shut down or shrinkage of grain exports from the war. what kind of impact has it had on your organization? it is a great question, mike. well, we know a couple of things are true. first it is a huge impact on the global refugee crisis and we launched a campaign in combination of the refugee crisis and it is effected the issue of global food security. that is why as part of the this campaign, we re seeking to tackle the issue of global food security head on and there is would ways to address it. first you need to address the urgent issue of getting grain out of ukraine and accessible to those across sub saharan africa. and because russia has been such a huge provider of fertilizer, you re missing out of hundreds of millions of tons of fertilizer at the very moment here in ghana where the planting season it about to begin and that is why we need to make sure that we support, the international federation for development and economic development, to make sure they could provide
that is why we need to make sure that we support, the international federation for development and economic development, to make sure they could provide small hold agriculture farmers with access to fertilizers immediately. but then we also need to make sure that africa could return to be the bread basket of the world that it once was. so we need to long-term at the short-term and the long-term and that is what this came is about. thank you very much. great to see you. live from ghana and the 10th annual festival takes place on september 24th in central park as well as ghana. wonderful. it is just past the top of the hour. 9:00 in the east. 6:00 a.m. out west. and we start with new details about former president trump s deposition before lawyers from the new york attorney general s office. a source tells nbc news that