show today is the woman put knows how to make the victims lived at least a little bit better mr valery amoss the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. well yeah there are now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade various top officials in the british government is most recently a big u.k. high commissioner to australia earlier the leader of the house of lords or secretary of state for international development in the cabinet rather he was the first black woman to occupy such a high position amherst work much in africa and the middle east tackling complex she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. years ago. some awesome welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in march two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the worries to allow access to all parts of syria to help people affected by the civil confli