Oxfam In Government Crisis Talks Over Abuse Scandal

The Government has threatened to cut aid funding to charities that fall short on safeguarding and do not co-operate with authorities investigating alleged sexual abuse. Concerns over exploitation by aid workers were sparked after it emerged Oxfam workers who were accused of hiring prostitutes in earthquake-torn Haiti had been able to go on and work for other aid agencies.

Also in the programme; An upsurge in fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has provoked the migration and exodus of thousands of people to neighbouring Uganda; and Rio De Janeiro's mayor slashes funding for top samba school but they insist it would not get in the way of their extravagant carnival parades.

(Photo: A Haitian woman walks past destroyed buildings on the main road in downtown Port-Au-Prince, after a major earthquake. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images