a moment ago we were talking to david beesley, who's the executive director of the us world program. we've reestablished our connection. david basically, thanks again for, for sticking around and speaking to us, let me ask you about syria, because you just visited the country and, and you say there are widespread concerns over growing hunger there. what's the driving force behind the food insecurity? what you then literally years of the conflict along now with economics creation code and you've also got droughts, they're producing about 25 percent of the week that they normally would produce. i literally was there in the last few days. i was there just a few hours ago in damascus as well as in aleppo. and you can't really believe how bad it is. food prices are now 7 times where they were 2 years ago. people don't have jobs. i was talking to women begging for more food. we're assisting about 65 and a half, 6000000 people throughout the country in the 11 region. but i, we're literally, we're mean about 500000 people with about 30 to 40 percent rations in about a half a 1000000 people ar

they will join our by david beesley, executive director for the u. n world food program. good to have you with us, david. as always, the pictures that we're seeing out of afghanistan are our heartbreaking. they're very difficult sometimes to, to, to watch just how bad is it going to get, you know, robert just left there. i was in, i have given us in this morning in these pictures, you're talking about stories. these are not isolated incidents, this is rapid across the country and it's only deteriorated as we speak right now. we're looking at a country of 40000000 people, whereby now you have 23000000 marching towards starvation and out of that almost 9000000 or it famines door knocking away. and as i talked with mothers and fathers who lost the jobs, have no more money, they're showing everything they have. and now the winter months are coming. they don't have heating fuel, they're running out of food. miss jessica, as we've talked before about the complex interaction of things that come to get us to the situation. but is there something specific that you can point to that

my colleague rob matheson spoke to david beesley, who's the executive director for the u. n. world food program. he says, i've got a son is in a deep humanitarian crisis, and called on the international community to urgently unfreeze after is not just years of conflict, but also you've had drought economic deterioration along with coven compounding all of that. and now you've got the international community because the taliban is taken over freezing all international resources. and that's billions of dollars. that normally would be going to teachers and health care workers. and that trickles down, trickles down to the 2 men and women who may be cleaning holes are out in the streets and, and i talked to doesn't as dozens of the men and women who just heartbroken, they don't know what they're going to do. i mean, you are already hearing stories of, of women mother's cell in one child the fee, the other children in hopes that, that child can be taken care of by another family. and it hasn't gotten as bad as this going to yet yet. and the next 6 months are going to be heretic

according to world food program chief david beesley. well, let's go live now to read, should friends out of the you and food and agriculture organization. afghanistan, thanks for joining us from cobble this hour. we know you've got a lot of play today, so appreciate it all the more. just how bad is the humanitarian situation in afghanistan right now. i told of he was it's, it's the, it's the worst humanitarian situation in the world. is that overstating the fact saddlin and deeply alarming me? the answer is to your question is know the numbers speak for themselves or the latest projections that we have based on the enormous amount of assessment and looking at what's going on. all that by the end of the year 22800000 of girls will be facing what we call acute food insecurity versus a hunger on a daily basis. that's 55 percent of the population. and indeed, in absolute terms that will place afghanistan in terms of the people who are right on the brink of what we call catastrophe, that will make it the world's largest hunger crisis in the