we encourage the government of the philippines to allow her to travel to oslo. anchor: twitter cofounder jack dorsey has stepped down as ceo. he faced internal questions to reside -- to resign and will be replaced by the chief technology officer. in a statement on twitter, he said it was finally time to leave. reporter: jack dorsey has been at the helm in some form or another from 2006 when the company started. he stepped down for a while and was put back on. he has been under pressure since last year to go after some major shareholders raised questions about whether or not he should still be the ceo of twitter while at the same time serving as the ceo of

for more, we are joined by the nrc's secretary general jan egeland, who is in oslo, norway, has just returned from a trip to kerman province in iran where he met with refugees and refugee camp. he said iran alone has displaced than the european countries combined. despite this, the european championship and erecting barbed wire against refugees give negligible funds for displaced afghans elsewhere. his recent "new york times" op-ed is headlined "afghanistan is facing a total economic meltdown." welcome back to democracy now! describe the scope of the catastrophe in afghanistan right now and what you think needs to happen. >> well, i recently was also in afghanistan and i sat down with the mothers in these displacement camps around kabul. i asked them, what about the fure? whato you think of the future? they told me very clearly, we believe we will starve and freezeo death this harsh winter unless there is an enormous aid operation coming throh and unless there is a public sector that is able to provide services. it is as acute as that. 40 million civilians were left hind when the nat