11/03/2017 BBC Weekend News


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The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the end

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of the Second World War, say the United Nations.

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Its humanitarian chief say more than 20 million people face

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the treat of starvation and famine in four countries in Africa

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and the Middle East - Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

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The UN say ?3.5 billion is needed, by July, to avert disaster.

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Our world affairs correspondent, Richard Galpin, has more details.

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For months now, it's been known that millions of people, including young

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babies like this, in Yemen, have been starving. She was just four

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months old when a BBC team met her in December. And across Yemen,

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hundreds of thousands more children have so little to eat they are

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struggling to stay alive. And the threat of mass starvation is

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affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south

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Sudan, which, like Yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Families

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forced to flea their homes and left with little to see -- flee. Already

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a family has been officially declared here, with almost half the

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population in urgent need of help. We stand at a critical point in our

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history. Already at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest

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humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations. Now

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more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and

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famine. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people

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will simply starve to death. The number of people the UN says is now

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in dangerer is huge. Almost two million in nigh jeerament nearly --

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Nigeria. Nearly five million in south Sudan, and 14 million in

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Yemen. The UN predicts without serious help 1. 4 million people

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could die before the end of the year, unless more aid money is

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found. They're calling for 3. ?3.6 billion to tackle this crisis. Apart

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from conflict, another major cause of the crisis is drought. This is

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Somalia, which has been particularly hard hit. In this hospital in the

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capital Mogadishu, doctors have been treating people who've travelled

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almost 200 miles to get medical help. The most the cases, the death

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cause is dehydration. We are doing the rehydration of the child and we

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have given some antibiotic. Some basic aid is reaching those in need,

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but nowhere near enough. So it's possible famine could be declared in

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all four countries, unprecedented in modern times.

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Reports from Syria say 40 people have been killed, and dozens

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injured, following two explosions in the capital Damascus.

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It's thought two suicide bombers targeted buses transporting Shi'ite

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pilgrims near an ancient ceremony in the city.

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It's not yet clear who was behind the attack.

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A female judge has warned women who get drunk that they are putting

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themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists.

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Lindsey Kushner QC said what she called "disinhibited

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behaviour" could put women in danger.

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The comments have been described by the campaign group Rape Crisis

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More than 60 prisoners were evacuated from a jail

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in Dorset overnight, after a large fire was

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It's believed he climbed onto the roof of HMP Guys Marsh,

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near Shaftesbury, after complaining about a change of

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Thank you. Yes, last night ten fire crews were here trying to put out

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the blaze. I have to say this morning, this lunch time, there's

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little evidence that actually anything took place. The only thing

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we've seen today is as we've stood here, every so often prison vans

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come and go. There's speculation that maybe some of those evacuated

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prisoners are being moved to other prisons.

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Flames and thick smoke filled the night sky above HMP Guys Marsh.

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After an inmate thought to be drunk, wearing many layers of clothes,

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set light to them on top of the prison roof just

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As firefighters controlled what they described as the large

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fire outside, inside 64 prisoners were moved from their cells

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In an unannounced inspection two and a half years ago,

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investigators found this place is in crisis, and they said

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staff and managers had all but lost control.

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They said one in four prisoners felt unsafe as gangs operate openly.

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When you were here, what could you actually see?

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We could see out of our bedroom windows some flames.

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George Bolton lives opposite the prison.

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As I understand it, he had ripped tiles off the roof and set fire

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to his close and it caught the timbers of light.

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And that is where the fire came from.

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We can't see past that house there, but we did see the glow.

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It's just one in a long string, 50 fires are reported each week

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These figures have doubled in two years, a strong indication

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of the chaos going on behind the country's prison fences.

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Online touts, who bulk buy tickets and sell them for inflated prices,

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will face unlimited fines under new Government plans.

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It will also be illegal to use so-called "bots"

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or automated computer software to bypass limits on the maximum

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number of tickets that can be bought.

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Our business correspondent, Joe Lynam, is with me.

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Difficult to put numbers on this. The U 2 concert, held this summer in

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New York, that concert was sold out in 60 seconds. Then within minutes,

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some of the thousands of tickets were available on secondary markets.

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What appears to be the case is these online ticket touts or digital

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ticket touts are using software, known as a bot, to snap up all the

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tickets and then put them back on the markets, depriving fans. So the

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Government hopes to make it criminally offensive, a criminal

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offence and with unlimited fines. They want the secondary markets to

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be more vigilant, watch for suspicious behaviour. The reality is

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if these digital touts are overseas or outside the UK there's little the

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Government can do. Let me leave you a final thought, experts tell me

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that these bots may be human, that in poorer countries they're paid to

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snap up the tickets. There's little that can be done to stop that.

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Now, with all the sport, here's Mike Bushell at the BBC Sport Centre.

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We're building up to the Six Nations match.

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The Six Nations match between England Scotland,

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today at Twickenham, now has extra significance.

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Thanks to Wales, England can clinch the title a week early.

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Our correspondent Joe Wilson is already at Twickenham.

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Although Scotland haven't won there since 1983,

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they have been the form team this season.

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Well, absolutely. You join us in last minute rehearsals for game

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time. Wouldn't have had that level of stage management or stadium in

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1871, but every time England and Scotland play each other, it is

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significant because of the age and history of that fixture. It's hard

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to imagine a game which has this kind of significance and partly, as

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you say, that is down to what happened in Cardiff yesterday

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evening. That resurgent performance by Wales and by George North in

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particular, of course, was great for them. It did dent Ireland's

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championship hopes. It means as a consequence if England beat Scotland

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they will be champions with still one round of matches left to play.

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It is a big if. Partly because England have the doubt about Owen

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Farrell, his fitness, such a key guy for them. The man who kicks the

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points. And the lingering uncertainty about their performance.

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We're yet to have a complete kind of game from England, despite their

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three wins so far. Scotland, in contrast, have reached new levels of

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play, really. As a consequence of that, they're number five in the

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world, officially their highest ever ranking. What really intrigues me is

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that clash of styles, that contrast. Scotland, no, they can't outmuscle

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England. They have to get the ball out to the wingers for the flying

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fullback Stuart Hogg. If they win today they're in a great position to

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win the Six Nations for the first time. We've got the music, the

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sunlight and a lovely pitch, let's have some tries. Indeed. Wonderful

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stuff, Joe, there with musical accompaniment to match.

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It's the penultimate weekend in the Women's Six Nations,

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and the pressure is on both England and Ireland, who could take

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the Championship to a dramatic winner-takes-all final clash.

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Ireland are in action against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park

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and went into the game tied at the top of the table

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with England, who play Scotland later today.

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We've reached the quarter final stage in the FA Cup.

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Giant-killing Lincoln play Arsenal this evening,

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but there's already one game under way.

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It's at the Riverside, where Middlesbrough

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It took just three minutes for David Silva to prod

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Jess Varnish says any board members, involved

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in a British Cycling independent investigation into

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accusations she made over bullying and sexism

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It follows a leaked draft report, that claims the organisation

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sanitised its own inquiry into the claims.

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I had absolutely no faith in the investigation from the get go within

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British cycling. I've been in there for a long time and I know that,

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yeah, basically I had no faith in it whatsoever. So, unfortunately, I'm

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not shocked by that. Now we just need to, there needs to be changes

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obviously. These people, they can't be still in there if they've

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reversed facts. They can't still be able to be there on that board.

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Johanna Konta, was far too strong for her fellow Brit, Heather Watson,

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There are 97 places between them in the world rankings,

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As the British number one won in straight sets, to move into round

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three. That's all the sport for now. A driver in China has ended up

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on the roof of a house, He said that as he tried to get out

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of the path of a motorised tricycle and an oncoming car,

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he accidentally put his foot on the accelerator

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rather than the brake. The result was, to say

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the least, embarrassing. Fortunately, nobody

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was injured in the incident, We're back on BBC One at 5. 40pm.

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But for now, it's goodbye from me. It's not so bad out there today. Bit

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of cloud around for sure, but for many of us it feels

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