On this programme before, but this is the first time that youre talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the uns humanitarian Chief Injune this year. Response that we will be facing a situation where people will drift fast it always is fast, its viral with famine into a situation where we cant see whats going on. The good thing about ethiopia, as you remember, was we could see what was happening and it attacked our consciences. Its not happening in sudan. Butjust to be clear, what ethiopia resulted in, it was A Million deaths from famine. So, you are saying that sudan could cause more than A Million deaths from famine . Yes. Yes, of course. And i know its very difficult to comprehend that because we dont really understand famine and we understand it probably less now in many ways than we did then when it was a very important subject of study and response. But to manage the response to famine in the middle of a war where we dont have access journalists, crucially, are not
Martin griffiths, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Now, you ve been in that seat on this programme before, but this is the first time that you re talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the un s humanitarian chief injune this year. You have greater liberty, essentially, now to tell us what you think about the situations that you ve seen. May we begin in sudan, which is just one of the crises that you ve dealt with in recent times? it s a civil war that in the last 18 months has put an extraordinary 25 million people in need of support and struggling to survive. You said recently that you thought sudan could be worse than ethiopia in the 1980s. What did you mean? well, sudan is the first place now where famine has been formally declared, as you know, the first place since 2017, because there s 25 million people in need, and we don t know precisely, because of the lack of access to these people, how much in need they are. We think that the
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President. Hello and welcome to the news. The Health Ministry of lebanon says an intense Israeli Bombardment has killed at least 180 people. It comes amid speculation that israeli troops could mount a Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon to create a Buffer Zone so that civilians who have been evacuated from israel can return. There is heavy traffic on the streets of beirut as people rush to leave the area and we can show you live pictures of Southern Lebanon, because from early this morning there have been so many huge explosions as the israelis have ramped up their operations. The most ferocious bombardment yet since October The 7th of last year. With the idf saying that by lunchtime they had launched over 300 strikes and we have seen many more since then. The Prime Minister of israel has been speaking, talking about pre empting any actions of hezbollah. As you can see from that. As well as 182 people killed, more than 700 people have been wounded today. Lets get the latest from our Mi
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