Ankur Desai

As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.

World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service.

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It's been suggested that for the first time this century, the number of children dying before their fifth birthday is projected to rise.

That's the finding of the Gates Foundation, led by the tech billionaire Bill Gates.

Their new report finds that in 2024, 4.6 million children died before their fifth birthday, and that this number is projected to rise by 200,000 to an estimated 4.8 million children this year.

It's being attributed to large cuts in aid from wealthy countries.

Mark Sussman is CEO of the Gates Foundation.

He says the situation is reversible.

Our global affairs reporter Ambarasan Etirajan told us more.

And where are the worst affected areas?

Ambrasan Etirajan reporting.

Next to Myanmar, which has become one of the world's leading hubs for online scams.

Criminals have taken advantage of the chaos brought by the country's civil war to create large scam centres which lure foreign workers with the promise of well-paid jobs before forcing them to carry out international fraud.

But their compounds have now come under attack from the Burmese military, and the main insurgent group in Myanmar has taken control of two sites.

Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head is at the border with the story.

This is the Mui River that divides Myanmar from Thailand.

And you can hear the detonations going on from the other side.

There is an artillery exchange between the Myanmar military and the main Karen insurgent group, the KNU, which has just taken over in the last couple of weeks a scam compound that I can see the two of them together, known as Sundaram Baoli.

They're just on the other side of the river.