this is bbc news. in the last few minutes — england win the six nations tournament after beating scotland at twickenham. scotland at twickenham 61—21. famine in parts of africa and the middle east could lead to the biggest humanitarian crisis since1945 according the united nations. a diplomatic row after turkey's president accuses the dutch of behaving like nazis. also in the next hour... the government cracks down on ticket touts. computer software which buys hundreds of tickets within seconds is to be made illegal with law breakers facing unlimited fines. a retiring judge is criticised for saying women can protect themselves against potential rapists by not getting too drunk. critics say her remarks blame victims for the crime. good evening and welcome to bbc news.

in the last few minutes, england have retained the six nations title. they comfortably beat scotland at twickenham. that result not only gives them the title but they also equal new zealand's record of 18 successive test wins. big celebrations at twickenham and

we'll bring you the latest in the course of the news. the world's facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. that's the assessment of the united nations which says more than 20 million people face the threat of starvation and famine in four countries in africa and the middle east. three and a half billion pounds are said to be needed — byjuly — to avert disaster. this report from our world affairs correspondent richard galpin. for months now, it's been known that millions of people, including young babies like this, in yemen, have been starving. she was just four months old when a bbc team met her in december. across yemen, hundreds of thousands more children have so little to eat they are struggling to stay alive. and the threat of mass starvation is affecting three other countries. this is a refugee camp in south sudan, which, like yemen, has been torn apart by conflict. families forced to flee their homes

and left with little to eat. already a family has been officially declared here, already a famine has been officially declared here, with almost half the population in urgent need of help. we stand at a critical point in our history. already at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the united nations. now more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. the number of people the un says is now in danger is huge. almost two million in nigeria. nearly five million in south sudan, nthree million sudan, nearly three million and 1a million in yemen. the un predicts without serious help, 1.4 million people could die before the end of the year, unless more aid money is found.

they're calling for 5.6 billion to tackle this crisis. apart from conflict, another major cause of the crisis is drought. this is somalia, which has been particularly hard hit. in this hospital in the capital mogadishu, doctors have been treating people who've travelled almost 200 miles to get medical help. turkey's foreign minister has called a dutch decision to not allow him into the netherlands a "scandal" and says it won't be accepted. the minister had been due to speak in the dutch city of rotterdam in support of a turkish referendum giving mr erdogan greater powers. turkish people in western europe are allowed to vote in that referendum — which has led to efforts by the turkish government to hold campaign events. but the dutch authorities were concerned about a risk to public order and security — and the foreign minister's plane was stopped from landing in the netherlands. earlier at a rally in istanbul, president recep tayyip erdogan has described the dutch as "nazi remnants and fascists". mr erdogan also appeared to threaten retaliation — saying ‘let‘s see how your planes will come to turkey from now on.‘ they don't know anything about

politics or international diplomacy. they are very nervous and they are cowards. they are nazi remnants and they are fascists. where are the human rights democracies and freedoms of europe? u nfortu nately, democracies and freedoms of europe? unfortunately, some countries like the netherlands remind us of the europe of world war ii, the same racism, xenophobia, anti—semitism, crimes against humanity. all of these can be seen in the governments of today. the decision by the netherlands will not go unanswered. that is turkey's foreign minister.

the dutch prime minister mark rutte has condemned mr erdogan‘s remarks. he said his country had been willing to consider a planned event in a turkish building, such as a consulate. but he said it wouldn't respond to ‘threats‘. this morning on television, he made clear that he threatened the netherlands with sanctions and of course we cannot negotiate under such threats. we decided it was betterfor him not to come to the netherlands. he described the dutch as nazis. what is your reaction to those remarks? crazy remarks. i understand he's angry but this is way out of line. there has been criticism here of a female judge who has

warned women who get drunk that they are putting themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists. lindsey kushner qc said what she called ‘disinhibited behaviour‘ could put women in danger. the comments have been described by the campaign group rape crisis as outrageous and misguided. francis fitzgibbon who's the chair of the criminal bar association says he agrees with the judge. it's unusual for the judge to make those kind of wide—ranging comments that go beyond the case that she's dealing with, but i suppose because it was her last day in court, she felt she could do it. it seems to me she was lamenting the prevalence of attacks on young, vulnerable women by rapists. and one of the things that makes women vulnerable to that sort of attack is when they get very drunk. but she was very careful not to blame the victims of the rape for what has happened to them. she says a woman can do with her body what she wants, and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly. and i don't think anyone could disagree with that. it seems to me that

what she is really saying is that when a person, any person, does something that is potentially risky, like getting extremely drunk, they need to be aware of the risks they are taking, and have some understanding of where it may lead them. i don't think she was... i think it's unfair to categorise what she said as blaming the victims for what happened to them. i think she makes it very clear that the violent behaviour of rapists is the problem and that there are 100% responsible for what they do. but it seems to me, more as a parent, than as a lawyer, that it is just sensible to tell one's children, when they start going out on their own, to be alert, to look out for danger, to stay with their friends, to make sure they can get home afterwards, and to look after each other as well, so that people don't get

separated and isolated. that seems to me just be plain common sense. dame vera baird is northumbria's police and crime commissioner. she told me she doesn't agree with the judge's comments. if you want to leave a legacy message, it would be far better be directed at the men who are raping. those predatory men who deliberately pick on a vulnerable young woman, whether it is because she is in drink, or that her wits will not be about her, they are deliberately focusing on someone because of their vulnerability. it would be overwhelmingly better to say that that predatory behaviour is well understood and will be treated with very strong sentencing. unfortunately, if you focus, and she herself acknowledged that judges are criticised for focusing too much on the conduct of the complainant and not on the conduct of the rapist,

if you focus on the young woman, or the young man, because of course it happens to them as well, and say that if they have been drinking, they are seen to be less likely to be believed, or more likely to have consented to the individual, then it looks as if you are shifting the responsibility over to that person. i know she said that you can do what you want with your body, some breaking news, this is the response of president trump to the break—in last night of an intruder inside the grounds of the white house. president trump says the secret service did a fantasticjob last night. he said he was told about the intruder last night.

something we learned, actually we didn't learn it from secret service, we learned it from sources who work quoted as speaking to us media. we we re quoted as speaking to us media. we were told donald trump was actually in the white house last night. that's unusual, mostly he spends his weekends at his retreat in florida. but he was at the white house last night. this man, carrying a backpack, which subsequently was found not contain anything which could be threatening or dangerous, the man entered the grounds of the white house at around 11:30pm yesterday. in the course of that, he got close to the residence of the white house, the part where the president and his family and visitors spend their evenings. he was at the entrance to the residence when he was arrested by us secret service. they issued a statement indicating where he had gotten and

so indicating where he had gotten and so on, but it wasn't clear whether they had actually been monitoring him between him entering the grounds of actually getting to the residence, or whether they were discovered he was there when he was close to the residence. they made clear ina close to the residence. they made clear in a statement which came out earlier that there was no threat to the president or his family or anybody else in the white house. this statement from donald trump, which has been issued in the last few minutes from washington, has praised the secret service, saying they did a fantasticjob and told him about the intruder, presumably after the detained him last night. let's move onto other news. reports from syria say at least a0 people have been killed — and dozens injured — following two explosions in the capital damascus. it's thought two suicide bombers targeted buses transporting shi'ite pilgrims near an ancient cemetery in the city. it's not yet clear who was behind the attack. 0ur correspondent alan johnston reports. when they struck, they targeted and

easier way coaches park when they bring pilgrims. around them where belongings of some of the victims of the attack. shoes, items of clothing, of wheelchair. there were reports that most of the dead were iraqi citizens. it's not yet clear who was behind this, but the islamic state group has set off bombs before, causing casualties among pilgrims, who the militants regard as religious heretics. 0nline ticket touts who buy in bulk and then sell tickets for inflated prices will face unlimited fines under new government plans. it will also be illegal to use so—called "bots" — or automated computer software — to bypass limits on the maximum

amount of tickets that can be bought. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. it's people making money out of something that you shouldn't put such a premium on. we're going to make it illegal some

of that fans can buy the tickets more easily. but can we ever fully remove illegal ticket touts? there's always more that can be done. as long as there are people out there wanting to profit on the back of tickets, there will be people wanting to buy those tickets as well. the important thing is to sort of distillate to a good market, a market that works well for the industry and consumers as well. that might mean that official ticket sellers were popular shows will have to be are more vigilant when someone tries to suddenly buy or suddenly sell a lot of tickets. criminalising these bots could work, but if they are overseas, that is little the government can do. ticketing experts see the bots might actually be real human beings paid paltry sums of

money by the illegal ticket touts to do their work. criminalising them could be fraught with problems. the headlines on bbc news: in the last hour, england win the six nations tournament after beating scotland at twickenham. famine in parts of africa and the middle east could lead to the biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945 according the united nations. dipa dip a diplomatic row after the turkish prime minister accuses the dutch of behaving like nazis. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has said it would be absolutely fine for scotland to hold a second independence referendum. the scottish first minister, nicola sturgeon, hasn't ruled out holding another vote next year because of brexit. with me is our political correspondent alex forsyth.

give us a bit of background here. why is this anything to do with jeremy corbyn? that's a good question. in terms of the background, we have had increasing chat about the prospect of a second referendum since the pics of bold, because the majority of people in scotla nd wa nted because the majority of people in scotland wanted to stay in the eu. nicola sturgeon has said it could be as early as next year. it would be for nicola sturgeon to push for a second referendum, but westminster has double period. labour's position as they don't think there should be as they don't think there should be a second referendum on scottish independence. that's why these comments initially look incongruous from jeddah make corbyn. when you dig deep and speak to his team, they saying what he meant was yes, labour

is opposed to a second referendum, and if it were to happen, we would campaign against it, but we think the opposition should come from westminster. it is up to scotland to have that decision—making power.m course, not least, because there is only one scottish labour mp at westminster, where there is a whole phalanx of scottish msp ‘s, although not the largest opposition, but there is a decent number to oppose it. absolutely. the feeling among the major players in westminster is that if ms minster were to block a second independence referendum, if there was an appetite for it, that would just kill the case for independence, because it would be seen again as westminster imposing its will on scotland. yes, they would say there deny you your right to usual democratic choice. yes, that's whyjeremy corbyn is making

the case that it isn't down to westminster politicians to block the referendum. but what he's not saying is that he is not advocating for one. within this fascinating situation, and it's hard to think of a decent parallel, we've got the third biggest party in parliament being from one of the nations of the uk, so the snp is bigger than the lib dems, much bigger, of course, than ukip. smaller than labour, but potentially huge and significant vote in any final vote on brexit. remember, during the general election campaign, how the snp dominated that general election campaign. yes, all those posters about labour being in the pocket of the snp. yes, they absolutely dominated scottish politics as well. the snp have made use of that. there was a suggestion about fox hunting, the snp said they would stop and ——

step in and stop that happening, even though it didn't apply in scotland. we have had the discussion about english law is very —— english votes for english laws only. it will be interesting to see, as we go into next week in parliament, looking at brexit and whether the brexit bill gets its final approval, how the snp choose to wield their power. interesting times. thanks very much. more than 60 prisoners were evacuated from a jail in dorset last night after a large fire was started by an inmate. it's believed he climbed onto the roof of hmp guys marsh near shaftesbury after complaining about a change of regime,at the prison. fiona lamdin is there now. flames and thick smoke filled the night sky above hmp guys marsh. after an inmate thought to be drunk, wearing many layers of clothes, set light to them on top of the prison roofjust after eight o'clock last night. as firefighters controlled what they described as the large fire outside, inside, 64 prisoners were moved from their cells

to the safety of the gym. in an unannounced inspection, two—and—a—half years ago, investigators found this place in crisis. they said staff and managers had all but lost control. they said one in four prisoners felt unsafe as gangs operate openly. from where you are here, what could you actually see? we could see out of our bedroom windows some flames. george bolton lives opposite the prison. as i understand it, he ripped tiles off the roof and set fire to his clothes and it caught the timbers alight. that's where the fire came from. we didn't see flames, because we can't see past that house there, but we did see the glow. another blaze in another prison. it's just one in a long string, 50 fires are reported each week in prisons in england and wales. these figures have doubled in two years, a strong indication of the problems going on behind

the country's prison fences. fiona lamdin, bbc news. india's governing party — the bjp — has won a landslide victory in elections in the key state of uttar pradesh. it's one of five states voting for new governments in elections seen as a referendum on prime minister narendra modi. the hindu nationalist bjp also appears to be on course to win the northern state of uttarakhand. supporters of the ousted south korean president, park geun—hye, have clashed with police for a second day following ms park's removalfrom office. she's been linked to a corruption scandal involving some of south korea's top businesses. there have also been demonstrations in favour of the court decision to impeach her. the two sides are being kept apart by barricades patrolled by police officers dressed in riot gear. three people died in scuffles. stephen evans sent this from the capital, seoul.

supporters of the ex—president have been out demonstrating their anger. they say the judges who dismissed park geun—hye were motivated by politics. this is the centre of seoul. this is one of the main streets in the centre of seoul. that's the police barrier right down the middle of the street. what you can't see is that right behind that barrier there are hundreds of police and vehicles and then beyond that, anti—park people. they've set up effigies of the disgraced ex—president and the others like the head of samsung, facing corruption accusations. a left of centre government may well win here. in washington, the white house was unperturbed. it's a domestic issue, in which the united states takes no position in the outcome of that election. it's up to the korean people and their democratic institutions to determine the future of their country. in north korea, people

probably speaking under supervision, have voiced pleasure at park geun—hye's demise. he says, "during the last four years, park geun—hye has brought suffering to our people. she should be punished very severely." in north korea, leaders are not located. are not elected. the news from the south may play two ways there, it shows disarray in the south, but also that leaders can be removed. stephen evans, bbc news, seoul. experts have revealed that the author, jane austen, was virtually blind towards the end of her life, possibly because of arsenic poisoning. tests on her glasses show that medicine she had been taking could have contained arsenic, which may have contributed to her early death. for one of history's greatest writers, just reading her own novels

would have been very difficult without these. jane austen's specs have been at the british library for 20 years, but only now can they bring focus to her life. back in the early 19th century there were prescriptions, similar to what we have today. back in the early 19th century there were prescriptions, similar to what we have today. so what we did was have somebody bring in a portable lensmeter so we could very, very carefully have it examined. austen was longsighted. the first pair are low prescription, but her eyesight deteriorated. the final pair revealed that she would have had great trouble reading and writing. this could help reveal the mystery of why she died so young. the possibility of her being poisoned accidentally with a heavy metal such as arsenic. we know now that arsenic poisoning can cause cataracts. arsenic was often put into medication for other types of illness, so potentially for rheumatism, which jane austen suffered from. using modern optometry,

we are able to see just what jane austen's eyesight would have been like. that is 475. i cannot see your face at all. i can only see my hand when it's about there. so that's what she needed, to correct her vision. the british library wants optometrists to get in touch and offer their professional opinions. a rare chance to see things through the eyes of one of our best—loved authors. a specialist nanny has been called in to help look after three malayan tiger cubs at an american zoo. blakey is a six—year—old male australian shepherd. australian shepherd dog. according to keepers at cincinatti zoo he provides snuggling, warmth and a climbable body to the cubs after their mother rejected them. he also helps with their behaviour by checking them when they get too rough or aggressive. it's not the first time blakey has been a nanny for other animals,

he has previously helped raise baby cheeta hs, wallabies, bat—eared foxes, and an ocelot. thomas, what have you got from this evening? i was wondering what that dog will think when the tigers grew to three times its size! helen will be taking overin times its size! helen will be taking over ina times its size! helen will be taking over in a while. the weather has been pretty cloudy so far today. there has been a bit of sunshine around the south—east there, but these are the temperature is around seven o'clock in the evening. there is some rain in the north. tonight,

the cloaked in some areas will thicken. we have weatherfronts coming in off the atlantic towards the end of the night, suffer some of us the end of the night, suffer some of usa damp, the end of the night, suffer some of us a damp, if wet night. the south—eastern portion of the uk will hang onto the rain perhaps until lunchtime. they can see these lines of rain and sunshine and rain again. a mixed bag on the way to model. not too bad. and tuesday, fair bit of dry weather around but also a fair bit of cloned from time from time to time. that's it from me. this is bbc news. the headlines at exactly 6:30pm. england beat scotland to win rugby six nations and brave the calcutta cup dott up as well. they have taken it from new zealand. we will have the action injust it from new zealand. we will have the action in just a few moments time.