[000:00:00;00] the, this is the w news live from the land well lead to meet for the united nations general assembly. more than 140 heads the states and government all in new york for a week of talks among them for the 1st time ukraine's velo demand for landscape of several high profile leaders will be skipping. the event will have full coverage, starting with the opening address by the you insect trade general on 7 year guitar .

the money keeps making in a very warm welcome to the united nations general assembly is about to get underway in new york and the secretary general. antonio gutierrez, is expected to be opening the event shortly. these live pictures that you all seeing from the annual you and basing which more than 140 heads of state and government are attending ukrainian president loaded me as a lensky will be addressing the assembly for the 1st time. since russia's full scale invasion began, the russian president vladimir person will not be attending, nor will trying those president she and paying the us president drop by and will be speaking the only permanent men of the security council to do. so the war and

ukraine climate change and sustainable development will all be high on the agenda. while we wait for the un secretary general antonio guitars to open the assembly, let's get some background from the don't use chase international edits over it should, will. okay. richard, give us a sense of what we're going to be, what we're likely to be hearing from antonio guitars today. and i think what, what we've heard on your from antonio guitars in recent years is, is a really strong coal, often full for the well 2 of the comments divisions to come together to try to tackle the scale of the problems that the world is faced with at the moment, and i was just looking back what he said in his speech a year ago, most of the day, exactly a year ago, back in september 2022. in his 1st words. what, how well this in big trouble? you know, so he said he's somebody who is given to making strong statements about, you know, calling a spade a spade, to try to shape the, the international community awake and say we have,

we are facing major crises in terms of the climate in terms of development in terms of poverty and there is a war uh, obviously shapes in europe right now. i am trying to appeal to wildly, just to, to overcome divisions to try to tackle these issues in the spirit of the united nations which exist there for international cooperation. of course, and the concern that he's really underlined in recent years, i think, is about this fear of the world's placing into to of a new cold war emerging, you know, with united states in the west and well on one side with china and russia on the other side, and i can expect him to, to, you know, little bit about that too, but i think and from his press conference leading up to, to the general assembly a few days ago, he was also talking about the increasing emotions of a multi po. well, so not just this idea of kind of a division into but also i'm other sense as a power around the world. and we've seen sort of the little hints in that direction just recently of the g 20 just in india where, where i was just, just just

a week or 2 of have some movement in that direction. so i think she's message is also going to be, if we moving towards a multi point and a wealth of the, you know, these different pluses a power also need to work together to face these challenges with. well that's, that's really what he, well, he is good at what he focuses on is saying, you guys, you will need to come together and yes, you know, the u. n. is seen as criticized by some, isn't it, is it as a tool can shop a place where you know, lead as me and, and really nothing happens. i mean, we'll gutierrez, be pointing to achievements by the you. and so sort of prove that the u. n. is still need it. well i, i think he will, and we've just come the last couple of days as being the, the, somebody on talking about the sustainable development goals. and he's trying to take a positive message out of that. so these are goals that was set back in 2015. the goal is to be achieved by 2030 in terms of development for the developing well, but on a sustainable basis. so in all sorts of areas, a set of 17 goals that the,

the world is striving for, $0.50 that the world is pulling back, that actually much of the world is not even sort of moving too slowly towards these goals, but actually moving backwards. he's trying to bring us a positive message out of this meeting of the last couple of days saying there is at least a commitment for more financing to help achieve these goals. but this is question about whether the united nations is just a token. so we mentioned that, is it fit for purpose? is it really it, is it really resulting the world's problems? that question is very much in yet partly because of a huge divisions that we see in the world. partly because, as mentioned, but if we look at only one of the, of the lead is from the 5 permanent members of your insecurity counts is actually going to show up this year, joe biden, the other 4 siege and pain vladimir putin and emanuel nicole, of course, from front and receipts unite for pick not showing up. well, so assigned them, but you know, it's the you and not important to you guys. um, but in addition to that, this,

this growing sense key in the global south that the united nation system is not representative particularly that the un security council is not representative. and the most glaring example of that is the india, the world's most populous country. now has no permanency to an un security council, so we'll be discussion of reform. i mean, he's obviously making big calls or we presume he's going to be making big cold calls to, to nations around the world full action on all of these various topics. will he also say we want to move forward with you? we want to also modernize as the us. yeah, and i think the terrace isn't the only person who's cooling for, for modernize ation of the global system. you're seeing increasing calls for a modernization of, of, of the united nations, joe biden, and his speech last day. and we'll be hearing from him also in the, in the next hour or 2. last, you actually committed himself at the un security at the un general assembly to the

united nations reform, including of the security council is becoming more, more impossible to oppose that publicly because it is obviously. so i'm just not just that india is not that, but the africa has no representation, which i'm just gonna spell it for one second because i do believe intake. i'm telling you the terrace is the bias is off of the general assembly excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. just 9 days ago, many of the world's challenges go at least in an awful l. skate. thousands of people in debt and libya lost their lives in epic, and for this event, it's loving. they would have victims many times over the victims of years of conflict. victims of climate scales. victims of leave, that as near as foss will fight it to find the way to peace as the people as that and the leaves and by the, the, the certain sort of that thing difference as the skies and least one of the times

the monthly rate in the fall in $24.00 is them as bulk of city as of water, neglect. as everything they knew was wiped off the map. even though, as we speak, most of these are washing ashad from the same that it today and see where the millionaire sun bates on that super. yeah. it's data that is a set snapshot of the states of hardwell the slot, the v neck with the i mean justice, i mean the ability to confront all the challenges. you know, i mean it's excellent seats. overwhelmed, is becoming an hinged. jo points contentions are rising global challenges are mounting as we seem incapable of coming together to response. we've gone from a host of existential steps from the clements. could i use these to these are optic technologies and the,

the so at the time of k u optic transition formats of the cold war, international relations is what allows me seems to the pretty is move to super polyps. them came a short period of uni polarity. now we are happy to be moving towards the multi polar walls and these easy many ways, positive it's buildings and new opportunities for justice and balance in international relations. but it's multi polarity alone, get not to get into the piece. at the beginning of the 273, you would have been numerous. paul was, it was only multiple out. but it's like robust multi that the lease it lucian's. and the result was world war one, and most people in the world need strong and defective multilateral institutions. yep. global governments who stuck in time to look no further than united nations security council and the but that's

a good system. they reflect the political or the economic realities of 1945. when many countries in these assembly all would steal the colonial damnation. the world's f changed our institutions. if not, we cannot be fixed if we have as problems as the yeah. if the solutions do not reflect the world as it these, instead of solving problems that is becoming part of the problem. and the, the divides that deepening divides the market. konami couldn't really tell. the forwards, divides between north and south east and west. we, i didn't think ever close that with goods for actually me, konami can financial systems and 3 relations when that's what happens, a single open internet. we diverging strategies on technology and not the piece of intelligence. and potentially flashing security frameworks. is i time to renew

multilaterally institutions based on the 21st century, cannot become political realities, realty the equity solely that is the beginning of a sally p and including the principles of united nations, jonathan, at the international law. that means reforming the security policy of the line with the world of to day. it means we design and international financial ops, the section so that it becomes strongly universal and serves as a global safety nets for developing countries in trouble. i have no illusions 3 farms that a question of follow and i know that i many competing getting sort of sent the agendas. but the alternative to the farm is not the stuff to school. the alternative to the farm is for the, for documentation. it is reform or up to at the same time, divides that also why being we being countries. democracy is the sort of all

thought italian is, is on the march inequality is a growing, and they'd speech is on the rise. in the face of all these challenges and more compromise as become a dirty word overall, we'd statesman sheep, not gamesmanship, and greed long. as i told you, the g 20 it is time for a global compromise. politics is compromise. diplomacy is compromise. effectively the sheep is compromise. leave those have a social responsibility to achieve compromise in building the come in the future of peace and prosperity for all common boots. excellence sees over the past theater. we have shown the problem is of multi that's an election. we didn't part of the new agreements on say, forgot to think biodiversity on protecting the high seas on climate lawson damage

on the right to clean l. c. and sustainable environments. we have all the tools and resources to solve all or share challenges. what we need is the 3rd mean nation, and this would be nation easy. the dna, you have all united nations summoning dollars with the 1st words of the child at this we, the peoples of the united nations, determines the 3rd. i mean, to end the squads of was the 3rd mean 3 of for facing human rights. the 3rd mean to uphold just these and respected the rational law and the thought mean to promote social progress and better lives for all people. it's false to us what, what actions to apply that to, to the nation, to the challenges of, to die being faithful to the chopped, the united nations exigencies. it stops within the nation to uphold the jonathan plants for peace as you have the instead of defending this concept of war, we have seen just such as conflicts, goals,

and scales. the fabric on the field get somebody go. sions, under the shots of the right to peace would be get into when categories break those pledges. they create the well the vs security for everyone. exhibit a processing evasion of ukraine, the war in violation of united nations johnson and is rational law as an least the next was of our lives. the story human rights abuse, family starting the part of children installment buys, opened in shelter, shepherds. but we don't do crane the water seed is implications for those old nucleus threats with us on the threes. you can not in google 3, these and conventions makes us more or less safe in the parties. names of global diplomacy obstructs progress across the board. we must not 3 lands in working for peace,

a just peace in line with you and shot at the dimensional and even line fighting rages. we must pursue every avenue we use the suffering of civilians, you know, could i, and beyond. the lexi initiative was led to such avenue the world's beverly needs euclidean food that option for them, for the lives of, to stabilize markets and getting the food security. and i would love to give up on my efforts to make it happen. excellent. excellent, sees around the globe a themselves fest. why the new risk, the merge locate is ottoman, is that this then steals what content is. develop new weapons and make new sets across the sale. a series of pools is supposed to be specializing the region saturday is we just getting grounds. suzanne is be sending it to full sky,