let's get more on the story now we're joined by matthew truscott he's the head of humanitarian policy at oxfam international matthew it's good to have you with us on the w. your organization is saying the knock on effects of the pend i make are more widespread than the virus itself why is that. well so we're looking at an additional $121000000.00 people potentially pushed to the brink of starvation by the social and economic fallout of this pandemic and what we have to look at is this is it's it's a link to a system so when we're looking at these numbers we look at the same time as the biggest food and drink companies paid out over $18000000000.00 to shareholders so we have a dramatically unequal food system and we also have a number of people who are on the edge of starvation already due to things like conflict use things like climate change do things like failing to invest in agro economies and this now with the additional burden of covert up and and difficulties moving difficulties accessing markets and difficulties with emotions really do push those people to the edge matthew can

triggering a food crisis that could potentially double the number who die from hunger each year matthew truscott is the head of humanitarian policy for oxfam international he says it's even affecting developed countries. what's really worrying in this report is we're seeing new essentials on developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at in the reports i think that india south africa brazil these countries where there recently developed economies and yet impact that we're seeing from coronavirus is going to have dire consequences on the most vulnerable people in those societies and say it's going to happen i mean this this poor people in every country and the same impacts are going to slow down so what we're seeing from coronavirus is that both it makes its more sort of vulnerable for poor people but it also makes them more vulnerable to the economic side as well and that's going to be across the world 8 of the biggest food and drink manufacturers have paid out over $18000000000.00 to their shareholders now looking back to what we were speakin

income and developed countries is to be said such as brazil and india are also on the danger list matthew truscott again insists though that there are measures to minimize coverts effect on hunger but governments do need to act fast. for the time being there are 3 things we need to do so firstly we urgently need to increase humanitarian aid and i'm at the moment the united nations has put out an appeal for about 7000000000 dollars and that's only been 24 percent funded so we're not getting nearly enough money for the humanitarian aid that we need at the 2nd thing that we can do is looking into issues like canceling debt if we cancel 'd the debt of of some developing countries we estimate that could free up up to a trillion dollars for those countries to be using to help those people and that can pay for things like food they can pay for social security social protection it can pay for things like health so sharing up the debt could make a huge difference and that's just a matter of wealthy nations really giving up some of the debt owed to them by other countries and the 3rd thing that we need to d

better local ceasefires so the people in conflict zones are still able to meet their daily needs matthew truscott head of humanitarian policy at oxfam international thank you very much for joining us thank you dozens of people have been killed as landslides and floodwaters ripped through southwest japan hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes rescuers are searching for survivors but japan's meteorological agency is warning that heavy rains will continue to batter the region in the coming days. flooding and mudslides have devastated this region normally renowned for its hot springs and scenic mountain trails a popular tourist destination transformed into a wasteland local residents hotel workers and visitors or have been caught up in the aftermath of the massive downpours. the land just crumbled more than i ever thought it could. be rocks were falling into the valley and the river also sounded different. you know. and i have never seen so much rain it just kept falling on and on. japan's weather agency has ordered the evacuation of nearly half a 1000000 people but