present is actually a rip kilian from the cosmos yeah you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. with. with. with to. go is the following the end of. the east.

in july two thousand and eleven the horn of africa was struck by a wave of famine and. again our screens were flooded with images of a may see that africans. over

thirteen million people in somalia kenya ethiopia eritrea and djibouti are once again threatened by famine. the u.n. approaches the international community for immediate food aid.

and. you know the way the animals are children from the most horrific that we've seen in years. we grew up learning about africa as hunger problems. that the african people always suffer from hunger and the so-called developed world always stands food. is there perhaps something wrong with the food aid mechanism. if you're looking at all this money that has been pumped in the fifty's and you're still starving. then

it means that something's not right incomes or the interest of those who are putting to be assisted in kenya or any other african country to improve their food security one of the hate. will be popped. and you can see it even to the many ways because it becomes almost like. a business. to do what. is given once you can put together speaking we're looking at a very wealthy continent which has been now sustained into public t.v. to see for aid in the street and and that's why we need to put two and. these approach language. as i would you know changing the predicament. the african people.

to. yeah. yeah. northern kenya was one of the regions affected during this recent famine wave. the land is arid and barren. that was. yeah i. am carried

here that was written i am the turkana are this region's inhabitants one of kenya's most traditional tribes and there. were never. i got it in my. head it that was. their nomadic pastoralists. for centuries they have learned to survive on this harsh land depending on the rain periods. i. have never yet. i. but in recent years the ongoing droughts threaten their very existence. i guess that is yet we. are in northern kenya and we had

a year with basically no rain at all to qana region as seen. successive droughts of the past few years and what we're seeing is the stress getting more and more frequent and the rain is becoming less and less common. left many of the enemy is very very weak so people didn't have that didn't have the usual income. of. manu titian level is really short term. not what the global acute malnutrition rate is fifteen percent in some areas of true country it was up to fifty seven percent that is more than double. the. yard work i had to go to. i mean to go to not five and they all died.

even then we couldn't eat them. your little boy in my small field was of no help. the seeds died before they could sprout. a year young it was a bad year without trained we couldn't plant anything. but there was great hunger. even the wild fruit became rare. rule my sister died last year during the long drought that. she was old and as there was no food. no she died and i came to take care of her children.

while. there was no food or water because it was too dry and a lot of the. animal immediately there. you probably know how bad it was last year on the way most animals died. you get this is a man's tomb and the other two are womens. they died of hunger. there was no food and the government didn't help. if hope would come sooner would these people have been saved a year old they guess they would be alive and these tombs wouldn't exist you've

gone. up she was complaining that she was hungry and thirsty ate all up well arguably. all of them about with it she couldn't sustain herself there weren't enough but everybody knows we need food and water to live. he put it in. how long after her death did the food arrive. after five months.

it is chilling to say the least to hear that the two thousand and one drought had been predicted and that lives could have been saved if the system functioned differently the drug does not happen just like switching on and off electricity. drugs is something that comes with being a period of time. after ethiopia's famine in one thousand nine hundred fourteen one thousand nine hundred five which left one million victims the us created a forecast system for dangerous droughts in order to avoid similar tragedies in the future.

in two thousand and ten this system had already warned of things to come. yeah we saw it and we've been warning for months before you know people were paying attention death sometimes to problems you know the problem often with the world attention is that sometimes. people only play pay attention if you see the dying children. but. oh well warning systems nowadays our knowledge is so sophisticated that we know months in advance we've been warning about this since the four before the crisis happened and because we could see that the rains weren't good enough. but people were left to starve. they had to die before the international community was mobilized.

wealthy british style. guys on. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report. the

problem is that governments both national and international journalists and also the schmitter injury and it's. always acts as quickly as they can. and it takes unfortunately it takes you know those pictures on t.v. screens to really mobilize public opinion and get governments and politicians interested in the crisis. when it becomes of more interest to the international media then you tend to get

a very strong public response which is extremely helpful which pushes the politicians into action because when the public has about it then the politicians where they need to to respond because. they're their public expects them to do something. unfortunately you know action could have been taken at the start of two thousand and eleven or earlier in the year. victory to really have stopped it becoming such a big crisis but unfortunately. far too often the action isn't taken until it's too late and so people are already suffering.

and it's not the first time that the turkana people receive help. international organizations and n.g.o.s have been visiting their area for the last fifteen years . and it will always welcome them with joyous song. there's. the. a a. k. that oh yes. ok. no no no no. if i don't know me or not why then i don't know i didn't i didn't know

they provide them with food that accident the children and check them for signs of malnutrition. on the way that you come from. from the tell of. how far is motel oh. many hours away which means that when i left for the sunrise. for decades the turkana have been living in a constant state of hunger. they belong to one billion people around the world who have no access to their daily nourishment while at the same time more food than

ever is being produced on the planet. contrary to crisis periods this chronic hunger phenomenon rarely reaches the evening news. never the less it is deadly. it kills over fifteen million people yearly. three times more than those killed during the gear of the second world war. approximately six and a half million of them are children eighteen thousand die every day. to fight hunger the international community decided to distribute food to.

however since its birth in one nine hundred fifty four and until today food aid has never been a matter of sheer humanitarianism it's been a matter of economic and political correlations with the u.s. playing the leading role the simple reason everyone focuses on u.s. food aid policy is us accounts for more than half of all the world's food aid so as goes the united states so goes the global food aid regime you know the united states is providing fifty to sixty percent of the world's food aid any given year all of europe combined only provide fifteen to twenty percent. of the. we have given much to the peoples of europe one simple thing about i'm sorry. but

as a countermeasure against the attempt by the soviet union to come you know if you're up the american people charged with mistrust of you for cooperating with the non communist countries in a comprehensive bipartisan european recovery program. after the success of the marshall plan which delivered tons of food to western europe. in one thousand fifty four president eisenhower signed the famous public law for eighty whatever. the new laws purpose was to distribute the u.s. agricultural surpluses serving at the same time as a tool for economic and foreign policy which would help promote the country's interests. according to the president's own words the new law lays the basis for expanding our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples of other lands. oh it's

a vote and not the ballot here on our football. team going to break the bonds of their very we play best effort to help them help them battle. oh no period is required not because i mean it may be doing it not because we think they're both but we are getting it right in one thousand nine hundred eighty one president kennedy acknowledged public love for eighty as being a fundamental importance to the united states and renamed it food for peace. so the primary objective of a policy was surplus disposal but it had a secondary objectives the hope that it would also build future export markets for u.s. agricultural commodities and that it could achieve humanitarian objectives associated with reducing ungar and under-nutrition and that it could perhaps with some our

allies abroad. with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer civilian foreign aid. is. the u.s. government for spreading many foreign policy through human and. systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars.

during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall food aid was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror. if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a bit of a subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you do even if you've seen even more so because dick cheney elephants to the training even chip and since they use food in that if you don't train which ones to dance like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next time vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up see what i mean.

from very early on africa became the focus of attention as the u.s. and soviet union were trying to gain zones of influence countries like somalia ethiopia and kenya received help. there's a little peace is good as it would be easier to come to them or the police doesn't mean the united states is doing business to actually be providing you know this time. there's no politics behind going in there we're trying to do things in a way that is most effective way to save lives so i don't think that criticism really holds true.

i'm honored to work for this organization i think we do fabulous were partners in the united nations and it's really inspiring. when there's bugger lives with an american plug on need from the american people. if the first thing is this the appreciation of the american people because if somebody helps you then you have to appreciate the. country that assists your people in this tough being the approach you to bring in the investments. you see the be very much willing to tell them good them come and if you're not just doing the the the funding in the hole in last year. the child needs to study what their wisdom come to salute the chinese also for the first time brought their food aid

complete with trucks there was a must of not just that wait a minute this food aid thing is not just the tusk another the soap to approach in terms of winning over the country to dominate over to push their value cycles the globe. apart from helping foreign policy food aid also had other benefits and help with internal affairs namely the large american agribusiness and shipping companies. but there are other important beneficiaries lurking in the shadows one are agribusinesses and i emphasize agribusinesses rather than. farmers because very little food aid is sold by farmers directly that sold by large firms the great hidden beneficiary for u.s.

food aid and this is distinct from any other food aid program in the world are the shippers.

could. cook. mission free cretaceous three kinds for charges free. range month free risk free studio time free.

download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. dot com. to speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish. to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles the stories. the spanish. visit. that was built on coal. fuel for its factories. coke for its steel home our gold is it and heat for its people. join me james brown to meet them and to spend their lives underground and work in one of the world's most dangerous professions. for.

loads. of coal on altie.

quick to blame turkey detains nine suspects following the deadly car bombing of a town near the syrian border claiming they have. syrian intelligence. democratic election violence across the country the former prime minister. ready in talks on the new government but more. from outside of the parliament right here in islamabad. president. first year in office comes to an end with an unemployment ingolf.