not able to get there and went through matinations and kioto and other efforts and finally we came together in an unique, multi lateral event and when i became secretary of state we had the failure of copenhagen and china on the other side f the ledger and president obama asked me to go to beijing and open up a new collaboration if it was possible on climate change. everybody was skeptical but we built a strong -- our two presidents, shi and obama were able to stand up in beijing a year before paris and make a historic announcement that changed the entire dynamic of the negotiations in paris. in august i had the privilege of traveling to havana to raise the american flag above our embassy

for the first time in 54 years. president obama's bold decision to normalize diplomatic ties with cuba reflects yes both our national interests but it also reflects our desire to try to help the citizens of that country live in a more open and prosperous society and we were determined to turn a corner after decades of a policy that just simply didn't work. you know the old saying you know the first way to solve the problem of digging a hole deeper and deeper is stop digging. but we have a long way to go we know but we are already seeing progress. last year travel by cuba, to cuba by united states citizens increased more than 50% over the previous year. we have further empowered a growing cuba private sector that now employees thousands of cuban

workers and the government of cuba signed its first cellular telephone roaming agreement with a united states company that will help cubans connect to the world and access information and everyone of you here knows that helps change, change is thinking, change is behavior. now, of course the united states and cuba still remain far apart on some very important issues. but we are much closer than we were in our ability to be able to address those differences in a systematic and mutually respectful way. i talked to my counterpart rodriguez the other day and will meet again shortly to talk about the other differences and to continue to try to march down this road. in october after seven years of negotiation the united states joined 11 other nations along the pacific rim in signing and

sending to congress the trans pacific partnership, a trade agreement that will ensure heightened labor and environmental standards in 40% of the global economy and already other nations in the region are beating on the door and saying we want to be part of that. we want to be part of these higher standards and environmentally responsible and labor responsible business enterprises. at this time last year and remember this because we talked about it here, experts were predicting that the ebola virus was going to kill a million or more people by christmas of last year. again president obama led an effort at the united nations to bring people together and he took the risky decision without knowing the consequences and all of what was happening but on the basis of our healthcare, expert advice we sent several thousand

american troops and put them on the ground to build the capacity, to be able to respond to this crisis and together with partners around the world, france, great britain particularly, china, japan, others all joined in. we built a broad coalition of actors to educate the public, isolate the stricken and stop the spread of the virus. spelling the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of people and in response to the global refugee crisis president obama is going to host a summit at the u.n. this fall and the summit will be the culmination of a sustained, rigorous effort to rally the world community on several fronts to increase by 30% the response to humanitarian funding appeals, the number of regular humanitarian donors, to increase it by at least ten, to at least double the number of refugees

who are resettled or afforded other safe and legal channels of emission and to expand by ten the total number of countries admitting refugees and to get a million children in school and a million people working legally. now the private sector, civil society, religious organizations will also be called on to help integrate refugees into host communities, socially, academically and through access to employment and i know we know how to do this in a way that protects the security of our countries. across the globe my friends you don't hear about it everyday, you don't read about it everyday, but everyday i can tell you our diplomates, myself and others are deeply involved in trying to bring peace

together with regular organizations and trying to do so in troubled lands. we are working with countries to help stand up the government in libya. just before christmas we held a ministerial there and agreed to sign a new government and we are working together to try to find a way to stand up in tripoli and bring people forward and take on da'esh in libya and trying to end the war this columbia. i appointed a special envoy to the task and we are welcoming president santos for 15 years of relationship under planned columbia and helping to end the fight with farc that is one of the longest running conflicts on the planet and working on thawing rerelations between india and pakistan and it wasn't an accident that prime minister

modi and prime minister sharif began discussions. earlier this week here at davos vice president biden and i met with porshenko regarding the mins askingment and with bona fide intent to solve this on both sides it's possible in the next months to find those minsk agreements to find them implemented and the sanctions can be implemented because the full sanctions are removed. and lands at peace, my friends, reconciliation is still an imperative and we are working on it and that is why we are supporting the best chance in decades to achieve a settlement in cyprus. i was there recently, met with both leaders, had dinner with both of them together and others engaged and trying to encourage

this process and were able to welcome something that we encouraged and supported for a long time in addition to that. a resolution between japan and south korea to end the sensitivity of the legacy of world war ii. so ladies and gentlemen, the world is not witnessing global gridlock. we are not frozen in a nightmare that we can't wake up from. the facts and the lessons are clear if we stay at it, if we stay serious, if we are willing to work in good faith to resolve problems not create them, then we can make progress and what i find really exciting about this moment is that we are staring at extraordinary opportunities everywhere we look in the world. if we make the right choices like our boldest predecessor who overcame depression, fashism,

global wars we can turn this story to the story that we want. if we show that we have the same fierce determination to succeed and succeeding will require that we tell the truth and take on and stand up to and try to resolve three interrelated challenges, not in order of priority but first the demand for good governance. second, the critical need to provide young people around the world growing at an extraordinary pace to provide them with the economic and social opportunity they deserve and want. and, third, to win the campaign against the great exploiters and liars and criminals who literally steal a great religion to win the campaign against

violent extremism. so start for a moment and i'll run through them quickly with the challenge of governance. we have to acknowledge in all quarters of leadership that the plagues of violent extremism, greed, lust for power, sectarian exploitation often find their nourishment where governments are fragile and leaders are incompetent or dishonest and that is why the quality of governance is no longer just a domestic concern. and i say to all of you who are business people who engage in the politics of one country or another and support people in them, you need to demand accountability from those potential leaders or existing leaders. in ukraine under the previous regime officials and greed triggered an international crisis. in syria assad was unwilling to respond to the legitimate

concerns of young people who came out in the streets to demonstrate for opportunity, for jobs, for education and when their parents were upset that they had been met with thugs, the parents went out and demonstrated on behalf of their kids and they were met with guns and bullets. assad turned on his own people with the brutality delivered the largest humanitarian disaster of our times. literally employing the long forbidden weapon of mass destruction gas out lawed in world war i, employing it against his own people. in libya and yemen the absence of effective governance fueled strike and burundi disrespect for the constitution has spawned an outbreak of violence. in far too many countries just plain rank corruption has

generated such powerful head winds that local economies have to expend all their energy just to tread water. now obviously corruption is not a new problem. every nation has faced it at one time or another in its development. america's own founding fathers knew the threat of corruption all too well and warning of the dangers that it posed to democratic governance but today corruption has grown at an alarming pace and threatens global growth, global stability and indeed the global future and when prime minister abadi who i met with yesterday and we talked about the reform effort in iraq, when he took office in iraq over a year ago he found the government payroll weighted down with 50,000 soldiers who didn't even exist. that meant $380 million of

dishonest public officials that got that money instead of it going to build the inclusive and capable security forces that iraq desperately needed. when nigeria's president buhari took office last spring he had a military that was under paid, under fed and unable to protect the nigerian people from boko haram. and one reason is that much of the military budget was finding its way into the pockets of the generals and just this week we saw reports that more than 50 people in nigeria including former government officials stole $9 billion from the treasury. still in the united states my friends we continue to prosecute corruption and we live with a pay to play campaign finance system that should not be wished on any other country in the world.

now i used to be a prosecutor and i know how hard it is to hold people in positions of public responsibility accountable. but i also know how important it is. the fact is there is nothing, absolutely nothing demoralizing to any citizen of the belief the system is rigged against them and people in positions of power are, to use a diplomatic term of art, crooks who are stealing the future of their own people. and by the way depositing their ill-gotten gains in ostensibly legitimate financial institutions around the world. corruption is a social danger because it feeds organized crime. it destroys nation states. it imperils opportunities particularly for women and girls.

it facilitates environmental degradation and contributes to human trafficking and under mines whole communities, it destroys the future, corruption is a radicalizer and opens up a vacuum which allows the predators to move in and no one knows that better than the violent extremist groups who regularly use corruption as a recruitment tool. corruption is an opportunity destroyer because it discourages honest and accountable investment, it makes businesses more expensive to operate, it drives up the cost of public services for local taxpayers and it turns a nation's entire budget into a feeding trough for the privileged few and that is why it is imperative that the business community of the world starts to demand a different standard of behavior that we

deep enthe fight against corruption making it a first order national security priority. it's why we are now providing technical assistance to more than 25 countries to build online business registration sites which helps to reduce red tape and opportunities for graft for the bribery necessary to get the permit, to get the local zoning, to get the land, to get the go ahead, it's why we are expanding our law enforcement programs that send judges overseas to share our best practices and it's why the u.s. department of justice has successfully returned $143 million since 2004 and is litigating now more than a billion dollars worth of stolen assets. it's why we are working with businesses to spur reform and civil society groups whose investigative work on the ground is vital to strong law

enforcement injustice and it's why we have this on cleptocryps with economic sanctions and visa restrictions to deny bad actors the profits from graft. all told corruption costs the global economy, global gdp more than a trillion dollars a year and costs the global economy on an international basis about $2.6 trillion. imagine the difference that would make to all those kids under the age of 30, 60% in some countries yearning jobs and opportunities for electricity and education. this corruption complicates i assure you every single security, diplomatic and social priority of the government of the united states and other governments who are trying to

help countries in the world and this in and of itself creates tension, instability and a perfect playing field for predators. it is simply stunning to me, i head up the interagency of the task force of the all aspects of the united states to deal with human trafficking and it's simply stunning in the year 2016 more than 20 million some estimate 27 million people are the victims of modern day slavery in what has become a $150 billion elicited human trafficking industry. "new york times" recently had a compelling story on its front page of a young cambodian boy seduced to leaving his country going to thailand and thinking he would be part of a construction company and won'ted up at sea for two years was a shackle around his neck as a

slave for illegal fishing. those numbers should shock the conscious of every person around into action because although money is legitimately and always will be used for many things, it shouldn't be hard for us to agree that in the 21st century we should never, ever, ever allow a price tag to be attached to the freedom of another human bei being. the bottom line. >> we are going to leave john kerry there as he continues with his address at the world economic forum in davos so just a couple of the top lines in what he has been soing so far and speaking about a half an hour and he is basically trotted through what i guess you could describe as the achievements of the obama administration on the foreign policy circuit. he talked about the obviously the iranian deal, that was a highlight and he did emphasize that the war has been averted

and this is what he said, he said iran was on the cusp of confrontation before this deal was finally struck. the other foreign policy initiative that he was particularly making and made emphasis of was climate change and of course the paris deal that was arrived at in paris in early december. he talked about cuba and the reestablishment of relations there and talked about the u.s. and the global partnership dealing with ebola and of course he talked about the refugee crisis and perhaps the top line on that is the fact that they are going to be hosting some sort of summit in which they are going to be asking for 30% increase in funding for global humanitarian need so the top line so far is coming from john kerry, we are going to be keeping our ear across what he has to say but the meantime we go to take you through the rest of the world news starting with

somalia because at least 22 people have been killed in an attack on a restaurant in the capitol mogadishu. al-shabab stormed the lido beach area there on thursday night and police say a gun battle with government troops then followed and it lasted for several hours, and mary ann reports. >> reporter: daylight in mogadishu reveals the full horror of the attack as the grim task of identifying the dead begins. al-shabab fighters say they are responsible for this carnage at a popular beach front restaurant. >> it was 7:00 at night and heard gunshots one after another and so much confusion we didn't really know what was going on, last night was bad, like a nightmare. >> reporter: awaiting ceremony and graduation dinner were underway when armed fighters rammed a car packed with explosives into the restaurant. they then stormed the building, shooting at customers.

>> translator: many people who came to have dinner and relax have been killed, among the bodies i have seen mothers, fathers, children and young people, all were civilians. >> reporter: a well-planned attack from an organization which authorities in somalia and kenya were thought to be struggling and on the defensive. >> unfortunately security services even in the west seem to really understate the threat of groups such as al-shabab and they have been very good at planning operations even outside somalia. >> reporter: last friday fighters from the group attached an african union base in southwest somalia and al-shabab said 100 kenya soldiers killed and the kenya government has not confirmed that figure, april last year al-shabab fighters killed 147 people on an attack of a college in kenya and in september 2013 fighters from the group stormed the west gate

shopping mall in nairobi killing 67 people. somalia has been devastated by decades of civil unrest. four years ago somalia government pushed al-shabab out of major cities including mogadishu with the help of african union soldiers but attacks like this showed that somalia government and supporters have much more work to do, al jazeera. we have been speaking to a horn of africa analyst and says this attack shows how strong al-shabab still is. >> despite being a weak opposition probably in years al-shabab is capable of exacting that kind of damage and have demonstrated these probably over the last couple of years and they have uganda forces and done this to burundi although not this scale of kenya and people of mogadishu this is a continuation of what they have been doing for the last few

years. over the last few years is intervention of kenya and reached with the forces al-shabab has, you know, reluctantly let go of some of the territories and keeping territories exacting taxes for people and law an order and now they are capable of doing what they are doing now. in the past if they were largely a gorilla movement now they are a rule of insurgency and with that don't need a lot of capacity in order to cause this kind of damage because they have now converted all their efforts and resources and power in doing what they are doing right now. they took some uganda and took some arms from the latest kenya attack as well as the burundi, that is now sufficient to take them through. south sudan have until the end of the day today to form a government and they signed a

peace deal in august but they have been clutching about how to share power ever since and work attendees and the south sudan spokesman and says the government is commits to the peace process and logistical delays are standing in the way of progress. >> the agreement requires that they continue with security agreement is to be in place and the least of the names of those will be appointed in portfolios and i mean the names of the stakeholders have to be submitted before the 22nd, if they were submitted then the government would have been informed so that the agreement is incorporated into the constitution of south sudan. >> we recognize the challenge the sudan people are under going but looking for a way out, the way forward and the way forward is that now the 28 states are now in place, all the governors

have returned to their estate. what we are looking forward now is the formation of a particular government of national unity so that we start to work and is realistic for the people of south sudan so we are just waiting for the stakeholders to do what the government is doing, the government is committed to you know implement peace agreement fully and stakeholders to i'm kate the government position. the world economic forum is taking place in davos, switzerland and world leaders are there and british prime minister david cameron and santamaria is there and talking to major players and caught up with david cameron and he asked him about efforts to find a solution to the syrian crisis and mr. cameron told him that the syrian government and what he called the legitimate opposition must come to the

negotiating table. >> he said we will take 20,000 refugees from the syrian refugee camps in jordan, lebanon and turkey so we don't want to provide extra pool factor but take the most vulnerable from the camps and we said we would resettle a thousand by christmas and we did that. i think look the pressure on europe here is very great and just the movement of people into europe and the support that they require and it's better if you can meet people's needs in the region because as i said the first choice is actually i think to return home to syria as soon as they can. >> on the peace talks side of things we have well the talks are supposed to start on monday in geneva. i was speaking to staffan de mistura the u.n. special envoy and he said he still had not sent invites out, do you have any optimism whatsoever for these talks? >> it is i think one has to be positive and stay optimistic and john kerry all credit to him the

u.s. secretary of state has been an absolute dyanamo to make the talks work and we need representatives of the regime in syria even though many of us have you know huge miss givings about what that regime has done we need to get them around the table with the legitimate opposition leaders, the moderate opposition. and that is the aim. i think it could still take place but it's going to mean give and take on both sides. >> and not just the syrian players, the international players with a stake in it as well and referring to russia here for you and does what happened with the report and to the death of alexander litvinenko deal with syria? >> no doubt when it comes to syria we need the players if it's saudi arabia or iran or russia, everyone needs to be involved and obviously we have real difficulties with our

relationship with russia because of what has happened and it's right that we take the action we announced yesterday but when it comes to syria difficult as it is we have to discuss this issue with them because the crisis in syria will only be solved when all of the players recognize that it's in their interest to have a settlement. nowadays after libya's two factions agreed to form a unity government a rift has now developed in a camp, the spokesman for libya army no longer accepts the top commander and brigadier general who is seen here has accused hafta of embezzlement and accumulating too much power and he called the army chief of another version of the former leader moammar gadhafi. >> translator: by god we had it with the constant violations and assassinations and abuse, burning residences, demolishing them and forcing civilians to flee to tripoli and elsewhere

and cannot be associated with hafta and disassiciate with him and illegal actions. >> find out more about the new unity government and indeed this defection in libya on the website as well as the rest of the day's news. a need for speed turns america's stock market upside down. and meet the computers that can make hundreds of million in milliseconds for investors in the stock brutal. the s&p dropped steadily since