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  • The director of the World Food Programme says 42 million people are at high risk of starvation.
  • David Beasley is calling on billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to donate $6 billion to help.
  • "Billionaires need to step up," he told CNN in an interveiw that aired Tuesday.

The director of the UN's food-assistance branch called on the billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to chip in a one-time payment that he said could help save millions of people around the world at risk of starvation.