in Egypt. Every woman experiences it on the streets in
:15:02. > :15:05.Egypt cities on a daily basis. In that term I would understand why
:15:06. > :15:10.Egypt would have come out first perhaps. I think there are also
:15:11. > :15:16.other aspects to womens' rights Serious concerns relating to
:15:17. > :15:20.discrimination against women in personal status laws. Integration of
:15:21. > :15:27.women in society, participation in economic life, That I think is where
:15:28. > :15:30.the ranking, looking outside Arabia, becomes somewhat more difficult to
:15:31. > :15:33.understand. When you try to sum up what is happening in Egypt at the
:15:34. > :15:38.moment, in terms of political freedoms, in terms of political
:15:39. > :15:44.atmosphere, how do you see it? Is it a sense of still being in limbo I
:15:45. > :15:50.think this is a period of stalemate in Egypt. There is deep
:15:51. > :15:55.polarisation, Muslim Brotherhood supporters see the situation in
:15:56. > :15:59.Egypt in one way and the rest of society is somewhat in denial about
:16:00. > :16:05.that situation. There isn't really a process of political debate across
:16:06. > :16:09.that divide. There also aren't any political negotiations that would
:16:10. > :16:17.move Egypt forward, in a sense. The authorities keep talking only about
:16:18. > :16:23.the Road Map, a referendum will not address the deep problems and the
:16:24. > :16:26.deep polarisation in Egypt related to the massacres that occurred which
:16:27. > :16:30.haven't been investigated. Relating to the ultimate political exclusion
:16:31. > :16:35.of the most organised political force in the country over the last
:16:36. > :16:40.few amongst. Thank you very much. -- months.
:16:41. > :16:49.Now look at some of the day's other news. A member of the Russian punk
:16:50. > :16:54.group, Pussy Riot, has been sent to medical prison unit in Siberia, that
:16:55. > :16:59.is according to Russian Interfax agency. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has
:17:00. > :17:04.not been seen since the 22nd of October, and has been on hunger
:17:05. > :17:09.strike since September. She and another band member serving two year
:17:10. > :17:15.prison sentences after a protest in Moscow Cathedral last year.
:17:16. > :17:19.China's leaders say they have agreed on an agenda for reform over the
:17:20. > :17:23.next decade. Around 200 members of the party's Central the have been
:17:24. > :17:27.meeting behind closed doors in Beijing. They have agreed a greater
:17:28. > :17:31.role for markets in the allocation of resources, and no state agencies
:17:32. > :17:34.will be left to work out the details of reform.
:17:35. > :17:39.The moderate conservative cleric, Hassan Rouhani, is marking his first
:17:40. > :17:47.100 days of office as Iran's president. Hassan Rohani six season
:17:48. > :17:55.-- succeeded mass mood at the minute that -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after
:17:56. > :17:58.winning just over 50% of the electoral vote. Since coming to
:17:59. > :18:03.office, the has reached out to the West, beginning diplomatic moves
:18:04. > :18:05.towards a deal on Iran's nuclear programme in the hope of easing
:18:06. > :18:12.international sanctions. Racal is in Bangladesh have fired
:18:13. > :18:15.tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Garment factory workers who
:18:16. > :18:18.have been protesting for a second day over the wages and conditions.
:18:19. > :18:22.It is an industry that earns 20 billion US dollars in exports but
:18:23. > :18:29.whose workers are among the laws pays in the world.
:18:30. > :18:36.Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. There were injuries
:18:37. > :18:40.on both sides. The angry workers broke the gates of our factory. At
:18:41. > :18:46.one stage he set fire to our belongings. They entered the factory
:18:47. > :18:49.and damaged chairs and tables. Scores of factories have remained
:18:50. > :18:54.closed for another day. These workers complain their wages are the
:18:55. > :18:59.lowest in the world, $20 per month. A government panel has proposed a 7%
:19:00. > :19:07.hike. Manufacturers are still resisting and they are of the view
:19:08. > :19:18.that it will damage the industry, second only to China. Workers are
:19:19. > :19:25.frustrated with the delay. A salary of 5000 doesn't meet our need.
:19:26. > :19:29.Nothing in the market cost less than 50 Dakar. You cannot get anything
:19:30. > :19:37.below that range so play -- explained to us how we can live with
:19:38. > :19:45.a salary that now. A clothing factory complex collapsed killing
:19:46. > :19:50.1100 people. Since then global retailers and the government have
:19:51. > :19:56.promised to improve conditions. But seven months on, little has. The
:19:57. > :20:01.fatal fire at a textile plant last month highlights the safety
:20:02. > :20:07.concerns. 4 million workers in Bangladesh make cheap calls for
:20:08. > :20:12.Western consumers. Many have perished in unsafe factories. For
:20:13. > :20:21.the rest, higher wages and now a matter of survival.
:20:22. > :20:27.There have been protests against low pay and were working conditions in
:20:28. > :20:31.Cambodia as well. At the -- least one person is known to have died in
:20:32. > :20:35.clashes with police and Phnom Penh. Hundreds of workers from a garment
:20:36. > :20:38.factory tried to march on the office of the Prime Minister. As riot
:20:39. > :20:45.police stopped them, it is reported that several others were injured in
:20:46. > :20:48.more than 200 -- two dozen arrested. Technology has transformed the way
:20:49. > :20:52.we see the world, and has arguably made it a smaller place, with people
:20:53. > :20:55.able to connect in an instant to others thousands of miles away. But
:20:56. > :21:00.with everything increasingly accessible, it is also easier to
:21:01. > :21:04.crowd out vulnerable cultures. It is photographer Jimmy Nelson has tried
:21:05. > :21:09.to document vanishing tribal cultures around the world in a major
:21:10. > :21:12.new project called "Before They Pass Away" . Jimmy Nelson joins me now to
:21:13. > :21:16.talk us through some of his extraordinary images. Where was this
:21:17. > :21:23.taken? This was in north-western Mongolia. They are of the Khazaks.
:21:24. > :21:27.They are very athletically powerful, they make you stop and
:21:28. > :21:33.stare. It is very deliberate, they are made on a traditional plate
:21:34. > :21:38.camera. I spend many hours are organisation -- organising these
:21:39. > :21:43.pictures. I actually believe they have something to teach us in their
:21:44. > :21:48.authenticity. As we look at the next picture, I want to ask how long you
:21:49. > :21:52.spend with people. You need to gain their trust and you're setting up
:21:53. > :21:55.this is better conversation. An enormous amount of time because this
:21:56. > :22:04.is done on a traditional plate camera. It requires enormously long
:22:05. > :22:13.shutter speeds. You have to develop the -- a relationship with your set.
:22:14. > :22:18.There is a whole relationship that has been developed prior to making
:22:19. > :22:22.these pictures. As we look at men and women, this is an incredible
:22:23. > :22:28.image. You are looking at cultural 's that are vulnerable or vanishing.
:22:29. > :22:34.You are creating historical images. I am trying to make beautiful images
:22:35. > :22:41.are very beautiful people, making them icons to encourage discussion.
:22:42. > :22:44.We want them to make us aware of how special they are and how authentic
:22:45. > :22:49.they are and remind us of where we come from. I regard them as
:22:50. > :22:53.emotionally far wealthier than we are, although we have all the
:22:54. > :22:56.material wealth, they have cultural and emotional well. There is a
:22:57. > :23:01.balance we should achieve between the two parts of the world. By
:23:02. > :23:09.drawing attention to them, in a way you might drop on more tourism. That
:23:10. > :23:16.is inevitable. Many places will be difficult to access for a long time
:23:17. > :23:20.anyway. No matter how remote I was, we were never more than two days
:23:21. > :23:25.away from the Internet full top in a very short period of time, many of
:23:26. > :23:29.these evil had telephones. And many more will get smartphones, so they
:23:30. > :23:33.will be contracted by the developed world and they will want it. They
:23:34. > :23:36.are right to come to it but we should form a discussion with them
:23:37. > :23:39.as to how special they are at, and perhaps they already have a wealth
:23:40. > :23:44.that we have lost and that they should be in courage to take them
:23:45. > :23:51.with them. Hence these very formal portraits. Look at these pictures.
:23:52. > :24:00.It was inspired by an icon of mine, an American photographer. This is in
:24:01. > :24:03.Papua New Guinea. A famous American photographer who photographed the
:24:04. > :24:07.last North American Indians. He was also trying to wake Americans up to
:24:08. > :24:13.the fact that these people in their dignity are very beautiful. They
:24:14. > :24:16.died as a culture. Through his inspiration, I would like on an
:24:17. > :24:22.international scale to do the same, but try and avoid the loss of this
:24:23. > :24:28.authenticity as it develops into the global world. As we have seen these
:24:29. > :24:34.group portraits, you talk about them getting smartphones, but the kind of
:24:35. > :24:43.materials that go into smartphones are consumer demands. The mining and
:24:44. > :24:49.Papa New Guinea is extraordinary. All these people are alike finding a
:24:50. > :24:55.needle in a haystack for cultures. An image like this inspires me. It
:24:56. > :25:00.reminds me of the famous film Avatar. That was a digital fantasy,
:25:01. > :25:08.but one of the reasons we were tracked to it was the harking to
:25:09. > :25:13.nature and harking back to balance. I am encouraging my children to go
:25:14. > :25:16.here, and to aspire them into thinking that if you still live in
:25:17. > :25:55.this extraordinary environment, in 1992. The classical charts for
:25:56. > :25:59.several months. In 1997 has Song For Athene was played at the funeral of
:26:00. > :26:34.Diana, Princess of Wales. We'll leave you now with a short clip
:26:35. > :26:39.And an images and music, that is where we are leaving this programme.
:26:40. > :26:42.Next we have a weather up date for you. From me and the rest of the
:26:43. > :26:59.team, goodbye. Hello. With clear skies this
:27:00. > :27:04.evening, it is turning very cold outdoors, frosty in places. At least
:27:05. > :27:10.some sunshine, particularly more southern parts. The fine weather in
:27:11. > :27:15.the South will affect this area of high pressure. But we have this big
:27:16. > :27:21.low coming in, bringing with it some rain. That Chile, frosty start
:27:22. > :27:26.across the South, with some fog for spring. For north and west, the
:27:27. > :27:30.winds will strengthening year. By the afternoon we will see the cloud
:27:31. > :27:34.they can across the north of England. Across East Anglia and the
:27:35. > :27:39.south-east we should hold onto that sunshine for longer. After that cold
:27:40. > :27:40.start, temperatures at 10 degrees