Aid agencies say violence against women in Haiti has tripled.
Medicine Sans Frontier blame the increased gang violence in the country in the last four years.
In Haiti’s capital Port au Prince, gangs now control 90% of the city. The police are outnumbered and outgunned, government authority has all but collapsed, and ordinary Haitians are trapped in a daily struggle for survival. Over a million people have been forced to flee their homes, as violence and insecurity spread, but it’s women and children who are suffering the most. We speak to a leading aid agency in the capital.
The head of the World Health Organisation says that Israel's blockade of Gaza is responsible for a large portion of the population starving. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the situation as man made starvation. We speak to people living there to find out if they are managing to feed themselves.
There's been a second day of protests in Ukraine, about President Zelensky's plans for fighting corruption. Demonstrators are angry about the president's decision to implement legislation that they say undermines anti corruption agencies. We take a look at the demonstrations and the President's plans.
Presenters: Joe Inwood and Pria Rai
(Photo: a victim of sexual violence in Haiti. Credit: Phil Pendlebury/ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News)
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