'We'll Be Paying for This for Years,' UN Aid Chief Speaks Out on Iran War

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Tom Fletcher· Guest0:39

[bell dings] Last week was the first time when the civilians we serve were speaking back to me in the language of cuts. Because of your cuts, they're saying to me, "No, I gave birth at the side of the road and I lost my child." We're under attack at the moment, but every time you hear someone attack us, ask what they gain by weakening us. Three hundred and forty-five million people in the world need our help right now, and we, we know we can't reach them.

Mehdi Hasan· Host1:00

How equipped is your organization today at the UN to deal with the crisis in Sudan, which some would say is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world in sheer numbers?

Tom Fletcher· Guest1:08

Sudan is an atrocities lab. I've been forced because of the funding cuts to really choose which lives to save and which lives not to save. So we're doing what we can, but we're massively underfunded. All I'm asking for is one percent of what the world spends on guns and arms.

Mehdi Hasan· Host1:21

Is Israel getting away with killing aid workers and medics in Lebanon because the world and your organization, the UN, let Israel get away with