from health crisis to food prices the coronaviruses of ending the world as we know it united nations world food programme is warning of multiple famines of biblical proportions as tens of millions are plunged into starvation long before the pandemic the agency had been warning world leaders the 2020 would bring the worst humanitarian crisis since world war 2 that's made 135000000 people face starvation and that could double to 265000000 by the end of the year it blames the perfect storm war in yemen and syria natural disasters and changing weather patterns. at particular risk or refugees in informal workers for example it's estimated that about 136000000 people in india working in the non agriculture sector are at immediate risk of losing their jobs the world food programme has called for $365000000.00 but only a quarter of that has been received so far with more than $2000000000.00 people under lockdown supply chains have been disrupted and that's not just in the emerging and developing markets the rapid collapse of economic activity has led to more than 26000000 people applying for unemployment benefit

we know of and if that wasn't bad enough now david beasley the head of the united nations world food programme told us on tuesday that covert 19 has exam.

india working in the non agriculture sector are at immediate risk of losing their jobs the world food programme has called for $365000000.00 but only a quarter of that has been received so far with more than $2000000000.00 people under lockdown supply chains have been disrupted and that's not just in the emerging and developing markets the rapid collapse of economic activity has led to more than 26000000 people applying for unemployment benefits and the united states when 7 americans rely on food banks before the pandemic it has now doubled or tripled according to food charities and yet farmers are destroying produce dumping milk and culling livestock despite grocery stores struggling to stock their shelves we have 2 reports from our correspondents in the richest nation and one of the poorest and a moment al-jazeera is in zimbabwe where half the population needs food aid the 1st robber and also is in california looking at the plight of poorly paid essential workers who are crucial to getting food onto the nation's tables. strawberries are right dinning in the fields waiting to be picked but for

the world food programme's country director for bangladesh.e turned to social media to stay in touch. facebook in particular has seen a big increase in demand for its services. that's led to concerns about the influence of the company, and its handling of issues such as misinformation and fake news. our business editor simonjack has been speaking to facebook‘s founder mark zuckerberg. and simonjoins me now. absolutely at this time, more than ever, we need social media but we also need it to be real and honest and not full of misinformation and fa ke and not full of misinformation and fake news. so what has mark zuckerberg been saying about that to you? one, it is quite rare to talk to him,i you? one, it is quite rare to talk to him, i don't think he's done a press interview for over five years which i think tells you that facebook is feeling a bit more confident. i think they would say there have been very few winners out of this virus and perhaps social media platforms are one of them, a lot of people have been turning to them to keep in touc

but i think that you know this is the problem not simply in poor countries which is what the world food programmehighlighting but it's also a problem you know closer to home every country has its neglected marginalized disadvantaged communities you know whether it's its immigrants or you know people getting in poverty and there is a tendency on the part of governments to just oh you know ignore those people you know if people can't afford the very basics they're not going to be able to afford a vaccine that is very clear and therefore i'd like to ask you because there are calls for any coronavirus vaccine to be accessible for all we have the u.n. secretary general antonio ted as saying that the treatments and vaccines should actually belong to the whole world not individual countries or regions when we look at the state of leadership that you highlighted in your last answer there how should that be organized. well you know ideally this is something that the world health organization would supervise i mean trump is in the process of attacking the w.h.o. was a way of diverting attention from his ow

we know of and if that wasn't bad enough now david beasley the head of the united nations world food programme told us on tuesday that covert 19 has exacerbated hunger problems around the globe 'd and that if we don't prepare and act now to secure access of void funding shortfalls and disruptions to trade we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within the next few months well here in the united states of america while we may rank 27th in the world in education and health care we do hold the distinction of ranking number one in coded 19 infections and deaths with close 290-0000 confirmed cases and roughly 50000 deaths. if that is an american exceptionalism at its finest that i don't know i mean hey we might not be good at math and science and all that but you know that whole reading thing but you know we can we can wreck up some covert 15 recovered 19 numbers thanks to our for profit health care systems . so with us citizens near and far battered and beaten down by this virus we now turn to argue. great and powerful elected officials to find out what ideas or plans they have

effects on these most vulnerable nations and it's for those 2 reasons that the head of the world food programme david beasley said the situation was so grave as to what we're facing now is the double pandemic truly famines that could impact us to a biblical proportion and there's no question mega pam and are on our break literally right now before kobe hit the scene and we already had 130000000 people as i say marching on the brink of starvation the problem of course is going to be trying to persuade countries even the richest countries on earth for example where i am un headquarters is in new york in the u.s. has all its attention on its own economic problems how are you going to persuade them to spend the money it's worth telling you the 1st version of this appeal was $2000000000.00 they only managed to raise half of that money. pakistan's prime minister iran com says he'll start lifting the lockdown from sachet despise a high number of cases there are more than 24000 confirmed infections and 564 deaths is in islamabad he says people are already breaking restrictions their doctor and have bee

wages, those jobs, that employment is not there any more, and combined with outcome of the world food programmeow, deal with this? save the children certainly wa nt this? save the children certainly want a lot of international aid to help these people in serious threat of hunger. yes, in countries like afghanistan, and you mentioned india, the majority of the population is not going to supermarkets and stocking up on the favourite foods. they basically rely on bread that they eat, a bit of rice and cooking oil, and when, in this case, the price of cooking oil and wheat flow has rocketed up by 23%, and your wages have gone from $2 per day to $1 a day, i mean, that is the detail of what it comes down to, so it is such a precarious existence. the government has started to distribute free bread and bakeries in capitol, and it has said it will expand this, but on thursday there were angry crowds saying, i am poon there were angry crowds saying, i am poor, how come you didn't include me? this is not enough, i cannot live on bread alone, but for many it will be bread alone, and for some not even bread