Martin griffiths, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Now, you ve been in that seat on this programme before, but this is the first time that you re talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the un s humanitarian chief injune this year. You have greater liberty, essentially, now to tell us what you think about the situations that you ve seen. May we begin in sudan, which is just one of the crises that you ve dealt with in recent times? it s a civil war that in the last 18 months has put an extraordinary 25 million people in need of support and struggling to survive. You said recently that you thought sudan could be worse than ethiopia in the 1980s. What did you mean? well, sudan is the first place now where famine has been formally declared, as you know, the first place since 2017, because there s 25 million people in need, and we don t know precisely, because of the lack of access to these people, how much in need they are. We think that the
Hezbollah s attack comes after pagers and radio devices held by members of the group detonated across lebanon last week, killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn t said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday s strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon, killing three people. And the israeli military says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels over the past few days. Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say. No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We can t accept it, either. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe back to their homes. Meanwhil
Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death toll from covid 19 in the world. This film follows staff at the Royal Hospital in london as they try to cope with a second way. And a warning, this programme contains content which some of may find it distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more
Events on the night they were supposed to face off in a 2nd president ial debate. Yemens largest prisoner swap finally takes place its being described as a milestone in efforts to end the 5 year old act. Recorded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers also take lehi in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months. Germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other large cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subjected to strict rules on where they can go and who they can meet and from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subjected to strict rules Charlie Angela reports from london. This city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household
Well see some wet weather coming back in here as we go on through sas day big and heavy downpours so the day temperatures struggling to get to 13 celsius saturday there in tokyo we got plenty of wet weather to ensue Southeast Asia the philippines the same some flooding recently received heavy downpours once again 122 millimeters of rain here a little area cloud here just into the south china seas and that was like another Tropical Storm developing now pushing sway to the central parts of vietnam heavy showers where we already have the flooding into northern parts of vietnam where weather is set to continue over the coming days youve also seen weather of course into central parts of india harder about 13800. 00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours thats what it looks like on the streets west the weather over towards the western side of india as well out west the weather well not just way up towards glitterati over the next couple of days theres another disturbance pushes out into the arabian