Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the hunger crisis in Gaza

Contradicting statements out of the US and Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza.  

The region's health authority says 14 people have died in the past 24 hours due to starvation, which Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies.  

He says Israel's enabled humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war, otherwise there would be no Gazans.  

But US President Donald Trump says he's seen it, and is promising to set up food centres.  

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that the question now is how long does a starving kid continue to starve while new systems are being set up? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now stateside, Richard Arnold, morning to you, goodnes He make
we're random scenes. The guy's there on watching this thing.
He's in open ground with a military rifle wandering into
a building.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That's right, a rare sign for New York City. You know,
we all know that gun violence in this country is
not rare. Still, there are some differences with this latest
deadly attack with what four innocent people shot dead, including
an NYPD police officer and an NFL football staff are
seriously worded. So this is the worst shooting attack in
Manhattan in some twenty five years. They have strict gun laws.

(00:30):
This shooter, Shane Tamura, drove all away from Las Vegas,
where he's been living, to Park Avenue high Rise, where
he opened fire with an assault weapon and killed himself.
Police found a note in his pocket asking that his
brain be studied. As for the victims. The first man
he murdered was a thirty six year old officer working
as an off duty security guard. That officer was from Bangladesh,

(00:50):
initially married here with a couple of children, his wife
pregnant with their third. The shooter then opened fire, killing
two others, and he went up to the thirty third floor,
where it seems he was trying to get to the
NFL's headquarters, the National Football League, New York's governor. New
York's Mayor, Eric Adams.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Says he took the wrong elevator bank up to the
NFL headquarters. Instead, it took him to rooting management and
that is where he carried out additional shootings.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, others in the building fled in panic or they
hid as best they could.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
We just heard noises and then we all just were
in a closet from the billions.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
If you you were running slaughter on Park Avenue, says
one headline as to what led to this. The shooters
three page note asks that his brain be studied, and
it mentions CTE chronic traumatic encephialopathy. The shooter player high
school football, which has been linked to impulsive and violent behavior, depression,

(01:51):
and suicidal thoughts. For those who have CTA, you know,
it's something that can only be diagnosed after death when
pathologists are able to cut into the brain. In recent years,
of growing number of former pro footballers have allowed such
brain studies following their deaths. One study found that ninety
nine percent of one hundred and eleven deceeised former NFL
players had ct A more recent study found ct in

(02:13):
three hundred and forty five of three hundred and seventy six,
so ninety one point seven percent of those former NFL
players studied. A survey found that one in three former
NFL players believe they have CTE. That survey was done
by Harvard. CTE also has been found in footballers who
were as young as seventeen. The shooters note accused as

(02:34):
the NFL of concealing the dangers of the game. In
twenty thirteen, the league and players agreed to where seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar US settlement, agreeing to
pay for victims medical exams and continuing research to study
this issue of head trauma. Part of the settlement allowed
the lead to admit no wrongdoing.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Right, So Trump still in Scotland. He tooked tough yesterday.
So where are we at with Garza? What's he doing? Well?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
He didn't need a little more food. Aid is starting
to get into Gaza as the world is focusing on this,
against the backdrop of those dire reports by aid agencies
about increasing starvation. There have been some air drops and
a few more AID trucks getting in. But yeah, England,
they form a UN rep says that's not enough. Far
from enough food.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
He says, one air drop that's twenty five tons, that's
two trucks. We need six hundred trucks per day. I mean,
would you feed the Tel Aviv with what one air
drop or two or three? You would have to have
hundreds of trucks going in.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, since April, some twenty thousand children report today says
have been treated for chronic malnutrition. Three thousand of these
was said to be experiencing severe conditions. This led President Trump,
who was wrapping up that Scotland visitors, you say, to
offer more, USA are there to set up food centers,
and we're going to do it in conjunction with some

(03:57):
very good people.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well you know.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
He said this after Britain PM Kiir Starman, who said
that there was revulsion over the increasing loss of life.
So his rhetoric was much tougher than Trump's. Israel's Netanno,
who is claiming there is no Israeli policy to limit
food and they blame him mask totally for any food crisis.
But Trump split with Netno who on this that's real
starvation stuff I see it and you can't fake that. Still,

(04:20):
my lingering question is how long does a starving kid
continue to starve while new systems are being set up?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Thank you, mate, We'll see you Friday. Richard Arnold State's
side just before we leave that part of the world
exports the Observatory of Economic Complexity, which is quite a
cool name. Anyway, they've worked out that China exports to
the States by twenty twenty seven is going to or
will decline by half a trillion dollars. US trade to
China's forecast to drop by one hundred billion. And who's

(04:47):
the beneficiary of all that extra trade that China's going
to need to do something with Russia? Oh, the irony. Meantime,
Trump's had trouble and his deminimus thing, the deminimus being
the small stuff you bring in via the you know
you buy it in tea moon it's less than eight
hundred bucks. You get it in for nothing. Anyway, he
wanted to wind all that. They've gone to court and
the courts ruled against him, so that remained stuck legally

(05:11):
for now.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
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