That engulf persons like ah, lets take you through some of those headlines. Moscow bank separatist in easton, ukraine will Start Holding votes on joining russia on friday. K of says the referendum is a sham move by russia and is aimed alexs more territory. Hundreds of protest this has been saying, the cross russia of the president let me put in announced the partial ministry mobilization on wednesday. One way. Tickets out, the country of sold out and traffic is on the border crossings. The us Nuclear Powered aircraft carrier, Ronald Reagan has arrived in the south korean portable san, the head of a joint military exercise. The naval drills will be the 1st involving usa croft carrier in the regions in 2017 from mcbride as more from the board the ship. The last time this aircraft carry away was here was 5 years ago. That again, was at a time of heightened tension. It followed to a number of missile launches and also a nuclear test by north korea. So this is a way of showing the strength of the alliance in the face of what, what the us and south korea say. All these increased threats from north korea, from north koreas point of view, they are always enraged by these exercises. They have been scaled back through the last few years to allow all of this summit diplomacy to take place to try to get the north korea to give up that nuclear arms. Clearly, they havent done that. Protest is in mali, want the Un Peacekeeping mission to leave the country. Molly and authorities expelled the head of the un mission in july, following a diplomatic route after the arrest of soldiers from ivory coast. Peacekeepers have been in molly since 2013 the u. S is announced sanctions on members of iran, so called morality police. It follows the death of a woman in iran being held by the force secured by the us of abuse and violence against iranian women. Uganda has confirmed 7 new cases of the highly contagious ebola virus. One person has died in the district of robin day as the countrys 1st vitality from the virus since 2019 does the headlines. The news continues after the stream. Stay with us. October on out is era in an election set to define a nation resilience will choose between the radically different current hard line, conservative president and the former socialist president. A sense of community delves into full unique communities revealing how theyre adapting to the 21st century. China holds its National Congress of communist Party Members with president t likely to be re elected as its head. What does this mean for china and the world . Only with dreams takes you beyond the glitz and glamour, revealing the stories of those seeking, failing 14 in the Worlds Largest film industry, bosnia goes to the poles in an election that will be what closely by both the you and russia. October on al jazeera. Ah hello everyone, im josh rushing and youre in the stream. Today were talking about hunger and somalia, the challenges facing a groups there and what can be done to help. We want to hear your thoughts and questions. So i see that there joined us in that conversation. We have a lie producer waiting to get your questions to me so that i can get him into the show. Ah, there was worse famine in a century of looming over parts of somalia as the horn of africa, braces for its 5th consecutive seasons of drought. The war ukraine has caused food and supply prices to skyrocket. Pushing many people to the brink, United Nations says time is running out to save millions of people from starvation and seeking more than 1000000000. 00 to provide humanitarian relief. Have a listen to whats at stake in somalia, what can be done . What must be done to help millions of people in need amid this terrible drought crisis, is a massive scale up of humanitarian assistance. As the human World Food Program weve already scaled up to reach more people than ever before, but we need the funding to sustain and increase the scale up. One of the major challenges is getting this aid to the people who need it most, especially in areas where access is difficult because of conflict and insecurity. We have families that have lost livestock, we have millions of people with in internal, it displeased and we are calling for donors and International Community to provide more supports to provide more funding so that we can scalable innovations. So thatll can somewhat move people in. So lets look at 7 more lives. Joining us today from smalley lan, nemo hassan. Shes the director of the somalia and g o. Consortium. We also have holden ali, the director of the Durable Solutions unit in mogadishu. Whos at the you when in new york this week . An esther the gumby or the assistant professor at the university of illinois. Now before we get to our guest, i want to show you the audience, a map of whats happening in the country. Now the map on the left, that one right there, actually, youre looking at it now that shows where we are up to the end of this month in september, in what you see as a country in crisis. But once we roll into october through december, much of the orange becomes red. And you see an emergency. You see red flags for millions of lives at stake. And let me show you why. Lets go to my computer here. This is a tweet from Samantha Power at u. S. A. I d. The map that has some of the blue and green on here is 2017. This is the last time that somalia faced a possible famine and actually didnt go through the family. You see some blue and green there. Look at the difference between 20172022. What 5 seasons of drought have done to this country . It has read like its on fire, nemo ear in the region. Whats going on there . Whats happening . Good evening, josh. Thank you for having me. I think you actually painted a very stock situation in some of the moments where over 90 percent of the country is experiencing extreme drought conditions. With about 7800000 people close to 50 percent of the population. Now facing crisis level insecurity, children are already dining. Some parts of the Country Partners on the ground have been calling out for support to support the lifesaving interventions at mass scale. And i think youve also show the 27th, the difference between 20172011 was also another worst crisis where water 1000000 people made at least 133000 of them children. Im but 2022 where we are now is actually unprecedented. The worst weve seen. This is long. Im conflict. You have the impact of coven 19. You have this drought, which is full consensus. I think the worse than 40 years. And thats taken place at the moment. And if we dont scale up the rate that the situation is getting, we will see much more death than in 20112017. The Global Community reacted well in time and a birth famine. We need to do the same show some video here. This is from the whirlpool program and reuters and i want to warn our viewers. Its not easy to look at this is to see, but i dont want to be so much that we dont see whats actually happening on the ground in somalia. How did you tell me what was it actually like for the families there right now . What are they going through . Thing misery and miserable is not enough. Its actual hell on earth for some families at the mom and the pictures that you showing. I mean, i came back to somebody on 122011 at the height of the famine in its starting to look like that. We havent seen really dramatically the same numbers, but the images that are starting to show are heading in that direction. And as you pointed out on the map earlier in terms of the extreme levels of a drought, accumulative additives of consecutive weight failures in little security. The impact of this them going to be much greater because communities have lost the resilience to withstand a lot of these are shops that are happening right now. So if, if we dont respond immediately, i think we are going to see maybe a double what we saw in 2011 so that you know, those images that youre showing now, even in not thats not just the rural areas. Were seeing images of that in lot of the show, the capital of the country. How on earth, i think. Yeah, i was actually gonna ask you, ah, it also starts want to bring him some boards from. Are you to community . This is louis phil says, how was spearman still a thing in this day and age and what ways can world powers help to solve the issue were gonna get to solving at toward the end of the show. But 1st i want to say, well how, how does this keep happening . Why is the south plea exactly . That is the reason and we know why its hot and its because every year when droughts happen in the home of africa, all we do is jump out of the 8. We put a, bonded, we put a bonded and we know that we dont do any long term concrete actions. And for example, we us, for right now the u. N. Is people for a to 1000000 with that thought 18000000, its all going to be spent on immediate to a vot junglin from guy. But why are we not looking concrete measures . Why is a we have in drought, Climate Change . Most of the communities are depending on grain fed agriculture to produce crops that livestock to i, depending on great, theyre failing, we cannot be and completely andre. So it is important to realize that all we are doing is, every year, having this temporary, ah, measures not to concrete measures when even if we have concrete measures, what we have to look at and as raphael, what is happening to see what is walking, what is not walking so that we can scale this best practices again when it happens next year after he brought in the you, well, we actually have a comment from the when commission for human rights ravine, a sham dasani. Heres what she had to say about it. The ongoing conflict with alicia bob complicates the humanitarian response in terms of gaining access to many of those who are in need. Children, women, and Older Persons are bearing the brunt of the crisis. As the majority of people displaced by drought, this makes children more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, to recruitment and to use by armed forces and groups, and at risk of sexual violence. The drought is already resulting in increase fighting over adverse scarcer resources, which has led to larger displacement of communities and an increase in violence against women and children. Her name on it seemed like you wanted to jump in there. But what i was picking up from asked her was sounds like, if we keep putting the band aid on it that this is gonna get worse year after year. Does that . Does that ring true to you . Absolutely, i totally agree with that. And i think, i mean, obviously somebody has been in crisis for the last 50 years and you know, this area the 100 because its not prone to drought. But the current Climate Crisis actually proportionately affecting the communities and especially the poor communities who are being hit by one crisis of the other. And i totally agree that we are focus the money that i think the response is totally focused on the find a humanitarian life saving. What we need to do is to invest in those shots on Long Term Development programs. We need to go beyond the humanitarian response and approach. This problem will, which certainly will come back again and again from a development angle. You know, we need to be certain questions and how can somebody adapt to Climate Change which actually a lease contributor to the current crisis. And how can i shoe its population from the negative impact of Climate Change . How resilient are the can to the economy and public finances to Natural Disaster and Climate Change . These are the questions that need to be answered by all stakeholders, including donors and the somebody government to ensure that these fundable communities can withstand these constant shocks the predictable coming back. I want to get you in on this, but guys, i want to share something on my computer real quick because it seems to me that somalia is often at the tail end of what crises are happening around the rest of the world. Seem to like land and hit harder in somalia. So for example, the war in ukraine is having a mass effect effect in somalia. But just this week the cabinet ministers of ukraine have allocated approximately 12000000. 00 to provide humanitarian, a. D, t o, p, and somalia, which suffer from view shortage. This is coming through odessa. Well, how long should wait until the an 89 is the question. That is the question. Every step called every leader imputed those who are attending the own. Gotcha. Yeah, those are the questions that we should be asking and demanding answers, immediate answers and answers that have concrete action. So as i said, we did ask this question, does anyone ga, youre at the u. N. G o r r u, as in those questions in our people responding. So i can pick up where esther left off and also maybe the video. I think its easier to justify the problem that as somebody is crisis right now to security, etc, etc. I think theres a failure in terms of the 8th system in the infrastructure that is in somalia. We are missing the point. I mean, obviously right now were about saving lives and obviously we need to raise funds to quote unquote, save nice of beyond the saving lives. I. Ready our government, the Somali Government needs to start acting and asking the right question around how that money that the the country is allocated is being spent. We know on the ground that the money that some money receives is not efficiently spent on resilient building programs, water infrastructure, diversification of ha likelihoods, and etc, etc. And i think its so long as we keep sidestepping the real problems, were going to be yet another famine in couple of years. The issue of climate is just one issue that has derailed the other interventions in somali, obviously now with exacerbating everything. But there is a system infrastructure issue in terms of from donor giving money to you and agencies implementing programs and the lack of sort of read a Long Term Strategy around. How do you listen . Somali is a income or, or lame. No, its comes, comes from life stuck in farming. Yet we have been been little to support those communities who have been very little to actually maybe move this communities from, from those particular skills to other skills or they can start, you know, living life rather than being saved all the time from 2011 till now. The displacement capone of somebody has doubled. So now nearly 40 percent of the population was or one in to be some mileage is displaced by the end of this years drought, or hopefully not a famine. Were going to much more people displace. Yes, we continue to fund emergencies rather than Sustainable Development programs. I think so long as youre not talking about that, were not talking about the issue. Yes i we leaving the issues we are in every single thing. So. 8 then and now how sitting we are asking in we are advising to invest differently and i think its time also on the government end to say no, this is what some money and needs aligned the investment with the National Development plan with local solutions that are tailored for local problems and as long as were not doing that, we will be back on this show in couple of years. Talking about the same issue. Unfortunately, i think youre right, youre right about are one of the things i keep on. You go and read and read right now i day, every one to open and read about do all we lead is the problem. The problem, where are we not talking about the solutions . What are the end, what is being done . Even the journalist that report all you report is images of people that are dying at the up book. Its all ah, lights on them. Look at the projects that are wanting, that can then be scaled. Can we, how equal reporting to be able to see . Because at the end of the day, i think when we just report on one side, the east of the ishall, then everybody sees its doom and gloom. Theres nothing that we can do. I think also i asked her as he to reality of the news, right . If we werent reporting about god famine and drought in small you today, we would be reporting about floods in disease in pakistan today. And if it wasnt about that, it would be about war and war crimes and ukraine. I mean, we dont want order all the lines to take off and dont crash. Thats just the nature of the media, right . Yes, but i saw then i think neat and challenge. I was sales. What is it . N keels to start actually sharing. What are these projects, initiatives that are walking in the ground on ground solution so that they can scale that. Okay, good. And doesnt look no less. Com, melissa, and weak in as them in the projects. I way way im gonna set you up. I sent you an email because i want to bring in some voices from youtube. And you guys gotta hear this. Actually some distrust of the n jose in youtube. And nemo, i think you might be best to address this, but um, we have muse yusef, who says only somalia, people can help migration f efforts. Hold on, i want to get to the ears as who st says the aid industry has raised billions. Wheres all that money gone . Ah, theres lots of questions about the ngos, the money in a distrust there. Kit nemo, can you address that . Please . Thank you very much. Im. I think i think everyone hear the panel on the video some questions. You know, i mean there be the key questions that we need to ask ourselves across the spectrum where the governments donors all in joes. And i think we really need to critically look at what weve done correctly. And i think we have done a lot rightly because many, many people where were safe and happy and safe them and somebody has its dependent on aid, any type of aid, whether its human parent development. And i think its really important we are asking those critical questions across the spectrum. I certainly think the government needs to take a bigger role in ensuring that so the probably finance is kind of also been stunned. Its really good to hold each other accountable on exam and exactly how that moneys been spent. Like i said earlier, what is really important is king at the time and the modeling, the finance model at the moment is focused on humanitarian, which is those lifesaving activities. And like i said, the system he met him system has been a stretch over the last 30 as well. Whether its in constant crisis, in some of the, if poor communities have had the time to recover, 2011, you have the standing by the time 2017 hit. People have fairly recovered from the famine and the impa