david beasley, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, sarah.you have said that when you took on the job six years ago, you thought you could put the world food program out of business because you could solve world hunger. at that time, there were 80 million who you described as marching towards starvation. and yet, the figure now, who you would classify in that way, is 350 million. was it ever solvable or is it just an impossiblejob? sure it was, and it is. unfortunately, when i took this role, as you said, i thought we could put the world food program out of business. there were 80 million people in extreme hunger. there was no reason, with all the wealth and all the technology, we couldn't do that. but what happened? we had war after war. then climate shocks on top of that, then covid with the economic devastation. and now, of course, we got the breadbasket of the world — ukraine. and so, we havejust compiled, on top of one devastation to another. now we're facing 350 million people that literally don't know where their next meal is coming fr

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permanent representative to un agencies involved and the wife of the late senator john mccain succeeds david beasley as executive director while the w f. p is cutting food ration for rank refugees in bangladesh because of a short for the international donations that you and body says it urgently need the $125000000.00 for the international partners to avoid any further costs of food rations have been cut from $12.00 to $10.00 per month, per person. the cuts to the food ration program. com as many staple items as seeing a steep rise in prices due to the war and ukraine and growing global inflation. the food costs will impact nearly 1000000 rank of refugees living in bond. who fled persecution by myanmar military and 2017. now thomas andrews is the united nation special wrapped to or on the situation of human rights to me on my. and he says, the cuts only exacerbate and already desperate situation. i've been talking to many of families in the camps in bangladesh over the last couple of days. listen even to this point, even before the coach, they've been struggling to feed their families of 45 percent