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