the general assembly can come in and try and work something out, give more power, do many things. guess what? we have a plan already in place in the state of illinois. it is a pandemic plan, that allows and calls for the local county health department to be making these rules. if a local county health department comes in and demons to quarantine someone, to shutdown a business, guess what?

or the general assembly rather. in my administration has interacted with those working group and our hope is that we are going to get a kind of unified voice on the need from federal support from the states. in particular to the state of illinois. i hope that republicans will step up. he won the general assembly elected officials and the republicans will step up and advocate for the state with their republican colleagues in congress. code in the house of the senate and even in other states hearing from republicans, to be the senators will respond better than. from the democrats. we really should speak with one voice on this to the federal government. follow that will have an effect on whether or not we are able to fully fund schools. an immediate evidence case hunting. and we all want to meet and to help the school sort of be ready for the full. so that is one of the reasons why you have not heard a call for massive reductions is because we are right in the zone here where the house of representatives are voting on

so many nations will be wondering, what happens with the general assembly? can you give us a preview of what that might look like? >> we would all hope that we could host a general assembly in person because that would mean -- my conversation with the secretary general -- there has been no formal decisions made. to be prepared for whether it is in person or virtual, but we are working out the details now with the secretary-general and president of the general assembly. we would love nothing more than to have people come into new york city. keep in mind that there will be thousands of people coming in. if you do not want the virus starting back in the city and being carried home to the country. >> every country around the world. it is a big decision that you have ahead of you. >> they were very diligent. .hey had been very clear they will be no one in there until the end of july for safety precautions. we are following very closely, governor cuomo and the state of new york, there restrictions. let's make sure that we protect the people of the u.s. and people

in an unprecedented move the general assembly moved its meeting to its headquarters in switzerland. and i thought delivered his speech and waited to read the diplomatic route. he believed that by implicitly recognizing israel and renouncing armed struggle he had met america's conditions to open a dialogue with the piano or i don't know when one or 8 by ones or declare. that you know that i can get it was yes get it in. but the americans did not hear the terminology they required about the renunciation of terrorism and not all palestinians believe the price was worth paying. the whole the cargo and then. i said what do you get for renouncing terrorism meaning that i had to launch military operations i was against making this concession. i said let's await the reaction to his speech and then we'll see and this but i was overruled but out of hats mind was made up desperate for american recognition the next day he held a press conference and uttered the magic words. and absolutely they know it's all the forum is already done it is. the us announced that it was now ready to begin a dialo

general assembly design address this hall as president for the final time. let me recounts the progress that we've made a quarter century after the end of the cold. the world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before. but with millions of people displaced worldwide. unresolved conflicts from yemen. to syria iraq and afghanistan and groups like al qaeda launching attacks against civilians was president obama's speech too optimistic. his top u.n. diplomat at the time was ambassador samantha power who was responsible for securing international consensus on a variety of pressing issues of the security council and general assembly. i'm james bays of the united nations in new york our house u.s. foreign policy change since president took office of what should have been done differently and with the next presidential elections in november will ambassador power pursue a new political role in washington the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power talks to al jazeera. ambassador samantha power former u.s. ambassador to t

he was not only in for trade our vice president as you know that he is in the united nations general assembly in september gave the coordinates of the camp a mint in colombia in the wahid of colombia where these people were being trained by this civil corp company preparing this military operation we even gave pictures of the houses where this people were sleeping and they go colombian government did nothing with that and the united states didn't answer also to this so this operation kept on being prepared and it finally they thought it was the right. moment and of course they failed because we have not only the un forces the venezuelan people in one of the islands where the one of this boats came with the 2 american mercenaries it was the fisherman who who captured this man and they even tied their hands with. a string they used to fish you know it's a shame that they are all the options are still on the table for them and press in time said what he believes that this option failed but when i decided to invade venezuela i will do it with my army with all the. force and strength of the united

governor kemp: we continue to look forward with the general assembly. in plays of bills are right now, hate crimes legislation being one of them. speaker atant and both been talking about that. withok forward to talking them about all things legislative on june 11. wondering ifas your commissioner could give more details about contact tracing. cases at this point being contact traced? if not, what share are being traced? idea ofyou give us any what capacity we have each day to trace cases? we areioner toomey: incrementally increasing capacity every day. in with virtually every case a nursing home, in a high-risk situation, it has been contact traced. it isn't as though this is new. this is something that has been done. what is new is the tracking of them with the app, and the capacity to improve our ability to have the data identify how many contacts per case. we have a number of people on 250 of our own staff deployed, several hundred wedents, but by june 23, will have 1000 people working on contact tracing. we have been able to ramp up that quickly. w

the general assembly will come back to richmond in august when we will re-forecast and deal with ourt. i anticipate a piece of legislation being proposed that will make the release of information from our nursing homes more transparent. bob: would you fully support the legislation? governor northam: i will. make theiregislation way through the general assembly and they get vetted, so sometimes it doesn't end up like it started, but that is part of the process, like he said, kind of like making sausage. but i support the concept of as much transparency as we can have. bob: congress is debating phase four legislation. i have heard it reported by the post but virginia has lost millions in terms of cost and billion.- 3 is that the number you are looking for from the government, if not, what is the number you are looking for? governor northam: it is a combination. resources. i have a meeting each week with our congressional delegation and with our senators and congressmen and congresswomen. we need resources, but we also need flexibility. that is, how can states -- and it is not unique to

following a day in november 19th 74 yes and out of touch received a standing ovation at the general assembly. he had spoken over a peaceful solution for christ in the minds. of the green a leader standing among statesmen it was a crown which are. out of touch journey to the un had begun several years earlier. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause. are you saying the same time that there will be an increase in terrorism. no i am saying there will be an increase in people who will hear not us but i can in the evolution of a struggle inside at this time and i refuse the word get out as them because we are not that obvious a lot of people in palestine if you are following them they are doing demonstrations every day in nablus in the milan they are accusing there is not only conquered but why do you call this that of us and at the same time you hijack international editor of to hold hostages innocent women and children how do you expect the rest of the world to sympathize and re

general assembly the w.h.o. out examine itself because it's part of what's being asked about here so my recommendation is the secretary general united nations who has an independent political personality who occupies a position who independently can convene high level panels like he's done in the past and previous secretary generals have but make sure this is an appropriately balanced panel of medical experts 52 of them in china but also elsewhere in the ok let me jump in there if i could how do you think this is going to separate politics from science is the u.n. the forum to do this we need to get the politics out of this question don't wait is that possible with the u.n. well i'm all ears from you to hear from what the alternative mechanism or machinery is we can start talking about money i mean i don't have a suggestion right now but the bottom line is questions about the u.s. the point is. well you should have questions about how the w.h.o. is performed and it's the relevant united nations agency no institut

general assembly this past fall president mood also did not bring up human rights in a meeting with kim jong un last year have you sacrificed calls to improve human rights in order to keep the dialogue going i think keeping the dialogue going is extremely important if we are going to find a peaceful resolution with a north korean nuclear and missiles issue and getting us on track towards creating lasting peace on the korean peninsula human rights is a very big issue when it comes to north korea and we support the international efforts the u.n. efforts in this regard obviously to keep the in gauging going we have to balance everything and it's a decision. given all the consideration the judgments that we make we do not it's not that we don't consider a human rights issue of north korea any less but the in the tactics and the strategy in promoting the engagement with north korea. has to weigh all factors and proceed but there's a critical mass of criticism i'd just like to highlight a couple of them because the united nations special operator and human rights in north korea has said the f

activities, the general assembly, up 7%.is clear that the impact started mainly in europe and then spread to north america. that is how you have to see it and it continued and we have now in april revenues down 40%. and with countries having the strictest lockdowns like france, italy, and spain having the biggest impact on the activity around 50%-60% down and the others having a reduction of 30%-40% of their activity. that is the picture. to date. nejra: thank you for outlining that picture globally for us today. in terms of looking forward then , you did say that the countries with the strictest lockdown had some of the biggest impact on hiring activity. what are you seeing in your trends at the moment that tells you the picture of recovery as we start to ease lockdown in some areas of the world? think is that the second quarter will be difficult but we expect it to be the trough. we see that yes, some of the countries are starting to open slowly but some others are still in the full lockdown. sign see a kind of early of gr

the decisions were confirmed by the league's general assembly today.tional summer tours have been postponed. england were due to travel to japan along with wales who were also set to tour new zealand. scotland's tour to south africa and new zealand is off along with ireland's trip to australia. gloucester head coach johan ackermann is leaving to take charge ofjapanese side docomo red hurricanes. the south african leaves after three years at the club and with gloucester ninth in the premiership when the season was suspended. there could be two grand prix held at silverstone this summer, as f1 revises its calendar to try and fit in a full season of races. a deal has been struck with owners of the circuit to hold two races injuly — both behind closed doors. but it all depends on government approval, and the impact of the proposed two—week quarantine period for international arrivals to the uk. silverstone is lucky that 70% of the teams and the formula 1 headquarters set up are all based in the uk. so this is very easy for them, and one of the reasons why

happens is that the 2 superpowers that had basically rammed the partition resolution through the general assembly cared only for the creation of a jewish state why. in that jewish when the arab state that's mandated by the partition plan is strangled in its cradle by the british the jordanians and especially the israelis they don't lift a finger there's no provision for forcing these powers to leave back off there's no implementation provision in the general some of the resolution an arab state isn't created because these 3 countries don't want in the 2 superpowers don't care they want a jewish state i mean truman i quote truman in the book is talking to american diplomats talking to american diplomats and say i have a lot of people lot of the statue and care about this and stalin as you say had his own iraq insurgents so the palestinians are again disappeared as they were disappeared by the balfour declaration and then 17 there disappeared there they are disappeared in the wake of the 48 war and during the war when they're there physically 2 thirds of them are physically driven out there are ful

i look forward to working with the general assembly when they tourn to do all we can protect the health and well-being of north carolina and. phaseprepare to move to one, i have received questions as to why more businesses and more activities are not included in this first phase. given the nature of this virus, given its highly contagious and can be dangerous and sometimes deadly for some, we need to approach the easing of restrictions in a measured way. the is why in phase one as governor mentioned, he started with low risk activities where people are largely walking around and where it is easiest to social distance, at places like a clothing store or florist. hint, it is mother's day. in two weeks, we will reassess where we are on ever trends and hopefully be able to move to phase two or we can layer on some of the higher risk activities where you may not be able to social distance or you are sitting for more prolonged periods of time. sittings, such as at a restaurant or worship services, those activities still have risks. and we will need to do all the things we can to keep from spr