what is next for kofi annan? >> i'm going to live.y can sometimes have a power beyond words. steve hartman has found an example of that in northport, new york. >> can you see me? it's me, john, how are you. >> reporter: john says when you love someone with advanced dementia like his father has, you can't help but wonder. are they still in there? >> what do you say? give me a wink. >> reporter: although his dad can't communicate, by all indications he is aware. >> what's that? reporter: beyond words. what's that? remember? >> reporter: he served in the korean war. in an artillery unit. he was a medic which may partly explain his recent behavior here at the v.a. nursing home on long island new york. a few months ago he started going into the room of this other veteran with dementia named frank. >> i was like, what's this man doing? >> reporter: mary rose monroe is frank's daughter. >> he would rub his back. then he would walk away. >> just check on him like a medic would do as he made rounds walking around. >> reporter: the kids agreed.

on our program kofi annan will be joining us on the program. former secretary-general of the united nations. what an eventful week. remember the internet, the magical force that showered democracy on the middle east >> when you look at the arab spring, how were people able to amass in various places? twitter >> it's impossible to overstate the role the internet has played. the arab spring wouldn't have happened without twitter and without social media >> jon: true. it's true. of course here we use it to blog the x-factor. millions of people it's an exciting time for twitter. hey, what else is on the internet? let me see. that's not arab spring. democracy, no freedom. yeah, that's... i don't know what that is. what's this? >> an incredibly amateurish, crude and nasty movie made in the united states and released on you-tube, "innocence of muslims" it's called. it depicts the prophet mohammed as a dope, a fraud, a pedophile and womanizer >> jon: it's you-tube. i mean nobody pays attention to you-tube. why not have some fun with it. that will be th

we'll have more with kofi annan on the

group the kofi annan plan and again the united states is determined to ensure that these annan plan fails so yes the united states is a force for instability and if there's a phony war i mean something more to go ahead of her in new york to go ahead go ahead her. well the idea that the united states is trying to undermine the annan plan the annan plan can work on its face i mean that's very clear but pillory clinton made it perfectly clear that you want to do everything that you can to cooperate with kofi anon so the idea that somehow we're sabotaging this is ridiculous we'll let you hear as i heard anyone say in the let me let me ask amy also if syria you will really understand that he wants to support these claims you know one thing to say the moment you come on here well you know to just lie then i think we are a lot of things we disagree on this program that's why we're doing it ok but her when secretary clinton says assad must go i mean how does that help the peace process. it helps the peace process and because there are been roughly twelve thousand people that have been kille

the idea that the united states is trying to undermine the annan plan the annan plan can work on its face i mean that's very clear. pillory clinton made it perfectly clear that she wants to do everything that she can to cooperate with kofi anon so the idea that somehow we're sabotaging this is ridiculous will you hear a suburb i mean say in the let me let me ask amy also if syria you will really understand that he wants to support these claims gentlemen thing to say the moment you come on here well no to just lie then i think we are a lot of things we disagree on this program that's why we're doing it ok but her when secretary clinton says assad must go i mean how does that help the peace process. it helps the peace process and because there are been roughly twelve thousand people that have been killed on the streets of syria and if you ask those people would you like to see assad go the answer would be yes and if you had if you were to poll the syrians fairly that would be the response you get as well so it's perfectly clear that if you have someone who is butchering his own people

we'll have more with kofi annan on the that's our show. before we go, i just want to mention something real quick. as you know on this program we have at times poked a bit of fun at... ummm... fox news. well, that being the case, i have been challenged to a debate by one of their pundit-news hybrid man >> big announcement about me and jon stewart. in order to illuminate the vital issues associated with the upcoming presidential election. stewart and i will debate, man to man, eye to eye... well, not really. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: i'm so scared. bill o'reilly wants to tango, so i say this. i accept, mr. o'reilly. i shall meet you in the square. for an old-fashioned dual of witts. obviously he and i... there had be some discussion and compromises made. he has demanded that we speak at podiums. i have asked for crazy straws. we will do this in our nation's capital, washington d.c. it will be on october 6. you can join us live in the theater or it will be streamed on the internet for $4.95. you can watch a live web cast. obviously all

secretary general kofi annan. >> brown: kofi annan's first career u.n. staffer to rise to head the organization has spent more than 40 years dealing with one international crisis or another. and the problems of bringing the international community together to deal with them. he tells that story in a new book "enter jennings: a life in war and peace. "from the young man in newly independent ghana to a nobel peace-prize winning secretary general of the united nations to most recently his role as a special envoy to syria. the mission, one that failed, of finding an end to that still unfolding drama. as he makes clear in his book and when we spoke yesterday at the council on foreign relations in new york, the organization and the world continued to be haunted by the tragic failures of the 1990s. the collapse of the peace keeping mission in somalia and the starvation and killings in the civil war, the genocide of at least 800,000 people in rwanda that occurred as annan writes "under the gaze of the u.n. peace keeping operation." and ethnic cleansing in bosnia

back in a moment, kofi annan. kofi annan is here. while serving as the 7th secretary general of the united nations he drove some of the institutions greates greatest -- but, his memoir is called interventions, a life in war and peace. it is a candid and powerful account of a remarkable career. having recently returned to global affairs as joint u.n. arab league envoy to syria he resigned his post this past august citing division in the international community as an obstacle to peace. his replacement travels to cairo today on his first mission. bra himmee inherits a deder-- deteriorating situation. a saad continues to turn heavy weapons on syrian neighbors hoods. dr. a con-- annan brings a perspective to these events. welcome. >> good to be here. >> rose: let me trace one thing before we talk about this book and syria and other events. tell me what you have done since you left the united nations, how you spend your life and -- >> i have done many things. i've been doing lots of work on agriculture. >> rose: right. >> we have an organi

this week kofi annan latest book intervention, a life in war and peace. he discusses the tenure at the head of the international organization and the establishment of the global aids and health fund. he talks with the bbc. thank you much for joining me. the book is intervention. i'd like to start with the biggest intervention, the most famous intervention of your time as secretary general. it was iraq. it was a contentious issue. you spend a lot of time writing about this in the book and you reintegrate your thoughts that it was not a legitimate war. you write, it's 9/11 changed the world, the consequences of the iraq war were the similarly dramatic magnitude. why do you say that >> guest: i say that because the iraq war really left with the international community and i'm not just talking about the u.n. i'm talking about the impact on communities and groups in the middle east. and beyond. and the sense that the world has been broken in to groups and some were being targeted or profiles who felt very strongly about this, and this is about a war on which t

. >> kofi annan tell us why he took on the daunting role of the u.n. on void assyria. >> i did my best. >> keeping score in fenway park. carrying on a baseball tradition for 20 years. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the world. tomorrow marks the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which changed america and led to the invasion of afghanistan. more than a decade later, the notorious bagram prison which holds thousands of taliban prisoners and foreign suspects was handed over. the prisoners are still under american control. we report now from kabul. >> this was supposed to mark a moment of national pride and a marker on the road to afghans sovereignty. the official handover of bagram prison. while it hundreds have been transferred, hundreds more remain in the hands of u.s. military. >> we want to show the international community that human rights will be observed. i trust that they will do their job as best that they can there will be no problem with that. >> it has a troubled history, labeled by some as at the afghanistan guantanamo

will talk about bosnia and africa and more of the book "interventions" in just a moment to the kofi annan. regard to take a quick break. >> guest: thank you. >> on the go? "after words" is available via pot test. visit booktv.org and click pot test. select which what you would like to download and listen to "after words" when you travel. >> host: before the break we were talking about rwanda and somalia and weather in cases where there is not a national security interest of a major power, crisis. of course a year-and-a-half after rwanda we had the massacre . a little different because it was in the heart of europe and there was more of a security interest in the european powers involved. >> you're absolutely right. bastille was deferred. bosnia had the attention. bosnia had forces required that rwanda did not have. the issues between the member states, the europeans had deployed troops to the un peacekeeping and subsequently nato. leaving. rather cynical, and they kept the u.n. peacekeepers hostage. this really unnerved the governments. saw another aspect of peacekeeping. we did not prepa

syrians are told well at this point i think we may get return to to discussing the so-called koffi annan peace plan because it didn't work you said earlier on this program that unfortunately it didn't or if you will according to the coffee plan the violence in syria should have stopped in april but something went wrong so can you tell us from your point of view from inside the country what went wrong and who's to blame i think here our insides are side. fighting and also in congress also. they are more radical zones early g.m. now. refuse any negotiation with the regime. only when the is out of syria. and we think that there. is less. that site really because. i have asked other sites in syria and out of syria before here. to the masses to sit around and to speak to preserve our boat so future of syria. and is very siloed of the opposition of. in syria refused also we refused but we think now it is very wrong to to fuel this thing but we have also all to speak wizard come now on that it. will ask the russian side to ask so bizarre and so there was a note to come on the table. and to begi

host: do you have an opinion of kofi annan? guest: it's funny, i thought when i started the movie he would be the boogyman in the film and what i found out when i started talking to people and started shooting, he really isn't. he isn't a bad man. i don't think he was corrupt, i don't think so, i think he just has the same moral blindness that affects a lot of these u.n. diplomats. the real evil guy and the real boogyman that comes out of the movie was bu it. -- butres ghali. it's a -- butress squared we called him. he was there four years. i think he had one term, if i'm not mistaken. am i wrong? host: i don't have the list in front of me. ban ki-moon, what's your opinion of him? guest: i was really excited when he was first elected. in fact, i was worried it might ruin the movie because here's a south korean, i thought he would hopefully make some changes. it was not butress ghali, koffi annan, and really soon after he was put in place, i remember they hung saddam hussein, and he had -- he made a statement which i thought was

peace envoy begins a syrian mission which is predecessor kofi annan fail to finish amid a fresh i can find to end terrorist activity. so washington you know boost the middle east on sales with the region now the biggest vial of american weapons which are flooded the nations surrounding syria. seven pm here in moscow are you watching r t with me to bang with say let's take a look at the bullets him he's a dictator's a shutdown drug trafficking cartels and even expose entire terrorist cells and now he is representing julian assange renowned lawyer. has been speaking to r.t. about whether was will blow his future might take him archie sarah ferguson shares with us some of what goes on have to say. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice the judge in a silence of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real end in sight at the moment for this. standoff. remains very very firm that we're in a science to be extradited that would put his human rights a very real risk at the same time the u.k. has sa

kofi annan, before the break, we were talking about rwanda and somalia. in cases where there is not national security for a national power, and whether peacekeeping can have a true champion. 1.5 years after rwanda, we had the massacre incident. both were little different because it was in the heart of europe. and there was more of a security interest to get involved with european powers. >> guest: you are absolutely right. bosnia was different. bosnia had the attention. bosnia have the forces required that rwanda did not have. there were issues, but of a different kind. the europeans have deployed troops through the u.n. peacekeeping and subsequently, through nato. [inaudible] they had taken the u.n. peacekeepers as hostage. this really unnerved the governments. that is another aspect of peacekeeping. we do not prepare the population for the possibility that there could be risks, and we give the impression that it is always risk free. when do -- when you do get into these situations and the population gets buried side and the politicians panic, and often

brahimi do that kofi annan couldn't? >> well, it's interesting, ntviously his expectations are fairly measured. ured.nt so far as to call his enw role "mission: nearly impossible." he compared it to standing in ndont of a brick wall and essentially looking for some cracks in the wall. acks il be flying to damascus on saturday and meeting with president assad. d. has said that it is way too early at this stage to discuss what role, if any, president assad may have in the future of syria, but he has said quite adamantly that he opposes any foreign military intervention in yria. >> axelrod: clarissa ward just over the syrian border in turkey for us tonight. thank you. in northwestern pakistan there eys a brazen attack today aimed thwestricans. a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an ammev. carrying u.s. government workers. at least two pakistanis were oilled, 19 people were hurt, including two americans. their injuries are not life r injuriesg. an army of volunteers could swing the presidential election

the six point peace plan that was put forth by joint special the previous joint special envoy kofi annan who resigned at the end of august but. experts are saying that it's not going on notice that the rebels in syria have been carrying around carrying out attacks over the past year and a half a major attacks to coincide with major events this is coming as the world body is gathering together in new york we should remember we do remember that the massacre in houla occurred just days before kofi annan visited syria so many believe that it is no coincidence that these huge attacks are taking place as the international community is gathering together and of course going to be discussing the situation in syria just syria but also a broad variety of issues as well the gathering taking place in the u.s. amid widespread and american sentiment in the muslim world of course but in reference to the recent video that came out of hollywood that was deemed offensive to islam do you think that could be addressed today at the u.n. . yes i know for a fact that u.s. president barack obama will bring the

chief kofi annan quit because of divisions at the security council about ending the deadly bloodshed but his mission isn't likely to be any easier syria's largest city aleppo is witnessing escalating fighting as the rebels intensify their attempts to take control the city has also been rocked by a car bomb killed at least thirty civilians and injured forty others a few hours before the jordanian militant leader. linked to al qaeda threatened to launch deadly attacks to oust president assad or for deeper inside the store does not talk to a different chief of the syria tribune dr ali mohammed dr mohammad thanks for being on the line there from dubai kofi annan had huge experience of working in the u.n. he failed to fix the syrian situation now is already started by calling this mission nearly impossible will he be able to make any impact do you think. i'm not very optimistic just like what we said regarding and. only if the countries backing their eyeballs and sending them what pins and money stop doing so we can have a peaceful resolution of the crisis if the liberal himi is capable o

the new un peace envoy begins the syria mission which has created a kofi annan failed to finish amid a fresh hike in fighting and terrorist activity. called red and it's texas police infiltrate the occupy movement charging activists with obscure crimes and undercover officers set up from the start. and the stairs he meets morality greegor makers ball could cuts for the disabled and low income pensioners while foreign creditors reject africa's plan savings is just too. monday night right now here in moscow my name's kevin oh and this is r.t. and first this hour he's pursued dictators shut down drug trafficking cartels and even exposed entire terrorist cells and now he's representing julie the son i'm talking about renowned lawyer baltazar god's son who's been speaking to r.t. about where the whistleblowers future might take him sarah firth shares with some of what karr song had to say. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice that in a science of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real en

peace envoy begins the syria mission which is pretty sesa kofi annan failed to finish with a fresh fighting and terrorist activity. red handed texas police infiltrate the occupy movement charging activists who have skewed crimes undercover offices set up from the start to report on that tonight. and austerity meets morality greek lawmakers bold cuts for the disabled and low income pensioners from foreign creditors rejecting a plan savings just today. hello temp here monday night here in moscow this is r.t. i'm kevin first he's pursued dictators shut down drug trafficking cartels and even exposed entire terror cells and now he's representing julian assange is renowned lawyer both has been speaking to r.t. about where the whistleblowers future might take him next sarah firth shares with us what some of her water son had to say. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice that in a science of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real end in sight at the moment for this. standoff. remains very very firm

the 78-year-old former algerian diplomat replaces kofi annan, who resigned last month after his peacen failed to halt the country's civil war. in damascus, the syrian information minister voiced hope that brahimi will succeed. >> ( translated ): syria welcomed the appointment of lakhdar brahimi, and will offer him every possible help, the maximum assistance the way we did with kofi annan. we will make sure his mission will not lead to a blocked wall like what happened with kofi annan, when the external sides did not respond to his mission and international role. >> holman: meanwhile, the new head of the international red cross arrived in syria. he planned to appeal for greater humanitarian access to civilians caught in the fighting. thousands of syrians have become refugees, death toll and opposition groups say 5,000 were killed in the conflict in august-- the highest monthly death toll yet. the u.n.'s children's fund-- unicef-- estimates 1,600 people died last week alone. a nato soldier was killed today in a bombing in southern afghanistan. there was no immediate word on his national