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hello i hear me ok today on the stream you're going to look at how means of people are coping in countries where conflict and insecurity really make the international headlines he says stand by for you and you cheap jewels your questions about the democratic republic of congo about yemen and about syria i would do my best to get the guests in the show to answer your questions and to address your comments we are going to start in democratic republic of congo where a long ongoing conflict has impacted millions of people in the south and south central part of the country. some of the challenges the

congolese people will have to face currently is the ongoing crisis the conflicts the violence and the killing of congolese people and it seems to be an impunity for those responsible for this impunity creates insecurities and fuels more violence and more violation of the congolese people's human riots in addition to that there is a current of virus lock down and what this means for a lot of congolese communities fall into 5 of poverty and famine as we speak today there are 21000000 congolese people facing starvation. joining me to talk about a democratic republic of congo and the humanitarian crisis there hello it's good to see you tell our stream audience who you are what you do. good evening my name is. the country director

of newly arrived to chart before the. afghanistan. countries. so you are used to being a challenging situations where conflict is a part of everyday life can you spell it out for out we it's what that means when you live in an area where there is conflict how does like in everyday life how does that stop everyday life. i think it's. wherever there are conflicts we see people should secure in delineating the example of. congo is really a very vivid example for me in the situation of insecurity in this country is nearly. let me give you some numbers in 2016 when i didn't see for the

3rd time because of work 3 times for the last 20 years in the country the number of people who are insecure with 5 or 9 media 62017 it's one to 7. then jumped to 13.8 then 16 point one and today it's 21800000 and this is the live of it so in essence what i want in 2016 i want to visit so of the i.d.p. internally displaced people. before 17 years ago in north kivu and i saw young people also all the women and i knew that some of these kids were born after we had on our distributions in 2017. have probably received already double his food and 17 years after these people were still there and even the seductress yes.

we house if that's it we can see that we have saved many lives but what we have failed particularly in the war is that we have not managed to change the lives of these and this is a little bit into the conflict. but i want to bring in 2 voices here because it's the civilians that a court in the crosshairs of these ongoing conflicts so gabrielle and mary living in displaced people's camps and in their own country they are displaced this is how they explain and describe a situation where you know about what they're not what they could be traumatized us a lot with massacres but since we arrived here a few months ago conditions have been very difficult everything look where i sleep on the ground in the cold my parts are always empty and there is no one to help us

. where my living conditions are difficult especially for us women hygiene it conditions are not good here the most difficult thing is food for the family here i have mixed the corn and beans with water but i need some oil everything else is missing 2 months so you always see the women in the girls are the ones who are the most vulnerable in a conflict situation how would you school i to help to they specifically need right now. i think we really need to bring some special of the into the situation room post it all over but in the us in particular and i i've been the author of to need other woman on this for who works up to 4 o'clock in the morning and work hard and we've been i have seen in the country from there to the to the rules. of the water spins the

worse things are you more about all the ribs in the corner i mean the situation of these people is just horrendous of course we all the w.s.p. the other an agency is the unit all who initiated the energy also to try to bring them back but you can only give what you have in your hands and i do i'm getting that yes you wanted to the response is what is needed immediately in this because you have to say that but. it's about how are we going to change the lives of those people because my fear is that from 5900000 people to thank you 1000000 people we may not be even able to save that it's very simple so we're using christians for that cross. we have some questions for you koch at

and people watching on you tube right now the gala says how is the covert situation there and i have one more question which is about the current presidency is it able to handle the crisis that we're having right now as you can describing it the answer is obviously going to be no they cannot handle it but let's talk about code 1st of all. the cold meat is affecting people maybe not to the extent that for us in the number of other countries but you see the problem with the coffee is that it was so easy jet effect. which is how it was conclusive drives but i have since learned that maybe other people much bit of business. sense about how is this going to affect you know the social it can all make the. situation. because i know also that if you will who have lost their jobs because of course because that

was the response. you don't believe you know in plants in all being set up supportable dilution sold the impact of that is not for the number of people who are there. 10 of it is how it is going to affect people on the lawn but how is going to affect this $21800000.00 in the coming years in all that's what the cost is about it's about the long term how is it affecting the people who need a number of treatments you know that do you see the split with it it's all people need access to health so this is really something that comes on top of. already but another part of a long list of challenges that the you and the people of that are having to handle let me point out the audience in this direction have

a look on my laptop the world food program has a whole page on the d r c and you can see this headline here we can fix current 19 hunger in democratic republic of congo more help is needed to save millions of lives and go to that have a look on the welfare program of course and other agencies working in d.r. see so you can get up to date on an underreported story caught thanks for being part of this show we will catch up with you on instagram live and little bit later but for now thank you very much and thank you very much. i want to go to another area another part of the world where complete is a major issue and that is yemen the united nations has described the situation in yemen as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world it. yet many civilians are going through this is for started in yemen and especially this year with coffin 1000 in the make a lot of people lost their main source of income

a lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of people lost their lives we definitely need more development projects we need better access to education we need better access to high quality healthcare services we can actually go we're currently going through a better prices which is a basic necessity yemen needs more development and after it is good to have you on the stream under a fortunate circumstances for africa please tell our audience who you are what you do welcome thank you my name is. from yemen and i work as a mad researcher where human rights watch. and base and. for if you could sum up the issues that civilians in yemen are dealing with right now how would you. i would say it's not a star struggle with every basic service that any human being

deserves and need and life so i salute for how was it i call her on twitter she mentioned so so many problems that one person could face in yemen but it's even more terrible. who are here living in villages that really like you know human history has taught civil war isn't and conflicts but yemenis have never seen and never stating human tatty and situation as it is today. it's a struggle it's a multiple multi fronds to struggle. just in the basic thing that you can imagine like water electricity infrastructure everything is devastated by years of war and it's very important to mention from the beginning this tragic

humanitarian crisis in yemen it's manmade disaster it's not natural disaster it's not out of you know it happened out of imagination or anything like that it's a manmade disaster parties to the conflict really show disregard to all human. international humanitarian law was what even basic humanitarian norms and protecting millions of civilians fight ahead the video we're talking about many many people what we're talking about millions of people. human speculation is about 30000000 people and it's it's just heartbreaking to see that every household has been devastated and impacted by the conflict. after i want to give our audience an example i'm going to tell you if you got little kids or a few artists by pictures of children who amount i'm going to give you just

a few seconds warning here because i want you to meet the grandparents of 2 little boys and ali and they talk about what it is like to struggle in yemen right now because of the lack of boys are basically stuffing amok. we fled from the herat districts to here and after airplanes hit us with 15 missiles 2 of our people were killed and we had no alternative but to flee to here what should be did i not fire at. that 2 children more in a difficult condition from the time of birth and we're working to treat one doctor says they have pneumonia and another says malnutrition only god knows. after i was talking to the secretary general of the region refugee council just a few days ago and he said yes it was one of the few places where conflict was

happening that he couldn't get his team into yet but it getting information out of it getting people into it is very difficult there are people who want help aid that wants to come in and it's very difficult can you explain what is going on. so for. for about 5 years i think since the beginning of the conflict the saudi led coalition has imposed. a blockade at the airspace of yemen. entries to the country are controlled fully or partially by the saudi led coalition so mobility from inside from outside to inside the country has been extremely difficult the logistics could take weeks months sometimes years for yemenis to to travel inside the country has been

a grueling and exhausting. activity it's just it's it's so difficult to move inside the country or even have an access to go to the country and for human tatty an organization in particular i think this is completely unacceptable because we are in the healing with the largest humanitarian crisis in the war and yet parties to the conflict mainly the host the armed group that controls the largest part of the north where the largest part of the population excuse me the largest part of the population live in the north under the control of the and yet the whole group has created a grueling and exhausting network of obstacles again as he will tell you. after people want to ask you she questions and ask each of them very stiffly if you don't mind. how is the education living situation in yemen. many in your

collection and in just a brief answer has been devastated by the conflict we are at risk of losing a generation if not we already lost that there are so many dropouts from schools because the schools were bombarded by airstrikes or were severely damaged by the armed groups on the ground so even schools have. not been saved or the violence. michel michu to. disaster aid directly is the constant through an intervention in the conflict. conflict in yemen that's a very important question i think what needs to happen and yemen is a multi layered approach regionally internationally

and locally everyone has to come together really and find a political solution that could end the suffering of millions of civilians in yemen the international law is so important a role is so important the local important is so important 31 that everyone has a stake at yemen and they are they have responsibility ringback towards what's happening and. we do have one more comment to your bleeds analysis after and this is from will really sums up why the authorities are struggling to help their people have a listen. the main challenge that you met has been facing is the conoco situation which has been collapsing we're probably certain of just a huge shortage within the. u.k. cheryl and the whole sector is and with a chronic crisis when to call a crisis started both governments will expose they were not even able to offer to

or to afford people with symptoms. or symptoms of cruel artists. with a lack of our list people didn't really trust them they were denied the whole cholera a crisis refused to get their medical treatment in public hospitals. after i know the stream audience well they do not like to hear a list of top and says well at least one solution in a sentence what would that be. that's a very difficult thing to do well try. i think the best that yemen needs to day from anyone who's trying to help it's really to push for the respect open to national human and human push you are we in human rights watch very often publish reports asking for seats to put example suspend their arms to parties to

the context so i urge the audience really to take their governments accountable for their role in what's happening in yemen the best a.d.n. one of the best men needs today is really the respect of international human rights and internationally who want to. thank you for being on the scene today to talk about yemen and under-reported story that really nice new news a lot more after thanking. thank you. finally we go to syria where the government and forces are now in the 10th year of a civil war war and meanwhile as syria heads into winter and that winter conditions make life very difficult for people who are displaced 9000000 people they sing extreme hunger and this could take demi to deal with as well.

this year has been an even more difficult year for syrians hard to imagine but true especially for the 4000000 syrians living in northwest syria people who still face military bombardment on top of that trying to cope with living through the global pandemic it has spread through syria from the i.d.p. camps to crowded cities and villages taking the lives of hundreds of people especially of syrian doctors and health care workers who've already become a rare commodity after 10 years of war have really shattered the health care system . thank you for joining us here on the string to talk about the situation in syria please introduce yourself to what he and and tell them what. thank you for having me and before i speak my heart goes for the people of the r.c.a. and yemen i've been in yemen multiple times in the last 2 years in the north and the cells and they are many people deserve our attention like people going through

these us and my name is absolutely a critical care specialist practicing in chicago i'm syrian american and also on the president of medical well it's an ngo that focuses on health care in disaster regions like syria yemen and bangladesh colombia and other places and i've been in syria multiple times last time was a early this year when there was a huge displacement of the publisher in northwest of syria because of the bombing by the cia and the regime and i visited that dina has spoke about them and a situation as horrible this is probably there was humanity in a crisis in our lifetime not only this year. i want to bring in difference in our how can and who really puts the government through the crisis we have to pass nil alist s.s.e. logical issue of what happens after 10 years of conflicts and who is suffering and he still isn't enough into parts of the back that is there today temporary

conditions are turning into long term reality of the about 13000000 displaced syrians only a minority have safe to return home around 2000000 of them remain in what's called greater italy where all of orchards have turned into pasted root cities 100000 remain forcibly disappeared mostly regime prisons where now with girls that conditions are even worse and covered deaths and the strain it has put on hospitals is reminiscent of the days of the bombing refugees are now days learning of the deaths of their parents without having seen them in many years so what is it urgently mediate right now in syria. what soldier what as what's or gently needed in syria like many other places that are ignored is attention i think that wars think when you have a humanitarian crisis and this scale is that betty and not being at tension an end

of the crisis because we can have bandaids for refugees and for the displays and sending for the and they are but unless we have the political will and the major or especially the united states specially with the by then administration and the u.n. to end the crisis politically then we will continue to face and see horrible pictures and videos from syria what happened in syria has affected the whole war the refugee crisis that led to 6500000 refugees the civilized the region jordan and turkey and of course you are all caused created you know huge and a refugee sentiment in your old age groups terrorism and this will continue that's your interest as well and that's likely to many crisis if we do not pay attention and of course what's needed is a humanitarian assistance that at this point that for that to the millions of people in syria who are in need for medical assistance i visited one of the refugee . this year earlier this year and i asked one of the one who was displaced with her

6 children what do you need and she said everything people are in need for attention they need for food for shelter for their. because it's interesting listening to the issues in the d.l.c. in yemen and syria all fueled by conflict or politically created a was manmade situation that the answer is right there right in front of our very noses thank you so much for talking about us to us about syria today and wish you every success with your work so have a look here on my laptop i want to show you what we're seeing next on instagram life we have is it on live conversations at the a.j. stream account not you have to be that there was a putting these conversations they happen someday through wednesday 2030 g.m.t. you may remember him from a little bit early in our conversation this is claude it should be done he's the country director for the well through program we'll be digging

a little bit deeper into the situation in the d.l.c. we've got questions you got comments we will see you an instagram life from monday at 2030 g.m.t. . a. business where to. find a brush. business

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