refugees continue to face discrimination and demagoguery in the context of clearly insufficient international corporation and these marking of the seventy's anniversary of universal declaration of human rights the human rights agenda is losing ground and the authoritarian ism is on the rise as the politics the press the museum spreads we must guard against self-fulfilling prophecies those who see their neighbors as dangerous may cause us threats where there was none of those who closed their borders to regular migration only fueled the work of traffickers and those reagan or human rights in combating terrorism to breed the very extremism they are trying to. experience yes you can argue them as well we got you and they can get into the room will you that is all very last visit a few. of the even more charities but the unwillingness to move ahead based on

facts not clear on reason and not illusion. prevention must be at the center of all we do. and. this. session of the general assembly is even a copper to keep it all i to mention just one example i welcome a strong show of support for my action for peacekeeping initiative which has been indorsed by over one hundred forty six states and regional organizations to help our missions succeed in today's protracted and volatile contexts. but today i want to concentrate on to. the poco challenges which since last year have taken on surpassing urgency climate change and the new risks associated with advances in technology. let me take each of them in turn.

excellences ladies and gentlemen. first let's touch upon what is a direct existential threat and that is climate change we have reached a pivotal moment. if we do not change course in the next two years we risk a runaway climate change. the climate change is moving faster than we are and. speed has sent alarm bells ringing across our world according to the world meteorological organization the past two decades. have included eighteen of the warmest years on record since record keeping began in eight hundred fifty. a few weeks ago the thickest and supposedly the most solid section of sea ice located in the north of greenland began to break up for the first time. the

concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. is the highest in three million years and it's rising. making matters worse we as a community of the world leaders and their doing enough. we must listen to the earth's best scientists and we must see what is happening before our eyes and we need greater ambition and a greater sense of urgency. we must guarantee the implementation of the paris agreement. it has immense potential to set us on the right course but its targets. which represent the bare minimum to avoid the worst impacts of climate change are far from being met. i'm concerned that recent negotiations in bangkok. towards implementation guidelines ended without sufficient

progress. the next conference of party s cup twenty four in poland this december will be a key moment it must be a success as i said recently that. we cannot allow. the chip to remind us of the divisions among member states that paralyzed copenhagen. the good news is technologies he's on our side clean energy is more competitive than ever if we pursued the right path climate action could add twenty six billion dollars to the global economy by twenty thirty. and green economy policies could create twenty four million new jobs more and more companies and investors are finding that green on business is good business far from being a fundamental threat to the economy climate action is generating new industries new

markets. more jobs and less dependency on fossil fuels the real danger doesn't come from acting it is instead there are risks to one's economy by failing to act governments need to be courageous and smart that means ending billions of dollars in subsidies for fossil fuels it means establishing a fair price for carbon it means stopping investments in unsustainable infrastructure that lock in bad practices for decades to come. our future is at stake. nothing is immune climate change affects everything everything can be undermined keeping our planet's warming to well below two degrees is essential for global prosperity and the security of new. nations. that is why next september i will convene a climate summit to mobilize action and finance and we bring together

countries and cities in the stakeholders of the real economy decision makers business finance and civil society to focus on the heart of the problem. the summit. will take place one year before countries have to revise their national climate pledges under the paris agreement and these pledges will need to go further . only a significantly higher level of ambition will do. and the summit will be an opportunity for leaders and partners to showcase their ambitions to make this possible. we must act without delay. the world needs to be climate champions all of you. x. these ladies and gentleman let me now turn to new technologies and what we can do to paul's their promise but to keep that burials at bay and

that is indeed great promised scientific progress as up to you are deadly diseases to feed the growing populations to drive economic growth and connect business communities families and friends across the world rapidly developing fields such artificial intelligence block chain and biotechnology ever the potential to charge progress towards a sustainable development was artificial intelligence is connecting people across languages and supporting doctors in making better their ignore says duyvil as vehicles will revolutionize transportation but there are also respects and serious dangerous technological advances made these up the labor markets as to the tional jobs change of these appear even as the number of young job seekers continues to grow. retraining will be needed that previously any imaginable scales

education must adapt from the earliest grades and the very nature of work will change governments may have to can see the stronger safety nets and eventually universal basic income at the same time technology is being misused by terrorists and for sexual exploitation of the use organized criminal networks lewd conduct that is where profiting from encryption and near anonymous people currency payments to trafficking people and illegal goods some reports estimate that cyber crime is now putting when one point five trillion us dollars in the pockets of cyber criminals and willy and malicious act in cyber space such as these if a mission campaigns are polarizing communities and diminishing trust among states and more and more people are getting their information from news or social media feeds that echo their views reinforced tribalism and the sure people that they are

right and the other side is wrong and the visual revolution is also being used to discriminate against women and reinforce our male dominated culture that indeed there is a deep gender gap in access to digital technologies widening the digital divide we must these mental obstacles and create opportunities for women ensuring quality and change online and toxic or corporate cultures the technology sector must open up and become more diverse not least for its own benefits with technology outracing institutions who question between countries and the wrong stakeholders will be crucial including member states the private sector research center of civil society and academia. there are many mutually beneficial solutions for these little challenges we need urgently to find the way to apply them at united nations

we are harnessing technologies in support of the sustainable development goals we are creating innovation labs including in my office and in july established a high level panel on digital corporation that met yesterday and that is a dialogue platform for all the actors excellencies the impacts of new technologies on warfare that are a direct threat to our common responsibility to guarantee peace and security the weaponization of artificial intelligence is a growing concern the prospect of weapons that can select and the tech they target on their own raises most people alarms and could trigger new arms races diminished oversight of weapons as the implications for efforts to contain threats to prevent escalation and to adhere to international humanitarian and human rights law and let's call it as he tees the prospect of machines with the

discretion and power to take human life is morally repugnant evan philbin's any new war could very well include a massive cyber attack not only targeting military capacities but also critical civilian infrastructure i mean courage by the ten possible guiding principles elaborated in geneva last month by the group of governmental experts on little autonomous weapon system more work on these issues aimed at building trust between and within nations will be needed if we are to ensure the responsible use of new technologies and i urge you to use the united nations as a platform to draw global attention to these crucial matters and to nurture a digital future that is safe and beneficial for all. excellencies despite the gay use and confusion in our world i see winds of hope blowing around

the globe just days ago i witnessed the signing of a study peace agreement between its your peers and. in saudi arabia so now after the presence of djibouti in the area three met in jeddah to launch a peace process eighty three and somalia established diplomatic relations and in the same region in the context of a summit of the intergovernmental authority on development we got the two rival leaders in south sudan and finally signed a peace agreement imo prove that these efforts will continue to be consolidated so that the people of the horn of africa can finally turn the page on war and conflict the courageous initiative of the singapore summit between the leaders of the united states and the democratic people's republic of korea along with the recent meeting of the two korean leaders in pyongyang of there's hope for the possibility of

a full and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula in the context of regional security in my recent visit to colombe i was impressed by those people strong commitment to peace now reaffirmed by president. in central asia i personally witness strains and cooperation among states after those becky stan went through a peaceful political transition greece in the former yugoslav republic of. yugoslavia macedonia if taken a major step towards resolving their differences our peacekeeping mission in liberia ended the decade and a half of work this year following the country's first peaceful democratic transition having to peacekeeping successes elsewhere in west africa. the approval of a compact on refugees and another on migration ri presents signs of hope even if there is still a long way to go to reconcile full respect for the rights of people on the move

with the legitimate interest of states and those of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty across the world the past three decades and we have hurted looming famine in the four countries impacted in the past two years i mean years young people were at the heart of what the of the country's peaceful political transition earlier this year showing the potential of use to use their voice to advance democracy and the drive for gender equality is gaining ground i mean the growing awareness of pervasive discrimination against women and girls from violence at us mental exploitation to unequal pay and exclusion from the city and making the united nations must lead the way in pursuit of gender equality for the first time in the united nations is truly there is full parity in our senior management group and among residents coordinators leading country teams around the world and we are firmly committed to equality and empowerment everywhere excellent

cities ladies and gentlemen as our state secretary general kofi annan went through the mind as we shared i am quoting a common destiny we can muster only if we face it together. and that my friends is why we have the united nations and the world of future rests on solidarity. we must repaired broken trust we must believe you were a daughter multilevel projects and we must have pulled dignity phone one and for all thank you very much. was saying and tony good to as the u.n. secretary general standing at the podium receiving that warm applause there as we wait for the next speaker he basically broke his opening address turned into three main areas i guess two areas that were pretty grim and depressing one area however

he was talking about the winds of hope blowing around the world he said there's a drive for gender equality it is gaining pace but before that he spoke about climate change and technology and climate change he's got a very clear timetable in his own mind saying we have to change course the world has to change course in two years he made the point that of the last two decades those twenty years have included eighteen of the warmest years since records began he said the paris accords must be a success he went on to lay out the arithmetic the arithmetics of this the mathematics of it saying that climate action positive climate action can generate twenty six billion dollars for the world's economy he says governments around the world have to be courageous on technology he was talking about risks and dangers he was talking about retraining people he was saying that education has to adapt and ultimately with the use of technology the world has to get to a stage of having a universal a global basic income level he was also talking about cyber crime stunning

statistic this will make the front pages for sure tomorrow he was saying that cyber crime can generate in theory one point five trillion dollars for the people behind cyber crime a diplomatic editor james bay is monitoring that speech for us james what's your top takeaway from those words from antonio tatars. well i think you need to contrast what you've just heard there which is a very grim picture of the state of the world the secretary general saying people around the world feeling troubled and insecure and trust is a breaking point and then a pulley for a rules based international law or order to prevail for multilateralism people working together all of the people around the world putting their national interests aside and working together for the common good that is basically the theme of the speech of the secretary general let's go back to the system that's

worked for the last seventy years and that's being undermined in some countries around the world where popular ism and nationalism are are are gaining ground he doesn't name names he deliberately doesn't name names of countries like poland of hungary of the philippines and of course of the united states but i think this speech will be very very different from the speech you're going to hear in the next hour from president trump because we're hearing that's going to be a speech about sovereignty of independent nations and how they have to do their own thing and they should be allowed to do their own thing a speech that's been drafted by president trump speech writer steven miller he's been at the white house since the beginning very beginning he was at the side of the former chief strategist steve bannon he is one of the architects of america first so you're going to hear the plea just now the secretary general let's all

work together and donald trump again with an america first style speech so a real difference there but he was also at the top of his speech shame saying there were seven challenges that he outlined this time last year those challenges have not been met so he's trying to resell the idea of everyone stepping up to the plate to do what he thinks they should be doing. absolutely but on some of those key issues he disagrees strongly with the u.s. position you heard the plea for climate change i fear next september we're going to have a real showdown because the secretary general wants to have a special summit this time next year on climate change of course donald trump pulled out of the paris climate change deal very different views i think on this from the american administration and from the secretary general yet twenty four hours ago when they sat together there was warm praise for good terrorists from

donald trump and i think a terrorist knows this he knows if he speaks in broad terms he can transport to the whole of that room to all of the one hundred ninety three countries of the united nations he knows not to personalize it because he knows that president trump takes things personally he's a transactional president if good terrace is nice about him he'll be nice about good terrorists and it's very interesting to watch the terraces speeches and i have he has never i think in any speech spoke personally about the president he never says president trump is doing things wrong he says what's being done wrong in the world he never puts the finger towards the u.s. or particularly towards president trump james the time being for the moment many thanks let's bring in our senior political analyst marwan bashara is live for us here on the news in london. and tony the terror is there talking as well right at the end of his speech to the main chunk of his speech talking about reinvigorating

the joint approach clearly there's a follow on from that which is the joint approach minus the united states james our diplomatic editor there making the point the paris accords the u.s. has pulled out funding for the u.s. has pulled out various bits of the united nations and it does what it does on the ground the u.s. has pulled out. yes exactly certainly since he was the prime minister of portugal on to being the high commissioner of the un refugees on to being secular general i'm sure you've seen various american presidents in various times he's seen the world go from. bipolar world during the cold war onto multi-polar walled into a unique part of the world under george w. bush and now conflicting pillars of the world minus the united states which basically refuses to get involved in war the first as a responsible leader of the world community but if you will peter the speech

sounded to me like a combination of three speeches i would have heard before from what was a highly again his predecessor kofi annan his predecessor and banki moon he there was a certain bitterness and alarmism of what was galli in the one nine hundred ninety s. when rwanda took place as syria massacres and genocide is taking place there but there was also the sweetness of the discourse by kofi annan appealing to the common human destiny of the world and then of course there was that sort of an appeal the sort of softness of bank you moon because once again here as being the secular general of the united nation he needs to will work with all sorts of members including the permanent members of the united nations security council who today are not in agreement. as we wait for donald trump the u.s. president before as he makes his first speech his first address of three in the

coming two days do you get the feeling that mr trump has maybe kind of reprogrammed his diplomatic sat nav in as much as this time last year he was talking about the p.r. nyang leader as being a little rocket man if we rewind just a couple of months from where we are today after the singapore summit he was referring to me as being very very talented so that's positive on the one hand but it's still arguably negative on the other because everyone's still asking questions about well what did singapore actually get the world what did it achieve when it comes to denuclearization on the korean peninsula. absolutely but then you know it's all about rhetoric right i mean this is just going to be a fleeting speech at the united nations by an american leader and then there's the whole rest of the year to implement so last year we've heard them also you know speak about the possible properties most china and why china could be

a very helpful partner including in the negotiations with with with north korea but look where we are today we are in the middle of trade war with china as well as with american our allies like european allies as well as with canada so certainly there's going to be a change of tone but also change of examples but then it is donald trump in the sense there is very little consistency i mean he is a man for all seasons he will change he will change his color he will change his rhetoric he will change is our allies and enemies according to the moment and who is approaching him who is complimenting him was working with him and who's not so while north korea probably i might mention in praise but look at what just happened the last forty eight hours with the europeans and the the other you and security council members and iran i mean there is no bigger defiant moment in the last two

years to the trump presidency to the american leadership that other than the europeans and other world leaders saying you know what forget about your sanctions we will get around them and we would make a deal with iran and we will not violate your one you could hear that and i'm looking forward to forward to see how president trump will address later on today interesting that you talk about the korean peninsula mo and also the chinese input into that relationship between pyongyang washington and the whole issue of denuclearization is there a sense in which this might be an easier u.n. general assembly than it might have been. because of two people who are not going to be there president xi jinping of china not in new york president putin not in new york so the level that they might have had to go to with those conversations they don't have to go to that level of perhaps confrontation they can talk in generalities they can diffuse those issues perhaps it's

a big perhaps granted just by getting delegations to talk to delegations i'm just going to hope that you are right experience of course teaches us otherwise the russian american the russian the chinese as well by the way as the indian prime minister are not there because they don't want to see a confrontation and in the absence of confrontation i think there will be a lack of leverage for any one president representing them for a major deal meaning when these things take place as they do today already they should have been or not been agreements among the world leaders when they come to new york they don't agree on the spot they should have agreed before all sorts of negotiations take place to pave the way to their visit to new york the fact peter that they are not present in new york is because there is no agreement on

questions like min maher on questions like syria on questions like trade on questions like nuclear proliferation on questions like deployment of s.s.t. hundreds in syria on questions like even arab israeli conflict and so on so forth so my sense is they're going to let president trump do his circus lead meetings at the united nations they're not going to be president they're not going to tolerate whatever he's going to say and the world will continue next week as he did last week mo and many things will talk again i am very sure about that in the coming hours in the meantime thank you. on to our other top stories for you this hour and as marwan was mentioning there the european union has made it clear it wants to keep doing business with the iranians despite the u.s. ripping up the nuclear deal the e.u.

says it's working on a way for its countries to continue trading with iran she has reports for us now from new york. the e.u. was reported to have been discussing what it calls a special purpose vehicle for several weeks i will monday night the e.u. foreign policy chief said it would be going ahead e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legitimate financial transactions with iran and this will allow you to p.n. companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with utopian union low and could be open to other partners in the woods the plans discussed in the past have involved an entity being set up to act as a go between or clearing house which we know iran and other nations to facilitate commercial transactions for example if a country or company wants to buy iranian oil it would send money to or perhaps engage in a barter system involving this entity which will handle the transaction with iran the same would be true in reverse for iran's dealings with the rest of the world

the idea is to bypass commercial and central banks who are fearful of being frozen out of the us financial system if they help circumvent the new sanctions being imposed by the trumpet ministration against iran in the vendor. however the details have yet to be worked out and there is some skepticism that the system will work especially given the large number of european companies already curtailing their business dealings with iran. those meeting at the u.n. also announced that iran remained in compliance with the nuclear deal and pledge their commitment to remain participants in the meeting on the sidelines of the un general assembly didn't just involve european foreign ministers but the foreign ministers of russia and china as well meeting with iran coming as it did on the eve before donald trump addresses the u.n. general assembly in what's been billed as an attempt to really blast iran for its activity this was a sign of real international solidarity here in new york sheraton see al-jazeera

new york saudi air r.t. coalition the fighting in yemen plans to open humanitarian corridors to allow the delivery of aid it says it will work with the u.n. on the current all that would run between the rebel strongholds of data on the red sea and the capital sana'a aquatic at how the coalition is working with the u.n. humanitarian agency in yemen to establish safe humanitarian corridors to help with the delivery and aid between today deaths on our health and or simmons now with more from neighboring djibouti. this is sure it's from a saudi led coalition of a humanitarian corridor or comes off the back of a whole swathe of criticism at the u.n. general assembly on monday pointing to the fact that a famine is on the way and there has to be a secure route for aid food medicine to get to those hungry people to those injured people to so many millions of yemenis who are in an

innocent situation in all of this conflict so will the who says hold back in their fight to stop the coalition from taking data port city or not and whether or not really the coalition will somehow make its fighting enable corridor to get through all of the fighting the situation on the ground has been highlighted time and again from various agencies and the u.n. itself is saying that a famine if it starts nothing can stop it look at the situation here this is an isolated spot and this baby well he's two years of age actually and his weight is less than five kilos bassam mohammed has one is a victim of this war his chances are very limited in terms of survival he needs to go to santa away from the medical clinic. in the province which is isolated and in a desperate situation. the medical people cannot do anything about his position his

family is completely desperate his father is sick his mother is trying to tend and care for five children who are also malnourished and the situation well it's hard to describe really and this isn't an isolated case there are so many more and this is the sort of imagery that the un wants to get across to try to stop the fighting in some way to enable the aid to get through turn your attention to europe breaks it news the u.k.'s main opposition party is deep in discussions on how it will respond to the government's broke the talks with the rest of the european union labor party members at their annual conference in the city of liverpool will vote soon on their plans among the options are likely to be considered our support for a new referendum on any deal that might be reached the labor party leader jeremy corbyn has said he would prefer a general election over another vote by the public on e.u. membership not in barbour is there in liverpool. or tuesday's vote labor party

conference is on this text which came at the end of many hours of difficult talks and care starmer the shadow secretary in the last few hours has said that what was achieved was consensus it's almost certain to pass and he says that the room on sunday only in those talks decided to keep in the option of a people's vote including remaining in the european union that's something that's been contradicted by some senior party figures but he's saying that that is one option if the party fails to get an early general election that's what they really like they want to campaign to take over they say they're ready to be the next government they have the policies in place many of which on the economy a very popular with the general electorate now he says look at us we've which.