UN says 'children reduced to skin and bones' and El Fasher facing starvation
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The UN's food agency says people trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher for more than a year are facing starvation and that malnutrition is rife across the country, with many children "reduced to skin and bones". The interim leader of Bangladesh has been setting out plans for democratic reforms, a year after a student-led revolt toppled the authoritarian prime minister Sheikh Hasina. How one secret centre in Ukraine is trying to help traumatised children whose parents have been lost in the war with Russia. The latest on the migrant swap deal between France and the UK and Dolly Parton adds a 'Guinness World Record Icon’ award to her trophy cabinet.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1,300 hours GMT on Tuesday the 5th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.4 | The UN says people in Sudan are facing starvation in the besieged city of El Fascha, |
| 0:16.5 | where hundreds of thousands have been cut off for months. |
| 0:19.3 | In Bangladesh, thousands gather in Daka to mark a year |
| 0:25.5 | since the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted. |
| 0:28.9 | A US news journalist causes controversy |
| 0:31.3 | after interviewing the AI avatar of a student |
| 0:34.4 | who died several years ago. |
| 0:39.0 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:42.2 | The last time he wrote to me was a message on WhatsApp. |
| 0:46.1 | He sent me a video of them all drinking tea in the forest, |
| 0:48.8 | and he said, we're having a tea break. |
| 0:51.3 | Everything's fine. |
| 0:52.7 | I'll call you tomorrow. |
| 0:54.0 | We visit a summer camp in Ukraine for children and teenagers whose parents are missing. |
| 1:03.6 | We begin with a conflict often called Forgotten and the world's worst humanitarian crisis. |
| 1:10.3 | The United Nations says there is a looming catastrophe |
| 1:12.8 | facing the children of Sudan because of a global failure to act in the war-ravaged country. |
| 1:18.7 | Sheldoniette is the Sudan representative for the UN Children's Agency, UNICEF. |
| 1:23.9 | With the situation deteriorating rapidly, children are dying from hunger, they're dying from disease, and they're dying from direct violence. |
| 1:31.3 | They're being cut off from the very services that could save lives. |
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