i they be done in person or maybe done virtually on zoom or skype?— virtually on zoom or skype?cate - virtually on zoom or skype? i don't think anything can replicate a - virtually on zoom or skype? i don't think anything can replicate a face | think anything can replicate a face to face meeting, particularly when you're dealing with issues that are often emotional, often life—or—death and that is why you go to see your mp, because it is the last resort to see an mp and ask for their help and you need that one—to—one connection, apart from anything, because the mp will forget you if you're just coming in as one of a series of zooms. i think absolutely to uphold democrat circumstances especially british democracy, where we are not cowed with ig british democracy, where we are not cowed with lg n i anything. ianything. i i anything. i grew up with the ira blowing things up. that did not stop us. i agree with priti patel, i never thought i would say those words! there needs to be an increase in security around mps, but of course they should carry on seeing their constituents face t

he's joining us from washington dc via skype doing really good to have you with us. why now is this really the right time to be starting line? when so many others are struggling? that's, that's a good question, but we think it is exactly the right time to do so if there ever was a 5. the reason for that is due to the next day, and i have been fortunate to counteract to creations, and that has made us able to acquire a good number of very most the record no prices so. so we are starting off from a point that nobody have done before. and secondly, we have an abundance of people who are very acute join to lot to build something you have fresh, it doesn't mean that we will stop operating right now because that's why i gotta do to them it. but this is exactly the right time to, to create a combination for what is going to be a competitive affordable locus. sorry, i do you think that you're going to be able to crack the long haul discount market off to? no, we don't. is exit from trans atlantic roots. you're even taking some of the staff who worked on that operation. is hi

he joins us now by skype from there. dr. wilkinson, this is obviously being held as a huge medical breakthrough. and we'll get to the implications of that in just a moment. but it's also a rather provocative idea for many people, the idea that an organ growing in a pig could then be attached to a human being. or are we waiting into an ethical gray area here? we're transplants like this. rage familiar. and there is sometimes difficult, ethical, human ethical challenges and they combine them with animal ethical issues. and of course, the combination of a sheer human and animal organ inside a human body raises concerns in some people's minds about whether this hybrid an existence is natural, whether it goes against the natural order. and so, so there are a variety of different consumes. oh, this procedure, well, once it's developed a little further, could potentially say tens of thousands of lives. but i imagine this is also not something that everyone is keen on. how wide spread did you think this practice could become? do

he joins us why skype from alba in michigan. many thanks for joining us this morning. why do you do whistling this imbalance between women and men? when it comes to getting the coven vaccine, i think there are many a reasons or some of that is that a, the intrinsic to the different countries and different cultures. and also the economic a little are structured around those countries and some related also to outside or external law effects like the propaganda and anti vac center ah propaganda that started in the west and it trickled in and actually was us spread into the rest of the world, so in those countries up possibly the, one of the issues is really that the masculine society, which means the man is the everything. and the man is the bread winner. and therefore, that is a priority for poor men to get the vaccine to keep going out to work and so forth. but also there are other things that like like for instance, if you are talking about now woman not unless indicated in many of those countries are also they are, women are staying hall. and so, and also this issues

she does not joins us via skype from the capital. madam, thank you so much for joining us here in al jazeera, give us some examples of how this law will change the life of some of these young migrants. i mean, these, these will change hello to me for people in between 16 or 17 years old. they will have fun for me to work, to get included into a labor market and to carry on where the lives they also grouped stake all the good. because i make requirement of saying like, 2500 euros to renew their, their permit. that once they're getting to 18 year so, so this is really a good, good news for, for me for saying for my nurse. and i know so it makes a stay more european in a way that other countries like france or germany, they're guaranteeing. and those kind of going to make help for, for, for my north on fields 2120 and 27 years old. so we have more social protection now for mine are under 18 years old, which is obviously a great thing. but i'm wondering how that then will shape their future in spain. once they turn 18 and are no longer covered by this specific law. they will be into the

for bri, spotty is chief strategy officer rasmussen global he joined my skype from st on there a big way. a greg who is a security analyst at our for politico and he joins us far skype from a buddha and from washington dc withdrawn by andrew leibovich policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations. good, good to have all of you with us gentlemen. let's start with you andrew. so as we heard, president micron says that molly's government has 0 credibility. is he right? and what's his reasoning for saying something so controversial so publicly? what, what does really come from is a lot of frustration. i think that's out just in france about the, about the behavior of molly's transitional government and the fact that their signal multiple times that especially recently that they are planning or likely planning to extend the transitional period past what the international community agreed to. and i don't think it's a super fair to say that they have no credibility, but certainly there's a lot of frustration in the region and in the international community about the transitiona

he joins us and now via skype from nairobi. well, i want to start with the state of fighting and t, right? the moment we're approaching, as we've been saying a year now of this conflict between the, as strikes in this parade we've seen from the tpr as it really looks like no one's planning on backing down rather provoking each other. so who has the upper hand at the moment? yes, that's right. is no sign of a laptop and the conflict, but actually in terms of fighting inside pick, right? that really is only the strikes at the moment by the, by the federal apples. now the fighting is actually occurring and predominately inside. i'm har, region to the south to great. where the 2 great forces have been on the offensive since july. they did that off the 4 sigma federal military out of pick, right. and they say that they are trying to overcome this federal blockade on the region. they also have other military goals. so the fighting is mainly in the region recently. well, this is all left to humanitarian catastrophe in t grey, which va

and the director of the school center of social entrepreneurship at oxford university joins me by skype from oxford, and so on. this issue of the pledges not been delivered. well, what the main reasons for that to think? well, i think particularly now as adults are very and has caused surges in some countries, and we're also seeing evidence of declining and unity over time after 2. does the vac seen and i call for boosters that wealthy countries who have been hoarding vaccines from the very beginning or perhaps now even more reluctant to part with some of those vaccines. and as you've already pointed out, it's a real tragedy. as we see, the vaccine rip through much of the global south countries are not meeting their pledges over a 1000000000 doses have been pledged by g 7, another wealthy countries for a fraction of which has been delivered. and over 300000000 doses are being ordered right now. we need to move away from this model of charity and really having wealthy countries sort of give their leftovers when they're through to one, a solid charity which involves collaboration. really

he's on skype, from tripoli today. thanks. excuse me. thank you for your time, sir. there are so many elements to this story. i think the 1st thing we should focus on is actually the violence against these migrants. ah, i mean, is this sort of thing. i don't want to say common, but does it, does it happen? maybe not on this scale? but as it happened previously, yes, thank you very much, it's, it's too common and, and it does happen with too much frequency. we often have loss of life. and in areas that are supposed to be under the control of the authorities, whether they're detention centers or gifts and bartman points after they've been picked up at sea. but we haven't seen anything of this scale in some time, fortunately, but we're absolutely devastated by the indiscriminate use of live ammunition inside the perimeter of a detention center resulting in the 6 deaths. what sort of explanation have you been given forward? well, no explanation. actually, i, we have received no explanation the, the statements that the government is put out or not explaining anything abou

us a political analyst and profess in european studies at stanford university. berlin is on stock skype from stuttgart, and we thank you for your time with us developing story. look at 2 days ago. yes, today is thursday. ah, mr. curts was denying any wrong doing and said he had no plans to step done. what's changed? well 1st of all, every day, a week at new information about the dimension off the scandal that he's confronted with. and if only in parts of the accusations are correct, and this is far bigger than anything we have seen before. when his junior coalition partner pier antelli, just tell her what forced to step down because of that videotape from the pizza, in which the spirit of this government, while thinking in terms of corruption and fraud, and pretending that they own the country, came into public attention. so 1st of all, he is not the only leader he is in a coalition, and the greek green party were to was every possible the chicken to see if they would continue to stay in common with him. so it's clear that he would lose support in the parliament, but i think it's the sh

all right, let's bring our guests joining us live by skype from geneva, howard captain. he is the chief executive officer of the international council of nurses from one by dr. issue arg alada, an infectious diseases expert, and secretary general of the organized medicine academic guild, and from melbourne. grant blashley and associate professor at the nozzle institute for global health at the university of melbourne. a warm welcome to you all and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. howard, let me start with you today. it is estimated that between 80002880002 health care workers could have died from cupboard 19 since the beginning of the pandemic. that is a staggering number. just how shocking is it to you. i'm. it's a, it's a conservative estimate. it is absolutely shocking. i think the true figure could be higher. i think we could be pushing close to a quarter of a 1000000. it's an indictment of government's failure to act, to protect health care work as these are people who were just going to work to do their job. but the real issue that worries me hu

school of english inversely of kent, where he was a colleague of abdur isaac gunner, he joins us by skype from london. thanks very much for being with isn't own it does a bit more about his reaction bill. so at the reaction of people in the university was absolutely delighted by this. i mean, we've known of that as a career long time of the logic has been at the university of count and the school of english for over 30, for decades. others as a student, but also has had of school as a, as a professor of postcolonial literature. so he has many friends there. many colleagues, he's dearly much loved by the community by his colleagues and by the students as a big fan fan club student frank love to follow them on the university interested in his courses. and what he has to say as a literary critic and also as a novelty. so this is a great day. this is a great day for literature. this is a great day, but there was a good now. this is a great day for literature, global literature from literature from around the world. this is a great day for of, for of, for literature from, from small countries,

he joins us via skype from washington dc. so thank you so much for speaking to us here on al jazeera. so i guess if you would listen to the words and the fact that china's president is speaking about her peaceful means when just a few months ago, he was talking about re taking taiwan a by force and light of that. how do you read today's comments? well, thank you very much for having me today. i will tell you that actions indeed speak louder than words, although i'm happy to know that chairman, she speech was relatively peaceful if you will. however, be assertive and aggressive nature of chinese military curry and tyrants. air defense identifications on, has only wrong time to assist in surveying. obviously, not just with people taiwan, but for pie, one's friends and allies. why? of course, a of which the u. s. is one, and there was a report in the wall street journal on thursday saying that about 2 dozen us special soldiers and, and specified number of marines. i've been training taiwanese forces again, is that something you

she's joining us by skype from belfast. thanks for your time, your initial reaction to what we've witness today out of to don. well, it's an exhilaration for most of these people, you know that the last 2 year were is actually the last 2 years of the transition was actually a cut off from the revolutionary movement that was supposed to with the sudanese people once and for all from security slash military and now militia alliance over power for the last 60 years since independence. so even though it might seem like a regression on the progress that it was made, it feels to move people on the ground that gets the actual corrective to use were hands words the actual corrective movement towards real transition to democracy. one that does not include an involvement by military and other armed forces, but they are believe that this will actually pressure the military and, and but, hong to, to reverse course and reverse the qu. well, the pro democracy movement also has a playbook. now that it's reading from, it's been doing this

she joins us from washington on skype. tanya, great to talk to you again. so this is a drive by this isn't go there and pick up some food, why they decided to do it in that way. it takes a lot of fuel to be able to actually slow down enough to or bit anything in the solar system. and this way, we can also study more at multiple bodies with a single mission, so it's going to fly through not only the main built of asteroids, which i think most people are familiar with the asteroid belt that hangs out between mars and jupiter. but we also get to visit eyes 7 different trojan asteroids, and a few of these are even binary asteroids, so we get 2 for the price of $1.00. so in total, depending on how you count them, this mission gets to visit 12 different bodies close up by doing this fly by approach instead of trying to go into orbit of a single body. ok, briefly. sorry, tonya. assume i'm completely stupid. here was a binary asteroid. i so if you have to astro that or orbiting each other eyes like an astro does a little moon or 2 asteroids that just kind of hang o

he was on skype from his home in wyoming and his skype, don't want to get in trouble with skype eitherent bad. but we did not cut him off. we would never do that. in fact, i was enjoying his talking about walking the plank and not being able to swim. all right, steve, with that cleared up, there are reports that 60 to 80,000 more haitians are on the way, coming up from latin measuring, through the jungles of panama, into mexico, up to the border. which makes what we've seen so far from the haitians in del-rio pale by comparison. what does this say about the biden administration and its failure to get a handle on the immigration crisis. >> look, it's a huge problem and it is in fact a crisis. the biden administration came into office taking i think a rather long-term view of the approach to the border and the approach to the growing migration which really has been taking place for a decade. we've seen these kinds of inflated numbers for ten years, now there's been an additional spike. i think the problem is you had vice president harris in her working of out deals with the northern tria

this to joins us live now on skype from aero beal in the kurdish region of northern iraq. madam, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, we were just hearing from our correspondent him on cannon mosul, saying of people their fuel cut off effectively. ignored or forgotten by the government in baghdad and may many have just given up hope. now you are a pro democracy activist than or you've been on twitter trying to convince people to vote. but what would you say to many who stayed away and are understandably pessimistic? why they should vote hello her. thank you very much for having me. well, as you have noticed, i've been very active on twitter and on all the social media to promote this very important election. in fact, as you mentioned earlier, since 2003, this is the 5th the election that has been taking place. but 15 years later, our people don't see a difference. and that's why they have lost hope. so when they have lost talk, they do not no longer trust the government, they no longer test the system and they are fed up. but the reality is, yes, there is corruption. ye

he joins us on skype from the german capital, berlin. what are these protests and this civil disobedience movement? what is this likely to achieve? well, i think it's demonstrating, 1st of all that the currency of power has really changed. so dan used to be ruled by the gun. and now the currency of power in sudan is popular mobilization. the military leaders. the generals who have instigated those who may have hoped that it would pass through with a minimum of opposition, both from the street and sudan, the protest movement, and also from the international community. but i think they're rapidly discovering that that was a great miscalculation the demonstrations yesterday. were a sign of that, and i think it can only be expected to continue if not escalate. but is the civilian government likely to be restored? i think it's not just the question of the civilian government being restored, the protest movement is demanding more than that now. and if we look at the balance of power, believe the it rests with the protest movement. so the prote

we are now living in an era of zoom on skype, and online meetings have taken hold in the last 18 monthsk for sitting mps, something needs to be changed that their security is maybe made more secure by constituency work being done more online? there is a case for that and there's also a case for mp5 and peers being able to contribute to the house of commons, house of lords proceedings remotely, particularly those who live a long way away from london. yes, you can do remote constituency surgeries, but there is really nothing quite like being face—to—face with someone who perhaps might not be too articulate, but you can try and find out what exactly their problem is and then do your best help. i'm sorry to ask this question, but to go back 20 years to the attack on yourself and andrew, did you have any warning? did you have any time to react? did the system in place protect you or give you knowledge of what might be coming? no, the system in place when i became an mp in the early days was, you got a piece of paper from the house authorities that said "try to remain inconspicuous in your co

he was on skype in his home in wyoming.. we did not cut him off and we would never do that. i was enjoying his talking about walking the plank and not being able to swim your steve cohen with that cleared out, there were reports that 16-18000 more haitians are on the way coming up from latin america through the jungles of make panama into mexico and up to the border. it makes what we have seen so far in del rio pale in comparison. what is a say about the biden administration and its failure to get a handle on the immigration crisis? >> steve: it's a huge problem and it is in fact a crisis. the biden administration came into office taking a long-term view of the approach to the border and the approach to growing migration which has been taking place for a decade. we have seen these numbers for ten years but now there's been an additional spike. you would vice president working on deals with the northern triangle companies and with countries in central america. in fact, asking them to be a frontline border patrol for the unit

she joins us by skype . and we have 10th of guy marzorati.l us about the proposal for healthcare for domestic workers. how would it work. >> helping thousands of workers in san francisco work paid leave. they are working in multiple households. they are not in many of them. to rack up the benefits. they are across different employers how they pay in. basically the idea of something úas simple not having to come t work sick. >> turning now to the state's employment development department. ded. it's been troubled since the pandemic began. they have backlogged hundred and 40,000 cases and paid out billions of dollars to scammers. on monday there was a hearing in which the state questioned ed about the problem. we will listen to a moment of the hearing. >> this money could have purchased 16,789 california homes at that the media price point paid for california homes. it could have also paid for four years of schooling at auc university aired that total of students would amount to 2065. it's also $4 billion more than the entire operating budget of

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he joins us on skype from joe ha, hello them i want, i want to get to the human rights watch report. but 1st, let's talk about these latest developments and the 2 bombs which exploded in the capital. what do you make of the timing of this incident? persona. thank you, emily for having me. this is eddie mind over. i think that the ward and sylvia has not entered yet. and that that is still a long wait, actually and 2. and the need for moving a political process for what indeed, i mean this is from the cycle, the regime, it's a major security breach. specialty that, that, that the, it could, which has been thought that actually is in the, was, it was that was attacked and does that mean bus station in damascus? and, but he is subject location. and it shows that the grip of the regime, considering the security of the capital, is not as and spiked and slunk as, as it appears to be. but on the other hand, we see that the regime is trying to, to use it in order to put more brush out on the, on the opposition. it's likely that this attack will play into the hands of the regime by using it a

of anger that we find evidence of hungry elephant everywhere way a kicker typically says it's the skype like the elephant whisper. ready shawna, mia tells me that by the end of the summer, much of the elephant's food here will be gone. then they face a nightmare scenario, attempt to migrate through the camp to me and mar, in search of fresh vegetation or risk running out of food. i cannot split his face with the unami guess if they've mambo. disciplinary were following the actual footsteps and elephants. elephants have walked along this path every season for thousands of years. i'm fairly, really excited. i wonder if we're actually going to encounter some elephants. we're being told that just a few steps away that they're there. then against the odd a moment i can't believe ah, a majestic elephant. standing proud on the horizon. i can have her seen an elephant like my 1st time. ah, it looked so peaceful in its natural habitat. it's just really crazy to think that before the caps were put in place, that this is what it was. a large forest with animals roaming about. and now there is a hu

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dependence on coal and the initiative from the asian development bank. joining us from paris fire, skype is lucy pinson, executive director at reclaim finance. good. have you with us? so what do you make of the asian development bank plans to buy a coal fired power plants across asia? so we're, that is, there is a new magine see through free road from the core sector. we very little time, according to climate science. most of the core plan for coal, mine needs to be shut down by 730, and all of them needs to be shut down by 2040. so i'll just leave message. chuck turns out thousands of coding for secure around the world, including televisions in asia and challenges. huge because we need to plan for the foundation of the worker, but also gives you more of a cleaner or tentative renewable energy particular. and we believe a public schema could be interesting in order to facilitate these things out. a waiver we need to pay the much attention to the dieters we need are we not just bio from companies putting entrusted to without putting and condition a fits what asian development bank as the

he twins me via skype from london. thank you very much for joining us here and counting the cost. so apple's decision to kick epic from it's ecosystem. is that an overreaction? hello, thanks very much for having me. i don't think so. i think come apples when it's writes, obviously to stop at pick publishing fortnight onto its platform while the court case is going on. that's what it's position it's. it's laid out. oversee in the context of the consume, i'd love to see for note back on ios and actually i think i'm not sure we'll be waiting a huge amount of time before we see that. going back on the platform. okay, is tim sweeney. epic ceo right though. and calling apple saying apple has a monopoly? no, i don't think search, you know, it's really all related to market definition. so the judge laid out a market definition. and the market that aches examined in the court case is really looking at mobile games transactions as the market definition. and within that context, apple does not have a monopoly has by apple's own data market around 55 percent share of the opportunity in that c

paul's legacy further now with the marin becerra, who's our senior political analyst joining us via skype from london. while i'm very good to see you again, of course, is lots of phrase and tributes are for compiled to day in the us from republicans, democrats. but how will he be remembered in this region? the middle east? in fact, he said to one journalist that he was sure that his, the, for the 1st paragraph of his obituary would say something about his blunder with the gulf war in iraq. and so it was today the 1st paragraph in the new york times, and you could say in every possible obligation in the middle east, especially iraq started with the gulf war because we all know this was the biggest, the buckle of, of the century. and collin powell had a role to play both in terms of our marketing the war at the united nations on the basis of false information, false intelligence, which apparently at the time he did not know, but he wasn't exactly sure it was 100 percent. and on the other hand, the fact that this turned out to be a major debacle for what the united states and iraq who tend t

our dependence on cole and the initiative from the asian development back. joining us from paris via skype is lucy pinson, executive director at re climb finance. good to have you with us. so would you make of the asian development bank plans to buy up coal fired power plants across asia? so we're good if there is an emergency to phase out from the core sector we of really to the time, according to climate science. most of the core plants and coal mine needs to be shut down by 2030 and all of them needs to be shut down by 2040. so this leads massive challenge our thousands of quoting trust to children's world, including thousands in asia. and the challenge is huge because we need to plan for convention of the workers, but also development on of a cleaner, tentative renewable energy in particular. and we believe a public scheme crew be interesting in order to facilitate these things out. a waiver we need to pay very much attention to the details and we need our weaker not just bio for, from companies, for bullying entrusted to, and without putting couldn't isa me fits what's or asian develo

thomas employer is a texas mcclain's chief global health officer joint us now from when belgium via skype. thanks so much and for being with us it tell us about the figure on the efficacy that seems to be different depending on how it's used. 30 percent around a severe disease disease seems quite low, but i understand it's been used with other drugs and that brings it up as well. that is correct. a clinical trial reserves, but the london school of hired student, for example, just published their own study, which was independent of cheers care. and when they combined the normal chemo prophylaxis before the rainy season with the work scene, you had a reduction in mortality in severe disease. and osgood that is ational set of 70 percent. so i think it's a combination of different tools we have to use to get the optimal effect out of this vaccine. and to enters in terms of the getting a vaccine. why it's been so difficult to achieve that. you know, so vaccines are not always the same when it comes to be they look to develop them and different bikes react differently. so you have viruses, you

he joins us from skype from bay, wrote up semi, you're obviously inside your home. so your say what have you? so i'm in this is, i mean the defects upward is like the beginning off. i said, the lord and the message is the clear by those who are the staging the scenes, whether you're punting, you know, with justice process with the investigation or are you afraid is the civil war. and because it comes within a context, this comes with a line based off. it's your 1st of all to intimidate the judges for prosecutor term. the judge, the dog. and ben doesn't judge so long. the one, 0, reason time kemi, i, you. so there we just want to make sure that sammy is still there. we may have lost our guest unfortunately. so what we'll do is we'll cross back to those live in beirut, and we'll let you listen to some of that gum fly that you can me a very loud and clear. i believe we, we do have the semi out our guest at semi naida. we have him via just audio at the stage. sammy, just give us a context as to who these 2 groups are and what's happening on the straits of beirut and the

he joins us live by skype from nairobi. thanks for joining us, jonas. the depose, pm has been allowed to return home. is that a promising sign that the q was responding to this international condemnation? i think it is in a, in a small way that the pressure that accompanied. i'm not just the, the prime minister's rest, but the rest of other ministers and, and extremely violent response of the armed forces to protest on the streets really has shocked the military. i think it's fair to say, i think they're taken aback by the pushback, both internationally and, and, and even more so, domestically in, from the beginning. you know, my sense has been that this is something of a miscalculation for the military. and i think they're finding out just just what a big mess miscalculation that is. i in these 1st days of their, of their min, sorry to the u. s. as it was suspend aids to sudan. is that the solution or does that just impact civilians going forward? well i think to strategic purpose of that suspension of age i as well me with the world based suspension o

he joins us on skype from the eastern city of book of thanks for joining us. robert. these are shocking allegations of sexual abuse of women. many who in already vulnerable situations. what stood out most to you during your investigation? yeah, well i mean, i think one of the most important things to emphasize at this point is the overall scale of the scandal. so between our 2 investigations for the new humanitarian and thomson reuters and this commission that was set up by w h o. we're now looking at more than 150 women who have gone on the record to say that they were abused, exploited in many cases, raped by responders working for the ball, the response. overwhelmingly. w h o employees. overwhelmingly foreigners working for w h o. in one of the more striking aspects of this was the fact that the abusers organized sort of rackets of abuse and indeed used the resources of the response to engage in their view. so as an example, in a number of instances, drivers were sent and marked w h o vehicles w h o drivers to pick up women to ferries, them to hotels, which doubled

adjunct professor at columbia university school of international and public affairs, he joins as by skype from new york city. so president, she usually, i suppose, were accustomed to him taking a very assertive, bold approach on the global stage. usually why the absence some of it's simply practical, you know, he hasn't left china since the outbreak of, of covey, mainly because china has taken a kind of 0 tolerance policy towards forts go good and travel. it is very hard for anyone to come in or come out of china without going through pretty extensive warranty. so that's one thing. you know, the other thing is that china has seen a bit of a shift in priorities in word. it is still assertive on the world stage, but whether or you know, attending a summer is necessarily, she's biggest priority. i think that that has changed. it is, it seems to suggest there are some domestic reasons for this decision is obviously chosen not to attend to crucial summits that are coming up. caught 26 on climate change and the g 20 bit. when you say it's not in china's priorities, i mean, is it also about risi

he joins us now by skype from santa barbara. so there is already this hunger and food crisis playing out in madagascar affecting tens of thousands of people. how close is the country to declaring famine? well, i'm not really, you know, an expert on, on food security. and i don't think it's, you know, i can tell you that the country, no, kenya. so the field of somalia was the small. yeah. it's really been racked by 2 droughts in a row in the fall of 2020. and then in the spring of 2021. and now in the midst of another field, rain is october, november, december. and we think that there is a really good chance of yet another grab and just to be you, you starting east african droughts very closely. you. you have done work supporting the early famine warning systems network. right? and that is, i mean, that's crucial. so that contingency plans and preparations can be made to deal with an impending crisis. so then how far in advance can you predict dangerous conditions for the region really, really far? you know, basically we started