To be able to move the supplies the food the medicines youre going to have a catastrophic event there now there are lots of International OrganizationsNational Governments can down a saudi way of waging a war on yemen but it doesnt seem to change. To have changed their behavior much now i notice something about your own personal thout i think you like to practice a lot of positive reinforcement do you think that me get a better traction with the saudis we are in my opinion were seeing a positive turn in the right direction with the saudis in the saudi the coalition i have been traveling to the middle east lately had very positive meetings and trying to appeal to the heart that you know these innocent victims of this conflict the children they dont deserve this this is a nation that is now in ruins and we need to step up as ive told the saudis and others if youre not willing to stop the war and you have a moral obligation to make certain that the humanitarian fallout the consequences are met and no child should be left behind in this country and so mr meehan im sorry for interrupting but you certainly know the first person to tell them that and yet. They seem to have been very very little change in the way more was scared out of the last i cant explain or justify that because i havent been in this position but they tell me to believe that they would actually listen to you as opposed to not listening to anyone else because were already seeing results were seeing a major shift in some of the campaigns with regards to air campaigns and other campaigns and hospitals and other facilities in the poorer were seeing them choose to step up now monetarily were seeing that step up in terms of providing access within the country that they have control were seeing them open up the port in terms of the barricade or it was so were seeing some very significant positive movement right now and were actually seeing some positive movement with huet these now so were hopeful that food may be the weapon the School Brings some peace in this country but lets see well lets keep our fingers crossed for sure we have to take a very short break now but he. Well be back in just a few moments. We used. Them and what we got Good Neighbors we got to. Really just i will keep it simple doug. So instead of having a Good Neighbor we have. Done which is a. Welcome back to worlds apart with David Beasley executive director of the World Food Program mr beasley earlier this month trumpet ministration and its vision of the u. S. Budget for the fiscal year of two thousand and nineteen which features a substantial increase in military spending cuts and social spending as well as some restructuring of the u. S. Contributions to the United Nations have you done any preliminary asked cement so how they propose pattern now spending may affect the World Food Program you know the president s budget very well dramatically impacted us but if you know anything about the u. S. Process of budgeting just the house and senate makes the final decision we feel very confident before that the process as it works its way through the president and the leadership in the senate in the house will come together with a budget that will be that i think will be good for the World Food Program so we can continue to address or. Around the world and then when you think about the United States commitment to the World Food Program last year two thousand and seventeen was two point five billion dollars this year you know were hopeful that we come out with at least two billion but im confident that the leadership in the United States will stay strong on International Humanitarian aid that in many of your public appearances youre stressed that feeding the worlds most vulnerable is a viable alternative to military spending you think its a way of combating extremism and apparently the president perhaps has a different view on that what is your strategy now to try to dissuade the president ought to try to work with the congress and hopefully defeat his budgeting proposals there well as ive told my friends in the u. S. Senate and the u. S. House the republicans and the democrats as well as the president and his administration if you want to spend another half a trillion dollars on military cut the World Food Program. Because we are the first one of us it is him to bring about exactly one of them and hes been very supportive of me dont miscalculate the budgetary process ive been a United States governor so i know how the system works but i believe a horse all said and the president who has said publicly very clearly that one thing the United Nations does good is feeds people and so hes been very supportive of our programs and i think he will continue to do so now you are known for having praise mr truong for shaking up the system and be already discussed i think part of your point was multifaith and by a desire to shield the world from program from the aftershocks of about shake up i wonder how do you see yourself as the executive director of based organizations are you a disruptor or are you a protector well as i said one time when i was elected the states governor and one of the lead bureaucrats if you do that mr governor who you know really create chaos in us will have come to create chaos jokingly but the point is you have to evaluate every system whats working it was working patted on the back keep going this is not working how do we restructure it so in the United Nations there needs to be restructured in the World Food Program or the are amazing operate machine what they do in the World Food Program is not just about emergency conditions like the tsunami and earthquake or volcano or hurricane its more than that its also about Sustainable Development is to and protected what we awards eighty two percent of our spending now is in war zones but how do we sustain a community so every able bodied person all this to receive food or to be in the Community ImprovementProgram Every child in the village the nation being a School Meals Program so how do we push that forward change the approach could you can go into some of these countries where the United Nations has been for twenty thirty years spent hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Nothing to show for so you need to step back and say what are we not doing right and so i think i bring that to the table this revaluate with understood fresh eyes in the see what works and what doesnt worry and lets dont worry about ego lets dont worry about who gets the credit lets worry about those innocent children out there who we want dreams to be fulfilled now i personally if find you very sincere when you talk about the plight of hungry people around the world but i think foot insecurity is increasingly an issue for the United States and specifically in those very same communities that vote it donald trump into the oval office do you think youre on massachusetts with the americans who themselves some thomas have to skip meals in order to feed their own. You know i do a lot of t. V. Shows in the United States and i come from the more conservative side in the cities and when i sit down with those who otherwise would have concerns about humanitarian or International Aid they stated them very clearly there are International Humanitarian programs that may very well be a waste of money but the World Food Program is to the essence of who we are as a people in the world and were about helping people but do it in such a way that doesnt create dependency but hopefully create so sufficiency resilience and so when i explained what were doing and where were doing it how were doing it its amazing the response i get from the left in the right and thats why and what ive seen in the United States republicans and democrats may fight on Everything Else but when it comes to helping hungry children around the world fulfill their dreams they come together but mr and mr president this is not exactly what im asking you about im sure if you ask any person no matter where why their children have to be fat everybody will say yes but i think. Sometimes president ial mandate involves making a difficult decision to spend helping starving children in africa or helping will norrish children in the United States im not suggesting you make that decision for the present but how would you guide him through that thinking process theres enough wealth. To do both theres clearly enough wealth there is now three hundred trillion dollars of Global Wealth in the world today were just talking about a few billion dollars when i look at how much money we spend in the World Military we just talk about a few more billion dollars to save the lives of people around the world in doing in such a way that doesnt create dependency and with that much wealth in the United States that much wealth in the rest of the world is inexcusable for any person in the world today to go to bed hungry now as the United States is reevaluating its brawl its share in the International Organizations have you noticed any. Qualitative change in the policies of father countries perhaps other big donors have seen a couple different shifts number one ive seen the un make some adjustments the United Nations and my opinion the last thirty forty years has shown the private sector. You know in i am seeing or see change there now i see the un understanding clearly we cant solve many of these problems in these developing countries without the private sector being significantly and Truly Engaged and involved as to other countries around the world you know ive been beating the drums then going to nations saying you must step up more you must do more because if you know if you know or do it for the right in reason the do it because in your National Security interest some see in many countries step up and thats one of the reasons why im here in russia to talk with the leadership here in the response im getting from the leadership of russia is very positive were seeing the russian government begin to step up more so that it ever has in the United NationsWorld Food Program well from what i know im correct me if im wrong i think russia so far counted both about very large contributions to your agency but i think its trying to be helpful in some other ways perhaps logistics petition et cetera youre now in moscow have you secured anything concrete from the kremlin well we will be announcing the russia is known for forgiving trucks and to the World Food Program and so we are announcing the ninety seven. Trucks that will be about eleven Million Dollars of value contribution as well as debt swap that weve done in mozambique as well as is dozens of millions of dollars strategically aligned in the countries of interest including syria and other places around the world and so im here to make the case and talk with the leadership that the do you in needs russia to be in really involved in that we want to be a force for peace between nations in every opportunity we kin to bring they says that are working to give us a will to maybe start working together a little bit well i think russians more than eager to Work Together particularly them eric and im not sure they are they find the same reception on the american side the bad maybe your connections in the cause. Aggressed especially with some South Carolina representative script out in that franco i think the russian people in the American People want peace around the world and i think they have a very different view on how to achieve it though i dont know i really find most people around the world say i think sometimes we need to get the leaders together sit down little more break bread together but i think the same marks there and i think if we focus on the differences we will make if you had what we thought focus on the common opportunities will make a tremendous headway the world needs for russia and the United States to find a pathway as ive said a video of some of my diplomatic friends in washington and in moscow you know maybe the United States or russia doesnt need to get married right now but they do need to do a little bit piece is dependent upon these two nations find a pathway to get past the problems that seem to be dominating every newscast in the world today and while thats half the rome is burning or for worlds fall apart mr basely i think you have to be careful about what you say if you dont want to be accused of being a kremlin. But we have a few minutes left and i want to ask you specifically about something that you mentioned this doubt swat team that russia struck with the most and i think it them involves the largest doubt swap in the history of your agency it with also on luck if im not mistaken around forty a million years dollars that would be used to provide school meals for one hundred fifty thousand children is that something that is essentially a one off deal or something that can be applied on the broader slower hope that as a model to go forward because when you when you when you have a program this about six to seven billion dollars then you need to do three more billion to address the world hunger of the most of your hungry people in the world youre looking for every opportunity you can. So this debt swap model very well could save a lot of millions of law over the next few years and finally finally in a one of your articles you describe visiting an attrition clinic in somalia where children receive food like that looks and tastes like Peanut Butter both words like medicine so nutritious that it can recover help a child recover from all nutrition in a matter of months and what strikes me about it is the contrast between the progress in attritional size the fact that we can make the base marvelous foods and the absolute social regret that puts millions of people on the brain golf daf how do you wrap your had around it how do you explain it to yourself is tough you know i was asked by. A reporter one time says after weve done a tremendous interview. He said you know youve got three years job in the world keeping people alive saving children i said you know i do really do have a great job overall said that i dont go to bed every night thinking about the children that i say i go with a bit every night i think about the children we couldnt say because of lack of money or the lack of access so when those days are before us we have to choose which children eat in which children dont eat which children live which children how would you like that job first time ive whipped. And years when i wont have the Hospital Data when i saw not just one two three four children dying before my very own us but literally hundreds of children starving to death because of a manmade conflict and i can see all that special Nutritional Products they keep someone alive but the mere fact that theyre gotten into that condition and then you dont make it because its too late its heartbreaking i had to walk out of the hospital room just run around the corner and just just cry and im sort of what you think im sort of a tough guy you know boy it was just overwhelming the see so many children unnecessarily dima for your very own because because a man made conflict is unacceptable in excusable and im going to continue to fight against it as hard as loud as i can well mr biggs the best of luck with that i really appreciate your time with us today and terrorist please keep the conversation going in our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here in a while the part. 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