BFBS Radio Sitrep

Why has Britain halved its promise of aid to Yemen, scene of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster? The Prime Minister says aid must fall because of the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic, but on this week’s Sitrep we hear from a former Cabinet minister who’s been to Yemen to see for himself the devastation threatening the country’s population. Could a humanitarian catastrophe become a security crisis, radicalising a generation of Yemeni men? We report on a new study that suggests an alternative theory for the series of illnesses collectively described as Gulf War Syndrome. Plus as a report says the US must invest more in developing autonomous weapons, we hear from an academic campaigning for a worldwide ban on so-called “killer robots”. And we’re in Cyprus, where the coronavirus vaccine roll-out has started among the British military community there.