27/07/2017 BBC News at Six

Harrowing scenes from inside Yemen, a country brought to its knees

Parents carry in famished children - many now defenceless against a major

This hospital alone receives about 100 new cholera cases every day.

Those who get help recover quickly, within hours.

But many in Yemen are dying needlessly, because they can't get

An international BBC team has gained rare access to Yemen and witnessed

the harrowing struggle of people to survive.

Do you see anybody English to work here?

What will happen to EU migrant workers after Brexit?

The Government moves to reassures business there'll

Thousands of firefighters in the air and on land continue to battle

An increase in violence and a record number of prisoners released

Setting off for the last time - Prince William ends his life

as an air ambulance pilot to focus on royal duties.

In Sportsday on BBC News it is only rain and Alastair Cook that find a

way to stop South Africa. England struggle on the third day of the

For two years now a war has been raging in the Middle East country

of Yemen, with devastating consequences for its people.

A fierce civil war has split the country in two.

A coalition led by the government and backed by the Saudis

the south of Yemen - while Houthi rebels, backed by Iran,

Yemen is now on the brink of famine and has become

Cholera has swept the country - with nearly 2000 deaths

The situation there is now described as the world's greatest

Access for international journalists is very rare -

but our Middle East Correspondent, Orla Guerin, with her

producer, Nicola Careem and cameraman, Nico Hameon

They've sent this report from Aden, and a warning -

there are distressing images of suffering children throughout.

We cross the Red Sea to reach Yemen, past the sunken wreckage of a hidden

war. This was the only way to the port city of Aden. The Saudi-led

coalition, bombing the country, flew us in. This is the kind of suffering

they don't want the world to see. Rassam is 11.

He is one of many children wasting away across the country. Since the

war, malnutrition rates have soared. Hunger is menacing this nation, from

the very old... To the very young. Like Hussain, who fights for every

breath. The United Nations says an entire

generation is being starved and crippled and famine is looming.

In a ward nearby, another threat, a desperate rush to save Abdullah

Mohammed Salem, who came in with no pulse. They tried to squeeze fluid

and life back into his veins, one victim of an epidemic ravaging

Yemen, cholera, and it's the worst outbreak in history. There is now a

perfect breeding ground for the disease, as sanitation services have

broken down. Abdullah's son, Ahmed, has a message for those in power

who, are busy waging war. TRANSLATION: Deal with the sewage.

And clean the streets. Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere causing

illness. We are demanding that everyone who claims to be our leader

should just care about the people. Instead, they are dying of cholera

at the rate of about one every hour. Another outcome of a brutal

conflict. This hospital alone receives about 100 new cholera cases

every day. Those who get help recover quickly, within hours. But

many in Yemen are dying needlessly, because they can't get the most

basic treatment. After more than two years of war, half of the health

facilities in the country are not functioning.

Like much else in the Arab world's poorest nation, an ancient

civilisation with new battle scars. The presidential guard mans the

checkpoints in Aden. But the Yemeni President is seldom seen. He was

forced to flee by the Houthi rebel, that's when his allies, the Saudis

stepped in. Their bombing campaign has not restored his authority.

But it has destroyed hospitals, schools and homes, like that of this

family. Their house was hit by two air strikes as the coalition

targeted Houthi fighters nearby. Senaad tells us, that two years on,

the extended family are among the forgotten victims of this war. Some

of the family still live right here in the ruins, with no help, they

say, other than from God. But civilians here have been under

fire from both sides. We met this woman and her children waiting for

food aid. 10-year-old Imad used to love football, before he was hit by

a Houthi shell. TRANSLATION: I brought the kids into

the house. I asked them to stay inside. They were in the livingroom

when they were hit. He lost both legs immediately.

Since then, she says that Imad and her other children have never been

the same, they have deep psychological wounds as well as

physical ones. Most of all it is Yemen's children,

like ten-month-old Ahmed who are paying the price here. The country

has reached a stalemate. International diplomacy has failed

and nowhere in the world are more lives as stake. Orla Guerin, BBC

Orla Guerin and her team - with that special report

from inside Yemen - a country blighted war and disease.

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, sought to reassure business today

that there would be no migration "cliff edge" when Britain

Her remarks came as ministers today launched a study of how EU nationals

But it won't report until Autumn 2018, leading to strong

Here's our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar.

How do you tailor a new immigration policy for Britain after

Cuts to leave more jobs for home-grown workers maybe less for EU

Ask around at this garment factory in North London and the

We have ten different nationalities that are

here in our factories and

They're not taking away the jobs from the

British public, because the British public at the moment can't do those

skills, so prove Brexit or post Brexit, it doesn't matter, we need

Today, Britain's Border Force has been on show.

Soon they'll enforce a new immigration system and the Home

Secretary has announced a major study to help decide where

Britain needs migrants and who should be stopped when the UK leaves

a new policy, but part of what

I'm announcing today is to show to it's evidence based and

we're going to make sure that it works for the whole country.

It will take years before home-grown British workers can take on or want

many of the jobs that are now filled by Europeans.

Free movement of EU citizens ends technically in two

It may continue for a period after that,

maybe two years, during a transition, ministers haven't

They don't all agree and that's causing confusion.

When they do, they'll take that plan to the

Brexit negotiations where they're after the trade deal, ministers want

But migration is a sensitive subject.

On almost any street, almost anywhere, there's

pressure to get on with cutting migrant numbers.

What's your view when it comes to Europe and British

Well, we need work for British people.

I think the sooner we get out, the better, to be honest with

I reckon they're going to drag it out as long

I think we should train our own people up.

We have 67 million or whatever that live here.

Boris Johnson is talking up a future trade deal.

Critics say ministers have been too slow working

He says migration can be good for the UK.

That doesn't mean that you can't control it.

That's that all I think people want to see.

They want to see their politicians taking

responsibility, explaining the policy, explaining what they're

trying to do, explaining who can come in on what basis and why it's

Well it's completely ridiculous that it is

taking them 13 months to commission this basic evidence.

We on the select committee were asking some of

these basic questions back in January.

The Government should have commissioned this a long, long time

So, work's in progress on a new way to manage migration, one,

ministers agree should keep firms like this one supplied with the

But crafting that policy has only just started.

Expect more political wrangling before the

The terminally ill baby Charlie Gard will be moved to a hospice

and have his life-support withdrawn shortly afterwards,

after his parents failed to get agreement to spend up to a week

with him there. His parents had wanted a private

Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is being cared for,

said it wasn't in his best interests.

It follows a legal battle by Charlie's parents

to take him out of the country for experimental treatment.

Figures out today reveal how many prisoners have been

accidentally released from jails in England and Wales.

The Ministry of Justice says 71 inmates or suspects were incorrectly

freed in the year to March - the highest number since

With me is our Home Affairs Correspondent, June Kelly.

We have had a number of figures from the Ministry of Justice, a number

are not good. At a record high are levels of self-harm, assaults on

inmates and staff, assaults on staff are running at about 20 a day. In

terms of the causes there is a mixture of things, staff shortage,

overcrowding, the prove lance of drugs like Spice in jails so inmates

are out of control a lot of time. And the gang culture imported from

the outside world. The prison office Association says that all of these

figures show that the system is out of control. The Government of

course, disagree and says there is a recruitment drive going on to get

more staff in that is under way. The Justice Secretary said today that

the figures show the importance of improving safety and security in our

prisons. June, thank you.

Fires are continuing to burn in southern France for a third day.

Several thousand firefighters and troops are battling

the flames, which they now say are more under control.

Around 10,000 holidaymakers and residents have been forced

to leave their homes and campsites around the town of

Bormes-les-Mimosas, with many spending the night on beaches,

or in sports halls and other public buildings.

Duncan Kennedy is there for us this evening.

Well, Rita, it has been an incredibly bus Iy day for

firefighters and a worrying one for many holiday-makers, some of whom

have not been able to get Bach to campsites. For the first time, we

have been allowed inside the fire zone. You get an idea of the

devastation, and the dry ground, the high winds and strong temperatures

are still in place so there could be more burning.

It's been another 24 hours of fires...

This was Bormes-les-Mimosas, west of St Tropez, and the flames

have been spreading again across the windswept bridges.

That meant another night on the beach for dozens

of holiday-makers, forced out of their campsites.

They included Olivia Hall from Sevenoaks, who's

about to spend her third night in a sleeping bag along

What do you think of sleeping on a beach like this?

Well, I mean for me, I'm 18, it's OK, but for old people,

my grandparents for instance, it's not the easiest

Today we went out with this team of firefighters.

This is the kind of terrain they have to haul up their hosepipes,

They're dowsing down dozens of small pockets of fire.

After four days, he said, he's tired but holding up.

And it's not just a firefighting effort from the ground.

There goes another load from one of these aircraft, one of dozens

Little patches of fire keep breaking out, they are the most dangerous

ones, they are the ones that can lead to widespread bushfires

And in wave after wave, the planes kept on coming,

trying to control fires caused by combustible undergrowth

TRANSLATION: When the fires combine with the winds, it create

It's like a herd of bison storming down the hill,

eating up all the vegetation, animals, and unfortunately people.

When the fires have passed through, this is what they leave.

Green turned to black, life turned to dust.

It is part of the natural cycle here, but the effects

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, on the Cote d'Azur.

The time is just after a quarter past six.

Already brought to its knees by war - now aid agencies warn Yemen

England's cricket captain Joe Root under pressure as the third test

begins against South Africa at the Oval.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, England's women can win their group

at Euro 2017 by beating Portugal tonight but Scotland will only

survive if they can beat Spain by two goals.

Doctors have long told us to finish a course of antibiotics

But that is now being challenged by a group of scientists, who claim

that taking antibiotics for longer than you need to can increase

England's Chief Medical Officer says more research is needed before any

Here's our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes.

The danger posed by drug-resistant bacteria is growing.

Curbing the use and misuse of antibiotics is central

But now some scientists believe that long-standing advice to always

finish a course of the drugs made me wrong and could be making

We need to be careful about using antibiotics

because the more we use them, the more the bacteria figure out how

to become resistant to them, the more resistant bacteria

we select for, and the more bacteria in our environment and living

And that means when we get infected with those bacteria,

the antibiotics just won't work any more.

The world-famous discovery of penicillin...

Following Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in the late

1920s, the belief was that not taking enough of the drug could lead

The modern-day official advice is still to complete the course

you have been prescribed, but today's report says

research to back up that advice, exposing a growing

difference of opinion in the scientific community.

This debate matters because the stakes are so very high.

The number of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics

is on the rise, and we are being told that antibiotics themselves

are a precious but diminishing resource that needs to be used

As questions are asked about how best to use antibiotics,

some are concerned patients will be left confused.

People have always to follow the instruction written on the label

about the course of antibiotics because if they stop the antibiotic

before the end of the treatment, they could develop resistance

and so that kind of antibiotic won't work any more in the future.

Everyone agrees more research is needed before

the finish-the-course advice is changed to something like

"stop when you feel better," but the serious concern

about drug-resistant bugs mean long-established practice

A former British Olympic athlete has revealed that she self-harmed

while struggling to cope with the demands

Rebekah Wilson - a member of Team GB's two-woman bobsleigh crew

at the 2014 Sochi Games - told how the intense pressure

She's been speaking exclusively to our Sports Editor, Dan Roan.

On the outside, Rebekah Wilson was living the dream, representing Team

GB at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Start of the sport defined by

courage and speed, the bobsleigh. But behind the dedication was a

darker secret she now wants to share. The 26-year-old telling me

how life as an elite athlete took its toll. I had to hold it together

and the only way I could do that was the time when I was self harming, I

would try to find anything I could to hurt myself or isolate myself, to

manage what was an intense pressure. When I was in the position where I

self harmed or hurt myself, it was because I felt like there was no

other outlet. This was happening while you were on duty? While I was

competing. The British bobsleigh and skeleton association said: Rebekah

quit the sport after the Sochi Games having finished outside the medals

and for a year and a half was treated at a specialist hospital.

She has spoken out to raise awareness of the mental health

issues young athletes can face. It's great when there's a big

championships on television and we rally round and watch it, but that

the cover, that the front of it and you don't necessarily see the

backend. There is an issue, there's a duty of care, there is something

across wellbeing we are not getting right because I think it goes on a

lot more than we allow ourselves to think that it does. From the

bullying allegations made by Jessica vanished to further controversies

across a range of sports, there's growing concern British medal

success has come at too high a price, with athlete the cost. What

we have perhaps forgotten in the past is actually the mental health

and wellbeing of those who sport is their profession, and that's why I'm

hosting a series of round tables in the autumn to make sure we do have

the right structures in place. I think stories like this are

incredibly important for us to prevent that from happening in the

future. Having overcome her inner Demons, Rebekah says she's in a much

better place and her advice to other athletes who struggled to cope is to

never in silence. In the last few minutes we've heard the police

investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire is considering bringing

charges against Kensington and Chelsea Council and the housing

association that managed the block. The Metropolitan Police say this is

one of the largest criminal investigations outside

counterterrorism operations they have encountered. They seized a huge

amount of material and have spoken to witnesses, and now they are

saying that as of now they have enough evidence to believe that both

Kensington and Chelsea Council and the tenant management organisation

may have committed a corporate manslaughter. This is not a charge

against anyone. Under the legislation, no one will actually be

arrested, but interviews will take place in due course. Not soon, more

work is needed to be done say the police, and we have no response

either from Kensington and Chelsea Council or the tenant management

association. Thank you. Prince William has clocked

in for his last shift as an air ambulance pilot this evening,

before taking up his For the past two years,

the Duke of Cambridge has been working for

the East Anglian Air Ambulance Our Royal Correspondent

Nicholas Witchell is there A real moment of transition for

William, the end of the job he has chosen to do as an RAF search and

rescue pilot and then with the air ambulance, and with the transition,

part of the generational shift in the Royal family to a full-time role

which will now occupy him for the remainder of his life.

A team photograph at the start of his final shift.

A picture from his working life which is likely to mean more

than most for William Wales since it will remind him of the role he's

played as a member of the emergency services doing a job largely out

of public sight in which he's been able to prove himself solely

He's a hard-working member of the team, always keen

to get his hands dirty and help out, whether it's just cleaning

the aircraft or actually at scene, helping out with patients that

From the moment William took up his air ambulance duties

more than two years ago, it's clear how much

It's kept him grounded, he said, working as a member

When I put my air ambulance hat on and I come here and fly,

I just want to get the job done and at the end of the day feel

like I've made a difference through my contribution.

He's flown on scores of emergency call-outs and seen

There are some very sad, dark moments and we talk about it

You try not to take it away with you but it can

But for all the difficult moments, William says he's hugely

He says it's instilled in him, "a profound respect for the men

and women who serve in our emergency services, which I hope

to continue to champion even as I leave the profession."

After tonight's shift, William will turn to the profession

to which he was born, and from which he's known

That's to be a full-time working member of the British royal family,

supporting his grandmother and preparing for the day

when he will be king, but sustained by the knowledge that

once he did have the freedom to do a valued job of his own choice.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, Cambridge Airport.

The third test against South Africa began today at the Oval. It's been a

struggle for England but their captain Joe Root was one of the

wickets to fall. Rain stopped play a short time ago with England on

171-4. Rain at the Oval, what about the rest of the country? Few have

escaped a heavy downpour. One moment you have the blue sky, then the dark

clouds build and after that, well, what do you think, the rain comes.

The showers have lasted too long though. But perhaps a rumble of

thunder and some hail, in fact there have been thunderstorms across parts

of the east Midlands and Lincolnshire in the last hour or so.

Many southern and eastern parts of the UK become mainly dry but the

showers are still there for Northern Ireland, parts of north-west England

and western Scotland, and still there into tomorrow morning. For a

large part of England and Wales during tomorrow morning and the

first part of the afternoon, things will be fine, a bit of sunshine, but

noticed the cloud gathering and outbreaks of rain reaching south

west England and Wales as we move into the afternoon. Temperatures

very similar. Notice that the cricket tomorrow the threat of rain

is coming later on but there is still some uncertainty about the

timing of the progression of this rain north and east across England

and Wales. But for many, wet end to the day here. That takes us answer

the weekend and this system in the south-east never really wants to

clear away properly so again parts of the far south-east of England

could see outbreaks of on Saturday. Showers in north-west Scotland but

many other places, Saturday is the better day of the weekend, looking

dry. There will be sunny spells before this happens on Sunday, then

it is back to square one. Plenty of showers, more widespread across the

UK, and again the risk of a rumble of thunder and for many those

temperatures are in the teens. As we spell out the details for the

weekend, we know it will be quite cool and breezy, especially with the

showers, but there will also be some sunshine at times. Just don't expect

the sun to last too long. And that is all from the BBC News at

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