We begin this hour with a Special Report from afghanistan. A country where millions of children are malnourished and white in one hospital 700 children have died in just the last six months. It is a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty after years of war, causing economic collapse. The United Nations says more than three in children under the age of five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. The bbc s Correspondent And Producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster, and a warning there report shows images of children in distress. This is what an average Morning Looks like at the hospital. Hundreds from every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zahra, 30 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease that is ravaging afghanistans younge
Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists whove worked as Foreign Correspondents, Filing Stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week will there be enough Vaccine Doses . The uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. And what a disputed Prime Ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. Jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and Foreign Correspondent in canada and the United States. And here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. Warm welcome to all of you. The European Commission has been Piling Pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut
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all the events so far. on friday, 19th may, according to the sun newspaper, the young person s family complained to the bbc about one of its presenters. on thursday, 6thjuly, allegations of a different nature were put to the bbc, according to director general tim davie. the next day, the sun publishes claims that a bbc presenter paid a teenager £35,000 for sexually explicit photos. on saturday, 8thjuly, the sun on sunday publishes more details of the presenter s alleged actions. and today, the bbc confirms a presenter has been suspended and the corporation is in touch with police, with the met confirming an initial contact has been received. our legal correspondent dominic casciani has answered some of the questions about this case. effectively, if you go on social media this weekend, there have been two burning questions. firstly, has there been a crime that s been committed? and secondly, why hasn t this individual been named? so let s go through these in turn has an