these kids are losing their child hoods >>> from syria, iraq south sudan - 2014 was the worst year forng people since world war ii. >> if you look at now the map of the world and imagine the countries in crisis and tell me which one looks like it will get better. >> war aside, millions of children die every year from preventible causes. >> the kids die every day - it's an abomination. >>> some of the wealthier countries are failing to care for their own youth according to u.n.i.c.e.f. >> no society is healthy if ipp equalities are growing. >>> anthony lake served in a number of roles, including national security advisor in the clinton administration. his advice for president obama about the the wars in syria and iraq? >> join with other nations and do everything you can to bringing influence to bear through diplomacy to end this war. >>> i spoke to anthony lake in new york. as i sit and speak with you your office put out a frightening report about what is going on in syria and iraq and in that region in general. you say that 14 million kids have been affected by that conflict. that is

they've worked in afghanistan, in iraq, in south sudan, in somali and places like this. so they push back very hard. if it gets to the point where they feel they have to pay a bribe or you know allow some of it to go to a local official they'll just stop. and we don't go into that town. and that has happened. there are times when we just say okay, we can't work there. but then the surrounding towns continue to get it and then we find they come back and say okay, well, we'll let it in after all. >> and the other -- did you want to respond to that? go ahead. >> i would. thank you very much. yes, they are inhibiting humanitarian aid workers from delivering aid. just to give you an example we talked earlier in the hearing about those in besieged areas. about 212,000 that are besieged. about 145,000 of them are besieged by the regime. so they are not allowing aid workers or aid organizations to get in. we probably come closest to your example of starvation in a place like yarmouk where it's been extremely difficult for the palestinian u.n. agency to get in and actually provid

when it does happen, the partners, they are experienced and they've worked in iraq and south sudan and somalia and they push back hard. if it gets to the point they feel they have to pay a bribe or allow some of it go to a local official, they'll just stop and we don't go into that town. and that has happened. there are times when we just say, we can't work there. but then the surrounding towns continue to get it and then we find they come back and say, okay, well we'll let it in after all. >> did you want to respond to that? >> i would. thank you very much. yes, they are in hinting humanitarian workers from delivering aid. we talked about those in besieged areas, about 212,000, about 145,000 of them are besieged by the regime and not allowing aid workers or aid organizations to get in. we probably come closest to your example of starvation in the place like yarmuke where it is difficult for the palestinian u.n. agency to get in and provide health and food and so on. so it is administrative and bureaucratic obstacles, bombs and barrel bombing and not being able to get into key areas bu

iraq. the biggest concern is the growing number of moroccans fighting along i.s.i.l. and al qaeda. and the risk of revenge attacks by the fighters as they make it back to the country >>> south sudan parliament voted to extend the president's stay in parliament. the move is scene as going against peace efforts by mediators, pushing ki ago r and the rebel leader to share power >>> an anticorruption campaigner has gone on trial in angola. raphael markus published a book on blood diamonds accusing rulers of murder and torture. he faces nine years in prison but says he will not be silent. >> i'm not a victim here i'm a proactive citizen. i raised the issues knowing what the consequences are, and am prepared to face the consequences. that's why i say it's a privilege to go to the court and challenge the seven generals and basically tell them no matter what the outcome is we'll win. >> india's supreme court struck down a controversial law curtailing internet freedomsism it's known as section 66 a of the information and technology abbing making it illegal -- act, making it illegal to post matter on crime that is offensive in character. jamil has more from new delhi. >> reporter: one of t

south sudan libya and yemen. these forces currently conducting strikes in syria iraq training the iraqi army and protecting our embassy in baghdad. these are i can assure you they're well trained, well led and well equipped. but we've had to make tough choices to deal with the effects of two wars, sequestration in 2013 and reduced budgets in 2014 into 2015. in order to maintain a readiness of our four deployed forces we have not sufficiently invest in home station readiness, modernization, infrastructure sustainment, and quality of life programs. as a result, approximately afl half of our non-deployed units, suffering personnel, equipment, and training short falls. this will result in a delayed sfns and/or the unnecessary loss of american lives. over time underinvesting in modernization will result in maintaining older and obsolete equipment at higher costs and degraded capabilities. in many areas, funding levels are forcing us to maintain legacy capabilities instead of innovating for tomorrow's threats. it will erode our competitive advantage. we don't want our marines and sailors in an unfair fight. we can meet the

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