none of these is that forty three third largest economy in the ward in terms of nominal g.d.p. our market between them has increased from us dollar five forty three in two thousand and sixteen to us dollar seventeen fifty two in twenty eighteen we have achieved that every g.d.p. growth rate of seven point eight six per cent inflation has decreased by five point four percent poverty rate has dropped from forty one point five percent in two thousand and six to twenty one point four percent in eighteen during the same period extreme poverty has decreased from twenty four percent to eleven point three percent. our four excuser was u.s. dollars seven point five billion in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine fiscal year. into a t eighteen it too grew up to even as dollar thirty two point

two million public investment was at four point three percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and nine it throws to eight point two percent in two thousand and eighteen dollars generation capacity has gone up to twenty thousand megawatts from three thousand megawatts in two thousand and nine. we are building based super critical power generation plants to ensure a sustainable power supply in remote areas without transmission lines power supply is being ensured with the help of five point five million solar panels ninety per cent of our about relation has come under electricity coverage with the launch of the work on nuclear power plant we have moved a step ahead in the peaceful use of nuclear energy bangladeshis now to cook nice as a development model. we have commenced our journey from being an l d c to the status of a developing country. the pottery for graduation is inextricably linked with our it

is d.g. implementation strategy which is integrated in our seventy five year plan. we remain fully committed to implementing. in the backdrop of our current economic growth there are now immense and largescale business opportunities in long. fourteen investors are being offered various financial incentives like tax holiday evidence of double taxation and exemption duties we are setting up hundred especially konami the ones that helped create ten million job opportunities in bangladesh. to follow up on my role as a member of the main committed to implementing the outcome of the high level panel on water formed under the joint initiative of the even secretary general and the world bank president i r to our leaders to take our gente actions on proper

management and investment in water we shall be held responsible to our future generations if we fail to do so my god meant remains committed to ensuring safe drinking water and sanitation for all through actually being as the g six and as of now ninety nine percent of our people have access to sanitation and eighty eight percent to safe drinking water mr president under our social safety net programs. six point five million elderly men and women we doze destino due to women and persons with disabilities are getting regular. since twenty ten students are receiving free of textbooks from three primary to secondary levels in a school. three hundred fifty four point nine two million books have been

distributed among forty three point seven six million students this year. vision impaired students are receiving braille books children from ethnic minorities are being given books in their mother language is. around twenty point zero two million students from primary to graduate level are getting a stipend. style. money for fourteen million students is sent to directly to their mothers through mobile phones we have ensured hundred percent general meant at the primary level literacy rate has increased from forty five percent to seventy two point nine percent in the last nine and half years. our home grown in order to have social or economic development models have gained whitely popular exceptions micro savings have been introduced for marginalized communities true though one

house one farm become one project and the amount saved by the big beneficiaries on their individual accounts is equaled in deposit by the government. the shelter project. is being implemented with the aim of having no homeless person in bangladesh. we are working towards reaching our one personally destroy every one of our villages. women's empowerment and participation have been a major factor in maledictions out a standing development we have committed women's empowerment to enhancing their education opportunities and facilitating their political and economic emancipation and. we have created opportunities for girls to pursue their education free of cost to great in public educational institutions at secondary level the ratio of girls and boys is fifty three to forty seven in our late two thousand and nine it was

thirty five to sixty five bangladeshis perhaps the world's only country where in its national parliament the speaker the leader of the hollows the deputy leader of the house and the leader of the opposition are all women in the present parliament there are seventy two elected female members thirty three person seats. for women in local government bodies in order to promote women's political empowerment at the grassroots and around twenty women women are employed in agriculture service and industrial sectors we men constitute eighty percent of the four point five million workers engage in the largest export arning government sector women entertainers are offered colette turn free bank loans with high persons are discharged densher percent of a small enter can years front. and ten percent of industrial plots are marked for

women into premiers mr president. she's one of the most densely populated countries in the world. more than one sixty million people now live in a land area of only one of forty seven five seven square kilometer. despite already since constraints we have made significant strides extras a range of social indices the matter now mortality rate has decreased to one seventy thousand and child mortality has an eight under the age of five has gone down to twenty eight thousand life expectancy has increased to seventy two years from sixty four in two thousand and nine in the last fiscal year we have spent five point nine percent of our national budget in the public health sector this year

investment in health has been increased by seventy two percent. so around eighteen thousand community health clinics and and health centers operating health care. been reached to our people's doorsteps. thirty different types of medicines are being distributed free of course tuberculosis prevention and control efforts have been intensified to reach that twenty thirty is the target as a result d.v.d. led to deaths have reduced by nineteen percent in the last two years bangladesh has been playing up by a nearing role in raising awareness about the needs of children affected by autism and other new developmental disorders in order to far don't consolidate already force in this regard a specialized cell is being created in the ministry of health and family welfare a national committee and a national advisory committee have already been set up. simon was a saint wasn't the chairperson of the advisory committee and

a member of the world health organization's ex-parte advisory panel on mental health has been named goodwill ambassador on this issue for south asia mr president we welcome the formation of the secretary general's high level panel on digital corp the underlying premise of our vision for a digital bangladesh is to promote people's well being why despaired introduction of internet based public service delivery has led to growth in job creation at the grassroots level the idea of a digital bangladesh has become real we have made our foray into the world of the stick space technology by launching our own satellite bungled one to one being the fifty seventh country in the word to have done so it was in fact a dream of our father of the nation that we would one day reach our outer space

the launching of this satellite helped us realize the aspiration he had instilled in us by setting up the first satellite ground station of the country on saltine in one thousand seventy five mr president bangladesh is among the ten most climate vulnerable countries in the world. grapheme coupled with high density of population has made the country rectory linley exposed to climate change risks filled with long addition immense committed to implementing the berry segment. we are spending over one percent of our g.d.p. in addressing climate change impacts we're also comeau to climate resilient agriculture initiatives have been taken to increase street coverage from twenty two percent to twenty four percent in the next five years a project toward fifteen million u.s. . dollar is being implemented for the conservation of dust and months the world's

largest mango forest and that unesco world heritage site. we have integrated our development programs and our a force to build capacity for combating climate change into make up project titled delta plan twenty one hundred. it is a water centric multi-sector oh no economic plan with a long term time frame. has been developed in consideration of the local geomorphology and of global climate change impact. bangladesh is the only country in the world that has adopted such a long term development plan spending eighty two years. we are shocked. by the continued violation of the rights of the the really people of palestine. this must come to an end. as the chair of the y.c.

council of foreign ministers we shall continue to work with the international community is illusion of the palestine question. there are three elements that are the most critical part in advancing human civilization peace humanity and development. for the wellbeing of human societies we must continue to strive for humanity our main objective must be to serve the people and ensure their wellbeing. it is humanity and good will that do take us forward on the pathway to sustainable development you know warned face media of challenges on our common interest shared responsibility and sustainable partnership will be our best bet for bizarre being that human civilization mr president.

all my life i have been working selflessly to make a difference in the lives of my people in the last nine years and a half bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in different socio economic sectors. that bangladesh the war new as the land plagued by disasters floods droughts and hunger has done wonders in maintaining international peace managing disasters empowering women and consulate dating development against bangladesh has now surpassed its neighbors in south asia on a number of indicators but our journey has not reached its end. our journey will continue until the day we can build a bangladesh free of hunger poverty illiteracy and exploitation there sure are bangladesh of our father of the nation one woman who shaped medieval roman i thank you could.

jar bang into may bangladesh live forever. so you're watching live pictures there from the u.n. general assembly in new york the bangladeshi prime minister shake a scene or giving her address to the assembly let's bring in algeria is she had returned see who has been watching the address at the u.n. she had so not surprisingly shaken seen or started her address with the plight of the richenda drawing on our own personal experiences do underline the pain and suffering the ranger experience in. right and it's a message of exasperate that we've heard before from the bangladeshi prime minister as she pointed out last year at the u.n. general assembly she bought a five point plan to try and solve the right into crisis this year she has brought a three point plan the five point plan having not been enacted a three point plan this year is about abolishing discriminatory laws in myanmar stablish ring safety for returning migrants in me to myanmar perhaps using safe

zones and accountability from those accused. of crimes against humanity genocide and so on she is particular exasperated with the government she has often said you want to pick a fight with them but at the end of last year she reached a bilateral agreement with the money on my knees for the resettlement refugees there's a million refugees in bangladesh that simply clearly is not happening that the circumstances are right yet in myanmar for that return of the refugees she's clearly very exasperating interesting lee the house has been some developments both here at the u.n. in new york and at the u.n. in geneva over the last several hours the the the developments in new york rhetorical the u.s. secretary of state met with the. delegate to the u.n. general assembly a few hours ago and i compared did not answer any questions but then the deputy secretary of state did on some questions specifically because on monday the state department released its long awaited report it was actually finished in august but

then they didn't they didn't release it until i quietly released it on monday without even the press release which quite extensively documents the horrors being visited upon the renda in myanmar but they didn't use the word genocide as the u.n. fact finding mission did so the deputy secretary of state was asked on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly a few hours ago well why didn't you use the word genocide and he said look that way it wasn't meant to be a determination of genocide it was to try to understand what was going on but he didn't crucially rule out that the information used in the state department report wouldn't be used eventually to bring. charges of genocide of crimes against humanity against those responsible so that's the rhetorical. story of the day the concrete the concrete story happened in geneva just just over the last day where the u.n. human rights commission has voted to start an independent mechanism to both collate information and evidence of crimes against humanity and genocide with

a view to some sort of prosecution and clearly this is because they they they know that you're not going to get me on the referred to the international criminal court because china would veto that so now there is no mechanism that is being set up at the u.k. by the un human rights council there to investigate and potentially prosecute all right to have a chance either at the u.n. in new york she had thank you now president trump supreme court nominee has given the angry and defiant testimony to a u.s. senate committee saying he's completely innocent of these sexual assault accusations against him brett kavanaugh described the allegations as a calculated and orchestrated political it he was speaking just hours after his accuser christine blassie forward gave an emotional recollection of her attacker dr forward with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted one hundred percent one hundred percent i believe he was going to rape me

i tried to yell for help when i did it brett put his hand over my mouth stop me from yelling this is what terrified me the most and it had the most lasting impact on my life it was hard for me to breathe and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me well for his part kavanah denied ever committing sexual misconduct and said he wouldn't be threatened into withdrawing i'm not questioning that doctor ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time. but i have never done this to her or to anyone that's not who i am it is not who i was i am innocent of this charge i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process you freida hard you've

given it your all and no one can question your efforts but your coordinated and well funded effort to destroy my good name and destroy my family will not drag me out when rosen jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. as expected this was always going to be a very divisive and contentious hearing brett kavanaugh i really meant taining his innocence and many observers seem to think christine lacy food was credible. that's right both of very contentious during break cavanaugh testimony as well as a bit unusual paul christine blazin ford was addressing the senators because the republican majority had brought in a prosecutor from the state of arizona to question her rather than question her themselves because they were concerned apparently about the spectacle of eleven

older white men questioning a woman about in the alleged sexual assault however the special prosecutor who was brought in was not on hand for much of kavanagh's testimony on thursday afternoon and turned we saw that it was a lot of questions about what people remembered what people did whether there were political motivations at work and certainly that last part perhaps was the most contentious part of thursday afternoon testimony and were also once the dust to settle on the hearing what happens next in terms of the nomination process. well love senate republicans are meeting right now to discuss whether they should go ahead with having the business committee meeting where they would vote on recommending the nomination to the full senate that meeting is tentatively scheduled for friday morning on capitol hill it's not clear that it's going to be delayed certainly the u.s. president donald trump would like to see that business meeting take place and then

see a very speedy vote on the floor of the u.s. senate however are democrats are still continuing their calls for delaying the confirmation process because they say that there does need to be an f.b.i. investigation into not just christine glossy for its allegations but into the allegations made by two other women this week and we know that donald trump himself has been tweeting but how political rose was the hearing and why was that unusual. it was very very unusual normally these these hearings rest on the case of whether a person's judicial philosophy could have long term ramifications for the u.s. legal system as well as for the american people instead this was very much an argument about the upcoming congressional elections on november sixth in fact lindsey graham one of the more prominent republicans said as much during his five minutes of questioning

a break and instead of asking him more questions about what he was doing or was not doing during the summer of one thousand nine hundred two. all right jordon there in washington d.c. thank you let's go now to jeff house a joins us from washington d.c. he's executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic policy research ways tossed with monitoring executive branch appointments justice is a hearing filled with high drama what did you make of the testimonies that we heard today i mean cavanaugh remained angry and defiant but blasi forward seemed to be overwhelmingly honest. yes dr baf seen as honest incredible by people on both sides in fact there are reports that president trump himself was disappointed that no one had told him how credible that she was going to come across and i think everyone thought that it was very clear that she was there for all of the right reasons and was providing truthful testimony later

testimony from judge kavanagh was very very different cavanaugh was as rude as i've ever seen a witness in a congressional hearing he asked senator democratic senators as many questions as they were allowed to ask him he talked over them at all times but he did seem to rally senate republicans in conjunction with lindsey graham in so hearing that had seen michael as potentially going to get into a more bipartisan place had and it ended the evening in a more partisan place then i think it should have leaving the ultimate outcome in doubt at this moment in terms of the nomination how damaging has this been for the republicans only we heard from donald trump yesterday saying he would happily was draw a cabin and if if you thought the evidence was compelling but so they he's tweeting supporting capital. i think this was a disaster for the republican party i think that kavanagh testimony was completely

divisive whereas dr baazi ford's was i think everyone both men and women democrats and republicans all believe she came across as an honest person whereas kavanagh i think really only spoke to both not only just the republican audience but just a subset of republicans men and i think that republican women independents who are both men and women and democrats are all going to be pretty appalled by any sort of continuing republican support for judge kavanaugh nomination even if it narrowly passes or if it narrowly fails either way i think the republicans have the associated themselves with abusive behavior and disrespect towards women in a way that is going to be ultimately very damaging to their party and we know that a number of other accusers of come forward kevin to seems to be unwilling to endorse the idea of an f.b.i. investigation how damning is that and could that damage his credibility. i think it's enormously damaging i think that the. senate democrats i have to find some

fault with some of the things that they did during the hearing but they were very successful in pointing out that if brett kavanaugh is prodded stations of innocence were sincere he would allow actual facts to be gathered in a by neutral law enforcement officers and i mean i have never seen someone more opposed to the idea of an investigation more unwilling to endure scrutiny professing innocence it was remarkable dissonance and we know that senator susan collins from maine had specifically wondered why judge kavanaugh supposedly accomplice mark judge had not been subpoenaed and i think today's testimony from both cavanaugh and ford underscores the fact that mark judge ought to be subpoenaed need to be an f.b.i. investigation just just a final thought from you before you go the u.s. supreme court has a huge impact on american political life how was this likely them to play out in

terms of the votes nobody'd impact politically on the upcoming midterms i think it's going to be one the big issues in not just the two thousand and eighteen midterms but also just defining who the parties are and who they fight for in the future and i think the worst outcome for this from corby of judge kavanaugh were elevated to it because i think democrats will never accept that he has a legitimate justice and i think you could see impeachment hearings in the house of representatives in the near future and ongoing diminution of the credibility of the supreme court in american life thank you very much for your time now the palestinian president has used his speech at the u.n. general assembly to launch a strong a time come the u.s. and israel but a bus said the u.s. was no longer an independent mediator in the peace process in contrast israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu then he addressed the issue in the speech diplomatic editor james bays has more. it's when the israeli prime minister spoke

to the un there was one thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he then went on to boast about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation to president trump and ambassador here really for the unwavering support they provided israel at the united nations the palestinian president gave his message the moment he took to the podium and put chalets settled by jerusalem is not for sale. but how the sharman and the palestinian people's rights are not up for bargaining he went on to express his frustration at the actions of the trumpet ministration a lot and we awaited his peace initiative with that most patient but we were

shocked by decisions and actions he undertook that completely contradict the role and commitment of the us towards the peace process and it is ironic that the american administration still talks about what they call the deal of the century. the palestinians believe that by his actions it's not just that president trump is not synonomous broker he's actively on israel's side and when you listen to the way it's a news conference before he left new york he described the man he's put in charge of peace efforts his own son in law jared kush no it's not hard to see why i think the two state will happen i think we're going to go down the two state road and i'm glad i got it out and jared who is so involved he loves israel he loves israel but he's also going to be very fair with the palestinians you understand it takes two people to be happy to groups of people to be happy everybody's going to be happy and that's why it's so tough the fact he barely mentioned the palestinians i think

shows the confidence of benjamin netanyahu and what's going to come out of the chair and cushion the peace plan which we're being told we revealed in the next four months the palestinians meanwhile already i think believe they're going to have to reject what's in that plan james zero at the united nations meanwhile iran's president is claiming a diplomatic victory following his address at the u.n. general assembly hasan rouhani and told reporters in tehran that the u.s. was becoming increasingly isolated internationally fourteen countries either directed or indirectly backed the nuclear agreement at the u.n. security council meeting samus robbi has more from tehran before you left senior leaders in iran were on the fence about whether their president hassan rouhani should even attend this year's united nations general assembly the apprehension a sign of how disenchanted iranians are with the international community since the united states pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal sending iran's economy

into a tailspin so as soon as he returned rouhani took to the airwaves in a live address putting down any doubts as to the importance of his visit to new york. the most important thing that was obvious at this year's un general assembly session that we saw in the media and also heads of state said it it was the rightfulness of the public and the reigning nation and the bullying by the united states. he said he was able to use the visit to openly explain iran's policy positions within the legal framework of the un the biggest international stage there is and despite president donald trump's efforts to hurt iran's public relations blitz to maintain the integrity of the twenty fifty nuclear deal ronnie said his american counterpart accomplished nothing that. america has adopted an approach of unilateral ism it is indifferent to international organizations and laws it wasn't just our opinion others also mentioned it in different ways they

accomplished nothing even during trump speech when he praised his own administration they laughed at him and the american media considered this a humiliation for the u.s. government and their country at home painting an unflattering picture of trump could be seen as shifting blame for iran's economic problems away from his own government. the falling value of the ryal a barometer iranians used to check their country's financial health has made the rouhani administration unpopular at the u.n. the iranian president needed to win the european union because i think now four plus one countries basically came and said that they're going to actually take a country to steps in terms of making sure that the companies that are dealing with iran could do so without facing serious difficulties from the united states iran's leaders hope other nations will help them to legitimately participate in the global economy even after more u.s. sanctions take effect in november and as far as the iranian people are concerned

economic relief cannot come soon enough president rouhani assured iranians that america stands alone on the world stage against them his speed seem to signal to his people that if they stick with him and the nuclear deal just like the majority of world leaders he just met that in the end iran will come out on the right side of history zain. the saudi foreign minister is also in new york where he's discussed the blockade against qatar saudi arabia is one of four countries that cut diplomatic and economic ties with the are in june last year accusing it of terrorism charges that qatar denies. relations won't be resolved until doha makes the changes that riyadh requires. more from new york. the announcement of this started for mr adie dashes hopes for any political way out of the crisis as far as the g.c.c. crisis is concerned he said that it's. qatar's duty to try to sort out its own problems he was saying basically that qatar has

a financing extremism that qatar should stop interfering into the internal affairs of different countries accusations which were strongly dismissed by qatar as politically motivated and fabrications and the timing of the statement comes at a crucial moment because on friday u.s. secretary of state by pompei oh is going to meet with just to see ministers of foreign affairs along with the mess as a foreign affairs of jordan and egypt to discuss regional stability and security now we've taken the steps that we took no dealing with. you can't over fly airspace you can't import things from a market you.