in the bavarian capital munich the united nations world food program wants to revolutionize the fight against hunger. ban hardcovers and his international team are already organizing donations and deliveries digitally. one particularly promising project is aimed at solving a huge problem that many refugees face. millions have lost their families money and homes as they flee war and persecution. in places like the us wreck refugee camp in the jordanian desert they're provided with the bare essentials for life. the aid organizations task is difficult and takes enormous effort blocked ain't acknowledging it seems to offer a solution. to your hot off the block to egypt the ref you. g.'s has a virtual account in the block chamber instead of having this account with a bank we can use the block chain to handle individual transactions or advantage for us is clear and instead of making ten thousand individual transactions each month via banks for example we can simply settle up with various businesses once a week. going up to. the syrian refugees pay for their purchases by ice can. compare it

united nations world food program has begun to airlift supplies into parts of mozambique are cut off by has to be a flooding the u.n. says it's delivered a to about twenty thousand people so far cycling struck last week bringing some of the worst storms to hit the country for decades. police in paris of banned yellow vests protestors from the shows uneasy on saturday a week after hundreds of demonstrators are right and looted shops on the famous blue rock at the decision follows french president demanding all backcross controversial decision to call in the army to cut the violence. now italy and china are set to sign a deal to make its way the first western european country to join beijing's belt and road global infrastructure project at least kastrup government is hoping for investment worth billions of euros in business and infrastructure from china but isn't his partners in europe see the deal as a bid by china to attempt to expand its power. china's president got a warm reception in rome host country it's really it's become the first g seven economy to join the new silk road proj

the united nations world food program started air lifting supplies to parts of mozambique that have been cut off by severe flooding the u.n. says it has been liberated aid to some twenty thousand people so far mozambique was hit by one of its worst storms in decades last week. new zealand paul's today to reflect on the shootings one week ago at two christ church mosts fifty people were killed the horrific event as moved the country to unify around its muslim population a long way from all along. the at times the slum a call to prayer resoundingly in christ's church. pastors that silence falls across new zealand for two minutes the nation mourns and remembers. as many as twenty thousand people have come to gather at christ church is hardly park opposite the newer mosque targeted in friday's attack. the mosques the mom calls the country's reaction an example of love and unity. the fairest. soul if you leave it all of a sudden. we believe you'll let it lead we're all doing all right. but. we're all over. new zealand's prime minister wearing a headscarf in sign of support and quoting islamic

now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the united nations world food program has started air lifting supplies to parts of mozambique have been cut all by severe flooding the u.n. says it has delivered aid to some twenty thousand people so far. was hit by one of its worst storms in decades last week. officials in seoul south korea say north korea has unexpectedly withdrawn its staff from an interview in libya's own office just six months after it was set up the development is a setback for peace on the peninsula it came hours after the u.s. imposed the first new sanctions over the north's weapons program since the collapse of talks last month. two u.s. servicemen have been killed while carrying out an unspecified operation in afghanistan their deaths bring the number of u.s. soldiers killed in the country this year to four the incident comes a day after a series of bombings killed at least six people in the capital kabul. in china the death toll has risen to forty seven after a huge explosion at a chemical plant in the east of the country hundreds were injured

well the united nations world food program has started air lifting supplies to stranded people in mozambique hit by severe flooding the u.n. says it has already delivered need to some twenty thousand people so far officials have warned that about one point seven million people in the region will need food aid over the next three months. mozambique was hit by one of the worst ever storms in decades in the region last week. to get more on the current situation we spoke to the marrow of beara dobby's the mongo much of that city is now under water sort of grants to them and the cyclon brought extremely high winds and that's what destroyed our city. public and private infrastructure schools hospitals and houses of all being destroyed. our economic infrastructure has also been badly affected. warehouses shops and stalls are damaged. telecommunications are down and we have a severe shortage of water. and some sellers are using the situation to drive up prices. bera is in darkness at night it's a ghost town it's extremely painful to see our people don't have enough food. we are doing everything to m

now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the united nations world food program has started air lifting supplies to parts of mozambique that have been cut off by severe flooding the u.n. says it has delivered aid to some twenty thousand people so far mozambique was hit by one of the worst storms in decades last week. officials in seoul say north korea has unexpectedly withdrawn its staff from an intercom in liaison office just six months after it was set up the development is a setback for peace all the peninsula came hours after the u.s. imposed the first new sanctions or ignore its weapons program since the collapse of told us last month the. president's chinese china's president xi jinping has ordered an investigation into thursday's massive explosion at a chemical plant the blast killed at least forty seven people and injured more than six hundred. kurds at an industrial park it was so powerful it triggered a magnitude two point two earthquake. in iran rescue teams are searching for dozens of people missing after a ferry capsized around one hundred people die

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the united nations world food program has started air lifting supplies to parts of mozambique that have been cut off by severe flooding the u.n. says it has delivered aid to some twenty thousand people so far mozambique was hit by one of its worst storms in decades last week. and officials in south in seoul south korea say north korea has unexpectedly withdrawn its staff from an interim. office just six months after it was set up the development is set back for peace on the peninsula came hours after the u.s. imposed the first new sanctions over the north the north's weapons program since the collapse of talks last month. new zealand polls today to reflect on the shootings one week ago it to mosques in the city of christ church fifty people were killed and scores wounded the horrific event has moved the country to unify around its muslim population. model law. the adhan. call to prayer resoundingly in christ church. after that silence falls across new zealand for two minutes the nation mourns and remembers. as many as twenty thousand people have come together at christ church is hardly

the united nations world food program has started early fitting supplies to parts of mozambique that have been cut off by severe flooding all the u.s. says it has delivered aid to some twenty thousand people so far mozambique was hit by one of its worst storms in decades last week. in paris police have banned lead yellow vests protests from taking place on the shelves in these eight on saturday one week after hundreds of anti-government demonstrators rioted a mood of shops on this famous boulevard called the decision comes after french president and many were not calling me the controversial decision to call in the army to curb the violence. back here in germany a police have arrested eleven people in an antiterrorism raid near the city of frankfurt some two hundred police commandos were dispatched in two areas of the western germany among the nearly a dozen people arrested are three primary suspects a twenty one year old and two thirty one year old brothers well they're accused of planning a terror attack to kill non muslims the three allegedly rented a large vehicle and made contac

. >>> united nations world food program has reached 20,000 people in flood ravaged mozambique. but some say nearly 2 million people will need help over the next three months. floodwaters from cyclone d-day have wiped out entire villages in mozambique. un world fro food program has been air dropping and delivering food to groups of stranded people in that country. some have been clinging to trees, huddling on rooftop since the cyclone hit over the weekend. government officials say, at least 350 people have died, and a for that number of dead will increase as the floodwaters recede. >>> from our senator and presidential candidate, bernie sanders will be in san diego today for the first of three san diego campaign rallies. senator sanders will also make stops in san francisco and la. this weekend. this trip follows a visit wednesday, when he spoke to striking workers at ucla. prior to that, he last visited california in october as part of a nationwide effort to get out the vote ahead of the midterm election cycle. >> california center, kamala harris is taking her 2020 presidential

work for nongovernmental organizations like the human rights people that the united nations, refugee council, the world food program. all of these organizations have massive bases here in nairobi. in fact, in many of the cases there are living in nairobi. and hopping over to adsis. and the crisis of refugees, all the crises are tackled between these two great cities. it came as no surprise there would be so many united nations people onboard. but the reaction is a great sense of loss and shock really. i'm here talking to you at the international airport. behind me is the international arrivals. now, 24 hours ago that plane, that doomed -- should have arrived at the airport and many would have been walking through this international arrivals area. and sadly that isn't the case. at the moment we know that the company's executive for safety and transport is going to talk in a moment and he's joined as well by the ethiopian airlines chief from nairobi. we don't know what they're going to say but of course is feeling of tragedy is palpable in this town where so many united nations people work. no matter what organizatio

world the next few days. david mckenzie, thanks for being with us. 157 people died in the plane crash including 21 united nations staffers. maria buzetti worked for the u.n. world food program from rome and was just 30 years old. >> university of plymouth graduate sarah offret was on her way to talk about how to tackle plastic pollution in the oceans. her employees said in a statement we have lost a true friend and a beloved colleague. kosha vadila and her husband along with their teenagered daughters were on their way to nairobi. she wanted to show her daughters where she had come from. they planned to go on a safari. >> we should get data from the black boxes over the next few days. in the meantime, the calls for the faa and domestic u.s. carriers to perhaps ground these planes will rise and continue. >> we'll keep people posted throughout the show. >> in political news, i want to do a dramatic reading from an interview nancy pelosi gave to "the washington post." she said, this is news. i'm going to give you some news right now because i haven't said this to any press person before. as a reporter i will tell you -- >> that gets your attention? >> yes. when someone tells i

united nations described how to. die as quote a massive disaster affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. spoke with of the world food program here and then it's active in mozambique malawi and zimbabwe where the cycler did the most damage she updated us about the situation when you fly over this area it looks as if there's a whole ocean that has moved in miles and miles of water people on roofs people spend days in trees schools are sheltering. people so we're bringing in food we have these little energy biscuits that have all the nutrients that a person needs to survive because they can't cook they have nothing and we bring in water we bring in supplies we have teams on the ground who do emergency telecom so that the aid workers can actually talk to each other and organize a response but it's a massive crisis we're bringing in helicopters we're dropping off food and other supplies and water to people that are stuck in areas but you also have to mount a huge logistical response we're going to bring. cargo planes in. coming is coming in from all over southern africa because we will feed five hundred thousand people just thin

just months ago the world food program was saying that we were perhaps heading towards a famine famine in the twenty first century the united nations in the event said that a humanitarian catastrophe was unfolding in the central african republic and they're the one to suffer from this deal that seems to be falling to pieces. nicholas hockin thanks very much all right still ahead on al-jazeera rescue teams try to reach tens of thousands of people caught off by floods across afghanistan and pakistan. in sport james harden is the rocket man as he fires houston to another when. hello there the weather is all quietening down over parts of the middle east now we are seeing one area of travis gradually working away towards the northeast seeing more cloud making its way over post turkey and syria this is given a some pretty heavy rain and some strong winds but it is gradually easing instead there just be a handful of showers across that coastline of the mediterranean as we head through the day on tuesday elsewhere in fact that will see the temperatures beginning to rise now we get to around twenty three degrees just to the south of us that

world food program. and you see a massive hall and in there according to the office of the coordination of humanitarian affairs of the united nationsrganizations that have come to respond. and the response of course comes about a week after the cyclone hit. and put so many people's lives in peril. but this is where it first hit. and then it moved up country and created what people are calling inland oceans which is massive bodies of water through mozambique. and it went on to zimbabwe where it crushed people in their sleep by breaking down massive mountains. and of course it is quite unclear how many people have been killed, what the death toll is. and indeed at the moment as we are here we are trying to see the extent of the damage for ourselves and of course what can be done to rescue people that still need lifting there very heavily drowned and watered down villages throughout the interior of the three nations. farai sevenzo, cnn, mozambique. >> thank you. we'll be right back. ensure max protein... to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. (straining) i'll take that. (cheers) 30 grams of protein and 1 gr