this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at three: ——the headlines at four;; as oxfam admit they ‘failed in moral leadership' — the government warns uk charities that funding will be withdrawn — if they fail to co—operate with the authorities in cases of sexual exploitation by staff. the sector has to step up in terms of tackling what is an industry that has been targeted by individuals. by paedophiles. yes. they are targeting this because of the chaos that we work in. a russian passenger plane — carrying 71 people — has crashed shortly after taking off from moscow. all those on board are believed to have been killed. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, holds talks in myanmar about the return of rohingya muslims. great britain's andrew musgrave makes history at the winter

olympics in pyeonchang. finishing 7th place in the men's skiathlon — the best performance by a briton in an olympic cross country event. meanwhile — in the arena — north korean cheerleaders mesmerise the crowds with incredible synchronisation. in halfan in half an hour, rebecca jones meets award—winning irish author roddy doyle. they will be talking books. a good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the government has threatened to cut off all state funding and help for oxfam, and other charities, if they fail to ensure that vulnerable people are properly protected. the international development secretary penny mordaunt has described as ‘horrific‘

the behaviour of some of oxfam's workers in haiti, who were accused of using prostitutes in the aftermath of the earthquake there in 2010. the chair of trustees at the charity says oxfam prides itself on being a transparent organisation working hard to improve the lives of the poor and has apologised unreservedly, saying "i share the anger and shame that behaviour like that highlighted in haiti in 2011 happened in our organisation. it is clear that such behaviour is completely outside our values and should never be tolerated." angus crawford has this report. first haiti, now chad, one of the poorest countries on earth, new allegations that a number of oxfam workers paid local women for sex. the head of the mission there at the time was the same man who five years later in haiti resigned after admitting using prostitutes. four others were sacked. 0xfam won't confirm the details but says it is

shocked and dismayed by the reports which highlight unacceptable behaviour by a small number of people. as the scandal grows, the international development secretary penny mordaunt has sent a strong warning to all british charities receiving public money. they will lose the cash if they can't show a robust approach to safeguarding. i am very clear — it doesn't matter whether you have got a whistle—blowing hotline, if you've got safeguarding practices in place, if the moral leadership at the top of the organisation isn't there, then we cannot have you as a partner. she said 0xfam didn't give her department the full facts about what happened in haiti. at a meeting tomorrow, the charity will be given one last chance or be stripped of its public funding. today, more revelations about other aid agencies, reports that christian aid, save the children and the

british red cross of all investigated staff over sexual allegations. some who know the sector well aren't surprised. people need to realise that the vast majority of aid work in crisis situations is extraordinarily, saves lives and helps people who are very vulnerable. but aid agencies need to do a lot more to make sure that the best people are going into these areas, they are monitored, and these people who are very vulnerable, they have a voice too in how this unfolds. the government's now demanding every charity receiving taxpayer money disclose all past and current cases of sexual misconduct. a scandal affecting one charity is now threatening to engulf the entire sector. angus crawford, bbc news. and those concerns that this could be a much wider issue were echoed by dr elaine storkey who is the former president of a charity in the disaster

emergency committee when she spoke to me earlier. yes, it is a horrible idea that there might be more revelations that we have not yet seen, and that doesn't surprise me. aid workers are invulnerable places, working their socks up and they are open to temptation. it is very sad but you can imagine them giving in to itm your experience of haiti, how serious is the problem of exploitation of women, and did that situation get worse after the earthquake? the exploitation there is similar to that across the world. it is barbaric, relentless, women are prostituted, abused and so on. in defence of the aid organisations, if it weren't for them, it would be far worse, the whole issue of the availability of prostitution would be massive. we have to put this in perspective. what you are seeing are very vulnerable women who very often have no other means of livelihood, they are poverty stricken, sold into

slavery. they need to be helped to exit rather than exploited. it is a terrible situation. we have heard from the haitian government over the weekend that they are angry because they say 0xfam did not report to them. because prostitution is illegal, they may have hoped to prosecute the men involved. should the charity have acted differently? all charities are faced with having proper checks and balances for all of their personnel, doing a very careful... the kind of things we would do in the uk if we were appointing anyone to a situation where there were vulnerable adults or children, and i would imagine 0xfam has those procedures in motion. i haven't seen them, but it would be surprising if they didn't.

as well as those safeguarding procedures, they would have to have checks and balances to monitor people working in the area. 0nce again, i want to stress that there are many people working for aid agencies around the world, often giving their lives, working their socks off, and we have to see this in perspective to the incredible work they are doing, even in haiti, which would not be where it is at the moment not for the tireless nissan the amount of money being ——tirelessness and the amount of money being poured into that country, and the vocational vocational school and education that these ngos have been running there. difficult to imagine how other charity workers must feel angry that, in a sense, they get tarred with this brush as a result of the stories. devastating, they must feel like that. nevertheless, is there a practical problem here about this kind of information if you don't prosecute people and let them go without this plenary —— without disciplinary proceedings

being completed, and there is a situation where people are writing references for former colleagues who have no idea that they were let go from 0xfam for behaviour that they would have thought was completely beyond the pale. the knock-on effect is that the issues are not dealt with and punishment is not given. actually, that is there, right across the board, whatever organisation you are looking at, whatever sector of society. it is the same, over and over again. but it worries me that ngos are being targeted as if they were an obscure case and that this does not happen elsewhere. we have to be careful about our practices everywhere, but also to see this in perspective, a bigger perspective of what is actually happening in these countries. what do you make of that threat to potentially cut off the foreign secretary borisjohnson has held talks with myanmar‘s de

facto leader, aung san suu kyi. nearly 700,000 rohingya muslim refugees have crossed the border into neighbouring bangladesh, after a crackdown by the burmese military. following their talks, mrjohnson wrote the following on twitter: "held talks with aung san suu kyi. discussed importance of burmese authorities in carrying out full & independent investigation into the violence in #rakhine & urgent need to create the right conditions for #rohingya refugees to return to their homes in rakhine." joining me now isjustin wintle, author of the book perfect hostage, a biography of aung san suu kyi. he is also a historian of and commentator on southeast asian affairs. let me ask you first of all about the message that borisjohnson has been delivering. how do you think it will be received 7 been delivering. how do you think it will be received? well, it is cosmetic, the whole thing. i'm afraid there is an element of

appeasement about this. he has gone in there talking about a political solution — that is, creating a situation in which the rohingya can return, with guarantees of their safety. who will guarantee their safety? the government and army are the perpetrators of the violence. this is a history that these people have been dealing with for decades. it has built up since the second world war. these people, who were seen world war. these people, who were seen as world war. these people, who were seen as british imports... it was a british territory. they created farmlands in western burma, which is now rakhine state. that's a very simple picture of it. they're having problems there for hundreds of. 0thers problems there for hundreds of. others have come in since independence because the goverment

did not monitor that border very well, it was so involved with separatism elsewhere. it is complicated, but gradually, this ethnicity has taken shape and taken root. it is an emergent ethnicity but we now talk about the rohingyas almost as a distinct group. there has been his criticism of 0lsen cg. partly she has not lived up to western expectations of how, but is itfairto western expectations of how, but is it fair to say that, actually, in her relative lack of interest in this subject apparently over the last few months, and some of the things she hasn't said about it in terms of not being critical of how the military have handled the situation, in a sense, all she is doing is reflecting the majority view in myanmar. she's queen bee, in a sense. although she has lost support in the west and has let herself down badly as a nobel peace laureate. she is in the centre of

the opinion of many people. pretty much. i think these things, there are always dissenting voices, and there are people in myanmar who do criticise her. work in britain do, given its historic colonial relationship? it opportunities after brexit with that part of the world. what can boris johnson brexit with that part of the world. what can borisjohnson of the british government usefully do to apply effective pressure, given all the limitations and given the fact that many rohingya would be relu cta nt to that many rohingya would be reluctant to go back, anyway? not locked, the answer. myanmar has been reeled in by china. china gives myanmar everything it needs — arms, medical supplies etc. so it doesn't really need the west? quite honestly, we are becoming redundant. justin whittle, author of the

biography of 0lsen suji. a story thatis biography of 0lsen suji. a story that is ever—changing. thank you. a russian domestic passenger plane has crashed on the outskirts of the russian capital, with 71 people on board. it took off from moscow's domodedovo airport. russian media reported that the antonov an—148 plane was flying to 0rsk, a city in the urals, and crashed in the ramensky district outside moscow. russian news agencies say 65 passengers and 6 crew were on board. 0ur moscow correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been giving us the latest. it is early days, and all those things are being looked into right now. there doesn't appear to have been extraordinary weather conditions. the wind was like, according to the reports i've read. ——the wind was light, according to the reports i've read. it is extremely cold, but there was no heavy snowfall, so no obvious reason for the weather to have caused this. whether it was technicalfailure, we do not know, that will be looked into. we know that the flight disappeared from the radarjust a few minutes after it

took off from one of the two main airports in moscow. it was flying south to the urals in the south of russia. officials believe that everyone on board has been killed. that was 71 people on board, there's a rescue operation at the scene. plane came down in the fields outside moscow. we have seen some pictures from the scene, some pieces of debris of the plane. there doesn't appear to be any sign of fire, but eyewitnesses who saw the plane come down have talked about some kind of explosion while the plane was in mid air. they talk about it plunging rapidly. 0ther people have suggested that the plane broke up in midair. dramatic and quick, and very soon after take—off, but at the moment, exactly what caused the crash,

nobody knows. it does not look like the airport was far from the crash scene. what about the record of aviation after soviet times? there was a time when we used to talk about a lot of air accidents. how are things these days? this was a regional airline, a small one with about 15 planes. this is fairly small plane was almost full, we believe. it did lose its licence for international flights over safety concerns in 2015, lasting for one year before it was restored. officials have been quoted on russian news agencies saying that the plane had gone through the proper technical checks and that this plane was in good working order. there was a time when plane crashes in russia were very common. generally speaking, the main airlines here have good safety records, regional airlines less so.

this plane was heading for 0rsk, relatives, families of those who were on board are gathering now in the airport, obviously hoping for some kind of good news, but officials are suggesting that already, many bodies have been found in the fields outside moscow, and they do believe that everyone on board would have been killed in this kind of devastating crash. the headlines: the government is warning uk charities that funding will be withdrawn if they fail to cooperate with the authorities in cases of sexual exploitation by their staff. a russian passenger aircraft carrying more than 70 people has crashed soon after taking

off from moscow on a domestic flight. off from moscow on a domestic flight. 0fficials off from moscow on a domestic flight. officials say there are no survivors. borisjohnson has held talks in myanmar about the problem of rohingya refugees. now, time for sport. so much for you, six nations as well, but we start with football because newcastle united have beaten manchester united 1—0, one of three matches for you today. alexis sanchez had a great chance to put jose mourinho's side ahead. his shot was blocked. newcastle then took a surprise lead when jonjo was blocked. newcastle then took a surprise lead whenjonjo shelvey‘s free kick was flicked on to matt ritchie, very pleased with his first goal of the season. in injury time, a save helped newcastle hold on for three vital points. they are up to

13th in the premier league. earlier, huddersfield ended a run of five league defeats with a 4—1 victory over bournemouth. stevie moore rainey on the scoresheet with this goal, lifting them out of the relegation zone. aston villa beat birmingham city 2—0 in what is called the second city derby. albert adomah scored villa's first on the hour mark. then things were wrapped up hour mark. then things were wrapped up in style in the last ten minutes. in the scottish cup third round, as united manager missed the match against rangers. how about this for against rangers. how about this for a site for sore eyes? the opening goal of the game was gifted to alan forrest. here is one that rangers won't want to see again, an absolute howler of a miss with the goal gaping. he scored shortly after

after an effort came back off the bar. rangers' premier league last started to show in the second half. it is 6-1 started to show in the second half. it is 6—1 to rangers with just a few last minute remaining there. back to six nations. scotland have narrowed the gap against france with about 20 minutes to go. scotland conceded a penalty before managing to get themselves back in the running. the scotland fightback took a blow when thomas scored his second try of the game for france. all his own work. hugh jones try of the game for france. all his own work. huthones has another try back for scotland, and they are currently trailing 26—23. the gap is

just three points. ireland claimed their first win of this year's first women's six nations with a victory over italy. at the winter olympics, andrew musgrave recorded the best ever british result in cross—country skiing. he nearly claimed a medal. the winter olympics at their most wintry. minus 16 and bone chilling winds, but andrew musgrave was about to warm the spirits. and they are under way... cross—country skiing is not one of britain's traditional 0lympic strengths. their previous best, musgrave's 29th in sochi, where he said he skied like a tranquilliser badger.

not here. with barely a lap to go, there he was, remarkably in silver medal position. could he hang on? well, not quite. as norway's simen hegstad kruger raced to gold, musgrave faded to seventh. but with his best events still to come, some feat. well, what a result that was for andrew musgrave. he could not quite get that first medal for britain, but even so, the performance of his life. with a lap and a half to go, i was feeling good, pretty confident, i thought i would be able to get a medal. i actually could not quite keep up that pace. the last lap was pretty tough. but on a day when some events were postponed due to high winds, one man soared. at the age ofjust 17, america's red gerard spinning to snowboarding gold, a teenage triumph to light up these games. andy swiss, bbc news, pyeongchang. that all the sport, maureen an hour.

more than a third of child deaths and serious injuries caused by neglect in england are linked to parents who drink too much, according to a new parliamentary report. it also found that nearly all councils have cut their budgets for alcohol support services. 0ur health correspondent adina campbell has more. dad of sixjosh connelly knows first—hand about the damage alcohol can have on a family. his father was an alcoholic, and died when he was nine. i remember one particular incident, he smashed all the windows through, by the door, and he was waving a knife through one of the windows, and the police coming up and taking him away. at the same time i was trying to deal with it all, you're also trying to keep it secret, so it is about just suppressing it, and then you naturally get unhealthy coping mechanisms.

the impact of parents abusing alcohol in england are outlined in a new parliamentary report. it found more than a third of child deaths and serious injuries through neglect were linked to parents drinking alcohol. while nearly two—thirds of all care applications involved misuse of alcohol or drugs. and children with alcohol dependent parents had feelings of stigma, shame and guilt. the report also used data from a freedom of information investigation, which found almost all councils in england are cutting back their budgets for this kind of care. the government says work is under way on a new children of alcoholics strategy, in addition to new higher duties to target cheap alcohol. josh has turned his life around, but he believes there are many children who will end up suffering in silence. adina campbell, bbc news. south africa is celebrating 100 years since the birth of nelson mandela. cyril ramaphosa, the head of the governing african national congress, has been speaking at a rally to mark the occasion — which falls

on the same day former president mandela was released from prison 28 years ago. jacob zuma is under mounting pressure to resign under allegations of corruption. he used the occasion to address the political uncertainty in south africa at the moment. here's some of what he had to say. we are currently engaged, comrades, in discussions around the transition to a new administration, and specifically to resolve the issues of the position of the president of the republic of south africa. applause comrades, the successful resolution of this matter has great significant consequences for the country and for the african national congress. a helicopter has crashed in the grand canyon,

killing three people. at least four others were hurt. it was thought to be carrying tourists. the cause of the crash isn't yet known. hundreds of fire deaths may be linked to the use of skin creams containing paraffin. a bbc investigation has found most of the creams — which are used to treat conditions like eczema and psoriasis — do not carry warnings, despite concerns over their safety. kirsten bicat has been telling us about her dad, brian, from bradford, who used skin creams for dry skin and a leg ulcer. he died last september after accidentally setting himself alight while smoking a cigarette. 22nd of september last year, i got the police call round at my house to tell me to get to the hospital where they have a burns unit, and my dad had just been airlifted, there, after an accident, and when i got there i found that he had

more than 50% burns, he had third—degree burns and didn't stand a chance. the doctor told me he wouldn't survive, and to prepare ourselves for the worst. we think he went onto the balcony for a cigarette, in his dressing gown and pyjamas, and somehow set himself on fire and then couldn't get it out quickly enough, to avoid the third—degree burns, which killed him 1a hours later. chris bell is a watch commander at west yorkshire fire and rescue. he has been telling us that a build—up of paraffin on clothing can accumulate over a long period. they

do get into fabrics, clothing, dressings and bandages and bedclothes. the paraffin impregnates the clothing, so over a period of time, you are left with a paraffin base in that fabric, and u nfortu nately, base in that fabric, and unfortunately, that becomes quite flammable. the mra -- the nhra said it is conducting a review of paraffin —based skin creams, working closely with manufacturers and the fire service to further reduce the risks associated with these products. energy companies should be allowed to see the personal data of some customers at risk of being in fuel poverty according to the government. the idea is part of a consultation looking at how best to protect people who could be struggling to pay their bills. our business correspondent joe lynam explains. we all hate getting our energy bills, but for some, it can push them into realfinancial difficulties, known as "fuel poverty." now the government wants to find a new way of automatically protecting up to 2 million energy users by letting suppliers know a lot more about them.

it's launching a consultation into something called "data matching," which could allow local authorities to share personal information with energy suppliers. but only with their consent, and if users are getting state benefits and are in financial trouble. then they could automatically be placed on a cheaper safeguard tariff for their gas and electricity. 4 million people are already on that lower rate. the energy watchdog, 0fgem, says anyone placed on the new safeguard tariff could save £66 per year for each if this plan proceeds. that could be valuable as household energy bills are rising. joe lynam, bbc news. this is a job for me, i think. when you think of space exploration, rockets and probes come to mind — but a key role is also being played by people who simply lie down for a few days.

a group of volunteers have been spending three days in bed, for tests at nottingham university here in the uk. it's hoped their experience will will shed light on how weightlessness affects the human body. hannah meredith reports. this is the nearest i'll be to being in space. it's life but not as we know it. these are two of ten volunteers spending three days in a bit that is spending three days in a bit that is tipped by —6 degrees. the head lower than the body to simulate the effects of zero gravity. pillownauts is the term used for healthy participants that undertake bed rest studies and they immitate being astronauts but lying in bed. on earth, our bodies are continually working against gravity but in space, weightlessness creates problems. they have muscle wasting and develop osteoporosis. they come back to earth prediabetic and that is because they are being so inactive in space, they are not contracting their muscles. the trial is running alongside a project by the european space agency. blood tests and muscle biopsies monitor how the body is coping but how are the pillownauts themselves getting on? you're slightly upside down so it's

not like literally hanging upside down but there's a weird distribution of sensation in your body. after a while ijust got used to it and then you didn't really have any discomfort. itjust feels like you're lying in bed. i watched an entire netflix series yesterday. that got me through the day. today, i've more freedom with my arms so i'll be writing my thesis. mars and earth are neighbours but it is estimated it could still take nine months for us to get there. with scientists wanting humans on mars by the 2030s, they are working to make sure our bodies can withstand the journey. all the money's being funnelled into these long—term bed rest projects at the moment, because we're rapidly trying to develop the best interventions we can to make sure if we get an astronaut to mars, that they can perform their duties. after three days in bed, there will be three