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World Service,14 Nov 2018,53 mins

Yemen: Starvation Risk for Half the Population

Newsday

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Yemen is facing what could be the world's worst humanitarian disaster in a hundred years according to the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley -- who is in Yemen. He told Newsday the number of people on the brink of starvation was likely to have reached twelve to fourteen million, or almost half the population. The future relationship between the UK and the European Union may have moved a little closer along their negotiations after Brexit. And the fight over cultural ownership of the Indian sweet Rasgolla.

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