with oxfam you went back this past march.resident be trying to accomplish in senegal and what would your advice be as to the needs? >> one of the things i hope gets accomplished is that the miner laws will change there. i think it is very important that the people there are held accountable, the government. and one of the promises that i made when i was in senegal was to come back and sad vidadvocat use my voice as much as possible for those who don't have a voice, for the local farmers and the local miners there. >> the miners and farmers. tell me, tell americans, what they need. what is happening to them in senegal and what does the president need to know? >> you have these large companies from america, from new york, from canada, they go in and they find that there's gold there on the land and you have these local farmers who are literally living on top of gold mines and you have these large companies, they go in and pay the government their "x" amount of dollars and they just take the land from the locals. with no notice,

but later announced that that goal was simply unattainable chris lee their senior food advisor for oxfam international spoken disappointment about the jays failure in this regard saying that quote ministers have made an extraordinary admission of collective failure the jail has failed the world's one billion hungry people. look i'm not saying that it's the responsibility of these eight countries to feed the world's hungry what i am saying is that the rhetoric from these summits is almost always empty and baseless so if that's the case what is on the agenda this year will the g it's agenda was dominated by a political conflict in north korea iran and syria as danger zones even though many had hoped the pressing issue of climate change would have also been on the list of priorities and unsurprisingly the group further showed a lack of unity on syria with seven of the members in agreement that assad should step down and president putin being the lone voice of opposition in the matter here's the bigger picture though why is it only up to these eight countries to decide the fate of syria and

but later announced that that goal was simply unattainable chris lee their senior food advisor for oxfam international spoken disappointment about the jews failure in this regard saying that quote ministers have made an extraordinary admission of collective failure the g eight has failed the world's one billion hungry people look i'm not saying that it's the responsibility of these eight countries to feed the world's hungry what i am saying is that the rhetoric from these summits is almost always empty and baseless so if that's the case what is on the agenda this year will the g it's agenda was dominated by a political conflict in north korea iran and syria as danger zones even though many had hoped the pressing issue of climate change would have also been on the list of priorities and unsurprisingly the group further showed a lack of unity on. syria with seven of the members in agreement that assad should step down and president putin being the lone voice of opposition in the matter here's the bigger picture though why is it only up to these eight countries to decide the fate of syria a

complexities of the revolution and the interest of the region is a humanity disaster that according to oxfam's president rivals or surpasses what's happening in darfur. talking with a regime that sends scud missiles, uses chemical weapons, that uses its army to kill civilians. a revolution that for seven to eight months at the beginning was completely peaceful. that's the simplicity of it and it's missed a lot by all the other things around it. >> i wanted to ask about complexity, this photo, the man, who according to daily star report lebanese newspaper was identified as having been a photographer for a group that kidnapped these shi'ite pilgrims. what do you know about that? do you know who that man is? was he associated with your group? >> i was responsible for getting all the commanders from different geographical places, 19 altogether to come out and have three separate meetings. in the meeting arranged inside syria, first of all, the gentlemen outside that's referred to by the daily star paper, and this is a fact we know after talking to them, got its news from a hezbollah mouth piece tv

your actions would suggest joining me now to talk more about this is scott senior policy adviser with oxfam america and frank j. newsy deputy executive director with n.s.t. international thank you both for joining me gentlemen thank you going to start with you i mean frank and scott your organizations have been leading the way in this effort about this arms trade treaty what exactly does this treaty do well in the words of my old boss senator joe biden this treaty is a big effen deal and what this treaty does is to help keep guns out of the hands of those who would use those weapons to commit atrocities it's about the international trade in arms conventional arms which kill up to half a million people every year. this is a two thousand and thirteen we've had since centuries decades of of war all around the world we've seen movies made about illegal arms trafficking this is an issue that's been going on for quite a while isn't this long overdue if anything. oh it is very long overdue the world has been working towards an arms trade treaty for close to one hundred years now but it's been very