before joining the council, he served president george w. bush on the security council. his previous government positions include the chief of staff and executive secretary in baghdad, as well as from 2001 until 2004 deputy director of the private office of the nato secretary general. facing for my direction, the left of the panel, certainly not be left in the use -- the left in views, he, too, served under george w. bush. mr. miller served for 31 years under seven secretaries of state in a series of progressively senior positions. is also the world's most foremost -- he is also the world's most foremost expert on nuclear weapons policy. before launching the foundation for the u.s. office, she certainly corporate sector as the vice-president of international relations for europe's largest media company. she founded the brussels office and served as director. she has served on the atlantic council's strategic advisory group. she also serves as vice chair of the global plan for b -- global philanthropy committee. i will turn right now to damon and asked a couple of questio

got together and in your council the scientific council what was the first discussion about what was the main subject what was the main. question if there was one who was to decide what is the role of the council the challenge first of all is to decide how the council will relate to the project as a whole that in turn requires understanding what form the project may take none of that is your poseidon the challenge before us is to devise a plan that works there are just there is justifiable skepticism as there would be of anything of a new and as yet undefined nature and it is our our responsibility to take all that the critical comment that has been made to heart. and take advantage in order to formulate a successful plan you don't sound skeptical on. i think because i have lived my life engaged in such high risk activity that is the nature of science of course it's frightening and of course one can get it wrong and in fact i've often gotten it wrong. but getting it right even once or occasionally is the reward in a case like this i think we have a good chance of getting it right we

now bring back to their respective capitals there is a divide among security council members on where the condemnation lies the u.s. and its western allies believe there should be a direct condemnation against the syrian government and the syrian president for the crackdown against anti-government protesters that have been taking place since mid march yet other countries like russia china india brazil and others will leave that there should be a much more balanced approach that whatever words are used in any text that is put forth by the security council should not exacerbate an already sensitive circumstance in syria now russia has said in the past that it opposes unbalanced measures such as saying sions that could create an even bigger problem and the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin has said that resolution dealing with libya he believes was dealt with very frivolously and the security council can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and can not do when it comes to the situation in syria and essence. of the security co

this general sort of activity in russia as and appropriately so but then to the council. it has been possible to bring a leader from biotech in america dr philip frost who is perhaps the most successful entrepreneur in that industry in the world it has been possible to bring dr richard lerner who is the president of scripts in the research institute also doubtless the most successful of its kind with vast experience in building enterprises that combine academic and commercial activity. so i think we have. any example of those people and others the best that we could hope for in the way of advice to god this was so you do have enough celebrities i think these people are better than able than i to offer useful advice on the project here but even you i've read it in the press that that russian press that last summer even you had some troubles getting the russians about this is true that was a mistake even a mistake i never i never i don't know where that came from the think in the press a mistake when they would have these a mistake in the press the first hour i never i had

security council discussed u.s.l to release $1.5 billion in frozen libyan assets for humanitarian assistance in the country. the council held an informal meeting on wednesday on a draft resolution to unfreeze the assets of gadhafi an others and make them available to libya's citizens. nhk obtain aeds copy of the draft calling for assets to be used as soon as possible. the draft calls for $500 million to be use ford humanitarian activities and another $500 plilon to provide food and other supplies. a head of the mighting, german ambassador of the u.n. spoke to nhk. >> we need it act very quickly on the defreezing of sanctions so that the libyan people will be in a position to reconstruction the country as quickly as possible. >> security council members are expected to meet again on thursday to discuss the issue. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." do stay with us. kcsm needs you financial support. you can pledge at any dollar level that is comfortable for you. at the 50 dollar level, you will receive the

security council. you know, against the libyan regime. now, this doesn't mean though that that predicts what the positions of arab states are going to be on other changes going forward. libya was a little bit i think of any case because gadhafi made so many enemies over the years. syria, i am certain that the opposition forces in syria and yemen are going to be very much encouraged by what happened in libya. because as i said at the beginning of this panel, it shows that there's more than one way to overturn a regime. i think there have been kind of a discourse emerging that well, gee, if it doesn't happen peacefully and pretty quickly the way it did in egypt and tunisia, then it just can't work. and then you are just mired in war forever. l.a. kings have shown that with some outside help, -- the libyans have shown that with some outside help they were able to overcome the regime. that doesn't mean that things are going to be easy going forward and that libya will look like a perfect scenario. but it d

the council will meet with the u.s. and european and arab nations in qatar on wednesday and ask them for financial assistance. it will also ask for cooperation in rebuilding the country from other nations at a conference to be held in turkey on thursday. >>> the u.s. government has announced plans to release up to $1.5 billion in frozen libyan assets t transitional national council within days. >> we want to give this money back to the tnc for its use, first and foremost, to meet humanitarian needs and to help it establish a secure, stable government and to move on to the next step in its own roadmap. >> the announcement came after u.s. president barack obama spoke by telephone with french president nicolas sarkozy. they agreed to work with the international community to support a peaceful transition to democracy in libya. >>> let's turn now to nhk world in benghazi where the transitional national council is based. >> reporter: the national council is working hard to find out where gadhafi is hiding. it believes it is u

can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and cannot do when it comes to the situation in syria in essence churkin said the security council is working under the shadow events surrounding libya when they are approaching the best actions to take when it comes to syria now all the members of the security council will continue negotiating but ambassador churkin did take a moment to speak with the press to elaborate on what discussions have been taking place so far here's a little bit of what he had to say concerned about the one on sunday's collision of the gauntlet and we think that these circumstances the security council could and should. in favor of political accommodation and ending the violence russia and many other countries say the aim of the text put forth by the security council when it if it is part of forth is to change things on the ground in syria to send a strong signal to end the violence and move things forward peacefully the security council will convene again wednesday morning to continue taking on this issue of syria and all th

he's a senior fellow at a middle east policy council. also, a professor and scholar at the middle east institute and my colleague, the director of the africa center here at the atlantic council. i want to hear about your evaluation. how important or not important is what happened to moammar gadhafi himself and what are your thoughts on scenarios? where might libya be going from here? >> it's very hard to say when this might be over. i think we are at the end of it. [audio difficulties] what we have seen in tripoli is the defections of important parts of his troops have caused easy access into the city. the troops betrayed them right away. they started shooting, so you see the massacres happen because there was no clear-cut division of rule. they will be taking care of. it is important day -- it is important that they clean up is conducted and -- [audio difficulties] [audio difficulties] once that has been obtained by the rebels, we have seen a rapid advance from the eastern part. that is true. there is a group of better- disciplined troo

while the reentry council is committed to making sure we have community participation, the reentry council has no formal role to act on this plan. i also wanted to let the public and committee no that the reentry council staff will be posting such meetings on our web site to insure that the public has a full opportunity to participate. our goal remains to have broad community input through this process, and i just want to offer my help in any way we can be helpful. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. quickly, once we created the reentry council, as the city government did, and the partners were part of it, one of the core issues is improving every injury rehabilitation. there's a number of core issues now getting a fair amount of press attention, also thanks to the human rights commission, and that is eliminating discrimination on housing and employment. i know there is still a ways to go, but for that particular population, of those coming out of the system, do you want to give any quick mentioning to that? we know that we are going to have successful reentry, it means also having

security council condemns human rights violations in the conflict. between. following three days of discussions the u.n. security council finally comes to an agreement on how to respond to the violence in syria more details from new york coming up. it's only holds crisis talks with the. problems sparking concerns it could be on the path to greece. and supporters and opponents of. the deposed president of egypt faces trial. international news and comment this is. just a midnight here in the russian capital the u.n. security council has issued a statement condemning violence and human rights violations in syria it calls for an end to hostilities and for dialogue between the two sides that says the crackdown on protesters continues there in the country with reports that government tanks have moved deeper into the opposition stronghold city of hama well let's get more now from marty's marina she's live in new york so why did it take the security council so long to come up with a statement on the events that are occurring in syria. well you know a lot of people in

national council hold the country together? >> unfortunately, this opposition movement has been tenuous from the beginning. i doubt that it will hold the country together without major violence. we should not forget that the country is virtually divided between east and west. for the first time in more than 40 years, the easterners control the country again. it might be that they will take revenge on the citizens, not only of tripoli, but of other cities in the west, especially in places where gaddafi comes from, and his family and main supporters. >> what about the chances that a copy might have military forces at his command -- that gaddafi might have military forces at his command? >> gaddafi is finished, but there are still loyalists in the city fighting the rebels. they will die down in the coming days. they know that the battle is now lost. >> is there any antiwar muammar gaddafi is? -- are there any reports of where muammar gaddafi is? >> i think he is still in libya, but it might not be tripoli, it might be his birthpla

and do they turn over the responsibility to the school site council or not? and whether or not they feel that they're getting communication from delac or not. and the other thing i would like to recommend is that if we're sending information to the principals, are we sending it through email? >> yes. vice president yee: so, the other thing i would like to ask staff to do would be to get the email, if they have them, get the email address of all the chairs of elacs so you can send it -- you can easily send the information to both of them, the chair and the principal, rather than it goes to the principal and then, you know, it's a little cumbersome to me. and once you get it in your computer, you know, it should be pretty easy to do. the other thing would be, you know, we are -- some of us will be pushing a little bit on trying to find a little more resources for the parent engagement department or office and i think one of the things that we should look at is, you know, in the section between parent liaison and the elacs because i walk into several schools, ev

the transitional national council is largely a council that has been led by the former justice minister. he does not have the charisma to unite the country which is basically a divided country. there is a great division between the transitional national council that originated in benghazi in those trouble leaders and opponents to the regime in tripoli as well as the west like ion laz rudder. they were unhappy over the failure of the council to provide adequate military resistance. can they restore safety and stability to tripoli as quickly as possible? that will be the most important task. >> when do you think we will see a functioning democracy in this country? is that possible at the moment? >> a functioning democracy is a rather distant goal. this country was ruled by a brutal dictatorship for decades. it is deeply divided along tribal lines. it has gone now to a harrowing -- through a harrowing civil war. half it has no political parties. its security forces are we. the task at hand is state building. on top of that, you can have a function -- functioning political system. >> what i

all members of the security council adopted the presidential statement which first and foremost calls for an immediate end to all violence and urges both sides of the violence and conflict to drain immediately the security council presidential statement also condemns widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the syrian of already it calls on the syrian authorities to fully respect human rights and to comply with international law the un security council force is issuing this presidential statement following more than four and a half months of violence in syria that is when anti-government protesters forced took to the streets in mid march to call for the resignation of the syrian president now as a result of this presidential statement russia's position has been and continues to be but there should not be any overextension pressure put on the syrian government such as sanctions and the council also believe that it was better to put a statement out rather than a resolution russia has said and continues to believe that this issue should be resolved

first of throw all their support behind the legion national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what the newbie is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is as i said in the beginning this is trying to construct this is not democracy against the taliban revolutions in egyptian leave you have developed under a different scenario in egypt it was an uprising the new leader in libya is really an insurgency whose brackman by the west then those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that libya's could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the wanted gyptian or having to leave you could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence that they and believe on tomorrow i'm going to shut down reporting from washington archie there are various comparisons being made with what's happening in libya with what happened in panama back in one thousand eig

berlin abstained in a security council vote that mandated nato to protect civilians. that was not appreciated by the u.s., france, and britain. germany says that it is willing to provide reconstruction aid. >> of foreign minister is stressing that berlin will play its role in a post-gaddafi era. >> the economy needs to be built up. the consequences of the war need to be dealt with. assistance is needed. infrastructure and much more. germany is ready to help. many countries are interested in the libyan economy. there have been many offers of help from china. germany sees other contributions and can make. >> we need the help to build up democratic structures in libya. it is important that assets are moved quickly into the reconstruction efforts so that we can start along this path in the most peaceful way possible. >> libya's oil reserves has made it a rich country. money could quickly be released to help with reconstruction. libya is hoping that there will not be any need for huge amounts of development aid from germany. experts believe it will be necessary to provide

they recognize the transitional council in nigeria. and that paul, just a few months ago, they called for the ouster of gaddafi and last week recognized the presidential council. there is a bit of variety in the african response. >> i think the libyan relations with arab countries are going to need resets as well, notably algeria, which generally was supportive of gaddafi. so we will see what will happen there. we are going to open up now to questions from the audience. if you have a question, put your hand up. i will recognize you. we have microphones, so i would like you to speak your question into the microphone and identify yourself. keep your questions breed and director questions to one of the panelists. >> my name is walter from the north atlantic council. my question would be to you know who are the rebel leaders? are they defectors and how can people trust them? libyan citizens are asking the question, why you think that western nations have all the answers for middle east problems, including libya? thank you. >> karim, would

the united nations vitaly churkin said that the security council is still working under the shadow of vents surrounding libya after the security council adopted a resolution allowing for a no fly zone the u.s. and european countries started what is now a military intervention russia china many other council members believe that the text of this resolution was taken advantage of manipulated misinterpreted and that is that an event that russia china brazil india and many other countries do not want to see a repetition of so this is why the security council is acting the way which is trying to come to a peaceful solution tried to send an international message and of course it will continue the security council to keep its eyes on the events taking place in syria . but he's worried about not reporting from new york well the despite backing the united states on syria the u.s. is now calling for new tougher sanctions against iran since assad's regime is already under a set of american and e.u. penalties meantime investigative journalist webster tarpley told us that the west wants a syrian r

later today monday france says that the transitional council. will as it moves forward now as it plans its future did that libya is a potentially prosperous country that it needs assistance from the west if it's to come through with those plans to brussels the you were representatives have said that as the united states seems to be taking a back seat in these negotiations they see an opportunity to fill that vacuum admitted the hard work lies ahead and the deep divisions between the rebel factions means that it will be a difficult time because when there was a single enemy gadhafi it was very easy for various factions some with very different interests to bond together and now there are fears that this may collapse and there may be a power vacuum fronts in fact claimed that the war mission in libya is over now defense experts here in the european union are concerned by such statements because with the absence of gadhafi in any sort of real power structure there are concerns that there could be an even more bloody civil war emerging some analysts

security council action. my understanding from colleagues up in new york couple of hours ago was that the most recent syrian government repressive measures in the east and in hamma in the west have had an impact and that the members of the security council who had opposed security council action are potentially now more open to some kind of action. discussions are under way. my understanding is even as we speak here. we think it is important -- i want to underline this -- we think it is important the united nations security council take action. we think it is important that the international community recognize the courage and the efforts of the syrian people to effect change, to push for freedom and dignity and that the international community should support them. >> one of the challenges we have when i mentioned that sometimes it's hard for americans to sustain a focus on violence, even violence at this level and the kind of brutality, one of the limitations we have is not just the events that interfere or

can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and cannot do when it comes to the situation in syria ambassador churkin did it take a moment to speak with the press to elaborate on what discussions have been taking place so far here's a little bit of what he had to say concerned about sunday's collision of the gauntlet and we think that he says is the security council. because of signal in favor of political accommodation and in the world and the security council will convene again wednesday morning to continue taking on this issue of syria and all the violence that has been going on for more than four months after the u.n. mandate to protect civilians in libya has come under fire for the way it's being implemented well some conscious feel of the nato led coalition is using it to try and topple colonel gadhafi political analyst michel chossudovsky things going down the same path syria could have the entire region in war. the people who are actually committing crimes against humanity is the nato us military alliance we see it did in libya but it was

security council resolution so i don't think we should write them off as an experience of doing a lot of stories to interrupt this is quite a few points i want to ask you about but do you think you mentioned that they been able to maintain decent levels of security but at the moment now we're going to see thousands of energized euphoric and all men running amok in libya so it looks like is that not a very dangerous situation for the start of a new era. yes it is very dangerous i agree there are the absolute first priority must be must be so. curity in tripoli and in any other areas which are liberated from the gadhafi regime they know that and they have they say they've put in hand the best possible arrangements in advance to deal with that they've had their own agents in tripoli in the last few days before the gadhafi forces were eliminated or seem to be eliminated. and they've also set up a committee with task with just the role of security and providing water and electricity and so on but we've when they can do it that's it whether they can do it because we've seen what happened in

security council have called for sanctions. they want to freeze his assets and institute an arms embargo on syria. russia and china have the power to veto any proposal and thus far, moscow has opposed sanctions. in a statement, russia's ambassador to the un said we hope to see progress and we hope to see dialogue established in syria. we think it should continue to work within that unified position. a key regional player is turkey. refugees from syria have been fleeing across the border to camps on the turkish side for some time. now the prime minister has called on mr. saw to end the violence. quex a want to see the blood shed stop. one cannot achieve prosperity by cruelty. those will drown in the blood they shed. >> until now the syrian opposition was fluid. unable to agree on unified positions. at a meeting of activists in turkey on tuesday, there were signs that may be changing. >> we agreed on shipping aspects of syria with a new constitution that guarantees rights to citizens. >> last week president assaad told the un tha

morning if you are in libya which is where we go to for our breaking news now this hour the rebel council claims that they are in control of most of the libyan capital tripoli after the alliance backed advance one of colonel gadhafi sons safe. only are reported to have been arrested has made a surprise appearance in the capital he claims pro can offer troops have broken the backbone of the rebel forces nato confirms that three surface to air missiles have been launched on the coastal city of misrata by a loyalist meanwhile the whereabouts of the libyan leader is still unknown but a spokesman. says that he is doing quite well nato insists it will continue combat missions until all government forces. there are reports of gunfire near the libya tunisia border as well thousands of libyans are heading in that direction to flee the fierce fighting between pro and anti kadafi forces correspondent is at the border. well violent clashes have been reported along its unusually been border over the weekend it all started on friday when local resident has reported that near the town of. reportedly sev

security council western countries pressed for an outright condemnation of the syrian government for violence russia says that could damage the road to peace and calls for more. international news in comment this is r.t. live in moscow just on a.p.m. in the russian capital good to have you with us this beleaguered europe is caught in stormy seas once again as italy has held crisis talks with the e.u. over its surging borrowing costs and countries have reached their highest level since the euro was adopted prime minister silvio berlusconi has stopped short of asking for a bailout well let's get more now from europe correspondent daniel bushell and daniel addressing the italian parliament prime minister berlusconi he tried to reassure the troubled markets but just how serious is the situation right now. already by going he is being now and he waited till the markets were closed to show you how to read it while he was barry's the beach could make the market with them cause them to go out without sharply they believed there would be a market arrival he built a thing at the moment and tri

security council of course is issuing this presidential statement following more than four and a half months of violence in syria that is when anti-government protesters first took to the streets back in mid march to call for the resignation of the syrian president now as a result of this presidential statement russia's position has been and continues to be that there should not be any overextension pressure put on the syrian government such as sanctions and the council also believe that it is better to put a statement out rather than a resolution russia has said include seniors to believe that this issue should be resolved in the form of dialogue trying to get both parties to come together and speak rather than taking sides one way or another. russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin said that the security council is still working under the shadow of vents surrounding libya after the security council adopted a resolution allowing for a no fly zone the u.s. and european countries started what is now a military intervention russia china many other council members believe

security council members including russia but. the means by which nato has been accomplishing the goal of al staying gadhafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution from six months ago that authorized the military intervention the resolution it was designed to protect civilians but many innocent civilians have been killed by nato strikes within those six months or the falling of weapons to libyan rebels has also been done in clear violation of the arms embargo that was imposed on libya western powers clearly took sides in the civil war basically disregarding the whole part of the population in libya that was against the military intervention in the first place well in light of all those violations that have taken place it was very likely that the u.n. security council would have adopted yet another resolution on leave you know come september and september is when the previous resolution was out so it was very crucial it was crucial for nato and the rebels to carry out the operation before the resolution runs out and from

also reporting divisions in the un security council western countries . russia says that could damage the road to peace and calls for. international news and comment this is in moscow just. in the russian capital good to have you with us this beleaguered europe is caught in stormy seas once again as italy has held crisis talks with the e.u. . costs the country have reached their highest level since the euro was adopted prime minister silvio berlusconi has stopped short of asking for a bailout well let's get more now from europe correspondent daniel bushell. daniel addressing the prime minister he tried to reassure the troubled markets but just how serious is the situation right now. already by going he is being now and he waited till the stock markets were closed to show you how out there is that while he was worried that his speech could make the market and cause them to go up or down sharply they'd waited till the stock market there are over he will speaking at the moment he tries to reassure people over its leading screwing their problems that even ten

still headquarters of the transitional national council. andrew. >> this is the latest developments in libya in a moment. up to date quickly on what's been happening in the markets around the world over the past 24 hours or so. i want to start in asia. a pretty strong day. a lot of the key indices making up ground. there's been good news on an hsbc gauge of manufacturing in china. this is closely watched number at the moment to give you an idea of the strength what's going on in the manufacturing sector. there has been shrinking and taking the broader stock market with it. the latest numbers have come in better than expected. it's still contracting, manufacturing companies are saying the output is weakening. but not at the same rate. a little more stable coming in. that gave shanghai a bit of a boost. closing up 1.5%. stocks here in hong kong certainly helped the local market, also got a boost from that manufacturing number as well. in australia, it was all about fosers. they got more than 1.5% on the broad index there after it said it was

security council if they don't agree there is going to be no resolution. a british man who challenge the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within courts is losing his battle norman scarth spoken of world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission. but reports the eighty five year old is determined to fight on with his campaign for transparency. british prisons full to bursting the cool so working overtime sending young people to jail for the role in the recent riots in england. to leave prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scarth he played the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of a british judge. his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because se

security council has condemned the escalating violence in syria demanding an end to bloodshed and is calling for internal political dialogue it all comes amid reports that syrian opposition stronghold of hama has been over run by government forces with witnesses saying there are many more casualties i think is following the events for us at the u.n. in new york. all members of the security council adopted the presidential statement which first and foremost calls for an immediate end to all violence and urges both sides of the violence and conflict to drain immediately the security council presidential statement also condemns widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the syrian authority it calls on the syrian authorities to fully respect human rights and to comply with international law the un security council of course is issuing this presidential statement following more than four and a half months of violence in syria that is when anti-government protesters first took to the streets back in mid march to call for the resignation of the syrian p