fossil fuel subsidies. imagine if we'd spend hundreds of billions per year subsidizing giant midi yours. that's what you're doing right now. around the world, people are living in poverty. don't you think helping them would make more sense than i don't know. pain for the demise of your entire species. you get a huge opportunity right now as you rebuild your economies and bounce back from this pandemic. so here's my wild idea. don't choose extinction savior species before. it's too late, stammering and humans to stop making excuses, and start making changes. with this, it did of the news asia coming up today of gone is tons, double tragedies, drought and hunger. how a combination of the 2 is driving parents to think of unsettling options to sell

their children. so the family can afford a meal. we hear a 1st person account and hard work rop living. mongolia is hurting lifestyle, may be at risk as more women trade life on the steps for jobs in the big city. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the w news asia. glad you could join us. the united nations has asked the international community for $4400000000.00 to help. i've got it on. it's the u . s. largest ever. you're monitored in a b for any country, but it came with a dial warning as well. this is a stop gap, an absolutely essential stop gap measure that we are putting in front of the entire community today. without this being funded, there won't be a future,

we need this to be done. otherwise they will, they will be outflow. they will be suffering. but in truth, the suffering is already there to see more than half of a gun, a thumbs. nearly 40000000 people are facing acute hunger in places like in a north west of got his hands. buggy's province, years of drought have added to food shortages. in addition, people have no cash to live their daily lives. and as we see in the following report, it's forced some to consider the unthinkable selling off their children. to survive . a farmer walks across his parched land. these once fertile fields and f kenneth's dance, begged his province, and now dry and barren, 2 years of drought have left farmers destitute and force many to abandon the region . bordering the there's no rain, there's drought,

almost everyone in this village has left for iran. should on for those who remain limited aid from the read crisen is a vital lifeline. local speak of times when there was ample rain and snow here. but ever frequent a dry spells has made water a scarce commodity. the economic crisis following the television takeover has any worse than the already dire situation. and the new provincial rule is se there's no money to help today. we weren't prepared for the situation because the previous government left us with nothing. with the pot and all the to and from an economic perspective. we have nothing to offer either. so we're trying to help 3 aid groups with this and we've had meetings with them and told them about the problems here. so we didn't get as many people now live in camps for the internally

displaced like this one outside the provincial capital, homeless and pushed to the edge of starvation. some here, returning to desperate measures. these parents say they're at the point of selling their 8 year old son for food when they're watching the children one bread, but i don't have any. i'm helpless and have no option other than to sell him to someone else without them, we would then we really us and we really and i carrying with a champ, really with yeah, that's really it's a bleed choice. now facing this poverty stricken family who like many others, have become casualties of drought and conflict. and joining me now from head up is us on touch charles national director at world vision a global interview that is also working in i've got some, some thought we just heard from a family that is thinking of selling their child to support themselves. is this

a situation you are seeing more off in your work? and i've got some thank you for having me. here is a self child focused organization in afghanistan. more and more. be off seeing children being sold. this is just because of food. lack of food in the country, it's that ha, hunger and starvation and poverty that those are making parents to sell the children so that the other family members can sub white. this is something that i have business in one of the id be camps. there a mother brought a child to me and just asking me, can you buy this jade? it's just between 500 to 200 usd. you can buy a child in afghanistan because that has no food at home. and this incidences

victims of this and i am process is just the church. you say it just seems she rode on mars by him. i mean, why should it come to lose? do thing the world has abandoned of guns off for the fall about her go over this country has been facing lot of problems and say it whether it's a natural disaster or poverty or displacement climate change conflict. this country was struggling for the past 40. yes. and in spite of having lot of investments for the 20 years, but international community has been contributing to the development of this country, which we cannot ignore. but now this is the card consequent drought. this country is facing beaches, which is a huge crisis. the crop. so failed because of the drought and families have no food to eat. so there has been investment for the 20 years,

but consequently because of the impact of climate change because of the conflict. because of every other factor, this country is in this situation. now. i mean the you and has asked for financial help from the international community, but just speaking to you, i wonder, what do you tell the international community lab? and i think of the mother that you encountered in that internally displaced persons camp who wanted to sell her child to you with heart in mind. what do you tell the international community? what are the sort of hope i've gone to star needs? this is one incident you won't believe then i was traveling to gore in one of them . medical camps that were vision is standing a new additional program. a mother brought a child which is just born boons and skin. that's it. you cannot see any flesh into the body of that jade and seeing that child,

i really felt like gray. and that is the highly malnourished children in this country. more than 3200000 children are acutely managed. and really, 1000000 children are really at the way to die. so medically, or titian is constantly growing, and the children are becoming the victims. children that dying and the world needs to stand up. that's my request for the world today. why doesn't the world stand up the one that has been looking we can kind than so maybe it's the time did think the hamper sufficient. a kid is not. so the african children, african women, and the entire african community needs the world to stand up. now let's speak up, let's not forget of canister. let's hope that happens or miss jones. thanks so much

for talking to us today. thank you. thank you so much. there's vol reports and analysis on the situation and i've got this done on our website. the debbie dot com forward slash a ship to mongolia next, where the lifestyle that no medical does have long known is on the when a large factor driving the decline is the lack of women. most young women who grew up on mongolia foster land are leaving to pursue education and higher salaries in the city. many 100 families now wonder, without enough women, if that traditional way of life can survive. at her centuries, nomadic herders have raised their animals among goalie as vast plains from generation to generation, bel dodge belden, unsolved. oh, serene pug. joe, have spent their lives on the range lands. their 2 sons have become herders, but their 2 daughters live and work in the city. well, i think they'll stay in the city. actually,

we're never told them ready to live in. they should live there to the sue, the careers. talk to how to say this. they are all other daughters and hurting is hard work. since they're educated and studied hard, we simply let them pursue their careers as for the boys that men and men are okay in the countryside. and according to official data, her women work 12 to 14 hours every day, depending on the season because of gender norms, they often work harder than the man. not only are they the main child carers, they also must cook clean. and so, and 10 to the live stock as part of the family business, foul dodge. and so those syrians, eldest daughter, who gun said sick lives in the capitol lombardo, she has a leadership position up mongolian biggest bank,

and no plans to move that i've been thought yet. young. i can't say i will go back me because i've lived here more than 10 years and all my friends and my life are here, little money. god. i do want to start my own business related to our family business . but that doesn't mean i'm going back. it's a choice most her to parents would support a new study from the national university of mongolia shows that less than one percent of young heard us today want their daughters to keep that way of life. 23 percent want their sons to become herders which engender here should be good. so if girls are educated, they don't have to endure the hard labor created by gender. stereotypes of po, both walton good, supple parents, want the girls to have more options, aid, quicken would have to handle. it says i choose a life that is less dependent on the weather environment in season full get oldness

. it keeps healthy with the women settling in the cities, there is now a huge gender imbalance in rural areas. young mal herders are having trouble finding partners just to her vanessa families, local land, central government, should take measures and initiate programs or projects to address the issues. otherwise, there will be no hurt. as in the future, your mother talked to our countries identity and strength is no magic herding, which means animals, freely grazing in the pasture band to her. and our animal husbandry supplies. the organic meat and dairy sectors also to the upper fester. one solution could be finding ways to up and traditional gender roles. so men do chores and help raise children to ease the burden on world women for. and finally,

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