influences that drive the headlines at this time on al-jazeera. it's the end of the breeding season as we take a ferry through the straits of magellan to maddalena island today the island is a penguin colony sanctuary with access to tourists accompanied by foot nine this and penguin expert cloud able boy we learned the penguin colonies in south america are under threat climate change is one reason it is well documented that changing rain patterns or spend was to abandon fly the nest warmer ocean temperatures have diminished the quantity and quality of fish for the penguins who was swim further and further away to feed their young overfishing and ocean contamination especially plastic also killing penguins. this is al jazeera.

and i'm a clown this is the news hour live from london coming up in the program. north korean's rally against the u.s. as a small earthquake raises suspicion of a new plan to. take this parliament extends its military mandate in iraq two days before they told the independent friend of. rights groups a man maher is still a torching will hinge of villages and laying land mines on the bangladeshi border despite its denials tens of thousands evacuated as it fails in puerto rico after her marriage but many towns are still completely cut off. and on time how much with all the sports news including. when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a the failed right now out piece by. president donald trump attacks and f.l.

players who have been silently protests think against racial injustice. now that a magnitude three point four earthquake has hit north korea close to the site of its last nuclear test china initially suggested the trouble may have come from a suspected explosion but now says it had the characteristics of a natural trauma and both south korea and nuclear experts say the quake did not seem to be manmade what is seen as executive secretary of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization and he says yes great could be a delayed after shot from north korea's last nuclear test. the one to keep in mind here is the six and last test by the d.p. r. k. was big enough to create stress in the surrounding and in the it will it did roger was in

a geological struck in the vicinity and then the shock would be a consequence to that main one that happened in september cert and that take weeks so we could be that i thought as well as enough from our reporter kathy novak who's got the latest from seoul in the past north korea nuclear tests have triggered artificial earthquakes but south korea's weather agency says it did not detect the sound waves usually associated with an artificial earthquake and instead assessed this to be a natural earthquake and the nuclear watchdog the c t b.t.o. also assessed this to be natural it made the comparison to a second smaller quake that occurred after the first one caused by north korea's latest nuclear test earlier this month that smaller quake was attributed to a tunnel collapse likely caused by the nuclear test but of course this all comes at an extremely tense time here on the korean peninsula after kim jong un the leader

of north korea issued a rare statement in response to the u.s. president donald trump's threats to totally destroying north korea kim jong un said that trump would pay dearly for those comments and north korea's foreign minister suggested that the country could potentially detonate a hydrogen bomb in the pacific. i mean what i'm feeling yeah hundreds of thousands of north koreans have taken part in a rally praising kim jong un's denunciation of u.s. president dollar trump issued a statement this week quoting trump a rogue and mentally deranged three threaten to totally destroy north korea during his u.n. general assembly address china has announced new moves to reduce energy supplies to north korea in line with the latest round of u.n. sanctions it started limiting its oil exports pyongyang and is reducing shipments of certain types of petroleum and natural gas beijing would also ban textile imports which is one of north korea's main sources of foreign revenue but on

thursday u.s. president donald trump announced that china had ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang but the chinese government assistance denied that the white house is also targeting north korea's energy medical mining and transport industries and the u.s. treasury says it could sanction anybody you know owns or controls a port of entry that brown has more now from beijing. what china has now essentially begun implementing what it agreed to at the united nations security council on saturday a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry it said that as of now china was no longer importing textiles from north korea textiles have been until now an important source of hard currency for the regime also as of saturday china is no longer exploiting things like liquefied natural gas as well as condensate oil and significantly china is going to limit the amount of oil that it

exports to north korea those exports will be capped at two hundred million barrels a year now last month of course china agreed to other wide ranging sanctions against north korea it's no longer importing things like coal iron ore and seafood on friday president donald trump once more praised china's leaders for the fact that he says china's banks have shut the door on north korea even though less than twenty four hours earlier china's foreign ministry said that wasn't necessarily the case but this was what president trump had to say i made a friend in china president xi and yesterday he basically took the banking industry away from north korea or whatever but the so confusion and contradiction have once more become the hallmarks of sino u.s. relations clearly president donald trump and president xi jinping will have

a lot to talk about if as expected president from pays an official visit to china in november we got a new development now in the pentagon says that u.s. air force bombers have flown near the coast of north korea in a show of force war planes took off from the u.s. territory of guam and were escorted by fighter jets based in the american military base in okinawa they flew over waters east of north korea and that's the closest they've. to the demilitarized say in the twenty first century let's meet now to scott snyder who's director of the program on u.s. korea policy at the council of foreign relations also the all to south korea at the crossroads joins us live now from washington d.c. scott first of all if we could ask you what's your reaction to this latest news about the u.s. flights off the coast of north korea the u.s. flights sauf the coast of north korea have been continuing in response to each step that north korea has taken in terms of missile tests and

a nuclear tests and so there's not necessarily anything new there except that the intensity of the activity seems to be growing and those are really designed to send a message to kim jong un that the u.s. wants north korea to turn a different direction and that the u.s. has a power to retaliate against kim jong un if he persists it's not clear that kim jong un is receiving that message right and i should just say that at the u.n. general assembly which is taking place right now we're expecting the minister for foreign affairs for the democratic people's republic of korea is north korea and come to the podium and speak to be very interesting to see what he's got to say will told you about that when he does say that but what do you what do you make of the current situation right now this kind of high stakes rhetoric that's flying back and forth between the two leaders of the respective countries and other nations like russia saying hey guys just tone it down. yes well the rhetoric has

clearly reached a kind of a boil and i think that we're entering into a new phase in terms of the pressure campaign that the u.s. is leading economically on north korea the treasury department. to block and freeze the assets of those who do business with north korea is going to be a powerful new tool and i believe that the chinese are also and are responding to that as they also implement their obligations under the security council resolution so the expectation is that we will see evidence of economic hardship to north korea ok well thanks very much the time being is to say we will speak very soon when the north korean foreign minister comes to the podium at the u.n. in new york with the time being thanks very much well state media in iran have released footage of what it says is the successful test launch of a new police state missile the shah was just a few hours off it was unveiled at

a military parade in tehran the device is a range of two thousand kilometers and kind of curry mult carry multiple warheads if one is threats by the u.s. president told trump that washington may withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. turkey's parliament has extended the mandate for its military deployment to iraq into syria in a special session convened in response to the kurdish independence referendum in iraq this is the tech continues its highly visible military drill near the iraqi border ahead of monday's controversial vote techie's prime minister but not healed or has warned iraqi kurdish leaders of possible diplomatic political and economic repercussions if the vote goes ahead but it's not trying to seven's used life in the tech you see of. what about this what are the implications. the implications are really serious the actual mandate for military intervention in

iraq and indeed syria has been extended that in itself is not a major surprise because there are air operations against the p.k. k. mounted by the turks into iraq the timing of this the emergency session of parliament which was brought back from the summer recess to make this vote and also other indicators such as that exercise going on on the border which is no coincidence the iraqi turkish border a four hour drive from here i've been there i've seen the action there was an increase in the number of troops now this is an exercise that was started in the run up to this referendum taking place and it will continue right the way through the voting until at least one day afterwards and also an indication from the turkish prime minister that there will be a lot of corporation with the iranian response and the iraqi government response to

the vote as it's like as a place now that could involve military action that the vote that was made by parliament a clear majority with the opposition backing the ruling party says it all furthermore there was a response from kurdish m.p. saying that this mandate really is a recipe for war and further pressure on the kurdish population now that didn't go down well there were very very tense scenes in parliament as this was going on the vote went through nic. given everything that's going on what's the mood what's the sense of where you are right now india back yet. well there are more than a million kurds estimators live in this city it's been under pressure for many years for decades there are also another quarter of

a million kurds living in the province as a whole the p.k. carry the armed force which is not part of this the k r g the kurdish regional government it's it didn't actually come up with a plan for this bizarre me the president bizarrely is a referendum. has a stronghold in this district it's been attacked repeatedly by the government forces in retaliation for a series of terror attacks and it's also become an urban phenomenon and that's led to the government taking serious action by demolishing whole areas of the city which has caused great problems for the civilians themselves so any real excitement about an independence vote here is tempered tempered by the reality and also the likelihood of possible economic sanctions against the kurds in iraq and there could be also a raft of other measures all of it to put pressure on the situation not

a. really bright picture for the future of kurds in turkey or indeed anybody for that matter it's a very serious matter of the turkish government warning that this will disrupt the whole region and seems to be determined that it will take some form of action alongside iran on the iraqi government at any given stage depending the prime minister says on the situation on the ground there andrew symonds reporting there from the about here. u.s. backed forces of seize syria's largest natural gas field from iceland a province the kona guys feel dizzy first energy facility of its kind to be taken by the syrian democratic forces which is a rebel coalition of arab and kurdish fighters i said is battling to separate offensives from s.t.'s fighters and syrian government soldiers to drive them out of the area.

i miss the international says that revenge of villages is still being torched in may in ma contradicting the government statements that military operations have ended the group says new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from range of ages around four hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled since the latest outbreak of violence began less than a month ago doctors without borders told out there that otherwise healthy adults in camps are at risk of death because of dehydration meanwhile human rights watch says it has evidence that man has been laying landmines on its border with bangladesh to ensure the fleeing were injured do not return this is really heartless beyond words or sea land mine being placed by the burmese military in the past refugees not only at the border but also in areas around villages where then ethnic cleansing. being done and people are fleeing the villages then they're encountering landmines

on the roads trying to get out of that area so it's doubly cool these are weapons which are indiscriminate they're illegal where the influx of ranger into bangladesh is having a huge impact on businesses and residents of cox's. because more from a market in the city which is on the minimal bangladesh border. here bangladeshis come to buy their daily necessities spices food and vegetables and it's around this market that. have set up camp with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people a new informal economy has grown there's one item that's particularly popular among these plastic sheeting they're used to build the homes to protect them from the rains inside the count's. like the business of

a dozen or. so this is. the home i guess. of the whole presume one is well the other doesn't so he's saying that business isn't going as well as it used to he's saying that now aid agencies the government are distributing these plastic sheeting for free and therefore he's not getting as much business as he used to. this is the home of a bangladeshi family right around the corner from the refugee camp and look at their home it's made out of the same plastic sheeting that you find inside the camps in fact the circumstances of the refugees and of the bangladeshis living here are very similar the difference is the refugees get international aid these people depend on their government for help and most here live on less than two dollars a day the biggest challenge is that the help that's coming through doesn't build resentment have been coming here for decades persecution and the relationship

between local bangladeshi and there. hasn't always been easy. to come here on the news. it is a powerful aftershock shakes buildings days after a devastating quake. catalonia refuses to hand control of its regional police force to spain which is determined to stop its independence referendum we go to. the parade roger federer and rafa nadal on day to. find out how they got along. tens of thousands of people being evacuated from their homes impreza rica. will break heavy rain brought in by hurricane maria has weakened. process have been brought in to help people leave the damage from the storm is making their

escape difficult roads blocked by debris communication lines down making it home residents of the danger tensions have been high as people queue for hours for fuel . now it's kind of gotten down compared to how it was it was a little agitated earlier we almost had a fight in one of those up the pops but i guess this is the police is here they have got it together so let's pray that we get the flow moving faster and people can meet before curfew most likely but other than those of us who've been here since nine might be left without gasoline it's a completely chaotic situation that i have never seen in. this time in my life that i've seen such a critical situation of course thanks to memory of the hurricane we are all in the streets well meanwhile the prime minister dominique a that's roosevelt skerritt says he has no doubt the climate change is to blame for the devastation caused to his country it has been only two years since he lost lives and do it

a substantial physical infrastructural damage from the ravages of floods and mudslides of tropical storm erica mr president to deny climate change is to procrastinate to sing. it is to deny the truth we have just lived it is to mock thousands of my compatriots who in a few islands without a roof over their heads will watch the night descend on dominico in fear of sudden much lines and what the next hurricane may bring. a strong quake has shaken southern mexico just days after a seven point one magnitude quake hit the capital hundreds of people were evacuated from parts of mexico city as a tremor set of warning alarms rescue efforts were temporarily suspended the latest

quake happened about three hundred sixty kilometers south of the capital causing further damage to the already weakened buildings castro has more now from mexico city. a potentially significant setback for rescue operations here at eight a.m. local time in mexico city we felt an aftershock that measured six point two on the richter scale that's the women or a assessment from the u.s. geological survey it was centered seven hundred kilometers from here but it was enough for us to detect some movement to see the street signs swaying and most significantly is its impact on what's going on behind me that is or was what once was a six story office building that collapsed more than ninety hours ago on tuesday when we felt this aftershock the rescuers had to immediately leave from atop that site they had to abandon it for at least a few minutes and just moments ago returned to continue their work trying to access

what they believe are six people who may still be trapped alive beneath that rubble i just spoke with a woman who is hoping desperately that her niece who was trapped on the fourth floor working there as an accountant may still be alive she says that a government official and an engineer recently briefed her saying they made some progress overnight that they were able to tunnel in from out from three directions from the top of the building from the bottom and also now from the side by accessing the building that is still standing next to this office building she is hoping that what she's being told that there have been signs of life that in fact even food and water has been passed down to some of these potential survivors she is desperately hoping that this is true but again we are now more than ninety hours since this building collapse with each new development people's hearts are jumping with this aftershock to happen again around eight o'clock local time in the morning

we saw tears in the eyes of the families each tiny thing or significant thing in this in this instance maybe a major setback or maybe an. sources as they continue to wane and the minutes tick past. now hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to brazil's largest valid enough to a surge in drug related violence officials and looking to have been forced to close roads and shut down schools off to rival gangs began battling each other for control of the streets. has more. violence between rival drug gangs has led to this military helicopters above this favela security forces monitoring the streets of rio de janeiro hundreds of police officers have been called then the government says it's ready to send in many more very warming. up to ten thousand of our men could be called into action just like what we did in our first operation for now because it's urgent we have mobilized

the military police seven hundred men and a patel un is on its way if necessary more. roughly seventy thousand people live in the cities were sent her father violence is no stranger here but over the last year murders have increased eleven percent to just over two thousand three hundred the government says rival drug gangs are responsible for the bloodshed this is one of my son but since last week we've all been afraid we go back and forth quickly we wait to work with friends and go straight home no one is out on the streets there's real fear the fear is so widespread some locals refuse to show their face on camera . i've lived here since i was born twenty three years ago i've never seen things like this i have seen other conflicts other operations other wars between rivals but having the army said to the favela that's a. now the government is trying to restore order it's flexing its military muscle

in an attempt to halt a deadly spiral of indiscriminate violence. al-jazeera. thousands of people are evacuating the indonesian resort island of bali due to the threats of a volcanic eruption the highest alert level has been issued from mt i go and eruption could be imminent australia has also put out a travel warning and officials are urging people to stay at least twelve kilometers away from the volcano let's go straight to new york and we join. in the u.n. general assembly where north korea's foreign minister re your home has just taken the podium first of all alone me to congratulate your excellent say mr miroslav on your election as the president of the seventy second session of the united nations general assembly i look forward to a successful outcome of the present session and they are able guidance and. before going into the main points in my debate i feel forced to make

comments on the speech are to four days ago by someone called the u.s. president that rendered this sacred un arena tainted. since trump uttered such reckless and violent two words provoking the superintendent of the democratic people's republic of korea at this very platform i think it is fair enough for me to make a response in the corresponding tone. during his eight months in power. he has turned the white house into a noisy and marketing place full of crackling sounds of abacus bees and now hears try to turn the un or arena into a gangster's nest where money is respected and bloodshed is the order of the day.

the of a certain reality that the person like crumpling a mentally deranged person full of megalomania and complaisance the person who dies and even by the american people as commander in grief lying king president evil is holding the seat of the us president and that they knew reality that the gambler who grew old using threats frauds and all other schemes to acquire a patch of land holds the nuclear button these are what constitute the greatest threat to the international peace and security today. due to his leg king. of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment here try to insult the supremes you need of my

country by referring it to a rocket by doing so however he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets visit the entire us mainland inevitable all the more. none other than trump himself is on a suicide mission. incase innocent lives all of us are harmed because of this suicide attack trump will be held totally responsible. the respected supremely later. of the d.p. r. k. comrade kim's own stated as a man representing the d.p. r. k. and on behalf of the dignity and honor of my state and people and on my own i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supremes command in the us to pay deal

they for his speech calling for a totally destroying the d.p. r. k. . trump might not have been aware of what is from his mouse but we will make sure that he bears consequence is far beyond him to his words for beyond the scope of what he can handle even if we say he is ready to do so mr president. focusing on people striving for peace and a decent life for all on a sustainable planet this is the seam of the current station for all countries and people to enjoy peace and a decent life it is imperative to realize genuine international justice before anything else realizing international justice is one of the main missions of the united nations. mr president

article one of the un charter stipulates to bring about by peaceful means and in confirmatory with the principles of justice and international or adjustment or a settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a reach of the peace due to high handedness an arbitrary it is of one particular big poll or her ever present the purpose and principles of the un charter and other established basic principles of international relations are now wanted clearly ignored in the un arena noble acts justifying and legitimate ties in high handedness an arbiter in this an act of violating truth and justice can even that are tolerated the most rampant violation of international justice can be seen on the korean peninsula unprecedented acts of injustice such as imposing harsh sanctions on a victim for the reason that the victim choose to stand up to the offender openly

committed in the name of the un he is the answer of the situation on the korean peninsula is a confrontation between the d.p. r. k. and the us where the former tries to defend its national dignity and sovereignty against the latter's hostile policy and nuclear threats the united states is the country that first produced nuclear weapons and the only country that actually used it massacring hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians it is the us that threaten to use nuclear weapon against the d.p. r. k. during the korean war in one nine hundred fifty s. and first to introduced. nuclear weapons into the korean peninsula after the war. the us started a large scale joint military exercises against the d.p. r. k. during the cold war period and the further increased their scope and aggressive

nature after the cold war staging the exercises several times a year by mobilizing more of nuclear strategic assets what else could it be a bigger threat than the violent remarks such as pouring fire and fury total destruction coming from the top. of the world's biggest nuclear power. the very reason that the parakey had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the us it had to strengthen and develop its nuclear force on to the current level to cope with the us. the us hostile policy and nuclear threats have continued over seventy years and these ever lead the situation on the korean peninsula or to a touch and go point point but in the united nations and justifiable resolutions which illegalize justice as injustice are randomly adopted due to the high

handedness of the us. the respect to sue privilege or comrade gives only chairman of the state of affairs commission of the d.p. r. k. said international justice is never achieved by itself it can only be achieved when the empty imperialist independent countries are strong enough. unless true international justice is realized the only valid philosophical principle is that force must be dealt with force and you cleo weapons of terror me must be dealt with you clear hammer of justice. the position of nuclear deterrence by the d.p. r. k. is a righteous self defensive measure taken as an ultimate option pursuant to this principle recently that the pair a-k. has successfully conducted i.c.b.m. mountable h.

bomb test as a part of the efforts to achieve the goal of completing the state nuclear force with this the d.p. r. k. has entered a phase of completing the state nuclear force in accordance with its line of some all ten years development of the economy and the nuclear force of national nuclear force is to all intents and purposes a war deterrent for putting an end to nuclear threat of the us and for preventing its military invasion and our ultimate goal is to establish the balance of power with the us. distinguished delegates of all countries attending this session of aware of the fact that the d.p. r. k. unlike other a nuclear weapon states made public every time to the world to test process and its result in all stages of the development and advancement of its nuclear force since

the war deterrent for safeguarding peace and security of the korean peninsula and the region is strengths in the enough united states and its followers must now think twice before launching military provocation against the d.p. r. k. although they talk about the fire and fury told told destruction and whatever every time they have to add a variety conditions such as hopefully this will not be necessary that is not our first option and so on. accordingly we are convinced that peace and security of the north east asia and the region as a whole have been as much consolidated. we do not need anyone's recognition of all status as a nuclear weapon state and all capability of nuclear strike the i.c.b.m. mark the sacred name of the d.p. r. k.

flew over the universe of the endless blue sky the warhead of a rocket left its trace on the blue waves of the pacific ocean and the tremendous explosion and vibration of the hydrogen bomb were recorded by this planet although our decision to possess nuclear weapons were as an inevitable choice option forced by the united states it resulted in our country's achieving the status of uclear weapons state and a rocket power and this prestige has now become an emo told destiny of the d.p. r. k. mr president the failure of the united nations in fulfilling its role in realizing new international justice is primarily related to the democratic democratic old practices of the security council it is none other than the security council which disregards the un charter from the very first article and only acts in pursuit of

the will and interest of its prominent member states it is not incidental that the issue on reform of the security council had already been decided in one thousand nine hundred two by resolution four seven slash six to forty seven station of the u.n. g.a. since then the un is the reform issue has been discussed at the u.n. g.a. every year during the past twenty five years but without any progress at all this fact itself clearly shows how deep. the current prominent members are obsessed in there and mystic vested interest one prominent member alone can veto the general will of over one hundred then one thousand u.n. member states such an undemocratic un organ is the security council at this forum of like to once again remind all the distinguished delegates of

the unjust and unfair nature of the resolutions of the did by the security council against the d.p. r. k. first the security council fabricated illegal and double standard resolutions which only prohibit the satellite launch of the d.p. r. k. and violation of the international law prescribing peaceful use of outer space as a sovereign right of every state and without taking any issue with all other satellite launching countries second. the security council cooked up illegal and double standard resolutions which arbitrarily prohibit only the nuclear tests of the d.p. r. k. although uclear test strictly belongs to the sovereignty of every state since the international law on provision of nuclear test has not yet entered into force and there are countries that conducted many more nuclear tests third. the

security council condemned the development of nuclear weapons by the d.p. r. k. as a threat to international peace and security and on that basis fabricated illegal and double standard resolutions in contravention of article fifty one of the un charter which recognizes the right to self-defense of every state and without calling into question the other countries that kept on developing latest nuclear weapons of various kinds. the reason these unjust and unfair resolutions continue to be adopted is that the permanent members of the security council all nuclear powers have a common interest in maintaining their one a political nuclear status the permanent members of the un as c. are talking much about nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. but viewed from the specter of nuclear nonproliferation the depair case position of nuclear weapons is

a righteous self defensive measure actually the international agreement on nuclear nonproliferation was possible because the nuclear weapon states had made the promise not to threaten no nuclear weapon states with their nuclear weapons article ten of the n.p.t. stipulates that each party shall have the right to redraw from the treaty if it decides that its supremum interests have been deiced this article recognizes that the supreme interest of states are of bob the nuclear nonproliferation afterall the us itself impeded the international effort for nuclear nonproliferation by not giving up the nuclear threat against the d.p. r. k. but rather compelling the latter to possess nuclear weapons this eloquently shows. the anti d.p. r. k.

resolutions are not based on any established principles and that they are nothing less than the products of democratic old practices of the security council and the conspiracy and collusion of the forces of service only in their this did interest the us claims that the pair case position of h. bomb and i should i.c.b.m. constitutes a global threat even at the un arena by such claim is a big lie which is just tantamount to the not area speak like think that by the us in two thousand and three you know about the existence of existence in iraq of weapons of mass destruction in order to invade that country. the democratic people's republic of korea is a responsible nuclear weapons state. we will take preventative measures by merciless preemptive action in case the us and its this or forces show any sign of

conducting a kind of decapitating operation on our headquarters or military attack against our country however we do not have any intention at all to use or a stretton to use nuclear weapons against the countries that do not join in the us military actions against the d.p. r. k. the us is resorting to an intrigue of condemning the case nuclear position as a global threat in order to find a pretext for coercing other un member states into implementing the anti d.p. r. k. stance sanctions resolutions this is a sneaky and selfish attempt by the us to avoid its responsibility for the nuclear issue of the korean peninsula and to pursue its own interest by using an sacrificing other countries that have nothing to do with the issue that the. government made a request to the us secretary it that a forum of international law expert spirit organized to assess the legal grounds

and lawfulness of the un as resolutions but we have not heard anything from the secretariat for nine months already same is true of the fact that the d.p. or came made repeated requests to the united nations security council to discuss the serious threat to international peace and security posed by the aggressive and provocative us south korea at large scale joint military exercises but these requests were never put on the un as your gender rather turned down every time. the u.n. charter a stipulates that the members of the united nations accept and carry out that this is us of the security council. if the resolutions on the d.p. r. k. other up to the security council are truly lawful and fair there will be no need that all u.s. ambassadors abroad and even the president and the state secret treat turn out to coerce other countries into implementing their resolutions furthermore there will

be no need for the u.s. to bring its stooges like south korea and japan into this. the un member states should not yielding to pressure of an individual big power in dealing with the un as the resolutions but make an independent judgment on lawfulness impartiality and morality of the resolutions and contribute to promoting reform of the un as see by further raising their voices against high handedness and arbitrary innes mr president the us had put stanchions against our country from the very first day of his foundation and the over seventy year long history of the de pyrrhic a can be said in a sense a history of struggle persevering along the road of self development under the harshest sanctions in the world through such a prolonged then argue a struggle now we are finally only

a few steps away from the final gate of completion of the state nuclear force it is only of all on hold to consider any chance that the d.p. r. k. would be shaken an inch or change its stance due to the harsher sanctions by the hostile forces the day will certainly come in the near future when we settle all damages inflicted to of peaceful economic development and improvement of the people's livelihood and all the sufferings imposed on our innocent to women children and the elderly by the heinous and barbaric sanctions against our republic the d.p. r. k. already organized a national damage investigation committee to make a comprehensive study of total damages inflicted on our republic by all kinds of sanctions this committee will thoroughly investigate and compile all physical and moral damages imposed upon the d.p. r. k. by the us its followers and also by those countries that submitted to the us

coercion when this wreckage of sanctions and pressure reaches a critical point thus driving the korean peninsula into. an uncontrollable situation in this to gauge and results of this committee will have a huge effect in holding those accountable mr president. my delegation takes this opportunity to extend a strong support to and solidarity with the cuban government and people who are fighting to defend national sovereignty and realize international justice against the high handedness arbitron is unilateral in bar of the us we also express strong support to and solidarity with the government and people of venezuela who are fighting to defend the national sovereignty and the cause of socialism the unjust and contemptible acts such as turning a blind eye to the heinous acts of israel while condemning in every manner only the

syrian government fighting to protect its national sovereignty and security should not be tolerated any longer the d.p. r. k. government will certainly teeth and peace and security of the country with its powerful nuclear deterrence and also contribute to safeguarding world peace and security thank you mr president. there you have it north korea's foreign minister. addressing the u.n. general assembly and calling into question president trump's what he called reckless and violent words he tried to insult the dignity of my country said. and it made trump's words made rockets to the u.s. mainland all the more inevitable if the rhetoric continued he called the mentally deranged commander in grave president evil and so on and so forth let's bring in james pays it mattered so he's been listening to the. rhetoric as i say is it continued it what do you make of what you heard that james. it was

a blistering attack on the united states president trump has talked about possibly unleashing military action that we far inferior well if that was a verbal equivalent of far inferior i think you heard it there was that speech attacking the united states no backing down speaking from the same podium the president travels spoke from on thursday and attacking president trump it was full of insults to the president as you say well he said that the president the president's speech on tuesday had tainted the sacred u.n. agenda he said after eight months in power trumpet turned the white house into a noisy place and then this week could turn the u.n. instead into a gangster's nest where bloodshed was the order of the day he said it was he was the commander in grief and he made an entire incredible mistake by his speech and he was the one on a suicide mission if u.s. civilians die then it is trump who will be totally responsible condemning the u.n.

security council of course the u.s. is one of the permanent members saying the permanent members were all in the new clear club and they wanted to protect their monopoly in the new clear he said they were acting illegally he said the permanent members members of the united nations weren't following the u.n. charter there were certainly some amazing lines in this. this speech that came from the north korean foreign minister the top diplomat from north korea one point in the same sentence he said that north korea was a responsible nuclear weapons state and then went on to say that he would carry out his country we carried a merciless preemptive action if there was any decapitation operation detected we have had a week of diplomacy at the u.n. with world leaders here nic there the idea of it is to try and tackle world challenges yet what we've seen with regard to north korea is

a real ramping up of the situation that the rhetoric it's serious war of words now but also action taking place in terms of some recent developments one of those is worth remarking on in the last couple of hours the pentagon confirming of what they call a show of force has taken place off the coast of north korea in international waters and b. one bombers f. fifteen fighter jets have gone further above the demilitarized zone between north and south korea than they've got at any point in this century and jane you're a member of course and sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister yesterday urging the hotheads as he called them to come down and it certainly hasn't been listened to by the north korean foreign minister and one now waits for the reaction of president trump. yeah he's too busy at the moment having a twitter war with u.s. sports stars but we will watch very closely and i think it's possible we will get

the first reaction on twitter that is the preferred mode of communication from the u.s. president clearly there are some here at the united nations who are trying to calm things down trying to find a channel for mediation foreign minister lavrov suggesting that they really needed to get back to talks remembering the time when there were the six party talks that have. course broke down and saying that the way that they should proceed but quite how you get back to that quite how you have even get anyone to open a channel of communication it's very difficult we do know that north korean foreign minister is supposed to go now from the podium upstairs to the thirty eighth floor of the united nations that is the office of the secretary general and they're supposed to have a one on one meeting so that's important that stuff first meeting the u.n. secretary general has had with a senior north korean since the crisis has ramped up some march and so we'll watch

closely to see whether the u.n. the u.n. tell us anything about that meeting one other thing to tell you about is something foreign minister lavrov mentioned the idea that is floating around that he certainly endorsed of what he said was a neutral european country getting involved trying to do the mediation a lot of talk here of what country could perform that role switzerland of course is totally neutral there are some e.u. nations that are not in nato that might be seen as neutral nations like ireland austria finland possibly sweden because sweden has had an embassy in north korea since the one nine hundred seventy is and is currently sitting on the un security council although that might be a vote against it from north korea which are very strong words you heard about the security council i'm hearing from other sources possibly the country that could perform this role even though some member of nato could be norway which of course has a great track record in peace initiatives around the world all right james thanks

very much indeed james pays reporting there from the united nations tell you what let's bring in scott snyder who is director of the program on u.s. korea policy at the council on foreign relations also author of south korea the crossroads scott there's james you would have heard there just referring to a blistering attack from the north korean foreign minister on the united states what do you make of it. well i think it was inevitable the north korean foreign minister was going to have to respond in kind to the statement that president trump made he would have to uphold the supreme dignity of kim jong on and is on the stage where it can join us also watching he certainly did that i think that the part of the speech that was concerning was the threat of fence of use of military force in terms of missiles raining down on the u.s. because one of the things that the u.s.

is focused on right now is the question of what is north korea's nuclear doctrine is it defensive or offensive and that's where i think we see some mixed messages the rest of the speech i think was pretty much standard mix of vulnerability and self-justification. and grievance and a bit of pride in what north korea has accomplished right yeah also talking about it now really a few steps away from the completion of a nuclear force. no we as we discussed with james we know the president trump for his response and it's pretty important that he sounds measured isn't it. well i'm not going to speculate on what president trump's response is going to be i think the important thing is that on the one hand we have this rhetorical boil but on the other hand clearly we need diplomatic channels i wish to address some of the

miscommunication and misunderstanding that may exist particularly at this moment where the risks of preemption and then the risks of the other side trying to preempt the preemption have gone way up as a result of the progress that north korea has made on the verge of being able to actually deliver a strike on the united states in whose hands do you think it is to to deescalate this. could the north koreans did or would it be easier for donald trump to do it i mean what would his advisors be say well. so this is the interesting thing about the trumpet mr ation is that normally one might look to the president to be a source of deescalation in this case it seems that secretary chiller son is the one who continues to refer to diplomacy hopefully there are for its to reach out and establish private dialogue with the north koreans likewise the north koreans do

have an interest in managing escalation of this particular potential conflict because if this escalates to its full potential the north koreans are actually the ones that have the greatest. stakes to lose and so if we had one of the things that had that item in one thousand nine hundred s. where i was going to say what about this prospect is right at a time sort of jump in but this prospect of again as we were talking with james the dialogue given a european nation perhaps stepping in of an independent state trying to bridge the divide may that be a solution to try and lower the temperature. the international community and any party that has the capability to communicate with both pyongyang and washington has a strong interest in trying to develop that potential channel ok and just one final thing this we were talking about this u.s. air force. b. one b.

lonesome which has been a school to buy fighter jets close to the north korean border clasen has done this century apparently i know they have done that before but what do you make of this latest. well the united states has persisted in trying to use these shows of force as a way of signaling to kim jong un that he's moving in the wrong direction and clearly the north koreans are rejecting the idea that they're going to succumb to pressure and so we probably need to supplement that with other channels and i think diplomacy is one channel that has not yet been exhausted likewise the economic sanctions route all right scott snyder good to talk to you appreciate very much that analysis of this speech we just heard from. the foreign minister of north korea scott snyder told us there from washington d.c. yes we've heard finally now from the foreign minister of north korea who took to the podium at the u.n.

general assembly saying that he north korea would take merciless preventative action in the event of a threat he said goal is to establish the balance of power with the united states now only a few steps away from the completion of a new nuclear force in north korea and as i say called into question president trump's reckless and violent words as he said now all eyes on president trump to see what he has to say in response. my colleague. will be with you in just a moment for me the clock the rest of the team here it's goodbye from. the sky why should be no borders up here. only horizons. as an airline we don't believe in boundaries we believe in bringing people together the world's better that way. it is

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