but said sooner or later they'll support it again rouhani says tehran is willing to resolve its issues of washington national bar reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. tough times for president has a lot honey his people want him to stand firm against the barrage of verbal attacks from the u.s. but his ultimate goal is to prevent a military confrontation with the world's most powerful country more. time our intent is to ensure that the usa abides by laws stops of bullying stops pressuring maintains commitments keeps promises that they sign on to it hears two un resolutions we say do not sanction illegally unfairly in unjustly we say the sanctions of the u.s. are inhumane and they must stop bullying the world. but the u.s. isn't the only country accusing iran of trying to destabilize the middle east saudi arabia has long blamed iran for funding crosses to spread she has them in

a predominantly sunni arab world accusations dismissed by to herat. yemen's president. told the united nations general assembly that iran must stop meddling in his country's. we're not. all the how to. fight over we are still in the grips of a war that was imposed on our people by armed militias that are supported by iran and hezbollah they are supported financially through the media and militarily these militias are extremists they employ gangs to work tactics. are all right honey denied all those allegations as well as accusations that his country continues to send weapons and fighters to support the syrian president bashar assad the iranian president couldn't hide his excitement about the support he got from the e.u. russia and china but it remains to be seen whether that support will last as the

u.s. ramps its diplomatic pressure the back and forth accusations between iran and the trump administration come at a critical time the u.s. is planning a new round of sanctions to choke to iran's oil revenue and that's already raising fears of further instability in the middle east. new york. britain's defense minister says the true identity of one of the suspects in another chuck nerve agent attack in salzburg has been revealed to be a russian colonel his comments appear to confirm claims by the investigative group that they say these photos prove that one of the suspects who went by the name. is actually an attorney. but in cat says he worked for the russian military intelligence agency and was awarded russia's highest medal in twenty fourteen russia denies any involvement in the attack or joining us speech at the u.n. u.k. prime minister during the may accused russia of trying to fabricate evidence in the

case and violating international law we have seen what happens when the natural patrick isn't which is a cornerstone of a healthy society is into aggressive nationalism exploiting fear and uncertainty to promote identity politics and belligerent confrontation abroad while breaking rules and undermining institutions and we see this when states like russia flagrantly breach international norms from the seizing of sovereign territory to the reckless use of chemical weapons on the streets of britain by agents of the russian. we have to show there is a better way to meet the concerns of our people that way lies in global cooperation between strong and accountable states based on open economies and inclusive societies plus also to come here on the news hour including researches accused china of building new coal plants with a capacity bigger than all those in the u.s. combined and they stood next to each other for the u.s.

ryder cup photo but will tiger woods and phil mickelson play together we'll have that on the sport and a bit later. now mexico's incoming government says it's going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of equality the promise comes as protesters gathered to mark the fourth anniversary. and suspected massacre of the students one of the worst crises during president enrique pena nieto his tenure with john heilemann joins us live now from mexico city john so today is the fourth anniversary of the disappeared students tell us what's been happening there. we can probably see behind me quite a long sort of spread out marches heading towards the central plaza of mexico city this probably thousands out here but before then a little bit earlier on today as you mentioned the president elect lopez obrador

met with the parents of the students and said what we're going to do is we're going to start a new investigative committee we're going to try and open up this investigation again and try and find out what happened to the students what's been important to him and pull the parents because really the investigation that the current administration is really carried out about this they were very slow to react their investigation was criticize is riddled with errors and when independent investigators very respected ones from other countries they came in to try to do an independent investigation there are obstacles put in their path and they were even spied on. so this is something that really made the current administration greats not think he could be president no city something is going to come to town to look for this place to do so because it's become symbolic committed to dissipate people in this country as you say john the forty three students are not the only ones that disappeared so what action is the new government promising that.

this case it's promising triode think this is simply going to turn to the other cases in the case of the disappeared of course the country looked at it it's quite true pushing this thing they're proposing that the summit still takes on this issue people in the listening to support my spine to sympathetic to the people who see the people who continue to be at risk to the killings across the country we could apply the world since they see that it might say give amnesty to get. them a ship about some of the displaced discounted across the country it's just a couple weeks but it is going down with the one thing sixty remains that it seems but it's like the scene of the mass graves coming up in the last few days so that he completes a chance to struggle to keep from falling into political synchronise using his own

tickets in little pieces getting pretty to the roots of these people they say to be including true denies point trying to provide them with all the way so gentlemen there in mexico city john thank you. now the international monetary fund has increased a loan to lodge and tina to fifty seven billion the seven billion boost designed to restore investor confidence in the south american country argentina's been struggling to repay its debts on a steep interest rates the pace has lost around fifty percent of its value against the u.s. dollar so far this year. argentina's economy is both room company. and something like the economy of the who of the new plan is. strengthening its position and having a sustainable appropriate on the budget. a strong monetary policy focus on reducing inflation and

a blocking exchange rate only he we don't know intervention. bangladesh's leader has accused neighboring man mark delaying the return of ranger refugees saying her country can no longer shoulder the burden bangladesh is hosting more than a million range of refugees who fled a violent crackdown by me in mazar me promise to shake a scene as appeal for more international aid me in mind bangladesh i've made several deals to repatriate the ranger but so far few have returned a fears for their safety. i have all the one hundred sixty million people in my. what is our land boundary one hundred forty thousand kilometer hundred sixty million people. feeding them and so their. housing made a guess and everything. or thirty i can't dig any other bargain

i can take it my conduct and are. now a chinese citizen has been arrested in chicago on charges of spying twenty seven year old shall coon is accused of trying to recruit american engineers and scientists and even defense contractors to work for the chinese government agent brown has moved from beijing. well this could all be very embarrassing to china's government especially its security service but on wednesday a spokesman for china's foreign ministry told reporters that in his words i know nothing about this well that's not the case with officials at the u.s. justice department they say that g. child churn left china in two thousand and thirteen after being recruited by china's ministry of state security they say while in the united states g. studied electrical engineering at the illinois institute of technology and while there he had another job and that was to obtain biographical information on

naturalized americans who'd been born in china and taiwan who were working in sensitive areas like defense as well as aerospace the idea being to eventually recruit those individuals to work for the chinese state now while all this was happening g. was somehow able to enlist as a u.s. army reservist under a program which allows migrants to do this if they can prove they have skills that are vital to the united states now if g.e. is found guilty he could face up to ten years in jail and of course all of this happening at a time of deepening tension between china and the united states. cross over live now to the u.n. general assembly in new york where palouse president tommy remains guess who is just about to give his address allows a small island nation in the pacific expects to lose quite a bit of land because of climate change really focusing on green tourism and agriculture let's just listen in to what he has to say i congratulate the

excellence in this money after nine. years and resent the assumption of the presidency of the general assembly for each. becoming only the fourth warman to take the sheep in first woman representing her region. allow welcome shoot to these prominent role and i have no doubt that you would steer this canoe as our captain and our boy it's towards agenda twenty thirty in a unique and effective way. let me also express my gratitude to his excellency minister scott for his exceptional service during recently completed terms at the outset i would also like to pay my respects to a great leader and great humanitarian our former u.n. secretary general and noble peace laureate coffee on

a friend and ally to all mr annan was the living embodiment of our mission to create peaceful equitable and sustainable societies this year we also celebrate the legacy of nelson mandela which continues to inspire the poor and oppressed to the amend it call rights in honor of the centenary of the birth of nelson mandela the nelson mandela peace summit was a huge story a paternity to reaffirm our faith and in the principle and values of the u.n. charter madam president the republic a pullout is committed to promoting peaceful equitable and sustainable societies boated home and internationally and we see the sustainable development goals as the most important framework for achieving our objective the path that it's country

takes to achieve their goals will be unique but we recognize that all our interlinked in reinforce one another. for pullout our core priorities are hell oceans and climate change through which the rest of our development objectives through genuine and durable partnerships will be realized by lao has declared two thousand and eighteen as the year of good held at home we are implementing a number of events to raise awareness and cultivate healthier lifestyles to respond to the deadly problem of non-communicable diseases and c d's allowance ranked in the top ten most obese countries in the world and i am afraid to say why are in other parts of the world people are dying of hunger in poverty in our corner of

the pacific we are dying of over eating and poor diet the rice in diabetes heart disease cancer and other entities attributed to unhealthy diet insufficient physical activity excessive consumption of salt sugar and fat hog a whole and go use and see these are now the leading causes of dead in palau and sadly throughout the pacific up to seventy five percent of us will die from n.c. this prematurely this crisis has prompted prompted a strategic shift in focus at the ministry of health of palau towards increasing preventive services in an effort to improve the health and livelihood of our people we are encouraging

a return to traditional diets and increasing our local food production as much of the problem stems from the importation of unhealthy junk food. however in the gaze of tuberculosis i'm very happy to report that incidences of tuberculosis have been minimal and well under control over the years by the president the ocean for my country is our livelihood our culture and our identity which is why achieving s.t.g. fourteen is so critical for us the ocean is also the foundation of our booming tourism industry which we continue to be the largest jobs provider in the country we have lounged a new campaign preached in paradise palau which places sustainability front and center and i have

a firm belief that our environment is our economy our economy is our environment and so preserving our magnificent otoh reefs and abundant fisheries will ensure tourism continues to grow as well as protect our food security for generations to come for this reason we have moved aggressively to implement our national marine sanctuary a no take zone that covers eighty percent of our exclusive economic zone it is palouse contribution to the global effort to achieve s.t.c. fourteen the value of the in their marine biodiversity in palo is priceless and therefore we are eager to wark with the scientific community to identify more ways to build the resilience of our coral reef ecosystem we are

proud of our domestic efforts but international action remains essential. last year the world gathered here in this great hole and declared that the ocean is sick and needs our unified global assistance to restore it to good health this year in response to this call for help that the prime minister of norway the unutterable are now solberg and i together with the governments of australia chile fiji kanya indonesia jamaica japan mexico now media portugal and the u.n. special envoy for oceans launched the high level panel for a sustainable ocean economy this panel six solutions to building a transform aid transform with the political agenda for ocean action and seek to

deploy the development of a platform to deliver management and tracking of commitments initiatives partnerships including science based monitoring of the ocean featuring national and private sector leadership by law is also seeking a strong outcome to the intergovernmental conference on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction which will be an important complement to our domestic auctions further on the horizon my country would be proud to play host to the our osa in twenty twenty conference that same year will host the united nations oceans conference we need to identify our priorities and catalyze new coalitions so that

the year twenty twenty in the comes to be remembered as a year of action. mother president my government also takes very seriously its contribution to the paris agreement which is also integral to our plans for achieving s.t.c. though teen and other relevant goes climate change is the greatest challenge of our generation just this month we once again saw the damage that record breaking sight clones bring to vulnerable countries like super typhoon mungo it brought to the philippines building the resilience of vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change must be an urgent global priority allow has developed a global climate change policy framework with the objectives of undertaking effective of a patient measures to deal with expected impacts of climate change and strengthen

our capacity to prepare and minimize these as there are risks and mitigate climate change by working towards low carbon emission through clean energy initiatives meanwhile we continue to work with our global and regional partners to build capacity and mainstream climate change into our national planning and budgetary process small island developing states are indeed making great strides in transforming their energy systems as part of our vision for building a pristine paradise by law it's about that ambitious international commitments to increase its supply of renewable energy by harnessing the power of the sun and transforming our energy sector to receive at least forty five percent of our electricity from renewable sources by twenty twenty five. smocks starks

have no place in paradise milan president let me say that again smokestacks have no place in paradise our target represents an extremely ambitious undertaking but we are confident that with the right partners we can achieve our goal we take very seriously our responsibility to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as part of the global effort to limit temperature rise to one point five degrees celsius why palau emmett's a miniscule fraction of the global aggregate we believe that the example we sit can inspire many others to our earlier this year we took a big step forward by passing a law which mother nizar electric sheep electricity sector to enable a rapid transition to renewable energy and now we have an enabling framework to

trigger investment in transforming our economy towards harnessing the power of the sun we can now invision that in the near future the people and consumers will pay less cost for electricity and the financial shavings will be distributed to areas where it is needed most for example health and education one day very soon visitors to our islands can be treated to not only a beautiful environment but also a bold example of a more sustainable way of life. of course all of this world depends on the dedication of our partners and their commitment to s.t.g. seventeen our ambitious goals can only be attained with strong international partnerships that respect our national priorities and our independence by law is fortunate to have many good friends and strong partners we continue to strengthen

our relationship with the united states of america through the compact of free association and we offer our gratitude for our unique relationship we wish to give special thanks to the united states for the operable of the amended financial provisions of our compact the government of japan has also provided generous support through the years and i hope for our sincere credit to their friendship assistance and partnerships support and continue to strengthen our economic and social undertakings we also would like to express as patient thanks to india for its recent efforts to expand and strengthen its partnership with my country india has partnered with us to improve our youth initiatives strong family projects in this year i have declared two thousand and eighteen as the year of good health of which india is now a big partner to reform our health sector so you're watching live pictures there from the un general assembly in new york

a pullout as president tommy remains gets out talking there he paid tribute to the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan he said palau is committed to sustainable development goals he declared twenty eighteen as the year of good health he said that plan was eager to work with global south scientific communities to sustain healthy coral reefs as part of palau contribution to healthy oceans he said pelle i was working with norway and other countries to protect our oceans mr plow's pushing for high quality low volume tourists and he said his government is committed to the paris climate agreement tommy remains got their pals president talking at the un general assembly. now u.s. president donald trump says if evidence against his supreme court pick is compelling he could withdraw the nomination one of the three women who were accused of sexual assault is expected to testify on thursday well michelle cross fenty is an international lawyer and managing director pass uncross north she joins us live now from washington d.c.

so brett kavanaugh is now facing a third accuser of sexual misconduct he denies the claims but just how serious is this third allegation michelle. i think this is actually quite serious and i say that because of the timing what was released today by her attorney michael was a sworn statement. and although if you read the statement it doesn't actually claim that cavanagh was one of the people that assaulted her what it does is it actually brings a lot of light onto his character and i think that that's going to be particularly problematic given the fact that just a couple of days ago kavanaugh did that interview with fox news where he painted a picture of being a choir boy of being a virgin for many many years i think are the words that he used and now we have

this sworn statement that paints a very very very different picture and so i think most people are going to be wondering well exactly who is he and that's probably not what he wants people to be thinking about at this point in time yeah that's an interesting point you make michel and given that brett kavanaugh is now facing three allegations whether he's guilty or not is it's making him look more and more like a lame duck as you're suggesting is his nomination in real peril right now do you think. i think that's the million dollar question that we're all asking here in washington. i think the last interview that i just saw of that when president trump was asked about the nomination i think it's quite understandable that he was adamantly supporting his nominee as he as he would do and he continues to cast the situation that we have right now as

a politically motivated situation so that's understandable but i think what surprised me the most about what trump said recently is that he went on to say that he could actually change his mind and especially if the evidence that comes out tomorrow against cavanagh was compelling so i think that that's quite a shift and i think that we'll keep our eyes open to see exactly what occurred in the hearing tomorrow a final thought from you i mean as you say you search testified before the senate judiciary committee on thursday how do you see this playing out of the hearing and impact thing going forward into the midterms. well that's a great question while interesting the so tomorrow is not a legal hearing and we understand from everything that's been reported that ford will testify and then of course. judge kavanaugh will testify so i

don't think tomorrow given everything that we've learned so far i don't believe that there's going to be a smoking gun i think in my mind i'm actually more interested to learn about the stories of the other two women ran mira's and. i'm more concerned to find out what. will the senate actually be interested in hearing what those women have to say because if if if they come forward and much of what's being said by dr ford we have a serious. change in the character and i think this is what we're trying to get at in the senate confirmation hearings i think also tomorrow depending on how it plays out it's going to be interesting to learn what women's attitudes are do they feel like there was a fair hearing i think it's really smart that the committee decided to have

a woman do the question in i think that's very very very important because we all can remember the anita hill hearing and the optics were particularly terrifying i was a long a young law student at the time and the optics were awful so they did a good thing introducing a trained prosecutor to answer the question but it's all going to depend on what happens and how women in general feel about the hearing and whether they feel that there was a here a fair hearing and and that will determine how they come out to vote in november. all right i'm michelle cross fenty their international lawyer and managing director of passing across more in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time let's go now to the u.n. general assembly in new york where the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is about to address the assembly let's listen to what he has to say.

you know him by order of distinguished and that sitters. heads of delegations. of the countries members of the united nations. and i'm president of the general assembly. live in an a spinosa. man extend to you as the congratulations of the government and people of the bolivarian republic of venezuela on your election to the presidency of this seventy seventh session of the general assembly the true still latin american woman to be president of aging relisten plea session.

we are meeting here at this seventy third session. to. do our own words. on a very important issue. and it has been worded it has. making the united nations. relevant to all people global leadership and shared responsibility for peaceful equitable and sustainable societies. so we are here to make the united nations relevant to all people. this is indeed a lofty goal. the

united nations. in the twenty first century is continuing its work in this area this is a century of great opportunities. and we feel assured that the twenty first century. will. lead to political gain valid and sent the leadership of the peoples. of which sooner rather than later will have a real impact on the future of the united nations. the united nations was born. in the heat of the end of the second world war in one thousand nine hundred forty five.

and throughout the twentieth century it was to prevent conflict and it developed post-war development but that were road was a bipolar one at that time. after the fall of the soviet union. we moved into a uni pulled or were old. and the correlation of forces and the way the world looked had a real impact on the united nations itself. for the united nations to be relevant.