colleagues with the world food program what is this going to mean for you for the world food program and for all the people that you know you're trying to help in places like south sudan. exactly for all of the family welfare program around the world and we're thrilled and sort of on a by what is this amazing achievement and the recognition of course of the work that we've been doing over the last few years but in particular this year as the world sutton's struggles through time and once again and also the recognition of course that hunger and war and conflict goes hand in hand and the world needs to do everything it can alongside through programming of the world through problem alongside them to stop that and break that linkage so it's a great honor and i believe that it will it will scare us on in our task in our responsibility emma from your perspective how much does the fact that the international community has of late repeatedly failed to mediate conflicts and disputes around the world how much has that led to this massive increase we've seen around the world in food insecurity. yeah i think mostly got me thinking back to lessons to our friends and colleagues tha

think i have an idea where i'm going i can honestly say there's 1200 strong of us in the world food program in south sudan one of the largest operations in the world and we go oh. by the decision of the committee to give this amazing office of the world. to give us a quick sense of the extent to which the global food security crisis is being used as a as a weapon of war in certain regions. there and everywhere where there are the 690000000 people who go to go hungry every night the vast majority of those countries are countries that face conflicts and violence and that's typically the common denominator and what we want to do is ensure that we have is to help those people with immediate relief but also to support them get through that period where we can help bring peace to our country as well as. from our experience the majority of countries that come out of conflict going back into conflict if people stay hungry if there is still instability in the country and that's all right and that's a room that we take very very seriously what can be done to avoid another global food security crisis such as the one

peace prize i think i have an idea where i'm going are going on 1200 strong of us in the world food program in south sudan one of the largest operations in the world and we go oh. by the decision of the committee to give this amazing always. give us a quick sense of the extent to which the global food security crisis is being used as a as a weapon of war in certain regions. there and everywhere where there are the 690000000 people who go to go hungry every night the vast majority of those countries are countries that face conflicts and violence and that's typically the common denominator and what we want to do is ensure that he is to help those people with immediate relief but also to support them get through that period where we can help bring peace to our country as well because. from our experience the majority of countries that come out of conflict go back into conflict if people stay hungry if there is still instability in their country and that's all right and that's a role that we take very very seriously what can be done to avoid another global food security crisis such as the one we're witnessing

that has faced has homes challenges to the world food program in areas of conflict is at the city of aid workers we've seen aid workers pockets in south sudan most recently 2 days ago where the united nations office for cultivation of military affairs and the world food program condemned an attack on on their food supplies are on a convoy that is delivering food supplies so obviously while they are trying to deliver aid it does come with challenges but for many people they say that we've found the. ok and that was morgan joining us there from khartoum unfortunately lost the feed to her she was responding from the sudan one of the countries that's a large recipient of the 2020 nobel peace prize the world food program and one of the other countries that the w a p has been mourning about is zimbabwe there it says more than 8000000 people won't have enough food if there isn't urgent help by december and is blaming recurring droughts on an economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic has made things worse. this report from west province impoverished communities are mostly affected. one head of cabbage cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3

yet the world food program they're putting their lives on the what it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether it's yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan there's a whole region where you get isis and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert famine we can attack reduce destabilization as well as migration but assess it but we've got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue well one of the countries a welfare program is morning about is embalmed ways says that more than half the population that won't have enough food without help to send this off to the coronavirus pandemic compounded existing food supply problems blamed on droughts and the poor economy from the shuttle and west harm the tasa reports. he'd be he. one hit of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is a mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says she'll have to make it last as long as possible to feed her family of 8 yet all life is had we don't have much to eat there's nothing good about thomas situation we have been civil having the

yet the world food program they're putting their lives on the lot it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether it yemen or syria or iraq or this northeast nigeria south sudan that's a hell ration where you get isis now kite and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert famine we can attack reduce destabilization as well as migration but but we got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue. hearkened delta has been downgraded to a category 2 storm it's expected to make landfall in the u.s. state of louisiana in the coming hours it's expected to bring strong winds rain and a life threatening storm surge residents and businesses have been boarding up windows well some schools and government offices they've closed it's the latest in a series of strong hurricanes to strike the northern gulf this year much of the region is still recovering from a category 4 storm back in august. so this is out there these are the top stories and the president of kurdistan has declared a state of emergency in a bid to end on the rest following disputed parliamentary elections he ordered

at the world food program they're putting their lives on the line at it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether it's yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan the hellraiser where you get aces and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert sam and we can attack reduce destabilization as well as migration but but we got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue and without is there at live from london still ahead spain's government to claim is a state of emergency to reimpose a coronavirus knocked down in the capital. and a family reunion 4 years in the making a french aid workers back home off her kidnapping ordeal what she wants to do next . hello there we've got proper autumn weather fading in across a good passive europe now lots of cloud tumbling in across the british isles sliding across the low countries northern parts of france northern areas of germany say this weather system here this cold front that's going to continue sinking its way further south which winds coming in from a northwesterly direction and it will feel a good d

world food program are putting their lives on the line every single day. they put their lives at risk every single day, whether it is yemen or syria or iraq or south sudan, theu have isis and al qaeda. we work in complex environments. if we had the money and the access, we can avert famine. we can in fact reduce destabilization as well as migration -- but we have got to have the money. and right now money is a really serious issue. >> hurricane delta has been downgraded to a category 2 storm expected to make landfall in the u.s. state of louisiana in the coming hours expecting to bring strong winds, and a life-threatening storm surge. residents and businesses have been boarding up windows while some schools have an -- and offices have closed. it is latest in strong hurricanes to strike the northern gulf this year. much of the region is still discussed -- still recovering from the storm back in august. ♪ so, this is "al jazeera>' the president of kyrgyzstan has declared at state of emergency. he ordered the military to deploy troops to the capital to enforce the measure. rurussia has held talks with armenia and ours a barge on to try to stop the worst escalat

at the world food program they're putting their lives on the line to every single day their lives at risk every single day whether it's yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan the hell region where you get ace's and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money and the access we can avert salmon we can attack reduce destabilization as well as migration but but we got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue and you've also said that you have to hide and you've had to make cutbacks here a global food aid this year and that's of course due to the coronavirus pandemic so it's been a challenging here what impact has the coronavirus had on your work oh my gosh just when you think it could not get any worse the coronavirus comes in just dynamically impacts the global economy as well as the supply chain around the world and that before kobe did we had 135000000 people on the brink of starvation and that is up from 80000000 from 3 years ago driven by me in the climate so we're just when you think that's bad enough hope comes in and now we're facing from 135000000 people on the break to st

at the world food program they're putting their lives on the line at it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether it's yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan there's a whole region where you get isis and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert famine we can in fact reduce destabilization as well as migration but assess it but we've got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue well one of the countries about food program has been warning about is in bob ways has more than half the population that won't have enough food without help by december this off to the coronavirus pandemic compound in food supply problems blamed on droughts and a poor economy from the shona land west of reports he'd be. one hit of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is all in mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says you have to make it last as long as possible to feed a family of 8. ninety's had we don't have much to eat there is nothing good about thomas situation we have been civilizing the un's world food program says