:00:08. > :00:18.The suffering in Yemen only intensifies.
:00:19. > :00:20.War, hunger and now disease are ravaging Yemen.
:00:21. > :00:22.The worst cholera outbreak in history is the latest crisis
:00:23. > :00:27.Many in Yemen are dying needlessly because they can't get basic care.
:00:28. > :00:30.After two years of war half the health facilities
:00:31. > :00:41.The palace intrigue at the White House goes public.
:00:42. > :00:44.The President's top aides are feuding over who's the source
:00:45. > :00:46.of those damaging leaks. And a new full length film
:00:47. > :00:54.This father-son drama is performed completely in Yiddish.
:00:55. > :00:58.For two years a fierce civil war has been raging in Yemen
:00:59. > :01:01.The Government backed by a Saudi-led Coalition controls
:01:02. > :01:03.the country's south while Houthi rebels supported by Iran control
:01:04. > :01:06.Continued fighting has left the already impoverished nation
:01:07. > :01:09.on the brink of famine and now cholera has swept
:01:10. > :01:11.through the country - with nearly 2000 deaths
:01:12. > :01:15.The BBC's Orla Guerin has gained rare access to the country
:01:16. > :01:17.and a warning her report contains distressing images throughout.
:01:18. > :01:20.We cross the Red Sea to reach Yemen, past the sunken
:01:21. > :01:38.We cross the Red Sea to reach Yemen, past the sunken
:01:39. > :01:46.This was the only way to the port city of Aden.
:01:47. > :01:57.The Saudi-led coalition, bombing the country, flew us in.
:01:58. > :02:02.This is the kind of suffering they don't want the world to see.
:02:03. > :02:08.He is one of many children wasting away across the country.
:02:09. > :02:15.Since the war, malnutrition rates have soared.
:02:16. > :02:18.Hunger is menacing this nation, from the very old...
:02:19. > :02:30.Like Hussain, who fights for every breath.
:02:31. > :02:35.The United Nations says an entire generation is being starved
:02:36. > :02:48.In a ward nearby, another threat, a desperate rush
:02:49. > :02:54.to save Abdullah Mohammed Salem, who came in with no pulse.
:02:55. > :03:00.They tried to squeeze fluid and life back into his veins,
:03:01. > :03:02.one victim of an epidemic ravaging Yemen, cholera, and it's the worst
:03:03. > :03:11.There is now a perfect breeding ground for the disease,
:03:12. > :03:14.as sanitation services have broken down.
:03:15. > :03:17.Abdullah's son, Ahmed, has a message for those in power who,
:03:18. > :03:32.Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere causing illness.
:03:33. > :03:35.We are demanding that everyone who claims to be our leader should
:03:36. > :03:47.Instead, they are dying of cholera at the rate of about one every hour.
:03:48. > :03:51.Another outcome of a brutal conflict.
:03:52. > :03:55.This hospital alone receives about 100 new cholera cases every day.
:03:56. > :04:00.Those who get help recover quickly, within hours.
:04:01. > :04:03.But many in Yemen are dying needlessly, because they can't get
:04:04. > :04:09.After more than two years of war, half of the health facilities
:04:10. > :04:15.Like much else in the Arab world's poorest nation,
:04:16. > :04:21.an ancient civilisation with new battle scars.
:04:22. > :04:23.The presidential guard mans the checkpoints in Aden.
:04:24. > :04:34.But the Yemeni President is seldom seen.
:04:35. > :04:36.He was forced to flee by Houthi rebels,
:04:37. > :04:38.that's when his allies, the Saudis stepped in.
:04:39. > :04:40.Their bombing campaign has not restored his authority.
:04:41. > :04:44.But it has destroyed hospitals, schools and homes,
:04:45. > :04:50.Their house was hit by two air strikes as the coalition targeted
:04:51. > :04:57.Senaad tells us, that two years on, the extended family are among
:04:58. > :05:06.Some of the family still live right here in the ruins,
:05:07. > :05:14.with no help, they say, other than from God.
:05:15. > :05:19.But civilians here have been under fire from both sides.
:05:20. > :05:23.We met this woman and her children waiting for food aid.
:05:24. > :05:25.10-year-old Imad used to love football, before
:05:26. > :05:38.TRANSLATION: I brought the kids into the house.
:05:39. > :05:47.They were in the living room when they were hit.
:05:48. > :06:04.Since then, she says that Imad and her other children have
:06:05. > :06:07.never been the same, they have deep psychological wounds
:06:08. > :06:16.Most of all it is Yemen's children, like ten-month-old Ahmed
:06:17. > :06:32.The conflict has reached a stalemate.
:06:33. > :06:34.International diplomacy has failed and nowhere in the world
:06:35. > :06:42.And joining me now is former US Ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Seche.
:06:43. > :06:51.We saw there in the report, famine spreading, diplomacy has failed, you
:06:52. > :06:58.are just back from meetings with officials from Yemen and Saudi
:06:59. > :07:06.Arabia. What I walk away with a feeling of frustration. There is an
:07:07. > :07:11.awareness that the situation is going in the wrong direction. There
:07:12. > :07:14.is no clear way out. Only a political settlement is seen as
:07:15. > :07:22.there really can get rid of this mess and the political mill --
:07:23. > :07:27.political will, seems not to be there. Did you detect concern
:07:28. > :07:35.amongst the officials of Yemen and Saudi Arabia about this humanitarian
:07:36. > :07:41.catastrophe unfolding? Yes, everybody is aware of it, but nobody
:07:42. > :07:47.comes up with a plan. That there needs to be assistance or a solution
:07:48. > :07:51.to allow the free flow of assistance into the inner part of Yemen where
:07:52. > :07:55.the population is at the greatest risk. Those Pacific material steps
:07:56. > :08:00.were not articulated to us. Did you get the sense that both sides are
:08:01. > :08:06.ready to going this out or are they open to a new Department initiative?
:08:07. > :08:13.I did not detect enthusiasm for a new diplomatic initiative but I
:08:14. > :08:17.would be happy to see month. A third party administrative element would
:08:18. > :08:22.be a way to get two warring parties separated, hopefully that will find
:08:23. > :08:26.traction, but I do not think there is a party that is willing to give
:08:27. > :08:31.up what they claim as territorial gains. What role could the drug
:08:32. > :08:39.administration play, the US has backed Saudi Arabia, could it change
:08:40. > :08:44.that? We need to change that. Our interest and that of Saudi Arabia do
:08:45. > :08:48.not always converge, we need to say, what is our national interest, that
:08:49. > :08:52.may enable us to find daylight between our support for Saudi Arabia
:08:53. > :08:56.which is legitimate, what they went in to do is to distort a legitimate
:08:57. > :09:01.Government, fine, but the way they are doing it is not going to achieve
:09:02. > :09:06.that end. What do you feel is at stake here at this or just carries
:09:07. > :09:13.on as bitters, even beyond the humanitarian catastrophe? The idea
:09:14. > :09:19.of a destabilised Yemen, geographically, around the red Sea
:09:20. > :09:25.and the Indian Ocean, where so many energy supplies full, perhaps the
:09:26. > :09:34.resident Asus population looking to launch attacks, all of that spells
:09:35. > :09:37.disaster. -- resident Isis population.
:09:38. > :09:39.Firefighters say the blazes which have caused mass evacuations
:09:40. > :09:41.in southern France are under control but they warn that
:09:42. > :09:44.Around 10,000 holidaymakers and residents have been forced
:09:45. > :09:46.to leave their homes and campsites around the town of
:09:47. > :09:49.It's from there that Duncan Kennedy reports.
:09:50. > :09:51.It's been another 24 hours of fires...
:09:52. > :09:57.This was Bormes-les-Mimosas, west of St Tropez, and the flames
:09:58. > :10:01.have been spreading again across the windswept bridges.
:10:02. > :10:03.That meant another night on the beach for dozens
:10:04. > :10:08.of holiday-makers, forced out of their campsites.
:10:09. > :10:10.They included Olivia Hall from Sevenoaks, who's
:10:11. > :10:19.about to spend her third night in a sleeping bag along
:10:20. > :10:23.What do you think of sleeping on a beach like this?
:10:24. > :10:26.Well, I mean for me, I'm 18, it's OK, but for old people,
:10:27. > :10:28.my grandparents for instance, it's not the easiest
:10:29. > :10:42.Today we went out with this team of firefighters.
:10:43. > :10:45.This is the kind of terrain they have to haul up their hosepipes,
:10:46. > :10:54.They're dousing down dozens of small pockets of fire.
:10:55. > :11:01.After four days, he said, he's tired but holding up.
:11:02. > :11:07.And it's not just a firefighting effort from the ground.
:11:08. > :11:10.There goes another load from one of these aircraft, one of dozens
:11:11. > :11:21.Little patches of fire keep breaking up, they are the most dangerous
:11:22. > :11:24.ones, they are the ones that can lead to widespread bushfires
:11:25. > :11:28.And in wave after wave, the planes kept on coming,
:11:29. > :11:30.trying to control fires caused by combustible undergrowth
:11:31. > :11:39.TRANSLATION: When the fires combine with the winds,
:11:40. > :11:43.It's like a herd of bison storming down the hill,
:11:44. > :11:45.eating up all the vegetation, animals, and unfortunately people.
:11:46. > :11:50.When the fires have passed through, this is what they leave.
:11:51. > :11:53.Green turned to black, life turned to dust.
:11:54. > :11:55.It is part of the natural cycle here, but the effects
:11:56. > :12:03.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, on the Cote d'Azur.
:12:04. > :12:05.Well, when it comes to political infighting -
:12:06. > :12:08.the White House is a virtual boxing ring right now.
:12:09. > :12:10.The new communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been
:12:11. > :12:14.in the job for less than a week, and he's already throwing punches.
:12:15. > :12:17.This morning he challenged the White House chief of staff
:12:18. > :12:19.to come forward and explain he's not a leaker.
:12:20. > :12:22.And on the policy front - it seems even top generals aren't
:12:23. > :12:24.clear on what the President's Tweet banning transgender people
:12:25. > :12:34.The BBC's Anthony Zurcher joins us now.
:12:35. > :12:41.The competent new communications chief goes on TV and challenges the
:12:42. > :12:43.chief of staff to a duel about leaking, does this happen with the
:12:44. > :12:48.support of the President? I think the President knew but he
:12:49. > :12:56.was getting into when he hired Anthony Scaramucci. Sean Spicer
:12:57. > :13:01.resigned. He had to know that this was going to ruffle some feathers.
:13:02. > :13:07.It is to only 60s were Anthony Scaramucci to come in and say, prove
:13:08. > :13:10.you are not a litre. That is like the old saying, tell me when you
:13:11. > :13:16.have stopped beating your wife. Compared to the weak's other victim,
:13:17. > :13:21.Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has plenty of defenders, many
:13:22. > :13:24.defenders for the chief of staff? Not particularly. Speaker of the
:13:25. > :13:29.host said he was doing a good job and he did not think there was a
:13:30. > :13:34.problem but Paul Ryan is also from Wisconsin, they are allies. Be on
:13:35. > :13:40.that, in the White House, nothing really, and nothing from the Hill.
:13:41. > :13:44.If he has allies they are not rushing to his defence. Yesterday
:13:45. > :13:49.the President to beat that there would be a ban on transgender people
:13:50. > :13:53.serving in the US military but what are the actual military people
:13:54. > :13:58.themselves saying about that? In those tweets, and in the White House
:13:59. > :14:01.follow-up, they said the reason for the policy was because military
:14:02. > :14:04.generals asked for it but though we're hearing that the top brass in
:14:05. > :14:06.the military did not have any advance notice that this was coming
:14:07. > :14:20.down. It was reported that this may have all been because of internal
:14:21. > :14:22.fighting in Congress about funding for transgender operations. Maybe
:14:23. > :14:25.some Republicans didn't want to fund it, asked the White House for help,
:14:26. > :14:29.and White House said that as no transgender in the military
:14:30. > :14:33.whatsoever. Policy by to beat, what are Republican lawmakers meeting of
:14:34. > :14:37.this? A lot of them are very nervous. They do not need this kind
:14:38. > :14:41.of distraction. The Senate is voting on a health care Bill that is
:14:42. > :14:46.hanging by a thread. They talk about distractions of the time, this is a
:14:47. > :14:52.huge distraction, they are seeing one of their own, Jeff Sessions, in
:14:53. > :14:57.the bull's-eye of Donald Trump, and if a long-standing Ali can be
:14:58. > :15:00.targeted, no one is safe, people in the administration, in Congress,
:15:01. > :15:09.they are all looking over their shoulder. -- a long-standing ally.
:15:10. > :15:11.Violent protests have resulted in more deaths in Venezuela.
:15:12. > :15:13.Today demonstrators clashed with security forces for the second
:15:14. > :15:15.day during a 48-hour strike against the government's attempt
:15:16. > :15:19.More than 100 people have been killed in the last four months.
:15:20. > :15:20.Yesterday, the US announced sanctions targeting
:15:21. > :15:26.The BBC's Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas.
:15:27. > :15:33.This group carries out this ritual before every
:15:34. > :15:38.After almost 100 deaths and thousands of arrests, no wonder
:15:39. > :15:44.Numerous Venezuelans have taken to the streets to ask
:15:45. > :15:48.President Maduro to call a fresh election.
:15:49. > :15:51.Due to severe food and medicine shortages, but also against his
:15:52. > :15:59.On the frontline of every protest there is a group of young men women
:16:00. > :16:02.They face the worst of the security forces.
:16:03. > :16:15.This is what normally ends up happening almost every day.
:16:16. > :16:21.For more than three months, protests end up in violent clashes,
:16:22. > :16:24.where young men and young students, boys and girls, can end up injured
:16:25. > :16:30.Many of the students in the resistance shy away
:16:31. > :16:35.But a group of them have agreed to meet me at this university.
:16:36. > :16:40.In my day, we were protesting against rising bus fares.
:16:41. > :16:43.Today, it is a rather more desperate story.
:16:44. > :16:45.We have concealed their identities and changed
:16:46. > :16:53.The way I see it, the Resistance is everybody who is against the regime.
:16:54. > :16:56.Many people say this is a dictatorship and if you look
:16:57. > :16:59.at what they are doing, that is what it is, really.
:17:00. > :17:02.At the moment, they are even trying to change our constitution which is
:17:03. > :17:08.I think the Resistance is those people who come out to protest
:17:09. > :17:11.and who are willing to take the lead to confront the police
:17:12. > :17:18.Many of the students I met come from working-class areas that have
:17:19. > :17:21.been especially hit hard by the economic collapse.
:17:22. > :17:23.But the Venezualan government accuses them of staging a coup
:17:24. > :17:30.TRANSLATION: Some have labelled us terrorists.
:17:31. > :17:33.I think that all of us youth who make up the Resistance
:17:34. > :17:37.We are defending our people from the brutal
:17:38. > :17:43.Venezuela's state attorney has said that the government's actions can be
:17:44. > :17:57.Others have still been held even after a judge ordered their release.
:17:58. > :18:00.I'd put these issues to a Venezualan high ranking minister who gave
:18:01. > :18:06.He passed the responsibility back to the attorney general.
:18:07. > :18:08.TRANSLATION: There have been over 100 people
:18:09. > :18:18.But out of these, almost 20 are national guardsman
:18:19. > :18:25.Why has the attorney general not made any comment about this?
:18:26. > :18:27.I would not hesitate to say that she is responsible
:18:28. > :18:29.through dereliction of duty for the deaths that have occurred
:18:30. > :18:37.As the death toll rises, the protests in Caracas are now
:18:38. > :18:41.increasingly followed by vigils like this one to remember the dead.
:18:42. > :18:45.For everyone in this city, the focus is now on Sunday.
:18:46. > :18:50.That is the date for a vote to elect a new assembly tasked
:18:51. > :18:58.Vladimir Hernandez, BBC News, Caracas.
:18:59. > :19:03.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
:19:04. > :19:05.Amid chaotic scenes, crowds of Palestinians have again
:19:06. > :19:08.been worshipping at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem after Israel
:19:09. > :19:10.removed the last of the new security measures it installed
:19:11. > :19:16.But as the crowds arrived at the Haram al-Sharif,
:19:17. > :19:19.or Temple Mount, clashes broke out and Israeli forces fired tear gas.
:19:20. > :19:23.London Police have told the authorities in charge
:19:24. > :19:26.of Grenfell Tower that they may face corporate manslaughter charges over
:19:27. > :19:31.the fire that killed at least 80 people last month.
:19:32. > :19:34.Police say the local council and housing association had been
:19:35. > :19:43.told there were reasonable grounds to suspect them of the offence.
:19:44. > :19:51.The founder of the Amazon website has become the world's richest man.
:19:52. > :19:55.This was after a rise in value of Amazon shares on Thursday.
:19:56. > :19:58.Now, there's no quicker way to end Summer fun than getting sick,
:19:59. > :20:00.but you might want to think twice before finishing that
:20:01. > :20:04.Some medical professionals in the UK are cautioning against taking
:20:05. > :20:06.the full course if the treatment is prescribed, saying it
:20:07. > :20:08.could risk developing a resistance to the drugs.
:20:09. > :20:16.The danger posed by drug-resistant bacteria is growing.
:20:17. > :20:18.Curbing the use and misuse of antibiotics is central
:20:19. > :20:34.But now some scientists believe that long-standing advice to always
:20:35. > :20:37.finish a course of the drugs may be wrong and could be making
:20:38. > :20:40.We need to be careful about using antibiotics
:20:41. > :20:44.because the more we use them, the more the bacteria figure out how
:20:45. > :20:46.to become resistant to them, the more resistant bacteria
:20:47. > :20:49.we select for, and the more bacteria in our environment and living
:20:50. > :20:52.And that means when we get infected with those bacteria,
:20:53. > :20:54.the antibiotics just won't work any more.
:20:55. > :20:56.The world-famous discovery of penicillin...
:20:57. > :21:00.Following Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in the late
:21:01. > :21:03.1920s, the belief was that not taking enough of the drug could lead
:21:04. > :21:08.The modern-day official advice is still to complete the course
:21:09. > :21:10.you have been prescribed, but today's report says
:21:11. > :21:14.research to back up that advice, exposing a growing
:21:15. > :21:16.difference of opinion in the scientific community.
:21:17. > :21:21.This debate matters because the stakes are so very high.
:21:22. > :21:26.The number of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics
:21:27. > :21:29.is on the rise, and we are being told that antibiotics themselves
:21:30. > :21:32.are a precious but diminishing resource that needs to be used
:21:33. > :21:37.As questions are asked about how best to use antibiotics,
:21:38. > :21:42.some are concerned patients will be left confused.
:21:43. > :21:46.People have always to follow the instruction written on the label
:21:47. > :21:50.about the course of antibiotics because if they stop the antibiotic
:21:51. > :21:52.before the end of the treatment, they could develop resistance
:21:53. > :21:57.and so that kind of antibiotic won't work any more in the future.
:21:58. > :22:00.Everyone agrees more research is needed before
:22:01. > :22:03.the finish-the-course advice is changed to something like
:22:04. > :22:08."stop when you feel better," but the serious concern
:22:09. > :22:09.about drug-resistant bugs mean long-established practice
:22:10. > :22:20.This weekend a full length film in Yiddish will be
:22:21. > :22:23.hitting the big screen - making it one of the first movies
:22:24. > :22:32.The father-son drama is set in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish
:22:33. > :22:33.community of New York's Borough Park.
:22:34. > :22:36.Tom Brook has gone there to meet the actors and those
:22:37. > :22:41.It has one of the biggest concentrations of
:22:42. > :22:47.They reject most aspects of secular culture and that includes watching
:22:48. > :22:52.Yet a portrait of this community has emerged
:22:53. > :23:01.The film tells the story of one man's struggle,
:23:02. > :23:06.to maintain custody of his son Rieven played by Ruben Niborski.
:23:07. > :23:09.The film was co-written and directed by Joshua
:23:10. > :23:16.Weinstein, a non-Orthodox Jew, working with a cast
:23:17. > :23:21.Menashe is this big Charlie Chaplinesque of a man.
:23:22. > :23:23.He's very funny, he's very endearing, but
:23:24. > :23:33.And they have this chemistry where just by making a
:23:34. > :23:36.face they can show all the dynamic and emotion between a father and
:23:37. > :23:39.Nearly all the dialogue in Menashe is in Yiddish.
:23:40. > :23:45.The film aims to be the genuine article.
:23:46. > :23:47.These people speak Yiddish in everyday lives.
:23:48. > :23:51.To have Holywood actors speaking in English
:23:52. > :23:54.would have felt so phoney that I don't even know what the point of
:23:55. > :23:57.I gather that you don't speak Yiddish
:23:58. > :23:59.so wasn't it rather difficult in a way to
:24:00. > :24:01.direct a film that's in
:24:02. > :24:04.We wrote the script in English and then we had translators
:24:05. > :24:09.But Yiddish is such a language that, block by block, neighbourhood by
:24:10. > :24:12.neighbourhood, family by family speaks it differently, so we had
:24:13. > :24:14.huge debates about what the correct words were, how to say certain
:24:15. > :24:18.But this low-budget film faces a challenge.
:24:19. > :24:24.subtitles audience appetite for a movie in Yiddish is limited.
:24:25. > :24:27.Also the group that might be most interested in the picture's
:24:28. > :24:30.content, ultra-Orthodox Jews, will most likely not go to see this
:24:31. > :24:33.film because cinema-going is not permitted within the community.
:24:34. > :24:39.thanks ultra-Orthodox Jews may make an exception for this film because
:24:40. > :24:48.It's kosher because there's no touching.
:24:49. > :24:51.Even if there's some females in the movie
:24:52. > :25:01.And there's no negative against religion, belief, or any
:25:02. > :25:09.Menashe may be one of the few films in Yiddish in
:25:10. > :25:12.more than 70 years but its presence doesn't signal an imminent revival
:25:13. > :25:14.in Yiddish cinema, which blossomed mid-1930s.
:25:15. > :25:20.But it does show that the Yiddish language, while it no
:25:21. > :25:22.longer enjoys the primacy of decades ago, is most definitely flourishing
:25:23. > :25:24.in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in
:25:25. > :25:44.Don't forget, you can get in touch with me and some
:25:45. > :25:45.of the team on Twitter - I'm @LauraTrevelyan.
:25:46. > :26:06.Thank you for watching and we hope to see you back here tomorrow.
:26:07. > :26:10.Well, you do not need me to tell you there were some heavy showers
:26:11. > :26:13.around today and also some fairly pleasant spells of sunshine,
:26:14. > :26:16.but with low pressure close by the UK, as we go through the next
:26:17. > :26:19.few days, that will be the driving force behind further showers
:26:20. > :26:23.and this weather disturbance will bring some rain to end Friday