the population is healthy and growing steadily. it is a dramatic turnaround. when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 19705, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. this park in uganda, the bwindi impenetrable forest, was made a national park in 1991. next, says the warden in charge, they needed to get local people onside.
leader for the first time in 14 years? germany for several decades is running a german first foreign policy. they get cheap energy and raw materials from russia. they bring in cheap labor from the middle east from the civil wars there. they bring in syrians and iraqis and afghans to work in the factories and pump out cars and sell them and other finished goods and sell them to china. if you ve been to beijing the only thing the communist party likes to drive is black mercedes and audy sedans. they get the united states and taxpayer to pay defense and refuse to pay 2% to nato. it is a german first policy. if you are ukrainian, uyghur, american taxpayer it is ruthless. if you are a german it s a great deal. what s funny is the blame america first leftists will
you do make this link. the fact that ukraine is a capstone on the age of impunity speaks to the point that in afghanistan, 22 million people are dependent on the world food programme to feed themselves. in yemen, the figure is 9 million. in ethiopia, there are 5 million internally displaced. there is system failure at the moment at the level of states abusing the rights of their own citizens. at the level of diplomacy, because the civil wars, the 55 civil wars that i mentioned, are still going on, and are not being tackled. at the level of the legal regime because the rights of civilians are being abused, and at the humanitarian development level, where un appeals are massively underfunded and governments are blocking aid supplies from reaching those in need. and it s an absolute feature of the work of an organisation like the international rescue committee at the moment that the last thing that the world needs is yet another massive crisis, but that s what it s getting in ukraine. and
you do make this link. the fact that ukraine is a capstone on the age of impunity speaks to the point that in afghanistan, 22 million people are dependent on the world food programme to feed themselves. in yemen, the figure is 9 million. in ethiopia, there are 5 million internally displaced. there is system failure at the moment at the level of states abusing the rights of their own citizens. at the level of diplomacy, because the civil wars, the 55 civil wars that i mentioned, are still going on, and are not being tackled. at the level of the legal regime because the rights of civilians are being abused, and at the humanitarian development level, where un appeals are massively underfunded and governments are blocking aid supplies from reaching those in need. and it s an absolute feature of the work of an organisation like the international rescue committee at the moment that the last thing that the world needs is yet another massive crisis, but that s what it s getting in ukraine.
that comes on top of a host of humanitarian challenges you are currently facing in countries like afghanistan. do you fear that the world s attention on ukraine is going to lead to less attention, focus and commitment to crises such as that in afghanistan? yes, i m really fearful, and i m very keen that you do make this link. the fact that ukraine is a capstone on the age of impunity speaks to the point that in afghanistan, 22 million people are dependent on the world food programme to feed themselves. in yemen, the figure is 9 million. in ethiopia, there are 5 million internally displaced. there is system failure at the moment at the level of states abusing the rights of their own citizens. at the level of diplomacy, because the civil wars, the 55 civil wars that i mentioned, are still going