need presumably fantastic cooperation between local aid operations on the ground right across the country, working with governmental departments and organisations, funnelling international funds and help. organisations, funnelling internationalfunds and help. is there the infrastructure, the knowledge, to make that huge system work? t knowledge, to make that huge system work? ~ , ., work? i think it is a huge challenge. work? i think it is a huge challenge. it work? i think it is a huge challenge. it is work? i think it is a huge - challenge. it is unprecedented pakistan has faced similar challenges into thousand five, the earthquake, and also into thousand ten, the floods. the strait state structure, the law enforcement agencies, the local, you know district administration have the experience but the scale and the magnitude is unprecedented. that is why there are three stages at which this challenge has to be surmounted. first is the international level, that whatever financial
battle to get a life saving transplant operation for her teenage son william after doctors had said his autism made the procedure too risky. we ll be speaking to beryl carr, who is being recognised for her work as a hospital cafe volunteer at the grand age of 100. bless me, father, for i have sinned. and i m about to sin again. dance another day. michael flatley of riverdance fame will be here to tell us about his movie debut in which he plays a retired secret agent. the united nations will issue a global appeal today to raise $160 million us, that s around £136 million, to help pakistan deal with its devastating floods. around a third of the country is now under water and more than 1,100 people have died.
agencies daily to come and bring whatever food is still available and distribute it and share it. the parents here have told us that their children sometimes go for a day without eating, or two days, even, and they ve got nothing to offer them, not even water in some instances. but that is the sense of devastation that people are seeing, they don t know if help is coming at all and even if it is, they don t know how long it will take for it eventually to trickle down to people in these sorts of conditions. i m joined now by pakistani politician and member of the pti, the pakistan tehreek e insaf party founded by former cricketer turned politician imran khan, shandana gulzar khan. thank you so much forjoining us. is help getting to where it needs to get? we had seen so many pictures of children lacking safe, clean drinking water.
including the story of the student fighting for better access at her university. i m back in half an hour. good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and jon kay. our headlines today. pakistan says a third of the country is underwater as the un launches an appeal to help millions of people left homeless. ukrainian forces have launched a major offensive aimed at retaking parts of the south of the country occupied by russia.
calls for calm in iraq as clashes intensify between security forces and supporters of the shia cleric muqtada al sadr as he announces he s quitting politics. and in an interview with a us magazine about her relationship with the royal family, the duchess of sussex, meghan markle, has discussed the importance of forgiveness. the united nations is leading a global appeal to help pakistan cope with the devastating floods which have left a third of the country under water and killed more than 1,100 people. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected, but mountainous regions in the north west have