Looking forward to next week, when it is expected the government will fire the starting gun on brexit. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The worlds facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. That is the assessment of the United Nations, which says more than 20 Million People face the threat of starvation and famine in four countries in africa and The Middle East. £3. 5 billion are said to be needed byjuly to avert disaster. This report from our World Affairs correspondent Richard Galpin contains images you may find distressing. For months now, it has been known that millions of people, including this young baby, in yemen, have been starving. She was just four months old when a bbc team met her in december. Across yemen, Hundreds Of Thousands more children have so little to eat they are struggling to stay alive. And the threat of Mass Starvation is affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south sudan, which, like yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Fam
Looking forward to next week, when it is expected the government will fire the starting gun on brexit. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The worlds facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. That is the assessment of the United Nations, which says more than 20 Million People face the threat of starvation and famine in four countries in africa and The Middle East. £3. 5 billion are said to be needed byjuly to avert disaster. This report from our World Affairs correspondent Richard Galpin contains images you may find distressing. For months now, it has been known that millions of people, including this young baby, in yemen, have been starving. She was just four months old when a bbc team met her in december. Across yemen, Hundreds Of Thousands more children have so little to eat they are struggling to stay alive. And the threat of Mass Starvation is affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south sudan, which, like yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Fam
Looking forward to next week, when it is expected the government will fire the starting gun on brexit. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The worlds facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. That is the assessment of the United Nations, which says more than 20 Million People face the threat of starvation and famine in four countries in africa and The Middle East. £3. 5 billion are said to be needed byjuly to avert disaster. This report from our World Affairs correspondent Richard Galpin contains images you may find distressing. For months now, it has been known that millions of people, including this young baby, in yemen, have been starving. She was just four months old when a bbc team met her in december. Across yemen, Hundreds Of Thousands more children have so little to eat they are struggling to stay alive. And the threat of Mass Starvation is affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south sudan, which, like yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Fam
Time for reporters. Welcome to reporters. Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea, after three years. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happ
With me Karthi Gnanasegaram and jessica creighton. The headlines this evening faster, better looking and more demanding, its the cars were talking about as hamilton helps himself to Pole Position in the first race of the formula one season in australia. Its a first for Dundee United as they claim the Scottish Challenge Cup in stunning style. Wiggins insists hes a man of integrity as he hints that people will be shocked at whats to come once the Team Sky Investigation is over. Also coming up in the programme a Special Report from syria, where against the odds, theyre hoping to reach next years world cup, for the first time in their history. And the Comeback Kings on ice britains skating medal hopes target their third Winter Olympics. Welcome to sportsday. Domestic top flight football might be on its International Break but weve still plenty of sport to bring you rugby union, moto gp and boxing all coming up, but well start in australia, where Lewis Hamilton will begin the first grand pr