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The warning from the first minister. And a woman from shotton in flintshire goes on trial accused of murdering her baby son. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Senior officials from oxfam are in emergency talks today with the International Development secretary, to try to prevent government funding being cut, following the scandal involving some of its aid workers and prostitutes. Its claimed the charity failed to give the government full details of what happened, in the wake of the devastating earthquake in haiti in 2010. Oxfam denies theres been a cover up. Matt cole reports. In the worst imaginable circumstances, oxfam staff were meant to be in haiti to help. Its now clear son had a very different agenda. Amidst claims of sex parties and prostitutes, oxfam sacked four staff and allowed three others to quit including their country director who went on to secure work with another aid organisation. Oxfam ....
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The International Development secretary, penny mordaunt, has described as horrific the behaviour of some of oxfams workers in haiti, who were accused of using prostitutes in the aftermath of the earthquake there in 2010. And concerns that this could be a wider issue were echoed by the author, and a former president of a charity, dr elaine storkey. Yes, its a horrible idea that there might be even more revelations that we havent yet seen, and it doesnt surprise me. Aid workers in vulnerable places are working their socks off and are open to temptation, but it is very sad that you can imagine them giving into it. In your experience of haiti, how serious a problem is the exploitation of women, and did it get worse after the earthquake . Its similar to the exploitation of women across the world, its barbaric and relentless, women are prostituted and abused and so on. Actually, in defence of the organisations, if it werent f ....
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Yangons military leaders deny theyre conducting a campaign of indiscriminate violence against the rohingyas. There are fears of an emerging crisis as a bbc investigation finds that there is a shortage of dentists, according to new figures. Now its time for sportsday. Welcome to sportsday, im leah boleto. He hasnt played sincejuly and today andy murray confirms hes likely to be out for the rest of the season. Its been a tough day in the mountains for chris froome at the vuelta a espana. Stick with us for all the details. Could it be all change for Womens Super League . There are proposals to streamline the competition to just one division from two. Coming up,joe coming up, joe root, captain of england, speaks to me before the third, and decisive test match england against the west indies here at lords. Wellcome. Plenty to get through but were going to start with the news that andy murrays season is over. He posted on social me ....