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a low i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up iran says it's ready to respond decisively president trump scraps the nuclear deal which in two thousand and fifteen. searching for survivors rescue workers did through the rubble of a school after an earthquake kills more than two hundred people in mexico. was much. protests in barcelona after police in spain arrest a regional minister ahead of an independence referendum in catalonia. and police used tear gas outside kenya supreme court as it delivers its full judgment for a knowledge of last month's presidential election. iran's president has told the united nations that his country will not break the nuclear deal brokered in two thousand and fifteen between iran and the six major powers but has on ronnie added that iran would respond decisively and resolutely to

any riaa lation he also described u.s. president donald trump speech on tuesday as ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric. i declare before you that iran will not be the first country to violate the agreement but it will respond decisively and resolutely to a violation by any party it will be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics the world would have lost a great opportunity but such unfortunate behavior will never impede iran's course of progress and advancement by violating its international commitments the new u.s. administration only destroyed its own credibility and undermined international confidence in negotiating with it diplomatic editor james base at the united nations in new york joins us live now what was president rouhani trying to do in this speech. well he wanted to get soundbites like the one you've heard so he's got in there that iran has done nothing wrong and is complying with the

deal the reference there to the road newcomer of world politics to what he said was ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric from president trump he got all that in there but in a speech that actually most of it had a much more gentle tone the word he repeated many times was moderation and i think he's trying to appeal to world leaders that i'm not the one in the wrong here but one who's in the wrong is president trump he's the one who's thinking of pulling out of this nuclear deal and of course it creates rather difficult situation i think for some of the u.s. his closest allies yes they may have all sorts of concerns about iran but on the issue of the nuclear deal they actually find themselves more in agreement with president rouhani than with president trump asked about this again in the last couple of hours was the french president. what we have to do ease to keep twenty fifty nine grammont because it was a good one with

a strong monitoring of the current situation and we have to we have to add. two to three hours at the last one people are in order to better control ballastic the size and that is to get to bt which is not covered by twenty seen agreement seventy dollars a plus twenty twenty five because of the in a agreements done color situation past twenty twenty five and search have an open discussion was iran at bart's the current situation in the region but i think it would be a mistake just to add in an nuclear agreement without and i think it's. will there be further discussion on the iran deal in new york james. yes definitely and it's not going to happen over the scotians continue here in the general assembly the speech after speech by world leaders going on all week. actually it's going to happen in the other major chamber of the united nations the security council here

on thursday we're going to see a session of the security council that's going to address both north korea and iran they managed to get to together they're actually doing it under the heading of nonproliferation and surprise surprise this is a meeting that's being called by the united states and they're hoping that they'll be foreign ministers attending instead of ambassadors in the chair for this meeting the u.s. represented by secretary of state rex tillerson of this meeting so expect so actually state to listen again i think to lay out the case against north korea and iran very interesting to see what some of the other countries that are key to the iran deal some of the u.s. is close allies like france and the u.k. but also other countries that were part of those negotiations like russia and china what they're going to say at this meeting. thank you very much james bays at united nations and. on our palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he's certain the u.s.

is committed to reaching peace in the middle east after holding talks with the u.s. president donald trump and leaders met on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly in new york says the meeting shows trans dedication to achieving a two state solution between israel and palestine about a syrian president also called on the un to pursue efforts to bring an end to israeli occupation within a set time frame. despite all international efforts israel continues to breach its commitments and obstruct if it's by continuing to build settlements everywhere everywhere there is no place left for the state of palestine and this is not acceptable for us or for you you have the responsibility israel also rejects the two state solution and this poses a real threat to both peoples the israelis and palestinians alike. i'm joined now by our senior political analyst what is your assessment of the speech what was he trying to convey. a sense of the spirit and the palestinians have nothing else to

do or to say about the an issue that's been going on for five decades they've been living on the road to patient and after twenty four years of a peace process on which president staked his entire career has of course failed so here we have a situation where it's clear that after meeting the american president a president abbas knows that the the peace process has failed and his bet on washington over the last twenty four years has also failed him and for the palestinian people in this desperate situation he appeals to the united nations to do something because in as far as he's concerned by the signs an occupied nation recognized by one hundred thirty one countries at the united nations and that they must do something to fulfill their own obligations as part of the united nations unfortunately this is another speech that will probably fall on deaf ears despite the fact that he's asked them for five very specific things like ending the

conflict on a specific date ending the settlements building and recognizing the issue of two states solution but all in all he proposed nothing new he doesn't have other options and basically in a very desperate manner he's saying look it's up to you if you don't do something about it then forget it i have no clue what would happen next and i suppose when you look at some of the. personalities involved from benjamin netanyahu to president trump himself and of course the characters in the trumpet ministration it and then the general environment that doesn't seem to be anything that is conducive to talks even starting absolutely not and that's specifically why president. seems so desperate and president rouhani sounded so moderates it's simply because israel. and the united states in the words of prime minister netanyahu and

president from were so intransigent yesterday in their approach to the international community to the issues of peace and war to the issue of conflict the nuclear proliferation so much so that it was only president rouhani and his sort of you know serial stick that here we're going to have a meeting about nuclear proliferation and the one rogue nuclear state israel represented by a prime minister netanyahu attacks iran that signed a nuclear deal whereby which it will freeze its own enrichment of uranium and the weaponize ing of its nuclear program so it's a very paradoxical situation whereby i think we have a situation by whereby the palestinian leader just like the rainy there are saying look we staked our career on these diplomatic initiatives president rouhani has

staked his career on the iran deal iran wants this deal and so it's quite disturbed to see the americans undermine it a bus also staked his entire career for this peace process and knows that his entire legacy and his authority will probably be destroyed it will implode if the international community doesn't do something about it and i want thank you. on our rescuers in mexico are desperately scrambling through rubble searching for survivors of a seven point one magnitude earthquake which killed at least two hundred seventeen people hundreds of buildings collapsed in and around the capital mexico city which is just one hundred twenty kilometers from the epicenter among them a school where firefighters found the bodies of at least twenty two children and two adults while another thirty pupils and twelve adults remain missing duncan crawford reports. in mexico city a desperate search to save lives this used to be

a school reduced to rubble by the magnitude seven point one quake bodies have been recovered but children and teachers are missing trapped inside and then. it was chaos i arrived just after the quake my kids go to school in the next street and when i saw the school i panicked and iran and iran for my children rescuers worked through the night to find survivors this woman in red leaving after being asked to identify a body as well as. it's a school in the south of the city a private school were a significant part of the building collapsed unfortunately small children from year one year two of primary school some from the secondary school have died the tremor struck at lunchtime on tuesday. causing thousands to run to safety. for terror and devastation captured in the moments afterwards. with wreckage all around the cross the capital dozens of buildings have collapsed and the full scale of the

disaster is becoming clear with homes destroyed businesses badly damaged and two million mexicans are left without electricity. it's the second major quake in mexico this month and experts warn of possible aftershocks for days or even weeks to come. outside the capital many other towns and cities report widespread damage. the epicenter of the quake was about one hundred twenty kilometers away in pointless stags entire scope this is the moment the ground shook. the. other communities are badly hit into a juggler at least a dozen people were killed when his turn to going to the well there are fifty five total deaths reported but we want to cross check our data to see if there are more dead people sixteen of them from joe just less specific

a little. earlier in the day in mexico city some people are taking part in earthquake drills marking the anniversary of another devastating tremor which killed thousands in one thousand nine hundred five. the nineteenth of september will now be a day of remembrance for not just one but two disasters. the number of families mourning the dead. and joins us live now from mexico city what can you tell us about. getting those trapped out of the rubble. numbers of people that have come out to help. not only the i mean the policemen and firefighters that are. just hundreds and thousands of people that would play that have come up with peaks and. can't come out. and maybe. you think want to show you but there are hundreds of people working on

that site that maybe. up until yesterday where two hundred people were. to be trapped under the rubble they managed to get some people out overnight. trying to get the raise alive. but the families and the organizers are doing now. with the names. of twenty six people in the have you know that from the rubble and . their names and the floor where they were working so. they want to get everyone i would from that call up. and tell us about how people are feeling the mexican people following this latest earthquake. this is a country that. gave out last night even the president came out to say these kind

of. emergency make i mean for the state to come to the country whatever we can and you can see people. i mean i would be with young people as well last night we thought. going home trying to go home and then a few hours later we saw a huge float come in to help. people who would want to blanket put it. out and what we're feeling today here you just thousands of people ok we are we going to help and that there are doctors will cry for me. anything that they can afford to give you everything is welcome to the country that really came together today. thank you very much i'm powered regas bring us the latest from mexico city as much as you crews continue to retrieve people from the rubble much

want to tell you about in this news hour a range of refugees who fled violence in the face now with heavy flooding in bangladesh. i'm tanya page reporting on a study conducted in fifteen countries including south africa that shows gender stereotypes cemented in adolescence and what damage that can cause. and rivalries between cats are in saudi arabia hit the sporting arena coming up with joe. catalonia as president is accusing spain's government of suspending the region's autonomy it follows the arrest of a junior minister and twelve others in a raid on catalan government offices supporters of an independence referendum are right now on the streets of basra lona thousands of gathered outside the ministry of finance castle and say they'll go ahead with the vote on october first despite

the central government declaring it illegal. spain's prime minister is defending the arrest. the government is fulfilling its obligation and i have to say that we will continue to do so until the end i think we are acting with proportionality after the things we have seen during the last few days in catalonia. panel joins us live now from boston to tell us why emotions are so strong there and why people are so angry. several hundred protesters took to the streets this morning when spanish police first the finance and budget department off the cuff line of regional government but as the day is worn on thousands more have taken to the streets and the working day the crowd has absolutely swelled to the scenes that you see here and now the people who are out on the streets want to have the chance to vote on october the first in

a referendum to break away from spain and what the public security forces were doing today on the orders of the spanish government which is move the referendum illegal is to move into public offices around catalonia arresting the officials who are in charge of organizing the referendum and also looking for voting materials in a separate right outside. more than ten million ballots. were seized by police and so what we're seeing now tensions rising between the central government and the regional government neither side really ready to fight down as you can hear these call independence supporters out on the streets saying that they want to go ahead with their referendum breaking into chants of we will vote i want to. stop this from going ahead how much more could things escalate.

it a lot of it does depend on the actions of the spanish government you expected only a week ago that the spanish will gordie's was actually moving and start arresting how politically elected public officials a few expect that the spanish will forty's to start seizing ballot boxes and voting papers but all that is happening now now there has been an effort on the part of some members in this crowd at least to try and keep things peaceful they're carrying flowers they are saying that smiles and flowers will be used to defend democracy but a few blocks away outside the political offices of the left wing independence party riot police are on standby that things are getting tense there so with passion so high on both sides it would be very easy for things to start to spin out of control maria thank you very much called pan hole bringing us the latest on developments

there in barcelona moving now to hurricane maria which has made landfall on the u.s. territory of puerto rico in the caribbean this is one of the strongest hurricane ever to hit the island it toppled trees ripped roofs off homes and flipped cars a category four storm slammed into the island southeast coast packing winds of up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour maria has lashed all the parts of the caribbean as well killing seven on the island of dominica and two on guadalupe and gallagher joins us live now from san juan in puerto rico what are conditions like now. well the eye of the storm passed over as maybe a couple of hours ago there was a very eerie lol something that can lower you into a false sense of security but the winds and the rain keep periodic lee picking up and they're still at hurricane strength here in san juan there's been lots of structural damage at first light this morning we saw windows in apartment buildings being simply sucked out by the power of the wind here roofs being peeled off and

corrugated sheets of metal being strewn across the city we are beginning to get some pictures from social media that looked like the mountainous regions of puerto rico where where things may or may be be the worst we're looking at st said are turned into rivers and that's always been the problem with this storm here in san juan the buildings are moderately well made but in the more rural parts of the island are people don't live in buildings that are made well at all so that's parts where the storm may have done the worst damage plus on the coastline remember hurricane maria made landfall on the southeast coast and then diagonally tracked across the island towards us here in san juan that the eye of the storm is still over the island of puerto rico it's been lingering for hours now we were actually all working up this morning at about four thirty a.m. the hotel itself was kind of rocking backwards and forwards it was almost like being in a boat at sea it was pretty terrifying to have to tell you but let's just take

a look at some of the pictures of what hurricane maria has done. puerto rico southeast coast was the first to feel the effects of hurricane maria but the entire country is now dealing with one of the most powerful storms to ever bear down on this island with winds of two hundred fifty kilometers per hour heavy rains and tidal surges these conditions are expected to last for hours puerto rico has long been spared from a direct hit as hurricanes tend to veer either south or north of the island the last direct hit from a category four hurricane was decades ago. officials are preparing for the worst at least a million people are already without power puerto rico's ailing electricity grid is still recovering from hurricane erma this time power could be out for months the nearby u.s. virgin islands also took a direct hit but many residents leaving before maria arrived trying to figure out where i was going to stay in puerto rico and i think a lot of people were in the same boat i mean you had everybody leaving from the the

b.v.i. people leaving from the u.s. we i. but i'm going to be in miami how widespread flooding is now a concern as are mudslides in the islands mountainous regions that saw storm surges could reach three meters here in san juan we've been getting battered by hurricane force winds for hours and rain is pouring in but if you look down on the street you can see the kind of damage that's been done windows have been blown out roos ripped off debris all over the place and if you think these are the conditions here in the capital where buildings are moderately well built the picture on the southeast coast where the storm made landfall and in the rural areas could be potentially a lot worse as hurricane maria continues its destructive path across puerto rico the recovery in this u.s. territory already dealing with so many challenges could be a long one. and sandy entire island is without power what does that mean for people that. i mean it's not good news obviously they're dealing with

more important things at the moment but once we get into the recovery stage not having power especially in puerto rico is going to be very very difficult remember we were here just two weeks ago when hurricane grazed puerto rico and a million people lost power at that point enough i'm told maria hit some of them still didn't have power it's important to remember that this is an island with huge debt about seventy five billion dollars the electricity company which has a monopoly here has about nine billion dollars worth of debt its grid is very weak most of the plants. our twice the age of the industry standard so repairing and getting power back to three and a half million people that live on this island is going to be a very long and painful process imagine living here you've lost the roof of your house you've got flooding in your home it's very hot as it typically is after hurricanes like this and you're not going to get any power back for perhaps months that's a situation people here are facing but i have to say we are beginning to see some

pictures on social media coming in from different parts of puerto rico particularly those mountainous regions where there is a very great danger of mudslides i've already seen some video of streets that look like raging torrents at the moment the buildings in those areas are basically tin shacks so you can only hope that there aren't any fatalities in there but it certainly looks very catastrophic i've also heard tsunami warnings on the south coast because san juan is fairly well built it's fairly secure the has been some localized flooding but the real story of what hurricane maria has done to puerto rico may be in those mountainous regions and on the coast. for now thank you very much andy gallacher in san juan. across the world children subjected to gender stereotypes about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman a new bible study has found the notion that men should be strong and women a week is imposed on children before they reach adolescence this has important

implications for countries trying to address issues of youth suicide teenage pregnancies and hiv tanya page reports from johannesburg. drops her son off at creation before she goes to school she can't explain why she didn't put what she knew about save six into practice being pregnant at the age of sixteen it's not a political thing it's not like a life is falling apart but then something because you know more behaving the way you are behaving you know more young in him or. her boyfriend helps when he can but the main burden is on her it's the kind of gender stereotype research is a warning about in the global early adolescence study researches interviewed hundreds of young people in fifteen countries and found that regardless of where you live the ages of ten to fourteen a key years to address gender stereotypes otherwise they become cemented increasing

the risks of a wide range of health issues including depression hiv child marriage teen pregnancy even suicide across the world most six education and life skills classes begin at fifteen years and older but this research say is that too late and that has important implications to how governments fund and when they introduce education meant to break down gender stereotypes. and i think the study adds to a body of evidence that's prompted south africa's government to suggest next year it will lower the age at which a six education starts that's welcome news to writers at the girls talk with site a forum for gender issues a guy would come to you and when he gets to you he's the one who teaches you things about six you as a one going in the like a deer caught in his lighted if we teach young women from an early age of this is your body you need to own your body this is what happens when you having six and

you know you can also contribute you can also say no you can you know things can go your way in a necessarily his way but changing stereotypes is an enormous challenge remember earlier age and every. so whether it's the religious institutions you attend the schools you attend your family's every institution is kind of reinforcing these very gendered stereotypes he hopes to teach his son that boys and girls are equal she's trying to set a good example by continuing her education well though she may always be the only full time parent in his life tiny a page out. more had for us our why a slow recovery and rebuilding operation in asia means that tens of thousands of people are still homeless after months of flooding. and invincible marco with just days until the general election we look at why the chancellor is main challenger isn't gaining ground.

how it's so quiet across the middle east little bit of fair weather cloud coming through perhaps one or two showers over towards the black sea you could see a little bit of wet weather over the next dial so i would elsewhere it really is going to be fine and dry warm sunshine coming through toronto at around thirty celsius thirty nine there and kuwait city getting up to thirty in beirut here we go with those showers is easing towards northern parts of it i'll swear it will stay settled and it will stay sunny that sunshine stretches its way down across the arabian peninsula comes a little more cloud into southern parts of maybe around the gulf of aden you much sketch your broke showers coming through here but nothing much to speak of. around thirty nine degrees celsius but sunshine to work across south africa that way the cloud just moves through the southern cape the eastern cape but temperatures on the

rise over the next day or so because up to twenty five celsius in durban on they could well touch thirty by friday and as you can see barely a cloud in the sky so pleasant sunshine coming for sixty. the high in cape town she was continue meanwhile across central parts of africa and big downpours over towards the gulf of guinea those showers they structure right across western parts through gonna into liberia. in the house china era when news coverage consists of a punchy had line a five second sound bite not an easy solution. to delve deeper for says challenge the status quo and expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me mad the hot sun for a new season of the show the frank loves us up front. but this time i'll just hear

it. if you turn your back on the far. this would be collateral damage. at the market. this would be over the auction. at the operational cost. of. clarity point trust. watching the news our quick recap of the top stories iran's president hassan rouhani has told the u.n.

general assembly that his nation will not break the nuclear deal brokered in twenty fifteen but will respond decisively and resolutely to any violation. rescuers in mexico searching for collapsed buildings to find survivors of a magnitude seven point one earthquake which has killed at least two hundred seventeen people twenty of them children. and supporters of the of independence of the spanish region of catalonia out on the streets and also lona following a raid on a castle and government offices by state police. now in other stories we're following kenya's supremes court has blamed the electoral commission for its decision to an all last month's presidential election police used tear gas to disperse rival groups of protesters who come out in support of and against the government the court judges say the electoral commission refused to allow them to scrutinize their computer servers which opposition leader raul or a dingo said one hacked presenter who is reelection was an old early this month and a rerun is scheduled next month. stephanie decker's in nairobi and has more now on

the court's decision. some of the details of the supreme court is getting quite interesting really. taken all day for the detailed report finally giving kenyon details of what went wrong in the election one of those is that the final form of the form called thirty four three this is the result of an entire process this is the one point of. who the winner is who is the president well there are things that that lacked security features more two more things like that and therefore they could not. take it they could not verify it's the kind of occasion so i think anything is more symbolic than that the fact that these elections have gone the way they harm other details that the course has been thinking that the i.e.c. election commission which infiltrated they don't say what that means going on about also the fact that the refused to open its service to investigation the question was they had nothing to her why didn't they open those these things really putting

a big question mark after to the call of the electoral commission i think what is interesting now is what recommendation of the supreme court is going to move forward with this because of course with the actual commission haven't changed haven't been reformed in the last election the record he day under the constitution in which the election need to take place whether they're ready or not. tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in the months of severe floods residents and naomi have criticized authorities saying rebuilding efforts in the flood stricken area has been slow at least fifty six people have died in flooding since the rainy season began in june. reports. months of floods have turned streets into rivers in lead. the capital is hardest hit it's a nationwide emergency. many in the capital forced from their homes as they feel with water. up to carter's home has been destroyed he built

a hut and his water filled courtyard to protect his books and made a bad for him and his wife. said. there's been a lot of water since the beginning of the rain season and after every flood all right the water remains and everything becomes submerged this makes houses not jurors especially not brick built houses many of the houses in niamey are made of mud or earth and the walls are badly damaged the see young woman is also worried about the roof falling again but has nowhere else to go. hominess house was part of the demolished by the flood he feels lucky to have sent his wife and kids away to live with his in-laws. so. i took some furniture and left the house to fall i don't have money to fix it if i have money to build the house i would have done that in two or three days humanitarian aid groups fear that the rising water level

in the river may lead to a repeat of the flooding five years ago when dozens were killed and half a million made homeless. this year's losses are countless and people eat help people are dying of hunger and displacement we ask everyone to hope that. the recovery and rebuilding operation from the disastrous rains is not expected to be quick and after the rains transform some areas into swamps mosquitoes threaten to spread malaria. al-jazeera. ranger refugees have escaped violence from myanmar fled to bangladesh and now having to deal with heavy flooding their days of rains have flooded rice paddy fields where thousands put up makeshift shelters there is some relief though a new u.n. camp is been set up and it's got much needed waterproof tents tend the challenge re has more from cox is bizarre this is the newly allocated forest land given by the

government to shelter the newly arrived roy enjoy refugees now this is a place where we also for a spot of some of the newly arrived weather production time provided by the un they see our this is what is badly needed even this even some of the ok i'm going to have this sort of done because this refugee shelter have only made out of bamboo sticks and policy and shit which is bad for the family to live inside considering the bad weather rain and inundation by flood water what's needed is this out of town to protect the families from their environment the real threat now is disease what the un they'd say are the donor agencies should do is a build proper shelter for does refugees who are sitting in this open spaces there's also a more wide toilet here which is a good sign but we see only one not too many if this comes good have more by taliban whether production things could drastically improve for the refugees in terms of disease exposure and exposure to the environment.

was just a few days to go before it's expected to be a comfortable win for the german chancellor angela merkel in the general election a main challenger is facing mounting criticism for his campaign social democrat martin shills appears to be stuck with around twenty percent support according to opinion polls and has been unable to make any headway against muckle foreign sleaze in calls or in south west germany in examines how voters of viewing the candidates . week after week martin schultz has been working the crowds no lack of passion and little vs belief in a fad germany and a fair europe the crowd waved flags calling for quality jobs and pay a europe that works together for germany better germany he says we can do this trouble is that's exactly what i'm going to michael says is he different enough to . be one of the big problems. it's

like you know. sometimes i feel like there are like a. married couple. for she's too good for the good and he's not really different but still spoke for forty five minutes without notes fluence and driven in another country he might be seen as really exciting but here he can't get anywhere. robin film is an extremely accomplished. european parliament is respected right across the european sense a lack of the time when many german voters are. sure about i'm going to give my precisely. merkel's appearance invincibility is based on her capacity to outflank when a right wing politician says she wants to take in a million refugees how can the left objects travel around germany and you can see

how in this election merkel has managed to find a way of appealing to voters from different constituencies take climate change deep in the black forest villages have been allowed by government to own the wind turbines and sell the electricity from them and the solar panels. taking you live united nations general assembly about here from what we are hearing from the british prime minister to resign may now any change. to those affected by the recent hearkens in the caribbean. or with the mole at this time. as we meet at this general assembly we face challenges that go right to the heart of who we are as nations challenges that test our values our vision and our resolve to defend the rules and standards that underpin the security and prosperity of our fellow citizens as i argued in my speech here last year many of these challenges do not recognize or respect geographical boundaries i think of course of the terrorism

that has struck so many of our countries including my own five times this year and fueling that terrorist threat the increasing numbers being drawn to extremist ideologies not only in places riven by conflict and instability but many online in their homes thousands of miles away from those conflicts i think of the climate change which is depleting and degrading the planet we leave to our children and i think of the vice vast challenges that come from the mass displacement of people many are refugees fleeing conflict and persecution others are economic migrants prepared to risk everything on paralyse crossings in the desperate search for a better life for themselves and their children through this migration we also see the challenges of economic inequality between countries and within them this

inequality together with weaknesses in the global trading system threatens to undermine support for the forces of liberalism and free trade that have done so much to propel global growth and it is pushing some countries towards protectionism in the beef belief that this best defense the interests of their own people. and as the global system struggles to adapt we are confronted by states deliberately flouting for their own gain the rules and standards that have secured our collective prosperity and security the unforgivable use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime against its own people and perhaps foremost in our minds today the outrageous proliferation of nuclear weapons by north korea and a threat to use them i believe that the only way for us to respond to this vast array of challenges is to come together and defend the international order that we

have worked so hard to create and the values by which we stand for it is the fundamental values that we share values of fairness justice and human rights that have created the common cause between nations to act together in our shared interest and form the multilateral system and it is this rules based system which we have developed including the institutions the international frameworks of free and fair trade agreements such as the paris climate accord and laws and conventions like the nonproliferation treaty which enables the global cooperation through which we can protect those values indeed the defining purpose of the u.n. charter is to maintain international peace and security to develop friendly relations among nations to achieve international cooperation in solving problems of an economic social cultural or humanitarian character and to be

a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of those common ends. and i do not see these as vaunted ideals to be held for their own sake these values and the rules they imbue are central to our national interest to our security and prosperity and the international system with the un at its heart is the amplifying force that enables countries to cooperate and live up to these standards in word spirit and deed to our collective and individual benefit if this system we have created is found no longer to be capable of meeting the challenges of our time there will be a crisis of faith in multilateralism and global cooperation that will damage the interests of all our peoples so those of us who hold true to our shared values you hold true to that desire to defend the rules and high standards that have shaped

and protected the world we live in need to strive harder than ever to show that institutions like this united nations can work for the countries that formed them and for the people who we represent this means reforming our united nations and the wider international system so it can prove its worth in helping us to meet the challenges of the twenty first century and it means ensuring that those who flout the rules and spirit of our international system are held to account that nations honor their responsibilities and play their part in up holding and renewing a rules based international order that can deliver prosperity and security for its . first we must ensure that our multilateral institutions can deliver the aspirations on which they were founded think of u.n.h.c.r. looking after those who've been driven out of their homes the o.p.c. w.

striving for a world free of chemical weapons unicef helping children in danger these are all vital missions where the u.n. surely has a unique role to play and that is why the u.k. has over seventy years been such a pioneering supporter of these organizations and more but we should also acknowledge that throughout its history the un has suffered from a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery when the need for multilateral action has never been greater the shortcomings of the un and its institutions risk undermining the confidence of states as members and donors even more importantly they risk the confidence and faith of those who rely upon the blue helmets who rely upon that sinai stand in front of today coming to their aid in the darkest of hours so we must begin by supporting the ambitious reform agenda that secretary-general good

terror's is now leading to create a more agile transparent and joined up organization much of this work will be practical and unglamorous it will require the un to deliver better cooperation on the ground between agencies remove competition for funding and improve gender equality but it will also require real leadership to confront damaging issues that have beset the un so i welcome the secretary general's new circle of leadership on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in un operations and i'm pleased to be part of this initiative. we the nations of the un need to give the secretary general our backing for these reforms and as an outward looking global britain and the second biggest funder of the un the u.k. will remain committed to spending north point seven percent of g.n. our eye on development and humanitarian support we will use our military to support

peacekeeping and our diplomats will continue to work to tackle conflict and support peace building in turn the un and its agencies must win our trust by proving to us and the people we represent that they can deliver and that is why we were remain generous in our funding but set aside thirty percent to be paid only to those parts of the u.n. that achieve sufficient results but this is about more than technical reforms important as they are it is also about reforms that enable the united nations to truly respond to the global challenges of the twenty first century at last year's general assembly we undertook to do far more to resolve the challenges of refugee and migration flows we agreed to develop global compaq's to address the causes and the consequences of the mass movements of people we see today this was an important step to elevate significantly our global response and enable as collectively to

tackle this challenge of our times so in the year ahead as well as agreeing the principles of these compacts we must ensure they can be applied in practice we must do more to identify protect and support refugees and those hosting them near conflicts and on migration our starting point was be that it can benefit both countries and migrants themselves but only when it is safe orderly well managed and legal. if we do not manage this effectively we will fail both our own citizens and those taking these dangerous journeys and we will push more people into the curse of modern slavery in the hands of the human traffickers and organized criminal groups that drive this inhuman industry. but the steps we are agreeing through these compacts alone will not be enough for if people cannot find jobs opportunity and hope for themselves and their families where they live they will continue to

look elsewhere and so as a united nations and as members we must work harder to combine the efforts of our development programs with the private sector and the international financial institutions to support the creation of jobs and livelihoods they will address not just the consequences but the causes of this great challenge of our time for the truth is that despite our best efforts we are not succeeding we must do more the same is true with terrorism where again the challenges we face today are vastly different from those of previous eras when terrorists struck land london and manchester this year the world saw our cities come together in defiance our parliament carries on ariana grande came back to manchester and sang again london bridge is bustling with people our communities came together at the finsbury park

mosque in north london and londoners got back on the tube the terrorists did not win for we will never let anyone destroy our way of life. but defiance alone is not enough. as leaders we have all visited too many hospitals and seen too many innocent people murdered in our countries in the last decade hundreds of thousands have been killed by terrorists across the world this is a truly global tragedy that is increasingly touching the lives of us all this year is the tenth anniversary of the death of the woman who introduced me to my husband and who is known well to many of us in this united nations benazir bhutto was brutally murdered by people who actively rejected the values that all of us here in this united nations stand for in

a country that has suffered more than most at the hands of terrorists murdered for standing up for democracy murdered for espousing tolerance and murdered for being a woman when i think of the hundreds of thousands of victims of terrorism in countries across the world i think of their friends their families their communities devastated by this evil and i say enough is enough so of course we must continue to take the fight to these terrorist groups on the battlefield and the u.k. will remain at the forefront of this effort while also helping to build the capabilities of our alliances and our partners to better take on this challenge and he was also step up our efforts as never before to tackle the terrorist use of the internet for as the threat from terrorists involved so must our cooperation and that is why today for the first time in the un governments and industry through the

global internet forum for counterterrorism will be coming together to do just that . the tech companies have made significant progress on this issue but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to remove terrorist content online and to increase significantly the efforts to stop it being uploaded in the first place this is a major step in reclaiming the internet from those who would use it to do us harm but ultimately it is not just the terrorists themselves who we need to defeat it is the extremist ideologies that fuel them it is the ideologies that preach hatred so division and undermine our common humanity we must be far more robust in identifying these ideologies and defeating them across all parts of our societies as i said in the aftermath of the attack on london bridge this summer we have to face the fact that this will require some difficult conversations we all need to come together to take on this experience and lives among us and to nurture the

common values that must ultimately win out these are the values of this united nations and yet despite our best efforts we as nations and as a united nations have not found the ways or the means to truly take on this threat and that is why today as i talk about u.n. reform i ask the secretary general to make this fight against terrorists and the ideologies that drive them a core part of his agenda at the heart of our development peacebuilding and conflict prevention work and to give this effort the prominence it surely requires i'm calling on the secretary general to make this is a theme of next year's general assembly and use this to harness the efforts of governments the private sector and civil society so that we can truly strike the generational blow against this vile evil in our world. and as we do so we must

clearly strike a balance between protecting our people and protecting their freedoms and we must always guard against those who would use the fight against terrorism as a cover for oppression and the violation of human rights so i was listening there to british prime minister to resume a addressing the united nations general assembly of course she's got a great deal about her visit to new york being overshadowed by domestic problems particularly around the future of the foreign secretary but driesum a speaking and focusing on extremist content online that's a big issue for her at this year's u.n. g.a. but let's speak to our diplomatic editor james bays has been listening to that and james we heard tourism a saying that countries needed to work together with broadly shared values to address global challenges again it seemed like a speech that stood in stark contrast to the sort of self interest and nationalism we heard from president trant. yeah i think you picked on the two main themes

in this speech that are interesting one is the focus because of the attacks that have taken place in manchester in london the fight against i saw and other type groups and other influence groups and clearly that was much of the focus of the speech we heard her talking about it towards the end there and saying that she wants the secretary general actually to set aside the general assembly next year and have that as one of the major themes the other was connected to that she said the way to move forward on all the issues was a multilateral approach she said we needed to respect the rules based system what's the system the international order that exist over the last seventy years it means countries come together they negotiate they come up with agreements but just look at the sort of agreements they come up with a climate agreement donald trump says he's pulling out of the iran deal donald trump is signaling i think pretty heavily that he's thinking of pulling out. to and

so i think she's talking about a different sort of international order than what president trump was talking about when he spoke here on tuesday he struck about strong independent nations making a strong world she's saying no the multilateral rules that's the way to go and so just. in terms of how the u.n. g.a. has been going so far we've heard from macron we've heard from him to reason may and tone very different speeches to that of president trump james how do you does it seem as though this is a president is increasingly isolated on the world stage. he certainly has a very different approach from everyone else just one example the iran deal we heard president rouhani you know the reason why it doesn't agree with president rouhani on many things but. on the iran nuclear deal they're closer to the iranian president than to the close ally the u.s.

our diplomatic editor james bays that united nations thank you very much will there be more coverage from new york with james as we head into the next bulletin of news my colleague lauren taylor will be with you and of course there's much more on everything on our web site as well al jazeera dot com for all the latest comment analysis and video on demand remember that you can watch his life there as well by clicking on the little icon at the top right hand corner screen.

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