the volume in every sci fi, even if it is in a big country, like south africa, like russia, like anybody else, that has always been a shortage of accommodation. so we are not unique criticism persists about the treatment of the army of migrant workers who have made this world cup a reality. however, the government says it's implemented reforms and working conditions have improved. he's going to be while addressing the world economic forum in davos, the mirror highlighted his hopes for the tournament. our region has suffered or so long. hosting to old trump will give hope to the youth across the region and making the lasting contribution to the world. fee for estimates as many as 5000000000 people will watch the cut our 2022 world cup in the glare of the global spotlight. this country a fewer than 3000000 notes. all too well. it can't miss an

o been gone. natasha name l. jazeera, doha. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, russia is accusing the us of deliberately adding fuel to the fire by supplying advanced precision guided rocket systems to ukraine. a kremlin spokesman says they don't trust u. s. assurances, but the missiles won't target russian territory. the conflict and ukraine is fueling a global food crisis. india has begun restricting sugar exports and says, rising local prices are to blame. it's the world's biggest producer and 2nd largest exporter after brazil, india. capt suite exports 2 weeks ago. malaysia has impose a temporary ban on chicken exports, the government says to protect domestic supply and insure price stability as food

production costs rise. those are the latest headlines on al jazeera up. next, it's the story. thanks for watching. bye bye for now. the. what. what do we need to know that on the fish, i don't need to be active in nuclear llc and i'm just going to put them to me and also mentioned new training and most of the new home and ya today and all of us were going to give you what we said as well. they didn't put me in. i'm a lot of them at the hospital gave me yeah, you're the one i know. i

mean, i mean, i shooting them off and just as the final 3 places at the feet, but will couple decided will life for the playoffs will go the reaction from across the globe seems the school council 2022. the world qualifies. special coverage on al jazeera, i hi anthony. okay, today on the string we bring you an under reported story from the sa, how region of africa, according to united nations,

18000000 people are at risk of starvation of the next few months. we are going to unpack how conflict, climate change and covey have impacted the vulnerable people in the sy, hell, and what can be done to bring them relief. we start with how was story i reminded younger you knew what it was at das that the arms are hot as to scour the area came. they made all the men gather under the pretext that they had to attend their preaching, but their intentions were quite different. instead they sorted out 5 men whom they took to execute away from the village. then they came back brandishing their weapons and summoned us to leave under penalty of killing us all. we fled, leaving everything behind. it will come and get a little come on and we have such a good panel for you audience. we have had a mom to, or nella or lo, all know about the sa, how'd region of africa helemano to welcome please introduce yourself to our viewers

around the world. hi, many, a view of the spokesperson or the international committee of the red cro and decker had to have you on hello, welcome to the stream. please say hello to have you as around the world. hi, my name is only lemme to, hong i work with the institute for security studies as program hell. program. ahead . sorry you are a hell based in by michael maddie. good to have you and oh, welcome to the stream. tell us who you got, what you do. welcome, welcome. welcome. hello. thank you. my name is lucy and what can i get on the senior regional assessment and i'm monitoring a bike, aka, to have you. all right, you see that level of expertise that we have at your fingertips if you're watching right now when you tube your comments, your questions are very welcome. put them right here in the comment section. oh, i guess i'm just going to show an area of this i how region right now where there

is food insecurity. basically people do not know necessarily where their next meal is coming from. that's all that means which is a big deal. chat me jack. molly burkina faso. although you're looking at this, you're nodding at this map here. tell us a story from one of these countries that really helps us understand what is going on. thank you. you're putting into the trauma trunk region and you are to my position. and i, we recently been working at transfer of in and february and i had the opportunity to travel in a very large area called an industrial area. i had a need to talk to community people last are keepers who have been uprooted for more than 2 years. so internally, deeper into my head, we are talking about 7000000 people. well being displayed on the last 4 or 5 years

. and those people we met and we, you know, we understand the what mean between insecurity. we are talking about people who are not able to have one to maxine to know more needed if we are talking about people who have been uprooted and that left behind on their belongings. they left behind the lawn that they used to do to, to cultivate that they left behind the. ready stuff that they used to have, and those people are known relying heavily on the international community, janera the on the international, on the humanitarian. we talk about people who have been affected by mid the climate. food production has substantially decreased for many of them due to their primary condition,

a drought records last year. we are talking about people, country, you know, when i went there and they were telling me the story of the last bookkeeper for us to normally buy and sell book to buy food. and now we've one good that there will be selling in the market. they can even get one, 0 serious we. it's normally what they need to draw any higher than the for any tire goes on. and people are setting up a trading lifestyle. now because money, there's not enough money to use to buy, to buy items. let me just bring in halima to how am i to as alo was speaking, you were nodding. tell us more, go ahead. yeah, i know so to book enough as soon it's one of the country. i think we had a situation really worrying. there are more than

a 1000000 people are almost 2000000 people place in this country. so it's about 10 percent of the population and it's many women and children. and it has been a crazy that has been going on for years now. and when i was also, i went to wade and also 2 other places in front of me by the severity of the communities. because a 3 year hidden crazy. you don't see a big job like in some african country people are we sharing houses? we look at community while we come then, but it's becoming more hot and hot. also those whole communities now and why that's on the pressure. so those people are awfully rural areas are now

moving torch. we'll then she sees where they have to share access to water access to men, and it's become increasingly difficult for everyone. i would say yes or no we, we spoke to jose, he's a saw how the data analyst, and he gives us some figures which shows that the crises in the saw how are getting worse. he's jose, and i really love to get your take on what has been a, what are the factors that are making the situation worse for the people in the how than they happening in previous years, his hosting the frequency and deadliness of arm violence as being trending upwards in the so called central how countries of molly booking fossil annisa. according to the 20202021 register of the highest annual death tools in a decade were you. the violent targeting of civilians by on doctors is on the rise with to 6000 civilians killed in the last 3 years. mainly along the lift,

oklahoma border area where a mix of tea, hardy groups and camino militias carry out its ox. consequently, according to you and hcr data close to 2500000 people have been internally displaced in central somehow. representing a $44.00 increase relative to 2019 with booking fossil alone concentrating 74 percent of the currently displaced. no. go ahead. yeah, so it, i mean, the figures that, that he just mentioned are extremely telling the tell the story of a region that has been exposed to add to grave insecurity for the past 10 years now. so this is a security crisis that has been going since 2012 now as the years go, it keeps getting worse and worse with the multiplication of, i'm the actress. we went from a situation with a number of actors around, mainly political on demand at 1st towards a read preparation of actors, including,

you know, i've been to extremely centuries groups, local militias and other kinds of actors in the middle of this. i mean, can i just ask because be, or in the sign region we will talk about our group, all these actors. yeah. as if their normal is, what are they doing that? well, they are not normal. they are a symptom of what is going wrong in the region. so one of the core issues we have, i believe, is, is around governance and cries is of the state structure. so the inability of um, some of the states in the region to provide access to basic social services to just use to security to, to, to water and so on. over d, kids indicates, has essentially made it easier for some armed groups with our, with terry toil claims. actually to take roots in specific areas and to actually

get the support of communities or, or when, when they don't manage to get the support then to force people into these kind of support or into this placement. so the, the level of balance is tremendous. jose just give us some very telling the girls about violence against civilians, but those speakers only tend to capture casualties. and displacement and older core are bit behind that. there is also the story of those multiple villages that are undersea for months with a complete inability to, to get out to access the crops so, so that they can cultivate and eat what they get from the ground. so, so that they can get access to market so that they can get access to, to wells, and to water and so on, on their life. i only make and i give people an example because when they hearing us speak is really helpful for them to see what if,

if somebody is pushed on because of an ongoing, whatever space, because of an enclave. he was a farmer who had to move in between a fast, says, and look, while he's having to farm right now. let's take a look. and we are under, i'm a lower hand front. we came here because the armed groups chased us out of our village . a good person allows me to farm this piece of land that because of the lack of rain, the harvests are bad. our fields in the village are more fertile than the ones here . there are pockets of drought here. the rain don't come all the way. the saga, my plans did not survive and i had to plans copays instead, but without success, lancome will go to hell am i to? i'm just looking at that. is it? is it a desert? is it doubt what is the, what is even going on there? that farm is just one of so many people on youtube are audience, want to speak to all of you guess? how am i to, i'm gonna put this thought to you. this is from john. excessive military presence is only dragging the crisis deeper. i know that you have had conversations with

some of the arm groups. you try and work with them. can you tell us how that is going? is it having a positive impact on people? well, it's just a long word and that we continue. and we, we try and really to have a dialogue. we all shape it really that we are trying to increase. ah, let's take you now to washington dc where the secretary of state antony, blinkin and nato secretary general holding a press conference as later was there of course, or friends of the european union as well. ah, but it has been a center of our engagement, the center of our activity. and that's been made. oh, all the better by the exceptional partnership that we have with us or general thornburg and natal, i joined people across europe and indeed around the world and being grateful to the

secretary general for his strong and steady leadership during such a consequential period for the alliance and for the world and were very, very glad that he grew to extend his tenure through next fall. today's meeting was an opportunity for us to touch base on the upcoming summit, which will take place in the grid as you know, in just a few weeks time. there the alliance will adopt a new strategic concept 1st, once it's 2010 to make sure that we're ready to meet the challenges of today and the challenges that we anticipate for tomorrow. that includes everything from malicious activity occurring in cyberspace, people's republic of china's rapid militarization. it's no limits, friendship with russia and efforts to weaken the rules based international order that is a nation for peace and security around the world. and of course, security implications of climate change, which a profound will strengthen our relationships with the european union and with

partners in the end of pacific. we will bolster nato's budget, and we will renew our license defense and deterrence capabilities. forced the chief concept will reflect what we are now dealing with, and that is a new security landscape in europe and president bush's decision to launch a senseless war of aggression on ukraine. now in his 4th month people, ukraine continue to fight with extraordinary courage and skill and with military humanitarian and financial support from the united states and countries around the world, including virtually all of the members of nato. just this morning, president biden announced a significant new security assistance package to arm ukraine with additional capabilities and advanced weaponry precisely what they need to defend themselves against the ongoing russian aggression. that includes more advanced rocket systems so that they can strike key targets on the battlefield in ukraine, from longer distances. this is a continuation of

a strategy that began even before russia's invasion. we move quickly to send ukraine significant amounts of weapons and ammunition so that they can repel russia's aggression. and in turn, can be in the strongest possible position at any negotiating table that may emerge . this isn't only the commit to the united states. as i said, all nato allies remain engaged, align, committed to ensuring that ukraine can protect that sovereignty. it's democracy. it's independence. our country's along with other partners imposed severe consequences on the russian government. and it's enablers. with unprecedented sanctions export controls and diplomatic pressure. together, we responded to the humanitarian crisis, provoked by russia's war of aggression. more than 6000000 ukrainians forced to leave their homeland. many others displaced within ukraine. countries across europe and beyond including the united states have welcome ukrainians,

laying the violence and countries. ready worldwide are helping provide essential services to communities close to ukraine that have taken on the most refugees. president putin hope that his one ukraine would divide male. instead, he's united in support of ukraine and in defense of its own members. he's brought countries around the world together to support the fundamental principles of sovereignty and independence. they see what's happening ukraine as a direct result, excuse me, a direct assault on the foundation of their own peace and security. that is why we will continue to stand with a democratic independent sovereign ukraine until this terrible war is over. and for that matter, long after they don't be prepared to face challenges like the get with secure cyber defenses. cutting edge technology enhance partnerships, as i said with countries around the world will make sure that we defend every inch of nato territory. the allies have reinforced i collected

a fence faster since the war began. we deployed more than $20000.00 additional troops to nato's eastern flank. many allies are also increasing their military presence in eastern southeast in europe. last month, finland sweden to longstanding partners and nato, made the decision to seek nato membership. as president biden said, this decision was a victory for democracy. finland and sweden are seeking to join nato. not because their leaders forced it, but because their citizens demanded anyone who wonders the difference between a democracy and authoritarian state like russia, need only look at russia felon sweden. one would lie to his people to wage a war. 2 would listen to their power. to prevent war, the united states strongly supports finland, sweden's applications. both countries are more than qualified to become full members of the alliance. as soon as possible. by joining nato,

they will strengthen native. we look forward to quickly bring them into the strongest defensive alliance in history. often in the sweden's applications for nato membership being considered, the united states will continue our close partnership with both countries, or remain vigilant against any threats to our shared security. we will deter and as necessary, confront aggression or the threat of aggression. yes, ah, thank you again for making this visit to washington at an important moment. we prepare for the summit very much looking forward to seeing you next time in a few weeks in madrid. and to the even stronger and more resilient nato that our stomach will help to shake. thank you. hello. thank you so much. so sick today, lincoln, there it's on. it's good to see you again on the thank you for your strong personal engagement for our trans atlantic. boland is said people good time for over a security, and this is very much affected in your frequent visits to brussels. you're welcome

back to again. now i really appreciate the opportunity to meet with you here in washington. do not to states, this is thing on indispensable role in our response. so to russia, the invasion of ukraine, and let me command united states for your bed is significant support to ukraine, which is making a difference on the battlefield every day. i also welcome the latest the package shows military assistance announced by preston to buy them this morning. this is a demonstration of u. s. leadership. the strong support provided by nato on ice helps ensure that pissed into tints, brutal aggression is not a voided. and that ukraine prevails at the same time, we must prevent the conflict from escalating. so we have increased our presence in

the eastern part of the alliance to move in the room for miscalculation in moscow about the naples readiness, and dissemination to defend unprotected, all, nay. to alice and let me thank than i can states before increasing your military presence across europe. with over 100000 troops backed by significant air and naval power. european allies and canada are also stepping up with more troops higher edna's an increased defense spending. for the 7th consecutive year, defense spending has increased and more and more allies are meeting our guideline of spending 2 percent, all g d p on the fence. press on tooth and wanted less. nathan. he is getting more late or more troops and more natal

members. the decision is 5 finan unsweetened to apply for nate, the membership, our historic and they will strengthen our alliance. we have to address the security concerns of all alice, and i'm confident that we will find a united way forward to this end, i'm in close concluded president of the golden turkey and with the leaders of indian and sweden. and i will convene senior officials from all the countries in brussels in the coming days. today, we also discussed the important decisions you will take at the natal submit in my did later this month. we will agree, nathan next. so t j concept strength now depends on the fence. i'm prepared for an age of increased strategic competition with also decided in powers like russia and china.

this includes working even more closely with our partners in the asia pacific, on other like minded partners around the world's rules of you progress on burden sherry. we must continue to invest no defense on to invest in natal because own in north america and europe working together in a strong they don't, can, cheap are, won't be in people safe in the more dangerous world. so sick that rincon, that's all now. once again, thank you so much. yes. will not turn the questions, taking queued from each delegation. we'll start with event dilemma the wall street journal. thanks that. thank you very much. i'm a secretary clinton at 2 quick questions. he's out with regard to the long range weapons, what can be done, or is being done to minimize escalation with russia. and you believe that there's

an understanding in moscow about the nuance that the u. s. is trying to achieve with regard to the cert, the weapons that it does choose to us and to ukraine and unrelated on ins. president are the ones latest threats of force to syria. are you concerned that turkey is increasingly becoming a disruptive ally? and how can it be addressed? shall i ask my question, the secretary general, welcome back sir. 2 questions for you as well. cracks are appearing in the western front against moscow despite the both of you stating that the alliance is very strong and we're seeing that there is some disagreement over a shipping more powerful weapons to ukraine. how does nato as an organization work to prevent the cooperation from going south at ukraine's expense? and more specifically, how does ukraine, when, which seems to be a key point in this disagreement? thank you. thanks. i'm happy to start the thanks for the questions. um, 1st in response to the question about escalation, ah, let's start with us. it's russia that is attacking ukraine,

not the other way around. and simply put the, the best way to avoid escalation is to rush to stop the aggression and the war that it started. it's fully within its power to do so. i specifically with regard to weapon systems being provided the ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on russian territory. ah, there is a strong trust bond between ukraine, the united states, as well as with our allies and partners. i'd also say that throughout this aggression indeed, even before president biden was very clear with president putin, about what the united states would do if russia preceded with its aggression, including continuing to provide security assistance that ukraine needs to defend itself against the russian aggression. ah, there was no, no hiding the ball. we've been extremely clear about this from day one,

with president biden communicating that directly to present food. so we have done exactly what we said we would do. and, and it is russia, again, the chose to launch this aggression despite all of our efforts to prevent that with intense diplomacy over many months, ah, again, they started the conflict, they can ended at any time. and we will avoid any concerns about miscalculations or escalation ah, with regard to the other theatre that you reference any escalation there in northern syria? ah. is something that we are, we would oppose and we support the maintenance of the currency far lines. the concern that we have is that any new offensive would undermine regional stability, such as it is, provide the line actors with opportunities to exploit instability for their own

purposes. we continued effectively to take the fight through partners to, to dodge diocese within syria. and we don't want to see anything that jeopardizes the efforts that are made to continue to keep isis in the box that we put it in. and let me just also if i could before i turn it over to jens, i do want to say one thing about the question that you addressed. the secretary gentle here again at every stage of this sub russian aggression before the aggression when it started. and in the months since it virtually every state we've heard, doubts express about what the alliance would do, what countries would do in terms of support for ukraine, and whether that was actually going to happen. we demonstrated that it, that it would and that it has concerns and doubts about whether we could really deliver on what we said we would do. massive consequences for russia's aggression with unprecedented sanctions. well, we delivered on that,

and i would suggest that there are always going to be stories about differences in any particular moment. but when it comes to the strategic direction that we have taken together as allies, as partners, both within europe and beyond this, at least in my experience, has been unprecedented in its solidarity in the common determination, both to support ukraine with security assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance, to put extraordinary pressure on russia to see says, aggression and to shore the defenses of our last. and so again i, i'd invite you to go back, look at the questions that were raised starting last fall. they've been answered. and then again, when russia committed the rest from the 1st place and even to this day and i'm very confident that the common purpose that we shown over many months.