food supplies, but the reality of climate change has forced a rethink. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. the u. n. c. some 95 percent of afghans aren't getting enough food to eat this in a country facing its worst drought in 40 hours. in addition to an economy in free fall, since the taliban took over. the biggest impact of all this is on the most vulnerable of law. nissan children, eunice have sees more than $1000000.00 children under the age of 5. this year could become so by ladders, they'd be on the verge of death. our next report profile these children, but a warning, some viewers might find some images distressing their

tiny bodies wasting away from hunger. these infants at the meanwhile hospital in kandahar province, a dangerously underweight their immune system severely compromised. medical staff harrassing cases like these and alarming numbers. mothers are helpless to ease their babies. distress both desperately need food. i wasn't able to breastfeed him properly and now he's in this situation. he's constantly losing weight and cries allows. i know it's all because of hunger, but i can't do anything with the hospital has admitted more than a 1000 children with malnutrition. over the past 6 months, 30 of them didn't survive. afghanistan's most vulnerable falling victim to the

country's multiple crises. with asthma it is, and how would it be the reasons for the increased number of cases are many. the 1st one is drought. and then there's the shortage of food supplies and joblessness. many people are out of work. so when there are lack of jobs, drought and poverty, the number of severe acute malnutrition cases will increase. what are the deal with after the taliban take over last year, emergency aid managed to stave off and outright famine over the winter. but now food relief efforts struggling to keep pace and agencies a warning of worst to come here in kandahar city entire families are struggling to feed themselves with his mother's 8 month old son died from malnutrition just weeks ago. now she fears for her other children to come up with. i think that maybe not

at all. i think the government hasn't helped us at all. no one has asked us if we're hungry or have something to eat or not. if someone doesn't help her support and i fear my other children will also die of hunger occasionally. but with worn ukraine threatening, global grain supplies, afghanistan's cries for more food are becoming increasingly difficult to answer. and jeremy novel more from arbol is units of, of gone. his son's chief of nutrition, melanie galvan, galvan, do uni, surf, and other agencies have the resources they need to be able to have of grandson's children. i would say at this point in time, no, we are seeing a situation that getting increasingly worse and really we haven't seen very much funding in the past couple months. so the situation is getting

a little bit ahead of our ability to fun programs to deal with it. not last, somebody uni stuff and it showed it largest, every single country you're paying for gun. it's on that was valued at about $2000000000.00. are you saying that that that money didn't derive didn't know. and i was speaking, speaking on nutrition funding, which i know of it better than probably the broader basket were substantially under funded from, from where we need to be. we're looking at possibly a 1000000 children over a 1000000 children this year that will be severely malnourished. and that's an astounding number for us. we have received actually really excellent funding from germany and very, very thankful for that, which will allow us to do some prevention programming. and again, fully grateful, but the situation around acumen nutrition has got ahead of some of our ability to prevent it as well. talk to me a bit about the malnutrition issue. i mean,

what about the long term impacts off this enough got us on. i'll be looking at lasting health issues for an entire generation. oh my goodness. yes. you definitely. although we can treat a severely malnourished child and 9 or 10 children are, are treated and recover. they yeah, it actually does have repercussion. then one of the, one of the strangest is that it had the kind of long term effect on disease is non communicable diseases like diabetes in later like obesity. and later like strange things that you wouldn't you wouldn't think of. we also acute mommy trish and will also affect the intellectual kind of ability of a child going forward, which of course has a domino effect because their ability to learn in school is affected. their ability to get a good job at the fact that it's a disastrous situation really. so what do agencies need to be able to help

a lot of children? well, there's a couple things right now that we find are really quite critical. the situation, the reason we're seeing the attrition is really kind of multifaceted. there is a drought, there's poverty, we've got really kind of outbreaks of health, serious health issues, all sorts of things that impact on the nutritional status of the child. and therefore, one of the things we actually need and we've been searching for is, is, is programs that allow us to deal with calf to, to give to families. because family will actually choose up food and education and health care for, for, for their children. but it allows them to make those decisions themselves a little bit about how they want to split that up. because depending well, depending on the needs of the family, the what we call the food insecurity of families ability to feel comfortable that they have enough money to buy their next meal is it's really quite a bad problem for us. and so that's the sort of thing we're looking for as cash to

help with those programs. can you talk to us a bit about the role, the volleyball playing and all of this? i mean, how concerned are they about the situation? and do you find that they are taking active measures to help the people they rule you know the gentlemen that taliban have been always very interested in this situation. they've allowed us access to areas for which we had no access for 20 years, which is a just a remarkable change. starting even september, october. so they were very encouraging to get out to areas that had seen virtually no help in the past. i would say we, we have a good coordination relationship with them. we don't have a financial relationship of course, but they have come out with their own funds to co monitor programs. so we do find around health and nutrition. they're, they're very interested in the well being of the population. we leave the timing, but thank you so much for joining us to the eunice of, of gone sounds, chief of

a nutrition. melanie galvan. thank you so much, ma'am. thank you very much. ah, the ukraine war has reduced global food supplies, wheat a staple for millions can no longer leave the country. ukraine's traditionally been one of the was largest exporters of the grin. now india had promised to step in and fill the gap, but then was forced into a you ton debilitating heat waves caused by climate change have lowered yields this year, and the country is prioritizing feeding its own population over the world. she is just one of millions in india, living constantly with the threat of starvation sop, not can only survive thanks to the country's national nutrition policy. every month she can pick up week we're free. during the pandemic, the ration was increased to 8 kilos per person. at home, she makes choppy,

it's the families daily bread. the need we need this low cost wheat if we didn't have it. and i just don't know how i'd be able to feed my children. they'd starve 1.3000000000 people live in india. they all need bread. they all need wheat. indian agriculture is therefore critically important. farmers like ramco palm is one of those feeding the country. mit busy the guy having 5 factors of land on which i grow weak body in the land of goods. ah, we have rich harvest that i'm just not this year. can you go? many high temperatures have ruined everything. of did ag fields that are almost bare are now being cultivated and way too early, but farmers have to bring in the week before it totally dries out. the heat wave that's hit, the country means her uncle paul has no choice. you. they could just look at that law. this is as big as the wilderness out there. you know, other years this would have been the worst quality possible. anybody move now, it's the best i've got. i'm good because of the heat. i've lost 50 percent of my

yield, either losses everywhere and practically everything that is harvested. lance here in state storage facilities, india's hunger problem could get a lot worse because of this year's crop failure. that's why the government is now prohibiting wheat exports. me said gov o'mara, this particular month's right that we no longer export read agreement supplies could be tight, unavailable, then we'd have nothing for ourselves. we would have to import wheat. would neither yacht ya, vehicle yamma one the getting a huff on a few weeks ago. the government had different plants, it said india would help feed the world, replacing exports from ukraine, which having severely hit by russia's invasion, however, then came the heat wave prompting the government to make a u turn. and these at all crucial elections with the bp because of the tip is one of the main contain doesn't these elections and this fi food scheme they have discovered is proving to be a huge selection of enough of them. so, you know, they need,

they need stocks of drain. the unfortunate thing is that it's destroying our credibility. you not ambition to be a world leader. but exceptions are being made just like here, 2000 tons of which are being sent off to afghanistan. and with a lot of fanfare, starvation is a world wide problem in india wants to be seen to be helping the wider world and not just itself. and that intent appears to have been noticed. and here is the wild food program chief, david beesley, talking to the media at the world economic forum in davos. well, we're talking to india now and trying to break through some solutions to help the crisis we're facing, that we do ask all nations to restrict trade barriers in a court limitations because we need as much free trades we can possibly get. but at the same time, we're planning to work with india who has a lot of grain production, see what they can do to contribute to helping us resolve the global food insecurity

problem that we're facing right now. david beesley bear from the world food program and that's it for today is more from the region. and in particular, the situation in afghanistan on our website, the deborah dot com forward slash asia. i'm as ever, you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well back again tomorrow at the same time. we'll see you then to buy a t v highlights you every week in your in box. subscribe. now. a hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa, you to repeat issues and share ideas with, you know, or this channel. we are not of great to happen, delicate,

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a look at india as to richest men and the 1000000 dreaming of such an for years turkey's coastal destination antalya has relied on a steady flow of russian tourists. but am at times of war. things are much different this summer season. i'm chris kolber and berlin. welcome to the program. german jazz lola schultz has given the final keynote address that the world economic forum in davos. the speech is 1st that the event focused, obviously on the ongoing war in ukraine and how the west has been united in its response to the russian aggression. mr. charles mentioned the importance of the world coming together to respond to the war. he also called for the west to work together with countries in asia, africa to jointly fight food insecurity and rising prices for energy. he said that europe will wean itself off russian oil by the end of the year. let's take a listen.