sudan and uganda are also would raise and swarms have been cited in eritrea yemen and oman will join doreen joins us now from nairobi to tell us more about the situation what sort of food security risk is this actually posing. well ben if you look at the eastern africa region already the areas that have been affected by the locust invasion are areas that really do struggle with food insecurity and i would put it that way because we're looking at the north eastern parts of all of kenya and also areas in somalia that have already been affected by drought so there is still food security we're looking at here is that a single locust invasion is actually one that could lead to a loss of up 217-0000 tons of grain and that's enough to feed about a 1000000 people these locusts as we know them if they are moving at the speed at which we are being told they're moving at which is about 150 kilometers per day that means they could destroy even walden the 170000 tons of grain that have been given as an estimate joy we were just looking at pictures there before of aerial spraying is is that actually work

outside of the government or governments coming in to play their role in doing the areas free for doreen biro thank you very much for joining us there from nairobi in kenya the german state of brand of burkas put up 120 kilometers of electric fencing on the border with poland is an attempt to prevent wild boars infected with african swine fever from straying onto john fonte just one confirmed case of swine fever here would result in whole german pig farms being banned from exporting pork swine fever has already led to the deaths of a quarter of the world's pigs in china last month the case of the disease was discovered in a wild boar in poland just 12 kilometers from the german border. german chancellor angela merkel has called for fair relations between retailers and farmers many supermarkets to selling meat and other food of bug and prices fall or say they can't make a living thousands have been protesting over the past months now the chancellor has held a meeting a bowl in which both sides the practice is also sending german which is out of business. york is making sausages he runs on

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we also welcome ambassador doreen gold, he is the president of the jerusalem center for public affairsnd the former israeli ambassador to the united nations. the former director general of the israel ministry of foreign affairs. so if you would all rise and raise your right hand i will begin by swearing you din . do you swear to affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you and be seated. microphones are very sensitive so please directly into them. and without objection, your statement will be made partof the record and with that , mister shafir you are recognized for five minutes for your opening statement area. >> thank you thank you chairwoman, ranking member. and congresspeople. i'm honored to be here today and share with you a little bit about personal experience. >> pulled the microphone a little closer to you so we can hear better . thank you.>> i'm honored to be here, i'll share with you a little bit of my personal experience as to