to which much of the general assembly could have here instead. a an aggressive policy of going to present because of world domination by nato led by the united states and this has really sabotaged any real hope of emergence of an international community i mean what you would really need to have it for a genuine international community is to respect. you know on the one hand you have to respect the interests of other great powers. and not just go off you know by expanding nato right up into russia's borders not to build a ballistic missile defense right on russia's borders and then go to the russians and say oh well please can you help us out of syria. probably due to our what our saying we're doing it to the name of the international community which i don't think would go down well why do you want to give you the last word i want to give marjie the last word on the program here what would you like to see the term international community really mean. i think we i think i would like really to see more legality in the term of the international commu

and its close pals they defy the will of the general assembly and the security council so the security council was clearly not of one mind on syria it is and did not support the obama administration and david cameron line on syria and the security council it didn't even support the the u.s. policy in libya because in fact the resolution of the security council that obama so proudly invoked stated that there would be protection of civilians an arms embargo and genuine moves towards a peace agreement well those two parts of it were just forgotten and it's there the obama and cameron and on the on the other guys. you know just trumpeted the. security council we have the international community behind us i know but then we have you know you're absolutely i imagine if i go do you remember susan rice said. it's quite amazing and i think it was about libya is that the international community is against russia and china how does that make any even linguistic sense to you. as i said i think. we have to understand i think every country is using the term international community really to serve th

i would agree with you on that ok because every september there's a vote in the general assembly for recognition of a palestinian state and i'll have to check the numbers but it's one hundred eighty something against two or three or whatever pacific island is bought off by washington in israel that particular year ok that's in my mind. the international community but it's not the one she didn't consensus is it george though that's absolutely right and of course when the united nations was set up it deliberately set up to bodies the general assembly and the security council because the architects of the un didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the league of nations so they wanted to make sure that there was a consensus among the great powers that the way to avoid war is that the that you have a body in which the great powers are in agreement and that the great powers never act in a way that jeopardizes the legitimate interests of the great powers hence the creation of the veto and that's fair enough i think it's a little very reasonable to have a body like the security council that re

and the defense counsel argues that nuremberg is one trial, you have a general assembly resolution a year later, that's one year. that's not enough for customary international law. so they're going pack to the traditional notion that customary international law takes decades, centuries, you know, millennia to crystallize, and we're saying that it did it in one year with one trial. so i actually used this term -- >> and that was the genesis of this whole grotian moment thing? >> you know like every -- >> for you. >> -- comic book superhero has a back story? >> yeah. >> this is my origin story. so i'm in cambodia, and i stick it in the brief, and it goes to the tribunal, and the tribunal says we agree with this, and they used the term grotian moment. and that's when people started talking about in this term, and that's when i said i've got to write a whole book about this. >> huh. so that was the moment that you identified nuremberg as, like, your prototypical grotian moment. and it seems to work because it was such a big moment for the world. >> right. >> and the universe of legal sch

general assembly opens this week so there's. a lot of presidents and foreign ministers and stuff and some of them trip through here to receive people here is that customer yeah yeah it's pretty typical in there in town with some of them invite themselves and some of them we invite to come over and meet with the editorial writers and things. and how does it seem to work out. and roasting them are pretty predictable but every once in a while one of the makes news but it's you know it's good to just give them a chance to come over and share their views that. we kind of makes you into an embassy or a for their the embassy of the new york times or a basically right. and i think you know you may have discovered this yourself or a news organizations don't always get the kind of access they would like to officials in washington and if you want to go ask the military or the white house to respond to classified information. you know. it can be difficult if you're if you're a representative of a foreign news organization i don't think that

general assembly opens this week so there's. a lot of presidents and foreign ministers and stuff and some of them trip through here to receive people here is that customer yeah yeah it's pretty typical in there in town with some of them invite themselves and some of them we invite to come over and meet with the. editorial writers and things. and how does it seem to work out. and rest in the pretty predictable that every once in a while one of the makes news but it's you know it's good to just give them a chance to come over and hear their views. kind of makes you into an embassy or. they're the embassy of the new york times right basically right. and i think you know you may have discovered this yourself or a news organizations don't always get the kind of access they would like to officials in washington and if you want to go ask the military or the white house to respond to classified information. you know. it can be difficult if you're if you're a representative of a foreign news organization i don't think that's a shame but

general assembly opens this week so there's. a lot of presidents and foreign ministers and stuff and some of them trip through here it really is the customer yeah. yeah that's pretty typical i mean when they're in town with some of them invite themselves and some of them we invite to come over and meet with the editorial writers and things. and how does it seem to work out. and roasting them are pretty predictable but every once in a while one of the makes news but it's you know it's good to just give them a chance to come over and hear their views yeah. we kind of makes you into an embassy or a for their the embassy of the new york times or a basically right. and i think you know you may have discovered this yourself or a news organizations don't always get the kind of access they would like to officials in washington and if you want to go ask the military or the white house to respond to classified information. you know. it can be difficult if you're if you're a representative of a foreign news organization i don't think that'

and i taught for 30 years, and then a year and a half after i retire, representative and the general assembly, signed by the governor, took away what will amount to somewhere between 25 and 30% of what my retirement benefits would be between now and what i hope will be my 85th birthday. >> what percentage, deduction, fred, mean? so explain to us, i want people to get a grasp of what this means when we get down to the nitty gritty. 25-30% reduction and what does that mean for your family and the way you live? >> in the year, in a couple of years before mretirement, my wife and i sat down and decided how to live healthy. i live in a small house, and i don't have a lot of debts, but to lose 30% of any income over the next 20, 30 years is a major hit. just the cost of living adjustment is exactly that. it's 3%. when i first got hired, the inflation rate was somewhere between 8 and 9%, and now it happens to be low. but we know that the cpi goes up and down, and that 3% cost of living adjustment was just about what the cost of living was over the last 20 years, and now representative and the genera

general assembly opens this week so there's. a lot of presidents and foreign ministers and stuff and some of them trip through here it really is a customer yeah yeah it's pretty typical i mean when they're in town with some of them invite themselves and some of them we invite to come over and meet with the. editorial writers and things. and how does it seem to work out your. risk in the. pretty predictable but every once in a while one of the makes news but it's you know it's good to just give them a chance to come over and share their views yeah. we kind of makes you into an embassy or a friend there the embassy of the new york times or a basically right. and i think you know you may have discovered this yourself or a news organizations don't always get the kind of access they would like to officials in washington and if you want to go ask the military or the white house to respond to classified information. you know. it can be difficult if you're if you're a representative of a foreign news organization i don't think that's a

in a resolution adopted by consensus wednesday the un general assembly criticizing north korean b team for its human rights abuses. at that time yet is violating the civil political economic and social rights of its people this latest resolution follows the execution of times i had earlier this month. the technician said has taken a bakery a petition that for one thing is so calm since its technicians easel points from the input huge help but get panicky. this is a very f oven for a few minutes he was in a north korean delegate responded to the resolution by calling it a quote fabrication concocted by hostile forces the resolution on human rights abuses as the regular current each year and is designed to put more pressure on the north korean ricci but it also holds no legal consequence. guillen secretary general in mind also wind up party surrounding the korean peninsula but steve vigilant and tread carefully so as not to kill anything impulse that the general assembly also adopted resolutions on syria and iran expressed serious concerns about the human rights violations and those coun

didn't do too sinclair reiterated its request to the general assembly of united nations in september. the typical says that for the french trees to ofcom. in support of the african union peacekeepers are here at the request of the central african or thirteenth designed by the head of state of transition and myself shouldn't the vocals of mormon. foster cats rescued about sitting down there with the central african republic and esther. this friday is the third and final day nelson mandela's body will lie in state in south africa for the past two days thousands have waited in line at the union's buildings in the capital pretoria to pay their respects to the anti apartheid icon on early saturday morning mandela's casket will be flown from pretoria to mandela's childhood town of corn in a ceremony will then be held there on sunday followed by mandela's funeral which will be a private affair for family and friends on. standoff goes on in ukraine protesters the capitals can help re build barricades torn down earlier by police. weeks now the country is gripped by pro eu demonstrations and a

whether it be in international , such as unesco, the un's general assembly, but also its response tosnowden's request for asylum. i feel good about where we are right now. this is an ongoing discussion we are having. we have made it very clear that we are prepared to reschedule. i think our conversation with the brazilians have to write them a little bit before we get a response from them. -- have to right them a little bit before we get a response from them. >> hello, ambassador shannon. address and opening comments have made an effort to answer the question that i'm going to ask you again. back, i wouldgo like to ask you, how do you address the skeptics in this town question mark some of them are here, some of them are floating about. who would point to the going tenure, thenyour to the reaction to the msa disclosures, -- the nsa germans reaction was greeted with greater understanding and perhaps brazil. a tendencystill have to understand brazil's reaction -- >> we will break away. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite

my predecessor had officially come to take part in these general assemblies . but this man had come in the name of the vulture funds it was a nightmare for us we knocked on all the most important doors of the world to ask for help to solve this problem so overwhelming it was for us it didn't happen we took things in hand we sat down with these people and we talked today we are rid of these people but it's true it hurts but if i had one piece of advice to give even if i am badly placed to give advice that every country should avoid anything to do with these people especially control its debt so that it doesn't find itself on the second markets by the vulture funds which make money on the backs of so-called weak states. but the paradox is also that thanks to the. discovery to congo brazzaville in particular. the secret council of. but i think the issue of buying and selling debt is. in market. because as oppose to for example. dead mean worth nothing sometimes that can be traded at a discounted rate and that is acceptable commercial practice what we don't want is

brazil have engaged on disclosures related issues, an international forum, whether it be unicef's general assemblyn paris, or whether it be in the third committee at the u.n. general a summit, by second committee of the u.n. general assembly where resolutions related to disclosures have been presented, the united states in brazil, along with our other partners who are interested in things like the internet governance, privacy as a human right, and the role of espionage within the structures of international law and regulation. we've been able to fashion tax that the united states has joined consensus on. and this i think is a significant and important step because it realizes that both of our governments have the capability of understanding the concerns of the other and addressing them with their larger international and private with our many equities at play. and so just yesterday, the u.n. general assembly voted on a resolution that came out of the third committee in which again were able to join consensus. and i believe that is a very positive sign. we are also appreciative of the way in which

in 2005 the general assembly did not reauthorize their use. half $1 million on the venture. when they greenlighted to cameras, and added costs and new regulations, but cap best-kept defiance at $50. it was not worth it. we need larger fines and less, and it would be productive. right now we worst getting a tool that is not useful. >> i think it is a way for the county to make money. >> do you think it changes the bulls behavior -- people's behavior? >> yes. i watch every time. >> the county's own study edge -- in 2004 votes show that red light cameras decreased the rate of accidents and injuries by one third rate at the same data show that the cameras increased rear end collisions i up to 70%. >> on december 30 the district will begin issuing tickets caught on 132 cameras. through november with a one-month grace period for drivers. we have a little rain outside our building tonight. >> maybe a little snow shower activity raty. t andgoing to ge then by the weekend and will be mighty warmcold. warm. a little disturbance coming through tonight, we will have some rain and cloud

and the defense counsel argues that nuremberg is one trial, you have a general assembly resolution a year later, that's one year. that's not enough for customary international law. so they're going pack to the traditional notion that customary international law takes decades, centuries, you know, millennia to crystallize, and we're saying that it did it in one year with one trial. so i actually used this term -- >> and that was the genesis of this whole grotian moment thing? >> you know like every -- >> for you. >> -- comic book superhero has a back story? >> yeah. >> this is my origin story. so i'm in cambodia, and i stick it in the brief, and it goes to the tribunal, and the tribunal says we agree with this, and they used the term grotian moment. and that's when people started talking about in this term, and that's when i said i've got to write a whole book about this. >> huh. so that was the moment that you identified nuremberg as, like, your prototypical grotian moment. and it seems to work because it was such a big moment for the world. >> right. >> and the universe of legal sch

when he spoke at the general assembly session, he walked up slowly to that podium and he would take out his glasses and he would clean them and then he would put them on, then he would speak with a great cadence. i also visited him. as a human being, he was stunning. the more you knew the history of a man that had spent so much time in prison. for me, the most important thing about him was his forgiveness. >> no bitterness. >> no bitterness. >> you said his words and works will survive. when you look around the world today whether it is asia, the middle east, or africa, there is the anti-mandela forces that are dominant. why is there no mandela today? >> i think it is important that we actually use his passing as a way to try to teach that lesson because i think it is so easy to develop that animosity and to keep revenge and polarization. i do hope that we can use this as a teaching moment because he actually used it as a teaching moment. we need to look at local interests wherever it is and a real sense of the globalization which has had an opposite effect of making people identify mor

the general assembly will vote on that budget during the 2014 session that begins on january 8. that is the same day mirin lawmakers -- maryland lawmakers return to work. they attended a legislative breakfast and montgomery county. candidates and the governor 's race participated. abc 7 maryland bureau chief moderator that, look for his report tonight. 10 days of mourning and remembrance for former south african president also mandela are now over. thousands of people, including reverend jesse jackson, and prince charles, attended the field service. south african president jacob zuma delivered the eulogy. >> it is the end of 95 glorious fighter, afreedom dedicated and humble servant of the people of south africa. >> mandela was buried with full military honors on a hillside in his hometown on sunday. coming up on abc 7 news at noon, the latest in the manhunt underway after a violent murder in the parking garage of a new jersey mall. local residents are giving back to those in need. and the countdown till christmas, taking a look at why today is the busiest shipping day. captione

when he spoke at the general assembly session, he walked up slowly to that podium and he would take out his glasses and he would clean them and then he would put them on, then he would speak with a great cadence. i also visited him. as a human being, he was stunning. the more you knew the history of a man that had spent so much time in prison. for me, the most important thing about him was his forgiveness. >> no bitterness. >> no bitterness. >> you said his words and works will survive. when you look around the world today whether it is asia, the middle east, or africa, there is the anti-mandela forces that are dominant. why is there no mandela today? >> i think it is important that we actually use his passing as a way to try to teach that lesson because i think it is so easy to develop that animosity and to keep revenge and polarization. i do hope that we can use this as a teaching moment because he actually used it as a teaching moment. we need to look at local interests wherever it is and a real sense of the globalization which has had an opposite effect of making people identify mor

for the court, the goal was to model a new society by running these things with a general assembly. i think outside of occupy wall street that was not understood very much. proud were tremendously the they have libraries in encampments, that they had medical clinics. they thought it was just terrible when the police rated the library and through -- raided the library and threw away the books. this was a major thing. in boston, they had major campaigns around the cities that you are serving food and it is not meeting sanitary standards. they went out and bought an industrial sink that met standards and tried to bring it in. they had a major confrontation with the police over whether they can bring the sink in or not. as long as they stayed there, every time they had a demonstration they would be holding a card will models that cardboard models of the police -- cardboard models of the sink to show the ridiculousness of it to the police. modeling a newt way of running society. that is why they were able to move into occupy standing so quickly. sandy hit, they said this is what we do an

that happens there including the humanitarian crisis there was a resolution adopted in the un general assembly that doesn't reflect the actual situation on the ground it started early ideology but it was not supported by as many countries as last year they also say they may send this humanitarian result into the u.n. security council where they will demand that the government should take unilateral steps then threaten it with chapter seven of the unit charter this initiative has no future. we're morry by the activities of such spoilers with the geneva two conference in the offing. and the opposition makes demands about regime change or. declaring in advance that the regime will be changed after this conference is taking care of the humanitarian situation first and the opposition claims it will not take part in the geneva conference on less the humanitarian crisis is resolved but actually the biggest reason for this community here in this crisis is the those terrorist groups groups that many countries have. officially recognized as terrorists so goes not to fight the symptoms so our goal is to

. >>> delegates to the united nations general assembly are expressing strong concern about the situation in north korea. they adopted a resolution calling for the country to improve its human rights conditions. japan and the european union submitted the resolution. in it, they say north korean authorities are unjustly detaining and torturing people. the document says defectors have been forcibly returned to the country and abused. it adds that cases involving the abduction of foreigners remain unresolved. assembly members say those in pyongyang are carrying out political executions without fair trials. they say it's a fabrication concocted by hostile forces. >>> former u.s. basketball star dennis rodman is once again visiting north korea. his trip to pyongyang comes days after the execution of top government official jang song thaek. analysts say the country's leaders want to use the visit to show that kim jong-un's regime remains stable. rodman spoke to reporters at a beijing airport. he says he looks forward to meeting the north korean leader again. >> i know he's waiting for me to com

my predecessor had officially come to take part in these general assemblies . but this man had come in the name of the vulture funds it was a nightmare for us we knocked on all the most important doors of the world to ask for help to solve this problem so overwhelming it was for us it didn't happen we took things in hand we sat down with these people and we talked today we are rid of these people but it's true it hurts but if i had one piece of advice to give even if i am badly placed to give advice. that every country should avoid anything to do with these people especially control its debt so that it doesn't find itself on the second markets by the vulture funds which make money on the backs of so-called weak states. but the paradox is also that thanks to this small church we discovered congo brazzaville in particular . the secret accounts of. but i think the issue of buying and selling debt is. in market. because as oppose to for example. dead mean worth nothing sometimes that can be traded at a discounted rate and that is acceptable commercial practice what

my predecessor had officially come to take part in these general assemblies . but this man had come in the name of the vulture funds it was a nightmare for us we knocked on all the most important doors of the world to ask for help solve this problem so overwhelming it was for us it didn't happen we took things in hand we sat down with these people talked today we are rid of these people but it's true it hurts but if i had one piece of advice to give even if i am badly placed to give advice it's that every country should avoid anything to do with these people especially control its debt so that it doesn't find itself on the second markets by the vulture funds which make money on the backs of so-called weak states. but the paradox is also that thanks to this small shift we discovered congo particular. secret offshore accounts. but i think the issue of buying and selling debt is. in market. because as oppose to for example. dead mean worth nothing sometimes it can be traded at a discounted rate and that is acceptable commercial practice what we don't want is to ha