she is the unicef representative in lebanon and she joins us now from beirut. u. k. i know you're dealing with the reality of all this on the ground. you've been in your role in lebanon for what? 2 and a half years now. how have you seen things change over that time? well, oh, what they explain is unprecedented. a crisis or children endeavoured over the past due in her ears. you may remember we bought the yoke really bought it, bucky. so every time i thought that was a bundle. but today i must tell you that this is really a free fall. it doesn't stop tutoring or so brain or the numbers or the body. this is area the of 11 today. and well, the problems that we're talking about here in lebanon are structural right? the economic crisis, the political crisis, these have been building for years. the port blast really exacerbated at all. now, given the instability there, what would you actually like to see from government? what are they actually capable of? government asked us to know that the not only the government into your world, every community we all need to work toge

unicef was saying up to one million children could die of malnutrition.o international money coming in, clinics like this are in dire trouble. this is the pharmacy. normally, the cupboards would be packed with medicines. now they're running out really fast. the collapsing economy and the foreign sanctions against the taliban mean people can't buy food. the result is malnutrition, and it's starting with the children. translation: there will be a huge health crisis. - there will be no medicine and people will face massive problems. even health care staff will leave. the health care services will collapse. we will start to see lots of mothers and children dying. as winter approaches, the cuts which the world bank and foreign governments have introduced are having a greater and greater effect. in offices and government ministries, thousands of miles away from here, serious men and women are taking decisions to try to force the taliban to behave better in government. but it's these people here right down on the ground who are paying the price for those decisio

. >> a recent study by unicef shows three in 10 households have cut spending on education.have been forced to sell household items to buy basic goods. seven in 10 have had to buy food on credit or using borrowed money. the united nations as living conditions have deteriorated in a few months with more children going to bed hungry and not receiving the health care they need. >> i have never seen a child who was malnourished in this country before. but recently i witnessed, by myself, a child who is suffering from malnutrition. so those desperate mothers and fathers who are being forced to take desperate measures only because they need to survive. >> among them is him. this vegetable seller used to be able to support his family before the financial meltdown two years ago. no longer. that means they are among the 260,000 people -- children of school age whose education is at risk. their father tells us the priority is to feed them. >> i can't send them to school every day because i don't make enough to give them pocket money or to buy the books. stationery and all other items

and unicef signed agreements with india in august and september 2020 for 200000000 doses of vaccine medication. in february 2021. the director general of the w h teacher this oh my media for 2021. india had deleted and sold a combined total of $66000000.00 doses to nearly 100 countries. india domestic vaccination drive in the early months of 2021 had been slow compared to other countries. but the 2nd wave demanded action. on the 25th of march, india halted all exposed to vaccine. those supplies were needed to meet domestic demand, bringing the immunization network up to full capacity in a short period of time was not easy though. there were many changes that need to the back to the nation. and along the me there were many edwards, for lack of ation when it came to the production of the back, the in which lead to which ration are shortages and schools down. dive at these pages. now, the controversial aspect of the vaccination policy has been how the government has chosen to add base points and boards in that phoenician that policy announced in mid april 2021 meant the private hospitals were all

a recent study by the un child agency, unicef shows 3 and 10 households have cut spending on education for and 10 have been forced to sell household items to buy basic goods. $7.10 have had to buy food on credit or using borrowed money. the united nation says living conditions have deteriorated dramatically and just a few months with more children going to bed hungry and not receiving the health care they need. i never seen a guy who was mother noticed in this country before. but the recent that i witnessed by myself a child who is really suffering from malnutrition. so those desperate the mothers and fathers who are being forced to take this, but it measures only because they need to survive all martelli is among them. this vegetable seller used to be able to support his family before the financial meltdown began 2 years ago. not any longer than that means alisha and hulu are among what the un says are the 260000 children of school age whose education is at risk. their father tells us the priority is to feed them and all that about them. i can send them to school every day because i d

the you and children's agency. unicef says criminals are forcing teachers to pay so called protection money. risk being abducted john 100 reports from puerto prince. emma in haiti's capital learning is a dangerous business. the education of the use of puerto prince occurs behind iron gates beneath spiral blades of barbed wire. in an atmosphere of pervasive fear. i'm afraid that the gangs might come and kidnap me. i don't feel good, but i do it because i love school. principal villages. older bear runs this school on a shortage of funds and students. a few crisis leaves many out of work and unable to afford education, nor even the commute said to everyone worries about kidnapping, but we keep working. we operate on fit for many of hades, youngest and most vulnerable getting there is the most dangerous part of the day. i sometimes have gunshots on my way to school, although i'm for i don't have trouble going because i live close. yeah, he's children has become a black market commodity. in recent weeks, the countries powerful gangs have increasingly used a vacuum of political and police

unicef says more than 100 women and children were abduct fled the first eight months of this year. >>ple looking at haiti from the outside are not realizing that the government is not working, so the gangs are running the country. >> reporter: here in miami's little haiti neighborhood, people are closing watching, too. the white house said it welcomed the news of the release of the two hostages but did not have further comments, an indication of how delicate the negotiations are for the release of the remaining 15. norah. >> o'donnell: manny bojorquez, thank yo mpresbiden s nominatine po te, w pandem keeping intduring the id he' foinon anos. arpos aepublican originally nominated by president trump. well, this was deadline day for federal workers to roll up their shrieves for a covid vaccine or request an exemption. word tonight the vast majority have done so, but comes as infections are on the rise in 35 states. more from cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: as the deadline for federal workers to get vaccinated passes, the white house is saying vaccine mandates work. >> vaccination requ

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campaign of civil disobedience. often we take the lead in october and the world health organization and unicef specs nation. hm. pain against polio in afghanistan is the best campaign that in 3 years. it ain't to immunize millions of children against this crippling disease. the police in poland have shed a video showing a group of migrants camped on the border with bella. bruce overnights, poland, close entry points as a crisis escalates over refugees and migrants. bella roaches accused of encouraging the migrants to try to cross the border and retaliation against sanctions. the migrants themselves say they are trapped in an increasingly desperate situation. his sonic ego, the are chopped between the woods and the highway in batteries. these people have been walking towards the polish border, anxious to enter the european union. on the other side, polish security forces in riot gear, part of the 12000 that have been station that guarding the front here preventing hundreds of refugees and migrants from reaching the border. but it is a deadlock that risks igniting into another migration crisis.

she's co lead the cobit 19 emergency parenting response, and she's worked closely with the w h o unicef and other international in jo's and government organizations to support caregivers looking after children during locked downs and school closures. lucy, clover, thanks so much for joining me on up front. according to your research, every 12 seconds a child loses an important care giver due to cobit 19. but when the pandemic began, did you expect it to be this bad? you anticipate this? well, actually it was directional, philip or francis for thieves can child that fast identify this challenge, a colleague up to season. hillis called me one morning and said these sorts about what's, what happened with ha, and the fact that this is going to be happening with corvette and mark, you know, i heard you say the numbers 1000000 children and one every 12 seconds. that was what we published in the lancet in july. but since then there's been a huge rise, even in those numbers, particularly with i'm surges in india and africa. and the numbers that we're now looking at a 5200000 children who've los

we as the who and unicef have taken over the primary care system for the next three months to get peopleecause it gets very cold. people are freezing. all of those things are critical to get out to people. we have some emergency funding from what a un funding system, but we really do need the world to focus and come and help afghanistan, not turn its back on afghanistan. in terms of the medical assistance that people need, how would you describe how things have been as far as them being able to get whatever it is that they need? certainly, even prior to the change of power, things were not doing well. there was a big drought, and essentially the economy was stumbling and struggling. so we have got severe malnutrition. we have assessed at least 3 million children as already in acute severe malnutrition. if they don't get the help they need, we are looking at1 million of those children dying. but we are also looking at all people from old to young being likely to be severely immunocompromised because they are starving and because it is freezing. so we are really upping vaccination campaign

i better ask you because we've covered it on this show with martin bell, the unicef ambassador, who is usually critical of british arm selling. we now know that the former foreign office lawyer, molly, molly mal rady claims that boris johnson would just joke around when discussing civilian casualties in yemen. what, what is the scale of the crisis right now in the poorest country in the middle east? i did, the crisis is really unimaginable and obviously it's completely inappropriate for anybody to be joking about the deaths injury and displacement of people in, in a war zone. but the, the crisis in yemen, as it has got last year on year for the 6 years of the war. and now in particular, we're looking at a desperate battle for the city of mary been and it's region and something like 3000000 people living in that area where before the war there were only a 6th of that. and most of those people have been displaced once already. they're in a desperate situation. food is hard to come by. and clean water is hard to come by . and now they face because bombing and shelling and the moving front

well, through program unicef, helping to keep children alive, what help organization you and hcr, the big military and agencies. unfortunately, we need enormous amounts of resources from now the next few months. secondly, is i think efforts to really address economic implosion, which is, which is paralyzed countries as cripple, is crippled, the economy business, no jobs as the money and economy as well. and thirdly, to find ways to sort of, to 2, to relaunch a lot about the medical assistance which was keeping the clinics. the hospitals open for farmers was providing seed, providing fertilizer, absolutely vital things. you could say the same across all the sectors as well. so i mean everything i got here, this is. busy i guess you got the impression of any system and i can she got your hands full as well trying to make the rest of the world. crickets is up to this year. the rest, the world's heard about it because the rest, the world's also suffering not on this scale, but having to deal with cove. it in the after effects. a covey is going on and on and on. people are kind of concerne

we are the who and unicef have taken over the primary care system for the next three months to get peopleh facilities, get fuel, because it gets very cold. people are freezing. all of those things are critical to get out to people. we have some emergency funding from what is a funding system but we really do need the world to focus and come and help afghanistan, not turn its back on afghanistan. in afghanistan, not turn its back on afghanistan-— afghanistan, not turn its back on aft hanistan. , ., .., afghanistan. in terms of the medical assistance that _ afghanistan. in terms of the medical assistance that people _ afghanistan. in terms of the medical assistance that people need, - afghanistan. in terms of the medical assistance that people need, how. assistance that people need, how would you describe how things have been as far as them being able to get whatever it is that they need? certainly even prior to the change of power, things were not doing well. there was a big drought and essentially the economy was a stumbling and struggling. so we have got severe malnutrition, we have asse

unicef says more than 100 women and children were abducted in the first eight months of this year. >> people looking at haiti from the outside are not realizing that the government is not working. so the gangs are running the country. >> reporter: here in miami's little haiti neighborhood, people are closely watching too. the white house said it welcomed the news of the release of those two hostages, but did not have further comment, an indication of just how delegicate the negotiations are for the release of the remaining 16. near ra? >> manuel bojorquez, thank you so much. >>> president biden is no, ma'am nationing jerome powell for a second term. powell has been widely praised for keeping interest rates near zero during the pandemic. he says he'll focus on inflation if confirmed another four yourself. powell was a republican who was originally nominated by president trump. >>> this was deadline day for federal workers to roll up their sleeves for a covid vaccine or request an exemption. there is word tonight that the vast majority have done so, but it comes as infections are on the

paste that was saving lives of children in africa within 72 hours of that story, our viewers sent unicefmarkable story, cynthia. >> it really is. there is no plumpy'nut tree. what there is are staggering numbers. an estimated 14 million children around the world suffer from acute malnutrition but a rhode island mother of four is determined to change that in fact, she already is. >> this is not just a busy factory. it's also the realization of a dream. >> you have no qualifications to do what you ended up doing >> no, no experience at all. >> you had drive and passion >> well, and i was a mom >> a mom on a mission. >> i truly believe that we can end hunger and malnutrition. yes. >> if that sounds impossible, consider that over the past dozen years, navyn salem has succeeded in transforming millions of lives by building the first and only u.s. factory churning out plumpy'nut, the therapeutic peanut butter packets which can keep children under 5 with acute malnutrition alive. >> each one represents breakfast, lunch and dinner for two months and that takes a child from not being able to walk

and lily caprani head of advocacy of vaccines at unicef. >> adalja, let me begin with you, does this ever end? >> no, this san official spreading respiratory virus. it established itself in the human population it's going to become endemic. the goal is just containment like other respiratory viruses but we're always going to have covid around hopefully in a less threatening manner as we get more people immunized. >> and doctor, wouldn't you think from the past experience we're fooling ours from we thing omicron is not in the united states. >> yeah, i think it is in the united states, we know that case in south africa didn't have any transmission. we see it's a sampling. it's likely something at a low level. delta continues to be the predominant variant. i would not be surprised to see that omicron is here and spreading in small clusters. >> i promise i'll get to lily. it can get here if brought here or through a natural progression of its owns right? >> likely it occurred in one of those south african countries because the prevalence is so high. it's not easy for the virus to do. if