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