the death of a child or a person every 20 minutes. if the world doesn t wake up and started to tackle this problem, don t be surprised if that s what we get. ethiopia s government is resisting international calls for a ceasefire and says its war against tigrayan rebels is nearly won. but access for aid groups remains restricted, the hungriest families trapped behind front lines. all of the checkpoints, the men with guns stopping aid vehicles and aid workers getting through, need to be told by their political masters to step back. so, to be clear, when the ethiopian authorities say, this conflict is nearly over, we are giving full humanitarian access where possible, they re lying? most of the people who are starving and dying and need help are not getting help that s the fact of the matter. many people are on the move some heading across the border
on the plain outside korem, it lights up a biblical famine. it s four decades since this region experienced a famine that shook the world. history repeating itself? it is not unreasonable to worry about a rerun of 1984. michael buerk reporting the death of a child or a person every 20 minutes. if the world doesn t wake up and started to tackle this problem, don t be surprised if that s what we get. ethiopia s government is resisting international calls for a ceasefire and says its war against tigrayan rebels is nearly won. but access for aid groups remains restricted, the hungriest families trapped behind front lines. all of the checkpoints, the men with guns stopping aid vehicles and aid workers getting through, need to be told by their political masters to step back. so, to be clear, when the ethiopian authorities say, this
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because i think it s interesting. elites spend an inordinate amount of time flying in and out of international airports attending conferences and business meetings inor foreign capitals often in top-notch hotels interacting with elites from other countries who all speak english and the globalized market inevitable progress. they are more truly citizens of the world and anyone who used the phrase in past centuries could have imagined. you are saying our ruling class has changed. the great social scientist samuel huntington pointed out the business and technological changes in the 19th century were nationalizing and created a national market over local affiliations and loyalties. what has happened in the 20th and 21st century is these changes have created a transnational loyalty over national loyalty and there is no such thing as a citizen of the world that is a myth. when anyone around the world gets in a jam, the world doesn t
european allies. also on september 14th, secretary pompeo said that our allies will acknowledge the atrocities, and so far, we have heard from one, i think. they are dragging their feet here a little bit. the fact of the matter is that there has to be some form of retaliation. there has to be some way. we have seen this coming. hijack a fishing boat here, an oil tanker here. sponsor attacks on u.s. entity is. at this on top of the typical state-sponsored terrorism anyway. so they keep pushing the envelope, and this is where we are. at some point, we have to push back. bill: the world doesn t seemed alarmed at this i think the world is alarmed by a couple of things. the audacity of the attack and the ability to pull off the attack. saudi arabia was not prepared and cannot defend itself against these attacks. that is worrisome stuff. sandra: bernie sanders has