Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks.

We're going to take you in the course of the programme to a groundbreaking project with children in Ukraine and inside one of the major people smuggling rings in France.

That year-long investigation will bring you in 30 minutes.

But we're going to begin in one of, if not the most, dangerously inaccessible places in the world.

It's the besieged city of Elfashire in western Darfur in Sudan. It's the last holdout in the region for government security forces.

It's surrounded by their foes in the more than two-year-long civil war, the paramilitary rapid support forces.

And for the estimated 300,000 people there, it's, well, let's hear this assessment from the UN's World Food Program. Lenny

Kinzley is the WFP spokesperson in Sudan. She spoke to us from Port Sudan. So the situation is absolutely

catastrophic. One year since famine was first confirmed in Sam-Sam Camp, which is just outside of

El Fasher, we're seeing that the situation is getting

worse by the day. So El Fasher is besieged and has been besieged for over a year. We haven't been

able to get food supplies in. In the meantime, we're providing digital cash assistance, but prices

are skyrocketing, and that's just not enough. People are really on the

brink of starvation and resorting to extreme measures to survive, eating animal feed, eating food

waste. It's extremely tragic, but as WFP, we have the food, we have the trucks. We just need

to be able to get in there. And for that,

we really need unfettered access.

Mohammed is an aid worker currently in El Fasher. For his safety, we aren't using his full name.

He shared this voice note from the Besiege City yesterday, which we've voiced because of the

poor quality of the audio. In El Fashir, it's an extremely dangerous situation.

There is a severe famine imposed on the civilians within the city

due to an unjust siege led by the rapid support forces

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