my guest is amira malik miller. she's an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct at first hand and is now prepared to speak out. so what went wrong, and why? amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you now work for the swedish government — you're based in stockholm — but how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field? well, i worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. i've been based in liberia and west africa. i've done a lot of work in — in sudan. and i've travelled extensively. i've had a lot of experience from hq but travelled extensively, and covered some of the world's biggest humanitarian crises around the world for the past 15 years. and as you know, there is a huge amount of scrutiny on the humanitarian aid sector because of revelations — allegations of serious sexual misconduct, harassment, exploitative behaviour, and the revelations focused on haiti. but now we're hearing of other allegations in other places. when this story broke in few days g

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amira malik miller was asked on the bbc‘s hardtalk programme if she was surprised that 0xfam tried to cover things up. it doesn't surprise me. it exposes a very strong weakness in the system and our hr practices, absolutely. i think roland van hauwermeiren is a particularly interesting case study. he has been able to manipulate the system for a very long time. he has chosen to move around from different countries. between organisations. he knows that it has not been tracked properly so he has manipulated that. still to come on the programme, we find out about the soaring rate of measles in europe. we will speak to the who about what is causing that. jeremy corbyn has accused papers of lies and smears. these papers allege thatjeremy corbyn did meet someone from the czech embassy several times. that story has been picked up and pursuit in various forms by newspapers in recent days. jeremy corbyn has hit back in a post on social media. at what he calls press barons, the right—wing press. he says... he goes on... this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is from