world food program whose director david beasley has just returned from yemen. i caught up with him in brussels where he's lobbying european leaders to help stem the suffering. >> david beasley, welcome to the program. >> it's good to be here but not under these circumstances. >> i wonder whether you might actually be getting a little bit more positive when you think of what's happening and how the spotlight has focused the world through the khashoggi murder onto the possibility of resolving the yemen crisis. >> i would like to think there's light at the end of the tunnel, i'm start to hear, and it's more from exhaustion kprffrom those engaged in the conflict. the people of yemen are suffering immeasurably. we've been supporting about 8 million yemenis but what we're seeing now is a striking increase in the number of severely hungry people, not just hungry people, people marching toward the brink of starvation has now risen from 8 to almost 12 million people. >> that is really, really dramatic. i wonder what you can tell me. the king of saudi arabia who, as you

not long ago i had an interview with david beasley. he is the head of the u.n. world food program who is responsible for trying to alleviate at least some of the humanitarian burden. and when i previously interviewed him, he was very harsh on saudi arabia and what they were doing around the port of hodeidah. now he's saying he's angry with what the houthis are doing particularly around the port, particularly in holding up and threatening the flow of supplies. now, here is what he told me just a few days ago. >> i'm being hard on the houthis because they don't provide the access we need. they deny us the visas and equipment we need for the personnel to deliver the food assistance in the different regions throughout yemen. the saudis have been more cooperative. the uae has really been remarkably cooperative in working with us in terms of humanitarian financial support and access. here's what's deplorable. when i left, literally, two days after i left. we found inside our red sea mill grain silo what are the type of land mines houthis have been using and this is in

head of the world food program who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted as sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket and it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know they could not get a little smile and just like took on a ghost and nothing there. next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities to data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats told me they don't think the saudis welcomed the idea of a new resolution james poses al-jazeera at the united nations civilians hospitals and schools have reportedly been hit in a new round of attacks on data. has more now from japan across the red sea from yemen. both your food source and

head of the world food programme who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted just sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket in it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know to get out get a little smile and just like took on a ghost. unearth in the. next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats tell me they don't think the saudis welcome the idea of a new resolution james zero at the united nations to europe now protests underway across france over the rising cost of fuel demonstrators wearing yellow vests or threatened to gridlock the country's roads and blocked access to some oil dep

really devastating the security council has been hearing from the head of the world food program david beasley an earlier he spoke to reporters here at the united nations making it clear that the situation is very bad yemenis do not have enough food right now and he says it could be between two and six months or now that there is a complete famine in yemen just listen to his comments about his trip in the last few days to yemen he visited her data one little child and i remember a little feet was sticking out the blanket and you know it's kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know they get out get a little smile and just like took on a ghost and nothing there. james what about the saudis or how are they likely to respond to all of this. this of course is the very important question what is saudi going to do right now given this resolution is coming forward the peace talks are coming forward it's difficult to ascertain but i have been speaking to diplomats i've been traveling in the last weeks i've been speaking to diplomats and officials in washington d.c. in paris and here in

program who said he believes that in a matter of months there could be a full scale famine in yemen david beasley has just come back from the country and in fact forty eight hours ago he was in the port of data he also visited a hospital while he was in yemen and told reporters earlier this one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket in it was kind of cute and i went to call the little feet you know take it out get a little smile and. just like took on a ghost. and nothing there. and james i'm sure diplomats there will be very interested to see and hear her side is going to respond and react to this yes that is the big question with talk over un security council resolution talk of peace talks ahead how is saudi arabia going to respond i've been speaking to diplomats i've been traveling over the last week or so in washington d.c. here in new york and also in paris and i'm detecting that saudi arabia does not like these moves it doesn't like the idea of a new u.n. resolution that is not something it wants it's not entirely convinced it wants to have new peace talks taki

head of the world food program who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of her data while in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted as sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket and it was kind of cute and i went to called the little feet you know to get out get a little smile and just like to kind of ghost. enough in there next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats told me they don't think the saudis welcome the idea of a new resolution james al-jazeera at the united nations protests are underway across france over the rising cost of fuel demonstrators wearing yellow vests are threatening to block the country's roads and block access to some oil depos dies

what i mean by that is to the best of my understanding in south carolina, when david beasley took it down in 2000, it was a compromise and if they keep it on the statehouse grounds, it was in conjunction with the confederate memorial. but there was individuals who was climbing the pole to remove it from a historical marker after dylan roof killed those individuals in charleston. so here we have a compromise, one like you propose, and we just have it in a historical connotation, but that compromise was said to be no good and you also have like each of the national park service no longer selling it in the history memorabilia shop. there is even places that say no putting out the confederate flag, and you know more about it than me. about putting it out there, and in graveyards. i guess my question and like i said, what does it matter in the compromise context because it seems that the opposing side doesn't really care. that is my question, what does it matter? >> i will refer to something that i said about the trajectory of change that was visible before 2015. the compromise that occur

head of the world food program who says the country is only months away from full scale famine david beasley had just forty eight hours earlier being in the main yemeni port of a data wall in yemen he visited a hospital in sanaa that only has the capacity for twenty child patients a day they receive about fifty cases those not admitted to sent home to die one little child and i remember little feet was sticking out the blanket and it was kind of cute and i went to call the little feet you know thinking i'd get a little smile and just like to clean a ghost and nothing there. next week the u.k. will circulate a draft resolution to the other members of the security council calling for a sation of hostilities at data and other key locations used for transporting aid how will saudi arabia react diplomats tell me they don't think the saudis welcome the idea of a new resolution james al-jazeera at the united nations just want to take you back to the protests in france really quickly i'm just having a look at the live wall here we're getting a live shot in from paris of what's starting to look like