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aimed at countering chinas growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the united nations world food programme has described russias blockade of ukrainian ports as a "declaration of war on global food security" that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targe...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the worlds entire wheat harvest — or, at least, it should. but russias blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the uns world food programme to call it a "declaration of war on global food security" that could push tens of millions of people into sev...

ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the worlds entire wheat harvest. or, at least, it should. but russias blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the uns world food programme to call it a "declaration of war on global food security" that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. acro...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the worlds entire wheat harvest. or at least it should. but russias blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the uns world food programme to call it a "declaration of war on global food security", that could push tens of millions of people into severe f...

aimed at countering chinas influence. (singing). and we meet the nigerian queen who fits in her role as a royal with entertaining her subjects. hello and welcome. documents seen by the bbc that are said to have been hacked from chinese police computers show that uyghur prisoners in the western region of xinjiang are shot on sight if they are caught trying to escape. thousands of photographs shed light on a secretive system of mass incarceration. the chinese government has dismissed as ...

aimed at countering chinas growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome. the united nations�* world food programme has described russias blockade of ukrainian ports as a �*declaration of war on global food security�* that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting fo...

Youre talking about a declaration of war on global food security. itll have extraordinary consequences. we are already facing the worst food crisis since world war ii. when you take 400 million people that are fed by the food that comes out of ukraine and you shut that off, and then you add on top of that fertiliser problems, droughts, food cost, fuel costs, were looking at a hellstorm on earth. the worlds biggest importers of wheat, the egyptians, told us they can cope for now. though prices ar...

And then you add on top of that fertiliser problems, droughts, food cost, fuel costs, were looking at a hellstorm on earth. the worlds biggest importers of wheat, the egyptians, told us they can cope for now, though prices are surging. the government is putting in place and utilising tools to limit that price increase, especially on the most vulnerable. we do have a high degree of resilience, in terms of our stocks of basic commodities, and we will continue to explore and to cooperate with our p...