vulnerable girls and young women for sex in newcastle. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. a deadline looms for toshiba to report its annual results. it has until today to get an to sign it off. silicon valley setting an example when it comes to paid maternity leave in america but will the rest of the country good morning, asia, hello, world. it s thursday and glad you could join us for this edition of asia business report, i m rico hizon and we begin with japan s troubled electronics giant toshiba and today is the deadline for the company to report its audited results for the past fiscal year. toshiba has missed the deadline several times and some investors are now questioning its very survival. for the latest let s go over to mariko oi, our business editor, a lot of confusion about these toshiba results, they can t seem to reconcile where they are at. indeed. the delay has been caused because of the disagreement between the auditor and toshiba,
the world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. that s 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 young babies like this one 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. families forced to flee their homes and left with little to eat. already, a famine has been officially declared here, with
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