UN Appeals for $2.1 Billion To Avoid Yemen Famine

The United Nations has appealed for 2.1 billion dollars to provide emergency food and other supplies to Yemen.

The organisation says 12 million people there are facing famine after two years of war.

Here's our correspondent at UN headquarters in New York, Lorna Shaddick.

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