fans would food program to release the money so that we can continue to feed people who really are totally lost without her. but he and michelle from their will well world food program she's chief spokesperson here in berlin thank you thank you as well why'd curve in 1000 cases so it's past 2 and a half 1000000 the global race to develop a vaccine is gaining fresh urgency today the german drug firm by own take one approval to begin the country's 1st human capital or other human clinical trials of a possible vaccine there are apparently dozens off potential candidates in development in europe china and the u.s. but health officials say it will still be months before treatment is available. governments across the world have different strategies to battle a pandemic. but they all agree on one thing. well actually when the global public health crisis caused by covert 19 will not be completely over until science finds a vaccine in the long run the best way to defeat corona virus is through a vaccine. the regulations will remain until we have a vaccine and medicine that mainly until we find a vaccine. finding a vaccine is crucial to ending the crisis around the world scientists

multiple famines the world food program needs the money so that we can continue to feed people who really are totally lost without. a teen a new ship from their will while world food program she's chief spokesperson here in berlin thank you thank you as world wide coven 1000 cases search past 2 and a half 1000000 the global race to develop a vaccine is gaining fresh urgency today the german drug firm by ontic one approval to begin the country's 1st human clinical trials of a possible vaccine there are currently dozens of potential candidates in development in europe china and the u.s. but health officials say it will be months before a treatment is available. a country scrambling to deal with a coronavirus pandemic this convention center in northern england has been turned into a makeshift hospital the transformation took less than 3 weeks the u.k. is racing to increase hospital capacity to cope with an ever increasing caseload the british government has been heavily criticized for failing to prepare for the outbreak it's now hoping to beat the virus by investing heavily in vaccines being developed at universities in oxford and london trials on humans are set to begin on thursd

will from a viral pandemic to a hunger pandemic i'm joined tonight by the world food program's bettina luscher she is the organization's chief spokeswoman here in germany the team it's good to see you why will millions more people go hungry because of the coronavirus connect the dots for us. see look what's happening all around the world look what's happening in western countries and then multiply that by also what and you see what it can eric turmoil is happening around the world. you know so many people are losing their jobs and our concern is that our data have found that the number of acutely hungry people could go out to more than a quarter 1000000000 people why is that because the virus is going around the globe blag a tsunami of suffering men women and children that we have especially concerned about those that are in refugee camps really very very close to each other how do you do social distancing in a refugee camp so we're working on that but the single that also really worries us as we this year is the world food program have to feed $100000000.00 people without us they would die and we

and now joined by the world food program's tina lucia she is the organizations chief spokeswoman here in germany hello to you both sina countries across africa and the middle east are of particular concern which communities in these regions are you worried about most. i think for us we have to think about the men women and children who are really the most vulnerable in the world who are in refugee camps who have fled war who's for who have lost children on the way to the refugee camps who are sitting in refugee camps very crowded together how can you do social distancing in a war zone in a refugee camp where people are so close together so those are the ones that we are most concerned about those are 13000000 people and what the number one thing what we have to do is we have to make sure that we can reach those people you know what we're having is we having the regular hunger problem which is already bigger than ever before and now on top of that we've got the corona virus crisis so it's really brewing to become a perfect storm. with that many humanitarian issues are being the day tod

so we have to stand together the world needs to stand together thank you just never before right bettina luscher she spokesperson here in berlin with the world food program but in a thank you. thank you it was the day of the 50th anniversary of earth day a milestone deserving global attention except that this year nearly half of the world's population is under lockdown restrictions with humans stuck inside while life is returning and staking a claim to suddenly silent and deserted streets our next report takes us to the colombian capital bogota where filmmakers are introducing the locals the humans to the neighbors that they never realized they've always had the empty city is a testing ground for some of bogota its inhabitants many people seem to forget that the colombian capital is surrounded by mountains grasslands and wetlands using their cell phones several people have captured images of wild animals they never knew lived close by wildlife is closing in on the city a phenomenon explained by jorge molina an ecologist university. the presence of wild animals didn't used to be very noticeable in the city going on and they were close to the city in the e

we can speak now to bettina alicia she is the world food program's chief spokesperson here in germany athena thank you for joining us the numbers are staggering we're saying the number of people in acute hunger could double by the end of the year something jorgen ization is calling a perfect storm why is this. it's because so many things are coming together i mean the world food program and this year will feed 100000000 people in over 80 countries but that was because of war conflict of climate change now on top of that we have another crisis the covert crisis to corona crisis and what we're seeing is that people out of work in many places their governments are scrambling how to take care of their people their economies are collapsing so we are extremely concerned that our usual work of feeding those 100000000 people will not be happening because we will not get the money that's our big concern we have people tell the world let's avoid this crisis give us the money so we can take care of these people and their cover crisis is really making everything much much more extreme we see arou

world food program's chief spokeswoman in germany bettina alicia and we asked if she had a message for the world's governments this time we are all in this this is not a crisis somewhere over there are some well over there very very far away this is affecting all of us as we all staying home we're all trying to help each other but if you live in africa or in the middle east in a war zone you have you don't have the luxuries that we have and if we do not help that i know there will be how do you condemn me and that is such a horrible never before seen situation there is our very natural self interest to help our neighbors they are suffering much more than we do if we don't help them the pandemic will get out of control and the virus will come right back at us so we have to stand together the world needs to stand together thank you just never before. and now here's a look at other stories making headlines around the world the british government says $759.00 people died from covert $1000.00 in u.k. hospitals today the 1st total death toll now stands at more than 18000 but the country's fi

world food program's chief spokeswoman in germany bettina luscher and we asked her if she had a message for the world's governments. this time we are all in this this is not a crisis somewhere. or somewhere over there very very far away this is affecting all of us and we are all the thing home and we are all trying to help each other but if you live in africa or in the middle east or in a war zone you have you don't have the luxuries that we have and if we do not help or know there will be a hunger and then me and that is your horrible never before seen situation there is our very natural self interest to help our neighbors they are suffering much more than we do if we don't help them the pandemic will get out of control and the virus will come right back at us so we have to stand together the world needs to stand together like you can never before and now here's a look at other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive orders hamper rarely suspending immigration he said it was necessary to help americans get jobs and then the economy

countries and then means strengthening the poor over how they're going to say she isn't done you each all but also the world food program has many many people might not have easy access to food because of the restrictions of their mobility but germany has called for solidarity of the you never know but as you mentioned that germany is a global act what is stopping germany from acting alone and providing aid when it's needed. we do both we do we do act on european level that is why i. was together with history leaks today but we have bilaterally also and that is what we are going for the minister is preparing a 7 points package. 'd to to to act now and what does that mean it means that we have to look where we need to shift activities that it with in the ministry of economic cooperation and he isn't preparing your shift of a budget of about $1000000000.00 euros now from other areas to combating the corona beer is and its and its and its advantages for the future and that is what we're talking about i think you will be presenting his his plans to the parliament to the can needs in the parliament very soon i have just left

food shortages when i say she needed most urgently but hundreds of millions more is needed for the just ticks including airlift to get food and medical supplies to remote areas of the world food program david beasley said that if action isn't taken the results will be catastrophic. we are not talking about people going to bed hungry we're talking about extreme conditions emergency status people literally marching to the brink of starvation we don't get food to people people will die this is truly more than just a pandemic is creating a hunger pandemic this is a humanitarian in through to catastrophe we're looking at a widespread damage of biblical proportions is comments karmas a w f p report estimates that the number of those suffering from hunger this year could double to more than a quarter of a 1000000000 people while the pandemic makes this worse hotspot countries already been impacted by years of war climate change and economic stagnation in yemen the doubling of p.t. feeds around $12000000.00 people each month on over 60 percent of south sudan's population experienced food shortages last year. but i'm now joined by charity right c.e.o. and advisor working with the u.s. agency

she ever turns the al-jazeera washington the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for international agencies to raise money among those the world food program which says that it's been forced to cut rations for more than a $1000000.00 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding under serious malcolm webb explains how critical that food aid is with the un's world food programme has been calling for donations to help them feed refugees in uganda since the end of last year donations haven't been forthcoming in mali it's normal for the world food program to not receive as much money as it requests and this case the shortfall is critical that's why they're cutting rations by about a 3rd so that's going to make a hard life even more difficult for those 1200000 refugees in uganda these camps are not good places to live even at the best of times northern uganda hundreds of thousands of people who fled the conflict in south sudan a living there in a landscape that's dry for much of the time that farmed the land is not suitable for farming it makes it difficult to be able to produce their own food and so they depend on the food from