hospitalized. tiny bodies wasting away. this little girl was too weak to even cry. >> i think we're in dire straits here in sudan, to be honest. >> reporter: dr. mohammed fadlalla is from cincinnati. he is a volunteer with doctors without borders at the children's hospital near the capital khartoum. he had just admitted 13-month-old ibrahim jaffa when we got there. fadlalla told us the little boy was close to dying and his eyesight was badly damaged from severe malnutrition. the family had been trapped by fighting for months. "there was no food," his grandmother told us. "at times, nothing at all, not even water." she was worried they were too late.

a fear shared by every parent here. doctors and nutritionists here all told us the same thing. without humanitarian aid and medical intervention, the children you see in this ward would not be alive. and much of that aid comes from usaid. americare is also the world food program's biggest funder. and a lot of the grain you see in this warehouse is paid for by the u.s. there is an urgent race to get it to famine-stricken areas. it had been gathering dust for more than a month while the wfp waited for permission to transport it. food has frequently been weaponized by rival war lords. and if that wasn't hard enough, then came president trump's announcement of a 90-day

suspension of aid. wfp's lenny kinsley told us that could be catastrophic. >> the time to roll back funding is not now. it's the time to step up funding. >> reporter: you don't have 90 days. >> and every single delay means lives are lost. we are extremely worried. it's going to be too late and we're going to be digging up bodies instead of feeding them. >> reporter: in the last two weeks, two ships have docked at port sudan. american ships carrying food provided by usaid. now each of those ships could potentially feed over a million people. that food has to be off-loaded, stored in a warehouse, then at some point loaded on to a truck and driven to where these starving people are. so when we talk of aid, it's not just food. it's the trucks, the drivers. there is no one to pay the drivers. staff have been locked out of their computers. they don't have access to their phones, their contacts.

we are talking about the unraveling of an entire system, which will be hard to bring back. and as that system collapses, one source told us eight million sudanese could starve to death. >> that was deb bring patta in sudan. usaid also provides humanitarian and economic assistance to afghanistan. three years after the u.s. withdrawal, four million people there rely on foreign aid. and a lot of it comes from the u.s. washington's relationship with kabul is also complicated by all the weapons the u.s. military left behind. president trump now wants them back. imtiaz tyab traveled to afghanistan for a reality check. >> reporter: as we walked through kabul's busy markets, we found a city changed. gone was the claustrophobia of two decades of war. most concrete glass walls and checkpoints have been removed,

and market traders told us they felt safer now than ever before. afghanistan's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives. but for the past three and a half years, the taliban has ruled with an iron fist, aided by abandoned u.s. military hardware like these american assault rifles and humvees. the taliban put on parade its massive haul last year, according to a 2022 department of defense report, 78 aircraft, 40,000 military vehicles, and more than 300,000 weapons were just some of what was left behind. on the eve of his inauguration, president trump accused the biden administration of just handing over u.s. military assets like this to the taliban following the 2021 withdrawal. a withdrawal president trump negotiated. president trump has demand the taliban give back the hardware, valued at $7 billion. but the group has flat-out refused. abdul qahar balkhi is the

taliban spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs. is it absolutely off the table? >> these are the assets of the state of afghanistan and they'll continue to be in the possession of the state of afghanistan. >> reporter: it seems like there is no deal then with the president. >> people don't make deals on the assets of the states. they make agreements through dialogue and engagement to find spaces and areas of common interest. >> reporter: the 2021 takeover triggered these desperate scenes of afghans trying to escape and some taliban fighters as they celerated their return to power. the group's leaders say they want to reset with president trump following his reelection. >> we would like to close the chapter of warfare and open a new chapter. >> reporter: that new chapter may be written here. afghanistan's estimated $1 trillion in untapped mineral reserves. president trump has had his eye on it for years, and recent

studies have found the country has the potential to be the saudi arabia of lithium, a critical metal used to power cell phones and electric car batteries. competition will be fierce. u.s. rivals like china have already made huge investments here. so you foresee a future in which the taliban actively pursues alongside the u.s. business interests inside this country when it comes to your abundant natural resources? >> of course. our doors are open. >> while the taliban had made it clear as heard in our report that they want a new chapter with the u.s., for them the new chapter looks like the reopening of the embassy here in kabul, and that they would like normal diplomatic ties. but as we've been hearing, president trump is demanding that $7 billion in military hardware returned, and the taliban is saying no chance. >> that was imtiaz tyab in kabul. stay with us. you're watching "cbs news roundup."

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before it hits the dump and turn it into fertilizer. manuel bojorquez has more. >> reporter: there is a lot of activity at the fertile earth worm farm south of miami. on this day, a delivery of food scraps from several south florida kitchens. peppers and bananas past their prime, but perfect for composting. that's the human activity, at least. the unseen work happens over at their partners, lion fruit farms. what do we have in front of us here? >> well, you'll see a lot of worms here. we're very blessed to have a lot of worms. and these are all red wiggler worms. >> reporter: peter fideli has close to one million of them which have nothing else to do but eat decomposing organic matter, make baby worms, and also casting, a fancy word for poop. >> we take it to another level. and back there you'll see our brewers, and we'll create a compost tea. and that tea will run through our irrigation system.

which is called fertigation. we actually fertilize the entire farm. >> reporter: and the food that would have a ended up in a landfill ends up keeping this cycle going. that's important because food is the largest category of material in municipal landfills, according to the environmental protection agency. in 2022, the heat-trapping methane gas emitted by rotting food was equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions for 24 million gasoline-powered cars driven for one year. back at fertile earth worm farm, dr. lynette sobel is known as miami's queen of composting. she and her staff processes 2500 tons of organic food matter a year. >> we do restaurants like buena vida, chipotle, starbucks. we work with food distributors, hospitals. so we collect their food straps and bring it here and turn into it soil. >> reporter: since compost piles can still release methane gas if not done right, there is a science she painstakingly

follows to prevent that. what she's also trying to do here is educate the younger generation. >> we can't keep doing business as usual. i have a kid. and hopefully my kid will have kids. what we do now affects them. so shouldn't we wake up and like think about what we're doing and maybe try and do things better. >> reporter: the city of plano, texas is also trying to do things better. it has a composting program for both food and yard waste. for a one-time fee, residents can join and deliver scraps to collection sites around the city. their landfill, shared with several cities in the region, accepts over one million tons of waste each year and composts about 50,000 tons each year that nutrient-rich compost can then be sold back to residents. >> since the program started, it's a little less than a year and a half, we've collected over 125,000 pounds of food scraps.

>> reporter: nicole is plano's sustainability and environmenta education manager. so this is what it eventually will turn into? >> yes. >> reporter: and people can use that for what? fertilizer? >> they can use to it put in their garden. basically, when the food scraps break down, it's like feeding your plants food, essentially. >> reporter: the question now is will more cities and residents do the same. will more farmers turn to what dr. sobel is doing to keep food out of landfills, or what peter fideli is doing with those hungry red wiggler worms. >> worms will eat their weight every day. >> reporter: wow. >> yeah. >> and i love my worms because they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and they never complain. best employees i've ever had. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez, miami.

if you have small kids, you may be familiar with water beads. they're these small colorful

beads marketed as sensory toys that expand to 100 times their size when exposed to water. the trouble is kids sometimes swallow them. and over a six-year span, they sent nearly 8,000 youngsters to the hospital. danya bacchus spoke to one mom who wants them banned. >> reporter: the halligan family's mission is to educate parents about the dangers of water beads. when ashley's daughter kipley was toddler, she developed a rash and was throwing up. doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. turns out she had ingested the small water-absorbing beads her older sister was playing with. >> during the surgery they found the water beads had caused a blockage inside her small intestine. because the water beads were marketed as nontoxic, ecofriendly and biodegradable, everybody thought she would be fine. >> reporter: but in the weeks that followed, kipley began having trouble with coordination and responding to commands. doctors confirmed she was experiencing developmental delays. >> and also, he gave her a

diagnosis of toxic brain. >> water beads are made of polyacrylamide. and polyacrylamide is a known toxin. our consumer products and the chemicals used to make them are not well regulated. >> reporter: the beads can expand to 100 times their size when exposed to water. more than 7,800 ingestion injuries were treated in u.s. emergency departments from 2016 to 2022. a 10-month-old died in 2023. kipley's case has just been published in pediatrics. ashley is one of the first parent advocates to co-author a case report in the journal. >> it breaks my heart what happened to kipley. and for me, it's been very healing to be able to know that that pain has a purpose. >> reporter: ashley started "that water bead lady" to help families whose children have been injured by consumer products. kipley has this message for lawmakers. >> please work together to ban water beads. lots of kids like me got hurt.

>> kipley has made a lot of progress. she still has challenges, but she is an amazing little advocate. >> reporter: working together to keep kids safe. danya bacchus, cbs news. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings," and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪

hello and thanks so much for watching. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. scrambling for answers. usaid staffers worldwide are recalled by the white house and put on leave. president donald trump signs an executive order aimed at keeping transgendered athletes from competing in women's sports. and palestinians are rejecting proposals to expel them from the gaza strip while the u.s. rebuilds it for others. president donald trump is following through on campaign promises to shrink the size of the federal government, and cbs news has learned that includes offering a buyout to every single employee of the cia. it comes after a white house directive ordering nearly all workers with the relief agency usaid be put on paid leave, with

many of them being recalled from their overseas posts. cbs' erica brown has more from the white house. >> reporter: demonstrators marched from coast-to-coast as people in all 50 states organized anti-trump protests. >> this is what democracy looks like! >> reporter: a large crowd showed up outside the u.s. capitol protesting against president trump's decision to dismantle usaid, the foreign aid agency. the agency became a target of elon musk who's at the helm of trump's special commission, the department of government efficiency. usaid's more than 10,000 employees were notified they'r being placed on leave, and all overseas projects are being halted with plans pending to get personnel back to the u.s. >> usaid played an integral part of americans foreign policy objective. and we do all of this with less than 1% of the national budget. >> reporter: cbs news has learned all cia employees have been offered buyouts. the staffers involved in soy areas such as intelligence

gathering will not be allowed to take it. the trump administration is also defending its decision to allow musk's doge teams who are not government employees to access the treasury system that handles trillions of dollars in grants, social security and other payments to americans. >> he campaigned with elon musk vowing that elon was going to head up the department of efficiency and the two of them with a great team around them were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and assure it's accountable to taxpayers. that's all that's happening here. >> reporter: several lawsuits have been filed to stop doge from accessing that content and another for firing fbi employees who worked on january 6th cases. >> they are engaging in a massive purge of the department of justice. >> reporter: a federal judge is due to hear arguments in the fbi case thursday. erica brown, cbs news, the white house. president trump on wednesday issued another executive action, this one designed to prevent

transgendered athletes from taking part in women's sports. it's the latest aggressive move by the republican president against transgendered americans. cbs' cristian benavides has more. >> reporter: women and young girls applauded as the president signed an executive order called keeping men out of women's sports. the president said he is making good on a campaign promise. >> from now on women's sports will be only for women. >> reporter: the executive order directs the justice and education departments to interpret title 9 as prohibiting the participation of transgendered girls and women in female sports. schools that don't comply risk losing funding. >> you will risk your federal funding there will be no federal funding. >> reporter: it is not known how many transgendered athletes compete in women's sports, but experts believe it is a very

tiny fraction. during testimony before a senate panel last year, the ncaa president testified he knew of fewer than ten transgendered athletes in college sports. president trump would now expect that number to be zero. >> he does expect the olympic committee and the ncaa to no longer allow men to compete in women's sports. >> this is a completely manufactured problem. >> reporter: equality florida executive director nadine smith says trans rights are being used as a wedge issue. >> we're talking about a very narrow band of elite athletes that they are using to stop third grade trans girl from playing volleyball. and it makes no sense. it is cruel. >> reporter: the order also requires the state department to review visa applications of transgendered people for fraud, a move that looks ahead to the next summer olympics set for 2028 in los angeles.

cristian benavides, cbs news, miami. president trump has been floating the idea of sending u.s. troops to gaza. he's talked about taking control of gaza and redeveloping the land while moving the palestinians out. cbs' chris livesay reports. his remarks come just as palestinians are returning home under the ceasefire deal, and many of them see this idea as an attempt to remove them from their homeland. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of gazans since the start of the ceasefire have been moving back home. it lies in ruins, but their connection to the land is iron-clad, says young ismail. "we palestinians will pay no attention to what trump says about displacing us. we will remain in our land and will never leave it. the land of our ancestors." trump says his vision is to turn gaza into the riviera of the

middle east. but it's home to over two million people. exactly how he intends to move them all into neighboring countries remains unclear. but the implications conjure painful memories of when hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes during the creation of israel. the critics out there, they would say this is ethnic cleansing. is this ethnic cleansing? >> reporter: prime benjamin netanyahu's conservative likud party. >> what i like in this proposition is finally, finally, i don't hear the same music or the same lyrics again and again and again. and by the way, two-state solution, saying it again now days is dangerous. because what does it mean? it means you give a reward to terrorism. >> reporter: it also raises questions about the west bank. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's far right coalition partners have long aspired to annex it. adding to those suspicions,

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we sat down with four sheriffs from four very different places. sheriff kieran donahue, sheriff candy fathauery, sheriff morgan and sheriffish bino bennie martinez. >> i feel like i'm on a crowded lake. >> i've been overcrowded. i need a new jail. >> reporter: so you hear the white house border czar say we need your detention beds. what goes through your mind? >> i don't have any. >> reporter: top officials met this month to brainstorm the expansion of a post-9/11 program, one that allows deputies and officers nationwide to partner with i.c.e., helping to investigate and detain more noncitizens. can you afford to have any of your personnel deputized as immigration officers? >> no, because i'm already 32 deputies down. there is no police department that i know in this nation that is at full capacity and turning people away. >> reporter: on top of the recruitment challenges, costs are piling up.

>> 944 square miles. and it's all rural. >> reporter: in brooks county, texas, rough terrain and punishing heat left 129 migrants dead back in 2012. while mounting autopsy and burial costs left the county with $700,000 in debt, according to sheriff martinez. >> so we're still trying to recover that. you know, we had to lay off people. we had to cut down on our salaries. >> reporter: a debt compounded by what sheriffs say is a broken immigration system. >> there is talk about the elephant in the room. this should have been fixed by congress. i can't put it on a republican or a democrat. i'm putting it on all of them. >> do your damn job, and i'll help, because i believe in the rule of law. i believe in the constitution. >> reporter: when the white house is asking you to do even more, we need your personnel. we need your detention space. >> yes. that's a big ask by the white house. and i've told them, i'm standing ready adds the sheriffs across this country are standing ready, but it's going to take time and

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packages valued at less than $800 to be duty free from china. for years, u.s. customs and border patrol have raised concerns over the increasing volume of packages that go unchecked. trump has seized on that, claiming this is one of the ways that fentanyl gets into the country. and china's refusal to stem the flow of fentanyl, according to the president, is the reason for the 10% tariffs. >> i think you need some reason to start that kind of a negotiating and dialogue. >> reporter: dr. henry wong, adviser to the chinese government, describes the blanket tariffs as unnets, and claims beijing's retaliatory are limited by comparison. but he believes the fact that trump and xi jinping are due to speak is a promising sign. you're hopeful for a positive result? >> yes. i'm very hopeful that after the meeting there will be some positive outcome. >> reporter: similar to mexico and canada? >> i don't know if it goes that far, but, you know, always you have a meeting like that,

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for decades, food critics would sneak around from restaurant to restaurant in disguise, quietly sampling dishes and reporting back to their readers. well, those days are gone. vladimir duthiers reports on the new age of online food critics. >> how are you folks doing today? >> reporter: when it comes to evaluating a restaurant -- >> i would like to get the honey butter pancakes. >> reporter: james beard award winning food critic hannah goldfield tastes a variety of products. which brings us to here, golden diner, a spot she reviewed. >> i decided as a kid i wanted to write about food. >> reporter: do you remember your first review? >> a montreal style deli. i had spent a lot of time in montreal. i remember feeling this is my calling. >> reporter: what does qualify somebody to write about food, to either praise food or to criticize the work that goes on in a kitchen?

>> i'm a reporter and a writer first and an observer and a researcher. and i think that's what qualifies me. >> reporter: the review must live and die by what it tastes like to you. yes, the context is important, the style of cuisine is important, but at the end of the day, is it good? >> criticism is subjective, no matter what you do. i think it's not just about do i like this. if i don't like something, i'm always kind of checking myself. do i not like this because i'm bringing my own kind of, you know, hard-wired preferences to this. >> honey butter pancakes. >> thank you. >> reporter: vegan caesar salad and the chinatown egg. >> this i think is an interesting dish because it is totally gone viral. >> these are the most viral pancakes in new york. >> also, the vip list opens with a shot of this. >> top pancake was excellent, fluffy, even juicy, if you will. >> reporter: they are brash. >> go cry about it.

>> reporter: haughty. >> they have a strict no peasants policy. so don't expect to come here any time soon. >> reporter: and in your face. >> i've never been so turned on by a tomahawk. >> reporter: but for nearly half a million foodie fans, hot takes by food influence duo, the vip list, it matters when picking where to eat. when did you decide to create these personas? >> basically, people were starting to do satire videos impersonating us, making fun of us. >> reporter: really? >> oh, yeah. >> we're like wait, if they're impersonating us and getting more views than we are, let's just become a satirical version of ourselves. >> reporter: life-long friends audrey and meg do consider themselves food critics. >> the food is traumatizing. like would you eat this burger? it looks like it just took a dip in the hudson. >> reporter: who pride themselves on paying in full for the meals they often harshly review. >> we purposely try to make

people mad. because the haters comment the most. >> some of these restaurants in new york, a meal between two people is like a thousand dollars. so we're like going out there, paying so that our followers know whether or not it's worth it. >> reporter: criminal restaurant critics, they go multiple times. how many times do you guys go? do you go just once? >> we go once. once i try the food, why do i need to try the dish three times to have an opinion on it? >> i'm spending a thousand dollars on a meal once, i expect that to be representative of the standard of that restaurant. >> and also, like, there is such like a pretentiousness around food criticism. oh, only certain people can be critics. anyone can be a critic. if you eat you be a critic. >> reporter: i joined the vip list for lunch as they documented their meal at a james beard nominated restaurant. >> i swear to god if there is not a cheese pull in this. >> call the manager. call the police actually. >> i feel bad. this is kind of a roast. >> reporter: and while they are

polarizing, goldfield herself is a fan. >> i can't stop watching their videos. i love what they do. they i think came here because they had seen the pancake on instagram and tiktok. >> the pancakes are good. but if i'm waiting an entire tarantino film to sit down, you better at least come correct with the honey butter ratio. >> i'm not a pancake eater. >> okay. >> but i'd do it again. >> to me, it doesn't feel like there are any mistakes there. >> is there a sense of like hey, maybe they're taking a little bit away from what you do? >> you know, social media and also kind of user generated criticism has changed the entire media landscape. but i don't see it as granular as that. one tik

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