the tragedy of yemen — ravaged by war and now the largest ever recorded epidemic of cholera ina year. the face of starvation — as hundreds of thousands contract the deadly and relentless disease. they know the water is poison — but it's all they have to drink. pockets of famine are growing. cholera is spreading. and civil serva nts cholera is spreading. and civil servants like the doctors and nurses here haven't received a salary in over ten months. there's one thing people here keep telling me and it's that they feel completely forgotten. how has the crisis in yemen been allowed to reach this point? and what is the international community doing about it? also tonight. to see stories come out that are patently false, narrative that are wrong, to see fake news. donald trump's press secretary, controversial and much lampooned, decides to quit. how children are being abused in their own homes via a live streaming app owned by twitter. panic as an earthquake hits

the holiday island of kos. two people have been killed. and chris froome — can he make it his fourth win of the tour de france? and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: american jordan spieth survives the worst of british summer to lead the way by two shots after two rounds of the open at royal birkdale. good evening. an ongoing cholera epidemic which is sweeping war—ravaged yemen is believed to be the "largest ever recorded" in a single year. injust three months since the outbreak started, there have been more than 360,000 suspected cases. yemen has become a breeding ground for the disease — which is mainly spread by unsafe water — after two years of a devastating civil war that has split the country

between a saudi—led government coalition and iran—backed houthi rebels. few communities have been left untouched by the disease but the worst hit areas are controlled by houthi rebels and suffer the most from a blockade of food and aid. nawal al—maghafi has had rare access to the area in and around hajjah province where the outbreak started. and you may find some parts of her report distressing. another crisis has hit yemen. people here question how much more they can take. war and poverty have combined to mean cholera has swept through this country faster than any on record. unless treated quickly, this waterborne disease can kill. most have walked hours to get treatment, but only the fortunate make it in time. samira rushed here from the village to save her daughter. her family have suffered all three tragedies of this war. they have lost their home to an air strike, the children go without food and now

they are all fighting cholera. too malnourished to breast—feed, samira has been feeding her daughter powdered milk with cholera—infected water. more than 7 million people here also face the threat of famine. cholera costs pennies to treat, but being malnourished makes it much harder than the body to fight the waterborne disease. in another clinic lies abdullah. for months now, he has had very little food or access to clean water. aid agencies are doing

what they can, but the magnitude of this outbreak is outstripping their ability to respond. one person dies in yemen every hour from cholera. this is the world's largest humanitarian crisis, and it's completely man—made. pockets of famine are growing. cholera is spreading, and civil servants like the doctors and nurses here haven't received a salary in over ten months. there's one thing that people here keep telling me, and it's that they feel completely forgotten by the world. hospitals here are on the verge of collapse, so schools like this one are being turned into cholera treatment centres. this local businessman is funding this place out of his own pocket. 5,000 have been brought here in the two months since it opened.

people faced the biggest threat in rural areas. in this one village alone, 20 people have died in the space of three months. hours from the nearest town, it was impossible for people without money to get help. abdullah has recently become sick. together with his sister hind, they can't afford the medicine for their illness. it's been over two years since this conflict began, and people here are sick, hungry and exhausted by this war.

abdullah and hind are two out of five people in their family that have been infected with cholera, and the nearest hospital is over an hour and a half away. and like most people here, they simply can't afford to get there. the truth is that for many in this country, there's no escaping cholera. here on the edge of the village is the only source of water. the people know it's infected, but with no other options, they continue to rely on it. nawal al—maghafi, bbc news, hajjah, yemen. with me is our diplomatic correspondent james robbins. some of the images in the report we re some of the images in the report were almost unbearable to watch, how has it come to this? this does look like a has it come to this? this does look likea war has it come to this? this does look like a war without pity. the un's coordinator for humanitarian aid in yemen has said neither side has any interest in civilian is contrary to the rules of war. the two saizar broadly the yemeni government backed

by the military firepower of saudi arabia leading a coalition and the rebels supported by iran. it means a war is being fought in yemen between sunni saudi arabia and shia iran. almost 90 million people rely on aid. that is significant because the saudi coalition has bombed in the past, the largest port, the most important port, in yemen, vitalfor food and medical supplies. what is the international community doing? frankly, it has found itself almost ineffective, some people say unwilling, actually, to intervene sufficiently. go back two years, the un security council including britain, france, the united states, authorised the saudi military coalition to go in on the government side believing it would shorten the war. instead they've been dismayed by what's happened and haven't been

able to stop it. we have shocking civilian casualties, the saudi coalition has killed the largest number in yemen, even if the other side has also been guilty of killing many civilians. the saudis insist their past air strikes on hospitals we re their past air strikes on hospitals were not deliberate. that they were accidents and they've done a lot to try and sort that out. of course we know britain's controversial arms sales to saudi arabia have been upheld as illegal by a high court judgment. there is no end to this war in sight. instead, it slipping deeper into cholera and famine. james, thank you. president trump's spokesman sean spicer has resigned, ending a brief but turbulent period in thejob. mr spicer had been much lampooned in his role, trying to defend the president against a sceptical press. tonight, the man appointed mr trump's new head of communications, anthony scaramucci, was forced to apologise for calling the president a "hack politician" in the past. 0ur chief correspondent gavin hewitt has more. a day of dramatic changes at the white house. sean spicer, the white house press secretary and one of the most

recognisable faces of the trump administration, abruptly resigned. spicer was a controversial figure. early on, he was forced to defend the crowd size at donald trump's inauguration, denying that more people turned out for barack 0bama. this was the largest audience to a witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe. but pictures suggested otherwise. and then there were his remarks about chemical weapons. his references to hitler caused outrage. we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons. his performances were mocked on late—night comedy shows.

isaid i said that wrong when i said it and then i wrote it, which makes you wrong. because when i say something wrong. because when i say something wrong you guys should know what it isi wrong you guys should know what it is i meaning, right or wrong. when i say rocky start, i mean it in the sense of rocky the movie, because i came out here to punch you! in the face. also, i don't talk so good. sean spicer found himself under close scrutiny from donald trump, who prizes good on—camera performances. the president began looking for a strong defender, particularly as he faces a growing investigation into whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia during last year's election. what prompted spicer‘s resignation was the appointment of this man, anthony scaramucci, as white house communications director. the wall street financier gave his opening pitch. i love the president and i'm very loyal to the president. then he was reminded that back in 2015, he had called donald trump "a hack, an inherited money dude". mr president, if you're listening,

i personally apologise for the 50th time for saying that. but here's the wonderful thing about the news media. that was three minutes of my life. he's never forgotten it and you've never forgotten it. but i hope that someday, mr president, you will forget it. let's go to the next question. the new communications director is certainly slick, but here's the problem. you can stand at the podium and defend white house policy, but president trump has a habit of changing the message with just a tweet. today's sha ke—up reveals donald trump under pressure, seeking a communicator who will fight for his presidency. gavin hewitt, bbc news, washington. a bbc investigation has found evidence of children as young as nine being groomed on the live streaming app periscope. launched just two years ago, the app allows its millions of users to broadcast live from their phones and can reveal their location. but our team found children streaming video live from their classrooms and even their bedrooms, and clearly being groomed for sexual abuse. despite this, twitter —

which owns the app — claims it has "zero tolerance" for this kind of conduct. angus crawford investigates. not learning, but broadcasting. live from the back of a lesson. viewers send her direct messages. another school, another class. more questions from total strangers. but this isn'tjust an innocent chat. are you in high school? yes. we found pupils live streaming across the country. and they've all been using this, periscope, an app owned by twitter, which allows users to broadcast live from anywhere. and our investigation from children using it in their own bedrooms and being groomed in front of our eyes. this child is still in her school uniform, probably 12, no more than that. talking straight into the camera and there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven requests already. one of them is asking

the size of her bra. another one has justjoined. someone hasjust asked her to unbutton her shirt. the age limit is meant to be 13, but we easily find children younger than that. this little girl is really young. hi. so right now it's my first time playing this app. i don't even know what to do. i'm nine. i actually look seven. "up top, please." what do you mean by, "up top, please? " we passed the details of all these children to the police, and showed what we found to the nspcc‘s head of online safety. hi. oh, my gosh. well, it's very disturbing, isn't it? to see children as young as nine when they're so vulnerable

and being so clearly groomed for sexual purposes by a pack of people online. it's really shocking. what's really worrying about periscope is the way it uses maps. if i go live from here on a street corner in west london, then anyone can zoom in and find out exactly where i am. twitter refused an interview request, but said in a statement, but our investigation showed children openly being groomed. the question for periscope — can young people really broadcast to the world and stay safe? angus crawford, bbc news. british holidaymakers have been

describing scenes of panic as a powerful earthquake struck the greek island of kos. two people have been killed and at least 100 people injured. the quake, with a magnitude of 6.7, also caused floods in the streets of the turkish resort of bodrum. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from the aegean coast. 1:30am in the turkish resort of bodrum. a night out turns to panic as the ground shakes. footage from nearby shops showed the impact as the earthquake struck, measuring 6.7. the epicentre, the aegean sea between bodrum and the greek island of kos. as streets in bodrum were flooded, residents ran, fearing for their lives and for the after—shocks. but kos felt the worst of it. a turkish and a swedish tourist were killed as the roof of a bar collapsed and scores were injured, some jumping from buildings to escape. 200,000 holiday—makers were said

to be on the island, 10,000 of them from britain. we were literally ripped from our sleep. the bed shook uncontrollably. the room shook from side to side. the noise was terrible. i actually thought that was it, i really did. at first light, the damage in kos was clear. parts of the cathedral were turned to rubble. it was rebuilt 80 years ago after the one that stood here was destroyed by an earthquake, nature striking again, crushing what lay in its path. the ground was unsteady, you could feel it. you could feel it moving. it was quite scary. we heard glasses coming off our shelves. we heard it in the bathroom, glass smashing in the living room. so we got up and you were swaying, literally. in bodrum, fishing boats were upturned by the tremor. power went out in both resorts. 200 turkish nationals were evacuated from kos, including some of the injured,

taken by ferry to bodrum and stretchered to hospital. the earthquake was shallow but was lessened by the sea, although it did cause high waves. greece and turkey are seismically active. both are on significant faultlines and have suffered huge earthquakes in recent years. this could have been lot worse. with the ferry port in kos damaged, the airport was under pressure, some taking refuge from the heat as flights were delayed. a holiday idyll turned to nightmare as dozens recover in hospital and greece takes stock of a traumatic night. mark lowen, bbc news, on the greek coast. the environment secretary michael gove has promised to deliver a "green brexit" as he told environmental and countryside groups that leaving the european union offers a "once—in—a—lifetime opportunity" to reform britain's farming and fisheries policies. mr gove also said future farming subsidies must be earned, rather than simply handed out. 0ur science editor

david shukman reports. in a cloud of dust, the harvest begins this evening in hertfordshire. a key moment in the farming calendar, like another important event, the arrival of the annual eu subsidies. the payments are based on how much land the farmers own, so the richest benefit most, and the environment secretary wants brexit to change that. leaving the eu gives us a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to reform how we manage agriculture and fisheries, and therefore, how we care for our land, our rivers and our seas. we can recast our ambition for our country's environment and for the planet. in short, leaving the european union should mean a green brexit. at the moment, the eu farming subsidies are worth some £3 billion a year. that amounts to about 50% of farmers' incomes.

and because 70% of uk land is farmed, any change in policy will have a big impact. the idea proposed by michael gove is to link future payments to farmers to better care of the soil, the water and the wildlife. but one farmer, robert law, says he's worried that the bureaucracy around this will be too complicated. how are we actually going to have the time to get out and do our core activity of farming and growing crops? we're told we'll receive probably less payments in the future. there's got to be a balance. what michael gove is suggesting is pretty radical by any standards, shifting the emphasis of agricultural policy from food production to encouraging wildlife. but none of this is going to happen quickly. the government has promised that the current system of farm payments will continue until 2022. but some environmental changes may happen more quickly. mr gove promised a new law banning microbeads, tiny plastic particles used in facial scrubs and toothpastes that can end up

polluting the oceans. he wants new moves to save stocks of fish. mr gove says the eu allows overfishing, and he believes britain acting alone could be more sustainable. and he described climate change as a threat, and criticised donald trump for pulling out of the paris agreement on global warming. ultimately, any minister isjudged by their actions, and although mr gove's pledges seen much greener than many expected, what counts is the hard detail on everything from what's grown in the fields to how farmers adjust after brexit. david shukman, bbc news, in hertfordshire. michael gove also said the whole cabinet is in agreement that there should be a period of adjustment after brexit so that businesses have access to the migrant workers they need. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar is at westminster. does this make the government's position over brexit clearer ? well, the eu wants more clarity.

business leaders say they want more clarity, but they will have to wait, partly because so many key decisions have yet to be discussed, let alone decide by ministers. ministers are broadly agreed on the importance of getting a transitional period of maybe two years, although the chancellor and a number of civil serva nts chancellor and a number of civil servants would like longer to make sure trade continues to flow as freely as now between britain and europe on to give business time to prepare for a new customs system and to make sure there is no shock to the system that might deter investment. in the end, it'll come down to those negotiations in brussels, and the eu side are sure to try to attach conditions such as a continuing role for the european court in resolving trade disputes. when it comes to free movement of people, ministers are ready to accept that businesses, from banks to fruit farms, should not be deprived of the migrant labour they need. but there has still been no cabinet meeting or even cabinet

committee meeting to decide on the detail of all of that. if the final decision is to have a continuation of free movement of citizens as now, that might please the chancellor, but it will not please a lot of tory backbench brexiteers at westminster who want to end free movement as quickly as possible. so lots of big decisions to take. time is running out and as yet, the plants are brexit is still a work in progress. john, thank you. a brief look at some of the day's other other news stories. three palestinians have been killed during clashes with israeli security forces in east jerusalem and the occupied west bank. hundreds more were injured in the violence, which came a week after the killing of two israeli policeman. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he was freezing all contacts with israel. tolls on the severn bridges between wales and england will be scrapped by the end of next year. the cost of the crossing ranges from £6.70 to £20 per vehicle. the government claims the decision could boost the welsh economy by a hundred million pounds a year.

a 27—year—old man has admitted murdering his brother and attempting to murder his brother's girlfriend by setting fire to their family home near glasgow on new year's day. the court heard blair logan had a "hostile relationship" with his younger brother cameron. thejudge baroness hale is to become the new president of the supreme court. she's a family law specialist who's championed diversity in thejudiciary, and will take up the post in october. police in suffolk investigating the disappearance of an raf airman say they are ending their search of a landfill site. 23—year—old corrie mckeague was last seen on a night out in bury st edmunds, in september. cctv showed him entering a bin loading bay. officers have sifted through more than 6,000 tonnes of waste, in an operation costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. ben ando reports. corrie mckeague disappeared during a night out in bury st edmunds last september. he told friends he'd walk home but never made it back to the raf base nearby where he was stationed. cctv images showed him

walking through the town, but then he appeared to vanish. the only lead police had was that his phone seemed to track the path of a bin lorry. and that led them to this landfill site just outside cambridge. but after spending five months sifting through thousands of tonnes of rubbish at a cost of more than £1 million, the police have turned up nothing. we've searched over 6,500 tonnes of waste, excavating a huge area. without anything further to tell us where he might be on such a vast site, the search cannot continue. corrie's disappearance prompted a huge social media campaign. his family crowdfunded their own investigation. six weeks ago, his girlfriend april, who was pregnant at the time he went missing, revealed that she'd had his daughter. corrie's mum nicola is herself a police officer in scotland. she says the family are grateful for everything the police have done but says that ending the search now is the wrong thing to do. i do believe that they should search

the area and be able to come back and say that either corrie is in there or he's not. how can theyjust leave him in there? if... how can theyjust leave him in there? suffolk police say they're closing the case. they've asked a neighbouring force to review it, and will follow up any new leads. ben ando, bbc news, cambridge. golf now, and day two of the open at royal birkdale saw northern ireland's rory mcilroy battle back into contention — he's now five shots off the lead. the usa'sjordan spieth is top of the leaderboard on six under par. but shot of the day undoubtedly went to england's chris wood — with this stunning effort on the 18th. cycling, and unless there's a major mishap, britain's chris froome will win his fourth tour de france title this weekend. the reigning champion wears

the yellowjersey into tomorrow's stage in marseilles. and if he stays in yellow tomorrow, he'll be crowned the winner on sunday in paris. from there, richard conway reports. chris froome has already stood on the winner's podium of the tour de france three times in his illustrious career. now, as this year's epic race draws to a close, a fourth title awaits as he makes his way to paris this weekend. i remember his speech back on the podium after his first one, and he said he wants to do this again and again, maybe five or six times. he's nearly there. you wouldn't put it past him. race organisers wanted a closer contest this year, and that's certainly what they've achieved, with the top three riders all within 30 seconds of one another. today's stage, 120 miles through the provencal alps down to the rhone valley, saw froome consolidate his position as leader. and while his advantage is slender, it should be enough to see him prevail following tomorrow's individual time trial. this is one of the most

famous landmarks in paris, and on sunday will loom large as the riders complete several laps of the champs elysees. by then, the overall battle for victory will be done, sunday's stage is largely ceremonial, and chris froome will be hoping it's a triumphant procession. the tour may not be here yet, but there's still plenty of lycra on display as thousands fans arrive for what will be a celebration of cycling. and barring a major upset, they will witness chris froome being crowned in the yellow jersey once more. richard conway, bbc news, paris. and finally, royal visits can be tiring for even for the most experienced members of the family, but for two—year old princess charlotte, the end of a five—day tour to poland and germany all proved a bit too much. as the cambridges prepared to leave hamburg this afternoon, there was some foot stamping. then a bit of finger wagging. and finally, the sit down. luckily, the duchess of cambridge

offered some comforting words to bring her daughter's tantrum to a happy end. that's it. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm hugh ferris. the headlines tonight: jordan spieth battles the birkdale rain to lead the open. nobody else has managed to stay under par in both rounds so far. i thought it was as good or even better than yesterday's round. that was tough, really tough out there today. gold for kadeena cox takes great britain to 1a at the world para—athletics champoinships in london. edging ever closer to victory — reigning champion chris froome remains in control of the tour de france. and usain bolt wins his final race before his london swansong... and goes under ten seconds for the first time this year

in the diamond league in monte carlo. hello again. the man who wins the open usually deserves it — not just because they've beaten 155 other golfers. but to claim the claretjug you've got to overcome the weather too. and boy, did the weather test them at royal birkdale today. wind and rain that got worse as the day went on. so all the more impressive that in the worst of it. jordan spieth kept his rivals at arm's length. the american leads after two rounds. from his compatriot matt kuchar who's two back. ian poulter is the best—placed british player on three under par. with rory mcilroy‘s 68 putting him back in contention. ben croucher reports. this was a day when a mother nature

through all she could at royal birkdale. and when jordan through all she could at royal birkdale. and whenjordan spieth laughed right back on herface. they had to contend with a great british summer. had to contend with a great british summer. spieth urged two shots clear of the field, three birdies an eagle when all around were getting