constant influx of families donor money from germany has secured this project by unicef and the world food programme . workers take care of malnourished children. and mothers are given education on issues like breast feeding for protecting their kids from disease and about nutrition in exchange for registering with the program women get a card that allows them to receive food. and know they have assistance and livelihood to move through shows. child protection c.d.'s all of that. but droughts are becoming more common and another issue remains the traditional way of life for livestock herders does little to guarantee one's future these days. march eleventh two thousand and eleven that was seven years ago when a magnitude nine earthquake struck off the coast of japan triggering a tsunami that led to the worst nuclear disaster since your noble we all remember the video footage that you can see behind me here surging waters flooded the nearby fukushima power plant resulting in explosions and a meltdown in the reactors and some eighteen thousand people are believed to have perished in the tsunami and ten

congo if they don't receive aids and that's a stark warning coming from the united nations world food programme which says the number includes around three hundred thousand children in congo's essential region the un is to hold a donor's meeting next week as it calls for international funding to stave off a worsening humanitarian disaster. this child is one of two million in the democratic republic of congo estimated to be at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition many of them live here in the troubled region. the queues for u.n. aid make a mockery of prime minister been a cheap allows clean this week but the humanitarian crisis there was under control . in the custody region alone three point two million people a severely hungry that's one in four people. malnourished children at risk of dying us three hundred thousand at risk of dying just think of that three hundred thousand little kids tribal violence in the country's east has displaced an estimated two hundred thousand people since mid december far from being under control the u.n. says the situation in the country is deteriorating a

arriving but funds from germany and now set to bolster this project jointly run by unicef and the world food programme has examined and treat malnourished children. the project also teaches mothers how to protect their babies from illness and money attrition through breastfeeding. refugees registered digitally in order to get long term aid with a kind of debit cards the women can pick up food items you. know we have assistance and livelihood with two shows for the child abroad to actually receive us all of the we have the housing. but the livelihoods of the somalian cattle drovers have been destroyed thousands of animals starved or died of thirst during last year's drought only very few made it to the refugee camp and dollar with their own as it's the first time these doesn't nomads and living with other people have and many have never worked in a town before all. over the house and on what you set up are life is marked by hardship and the struggle for survival or we have nowhere to go back to sleep we don't have a proper life here but we can't move anywhere else because we don't have any money . well

describing it earlier this week as apocalyptic we can speak now tomorrow from the world food programme she joins us from damascus good evening marla so good to have you with us again aid convoys blocked again this is terrible news for the civilians what happened exactly what made your organization the site to hold off. well it was mainly the escalation in fighting and insecurity on the ground it paralyzed the un's ability to move into areas that are besieging hard to reach a case in point is our inability to go ahead with a convoy today into duma. to deliver the remaining. assistance that we were unable to continue offloading on our first entry on the fifth of march is there any other way to get around and ensure that your supplies reach the people of isaan. well for a humanitarian operation to work successfully we require unhindered safe passage and access to people who are desperately in need and in order to do so all parties to the conflict need to abide by humanitarian principles and also give us that window of opportunity to go in safely the liver and get out safely as well and ti

of a major collaboration between regional and international organizations including the un world food programme christine spoke to the program's executive director david beasley about the scale of the current hunger crisis. thank you for joining in your latest reports we are seeing that the number of people going hungry in the world is increasing and had been steadily declining what is the cause for that. the cause for all the rise in hunger is conflict conflict in unprecedented proportions were seen the worst humanitarian crisis since world war two and it's so sad because we were making so much that way around the world and in reducing hunger but now for the first time it's up and such a long time from seven hundred seventy seven million people to a hundred fifteen million and even sadder news is a severely hungry people the people that are struggling to find a meal any given day that's going up from one hundred eight million to one hundred twenty four million conflict driven you point out yemen as one of the most preceding off the crises struck us a little bit about that yemen is an absolute

the usaid world food programme cranes have been delivered and the red seaports have been opened. according to the united nations, since the ports were opened, we've seen more than 884,000 metric tons of food and more than 410,000 metric tons of fuel delivered to the ports of huda hudaydah and loan. why is the fuel so important? without the fuel, you can't run the water treatment facilities and, therefore, the cholera epidemic that has broken out in yemen will only get worse. so 884,000 metric tons of food and over 410,000 metric tons of fuel. this has resulted in the saving of countless lives in yemen. now, look, there is a continued humanitarian crisis in yemen. a lot of problems persist, and we need to address those. we've seen proceeding progress with respect to the delivery of some of the humanitarian assistance i mentioned, but commercial and humanitarian vessels have been offloading their lifesaving cargo less quickly than we would like, and so there is a lot left for us to do. the nationa national security cl statement issued on march 15 related to yemen indicated there are

food? this is the programme for you, get in touch with your comments. the geneva motor show starts today. it's the largest event of its kind in the worldher manufacturers and petrol—heads from all over the planet. but among the glitzy product launches, one topic of conversation is likely to dominate — president trump's threat to impose tariffs on imports of european cars to the us. so what is at stake for the car industry? well, if we take a look at the current state of play, the united states already imposes a 2.5% tariff on cars assembled in europe. that is 2.5%. meanwhile europe imposes a higher 10% tariff on us—built cars. ca rs cars which are then brought into europe. but many german firms — like daimler, bmw and vw — already build many of their vehicles at plants within the united states. in fact, germany's car body, the vda, said their factories in the us made 804,000 units last year — way more than the 494,000 exported from germany. quite interesting when you look at the facts. 0ver quite interesting when you look at the facts. over to you, ben. andrew walker is with me now. he is our economic correspondent. you start getting i