this is d.w. news live from berlin new figures show ever more people around the world are starving yemen is one of the countries where people especially children are suffering most there you know nearly thirty percent of the population is on the brink of starvation also coming up the most violent storm to hit florida in living memory crashes ashore hurricane michael lashing out state with fierce winds in toronto rains more than four hundred thousand homes and businesses without power.

and investors deserving stock markets around the world after sharply critical remarks from the u.s. president about the federal reserve's interest rate. plus the syrian refugee children in lebanon forced out onto the streets to make a living we need omar and yousef to sell flowers just to get by there are two of the many refugee children facing abuse and violence as they struggle to help their families. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the number of people suffering from hunger worldwide is rising according to the world hunger index more than one hundred twenty four million people are currently suffering from hungary that's forty four million more than two years ago it is the african continent that suffers most the majority of the countries in africa are considered to. having serious

ungar problems now there are just eight african countries where hunger and starvation are not an issue central african states are at the top of the less of countries with the highest ungar index. while outside of africa war torn yemen is one of the worst hit countries of its twenty eight million people more than eight million are on the brink of starvation and there is concern that figure could double by the end of this year. these other faces of a famine. the scars of war are visible everywhere in yemen and i say we're often the most vulnerable children. in the hospital in aden every very amiss filled with tiny patients he can see made a quick run through asia for me at the shot he had a collision on communicating boy i can't work that is the area that's why i do feel

we need these. clinics here overwhelmed after three years of conflict some five million children are at risk of starvation it's. come to know he's from his use of the food shortage in terms. of the symptoms in both the movies. even the for. the. him who has been proved over the last one of the most to one of. the blockade of the vital pulled city has caused food prices to skyrocket the world food program and numerous n.g.o.s are working to deliver aid to the many people who need it but the situation is precarious and. fighting continues in her data and elsewhere and there's no guarantee that the aid car rentals that are open today will be open tomorrow. providing assistance to eight million people every month which is what we're food

programs target is in a very complex conflict situation is very challenging. the conflict in yemen has been called the world's forgotten war that makes its citizens the forgotten people the u.n. going to may that if conditions don't improve chief thirds of the population could stuff by the end of this year. marina strauss spoke with the director of the world food program david beasley about the spike in those facing starvation. mr beazley the war in yemen is considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis in haiti according to the u.n. two out of three people could stuff by the end of the year if nothing changes what can be done to improve the situation yet it is undeniably the greatest catastrophe

on earth today so many people lives are at risk nation of about twenty nine million people literally eighteen million people of food insecurity about eight to nine million who literally are on the brink of starvation we're calling on all parties in the war in the conflict so that we can bring some civility back to the people of yemen is a disaster globally speaking what other countries are experiencing a rise in hunger and just conflict the many culprits. the good news is in the last forty fifty years we've made so much progress most so much progress on hunger reducing hunger rate but in the last two years the hunger rate has risen from seven hundred seventy seven million people two hundred to eight hundred twenty one million people the problem the severe hunger rate has risen from eighty million to one hundred twenty four million substantial increase in just two years and the question is why and the number one reason men may conflict men may in conflict with

you talk about yemen or syria or south sudan or arac countries like this nineteen areas of substantial conflict that is driving hunger across the world the second reason is climate extremes what we're seeing in the greater seville reason impact you know already a very fragile area compound it by extremist groups come in and to exploit that situation and poor governance it's a disaster waiting to happen and so when we're there with food security because if you don't address that security you have no other security at all so what can be done to change it well we have seen. from experience for example would syria in in fact chancellor merkel said you know we can't repeat the mistake that was made in two thousand and fourteen with not addressing the hunger of the syrian people because what we know for a fact with every one percent increase in hunger there's a two percent increase in migration when people don't have food they would do what

it takes to feed their children and for example in syria before family would leave syria because they don't want to lease syria they don't want to leave home we find this with any culture any nation people want to stay home but they will move two three four times inside their home country before they leave and here's what's amazing to support let's say an individual a syrian in syria costs us about fifty cents a day to feed a syrian that same syrian in berlin for the total humanitarian cost is fifty euros per day and they don't want to be here so if we can address the root cause whether it's syria all the greater seville region the consequences in the costs are so much less if we get on the front end and not react after the fact. those director of the world food program david beasley speaking with the w.'s marina strauss to the united states now where one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the mainland

has been battering southern coastal states hurricane michael made landfall in florida yesterday leaving widespread damage and flooding in its wake pictures taken by the international space station captured that storm shortly before it hit the southern part of the state the florida panhandle it was the state's fiercest weather in more than e.g. years the storm's intensity has waned as it moves inland but neighboring states including georgia the carolinas while they're bracing for more destruction. supercharged by the woman waters of the gulf of mexico hurrican michael lost to the shore battering southern florida with winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour residents in coastal areas who hadn't already heeded warnings to leave were told to stay put travel now just too dangerous. hurricane michael is the worst storm that the florida panhandle has ever seen and one of the worst power storms to ever make landfall in the united states. panama city felt the full force of her

a concern on the slopes the wind was so strong and with these trees you can hear disavow every tree cracking in breaking in the ranges hitting up against the house it you could tell it was something major but again if you've never experienced a hurricane or a major storm trust me this is something that you never want to go through the dumbest thing i've ever built as they did live in years just to stay through her like a jet engine. i mean the winds just super super high pitch you can feel it in your years like the pressure just changing it in a noun full in trees and power lines are among the hazards left in the hurrican michael's wake thousands of rescue workers ready to move in after making landfall over florida. michael has lost some of its just structure of power as it continues inland across the southeast u.s. as a still highly dangerous storm. correspond steffen simons joins

us now from thomasville georgia that's about sixty kilometers north of tallahassee florida where this storm hit very hard stephanie even driving for a number of hours to reach where you are right now can you tell us what you've been saying. all of georgia is getting now what to florida got when state heavy heavy rains and even the wind is still. getting or having some punch year with one hundred sixteen kilometers per hour still and that's why you don't see anything behind me it's pitch black and dark here because the power is out and that's a big problem for a lot of communities see in georgia now we're dealing with. michael who is now a tropical storm as you had mentioned another hurricane anymore and the same is true for florida of course and as soon as day breaks here rescuers and organizations who are supposed to move in right away fim are for example the

federal emergency management agency as well as people who found shelter in many many public shelters there will be eager to assess the damage in florida further intel has the coast as well as here in georgia talking about florida. this is the worst hurricane to ever hit florida's panhandle the people there have enough time to prepare for. yes they had enough time in forty eight hours is normally for floridians enough time to prepare for a storm and many many people took advantage of the warning which came fairly early forty eight hours before the storm hit that this will be a monstrous storm and as you said the strongest hitting the panhandle in about eighty years in the second strongest after andrew from one hundred ninety two and maybe some remember this was

a horrible storm too so yes many many people floridians went to shelters or made it to relatives or friends. away from the coast and up north towards georgia the carolinas but there's always some people who decided to hunker down and to ride the storm out and we'll see probably as soon as they like breaks here how well those people really did. are people getting the support they need what are you hearing about that briefly a place. all right no rescuers going out now despite nighttime despite the fact that it starkie the darkness in a flood situation which we have know in georgia as well as of course in florida is really really dangerous since you really cannot see anything you don't know if there are power lines under the water trees or any any obstacles so this is a very very dangerous implication. effort from guys curious however in the morning

you will and we will witness a rush of. agents and people who can help those who are now maybe trapped in their in their attics or on their roofs or in their houses somehow so you know people will get a lot of help and of course power companies will do their utmost to restore power as soon as possible stephen simons thanks so much for that stuff now for some of the other stories making the news this hour a powerful psych loan has struck eastern india with winds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour officials say cycle has killed some or least two people rather and caused widespread power outages three hundred thousand people have had to be evacuated it is expected to be downgraded to a deep depression by friday. indonesian authorities are officially called off the search for victims of a powerful quake and tsunami there two weeks ago. thousands are believed to still

be missing here is a number of locations are continuing with their searches more than two thousand people were killed the country lives on the pacific rim volatile ring of fire. china's region has changed its laws so that most of we gores can be sent to so-called education centers with borders there say the centers are meant to curb islamist extremism but critics argue there are effectively prison camps reports that some one million we gores are being held in those camps has sparked international condemnation. or u.s. president says he's spoken with saudi authorities quote at the highest level to demand answers about the missing saudi journalist. the correspondent has been writing for media outlets from the u.s. and has been highly critical of the saudi leadership has not been seen since entering the saudi arabian tonsil it in istanbul turkey more than a week ago this image attained by turkish media allegedly shows journalists.

walking into to saudi consulate the last time anyone saw him eight days have passed and there are new traces of his whereabouts. to say they believe a saudi arabian hit school at kuta fifty nine year old media outlets published proposing to show the suspects a rival a day before went missing. before his disappearance he worked for the washington post during a self-imposed exile in the us. there he wrote columns criticizing saudi arabia's new rule as the washington post supports the view that saudi arabia captured him and says that u.s. intelligence knew about the plan to capture the columnist the u.s. denies any form of the. president says he has talked to high level saudi authorities to demand answers over the case it's a very sad situation it's a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom meanwhile saudi arabia

remained silent as the alleged c.c.t.v. images run on news shows. it has yet to prove its claim that he left the saudi consulate by a back door. it's still open on our country that's home to more than one million syrian refugees many of them live in extreme poverty refugee children are often for forced to work out on the streets to help their families just get by. brehm met two brothers in beirut the boys sell flowers for a living but would much rather be in school. it is almost midnight but almost and use of some work day is far from over. the brothers from syria sell flowers in the streets of beirut three days per week from dusk till dawn . i wish the way. i work because my parents are sick i need to support them i wake up at five thirty or six in the afternoons i go and buy the flowers i work

work work and then i go home. with. syrian children working on the streets of beirut has become a common sight seventy percent of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line leaving many parents like almost and use of swith no choice but to send their children onto the streets to survive i'm not. almost says that our parents are sick but i want to say something he should be able to stay at home even if my mother and father is sick they should work because they had us they should be supporting us and not the other way around just. like a ration. neither yousif nor his brother go to school on the streets they often experience violence. one time i was six i came to sell the flowers here at the bar they beat me and did not let me sell flowers i said in

a corner and cried obama. facing this kind of abuse for prolonged periods of time causes what is known as toxic stress in children something and you know workers are growing increasingly worried about. who or what that about let's say a kid spends four to five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be able to do his work properly and that's not what we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being lost. at that and this is affecting an entire generation that are that as soon as she was here nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund us an initiative aimed at believe using the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts.

they find there and helps them released if you give a child a piece of paper cardboard and glue and then they can make something out of it the child gets to feel powerful which he normally does not get to feel yet they might but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children in beirut it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time syrian children account for three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like you said an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. as you know i didn't have any zation would come and get me to study i would go with them maybe they would give me a better life i would learn english french or graphic. i would be able to travel and go places. and we have more on that story at our website interview dot com over to christophe now the latest on

a major sell off taking place on the markets today that's right brian it's been a rough trading session on wall street last night after u.s. president donald trump called the federal reserve quote crazy for raising interest rates and off the cuff comments sent the dow jones industrial average to its lowest level in eight months and markets in china have tanking to levels they have been in for years. market turmoil on wall street followed by a massive slump in asia investors around the world are feeling the heat one issue weighing on their minds whether the u.s. fed is going to raise interest rates again it's already done so three times this year it's a measure central banks take to put the brakes on a robust economy markets don't always like it because it makes it more expensive to borrow money. another person who doesn't like it u.s. president donald trump here's what he had to say about the fed on his way to

a company in rally. so i think the fact that they. make it every day is so tight i think that is going great. trumps comments come as the international monetary fund and the world bank hold their annual meeting in indonesia so the mood there has been pretty bleak not only have the institutions lowered their forecast for global growth they've also released a report that says the world's financial system is at risk i.m.f. chief christine lagarde even made a veiled reference to transfer remarks by defending central banks it's clearly. a necessary development for those economies that are now showing. much improved growth. inflation that is picking up the falling into the range are reaching the threshold and employments that of extremely low it's inevitable that.

central banks make the decisions that. they clash in ideals between the head of the international monetary fund the us president warnings that the global economy is slowing down and becoming unstable not to mention a continuing trade war between the us and china against this backdrop investor jitters are likely to enjoy your. best friend in all markets correspond. conrad markets are plunging around the world how bad is it in frankfurt. well because of the german share in the stacks is down around about one percent this morning after having lost a bit more than two percent yesterday which is a lot but it's a lot less than the slump which happened on the market in the united states or many markets in asia that's one reason why a majority of this sea of believe that we are not seeing. huge prolonged

long lasting selloff on the equity markets not a crash but rather the overdue correction you know christoph most of the shares which are being sold were the over performance of this year has. come companies which had done very well you know big tech stocks like google amazon facebook they are mostly sold and that's why all the top level indices have been falling beneath that there's a rotation going on towards other sectors you know value oriented sectors like retailers utilities also a few pharmaceutical companies shares a buyer here today of frankfurt big gainers and conrad let's add some context here never before have the reserve banks pumped so much money into the system as they did during the last decade and never before did reserve banks have to scale back so much monetary stimulation some say this is just the bubble bursting what do you make of that. well of course the talk about the bubble is everywhere all the

markets given that the monetary policies are you know unprecedented at the markets are navigating through uncharted territory and of course it's also true that a lot of money by investors has been spent assets that were questionable companies that don't even make money but many other companies a majority of them do make money they have solid profits the fundamentals of the economy are strong the question now. just will this continue let's not forget we're at the beginning of the third quarter earnings season and maybe investors are really worried how this will go. from different for stock exchanges corner of booze and the dax is currently down one percent thank you so much. german carmaker b.m.w. has announced a plan to take control of its china joint venture the first foreign automaker to

take advantage of beijing's new ownership rules for the sector b.m.w. will acquire a further twenty five percent stake in the venture with brilliance china automotive for three point six billion euros the company said that would bring its stake to seventy five percent by twenty twenty two foreign automakers have long been restricted to holding no more than a fifty percent stake in or trying to operations but beijing decided to relax the ownership caps this year. the united nations office for a disaster risk reduction says economic losses from natural catastrophes around the world surged in the last twenty years to a total of two point nine trillion dollars what's striking here is dear physical events such as volcanoes erupting or earthquakes accounted for barely a third of that the main damage is caused by climate related disasters coming in at a staggering two and a quarter trillion dollars. the figures reflect the loss of resources and assets

like homes factories and farms caused by more frequent and intense climate related disasters like heat waves droughts and floods. presenting its report the disaster risk reduction office says climate change is posing ever more problems and dangers we have seen already that there is a very sharp increase in denial of climate related events which are actually creating seventy seven percent of the told direct economic losses caused by disasters. the report came as the southeastern us braced for hurricane michel to tear in from the gulf of mexico the third strongest hurricane recorded on the american mainland. while rich countries have a wealth of resources to mitigate the damage developing countries are helpless in the face of catastrophe poor people in poor countries do not have twenty years

thirty years forty years most of those children will be dead. this is what is going to happen i did they would be dead because of the catastrophe itself all they'd be dead because of the. prevailing assistant effect of many attrition that comes in on the streets with the droughts and floods the un says that especially when taking under reporting in poor countries into account it study shows that investing in disaster risk reduction must become a major part of climate change policy. this is the w. news coming to your live from berlin we have more coming up the top of the hour in the meantime though as always our web site as. in time for me and the entire team campbell and thanks for watching. coming.

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