Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)

MoD tells 700 residents near Olympic site they will be safer with missiles on top of their east London building.

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki's Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

A 5.7 earthquake hits eastern Turkey, reportedly killing at least 3 people and causing at least 18 buildings to collapse, two weeks after a stronger quake killed over 600 people in the same province.

A group of international aid agencies is warning that relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan, where millions of people have been affected, are under threat because of a lack of funds.

In the first interview with a western news organisation since the UN declared famine in Somalia, a spokesman for the al-Shabaab Islamist group tells Channel 4 News there is no famine, only drought.

More than one million children have been displaced by the disaster in east Africa, and one charity tells Channel 4 News the situation in Somalia is "definitely getting worse".

The US gives $28 million in aid but says the money won't be used in rebel-held famine regions, unless it receives assurances from militants. Channel 4 News talks to the head of the UN in Somalia.

Seven days after the DEC launched its East Africa drought appeal Britons have donated £15m but Channel 4 News asks one charity boss whether news events elsewhere have affected donations.

An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears "death on an epic, unimaginable scale" if more is not done.

Flood victims in Pakistan throw themselves at army helicopters as anger at the government grows. Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller says aid is desperately needed.