Practically every neighbourhood in the last few days i am hearing the last few days i am hearing the city is. Hospitals faced a massive influx of patients with Gunshot Wounds at the weekend. The port was pillaged at the weekend, luckily we were able to retrieve our containers before that happened but i hear the containers of many aid agencies have gone. The i hear the containers of many aid agencies have gone. Agencies have gone. The un has warned of agencies have gone. The un has warned of about agencies have gone. The un has warned of about 3000 agencies have gone. The un has warned of about 3000 pregnant | agencies have gone. The un has warned of about 3000 pregnant women who may give birth amidst all of those. Could you tell us more about the Health Care Risks . The those. Could you tell us more about the Health Care Risks . The Health Care Risks . The needs toda are the Health Care Risks . The needs today are everywhere. The Health Care Risks . The needs today are everywhere. Caring the Health Care Risks . The needs today are everywhere. Caring fori the Health Care Risks . The needs today are everywhere. Caring for the main people injured in the ongoing violence, the direct victims but also the indirect victims, those people left without options for Health Care Due to the breakdown of the health care system. The system has basically collapsed, there is only one still functioning public hospital, but the problem is not Just Health Care shutting down, it is also a problem of people literally not being able to move in the city because of the insecurity, the city because of the insecurity, the fear of being caught in the crossfire. � ,. ,. ,. , crossfire. Amidst all of this we are heafina crossfire. Amidst all of this we are hearing some crossfire. Amidst all of this we are hearing some international crossfire. Amidst all of this we are i hearing some International Response from the us, we are talking about a Transitional Council potentially sending international troops. What do you believe the International Response should be . For do you believe the International Response should be . Do you believe the International Response should be . For me at the moment i believe response should be . For me at the moment i believe is response should be . For me at the moment i believe is an response should be . For me at the | moment i believe is an organisation we are not really able to have a position or advice on the political or made or military solution, thatis or made or military solution, that is not our role, but the International Response needs to be scaled up from a humanitarian Point Of View, we need to largely humanitarian response at the moment and the next preoccupation is water and the next preoccupation is water and sanitation, with many thousands of displaced People Living in unsafe and insanitary conditions. If a Cholera Outbreak happened in this situation the results could be catastrophic. Situation the results could be catastrohic. ~ ,. ,. ,. , catastrophic. Thank you for your time, francesco catastrophic. Thank you for your time, Francesco Segoni catastrophic. Thank you for your time, Francesco Segoni from. Catastrophic. Thank you for your time, Francesco Segoni from medecins sans frontieres, i really appreciate your time. The us Fentanyl Epidemic shows little sign of abating. More than 100,000 died in the us last year of an overdose the majority of which were from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. It can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin. Our correspondent in San FranciscoJames Clayton has been speaking to a former addict about how addiction took over his life and how he nearly died. Brian was homeless on The Streets Of San Francsco for three years, between 2020 and 2023. Theres someone actually doing fentanyl right there. Oh, yeah, thats. Youre going to see that. Like, people dont give a bleep. This is his account of what life is like homeless and addicted to fentanyl. For, like, a year, i didnt go to sleep on purpose. I fell. Where i fell is where i slept. And i always wondered, like, how do you. . Why dont you go and get undercover or something . And its because youre just exhausted. Youre like. Just sheer exhaustion and you lay where you fall, you know . So, yeah, ive been there. Ive been there plenty of times. Its an all encompassing desire, like, its a 2k hour a dayjob. All youre doing is acquiring money to make sure you still have dope. Because even when you run out, like, obviously withdrawals are looming. Like, theyre going to. Theyre going to come in a matter of hours. To keep up his habit, brian regularly stole items from stores and sold them on the streets for his next fix, which he knew could be his last. There was one time we were sitting on a ledge smoking dope, like, me and a few guys near the drug dealers spot. And there was a guy, like, laying down on the ground, kind of watching him, but he wasnt moving, but people laying on the ground, sleeping all over the place in that area, you know . And then somebody went over to him and he was dead. And thats just regular Tuesday Morning or whatever. In 2022, brians feet were starting to get more and more swollen, a common problem forfentanyl users. He walked with a limp. I had cellulitis, like, which is a cellular infection in my legs due to, like, poor circulation. On our walk, we run into an old friend whose heavily bandaged legs are dripping wet, likely from a similar infection. Is he, like, 0k . Its, like, wet. Oh, yeah. I dont know what thats. Yeah, see, thats. Thats what happens. Its, like, weeping wounds. You got to change the dressing all the time. You already know, like, its. It sucks. Last year, brians legs became septic. I was, like, laying in the station, unresponsive, apparently, like in the chair. And somebody checked on me. It was, like, real hit or miss. Like, they thought i was going to die a few times. Brian did survive, though, and says the experience changed him. Hes been clean for nearly a year now. You definitely regain or even grow a greater appreciation for little, like, small pleasures, like the sound of Skateboard Wheels on the concrete, rather thanjust, like, i couldnt enjoy anything if it wasnt, like. Fentanyl was the first concern. Brian could consider himself lucky. During the period that he was on the streets from November 2020 to april 2023, 1683 people died in San Francisco due to a drug overdose, most of them from synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The former us president , donald trump, has reacted angrily to his failure to secure the close to half A Billion Dollar bond he needs to appeal against a judgment in his civil fraud case in new york. Mr trump said that securing a bond of that size was practically impossible. He now has to find the money through other means, or New York State authorities could begin seizing his properties. Heres our north america correspondent peter bowes. This is a case in which donald trump was accused of inflating what he was worth, the value of his properties, to get preferential Interest Rates for loans. Well, he lost the case. Now hes in a position where his lawyers are saying he doesnt have the cash, the available cash, to pay the m64 million judgment against him. Now, clearly, he is still wealthy, he has property around the worth to the tune of billions, but he requires cash to pay this judgment. He has now less than a week to do that. And if he cant, well, thats why he needs a financial company, a bonding company, to come up with a bond of that amount. Actually, a little bit more than that, about half A Billion Dollars to, in effect, cover the former president while he pursues his appeal in the case, which could go on for many months, perhaps beyond the next election. And should he eventually lose the appeal and be unable to pay the. Or at least have the cash to pay the judgment, then thats what the bond is for. But his lawyers are saying theyve spoken to some 30 different companies, none of which are prepared to provide a bond of this colossal amount. It is an unusually high amount of money for one of these Financial Institutions to provide a bond. So it leaves the former president in the position where some of his properties in new york may well be sold off, and potentially sold off pretty quickly, to come up with the cash to pay this judgment. That is likely to happen within the next week or two. And clearly, this isnt something that is going to sit well with a man who has really built his image on his wealth and his ownership of property. That was the bbc� s peter bowes. Lets get some of the days other news now. Parliament in the gambia has voted to revoke a ban on female genital mutilation, removing Legal Protections for millions of girls. Human rights activists say the move will undo decades of work. Only five of gambias 58 lawmakers are women and critics say the move is being imposed on girls by men. The us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken is in the philippines as part of his brief tour of asia. His visit is to seek to reinforce security and economic ties in the face of growing chinese aggression. His trip comes ahead of a trilateral meeting in washington next month between president biden, philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and japanese Prime Minister fumio kishida. Japans central bank has ended its policy of negative Interest Rates and raised the cost of borrowing for the first time in 17 years. The change brings to an end a huge Stimulus Programme that had been introduced in 2016. The hike means that there are no longer any countries left with negative Interest Rates. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Youre watching bbc news. It was the interview which caused Prince Andrew to withdraw from all public duties. Now his 2019 newsnight head to head with Emily Maitlis has been turned into a film. Scoop tells the behind the scenes story, with billie piper as the producer sam mcalister, who landed the interview, and Gillian Anderson playing Emily Maitlis. Although she originally turned down the part as she believed taking on the role of the former Newsnight Host was too scary. Theyve both been speaking to our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. Tomorrow night, in an unprecedented interview, we will hear from the duke himself. Its newsnight, the movie, or rather, a netflix dramatisation of how producer sam mcalister, played by billie piper, secured Emily Maitliss 2019 interview with Prince Andrew. The allegations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein include his friend Prince Andrew. With Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis. Like a walk in the park. Why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there for everyone to see . Well, because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. Why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really . I think it is, in history, yeah. Myjob is booking the people we cantjust call up. Hello, everyone. Billie, its important to say this is very much from the Point Of View of sam mcallister. Shes so high energy and unlike anyone ive ever met, actually, and i dont say that lightly. Ive never been smuggled into a palace before. At first, Gillian Anderson actually turned down the role of Emily Maitlis. I cant tell you what the questions will be because i dont know myself yet. But when i do know, i still wont tell you. I mean, itsjust too scary to play. Why . Well, because shes still living, because shes so formidable, because people know her so well and they said, well, then, you have to do it. Do you remember dancing at tramp . No. And to make things more complicated, Emily Maitlis herself is Executive Producer on an upcoming rival three part amazon drama about the interview, which made it slightly awkward when Gillian Anderson bumped into her. I had come to this Charity Event not having prepared at all and was really dishevelled. And she showed up as Emily Maitlis, who looks like a movie star and was tanned and short white skirt and tanned legs and everything. And i literally looked like her great aunt in the pictures no, i thought that went very well. Prince andrew famously thought that the interview had been a triumph. Gillian anderson and billie piper both agree that there is almost no chance he will watch this version. This interview, does it matter . Colin paterson, bbc news. Yeah, it matters. And scoop lands on netflix on april 5th here in the uk the National Grid has unveiled a 58 billion pound plan to connect britains offshore wind capacity to the grid over the next decade. The Utility Company says the investment is needed to hit Government Targets to decarbonise Power Generation by 2035 but there are concerns about the number of new pylons included in the proposal. Our business editor, simonjack, has more. Green, cheap, home grown Offshore Wind Power has been a massive british success story, and there are plans for more huge wind farms like this one. But you need to get the electricity from where its produced out at sea to the homes and businesses where its used. And that will mean more of these. Todays grid upgrade involves a thousand miles of new onshore power lines mostly overhead pylons 4,000 miles of undersea cables at a cost of £58 billion which means an extra £20 to £30 on annual bills for the next decade. The system planners insist theyve kept as many cables out at sea as possible, but new pylons through scotland, west wales, the north west, east anglia and essex are inevitable. Weve tried to balance cost, environmental impacts, impacts on communities, and the security of the electricity system. What thats meant is that weve got in the plan four times as much Offshore Infrastructure new Offshore Infrastructure as onshore. But inevitably that does mean, in balancing those four factors, that there is still going to be some infrastructure onshore. So that inevitably means more pylons. Yes, it does for some communities. No opponents say theyre not anti wind power, but more of the network should be at sea, and power lines can and should be buried underground. You cannot keep offering each wind farm a connection one by one onshore and then have it trenching across miles of countryside to get to a substation thatsjust plain bonkers, and its really expensive. So the problem weve got in this country is when everyone thinks great, grid upgrade, they think pylons and the whole rhetoric is around pylons and no one thinks about these other better ways of doing things. So. So thats what upsets people who are told theyre going to have a pylon outside their garden. But burying cables underground can be up to four times more expensive, according to National Grid. The government said these were preliminary plans that would have to go through a robust planning process a stage at which many Infrastructure Plans have failed. But without a grid upgrade, the uks wind power risks going to waste. Simon jack, bbc news. Now a reminder of some news we broke moments ago. The cabinet secretary simon case will give evidence to the uk Covid Inquiry on the 23rd of may. His planned testimony had to be cancelled last year because of ill health. Mr case is expected to face questioning about whatsapp messages he sent during the covid pandemic which were critical of the governments response. Of course, we will bring you that coverage when it happens. Naturalist Chris Packham has revealed how broken he felt growing up undiagnosed as autistic. The tv presenter, who british viewers will know best as the face of Nature Programme springwatch, has spoken to the bbc� s nick ransom about how he believes people who