hello and welcome to bbc news. there are fears of food shortages in pakistan, after the devastating floods washed away nearly half of the country s crops. so far around 1,200 people are known to have been killed but today unicef said many more children could die from a rapid spread of diseases lik cholera and malaria. our correspondent, pumza fighlani is in pakistan. meet this boy, he s two days old, her sixth child. as he sleeps under a tree that s become this family s only shelter, his mother is anxious. this is no place for a baby. translation: we don t even have a tent, just this tree. . we spent the whole night in the rain running away from the flood, trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won t stop. it s very difficult. the baby was born in a nearby hospital, but she was forced to return to the river bank because she d left her husband and five young children. hundreds of familie
the us is ascending to taiwan? this is indeed a large package, $1.1 billion, it has been confirmed by the state department, technically congress could push back on it, that seems unlikely because both the democrats and republicans are in favour of the continued support the united states gives to taiwan, so it includes antiship missiles, land to and missiles, support for surveillance radar system, an early morning system for incoming missiles. so altogether this is a significant improvement in taiwan? military defence system and, as you have said, it comes at this extremely tense time, we have had months and months of chinese military exercises close to taiwan things came to a head about a month ago when nancy pelosi visited the island and express her own personal