the international players have got to step up in a way they have not done before for example each country will come into a country as a donor and have their program siloed. i have been saying to the international community these very fragile communities like in the greater sahara larry we need to come in with a strategic comprehensive holistic approach revive sustainability sustainable development resilience for example in the united nations world food programme we believe that every single person this enabled body to know who's receiving food they ought to be in a community development improvement probably but for that you have to solve the number one issue which is meet conflict you mention the word the way yemen and i want to seize that this is a potential chalk specifically about this country because i think it's down south as as a confluence of disasters i heard you say that you've been trying to raise the issue of the saudi contact with the trumpet ministration did you find it responsive

yes been interesting to watch and see that the international community has has come together to help bring about a change in the saudi in the sort of coalition by that you mean they the plaid that they made just recently of additional aid and easing up of their c h well you know two or three things number one the saudi led coalition in the blockade was creating catastrophic situation and so lack of money lack of access was a huge issue but we really are see the sea change in the saudi led coalition in terms of the blockade and they exist now we've got to get access on the ground with these and so we're working with these and all parties involved to make certain that we have the money we need and then the access we need on the ground so we've got to get the food in from the air in the sea and then on the ground is so we're making tremendous headway but the blockade set us back quite a bit so we're looking at seven point four million people literally literally on

the brink of starvation that actually is about eight point four million people of the total population of twenty nine million in the in the are on the brink of starvation. if we don't get the excess and the food we need with the fuel that we need to be able to move the supplies the food the medicines you going to have a catastrophic event there now there are lots of international organizations national governments that can down the saudi way of waging a war on yemen but it doesn't seem to change. to have changed their behavior much now i notice something about your own personal thout i think you like to practice a lot of positive reinforcement do you think that me get a better traction but the saudis we are in my opinion we're seeing a positive turn in the right direction with the saudis in the saudi the coalition i have been traveling to the middle east lately had very positive meetings and trying

to appeal to the heart that you know these innocent victims of this conflict the children they don't deserve this this is a nation that is now in ruins and we need to step up as i've told the saudis and others if you're not willing to stop the war then you have a moral obligation to make certain that the humanitarian fallout the consequences are met and no child should be left behind in this country and so mr meehan i'm sorry for interrupting but you certainly know the first person to tell them died and yet. they seem to have been very very little change in the way more was scared out of the last i can't explain or justify that because i haven't been in this position but they tend what makes you believe that they would actually listen to you as opposed to not listening to anyone else because we're already seeing results we're seeing a major shift in some of the campaigns with regards to their campaigns and other campaigns and hospitals and other facilities in the poorer we're seeing them

chipped in to step up now monetarily we're seeing that step up in terms of providing access within the country that they have control we're seeing them open up the port in terms of the barricade or it was so we're seeing some very significant positive movement right now and we're actually seeing some positive movement with a hoot these now so we're hopeful that food may be the weapon the school brings some peace in this country but let's see what let's keep our fingers crossed for sure and we have to take a very short break now but to. we'll be back in just a few moments.

welcome back to worlds apart with david beasley executive director of the world food program mr beazley earlier this month trumpet ministration and outfits vision of the u.s. 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 they supposed pattern now spending may in fact be wild with program yeah the president's budget very well dramatically impacted us but if you know anything about the u.s. process of budgeting just the house and senate makes the final decision we feel

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 strong on international humanitarian aid. now 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 or 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.

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

a late the state's governor and one of the lead bureaucrats who 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 programme war 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 a hurricane is more than that it's also about sustainable development is to and 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 could

you can go into some of these countries with the united nations has been for twenty thirty years spent hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. 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 work 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 who 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 donald trump into the oval office do you think your mass it's resonating with americans who themselves some thomas have to skip meals in order to feed their own. you know i do a lot of t.v.

shows in the united states and i come from that more conservative side in the cities 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 on 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

why their children have to be fat everybody will say yes but i think. sometimes presidential mandate involves making a difficult decision to spend 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 is now three hundred trillion dollars of global 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 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

reevaluating its brawl its share in the international organizations have you noticed any. qualitative change in the policies of 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 or see 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 intricately 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 never do it for the right in reason the do it because in your national security interest some see in many countries step up and that's 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 very positive we're seeing the russian government begin to step up more so than 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 counted both about very large contributions to your agency but i think it's trying to be helpful in some other ways perhaps logistics petition et cetera 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 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 the americans i'm not sure they are they find the same reception on the american side the 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 well i don't know i really find most people around the world would say i think sometimes we need to get the leaders together sit down little more break bread together but i think this is a march 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 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 it them 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 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 then 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 finally 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 both words like medicine so nutritious that it can recover help a child recover from 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 a base marvelous foods and the absolute social regress have that puts millions of

people on the brain golf daf how do 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've got three years job in the world keeping people alive saving children i said you know i do really do have the greatest job or on a seven i don't go to bed every night thinking about the children that i say i go with a bit 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 it was children don't eat which children live which children die how would you like that job first time i've whipped. in years when i walked out

of the hospital. when i saw not just one two three four children before my very own us but literally hundreds of children starving to death because of a manmade conflict and i could see all that special nutritional products the keeps them alive but the mere fact that their got into that condition and then you don't make it because it's too late it's heartbreaking and i had to walk out of the hospital room 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 the see so many children unnecessarily dima for your very own because because of man made conflict is unacceptable in its usable and i'm going continue to fight against it as hard as loud as i can well mr ms 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 in

a while the part. it's . got some security interest that's russian security interest ok not just a thought we want to be able syria and we want a stable lebanon and you can't just send planes every week to bomb the country and disrupt the political process in this way it's unacceptable.

called on u.n. security council members to work on solving the crisis in syria is. rather than creating tearing the country apart. also ahead on the program decades of environmental damage on a picture rest. in the atlantic leaves locals fearing for their well being as they continue to search for increased cancer rates they blame the u.s. air force but i can tell the patients. don't think i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in. thanks both my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. heated

debates on germany's migration policy sees stormont parliament just as a member of the immigration party launches another attack on the chancellor. gravier churning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neal our top story this hour russia has addressed a united nations security council meeting by calling for constructive work to end the violence in eastern rather than creating havoc with smear campaigns in the media. muscly. there is a massive psychosis in the mainstream media which is spread insane rumors day after day that if she doesn't help them to study the situation that's who they put

forward the idea that there are only hospitals in eastern guta which the tsunami applied to me against russia will continue to work to bring peace and stability to syria and calls on the other countries to do the same rather than creating havoc supporting this and so in the region opponents of. parties came up and joins me live once again with the details you've been following the meeting how it played out today tell us more but of course it seems from what they are to be going from russia saying an end to the violence is the overwhelming concern here absolutely now russia called the meeting regarding the situation in eastern guta now this is a suburb of damascus that at this point is a rebel held enclave kind of a stronghold of these terrorists and these so-called moderate rebels who are fighting alongside them now russia is working with the syrian government in efforts to retake the city from these terrorist forces and as the escalation of the

campaign to retake the city takes place all kinds of very heated allegations are being made against the syrian government and against russia essential reports are coming out that hundreds of civilians have been killed and now all kinds of very extreme things are being said this is some of what the russian ambassador was reacting to this dramatic targeting of civilians in disregard for human life the last twenty two years old with a wife who is five months pregnant allow says we are waiting our turn to die attacks against health care and hospitals constitute will crimes the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these four hundred thousand people and the assad regime is counting on russia to make sure the security council is unable to stop their suffering. now the russian ambassador then addressed the fifteen members of the u.n. security council and anya's remarks he made it very clear that russia is concerned about the civilians in eastern guta doesn't want them to be dying in mass it wants

to make sure that civilian life is protected but that the situation is much more complex than some of these voices are making it out to be that russia requested that the al nasra terrorists leave the city gave them the opportunity to leave they did not leave and essentially are using these civilians as human shields and that what's needed is an effort to defeat terrorism and protect civilian life not a smear campaign against russia this is what he said about almost the double standard that exists in western media when it comes to the fight against terrorism and civilian life this is the russian ambassador to the united nations. by the way the u.s. led coalition leveled syria's rucka this is in the recent post should be forgotten so the phone when happened was for some reason. now he was of course referring to the city of raka a syrian city that was recently retaken by u.s.

led coalition forces and when that took place we didn't see the same level of outcry about humanitarian suffering and about civilian life there seems to be quite a double standard let's just review what happened when the u.s. led coalition reach up the syrian city of rock. was still a third year we were full sleeve own homes because of ice and when we returned we found everything we do use to rubble and look at all the devastation what rock is a. ninety minute when living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. or book the city and rubble have to be to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we head to. the u.s.

coalition cools the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply and clearing the rubble of. a friend of mine on the streets near my home my friend and i trying to detonate it from a distance but it didn't get along we thought the money didn't work and work towards it exploded my friend was killed i survived to salute me now as the meeting went on and different speakers took the floor and addressed the un security council was very clear that everyone agreed that the life of civilians in eastern guta was was of top concern no one wanted the civilians to be suffering everyone was concerned about their safety and making sure that civilians were not caught in the crossfire however there were clear differences about who was to blame and that certain countries felt as if the situation was just squarely on the shoulders of syria and

russia however at this point everyone did agree that efforts need to be made to protect civilians but there was disagreement on on a centrally what what the russian ambassador characterized as a smear campaign against russia. bring us right up to date on what was spoken about in the last few hours there in new york artie's killer pipe and thank you. will the u.n. earlier call for an end to the fighting in eastern calling the enclave quote a hell on earth according to reports from local activists hundreds of civilians have been killed in the operation earlier i spoke to a representative of doctors without borders about the situation there. so we have six people that we support the. populations in the last few days or or troll markets and number of people has increased dramatically

over the last. few days reporting. to us. the biggest problem for the moment the answer still function. is the supply so as long as the violence is going on medical supplies for some sort of agreement that. these medicines and especially the surgical supplies and start. going out into. the surgeons. do thereby saving we're. on our senior correspondent right guys the of who has been covering the war in syria for the last number of years is back in moscow and takes a look at who's exactly in control in eastern. east ghouta is not a nice place to live in surrounded as it is. a constant war zone

within and without. islam the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys crusading for democracy and when they aren't busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while kiat in syria and the number of smaller groups . these are ruthless people in a cage civilians literally put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them

a literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. this infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al qaeda remember what the u.s. led coalition did to isis in mosul.