correspondent: david beasley joining us. thank you so much. david: it is good to be with you.udy: in the days of the news, new numbers on covid-19 are providing fresh evidence of another wave the united states. fueled by the ba.2 variant. the new york times reported that average daily cases are up more than 30% in two weeks. the biggest increases in the northeast. public health experts are saying the new wave will be smaller than omicron was. palestinian youth battled israeli police in jerusalem today after days of growing violence. more than 150 palestinians were injured. martha fairley has our report. correspondent: from the early hours, palestinians gathered at the compound in jerusalem at the site sacred to both muslims and juice -- jews. they began throwing fireworks and stones. after weeks of growing violence, they have been urged to defend by the palestinian foreign ministry. as israeli police moved in, they came under a hail of rocks and rubble. 150 people were injured. some carried away on stretchers. writers used screen sinful the chairs as makeshift shields as polic

without us there will be famine in africa and asia. >> martha: with me right now, david beasley. s. mr. beasley, thank you very much. it's very good to have you with us. you have worked all over the world. tell me first your reaction to this news from the u.n. banning russia from the human rights council. is that significant? >> what is significant right now is you have millions of people around the world that will suffer extreme consequences as a result of this war because of the devastating not just the food supply in ukraine but going to devastate the food supply around the world. we're entering into a treacherous territory. >> explain that to us. obviously there's a huge expert company in ukraine. what is the ripple effect that they have not planted their crops and won't have a harvest come august? >> no, martha. what you're talking about, the farmers are on the front lines. and ukraine and russia have 20% of the world's corn, 30% of the supply of wheat and harvest seat for wheat in june and yeah. in the farmers on the battlefields and can't put out the fertilizer and tend to

we heard it from david beasley of the u.n. world food program.e of ukraine are suffering, yet the ukrainian resistance has forced the russians to regroup. they have taken down a huge ship, part of the russian navy. what does this war look like to you right now? david: the u.s. and the west are hanging in quite well. i think we continue to increase the amount of arms we are giving to ukraine. europe is trying to wean itself off russian oil and natural gas. so the alliance has held and if anything it is getting firmer. this point was made this week, some say there are two wars, a northern war around kyiv where the ukrainians are doing well. there is a southern war on the water, mostly over the port of odessa. the russians are doing much better in that southern war. if they can capture odessa, the main port, they would have strangled the ukrainian economy. that amounts to some sort of victory. it has become very important that the ukrainians defend odessa and do better in the war in the south and that the u.s. becomes more active in helping ukrainia

in odessa, we spoke with david beasley, the executive director of the u.n.'s world food program. >> you've got to assume that millions are at stake right now. we're reaching about two million already. we hope to scale up to four million in the weeks ahead and six million beyond that. it's going to be dependent upon two things-- money and access. >> reporter: but access has been cut off to the war's victims in the heavily besieged cities of eastern ukraine. >> we can't reach them. we're blocked. we can't get into the besieged cities like mariupol, mykolaiv, and kherson and i could go on and on. they have to be starving. >> o'donnell: well, you can watch scott pelley's full report sunday night on "60 minutes." and still ahead right here on tonight's "cbs evening news," a final salute to a fallen new york city firefighter. and an american family causes a major scare in israel. you won't believe what they tried to bring through airport security. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd

we'll talk with the head of the united nations world food program, david beasley, and take a look atther jump in the inflation rate here in the u.s. will our food and gas prices go even higher? it's all just ahead on "face the nation." good morning and welcome to "face the nation." on a day when we're honoring the holy holidays of easter, pasover, and ramadan, it is difficult to come to grips with the bleak news this morning. overnight, there have been mass shootings at a shopping mall in columbia, south carolina, and at a party in east allegheny, part of pittsburgh. in jerusalem, there were more clashes at the temple mount between israeli police and palestinian protestors. in north korea, pictures released showed kim jong-un celebrating what appears to be the successful test fire of a tactical-guided weapon. in the first outdoor mass since the pandemic began, pope francis said the world is marking an easter of war and he urged peace. we begin, as we always do, with the news. but we do hope you'll stay with us through our second half hour, when we focus on some of the efforts being m

he david beasley believes that food shortages will cause another migration crisis, then hungry peoplepoor regions will flood the eu countries and the united states against this background, the 2015 crisis will be similar to a summer picnic to sum up. well , who is to blame? russia might think european american analysts are alarmed, saying that the ukrainian crisis will lead to a shortage of fertilizer lies farmers' ability to produce sufficient crops. at the same time, the fact is hushed up that after the start of a special military operation in ukraine, it was the west that increased sanctions pressure on russia, an economic war against our country. actually, it undermined the supply chain, speaking of hunger. we must clearly understand that this is a largely artificial situation. who can solve this artificial situation, who can allow all highly developed countries. our largest exporters of wheat are the usa australia canada france germany, that is, they, well, about 100 million. in that, they export wheat. vaughn assessed the scale of the growing food crisis in the organization beli

david beasley food shortage. can lead to political chaos.think we're in hell on earth right now, then just brace yourselves warned ghisley european leadership. if we neglect north africa, then north africa will come to europe; if we neglect the middle east, then the middle east will come to europe. essential goods, you will not immediately understand, this is russia, where only this week, the hunt for sugar has finally stopped, or, for example, spain, the inhabitants, who these days stock up on flour and sunflower oil. if we compare the situation with the current commodity crisis in the world and the doomsday clock during the cold war, then this clock struck yesterday. this is how the shelves look like, on which sunflower oil should stand, a maximum of two bottles, sea transportation, the southern direction has suffered greatly. now aviation logistics is also suffering from a simple delivery of goods from point a to point b turns into a real adventure well , this and not only prices will skyrocket about the shortage vegetables, and marketpla

we are joined by david beasley, the executive director of the world food program. >> thank you for coming. you just got back from kyiv. i wonder right now. we'll get to the crisis on the food in a moment. what did you see in bucha? what are your impressions? >> 80% of them are in war zones. we're used to seeing destruction and war. what i saw in booxa was just horrifying. you can understand that tanks have been blown up and exploded. when you see homes, i walked spoke a place that was, an orphanage that was decimated. land mines, oh, don't walk there. you may hit a land mine. why in the world would this be happening in residential neighborhoods? you just can't believe this is taking place. >> the orphanage and the mines. you can't believe it. it is horrendous what has been happening. what is also horrendous is what is about to happen. we all know this crisis is coming. a crisis with world food supply. if nothing is done, it will be a catastrophe. what are you hearing? is there any movement around the world? world leaders, donors, whatever, trying to fix this crisis of food availability. >

now, earlier my colleague john vause spoke with david beasley, the executive director of the world food program. and he says a global food crisis is likely to be a long-term one. here they are. >> everybody talks about the unpredictability what's going to happen in ukraine but i can tell you what is predictable. what is very predictable we're going to have a very serious global food crisis over the next 12 months. ukraine and russia alone produced 30% of the world's supply of wheat, 20% of the world's supply of corn or maize. 50% of the wheat we buy, of the grains we buy to feed 125 million people around the world comes from inside ukraine alone. ukraine, the farmers inside this nation who are now on the battle fronts, not in the fields produce enough food to feed 400 million people. so when you compound that with fuel prices going up, commodity prices going up, shipping costs going up, you can see there's an immediate crisis and there's going to be a long-term crisis. >> find out how you can help people in ukraine who may need food, shelter, water, please go to cnn.com/impact. and just

david beasley from the u.n. world food program is on the ground in ukrainian.and idea of what they need. >> we reached over a million people inside ukraine. >> now the world food program is focusing on feeding people and also working around the clock to keep global aid supply lines working. they bought 800,000 tons of wheat from ukraine each year. the countries that need it are in need of alternative supplies. >> we have the bread basket of the world, ukraine, shut down now for production. >> beasley tells fox news in an exclusive interview that he communicated with russian leadership saying food supply ships must be allowed to safely leave their ports. he demanded access to life-saving aid in ukraine. >> i have asked written letters to demand that we, given the access to reach these innocent people. it's not complicated. it's very simple. give us the access to let us do what we do best. that's save lives in times of war and conflict. >> while there's aid flowing in to ukraine, beasley says it's not enough. every city across this country remains in the sights o

the groups executive director david beasley says the situation on the ground is horrific. i was just in boots or just literally a couple hours ago is seen on the streets, the devastation here in the stories of, of women, children being indiscriminately shot. i went to an orphanage orbit, a home where 40 orphans were living and it's been bomb completely just destroyed. it's just ripping what we're seeing on the ground here. you know, most of the farmers are the truck drivers or guess where they are, they on the front last friday tried to defend their country. and so this is a task in itself. and then you've got all the checkpoints, with military offences taking place and trying to move supplies in harm's way. and we know how to do this. we operate basically 80 percent of our worldwide operations are in areas of war or conflict. so we know how to do this, and i can tell you this is a very, very complex and difficult place to operate right now. movie supplies of food in these war areas is extremely difficult for us. and we're very concerned that people are starving because we

as you heard from david beasley last week, conflict, climate shock, covid, compounded by the soaring food and fuel costs indicated by the secretary general could push another 47 million people globally into severe food insecurity. so the total number of people around the world who will not know where their next meal will come from could be driven to the astonishing figure of 325 million people around the world. that is by a long distance the highest in recent history and double what was -- what it was three years ago. so madam president, i remind the council of what the council already knows well. the world cannot afford this war and neither can the people of ukraine, and like all others, i call member states to support all efforts from whatever part they come from in the pursuit of peace and the alleviation of humanitarian posturing, for the same of the people of ukraine, for the sake of those around the world who cannot afford to bear the additional burden this war imposes on them and all of us, we must, as the secretary general said -- the others. thank you, madam president. >> i

david beasley of the united nations world food program as always, we appreciate you being a knowledge of data, so thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you up time or had on the news or including we're going to have the latest from south africa where hundreds of people have died in the worst floods. in 60 years after a year of waiting, somali is new members of parliament and sworn and more ahead on the violence that stole the election process on the atlanta hawks. so one went away from the n. b. a playoffs generally is gonna be here with the action and sport ah, is really i'm, he says dozens of palestinians who've been arrested and had weapons confiscated. it's part of what israel calls counter terrorism operations. its forces shot dead to palestinians during raids on villages in the early hours of thursday morning. it happened years in, in, in the occupied west bank for other people were killed earlier, including a 14 year old boy is ready forces have been conducting raid since a palestinian gunman killed 3 israel in tel aviv last week. it abraham's joining us live from jea

david beasley, executive director of the u.n.world food program on the ground in ukraine, speaking with local residents to get a better idea what they need. >> day 50, reached over 1 million people inside ukraine. >> the world food program is focussed on feeding more than 1 million people in the war torn country. its officials are also working around the clock to keep global aid supply lines running. the organization buys 880,000 tons of wheat and other commodities from ukraine each year. the countries that receive the food are in need of alternative supplies. >> we have the bread basket of the world, ukraine, is shut down now for production. >> beasley tells fox news in an exclusive interview he communicated with russian leadership saying food supply ships must be allowed to safely leave their ports and access to deliver lifesaving aid to civilians in ukraine. >> and i have personally asked, written letters to demand we, given the access to reach innocent people. it's not complicated, it's very simple. give us the access what we

david beasley head of the world food program warned they were being quote starved to death. in washington noted more than 1,000 civilians including women and children remain in the basement of the steel plant. quote, this is what hell on earth looks like. that's major commander of ukraine's 36th marine brigade, which is still in the city. he wrote that in a letter to pope francis this week published in english later. i have little time to describe the horrors i see every day. women with children and babies are living in bunkers at the factory. they are hungry and cold. you also report on the military significance of mariupol still being in ukrainian control, not yet falling to russia. i wonder what you make of the final pleas by video to the united states and the west to help with the civilian population that remains there. >> it's been so heartbreaking in the past couple of days to see those remaining forces that have so bravely defended mariupol and now for several weeks as bobby said, against a much better arm than what we all thought would be a much more formidable power

we spoke to david beasley of the world food program and he is concerned about food shortages in certainet era helicopters to ukraine, congressman michael walz joins me now. what can you tell us about those helicopters and other weapons we are sending to ukraine. >> reporter: these helicopters were intended for the afghan military. my question is why weren't they shipped last fall after the debacle from afghanistan. we see the biden administration belatedly starting to send weapons like howitzers, artillery rounds, even some anti-ship capabilities but we are two months into this war, why the ukrainians were asking for them before the invasion, perhaps a greater deterrent effect, and the joint chiefs agreed ukrainians had anti-ship missiles on day one, they would be in a better position. we should be sinking more russian ships and this activity can develop within the black see is tremendous because they have owned the black see for the duration. ukrainians are asking for antiship missiles. we didn't send them, they were too provocative. these neptune missiles developed domestically. we've

so we do see that we have an impending famine and i heard from david beasley at the world food bank thatcan you do about it, senator? >> well, again, i think we all agree, the quickest way to address this situation is for ukraine to actually win this war so that they can get back to whatever normal is after this invasion. but simply supporting them with the lethal aid is a step forward, additional sanctions on russia a step forward but then there are ways that we can help provide diesel fuel which is necessary for the planting season in ukraine because all of their he diesel fuel is going towards the war effort. we can assist with other types of planting measures. but there are many things we can do but bottom line, maria, ukraine must win this war and win it quickly. maria: senator, you make so many important points. i want to come back to that and ask you about the weaponry that they need and why they don't have it but dr. hopko let me switch gears and get your take on what we're seeing on the ground and what the consequences are of this. you heard roger marshall call it famine expecte

appreciate you putting a spotlight on that in the work on you doing on that we're including with david beasleywith ambassador mccain. this is not vitally important because one of the horrific consequences of the russian aggression against ukraine's and situation of what was already a significant food security challenge around the world. probably have an additional 40 million people as a result of the aggression and the inability because of russia. of the ukrainians to export effectively. the week that they're producing, blockades of the black sea ports. literally attacking farms and farmers. this is of course contributing to difficulty in countries getting wheat that they had contracted for. there are some a huge move that's been produced this year but it can't get out of the country because of the russian blockade among other things. so we're seeing the effects literally on the world as you know. and we're operating on a number of lines of effort to address this directly. first let me just say that next meal we're going to share the security council of the nine nations. i'm putting the focus