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twenty second century in america can't even get from point a to point b. . welcome back to worlds apart to me david beasley executive director of the world food programme mr beazley earlier this month to trumpet ministration and its vision of the us budget for the fiscal year of two thousand and nineteen which features a substantial increase in military spending cuts and social spending as well as some restructuring of the u.s. contributions to the united nations have you done any preliminary asked cement so how this proposed pattern now spending may affect the world food program you know the president's budget very well dramatically impact us but if you know anything about the u.s. process of budgeting just the house and senate makes the final decision we feel
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very confident before that the processes that works its way through the president and the leadership in the senate in the house will come together with a budget that will be that i think will be good for the world food programme so we can continue to address around the world and then when you think about the united states' commitment to the world food program last year two thousand and seventeen was two point five billion dollars this year you know we're hopeful that we come out with at least two billion but i'm confident that the leadership in the united states will stay so. what international humanitarian aid in many of your public appearances you're. feeding the world's most vulnerable is a viable alternative to military spending you think it's a way of combating extremism and apparently the president perhaps has a different view on that what is your strategy now to try to dissuade the president ought to try to work with the congress and hopefully defeat his budgeting proposals there well as i've told my friends in the u.s. senate and the u.s.
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house the republicans and the democrats as well as the president and his administration if you want to spend another half a trillion dollars on military cut the world food program. because we are the first line of us and it is him doing that exactly one of them and he's been very supportive of me don't miscalculate the budgetary process i've been a united states governor so i know how the system works but i believe divorce all said and the president who has said publicly very clearly that one thing the united nations does good is feeds people and so he's been very supportive of our programs and i think he will continue to do so now you are known for having praise mr truong for shaking up the system and be already discussed i think part of your point was multi-faith that by a desire to shield the world from program from the aftershocks of about shake up i wonder how do you see yourself as the executive director of based organization are you a disruptor or are you a protector well as i said one time when i was
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a late the state's governor and one of the lead bureaucrats if you do that mr governor who you know really create chaos in us will have come to create chaos jokingly but the point is you have to evaluate every system what's working it was working patted on the back keep going this is not working how do we restructure it so in the united nations there needs to be restructured in the world food program or they are amazing operate machine what they do in the world food program is not just about emergency conditions like a tsunami and earthquake or volcano or hurricane is more than that it's also about sustainable development isn't protected what we awards eighty two percent of our spending now is in war zones but how do we sustain a community so every able bodied person all this to receive food or to be in the community improvement program every child in the village the nation ought to be in the school meals program so how do we push that forward change the approach because
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you can go into some of these countries where the united nations has been for twenty thirty years spent hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. have nothing to show for so you need to step back and say what are we not doing right and so i think i bring that to the table this revaluate with understood fresh eyes in the see what works and what does it worry and let's don't worry about ego let's don't worry about who gets the credit let's worry about those innocent children out there who we won't dreams to be fulfilled now i personally if find you very sincere when you talk about the plight of hungry people around the world but i think foot insecurity is increasingly an issue for the united states and specifically in those very same communities that both that donald trump into the oval office do you think you're on massachusetts with the americans who themselves some thomas have to skip meals in order to feed their own. you know i do a lot of t.v.
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shows in the united states and i come from that more conservative side in the states and when i sit down with those who otherwise would have concerns about humanitarian or international aid they stated them very clearly there are international humanitarian programs that may very well be a waste of money but the world food program is to the essence of who we are as a people in the world and we're about helping people but do it in such a way that doesn't create dependency but hopefully create so sufficiency resilience and so when i explained what we're doing and where we're doing it how we're doing it it's amazing the response i get from the left and the right and that's why and what i've seen in the united states republicans and democrats may fight on everything else but when it comes to helping hungry children around the world fulfill their dreams they come together but they miss it mr president this is not exactly what i'm asking you about i'm sure if you ask any person no matter where
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why their children have to be fat everybody will say yes but i think. sometimes presidential mandate involves making a difficult decision that's been helping starving children in africa or helping will norrish children in the united states i'm not suggesting you make that decision for the present but how would you guys hear through that thinking process there's enough wealth. to do both there's clearly enough wealth there was of little wealth in the world today we're just talking about a few billion dollars when i look at how much money we spend in the world the military we just talk about a few more billion dollars to save the lives of people around the world in doing it such a way that doesn't create dependency and without much wealth in the united states that much wealth in the rest of the world is inexcusable for any person in the world today to go to bed hungry now as the united states is
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reevaluating its brawl its share in the international organizations have you noticed any policy as a father countries perhaps other big donors have seen a couple different shifts number one i've seen the un make some adjustments the united nations and my opinion the last thirty forty years has shown the private sector. you know in i am seeing a sea change there now i see the un understanding clearly we can't solve many of these problems in these developing countries without the private sector being significantly and truly engaged and involved as to other countries around the world you know i've been beating the drums then going to nations saying you must step up more you must do more because if you know if you know do it for the right in reason the do it because it's in your national security interest so i'm seeing many countries step up in essence one of the reasons why i'm here in russia to talk with the leadership here in the response i'm getting from the leadership of russia is
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very positive we're seeing the russian government begin to step up more so that it ever has in the united nations world food program well from what i know i'm correct me if i'm wrong i think russia so far cannot boast about very large contributions to your agency but i think it's trying to be helpful in some other ways perhaps logistics taishan etc you're now in moscow have you secured anything concrete from the kremlin well we will be announcing the russia is known for forgiving trucks and to the world food program and so we are announcing the ninety seven. trucks that will be about eleven million dollars of value contribution as well as debt swap that we've done in mozambique as well as is dozens of millions of dollars strategically aligned in the countries of interest including syria and other places around the world and so i'm here to make the case and talk with the leadership that the do you in needs russia to be in really involved in that we want to be
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a force for peace between nations in every opportunity we kin to bring they says that are working to give us a will to maybe start working together a little bit well i think russians more than eager to work together particularly democrats i'm not sure they are they find the same reception on the american side bad maybe your connections in the car. aggressed especially with some south carolina representative script out in that franco i think the russian people in the american people want peace around the world and i think they have a very different view on how to achieve it and they don't know i really find most people around the world say i think sometimes we need to get the leaders together sit down little more break bread together but i think the same marks there and i think if we focus on the differences we will make any headway with the focus on the common opportunities will make a tremendous headway the world needs for russia and the united states to find
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a pathway as i've said many times to some of my diplomatic friends in washington and in moscow you know maybe the united states or russia doesn't need to get married right now but they do need to do a little bit piece is dependent upon these two nations find a pathway to get past the problems that seem to be dominating every newscast in the world today and while that's half the rome is burning or for world's fall apart mr basely i think you have to be careful about what you say if you don't want to be accused of being a kremlin. but we have a few minutes left and i want to ask you specifically about something that you mentioned this doubt swat team that russia struck with the most and i think the involves the largest doubt swap in the history of your agency it but also on luck if i'm not mistaken around forty a million years dollars that would be used to provide school meals for one hundred
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fifty thousand children is that something that is essentially a one off deal or something that can be applied on the broader soil we're hoping as a model to go forward because when you when you when you have a program this about six to seven billion dollars and you need to do three more billion to address the world hunger of the most of your hungry people in the world you're looking for every opportunity you can. so this debt swap model very well could save a lot of millions of law over the next few years and finally find me in a one of your articles you describe visiting an attrition clinic in somalia where children receive food like that looks and tastes like peanut butter but works like medicine so nutritious that it can recover help a child recover from all nutrition in a matter of months and what strikes me about it is the contrast between the progress in attritional size the fact that we can make this marvelous foods and the absolute social regret that puts millions of people on the brain golf daf how do
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you wrap your had around it how do you explain it to yourself is tough you know i was asked by. a reporter one time mrs f. we've done a tremendous interview. he said you know you go through his job in the world he can people live saving children i said you know i do really do have a great job overall said that i don't go to bed every night thinking about the children that i say i go to bed every night i think about the children we couldn't say because of lack of money or the lack of access so when those days are before us we have to choose which children eat in which children don't eat which children live which children how would you like that job first time i've whipped. and years when i won't out of the hospital data when i saw not just one
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two three four children dying before my very own us but literally hundreds of children starving to death because of a manmade conflict and i can see all that special nutritional products they keep someone alive but the mere fact that they're gotten into that condition and many of them don't make it because it's too late it's heartbreaking i had to walk out of the hospital room in just run around the corner and just just cry and i'm sort of what you think i'm sort of a tough guy you know boy it was just overwhelming to see so many children unnecessarily dima for your very own because because a man made conflict is unacceptable in its usable and i'm going to continue to fight against it as hard as loud as i can well mr b.'s the best of luck with that i really appreciate your time with us today and terrorist please keep the conversation going on our social media pages so me hope to see you again same place same time here and while the part.
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everybody i'm stephen. with gun. proud american interests george bush and. this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. you know with all the drama happening in our country and.

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