here. ( speaking french ) translator: the council of europe finally became, at least to some tent, the route to a democratic europe, because all the democracies, one by one, became members. narrator: the council of europe was established in 1949 with ten countries. new members have continued to join, and since the fall of the iron curtain, the entry of russia and most of the eastern european countries has brought the total to 41. subsequently, the so-called european communities were born. firstly the coal and steel community, then in brussels, the european community. these were the predecessors of the european union. adinolfi: all of the countries that joined the european community were, first of all, members of the council. so it can be considered as a sort of antechamber for the european union. narrator: today strasbourg is also home to the european union's legislative branch-- the european parliament. but the capital of the european union is, in a sense, split with major administrative centers in brussels and luxembourg city, as well as strasbourg. murphy: there's a little

us up if we go to the steps of the european convention on human rights that ministered by the council of europe not by the european union so we'll carry on the regions of the keys of previously both those i'm sure unintentionally it's got nothing to do with brussels the council of europe is based in strasbourg a different organization from the european union. and you know we have to apologize for the sound quality but how do genuine is cameron's threat here if that's just part of punching to a euro skeptics in an effort to hold the rise of the nationalist u.k. party i think yes it is a largely driven by that but it's also driven by the same thing which has driven the rise of ukip that is to say. increasing dissatisfaction not only with the interference in british internal affairs of judges in strasbourg and the council of europe's european court of human rights but also frankly with the way that british judges have been interpreted the human rights act on a number of famous cases such as the one i think your correspondent mentioned so yes i. think it is a genuine really genuine threat so i don'

costs the euro here you cannot be a member of the european union without being a member of the council of europe and you can't be a member of council here unless you've signed up to the european convention on human rights that's one point the second point is that in two thousand and eleven i was writing to the prime minister concerning the e.u. zone a session of the convention under the lisbon treaty because mr cameron was even then making you know noises about the convention and how bad it was the tory party might take written out and i pointed out to him that he had a solution around because for the e.u. to cede to the convention in its own right then it needed a unanimous vote in the council write that letter we're trying to it says understand it. isn't that it would have stopped this in its tracks right and there isn't any other way for the u.k. because it contributes almost hard the budget of the e.u. court of human rights surely a compromise can be found well you can't have your court you know you're justice system in a country it's over written by the european court and. your sovereign co

. >>> the head of the council of europe, the region's top human rights agency, plans to meet with greek officials in october to discuss responses to the group's violence. >>> the woman set to be the next u.s. ambassador to japan said he intends to follow the advice of her father, the late president john f. kennedy. caroline kennedy said if she's confirmed she will work in lines with her father's wishes. >> i will carry forward his legacy in a small way and represent the powerful bonds that represent our two democratic societies. >> kennedy testified before the senate foreign relations committee. it was the first time she has publicly discussed policies on japan. she visited hiroshima in 1978 with her uncle, the late senator edward kennedy. she said the u.s. alliance with japan remains the cornerstone of peace, stability and prosperity in asia. and she said she can think of no other country in which she would rather serve. >> i will work to increase exchanges between american and japanese students, scholars and citizens, so that future generations will understand our shared history and c

has five hundred people who have been in solitary confinement for over ten years now the council of europe in two thousand and eleven said that anything over fourteen days in solitary confinement should be considered so that's just one example twenty five thousand people being held under solitary confinement but everything from generalized overcrowding with the federal prison system roughly thirty six percent overcapacity to food cost for example in two thousand and one the u.s. government estimated that people spend about eight dollars a day on food the year after that the state of california was spending roughly two dollars a day per. prisoner so we can see in a large degree and whether it is access to health care access to mental health and all these other things that exist the situation in prisons is quite dire indeed one to many thought was really fascinating that you point out is that a lot of these prisoners the overwhelming majority in fact don't have a trial by jury to talk about that you know well you've got about eighty percent of people who end up in prison who never even reall

hundred five hundred people who had been in solitary confinement for over ten years now the council of europe in two thousand and eleven said that anything over fourteen days in solitary confinement should be considered so that's just one example twenty five thousand people being held under solitary confinement but everything from generalized overcrowding with the federal prison system roughly thirty six percent overcapacity to food cost for example in two thousand and one the u.s. government estimated that people spend about eight dollars a day on food the year after that the key state of california was spending roughly two dollars a day. on food per prisoner so we can see a large degree and whether it is access to health care access to mental health and all these other things that exist the situation in prisons is quite dire indeed one thing that i thought was really fascinating that you point out is that a lot of these prisoners the overwhelming majority in fact don't have a trial by jury. talk about that yeah well you've got about eighty percent of people who end up in prison who never ev

of the people here have been sleeping rough for months. on the street and in europe. that doesn't have. a lot of them are problems before. enough to leave the council please. do you think about going to the police from your own image of annoying. twenty two year old silas doesn't want his face showing he tells us he often sleeps in a car park nearby it's a complex story silas tells us that he has had some contact with outreach groups operating in the area but he hasn't yet got on benefits and therefore can't get into council accommodation. through. the local outreach team have told us that they're looking into silas's case here's just one of thousands of the homeless in the capital this is the face of london's famous in twenty thirteen and it seems it's an increasingly young one sarah fare r.t. london i'll be back with more international news updates in just a few minutes. sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few individuals with no real money or power can really do against the system but you never dull in fact if you remember tour discussion abo

europe. >> thank you. that was the european council of former relations - talking about the coalitions that may be announced later in germany. >> at least 20 people have been killed in southern china after typhoon usagi made landfall. that makes it the deadliest storm so far this year. winds of up to 165kph grounded flights and forced the closure of roads across the region. typhoon usagi has been downgraded to a tropical storm. scott heidler has more. >> this is xinhua, the community that boarded the brunt when typhoon usagi came ashore sunday evening. about 20 were killed, 13 coming from this community, despite the fact that 250,000 were evacuated, and that included 8,000 fishing vessels brought onshore when they heard the massive typhoon is coming assure. there's devastation north and east from the community. this faced the biggest, with 13 dead. the storm continues to track west through china. the concern is less devastation like we see here, but more about flooding and mud slides because of the infrastructure in the interior of china, there's a lot of concern because it's a massive storm, 1,000km wide.

indicate that immediate use of force would be allowed this is something that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov explained in detail while addressing the security council in europe with but the with. the resolution does not fall under chapter seven of the un charter and does not allow for the automatic use of force with the agreement that the russian american meeting in geneva regarding violations of the use of chemical weapons by anyone will have to be carefully investigated by the security council of the united nations. the council will stand ready to take action under chapter seven of the un charter any incident which is considered to be a violation of the resolution would have to be proved one hundred percent yours is defo any action taken but still. the resolution also calls for the convening of the geneva two peace talks which un secretary-general ban ki moon says could happen as soon as november geneva two is where the syrian government and opposition are supposed to come to the table together to negotiate a peaceful path towards their future and an ultimate end to the two and a half year civil war taking place in that country russia's foreign minister se

of europe especially after it conquered france and in may of and in june one thousand forty. but the japan was particularly dangerous because it was expanding into areas that the that the council and the u.s. happens class you know it's really what i call the us ruling class was looking at it as important sources were materials and markets that is southeast asia so they ate outline what they called the grand area that is the grand area was the british empire plus southeast asia was really the rest of the world except for continental europe that was the grand area they outlined this and says we have this in imperial brain trust the tail it's all underground area and they said any time a country trespasses into the grand area we have to go to war so japan of course stressed as you know the grand area with its push to southeast asia so the united states got into the war of the you know there's much more complexity of what i can give you know a few minutes but then they outlined what the new world order should look like and it should have something like the idea method should have something like the world bank and to have something like the united nations integrate to. wait a new

i'm a lot of disagreement on that issue again not only among the security council members but also around the world many western countries the. flag bearers of democracy and human rights in europe in asia around a world of bad contrasting those issues and let's not act like add they want support of the united states the united states is prepared to go along because nobody has an appetite for these type of intervention and not many countries that can verify if i have an innocent living or has is is the. no no it's there is clearly considerable dispute about whether there should be a unilateral military response there is no serious dispute about the assad government being responsible for the chemical attack now let's move on because you would. i want to confuse the two let's move on to the supper question given that it's very likely that all the evidence points in the direction of the syrian government as having been responsible for this attack then the question comes up what should you do about it now you know in an ideal world i would say send assad to the international criminal court that way we don't have to bomb anybody we can just try him in a fair trial in general and yes

just as the chairman of the european council midst of on their own today they all said that the peaceful solution is the only way out and in fact this shows a certain schism within europe because seven european countries some of them are european union members including denmark romania creation turkey love to be of poland they also said that they are supporting the possible strike on syria just as the canadian prime minister also said he would support such a strike obviously we're expecting a joint declaration from the g twenty countries at seven hundred local time but we already received information from the spokesperson. who said that there will be no single declaration on syria from the g twenty countries which once again shows that there's a lot of discord and a lot of disagreement at this summit in st petersburg. certainly sounds like the leaders are having a roller coaster ride there at the summit of a bridge that split campbell between for and against this proposal intervention by the u.s. that's there in this in petersburg for us of for the g. twenty summit. china says a strike against syria will not only violate the country's sovereignty but also be a disaster

of the european council missed of on their own today they all said that the peaceful solution is the only way out and in fact this shows a certain schism within europe because seven european countries some of them are european union members denmark romania creation love to be of poland they also said that they are supporting the possible strike on syria there will be no single declaration on syria from the g twenty countries which once again shows that there's a lot of discord and a lot of disagreement at this summit in st petersburg. we've got various a live streaming coverage from of the g twenty for you at our dot com here on this channel although a look at the financial side of things in st petersburg that's just like the hate recovery if that mation and picking up the pieces all the talk today with the brics group of emerging economies working out of the details of a new global maggette bank. the u.s. not only failed to get anywhere near unanimous not fully its war plan for syria at the g twenty it's also struggling to convince its own lawmakers and the public that the strike is necessary even usually staunch allies like britain seoul polman pa

of the national iranian american council thank you. nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has given a speech outlining the future of the organization he said a stronger nato needs a stronger more unified europe and call for more military spending by the members but we spoke to former and we paid lean forward he said the bloc needs to decide on a common course of action in urgent matters like syria the problem is not money the problem is lack of political will to actually work together the twenty eight members of the european union are probably collectively the second largest military spenders in the world but the impact we haue with it is actually minimal because for a complete incapable of the military integration and secondly political integration in terms of actually pursuing common goals there clearly are significant divides all of syria but in a sense everyone's going in the same direction but very different speeds and also of course there's a reflection of public opinion very clear in the united kingdom for example that if you want ed miliband stance of opposing intervention is actually welcomed by a large majority of people not everybody by a large majority of people we have for the u

war broke out in europe twelve days on september twelfth one thousand thirty nine twelve days after the war broke out the council on foreign relations was meeting with a deputy secretary of state talking about we need to start working on post world war two plans so the word was just started twelve days before and the council is talking about making plans for the coast war world and the united states wasn't going to be involved in this war for several years so they went to the rock of the deputy secretary of state said that's fine once you go ahead and do that. council members of course or work together in the sky. council member so they went to the rockefeller foundation got fifty thousand dollars and one hundred thirty nine that's quite a bit of money fifty thousand dollars to set up study groups for the post world war two world order and they set up for study groups one of was the economic another was the polish political another was a territorial and then there was over i think a war aims with the you know in any way the they started doing studies of the world as it existed in that period one thousand nine hundred forty forty one and they determined that the if the ax

of state john kerry to europe this week to meet with his russian counterpart. and his administration will work to get a resolution through the u.n. security council. >> i've therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote while we pursue the diplomatic path. >> reporter: that part gives president obama more time to try to gain support for a military strike. but if diplomacy fails, he may find himself coming up short. >>> reaction to the president's speech is mixed. nancy pelosi says, quote, the president justly made clear tonight that the threat of military action remains on the table, as we continue to work to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction. as for the gop, the head of the republican national committee says, quote, the administration's handling of the u.s. response to syria has been so happen hazard it's disappointed the president's most ardent supporters. as for people in the bay area -- in san francisco last weekend, protesters marched against u.s. involvement in syria. richard becker was among them. and even with a possible diplomatic breakthrough, becker is skeptical. >> but the reality is, they're trying to spin a

of laboratories in europe. that report will be released at 11:15 eastern time, first shown to the security council in new york. >> i want to bring you back to something terry said yesterday, that the deal with russia was just a framework, but that the u.n. must put it into effect. how quickly can we expect the u.n. to react. >> it has to come here to the u.n. security council. they must layout the details of that framework in a u.n. resolution. that probably won't be easy. already, we're hearing the russian have some concerns about how that resolution is going to be drawn up, the russian foreign minister saying he's concerned if the language isn't right, it might wreck the whole deal, so an interesting few days ahead here in the united nations. we think they'll try and get a resolution in place sometime this week. remember next week, here in new york, all the world leaders gather for the u.n. general assembly. they're trying to get this out of the way i think before that takes place. >> james bays, the united nations, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> a united nations security council resolution w

of state john kerry heads to europe to work out a land. the administration is pushing for a resolution through the u.n. security council. diplomacy is the focus. the president said a military strike must still be an option. >> our ideals and principles and national security are at stake. with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death. >> nearly two-thirds of americans oppose military action. it is unclear if president obama's speech changed any minds . president obama did not convince me. >> if they did it two or three weeks ago, without the he equivocation it would be fine. >> congress is on hold. no votes on any syria resolution as lawmakers wait-and-see how the diplomacy works. the post office says the cash problems are so severe they cannot buy trucks that deliver mail. the age is looking to rent mail delivery vans. they own the largest fleets in the world but most of the vehicles are 18 to 25 years old. the cost of replacing the vehicles cost $6 billion. so leasing came up as a fix. >> mike nicco? >> it has been cooler today and we have had drizzle in the not bay and along the coast. fl

of the berlin office here for the european council on foreign relations. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> so why isn't germany's relationship with the rest of europe a issue here in these elections? >> i think because like you said, most of the issues, these are domestic driven ones. two years back, if we had elections then, it would have been a big issue. but there is no euro crisis and all what's coming up next are more technical details, economic governmen government. >> is this going to change after the elections? there's been a view that once we're through the elections, angela merkel can take a more engaged approach to resolving the eurozone debt crisis. is this just a pipe dream or could it happen? >> no. i think the expectations are that germany are much bigger than what's reflected, what we know so far from statements by the politicians. so i think she will pretty much continue on her path of crisis management in a very step by step approach. so there is no big european vision. there's nothing actually no plan b or a master plan in her desk actually hidden until the day after the elections. of course, the germans have an interest to fix iss

president, office of the council, honorable members, ladies and gentlemen. in eight months time, voters across europe will judge what we have achieved together in the last five years. in the last five years europe has been president and allies of citizens than ever before. it has been discussed in the coffeehouses and popular talk shows all over our continent. today, i want to look at what we have done together. and what we have yet to do and these are the main ideas ahead of next year's elections. honorable members, as we speak exactly five years ago, the united states government took over fannie mae and freddie mac and lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. these events triggered the global financial crisis. it evolved into an unprecedented economic crisis, and it became a social crisis for many of our citizens. these events have stressed our government and they have led to a lot of of employment, especially amongst young people and they are still holding back our companies. but in those five years we have given the response and we have suffered the causes together and together we are fig

council meeting, former sides of both sides of the aisle to offer their advice. in the role of the military brass is general wesley clark, the former supreme allied commander in europenicolas burns is representing the state department and is now at the school of harvard and ended a life as the undersecretary of state for political affairs. sitting in the pentagon leadership seat is paul wolfowitz, the former secretary of defense. he is now at aei. and james steinberg will play our national security role. he was deputy national security adviser to president clinton and the obama first term. he's now the dean of the maxwell school at syracuse university. welcome to all of you. jim, imagine the national security council meeting after let's say you get congressional approval. what would be the thing that you would want to see decided at that point? >> i think the most important thing to decide is what is our objective? what do we want to achieve? what is success? i think by defining our objective we can then develop the strategy both on the military and the political side at home and internationally. >> paul, what would success look like? how would we know if we achieve

is sending secretary of state john kerry to europe this week to meet with his russian counterpart and his administration will work to get a resolution through the u.n. security councilf congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. >> reporter: that pause here on capitol hill gives president obama more time to build support for a military strike, but if diplomacy fails, john and diana, he could still come up short. >> all right. karen, we have seen a change in tone from the president over the last ten days or so, wouldn't you think? >> reporter: very different tone. just over ten days ago, president obama said, "i want to launch a military strike against syria. and i don't need congress to do it." but then he said, "i will go to congress, ask them to weigh in and seek input." and then he left the country for a couple of days and if the president wanted to strike syria he may have made the biggest mistake by going to congress. he left the country. lawmakers had a week without him here to sit down with constituents in town hall meetings in their districts and they heard an earful. the american people are opposed to a m

europe millions of people who live with no representation stop peoplehave millions of who left with no representation. why don't we have representation? the local people's councils were disbanded. your local government and the executive councils that run things with no representation. committees are still active and are not representative. they do not have a legal way to sustain themselves financially. i think that one of the things elections,ially in when you have national elections , as we say in the united states, all politics is local. decades, politics as the criminalized at the local level and monopolized by government. thiso you allow all incredible activism and energy and institutionalize it so that people do not have to go to the square to solve their problems. so that the garbage can be taken care of. it is a normal thing that people should have ways to represent their interests and negotiate their interests in a collective fashion. >> i have a question that i'm curious about and i do not know anyone can answer it, what percentage of the general public services, education, health care, are provided by the islamists?and does anyone have an idea question

president, also office of the council, ladies and gentlemen, and eight months' time, voters will judge what we achieved together in the last five years. in in this fight years, europeas been present in the lives of citizens than ever before. europe has been discussed in the coffee houses and popular talk shows all over our continent. today i want to look at what we've done together, what we have yet to do and i want to present what i believe are the main ideas for the political debate ahead of next year's elections. honorable members, as we speak exactly five years ago, the united states government to go over fannie mae and freddie mac, bailed out aig and the bankruptcy protection. these events triggered the financial crisis and devolved into an unprecedented economic crisis and became a social crisis with dramatic consequences for many of our citizens. these events have abrogated the problem that distresses our government. they have led to an increase in unemployment especially among young people. and they are still holding back the hour households and our companies. but europe has fought back in those years we have given a determined response. we suffer the crisi