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around the world. now kurdish leaders in iraq go ahead with. next week despite a ruling by iraq's supreme court suspending the referendum campaigning has been the way for the. kurdish region on september twenty fifth the referendum has been

fiercely opposed by iraq turkey and iran. joins us live from the capital of the kurdish autonomous region in northern iraq. officials backing down on this one then. i think that's been there all along this announcement by the federal supreme court may have come as a surprise but at the same time i think it was not much of a surprise considering the considerable opposition to this referendum that's coming out of the central government in baghdad and indeed the parliament just. voting against this referendum and asking prime minister do. this referendum and indeed from what we understand of the ruling of the supreme court bench an order rather came after the prime minister. yesterday demanding for that to happen in reality it

is not a definite ruling it is just. while the federal. case from beginning to end i don't think that the result of that will be any change actually when you hear people don't expect that to change any time soon. any indication that. they plan to do. a lot of. prime minister. need for military intervention then he will use that option even though he didn't specify which trigger for military intervention i think. a lot of a lot of pressure. on the kurdish

authorities to try to stop that referendum even though we hear at the moment that it's going ahead and actually after the ruling of the. morning well the prime minister of the kurdish region. that they were. at the moment. victoria is a senior research fellow at the university of. good to have you with us. this is just political maneuvering by kurdish officials of the think they really plan to go ahead with this referendum. good afternoon well i think that they really planned to go ahead with it of course i cannot speak for the kurdish government or or their roots but i would say that there's been an overwhelming support in kurdistan for this referendum and eat food not be understood by anyone if it was to be called off

at the last minute if it does go ahead it's expected that independence would be endorsed where would that leave iraq or would that leave the region. well president barzani has made it very clear that if the yes vote succeeds they would not be an independence. called for right away but rather the kurdish government would enter in a dialogue regarding self governance with baghdad so we're not talking about independence yet even if there is a yes to the referendum but i think that the next steps would be for the kurdish government and the baghdad government to hold a dialogue among equals to resolve their issues that have been extensively. pronounced and extensive since two thousand and fourteen and the budget director rice is talking about baghdad what options does baghdad have for it if it wants when force it's world and council this referendum is there any real practical way for it to do that. no i don't think there is

a tall i think that as your reporter has says there can be many threats coming from baghdad but at the end of the day there is an understanding that nobody can actually hold all of this referendum even though several other governments have actually said that they're not in favor of it and that they oppose it at the end of the day it will probably go ahead how opposed you think the world really is to this k r g independence vote i mean a lot of international companies have been doing business there for many years with the backing of their governments. absolutely and i think that one shouldn't forget that the kurdish government and the kurdish peshmerga have in the foot soldiers of the fight against the islamic state in iraq and i think that from that understanding there is let's say. there reason understanding

that if the if the referendum is going can go ahead and it's going to succeed then it's not going to be such a big deal of course the united states and even turkey have had to force their opposition formally officially but there has been extensive let's say support. from state department officials i would say sometimes undercover support for this referendum and i would say that you know even if many states say that they drive the deal with sovereign governments at the end of the day de facto the kurdish regional government has been seen. since the fall of saddam hussein interesting good to get your thoughts on that for so much. now u.s. president trample make his debut at the annual u.n.

general assembly on tuesday but ahead of that he's addressing a meeting on u.n. reform the organization has long been a sore point for him he's called it an elitist club that gets very little done perhaps trump's biggest complaint is how much the u.s. spends on the un the us is the single biggest donor providing twenty two percent of its five point four billion dollar corps budget trump says that so unfair the u.s. president is also on happy with how much washington contributes to a separate peacekeeping budget it provides twenty eight percent of the nearly eight billion dollars budget has also urged major reform of the organization to reduce what he calls inefficiency and bloating trump says if changes are made the u.s. is investment would be worthwhile diplomatic editor james bays joins us live from the united nations before we get into some of the nitty gritty there is a bit of

a history isn't there between trump even before becoming president before campaigning for the presidency and the u.n. take us through the back story to this james. yeah you got to remember that donald trump before he was president was the new york property developer who like to know what was going on in this city and of course one of the most important people in this city as far of organizations is the united nations and they have had relations in the past there was a little bit of a problem in fact with the united nations going back some years when kofi annan was the secretary general when trump planned to build a tower here on first avenue you just overlooking the united nations and breaching a sort of code that everyone had stuck to before that not having anything taller than the u.n. secretary at tower will trumps building was taller and that upset the u.n. them on the u.n. wanted to modernize their building trump said that he could do that modernization

of the united nations much cheaper than the u.n. had projected the budget for it even sent his architect here to the u.n. and they opened up their books finally the architect looked at those books and decided actually the u.n. figures were correct and then we heard a little more about how donald trump could do it cheaper he didn't ever make a bid to modernize the u.n. but a lot of history between the president and the united nations of course the president's visit here every year is the highlight of the u.n. general assembly or one of the highlights of the u.n. general assembly donald trump the thirteenth president to come to the united nations. in a development of this every year when world leaders gather in new york in september they listen carefully to the words of the most powerful person on earth but for the first time since the u.n. was created at the end of the second world war the u.s.

president who addressed them from this podium is someone who at times has appeared to question the multilateral order the united nations represents. diplomats are wary of what president trump will say in his nine months in office he's already attended nato g. seven and g. twenty summits on the global stage he's appeared at times uncertain his actions unpredictable donald trump does not perform well a big international summits when he attended a nato summit he actually managed to physically push another leader out of the way and his advisors must hope that he will be back here because this is his last chance to really convince other world leaders that he is someone they can do business with and that is not just nativist who wants the u.n. over to china as usual global leaders face a whole host of challenges among them an ongoing humanitarian emergency with the

exodus of the row hinge are in myanmar then there's the wars in syria in iraq yemen and libya as well as the future of the iran nuclear deal but this year at the top of the agenda another nuclear state north korea it is a particularly pressing issue because of the provocative timing of the latest missile test which took place just days ago the number of launches the number of tests is much greater even in this year than it's been over the last decades so this is a very immediate very immediate question and yes i think it will be the top question here in this week at the u.n. this is not just the first general assembly week for the new u.s. president and tony terrorists became u.n. secretary general at the start of the year he plans a program of modernization and streamlining president trump is also planning to hold a meeting on u.n. reform but some diplomats fear that may simply be an attempt to further slash the

organizations budget. well diplomats remain somewhat worried what the president is going to say we're watching dignitaries arriving here at the united nations coming in for this meeting which will be the first time that president trump is in the united nations as the u.s. president this meeting on u.n. reform they're wary because they know what the president said at the very beginning of his administration about u.n. reform he suggested i think to many even america first president might slash the un's budget as the leaders gather here to listen to him and we've just seen the british foreign secretary boris johnson among those arriving here i think they'll be hoping that some of the work that's been done behind the scenes within the administration and outside the administration will mean that those talk of reform that talk of reform now is aligned with what the u.n. itself is talking about doing under its new secretary general antonio good terus

he's been working very hard diplomatically as has the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley trying to align the un's vision with the trump vision and i don't think they're now talking about the very very deep cuts to the u.n. budget they were at the beginning of the year but with president trump you've got to wait for his words and we'll be hearing those in about half an hour or so and we'll come back to it and we do thanks so much james plays there now protesters in the bangladeshi capital of come out in support of the rangar refugees. thousands of activists stays the demonstration demanding rights for the minority group more than four hundred thousand rangar have fled the recent violence and in mars western rakhine state aid workers say the ring of crisis in the bangladesh mean maher border is now one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world. from

sharp in southeast bangladesh. a month after renewed violence began in myanmar's rakhine state of rohingya are making the journey to the border with bangladesh every day they're escaping ethnic cleansing by the myanmar military. i think. we were six people in our family now there's just three of us left they killed my father one of the girls and my husband. this man is a volunteer with the regional cycling center. he's one of. the i guess. this is a disaster it's a manmade disaster what's happening in myanmar is inhumane and we are proud that bangladeshis are showing their humanity but the volunteers are being overwhelmed every time a food truck arrives. russian these are some of the clothes that refugees. after being given new ones by relief workers but residents here have been getting

upset about this they say that the situation is out of control. aid workers say they are struggling to scale up operations quickly enough they want more help to take care of health issues provide shelter and other basic needs i think international donors now have to step up to the plate and that is not just the traditional donors of the united states europe japan but also nontraditional donors in particular countries in the middle east and countries in the region in southeast asia particularly those on the ground say this is now a global crisis and needs a sustained global response until that happens these refugees will have to make do with what little comes here with a minor star al-jazeera bangladesh around forty thousand living in india but now the government is saying they pose a security threat the home ministry has filed the case in the supreme court to get clearance for their deportation the court is now hearing an appeal against the

government proposed plan. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. nigerian school teaching children made oftens by boko haram wins a top un award and in sports houston's baseball team gives the city a reason to cheer job in here so why. now human rights groups say thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the four years civil war itself so that they blame president silva cares government troops as well as opposition forces loyal to former vice president react much are many civilians have fled seeking safety in neighboring uganda. now reports. florence walked through the bush with two days in south sudan

the sandals to get to the fifty this refugee camp in uganda she told us that was after five government soldiers gang raped her along with four other women would change her name and hidden her face. my husband was following a short distance behind us when he came and found these men and me he told them to stop. immediately and killed him with the night. we heard many similar stories from the people in the camps men tortured or killed and women gang raped by government soldiers who told them all ethnic groups others and there's should leave south sudan people in this tense is all arrived within the last couple of days there waiting to be registered the u.n. says more than a million of arrived here in uganda since the conflict began health workers here say they think there are very many among them who survived sexual violence but i think just a fraction of them are coming forward. in recent weeks opposition troops of

fort government forces near the border with uganda but ever since the conflict began in twenty thirteen rights groups say sexual violence has been a widely used weapon by both sides and this international says thousands of women girls and some men are victims the u.n. report last year said seventy percent of women in the camps around the capital juba have been raped the spokesman for the government forces told the soldiers who rape a punished any question what we've been told in the camps although in some essential burslem to know for sure that they are not made up without someone coming forward all part of these are claims that are being made in the revenue comes out to get caught means that they are not being told to say we are things about this family opposition forces have been accused of sexual violence to the majority of allegations have been of sexual violence by government soldiers. ken's got the war crimes prosecutor who's worked on tribunals for many conflicts he investigated

south sudan's conflict for the u.n. he says the sexual violence is the worst he's ever known it's such a high level of incidents widespread. being going on for substantial period of time not as isolated incidents. you know one can only. crimes involving sexual violence are taking place. in the camp mary not her real name says she wants justice but doesn't expect it she says she was raped by three soldiers they found her playing with her husband killed him and threw her baby in a bush. may tied up blindfold on my face they took all my possessions and stripped me three of them were all on me after i grabbed my baby and. i was naked now i have not. malcolm where. west nile uganda and nigeria campaigner for children's

education of provides a sanctuary tour for those of war is being honored by the united nations. also broke in the dail to return many of the two hundred girls abducted by boko haram catherine sort of ports from. nigeria. children in my do greenland apc's and one two three. but this is not an ordinary class many of the pupils have seen what no child should some have watched their parents killed most often who fled boko haram attacks or the nigerian army pursuing the group in the north east this center has more than five hundred children including those whose parents were members of also just. yes. by telling them.

to do what you. zanna mostafa founded the future islamic nation ten years ago his mission is to do what is fighting against provide education and how poor we do for that he's won a un humanitarian award. things. like . this. being made that. over the years boko haram fighters have burned schools killed and kidnapped students that more than two hundred girls from

a boarding school in chibok three years ago shocked many most of all was involved in negotiating the release of some of the girls many children are no longer safe in their home villages some are big markets comes for displaced people and other. people leave. several times including children. people in this camp. and what they are may can destroy is very sad we just want peace. stouffer has given children a safe haven but says that as long as many others out there are unprotected and threatened his job is far from catherine al-jazeera my degree northeastern nigeria . now mr joins us live from good to have you with us first of all

what prompted you to become such an an activist if i may say so a campaigner for education for children in such a difficult area. well it started in two thousand and seven when the insurgency had not even started it was of that. operation that the insurgency started. we didn't stop there we. went ahead and. rolled two hundred. two and not minding the tendency. with. we what matters most for us is where they are. and that. was. liberation that. we made to sort of all

inclusive schools. talking about if i could jump in there about we do staying open how we're how was your school and able to stay open when other institutions were not kept you going to get that is what i'm saying we are all inclusive and we allow them to on the process. without. or the children growing up two of them to. choose what they want to help with their own tutor we didn't think that we are the one doing the whole two we allow them to choose what they want and how they wanted done so that is what we liberate to get them and we include all sides of the divide the societies imbedded in their schools even our own political students are part of the school and we do install that

children so those would be. part of the school and we'd be allowed even those of the school year i don't see to be part of the institution and so that was how we liberated to get all sides of the divide in one whole do you think your success in the success of your mediation effort to release the chibok girls shows this conflict can be mediated successfully. well the that it is not the media. this is a process that has taken years in colombia. and you know the but to do all but ours is just four years process and if we were able to get these numbers in the mediation house feel good but do you think we have to give it to the decrees and try to the level of the united nations to tell them that i want to

negotiate with. terrorists however we are going to have to end it there we have some other news unraveling here let's thank him and let's take you now to live to the united nations in new york where the u.s. president donald trump is arriving to address a forum on u.n. reform i believe we have standing by live our diplomatic editor james bays so james what specific proposals should we expect from donald trump when it comes to reform . well i think we need to know the detail and the exact words of the u.s. president as you can see there just got out of his limousine greeting his ambassador nikki haley now behind the scenes the u.n. and nikki haley have been working quite closely together to try and coordinate this i wouldn't say that the u.n. secretary is entirely happy with some of the things that the u.s.

are proposing because the u.s. want to cut the budget and of course the u.n. want as much money as possible to continue their work but i think there's certain you know much better place than they were the beginning of the year he's been shouting the question let's just listen. hard to hear what he's going to say i do know that one of our producers in art is down there shouting questions you told me she was going to ask him are you going to shake up the u.n. well here he said he said something. you know that answer in a moment of what he'll do now sammy is go from here the ambassadors entrance i think probably up the escalators no i think he's going to go down down on the ground floor and then be taken up in an elevator to the floor where he's going to be speaking at this u.n. a reform of the echo sock chamber that's one of the main chambers of the u.n. just along the corridor from the security council chamber where he'll be talking

about this u.s. u.n. reform as i said. originally when we looked at the very early days of the administration and you look to that inauguration speech in america first i can tell you diplomats i spoke to here at the united nations in new york were dismayed did this mean an end to the whole multilateral order that the u.n. has represented for the last seventy two years but i think nikki haley has been working on a slightly more conventional approach and working very closely with the new secretary general antonio good terrorists but then i do have to add the rider that this is president trump and he can always say something unexpected we also need to look. at how he performs here in terms of his body language as well as his words because there have been some rather embarrassing moments at previous meetings remember he's already attended a nato summit a g. seven and the g. twenty earlier in the year. that is something we all do know at this point let's thank james bays who's been watching live pictures coming in from the united

nations where the u.s. president has arrived to the diverse and addressed on a forum on the u.n. reform. let's get some different type of weather and talk about the climate not the political one steph here to tell us all about that then i am looking at the caribbean at the moment sammy because we've got yet another storm this storm is following quite a similar track to earn or not quite exactly the same place this one's about two hundred kilometers to the south of where we saw. it's certainly gaining strength pretty quickly at the moment so it's not moving particularly fast moving around one thousand kilometers per hour and it is gradually just becoming a little bit slower and we're expecting that trend to continue over the next day or so so the storm gradually becomes slower and slower what is and becomes it coming slower though of the winds already the storm has strengthened during the day today it's now hundred seventy five kilometers per hour those are the sustained winds within the storm and that makes it

a category two storm on the five point system now we're expecting that storm to strengthen even further as it runs its way towards the northwest there's nothing here that's really going to slow this storm down it looks like we've still got very moist air we've still got very warm sea temperatures and it's still we've got good winds in the upper atmosphere they're not too strong so nothing to disrupt the storm so it will continue to strengthen and then it looks like it's going to make a hit on puerto rico and by the time it does we're expecting the sustained winds to be two hundred twenty kilometers per hour that would make it a category four and it would also be bringing torrentially heavy rains. still ahead on al-jazeera dallman stay top in german football but their opponents are calling for a replay we'll tell you why in the sport. facing the reality the airspace that they have does not belong to them it belongs to the

international community getting to the heart of the matter they can understand how the chinese leadership who got you as an enemy of the state hear their story on and talk to how does. this time. the. russian filmmaker. explores how russia impacts the very values of the nation the russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can traditional and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian rule why does a weighted by the police. the sexuality the significance of it. is that he's like a fake you who controls the cobra in such a putin's russia at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now. kurdish leaders in iraq say they'll go ahead with independence referendum next week despite a ruling by iraq's suspending the vote campaigning has been well on the way for the vote in the semi autonomous kurdish region for september the twenty fifth. the commander in chief of me and mars armed forces is blaming the rigging of violence that sparked the refugee crisis. says his forces are only targeting armed groups but the u.n. says the military is ethnically cleansing muslim civilians. u.s.

president trump is due to address a meeting on u.n. reform ahead of his debut at the general assembly on tuesday he arrived at the united nations forum a short while ago trump has long been highly critical of the u.n. calling it bloated and inefficient. stuart patrick is director of international institutions and global governance at the council on foreign relations and author of the sovereignty war three consigning america with the world joins us now from washington d.c. good to have you with us so first of all to what extent do you think trump's policy or stance towards the u.s. has evolved some point to words of praise which he had to say for the u.n. passing resolutions on north korea as a sign that perhaps his stance is changed you see it that way. i see him opening the door for a potentially productive relationship with the united nations you know when he was elected everyone in new york and most in washington were expecting armageddon in

terms of their relationships but more recently he has indicated that he's willing to work with the united nations as long as the united nations delivers and that's a message that nikki haley has been promoting and i think this morning's event which is a very surprising one the spectacle of donald trump an america first president presiding over a meeting of more than one hundred twenty world leaders on the u.n. reform is something one really wouldn't have predicted several months ago do you think that we're looking at donald trump who in his heart believes in multilateralism and the importance of multilateral global institutions. i don't i think that the president retains many of the instincts of his populous nationalist base that that too often the united nations is a. cesspool of cronyism and corruption and anti americanism that's an

exaggerated view in my in my opinion but there's no question that that's what brought him to the white house and what he also is savvy enough to realize that there may be a potential here to align the united states with the reform agenda of the secretary general himself and in that u.s. ambassador to united nations nikki haley has been masterful because she recognizes that this is a way for the united states to make its points clear and appease donald trump's nationalist base while at the same time holding out at least some prospect of american leadership in the world which is of a phrase that the president himself has rarely used well let's break that down there was specific sort of proposals do you expect to hear you should we hear from donald trump when it comes to u.n. reform if he's speaking live right now at a formal bot. exactly there are several several priorities that the united

states has and many of them will be very very difficult to achieve because of the way that the charter allows many other countries to to determine u.n. reform but one of the big ones is have. to basically give the u.n. secretary general much more power to manage the bureaucracy and also these many different overlapping authorities of different u.n. agencies and programs if you look at the way the but the organizational chart of the united nations even the official one it looks virtually in comprehensible so that's one another thing that the administration is really high on is trying to instill some sort of membership criteria in the human rights council to make sure that abusers of human rights no longer able to sit on that council both of those are going to be very very uphill struggles in addition there is the effort to try

to slash some of the expenses of the united nations that is not going to go over particularly well because some of the things i think that the united nations and united states would like to see cut are things that many other member states value particularly in the development fields. good to get you now this is all not thanks so much. thanks sam well over the weekend a group of refugees rented out donald trump's boyhood home in queens new york to draw attention to the issue of immigration the international charity all those families behind the scheme. brought for refugees into the home to share their stories with journalists and head of the united nations general assembly the trump administration backs a travel ban which prevents people from six mostly muslim countries from traveling to the u.s. . north korea says further sanctions against the country will only speed up its nuclear missile programs a statement in the state media follows the latest missile test by pyongyang on

friday the foreign ministry has called the pursuit of restrictions by the u.s. a hostile act china's foreign ministry has called on all sides not to complicate the crisis soon to be sure the most pressing task for all parties in the international community is to strictly fully and accurately enforce the latest u.n. resolutions and not deliberately complicate the issue in fact everyone can see that when it comes to development of the nuclear issues on the korean peninsula when various parities send threats through words or actions including military treta these have not promoted a resolution rather they have aggravated the tensions and are not beneficial to a final resolution on the peninsula nuclear issue. the u.s. bombers and fighter jets are flying over the korean peninsula as part of joint military drills with south korea north korea says the war games are provoke a to b. one bombers flew from the u.s. island territory in the pacific ocean that pyongyang threatened to attack russia

and china are also holding joint military exercises in the region of four vessel china chinese naval fleet arrived monday in the eastern russian port city of the last dog. with a potential nuclear conflict on the korean peninsula again being discussed by the world's media the tourism industry in south korea is feeling threatened a number of visitors from china has already fallen by seventy percent but not everyone is put off by talk of missile launches and military drills as andrew thomas reports. with tensions on the korean peninsula building south korea on monday hosted a conference of military leaders from across asia pacific giving the keynote address was a former south korean minister who's also head to the united nations i'd like to remind north korea that no single nation has or survived is a fate against you now you are sitting united international community in the course

of war in the history. in the south rising tensions are having an economic impact at an hour from seoul it's easy to see into the demilitarized zone the d.m.z. and beyond that the mountains of north korea the lookout has long been a tourist site people can even take a train from here just inside the d.m.z. and despite the tensions some visitors are still coming for me my tickets were booked when advanced so i had to make it and we kept checking the news just to make sure that everything's kind of ok my sister was very white and this is actually getting married next week and she was very worried that something was going to happen to me and i would be able to make it back say it was a bit she was quite she didn't want me to come and us has such a large military presence here and so many civilians that are in the foreign of having to like take care of us citizens and let us know if something is about to go down but visitor numbers to south korea overrule the down forty percent fewer came

in july compared with the same month a year ago on sunday most wrong eats at the funfair which strangely is part of the engine light when they are empty the latest heightened tension is only weak so when really it's too well yet to judge the impact of markets on tourism here so far the missing tourists are exploring more like politics and. chinese tourists are the ones almost entirely absent in march china angered by south korea's deployment of the fat anti missile system banned its citizens from taking package tours to south korea but. last year about half of the seventeen million tourists to south korea were from china but this year chinese tourists are down by seventy percent that spink felt here it's hurting my business sales are roughly a third down in the longer this concern about next year's winter olympics in pyongyang ticket sales so far poor the international olympic committee said last

week there is no plan b. . the to move the games if tensions escalate but they can't make the spectators come south korea's defense ministry on monday said it believed the north was ready for a new nuclear test if it comes that will only heighten the tension and dissuade more tourists from visiting south korea andrew thomas al jazeera pardieu near south korea's border with the north. now the man credited with saving the world from nuclear disaster has died. of was the officer in charge of the soviet union's early warning system when it sounded the alarm in nine hundred eighty three his orders were to immediately retaliate to a u.s. missile attack with nuclear weapons luckily held back correctly blaming a computer error for the false alarm news of his death four months ago at the age of seventy seventh has only just emerged the wife of pakistan's former prime

minister no i was surely first clinched his parliamentary seat because surely if won the by election in lahore the seat became vacant when the supreme court removed the house win from office because of corruption allegations. that has more from the whole. hauler always go home to their shiny family and political for trade however the rain. had not come with a large margin why should you avoid labor to do it when he ford. and became the prime minister of the country there are problems for the family because he is very thing and. again came being investigated by the national accountability bureau. qualified by that supreme court for life.

difficult time get on the political situation it forward i. had scored a week three ended by election. will become the prime minister in the general election. roman catholic priest his baby's first public appearance after being held hostage for four months by find his link to i still in the southern philippines father to see to so that i was rescued him. today when the army stormed the fighters control center inside a mosque the priest was taken hostage during the first day of fighting there in may the army estimates there are still about eighty finances in the city holding forty people hostage. al jazeera says snap chats decision to block its content in saudi arabia is a direct attack on freedom of expression the social media platform says it was asked by saudi authorities to remove the cost of funded channel because it violated

local laws saudi arabia has about eight million snap chat users one of the largest in the world. also says the blocking sends a message that regimes in countries can silence any wisely don't agree with exerting pressure on social media platforms carter has been embroiled in a diplomatic dispute with saudi arabia and three other arab states since early june and they cut ties with. a u.k. based human rights organization is calling on egypt to provide necessary treatment for detained al jazeera journalist for hussein he's been imprisoned for almost nine months accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos something here al jazeera strongly deny you need to be transferred for specialized treatment on his broken arm. thank you. by the end of this week angle of urkel could become german chancellor for

a fourth term many countries uncertain about the direction of the u.s. under president trump are increasingly looking to germany to provide stable global leadership the germans remain wary of backing up their economic and political power with military spending lawrence the reports. deep in the forest west of berlin nato is wargaming again one of its members has been attacked there are casualties and all the other states have joined in to help tend to the wounded the exercise is called vigorous warrior which hardly invokes the sort of fire and fury rhetoric of donald trump we are a host nation we are the nation for this exercise and of course we want to do it perfect we want to be a very good thoughts and i think we achieved a store but we are not alone there are twenty five other nations and they all brought us goods was in this exercise the generals watching come from twenty five nato allies and other invited states they know where germany's red lines have

always been on the battlefield this is where germany feels most comfortable helping out medical excellence logistical support that's all fine but when it comes to things like attacking other countries invading other countries killing people there is no appetite for that at all. this is heidelberg a perfect example of liberal educated germany where merkel support is guaranteed by the wealthy middle aged and middle class no doubt many take pride in the global admiration for the chancellor but asked them should germany back it up now with a more aggressive military position. us i think germany and the rest of the world should be disarming i believe germany's doing enough for nato we shouldn't be spending any more. yeah but. it's a no brainer why germans don't like to be seen invading other countries the nazi scar has never healed when they pushed it like wrongly calling in an american air

strike in afghanistan nearly ten years ago which mistakenly killed dozens of civilians there was a national shockwave and the defense minister resigns the sorts of political guilt trip that doesn't happen in the us or u.k. nor is the most powerful country in europe impressed with how its neighbors have prosecuted wars in places like libya if we go in with military force it needs to be backed up and flamed by civilian measures as well so there is diplomatic there is civilian crisis management and there is also the idea of what happens afterwards how do we rebuild a country which has not been necessarily the prime objective by recent interventions by other european countries u.s. president trump demands germany spend far more on defense merkel's opponents on the left say that would make her an american stooge in a fragile world germany is looking for other solutions than war or italy al-jazeera

in germany. thank you back to a story of been following here the arrival of the u.s. president donald trump at the united nations where you'll be speaking pressing i should say a forum on u.n. reform our diplomatic editor james bays joins us now live from there so james this is going to give us something of an indication about where dollars from now sees the u.s. first policy fits in with the rest of the world. well we certainly didn't get much of an indication from the president himself he was asked the question are you going to shake up the u.n. and he simply replied it's going to be a great week he was asked to about north korea and he said to reporters that they probably already know what he thinks but they should watch events this week we are expecting this event on u.n. reform to start very soon it's taking place in one of the main chambers of the united nations the economic and social council chamber of the u.n.

the echo sock chamber let me explain to you what you're likely to see the meeting will when it starts gets under way be addressed by the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley she will then introduce president trump and he will then be followed by the secretary general of the united nations and tonio good terrorists now as you know president trump has railed against the u.n. in the past we know that his team want to see big budget cuts at the u.n. but it's those two individuals one inside the trump administration the other the head of the u.n. who i think are been trying to get the two aligned so that you can have what the president wants and what the secretary general wants because he'd like to reform the u.n. he's only just taken the job he sees that this is an organization of seventy two years old it's a been bolted on over the years it's not very streamlined it's not really fit for

purpose for now as as it's inherited so much over the years president trump would like to see cuts while the secretary general believes that he can tolerate some cuts if he's allowed the freedom to reorganize the organization it's worth also telling you that many other members of the u.n. talk about reform and they'd like to see something that is even more bold the more you're going to hear president trump talk about because the reforms he talking about a mainly to do with the budget and management of the u.n. . there are many many countries that would like to see the whole u.n. charter reformed in particular with regard to the security council which under the whole system set up at the end the world war two is the final court on peace and security but as you know those victors of world war two gave themselves permanent seats those five permanent members and they are still the five permanent members that have the veto other countries say seventy years on that really isn't a fair and modern system unless of course so today comes the head of the u.n.

general assembly speeches how much of an opportunity or more of an opportunity will world leaders get to actually meet the u.s. president sizing mark evaluate where many stands on a host of global issues. well yes there will be a lot of meetings taking place with president trump a whole series of bilateral meetings which i think is good for a new u.s. president to get to meet leaders from around the world he'll actually be here in new york iraq on sunday night right the way until thursday which i think will will will dismay many new yorkers because of course it causes absolute travel chaos when the president is in the city oddly for this for a situation like this the president the u.s. normally stays in a fine hotel always used to be the walled off a story of that's now being renovated this president of course doesn't stand a hotel is stays in his own in his own building he's staying throughout this u.n.

general assembly in trump tower and so he'll be having meetings in new york while staying in trump tower i think because they notice that's a little awkward the white house there is actually a top hotel that's been set aside near trump tower where the president will actually have the meeting so they won't actually be calling on president trump in his own home as he tries to deal with so many of the world's issues we've mentioned the list before. i think it's pretty clear this year although it's been there in previous general assemblies that north korea has pushed itself very much to the top of the agenda here and i think some of the meetings president trump has with some of the asian leaders particularly south korea and japan will be pretty important during these days of the general assembly you mentioned there james that perhaps the u.s. president trying to line i think the word used was a line his sort of reform agenda with the agenda of the u.n.

secretary general but i mean any indication that that sort of alignment of the core issues is possible given that one is the leader of the united nations the other is a man who has a track record of shall we say not being very sympathetic to the whole concept of multilateral global action. yes absolutely and i think it will get more difficult as it go as they go along from here i think you'll hear ambassador caylee making the case and she's already said this in a briefing at the white house to reporters that the u.n. has already listened to president trump and is already changing but of course when you start doing cutbacks the early cut backs are the easy one there's the low hanging fruit you can look at things like peacekeeping which is a huge part of the of what the u.n. spends its money on and you can look at some of the missions that have been there for a long time and perhaps don't need to be there anymore you can look at simple carts then i think when you start cutting that flesh you get closer and closer to the

bone and i think the u.s. are certainly going to be demanding pretty big cuts because they are the biggest funder of the united nations about twenty five percent of the budget coming from the united states and remember it's not just the president there are many on capitol hill many republicans who do not like the united nations and would like to see big cuts to the united nations it will be interesting i think to see what specifics president trump mentions. in this speech certainly the secretary general is offering some things up one of the reforms for example his people are talking about is the u.n. budget and just the way the budgeting is done because the u.n. budget at the moment is bizarrely a two year thing it goes on across two years no other organization works like that and i'm sure the president is going to mention that final discussions there with an aide you see nikki haley on the podium with him in the echo soc council and the new secretary general antonio terrorists the fact we're seeing these live pictures now

of president trump just running through i think his remarks without official suggest to me that moments from now they will switch on the microphone and the president will for the first time he's been in the building before but for the first time as the president of united states will be addressing the united nations indeed james and will give us perhaps more of an idea of exactly what the current donald trump reform agenda looks like for the united nations but on that point you mentioned james earlier that of course many other countries have a different idea of reform there are developing countries who want to see as he said the whole security council structure and veto power system change how much support is there when you talk to diplomats for some of the ideas to get you know diplomats rallying around one or two points even if they really disagree on some fundamental others. i think they are somewhat cautious

somewhat wary about what the u.s. is planning to do here i don't think they're as alarmed as they were in the early days of the administration and that that inauguration speech that early part of the presidency really did cause concern here in the east part of midtown in manhattan at the united nations i think they are they've been reassured a little bit by the way that ambassador haley has managed to nuance this. but with president trump and some of those around president trump and some of those in the republican party this may just be the first stage of talk about u.n. reform and they may want to look at the budget further and slash the budget so i think that they would be they will carefully watch this going forward as you say some of them want reform but they don't really want to focus on the budget in the management and they want the whole system of the united nations to change this is

about the haven speak you know an event that shows it truly is a new day at the united nations i thank you very much for being here you should know that we had to get a bigger room to accommodate everyone here today and that's a good problem and that is one of the greatest signs of hope for the united nations that we've seen since i've been here the declaration of support for united nations reform began as a way to give momentum to secretary general good terrorise efforts to bring greater efficiency accountability and transparency to the u.n. we thought that having member states put their names on a document would help ensure that these goals don't remain just words but become a part of the culture of the u.n. the response that we've had has been nothing short of fantastic. one hundred and twenty eight nations have signed on to the declaration as of this morning and we're still counting that is a super majority i thank our co-host today our friends from canada germany

indonesia japan jordan nies year rwanda senegal slovakia thailand the united kingdom and your. most of all i thank all of you the fact that so many are committed to seeing the united nations succeed is gratifying it is a sign not only that change is desperately needed but that it will be achieved you are the reason change is coming to the u.n. it is now my honor to introduce someone who is no stranger to change donald trump has a business man's eye for seeing potential and he sees great potential not just in this reform movement but in the united nation.