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What can we do she tells me. this is our life. i pray that the government will help us. today, kids are playing in the snow, sledding on plastic jugs used for cooking oil. the roadside bombs and nighttime raid of war are gone but so is the flow of foreign aid and the u.s. has frozen more than $9 billion in afghan assets. 23 million people in this country need urgent humanitarian aid and all chapters of the u.n. here in afghanistan are trying to come together to shore up a country. >> reporter: y...

Early december he and several other british aid workers are currently being held by the man who heads the taliban intelligence service. abdul was released from go guantanamo bay exchanged for army soldier boberg dal tonight he is holding several british and american businessman and aide workers. he inside afghanistan. the biden administration is getting heat tonight from the mainstream media over tone and access. news outlets and beat reporters say they are not satisfied with either. and they wa...

Refugees who arrive on the ukrainian/hungary border who are happy to be safe. >> reporter: forced to flee their homes and their country, ukrainians on the run. their children making the best of it, oblivious to the fact that a week old war just turned people in refugees. this is one of hungarys border crossings with ukraine. there is a steady stream with people arriving in vehicles and on foot. all of the ukrainian new arrivals are women and children. hungarian aide workers have a community cent...

Upset bouncers wouldnt let them bring firearms into the party venue. >> dana: casey stiegel for us this morning. thank you. >> trace: the war in ukraine humanitarian disaster and it is growing. the u.n. reporting 10 million people have fled their homes either displaced inside ukraine or as refugees abroad. our next guest just got back from a mission to germany and poland where he met with dozens of those refugees. texas senator john cornyn joining us on capitol hill. over the past four weeks wev...

Industrialized nations. so theres been so much of the focus on international diplomatic kind of conversations that are not so easy to manage. there are different concerns here. different economic pieces that various nations have when interacting with russia. so thats been part of it. then you get the heart of this trip. where he is having a chance to have a real interaction with refugees who have fled their homes, seen their communities bombed and damaged by this unprovoked war. and then hes als...

Global this effort is, john. >> i think its safe to say its an unprecedented humanitarian infrastructure that has been built to help deal with this crisis. the aide workers ive spoken to here, i know you have too, selma, they hope theyve learned lessons and can replicate it in the future. its been an amazing thing to see. >> reporter: extraordinary. absolutely extraordinary. when i saw the egyptians, im egyptian, this is amazing. it felt so global, opening up. >> selma abdelaziz, thank you. laur...

Needs it to be involved again. this is a humanitarian crisis that has been man made. the u.s. allowed some carve outs, but it needs to do the same for the u.n. sanctions this is money going to pay salaries of human turn aide workers. this is not about money for the taliban, its about money to save people threatened by not just misery, but literally starvation. >> it is indefensible. and i also want to talk about ethiopia, something barely

More. the framer of this house, he charged attalla $6,000 more than six months ago. mark strassmann, cbs news, boise. >> we turn now to a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people in the african nation of ethiopia. the devastation has escalated into what the u.n. calls the worlds worst hunger crisis in a decade with millions facing starvation. heres cbss debora patta. >> reporter: it started as an internal rebellion, poferred into an ethnic conflict and is now a famine. forced starva...

Renewed concerns and anger over migrants fleeing to europe from the middle east and africa. france will host an emergency meeting in a few hours with most of its neighboring countries to discuss the escalating migrant crisis. france uninvited the uk from the meeting after a diplomatic spat earlier this week between president emmanuel macron and boris johnson about a tweet about the migrant issue. meanwhile, at a makeshift camp along the coast in france, aide workers are providing food, clothing,...

Would only come from local residents, the only people allowed to enter the zone who just out of their good hearts will try to save lives. and then at the perimeter of the exclusion zone our partners are present waiting for emergency calls that asylum seekers would place, and then theyd rush and try to find, geolocate those asylum seekers and provide them assistance. sometimes we come too late. >> it is an incredibly difficult situation especially as we can see in some of the video there, there a...