but if you can hear a summary of so be it marina so the brazilian president certainly didn't mince her words when addressing washington and the general assembly. she certainly did not and she really jumped right into it within a few minutes of her speech brazilian president dilma rousseff addressed the n.s.a. spy program saying that the u.s. surveillance state has caused around the world she spoke in depth of the surveillance that's been taking place not only in the us but in. foreign governments and foreign institutions she said without the right to privacy there is no freedom of speech there is no democracy she also proposed a multilateral internet government framework that would establish some rules in which governments would operate and hit governments from doing exactly what the u.s.

government has been doing through the national security agency and of course if this is all this conversation is taking place now at the heart of the united nations general assembly debate because of the documents that were leaked by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and then published by. greenwald at the guardian we know that the n.s.a. spy program implicated the u.s. in a wide range of surveillance of its own citizens but also on foreign government. courses led to relations between the u.s. and latin america to sour and some of the leaders of latin american countries have called on president obama to publicly apologize for what the n.s.a. has been conducting is through its spy programs now brazilian president dilma rousseff who now open the u.n. general assembly debate postponed her state visit to washington which was supposed to take place in october that was in response the u.s.

spying on her personal communications with top aides now that visit to the to the white house would have been the official state visit during president obama's second term it would have been the first visit from a brazilian leader in almost to the white house in almost two decades but clearly this shows how upset and angry the brazilian government is in the fallout from the n.s.a. spying revelations this is now just the first world leader that is addressing the international body we can expect that many more will be bringing up the n.s.a. spy programs but what's interesting here is that as soon as the brazilian leader is done talking to the international community the second person to come to that podium will be u.s. president barack obama while many expect that he's going to be talking about the crisis in syria iran its nuclear program he might address what's been said about his own spy program the spy program of the united states maybe hope counteract some

of the arguments that have been made or maybe he will lead to some type of apology when addressing the topic but one could expect at least for him to address it because if you doesn't address it anyway in his bosses over the n.s.a. spy program which is not only u.s. citizens but citizens around the world then you know he will likely be criticized by many experts and many governments that are expecting here to hear something from the u.s. leader. the pervasive program that is led by by washington d.c. and it's reached into all corners of the of the world right marina you just mentioned president obama but what else are we expecting from today's session of the general assembly while of course people are waiting to hear from the u.s. leader what more people are interested in i should say more but what else people are interested in hearing and seeing is iran's new president hassan rouhani he will

be addressing the general assembly tuesday afternoon a few hours after president obama and he's expected to bring a different tone. to the u.n. than that his predecessor. has in past years president rouhani has been leading what experts call a diplomatic charm offensive in past weeks signaling his willingness to enter into new negotiations with the u.s. over tehran's nuclear program now he's been extending something of an olive branch and it seems to be working because on thursday u.s. secretary of state john kerry is scheduled to meet with his iranian counterpart. serif in p five plus one meeting that's the permanent members of the security council with germany they will all be discussing iran's nuclear program there have been no official meetings yet scheduled between president obama and his iranian counterpart. some experts say they may bump into one another walking through the

halls of the united nations. live from new york marina thank you very much indeed. and you can stay with us from the gun general assembly. with us. moving on thirty greenpeace activists are facing charges of piracy after trying to board a russian oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic both russian and foreign actually it's are among those being investigated. has the details this could entailed up to fifteen years in prison and up to a half a million fine now also from the russian investigators that after the boat the arctic sunrise was seized in the waters in the economic waters of the russian federation close to the oil rig. also the found some kind of electronic equipment on board that vessel the equipment which is used according to

investigators for an identified means and also the biggest irony here according to the investigators is that the activists of the greenpeace organization the organization which has always been fighting to prevent any kind of ecological disasters and catastrophe. but you could ask if you were a disaster by breaching the security of this oil rig and thus you could have endangered the. entire region of course that is yet to be determined whether their actions could have led to such drastic consequences which we do know from the head of the investigative committee of the russian prosecutor general's office that those people if they are found guilty will be criminally prosecuted regardless of their nationality and we do know that there are at least thirty greenpeace activists on board the arctic sunrise vessel and six of them are believed to be citizens of the united kingdom their spokesperson in russia denounced all such accusations staunchly denounced and said that they were there in the northern seas

to peacefully protest against the oil drilling in the north seas and their actions had no nothing illegal about them but we do know at the moment that the arctic sunrise vessel was told to the bay of the city in the north of russia and the crew is on board as well as the activists are on board the ship and they're not allowed to leave the ship until the all the investigative procedures have been completed now obviously the greenpeace organization is not a stranger to controversy we've seen over the years that sometimes there are peaceful protest involved unlawful means actions in two thousand and six the very same ship the arctic sunrise try to ram a japanese fishing boat which the greenpeace organization described as the protest against whaling we also have seen several sit ins when the greenpeace activist block the entrance to different ministries ecological ministries and different governmental bodies across the planet not letting the employees inside and we've

also seen over the years how the greenpeace activists have been breaching the perimeters of different nuclear power stations across the planet if we go back to the year nine hundred eighty six when the chernobyl disaster happened i remember seeing the greenpeace activists infiltrating the area and stage. brought us in the cooling bond literally just meters away from the burning reactor of the chernobyl nuclear power plants or obviously this is the latest link in the whole chain of controversial events surrounding the peaceful accord hugo are going to zation such as the greenpeace. and staying in the region the untouched abuse here of the arctic may soon be a thing of the past many nations are craving to get their hands on the vast resources hidden beneath the ice and ice which is rapidly melting away that's why russia has convened the third international arctic forum hoping to draw attention to the region's ecological security. the strongest food in the polar door of the eight states with territory in the frozen region the oxy council consists of

countries with russia canada and the us boasting the biggest bites all of them along with other observers states have sent a negation to the forum. reports now on what's being done to protect the area. initially the idea was foot forward by the president here in silly thought all the city located exactly all of the arctic circle the ecology is definitely the most important issue being discussed we've got over four hundred experts international experts who arrived here to discuss these problems and the general understanding is that the climate in fact has changed temperatures have in general warmed up in the arctic milking the ice caps and opening new opportunities clearly for different countries to develop its vast natural resources and also new trade routes like the northern trade route which is actively now being used by countries like china with

the help of russia since well just the figures tell the story by themselves four ships heading say from beijing to rotterdam it takes around two weeks quicker than say if they take the traditional south and routes so clearly here the understanding is that the environment of the arctic has to be protected and in the future the president's international presence in the arctic will only increase so the are discussing currently working projects in the sphere of energy development and so on . and even those countries with now tara train the region like china and india how manage to achieve observer status in the ox a council the e.u. is also striving for influence but has had its application deferred to paint them as more now well sneering while powers today oxic. as the climate in the arctic surges the scramble to secure multi-billion dollar deals and it's no wonder when

you consider according to the latest estimates there's enough to supply the entire world for three years china with a growing energy demand and increasing gas girls and population is the unlikely contender in the race to secure a foothold in the l tick a china has been wooing russia of providing both raw snared and transact with a twenty five billion dollars to build an oil pipeline from siberia to china as well as paying rovs nafta an additional sixty billion dollars to develop offshore fields in the arctic and china has also struck up a business relationship with iceland and as a result these tactics managed to secure a place on the arctic council for china along with the founding members the likes of norway and canada which of course have a geographical right to the area. and let's not get more on the issues and across

to canada and michel chossudovsky director of the center for research and globalization is here with us. here welcome to our city so just how hot can things get over the arctic with all those nations involved who want to lay their hands or no or they have to meet a twenty plus percent of all in gas. well we have to look at the issue of the claims the territorial claims the strategic interests. are significant because it is estimated that the arctic region has something of the a lot of twenty five percent of global or oil and gas reserves but we should understand that the u.s. transporter territory it's much smaller than that of russia canada and denmark and in fact. in fact the united states does not really have territories

bordering. oh very limited territories bordering the arctic ocean and we have to distinguish between the territories above the arctic circle which is an imaginary line of sixty six. parallel and. the actual arctic ocean and there were what happens is we have counted the denmark and russia which are the main countries which which actually have have territories there now how does the united states get round this it is not a member of of you you don't close the united nations convention of the law of the sea and therefore it has no it can't file official claims for extended continental shelf and in fact i don't think it intends to do that because if you look at the geography alaska is only a little bit above the arctic circle but how does it get around it it is through

the militarized nation of north america and its alliance particularly with canada but also with denmark and norway. and the saddest of what is called. maritime norad and. this goes back to two thousand and two when when rumsfeld actually claimed the whole region under the. u.s. northern command right and. one big giving a slice of the pie to anyone and earlier this month president putin ordered the rebuilding of a military base in the novosibirsk islands how much of a play is russia trying to be in the region well i think russia has legitimate claims to that to that area. in view of its geography with a large portion of its territory

a articles arctic circle and territories within within the arctic ocean itself but the united states is now building an integration with canada under the north american union which constitutes a means for the us to extend its its so-called sovereignty over cather those arctic territories and under the under us the old in command of which canada is artificially a member can or that accepts the right of us to deploy troops unable forces extending into its arctic territories and so the issue of of territorial rights over the arctic well eventually in my opinion will go through. through deep integration between canada the united states and the so-called north

american union and the strategic partnership which eventually will extend its jurisdiction are up to the north pole of iraq as it's really the issue it's the confrontation between russia and the united states and its partners its nato partners in a new battle of all oil and gas. and there we're talking about militarized nations the status of the military bases the extension of oil and gas companies going up to the arctic and of course it has devastating environmental implications you know right to michelle just so don't skate from the center for a century on globalization thank you very much indeed plan time thank you very much and of course we'll be watching all the developments from the forum today both heroin out here and alan and our website concept take a look. you

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project st medio gondar t.v. dot com. on the top story of a young china summit in new york on live pictures that as barack obama has taken the flow on this some say his brazilian counterpart slammed the full day of a say spy scandal and demanded an explanation apology from washington let's listen in to all the u.s. president is having to say at the moment like against the assad regime in response to the brazen use of chemical weapons i did not do so lightly i did so because i believe it is in the national security interest of the united states and in the interest of the world to meaningfully enforce a prohibition whose origins are older than the united nations itself. the ban against the use of chemical weapons even in war has been agreed to by

ninety eight percent of humanity it is strengthened by the searing memories of soldiers suffocating in the trenches jews slaughtered in death chambers iranian spoils and. in the many tens of thousands the evidence is overwhelming that the assad regime used such weapons on august twenty first u.n. inspectors gave a clear accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin gas at civilians these rockets were fired from a regime controlled neighborhood and landed in opposition neighborhoods it's an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of this institution to suggest that anyone other than the regime carried out this attack

and i know that in the immediate aftermath of the attack there were those who question the legitimacy of even a limited strike in the absence of a clear mandate from the security council but without a credible military threat the security council had demonstrated no inclination to act at all however as i've discussed with president putin for over a year most recently in st petersburg my preference has always been a diplomatic resolution to this issue and in the past several weeks the united states russia and our allies have reached an agreement to place syria's chemical weapons under international control and then to destroy them the syrian government took a first step by giving an accounting of its stockpiles now there must be a strong security council resolution to verify that the assad regime is keeping its

commitments and there must be consequences if they fail to do so. trail assembly addressing a list of chemical weapons in syria stay with us see as will bring you the latest updates from new york throughout the day or so. basic. security forces are combing nairobi's westgate mall the site of kenya's was terrorist attacks and fifteen here is the al-shabaab is and his group responsible for the on slot claims its members are still holed up inside with a number of hostages meanwhile kenya's foreign minister says at least two americans and a british citizen are among the all kinds of things insurgents that carried on their trial city there are reports that a british woman samantha lewthwaite may have spearheaded that talk that she converted to islam as a young woman and married a man who later became a london seven seven suicide bomber and confront reports say she is among the

militants killed at least sixty two people died in the hostage crisis with around one hundred seventy eight injured the al shabaab militants said they carried out that in retaliation for kenyan military operations in somalia and brian levin director of the center for the study of hate and extremism says young people from somalia american communities are an easy target for extremist recruiters. there is a somali community in the minneapolis area which is very much against what's going on here by the way but that has been the main recruiting spot for the small shy little groups of youth still there been such a few extremists there they've been able to convince others to join them there's also. an effort over the internet and through other on line public he should to recruit young westernized muslim youth from throughout the world to come to that

area i think it's also. kind of this youthful anti-establishment anti western military response and i also feel if something else is jihadi me which is permeated some of the social media as well and al qaida has been successful with using that. will keep you updated on this ongoing story remember you can always get more by logging on to website to get access to the latest pictures on dates and witness accounts from the scene of the tragedy and all of that's waiting for us on c dot com. it was one of the center of the industrial revolution with chimneys belching smog into the sky but it seems time and technology you haven't improved the air quality in parts of the u.k. the chemicals are slowly and discreetly poisoning londoners in particular who can do little to curb the problem as

a point of boyko report. the great london small given nine hundred fifty two britain was back in the dozens of square miles of blanketed day off today reading this was an unhappy drunk can be healthy for anyone today it appears much cleaner but the reality is that london's air is so dirty it's been breaching the legal limits set out by the e.u. for years. that a thousand deaths are attributed to pollution annually people look at the air today and it's clean but unfortunately it's still very dangerous. air pollution today is completely invisible but the reason for this is it's very small microscopic particles and that's also the reason that they're so damaging to your health because they can travel deep inside of this system and it's london's car travel that's largely responsible for it cars and lorries emit an invisible gas called mite trojan dioxide known as the silent killer its effects on noticeable it can

cause or spiritual disease reduce lung function and according to the world health organization even trigger lung cancer the biggest single source of notching dogs so i just talked to guys in london are actually these red buses going cause we're also very concerned about diesel vehicles diesel vehicles are responsible probably for about ninety percent of the most harmful exhaust emissions clientèle earth an environmental campaign group is suing the u.k. government for what they call failing to protect brits from air pollution and failing to come up with plans to drastically reduce nitrogen dioxide levels are currently breaching limits in forty to forty three zones in the u.k. and sixteen of these we don't think we're going to reach them until twenty twenty and that's ten years after the deadline in may the supreme court ruled that the government isn't doing enough to reduce pollution and improve public health we got in touch with defra the government department responsible for quality and they told

us equality has. improve significantly in london and we expect it to improve further thanks to the actions the government is taking to reduce transport emissions but campaigners say that charging cars to drive into central london and introducing what the government has tagged as green a buses isn't enough i think they need to take a really hard look at what's necessary to reduce pollution in the u.k. the choices are extremely difficult and electorally not very popular it basically means taking diesel vehicles off the road in the very foreseeable future you can imagine that's not a vote women have to deal with the city as it is and not some crazy green gone in which we all sit around in between alfalfa and the movie and enabling drugs used to produce studies that is not going to that is not going to happen since it's not going to happen campaign as a write in london is to each do that bit to make the air in the city cleaner by

selling their cars and pedaling around town instead while avoiding the most polluted routes of course but it's not clear how much difference it will make since the government itself admits that london will remain dangerously polluted until at least the year twenty twenty five. london. and up next andy travels to an island the size of a football field which has become a place of pilgrimage for many russians. with economic downturn the find out all day long. they all sang i and the rest of

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