But it may soon be dwarfed by the numbers starving to death. Yemen is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe which the warring parties are making worse and which the outside world seems unwilling, or unable, to tackle. My guest is the un humanitarian coordinator in the country, jamie mcgoldrick. Is he losing the struggle to save millions of lives . Jamie mcgoldrick, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Here you sit on a visit to the united kingdom. Your base is in yemen. Yeah. What is the right word to describe the situation in yemen today . Is the word famine the right one . Well, famine will come if the Current Conditions continue. I think the war, the conflict, the insecurity, and the collapse of the economy, all of that is lending itself to a situation where people have no other choice but to slip into that. You know, there are 7 Million People in the country already who are in a very fragile situation in terms of the food security. If we cannot respond by giving them medical support.
But it may soon be dwarfed by the numbers starving to death. Yemen is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe which the warring parties are making worse and which the outside world seems unwilling, or unable, to tackle. My guest is the un humanitarian coordinator in the country, jamie mcgoldrick. Is he losing the struggle to save millions of lives . Jamie mcgoldrick, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Here you sit on a visit to the united kingdom. Your base is in yemen. Yeah. What is the right word to describe the situation in yemen today . Is the word famine the right one . Well, famine will come if the Current Conditions continue. I think the war, the conflict, the insecurity, and the collapse of the economy, all of that is lending itself to a situation where people have no other choice but to slip into that. You know, there are 7 Million People in the country already who are in a very fragile situation in terms of the food security. If we cannot respond by giving them medical support.
neighborhood but i don t have to serve. so politics is our substitute religion. late night comedy, ports, ports, sports, everything has become political and you take away the real moral structure and people fill it with politics. there are politics of distribution. we argue about how high taxes should be, what the budget should be on, but we don t have that anymore. people don t want policy victories they just want to humiliate the other side and affirm my own people. david brooks, thank you very much for being on this morning. his latest piece is available online and featured in the atlantic september issue. still ahead, we ll go to
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