near gridlock on city streets in san francisco this, is how it looked at 10:30 on the internate state 80 skyway. so take a look at how traffic is right now on the eastern span of the bay bridge from our camera. you can see things moving along. does the bridge deserve the blame here? >> well, first at harrison i describe it adds slow and of this is the entry point to the bay bridge. it's why we're here now dissecting those events. in what should have been ee utopia that has become modern life no one prepared for this. the sun sent down during daylight savings time. are you wondering what happened? >> yesterday, the outlier of outlier autos that is objective opinion from bob hoss. this room has 300 cameras but this is the bridge of the heart of the matter. eye of what is called a perfect storm. >> summer is ending people coming back from labor day weekend. traffic level goesing to be higher then you get a wow factor of a new bridge. >> and gawkers. here is one rolling video. >> people have something new here when there is something new, anything there is a period after justment. >> john

minister how argues that no country can deny air space to a plane carrying a president on an international state visit he also added that he expects the u.s. to rectify this situation now the latest this is the latest incident will no doubt bring animosity to of the already strained relations between washington and caracas let's remember that the united states and venezuela have not had ambassadors in each other's capital since two thousand and eight that's when the former venezuelan president hugo chavez. to back you waited the american envoy from his country accusing the u.s. backing a group of military officers he said were plotting against him now the u.s. responded at the time by expelling venezuela's ambassador and also just a few months ago in july president majority and now it's that his government was halting attempts to improve relations with the u.s. now that move was in response to comments made by the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power who told a senate committee that are her new role would include challenging the crackdown on the. civil society abroad includ

charter to the document which would allow the handover of the arsenal to the international state of control it's all because though it implies the use of force here's how it was used in the past let's give you a bit of backdrop here and say it's all nato warplanes are bombing libya. pretext of that of a humanitarian intervention it also gave the green light to involvement in the iraq and kuwait conflict in one thousand nine hundred one i was what is the invasion of iraq just about twelve years later and back in the early one nine hundred fifty s. this part of the un charter also became the basis for the korean war but the turn of events recently means that president obama was on likely to be able to deliver the same call to arms as that of his predecessors my fellow citizens my fellow americans i want to talk to you today about brutal massacre in iraq kosovo. our armed forces against writing selected targets of military importance to diffuse a powder keg at the heart of europe to help bring peace to get the food through my god bless our country. and all who defend her. in the meantime there

s in international law they we work very closely i in particular i personally i was working for the state department negotiated with the iranian officials including the foreign minister zarif over afghanistan to overthrow the taleban set up a new government there the problem really is on the u.s. side you don't have that on the u.s. side you don't have a real serious understanding of what iran's interests are what their needs are how to work with iran in the framework of international law the u.s. makes demands for concessions that have no basis in international law so in to there can be a real change on the u.s. side to work with other countries especially iran within the framework of international law i'm afraid any negotiations aren't going to get far i think that particularly for president obama it's been it's been two things one is a sense that he doesn't really appreciate that. at this point the united states needs an improvement in relations with iran at least as much as iran can benefit from an improvement in relations with with america but that gets to the second big flaw is obam

i would like here to confirm and reiterate the commitment of the state of qatar to continue cooperation with the international community in facing this challenge and implementing the measures agreed upon during the 18th conference of the state parties to the united nations' framework convention on climate change, which was hosted by qatar at the end of the last year in order to develop a road map for tackling the negative, environmental and economic consequences of this dangerous phenomenon. it is worth mentioning here that the state of qatar has gone a long way of implementing the initiative of the global gray lands alliance which it launched in order to establish an international organization t for this me numbe phenomenon. it will work with other organizations combating drought and preserving the environment without duplicating their work. i call upon all of you to support this initiative. mr. president, the state of qatar participates as an active and effective partner in efforts made to achieve sustained development at the international level. we have pledged to allocate the acquired percentage of our na

in dealing with situations that are internal to states like syria, engaging the global community in thatffort. likely that works, we're going to see with respect to syria, whether we get a good resolution to the security council that reinforcement the us-russia framework. so this is an ongoing test as to whether this doctrine works, but the doctrine itself is quite clear, it's restrained, cooperative, engaging with other countries in dealing with these issues as they arise. reaching out to russia, or in the says of syria, reaching to the embrace of putin to help with syria, engaging with iran on nuclear weapons issues. it's very pragmatic, restrained, realist foreign policy. >> thank you very much. john terrett is in new york. john, the president saying a harder humility and i kept thinking about another president who said walk softly but carry a big stick. >> his speech was 43 minutes long, dell, and a lot of the time was talking about the middle east and north africa. he talked about being chastised in medelling in affairs of other countries. he also put out a four or five-point plan f

make the case that somehow the united states is above other countries, that the united states is above international law, the united states is above the very institutions the united nations represents. you don't want to reduce it down to such a simplistic concept, but that is the reality of international relations when it comes to the united states. of course, their anger with the russians, their anger with vladimir putin is his and russia's inability to accept this principle, and we are seeing a tectonic shift i think in global geopolitics as countries who even 10 years ago would never even dare question the notion of american exceptionalism and america's ability, albieit right to assert its military authority, now it is being questioned and this is a combination of different factors, not the least of which is america's global prestige in decline. >> syria's foreign minister said damascus is ready to comply with the roadmap, but is worried about provocation from rebel forces. >> we control our chemical arsenal, but we are worried that the terrorists who also have chemical weapons, they want to use

was because of the terrorist attack on the not the states that the international community notably u.s. and i said. started being ajman to military engagement in afghanistan and it is now only clear and very dominant engagement of the united states that we can have certain solutions but why do you thing after some many here is a waging a gang of waging a war against the taliban and the taliban was proclaimed alamy of the united states one day american invasion into afghanistan began so after all those years of trying to root out the influence of taliban in afghanistan why do you think the americans are changing tactics well i will leave assessments of different phases of disengagement. to military and political historians for me the most important thing is. that. the international community together with afghanistan came to the conclusion that there is no military solution to the situation the duma solution is political one and therefore. the political turk must be predominant why do you feel that political track see the americans because some would argue that the united states is prim

no i completely agree i mean the point about international law is that it is in the interest of the united states to work with international law international law the international system of law that we have today is largely the creation of the united states of american jurists american lawyers american diplomats american politicians they basically set up the system everyone else has gone along with it because it's bad not an ideal system but it's a workable system and it is a system that actually works for the united states exactly for the reason it's the internet you have to have. ok mark go ahead cynically go ahead mark i mean there are dirty international treaties against the use of chemical weapons that syria signed there's an international convention against genocide and what all the great powers discuss everything with security council there one hundred thousand syrians dead last time i came on this program top twenty eleven there were three thousand syrians dead mark my words if this is numbers off it will be another one hundred thousand dead next time i appear and a hundred thousand afte

the focus is on russia's proposal to place syrian chemical weapons under international control. the united states is keeping options open for a military strike in case diplomatic efforts fail. >>> taliban insurgents attacked a u.s. consulate in western afghanistan on friday, killing at least four people. the incident comes just days after the anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. nhk world reports. >> reporter: fighters brought a truck in front of the u.s. consulate in the capital on friday morning. and then detonated explosives on the vehicle. >> translator: an explosion took place at the gate of the u.s. consulate. and then a number of insurgents entered through the gates. we don't know how many there were. >> reporter: a fierce gun battle followed. insurgents exchanged fire with consulate guards and local security forces. security authorities say at least four people died, including police officers. 18 others were wounded. among them, civilians. in an e-mail linked to taliban, the taliban claimed responsibility. concerns remain over the afghan's ability to enforce security on it

united states president -- rueter speaks in international terms -- united states president barack obama, on tuesday,congres authorizing military strikes against syria in order to give russia time to get syria to surrender any chemical weapons it possesses, according to u.s. senators. quoting, what he, obama, wants, is to check out the seriousness of the syrians and russian' willingness to get rid of the chemical weapons. continuing the quote, he wants time to check it out. that's from carl levin, the senate armed services committee chairman, has now reported the president is asking congress to delay the votes on authorization of strikes in syria. senator levin made his remarks after the lunch meeting on capitol hill that the president attended. yesterday the senate ban debating a resolution choo would back strikes on syria. so it was requested on august 31st. his numbers have gotten worth in worse in the public and congress. as of yesterday he was still asking for permission, but today, according to senator levin, less than an hour ago, in fact just minutes ago, the president asked for

and therefore, it demands a strong response from the international community led by the united statessecond, the international community cannot ignore the ongoing threat from the assad regime's stockpiles of chemical weapons. whether they are used again against syrian civilians or transferred to hezbollah or stolen by other terrorists. this is about protecting both the syrian people and our friends in the region. the world will have to deal with this threat as swiftly and comprehensively as possible. now, if the regime immediately surrendered its stockpiles to international control, as was suggested by secretary kerry and the russians, that would be an important step. but this cannot be another excuse for delay or obstruction. and russia has to support the international community's efforts sincerely or be held to account. it is very important to note that this discussion that has taken hold today about potential international control over syria's stockpiles, only could take place in the context of a credible military threat by the united states to keep pressure on the syrian governmen

, but hawai'i had international relations with the united statesf america. why would non-indigenous respect the indigenous population of any place? that's not the policy of the nons in hawai'i. and hawai'i kingdom was exclusive of all nationalities, the united states made obscured the nationalities of hawai'i. talk about the natives and non-natives. >> i want to comment on one of the comments you just read. the thing that one of the u.s. policies was to divide us by this thing by blood quantum, and that created a situation where hawaiians are separated whether you're 50% blood quantum or less. that's one way to divide and conquer a people. that's one thing that the hawaiian people have in common with the indigenous people of the continent, it was deployed to divide the people into natives who can get land and natives who can't. it's always about controlling the land resources of the people. in hawai'i it's a very strategic place for the united states who views hawai'i, the u.s. government has always viewed hawai'i as a sacrifice zone and a place to

he is looking or as many friends on the international state as he can get.ith he is not meeting vladimir peterson -- putin. could there be a standoff between the two? guest: they are bound to run into each other. is the host of this year's g 20 summit. they will meet probably on the sideline. i expect them to talk over the next couple of days. i expect syria will be one of the topics. you think there will be awkward moments between the two? guest: it is not a comfortable relationship. there is obviously friction there. there will be awkward moments, but they will have to deal with each other. the family of the swedish diplomat who saved thousands of , hisduring the holocaust family has asked the obama administration for russian help to find out what happened to him. that is another issue that is going to be thrown into the fire on u.s.-russian relations. they have a lot to talk about. attention with other program,- the nsa brazil, and mexico upset about reports recently that they are being spied on. will the president address those concerns with those leader

>> well, the president was very clear from the united states point of view and international communities' point of view it is progress on the nuclear talks. i hesitate to use the phrase, but that's the red line. that's the definition of what change the united states wants to see. it's worth pointing out, though, that there need to be other changes domestically. when iranians get more liberty, when they're allowed to use twitter, when they're allowed to speak freely about their choice of leaders and what they think of their leaders, those are very important. we have to remember that we only began to trust gorbacef when he freed his own people and something similar has to happen. the ball is in rouhani's court. he has to satisfy the international community on the nuclear issue but he's a newly elected leader. he has to satisfy his own people and their aspirations for change. >> joel reuben, your headline. >> serious signals and straight talk. the president laid out a policy rich middle east agenda. as andrea said and bobby said, these chemical weapons were used against iran, hielgt how sec

state owned oil company and spied on brazilians in trusting their personal information to u.s. companies like facebook and google president rousseff says she intends to push for a new international rules on privacy and security in hardware and software next week when all the heads of state gather in new york for the u.n. general assembly on tuesday the brazilian. the u.n. g.a. debates and her u.s. counterpart president obama is set to take this stage immediately afterwards reporting from new york marina port nine r.t. but it's not only in latin america where people are going offline from the u.s. is all seeing eye but also its own citizens more and more facebook users are deciding to commit so-called virtual identity suicide by deleting their accounts from the social network and according to a survey facebook lost two million active users in britain and the situation looks even worse in america with nine million people watching the network and for almost fifty percent the main reason given was concerns over privacy and the feeling that data is being put under the microscope and you can catch all of the stories we're covering plus plenty more on our website at the moment includin

make the case that somehow the united states is above other countries that the united states is above international law that the united states is above the very institutions that the united nations represents that it is above everything that has happened since world war two in other words it is the might make makes right principle and you know you don't want to reduce it down to such a simplistic concept but unfortunately that is the reality of international relations when it comes to the united states and of course their anger with the russians their anger with putin is his and russia's inability to accept this principle and we're seeing a tectonic shift i think in global geopolitics as countries who even ten years ago would never even dare question the notion of american exceptionalism and america's ability and albeit right to assert its military authority around the world now this is being question and this is of course a combination of many different factors not the least of which is america's global pristine in decline. there were lots he spoke to syria's foreign minister on the sidelines of t

states to make as much of a commitment as as he can express. act that if this deal is implemented if syria really does put its chemical weapons stocks under international supervision that the united states is not going to strike and if indeed united states won't agree to that then it makes it very clear that the real agenda driving obama's policy in syria all along is not really chemical weapons and just not even really humanitarian considerations it's other considerations and so the administration will either be put in a position where it signs up to that and says basically ok if we can address this chemical weapons issue the united states is not going to be using military force essentially to take sides in the syrian civil war and if he doesn't do it then you know the united states can't take yes for an answer i mean it's i think it's very interesting is it to the united states said that assad must go not too long ago and now we may sit down at the table and negotiate the chemical weapons deal kind of interesting isn't it. i think you know it's. who you have to deal with i think you know regime change is not an option for anybody in this at this poin

to get the united states to make as much of a commitment as as he can extract that if this deal is implemented if syria really does put its chemical weapons stocks under international supervision that the united states is not going to strike and if indeed united states won't agree to that then it makes it very clear that the real agenda driving obama's policy in syria all along is not really chemical weapons and just not even really humanitarian considerations it's other considerations and so the administration will either be put in a position where it signs up to that and says basically ok if we can address this chemical weapons issue the united states is not going to be using military force essentially to take sides in the syrian civil war and if he doesn't do it then you know the united states can't take yes for an answer i mean it's i think it's very interesting is it to the united states said that assad must go not too long ago and now we may sit down at the table and negotiate the chemical weapons deal kind of interesting isn't it. i think you know it's. who you have to deal with i think you know regime change is not an option for anybody in this at this poin

the international support for the united states-led military strike in syria, however limited in scope at the time, consists of two countries. turkey and france out of 194 countries. the rest of the international community, but for china and russia, says we support you, america and your military strike, so long as we do not have to do anything. the arab league's response to this is a joke. here we are, left to topple the last regime in the middle east. for the third time, in a decade, entering a national civil war in that part of the world, essentially alone, again, secretary kerry, you spoke on the world's response to the use of chemical weapons. even that history, one would think that more countries would join the u.s. in participating, not supporting, in participating in a military strike against syria. what gives? >> well, congressman, i will try to be quick here. first of all, i do not want to make this debate about what is happening in terms of regime change and a larger issues. a fruitwant to clarify. vendorwho was tired of corruption and being slapped around started the arab sp

i invite all of the states, international organization, and civil institutions to undertake a new effort to guide the world in this direction. we should start thinking about coalition for -- peace all across the globe instead of the ineffective coalitions for war in various parts of the world. today the islamic republic of iran invites you and the entire world community to take a forward, an invitation to join the wave. world against violence and extremism. we should accept and be able to open a new horizon in which peace will prevail over war. tolerance over violence, progress over blood letting, justice over discrimination, prosperity over poverty, and freedom over disparttism. as beautifully said by ferdosi, the renowned iranian epic poet, be relentless in striving for the cause of good, bring the spring you must ban initial the winter, you should. not withstanding all difficul difficulties and challengeings, i'm deeply optimistic about the future. i have no doubt that the future will be bright with the entire world rejecting violence and extremism. my hope aside from personal and nat

and of course the back to the saudis funding the sunni insurgency that is driving iraq into a state internal crisis many of the. sunni insurgents who were operating inside iran have now lost over into syria so in a certain way. the violence now tremendously inside iraq is a kind of reverberations back and they are the crisis center in syria. really the time now for some international news in brief in. south africa's largest union the national union of mineworkers states the mass strike calling for high wages some eighty thousand members of. the actual cost the industry thirty million dollars a day doesn't zuma plans to both union and the money companies to find a peaceful solution outrage was caused last year when police thirty four packing the mine is joining a strike. ariel castro the man who kidnapped three women held captive in his home for more than a decade has died after being found hanging in his prison cell officials are struggling to explain how the incident occurred as the man's been in protective custody with regular checks he was only courts when one of his victims managed to es

can only attack another member state in the case of imminent self-defense imminent self-defense another words to stop an attack in fact syria has according to international law the right to retaliate against the united states because unlike the united states syria is not threatening the united states it would be the victim and so the assumption of the attack by the obama administration is that syria is too weak or small are vulnerable to actually use its legal right to carry out an attack against u.s. targets and he's telling the american people they won't strike there won't be representations but in fact obama or hegel or john kerry or mccain they don't know what the representations are going to be this is dangerous games when you carry out another war of aggression with the latest most developed high tech weapons against a country that's at peace with the united states so they don't really know where it ends they know how to start a war they don't know as we learn from iraq how to end a war michael they know how to start it but they don't know how to end it but you know there. well that's true because i think and that's what we have here what what they

can only attack another member state in the case of imminent self-defense imminent self-defense another words to stop an attack in fact syria has according to international law the right to retaliate against the united states because unlike the united states syria is not threatening the united states it would be the victim and so the assumption of the attack by the obama administration is that syria is too weak or small or vulnerable to actually use its legal right to carry out an attack against u.s. targets and he's telling the american people they won't strike there won't be representations but in fact obama or hegel or john kerry or mccain they don't know what the rep recover sions are going to be this is dangerous games when you carry out another war of aggression with the latest most developed high tech weapons against a country that's at peace with the united states so they don't really know where it ends they know how to start a war they don't know as we learn from iraq how to end a war michael they know how to start it but they don't know how to end it but you know there. well that's true because i think and that's what we have here what what the