world food program says prices for staple foods have risen in some places by as much as 200 percent of the consequences are dramatic the end warning that 31000000 people may not have enough to eat in the coming months that would be a 30 percent increase in hungry people compared to last year immediate action is required and it doesn't come cheap the wall food program says it needs 6640000000 euros to continue aid in 900 countries in the africa on the african continent now let's take a closer look at this issue with saul morris he's the director of program services at the global alliance for improved nutrition joins me from oslo welcome to the program sol thanks for being here. first of all let me ask you what do experts mean when they say this hunger crisis is unlike others before is not caused by one factor or another but rather a multitude of factors all linked to the pandemic. that's absolutely right yes. if these are really difficult times people consuming wanting to buy food in markets and for companies that are trying to produce or distribute or sofi to customers for things that

world food program says prices for staple foods have risen in some places by as much as 200 percent by the consequences are dramatic you and warning that 31000000 people may not have enough to eat in the coming months that would be a 30 percent increase in hungry people compared to last year immediate action is required and it doesn't come cheap the wall food program says it needs 6640000000 euros to continue aid in 1000 countries in the africa on the african continent now let's take a closer look at this issue with saul morris he's the director of program services at the global alliance for improved nutrition joins me from oslo welcome to the program saul thanks for being here. first of all let me ask you what do experts mean when they say this hunger crisis unlike others before is not caused by one factor or another but rather a multitude of factors all linked to the pandemic. that's absolutely right yes. if these are really difficult times people consuming wanting to buy food in markets and for companies that are trying to produce or distribute or so food to customers for things tha

is a spokeswoman for the united nations world food program and she says the current a virus is worsened madagascar's hunger crisis. the situation in madagascar has just been declining since last year when the alarm bell rang what we call the lean season which is that window between planting and harvesting and we started to sort of build the awareness to really get the world to take notice operationally even even getting cargo to madagascar is it's. it's a small island off of southern africa and at the moment the countries in the middle of a lockdown so there are very few flights as one in 4. into madagascar and it's very tough to even get humanitarian workers into the country so we need resources we need resources yesterday we need to turn resources into food the world is absolutely suffering from 100 percent you know we know that but i think the domino effect in madagascar is that because of consecutive drought where sandstorms have completely untreated harvest they've never had you know they haven't had a decent rain all in years and this will have a massive effect in 2021 on children

from the un's world food program joining us. there's been persistent rain in some of the states the us recently in missouri for example where the big river is even bigger than normal with trees running down it and significant sun storms on the same system for used not golf ball even tennis balls but hey we're the same side damaging weather down in texas and there's a system with a big thunderstorm shown by the flashes of lightning and here it is it lies at the moment but it's not going anywhere as if anything go to sit over texas if you're in texas expect flooding expect more hail expect quite a lot of sun reactivity and there's always in the northeast has been fairly cold recently toronto went down to 8 degrees or below 0 now slowly rising that cold cold is warming as you can see and the rain event she starts to go east from texas but that takes until probably late on sunday a significant rain has fallen in parts of mexico mexico city itself there was hail and flooding rain and that's the trend so extending from texas you have

the world food program is fighting over. the fight. this is the w. news live from berlin u.s. president joe biden delivers his 1st speech to a joint session of congress biden said south america's return to a politics of international cooperation saying that no nation can succeed. also coming up a gong to let's say enough money appears in public for the 1st time since that russian opposition leader ended in the early months long hunger strike. in the us it's another world record in daily new coronavirus cases pushing its health system far beyond its latest.

ambassador to the world food program, based in rome. what other nominations can we expect to see confirmed this week? guest: nominations are something that haven't been going through quickly right now, given that both the white house and -- have been focused on covid relief and the infrastructure package. it is a shorter week here in washington. not clear how many of them will get through, certainly something the senate and white house say they are focused on. host: the president delivering a speech before a joint session of congress, initially scheduled for earlier this spring. now we are hearing at the end of this month. what do you know about that? guest: could you repeat that? host: whether or not the president will deliver a speech before a joint session of congress? guest: we heard from the white house on wednesday, we expect it to take place but certainly much later than we expected. first we had been told that the white house was looking to get the president's relief package passed first. we have seen that and now we are working

it is part of joint initiative un world food program and street art for mayor kind. mayor libby schaaf and celebrity chef tyler florence were there and say it's important this landed in the area. >> thank you for putting a human face on a global problem and the face of a beautiful child. >> it's more think about yourself as a citizen that contributes to the arts and contributes to society, contributes to the overalling with being of an area as diverse and as rich and wonderful as the bay area is. >> the french artist victor ash created the 190-foot tall mural, one of six going up around the country. you can watch 24/7 on kpix.com or our app. >>> coming up on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. >> opening day for top golf's first bay area location, a sneak peek at some of the features and how to snag a reservation. w garcessing $100,0 s with a reverse mortgage loan from the bay area's #1 reverse mortgage lender. lemme tell you something. i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior. or worse, that it was some way to take yo

in 2019, the world food program took us to a village in remote guatemsould no longer buy cash crops or right now knows someone who left to go to the united states because they couldn't survive here. who do you know went to the united states? >> papa. >> what is he doing now? he's cleaning. her dad is cleaning. >> do you want to stay here or go there? >> she wants to stay. >> now the world food program says conditions are worsening, complicating president biden's immigration agenda. >> now you think the current controversy might distract from helping people who have lived here for years, if not decades, just like you? >> yeah. >> we're going to pick up on that point right now. jacob soboroff joins me. he's been reporting on the border crisis and the family separation issue for years, and he joins me now. jacob, what was interesting there is this concern that anna and her parents have about this -- all right, we have this new crisis at the border, but we've been dealing with the 11 million folks that are here undocumented, and we used to say for a decade. i think we're on our second deca

warnings famine is living in southern madagascar after years of drought and sandstorms the world food program says some people have been forced to eat no costs and leave the organizations i mentality has described seeing her if images of starving all malnourished families turned her face and he says the scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. well the un's food agency says about 750000 people don't know where their next meal is coming from last year and one of the worst hit areas it found 3 out of 4 children were missing school mostly to help their parents forage for food it wants $75000000.00 to cover the emergency in the next few months or surely a fact is the spokeswoman for the united nations world food program and says the coronavirus has worsened madagascar's hunger crisis. the situation in madagascar in has just been declining since last year when the alarm bell rang what we call bullying season which is that window between planting and harvesting and we've started to sort of build the awareness and to to really get the world to take notice operationally even even getting cargo to m

world food program thanks so much for joining us from ducky. now a u.s. military ship pers fired warning shots at iranian naval vessels in the gulf washington says 3 boats came within about 60 meters of the u.s.s. firebolt where the confrontation came as talks are underway in vienna on bringing the u.s. and iran back to the 2015 nuclear accord alexia brian explains. a standoff in the gulf these pictures from the u.s. navy has said to show an american warship firing warning shots and iranian vessels came too close the u.s. says monday's encounter was the 2nd this month and that an iranian warships aggressively approached american vessels in the same area on april 2nd it says it had to move abruptly to avoid a collision when the iranian ship comes in front are we also seeing a pattern in which this tends to take place as the 2 sides are getting closer towards some form of an agreement and though progress has been slow it does appear as if returns to deduce u.p.a. is within reach within the next couple of weeks as a result of the discussions taking place in

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. >> you had to step down from the world food program? >> yeah.eah. >> well, i made a lot of decisions that i probably should not have made. there was a lot more compassion and understanding from the people who knew me. but it was a horrible time too. >> and then the there's this. in 2014, the younger biden took a job on the board of a ukrainian energy company, in a time when his father who was then vice president had an active role in u.s. policy toward ukraine. it raised eyebrows at the time and by the 2020 elections he was the center of a political fire storm. >> hunter was thrown out of the military. he was thrown out and dishonorably discharged because of drug abuse. >> none of that is true. >> he made a fortune in ukraine, and moss cocow and various othe places. >> looking back did you make a mistake in taking a spot on the board? >> no, but i made a mistake in terms of under estimating the way in which it would be used against me. >> but you must have seen the optics. even back then, you must have -- how could you not have foreseen that thi

the street art for mankind teaming up with the world food program along with the colts company, the pink, the tallest mural in oakland as part of the 6 mural series being painted across the country to help raise awareness and to mobilize support to fight hunger, especially after the pandemic. according to the department of agriculture african americans are twice as likely to face hunger as non-latino caucasian households and to give back to local minority communities. kellogg company is donating cash to support local food, justice programs in each of those 6 cities. the mural is the 3rd of the 6. >> from the bottom of our hearts. >> thank you to everyone made possible use their talent, their love and their absolute that are in the world thank you for putting a human face on a global problem and the face of a beautiful child. >> if you download the behind the wall app and photographed the mural you'll get instant access to details about the yard work and how you can take local action locally along with globally. meanwhile, the u.s. navy's newest ship now ready to hit the waters. the commi

the world food program is fighting over worldwide and. join the fight. can you imagine a life. well i'd rather not but how will the world look after the pandemic alone welcome to the show i'm seeing beardsley in berlin that was sociologist richard sennett with whom we spoke on monday as part of our week long exercise of imagining life after the pandemic that is the aspects of society or even our daily lives that could be changed for the better we've been asking researchers from around the world for their biggest lessons for the past year and a half here's what we've heard so far. has the pandemic changed how we live will social distancing become the new norm the danger in this is you naturalised the extreme. to zoom or even working from home a nice solution full time. to do that. covert breaking showed our society isn't a shock proof as some believed a bitter pill especially for the western world some of us we can learn obviously one is that it pays to build in a bit of slack in the system will resilience and also we shouldn't depend so much on supply shades for manufacturing so

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world food program. cindy mccain, of course, the wife of the late great senator john mccain. president biden is meeting virtually with silicon valley leaders to discuss the chip crisis. the ceos of intel and google and hp among the leaders who will answer the president's questions. the worldwide chip shortage is a matter of national security. we import most of our chips, even chips that go into military weapons as well as chips that go into cars and other consumer goods. marcus, both ford and general motors, as you know, to stop some production of some makes of cars recently because they couldn't obtain the chips that they needed. it is hitting had the economy hard. >> that chip is so important. even when you get your car repaired. they just look at the chip. >> reporter: that's right. >> thanks, scott. >>> the children of britain's prince philip and queen elizabeth have opened up about their father's passing. meanwhile, prince harry back in the uk to attend his grandfather's funeral this weekend. nbc's keir simmons reports from windsor castle. >> reporter: flowers and heartf

they went through harrowing experiences before finding shelter at this camp run by the world food program and penned by. world do i look or we traveled for 6 days with no food but it could be you could i have grouped some food for the journey this is only lasted 3 days. for the remaining days we had nothing to do. they are killing us. why they are burning houses and they are taking our children why. they are killing us with guns what about the doctor who are dying under what i do we are in despair about the situation and i know mother one of my broker we are . i think we are or nah. on march 24th islamist militants launched an attack on the town of palma leaving dozens of people dead it took mozambique's army fact by a private military contractor almost 2 weeks to secure the town the gas rich cover delgado province has been a frequent target of jihadist since 2017 and the security situation remains precarious witnesses described atrocities committed by both government forces and the insurgents. the u.n. says 50000 people have fled since the march attack in palma. we have seen several fami

world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in. al-jazeera. adrian for the good with you here in doha the headlines of al-jazeera a course in hong kong has convicted 9 prominent pro-democracy activists for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019 thing clue the media tycoon former politicians and a barrister who's considered to be hong kong's father of democracy sarah clarke is at the courthouse in hong kong. this is some of the most high profile democracy tempo's here in hong kong some of the bit this is what activists are here in hong kong and several of those so far have been found guilty you know we spoke to martin lee the father of democracy movement on his why is he.

world food program in west africa he says the conflict is driving up hunger and insecurity the biggest threat to people's ability to have food the biggest concern the biggest thing that the biggest factor that causes accurate hunger as we have seen in this region is actually conflict it's insecurity we have now as you just mentioned millions of millions of people across the central sahara region that is booking a fossil knees and money as well as a leech on these an area in northern parts of nigeria and cameroon as well as parts of nisha where we find millions of people who are desperately in need of food assistance but clearly in the northern parts of niger where we have about 800000 people who are in imagine sea levels of food insecurity where they need immediate assistance without which they cannot survive and that is mainly due to the conflict and insecurity that has been gaining ground there. now a magnitude 6 earthquake has hit india's northeastern a some state it damaged buildings and sent many people running from their homes there were no immediate reports of casualties the nat

world food program warns that almost a 1000000 in mozambique require food aid because of the crisis the international community doing little to help we all are making statements that suggest africa is not a priority for major powers. reports. i'm here in downtown johannesburg where buses heading to mozambique me from last week insurgents affiliated with islamic state launched a raid on the northernmost big town of palma ransacking buildings and murdering and be hitting civilians. the latest attack is the biggest escalation by flemister where bulls who have been waiting villages and towns in northern mozambique for the past 4 years leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced and at least 2000 dead half of them civilians according to the united nations. and that we had at the hotel which was besieged by militants after 4 days without eating we decided to leave and escape into the forest but some of my white colleagues lost their lives again to get it for she i can't go back to palma i don't believe there will be pleased there that we'll be able to leave there the way we used to. ok

he says of honoring those who didn't make it natasha butler i'll just sirrah paris the un's world food program says almost a 1000000 people are facing severe hunger in northern mozambique barely 700000 have been displaced by finding between government forces and armed groups linked to eisele around 2600 people have died since the conflict started 4 years ago. has this report from a camp. or province. zubayr says 3 months ago dragged him into the forest saying they were going to chop off his head when he tried to escape they shot him while. there are any. one of. they kept shooting at me and i kept running i hid in the bush for 3 days and 3 nights i was weak and i lost a lot of blood somebody found me and carried me to a place where boats were rescuing other people from my village that is how i survived. an armed group calling itself with links to eisele is behind this attack in fact they've been wreaking havoc in the region since 2017 their attacks have left at least 2600 people dead and uprooted nearly 700000 people. is one of them he now lives in a camp for internally displaced people is one

that lack of unity and failure to hold myanmar's generals to account a likely to be costly the world food program is warning that millions could go hungry in coming months and fighting in border areas could send refugees pouring into neighboring countries this is a maritime disaster in the making it's early stage but it could get worse the knock on effects from this crisis we're beginning to see civil war feels. there will be no end to it. protestors in dar way hold a candle lit vigil for the victims of the myanmar protests now more than 700 people but few are expecting more than thoughts and prayers from leaders tony ching al jazeera bangkok. jails a russian opposition leader alexina valmy has ended his hunger strike after more than 3 weeks of army had been urged by allies to end the protest to his death terry singh health condition he's been demanding access to his own doctor. russia has begun moving troops away from its border with ukraine and sent tens of thousands of soldiers into the region leading to tension with ukraine and its western allies moscow says it was a military exercise and som

world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in public. how to al-jazeera. jailed russian opposition leader alexina value has to clear that he's going on hunger strike until he receives proper medical treatment the 44 year old says that he's suffering from acute back pain and can't use one of his legs prison authorities say that his health is satisfactory of all he is serving a 2 and a half year sentence for a parole violation. the british government has suggested that the u.k. should be seen as an international model for racial equality that's the main finding of a report that says that while racism still exists there's been significant progress and it's a surprise to many of the many people of color who describe the report as a white wash that denies their lived experiences or how reports now from the city of bristol. the picture of britain having largely moved on from racial and ethnic inequality isn't one recognized in cities like bristol ranked among the country's most unequal societies. c c last summer the statue of a prom

in the food baskets for displaced families and help from n.g.o.s is not enough for all the world food program gives money which is not sufficient concern and fear is that the situation is going to become more difficult for the last 2 months there have been no electricity in this camp which is home to about 5000 people but even in a day's conditions people find life easier than what it is when they try to go back and rebuild their homes which have been destroyed in the fighting. so i had i would have found shelter in this construction site he's angry for being forced out of his tent with nowhere to go and no opportunities to rebuild his life. yes they forced me to leave the camp kick me out without any alternative my house is totally damage if the government pays me i will rebuild my house i want to return but the situation has forced me to live here in addition to destroyed homes there are security issues arab residents of sent fear kurdish groups such as the y p g n p k k. others displaced from the province are afraid of fighters aligned with the popular mobilization forces iraq's government

world food program mourns that almost a 1000000 people in mozambique require food aid because of the crisis but the international community is seemingly reluctant to help sorties paulus lear takes us through. and here in downtown johannesburg heading to mozambique. last week insurgents affiliated with islamic state launched a raid on the northernmost town of palma ransacking buildings and murdering into hitting civilians. but because of. the latest attack is the biggest it's place in by flemister where poles who have been waiting villages and towns in northern mozambique for the past 4 years leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced and at least 2000 did half of them civilians according to be united nations. we had at the hotel which was besieged by militants after 4 days without eating we decided to leave an escape into the forest but some of my white colleagues lost their lives to get a good deal for you can go bananas i don't believe there will be people that will be able to leave there is the way we used to. ok like the billboard not to hurt people who were killed on the

the un world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in public. al-jazeera. pakistan has lifted a nearly 2 year ban on sugar and cotton imports from india pakistan suspended ties with its neighbor in 2019 where new delhi scrapped the special status of indian administered kashmir relations though have warmed again more recently. finance minister says resumption of sugar imports will help reduce soaring prices president joe biden has announced a $2.00 trillion dollar infrastructure plan that includes upgrading roads and bridges and more funds for public transport. billions will also go towards new electric vehicle charging stations and expanding high speed broadband all this will be partially funded by raising corporate tax in opposition and congress is a certainty biden's urging against any delay the bill's affair connally gives everybody changes you can see it's going to create the strongest most resilient innovative economy in the world. it's not a plan the tinkers around the edges it's a once in a generation investment in a

world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in public. how to. officials in france are hoping the 3rd wave of covert 19 infections could take this few to 7 days with new lockdown measures meant is expected to approve plans to enter a 3rd national lockdown this weekend schools will be closed for 3 weeks and domestic travel is banned for at least a month daily infections are above $30000.00 and hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed. ecuador's health system is severely strained from a rise 5 in cove in 1000 cases with some doctors saying it has collapsed hospitals are working beyond capacity across the country 12000 cases were recorded in the past week it's nearing the peak experience to a year ago and one hospital in crypto patients are being treated in tents corridors cafeteria and office spaces. brazil's crowd of our situation is also becoming more dire by the day almost 3900 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours a brazil's president is resisting any new restrictions that is about ports. burials in the middle of the ni

world food program in west africa he says the conflict is driving up hunger and insecurity the biggest threat to people's ability to have food because the biggest thing that the biggest factor that causes accurate hunger as we have seen in this region is actually conflict it's insecurity we have now as you just mentioned millions of millions of people across the central region that is a book you know fossil need and money as well as the live chat bees an area in northern parts of nigeria and cameroon as well as parts of need where we find millions of people who are desperately in need of food assistance but really in the novel parts of niger where we have about 800 pounds to people who are even imagine if the levels of food insecurity where they need immediate assistance without which they cannot survive and that is mainly due to the conflict and insecurity that has been gaining ground there. when joe biden became u.s. president there were hopes of improving strained relations with china but as he approaches the 100th day of his presidency ties it was fraught as ever adrian brown repor

world food program west africa and he says the conflict is driving up hunger and insecurity. the biggest threat to people's ability to have food because comes the biggest thing that the biggest factor that causes accurate hunger as we have seen in this region is actually conflict it's insecurity we have now as you just mentioned millions of millions of people across the central sahara region that is booking a fossil nice and modern as well as a live chat bees an area in northern parts of nigeria and cameroon as well as parts of nisha where we find millions of people who are desperately in need of food assistance but typically in the northern parts of niger where we have about 800 pounds and people who are even imagine seeing levels of food insecurity where they need immediate assistance without which they cannot survive and that is mainly due to the conflict and insecurity that has been gaining ground there one of joe biden's biggest foreign policy decisions has been to withdraw all u.s. troops in afghanistan by september the u.s. special representative for afghanistan zalmay

world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in public. how do we. had. teller get a free information with you here in doha the headlines and i'll just 0 of course in hong kong was convicted 9 prominent pro-democracy activists taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019 thing clue the media tycoon for politicians and a barrister who's considered to be hong kong's father of democracy sarah clarke is at the courthouse in hong kong. this is some of the most high profile pro-democracy tempo's here in hong kong some of the bits and activists are here in hong kong and 7 of those so far have been found guilty you know we spoke to martin lee the father of democracy movement on his way and he said he's prepared to go to jail to fight for democracy and fight for the rights of the freedoms of this former british territory also spoke to leach he's the man who organizes the tiananmen square vigil every year he's a veteran of this particular movement but he said he's prepared to go to jail he's prepared to continue his fight for democracy

that why why do you interfere with it why on earth would you prevent organizations like the world food program from doing their job and trying to feed people if there are any things like that it should be presented and people should be punished if they are doing something improper some punish them now will either not punish those ness of trying to stop the aid to the emmys we will let's investigate that not just because you said it or they said it in the international media let's put the books on the table as i said and looked at all the details sometimes in the midst of all these things you try to make this kind of accusations without proof let the u.n. prove it and we will take the proper action against those who did such kind of things which stop the aid to our people. mr sheriff your forces haven't just restricted to humanitarian agencies you actually threaten them as well the u.n. experts said they documented intimidation and direct threats by your people against humanitarian personnel what business have you got threatening people who are trying to feed the hungry. i'm really. hearing som

that why why do you interfere with it why on earth would you prevent organizations like the world food program from doing their job and trying to feed people if there are any things like that it should be presented and people should be punished if they are doing something improper some punish them now we started all punishments ness of trying to stop the aid to the emmys we will let's investigate that not just because you said it or they said it in the international media let's put the books on the table as i said and looked at all the details sometimes in the midst of all these things you try to make this kind of accusations without proof let the u.n. prove it and we will take the proper action against those who did such kind of things which stop the aid to our people. mr sheriff your forces haven't just restricted to humanitarian agencies you actually threaten them as well the u.n. experts said they documented intimidation and direct threats by your people against humanitarian personnel what business have you got threatening people who are trying to feed the hungry. i'm really. hearing somet