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AP-APTN-1830: Somalia UN Saturday, 13 August 2011 STORY:Somalia UN- REPLAY Top UN official tours hospital looking after famine victims LENGTH: 01:45 FIRST RUN: 1430 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 701107 DATELINE: Mogadishu - 13 Aug 2011 LENGTH: 01:45 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Valerie Amos, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, visiting Banadir Hospital 2. Close-up of mother with two children 3. Various of Amos talking to hospital staff and refugeees 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Amos, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs "I can't imagine what it's like for parents who are seeing their children - two, three year-olds - who don't even look big enough to be six months old. It is absolutely distressing, we really have to do what we can, I know security is difficult but we have to do all we can to make sure that we help people who are absolutely desperate " 5. Various of sick children at Banadir hospital. STORYLINE UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, visited Mogadishu on Saturday, where she toured a hospital and met people who had survived the long journey to the Somali capital in an attempt to escape starvation. Amos said she could not imagine the plight of Somali parents trying to save their emaciated children. "It is absolutely distressing," she said. "We really have to do what we can. I know security is difficult but we have to do all we can to make sure that we help people who are absolutely desperate," she said. The UN said last week only 20 percent of the 2.6 million Somalis who need aid, have been able to get it, because an al-Qaida-linked group controls large portions of the country. Meanwhile, The World Food Programme said on Saturday that it was expanding food distribution efforts in the country after Al-Shabab militants withdrew from most areas of the capital last week, a move that will significantly improve aid relief efforts. The militants' presence in Mogadishu had complicated international aid groups' efforts to feed the tens of thousands who had sought help in the capital. Al-Shabab has been waging a war against the weak UN-backed Somali government. The group banned relief agencies including the WFP from operating in it territories. The militants control most of central and southern Somalia, and have killed people who tried to flee starvation. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 08-13-11 1450EDT