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UN agencies warn of starvation risk in Sudan, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali, call for urgent aid
"Two UN agencies have warned of rising food emergencies, including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali are said to be facing or already suffering from the same emergencies due to the restricted movement of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen at the highest alert levels. They say communities are already facing or are projected to face starvation with the risk of sliding towards catastrophic conditions, the report by the World Food Program and the food and agriculture organization calls for urgent attention to save both lives and jobs. It warns that 1 million people are expected to flee Sudan while an additional 2.5 million inside the country face acute hunger in the coming months with supply routes through port Sudan disrupted by safety issues beyond the 9 countries at the highest alert level, the agencies said 22 countries are identified as hotspots risking acute food insecurity. I'm Lawrence Brooks
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50 million people trapped in 'modern slavery' — report - DW (English)
"Account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in modern slavery. The reports by a rights group found that 6 members of the group of 20 richest nations have the largest number of people in modern slavery. The walk free foundation classifies modern slavery in its report as either false labor or forced marriage. In their report, India tops the list with 11 million people followed by China with 5.8 million. Russia, Indonesia, and turkey follow and in 6th place is the U.S., with 1.1 million people in modern slavery, last September, a UN report estimated that 50 million people were living in modern slavery. 28 million in forced labor and 22 million in forced marriage by the end of 2021,
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Wish you could tweak that text? WhatsApp is letting users edit messages
"WhatsApp is now allowing users to edit messages for up to 15 minutes after they send them. The chat app says in a blog post users can correct misspellings, add more details or otherwise change what they have sent, the ability to edit messages started rolling out to people worldwide and will be available to all users in the coming weeks. That's according to the company owned by Facebook parent meta. WhatsApp says those receiving the messages won't be able to see the edit history. Last year, Apple revealed the ability to edit and un send iMessages between iPhones in a system upgrade, but those on the receiving end see that a message was unsent and the edit history. I'm Julie Walker
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UN watchdog: Ukrainian nuclear plant briefly loses power supply again, is 'extremely vulnerable'
"Ukraine's Zappos nuclear power plant has switched to emergency diesel generators after losing its external power supply for the 7th time since the Russian invasion. The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA Raphael grocery says in a tweet, the nuclear safety situation at the plant is extremely vulnerable. We must agree to protect it now, this situation can not continue, grow seat appeals for the area to be spared from the fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops IAEA staff are deployed at the plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, the plants 6 nuclear reactors are protected by a reinforced shelter able to withstand hits. But a disruption in the electrical supply could disable cooling systems essential for the reactor safety.
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2024 Republican hopefuls rush to defend Marine who put NYC subway rider in fatal chokehold
"Some 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls are rushing to defend the marine veteran who put a New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold. Florida governor Ron DeSantis urged the nation to show Daniel penny that America's got his back, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley called for New York's governor to pardon penny and BioTech entrepreneur Vivek Rama Swami, donated $10,000 to pennies, legal defense fund. The 24 year old has been charged with manslaughter. His lawyers as penny, who is white, acted in self defense when he pinned Jordan Neely, who was black to the subway floor in a chokehold, despite the fact that nearly never got physical with any one on the train. The act captured on cell phone video, Julie Walker, New York.
AP News Radio
Russian PM to visit Beijing as China renews criticism of Western arms sales to Ukraine
"China's hit out against western arms sales to Ukraine. Deputy permanent UN representative gen xiong has again criticized the sales, saying it would only lead to escalation more civilian casualties and displacement and make it harder to obtain a ceasefire and start peace negotiations. China says it does not and will not provide arms to either side in the Ukraine conflict, a point getting reiterated at a Security Council meeting on Thursday, China says it's a neutral party and wants to help broker an end to the 15 month old conflict, but has refused to criticize the invasion and blames the west for provoking Moscow. I'm Charles De Ledesma
Mark Levin
Bob Iger Is Making Political, Not Business, Decisions
"Disney is doing very poorly right now As is its parent company Iger is running the company into the ground Into the toilet He's laid off thousands of employees He spends very little time in Florida He's based in California Where he's vetted by radical leftists and Democrats And he is a political animal And he pushes an agenda Now he of course can put his company's money wherever it wants I just wonder what shareholders think of this I would say to the shareholders of Disney number one why are you still there Of number two I would ask you another question Do you think they ought to build that office complex in California With a personal income tax rate can go to 13% Or in Florida where they have no income tax rate You see Iger's not making business decisions And he's not being criticized for that you see he's a brave man staining up the desantis Iger is making political decisions Just as Disney was making political decisions when it came to what was to be taught in public school classrooms And Iger wanted to when he took Disney back over like it's his own toy much like un takes over North Korea Agar decided I'll decide what goes on on these classrooms But nobody elected Iger whose based out of California
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Russia's threat to exit Ukraine grain deal adds risk to global food security
"The United Nations is racing to extend a deal that allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger. The breakthrough accord, the UN and turkey brokered with the warring sides last summer, came with a separate agreement to ease shipments of Russian food and fertilizer, the Moscow insists hasn't been applied Russia's set a Thursday deadline for its concerns to be ironed out, or its bowing out such brinkmanship isn't new earlier this year, Russia had unilaterally decided to renew the deal for just 60 days instead of the 120 days agreed upon, experts warn a failure to extend the grain initiative could hurt countries that rely on Ukrainian wheat and barley and other affordable food products, especially as drought takes a toll. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
Mark Levin
Pres. Trump Reacts to the Findings of the Durham Report
"There's 306 page report Which vindicates everything you have said about what was taking place from the moment they undertook this phony investigation there you are an innocent man You know you had nothing to do with Putin You know he had nothing to do with Russia You know he had nothing to do with the still dossier and they keep pounding you on pounding you un pounding you on it I mean honestly how did you feel I mean when you say well I'm an innocent man what the hell's going on here Well you know it's very strange because I started hearing it about Russia and people would come up young people usually working for the campaign Oh sir it's so nice to meet you Sir do you know anything about Russia There was this sort of thing going around and they had started it actually a little before the 16 campaign but it really had a much bigger effect on the 2020 campaign because nobody heard about it before 16 They meant to get the dossier out before 16 and might have changed things I don't know I mean they couldn't get it out Believe it or not they couldn't get any of the fake news media to put it out It took a little bit longer than they thought And I had won And so therefore when it came out by BuzzFeed which is now I think out of business I hope they should be But BuzzFeed came out with it in January So that's quite a bit after the election So it didn't matter there But nobody thought it was going to go in for two and a half years It was meant to be an excuse for her losing the campaign Russia Russia right So that was an excuse for her losing something that a lot of people thought she was going to win I didn't think so And it really had an impact on the 2020 race along with many other things You know that better than anybody frankly And it was very interesting but these are very sick people These are very bad people
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Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as Cairo presses on with efforts to mediate truce
"Israeli aircraft destroyed three houses apparently belonging to members of Islamic shahad in northern and southern Gaza, claims which have been rejected by those who lived in the properties. Children gathered by the rubble of the destroyed building in the enclave's southern city of Khan yunis. It belonged to un Jihad Al ara, where she said she lived with her disabled husband and children. In 2014, they hit the house and burnt it with shells, but we repaired it because we didn't have another house. Now they destroyed it again. Another air strike at a sprawling housing complex in Khan yunis destroyed the upper floor of one of the buildings, where Israel said a senior commander was killed along with two others. The air strike caused damage to three surrounding buildings. Residents Abdullah Hamad described an abnormal light in two explosions, and then finding his children crying in shock. When I reached them, I found them covering themselves with bed covers and screaming out of fear. Meanwhile, rocket fire towards southern Israel continued, even as Egypt pressed on with attempts to broker a ceasefire. I am Karen Chammas
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UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022
"A new study finds more than a quarter of a billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year. The global report on food crises also says people in 7 countries were on the brink of starvation due to conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the worse of nations were Somalia, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, the global report is an alliance of humanitarian organizations founded by the UN and the EU. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres says the report is a stinging indictment of humanity's failure to implement UN goals to end world hunger. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Could France protest fury spill into next year's Olympics?
"Governs intention is not to help out, but to gum up the Olympic machine by refusing to turn up to work. The 68 year old former agricultural consultant in southern France is part of an otherwise mostly hush hush band of Olympic opponents that call themselves un volunteers. Also anti Emmanuel Macron, the president has ignited amongst long firestorm of French protests with unpopular pension reforms, the anti Olympic Trojan horses are working to infiltrate and then disrupt next year's Paris games by signing up as volunteers posing as willing to help super fans when they're anything but I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
Sudan's army and rival extend truce, despite ongoing clashes
"Humanitarian groups are trying to restore the flow of help in Sudan, where nearly a third of the population of 46 million relied on international aid even before the explosion of violence there. The UN food agency says it's ending at the temporary suspension of its operations in Sudan, put in place after three of its team members were killed in the war wrecked Darfur region, however 8 movements face risks and logistical difficulties. The UN's top official in Sudan, full caperatus, says much of the aid which teams had in stock has been looted. All the warehouses in WFP, UNHCR, and others in their forward looted. Vehicles from the humanitarian agencies were alluded. The World Food Program will resume a food distribution in four provinces working in areas where security permits and the international committee of the Red Cross has flown in medical supplies for hospitals overwhelmed by the violence. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
UN envoy says Sudan's warring sides agree to negotiate
"The United Nations says a ceasefire process for Sudan is under discussion. The UN's top official in Saddam fuller's tells The Associated Press. The troubled nations war in generals have agreed to negotiations potentially in Saudi Arabia, even as they clash in the capital despite another three day extension of a fragile city adds if the talks come together, they would initially focus on establishing a stable and reliable ceasefire monitored by national and international observers, but he warns they were still challenges in holding the negotiations a string of temporary truces over the past week have eased fighting only in some areas, and in others fierce battles are continuing. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
How Can We All Fight Election Interference?
"In some of these cases, the ordinary citizen can do some things, but not much and not most of the things that need to be done. The ordinary citizen, a viewer to ask me like dinesh, what can I do? Sure. I'd say volunteer become part of the election process become a poll observer. Just having eyes on the process is useful. And so you'd be doing if you have the time, if you're willing to do it, this would be a noble task for you to do. But it's up to the Republican Party and it's up to the Republican legal establishment. And it's up to the campaigns, the Trump campaign eventually the desantis campaign. They're the ones whose fate is at stake here. They're the ones that need to jump in and create the engineer the mechanisms that make sure that the same kind of election interference, the un leveling of the playing field. The rigging of the rules so that they benefit one party over another, whether legal or illegal, that we have ways to counter that. So we're able to expose the illegality or something is legal. We can build our own operations to do it. We stop the nonsense about vote only on election day. That may be some kind of a utopian ideal. Well, you got to vote and bank our votes early so that the kind of Maricopa style glitch can undo a critical race in a critical state.
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UN urges Afghanistan's Taliban to reverse bans on women
"The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution calling on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls. The councils condemned the Taliban's ban on working for the UN, a decision the resolution calls unprecedented in the history of the UN, the document urges all other UN members to use their influence to promote an urgent reversal of these Taliban policies and practices the strong and wider restrictions include severely restricting education to banning women for most jobs, public spaces and gyms. The resolution was co sponsored by the United Arab Emirates and Japan. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Eric Metaxas Show
Michael Wilkerson Warns of Government Takeover and Loss of Values
"Talking to Michael wilkerson, no relationship to Dave. The book is why America matters. The website storm mold dot com. What you're saying feeds into my deepest concerns about the death of America, the death of freedom, the rise of a one world government, inevitably led by what we cheerfully call the Antichrist and the beast. I don't see, I mean, it's an amazing thing suddenly to be at a place where I can conceive of all that happening in no time. In the last two years, two and a half years, we've seen things change that are incredibly dramatic and that are inescapable. I mean, listen, when you have, for example, on the West Coast, the government saying we can take your kids away from you. If you're 8 year old, says you say I'm a boy, but I say I'm a girl and if you don't like it, I'm going to run into the arms of the government. Out of the pit of hell that is as un American and unconstitutional as anything imaginable, that kind of thing is now happening. So the government has become increasingly authoritarian at the same time that it is increasingly hostile to American values, to biblical values, this is eerily reminiscent to what we saw happen. And you've written about what happened in Germany, but also in stalinist Russia. I just finished rereading gulag archipelago, Alexander Schultz and epic about life in prison, life in Soviet Russia in stalinist Russia. And the arbitrariness of the arrests of the silencing of taking whole families. People imagine that this can not happen here. Well, if they imagine it, most people aren't even aware of it anymore. They stopped reading about it. And this is the dangers that we're losing the insight into things that just happened less than a century ago.
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Youngkin in Japan to forge supply chains with 'friends'
"Virginia's governor is meeting with chip makers in Japan hoping to create supply chains that aren't so dependent on China. Republican governor Glenn youngkin, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, is making his first trip to Asia as governor, he plans to meet with Japanese semiconductor executives to attract more chip makers to Virginia. I think that we can lead the charge in forging this trusted supply chain relationship with nations that will contribute to the long, the long-standing great relationship that we have. The un has adopted an increasingly hard line against China and said in January that he had scuttled an effort by Virginia to land a large electric vehicle battery plant, an initiative between Ford Motor Company and a Chinese company. I'm Donna water
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"un" Discussed on UN News
"Wish to be in terms of emissions. And so for the mitigation part, part of the WMO contribution will be to better monitor what's going on. What's being released in the atmosphere. But as I said, as we already observe, consequences of the global warming, we need now to really take more action on adaptation. Because this is already happening. And so part of what WMO is really engaged in, and this was the reason why the UN secretary general Gutierrez called for a UN wide initiative so that everyone on earth is protected by early warning systems within 5 years last year that was launched at the cop 27 in November. This is precisely to work systems that can provide better anticipation of hazardous situations so that people are not hit unaware of what may be a significant threat for them. And so we can mitigate the impacts of those phenomena that we can not stop at the moment. And so just finally to you serial honore from the world meteorological organization, that kind of early warning system is going to help a communities get out of the danger area and also be the world meteorological organization and other national climate organizations to better plan and understand the evolving atmospheric threat level. Is that right? Absolutely. There is an anticipation component in that to mitigate direct impact. But it also helps in better understanding risk as such and the changing nature of risk because of the changing climate. And this is what we really are mission to do. But again, WMO leading role in this initiative for sure. But WMO needs support from a variety of partners across the UN and even beyond because this is such a big challenge to reach everyone on earth with the adequate information so that people can act ahead of potential disasters to mitigate their impacts that meteorologists or hydrologists alone can not do it. We need a global engagement in this initiative
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"This is Matt wells at UN news. Amid ongoing insecurity in some regions of Mali, the UN mission in the country minusma maintains an effective presence protecting civilians and supporting implementation of a 2015 peace deal. That's the message from Al gassim Wen, the secretary general's special representative in Mali and head of municipal, who's in New York this week to address the Security Council. Ahead of the meeting, mister Wen sat down with UN news Diane Penn, who began by asking him if there has been any progress on the political front since he last briefed the council in April. Indeed, we have not made tangible progress towards the implementation of the peace segment since my last briefing to the council. And that is indeed frustrating, frustrating for us, whose role is to support the commitments made by the migrant stakeholders, but more importantly, frustrating for the population, which has been waiting for the peace dividends to materialize on the ground for many, many years and or suffering should indeed be taken into account by those in a position to make further progress in the implementation of the peace agreement. What we have done since the last session of the council was to continue engaging the parties to take the steps expected of them. Encouraged by the ongoing preparations for the holding of a high level decision making meeting which has been planted since last October to discuss the pending issues of DDR global DDR and institutional form. I should say that the meeting has been continuously postponed, which obviously is a source of concern, but I'm hopeful that this time around it will be held, and that hopefully it will result in some progress in the implementation of the peace agreement. Now, in security remains a serious concern in Mali, both for citizens and for UN peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in Mali minusma. And this month has been particularly tragic. We had, I think, two attacks recently, will you be seeking greater support from the council regarding security? Well, it's safety situation to rightly pointed out is of atmosphere. In the northeastern part of the country where the attacks have been carried out by the Islamic states against civilians, we have in the main carriage and over 30,000 people have been displaced. A number of people have been killed, unfortunately, I was myself in America about a week ago to assess the situation with colleagues, but also with local authorities. And when one looks at the far north part of Mali in the kid a region, we the municipal has been subjected to attacks which unfortunately led to the deaths of some of our peacekeepers. I could say the same about the central part of the country where also peacekeepers have been subjected to attacks not to speak of the attacks against civilians. There is definitely a need for greater capabilities within the mission and it's a point I have repeatedly made, need for additional capabilities, attack helicopters, usually helicopters, definitely, but also need for additional strength in the immediate term to address the ongoing situation, some parts of the country, but also to account for the ongoing withdrawal of tacuba and barkan, which will definitely create a gap which you can not cover in full, but we need to be adequately resourced to be in a position to effectively disrupt it. And just for our audience who may not be familiar with takuba and bakhan, could you just briefly explain what they are? Well, barkan is a French operation, which has been deployed in Mali since literally the onset of the mission and has been mandated to carry out country theories operations, tacuba is a grouping of European special envoy that has been operating in the eastern part of Mali, bus forces will be pulling out from Mali are in a process of doing so. And that will create a gap, which is to be filled by the authorities, but time is required for that. In the end theory, which is important that municipal adequately resource to be able to protect itself, which is important, but more importantly, to protect the civilian population in accordance with our mandate. How important is it that the mission remains in Mali, and are you still able to serve civilians effectively with so much insecurity in the country? Where is the challenging task? I should say, but I believe that where the mission is deployed, it's implementing its work in an effective fashion. I have the privilege of traveling very often in the countryside and wherever I have been, the request from local populations is more municipal, not less municipal, and to me that's fixed volume about their own appreciation of the work will bring there are clearly high expectations, and we have to be Frank. We can't read all the expectations. And we never be able to do to do it. But where we operate, we drew make a time you build impact and they could give practical examples in the central part of Mali, where our patrols have helped protect our temporary operating bases have helped protect populations or protect infrastructure the same applies in the gower part of the country. We are also our presence has had a very tangible impact for local populations, the same applies to the far north of Mali and locations such as Kidal, a Gallo can tested it where our presence does have an impact. But again, all this does not mean that there are no shortcomings that it does appear that we are meeting all the expectations. But I believe that we're making tangible impact for the populations, not only in terms of protecting them, but also in terms of delivering projects that can help in improving their livelihoods again below their expectations, but quite very well appreciated by local populations in the absence of the state, in many of these locations, we are often the only entity civilians can turn to to meet some of their basic needs. Mister Juan, thank you very much for speaking to you and news. Is there anything further you think our audience should know about the work the UN is doing in Mali? Well, it gets to repeat that it's a complex. It's a challenging one. And at times, you know, people may have the feeling that this is an endless process, success can not be achieved. I want to say that we are committed. We are determined to carry out our mandate, and I have no doubt that over time, with the collective efforts of all, including municipal, will be able to help Mali restore peace and security..
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"This is Connor Lennon from UN news. The ocean and global climate are intrinsically linked and if the right decisions are made at the UN ocean conference, the ocean will be a big part of Portugal's feature. That's the view of Samuel Collins, a project manager at the oceano Azul foundation in Lisbon. The organization plays a big role in ocean literacy, aiming to educate a blue generation. It works on ocean conservation and also supports the development of startups creating products and services with positive environmental impact. UN uses Anna kamo talks to mister Collins and started by asking him about the expectations for the upcoming UN ocean conference that will take place in the Portuguese capital at the end of June. Now in two years from the initial date, it was an interesting moment for the ocean agenda because we're kicking off the decade, kicking off in 22 years to use delayed, but we're kicking off a decade, which has been labeled as the last decade to act. So essentially, this is setting the level of ambition of ocean action for the decades. And I think that's really important to understand that while 2017, the UN ocean conference in 2017 was a really important moment for finally having a conference dedicated to the ocean. While it wasn't a cop, it was a key moment for the U.S. agenda. Where we saw Fiji in Sweden host the conference in Europe. It had a big focus on plastics. And that's obviously the emotional topic that we all get behind, and it was a push forward, massively on the issue of plastics. But the ocean crisis is the plastics and so much more. There's a lot more going on beneath the waves that we need to be highlighting. And I think and I hope that in 2022, do you want to know some comments we'll touch on a lot more broader topics and give that those topics there, the attention that they need. It's a very interesting year. This is the superhero for the ocean. Again, long delayed. We're coming to Lisbon not as a cold call but coming from a number of events that have really been ramping up ambition and raising the flag for the ocean through a number of forms and really a high level with the government, which is fantastic to see because while civil society can do the hard work and really call for ambition. Its governments and member states that need to take the action. So we saw in Brest the French had huge convenient power to get the ocean conversation going early in the year. Then we had Palau the our ocean. Again, a big, big stopping point and building the method towards Lisbon. And here we are, there's a number of events in June. We have to climate dialogs ahead of chemical shake. We have the WTO negotiations on fisheries. And then we come to this one. So we're really coming to listen with a lot of energy. And then even looking past there's been a note, it's a jam packed year. We have high seas in August. We have cop three 7 in shamrock shake..
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"This is Connor Lenin from UN news. Demonstrating the wide arranging consequences of the climate crisis, the UN Human Rights Council has appointed the first ever special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. Ian fry, who is of Australian and Tuvalu heritage, teaches environmental policy at the Australian national university in Canberra. As UN special rapporteur, he'll be tasked with studying how climate change affects the full enjoyment of human rights and recommend ways to prevent these effects. In an interview with the UN's Julia dean, mister fry explained why the Human Rights Council created his new role. While there are many sort of impacts that climate change has on people. Enormous sort of spectrum of issues connect human rights and climate change. So people are affected by severe weather events, people are affected by droughts. And a whole host of sort of impacts that connect with human rights. And of course, people are being displaced daily as a consequence of climate change. But there's also another interesting factor to it that actions to address climate change can also have human rights implications. For instance, mining of minerals to produce batteries for electric vehicles, deep seabed mining, for minerals. Even hydroelectric dams can have human rights impacts. So it's not only the impacts of climate change, but it's also the impacts are doing things about climate change. And there's also issue of just transition of getting people out of employment in the fossil fuel industry into other industries is a human rights issue. And there are many that don't relate to the concept of human rights or for that matter, climate change, how do you have this discussion going forward? Well, it's a matter of, you know, having that making that connection that people's lives every day lives are impacted by climate change. And so, you know, it's not too difficult to make that connection. You know, that most people are aware that lives are changing as a consequence of climate change. And certainly, you know, youth groups are certainly bringing that to the fore at the moment. And how does your mandate relate to other instant international instruments, for instance, they sendai, disaster, risk reduction framework, the SDGs, and other environment and human rights instruments..
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"Hello as reports emerged that four busloads of civilians managed to leave mariupol on Wednesday, we hear from UN humanitarians who continue to plead for safe and sustained access to the besieged city. Also in this week's show, we visit the UN satellite center unosat, which is tracking the devastation caused by shelling across Ukraine. How does it fit into the international calls for accountability following Russia's invasion on the 24th of February, away from Europe, the Horn of Africa needs all our attention too, say aid agencies who've raised the alarm. Once again, over the many millions of people who face catastrophic food insecurity after three failed rainy seasons. Stay with us two foreclosing comments about defiant poets in Spain, Russia and in space from our regular guest, solange Berthier Cortes. That's all coming up in this week's you and catch up dateline Geneva with me, Daniel Johnson. First, the news. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has written to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine to request meetings with them in their respective capitals in a renewed push for peace. UN spokesperson Stephanie Jarrett told journalists on Wednesday that mister Guterres had said at this time of great peril that he wanted to discuss urgent steps to bring about peace in Ukraine and the future of multilateralism based on the charter of the United Nations and international law, the development came as UN aid agencies and partners said that their continuing to try to reach Ukraine's most vulnerable people amid devastating Russian shelling and attacks on healthcare, an estimated 6 million people need food and cash assistance, according to the World Food Program, WFP, which has been able to provide relief to previously inaccessible areas such as butcher IFP hostile and borrowed yanka, but the agency's emergency coordinator for Ukraine, Jacob kern, insisted on Tuesday that sustained humanitarian access was critical if those in dire need of help in places like Mario pole are to be reached. City of mariupol 100,000 people would probably need about two or three packs a day for just food alone. Let alone all the other items. So it's not the question of going with ten packs once a month. That's not going to cut it. UN humanitarians have issued a fresh warning over hunger linked to drought in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, where up to 16 million people are now highly food insecure. Three consecutive seasons have failed reigns in the Horn of Africa are responsible for much of the suffering, according to.
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They <Speech_Female> daunting scale <Speech_Female> of the crisis <Speech_Female> we are seeing in one of Africa, but also globally. So I'm quite optimistic.
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"This is Matt wells at UN news, repeated warnings of the effects of the war in Ukraine on developing countries reached a new pitch on the 13th of April, when UN humanitarian agencies said that millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle amid a lack of sufficient funds, meaning more that 70% of refugees in need do not receive enough to eat, and that same day the secretary general Antonio Guterres launched a report detailing the disastrous consequences of the Ukraine war for those who rely on grain supplies sourced from the country. Joyce and Sue, the UN's deputy emergency relief chief joined us in our UN new studio and told Connor Lennon that she'd noticed back in 2021 that the hunger crisis was growing. Well before the Russian invasion began. I sort of got a sense of the crisis when I was living in Nairobi Kenya, I just moved to New York on February 18th. And I remember vividly after Christmas how the food prices went up. Largely then were driven by drought, climate change impact I was working for unip..
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"Can offer you a bed. You know, you're coughing. Do you need some medicine? Whatever it may be. So there's a huge amount of support. I think we're seeing that in border countries too, but the demand is fast outstripping any type of supply. So what can UNICEF actually do on the ground? What's your mission today? What's the first thing you're doing right now? First and foremost, it's through support for those people at the border. We've got trucks arriving into Poland. Emergency healthcare emergency education. You've mentioned trauma several times. It's spot on. We know what can be done there. We have child protection teams on both sides of the conflict lines in the east. They're helping children who have suffered abuse or violence. These are critical critical elements in that that lifesaving humanitarian support that was UNICEF's focus in the east. We now try to spread that across the country. That's very difficult. We need humanitarian lines to stay open, but echoing the secretary general first and foremost as we massively ramp up the humanitarian response, we need the we need the fighting to stop. James elder there from the UN Children's Fund amid air raid sirens and a human exodus in Ukraine. And before him, the UN refugee agency's shabby mantu right here in Geneva to talk about this, let me turn to a regular guest at solange parte Cortes, who's with me now. Hi salt. These days, we have seen with horror, rockets raining down on Ukraine cities and hundreds of people killed or injured. In the words of shabby among two from the UN refugee agency, there is also a fast growing refugee emergency. Inspired by his own years of exile to unpack the anti immigrant politics that still plague us today, bertold Brecht wrote, refugee conversations. This is a dialog between zero and kale, two refugees fleeing political violence. They meet at a train station cafe in Helsinki. In the process, the two learn to trust one another and finally, on the last page, they decide to do something together. In the dialog by breath, the two ordinary men become extraordinary, and this is where the text optimism is to be found. In its belief in change, James L there from UNICEF was speaking to us from Ukraine. He said he saw grandmother's cooking food in the road, offered in a bed to those at the train station. Teenage girls making cookies and knocking on car doors, offering them to people who've come and spent three days covering the 500 kilometers from Kyiv. We need hope and optimism Daniel, and at the same time always keep in mind Brecht's phrase that resounds like thunder. War is like love. It always finds a way. Today we have to start a global refugee conversation, together, and with equally solidarity without any discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or ethnicity. It seems obvious to say, but it is a story of human beings to arriving in dark times, with dignity. I refugee is a refugee regardless of his or her skin color. Thank you solange and for your comments to battle Brecht's refugee conversations, I can tell you still read it in a flash and you can do it too..
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"Hello in our first show of 2022 the fight goes on for oil rich Mario in northern Yemen, and so does the struggle to help all those who have been repeatedly displaced by the conflict will hear how UN migration agency IOM is doing everything it can, in difficult and dangerous conditions. Journalists are under fire two UNESCO tells us, while on the COVID frontline, the World Health Organization has just announced that for the moment at least, there's no particular risk associated with holding next month's winter games in Beijing, and after days of nationwide protests in Kazakhstan, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has issued a call for come. That's all coming up in the next 15 minutes or so on you and catch update line Geneva with me, Daniel Johnson, and solange better take a Cortes. Thanks for listening. First, the news. Amid reports of deadly violence linked to protests in Kazakhstan, UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet has issued an appeal for security forces demonstrators and others to refrain from violence..
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"I believe you are <Speech_Female> also a steering committee <Speech_Male> member of the UN <Speech_Male> committee on <Speech_Female> food security, <Speech_Male> tell us about your <Speech_Male> association <Speech_Male> with the UN agencies <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> and how you are <Speech_Male> working <Speech_Male> with <SpeakerChange> particularly <Speech_Male> with <Speech_Male> the food and agricultural <Speech_Male> organization <Speech_Male> to <Speech_Male> put a spotlight <Speech_Male> on aquatic <Speech_Male> food systems <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> in the global <Speech_Female> action agenda. <Speech_Female> In the UN food system <Speech_Female> was <Speech_Female> vice chair of <Speech_Female> action track <Speech_Female> for, <Speech_Female> which is the <Speech_Female> riches of <Speech_Female> equitable livelihoods <Speech_Female> and the <Speech_Female> focus there <Speech_Male> was on <Speech_Female> women <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> youth and indigenous <Speech_Female> peoples. <Speech_Female> There was a <Speech_Female> lot of <Speech_Female> a lot of work <Speech_Female> with the UN organizations <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> with FAO, <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> it's quite natural <Speech_Female> that <Speech_Female> I have <Speech_Female> a large engagement <Speech_Female> with FAO <Speech_Female> because FO <Speech_Female> has a very strong <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> department for <Speech_Female> fisheries and agriculture. <Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> at the same time, <Speech_Female> a very strong <Speech_Male> department for <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> food systems <Speech_Female> and nutrition. <Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> I would in <Speech_Female> that interface <Speech_Female> so that's <Speech_Female> extremely <Speech_Female> so we work <Speech_Female> a lot and <Speech_Female> you know, next <Speech_Female> year is going to be <Speech_Female> the year of <Speech_Female> artists <Speech_Female> in the fisheries <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> it's about that is an <Speech_Female> infantry small <Speech_Female> scale fisheries. <Speech_Female> Within <Speech_Female> the UN <Speech_Female> organization, <Speech_Female> there's also the UN <Speech_Female> nutrition <Speech_Female> and this <Speech_Female> year, the UN <Speech_Female> nutrition, which <Speech_Female> is a conglomerate <Speech_Female> of UN <Speech_Female> UN <Speech_Female> agencies <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> some member <Speech_Female> states, we've <Speech_Female> written the first <Speech_Male> discussion paper <Speech_Music_Female> on <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> the role of aquatic <Speech_Female> foods <Speech_Female> in sustainable healthy <Speech_Female> diets. <Speech_Female> And that has been <Speech_Female> extremely <Speech_Female> important in <Speech_Female> moving again <Speech_Female> moving the agenda <Speech_Female> and in feeding into <Speech_Female> the UN food <Speech_Female> system. <Speech_Female> Importantly, <Speech_Female> I sit in the <Speech_Female> hlp, <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> the high level panel <Speech_Female> of experts <Speech_Female> in the <Speech_Female> world <Speech_Female> food security <Speech_Female> committee. <Speech_Male> And that <Speech_Female> is also <Speech_Female> an important <Speech_Female> agenda. And we <Speech_Female> have been able to do <Speech_Female> quite a lot there because <Speech_Female> the hlp <Speech_Female> is <Speech_Female> a 15 <Speech_Male> member <Speech_Female> organization <Speech_Female> of experts <Speech_Female> from across <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> the world. One <Speech_Female> of the things in choosing <Speech_Female> the 15 members, <Speech_Female> you represent <Speech_Female> different parts <Speech_Female> of the world. <Speech_Female> And it's the <Speech_Female> science <Speech_Female> policy <Speech_Female> interface <Speech_Female> for food <Speech_Female> systems and food <Speech_Female> and nutrition security. <Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> HIP <Speech_Female> provides <Speech_Female> evidence based <Speech_Female> and scientific <Speech_Female> reports. 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"Hello in this week's show a worrying state of emergency continues in Ethiopia where UN staff are being held. The secretary general wants them released immediately. A farmer deal that gives a lot more people a chance to get COVID-19 antivirals than ever before, and tough words for the tobacco industry from the World Health Organization. And in this week's interview with UN communications, chief Melissa Fleming, why it's crucially important that the organization should do more to listen to what young activists are saying for everyone's sake. Stay with us too for closing comments from the show's regular guest, so long as we take a Cortes. That's all coming up in this week's you can catch up dateline Geneva with me, Daniel Johnson. Thanks for listening. First, the news. This is a news and brief from the United Nations. Master rests linked to Ethiopia state of emergency have continued in recent days reportedly of people of degree in origin. UNH office, which CHR has said, at least 1000 individuals are believed to have been detained in the last 7 days under far reaching state of emergency powers linked to the yearlong conflict in northern Ethiopia, which CHR spokesperson list rossel said on Tuesday. They're worrying reports that many of those detained have not been informed of the reasons for their detention. Nor have they been brought before a court of law or other tribunal to review the reasons for their detention and have not been formally charged. In a related development, the secretary general has repeated his call for the immediate release of UN staff members attained in the country. Mister Guterres explained in a statement issued by his spokesperson on Wednesday that the organization's workers were being held without charge and no specific information has been provided regarding the reasons for their arrest. UN staff carry our critical and impartial work in Ethiopia, the UN chief insisted before warning that reported arbitrary arrests and attentions only serve to widen divisions and resentment between groups. All parties to the conflict should prioritize the welfare of civilians and put down their weapons now mister Guterres said. COVID-19 news now, and a massive boost for access to lifesaving coronavirus medicines for low and middle income countries. The welcome development comes after UN global health agency unit said on Tuesday that it had helped to reach a voluntary licensing agreement for a Pfizer antiviral treatment, meaning that the drug can now be produced genetically worldwide. The medicine which has taken orderly is designed to be administered with another antiviral retainer. Under the terms of the unit led deal, manufacturers will be able to supply both drugs to 95 countries, covering more than 50% of the world's population. This includes all low and lower middle income countries and upper middle income countries in sub Saharan Africa. Unit had said that Pfizer will not receive royalties on sales in low income countries. Turning to the UN's battle against tobacco use, the World Health Organization signals science of a pivotal downward shift in the numbers of users globally. Citing new data, the WHO welcomed the news that there are 200 million fewer tobacco users today compared to 2015. That means that 1.3 billion.
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"<Speech_Male> We were talking to farmers <Speech_Male> we've been talking a lot to farmers <Speech_Male> sorry Daniel in the <Speech_Male> last month or two. <Speech_Male> And there are two <Speech_Male> things they say they really <Speech_Male> need as well as <Speech_Male> food <Speech_Male> is seeds, but <Speech_Male> also livestock <Speech_Male> with that feed because at the <Speech_Male> moment their stores are bad. <Speech_Male> There's no food there's <Speech_Male> no seeds. <SpeakerChange> And there's <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> no livestock for you as well. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> I was going to ask <Speech_Male> you what you've <Speech_Male> met on your encounters <Speech_Male> on your travels you're based <Speech_Male> in Kabul, but you're also <Speech_Male> due to go <Speech_Male> deeper into the country <Speech_Male> to the south and <Speech_Male> also Herat <Speech_Male> as well. So maybe you <Speech_Male> could tell me what you've been <Speech_Male> encountering as the <Speech_Male> UN agencies <SpeakerChange> representative <Silence> in Afghanistan. <Speech_Male> Yeah, <Speech_Male> I mean, <Speech_Male> I'm here in Afghanistan. <Speech_Male> It's <Speech_Male> a time as <Speech_Male> it always is. When <Speech_Male> FAO is not acting <Speech_Male> on it. So we are very much <Speech_Male> here part of the UN <Speech_Male> family, working, <Speech_Male> particularly closely with our <Speech_Male> humanitarian part <Speech_Male> of the WFP <Speech_Male> HCR <Speech_Male> UNICEF WHO, <Speech_Male> et cetera. <Speech_Male> And we're <Speech_Male> all seeing the same thing. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> I've got <Speech_Male> the other partners I've <Speech_Male> got an incredible team <Speech_Male> here who have not stopped <Speech_Male> working literally <Speech_Male> one day <Speech_Male> this year, particularly <Speech_Male> in the last two or three <Speech_Male> months has been a race against <Speech_Male> the clock just to <Speech_Male> get seeds out at <Speech_Male> the animal feed out. <Speech_Male> And what they're seeing <Speech_Male> is things they've never <Speech_Male> seen before. <Speech_Male> I was just talking <Speech_Male> to people <Speech_Male> working in the western region. <Speech_Male> And they <Speech_Male> said, once you get <Speech_Male> 50, 80, a hundred <Speech_Male> kilometers outside the town, <Speech_Male> you go to communities <Speech_Male> where every <Speech_Male> single compound, <Speech_Male> there's nothing there at <Speech_Male> the moment. It's <Speech_Male> why we're so worried <Speech_Male> as why we're looking as well <Speech_Male> as looking at today, <Speech_Male> we're looking forward <Speech_Male> as well. And <Speech_Male> it's really hard <Speech_Male> to see a plan being able <Speech_Male> to accept <Speech_Male> a massive upscaling <Speech_Male> of humanitarian <Speech_Male> assistance <SpeakerChange> and coming <Speech_Male> weeks and months. <Speech_Male> And very final question <Speech_Male> if I may, Richard, <Speech_Male> you know, you have to deal with <Speech_Male> the new de facto rulers <Speech_Male> there. <Speech_Male> How is it going? <Speech_Male> How are you say <Speech_Male> you have better access, <Speech_Male> but <Speech_Male> on the ground? <Speech_Male> What's your <Speech_Male> end point <SpeakerChange> if you <Speech_Male> like? 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And we do <Speech_Male> that <Speech_Male> across the country <Speech_Male> and we've done that for many, <Speech_Male> many years, if not decades <Speech_Male> here in <Speech_Male> Afghanistan. <Speech_Male> I think that's the key <Speech_Male> thing where technical <Speech_Male> agency was <Speech_Male> supporting farmers for supporting <Speech_Male> livestock owners <Speech_Male> in rural and rural communities. <Speech_Male> And as <Speech_Male> we said earlier, the <Speech_Male> access <Speech_Male> situation <Speech_Male> is probably the best <Speech_Male> it's been <SpeakerChange> for many <Silence> many years at the moment. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> Let's remember <Speech_Male> 70% <Speech_Male> of people in <Speech_Music_Male> Afghanistan <Speech_Male> are <Speech_Male> living in rural areas. <Speech_Male> They depend on <Speech_Male> farming the depend on <Speech_Male> livestock for <Speech_Male> their lives. <Speech_Male> And let's remember <Speech_Male> that these are incredible <Speech_Male> farmers. 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"UN news. When you hear about war and conflict as a news consumer, it can be easy to overlook the human toll, but not an Ethiopia, where a hard hitting yuan writes office report, has uncovered the very real impact on ordinary people into gray. That's where government troops and their supporters have been fighting regional opposition forces since November 2020, and it's led to serious rights violations that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes..
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"Un news thanks to katie dartford for the news and now to this week's interview with the refer ghaffari and afghan activist and politician in november twenty. Nineteen she became. The mayor. Of meidensha near kabul serena used to be one of the very few afghanistani women mayors and also was the youngest to be appointed at the age of twenty six she has had three attacks on her life and tributes the killing of her her father last year to the taliban shortly after they took over last month she fled afghanistan with her family reportedly hiding in the footwell of a car belonging to a diplomat. Who helped her to escape here. She is now talking to me on the sidelines of an ngo peace talks event at u. n. Geneva where my first question was what she made of. The new taliban interim cabinet which is exclusively male.
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"Hello in this week's show an appeal for support for afghanistan's people from antonio guiterrez who also warns that we're at a tipping point for climate action. We also hear from the fifth and final commission of inquiry report on burundi. It still talking of crimes against humanity and will travel to yemen for an update on the impact of the conflict on the country's most vulnerable people. All this and more in this week's you and catch up nine geneva. I the news with katie outfit. This is news in brief from the united nations. Humanitarian operations have expanded across afghanistan in response to mounting. Humanitarian needs. Fueled by drought and conflict u n relief teams have said the un migration agency iom said on thursday that five hundred families affected by drought flash floods and conflict in kunar and nangarhar provinces have now received non-food and emergency items more than five thousand people in kabul ghazni and other districts of also received shelter and core relief items in recent weeks. The agency said in a statement. The development follows a un. Flash appeal afghanistan on monday in geneva where u. n. Secretary general antonio guitarist urged the international community to offer a lifeline to millions of vulnerable afghans. The international community must find ways to make cash available to allow the afghan economy to breathe. A total collapse would have devastated consequences to the people and risk to this stabilize. The neighboring countries with a massive outflow humankind has reached a tipping point on the need for climate action. Un secretary general antoni terrorists that on thursday as new data showed that the world is not on track to slow down global warming disruption to our climate and our planet is already worse than we thought. And it's moving too fast pace than predicted. Mister guitar said the launch of a report by u n and global scientific pun organizations could united in science. We now have five times. The number of recorded whether disasters than in one thousand nine hundred seventy and the are seven times more costly. The un chief added in an appeal for urgent action to address human induced climate..
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