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one of the people leading the response is david beasly, executive director of the world food programme, and he joins me bom the u.n. thanks so much fng on the newshour. let me start with the day's news. ghthis halt in ng in houdadya, some 70% of imports in yemen, go through houdaya.s could t improve possibly the humanitarian situation? >> there's no doubt that will phave aitive impact. i'll tell you, i was there just the day before yesterday in the houdaya area. it is a militarized zone. we were distributed food. people were literally coming to us, coming out of their homes, quickly as they could, to our distribution points where we would give fhem enoughd for one month so they don't have to be in the streets. becausit is a combat, militarize ze. in fact, you can't believe how many people came up to me begging me to stay, believing that aers long as i was as long as our team was there, there would be no military combat. in fact, military combat started one hour after we left.e so cease-fll give us tremendous opportunity to address the humanitaria catastrophe that we're facing right now

seven hundred thousand and seven it is perfectly understandable is it i mean according to the world food programme it costs eight hundred thousand dollars per day to feed one point one million refugees and that's a bed in the bangladesh can really ill afford especially given the shortfall in international funding. so this is the real scandal the scandal is the shortfall in international funding we've heard sunder is condemnations and young man's behavior and sympathy for the region which is all very welcome of course we've seen you know states come into play at the u.n. security council or the human rights council and that's great that will we haven't see is a commitment from the international community to look into sustainable long term conditions for the range of imports is bizarre and you know if you want to tell you this year the u.n. needs a very modest appeal of nine hundred fifty million dollars just pulled in really just most urgent needs in the scarcely a dollar per refugee and yet. those situations are scarcely a thousand dollars per refugee and those conditions were met so not substanti

of war creating huge because of food supply problems shallots book is spokesperson for the world food programme she says rival factions of showed little for the growing humanitarian crisis there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are ready children who are to know nourished to recover and so are our job is to try to keep things from getting that bad that's what we've been trying to do for years why we've been ramping up our assistance so intensely for so long and why we're going to you know regardless of what the analysis determines we it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to that hardship in the first play.

the world food programme said it was preparing to try to feed 14 million people — almost half of theas been a remarkable decline in the number of children being born, according to researchers at the university of washington. the report says that in 1950 the average globally was just under five children born to each mother but that figure has now halved. cyprus has the lowest rate in the world with women having an average ofjust one child. at the other end of the scale, niger has a fertility rate of over seven. the bank of england is testing the uk's ability to withstand a major cyber attack on financial institutions. a0 firms, including leading banks, will take part in an exercise designed to assess their resilience in the face of the serious disruption. —— in the face of serious disruption. the bank is stepping up efforts to arm financial institutions against the threat of cyber attacks and of their own systems failing. thousands of residents are evacuating northern california as an uncontained, fast—moving wildfire approaches several towns in the sierra foothills. the camp fire, wh

the world food programme said it was preparing to try to feed 1a million people, almost half of the populationtensifies around the port city of hodeidah. plans to build a new nuclear power station in cumbria, creating more than 20,000 jobs, have now collapsed after the japanese firm toshiba said it was pulling out of the project. the £15 billion plant would have provided 7% of the uk's future electricity supply. unions have described the move as devastating, as our correspondent, colletta smith, reports from cumbria. big promises of a bright low carbon future. when our power station is built here, it'll be called moorside. the next generation of nuclear reactors here in cumbria, thousands of high—paid jobs providing 7% of the uk's electricity in a decade. but, today, toshiba have pulled the plug. this is the sellafield nuclear plant. it's being decommissioned at the moment so thousands ofjobs are in jeopardy over the next couple of years as they scaled down the operation. the hope was that they would have been able to move over the road because this is the new plant that would have been built

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war in which they are the main victims also briefing the security council the head of the world food programme who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted as sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket and it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know they could not get a little smile and just like took on a ghost and nothing there. next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at the data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats tell me they don't think the saudis welcomed the idea of a new resolution james pays zero at the united nations in the news ahead on al-jazeera not much cooperation on show at the apec summit china attacks pre

the world food programme said it was preparing to try to feed 14 million people, almost half of the populationensifies around the port city of hodeidah. plans to build a new nuclear power station in cumbria, creating more than 20,000 jobs, have now collapsed after the japanese firm toshiba said it was pulling out of the project. the £15 billion plant would have provided 7% of the uk's future electricity supply. unions have described the move as "devastating", as our correspondent colletta smith reports from cumbria. big promises of a bright low carbon future. when our power station is built here, it'll be called moorside. the next generation of nuclear reactors here in cumbria, thousands of high—paid jobs providing 7% of the uk's electricity in a decade. but, today, toshiba have pulled the plug. this is the sellafield nuclear plant. it's being decommissioned at the moment so thousands ofjobs are in jeopardy over the next couple of years as they scaled down the operation. the hope was that they would have been able to move over the road because this is the new plant that would have been built b

the un's world food programme said the situation was worsening so fast that it was preparing to feeds. she fell while she was in court on wednesday. ms ginsburg is 85 and is the court's most liberaljudge. around 400 buffalos have drowned after stampeding into the chobe river along the border between botswana and namibia. it's thought the animals were running away from three lions which had been seen in the area. the jury has been selected for the trial of el chapo. he's the leader the infamous sinaloa drugs cartel in mexico. security measures mean this will be one of the most expensive trials in us history. el chapo is facing charges including murder and trafficking. this was when he was captured in 2016. they'd got him before, but he escaped prison in mexico twice, once in 2001 when he hid in a laundry basket. he was recaptured in 2014, but escaped soon after, this time through this mile—long tunnel which his men built right underneath his cell. prosecutors say he has a history of intimidating or ordering the murders of potential witnesses. his lawyers deny this. all 12 jurors will

war in which they are the main victims also briefing the security council the head of the world food programme who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted are sent home to die one little child. i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket in it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feat you know to get out of your little smile and just like took on a ghost and nothing there next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats tell me they don't think the saudis welcomed the idea of a new resolution james zero at the united nations. several world leaders are improper new guinea for the annual asia pacific economic cooperation summit talks ape

food crosses the world. to reach billion people of the causes all exclusively beings with the old civil war creating huge economic food supply problems. is a spokesperson for the world food programme she says the warring factions have showed little regard for the great cuba tarried there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are ready children who are too known nourished to recover and so our our job is to try to keep things from getting that bad that's what we've been trying to do for years why we've been ramping up our assistance so intensely for so long and why we're going to you know regardless of what the analysis determines we it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to that hardship in the first place absolutely has to end the guns have to fall silent the parties to that conflict every one of them every one of them claims that they care about the people of yemen and that they're concerned about the welfare of civilians but the actions that they've taken in pursuing that conflict have made a mockery of those cla