Hello and welcome to Newshour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kessby.

On the program today we'll have more on those airstrikes at military facilities in Syria and our

reporter has been with a Ukrainian artillery unit as Russian forces advanced

towards the strategically important city of Pocrovsk.

The fighting is very intense.

We fire up to 200 rounds a day. The enemy continues their attacks in small groups,

sometimes up to 60 people. They're trying to break through our defensive lines

so we provide cover to our infantry. That full report coming up in about 30 minutes, but we begin today with Afghanistan,

which is in the grip of a major food crisis and children are the worst affected with 3.2 million children under the age of 5 acutely malnourished.

The UN Children's Agency, UNICEF, says around 45% of Afghan children are stunted

due to nutritional deficits. Well, the country desperately needs aid, but since the Taliban took over, the country

three years ago there's been a significant drop in international funding for public

health care and community nutrition programs.

No foreign government recognizes the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan

not least because of their strict restrictions on the basic human rights of women, but health workers warn the situation

for children is getting a lot worse.

The BBC South Asia correspondent Yogi de la Mayi has this report now from Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.

It is a difficult listen and it contains distressing details from the outset. I'm in the main regional hospital in Jalalabad which is the capital of Nangurhar province

in the east of Afghanistan.

I'm seeing in front of me just to see if people who are coming in

bringing in their sick children and what we've been told is that every day on

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