i'm david eades, and from here at the bbc newsroom, we send out correspondants to bring you the best stories from across the globe. in this week's programme, the other side of the american dream. as donald trump sets out his vision for the next four years, ian pannell assesses the challenges that lie ahead. if you want to know what poverty in america looks like, well, this is it. president trump says he is going to fix it. he's going to deal with what he calls the carnage in america, of crime, of drugs, of gangs, of violence and of poverty. maram's story. quentin somerville tells the tale of the syrian baby who lost her parents and had nearly every limb broken in a bombing in aleppo. and also her reunion with the british doctor who saved her. hello. in tunisia, orla guerin reports from sousse, scene of the worst terror attack of its kind and asks if the government security crackdown has made it safe for tourists to return. we would very happy to see again british coming back to us. yes. do you think it's100% safe? can you say that? yes. absolutely. 100%? 100%. is greece's era of austerity over? as the authorities try to reach a new bailout deal, 18 months after the first major one, kevin connelly finds ordinary people unwilling to face more hard times. 50% of greek people are poor, poor and in the limits of indignity. and we are trying to protect all these people who cannot protect themselves. e—aid for africa. alistair leithead reports from kenya on a new scheme to send money electronically to help stop poverty and famine. and fly me to the moon for $100 million. david shukman reports on plans for two passengers to join the first manned flight to deep space for more than a0 years. it's going to give two rich people a thrill of a lifetime. basically it's really an adventure thrill ride that demonstrates a new capability. president trump used his first speech to congress to declare what he called a new chapter of american greatness. in a surprisingly measured tone, he asked legislators to pass a $1 trillion package to build new infrastructure and he promised massive tax relief for the middle class. but what about his pledge at his inauguration to help the poor and repair what he called the carnage in america, crime, drugs, gangs and poverty? well, ian pannell has been to baltimore, where a quarter of the population lives in poverty, and many no longer see america as the land of opportunity. say hello to jackson. a citizen of the wealthiest country in the world has ever known. and yet, he's clothed in hand—outs. his parents can't find work. they have no home of their own, and every morning, they come to the manor house charity, where the poor of baltimore meet for a little food, warmth and compassion. what is your message to president trump? come and help us. instead of critiquing us, come and help us. you'll see we need help. bad. like much of america, this is a story of two worlds. baltimore is actually something of a boom town these days, but it doesn't feel like it in many parts of the city. in this economy there is no trickle down. gun crime is surging here. baltimore was even more violent than chicago last year, driven by gang turf wars. for some of its residents, this is a city where selling your body or selling drugs is the onlyjob available. if you want to know what poverty in america looks like. well, this is it. incredibly, this entire block is pretty much made up of dilapidated, abandoned houses. incredibly, some people are living in between this, though. under president 0bama, poverty grew in america, and president trump says he is going to fix it. he's going to deal with what he calls the carnage in america, of crime, of drugs, of gangs, of violence and of poverty. and there are few places better to do that than baltimore. marcus allsop has lived here for a0 years. he repairs the city's homes. an eyewitness to the worst baltimore has to offer. the poor live in the single houses. the row houses in baltimore are generally rat infested, regardless of what you do as a person living there. roaches, mice. i mean, an epidemic of bedbugs. the neighbourhoods are falling apart, not because the people are bad people. we are underpaid, undereducated, and so many of us have been living like this for the second and third generation until we don't know how to change. despair is a way of living. and this is where it resides, on a bleak row of abandoned homes. this is the end of the line for americans gripped by poverty. here, we met the last family living on the block. three generations of the stewart family are crammed in here. they are months behind on the rent. unpaid bills are piling up, not surprising, when theyjust have $30 a day to survive. i love you. be careful. have a good day. they've been evicted before, forced to live in one of baltimore's many abandoned homes. it hurts, it hurts that they have to stay wrapped up in blankets all day because they are cold. they don't want to get out of bed because there's no heat to keep them warm. people talk about us. they get bullied in school because of it. it hurts. they've got to where they don't even want to show their faces outside. but we had no choice but to live there, because of the economy. i've been struggling for seven years. seven hard years. what pressure does that put on your relationship? 0h, we argue and fight all the time. all the time. i love this woman to death. she is my best friend, but to see her go through the things she goes through, it hurts me. it hurts me. for so many people, this is no longer a land of opportunity. hope has given way to despair. and the children who clamour for charity hand—outs have no american dream. it will be perhaps the biggest challenge for the new president. ian pannell, bbc news, baltimore. the syrian conflict of course is full of terrible tales of horror and suffering, but one story stands out as a symbol ofjust how brutal and unfair war could be. in the new year, five—year—old maram lost both her parents and nearly every limb in her body was broken when her house was bombed in aleppo. the british surgeon who operated on her watched her leave for asylum in turkey, not knowing if she would survive. well, several months on, doctor david nott has returned to turkey to be reunited with maram. as quentin somerville reports, this is a harrowing story with a happy ending. so much of aleppo's pain is anonymous. but maram's suffering was unforgettable. an air strike killed her parents and left her gravely ill. inside syria, doctor david nott worked to save her leg. there was shrapnel inside her hip. from here, and only five months old, she was evacuated to turkey, lost and alone. but after months of searching, the bbc tracked her down and reunited the two. everything at home, at christmas it's lavish, we have lots of food, lots of happiness and i left this little girl without any food and without any happiness. it's going to be a bit emotional, to be really honest. a bit emotional. right. oh, my goodness me. well, well, well. hello. gosh. gosh, she looks beautiful. you look beautiful! absolutely beautiful. look what i have got for you. it's a dolly. dolly. is her leg healing? the final surgery was nearly too much. maram almost didn't make it. her wounds are healing, but there will be work to reconstruct her bones and repair damaged nerves. it's said children can't remember pain. few though have as much to forget as maram. when i saw maram today, it was very emotional. as a doctor, you try and stay fairly unemotional when you're dealing lots of people with injuries. i suppose having got children as well now, and how much you love that child, you know, a tiny piece of my heart was left with maram. that's what i have been thinking about every day since leaving. this morning was a beautiful moment... to meet her again. the story of maram. we wish her all the best. just how safe is tunisia today? the tunisian authorities say that now, 18 months after the biggest terror attack of its kind in the town of sousse, it's now 100% safe for tourists. following a british inquest findings that the tunisian police response to the attack was shambolic, they insist major security improvements have taken place and that tunisia is as safe as many european destinations. 0rla guerin has been back to visit sousse yesterday. 0n alert in sousse. the new vigilance that was utterly lacking on the day of the attack. now permanent checkpoints and patrols by the police and the armed forces. the message is clear. you are safe. it's a new tunisia. ministers are looking to brighter days after tourism was gravely wounded in the carnage on the beach. we improved our security a lot, and we think that tourism will be coming back in the next few months now. we have good indications for summer 2017, and we will be very happy to see again british coming back to tunisia. do you think it's100% safe? can you say that? yes, absolutely. 100%? 100%. metal detectors are now standard when you enter hotels, even if you own them like mohammed bashir. he co—owns the now closed hotel where the british holiday—makers were killed onjune 26 2015. he admits security in tunisia should have been tightened that march, after an attack on tourists in the bardo museum. it should have been stricter and stronger after the bardo attack. to be honest with you, it should have been. but there is a before 26th ofjune 2015, and there is an after. this is not the same country any more. this was the picture when terror came to the beach. locals say the lone gunman was on the loose for over half an hour. at the inquest in london, condemnation of the glaring absence of the security forces. when tourists were being slaughtered here on the sands, police could and should have made an effective response according to the coroner. he says police could have arrived here in minutes with everything they needed to confront the gunman. instead, they deliberately delayed their arrival. the first officer on the scene stayed outside the main gate and never fired a single shot. mehdi knows only too well that the police were nowhere to be seen. when the shooting started, he was on the beach selling rides onjet skis. his response was swift. here he is, chasing the killer, armed only with two ashtrays. hoping in vain for help. translation: no one came, apart from the two guards, who did nothing. then, when we ran along the beach, there were three national guard boats in the sea. they didn't come until afterwards, when he was killed. at the rue imperial hotel where the gunman claimed so many lives, they are getting ready to reopen in may. hoping tourists will return to the golden sands. sunbathers now have company on the beach. protection that came too late for 30 britons who just wanted a break from it all. 0rla guerin, bbc news, sousse. greece's debt drama is back again. this week, the country's creditors held talks with the government over plans to unlock billions more dollars in bailout money to help the struggling economy there. 18 months after the first bailout, the greek prime minister has insisted that the era of austerity is over. as kevin connolly reports from athens, it's clear that ordinary people are just no longer prepared to put up with any further economic hardship. crowd chants 0n the outskirts of a courtroom in athens, greek frustrations with deficit and debt and deadlines from banks boils over at a courtroom. the man in the striped shirt is a lawyer, come to process a repossession order on a building whose owners couldn't pay their mortgage. the activists have come to stop him. he can't get the case heard because he can't make himself heard, and it's abandoned for the day. a victory in the fightback against austerity say the protesters. 50% of greek people are poor. we are at the limits of indignity. we are here to protect all these people who cannot protect themselves because the state does not protect these people. after years of cuts, many greeks fear the imf and the leaders of the euro zone are preparing to demand more. traders in the athens fish markets say business has fallen by 70% since the debt crisis began to bite seven years ago. they warn that they and their customers can't take any more. translation: we don't believe them. they always want more cuts. there are always new cuts and never new jobs. if the imf and eurozone impose more austerity nothing will change. more investment would make things better, but more austerity won't. greek problems with debt have an ancient feel to them these days. superseded in the world's attention span regarding brexit and the coming of president trump. the greek government says those changes are part of a wave of populism around the world, that are going to help it resist any demands from its creditors for new cuts. this is a general incentive for all people of europe especially in greece, because we have been hit by austerity much harder than any other places in europe. the real question, how to reverse austerity? i think there is hope in that exactly because the elites cannot govern as in the past. the election of trump proves that. plenty of greeks want their government to push back hard against any calls for more austerity. these protesters are communists, not likely to be part of any future government, but certainly part of the drumbeat of discontent against any deal with international creditors that would mean further hardship here. so, the international community talks about light at the end of the tunnel on greek debt, but the message from meetings like this and from these streets is that it is a tunnel that keeps getting longer, and a light that never seems to get any brighter. kevin connelly, bbc news, athens. we are going to take you to the horn of africa where drought is causing intense suffering for the people of that region. last week, famine was declared in south sudan. somalia announced a national disaster this week because of drought and that was just weeks after neighbouring kenya declared its own drought emergency. in the midst of all this, kenyans have come up with a novel way to help those affected. rather than food aid, it's started to use electronic cash payments. as alistair leithhead reports, direct transfers are helping to lift people out of poverty. there are thin pickings for the cattle of northern kenya. drought is back and with it, a difficult decision, whether or not to sell the cows to survive. help can be as simple as sending cash to stop them having to sell—off the family assets, and it's being done from hundreds of miles away. in nairobi. so the red shows the area where we have had extreme drought, and if you have a look at this and compared to what we have this year, you can see we have red all across the four counties. the satellite data determines who gets emergency aid money from the uk. no strings attached, direct cash payments are becoming increasingly popular. this man's card automatically gets topped up with credit. he identifies himself by a fingerprint scan. $25 a month is handed over. the worse the drought, the more people receive cash to cover the bills and keep them going. if it wasn't for these cash payments, he said, he'd had to sell the livestock as there are lots of things that have to be paid for. school fees, food for the family and all the other basic needs. well, you can see why this idea of sending people cash directly works in places where there's a humanitarian crisis, like here, where there is drought and people are doing everything they can just to keep the cattle alive. but they are trying it in places that aren't as bad. just to try and lift people out of poverty. here in western kenya, there is no drought but people are extremely poor. a charity called give directly is doing just that. like everywhere, people have big dreams. this evening a lump sum of thousand dollars this lady to build a new house and start a business selling cooking fat. a tin roof replaced the thatch which needed regular and costly repair. translation: i'm happy because i'm not using any more money on my roof. i can use it to buy my clothes, food, pay school fees and other expenses. others use the lump sum to buy cattle, fertiliser, seed. after five years of detailed research here into how people spend theirfree money, there's little evidence it is wasted or abused. and there's plenty of proof to show it's being used to reduce poverty and make a difference in humanitarian crisis. alistair leithhead, bbc news, kenya. how ready are we to fly to the moon and back for a holiday? well, the prospect of space tourism has moved a little closer this week, after an american aerospace company spacex has said it has room for two passengers on its next mission in 2018. this would be the first manned flight to deep space in more than a0 years, although it wouldn't involve a lunar landing as such. there's a catch. it's going to cost you $100 million a seat. 0ur science editor, david shukman has been to find out more. a spacex promotion. bold and often boastful, this young company knows how to whip up excitement. the rocket is the falcon heavy. it's yet to be launched. this is an animation, but already, two tourists have been promised seats on it to fly around the moon as early as next year. not since the last apollo mission, back in 1972, have any humans flown anywhere near the moon. the tourists will not be landing on it, but if this trip happens then they will get amazing views, and space scientists say this is plausible. we are really now entering the era where space tourism is a possability. in fact, a probability. maybe not for another 10, 15, 20 years, for ordinary people to afford it. it will be the playground of the rich. the man behind spacex is elon musk. when i met him he spelled out a startling vision of travel beyond earth. i think we are really entering a new era of space travel that's very exciting. there is a history of spacex promises running late but eventually being delivered. ten days ago, it landed a huge rocket, significant because reusing spacecraft will make launches cheaper. last year, one of its rockets blew up, but spacex quickly got back to its key business of launching satellites. this week, its dragon capsule delivered cargo to the international space station. a trip to the moon is obviously harder, and critics say it would just be a joyride. well, it's going to give two rich people a thrill of a lifetime. it's not anything to do with science or exploration. it's repeating missions that have been done a0 plus years before, so it's basically an adventure, a thrill ride that demonstrates a new capability. i love space. so, how much will it cost? well, tourists visiting the international space station have paid at least $20 million each. a moon trip would be much more. we don't know who the two passengers are, but if they get there, they may pave the way for others to follow. david shukman, bbc news. that's your lot from reporters this week. from me, david eades, goodbye. hello, good morning. the start of the week brought a mixture of sunshine and showers, but we were very close to some severe and potentially damaging weather. just across the way, in brittany, a gust approaching 120 mph. that area of low pressure brought us some rain in the south—west and the channel islands, and is running away across europe rapidly now, to bring more some snow to the alps, take some wetter weather across italy and to the adriatic, potentially bringing some damaging mistral winds to south—east france, and gusty winds into sardinia and corsica. here at home, things are very much quiter. the winds quite light, actually, and a lot of the showers that we had earlier on are beginning to fade away. so we will see clearer skies developing, and it will be turning into quite a chilly night. ground frost, i think, in many places, and in the countryside there may be a pinch of air frost as well. so a chilly start to tuesday morning, but a dry and bright one for the most part. the showers along those north sea coasts tending to pull away. and instead we look to the west to see increasing amounts of cloud coming our way, and eventually some outbreaks of rain and drizzle, too. for most of the day, mainland scotland will be dry, but we will keep some showers going across the northern isles, towards lerwick, shetland in particular. and we will see the cloud increasing in scotland, ahead of this rain that arrives in northern ireland through the afternoon. it is mostly light and patchy. ahead of it, still dry across many central, northern and eastern parts of england. a decent enough day, the sunshine turning increasingly hazy as the cloud increases. and we will see some patchy rain coming into wales and the south—west of england as well. no great amounts during daylight hours. through the evening, the rain turns a bit heavier, and briefly we could see a bit of snow in the scottish mountains. but the rain across northern parts of the country doesn't last too long. it is further south across england and wales where the rain grinds to a halt a bit overnight. that wil keep the temperatures up, leading to some misty weather and some hill fog. clearer skies to the north, and it will be turning a touch chilly. some stronger winds in the far north—west of scotland, perhaps, and a milder wind blowing across southern parts of england and wales, where we are more likely to keep some drizzly rain going through the day. a lot of cloud across much of wales, south midlands, southern england. so a bit of a damp and dreary sort of day, but decent temperatures. further north, though, it will be sunnier, and watch out for some heavy showers in the north—west later in the day in particular. that weather front does eventually take that rain and drizzle away from southernmost parts of england, and then it comes back in again from off the atlantic towards the south—west of england, so here we will see some rain arriving on thursday. brighter day for many other areas. a little sunshine, a few blustery old showers across northern parts of scotland. decent temperatures, and staying mild and cloudy on friday. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: president trump signs a revised travel ban against six mainly—muslim countries. his team says it will overcome any legal challenge. a day after north korea conducted its latest missile tests, the united states begins deploying a controversial defence system in south korea. china targets traffic pollution, as it promises to make the skies blue again. but is it losing the battle against the smog? 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