streets of canada. look for asians room to. play. if you want a lot of the church and you could try to like street the united nations nobody's done that yet but let's not rule that out just yet after all these years general assembly is just getting started in order to move forward we'll take a look back at the good the bad and blow it down our bizarre amount of meetings the past. you know that the old beach boys song bomb iran and the barber but anyway. i think iran is a great read so what exactly makes you think that sen come along as we explore why some of the political elite seem so eager to beat those drums of war against iran.

and. protesting for peace and justice from a bloodthirsty us justice system just minutes away from the execution the scheduled execution of a potentially innocent man put the death of trade davis spark race back in the u.s. . good evening it's wednesday september twenty first at seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. we are just minutes away from the scheduled execution of troy davis but he is still fighting and this as davis files a last ditch plea to the united states supreme court asking to stop his execution and it's not just davis that's hopeful his supporters aren't giving up. big.

protests and vigils have been taking place all day all over the world right there that's d.c. but also hong kong and france to give you examples now these protesters are calling for the state of georgia to spare troy davis is life davis as the man believed to be wrongfully convicted davis is a black man found guilty of killing a white police officer in georgia is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight now this despite a number of appeals calls from amnesty international the pope former president jimmy carter and in davis' case there was no physical evidence that he committed the crime no d.n.a. evidence seven of the nine witnesses in the case recanted five say they were coerced and many of his supporters feel the case of troy davis showcases the unfair justice system in the united states. there's ever to be a first because. they are very.

risky. now that was in washington d.c. right now you're looking at live pictures outside of the prison in georgia where troy davis is scheduled to be executed reportedly there are about one hundred fifty people right outside the prison and then across the street reports on the ground thousands more are out there so far from what we're hearing there is no word on from the supreme court yet on the final. the final plea for davis to not be executed now we will go back to these pictures and we will have more on this we're going to be speaking with the league is evolution of oz of the new black panther party to look at whether this is a race issue or a human rights issue or or what really this is about we'll have that for you

shortly later in the show. now as troy davis is awaits president obama was preaching earlier today on the international stage about human rights at the sixty six united nations general assembly this morning we heard from president obama who in the midst of u.s. wars in afghanistan and iraq but more specific to obama the nato combat mission in libya because he greenlighted that one so despite all of those wars you talk a lot about peace. the pursuit of peace peace is more than just the absence of war a lasting peace. he says hurt people can live in sustained freedom dignity and security even as we proclaim our love for peace and our hatred of war. he says

hard he says hard and when talking about conflicts in the arab world obama urged sanctions for syria while he took a much more cautious approach you could say to u.s. allies yemen and bahrain and also as a bid for a vote on palestinian statehood builds up in the united nations obama said it's not the body's role call tens of thousands of palestinians today rallied for it and palestine already one hundred twenty of the un's one hundred ninety three members recognize it as a state outside of the u.n. obama's speech of course coming to a year after he stood at that same podium pledging hopes for brokering middle east peace and that palestine would have a statehood i now we'll get the latest from the u.n. g.a. debates that began today but first a look back at the most memorable moments a few n.g.'s past. if only these walls could talk.

wow factor and center stage drama would be their story every year for about ten days the united nations becomes a mecca for world leaders from the confrontational to the surprising to the outright wacky the when she never fails to impress what happens right here becomes a mirror image of what an engaging game politics can be over one hundred ninety members make up the general assembly to get attention we'd have to get creative if you want a lot of attention and you could try to like streak the united nations nobody nobody has come in but naked with a gun on their back i mean so far none of this has happened but i wouldn't rule it out in the future that's one of few tricks that have not been performed here yet i think that one that i remember the most i mean there was could i think with who i guess will never be back here again so it becomes memorable because it's a collector's item now it's a long speech and tearing up tearing up the u.n. charter and falling asleep so we have just broken record and you're out of. the

line you are trying to destroy the constitution. the record holder first speech laying an indian envoy in the fifty's nobody remembers what he said but i remember that he went on for eight and a half hours exhausted the diplomat collapsed at the podium only to return and carry on the un is really owned it's owned by its member states it's not really anyone's role to you know becoming a western and grabs you know you've got to when they're up there they can go as long as they want they can also see whatever they want and accusations often go flying towards the u.s. yes ok. thank you. and it's not as assessed for still today and from the u.s. the greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers are chosen to deny you liberty and the media. creating legends out of billy's performing with. carla bruni becoming

a headliner for the simple act of showing up to solve youth leader nikita who short run allegedly banging his shoe against the. slavery. people the better half a century leader the story is rumored to be a feverish time on tourists visiting. some people eager someone says the episode is a legend as the is never captured on video push through the. media you give it. all. that you can believe in the. word as deed officials pull out facts sparring accusations backed up by wooden so you. need to invade iraq by nonexistent ripens of mass destruction we're giving you our faction conclusions based on solid intelligence the key players come and go.

because you have one side. and just support your team and opens it with the fierceness clearly not for into this international political stage drama year after year as the number one guest to r.s.v.p. and archie. and for more on this earlier i spoke with david swanson he's a campaigner for roots action to start things off i said you have obama discouraging a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood a year after standing on that podium saying there could be a palestinian state by now as a result of the mideast peace stick deal i asked if he sees this as a sign of obama and americans american brothers waning international influence here is what he said. well i think it's the creation of another myth if this is remembered as a moment when a president or a peace prize winner came and spoke for peace and spoke for palestine that will be

as as you know accurate as is remembering a shoe that didn't happen. you know you can't say this country may have statehood but only at the approval of another country that is illegally blockading a large piece of its territory and it's absolutely outrageous i mean if china were blockading a large chunk of the united states and we could have statehood with their permission i mean nobody would stand for it it's it's double standards and it's worse than that in that you have the vast majority of the nations of the world ready to give statehood to palestine and you have the united states with veto power say no it's up to us we know better than the entire world and yet you see the united states according to reports it appears working very hard on the sidelines to make it so this doesn't go to a vote so that they don't have to veto and so that nobody loses face in best case you know the u.s. now is in place according to them i would imagine but what about how the u.s.

is role in the world does this north a decline in u.s. influence well we're seen a gradual decline in u.s. influence including this handing over somewhat of imperialism to nato members in europe in terms of the libya war we are going to see an ongoing decline in u.s. imperialism but we have seen some of its last gasps under obama we have seen story this week in new pieces for drones in africa and asia we have missile bases being put in surrounding russia we have navy bases been put in next to china we have this incredible escalation of militarism and here he comes and gives a speech about peace if exactly what i wanted to ask you about you have that report of expanded you have nato saying that it's going to extend the mission in libya for three more months how do. do you balance that with obama going up there saying peace be calling for a million times not a million but you stop play examples and i report will and stressing that you can't

just go for it you have to fight and kill for it and you know back before world war two the idea gave us the killer green and pact which bans all war period and is still the law of the land was that you can't use war to get rid of war you have to stop making war the united nations was always for it was always we will be in wars except those we deemed offensive and those we are for us and if you have a distortion of power within the united nations and you have a war making state with troops in one hundred seventy seven nations and slicing up the globe into different commands and a military that could be cut by eighty percent and still be the world's largest if you have that kind of influence you're going to have wars get authorized and so you're going to have a president come up there and with total hypocrisy say wars are brought upon us including by nations possessing weapons your brand cannot demonstrate that its program is peaceful just like iraq couldn't demonstrate that it no longer had they

had for actually sold it you know that's that's the justification for war in this mindset and that's how you get at peace ok so you're comparing this to past president today because you made the comparison to iraq and we have it which was bush obviously you have a bomb now with iran so do you see this as more of the same or do you see this as kind of a watershed moment where the united states is losing its authority in the world it's it's continuing as under bush and cheney to lose its respect to lose its power to lose its influence but it's accel rating i think under obama as it did under bush it's compounded but you know obama to get up there and say i was handed two wars and now we have a different a different course set we have six wars and we have operations in dozens of countries. this is a continuation we're still in iraq we're still in afghanistan and we have libya which is obama starting that wasn't

a bush war that was obama they greenlighted that as far as double standards for a president who is up there portraying himself as fair how do you balance that with calling for sanctions in syria but yet a more cautious approach and bahrain and yemen well it's hypocritical of you know bahrain is our good friend to so we hope that they get better and stop the abuses that we've greenlighted the saudis and our own our own forces to tolerate and. grain is hosting a naval fleet for the united states and it's pure hypocrisy the theaters are on notice barack obama said after listing a series of nations which included nations we've gone to because they're dictators turned against us policy in tunisia and egypt whose people turned against them because they obeyed u.s. policy right so this is the notice that dictators are on but it's very modeled in the presentation from the president that was david swanson a campaigner out roots action now every you glenn as it's punching bags and for the

u.s. that has often been iran we heard even just lately republican president republican presidential candidate michele bachmann yesterday was calling on president obama to block iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad for speaking at the united nations at all they were accusing him she was accusing him of violating the u.n. charter and international law now in fact it is bachmann who is calling for a violation of the law at the site of the u.n. is international territory and because of that the u.s. is obligated to allow access for leaders whether michele bachmann likes them or not but get to the bottom of why iran is such a target for the u.s. and what this could lead to christine for his outbreaks all of that down. just about everywhere you look at iran continues to develop nuclear weapons someone whether politician or pundit are controlled by a fanatical regime is beating the drums of war how close are we to the point of no

return well i think we may be past the point of no return in the sense that iran does have inside the country everything it needs to produce a nuclear weapon that point of no return often exaggerated according to journalist seymour hersh whose in-depth articles recently this one in the new yorker illustrated time and time again the lack of evidence of a nuclear threat from iran the rhetoric though has resulted in widespread support for harsh actions against the country we support a sanctions program that's the sign to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something we know we know they're not doing sanctions called for repeatedly by the obama administration so let me be clear iran's nuclear and ballistic missile like seventy poses a real threat not just to the united states but the runs neighbors and our allies curse compares president obama's attitude toward iran to bush and cheney's policy

toward iraq they want to punish they want to make their case against iraq they didn't like the politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons we were three member they were talking about mushroom clouds i make a case they go to war. and to war america when. many worry it could happen as well in iran if rhetoric becomes reality iran is going to very perilous position it's obvious that the crosshairs are on them squarely if anyone wants to know how it would begin to look no further than those hoping to have their finger on the button here's john mccain four years ago that old beach boys song while moran. and history does in fact repeat itself. where the greatest threat to the security the world is a nuclear iran iran is a country that has killed more american men and women in uniform in act in iraq in afghanistan than iraq is and the afghanistan's happy. this is last month's g.o.p.

presidential debate in iowa they are one of the four state sponsors of terror in the world only one candidate strayed from the script to texas congressman ron paul just think of how many nuclear weapons surround iran the chinese are there the indians the pakistan is there the israelis or the united states is there all these countries china has nuclear weapons why wouldn't it be natural that they might want to weapons there'd be internationally they'd be given more respect but one man given very little respect on u.s. soil iranian president ahmadinejad number one village or some other this is. just last year the group united against nuclear iran with these posters up all over new york city perpetuating the idea of a hostile iran american policy needs enemies we need bad guys we need this these threats because these threats justify an expansion of the letairis spending they

justify you know the voices of the military and hawkish congressman do you know the rest of the economy is sinking the military industrial complex grows and grows and grows in other words war is good business but it may also be good business to take a closer look at the way the narrative unfolds this time around to ask and you hear the drums of war being beaten yet again if it is in fact a matter of preparedness and process or if it is simply propaganda. in washington christine for the artsy. i'm going back now to troy davis we brought you this story at the beginning of our show so far what we are hearing he was scheduled to be executed at seven pm tonight in a georgia prison we are hearing that has not happened he filed a last minute plea to the supreme court to not have him be executed and we're hearing that the supreme court is asking that his case be delayed so that they can

review it but that they have not granted a stay now that it was a lot of reports are coming in this is obviously breaking but that is the latest we're hearing and joining me here in the studio is the chairman of the new black panther party also attorney dr league solution thank you for being here so i mean just first because this is a breaking story and we were just talking about the very latest that is coming out that there is the supreme court is delaying this but it hasn't been stayed but it hasn't been executed how do you assess the situation so you right now it's but that raises most spiritual because i was expected to come in this through it had to be a marriage to troy davis had been executed. and so i say at this point whatever delays have taken place and however this has been strung out and hopefully his life was spared it's a victory for the movement it's a victory for his attorneys in the courtroom and it's a victory for the activism in the movement that is taking place right now all over

america because obviously the supreme court realizes that the world is watching and the world is very upset and judging america on the hypocrisy that it shows in the application of that that's kind of the end really we were for the abolishment of the death penalty period and there's pressure on right now and i think that accounts for the delay what do you mean when you say the hypocrisy of the application i think the way the world is always all of this to to sticks indicate that it is applied in a discriminatory manner and that persons that are black or of color are most more likely to receive the death penalty and that sentence than those that are not black or that those that are right so if there is the is great disparity in the application of the death penalty and that's a primary reason for calling for abolition of the death penalty nationwide and just to get the numbers so what you're saying and as of two thousand to eight tell you

numbers twelve people have been executed by the defendant went right and murder victim black compared to one hundred and seventy eight. well there were black defendants i think i think they were white so my question for you dr scott is tried davis a. black man first or just a human first in your eyes but of course he's a black man to me because when i see him see me i see. many of those as a defense attorney when i go into the jails i see nothing but men that look like me black men young black men many of them unfortunately about to waste years of their lives in a high and circumstances that are totally unnecessary and so you know i do see meet myself in him and i see the struggle of all the people in troy davis because i know that this criminal justice system as you have pointed out by those statistics is unjust it is biased it is inherently biased and on top of the fact that black

defendants have less access to strong legal defenses and and other resources that other right defendants have here in america so so i have to see him first you know in an in this case for what it is in terms of race first but as a human being and i think that's why his case attracts support universally it is because again killing someone to show that killing is wrong. is wrong and so many people are now being let out of jail or prison after decades because of evidence and showing that the trial was unjust we can't be certain at all with all of the doubt he had valid in this created in his recant minutes of those that testified at every candidate testimony the improper lineup the. constitutionally in permissive lineup that was presented to the witnesses were

what we call in the league around a frame up right now all of these things mean that we cannot execute troy davis. a murder executed a lot of the aspects of this case are very similar in wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice no physical evidence witnesses that recanted witnesses that were coworkers i mean those are through lines in a lot of these cases i actually used to work on them with an innocence project so these are all sounds familiar my question to you is troy davis went through four scheduled executions he went through all of the checks and balances of the criminal justice system he had appeals he exhausted the appeal process appeals processes yet there are still doubts so is this a problem with the criminal justice system just in general. again i say and my experience has been my research has shown me that there is inherent problem with the criminal justice system even when you go through the appeals and appeal to the

supreme court you come back with. corpus and motions and everything that has been done because in this in the state of georgia which i've had the opportunity to represent defendants and in the hague is corpus process the appeals process in georgia it can take this can turn on the attitude of a judge the opinion of the judge in this and so much subjectivity involved in whether the case could turn one way or another. depending on who is on the bench and who is deciding the case and so much of a human factor. they subjectivity or a judge just believing or being predisposed to believe that a man like troy davis is guilty of this murder despite all of the doubt that has been listed so obviously it's an error it's an inherent problem it's and is much of an inherent problem as racism still is in american society so then i want to know how you view this as a you said that you see him as

a black man first you also mentioned that troy davis' case has gotten supporters i mean they just run the gamut from the hundreds of protesters on the streets take a pope to jimmy carter to amnesty international so do you see this as a human rights issue first or as a race issue parsed i see it is i see it as both i believe we have to pick one if i had to pick one. it would be impossible for me to pick one go this argument because all human in my world human rights issues are always tied to race because my people have always been fighting to establish their human rights i mean but obviously the universal support that jordan davis has received from all corners from all races from the pope jimmy carter to many that are that are now. the unspoken i'm talking about grassroots activists that have been pressing his case and fighting his case for years now i would say it is as far as these delays are concerned right now and

i'm hoping a stay and that choice davis will remain alive again now would be a victory for the movement is a victory for the human rights movement and movements in america and it would be certainly a strong victory for those in it in the black activist movement as well so i think it touches all of those points if he even. will that be right. if you had to say. you know i'm like if i'm not a weatherman in that sense but you've got i would say you're on a different pulse on a ladder and i think and i think i will to say you know i personally i think i think georgia needs to be shaken up and i think american society needs to be shaken up and so you know whatever happens i will not be there would a fire hose and no law be assisting the police believe that. that american justice right now is on trial and that the people of america are fed

up and if he is executed i don't know what i don't know what will happen i will say that things are changing and i don't think that troy davis will be executed and everything goes silent again i don't think so according to what i can predict right now. obviously i have no further control over anything i'm just analyzing the situation if there were riots you mentioned how this case has brought together everyone despite not everyone but you know i mean all to foreigners despite race despite which you know kind of activist movement they may be identify with first if there were riots as a result would you say that this would be race riots or would this be supporters of troy davis against the state how would you can't rightly depends on the power as we used the term is used rebellion rather than riot you saw rebellions in england recently so there's and they will know well you know we analyze those as rebellions you know i mean snyder states government they call what happened in libya

a rebellion but they call what happened in england criminal activity we say that what happened in england was a rebellion and it started in the black community with the murder of a black person by police officers but it spread across. racial lines and so. you know i don't i don't exactly know what will happen i do know that people across racial lines are upset i know they're getting fed up and if it if it does happen it just has to it's happened before you know it's happened in. sniping ninety two is happened many times in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was just predicted by time magazine that what was happening in england could soon spread to america and this could be one of those times you will see rather it is a tipping point and what hopefully we hope it's not because david had been executed there are we're still hearing that it's been delayed.