being killed because of what we do. but because of who we are, we are not being killed by mistake. but as but a grand design a make to make sure we understand no one is safe so that we all live with fear in our hearts uncertain. no impunity for a journalist, a president, a health worker, a you and staff, a farmer, a child. it may be a pregnant mother, an elderly professor, a dual citizen, and minister, an officer, a judge. if you are a palestinian, you are illegitimate, thought it. and is that it can decide if you get to live or die,

no. impunity for any palace, no immunity for any palestinian and full impunity for every israeli. and yet some are worried about is there a security when not a single palace teen and enjoys safety, and you are all outraged when attack, shootings funeral you where distress and surprise well, is there a letter done or that a funeral on a couple of days later so alias, war against palestinians does not stop a death is often speaks of the need to release with health is the bodies calling that practice barbaric. it does so while with holding the bodies of hundreds of palestinians with some having been detained for decades,

it deprives their loved ones from the ability to bury them, indignity, remember them? remember them surely is killing was not the exception is that it was prompt to accuse their victim instead of taking responsibility for a long standing shoot to kill policy that found in the killing of shootings, its ultimate expression you rightly called for accountability. but is that it has enjoined impunity for so long? it does not know what the hell you are talking about. madam president, what is the ill fails to grasp? is that this has been it's policy for decades. and yet the palestinians are still here. still fighting to live and freedom and dignity on the ancestor land. shaheen

is the story. a story of resilience and determination against all odds. a story of triumph, even in death. her people more'n and another. and buried there in her home town. jerusalem. our captain, regardless of how many crimes is there in commits those carrying her coffin were ready to be harmed and not to drop it. they. ready prevailed over fear and death as she did. madam president, we one piece for ourselves and for others. but we will not surrender. as you can not have peace between a prisoner and the jailer, we want freedom. we deserve freedom. we are entitled to freedom supporting our quest for freedom is the duty of all of you and it is the only path to

peace. we choose the piece for the purse, help us prove it leads to freedom, help us. often in these holes. i hear about all the obstacles to achieve peace. let us take a step in the right direction and then another and peace will be within reach. take a step in support of palestine and freedom. recognize the state of palestine, help consolidate them. 1967 borders, including in jerusalem, help communities live and friday on their land. make sure there is a cost for israel for building illegal illegally in our land, and make sure there is none for palestinians to build on this. take

a step to ensure accountability and end impunity take a step to protect innocent palestinians. civilians being killed every day. take a step to uphold their historic status sco at al am sharif. this cancel spoke in a strong and united manner after the killing of shirley condemning the killing and calling for accountability and protection for a journalist. it took a small step and the right direction, which we appreciate which the family of hearing appreciate. i talk to her brother just this morning before coming to the security council, and he expressed his gratitude and appreciation for your position, unified position, and condemning the killing o'shelley. let us take the next one. and the next.

let us force is ill to corex. it's course i want to inform you that shaheen was not an exception in the woods there of palestinian ambassador to the united nations. we are mon sol. as the address the killing of the al jazeera journalist, sharina barkley, his voice broke when he went on to say, we are not being killed because of what we do. uh because of who we are. let's go over now to kristin salumi. she joins us from the un headquarters in new york. what was the purpose of this meeting? that was cool. this was the session of the security council at their monthly meeting on the situation in the middle east in what the united nations refers to as the palestinian question. one of the longest unresolved issues on the un security councils agenda. it was

a chance to update the security council on the situation in the palestinian territories in the last month. and clearly the most significant development was the killing of sri and r block lay the al jazeera correspond in as just about every speaker made reference to her das. but what was interesting was attempts to put that in the context of the greater palestinian situation. and what we heard from speakers in the middle east envoy to the united nations, toward venice on for example, said that this is part of a familiar pattern of daily violence for palestinians including our clashes settlement expansion, evictions and demolitions and seizures of palestinian structures. they talked about the continuing violence in the last reporting period since the counsel last met on this issue, 10 palestinians including women and children, have been killed and for israelis have been killed as well. there's no doubt about

that. that was condemned as well. but what sharon's death is making clear as the ambassador pointed out, is that there is the lack of recourse for palestinians when someone is killed. whether it's a child, a journalist, or an aide worker, and that is leading to intense frustration and what we heard from so many speakers is a warning that the conflict is only going to get worse if the underlying issues are not addressed. and in particular on jerusalem day coming up, there's a march planned for celebrating jerusalem day by israeli settlers and a back could be another flash point. we heard the envoy warned. so this is an attempt to put sharina death in the context of these greater issues. though, so a kristin, the palestinian ambassador called on the school counselor to take the next step. what is the next step?

well as far as the palestinians are concerned is accountability and investigation. and the security council has already called for an immediate thorough, transparent, and impartial investigation. a rare moment of unity that the council came together on the situation and made a statement calling for that investigation. the members have been repeating that over and over since initially making the statement. we've heard it here on almost a daily basis since we heard it today in the united states. ambassador, it said that the counsel expects accountability at the end of that investigation as well. but at this to had staged a, it's out of the security council's hands of that investigation, but we are seeing continuing focus and continuing calls for accountability. all right, thanks so much kristen. sylvia. now the palestinian attorney general says israeli

forces deliberately targeted veteran al jazeera, puerto shooting a barclay with armor piercing bullets with the intent to kill her. and those are tried to help her. a few hours ago, the attorney general made public their findings into her killing. he says the group of journalists would target even after they identified themselves, are criminal health leave says they've concluded a sniper shot shooting in the head in the occupied west bank on may. the 11th israel says it will not open a criminal investigation. believe offer ela, a knack and it was visible that she was a journalist to those as railey forces, alley, particularly in an area where all jer, unless gather and meet. these places are known by the israeli forces, and there's really forces were attacking the upper parts of their bodies with the aim of killing. there's really forces also continued to fire after hitting and targeting sharina, which means they want to kill every one who tried to help syrian and rescue sherry

according to the videos that we have seen. we're in addition to that, the time of the crime, the place of the crime has never witnessed. at that moment any clashes with the occupation forces, no stones have been thrown at all towards the israeli occupation unit, which means the only source of firing was the occupation forces. with the aim to kill muck off the ill be either you or says it does not want to new cold war with china. but it does want the chinese to add here to the international rules based order. in the long awaited speech outlining strategy, secretary of state anthony blank and said the challenge china poses will test us diplomacy like never before. and he said china is the only country with both the in $1010.00 power to change the international status quo. anthony blinkin said china is the challenge to that order. i especially want to thank friends at the present biden believes this decade will be decisive. the actions that we take at home and

with countries worldwide will determine whether our shared vision of the future will be realized to succeed in this decisive decade. the by the administration strategy can be summed up in 3 worse. invest, align, compete, shebra town sees in washington d. c. hand has more on the importance of lincoln speech in the main, the arguments there about the international order. well, what we've heard in the past, you either with us or against us or countries perhaps think, well, maybe from a bad idea of the, the u. s. had jermel mc controlled world older does have some competition. but because this to speech had been meant to have been been given in early may before the biting speech as a sort of cotton raised a frame, the biden visit but, but blink and got covert. so now after biden's speech, it's being see in some ways as

a way for blinking to pick up the pieces from all the confusion that biden. so when he was in, in asia, specifically on taiwan and we got a really interesting re statement of us policy. it's interesting because on the one hand, clearly blinking is saying here, our policy has not changed. our approach has been consistent for decades as the president said. but then he says, we oppose any change any time, any attempt to taiwanese independence. but often you hear, you hear us official particulars, like you said, say it out loud, but that he balances that out with the other part off. the long held us policy since since says and $79.00, basically, he actually read out a portion of the, the taiwanese, the act that governs us relations with taiwan. but he, it could be clearly that blinking is trying to frame another match, biden's remarks in the context of that. but the problem is, biden isn't, hasn't been speaking in a very ambiguous way when it comes to ty,

while he was specifically us, you know, will you actually militarily intervene as you haven't done in ukraine? and he said, yes. so that debate as to whether what's going on and by does head aligns with the actual strategic framework of u. s. officially, that's going to continue. i have a feeling let's bring in, steve sang, he's a director at so as china institute joined us by skype from not him good to have you with us. so 1st of all, what you make of anthony blinking statement that china is the test of you must diplomacy like never before. i think what any lincoln has said is a very reasonable and measured statement. it faxed in reality that the world is facing. and also we faxed it will challenge to us diplomacy in the next couple years. you think china has shown with its actions that it is a concern when it comes to the international order and respect for international

law in order. well, the chinese government takes a very different view. the chinese come and believe that whatever the chinese government does automatically issue international law. and if anybody else things otherwise, then they have a program which they are be china. but the chinese government does intend to take taiwan pack ripley with taiwan surrendering, but even taiwan will not do so. they will use whatever means available to them. and that includes the use of force to think that speech is really putting the u. s. and china on a collision course, or is it possible that they're going to find a way to work with each other? i think his speech is trying is true. and boy, the 2 countries getting on the coalition, coal. but this speech will be seen in beijing as hypocritical,

and be ruling that the fight and administration is taking a coal mentality to deal with a problem. in spite of entity, blank and saying exactly the opposite. have chinese actions in the south china sea reinforced the concerns about whether china is ready to abide by the international order by the 2019 i c j ruling against the chinese position in the area. well, i think the example you cited over the south china sea marine town dispute confirms what i said earlier that the chinese government thinks that we would what it saying is about the south china sea piece reasonable. and the south pole create is the i she is taking side and being unreasonable and therefore they do not accept and it will not accept it. what they do is against international law. all right,

thank you so much for sharing of perspective, steve stang. i'm fighters and begin a fast so i have killed around 50 people during an attack in the eastern region. the group were shot dead while trying to flee a blockade that had been set up in majority because foster had been hit by frequent attacks by on group since 2015 in that time, more than 2000 people have been killed. nearly 2000000 displaced, senegal presidents is declared 3 days of national morning after 11 newborn babies died in the hospital fire. blaze broke out in c one east of the capital dachau. the cities may as, as a short circuit, caused the blaze and the return to unit to quickly spread the death of pregnant women while waiting for a syrian operation. provoked nationwide protests last month. nicholas hawk has more

from t one outside the abdul. as he see hospital police are out in full force because there was an angry crowd here inside there, only letting in the relatives of the new borns that have died. there are tragic scenes inside mothers wailing, crying, asking questions. why did it take so long for the fire fighters to come in an hour and a half after some one had alerted of the smell of smoke? why did, why wasn't there any fire extinguishers that were working? white wasn't any alarm bells wrong so many lives could have been saved. so these questions will be put forward to the minister of health who is flying back from davos to answer these questions. this is a nation in morning and while the government presents this as an isolated incidents, it's part of a trend. just a year ago, dozens of baby had died in similar circumstances under a u. v. light newborns were toward after the mosquito netting around it. went on

fire and just a week ago, at the morgue, a new born was presented as dead but was in fact alive. and then earlier, midwives that were arrested because a mother had died calling for a c section. this is an incident one to many a death one to many. and so the opposition are saying that something needs to be done to ensure that people can come to public hospital and have their babies safely . mark, his largest gun lobby group is going ahead with its annual meeting on friday, just a few hours drive from the latest school shooting in texas 19 children and 2 teachers were killed on tuesday in val day. despite the community in morning. the national rifle association ignored calls to cancel its meeting. resident joe biden has called on politicians to stand up to the an ari more information about the

government is emerging. john hamden reports for the seen the shooting. there is video circulating on the internet of police standing outside of the school, while parents, other people there are urging them to go in. we aren't running that video because it's not clear to us exactly what is happening. we didn't take that video but that his raised concern among parents in this broader area that maybe the police didn't go in quick enough because what we do know is that when salvador ramos was inside that building, there was a period of 40 to 60 minutes while he was inside, they're firing away from it li, claiming the lives of 19 students in 2 adults before border patrol agents went in and shot him fatally. there was speculation at one point that he had shot himself, but were told that his not what happened. and we're learning a little more about

the man himself. he was an 18 year old just days before this event. he bought 2 a r 15 style assault rifles at his house, shot his grandmother in the face, wounding her, and then he texted a friend and said he was going to go shoot up an elementary school. and that's when he came here and we don't know a whole lot about the motivation, except that he was apparently arguing with his grandmother about who was going to pay a cellphone bill. he was a, an 18 year old who for years when he was younger, had been bullied for speaking with a lisp, and a dropped out of high school students at a school in oxford, michigan of walked out of class demanding political action on gun control. the shooting and texas has raised painful memories for many at oxford high school. last november, full students were killed when a classmate opened fire. the 15 year old as being charged with 1st degree murder and terrorism. this was the scene in church falls, virginia,

where students at meridian high school, held the so called die in that eye on the athletic field, hoping to pressure politicians to toughen gun laws. some held signs, calling on those in power to protect children instead of weapons. several democratic senators gathered in washington d. c. to push for change. they criticized the republican party for its ties to the and i'll re, one of the speakers was chris murphy, a senator from connecticut, where 20 children was shot dead a decade ago. well, we are the only country in the world in which our kids go to school, wondering whether they will survive the day. right. my. my for 4th grader yesterday had to have conversations all day at school with his classmates that no child that no 10 year old should have to have. and he is forced to have those conversations with his friends about where they will high about where

they will run because of decisions that are made in this place. and we're going to change those decisions. the cranes admitted roches got the upper hand in the eastern region of low hunts. that's where moscow's forces of focusing the latest offensive. they've shelled more than 40 pounds in your hands can neighboring dom yeske, regional governor says 90 percent of landscape now on the russian control. mr. when you are sort of lee gray, 2nd acts intensified fire along the whole line of contact and they don't yet operational region. the enemy uses tactical rocket systems, aviation at artillery the situations difficult and there are signs of escalation. the enemy has used all resources to capture our territory and surround our forces. the fighting, reached maximum intensity. the enemy attacks our positions at different points

simultaneously were in for a very difficult and long stage of the struggle, which as a bank has more from a senior crime on the time of today it's quiet. we haven't heard much other than i going fire, but the other night we were and just before curfew mean that's been kind and we heard the town was struck. now let me show you what happened. this is a library that you couldn't say the library one, a strike one read through the roof. the other bomb dropped here. right. because right on the floor between the library and some residential buildings. another crew to next to it. it took out the residential building, opposite and behind us. now we spoke to some people that were here, cleaning up their belongings just to the, to the right of us because people who are staying here, i'm yes, one moment like with everyone. ok. i said, well, we're a life, but i have nowhere to live anymore. we met another mother and a child that lives in the building behind us. and she said that we've left and we

only come back to feed our cast because i doesn't want to leave. most people have left because of the situation here in elsewhere. we were near so slowly and this morning just got side. and we saw and heard the russian strike hitting a position on the hill. we heard the whistling of the 3rd of the smoke rising up. now, you're going to start the saying that russia is intensifying. it's ation, it's, it strikes to help his grand for in that offensive and also it's long range. as you're teaching bummers to take out ukrainian air defenses, ha, custodians ousted prime ministers, giving the government 6 days to announce new elections, or face further protests and mon calling issued the ultimatum during a speech, the thousands of supporters in the slammer bag is called off. the demonstrations of his warning, he'll return with 3000000 protesters. the government doesn't agree to elections. con was forced out of office last month after

a vote of no confidence. former domestic worker could become columbia's 1st black vice president. fancier marquise has used the election campaign to open discussions about race and class in a way that's rarely been seen before. on sunday, colombians will be voting for their next president choosing from for candidates. alexander amputee reports from cali, leading vice presidential candidate, france. jamarkis doesn't look like, nor has the resume of a traditional colombian politician. yet she has become a political phenomenon, giving the voice to the countries marginalized communities. i didn't ask to be in politics, the politics messed with us, and now we mess with it. and we're messing with politics because they always told us it wasn't for us. that politics was for others. mike, his rice has been meteoric as a black woman and environmentalist. her message in candied language propelled her to the 3rd place in the country's march presidential primary,

compelling the leading presidential candidates gustavo pedro to choose her as her running mate. okay columbia and i said thank you. i'm cambia can't accept a woman that the elite c as the housemaid. we were limited to one role and she's changed that showing us and our daughters, that we can be what we want. even president clara, as a single mother, she worked as a housemaid, but managed to get a law degree and was awarded the goldman price in 2018. the world's most important price for environmental activists. i thought i had thought of she has survived the attempts in her life as to confronting illegal gold mining mafias in the conflict rhythm region around her hometown, frances birth this and then out the asians of columbia of social disparity. this part that amazon president national governor sation about rape and class, exposing deep and long standing whoo, in the backlash,

jasmine's way. in social media in the streets, she has been the target of racist attacks, a well known columbian singer called her king kong. she has even had to cancel campaign events during a rallying bull gutter. she was targeted with the laser and forced to leave the said, oh, isn't centralized bob will yet her success has convinced other presidential candidates to select afro colombians as running mates, luis hilbert, moody. you're running for century said here for harbor says it's about time to start dealing with columbia's history of racism and bigotry, a capable. there's an entire legacy of structural racism that is denied from the start, our existence, dignity, and humanity. other people ask me why i always wear a suit and tie, i don't like ties, but when i don't use them, i am racially profiled harassed, including by the police to a segment of colombians who are clamoring for change and for more diverse

representation. marcus is their champion, even if only as a vice president. the question is whether the rest of the country is ready for her . allison ramp yeti and jose eda kal you than bob way is hosting a conference same that willing international support to sell it stock. i love ivory, it had a heart that the thief owns of elephant tusks, east from poachers or animals that died and could be worth around a $100000000.00 on the black market. some by way, once the band on ivory trade lifted, otherwise is threatened to quit the international convention regulating trade in endangered species. john scanlan is the chief executive officer of the elephant protection initiative. he says, selling the stock pile of ivory would encourage poaching because the challenge that bob, when you're facing is a real one. and it's not just bases in bob way. and that is how do you manage large

elephant populations and how do you manage them when they're coming into conflict with your local communities and very sadly injuring and killing members of the community. that is a real problem. and how do you finance that? at the moment, somebody's looking to get ivory stockpiles is a way of financing that. the problem is that the theory behind filling ivery is fine and elephant dies of metric causes. you can make the i for you sell it in the and the prices go back to local communities. the fact reality is that it just hasn't worked that way. once you have a marketing every, you have a high value placed on ivory. it does seem like poaching the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory and back in 2010 to 2012 is 100000 ellison killed illegally for their ivory. so if the issue is, if the best way forward to try and generate revenue, i would say no, we ought to maintain the band on ivory for good reason. what we need to do.