18 million people behind battle lines. we really need all authorities to allow us to access to reach the vulnerable populations wherever and whenever needed. reporter: some areas haven t had supplies four months. trucks started going back into tigray last week but only with enough to feed under half a million people. we must get food and assistance to people immediately to avert any further catastrophic levels of hunger. reporter: the conflict is intensifying, while the country s leader nobel peace prize winner abiy ahmed swapped his business suit for battle fatigues. here you see him on a satellite phone leading his troops, and behind the front lines while the men wage war, the children battle starvation. it s difficult to gauge the real extent of the food crisis. for the most part, international media has not been allowed into
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sent to and children being central, into policies that keep schools open and keep them safe. and vaccinations and wearing face masks would be two of those. keeping schools open and safe is a tricky balancing act, isn t it? what do you think needs to be done to make sure that can be done more safely? we have schools across the country and in some locations our children all wear masks, secondary schoolchildren, and that is because the local authorities in those areas haven t said it is mandatory. where there is a choice, people don t do it, hence my thing about the underground, in london you go onto any tube station and there is lots of signs saying, it is compulsory to wear a mask but everyone knows it is not compulsory and so most people don t. that is why the government needs to take a lead and they need
being back, and ofsted inspections, this is huge pressure on top of caring for children. what our staff are crying out for is for ministers to turn the rhetoric of education being central, of young people being sent to and children being central, into policies that keep schools open and keep them safe. and vaccinations and wearing face masks would be two of those. keeping schools open and safe is a tricky balancing act, isn t it? what do you think needs to be done to make sure that can be done more safely? we have schools across the country and in some locations our children all wear masks, secondary schoolchildren, and that is because the local authorities in those areas haven t said it is mandatory. where there is a choice, people don t do it, hence my thing about the underground,
secretary lloyd austin has approved sending 1,000 additional troops to the country for a total of 6,000. more than double that were on the ground when the drawdown started. all day, americans have been ferried aboard choppers. those that haven t made it to safety yet are being told to shelter in place. the afghan president has already fled the country. other afghans are trying to do the same right now. they re filling up their cars and lining up at banks to grab any cash that they can before fleeing. the u.s. embassy is shuttered, and we re told the american flag has been lowered and removed. it will likely be replaced with a taliban banner in the coming days, a humiliating symbol of two decades of american and coalition sacrifice that now appear to have been in vain. security editor for us, nick paton walsh, is live in kabul, nick, we just learned that the presidential palace was officially handed over to the