tayabullah, barely breathing, ill with pneumonia and malnutrition. his family wants us to see his condition. alone in a corner, his mother nigar realises her son is fading. doctors find a faint heartbeat. already defeated by a lack of resources, they re trying to revive him with the little they have. this man tells us it took eight hours, on rubble roads, to bring his grandson here. a family that can barely afford to eat, scrape together money to pay for the ride, trying to save their little boy. idema is one of two nurses treating 60 children. she makes a final attempt. minutes later, she tells nigar her boy has died. sobbing. they carry their baby home. he should be alive. every disease he had was curable. translation: i am also a mother, and when i saw the baby die, - i felt like i ve lost my own child. when i saw his mother sobbing, it broke my heart. it hurt my conscience. we don t have equipment and trained staff. there is nothing we can do but watch babies dying. barel
own work developing ai. the nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill ten others gives evidence for the first time at her trial. and wrexham s resurrection. the football club, its fans and hollywood owners, celebrate promotion to the football league in style. on newsnight. .. the on newsnight. the staff body accepts an improved path and we speak live to one of those demanding more. good evening. in afghanistan, more than 1,000 children under the age of five are dying every week, many in hospitals and clinics, and the assessment from the charity unicef is that they shouldn t be dying. it s a staggering number of lives lost, but our team on the ground believe the true figure could be much higher. they re dying of diseases that are preventable, the majority would survive in most other parts of the world, but the country s health system is broken. foreign funding is frozen and aid agencies struggle in the face of enormous challenges, not least the fact that t
temperatures in the west with highs of 18 or 19 in the very mildest spots. we will start to see change in the weather pattern into thursday with this area of low pressure pushing weather fronts in from the southend west. looks like we will see a dry start to many but rain quickly arriving across south west england before spreading into wales, the west midlands and may be as far north thousand northern ireland late in the day. a bit of sunshine ahead of that system with temperatures still 17, 18 or so. continuing to see a cool feed of wind coming in from the north sea. north and east england and eastern scotland. for the coronation weekend it looks like we could see rain arriving across southern england. thanks, chris. that s it. more analysis of the day s top stories on newsnight with mark urban, just getting underway on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one. we join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. have a very good night. th
One year old sajad struggles to breathe. this mother, fatima, holds an oxygen pipe near her child s nose. masks for their small faces aren t available. irfan is in the next bed. his condition worsens. ..and his mother ziara is given an extra tube. mothers filling in for what trained staff or medical equipment should do. this basic facility is the intensive care unit in ghor s main hospital a province home to more than a million. room after room is full of sick children.
Pneumonia is ravaging their little bodies. one year old sajad struggles to breathe. this mother, fatima, holds an oxygen pipe near her child s nose. masks for their small faces aren t available. irfan is in the next bed. his condition worsens. ..and his mother ziara is given an extra tube. mothers filling in for what trained staff or medical equipment should do. this basic facility is the intensive care unit in ghor s main hospital a province home to more than a million. room after room is full of sick children.