<span style="color: #222222;">Britain has announced that it was urging United Nations Security Council partners to act over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, saying there now appears to be a window for a peace deal. <br />''<br />''Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt agreed with the UN's Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths that the time was right for the Council to act to bolster the UN-led process. According to a Foreign Office statement, Mr Hunt said, Britain will use all its influence to push for such an approach. He said, there was a small but real chance that a cessation of hostilities could alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had called for a halt to violence in Yemen to pull the country back from a precipice and build momentum toward talks on ending the war.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to UNICEF, almost 2 million Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and the lives of 400,000 severely affected children are under threat.</span><br />''  <br />