you have the director general of the fao. we have the president of unicef. the who. it is a who's who trying to get the world to focus on the real problem. >> it is unfortunate, isn't it? it has been many years that organizations have been warning that we are not doing what we are supposed to be doing to reduce hunger and malnutrition. in fact, one thing about this report that makes it more said, is that the numbers predate the war. it reflects back on the developments of 2001 and before. already we have failed. prices of food had been bracing before the -- had been rising before the war. we are in a situation that there was no better term than to call it a crisis. we are in trouble and i think -- it is good they all came together and pledging again for a global effort, but honestly, something fundamental has to happen or else we are into much deeper problems in the future. sohail: you touched on one of those issues is ukraine. we cannot blame everything on what is happened on the war. but we were coming out about pandemic. we saw the problems within two years, but t

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. >> when it comes to the global wheat crop what is it fao is most concerned about?$24.5 billion in increasing food importing. very few countries control the majority of exports. if something happens, to any of these countries, because of an extreme weather condition, this will immediately have an impact in world exports and immediately have an impact in prices. next year, if the war continues, then, we will have a reduction in exports from ukraine and the russian federation. that is when we are really talking of a crisis. >> the war in ukraine expose how vulnerable our world food system is to shocks. the greatest of these will be climate change. farmers like sebastian have no choice but to adapt. >>[speaking non-english language] >> this week the director general of the world health organizationarned that the covid pandemic is nowhere near over as global case numbers of the disease are once again rising in part thanks to a new variant, ba.5. in resnse, countries around the world are taking different forms of action. starting on friday, anybody who tests positive in

will be directed to support farmers, the food and agricultural organization of the united nations (faos launched a new project to help ukrainian agricultural producers. markets, the initiative is financed by japan , according to our government, due to the blockade of the black sea ports in the country, it is still 18 million tons of last year's harvest of grain and oil crops, they expect to be sent to their foreign customers. russia earned 24 billion dollars from the sale of oil and gas and coal, and this is only in the last three months, an amount of 13 billion more than in the same period last year. the main buyers are india and according to the analysts of the bloomberg agency, china, despite the fact that energy resources were sold at a discount, the increase in world prices for them did not decrease, on the contrary, they increased the kremlin's income , experts say, china lost spent on energy carriers twice more than a year earlier, and india increased purchases by as many as five. let me remind you that the leaders of the g7 countries promised to develop a mechanism that will he

when i lead a delegation and we had the opportunity to meet with the head of the fao who happens to bea chinese national and we met with you and your team and i pressed the head of the fao on russia's response ability for this food crisis because of its aggression ukraine we cannot get a similarly clear and forceful answer. i can think of no more stark example of the consequences of our failing to pay our arrears at the un and creating an opening for prc leadership on different multilateral agencies and entities of the united nations. let me ask something i think you should answer which is the operational challenges, the ranking member referenced in his opening, i am concerned about skyrocketing costs operationally because of what russia is doing in ukraine. what are you seeing around the world? how can we help you with the increasing costs you are seeing and how have your cash-based interventions helped to circumvent the operating costs of delivering millions of tons of food around the world? >> the greater flex >> get from the united states government which would sway european nation

in february, weaker harvests and covid-19 induced swings into man lead to a new record high in the fao global food price index. at that point prices were 40% higher than they were before the pandemic began. and then vladimir putin decided to invade ukraine and hold food hostage. since the war began, the russian military has destroyed and mind ukrainian farmland. and effectively blockaded ukraine's black seaports, giving 20 million tons of corn and -- trillions of calories are literally sitting in storage while people go without food. with storage facilities still full, this year's summer harvest and expected 50 million tons of grain sold by courageous ukrainian -- those tons of great have nowhere to be stockpiled. ukraine and that you have puzzled to enable -- ukraine and the european union have hustled to enable some of the brain and we are working side-by-side with them. about 2 million tons a month getting out through a patchwork of routes and a lot of ingenuity. while putin's fleet maintains its blockade, the united nations and turk the have been working for weeks to try to secure

when it comes to the global wheat crop what is it that fao are most concerned about?rity of the exports. if something happens to any of these countries, because of an extreme weather condition, it will immediately have an impact in the world exports and immediately have an impact in the prices. the major problem for us is next year. because if the war continues, then we will have a reduction in the exports of ukraine and the russian federation. and that is when we were really talking of a huge food crisis. the war in ukraine exposed just how vulnerable our global food system is to shocks. and the greatest of these will be climate change. farmers like sebastien neveux have no choice but to adapt. stephanie hegarty, bbc news, in rural france. let's ta ke let's take you back now to the west bank, bethlehem, the occupied west bank, bethlehem, the occupied west bank, where president biden arrived just a few moments ago to meet with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. president biden has committed another £100 billion to support palestinian hospitals. —— 100