As part of his field work for a damning report into poverty in the UK, Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur, visited Newcastle. He found people struggling to negotiate the benefits system and going hungry. He called it a ‘social calamity and an economic disaster’. Plus: John Kerry on how Donald Trump has undermined global institutions. | The Guardian

154K views · 591 reactions | More than half of all children are growing up in poverty across the whole of Middlesbrough. Sky's Greg Milam visits the town where six out of seven children grow up in poverty. https://trib.al/D1Klb59 | Sky News | Facebook