the secretary-general called on the council to take action but the council could not unite. it was a missed opportunity but we stand ready to continue these efforts right now. in light of all that has happened it is more critical than ever to avoid another situation and return to the active diplomacy. we it is -- this political process needs to be reinvigorated and the effort of the envoy. humanitarian access can wait no longer. this is the only way to end the suffering of the syrian people. let's read of the our efforts and put in and to this long, brutal, and meaningless conflict once and for all. thank you. >> the representative of the netherlands. >> i would like to start by thanking the security general for his statement today. yesterday as well as today you spoke of a litany of horrors the syrian population has experienced in the last few years. in which the chemical weapons attack are among the most gruesome. the world needs -- does not need reminding of the suffering that syrian countrymen and women have endured. the suffering that comes at the hands of assad and his

the secretary-general called on the council to take action but the council could not unite. it was a missed opportunity but we stand ready to continue these efforts right now. in light of all that has happened it is more critical anotherr to avoid situation and return to the active diplomacy. we it is -- this political process needs to be reinvigorated and the effort of the envoy. humanitarian access can wait no longer. this is the only way to end the suffering of the syrian people. read of the our efforts and put in and to this long, brutal, and meaningless conflict once and for all. thank you fo. >> the representative of the netherlands. to start byike thanking the security general for his statement today. yesterday as well as today you spoke of a litany of horrors the syrian population has experienced in the last few years. in which the chemical weapons attack are among the most gruesome. needs -- does not need reminding of the suffering that syrian countrymen and women have endured. the suffering that comes at the hands of assad and his allies. the syrian regime has left

secretary general who will be briefing the security council let's go to the council chamber. meeting. of the security council is called to order. the provisional agenda for this meeting is. now threats to international peace and security the situation in the middle east. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule thirty seven of the council's provisional rules of procedure i invite the representative of the syrian arab republic to participate in this meeting it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. i wish to warmly welcome of the secretary general his excellency mr. and i give him the floor. mr president excellences. the situation in the middle east is in kaos to such an extent it has become a strat to international peace and security the region is facing it through guardian not different fault lines crossing each other and creating a highly volatile situation with risks of escalation fragmentation and division as far as the eye can see with profound regional and global ramifications we see the multiplicity of divi

this council does nothing. todaye are dealing with is not about a spat between the united states and russia, this is about the inhumane use of chemical agents on ends -- and on innocent civilians. each country is on record opposing these weapons. there can be no more rationalizations for our failure to act. we have already introduced and circulated a resolution demanding unrestricted humanitarian access to the people of duma. assad is doing all he can to assure maximum suffering in duma. our priority must be given help the starving, the sick and injured that have been left behind. we also call on this council to immediately reestablish a truly professional and impartial mechanism for chemical weapons attacks in syria, including the attack this weekend. we help our colleagues on this council will join us as they have before. is the very minimum we can do in response to the attacks we just witnessed. russia's obstructionism will not continue to hold us hostage when we are confronted with an attack like this one.

it is unworthy for a permanent member of the united nations security council. this status is the highest degree of responsibility. and not the right to favor battle which is absent in international law. to plungeu seeking the middle east into such difficulties provoking one conflict after another. picking one state against another. benefit from a potential strike against syrian troops who bear the main burden and theying terrorism have achieved major victories in this regard. we understand fully well that the heads of the armed groups have received instruction to following a potential act of force. is the latest chaos truly being unleased for the sake of that? the pretext is that the alleged use of chemical substances in the syrian city of duma, there is no credible confirmation of this. tracescialists found no of toxic substance use. know ofdents of duma no such attack. all the information has been provided by the antigovernment groups. we have justification to believe , and we even have information to believe that what took place is the provocation and partic

this council has to act. the investigation by the fact-finding mission of pocw must be completed -- opcw must be completed as soon as possible. there must be no impunity for the use of chemical weapons. to do otherwise is to fail on the responsibilities. to do otherwise is to undermine international architecture that we collectively designed to stop such attacks. it is time for this council and the international community as a whole to act. thank you, mr. president. [speaking spanish] >> i think the representative of the netherlands for this -- for his statement. i now give the floor to the representative on the united states. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for your briefings. almost exactly one year ago i stood on the floor of the security council and held up pictures of dead syrian children. after that they, i prayed that , i prayed that i would never have to do that again. there are many truly gruesome pictures. many of us have worked hard to ensure that one day we would not have to see images of b

needs to address let's go now to the council chamber. where the president of the security council from peru is about to start proceedings he will begin the session by announcing the resolution that russia has introduced but before that it is likely that the secretary general who you see sitting to the security council president's right will actually open address and there we have the u.s. ambassador walking in proceedings delayed a little bit as he ok is now moving in i must mention to as well that the city the u.s. ambassador in a very interesting position not only is she ambassador to the united nations but very unusually she's also a member of the u.s. national security council so she's been moving between washington and the united nations let's go to the chamber ok michael before we go to the chamber we will cross back to the chamber as and when they start speaking for the time being mike thank you but i do stand by for us because i will be crossing back to you as that testing gets underway. the british prime minister to resign may m

would refer back to the security council of the security council would then take a decision and vote on it a divided security council very difficult for the council to agree on attribute responsibility in this type of case so this is the important difference between the body that the u.s. is proposing in this coming resolution and the existing functions of the united nations and international protocols for controlling the use of chemical weapons all of that being said we are very likely to get a russian veto in this vote as there has been on numerous votes on syria in the past in fact if russia does veto this resolution it would be the twelfth such veto by russia since the war began in syria just to be absolutely clear about this without. i have two resolutions being voted on today one from the u.s. one from russia and the key difference between them is whether any forthcoming inquiry ascribes responsibility for what took place in duma. well complicated even further for him marry him and there might actually be three solutions voted on today we've got the u.s. resolution russia has i

to the security council for for the u.s. . really stating her case as a country's case against russia let's bring in kimberly how could on this a very methodical approach to stating the united states' position on chemical weapons and also trying to show very clear how russia should have upheld it and of the bargain. right to things that are really coming out of the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley's comet there just now that struck me the first is that it's very clear that the united states is making a very hard case for why there needs to be international consensus an international coalition backing any sort of u.s. led military response to the suspected chemical attack and duma so that's the first thing to take away from there the other thing is that what we clearly saw there was a war of words going on between the united states and russia you heard very strong condemnation and language pointing the finger at russia by nikki haley there but you also heard from the russian federation equally strong w

council member tatiana kostanian? absent. council member alex madrid? absent. council member sally coghlan mcdonald? absent. council member orkid sassouni. >> present. council member helen smolinski? present. kate williams? present. >> item 1, welcome, introduction and roll call. item 2, actiontime, reading and approval of the agenda. item 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and ends of the meeting as well as after every item on today's agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your comments following the meeting if you provide your contact information. you may complete a speaker's card, available in the front of the room. approach the microphone during public comment or call our bridge line at 11-415-554-9632. where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. item 4, information item. co-chair report. item 5, information item, report from the mayor's office on disability. please no

security council do anything. well yes can it focus world attention the the our youth of the whole world are on this. earth mentioned if. by some miracle. the resolution is passed providing for the investigation then the power of the united nations will be demonstrated because that will act as a brake on any. u.s. action with regard actually to the realities of what happened i'm personally convinced that what happened with a fake flag operation that there was no attack quite with the image of that with being now would be thought to fabricate. ludicrous that we should be on the point of armageddon. image you which to form of certainly been concocted. many thanks peter always appreciate your time and your forthright opinions peter ford my guest former you can blast the two syria and bahrain. so hungry now are the prime minister celebrating a massive general election victory his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament with a record turnout more seventy percent addressing supporters viktor orban s

if you council believes mr president russia was not authorized by the security council to carry out an investigation in syria russia says there were no traces of a chemical attack no traces were found by whom i repeat mr preston pressure is not authorized to carry out an investigation on behalf of the security council we need an independent investigative mechanism for that purpose and now only that sort of mechanism can have the confidence of the security council and the confidence of the membership of the un and the confidence of the people of syria sadly mr president reports of chemical weapons attacks in syria have continued since the original russian b.t.o. in november it's become very clear that russia will do what it takes to protect syria whatever the compelling evidence of the crimes committed and to shut down further investigation and discussion of those trying and this is come mr president at the cost of russia saying obligations incredibility as a permanent member of this council as a state party to the chemical weapons convention and as a declared and supposed supporter of

security council and at the heart of this. serious disagreements over this is back to the chemical attack in the syrian town of doom and now obviously western military strikes have been carried out but we are still waiting for the o.p.c. w. to complete its investigation like what happens after that. well i must mention too that russia was particularly vehement in its anger about the fact that these strikes were carried out before the international chemical weapons watchdog actually finished its investigation as you mentioned the team is in damascus it has arrived in damascus it will be traveling to the area in which this chemical weapons attack allegedly took place it will carry out investigation to ascertain whether or not such a attack took place at all now the timeline on that well that's a little bit like a piece of string the chemical weapons experts expected will take at least two weeks after collecting samples to be able to establish what kind of gases or poisons were used in the alleged attack if indeed they were used

council member alex madrid. >> present. >> clerk: council member sally coghlan mcdonald. >> present. >> clerk: council member orkid sassouni will participate via the bridge line. council member helen smolinski. >> present. >> clerk: and council member kate williams is absent. >> thank you very much. let's move to action item, this is number two. reading an approval of the agenda by staff. >> clerk: item one, welcome, introduction and roll call. item two, action item, reading

security council and in fact they've said that. the russians calling emergency meeting of the council as early as later today they've also addressed something that france had to say while justifying its produce a patient in the strikes france had said that basically it had intelligence information that since two thousand and thirteen the syrian government were pursuing the secret chemical weapons program despite the your p c w n twenty sixteen vouching that the stockpile had been destroyed something in a process overseen by russia and the un as well as a however the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry she said that basically if france knew that all along four years why hold back the information why come forward with it only now so many years later for donald trump in his first tweet after the attack he thanked u.s. allies and said the results couldn't have been better he called the strikes perfectly executed despite syrian and russian military saying that most of the missiles have been intercepted by defense systems. well

this meeting of the security council called by russia to discuss that chemical attack.et's speak now... joining me now is dr natasha rulyova, lecturer in russian and a specialist in russian media at the university of birmingham. thank you forjoining us, i hope you we re thank you forjoining us, i hope you were able to listen to what some of the ambassador was saying. it was an abject lesson in criticism and ridicule. how will it be portrayed by the russian media? precisely in those words except with more sarcasm and mockery of the british reaction to the case. may i ask you to stay with us one second, we are just going to go back and hearour second, we are just going to go back and hear our representative, the british representative at the united nations. she is responding, let's listen in. they are interviewing more than 500 witnesses. the president, in the uk the police are independent of government. if there are more details we can share with the council as the investigation proceeds, we shall be very happy to do so. we all know why that investigation is under way. i

this time, i council is meeting in response. this time, lam council is meeting in response.

military is for to be approved according to the security council. resolution for sure just as well use the word complexities it shows the complexity is what they're going to because it's going to be everyone who's challenging it all that. you know we know when we can begin a wall but we don't know when he is going to and i was going to develop so you have the u.n. security united nations secretary general also hinted that the security council should have been asked first but abstained from open criticism of the united states and its allies you worked for the united nations for a while does it bother you that a united nations security council is kind of be sidelined not asked not refer to. well it's express on time you know during the strongest controlling good spot of it because this is the will of the members of the security council thank god sometimes it can be balanced by. some principles inside the security council but for shorter you know what facing one of the worst guys is not going to find a way i don't know how it's going to happen is it th

it is an important thinker at the council session mr president there is an urgent need for this council to find a way to address this situation with unity and purpose how did we reach this point march so devastating violence in one half of its there who would that result in at least one thousand seven hundred people killed and injured in opposition control areas and those events and though the nz killed and injured in government controlled areas and ultimately the very question of one hundred thirty thousand people including five those family members and other three billions but in doing that there was a fragile ceasefire that held for most of march and the u.n. good offices did play an important role in that regard but from the twenty thirty first of march the un was not able anymore to be involved in talks since at that time the syrian government did not consent to our presence though we have made efforts to propose concrete ways to address issues that we understood were coming up in a continuing context including suggesting to activate the afghan a detainee working group but this of

. >> the un security council held an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical attack in syria. the meeting comes as us department announced it has been the syrian government is responsible for saturday's attack. in this portion year from us ambassador nikki haley and the russian and syrian ambassadors to the on. >> mr. president, excellencies. the situation in the middle east is in chaos and to such an extent it has become a threat to international peace and security. the region is facing a true gordian knot and different fault lines crossing each other creating a highly volatile situation, fragmentation and division as far as the eye can see with profound regional and global ramifications. we see the multi- city and the first is the memory of the cold war but to be precise it is more than a simple memory. the cold war is back with a vengeance between the difference in the mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the escalation that exists no longer seem to be peasants. second the palestinian israeli divide. third, the sunni shiite divide and it is important to note that the div

council on this special session to be. addressing the tension especially in syria let's get over to michaela has been listening in obviously we're getting. a defensive posture of the syrian ambassador and also a bit of a history lesson but he seems to be goading the comments made by the swedish ambassador and certainly the american want to. indeed yes we've heard this before from the syrian ambassador being speaking here in this meeting by special dispensation a rule which does a lot concern nations to take their place in the security council when such discussions are happening and certainly very contentious note from the ambassador as you say goading the u.s. and its allies sweden in particular at this particular point this is once again something that we have seen repeatedly within the council as we've seen in the course of the session today very much a reflection of what's been happening for chile day after day for the past week this is the fourth special session on syria that has taken place and each time we see almost

we have repeatedly in this council attempted to ove rco m e repeatedly in this council attempted to overcomeuccess. mr president, we faced with litany of violations and a sense of guilt, —— and no sense of guilt, regret, responsibility, a shameful record maxed in a mix of denial, deceit and disinformation. mr president, i would invite those like the russian ambassador who speak about the charter to consider the following. it is hard to believe that it the following. it is hard to believe thatitis the following. it is hard to believe that it is in line with the principles and purposes of the charter to use or condone the use of chemical weapons. and in the united kingdom's view, it cannot be illegal to use force to prevent the killing of such numbers of innocent people. i will take no lessons, mr president, in international law from russia. despite all this, mr president, we would like to look forward , president, we would like to look forward, the united kingdom, together with france and the us will continue to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the syrian crisis. my french colleague will say

you undermined the authority of the security council. asa authority of the security council.he use of chemical weapons in the syrian city of douma. representatives of russia, after an inspection by our experts, stated no such incident took place. furthermore, people took pa rt took place. furthermore, people took part in this staging and, in fact, the organisers of that staging were foreign intelligence services. the syrian authorities immediately invited experts from the 0rganisation invited experts from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons to conduct field mission to douma to establish the fa cts . mission to douma to establish the facts. these formalities were resolved and guarantees of security we re resolved and guarantees of security were provided. at that time strikes we re were provided. at that time strikes were conducted experts were already in syria and getting ready to begin the work. i want to recall the members of the security council and eve ryo ne members of the security council and everyone else on the 10th of april, when a draft resolutio

well not within her speech in the assembly to in the security council today however in the security council yesterday she said similar speech to what she done but at the end she said that the united states is going to act regardless of whether the security council passes a resolution or not she made very clear that some kind of action was being contemplated by the u.s. unilateral action we've also seen intense discussions with some of the other security council and eyes of the u.s. that britain france and they have been intense and as conversations going on around various parts of the security council chamber so there is a possibility of some kind of unilateral action by the u.s. not just the u.s. perhaps including some of its allies but one must remember as well that this is precisely the argument given by the russian ambassador in opposing the u.s. led resolution saying that it was in effect means to an end to track the veto and then to use as an excuse to carry out some kind of military operation so as with all things in the u.n. security council particularly when the parties are so divi

my important security council session.the operators other colleagues have eloquently describes today. it is truly horrific to think of victims families sheltering underground when the chlorine found them. mr president, it's the third time in five days that the council has convened to discuss chemical weapons. this is dreadful in the true sense of that word. the council should dread what we risk happening and that chemical weapons become a routine part of fighting. as a member of the p5 routine part of fighting. as a member of the ps the uk believes that we have a particular responsibility to uphold the worldwide prohibition of the use of wmds. we agree with the netherlands ambassador that the p5 has specific responsibilities. i believe that four members of the p5 to believe this but there is one who does not. the russian ambassador referred to a resurgence of the cold war. this is not the cold war mr president. in the cold war there was not this flag ra nt the cold war there was not this flagrant disregard for the prohibit

chance we gave diplomacy a chance after chance six times that's how many times russia vetoed security council resolutions to address chemical weapons in syria our efforts go back even further in two thousand and thirteen the security council passed a resolution that required the assad regime to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons syria committed to abide by the chemical weapons convention meaning it could no longer have chemical weapons on its soil president putin said russia would guarantee that syria complied we hoped that this diplomacy would succeed in putting an end to the horror of chemical attacks in syria but as we see from the past year that did not happen while russia was busy protecting the regime aside took notice the regime knew it could act with impunity and it did. in november russia used its veto to kill the joint investigative mechanism the main tool we had to figure out who used chemical weapons in syria just as russia was using its veto the assad regime used seran leading to dozens of injuries and deaths. russia's veto was the green light for the assad regime to use t

any other council members? before i go to staff, can you -- yes? >> orkid is on the bridge line. >> co-chair blacksten: i'm sorry, can you hold on just a second? all right, we'll come to the bridge line. >> go ahead, orkid. >> okay, yes, hi. i just wanted to say that in general it's not a specific ramp or anything like that but i wanted to just let you know that the 311 or the 211 is not accessible for deaf people to call through r.r.s. they're -- v.r.s., so they're not allowed to do that. so i'm letting you know that that advertisement is -- is not good for deaf people. >> thank you for letting me know and 311 has monthly meetings that i -- somebody that i work with we try to attend the meetings and i could talk to them about it to find out -- offhand i don't know, but it should be accessible to everybody. >> it's not necessarily about resources and i guess that it's letting a deaf person to have input -- kind of like able-bodied people don't really think about the other groups of people. so my suggestion woul

security council resolution against the syrian regime and so the u.s.e and britain veto this resolution. the u.n. security council have not been able to act, it is a forum for people to kind of gripe at one another and nothing stops. i think you will hear nikki haley talks about the horrible situation and why the international community felt it would need to act. there will be a lot of hand ringing and name calling. i don't think you will see any type of new strategies. the u.n. council will be tactlkg about what's next and speaking to diplomat there is a real general way genuine desire to start a real process to end this civil war and to that supporting the u.n. envoy, there is a lot of talk of the so-called geneva process but it has for years have not gone anywhere. how do you end this? even if these strikes end and chemical weapons, we don't think they will. the syrians have plenty of ways to attack their sif ycivilians. >> ambassador nikki haley is speaking right now. this is our fifth council meeting in the past week to address the situation in syr

to be a meeting of the minds or any meeting offered a resolution from the members of the security council at this particular point is going back to two different a mysterious speech he is calling very strongly for the united nations security council to reach unity on this issue well within half an hour of the discussions they're very clear that unity would be virtually impossible to achieve in the stern of debate here we've got the u.s. ambassador beginning to talk. and thank you mr markham for your briefings almost exactly one year ago i stood on the floor of the security council and held up pictures of dead syrian children after that day i prayed that i would never have to do that again i could there are many and truly. there are many truly gruesome pictures many of us have worked hard to ensure that one day we would not have to see images of babies gath gassed to death and syria but the day we prayed would never come has come again chemical weapons have once again been used on syrian men women and children and once again the security council is meeting in response this time i'm not goi

this is our fifth security council in the past week to address the situation in syria. a week has gone by in which we have talked about the victims in duma. we have talked about the assad regime and its patrons, russia and ironic -- and iran. the time for talk ended last night. here today because three permanent members of the united nations security council acted. the united kingdom, france, and the united states acted. not as revenge, not as punishment, not as a symbolic show of force. deter the future use holdingcal weapons by the syrian regime responsible for its atrocities against humanity. a russian see that disinformation campaign is in full force this morning. russia's desperate attempts at deflection cannot change the facts. a large body of information indicates that the syrian regime used chemical weapons in duma on april 7. there is clear information demonstrating assad's culpability. the pictures of dead children were not fake news. they were the result of the syrian regimes are correct inhumanity and the result of the failure torussia's live up to their int

security council they say that they agreed to disagree the u.s. russia a few others really just failing to establish just how any investigation of what's happened in duma should go forward what do you expect now to be the next course of action from the u.s. . well i'm afraid it's probably going to be military action i think russia made a big mistake by vetoing that resolution because i think just a geisha is what's needed to see what happened there are photographs of you know people foaming at the mouth and that sort of thing bodies lying all over so i think the investigation is better than war and i think. war is definitely not the thing to do that is to say in a u.s. attack or a multilateral attack it's going to be least britain france and the u.s. but i think the rush russia would have been better off to accept their investigation into the. whole incident i mean my understanding of today's events is that they've been basically squabbling over just how the investigation should go forward but i believe that the opi c.w. are sending offices that t

security council it's a moment of tension and all eyes are on the u.n. security council at this very important meeting by the russian federation. show you've got more to tell us about it later as we get more details in where we're watching of most of what was said there live as well thanks for the update systems of the moment nothing's really changed but it looks like the tensions are rushing up britain has been quick to point the finger at russia but has been left slightly red faced to call soft some of the claims that beginning to unravel the u.k. representative is trying to counter all that. takes up the story. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade nobby choke nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish t

city employ -- recorded two city council members and other city employee without their consent. she is on administrative leave. >>> let's check weather. we'll have mostly sunny skies. bring your umbrella on sunday. the golden gate bridge not necessarily noticing fog. it's clear and crisp. here's the temperatures. in some spots in the 40s. 50 san francisco. temperatures in the 30s in the north bay. santa rosa 41. so it's a chillier start to your morning. chillier than normal. then what we're going to see is the afternoon is going to be warming up. so let's check the fog. down to 9-mile visibility for half moon bay. rest of us clear conditions no cloud coverage. clouds that came through are gone. you can see this loop how it's going from thicker cloud coverage to barely anything. that's really how we'll spend the day. your wind speeds at this hour are calm throughout most of the south bay, mountain view, san jose, pretty good. and then barely a breeze at sfo and novato. we have a beach hazard statement that goes into effect and it stays until 7 p.m. northwest swell at the beach up

security council meets to discuss the spiraling diplomatic crisis caused by the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a german court allows consular only as former president carlos pushed him on out on bail and so they decide on extraditing him to spain meanwhile brazil's wildly popular acts president lula is tell he must go behind bars over a corruption conviction. and zimbabwe's a money maker is put under the spotlight after human rights campaigners say the tobacco industry is rife with abuse. the un security council is meeting to discuss the fallout from the poisoning of the former russian spy service cripple and his daughter the session has been called by russia which is seeking to undermine britain's case that moscow was responsible for last month's attack in salisbury eunice cripples health has improved rapidly but her father remains in intensive care lawrence lee reports. first the good news scriptural is on the mend the police in london issued a statement from her in which she said i woke up over a week ago now and i

security council. in istanbul and the opposition journalist assad hama to be. put on his twitter page or a video allegedly from the area of the incident and this has probably from the white helmet and unknown individual is next to a handmade bomb with a chemical form which allegedly which allegedly struck the bedroom of a building in duma. all of this is accompanied by comments about another attack by the regime against civilians and these is the nature of this action is something of which there is no doubt so i asked the syrians are in a list about this accusation that was made by the russian ambassador at the u.n. and how it falls into a broader discussion about the do not attack. i was surprised by listening to my name being mentioned in the station. russian invisible to the un so he just was denying it in news which is really news and he was the nine years without knowing what he's denying and or talking about he wasn't just talking about different videos from different people maybe he did you know if you use which he doesn't know torture he watches it afte

yet another security council session on syria and yet another veto. the twelfth exercised by russia since the conflict began twelve members were in favor of a u.s. led proposal to set up an independent body that would investigate chemical attacks and identify perpetrators voters old reconstitute and similarly this is a moment of truth the vote that we are faced with today so i would call upon each of the members of the security council speaking on behalf of france to take proper stock of what is at stake here and to live up to their responsibilities and to the us vote in favor of the american draft resolution as the day was the council continue to splinter a russian proposal for an investigative mechanism fails to get the mind votes needed to pass the u.s. not even needing to veto and an explanation of how it differed in two ways from the u.s. led resolution the key point is our resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and then to assess the o

yesterday at the session of the executive council of the obesity w. . several allies of great britain called on us to cooperate with the british side well probably they weren't the. there wasn't enough time to brief them in advance about what to say we have prepared a draft statement of the security council for the for the meeting it's very simple . this is a litmus test a litmus test of whether great britain and its allies are true to their word. if you. if you just as last time if you bury this litmus this statement which is a litmus test if you turn if you kind of turn its substance inside out its meaning it will once again be further confirmation of your of your dirty games thank you very much. you have been listening to the russian ambassador to the united nations say who launched into over a half an hour as the string attack on the u.k. i am particular the prime minister's version of events as to what happened in the spy poisoning case we are now going to be listening to the bush ambassador to the un karen pearce to rest on take requests from the

but the president the members of the security council. resent development carry more than ever before the danger of the general warned about recently at the munich security conference he spoke of middle east of quote unquote different fault lines that are completely crossing each other and interconnected of conflicting interests they're both global and regional power and formed of a scale lesion that can have absolutely devastating consequences of that is difficult for us to even imagine. they can still cannot allow a situation of uncontrollable it's got lesion to develop in theory or on any project instead in must find unity and address the concrete threat to international peace and security in thea today thank you mr president i'm sorry to have been short but for good thing on one specific concern the threat to international security related to what we have thing now interior and on the danger of repetition of the alleged. chemical weapons attacks. next time i would be able to give you a briefing about humanitarian issues about our ther

there, and say, "they can't run councils.t they can't." and they have what almost looks like an open goal in london in terms of these elections. most conservatives privately saying, look, you know, we know this is going to be a very difficult set of elections. presumably labour must be worried now might blunt their offensive? yes, it is impossible to tell what if any impact it will have, but clearly if you were in labour hq and writing the script for the local election campaign, you wouldn't have added this if you'd had complete control over what was going to happen. just before this row emerged, labour were very much on the offensive. they launched their local election campaign in trafford in greater manchester, which has been a conservative council for i think 13 years, and could very easily fall the way of labour, and the conservatives have been very proud of running trafford, so it gives some sense of how optimistic labour were, despite the fact that the last time these council seats were fought in 2014, ed miliband, the

security council set for 11 a.m. eastern time and we are also on top of a closed door nato meeting going on as we speak in brussels on those air strikes. we'll be getting a live nato briefing from that when it lets up, to kevin cork with the latest from the white house right now hi, kevin. reporter: hi my friend, listen this is very interesting times not just with this white house, but more broadly for u.s. foreign policy, as not just the u.s. and its allies but the world against us, neil with one voice, which is you can not let a madman continue to use chemical weapons to hurt his own people and that is what the president has basically said about those targeted strikes. let me take you to twitter his favorite social media platform he said it perfectly executed strike last night thank you to france and the united kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine military. he goes on to say this, could not have had a better result, mission accomplished. of course last night the president said the coalition had mars

security council this bring the pictures and the sound as well if we can. nobody is lacking for lighting mission to without delay meet the site of the supposed to event not who we welcome the decision on who made for the general director of the technical secretariat of office of w. to send them to separate you noted to carry out investigative work in line with its c w c standards and you were taken to county data. and provided by the the state safety access guarantees provide the syrian authorities and the russian military in fifteen days time the secretary general would but would to submit it first that first reports to the security council this is a strictly practical non-problem confrontational and de politicize initiative in support of a p c w which would have helped to the determination by specialists in this area of what took place or rather did not take place in duma yet like of and this is the priority now or you might not derive there then the resolution on uni me to which was hastily introduced for voting with it obviously a goal to says see how b

system as a whole not just the security council but the u.n. system should do its best in upheld in the principles of the u.n. charter and that's why we convened a meeting that we had today. we just been informed that to morrow will have another open meeting regarding the threats that the united states. sent against not just syria in this case but against the whole u.n. system your colleague the u.s. envoy to the to the u.n. nikki haley just a few days ago said that the quote security council has proved itself to be useless what's your assessment of the comments on it. well i think that the security council has a lot of problems i think it has a lot of all sorts challenges. we can talk about the need of reform of the security council we can talk about the privilege that the permanent members of the security council have that we think that we will leave that that should be change but at this particular moment i think the main challenge of the security council hass is to unite and to create an independent mechanism in order to investigate the arl

security council meeting will be beginning and at this u.n. security council meeting there will be two resolutions regarding the o.p.c. w. investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria now the first resolution that will be put forward comes from the united states from russia the first resolution put forward does come from russia and this will require mandatory on site visits so they must visit the site where the alleged attack took place and it requires not assigning blame that will be the focus of the o.p.c. debby's work but rather it will be giving conclusions in an overall assessment of what took place to the council now the u.s. resolution that's been put forward it calls for identifying the perpetrators and it says the. visiting the site should only be done if it's justified but it's not exactly clear what that means justify but they're not they're not saying that it be mandatory that the weapons inspectors and chemical experts actually visit the sites where this alleged attack took place now we also understand at the upcoming m

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