stacey philbrick yadav, thank you so much bea time, philbrick yadav, thank you so much be a time, theredeal currently being negotiated by theresa may's government as a terrible mistake. mrjohnson — the brother of the former foreign secretary borisjohnson — called for the british people to be allowed to vote on the final terms of the agreement with brussels. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, says he remains concerned about china's repression of religious groups, including nearly a million muslims who he claims have been denied theirfreedoms. speaking during talks with senior chinese officials in washington, mr pompeo also expressed his concern about beijing's military policy in the south china sea. but he said the us was seeking strong relations with china to deal with north korea and other issues. germany's chancellor, angela merkel, has warned of a resurgence of anti—semitism in her country, and spoken of a moral duty to resist it. she was speaking at a synagogue in berlin, to mark the 80th anniversary of kristallnacht — the night of broken glass — when the nazi state unleashed a

earlier, i spoke with stacey philbrick yadav, chair of the department of political science at hobartleges. she explained what the effect of food not coming in to that area would be. i think the effect is going to be catastrophic. i was happy when i was there last summer, when the dramatic and organisational pressure was able to delay this offensive. but in the months since then, coalition forces have been tightening around the port and throughout the province of hodeidah, and we have already seen a rapid deterioration in humanitarian conditions over the past several months. so already, before the attack on hudaydah, 8.4 million people were at risk of immediate starvation in yemen. in terms of how food will get into the country, food has — food gets into yemen. i think one of the perversities of the war is that even with the experience of partial blockade at various points and largely closed borders, food gets in because as it circulates, it gets taxed by militias on the ground. so not government taxes but informal taxes by militias, which drives the prices well beyond what ordinary y