10/12/2016 Reporters - Short Edition

The shocking human cost of Yemen's Civil War.

Fergal Keane reports on one of the Arab world's poorest

countries, where 7 million people are facing famine.

There are several causes of this war - a battle between regional powers,

But there's only one consequence - death and destruction

John Maguire catches up with the first woman to fly

across the English Channel on a paramotor.

Once the cliffs get bigger and bigger and bigger,

We start with powerful new evidence that the suffering in Yemen,

one of the Arab world's poorest countries, where the Civil War

is having devastating human consequences.

More than 7000 people have been killed in the fighting,

the majority in air strikes by Saudi-led forces.

3 million people have been forced to flee their homes and,

according to the UN, an estimated 14 million are at risk

of hunger and half of them are on the brink of famine.

Fergal Keane, producer Kate Benyon-Tinker and cameraman

Robert McGee have travelled to one of the worst-affected areas.

Their report contains some distressing images.

All the living have fled along roads where death can descend at any time,

This is the story of a journey into a people's tragedy that

will reveal images of child suffering that are not easy to look

at but without which we cannot comprehend the cost of this war.

She has been fighting to survive since the day she was born.

10,000 children have died from preventable diseases.

This baby, nine months old, is one of the few who make it to hospital.

Half the health facilities no longer function.

TRANSLATION: We have few resources and that limits

We hope we will get support from international aid

Child malnutrition has jumped 200% in two years.

Before the war, Yemen imported 90% of staple food but the supply

God will punish the bombers, this man says.

The bridge was hit just two weeks ago.

Civilians and food trucks use the same roads as soldiers.

In the rural areas, they are furthest from aid,

In this village, medics from Save The Children battle to help.

In another, people brought their sick infants to us.

The old man and his hungry grandchildren.

This baby is nine months old, sick with liver problems

He died of malnutrition five months ago.

Their mother has no money for medicine.

What do you want to happen for this child?

Coalition bombing and import restrictions devastate the economy.

The rebels frequently delay aid getting through because they seek

And just half the international funding promised has been delivered.

This is a crisis that we just don't recognise and it will come back

to haunt us because the consequences of our indifference,

the consequences of what we are not doing here will play back at us.

But at the same time, we are trying to grasp sand

because we can't deal with what's going on here because

the numbers are so massive, the pressures are so great

It all leads back inevitably to this - to this baby, 21 days old.

His twin brother died soon after he was born.

He seems impossibly fragile but fights to live.

There are several causes of this war - a battle between regional powers,

But there's only one consequence - death and the destruction

And an image like that, no matter how many wars you've covered,

This girl is three, with energy only for that most universal

This is what it means to be forgotten by the world.

One woman, 7000 kilometres, 11 countries, all by paramotor.

It's been quite a journey for conservationist Sacha Dench,

who's become the first woman to complete the epic journey.

It's all part of her daring bid to track the migration of Bewick's

John Maguire has been following her journey and he caught

up with her as she crossed the English Channel and touched down

For Sacha Dench, the human swan, crossing the English Channel

will mean her expedition is almost over but this is her most

For the past three months, her expedition has followed

the migratory route of the Bewick's swans from their breeding

ground in northern Russia to their winter home on the banks

of the River Severn at the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust

Her mission has been to find out why their numbers have declined

dramatically over recent years and to educate people

along the swans' flyway, to persuade them not

But now, the only consideration is getting safely from Calais to Dover.

I expect it's going to look quite daunting because, there,

you're at the midpoint where there is absolutely no chance

So it might be slightly different up there and we won't know

exactly what the conditions are like until we are

The Flight of the Swans expedition hasn't been without its setbacks.

Sacha injured her knee so had to adapt her paramotor.

She now flies a trike rather than on foot.

So, after 7000 kilometres, several weeks flying all the way

down from northern Russia, this is the very last

Perhaps though the biggest, of course, crossing the Channel -

a huge expanse of water, the busiest shipping

Perhaps the final challenge for this expedition.

Microlight pilot and instructor Rob Keane explained why

this leg of the journey, although just 20 miles

All pilots really have a fear of going across a long

bit of water because, if they go in the water in December,

you haven't got long before you need to be rescued because you'll

certainly suffer from major hyperthermia very quickly

We leave the safety of France, the solid ground, and head

As we climb above 2500 feet, the white cliffs, tinted golden

by the early morning sun, seem enticingly close

After around 40 minutes, the cliffs are no longer ahead,

The first woman to cross the Channel in a paramotor, Sacha is back home.

Nerve-wracking in the middle of it where you know that the water

Once the cliffs get bigger and bigger and bigger,

The number of Bewick's making this perilous,

annual odyssey has fallen from 29,000 to around

The achievement has been made possible because of all

of the professionalism, the teamwork and modern technology.

The swans, of course, just have instinct to rely upon.

To be able to add a first-person or a first-swan view

By tracking the swans with radio collars and flying as they do,

the expedition's already learned so much about the threats they face.

The human swan has done her bit to protect her feathered friends.

And that's all from Reporters for this week.

From me, Tim Willcox, and the whole team here in London, bye-bye.

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