:00:00. > :00:14.This is BBC World News Today. They struggle to help the victims of
:00:15. > :00:17.Typhoon Haiyan. Trying to keep the calm - the army's drafted in as the
:00:18. > :00:25.Philippine government admits it s been overwhelmed by the scale of the
:00:26. > :00:31.typhoon. And we follow one woman's struggle to find out whether her
:00:32. > :00:34.family has arrived. People have family members they have not heard
:00:35. > :00:39.from. The only thing they can do is come out looking for them in these
:00:40. > :00:43.remote areas. And because such a large area of the Philippines was
:00:44. > :00:47.affected, getting aid out to all of those far-flung places is very slow.
:00:48. > :00:50.Toronto's mayor admits buying illegal drugs but is still refusing
:00:51. > :00:53.to step down as the leader of Canada's biggest city.
:00:54. > :00:56.And Oprah Winfrey talks to the BBC about Barack Obama and claims he's
:00:57. > :01:03.disrespected not because he's president but because he's black.
:01:04. > :01:06.Three panels, one record-breaking price. Find out just how much this
:01:07. > :01:20.Francis Bacon masterpiece fetched at auction.
:01:21. > :01:25.Hello and welcome. The Philippine government has said it's confronting
:01:26. > :01:31.its greatest logistical challenge ever and has admitted it is
:01:32. > :01:34.overwhelmed. Aid supplies are beginning to reach some of those
:01:35. > :01:37.affected, but it's not easy because Typhoon Haiyan affected a vast area,
:01:38. > :01:43.cutting off roads, electricity supplies and communications. In some
:01:44. > :01:49.places, there's been no sign of any help coming. Alastair Leithead has
:01:50. > :01:53.been trying to reach isolated communities. He took a boat from a
:01:54. > :01:57.remote part of Cebu to the western coast of Leyte Island, and met two
:01:58. > :02:01.sisters heading off on a rescue mission.
:02:02. > :02:12.Far out on the horizon, an island struck by the eye of the typhoon.
:02:13. > :02:16.The lifeline is a passenger ferry. When the aid eventually comes, this
:02:17. > :02:21.is how it will reach the people And it is how this woman hopes she will
:02:22. > :02:25.find her family. She, her sister and her daughter are on a rescue mission
:02:26. > :02:30.in the hope that their family made it through the storm. They brought a
:02:31. > :02:35.car with food and water but don t know what to expect on the road
:02:36. > :02:39.ahead. We come here to rescue my family because they don't have food
:02:40. > :02:47.any more. I heard from the social networks, Facebook, there is no more
:02:48. > :02:51.food in this city. That is why we are trying to find our family. I
:02:52. > :02:59.don't know if they are alive or not. We don't have any connection. We
:03:00. > :03:02.followed them on the road north It is now a familiar sight. House after
:03:03. > :03:08.house destroyed. Trees ripped up and pushed aside. Electricity cables
:03:09. > :03:19.down, hanging in the road. The same landscape for mile after mile. The
:03:20. > :03:23.reason that communications have been so bad of course is because mobile
:03:24. > :03:26.phone masts have come down. Roads have been blocked until quite
:03:27. > :03:30.recently. If people have family members they have not heard from,
:03:31. > :03:33.the only thing they can do is look for them in these remote areas and
:03:34. > :03:36.because such a huge part of the Philippines was affected, getting
:03:37. > :03:43.aid to all of these far-flung bases is proving slow. -- far flung
:03:44. > :03:47.places. Afternoon turned to night. The road worsened as we got near to
:03:48. > :03:53.the family home. They did not know what to expect, seeing all of the
:03:54. > :04:04.damage. But then... A family reunited. Everyone is fine. Their
:04:05. > :04:08.homes were destroyed, there is little food or sign of aid but they
:04:09. > :04:13.survived. I am very happy that they are alive. The whole area is alive.
:04:14. > :04:20.That is the most important thing to me and for my family and my
:04:21. > :04:30.neighbourhood. One family's story among millions amid the trail of
:04:31. > :04:33.chaos the storm left behind. There are growing signs that the
:04:34. > :04:36.survivors of last Friday's typhoon disaster are becoming more desperate
:04:37. > :04:39.- and troops have been deployed in greater numbers than ever before.
:04:40. > :04:49.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has sent this report.
:04:50. > :04:52.At Tacloban Hospital, this 13-year-old girl has just been
:04:53. > :04:58.brought in. Badly injured and deeply traumatised. For six days, she was
:04:59. > :05:04.trapped in the ruins of her home. The bodies of her whole family lying
:05:05. > :05:08.around her. The only thing she has been able to tell nurse 's is her
:05:09. > :05:13.name. Rebecca. The doctor immediately set to work cleaning her
:05:14. > :05:25.badly infected wins but he only has the most basic supplies. We have no
:05:26. > :05:34.equipment. We don't have medicines. We lack medicine. We need your help.
:05:35. > :05:38.Outside, others are not waiting for help. They are helping themselves.
:05:39. > :05:43.At first glance, it is hard to tell what is going on here, until you
:05:44. > :05:50.realise this is a petrol station. This is diesel in this type
:05:51. > :05:57.underground and they have ingeniously started filling up the
:05:58. > :06:02.bottles. What do you need this for? Your car or your motorcycle?
:06:03. > :06:11.Motorcycle? And he ran out of fuel? OK. -- have you run out of fuel
:06:12. > :06:19.This is well ordered listing. It is the only way for people to get fuel.
:06:20. > :06:23.-- well ordered looting. These are strange days in Tacloban. At noon
:06:24. > :06:30.the streets emptied and soldiers appeared. Yesterday's disaster zone
:06:31. > :06:34.briefly took on the appearance of a war zone. Some people told me the
:06:35. > :06:39.city was about to be attacked by Communist rebels. It is not clear
:06:40. > :06:44.what is going on here. The Army have moved in to reassert control, now
:06:45. > :06:49.they say they have a gunman pinned down. We never did find out, but the
:06:50. > :06:58.Army does appear to be here in force now. Back at the hospital, it is
:06:59. > :07:01.little consolation. They are short of everything. These people are
:07:02. > :07:07.waiting for operations they cannot have that. This baby has a high
:07:08. > :07:12.fever and diarrhoea. But even the drinking water she so obviously
:07:13. > :07:22.needs has to be carefully rationed. In time, the cat's physical wounds
:07:23. > :07:27.will heal. -- Rebecca's physical wounds. For many people here, there
:07:28. > :07:34.will forever or be life before and after the typhoon. -- forevermore.
:07:35. > :07:37.With me is Jerry Velasquez from the United Nations Office for Disaster
:07:38. > :07:45.Risk Reduction. He's also from the Philippines. Thank you for joining
:07:46. > :07:51.us. Let's look at the potential death toll. The official figure is
:07:52. > :07:57.about 2200. Do you think it will be many more? The officials have said
:07:58. > :08:05.it is around 10,000, the president has said it is 2500. We will have to
:08:06. > :08:09.wait for the official figures. We have not managed to get to the
:08:10. > :08:16.outlying areas. We will have to wait for the final figures. It is a
:08:17. > :08:20.carrot of tragedy. You are an official at the United Nations
:08:21. > :08:28.dealing with this kind of thing How does this disaster right in terms of
:08:29. > :08:31.severity in your unit? For the Philippines, it is probably the
:08:32. > :08:37.strongest typhoon that has struck the country. There has been a
:08:38. > :08:43.category five typhoon that has struck in 2006... Compared to other
:08:44. > :08:52.disasters, we think of the 2004 Zenani, where does this right? We
:08:53. > :08:59.could rank it severely. But of course the number of deaths would be
:09:00. > :09:05.very different. What do you think needs to be done? The Philippine
:09:06. > :09:10.government said it is overrun. It is focusing on getting help to people.
:09:11. > :09:14.Should that be the focus or do you have to think of the medium term
:09:15. > :09:20.reconstruction, building as well? Definitely, in these kind of
:09:21. > :09:27.disasters, saving lives is a priority. That has to happen. But at
:09:28. > :09:30.the same time because we are already thinking of the medium term needs, I
:09:31. > :09:37.think it is already necessary to think and prepare for the
:09:38. > :09:42.medium-term needs including recovery and reconstruction. So you mean even
:09:43. > :09:47.the temporary shelters that are provided for people, that has got to
:09:48. > :09:50.be planned straightaway? Your unit, the disaster risk reduction unit at
:09:51. > :09:56.the United Nations, a relatively new one that was set up after the
:09:57. > :09:59.tsunami, is there a framework to can kind of say there is a universal one
:10:00. > :10:11.size fits all approach to dealing with this kind of disaster? After
:10:12. > :10:17.the 2000 forced an army, -- 200 tsunami, we set priorities for all
:10:18. > :10:24.countries. That framework is coming to an end in 2015. Like the 200
:10:25. > :10:34.tsunami, this typhoon is going to change the way we look at this
:10:35. > :10:41.global framework. Do the most vulnerable, the poorest, suffer the
:10:42. > :10:47.most? Of course. The poorest and most honourable feed into each
:10:48. > :10:51.other. Most of the people affected are the poorest people. And also
:10:52. > :10:58.those that suffer are the ones that simply because the houses are made
:10:59. > :11:06.of wood. Because of their poverty. So there is directly a link between
:11:07. > :11:12.the two. Jerry Velasquez, thank you very much for giving us your
:11:13. > :11:16.perspective. Rob Ford is Toronto's mayor - and
:11:17. > :11:19.he's just admitting buying illegal drugs. That's on top of earlier
:11:20. > :11:27.admissions of smoking crack cocaine and getting, in his word, "hammered
:11:28. > :11:31.on alcohol" too often. He's been speaking at a council debate on a
:11:32. > :11:39.motion to ask him to take a leave of absence. That is when he made the
:11:40. > :11:50.dramatic confession. Have you purchased illegal drugs in the last
:11:51. > :11:53.two years? Yes, I have. Following this is our correspondent David
:11:54. > :12:02.Willis, who's in Washington for us now. Rob Ford admitted that but he
:12:03. > :12:09.still seems to be admitting the Nile. He does. This was Toronto City
:12:10. > :12:16.Council debating this motion calling for Rob Ford either to step aside
:12:17. > :12:19.for take a leave of absence from the position he has. He has consistently
:12:20. > :12:25.refused to do that but there came this bombshell admission when asked
:12:26. > :12:32.whether he had purchased illegal drugs over the course of the last
:12:33. > :12:36.two years, it seemed to take Rob Ford and eternity to reply yes, I
:12:37. > :12:40.have, and that is something new because he had previously admitted
:12:41. > :12:47.taking crack cocaine but this is the first time he has actually admitted
:12:48. > :12:51.to purchasing illegal and illicit substances. The Toronto City Council
:12:52. > :12:55.does not have the authority to remove Mr Ford from office, this is
:12:56. > :13:01.purely symbolic what is happening today, but it is probably going to,
:13:02. > :13:08.that admission is going to add to the calls for him to resign, with
:13:09. > :13:15.opinion polls showing more than 75% of Toronto's residents now want him
:13:16. > :13:20.to go. David, remind us how he found himself in this predicament. There
:13:21. > :13:27.was a video. There was. A video was leaked to the media, then the police
:13:28. > :13:30.and last week they said they had obtained what appeared to be a copy
:13:31. > :13:36.of the same video, this was allegedly a video tape of Rob Ford
:13:37. > :13:41.taking crack cocaine. At the moment the Toronto police have said that
:13:42. > :13:47.they are looking to interview Mr Ford but there are no plans at
:13:48. > :13:53.present to charge him. And I said, the Toronto city cancelled the date
:13:54. > :13:58.is purely symbolic, Mr Ford has to be convicted of a crime before he
:13:59. > :14:10.can be forced out of office. -- as I said. David Willis on the continuing
:14:11. > :14:13.trials of Mayor Rob Ford in Toronto. The death toll of innocent civilians
:14:14. > :14:17.in the Syrian conflict is tragic. In one of the latest incidents, four
:14:18. > :14:20.children and their bus driver were buried after two mortars struck the
:14:21. > :14:24.Old City of Damascus. The shells hit a school and a school bus in a
:14:25. > :14:27.mainly Christian area on Monday It confirms the growing frequency of
:14:28. > :14:29.attacks in what had been the relatively safe centre of Damascus.
:14:30. > :14:32.Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports
:14:33. > :14:42.from the Syrian capital. You may find some of the images disturbing.
:14:43. > :14:50.A mother's grief fills the largest mortgage in Damascus. -- largest
:14:51. > :14:55.mortgage. Her son drove the school bus and he'd eyed on the spot when
:14:56. > :15:04.the mortar landed. -- morgue. I don't recognise him, she cries, his
:15:05. > :15:10.face is gone. He has no eyes. And in this morgue, four children including
:15:11. > :15:18.eight-year-old Vanessa. Her uncle has come for her body. TRANSLATION:
:15:19. > :15:24.She was a poor angel. She was in fourth grade. She loved school and
:15:25. > :15:29.cried when she could not go. Grief is not private here any more.
:15:30. > :15:35.Not with both sides accusing the other of taking the lives of the
:15:36. > :15:41.most innocent. Another uncle says his last goodbye. Stand up, stand
:15:42. > :15:56.up, my nephew, this is for you, Syria. They bring out the white
:15:57. > :16:02.coffin is one by one. And estimates her last trip to her Armenian
:16:03. > :16:08.church. -- Vanessa makes her last trip. This is one of many faiths who
:16:09. > :16:18.gather in the old city to celebrate her life. This boy mourns his
:16:19. > :16:26.friend, supported by his mother who is devastated like so many here
:16:27. > :16:37.What did they do to deserve this? Dirty people. Please tell America.
:16:38. > :16:42.Please tell Britain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, they are bad people. A
:16:43. > :16:48.community comes together again to mourn but as grief continues, so
:16:49. > :16:52.does anger on both sides of this conflict. Both sides blame one
:16:53. > :16:59.another. As this war drags on, it becomes more difficult to bring
:17:00. > :17:06.Syrians together again. Vanessa s coffin lies next to that of this
:17:07. > :17:18.six-year-old child. There is some comfort in these rituals but in the
:17:19. > :17:24.city, nowhere feels safe. Deaths of the innocent there in
:17:25. > :17:27.Syria. Two of Europe's best-known far right politicians have been
:17:28. > :17:35.meeting in Holland to discuss forging ties. Geert Wilders, who
:17:36. > :17:38.leads the Dutch Freedom Party, and Marine Le Pen, head of the French
:17:39. > :17:41.National Front, have launched what they called a "historic alliance"
:17:42. > :17:44.for the elections. Mr Wilders said they had agreed on the need to
:17:45. > :17:47.repatriate from Brussels the power to control their countries' borders
:17:48. > :17:50.and economies. With me is Joshua Chaffin, the Deputy World News
:17:51. > :17:53.Editor with The Financial Times newspaper. Until very recently he
:17:54. > :17:56.was the paper's EU correspondent based in Brussels.
:17:57. > :18:03.I know you have been writing about this story. Tell us, far right,
:18:04. > :18:08.stronger united, do you think? I think so. There is an immediate
:18:09. > :18:11.payoff to this kind of cooperation, if nothing else just in the
:18:12. > :18:15.publicity these two can generate bike appearing together. I think
:18:16. > :18:20.there is a more subtle effect which is that you have politicians in
:18:21. > :18:25.parties that have often been portrayed as on the lunatic fringe,
:18:26. > :18:29.to the extent that they appear together, it is a way to send a
:18:30. > :18:34.message to voters at home that actually there are like-minded folks
:18:35. > :18:40.across Europe and in fact they are very much part of the mainstream,
:18:41. > :18:46.Marine Le Pen has been reaching out to US Eurosceptic politicians, also
:18:47. > :18:52.Sweden, Austria, you name it. Her father was a and has been severely
:18:53. > :18:57.criticised for his anti-Semitic views. This will not go down well
:18:58. > :19:05.with voters, the fact that she is his air. Yes. That is the obstacle
:19:06. > :19:08.for her to overcome. There are already quite clear signs that some
:19:09. > :19:17.of the Eurosceptic groups don't want to mix with her. Nigel Farage told
:19:18. > :19:22.me a few months ago that he admired her efforts to detoxify the party
:19:23. > :19:25.but he simply thought the heritage of anti-Semitism was too much and
:19:26. > :19:30.that he would be keeping his distance. It is hard to know how
:19:31. > :19:34.well these parties will actually cohere and the history, the track
:19:35. > :19:40.record of other Nationalist parties trying to do so in Europe is not
:19:41. > :19:45.very good. There are lots of parties that are Eurosceptic or political
:19:46. > :19:47.groupings that are but they are not necessarily far right, they are not
:19:48. > :19:53.anti-immigrant and are xenophobic. Do you think they are going to
:19:54. > :19:57.influence the debate somehow in the campaigns and the run-up to those
:19:58. > :20:03.elections of the European Parliament in May next year? They already had a
:20:04. > :20:10.pretty profound impact. The immediate prize is cleared things a
:20:11. > :20:14.bigger block in the European Parliament. That depends on how well
:20:15. > :20:20.they do. More than that, the success they have, any of these parties in
:20:21. > :20:25.European elections, it reverberates nationally and domestically. If the
:20:26. > :20:28.mainstream parties see that success, and they are just the policies and
:20:29. > :20:30.take a tougher line against Europe, so we have seen that in the
:20:31. > :20:38.Netherlands, even as recently as today. They put out government
:20:39. > :20:44.statement is basically saying that they want to ensure that certain
:20:45. > :20:48.powers are not transferred to Brussels, they want to limit the
:20:49. > :20:52.power of the commission, all of these things are sort of stealing
:20:53. > :20:56.messages from the Eurosceptics and try to adopt them. How far are they
:20:57. > :21:03.exploiting people's concerns about economic hardship? Very much. These
:21:04. > :21:08.are mostly populist parties and I think a few are a populist party,
:21:09. > :21:15.the EU and the eurozone crisis is sort of the perfect storm, it is
:21:16. > :21:24.seen as a guest bed, elite project -- it is seen as a perfect storm.
:21:25. > :21:28.The root of the anger goes back further than the crisis. Do you
:21:29. > :21:32.think they will get 30% at the European Parliament? Eleanor that is
:21:33. > :21:40.what people are predicting. We will see. She is the most powerful black
:21:41. > :21:43.woman in the world. There the American broadcaster and actress
:21:44. > :21:47.Oprah Winfrey has accused Barack Obama's detractors of not just
:21:48. > :21:52.disrespecting him but also his office because of the colour of his
:21:53. > :21:58.skin. The media mogul is here in the UK to promote a new film, the
:21:59. > :22:01.butler, in which she plays the wife of a White House butler played by
:22:02. > :22:11.Forest Whitaker. She's been talking to our Arts Editor Will Gompertz.
:22:12. > :22:15.Are you political? No, sir. Forest Whitaker becomes the butler to seven
:22:16. > :22:27.presidents. His wife Gloria is played by Oprah Winfrey. Everything
:22:28. > :22:30.you have is because of the butler. The talk-show host told me she
:22:31. > :22:35.realised taking on a roll was a risk. My greatest hope was, I don't
:22:36. > :22:38.want to embarrass myself. I was already going through all of the
:22:39. > :22:44.criticism from the network and I could just hear, in my mind, people
:22:45. > :22:54.saying, she should have kept her day job. That was so long ago. So, I was
:22:55. > :23:00.worried about, to an extent, not being able to measure up to the
:23:01. > :23:03.moment. Oprah Winfrey has been a prominent supporter of Barack Obama.
:23:04. > :23:07.She thinks that both he and office of president has been treated with
:23:08. > :23:11.contempt because of the colour of his skin. There is a level of
:23:12. > :23:18.disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some
:23:19. > :23:23.cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American.
:23:24. > :23:26.There is no question about that It is the kind of thing that nobody
:23:27. > :23:31.ever says but everyone is thinking it. Film is set against the
:23:32. > :23:35.political backdrop of the American civil rights movement, from
:23:36. > :23:41.segregation to the rise of the Black Panther grip. Is it a story you
:23:42. > :23:49.think is important to be told today? I think that important does not even
:23:50. > :23:56.begin to define it. It is essential. It is essential that the world
:23:57. > :24:04.understands what the history and the legacy of slavery and the subsequent
:24:05. > :24:13.civil rights movement and the desire, well and really right to be
:24:14. > :24:19.free has meant to African American people.
:24:20. > :24:26.We saw a wonderful movie that reminded us of you. She has made
:24:27. > :24:29.Williams as a media mogul, but she said that acting brings her pleasure
:24:30. > :24:37.that she has not got from anything else.
:24:38. > :24:40.It is a work by one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century
:24:41. > :24:43.and his subject is another of the art world's greats. Well now a
:24:44. > :24:47.painting by the British-based artist Francis Bacon has become the most
:24:48. > :24:59.expensive work ever to be sold at auction. The painting, Three Studies
:25:00. > :25:03.of Lucian Freud, was bought for more than $142 million at Christie's in
:25:04. > :25:30.New York. The BBC's Richard Lister reports A reminder of our main news:
:25:31. > :25:34.its estimate was $14 million, but it ended up more than ten times that.
:25:35. > :25:45.It was hundred and 42 million dollars. The triptychs are
:25:46. > :25:48.incredibly rare. For us to see 142 million a something quite
:25:49. > :25:54.extraordinary. It may be many years before that figure is broken. Three
:25:55. > :26:00.Studies of Lucian Freud? was we brought together in the 1980s. Part
:26:01. > :26:06.of its value is this -- is that it is a study of one iconic artist by
:26:07. > :26:11.another. Francis Bacon is one of the most important British artists of
:26:12. > :26:19.the last century. He really took on Cubism and moved it into the future
:26:20. > :26:23.20th century. He should the face moving, the feet moving and the
:26:24. > :26:29.hands fidgeting. In each panel he sees that -- you can see that
:26:30. > :26:37.movement. There were more records set last night. It made more than
:26:38. > :26:39.any other auction in history, making over $700 million. The artist
:26:40. > :26:43.reckoned this was one of his favourite works and it now be some
:26:44. > :26:47.time before it's like a scene again. Well, that's all from the programme.
:26:48. > :26:49.Next the weather. But for now, from me, and the rest of the team,
:26:50. > :27:01.goodbye. After the cold start this morning,
:27:02. > :27:02.it didn't feel too