03/07/2011 BBC Weekend News

Britain sends emergency food aid to the Horn of Africa. Aid agencies

say up to ten million people are at risk from starvation after

widespread drought. Labour calls on the Government to

come clean about claims that 40,000 people could be made homeless by

its planned benefits cap. Anti-monarchy protests greet

William and Kate on the latest leg of their tour in Canada.

And Super Novak's stellar performance, Djokovic wins

Good evening. Britain is to provide emergency aid

to over a million people in Ethiopia in danger of malnutrition

and starvation after one of the worst droughts in decades. The UN's

humanitarian affairs chief, Lady Amos, has also called for a greater

international response to the crisis. Much of the Horn of Africa

and parts of East Africa have less water than at any time in the last

60 years. Aid agencies say ten million people in Djibouti,

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are affected. Here's our world

affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.

This woman arrives at the world's largest re-Jew camp with her --

refugee camp with her six children. They're among more than 60,000

people who have crossed the border into northern Kenya this year.

The main reason is drought. We don't have food. We had nothing to

eat. People started to die, so we fled.

And the growing malnutrition among the children eplgs is -- especially

is all too evident at the camp. Of the ten million people now affected

by drought across the region, close to three million are in conflict-

ridden Somalia alone. Today, the UN has not only called for urgent

action but also challenged donor countries to put aside fears that

aid will fall into the hand of is Islamist extremists or warlords and

Britain has announced funding for emergency food relief in Ethiopia.

The particular focus is to try and stop what is an emerging

catastrophe taking place in the Horn of Africa, two years now

during which there has been no rains and a steady drought and this

specific intervention by Britain is designed to make sure that over the

next three critical months we are able to feed 1.3 million people.

Moving livestock in search of pasture isn't necessarily giving

them any greater greater chance of survival, many animals have died,

crops failed and cereal prices have shot up. We should never be in the

position where the situation gets to it was in Somalia of the past,

we know things are happening now and we can provide food and

assistance and we need to be doing that urgently. And here in this

part of Uganda the crisis adds to notoriously chronic difficulties in

overcoming malnutrition. Taken together another severe test

looming for an ever growing number of families and for the

international community. We can talk now to Ben Brown on the

Kenya-Somalia border, at what's become the largest refugee camp in

the world. Ben, from what you have seen just

how bad is the situation getting? Well, we have been driving around

this drought area and what we see everywhere is the carcasses of dead

animals that families here rely on and dead crops as well. The UN are

saying this is the worst drought for about 60 years. They've had two

consecutive years where there hasn't been enough rain. People are

increasingly desperate here. The UN stressing this isn't a famine yet,

it's important to underline that, but it is what they call an

emergency and they're saying that it is a rapidly deteriorating

situation, so they're saying the world needs to wake up to this.

They have an early warning system that aid workers are telling me

what's the point of an early warning system if the world doesn't

take notice of it and here at this camp we are seeing something like

1,000 people every day streaming in here from Somalia from the drought,

from the fighting there, many of them are children. They've been

walking for weeks, they're desperately weak and mal nourished

and very vulnerable to disease. Thank you.

Labour has called on the Government to say whether it's been straight

with the country over the impact of planned changes to benefits. It

emerged last night that Downing Street was warned six months ago,

that a �500 a week cap on all benefits could lead to up to 40,000

people being made homeless and end up costing the taxpayer money. Our

political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has the details.

This is affluent Chelsea in London. If you live in social housing just

across the road the Government's new �500 a week cap on benefits

could mean that even flats here are too expensive. The Government, they

do help us with rent and everything else, but the money really that you

take for three children it doesn't even sometimes even cover you to

the end of the month. With the benefits they're decimating it to a

point where they're going to put people in real poverty. The cap was

announced in the autumn and Ministers say it will save large

amounts of money from the housing benefit bill. But a leaked document

from the communities department, written in January by a civil

servant, questions the effects of the cap. It suggests that far from

saving �270 million by the end of the parliament, it could end up

costing money through greater burdens on local authorities.

It also suggests that the benefit cap could mean 40,000 people ending

up homeless. And that 23,000 fewer properties would be built for

social housing. Sources close to the Communities Secretary, Eric

pickles, have distanced him from the letter, insisting he is fully

behind the policy. But one housing charity says the impact of a cap

will mean more poverty. People tend to initially try and keep it

together. Unfortunately, they may get into debt and then there can be

a spiral down. Even if we manage to catch people they'll still be

moving from their homes and communities. While the document is

six months old, that doesn't mean that the concerns are any the less

significant. And while sources insist that Eric Pickles didn't

write it himself, senior civil servants don't tend to go

freeLancing on policy, particularly in relationship to Downing Street.

Labour will seek an urgent question here tomorrow and the Speaker who

decides these things has been granting a lot of them recently.

The Chairman of the BBC Trust, the body which represents licence fee

payers, has signalled that there'll be cuts in the pay of senior BBC

management. Lord Patten said executive pay is a toxic issue with

viewers and listeners and that he wanted the corporation to set an

example for other public sector bodies. This report from our media

correspondent Torin Douglas. Just weeks after arriving as

chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten is preparing for some tough

decisions. And he's identified top executive pay as the issue that

that still upsets licence fee payers and staff. There is the

whole issue of fairness across the board with senior managers getting

some deals which don't apply to others. I think we can deal with

all that and if we do so we will deal with one of the most toxic

reasons for the public's lack of sympathy for the BBC as an

institution, even though they like enormously what it does. With the

BBC discussing how to make 20% cuts in its total budget, its critics

say high executive pay is even harder to justify. It's very hard

for the BBC to simultaneously say we have got a lot of pressure on

our budget, we are having to run on a shoestring and have to many staff

earning well over �100,000 a year. The BBC says it's already cutting

top management and pay. Its deputy director general, seen here on the

left, has been made redundant as part of a 25% cut in the top

management pay bill. With commercial broadcasters able to pay

more, some fear this will make it harder for the BBC to attract and

keep the best managers. If the BBC can't get the best people, because

other broadcasters pay more, you may say well that's just a fact of

life. The point is licence payers will not react well if they don't

get the best programmes. I think that's cobblers, there are so many

people out there who would want to work for an organisation that's

much loved, held in huge regard around the world, and people who

are coming into it and want to work for the corporation for the right

reasons. Lord Patten told Andrew Marr he was looking closely at the

ideas of Will Hutton, head of the Work Foundation who is examining

Government proposals to measure the pay of top executives as multiples

of what their lower paid staff receive. Who runs ITV, what is his

multiple, 35-1. Who runs Sky? They're the licence fee payer can

see whether or not the men and women at the top of the BBC are

poorly paid, about right, or well paid.

But for people working at the BBC executive pay isn't the only area

where the axe is going to fall as it faces budget cuts of 20%.

A man has been killed and two other people injured after being shot

outside a pub in Bristol. The attacks happened around 4:00am this

morning in the St Pauls area of the city. Police have now arrested a

man. Tens of thousands of people were in the area yesterday

celebrating the annual carnival. A man has been killed and two other

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people injured after being shot What is important, and is one of

the things that my colleagues are highlighting just now, is that

people may not realise the nature of the risks that people run if

children, in particular, become seriously overweight. Almost 20% of

ten-year-olds are now overweight in England. Experts predict that by

the middle of the century 63% of all children will be obese and say

it's their livers this that will take the toll. It's not just

alcohol that causes liver disease, being overweight is also linked and

it's not about the fat that you can see. The real danger is internal in

the fat in and around vital organs and experts say it's a silent

killer. The problem about most liver disease is you don't get any

symptoms at all all until it's at an advanced stage. In other words,

you get cirrhosis, and then you have complications that can arise

from the cirrhosis which can be very serious. It's not until that

late stage that you are going to get any symptoms at all.

Getting children to eat healthy food is often a struggle. What's

your favourite food? Chips. What's your favourite fruit? Apple or

pear? Apple or pear. Tomorrow sees the launch of

national childhood obesity week to raise awareness of this growing

problem but doctors are warning that urgent radical change is

needed in order to save lives. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are

in Quebec City on the latest leg of their first overseas tour as a

married couple. Earlier in Montreal there was a small demonstration by

anti-monarchy campaigners as William and Kate visited a

children's hospital. Our Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell

sent this report. A Sunday morning arrival into Quebec, and this being

the heart of French-speaking Canada, a Church service aboard ship with

hymns in French. Tricky.

The centre of the city was under tight control by police. Anti-

monarchy protesters were being challenged by police and Escorted

away. If there was any argument, they were arrested.

In the end, a group of several hundred demonstraters were

allocated an area some distance away.

William and Kate came to the city hall, the welcome from those in the

square was unquestionably warm. This, of course, is a place where

speaking in French really matters. He thanked them for their patience

with his accent and said he hoped they would get a chance to know

each other over the years. In the distance protesters jeered but in

the square William's words were well received. The couple will have

got the impression, perhaps a fleeting one, that there are parts

of Canada and sections of society which are not supportive of the

Crown. Last night in Montreal there was a

small but noisy protest protest by people who believe the British

Royal Family should not have a special position in Canada. It was

a counterpoint, but not an interruption. William and Kate were

busy attending a cookery class, French cooking, of course.

In Sport, Novak Djokovic is the new Wimbledon champion. The Serb, who's

also the world number one, beat last year's winner, Rafael Nadal,

to lift the third Grand Slam title of his career. Our sports

correspondent James Pearce is at the All England club. The third

Grand Slam of his career but the first at Wimbledon, the one he's

dreamed of winning since he was a young kid. Novak Djokovic has only

lost one match all year and against the defending champion he never

really looked like losing today. Wimbledon has been pitched perfect

this year, after two weeks of sweat and drama, of champagne and cream

this tournament it made it ever so simple, the two best players in the

world would fight for the sport's most prestigious Cup. The first set

was solid, cagey, the equivalent of boxers circling and jabbing.

Djokovic displaying his machine- tool precision. He took the set.

Djokovic cut loose in the second, turning acrobatic defence into

Nadal is known for his oncourt aggression but it's the war cry of

Djokovic you can hear. A double break later the set was his. 6-1.

Nadal had had enough, he is by all accounts a nice chap, but he

Djokovic tamely netted and handed Nadal a break. A further break

later it was the defending champion who had taken the set 6-1.

The players traded breaks in the fourth but then the Spanish man of

steel melted, handing his opponent three break points. His father, a

headache. In two and a a half hours Djokovic's family and President

waited for match point. Victory tasted sweet.

It's really hard to describe this with any words, except the best day

of my life, the most special day. This is my favourite tournament,

the tournament I dreamed of winning. For the previous eight years it's

been Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal who have dominated Wimbledon. Today,

Djokovic announced the arrival of a new power.

David Haye has promised to make a decision about his future in the

next couple of weeks. Last night he was convincingly beaten by Wladimir

Klitschko. Today, our correspondent has been catching up with a man who

lost his title in Hamburg. The morning after the fight before.

David Haye was trying to keep his chin up and making light of the

broken toe that meant he was below his best last night. He always

wanted to retire in October on his 31st birthday but perhaps former

champions think differently. Yeah, you know, nobody likes to go out on

a loss. It hurts. It hurts really bad. But I have to try to dust

myself off, and figure out exactly what I am going to do next.

Whatever decision I make it has to be quick. It has to be the right

one. This was the fight he had waited all his career for. From the

first round it was obvious something wasn't quite right in

Haye's corner, a pattern emerged with him stupl -- stumbling around

the ring. They traded blows deeper into the fight, but Haye became

increasingly desperate to land his hay-maker. Haye said he would take

Wladimir Klitschko's head off but the only injury was Haye's broken

toe. The heavyweight division may be quieter without him but also

poorer. David Haye is convinced he could beat Wladimir Klitschko given

another chance, he is probably not going to get that chance. He says

in the next few weeks he will decide whether or not to retire