the united nations general assembly is holding an emergency meeting on recent violence in gaza will vote on an arab backed resolution condemning israel and calling for the protection of palestinians but any resolution adopted at the assembly won't be binding. the saudi emirate the coalition in yemen is in which to a major offensive to take control of the port city of her data from the rebels that's despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences the security council will now hold an emergency meeting to discuss the operation on thursday but it is yemen's second largest port after aden and a key aide hub intense air strikes have hit locations south of the city the goofy say they responded by missiles at a coalition ship who he seized her dated october twenty fourth seen as part of an effort to topple the government of president. some seventy percent of yemen's food enters the country through data and it's feared that fighting will cut off much needed supplies of food fuel and medicine twenty two million people that's around two thirds of yemen's population rely on aid and

and i have an ambassador there reminding the general assembly that they are here at the general sunday after the united states used its veto in the security council originator blocks a resolution on june the first and this text they were going to vote on was put forth by algeria and turkey on behalf of the arab league and the organization of islamic cooperation and now to the representative from israel. thank you mr president. i am honored to stand here today i am honored to stand here to represent. at every u.n. reform and in every un whole i am honored because i would rather the speak in this room everything goes day in defense of my people than give even one eulogy for one israeli killed by hamas that is why i'm here today to stand up for a basic right afforded to every country in the ward the right to defend it to them the general assembly has convened to emergency special session in the past six months both are related to israel the first one was about jerusalem it was the international community of attempt to take away the right to determine our own capital this session today is

amendments that photo was taken it was defeated by a simple majority then the general assembly president ruled that no it requires a two thirds for the amendments to be tabled in the assembly the u.s. objected yet another vote was held on whether the president is right or not that photo was denied so the u.s. amendments were not pasta ruled by the president because they did not get the two thirds majority finally we got to the vote on the original resolution and indeed it was utterly sweeping one hundred twenty nations voted in favor of the resolution condemning israel holding up responsible for the ongoing violence within the area accusing it of using excessive force forty five abstentions and only eight nations including the united states and among others micronesia voted against this particular resolution so in the end it was a sweeping victory for the sponsors of this resolution algeria and turkey a number of other sponsors jumped in but it does go to show the real depth of anger among the international community among recent events in gaza so what happens next on the basis of this.

to support within the general assembly but it has the veto within the security council let's see what happens when the secretary general reports back to the general assembly what kind of steps the u.s. will take to avoid having in its eyes israel being singled out for what it says should be at best a shared responsibility along with them us my god i'm asking you to speculate and obviously as you say we have to rely very much on just waiting to see what that report contains but if there is evidence of accountability on one side or the other or both sides how much confidence do you think there is that there will be sung tangible action taken and what options could be open. well there are a number of options it can go back to the security council the security council as i said does have muscle it does for sanction but as i mentioned to the u.s. has a veto within the security council what are the avenues yet another session of the general assembly perhaps one in which a it is a united assembly in which a simple majority or two thirds majority can enforce or can provide for sanction there'

general assembly votes are largely symbolic this one has some teeth it calls on the secretary general to look into how best to protect palestinian civilians to look at the viability of an international protection force and to report back to the general assembly within sixty days. underlying the sense of urgency and i meant to pile serious the crisis on the ground since the current round of protests began more than one hundred palestinians have been killed over ten thousand injured many by directed sniper fire mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. still ahead here on out of there are. a deal to resolve an unusual diplomatic dispute hits a stumbling block. and football fever in russia as this year's well cup host gets ready to kick off and just a few last time. and it's his grass. in the street. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. try and sunny sums up the weather across much of the middle east as per usual the usual showers so just coming out of the black sea caspian sea just around the coax is a little bit of wet weather a little bit cherry right also just cropping up outs of turk

is now voting members of the general assembly prepare to vote the resolution aimed at the protection of the palestinian civilian population against what it calls excessive force but it took a long debate and several procedural votes forced by the u.s. to get to this point earlier intent on making her must accountable the u.s. had introduced an amendment accusing him us of being the prominent actor in the ongoing violence but this was opposed by the sponsors of the original resolution who called for a vote on the amendment to be denied this attempt to obstruct a vote on an amendment proposed by the united states is shameful i call on all member states to oppose this motion and vote now sixty two voted in favor of the amendments fifty eight against but the general assembly president ruled a two thirds majority was needed. the state by the u.s. and yet another vote was held to gauge whether there was a simple majority support for the u.s. position there was not a huge assembly supporting the two thirds rule by seventy eight votes against fifty nine confirming the us amendments had faile

in favor forty five abstained and only eight including the united states opposed while these general assembly votes are largely symbolic this one has some teeth it calls on the secretary general to look into how best to protect palestinian civilians to look at the viability of an international protection force and to report back to the general assembly within sixty days. underlying the sense of urgency and mental powers serious the crisis on the ground since the current round of protests began more than one hundred palestinians have been killed over ten thousand injured many by directed sniper fire mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. so ahead on out there i'm joined a hole in rome where the government is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff with france so brits migration policy while hundreds of refugees and migrants turned away from italy head to spain. and a deal to resolve an unusual diplomatic dispute hits a stumbling block. still no sign of any useful rainfall across southwestern parts of the u.s. the lively showers severe storms actually easing across the plains just making the way a li

today's choice for the general assembly is simple. it is the choice between using our time here to advance peace and security or using it to stoke hatred and conflict this vote will tell us much about which countries are serious about accuracy and reconciliation and which countries are bound by their political agendas for the sake of peace and for the sake of this institution i urge my colleagues to support the united states amend thank you. i think the distinguished representative of the united states. i now give the floor to the observer of the state of palestine. mr president. colleagues i thank you mr president for convening this important meeting in this spawns to the request to resume the tense emergence.

is now voting members of the general assembly prepare to vote the resolution aimed at the protection of the palestinian civilian population against what it calls excessive force but it took a long debate and several procedural votes forced by the u.s. to get to this point earlier intent on making hamas accountable the u.s. had introduced an amendment accusing him us of being the prominent actor in the ongoing violence this was. opposed by the sponsors of the original resolution who called for a vote on the amendment to be denied this attempted struct a vote on an amendment proposed by the united states is shameful i call on all member states to oppose this motion and vote now sixty two voted in favor of the amendments fifty eight against but the general assembly president ruled a two thirds majority was needed the stick by the u.s. and yet another vote was held to gauge whether there was a simple majority support for the u.s. position there was not a huge assembly supporting the two thirds rule by seventy eight votes against fifty nine confirming the u.s. amendments had failed to pas

the un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel for using excessive force against palestinian protesters in gaza israeli soldiers have shot dead at least one hundred twenty nine demonstrators at the border since march the outer backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution at the security council u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says the trumpet ministration is hoping for major disarmament on the korean peninsula by the end of twenty twenty he's been speaking ahead of a meeting with south korea's president monday and appears in seoul to brief leading politicians on tuesday's landmark meeting between donald trump and north korea's kim jong un. argentina's congress has begun debating whether to legalize abortion hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament and want to say there is while this session is taking place it's an issue that's deeply divided a country that remains strongly influenced by the catholic church argentinean law only allows abortions in cases of rape all when the woman's life

to new york now where the united nations general assembly has voted for germany and four other nations to become nonpermanent members of the security council the new members take up their seats in two thousand and nineteen and will spend two years at diplomacy's top table germany has held its election as a vote of confidence and its global role. germany one hundred eighty four. while the news did want come as a great surprise the german foreign minister said he wasn't expecting such an overwhelming majority one hundred eighty four votes in favor out of a total of one hundred ninety. eight i know that's yet to be confirmed with one hundred eighty four votes is a terrific result for those of us that shows that the international community has great confidence in germany and want to live up to our responsibilities and take a stand on difficult decisions with shying away from the. fog of the cannon mass added that germany will be heavily engaged in conflict prevention peace building and peacekeeping operations such as the ongoing deployment in mali but analysts say the condition of the germ

the united nations general assembly has voted for germany and four other nations to become nonpermanent members of the security council the new members take up their seats in twenty nineteen and will spend two years at diplomacy's top table germany has held its election as a vote of confidence in its global role germany one hundred eighty four. while the news did want come as a great surprise the german foreign minister said he wasn't expecting such an overwhelming majority one hundred eighty four votes in favor out of a total of one hundred ninety. eight i don't actually have to be confirmed with one hundred eighty four votes is a terrific result for those. it shows that the international community has great confidence in germany we want to live up to our responsibilities and take a stand on difficult decisions without shying away from the. fog of the cannon mass added that germany will be heavily engaged in conflict prevention peace building and peacekeeping operations such as the ongoing deployment in mali but analysts say the condition of the german military is not up for such maneu

did lose in that effort because it's the general assembly the u.s. wasn't able to veto this resolution the way it could it had this matter actually come before the security council so this really is in the larger scheme of things a way of standing by its ally israel but also using the opportunity to try to exert its own vision of human rights even though it is important to point out mario that a number of international human rights groups are roundly criticizing the trumpet ministration for leaving the council because they're arguing that the u.s. would not be harming its reputation by staying on the council in fact it might actually do more to improve human rights around the world and perhaps get a talking to as it were about it the situation on the border between the u.s. and mexico of course the trumpet ministration is rejecting those arguments as well all right well thank you very much for the latest from washington and in jordan well let's get more now on top story now the ongoing outrage over presidential policy of separating migrant children f

because the general assembly in terms of its overall vote so of all of the one hundred ninety three members is much more likely to support the palestinians resolutions that normally go in the direction of the palestinians but the general assembly resolution is not like a security council one general assembly resolutions are not binding in the same way a security council resolution which is the salusa thing that we come to agreement on this issue on is of course international law anything as a diplomat has had that j.f.k. speaking to us from the united nations. and they palestinian paramedic has been killed by israeli forces during protests along the gaza border twenty one year old volunteer paramedic john had been volunteering at the border since march when weekly friday demonstrations began several more palestinians have also been injured these latest scenes follow a week that saw the west's escalation of violence between israel and palestinian factions in gaza since twenty eight fourteen. now the u.s. president donald trump says he'll made to north korea's leader kim jong un on ju

general assembly has passed a resolution which condemns israel for the recent violence on its border with gaza one hundred twenty nations voted in favor eight countries among them the us voted against it a flare up of girls i have seen one hundred twenty nine palestinians killed by israeli forces in the past ten weeks the arab backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution in the security council as the occupation intensifies its brutality witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation and humiliation of palestinian men women and children by the is the occupying forces and extremists. and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people out of this occupation remains urgent and unquestionably. there's a south africa where two people have been killed in an attack on a mosque they were stabbed by a suspect who was then shot dead by police this happened in mon sprit which is close to johannesburg argentina's congress has been debating whether to decriminalize abortion laws hundreds of people gathere

the united nations general assembly in new york has voted for germany and four other nations to become nonpermanent members of the security council of the one hundred and ninety nations taking part one hundred eighty four voted in favor of germany's two year term along with belgium south africa the dominican republic and indonesia are many as nonpermanent members they have no veto unlike the five permanent members of the german foreign minister heikal moss welcomed the results you're going to have on the embargo we want to be a perceptible load voice for peace in the security council. but above all for the future of a multilateral world order it on the rule based order the goodbyes you have no ignore it mind we want to live up to the responsibility that comes with it and of all we want to make a contribution to results conflict and not even to a lesser crises to a marriage. that's come on from our now we're joined by barbara last b.l.s. she is in new york she is a member of the european parliament from the german green party and has been following events at the security council today f

a lifeline for the residents of sanaa in presidents of the hooty controlled provinces the un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel for using excessive force against palestinian protesters in gaza israeli soldiers have shot dead at least one hundred twenty nine demonstrators at the border since march the out of backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after the u.s. vetoed a similar resolution at the security council as the occupation intensifies in its brutality witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation and humiliation openness fenian men women and children by the israeli occupying forces and extremists settlers and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people under this occupation remains. and unquestionably. i ask you all i ask them buffet of turkey why couldn't you include. in the revolution at them battered oval judea of bangladesh venezuela with the revolution do you support terrorism do you support suicide bombers in fact this resolution makes peace less possible it feeds a narrative to the despe

general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records said on the human rights council are to scale up and has more on the story. for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing the council's continued and well documented by skins israel is unconscionable. since its creation that goes was adopted more resolutions condemning israel and against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions from elsewhere now we've heard from the executive director of human rights watch mr

occur other top story then that the un general assembly has voted to condemn israel's use of excessive indiscriminate and disproportionate force against palestinian protesters over the past two and a half months since the end of march i.d.f. troops have killed more than one hundred twenty people in. resolution one widespread support with one hundred twenty members backing it forty five abstained just eight states including the u.s. and israel voted against it the palestinian ambassador said he just wants to see civilians protected while washington's ambassador claimed the vote would play into the hands of hamas. the nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day it is totally one sided it makes not one mention of hamas who routinely initiate violence in gaza the need to protect our people and that of this occupation remains urgent unquestionably and why should that be offending anyone. we're just asking for a simple thing we want our civilian population to be protected while israel maintains that its actions are necessary for defending its borders its u

the last time we made a strong attempt to do that was cancun in the general assembly ere. i think what we learned there -- none of these efforts are ever wasted. what we learned there is some member states are still in the willing to look at the situation and see it for what it is and take the steps that we need to take. so we decided if we cannot bring the consensus model into a little more serious conversation, then we would move outside and do something else. so the lima group was created. the idea was it would be a more nimble body to work with a coalition of willing countries to bring international pressure on the situation. that's been quite effective. the members of the lima group don't exist unique ly in the americas. we released a very strong statement in the g7 the other day. we have also managed within that context to -- well, in the last meeting of the lima group we brought in finance ministers. this is a political conversation. but we're digging a little deeper now. sanctions can be applied bilaterally and canada has done that. they're targeted. they are not m

it is safe to assume it houses the new general assembly line for the model 3. it's the car that is supposed to launch the country into a bridge between luxury vehicles and economy vehicles. the company promised it would turn out 5000 of its model 3 cars by the end of this month. the company has struggled to reach that goal so far. according to bloomberg, elon musk said two years ago that 100,000 to 200,000 model 3's would be produced by the second half of 2017. the company has also been in the news after elon musk announced a 9% layoff to turn a profit. that's about 3600 workers. he wrote in an email that the company will never achieve its mission to help move the world to cleaner energy unless, "we eventually demonstrate that we can be sustainably profitable." according to bloomberg, tesla got a temporary permit to house the tent out there. no word on how long this will help with the model 3 production or if it's fully operational. the team went into a cave after a weekend match. but then monsoon rains trapped them inside. they've been missing for 3 days. auth

that means we need to consider this extension in venezuela in the general assembly. whether or not we do it at that particular event or call for the consideration of that article is something that countries will decide together. but we need to be brave enough to look at that document and to apply it for the purpose for which it was intended. that comes up very soon and we're working with countries with like minds within the context of the lima group and extend panneding that circle as well. in canada's mind, a multilateral organization like the oas of which we are members have to represent the principles of democracy and human rights, has to demonstrate it can do our jobs but we have to ask ourselves what's the purpose? those are hard questions and we need to be prepared. if we're not going to be prepared and stand up and do the right thing, why are we there at all? >> powerful ending comment. again, thank you for your personal leadership and the leadership of your government on these issues. it's meaningful, noticed and very, very much appreciated. we thank you for

general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel for using excessive force against palestinian protesters in gaza israeli soldiers have shot dead at least a hundred and twenty nine demonstrators at the border since march a similar arab back resolution was vetoed by the us security council haiti has banned from great britain from operating in the country after its staff were accused of sexual misconduct haitian governments of the charity had violated laws and people's dignity it's alleged that some aid workers including a former country dick director use prostitutes was working there after the two thousand and ten earthquake. argentina's congress has been debating whether to legalize abortion hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament in buenos aires argentinean law only allows abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's life is at risk. and britain is marking the first anniversary of the grenfell tower fire the twenty four story apartment block in london was lit up in green to remember the seventy one people who died a year ago and the seventy second victi

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mandated to bring an action plan to the general assembly in regards to how to protect the palestinian civilians this has never happened before in the entire history of the palestinian cause and this is thanks to this mobilizing force of all the countries that supported it muslim countries as well as european latin american and other countries and president no one pull out a single handedly heroic rock in mobilizing the international committee if this was just an election investment why should he take that risk because that puts us against you know some prominent countries of the world such as the united states israel the lobby etc that keeps attacking president bush on every single issue so if you cannot call that election investment as a genuine support and i think this is proven over and over again finally if presidents or do one wins in the first round of these elections what steps will he take in order to allay the fears or at least to prove wrong those who claim that he is continuing going barking on this. authoritarian dictates or your pursuit of you know one man power over this

but inside the factory they have two general assembly lines working to make the model 3, and elon musk on twitter says he needs another one to make the goal. but the general assembly line is where it comes out of the shop, it has that pretty red color and they're putting the doors and windows and trim on, this is like the final part, so this is his bet that he can make it by the end of the month. >> interesting, i don't know if you read this today, a financial analyst said it's insanity when describing what musk is doing here. what's the general feeling in the industry about what he's trying? >> well, normally an auto maker would spend a great deal of time plotting out how the factory would operate. there would be various workstations, and this general assembly line, and they'd spend months and months preparing it and testing it out, and when they announce the start of official production, it really should be working at that point. hat point. um, what tesla has done is a little something different. a year ago when they started production in july, they were in essence still putting part

of no one is clear what comes after the words of condemnation alan fischer al jazeera as the general assembly in washington. now again out of the problem and the headlines on al-jazeera it's been a year since saudi arabia egypt and behind imposed a blockade on cutler claiming the does have a supporter of terrorism that denies the allegations but the qatari foreign minister has told al-jazeera that the country won't make any compromises. let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with saw there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening and violating the international law it's pirating or the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating. the charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and any attack against each other. donald trump's former campaign manager has been accused of witness tampering prosecutors say paul metaphor who's been indicted by u.s. special counsel robert muller tried to said encrypted messages to two former coworkers while he's out on

envoy to the united nations has condemned friday's killings it has asked the united nations general assembly to call an emergency session that it says it hopes will discuss a resolution that would be aimed at protecting the lives of palestinian civilians it would be similar to one last week that did receive enough support to pass a vote in the security council but that was vetoed by the united states a general assembly meeting was called on wednesday. ok thanks paula for the update that was artie's poor asli in tel aviv for us thank you. venezuela's president has called for a political dialogue with the opposition amid a growing economic crisis in the country nicolas maduro also accused washington of interference that was after the u.s. urged other regional players to denounce the election of venezuela as a legitimate american is also calling on countries to isolate venezuela. the venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of nicolas maduro offers them a cohen fellow member state to apply additional pressure on the madeira regime and some in washington also believe that involvemen

general assembly remember one hundred twenty eight countries water begins to u.s. decision and in the second voting again there was overwhelming majority supporting . the motion that we put together with the kuwaitis and the egyptians and the jordanians i believe. to reject american. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel but also in regards to what happened at the border in gaza in may and now we have succeeded in. calling for. a protection force for the palestinians themselves so now the secretary general. is. mandated to bring an action plan to the general assembly in regards to how to protect the palestinian civilians this has never happened before in the entire history of the palestinian cause and this is thanks to this mobilizing force of all the countries that support of its muslim countries as well as european latin american and other countries and president no one pull out a single handedly heroic rock in mobilizing the international community if this was just an election investment why should he take that risk because that puts us agains

support to pass a vote in the security council by the united states as was to be expected the general assembly meeting was called for on wednesday and while we continue to discuss this the tensions here on the ground continue to climb ok thanks for the update there paula that was poor in tel aviv. as well this president has called for a political dialogue with the opposition amid a growing economic crisis in the country nicolas maduro was also accused washington of interference well that was after the us other regional players to denounce the election in venezuela as illegitimate america is also calling on countries to isolate venezuela the venezuelan people deserve better than what the regime of nicolas maduro offers them a call on fellow member state to apply additional pressure on the euro regime and some in washington also believe the involvement in venezuela's internal affairs should actually go much deeper as any prank explains could it be that some hawks in washington are having second thoughts on how great their tactic of orchestrating regime change is i've got a couple of quotes from

i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just different places but it's one that gives us that gives us the ability to identify people when they hear the side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria a surprise move against israel. permitted so to get into the situation disaster now in the first of the month series al-jazeera explores what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. u.s. president tom will trump arrives in singapore ahead of his summits with north korea's kim jong un. kim arrived for the high stakes meeting in metz with singapore's prime minister. very unforgiving this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. and ian's are polite were reasonable but we also will not be pushed over

general assembly today is a small step but it's a positive step in the right direction are i read great to talk to you on this subject help us reprimands around and get some perspective rick stirling investigative journalist with us here in our team tonight you. are president trump has repeated his call for russia to be invited back into the g seven saying that member states already spend so much of their time talking about moscow. you know we spent probably twenty five percent of our time talking about russia and i said to myself would it be better if they were here now i'm not for russia i'm for the united states as an example. let me put who was sitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others we were having dinner the other night in canada donald trump already made this call last week at the g. seven summit happened and he called for russia to be reinstated to the group he said they should be able to rejoin the body when he said that it sparked quite a conversation as for the presidents of russia and the g. eight we will see for sure italy was traditionally a supporter of

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foreign minister claims it's more in a battle with criminal gangs nicaragua has come to this general assembly to express its commitment to peace security and stability of our nation which is currently undergoing an attack by criminal groups america's new secretary of state mike pompeo was addressing the oas for the first time revisiting what he sees is an old problem is demanding greater sanctions against venezuela and as president nicolas maduro a call on fellow member state to apply additional pressure on the media regime including sanctions and further diplomatic isolation until such time as a undertakes the actions necessary to return genuine democracy and provide people desperately needed access to international humanitarian aid. we call on the oas they should still do this today as the small round of applause died the venezuelan delegation insisted the u.s. was breaching the rules of the organization it was calling to action you do not have the moral authority of any kind of trying to undermine our government and we see that in the articles articles nineteen to twenty of this charter yo

general assembly today is a small step but it's a positive step in the right direction. and that does it for me this hour be back in thirty one minutes. after visiting the ten host cities i'm finally here in moscow and this is why it begins and ends i'm in this new stadium it's completely rebuilt for the world cup and i'll be seven matches played in india so more than a million people will be watching football in here and that includes of course the opening match between russia and saudi arabia and the final vote in moscow two venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spotted moscow stadium and for each of the five games that are being played here more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands going to see illegal messi when he takes argentina here to play the minus that that beats and the pick surprised from the euros two years ago iceland i mean the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on here what exactly peter schmeichel and i'm going to take some of that stuff out. in the middle of a skull and you can just sense the world cup

general assembly i can tell you because i was there that ambassadors foreign ministers and presidents from around the world were appalled by this bellicose language this is in the way someone speaks at the united nations and yet that may well have been a factor in what has got us here today to singapore to sentosa island and to the cupola hotel where there may well be we think in the coming minutes a signing of a declaration now let's not go too far here north korea and the u.s. have signed agreements before and they've fallen apart and both say there was bad faith on the other side so we're not going anywhere we haven't been before in terms of signing an agreement what we do have is a personal relationship now between these two countries which are still in a state of war there was never a peace treaty just an armistice at the end of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three we see pictures i don't know if you're seeing them sammy. now of inside the hotel people are being pushed around by a north korean official i think because i can see the flag on his lapel the press corps ther

the un general assembly has passed a resolution which condemns israel over the recent violence on its border with gaza one hundred twenty nations voted in favor eight countries voted against among them the u.s. it is now mandated the secretary general to explore the possibility of an international protection force for palestinians israeli forces have killed at least one hundred twenty nine palestinians over the past him weeks the arab backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution in the security council. argentina's congress is debating whether to allow abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament in what osiris whilst the session is taking place it's an issue that is that has deeply divided a country where the catholic church has a strong influence at the moment the law only allows abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's life is at risk to raise a burqa has the latest from this side as. it's a historic day in argentina as congress is debating for the first time the possi

foreign minister claims it's locked in a battle with criminal gangs nicaragua has come to this general assembly to express its commitment to peace security and stability of our nation which is currently undergoing an attack by criminal groups america's new secretary of state mike pompeo was addressing the oas for the first time revisiting what he sees is an old problem is demanding greater sanctions against venezuela and as president nicolas maduro a call on fellow member state to apply additional pressure on the media regime including sanctions and further diplomatic isolation until such time as a hundred takes the actions necessary to return genuine democracy and provide people desperately needed access to international humanitarian aid. we call on the oas nations to do this today as the small round of applause died the venezuelan delegation insisted the u.s. was breaching the rules of the organization it was calling to action you do not have the moral authority of any kind of trying to undermine our government and we see that in the articles articles nineteen to twenty of this charter you ar

of belief women's rights l g b t rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities the un general assembly can suspend the rights of any council member that's violating human rights in a gross and systematic way this requires a two thirds majority vote. let's get going let's bring in our guests joining us from geneva young shar on he's the director of independent diplomat in london we have rosa friedman professor of law and global development of the university of reading and joining us from washington is mohammed a cop professor of conflict resolution at the george mason university welcome to you all coming to you first what does this decision do to the organization well the decision is not really one that comes as a prize in geneva everyone that's been following the human rights council in geneva has been expecting it ever since nikki haley came to geneva in june of last year and said that in essence she wanted the council to reform around three pillars the first one is its membership the second one is its perceived bias towards israel and the third one is its efficiency i think that here

as president trump said at the general assembly, it is a massive source of embarrassment to the u.n. that some governments with egregious human rights efforts sit on the human rights council. we have o'dowd that there was once a noble vision for the council. -- we have no doubt that there was once a noble vision for the council. there are now a poor defender of human rights. worse than that, the council has become an exercise in shameless hypocrisy, with many of the world's worst human rights abuses going ignored and some of the series offenders sitting on the council it self. and aly thing worse council that does almost nothing to protect human rights is a council that covers for human rights abuses and is an obstacle to progress. the human rights council enables abuses by absolving wrongdoers through science -- through silence. a look around the world today demo rates the council has failed and its dated objective. the membership includes authoritarian governments such as china, cuba, and venezuela. competitive process. against israel it is uncomfortable. and againsteation, the res

shelley is our nominee for the united nations and the general assembly. ms. shelley has served at the un since 2014 as a deputy counselor from 2012 to 2014. she also served as a special advisor to the u.s. mission to the un from 2008 to 2011, and a senior advisor in the state department's bureau of legislative affairs in 2003 to 2007. prior to working for the state department, ms. shelley was a stafford for horseman in south carolina. ms. shelley? >> thank you ranking member murphy anything with members of the committee, i am honored to appear before you today as the president's nominee to serve as the representative of the united states of america to the united nations for un management and reform. i am grateful to president trump and ambassador haley for their confidence and this opportunity. i am joined here today by my husband george, whose love and support has been integral to me, being a working mother, representing the united states at the un for the last 10 years. and my oldest child nikolai, who is already a un diplomat having been dissipated in many

says the united nations general assembly in new york has voted for germany and for other nations to become nonpermanent members of the security council of the one hundred ninety nations taking part one hundred eighty four voted in favor of germany's a two year term along with belgium south africa the dominican republic and indonesia as nonpermanent members they have to they have no veto on like the five permanent members now the german foreign minister heikal moss welcomed the results he had this to say. we want to be a perceptible load voice for peace in the security council. but above all for the future of a multilateral world order under the rule be stored or. if. we want to live up to the responsibility that comes with it. we want to make a contribution to results conflict and not even to a lesser crises to emerge. that's coming from our let's bring in our washington correspondent carson phenomena who is standing by with the latest from the united states so carsten germany has been elected now for two years what will it be focusing on during that time. well germany wants to be an hones