:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:10. > :00:12.French riot police evict hundreds of migrants from makeshift camps
:00:13. > :00:16.Migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa were told to pack
:00:17. > :00:19.their bags and go before their temporary homes were bulldozed.
:00:20. > :00:29.President Obama makes the case for a different kind of foreign policy
:00:30. > :00:45.These people but the problem is there is here.
:00:46. > :00:51.President Obama makes the case for a different kind of foreign policy
:00:52. > :00:55.family described her as a warrior for equality.
:00:56. > :00:57.The American writer, poet and activist Maya Angelou,
:00:58. > :01:01.We'll be looking back at her extraordinary life.
:01:02. > :01:05.Look no hands - and no driver - is this the kind of car we'll all
:01:06. > :01:22.Police in Calais have spent the day evicting hundreds
:01:23. > :01:25.of migrants from makeshift camps in the port area of the French city.
:01:26. > :01:29.Many, from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, have spent months trying
:01:30. > :01:36.people have been surviving here, with little shelter or food.
:01:37. > :01:39.The local authorities say the conditions in three camps have
:01:40. > :01:45.become insanitary, and that there's been an outbreak of scabies.
:01:46. > :01:49.The BBC's Paul Adams was at one of the camps when the police moved in.
:01:50. > :02:22.Slowly the police herded the mode, inspecting every makeshift tent. We
:02:23. > :02:38.thought we would be safe in France because we run away from war and I'm
:02:39. > :02:43.from Syria but we see this. Tented by tent camp is being cleared. It is
:02:44. > :02:47.all very calm but hanging over the whole process is the question of
:02:48. > :02:56.where these people are supposed to go. At first there were no answers.
:02:57. > :03:03.The refugees wonder if we understand what they have been through. Of all
:03:04. > :03:15.the people in the world, just think about this. This man has been on the
:03:16. > :03:27.move for five years. We live alone and we cross the desert. Wait a
:03:28. > :03:38.minute, please. But for some year this moments could not come soon
:03:39. > :03:50.enough. This woman told me her city was under siege. The problem is for
:03:51. > :03:56.our town. Back near the port, tempers were afraid. Some of the
:03:57. > :04:00.migrants erected barricades and there were scuffles. There were
:04:01. > :04:06.insults. Backward it started, the bulldozers moved in and camp the
:04:07. > :04:15.camp to call Syria quickly reduced to a pile of debris. Finally there
:04:16. > :04:20.was a sort of ideal. They have one more night here before they have to
:04:21. > :04:24.find accommodation outside the city. He prepared for another night in the
:04:25. > :04:32.open and another leg of his long and exhausting journey. The daily
:04:33. > :04:34.movement of people searching for a better life continues in North
:04:35. > :04:46.Africa. Around the border between Around the Morocco
:04:47. > :04:49.and the Spanish enclave of Melilla dawn... and the Spanish authorities
:04:50. > :04:53.say 400 people managed to climb a fence and get across. They're now in
:04:54. > :04:56.an immigration centre there. Some may be transferred to the Spanish
:04:57. > :04:59.mainland, but most are likely to be sent back to their countries of
:05:00. > :05:02.origin in sub-Saharan Africa. With me is Claude Moraes, just
:05:03. > :05:06.re-elected as a Labour Member of the European Parliament, also former
:05:07. > :05:08.director of the UK's Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
:05:09. > :05:33.How many people here in Britain know about this? I have been
:05:34. > :05:37.following this since 2002 and most people have no place to go. The
:05:38. > :05:48.suspicion that I can say is that that is also a political element to
:05:49. > :05:52.the clearing of those camps. The justification given is medical that
:05:53. > :05:57.the sanitary conditions in these camps are always terrible. The
:05:58. > :06:03.terrible now and I visited them very many years ago and they were
:06:04. > :06:10.terrible then. That is always the politics. It is a political football
:06:11. > :06:25.and the seeming beings other detritus of this political game.
:06:26. > :06:32.Dash-mac in these human beings. We cannot make at direct connection but
:06:33. > :06:39.the timing is to need and I think the problem here is that today in
:06:40. > :06:45.France we have those problems but we have those problems over Europe. It
:06:46. > :06:51.is not a crime to be an illegal immigrant and I think we should look
:06:52. > :06:55.at burden sharing and responsibility as to how to deal with these people
:06:56. > :06:58.and not create a political football in a highly developed country like
:06:59. > :07:10.France and indeed in this country as well. We want to ask how many people
:07:11. > :07:17.in Britain would consider themselves to be racially prejudice?
:07:18. > :07:20.question asked each year in the British Social Attitudes Survey -
:07:21. > :07:24.and it's just been revealed that in the last survey, a third of people
:07:25. > :07:28.said they were - figures which seem to show the problem is as bad as it
:07:29. > :07:31.was 30 years ago. Jon Brain has more on the findings.
:07:32. > :07:33.Multicultural Britain, a society steadily becoming more
:07:34. > :07:36.at ease with its increased ethnic diversity - not according to
:07:37. > :07:39.the results of this survey. In fact, it reveals that, while
:07:40. > :07:42.racial prejudice fell to an all-time low at the start of the millennium,
:07:43. > :07:45.it's been rising since then. Back in 1983, 36% of people
:07:46. > :07:50.questioned described themselves as either "very" or "a
:07:51. > :07:53.little" prejudiced against people of other races.
:07:54. > :07:58.By 2000, the figure was 25%, one in four.
:07:59. > :08:03.But last year, 30% of those surveyed admitted to prejudice.
:08:04. > :08:08.There are wide variations across the country.
:08:09. > :08:13.Just 16% of people in inner London admitted to prejudice.
:08:14. > :08:15.In the West Midlands, the figure was 35%.
:08:16. > :08:18.Older men in manual jobs were the most likely
:08:19. > :08:22.to say they were prejudiced, but the group recording the biggest rise
:08:23. > :08:27.was educated male professionals. The strongest message for
:08:28. > :08:29.politicians from the survey concerns immigration.
:08:30. > :08:33.Perhaps not surprisingly, more than 90% of those who admitted
:08:34. > :08:39.some level of racial prejudice want to see a reduction in the number
:08:40. > :08:48.of those entering the UK. But so do 72% of those who said they
:08:49. > :08:52.The MEP Claude Moraes is still with me - and Claude, you were also with
:08:53. > :08:57.the Commission for Racial Equality here in the UK.
:08:58. > :09:08.That's do you see evidence that which prejudices on the rise in the
:09:09. > :09:11.UK? There is some evidence that we have a new phase of racial prejudice
:09:12. > :09:20.but it is complex and people are unlikely to admit to it with the
:09:21. > :09:25.British element of not wanting to admit to racism. That is breaking
:09:26. > :09:34.away in this environment where we have political immigration in a
:09:35. > :09:38.debate going on which is quite negative. We also have a
:09:39. > :09:42.parochialism going on. In big cities we have a cosmopolitan population
:09:43. > :09:52.more likely to be at ease with other cultures and races but you have some
:09:53. > :09:56.elements, particularly categories of white men who are more likely to
:09:57. > :10:03.admit to prejudice. That is an indication of the austerity we have
:10:04. > :10:12.and the kind of statements people will now make. I think this is a
:10:13. > :10:16.fascinating survey. We're getting reports that there has been a
:10:17. > :10:21.shooting at Cape Town International airport. One person is thought to
:10:22. > :10:27.have been killed and several others injured an incident in a
:10:28. > :10:29.restaurant. Initial reports say that a man has shot a woman before
:10:30. > :10:34.turning the gun on himself. President Obama has been outlining
:10:35. > :10:37.his vision for a new chapter Speaking to graduates at the
:10:38. > :10:41.West Point Military Academy he said the US must always lead
:10:42. > :10:44.on the world stage but military action should not be the only
:10:45. > :10:57.element in such leadership. put it, 'Just because we
:10:58. > :11:00.have the biggest hammer, does not Mr Obama also said terrorism
:11:01. > :11:04.remained the most direct He announced the creation
:11:05. > :11:15.of a $5 billion fund to help countries
:11:16. > :11:17.across the world fight terrorism. Katty Kay is at the White House
:11:18. > :11:28.for us - what did you find most He said when the homeland is
:11:29. > :11:32.threatened, America has the right to take unilateral action and should
:11:33. > :11:38.not have to ask permission. But he also laid out the case for
:11:39. > :11:42.multilateralism and for America whose footprint would perhaps be
:11:43. > :11:48.smaller on the world stage. The counterterrorism fund he was talking
:11:49. > :11:52.about was part of that. This would help other countries be trained and
:11:53. > :12:02.equipped so they can do what America has been doing up until now. This
:12:03. > :12:09.fund will be up to $5 billion which will allow us to train and
:12:10. > :12:13.facilitate partner countries on the front lines. These resources will
:12:14. > :12:22.give this flexibility in different measures. They will help us with the
:12:23. > :12:29.training forces who have gone on the offensive against Al-Qaeda. They
:12:30. > :12:44.will keep peace in Somalia. We will mean taking a border patrol in Libya
:12:45. > :12:53.and facilitate French operations and in Mali. As frustrating as it is
:12:54. > :12:56.there are no easy answers in Syria and no military solution can
:12:57. > :13:03.eliminate this terrible suffering any time soon. The only problem with
:13:04. > :13:16.this fund is that the White House has no money for this and have got
:13:17. > :13:26.to go to Congress for the money. We will see whether he actually gets
:13:27. > :13:29.this new fund. He was accused by one journalist of the leading from
:13:30. > :13:36.behind on foreign policy. Do his critics still say that this is what
:13:37. > :13:41.he is doing? I think his whole speech was a reaction to this
:13:42. > :13:44.criticism. He has clearly been frustrated by people on the right
:13:45. > :13:49.and on the left in the United States who are saying that America has not
:13:50. > :13:57.done enough in Syria and in the Ukraine. He was trying to say that
:13:58. > :14:02.there are times for multilateralism and times for unilateralism do not
:14:03. > :14:08.mistake multilateralism for weakness. We can have successes when
:14:09. > :14:15.we lead the world. He pointed to Ukraine as an example of that.
:14:16. > :14:23.America put pressure on President Putin and came up with a good
:14:24. > :14:32.result. He used the Ukraine as a positive example of multilateralism
:14:33. > :14:39.at work. Given that relationships with Russia are frosty, it is
:14:40. > :14:47.particularly interesting? The other example he pointed to was Iran and I
:14:48. > :14:52.think he is trying to reflect an American public that is slightly
:14:53. > :14:56.confused. They have had years of war and do not want unilateral
:14:57. > :14:59.intervention. The opinion polls suggest the American public was
:15:00. > :15:06.opposed to America taking military action. The American public is
:15:07. > :15:12.slightly schizophrenic on this and also want to be seen to be the
:15:13. > :15:14.strong world leader. The speech was trying to marry the two ends of the
:15:15. > :15:17.spectrum. Now a look at some of the day's
:15:18. > :15:20.other news. A major faction of the
:15:21. > :15:23.Pakistani Taliban has announced it is splitting from
:15:24. > :15:25.the larger militant organisation. A spokesman for the Mehsud group
:15:26. > :15:28.said the decision is a result This is the first major rift in
:15:29. > :15:32.Pakistani Taliban ranks since 2007 and it's being seen as a significant
:15:33. > :15:38.blow to the organisation. 55 people have been found guilty
:15:39. > :15:41.in a mass trial in China's restive Some 7,000 people watched as
:15:42. > :15:46.a court sitting in a stadium handed out the verdicts on charges of
:15:47. > :15:49.terrorism, separatism and murder. Three people were
:15:50. > :15:54.sentenced to death. Egypt's presidential election has
:15:55. > :15:56.run to a third day after the military-backed interim
:15:57. > :15:58.authorities extended voting It comes after
:15:59. > :16:03.a last-minute decision to declare Tuesday a holiday failed to persuade
:16:04. > :16:07.people to cast their ballots. A low turnout threatens to undermine
:16:08. > :16:09.the legitimacy of former military chief Abdul
:16:10. > :16:12.Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to In Thailand
:16:13. > :16:29.the army says it's now released 124 leading politicians, activists
:16:30. > :16:31.and academics who were taken into 76 people are still detained,
:16:32. > :16:36.most from the Red Shirt movement The American writer, poet,
:16:37. > :16:44.and academic, Maya Angelou, The first volume
:16:45. > :16:48.of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
:16:49. > :16:51.reflected her traumatic childhood in an era defined by racial segregation
:16:52. > :16:54.and became a bestseller. Nick Higham looks back on
:16:55. > :17:13.a hugely creative, turbulent life. My life is not heaven but it sure is
:17:14. > :17:20.not held. FIM able to work and have the luck to be black on a Saturday
:17:21. > :17:26.night. Performing one of her own poems. She was charismatic and
:17:27. > :17:30.passionate, a role model who celebrated the experience of being
:17:31. > :17:34.black in America. She grew up in the deep South of America, raised by her
:17:35. > :17:38.grandmother admits to racial segregation and poverty. She was
:17:39. > :17:42.raped at the age of seven by the boyfriend of her mother. She did not
:17:43. > :17:49.speak for the next five years, but the bread voraciously. -- but she
:17:50. > :17:57.read voraciously. She became a dancer and appeared on Broadway.
:17:58. > :18:00.Then, in what became an extra to marry career, she became a
:18:01. > :18:07.journalist and academic, and spent worked with civil rights leaders in
:18:08. > :18:18.America. It was her autobiography that made her name, beginning with I
:18:19. > :18:21.Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I remember thinking that white folks
:18:22. > :18:27.could not be people because their feet were too small, their skin to
:18:28. > :18:30.white and see-through. Bill Clinton acknowledged her status when he
:18:31. > :18:40.asked her to read a point at his inauguration. History, despite its
:18:41. > :18:45.patent, cannot be a if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
:18:46. > :18:52.Barack Obama awarded her a presidential medal of freedom.
:18:53. > :18:55.Martin Luther King told me that he expected a black president in 40
:18:56. > :19:02.years and I've said, I will be long dead before that happens. She made
:19:03. > :19:06.movies and documentaries about the black experience. Always warm and
:19:07. > :19:11.wise and encouraging. The encroachment is not to just survive,
:19:12. > :19:19.but to thrive. To thrive with some passion, some compassion for my some
:19:20. > :19:20.humour and some style. -- compassion, some humour and some
:19:21. > :19:27.style. Danielle Moodie-Mills is
:19:28. > :19:40.an adviser on racial justice to What did Maya Angelou mean it to
:19:41. > :19:46.you? She meant so much. She was an extraordinary light and an amazing
:19:47. > :19:48.figure and leader, an African-American woman who told all
:19:49. > :19:56.of us who are African-American that you can be great, you can be a
:19:57. > :20:01.monument for which people look to for guidance and for hope, and that
:20:02. > :20:07.is what she was, she was a living my name and of hope and light. It is
:20:08. > :20:13.interesting that she has been introduced, she had a best-selling
:20:14. > :20:18.autobiography, but she has the -- she has been reintroduced to younger
:20:19. > :20:24.generations as well. In 1993, I was only 13 years old, and it was the
:20:25. > :20:30.inaugural poem that she writes for president Bill Clinton, but it was
:20:31. > :20:35.also a move that came out as well that featured Janet Jackson and that
:20:36. > :20:42.was called poetic justice, and in that movie, her character read the
:20:43. > :20:45.programmes of Maya Angelou, particularly phenomenal woman, which
:20:46. > :20:50.gave license to sell many African American women to be phenomenal, to
:20:51. > :20:55.embrace their curves, their body, their beauty in all of its
:20:56. > :21:02.awkwardness and all throughout time, and it was just this time to rebel
:21:03. > :21:06.as a young person, being in 13 years old, being a young black girl in the
:21:07. > :21:12.United States and recognising that I was a special and beautiful, and
:21:13. > :21:19.that is powerful and an empowerment in a country that does not always
:21:20. > :21:24.see black as beautiful. Of course, she had terrible struggles, grew up
:21:25. > :21:29.in the deeply racist segregation South, but what you are saying is,
:21:30. > :21:35.the way she phrased her message, her poetry still speaks to young black
:21:36. > :21:41.women today. Her poetry speaks to the world today. She did not mince
:21:42. > :21:46.words in her poetry about the terrorism that black people faced in
:21:47. > :21:51.the United States throughout, from slavery through Jim Crow, and even
:21:52. > :21:54.up until today, there is a lot of injustice that African-Americans
:21:55. > :22:02.face, and Maya Angelou used the beauty of her words to really bring
:22:03. > :22:08.that picture to people all around the world. It was important and
:22:09. > :22:16.needed. She said that she would never see a black president in her
:22:17. > :22:20.lifetime. She would die, be long dead and gone, before that happened,
:22:21. > :22:27.so I can only imagine, in 2011, when President Barack Obama gives her the
:22:28. > :22:32.highest honour up -- Hunter in the land, I can only imagine what that
:22:33. > :22:36.meant to her, because I know what it meant to me to see that honour
:22:37. > :22:42.bestowed to her. It was just phenomenal. I was interested in one
:22:43. > :22:46.of her many memorable quotations where she said, courage is the most
:22:47. > :22:50.important of all of the virtues, because without that, you cannot
:22:51. > :22:54.practice any other virtue consistently. That could apply to
:22:55. > :22:58.many politicians, couldn't it? That could be a piece of advice to
:22:59. > :23:04.everyone. It takes courage to stand up for your convictions, and I've
:23:05. > :23:08.think she showed all of us that, that it takes courage to speak the
:23:09. > :23:12.truth, to open your truth, and to live in it. Thank you for joining
:23:13. > :23:20.us. Thank you for having me. Now, how safe would you feel
:23:21. > :23:23.in a car with no driver? Not only that, no option to drive,
:23:24. > :23:27.no steering wheel, no pedals, just The US tech giant Google has
:23:28. > :23:31.announced plans to build 100 self-driving vehicles,
:23:32. > :23:33.and has started trying them out Supporters claim they could reduce
:23:34. > :23:37.the number of traffic accidents, but some fear they'll just boost
:23:38. > :23:40.the amount of traffic on the roads. Here's our technology
:23:41. > :23:53.correspondent Rory Cellan Jones. No steering wheel, no accelerating
:23:54. > :23:59.pedal, not even a break, but this could be the future of motoring.
:24:00. > :24:04.Press a button and off you go. The maximum speed is 25 miles an hour.
:24:05. > :24:10.Software detects other vehicles, and a softer materials that should make
:24:11. > :24:14.it safer it did -- it hit a pedestrian. Google is to build 100
:24:15. > :24:18.of these vehicles in the next stage of a hugely ambitious project which
:24:19. > :24:26.has so far involved adapting existing cars the promises that --
:24:27. > :24:32.adapting existing cars. The premise is that this will cut road accidents
:24:33. > :24:36.caused by human error. But the big car makers are already bringing in
:24:37. > :24:40.some automation. This car helps you keep in your lane, and when it comes
:24:41. > :24:46.to reversing into a tight spot, the car can take over. I and not
:24:47. > :24:51.derail's best partner, said the level of automation where you take
:24:52. > :24:55.your story will and let it happen is a fine by me, but how happy would we
:24:56. > :25:03.be to let the car takeover in all circumstances? The key, of coarse,
:25:04. > :25:08.is safety. The existing self-driving car has driven hundreds of thousands
:25:09. > :25:15.of miles without an accident and can spot a cyclist pulling out. When the
:25:16. > :25:20.cyclist pulls out it's arm, the movement is predicted. This would
:25:21. > :25:25.involve big spending on the road system and a radical change in our
:25:26. > :25:29.attitudes towards mentoring. The major constraints are the costs to
:25:30. > :25:35.do the roads, the sensors come at you would have to have individual
:25:36. > :25:39.lanes for these cars. Are we as human beings ready for that moment
:25:40. > :25:43.where you take away all control whatsoever and fit in your little
:25:44. > :25:47.box and off you go? Google plans to run a pilot programme for its
:25:48. > :25:50.self-driving car near its Californian headquarters in the next
:25:51. > :25:54.couple of years, but it will be a long time before city streets are
:25:55. > :26:03.ready for motoring without the tourists.
:26:04. > :26:07.Here is some amateur video of a tornado in the United States. It
:26:08. > :26:11.ripped through a trailer park, injuring at least nine people, one
:26:12. > :26:15.of them critically. It is about to go right over us. It was filmed near
:26:16. > :26:20.Watford city by a resident from a neighboring camp, who got in his
:26:21. > :26:29.camp and drove away while witnessing this. The park is home to workers in
:26:30. > :26:33.North Dakota's oil trade. Just a reminder, our main headline, French
:26:34. > :26:39.police have been affecting around 800 migrants. The police moved
:26:40. > :26:44.through the camp, telling people to leave.
:26:45. > :26:57.But for now, from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.