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The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the end | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
of the Second World War, say the United Nations. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Its humanitarian chief say more than 20 million people face | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
the treat of starvation and famine in four countries in Africa | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
and the Middle East - Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
The UN say ?3.5 billion is needed, by July, to avert disaster. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Our world affairs correspondent, Richard Galpin, has more details. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
For months now, it's been known that millions of people, including young | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
babies like this, in Yemen, have been starving. She was just four | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
months old when a BBC team met her in December. And across Yemen, | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
hundreds of thousands more children have so little to eat they are | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
struggling to stay alive. And the threat of mass starvation is | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Sudan, which, like Yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Families | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
forced to flea their homes and left with little to see -- flee. Already | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
a family has been officially declared here, with almost half the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
population in urgent need of help. We stand at a critical point in our | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
history. Already at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations. Now | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
famine. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
will simply starve to death. The number of people the UN says is now | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
in dangerer is huge. Almost two million in nigh jeerament nearly -- | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
Nigeria. Nearly five million in south Sudan, and 14 million in | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Yemen. The UN predicts without serious help 1. 4 million people | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
could die before the end of the year, unless more aid money is | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
found. They're calling for 3. ?3.6 billion to tackle this crisis. Apart | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
from conflict, another major cause of the crisis is drought. This is | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Somalia, which has been particularly hard hit. In this hospital in the | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
capital Mogadishu, doctors have been treating people who've travelled | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
almost 200 miles to get medical help. The most the cases, the death | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
cause is dehydration. We are doing the rehydration of the child and we | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
have given some antibiotic. Some basic aid is reaching those in need, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
but nowhere near enough. So it's possible famine could be declared in | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
all four countries, unprecedented in modern times. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Reports from Syria say 40 people have been killed, and dozens | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
injured, following two explosions in the capital Damascus. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
It's thought two suicide bombers targeted buses transporting Shi'ite | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
pilgrims near an ancient ceremony in the city. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
It's not yet clear who was behind the attack. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
A female judge has warned women who get drunk that they are putting | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists. | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Lindsey Kushner QC said what she called "disinhibited | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
behaviour" could put women in danger. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
The comments have been described by the campaign group Rape Crisis | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
More than 60 prisoners were evacuated from a jail | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
in Dorset overnight, after a large fire was | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
It's believed he climbed onto the roof of HMP Guys Marsh, | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
near Shaftesbury, after complaining about a change of | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
Thank you. Yes, last night ten fire crews were here trying to put out | :04:12. | :04:27. | |
the blaze. I have to say this morning, this lunch time, there's | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
little evidence that actually anything took place. The only thing | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
we've seen today is as we've stood here, every so often prison vans | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
come and go. There's speculation that maybe some of those evacuated | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
prisoners are being moved to other prisons. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Flames and thick smoke filled the night sky above HMP Guys Marsh. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
After an inmate thought to be drunk, wearing many layers of clothes, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
set light to them on top of the prison roof just | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
As firefighters controlled what they described as the large | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
fire outside, inside 64 prisoners were moved from their cells | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
In an unannounced inspection two and a half years ago, | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
investigators found this place is in crisis, and they said | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
staff and managers had all but lost control. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
They said one in four prisoners felt unsafe as gangs operate openly. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
When you were here, what could you actually see? | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
We could see out of our bedroom windows some flames. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
George Bolton lives opposite the prison. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
As I understand it, he had ripped tiles off the roof and set fire | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to his close and it caught the timbers of light. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
And that is where the fire came from. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
We can't see past that house there, but we did see the glow. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
It's just one in a long string, 50 fires are reported each week | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
These figures have doubled in two years, a strong indication | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
of the chaos going on behind the country's prison fences. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Online touts, who bulk buy tickets and sell them for inflated prices, | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
will face unlimited fines under new Government plans. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
It will also be illegal to use so-called "bots" | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
or automated computer software to bypass limits on the maximum | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
number of tickets that can be bought. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Our business correspondent, Joe Lynam, is with me. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Difficult to put numbers on this. The U 2 concert, held this summer in | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
New York, that concert was sold out in 60 seconds. Then within minutes, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
some of the thousands of tickets were available on secondary markets. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
What appears to be the case is these online ticket touts or digital | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
ticket touts are using software, known as a bot, to snap up all the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
tickets and then put them back on the markets, depriving fans. So the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Government hopes to make it criminally offensive, a criminal | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
offence and with unlimited fines. They want the secondary markets to | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
be more vigilant, watch for suspicious behaviour. The reality is | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
if these digital touts are overseas or outside the UK there's little the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Government can do. Let me leave you a final thought, experts tell me | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
that these bots may be human, that in poorer countries they're paid to | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
snap up the tickets. There's little that can be done to stop that. | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
Now, with all the sport, here's Mike Bushell at the BBC Sport Centre. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
We're building up to the Six Nations match. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
The Six Nations match between England Scotland, | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
today at Twickenham, now has extra significance. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Thanks to Wales, England can clinch the title a week early. | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
Our correspondent Joe Wilson is already at Twickenham. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Although Scotland haven't won there since 1983, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
they have been the form team this season. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Well, absolutely. You join us in last minute rehearsals for game | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
time. Wouldn't have had that level of stage management or stadium in | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
1871, but every time England and Scotland play each other, it is | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
significant because of the age and history of that fixture. It's hard | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
to imagine a game which has this kind of significance and partly, as | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
you say, that is down to what happened in Cardiff yesterday | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
evening. That resurgent performance by Wales and by George North in | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
particular, of course, was great for them. It did dent Ireland's | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
championship hopes. It means as a consequence if England beat Scotland | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
they will be champions with still one round of matches left to play. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
It is a big if. Partly because England have the doubt about Owen | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Farrell, his fitness, such a key guy for them. The man who kicks the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
points. And the lingering uncertainty about their performance. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
We're yet to have a complete kind of game from England, despite their | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
three wins so far. Scotland, in contrast, have reached new levels of | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
play, really. As a consequence of that, they're number five in the | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
world, officially their highest ever ranking. What really intrigues me is | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
that clash of styles, that contrast. Scotland, no, they can't outmuscle | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
England. They have to get the ball out to the wingers for the flying | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
fullback Stuart Hogg. If they win today they're in a great position to | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
win the Six Nations for the first time. We've got the music, the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
sunlight and a lovely pitch, let's have some tries. Indeed. Wonderful | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
stuff, Joe, there with musical accompaniment to match. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
It's the penultimate weekend in the Women's Six Nations, | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
and the pressure is on both England and Ireland, who could take | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
the Championship to a dramatic winner-takes-all final clash. | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
Ireland are in action against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
and went into the game tied at the top of the table | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
with England, who play Scotland later today. | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
We've reached the quarter final stage in the FA Cup. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Giant-killing Lincoln play Arsenal this evening, | :10:06. | :10:06. | |
but there's already one game under way. | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
It's at the Riverside, where Middlesbrough | :10:09. | :10:09. | |
It took just three minutes for David Silva to prod | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
Jess Varnish says any board members, involved | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
in a British Cycling independent investigation into | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
accusations she made over bullying and sexism | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
It follows a leaked draft report, that claims the organisation | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
sanitised its own inquiry into the claims. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
I had absolutely no faith in the investigation from the get go within | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
British cycling. I've been in there for a long time and I know that, | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
yeah, basically I had no faith in it whatsoever. So, unfortunately, I'm | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
not shocked by that. Now we just need to, there needs to be changes | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
obviously. These people, they can't be still in there if they've | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
reversed facts. They can't still be able to be there on that board. | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Johanna Konta, was far too strong for her fellow Brit, Heather Watson, | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
There are 97 places between them in the world rankings, | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
As the British number one won in straight sets, to move into round | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
three. That's all the sport for now. A driver in China has ended up | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
on the roof of a house, He said that as he tried to get out | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
of the path of a motorised tricycle and an oncoming car, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
he accidentally put his foot on the accelerator | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
rather than the brake. The result was, to say | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
the least, embarrassing. Fortunately, nobody | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
was injured in the incident, We're back on BBC One at 5. 40pm. | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
But for now, it's goodbye from me. It's not so bad out there today. Bit | :11:53. | :12:19. | |
of cloud around for sure, but for many of us it feels | :12:20. | :12:20. |