and general assembly where nations pledge actions for word peace and mutual prosperity people i make the following points very clear to north korea and the international community we do not desire collapse of north korea will not seek reunification by absorptions or artificial means. if north korea makes a decisions even now to stand on the right side of history we are ready to assist north korea together with the international community. north korea should acknowledge all this era both facts as soon as possible. it must immediately is seen as making reckless jewesses that could lead to its own eyes all asians and downfall and choose the path of dialogue. i urge north korea to abandon its hostile policies against other countries and give up its nuclear weapons program in

a very viable and irreversible way in. the efforts of the international community should also be father strengthened it has to strongly and sternly respond until north korea gives up its nuclear program of its own accord. all nations must implement the un security council sanction resolutions and seek new measures in case of any other provocations by the north. it is also important to manage the situation in a stable manner. all of our endeavors are to prevent the outbreak of war from breaking out and maintain peace. in that respect it's not just situation surrounding the north korean nuclear to be managed deeply so that tensions will not become overly intensified or accidental military clashes will not destroy.

we should all remind ourselves. of what former us president ronald reagan said peace is not absence of conflict it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. we should once again remind ourselves. i would like to make a special request to the member states of the united nations in particularly to the u.n. security council. in order to fundamentally solve the north korean nuclear baze experient of security community enshrined in the un charter should be fulfilled on the korean peninsula in northeast asia. the basic pillar of security in northeast asia and multilateralism should be wisely combined. with the spirit of the united

nations is to realize global peace through a model lateral dialogue. the korean peninsula is where despair is most desperately needed realisations of peace is the east for which the united nations was created for which it is a means and which in the process of achieving we need only i'd nations to play a more active role on the korean peninsula the most important role the united nation is asked to play today is to come up with fundamental majoras to stop the vicious cycle of increased provocations and heightened sanctions. on many occasions i have announced a new economic map for the korean peninsula and a new vision for the north and economy and i believe that genuine peace and prosperity in northeast asia will begin when the foundation for north east asian

economic community is solidified on one side and multilateral security cooperation is materialise on the other. distinguished the president secretary general and delegates. the olympics had not been held for as many as one thousand five hundred years until it was reintroduced in eighteen ninety six the force behind a revival of the olympics was the first for. the history of the more than a lympics dotted with the overwhelming emotions of the first olympics held in athens on balkan peninsula which was once the center of cologne conflicts. five months from now the olympic winter games will be held in town tongue the republic of korea. it is the first of series of olympics to be held in north east

asia. and twenty eighteen tokyo in two thousand and twenty in beijing in twenty twenty second. i aspire for these three olympics to become an opportunity for promoting peace and economic cooperation in northeast asia where remnants of the cold war and hope for the future as well as confrontations and cooperation co-exist with. the republic of korea is ready to make every possible effort for that. cease imagine for a moment. people from all around the word who love peace and sports will be gathered in pound which is only one hundred kilometers

away from the demilitarized zone the symbol of divisions and confrontation on the korean peninsula. has of states and governments from all corners of the word will exchange greetings of friendship and harmony. my heart is filled with great joy when i imagine north korean ass less marching into the stadium during the opening ceremony a sow's north korean joint cheering squad enthusiastically welcoming them alongside the brightly smiling faces of people from all over the word. it is not an impossible dream. to turn this into a reality i will bring a whole hearted didn't and evers until the end in cooperation with the i.o.c. in order to welcome the north koreans to countdown winter olympics. i hope that will become another candle to be lit

like the candles of korean people held out in the phase of the crisis or democracy i believe that will become a candlelight they shed light on p.s. when is is threatened. i hope that all of you and the united nations will light your candles. i hope you will put your hearts and minds together to go hand in hand with peace today. with that heartfelt pledge i invite the head of state and governments from around the word to come to count tongues. the steps you take to get there he will become a march for. you i look forward to seeing you all. next year on time thank you. the south korean president in

addressing the two thousand and seventeen united nations general assembly a standing ovation from his own delegation there with plenty of messages of peace for the whole world but obviously focusing on his part of the world given the tensions with north korea at the moment he said we do not desire the collapse of north korea we are ready to assist north korea but north korea must acknowledge all of this is soon as possible and stop making reckless choices rosalind jordan is our u.n. correspondent she was listening to that speech along with us very measured sort of speech given all the talk we've heard about north korea so far at the general assembly this was a president coming out and saying hey i want pace that's awful. that's right but president moon also stressed that the united nations needs to be doing more to enforce the latest two rounds of sanctions against persons and entities in the

north korean regime in order to try to stop its nuclear weapons program the president also said that as the president of what he described as a divided korea that it is incumbent upon all parties to try to make certain that north korea is in compliance with its international obligations since it is to a member of the united nations the president also noted during his remarks that as someone who was born during a time of warfare that he would very much like to see the reunification of the north koreans of north korea and south korea because for very personal reasons his own family has been divided by the conflict going back to the early nine hundred fifty s. this is of course an appeal to try to resolve this crisis through diplomatic means even as we are hearing from the press pool following the u.s.

president donald trump that he is set to announce new unilateral sanctions against the north korean regime i imagine this is because some of what the u.s. had wanted to put in the last round of u.n. security council. sanctions were not achievable because of objections from china and from russia ok thank you for vance immediate analysis of the speech to the general assembly we will continue that we don't cook journalist and author of several books on the koreas who's been covering the general assembly with us because obviously everything happening on the korean peninsula is so vital to see i don't know what stuck out for you from that speech as i said to rose and it was very much a message of pace he also pointed out that south korea wants more action is he going to get it. well it was especially interesting to me that he talked tough about north korea he didn't you know he didn't pull any punches he was really very firm and in condemning north korea's nuclear program at the same time having gone

through all of that then he wanted multilateral action he would obviously like to see talks to resume on a multilateral basis of which somehow it could draw in north korea into a peace arrangement he may be referring although he didn't say so specifically he may be referring to a revival of the six party talks that. were last held some years ago hosted by china he may want to resume those six party talks bringing both koreas at the table and talking about a lot of issues besides the nuclear program and then getting down to the nuclear program so he may toughness tough outlook toward north korea the north koreans are not going to like what he said but he may will that with his call for somehow getting into dialogue in that sense he was quite different in his emphasis from president drunk well it's funny you speak of president from because i was

interested to know that he quoted former us president reagan in that speech saying pace is not an absence of conflict it is the ability to resolve conflict through peaceful means almost direct contradiction to what we heard from president trump. yes that was a reminder to president trump that a previous republican president actually talked peace president reagan. who was going down in american history as a beloved president was really peace of mind it was under president reagan that during president reagan's presidency that russia tore down that wall as he demanded in one memorable speech and certainly president moon would like to get back to that kind of attitude now president moon is going to be seeing president from today for bilateral talks and then for trilateral talks involving not only president drop but also japan's prime minister shinzo it will be very interesting to see what comes out of those talks i'm sure that president moon will make clear that he does not

want to risk a second korean war he does not want to preemptive strike on north korea he doesn't want to fire and fury as president said he doesn't want to devastate north korea's president said in his opening speech here at the u.n. so so that's going to be very interesting but nonetheless i think that president moon is balancing strong condemnation of north korea with with a plea for peace with a plea for talks let's say basically he's pleading for talks that's what he wants to get into and he's pleading for multilateral talks six party talks u.n. talks any kind of talks but let's get down to talks so we can somehow draw north korea into a reasonable attitude toward the peace process but he also seemed to just say you also seem to be putting a lot on sanctions i know sanctions the same as the go mechanism but that was what he actually said if i just check my notes on the u.n. said the u.n. needs to play a more active role and what it has to do is come up with fundamental measures through tougher sanctions i mean all this fight going into i keep saying it

sanctions do you think that is the answer in the end. well he's a strong willed person he's not in favor of going easy on north korea he wants to teach the north koreans a lesson he wants them to absorb the fact that they're not going to get their way and that there will be strong sanctions maybe even stronger sanctions if north korea is going to fire more long range or a mid range missile that was going to have another nuclear test then they have to be prepared for stronger ever stronger sanctions he's making that message loud and clear at the same time he's trying to have it both ways he's also trying to say look if you want to get out of all this there is a way out come to the table let's have multilateral talks and let's talk some sense so it's very difficult line that he's following one hand tough on the other and on the other hand. definitely a plea for peace and for talks and it's very difficult for him to carry out that line it's also difficult for him at home he was elected as

a liberal as they pointed out he walked back to the town to light revolution that resulted in is election in a snap election in may he was elected as a liberal many progressive than radicals and leftist were on his side they're a little upset with him at the same time the conservatives the hard line conservatives want to say well let's get real tough let's have a nuclear program of our own and let's be real tough toward north korea he doesn't want to do that either somehow he wants to see if he can pursue this middle line this middle of the road line between sounding tough on the one hand at the same time calling for negotiations pleading for multilateral talks such a fine line to tread isn't a democrat always a pleasure talking to you on these issues thank you plenty more late is coming at the u.n. general assembly this look at the list a yemen russia china jordan bangladesh you will see the speeches live here on al-jazeera and our late edition's from the.

well earlier at the u.n. on wednesday may second vice president tried to reassure the international community that the situation in rakhine state is improving henry told the general assembly there's been no violence there since early this month but more than four hundred twenty thousand muslim or hindu have sought sanctuary in bangladesh since the military crackdown began in me in the last months many people still trapped on that border as well yes no denying that this is a problem significant. i'm happy to inform you that i don't see tourism has improved now i'm prices have been reported since september accordingly we are confident. the numbers. chorusing. remain. right we need to find the reason for these exodus why does the little known is that great journey

of. this site are to remain here. of course the head of mi and miles government and nobel peace laureate aung sang searches been criticized for ignoring the plight of the ranger community she has repeated however the government's stance that the military crackdown in rakhine state is against armed groups not civilians whatever we do we should have we must try to avoid collateral damage. and any action that would hurt innocent civilians it is very difficult to counter terrorism because terrorism by its nature some of their members are in bed in the ordinary population and we. to distinguish the one from the other is that important we don't want to hurt those who are innocent but at the same time we have to make sure that terrorists are not

in our to carry on that there is more now from our correspondent jonah how he is in cox's bizarre in bangladesh near the border with me and not well these people are not called stateless for nothing the range of muslims here in bangladesh one suspects the government recognizes its obligations under international refugee and humanitarian law to accept them into the country it can turn them back it can't stop them from coming in but it does want them to go back as soon as possible whereas on the other side of the border in me and my other thinking is officially or otherwise that the originated here in what was then east bengal two hundred years ago under british rule when they went across the border to work for the british and that their place now is here in modern bangladesh so the government's priority at the moment may be to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of the refugees in bangladesh but what it really wants is to ensure that they go back to talk to you here is that they are a security threat that in their desperation they are vulnerable to recruitment by

armed groups you hear that they are a blight on the economy of this country and this area the call is for the international community to do more to pressure the government in myanmar to take them back and that is a call that is likely to be heard again from prime minister has seen or when she addresses the general assembly in the coming hours to other news three days of mourning have been declared in mexico or at least two hundred thirty people have died in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty years earlier on thursday rescuers did pull a survivor from the rubble of one of the collapsed buildings the capital mexico city has been hit hard and the search for survivors continues now more than thirty six hours after that magnitude seven point one earthquake more from alan fischer. they wanted a small victory in a place where they suffered too many losses there would be the call for silence. and they would wait the faces caught between hope and anxiety as rescuers made

their way gingerly through the debris early on wednesday two students were pulled from this collapse school but this is where twenty five died twenty one children who are adults and more remain missing some children had a lucky escape the scene as well it and there are dozens of rescuers waiting for news but all they can do at the moment is essentially unpeel the devry like an onion removing layer after layer in the hope they will uncover someone who is trapped in the building and still alive it's hard work it's difficult one but there's no one here ready to give up but i don't like it they must get up i've been here since five in the morning to help others we all need each other and this could happen to me too i've been helping since the moment it happened in other parts of the country the begun to bury the dead the human cost of a tremor that ripped and scarred the countryside how it was better going with him now i hope the state government the federal government will help us because this block is destroyed i hope they don't just come here and say we will support you we

will help you you are not alone and it's a lie it's the moment to change we felt we were safe because they had never been a quake of this nature. many buildings have been left hugely unstable they could collapse at any point and this is a country the noise when you have an earthquake you have aftershocks the nor the danger we can prepare for they can do nothing about the wind and the where alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. bringing high winds and rough seas to the dominican republic the north east coast storm causing flooding and plenty of wind damage about four thousand tourists in the. area on the eastern tip and moved to the county two hundred kilometers away. thousands of people protested outside the supreme court in spain's catalonia region in support of next month's independence referendum calling for the release of pro referendum officials who were detained

after police raided the regional office of central government trying to stop the police from happening. thousands of pro independence supporters have been gathering outside the supremes. to protest the arrests. of fourteen officials of the regional government those people were arrested in a series of raids by the spanish civil dog a military police unit and they were designed. to organize a planned referendum on independence on october the first now we know that some of those. have now been released all those being accused of trying to organize a facilitate the referendum which has been legal by state prosecutors to protest how they are going. on their right to hold this on october the first

what they're also protesting now is that the central government. and the civil guard. very closely related. with the dictatorship of general franco that ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy five many people here say that. terry and i hand and one of the chants we heard today protesters calling for the forces of occupy. to be removed from catalonia. thousands of people holding a rally in yemen's capital sun are protests marking the day who the rebels marched into and took power three years on at least ten thousand people have been killed in the destruction and the violence simply continues across the country. as this report. a show of force by the houthi is in sun. three years after they took over the capital the political and military influence continues to

rise the shia rebels control of the area that's wretches from some in the more along the border with saudi arabia to attack is in the. despite a military campaign by saudi arabia and its allies the houthi is still hold ground . we have achieved a lot since we took control we brought unity and we managed to confront aggression we improved our military capabilities and our neighbors are afraid of our missiles . the hurt these are backed by iran and former president. who still controls elite units of the army but the alliance with. the two sides how far to each other recently the whole thing is accused of colluding with the saudis accusations dismissed by the former president who claims

the whole earth is full backtracking on an agreement to share power so the war in yemen shows no signs of letting it if i enter the american who is the told yemenis to rally behind his group against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and. as we said the immoralities are the front for the americans and today they're stealing yemen's natural gas despite the suffering of the yemeni people and both sana and people are suffering from issues related to both natural gas and petrol either not being able to find it or not being able to benefit from its wealth in all of this the yemeni people are not the ones who benefit. these are fighters backed by saudi arabia any of the capital they face tough resistance from pro who think. as the fighting continues so does the humanitarian crisis.

the u.n. says more than ten thousand people have been killed millions have no access to food medicine and water. and health agencies describe the country's cholera outbreak as the worst ever record. a situation many fear might even get worse as all parties with jacked international calls to seek a political settlement. iraqi forces have recaptured thirty five villages surrounding the city of how we which is under eisel control the offensive to retake the wager in cocoa province was only announced on thursday i still say that way back in two thousand and fourteen iraqi fighters are planning to clear the land in villages on the outskirts of the city before recapturing the main central area at least two people have been killed in an attack on a government ministers convoy in india an indian analyst in kashmir the attackers threw a grenade at the motorcade of

a local politician and trial in bystanders were the only people killed police and security personnel were injured separatist groups in the region have been fighting indian forces for decades in their push for independence kenya's president ahead of kenyatta has called the supreme court's decision to cancel his win in last month's presidential election as a coup in a televised address to the nation kenyatta harshly criticized the judge's ruling on misconduct by the electoral commission opposition they don't run or are doing a call for the prosecution of those responsible for the alleged manipulation the new elections set down for october seventeenth. and the leader of the far right french national front has vowed to rebuild the party after its deputy quit. says the party will continue despite the loss of. he quit on thursday of a policy differences to put pushed for hard line against the european union during the c.s. presidential election the pen says she will continue campaigning however against

the e.u. . now china has unveiled the world's fastest bullet train before xing it will travel it up to three hundred fifty kilometers an hour and thirty minutes off the journey time from beijing to shanghai there are concerns about the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions as agent brown reports. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that drinking a run at a speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to

operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad than handle if you want it at all mary nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable when it was built but after seven eight year development it gains so it can work in the west regions as well after a ten. dollar bill just six years ago there were questions over the future of the network after a high speed rail crash caused by a signalling failure killed forty people. yet today train travel offers what flying in china simply doesn't and reliability. in recent years flying in china has become

characterized by lengthy delays and cancellations in two thousand and sixteen a third of all flights failed to leave on time it's been a year for trumpeting china's technological achievements in may the country's first domestically manufactured wide body jet made its maiden flight a few weeks before that its homemade aircraft carrier slipped into the sea for the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown. beijing. let's take you to the headlines now on al-jazeera the south korean president when jay in a sent a message of peace to north korea is told the u.n. general assembly doesn't want to collapse has called for more dialogue but also commended the u.n. security council for imposing its latest sanctions on north korea. we do

not desire the collapse of north korea we will not seek unification by absorption or artificial means if north korea makes a decision even now to stand on the right side of history we are ready to assist north korea together with the international community. second vice president has told the general assembly the violence in rakhine state is easing our teams on the ground however say that is not the case in fact more than four hundred twenty thousand re-injure of now fled to bangladesh since a military crackdown began last month and thousands of people are protesting outside barcelona as the supreme court calling for the release of regional government officials who were detained after raids by spanish police spain's central government in madrid is trying to stop this independence referendum in catalonia the catalan leadership however insists it will go ahead. three days of mourning declared in mexico or at least two hundred thirty people have been killed in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty years you say rescuers did

pull one survivor from the rubble being trapped for more than thirty six hours. thousands of people holding a rally in yemen's capital sanaa it marks the third anniversary of the hooty rebels takeover of the city on wednesday a top leader accuse the west and its arab allies of causing chaos in the country iraqi forces have recaptured thirty five villages surrounding the city of her which is currently under eisel control the offensive to retake in kirkuk province was only announced on thursday i still in fact seized it back in early two thousand and fourteen iraqi fighters are planning to clear the land in villages on the outskirts of the city before trying to recapture the main central area and in kenya president kenyatta was called the supreme court's decision to cancel his win in last month's election a coup he criticized the judge's ruling that there was misconduct by the electoral commission that new election is been set down for october seventeenth that's

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