my next guest, kailash satyarthi was awarded the nobel peace price jointly with malala yousufzai in 2014 for their struggle against suppression of children and young people. and he is now campaigning for compassion and action for the child victims of the israel-hamas war. and he joins me now from southern india. lovely to speak to you, sir. thank you for making the time. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> the impact on children is so obvious and painful in this war, apart from the loss of life, the grief, the potential squandered and injury. how else does a conflict like this impact the children left behind? >> it's impacting children -- who are in palestine, but it is impacting hundreds of millions of children in the world psychologically, mentally. appearing on the media is so shocking -- so -- >> i think we may have lost our communication there with kailash satyarthi. we will do our best to get him back to continue that important discussion. so we're going to take a quick break. coming up after that, iran-backed houthi militantsts yememen say they'v've launched attatack on israel.. how the

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