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
i m joined now by graham washington deputy fire chief gary franz, the deputy fire chief in washington. what s the latest on this? two bodies believed to be the children and a third body found. yes, that s correct. that third body appears to be an adult, can t tell at this point if it s male or female, but, you know, everything that we have, we have very credible reports of, you know, a person working with the powell children who brought those children to this house just prior to this event and then after the children were let inside, she was prevented from going inside herself. she smelled some gas and tried to get back in but as i understand it, but she just couldn t do it. she saw mr. powell, and she brought these two powell kids to this home. so within moments to have minutes after those kids were let into the house, this place exploded. there s every reason to believe these are, in fact this is the powell familiar here. deputy chief, not confirmed the identities but
bodies of those killed in a devastating tornado almost one week ago. just ahead, one of the coroners involved in the daunting and grisly task. and clash of conservative men for the race for the white house. will it be sarah palin or michele bachmann? i m candy crowley and you re in the situation room. first to the u.s. investigation into osama bin laden and dramatic new clues revealing that he may have been trying to reach out to pakistan for protection in the years before he was killed. this comes as hillary clinton paid a visit to the country in a new effort to ease tension in the wake of bin laden s death. chris lawrence is at the pentagon with all of the details. chris? candy, all of this is coming out of the massive treasurer trove of intelligence that the navy s.e.a.l.s pulled out of bin laden s compound. this revelation is fascinating in that it really reveals one of the ways in which osama bin laden thought about trying to evade u.s. detection. documents seized sh