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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 world s entire wheat harvest. or at least it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s 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. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole countries going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making these supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here, and across the world, ....
aimed at countering china s 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 fake news , claims that uyghurs are arbitrarily detained in the region. john sudworth, who spent many years reporting from xinjiang as the bbc s china correspondent, has this special report. these are the faces of china never intended us to see. from inside its system of mass incarceration and xinjiang. they insist these camps are vocational schools for willing students. the photos, almost 3000 of them show the reality of how whole swathes of uyghur society have swept up person by person ....
the united nations has warned the conflict in ukraine could send tens of millions into famine, at the same time, egypt s finance minister warns that millions could die globally because of the food price crisis. the war is directly affecting global food supplies, especially wheat, maize, barley and sunflower oil. eu agriculture ministers will meet in brussels today to review the current crisis. joining me now is sean rickard, independent economic analysis. thanks very much for being with us, just how serious a threat as the war on global food supplies in your view? it is supplies in your view? it is serious but supplies in your view? it is serious but they supplies in your view? it is serious but they think - supplies in your view? it 3 serious but they think we ought to take care not to exaggerate the situation. obviously ukraine is one of the world s largest exporters of wheat and oilseeds and its ability to export has been severely curtailed but the rise in prices ....
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before heading to tokyo for talks with president biden, and the other quad leaders. and we meet the pampered pooches riding japan s iconic bullet train in style. hello, thanks for joining hello, thanks forjoining us. how to keep a lid on china s ambitions in the pacific: that is the key issue confronting president biden as he has arrived injapan for his first visit to asia since becoming president. it s also his first summit with america s asian allies since the russian invasion of ukraine. in tokyo, he will hold talks with the prime ministers of japan, india and australia. the fallout from ukraine appears set to dominate discussions, but much of the focus will be on china s territorial intentions, in particular its claim on taiwan. many analysts believe china s massive military gives it the wherewithal to invade taiwan, and to hold off the us and its allies if they try to intervene. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes filed this report from tokyo. this is somethi ....