bruce jones will be joining us for that discussion.irst, we will take a look at the week's news. ♪ host: joining us from new york is bruce jones of the new york university. he is with the center of international corp. director and serve as a former senior adviser for the caucus -- for the office of u.n. secretary general. can you give us an explanation of what you did at the u.n. as far as your role there? guest: i helped on the israeli- palestinian negotiations at the time and then i came back in 2004 and help to the then secretary general put together a series of reforms. he wanted a series of changes made to have the u.n. do business. i help him put that set of ideas on the table. host: you were quoted earlier this week. this is a little bit of what you said. you said, -- expand on that? guest: ike was saying, in the old debt -- in the old days of the u.n., they could push decisions through. the big factor in international politics right now is the rise of the new powers -- china, india, and brazil as well as south africa and turkey

also, the future of the party with bruce jones. and later, a look at american's view of what constitutes a family with brian powell, an author. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> i really underestimated the job. i had been the republican minority whip. i had not even been the minority leader. i join for minority whip to speak for overnight. it was a minority that no one thought would be in power. it was the biggest one-party increase in history. >> newt gingrich on his tenure as house speaker, the state of american politics today and a possible 2012 presidential bid. that is sunday on c-span. >> japan's prime minister spoke -- spoke to members that the united nations general assembly. he spoke about development, climate change, nuclear disarmament and peace keeping efforts. the prime minister made no mention of the recent territorial disputes between japan and china. this is about 20 minutes. this is about 20 minutes. mr. president, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, i extend my heartfelt congratulatio

host: bruce jones is our guest from new york university. we will talk about the u.n. and if it is still relevant. you can contribute by phone. the numbers for democrats, republicans, and independence are on your screen. c-span.org is the email. you said when the need for changes was seen, did he envisioned these changes of reform during s term? what kind of reforms did he want to see be put in place? guest: he proposed a reform for the security council to bring in some of these new actors and propose tough new msures on terrorism. he proposed a very controversial idea known as the responsibility to protect the notion that if a country like zimbabwe or sudan failed in its domestic responsibility to protect human rights of its own citizens, the security council could intervene to protect those human rights. that was endorsed by the general assembly. he wanted aew work, tougher measures on nuclear non- proliferation. those were blocked ironically by the bush administration. he proposed a number of measures to strengthen against nuclear proliferation, terrosm, those kinds

host: joining us from new york is bruce jones of the new york university. he is with the center of international corp. director and serve as a former senior adviser for the caucus -- for the office of u.n. secretary general. can you give us an elanation of what you did at the u.n. as far as your role there? guest: i helped on the israeli- palestinian negotiations at the time and then i came back in 2004 and help to the then secretary general put together a series of reforms. he wanted a series of changes made to have the u.n. do business. i help him put that set of ideas on the table. host: you were quoted earlier this week. this is a little bit of what you said. you said, -- expand on that? guest: ike was saying, in the old debt -- in the old days of the u.n., they could push decisions through. the big factor in international politics right now is the rise of the new powers -- china, india, and brazil as well as south africa and turkey. they have greater influence in regional politics and a greater influence in global politics. it means the united states a

also, the future of the united nations with bruce jones, former senior adviser to the u.n. secretary-general. and later, a look at what constitutes a family with author of "counted out. >> i really underestimated how big a job was. i had been the republican minority whip, had not even been the minority leader. i jumped to speaker overnight, and sort of a minority party that no one thought was going to be empowered and leading a wave of that additional votes, as the biggest increase. >> the state of american politics today, and a possible 2012 presidential bid, sunday on c-span. now, a house hearing on immigrant farm workers, including testimony from c omedian stephen colbert, who, in august, spent today -- a day picking berries. this is a little over two hours. >> this hearing of the subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, refugees, border security, and international law will come to order. we realize there is great interest in the plight of migrant farm workers in america. we will add that the press actually pull back from the table so that we can observe all four of our

jones. warn or no warrant it is like the the supreme court will decide. brucethe virginia court of appeals just sided with fairfax county police saying it was fine for them to secretly stick a gps tracker on a sex offender's car without a warrant but that ruling only applies to police in the commonwealth and as bruce said it will likely enup in the supreme court. >>> howard bernstein is here. and we are happy he has a little rain in his forecast, not enough, though. >> not enough and here in dc may not see much at all. points south don't hold your breath. where we need it is the panhandle. you have better chance of showers. you will be farther north and west. and that will help the odds. get you going on this thursday or friday eve as we like to call it. temperatures urge partly to mostly cloudy skies. 84 for the drive home. a warm day and with enough sunshine some southern friends will make it to the upper 80s and see national coming in with a little more sunshine. we are just about sunrise time. the momslikeme.com bus stop forecast this morning, we are lookin

when jay bruce's walk-off homer ends a 15-year playoff drought. >> the 1-2 pitch to jones.e struck him out! >> that's the other game. by the way, 3-2 and the rays clinched their second trip to the post season in three years. they won 5-0 over baltimore. only 18,000 on hand for the celebration but they still have to find out who is going to be in first place in the east because in toronto, the yankees locked up a playoff spot after a 6-1 victory behind c.c.sabathia. they trail first place tampa by 1/2 game. you're about to see the greatest touchdown ever called back in a game. watch this, quarterback marquis tomkins hurdles over a standing defender on his way to the end zone. the only problem, ohio school football players says hurdling a player who has one or two feet on the ground is a penalty. they would soon go on to beat struthers high, it's too dangerous for everyone involved. in pros if you can do it, you do it. here's another example of adults setting a fine example. between two coaching staffs at a peewee football game. it started after a coach jumped in to separate