23/08/2017 World News Today

The UN accuses both sides in Yemen's civil war of killing

Real have a special report from inside the country and its

struggling hospitals. All these people have spent all the money they

have two get treatment. Now the electricity is off. All the machines

are all, all the individuals are off.

After its previous handset burst into flames Samsung

attempts a comeback with a new flagship phone.

Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump a creeper standing to close during

the campaign for the White House. Also on the programme -

I wouldn't let it break me - Prince William describes how

he dealt with the death of his Hello, and welcome

to World News Today. The youngest and most vulnerable

are bearing the brunt UN documents, obtained by the BBC,

accuse both sides - the Saudi-led coalition supporting

the government, and the Houthi rebels - of killing

and maiming children. of blocking the delivery

of desperately-needed Yemen has been at war for three

years now and has become the world's The BBC's Nawal Al Magafi has

this special report. You might find some

of the images distressing. Many of Yemen's children have

only ever known war. And Hudaydah Central

Hospital is full of them. Victims of a conflict that has

left their country battered, I first met Dr Abdullah

Al Zuhayri a year ago. He tells me things

are now much worse. TRANSLATION: We have

started to see so many more Now, it's not only

the poor bringing their children here, we are seeing cases

of severely malnourished children He takes me to meet this boy,

just three years old, He needs intensive care

but there are no beds available. As we talk, the doctor

interrupts us. A bed has been freed

and he is rushed This is one of the area's

last functioning All these people have spent all

the money they have to get this far. Now the electricity

is off, so all the machines are off, all be incubators

are off, all the oxygen has stopped. The war between the Saudi backed

government and the Houthi rebels The region's richest nation

bombing its poorest. It's killed thousands

and left millions homeless. Wherever you go, displaced

people line the streets. With all borders closed,

there's no escape. Even the refugee camp offered no

protection for Mohammed and Hudaydah is Yemen's main port city,

it should be a lifeline, but now it's barely operating,

after the Saudi coalition bombed the cranes

and blocked their replacements. Food should not be

a weapon of war, food 95% of all the food

that we need to feed the innocent people comes

through this sport. If this port is bombed

and completely made useless, literally hundreds of thousands

of children will die and millions of But it's not just

starvation that the Yemen now faces the worst cholera

outbreak in the world This 13-year-old caught it

along with 18 members of In the intensive care unit we get

a desperate call from As his father says goodbye,

the family asks us to carry on filming, to show the world

these heartbreaking images. Another child born into a war that

has now taken his life. Fatimah Baeshen is the Director

for the the Arabia foundation and she joins me now from

Washington. Thank you very much for your time

today. There can't be any of us seeing these images from Yemen who

are not moved by them. Would it be to get a dingy country if the Saudi

led coalition where not blocking the extra being delivered? -- to get a

death into the country. A viewpoint, it is unfortunate what is happening

in Yemen but Jabba discussion, we have to take a step back and discuss

several points. -- in order to have a discussion. It was a delicate

situation engines of food, water, and the structure. Need to rain in

Yemen does not lend itself to readily disseminating aided

unfortunately. -- the ground in Yemen does not lend itself. Although

Saudi Arabia is leading this coalition and taking a hard line

defence for defending its borders. There has been a lot of speculation

around the extent of the Houthi led rebels but over the last few months,

we have seen an increase and several indicators have shown are as that

the Houthi rebels are in fact supported by... Let me take your

list of three points and add a fourth, which is that the Saudi led

coalition has a blockade in place which even the world food programme

has said risks making aid a weapon of war. Why does it not believe that

and algae aid to get to the people who need it? -- why do they not lift

the blockade? It is all about proxy fighting and the Houthi rebels, not

being dismissive to human rights issues on the ground and

significantly scaling the imaginary aid efforts not only across Yemen

but across all of it. -- the humanitarian aid. They have taken a

two pronged strategy in terms of dealing with the Germanic Kerry in

crisis with respect to the cholera outbreak. -- the humanitarian

crisis. It is dealing with the contagion to begin with, Colorado

specifically, that was in Yemen, Saudi Arabia did not bring that. --

Colorado specifically. In terms of blockades...

And in terms of some places and the airport, transferring critical

infrastructure to respected Yemen citizens on the ground. They have

rejected the proposal. We wanted to you more but he had to leave it

there because President Trump is speaking in Reno in Nevada. He is at

the American Legion convention which is taking place in Reno and these

are the pictures we have coming in. Let's listen to what he is saying.

The American Legion has told our young people the principles of

American is, you emphasise the need to preserve the nation's cultural,

moral and patriotically values. You encourage the observation of

patriotically holidays. You stress the need to enforce our laws,

including our immigration laws. APPLAUSE

We will keep listening to what President Trump had to say and if

there are matters of note, legal passim onto you. Onto a related

story. In her new memoir, Hillary Clinton

has called US President Donald Trump a creep and detailed how Mr Trump's

behaviour during one of their election debates

made her skin crawl. Mrs Clinton has herself

voiced the audio version of the memoir which dissects her

failed presidential campaign. Gary O'Donoghue is

live in Washington. While it adds to the intrigue of our

understanding of the presidential campaign, I can't imagine Donald

Trump is losing too much sleep over this memoir. Now, I then think so.

It is clearly Hillary Clinton going over the story again in her head,

trying to work out how she lost the election. Clearly something still

very painful to her and that is obviously a moment in time that she

has really focused on. A war if moment, if you like. Interestingly,

right in the end of that extra, a much wider point. -- a what if

moment. Smiling, taking it, not responding. That could be something

you could accuse her of doing very long in many ways. Not really

opening up or doing the human being, the natural thing, which a lot of

people criticise her in all sorts of Sears store. I was at that second

delay and that would have been amazing if he had done that. Bearing

in mind, it was two days after the access Hollywood takes came out

where Donald Trump had joked around... The wrong word, joked

around, but talking about grabbing hold of women and etc. It would have

been electric. Thank you very much indeed. We'll be talking later on

BBC World News. Let's take a look at some of

the other stories making the news... The US Navy - has fired

the commander of its Seventh Fleet, following four accidents involving

American warships in East Asia. The latest, involved

the USS John McCain - ten sailors are still missing,

after a collision near Singapore. The Navy said it had lost

confidence in the ability of Vice Admirial Joseph oh-coin

to command. North Korean state media says

Kim Jong-Un has ordered the production of more rocket

engines and missile warheads. Pyongyang has continued

to develop its rocket and missile programme despite the threat

of United Nations sanctions. South Africa is holding its first

online auction of rhino horns, despite strong opposition from some

conservationists, who fear it Hundreds of horns, which can fetch

tens of thousands of dollars They cannot be exported

from South Africa because of a long-standing global ban

on the international trade. Now, think of an exploding

smartphone and your mind immediately But now the company is hoping

to extinguish memories of that PR disaster with the launch

of its latest device, Last year's global recall cost

Samsung five billion dollars - not to mention the damage

to the brand as one device Let's speak to tech expert

Charlie Brown, who has been at the launch of the Note eight

in New York. Tell us what you saw. Good evening.

The launch was an extravaganza of sights and sounds. What is clear is

that Samsung is trying to convince the world that the battery issues

they had in late 2016 are behind Ben and the new Note, the 6.3 end

smartphone, is an incredible offering for people who want a big

fan and that sort out those battery issues of one of the things they did

say is that they have a new quality control process in place for battery

checking. They did manufacturer battery themselves but they say they

are checking them a whole lot better these days. One in the examples they

used was the Samsung Galaxy S8. They want that and said they didn't get

any problems like they did last year. What does this phone do? The

first thing they did was put to lenders in the phone, most people

when they buy a phone, they are buying a new camera. -- they put two

lenses in. A and a telescopic lens are now in it. It means the venue is

urgently taking the photos, and undo the fact that most of us can't take

you good photos. Another thing is that they have kept a number of

features. -- a wide angle lens. You can write on the phone with a smart

stylus. They have a very clever desktop dock that you can plug the

phone into and use the phone as a desktop replacement. If you don't

want to carry a laptop or have a desktop PC at home, you can actually

use this phone, it's that powerful. You can play video games, make

music, manipulate images as well. They don't all come out in

mid-September, cost almost ?1000 and it releases, the top end of the

pricing structure for smartphones but what is interesting is, any

phone market right now, those Western countries, large format

phones are the largest growing area of the market so it is important

that Samsung get this new Note eight correct. Thank you for being with

us. Now to Syria where, bit by bit,

the so-called Islamic State's In an exclusive report,

our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet,

is on the front line of that battle. She's joined President Assad's

forces, as they re-take more territory, held

by the militants for years. This is the man leading the Syrian

army against Islamic state, in He wants to take us

to the front line, to see He vows with a soldier's swagger

to take back all of Syria. Tens of thousands of

men under his command. TRANSLATION: I am

hell-bent on victory. I am a commander on the ground,

and I have been wounded He is on the EU sanctions

list, accused of suppressing peaceful

protest in 2011. The general laughs it off,

insisting he is fighting terrorism. This is now the Army's

forward firing position. Days ago, this area was under

Islamic state control. Now their fighters are

just over the horizon. The soldiers tell us that this

latest operation destroyed the closest positions of Islamic state,

just over that ridge. So that is going to

allow the Syrian army and its Russian and Iranian allies

to move forward by a number They are heading towards

the next province. That is the next big target

for the Syrian army. We are heading back

to the desert town. This military might and everyone

backed militias are crucial here. This town, when Islamic state

arrived two years ago, almost It sits on a strategic crossroads,

gas fields all around here. The soldiers take us

into what they say A box of munitions lies next

to a jumble of women's clothing. The soldiers tell us

IS kept women here. In many houses, they say they found

cords like this, hanging from hooks. They say they have

been used for torture. But there is no one

here now to confirm It is kicked back into

life to be a car bomb. TRANSLATION: We are

proud to get it back. Prince William has been describing

how he did not want the memory of his mother to breaking her fear of

damaging her legacy. Ian Prince Harry have been speaking to a BBC

documentary marking 20 years since Diana Princess of Wales was killed.

This report by our royal correspondence contains flash

photography. 20 years ago they were children,

doing their best to cope with their own grief amid the close

attention of a grieving nation. It had been their father who had

had to break the news to William and Harry

that their mother was dead. They had been at Balmoral

and in the documentary they say how relieved they were that the Queen

had kept them there for a few days. They were grateful

too to their father. But the solitude of

Balmoral had given way They had come out to meet people

outside Kensington palace. And it is clear that they found

the whole experience bewildering. I couldn't understand then,

says William, why people were so upset over someone

they didn't know. The public grieving reached

its height on the day And they start walking

down the road... William and Harry were determined

not to show their emotions. The decision for them to walk

behind their mother's often was a collective,

family decision, says William. More than anything else they wanted

to honour their mother's memory. When you have something

so traumatic as the death of your mother when you are 15,

as very sadly many people have experienced, and no one

wants to experience, You know, it will either

make or break you. I wanted her to be proud

of the person I would become. I didn't want her worried

or her legacy to be that you know, William and or Harry were completely

and utterly devastated by it. And that all the hard work

and all the love and all the energy that she put into us

when we were younger In the years since Diana's

death her sons have taken up many of the causes

that she championed. The pain may have softened,

but in Harry's case there is still anger towards the French

photographers who pursued Diana's speeding car

into the Alma tunnel in Paris. I think one of the hardest things

to come to terms with is the fact that the people that

chased her through, into the tunnel, were the same people that

were taking photographs of her while she was still dying

on the back seat of the car. And those people that caused

the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her dying

on the back seat. And then those photographs

made their way back to news 20 years have passed,

there is a generation now with no But for many it remains

a week in Britain's recent history which retains

its emotional resonance. Now you'll remember the stunning

images of the solar of the the disc of the moon -

as it starts to cross But look at that small

black dot, moving across. That's actually the International

Space Station, effectively It was travelling at

five miles per second - so it didn't take long -

for it to move out of camera range. A reminder of our top story, the

youngest and most vulnerable are bearing the brunt of the war in

Yemen. UN documents obtained by the BBC accused both sides of killing