Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're going to take you in the course of the programme to a groundbreaking project with children in Ukraine and inside one of the major people smuggling rings in France.
That year-long investigation will bring you in 30 minutes.
But we're going to begin in one of, if not the most, dangerously inaccessible places in the world.
It's the besieged city of El Fasher in western Darfur in Sudan.
It's the last holdout in the region for government security forces.
It's surrounded by their foes in the more than two-year-long civil war,
the paramilitary rapid support forces.
And for the estimated 300,000 people there, it's...
Well, let's hear this assessment from the UN's World Food Programme.
Lenny Kinsley is the WFP spokesperson in Sudan.
She spoke to us from Port Sudan.
So the situation is absolutely catastrophic.
One year since famine was first confirmed in Zamzam Camp, which is just outside of Al-Fasher,
we're seeing that the situation is getting worse by the day.
So Al-Fasher is besieged and has been besieged for over a year.
We haven't been able to get food supplies in.
In the meantime, we're providing digital cash assistance,