:00:20. > :00:23.The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the end
:00:24. > :00:26.of the Second World War, say the United Nations.
:00:27. > :00:29.Its humanitarian chief say more than 20 million people face
:00:30. > :00:33.the treat of starvation and famine in four countries in Africa
:00:34. > :00:38.and the Middle East - Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
:00:39. > :00:43.The UN say ?3.5 billion is needed, by July, to avert disaster.
:00:44. > :00:50.Our world affairs correspondent, Richard Galpin, has more details.
:00:51. > :00:58.For months now, it's been known that millions of people, including young
:00:59. > :01:02.babies like this, in Yemen, have been starving. She was just four
:01:03. > :01:10.months old when a BBC team met her in December. And across Yemen,
:01:11. > :01:17.hundreds of thousands more children have so little to eat they are
:01:18. > :01:21.struggling to stay alive. And the threat of mass starvation is
:01:22. > :01:27.affecting three other countries. This is a refugee camp in south
:01:28. > :01:33.Sudan, which, like Yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. Families
:01:34. > :01:38.forced to flea their homes and left with little to see -- flee. Already
:01:39. > :01:43.a family has been officially declared here, with almost half the
:01:44. > :01:46.population in urgent need of help. We stand at a critical point in our
:01:47. > :01:51.history. Already at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest
:01:52. > :01:56.humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations. Now
:01:57. > :02:00.more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and
:02:01. > :02:08.famine. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people
:02:09. > :02:12.will simply starve to death. The number of people the UN says is now
:02:13. > :02:19.in dangerer is huge. Almost two million in nigh jeerament nearly --
:02:20. > :02:23.Nigeria. Nearly five million in south Sudan, and 14 million in
:02:24. > :02:28.Yemen. The UN predicts without serious help 1. 4 million people
:02:29. > :02:33.could die before the end of the year, unless more aid money is
:02:34. > :02:39.found. They're calling for 3. ?3.6 billion to tackle this crisis. Apart
:02:40. > :02:44.from conflict, another major cause of the crisis is drought. This is
:02:45. > :02:54.Somalia, which has been particularly hard hit. In this hospital in the
:02:55. > :02:57.capital Mogadishu, doctors have been treating people who've travelled
:02:58. > :03:05.almost 200 miles to get medical help. The most the cases, the death
:03:06. > :03:10.cause is dehydration. We are doing the rehydration of the child and we
:03:11. > :03:15.have given some antibiotic. Some basic aid is reaching those in need,
:03:16. > :03:20.but nowhere near enough. So it's possible famine could be declared in
:03:21. > :03:26.all four countries, unprecedented in modern times.
:03:27. > :03:29.Reports from Syria say 40 people have been killed, and dozens
:03:30. > :03:31.injured, following two explosions in the capital Damascus.
:03:32. > :03:33.It's thought two suicide bombers targeted buses transporting Shi'ite
:03:34. > :03:37.pilgrims near an ancient ceremony in the city.
:03:38. > :03:41.It's not yet clear who was behind the attack.
:03:42. > :03:44.A female judge has warned women who get drunk that they are putting
:03:45. > :03:46.themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists.
:03:47. > :03:50.Lindsey Kushner QC said what she called "disinhibited
:03:51. > :03:53.behaviour" could put women in danger.
:03:54. > :03:56.The comments have been described by the campaign group Rape Crisis
:03:57. > :04:03.More than 60 prisoners were evacuated from a jail
:04:04. > :04:05.in Dorset overnight, after a large fire was
:04:06. > :04:09.It's believed he climbed onto the roof of HMP Guys Marsh,
:04:10. > :04:11.near Shaftesbury, after complaining about a change of
:04:12. > :04:27.Thank you. Yes, last night ten fire crews were here trying to put out
:04:28. > :04:29.the blaze. I have to say this morning, this lunch time, there's
:04:30. > :04:34.little evidence that actually anything took place. The only thing
:04:35. > :04:37.we've seen today is as we've stood here, every so often prison vans
:04:38. > :04:41.come and go. There's speculation that maybe some of those evacuated
:04:42. > :04:45.prisoners are being moved to other prisons.
:04:46. > :04:48.Flames and thick smoke filled the night sky above HMP Guys Marsh.
:04:49. > :04:53.After an inmate thought to be drunk, wearing many layers of clothes,
:04:54. > :04:57.set light to them on top of the prison roof just
:04:58. > :05:04.As firefighters controlled what they described as the large
:05:05. > :05:06.fire outside, inside 64 prisoners were moved from their cells
:05:07. > :05:12.In an unannounced inspection two and a half years ago,
:05:13. > :05:15.investigators found this place is in crisis, and they said
:05:16. > :05:19.staff and managers had all but lost control.
:05:20. > :05:26.They said one in four prisoners felt unsafe as gangs operate openly.
:05:27. > :05:28.When you were here, what could you actually see?
:05:29. > :05:31.We could see out of our bedroom windows some flames.
:05:32. > :05:34.George Bolton lives opposite the prison.
:05:35. > :05:39.As I understand it, he had ripped tiles off the roof and set fire
:05:40. > :05:43.to his close and it caught the timbers of light.
:05:44. > :05:47.And that is where the fire came from.
:05:48. > :05:54.We can't see past that house there, but we did see the glow.
:05:55. > :05:59.It's just one in a long string, 50 fires are reported each week
:06:00. > :06:03.These figures have doubled in two years, a strong indication
:06:04. > :06:08.of the chaos going on behind the country's prison fences.
:06:09. > :06:14.Online touts, who bulk buy tickets and sell them for inflated prices,
:06:15. > :06:17.will face unlimited fines under new Government plans.
:06:18. > :06:20.It will also be illegal to use so-called "bots"
:06:21. > :06:24.or automated computer software to bypass limits on the maximum
:06:25. > :06:26.number of tickets that can be bought.
:06:27. > :06:30.Our business correspondent, Joe Lynam, is with me.
:06:31. > :06:41.Difficult to put numbers on this. The U 2 concert, held this summer in
:06:42. > :06:44.New York, that concert was sold out in 60 seconds. Then within minutes,
:06:45. > :06:51.some of the thousands of tickets were available on secondary markets.
:06:52. > :06:56.What appears to be the case is these online ticket touts or digital
:06:57. > :07:00.ticket touts are using software, known as a bot, to snap up all the
:07:01. > :07:04.tickets and then put them back on the markets, depriving fans. So the
:07:05. > :07:07.Government hopes to make it criminally offensive, a criminal
:07:08. > :07:11.offence and with unlimited fines. They want the secondary markets to
:07:12. > :07:16.be more vigilant, watch for suspicious behaviour. The reality is
:07:17. > :07:20.if these digital touts are overseas or outside the UK there's little the
:07:21. > :07:25.Government can do. Let me leave you a final thought, experts tell me
:07:26. > :07:29.that these bots may be human, that in poorer countries they're paid to
:07:30. > :07:31.snap up the tickets. There's little that can be done to stop that.
:07:32. > :07:35.Now, with all the sport, here's Mike Bushell at the BBC Sport Centre.
:07:36. > :07:39.We're building up to the Six Nations match.
:07:40. > :07:41.The Six Nations match between England Scotland,
:07:42. > :07:43.today at Twickenham, now has extra significance.
:07:44. > :07:50.Thanks to Wales, England can clinch the title a week early.
:07:51. > :07:55.Our correspondent Joe Wilson is already at Twickenham.
:07:56. > :07:58.Although Scotland haven't won there since 1983,
:07:59. > :08:03.they have been the form team this season.
:08:04. > :08:10.Well, absolutely. You join us in last minute rehearsals for game
:08:11. > :08:14.time. Wouldn't have had that level of stage management or stadium in
:08:15. > :08:16.1871, but every time England and Scotland play each other, it is
:08:17. > :08:20.significant because of the age and history of that fixture. It's hard
:08:21. > :08:25.to imagine a game which has this kind of significance and partly, as
:08:26. > :08:28.you say, that is down to what happened in Cardiff yesterday
:08:29. > :08:31.evening. That resurgent performance by Wales and by George North in
:08:32. > :08:38.particular, of course, was great for them. It did dent Ireland's
:08:39. > :08:41.championship hopes. It means as a consequence if England beat Scotland
:08:42. > :08:45.they will be champions with still one round of matches left to play.
:08:46. > :08:49.It is a big if. Partly because England have the doubt about Owen
:08:50. > :08:53.Farrell, his fitness, such a key guy for them. The man who kicks the
:08:54. > :08:56.points. And the lingering uncertainty about their performance.
:08:57. > :08:59.We're yet to have a complete kind of game from England, despite their
:09:00. > :09:05.three wins so far. Scotland, in contrast, have reached new levels of
:09:06. > :09:08.play, really. As a consequence of that, they're number five in the
:09:09. > :09:15.world, officially their highest ever ranking. What really intrigues me is
:09:16. > :09:19.that clash of styles, that contrast. Scotland, no, they can't outmuscle
:09:20. > :09:23.England. They have to get the ball out to the wingers for the flying
:09:24. > :09:26.fullback Stuart Hogg. If they win today they're in a great position to
:09:27. > :09:30.win the Six Nations for the first time. We've got the music, the
:09:31. > :09:35.sunlight and a lovely pitch, let's have some tries. Indeed. Wonderful
:09:36. > :09:37.stuff, Joe, there with musical accompaniment to match.
:09:38. > :09:39.It's the penultimate weekend in the Women's Six Nations,
:09:40. > :09:42.and the pressure is on both England and Ireland, who could take
:09:43. > :09:44.the Championship to a dramatic winner-takes-all final clash.
:09:45. > :09:46.Ireland are in action against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park
:09:47. > :09:49.and went into the game tied at the top of the table
:09:50. > :09:59.with England, who play Scotland later today.
:10:00. > :10:05.We've reached the quarter final stage in the FA Cup.
:10:06. > :10:06.Giant-killing Lincoln play Arsenal this evening,
:10:07. > :10:08.but there's already one game under way.
:10:09. > :10:09.It's at the Riverside, where Middlesbrough
:10:10. > :10:16.It took just three minutes for David Silva to prod
:10:17. > :10:27.Jess Varnish says any board members, involved
:10:28. > :10:30.in a British Cycling independent investigation into
:10:31. > :10:33.accusations she made over bullying and sexism
:10:34. > :10:38.It follows a leaked draft report, that claims the organisation
:10:39. > :10:45.sanitised its own inquiry into the claims.
:10:46. > :10:51.I had absolutely no faith in the investigation from the get go within
:10:52. > :10:58.British cycling. I've been in there for a long time and I know that,
:10:59. > :11:04.yeah, basically I had no faith in it whatsoever. So, unfortunately, I'm
:11:05. > :11:09.not shocked by that. Now we just need to, there needs to be changes
:11:10. > :11:15.obviously. These people, they can't be still in there if they've
:11:16. > :11:18.reversed facts. They can't still be able to be there on that board.
:11:19. > :11:21.Johanna Konta, was far too strong for her fellow Brit, Heather Watson,
:11:22. > :11:28.There are 97 places between them in the world rankings,
:11:29. > :11:33.As the British number one won in straight sets, to move into round
:11:34. > :11:37.three. That's all the sport for now. A driver in China has ended up
:11:38. > :11:40.on the roof of a house, He said that as he tried to get out
:11:41. > :11:45.of the path of a motorised tricycle and an oncoming car,
:11:46. > :11:47.he accidentally put his foot on the accelerator
:11:48. > :11:49.rather than the brake. The result was, to say
:11:50. > :11:51.the least, embarrassing. Fortunately, nobody
:11:52. > :11:52.was injured in the incident, We're back on BBC One at 5. 40pm.
:11:53. > :12:19.But for now, it's goodbye from me. It's not so bad out there today. Bit
:12:20. > :12:20.of cloud around for sure, but for many of us it feels