but as nick schifrin reports, the ethiopian government seems determined to target tray. >> schifrin: the army's newest recruits wrap themselves in the ethiopian flag. they pledge to give their blood, literally, in a war the government calls existential. >> ( translated ): our recruits shall ry the enemy and make sure ethiopia's sovereignty is respected. >> schifrin: that enemy is in tigray in northern ethiopia, led by the local government tigrayan people's liberation front, or t.p.l.f. today ethiopia's federal government is waging war against tigray not with arms, but food. five million tigrayans don't have the means to eat, and rely on aid. but many world food program trucks are blocked by the ethiopian government. the last convoy allowed into tigray was three weeks ago, a fraction of what's needed, to stop starvation. >> this is a really large humanitarian disaster. >> schifrin: marixie mercado of unicef just returned from tigray. she saw an acute crisis. last month hundreds of tigrayan women lined up with the most vulnerable victims. unicef says over the next year 100,000 tigrayan

for the pbs newshour i'm nick schifrin.lternative perspective' is what artist mel kendrick has offered for 40 years. special correspondent jared bowen of gbh boston takes us to the addison gallery of american art in andover, massachusetts, to see why kendrick's art has such staying power. it's part of our arts and culture series, canvas. >> the name of this show is seeing things in things. which is essentially what artist mel kendrick has been doing since the 1970s. where we might see a plain, old birch tree, he sees it from the inside out. >> “the only way i could do this uh was cutting it into many small pieces and then removing the core. i reassembled it exactly the way it grew in the tree. woodgrain is mashed up all the way through. >> for most of his career, kendrick has always gone out on a limb. dismantling them actually, along with trees and logs so that they can be reassembled. >> “on all these pieces, you can match up the holes and see what's going on. but it always brings up the whole question it's like one of my