A UK-wide consultation on government plans to introduce mandatory plain packaging for tobacco, which attracted strong interest, will close later.

Sarah Woolnough, of Cancer Research UK, and Patrick Basham, of the Democracy Institute, debate whether individual brands should be removed from cigarette packets.

In the Sahel region of Africa a million children are now at risk of malnutrition and the deaths of 200,000 each year are linked to it, despite the long-term presence of aid agencies. Today programme reporter Mike Thomson reports from the Maradi area of Niger to find out what has been going wrong and whether it is time to rethink how the aid industry operates.