david met of, i'm president of the international rescue committee talks to alex's era, the david miller and president of the international rescue committee. thank you for talking to alex, is there around? let's start with garza, it's a will be covered extensively on this channel. the i'll see is in bold as trying to deliver aids. what are the challenges it's facing? well, 1st of all, i think it's important to say that the coverage that i'll just era is giving to the gaza crisis is well narrative. and it's very, very important because it's vital that the facts and the reality and the agony of the situation on the ground in gaza is broad cost accurately to a wide audience. the international rescue committee is a global humanitarian organization and we've been absolutely committed to doing everything we can on the ground in gaza without local was to make sure that some relief from the war without ever forgetting that the only way to give absolute protection to civilians in gauze and to ensure the aid is delivered that the injured or treated is for the fighting to stop. now while the fighti

the office for the international rescue committee in haiti.rently in montrÉal after leaving haiti sunday evening. i spoke with him earlier. thank you for joining us on bbc news. you just left haiti. much of your team is still there. can you tell us, the team you are working with, what they are seeing an weather situation is like for them now? >> right now we are mainly working with local partners. the situation right now, it is very hard for them to deliver services to a client and now they are being forced to stop services as we are speaking now. >> warning from the game leader, barbecue, that if president henry does not step down there will be a civil war leading to genocide, how real do you perceive that threat to be? >> obviously, we are working with humanitarian organizations to have a safe environment where we can deliver aid and assistance to the population of haiti right now. because, we have like 50% of the population on the brink of falling into hunger for going hungry every day right now. the situation on the ground is very dire. an

more on this, i'm joined by the president and ceo of the international rescue committee, former foreignue: refugees and the political crisis of our time." thank you for joining us. great to see this morning. >> thank you, trevon me along, ali. thanks for drawing attention to what is, in some ways, come located situation very simple complications we need to address. >> you said that well. that's it the right. it is a superconductivity situation, right now, we have a problem that can be sold. you just released, in fact, an important national security memorandum, alongside other prominent ngo's this morning, including action against hunger care and save the children. i want to read you a little bit from it. you are talking about the fact that, under a new policy directive from president biden, national security memorandum 20, u.s. security partners must now provide written assurances that they will use u.s. security assistance in accordance with international law and facilitating humanitarian assistance, and in the coming weeks for the u.s. government, they will assess these assurances fro

and so at the international rescue committee for my british foreign minister, i think support this is just not a physical at the southern help and trying to uh, bypass all the guys we physically this right is, is, is when you know warranties when they have all these states that continues to freeze it states across all act and get really makes one say what a statement i think the states up to doesn't want to just i'm the mind everything about the just the conditions and god doesn't want the story. busy that is the problem with the border between israel and egypt for this rise and gossip. and you can put a lot of pressure to is the, the best options oh porch. why gonna get this right. busy the computer all these flushes really must be to the american officials. oh, certainly one of the us. why do they put this thing out of a hat? for shoot, the trucks are waiting to enter guys, that could be just model of a shot is obviously the senior political analyst. small one is always thank you very much. indeed the most sizes are done. civil war. a welcome to united nations call for a cease fire

do i'm from the international rescue committee working with spies a sec. so i'm set to face side arriving via in ranks in south c dot c. thanks so much milk and nothing. wait for us there and rank. okay, still a hit here. oh now and you 0 struggling to find the cash donald trump flores, so he counts either hundreds of millions of dollars by a judge who's civil for the big gang violence periods in haiti's capital. at least 14 people are killed as gunman, the tax to upscale neighborhood, the the elastic still feeding offensive weather into most of europe. but avoiding it that it may not look like it is odd barry, and particularly in, in spain. there was a training in front across it, but until that comes into action, it could be the 1st safety of the year in mercy. that is on monday. now it'll cool down a little bit on tuesday and wednesday, as more share was build. this is where the western, when the weather comes through, it is still very miles. you'll notice other from the cold enough is now no way for the slow lazy circulation here is still call bringing

the international rescue committee as a humanitarian organization that the dual humanitarian imperative, a legal and moral humanitarian burden of protecting civilians from fighting and of delivering aid to civilians. they can only be met by an immediate and enduring ceasefire. remember this is a legal as well as a moral imperative and legal right that these people have not just to life and limb, to survival but to aid delivery >> legal and moral incredibly important reminder. you can watch the rest of that conversation online and amanpour.com coming up on the program oscar winner olivia coleman on her new movie. and what trolling look like before social media. but first from the archive my 2012 interview with the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, and how vladimir putin set out to destroy his democratic legacy that's when we come back >> when mario needs to be at his best, he needs protection that goes beyond doug men with 72 hour protections and one-quarter moisturizer so he can forget his under arms and focus on being unforgettable. dove men, forgettable under arms and forgettable

not the international rescue committee joined just from new york. thanks for being with us. so how important the step was this adoption of the resolution at the un security council? does it make any, any difference on the ground? well, it's a critical 1st step, or matches now is the to con, very urgent priorities of 1st implementation, bringing it into the fighting release and the hostages, and particularly getting humanitarian, paid in at scale to save the lives of hundreds of thousands and then, and currently working out what happens in 2 weeks time is very short, ceasefire with nearly half way through the holy month of ramadan. so everyone involved in this, the star negotiation is gonna have to get the heads back down and continue negotiating as to what happens next. i'm moving towards permanency as far as cost. and what about the, the blocking of food deliveries that we've seen in northern gosh, as well it's, we're reaching breaking points as you saw in the report last week, a 1000000 people facing immune from in almost as bad in the south of gaza where the ours are crow

been working at alaksa marters hospital since mid march. set up by the relief group's international rescue committee and medical aid for palestinians. you asked me about the ability of the healthcare system to deal with it. people are tired. we, our team has been doing this for 5 days, we're exhausted. i can't imagine what the gazen team who's been here for 162 days doing this 24/7, 162 days without resources is dealing with. you asked me whether they had the resources to to deal with these cases. is no, it's catastrophic, there are so many injuries, they have overwhelmed the capacity of not just his hospital, but the entire healthcare system that has been targeted and collapsed months ago, and that top of outbreaks of epidemics, malnutrition and deterioration in people's general health, particularly people with chronic health diseases, you have a system that just is clear, clearly not coping, let's get... some thoughts on those developments within the moments we have left on this episode of gaza under attack, saha jaba and lamprini thoma are still with me and saha, there's so much to onpick here, b

she during secretary hillary clinton and joining us virtually is the presidency of the international rescue committee and former uk foreign secretary and also in itp distinguished fellow. i you. there's a startling statistic that we have which is more than 600 million women and girls live in conflict affected countries in 2022. that's a 50% increase since 2017 and that's really shocking but there are two things going on here more conflict and more women being imp women and girls are disproportionately affected when it comes not just to the violence but how it affects their health care economic prosperity and participation. we have heard some very granular approach is that people like the secretary is taking to help women participate in the workforce in the u.s. fore. example. how do we apply this hands on thinki■ to international organizations and ngos that reality for women everywhere around the world? >> it's a perfect question and one we should all be thinking abt together. i'll take the three areas that youre mentioned. hetarted with health and we have been talking about the care economy and abou

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been working at alaksa marters hospital since mid march. set up by the relief group's international rescue committee and medical aid for palestinians. you asked me about the ability of the healthcare system to deal with it. people are tired. we, our team has been doing this for five days, we're exhausted. i can't imagine what the gazen team who's been here for 162 days doing this 24/7, 162 days without resources is dealing with. you asked me whether they had the resources to to deal with these cases. cases, no, it's catastrophic, there are so many injuries, they have overwhelmed the capacity of not just his hospital, but the entire healthcare system, that has been targeted and collapsed months ago, and that top of outbreaks of epidemics, malnutrition and deterioration in people's general health, particularly people with chronic health diseases, you have a system that just is clear, clearly not coping, let's get. get some thoughts on those developments within the moments we have left on this episode of gaza under attack. saha jaba and lamprini thoma are still with me and saha, there's so much to onpi

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well, nora love as the emergency director of the international rescue committee and has been overseeing the organizations response and hate tea. she says that the ongoing violence and porter prince was hindered their ability to provide humanitarian assistance. 2 of our organizations had to do to actually hibernate. these last few days cuz it's been unsafe to send their stuff out to the field. so getting them back into their, into the, the clinics, getting them back out, doing the mobile health outreach and is really important. so their ability to be able to access their programs is, is 1st, i would say the 2nd is making sure you know we can bring products into the country . so we don't run out of the medicines that are desperately needed. so ensuring that the, the borders are open to receive goods and so continually access into the most needed areas with, with, with materials to be able to do that with. no stability is key to, to the future of haiti. the iris who puts out a watchlist report every year and hades been on the last the last 3 years. and instability is one of the largest rea

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serge dalexis leads the office for the international rescue committee in haiti and is currently in montrealsunday evening. the bbc spoke to him earlier. what we are hoping for now it is like to have a safe and secure government where we can deliver aid and assistance to the population of haiti right now. because we have half of the population on the brink of famine due to hunger or going hungry every day right now in the situation on the ground is very dire and now we have gained control more than 80% of the capital city, and as i mentioned earlier, the situation looks very bad for every normal haitian or everyone living in haiti right now. the united states vowed to hold the houthi militia group accountable for the deaths of three civilians after a missile strike hit a commercial ship in the gulf of aden on wednesday. the attack took place about a hundred kilometres southwest of the yemeni port of aden. four people were also injured. the group has regularly attacked merchant ships in the crucial shipping corridor since the israel—gaza war began, but this is the first such attack to result

serge dalexis leads the office for the international rescue committee in haiti, and is currently in montrealti on sunday evening. the bbc spoke to him earlier. what we are hoping for now is to have a safe environment where we can deliver aid and assistance to the population is haiti right now, because we have half of the population on the brink of famine, into hunger, going hungry every day right now, and the situation on the ground is dire. now we have the ground is dire. now we have the gangs controlling more than 80% of the capital city. as mentioned earlier, the situation looks very bad for every normal haitian, or everyone there right now. a group of protesters in mexico city have driven a pick—up truck through a door to the country's presidential palace. they were met by police officers, who used tear gas on the protesters. the group was protesting the 2014 mass disappearance of 43 mexican students. president andres manuel lopez obrador was inside the building at the time, giving a daily press c0 nfe re nce . he said the door will be fixed, adding that the protesters will meet with mem

the international rescue committee, would not put it in such direct terms.t president and former british foreign secretary david milliband said it is certainly a �*profound failure of humanity'. these decisions in respect to the flow of aid needs to change on the part of the israeli authorities, if the situation of the civilians in gaza is to be remedied. the amount of aid going in has to massively increase, what the un calls a tsunami of aid is needed. the approach to the "dual use" that you mentioned needs to change so that medical scissors are available for the doctors who work for us to be able to do their operations properly. and those are decisions that could be taken independent of the conduct of the rest of the conflict. if there was a going income the question is who would distribute it. joining me now is the deputy director general at the food and agricultural assocation of the un, beth bechdol, who is in rome. lovely to have you on the programme. we featured on the programme last night a colour—coded scale which i will put on the screen again for

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what more are they saying about that to groups such as aux found the international rescue committee, other road groups that have been working for years inside dogs or under the auspices of unreal. i'll have said that air drops of food and medicine and other humanitarian supplies is really a last ditch effort. and they say that to what the us government ought to be doing is to be putting more pressure on the israeli government to agree to a temporary cease fire. something which the us government had hoped would be taking effect this coming monday. but in light of thursday, the shooting that child seems to be somewhat in jeopardy. these are the 8 groups are also saying that the us also needs to be doing more to ensure that additional i land crossings from the outside world into god. so it can be open and secured, so that more aid can be brought in and a st for manner. they say that basically the us as decision to start air drops is really an application of the responsibility of the country, which they say has the most influence on the government in jerusalem. ross and jordan reporting

let's close over to no real love, excuse me, emergency director at the international rescue committee and has been ever seeing the organizations with was in the hazy, enjoys we now live from elizabeth in new jersey. good to have you with us mister. love on the program. can i just begin before we talk about your rate operation about this news? it's just dropping that can. you is not going to send its police false to haiti because you really can't do your job without security. and you need security on the ground and you need a long time as well. if you go to distribute a, how important is this news now in the way that you have to decide how much you can send it to hate. see if you kind of tool well, you know, stability is key to, to the future of haiti. um, the iris who puts out a watch list report every year and hades been on the list. so last 3 years. and instability is one of the largest read space and the haitians and so having the ability to, to freedom of movement, afraid of an access freedom to do your day to day is so in portions for the haitian . so we need the political stabil

internal affairs, the investigative committee and the national guard reported to vladimir putin on the progress of the investigation. and the minister of emergency situations talks about what is being done for rescue. people, the head of the ministry of health mikhail murashko, the governor of the moscow region andrei vorobyov and deputy prime minister tatyana gullikova informed the president about assistance to the victims. she noted that vladimir putin thanked the doctors and wished all the victims recovery. many of them are residents of krasnogorsk, khimoki and moscow. nine people are in extremely serious condition, 60 are in serious condition, and the majority are in moderate condition . more than 30, thirty more victims were helped on an outpatient basis. among the injured. there are children, according to information at this time, terrorists started shooting at the spectators right in the hall before the start of the concert. eyewitnesses said that they shot people at point-blank range, threw incendiary bombs, two explosions were reported, the special forces of the fsb and the russian guard were looking for the criminals. about the terrorist attack for the first time the same minutes were re