Fa Famine News Today

condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannons criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committees subpoena. cnns senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is jo...

current prime minister fumio kishida really encapsulated the emotions felt across japan. he was visibly upset, in tears almost, you know, as he talked about the current condition of former prime minister abe and went on to say that -- calling the shooting an unforgivable act. abes brother and current minister of defense nobuo kishi also addressed the media calling the attack an affront to democracy and the suppression of freedom of speech. witnesses say that abe was shot from behind, h...

Some 500 yards away norta has yet to visit the graves of her three children. severely malnourished they died after contracting measles. i cannot bear to go, she says. the grief i would feel. eight agencies warn that somalia is marching towards another fa famine, nearly half the country is hungry, some 800,000 people have been forced from their homes this year alone. so two months ago this camp didnt even exist, now there are more than 870 families living here. conditions are dire and the worlds ...

Millions of people are potentially at risk. after the famine here in 2011 everyone said never again. in 2017 they were able to stop another famine from taking place, but the fear is because the world is so reoccupied with whats going on in ukraine, because that blockade continues, because those fuel and food prices are continuing to soar, the cash that they do have doesnt go as far as it does before and it becomes even more challenging to stop this country fwr first alert hurdling over the edge....

The injured and my heart really is there for you and im so sorry and its -- its hard for everybody, even for me, its a tough time. >> paul crimo, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. okay. thanks. all right. there is other breaking news this morning, the assassination of the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe shot and killed in broad daylight at a campaign event today in japan. plus cnns clarissa ward is in somalia with a firsthand look at how russias war this ukraine ...

Challenges facing aid agencies here is that because the worlds attention, understandably, is so consumed by russias invasion of ukraine, it has been very difficult for them to raise the funds that they need to prevent an all out famine. according to the u.n. they hav raised just under a third of the roughly $1.46 billion that they would need to stop a catastrophe. one aid worker telling us that it could be within weeks you will start to see parts of this country enter a state of full famine, bri...

Shinzo abe a major figure in japan, whatever the motivation for killing him. james clapper, as always, thank you for being with us. >> thanks. russias war on ukraine is not just taking a devastating toll on the people of ukraine, but its also impacting somalia and its access to critical food supplies. this as the years of drought push millions to starvation. cnns clarissa ward joins us live from mogadishu. people are the ripple effects we have been talk being and you are seeing them firsthand....