exploded where the limits of international law still. hope to do is to do some measure of justice whether it is real conditional is adequate for the crimes that is diluted and i want to turn a little bit to the timetable that you also just referenced there because critics of this trial they point to the amount of time that it took to bring him to justice more than twenty years here does that frustrate you. frustrates me but we have to be realistic the international criminal justice system which is supposed. incarnation was born with. we have to understand that there is no army of occupation around the world people. are just. invested. our whole message to other parents around the world. power but you will not miss. one. but how strong is that message really because i mean when we look at the biggest figureheads who were convicted by this tribunal lot of courage milosevic when they began committing their crimes perhaps they didn't imagine a court where they can face international justice now of course we have the international criminal co

power international criminal justice. harm. cultural throughout europe. not one. brought to justice for jennifer the current crop. that horton combo's your middle eastern european for the good part of the historical struggle for transform the culture of international relations and to change the boundaries of power and digital receipts and i do think that in the long run we are doing. a year of those in power by a little bit more cautiously to commit atrocities the use of staying in power and in that long run as the international criminal court you know now takes on this cause as the means for international justice in countries where the accused cannot be tried fairly do you think that it has adequately as a court incorporated the lessons of the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. international criminal court much more difficult position because unlike weeks of tribunal which we regard one country. has to move it across is across the world from uganda congo african republic. so i think that it is a very different part of the creature if you l

international criminal court much more difficult position because. of tribunal which we regard one country. has to move it across is across the world from uganda congo african republic. so i think that it is a very different part of the creature if you like. with of course you know it was established by the security council there was an international movement on the. properties which doesn't exist now because this. may have learned some of the lessons of the risk of progress of the situation with. different but i would say there is no retreat. from the commitment for national criminal justice today you mentioned syria i could mention one more international community has dropped the ball they are not pursuing justice has issued so it's not so much with. the lessons of the restructuring it's more the professional community to learn the lessons and i would say. we still have a long way to go aside from criminal justice and procedure i mean one of the hopes . of the should be you know for the former yugoslavia was this process of reconciliation do you th

breach of international obligations. dprk's actions represent a threat not only to its own region but for all regions. we again urged the dprk to heed this counsel's decisions that it sees provocation for -- fulfill its international altercation, engage in meaningful dialogue and abandon its nuclear and missile programs in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner and return to nuclear nonproliferation treaty and safeguards. sweden fully supports the relevant resolutions adopted unanimously by this counsel in relation to the dprk. it is important that the council remains united and the security council resolutions are swiftly implemented by all countries so as to ensure their full effect. at the same time, sanctions alone will not resolve the situation on the korean peninsula. we to pay the way for peaceful diplomatic and political solutions. therefore, in parallel to effectively and rigorously implementing the sanctions regime, we must urgently undertake further work to reduce tensions for copper into settlement.

vision of the of the international community. of course is not about to take care of and about to fix the causes of migration yes i think when i started to be a volunteer in ninety eight. we were receiving in italy the migrants. coming from the horn of africa thirty years later we are still receiving people coming from the same zone and not seeing us changed so this is a complete failure of the international community we should put. fire from from the disposition of the people so the problem for us as humans i don't envision is to take care of the people but when you are confronting the communities you have to explain the reason why even about the failure of the politics of the failure of the policies that has been set up to avoid the people flee their homes and their houses because no one that is escaping most of europe is to do it or no one is to try to cross the mediterranean now with these rubber boats and i see that many of the people the syrians are not happy to do to escape from their country they were not migrants before

war we asked a lot more of tony blair's former attorney general why britain is often seen on the international court of justice for the first time in seventy one years and as he you breaks it negotiating we shall bonnie's in berlin for security talks today britain's justice select committee boss and former vice chair of the ruling u.k. conservative party neil tells going underground fixing a date to leave the you could be a big mistake from the headlines some optimal subtitles for jeremy called end of last orders for turing's on my shoulders and more coming up in today's going underground but first this week in one thousand nine hundred five a rich arms manufacturer staying in a club in paris affectively created a peace prize that is still revered by nato nation mainstream media notoriously the prize went to this man i think they would trip a new should not be thrown a wrench to get it to. reflect on the people who you would yes u.s. president says national security advisor henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred seventy three and he says calling him out for being a war c

we were international early on and we continue to did that work through war resisters international and with organizing with people across war diasporas which is something we have been doing more in the past few years. we are very intergenerational, and at this point very intersectional. i think to best describe some of our perspectives and the way we work is to look at our theory of change, which says we believe change happens through the implementation of revolutionary non-violence. it is a very active non-violence. through mobilizing for collective action at the grassroots. we're very grassroots-based organization. by placing the most impacted people at the center of these change efforts, so that in working with allies and in working with those most affected through political education and tools that lead to a changed consciousness, through building strategic alliances which i think has always been something that war resisters league has done over the years, and building and supporting alternative systems of violence. just a few things about the present program that we're doing for a

it green believe very pressing international crisis at the moment.you should present you should not let any sort of deviation between and among the countries involved be seen by north korea but after north korea has changed their mind and come to agree on some of the principles that the international community is risk questing north korea. to put fulfill then japan's proximity towards north korea could work in many ways and that's the sort of diplomacy that japan should play but that's pretty much far away now is not the time for us to talk anything about that unfortunately well dr today would you let me know if you disagree with me because i understand that this is a perhaps to provoke a diff question but it could be argued that this kind of intransigent attitude is very common emong countries who rely on the united states for their security in israel for example subscribes to the same attitude when it comes to iran denying it not only any kind of goodwill but also basic rationality do you think that comparison between japan and israel is valid and

said the problem is however that there is no and so international governmental body you know international court which has actually let's say proven this in a more official way ok yes we will get on to that in just a moment but first saudi arabia is not alone in seeking arms from seemingly unconnected nations israel hasn't divulge details of its ties to min miles government but israeli patrol boats guns and surveillance equipment was sold during the violent crackdown against the rich minority a un investigation revealed the egyptian government broke an international arms embargo on north korea a north korean ship was found to be carrying thirty thousand rocket propelled grenades off the coast of egypt and amnesty international reveal how a cell company registered in london sold at least forty six million dollars worth of arms to the south sudanese government in two thousand and fourteen and peter was just talking there about a framework to regulates the arms trade we do have the arms trade treaty that is supposed to stop arms from going to repressive regimes how's that working out. well i

and numerous international observers and agencies have echoed that recommendation since the international legal sphere is quite clear this is an international human rights crisis perpetuated by the australian government and in fact the un i said just that last week. now to the rest of the day's news and bob ways incoming president was reportedly in constant contact with military leaders in the days following his firing by robert mugabe a form of vice president when i returned home to cheers and celebrations big promises to create jobs for the people was a commie has collapsed many are already holding up well and god was a big can of hope even before he's been sworn in as president reports. when. the country two weeks ago he said he would be back to lead his people former president robert mugabe sacked him as vice president so his wife grace could take over in just one week the military seize control resigned on tuesday the man nicknamed the crocodile returned wednesday and he is now in charge. you know you won't even remember this. he revealed there were plans to eliminate him he says he

court challenges to president a hurricane yet controversial election victory last month amnesty international says both eisel and the philippines government a guilty of crimes in the five month battle for the city of murali were going to thousand people have been killed in the fighting and five hundred thousand forced from their homes. iraqi forces say they have retaken the last major town in the country being held by i saw government troops moved into rock in western iraq on friday morning they raised the flag over the district governor's headquarters iraq's prime minister said the operation was carried out in record time the red cross is warning that one million yemenis are at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak because of saudi arabia's blockade of the country group says the cities of her data and tires have run out of clean water because of a lack of fuel the country has already seen nine hundred thousand cholera cases in the past six months. and those headlines here on al-jazeera i'm back but the news hour that's in about twenty five minutes time stay with us so because inside stories nex

of violating international humanitarian law and. more than a thousand people were killed another five hundred thousand displaced. the u.n. says at least a million children in yemen or risk of contracting diphtheria because of a blockade preventing urgently needed vaccines from getting into the country the heads of three u.n. agencies pleaded with the saudi led coalition to fully lift its embargo they say there's also the risk of a renewed flare up of cholera which is infected nine hundred thousand yemenis in the past six months but djibouti is now home to more than forty thousand yemenis of fled the war they started in a refugee camp but many of moved to the capital to earn a living and as a mom of the day when our reports their presence is bringing big changes to the city. old school tom into a training center in the heart of djibouti a group of men are hard at work. the older figures from yemen until recently they were living in a comp some two hundred kilometers away. they were then registered given papers and allowed to work. up

i would say that international criminal justice provides some measure of deterrence. but the threat of punishment. for tyrants around the world from committing mass murder in order to stay in power international criminal justice. system. take time. alone cultural throughout the room you're. not one head of state brought to justice for jennifer the. pope or become those human. so this is part of the historical struggle. for the culture of international relations. of power and. in the long run. influence. of power by move more calls to commit atrocities. and in that long run as the international criminal court you know now takes on this call as the means for international justice in countries where the accused cannot be tried fairly do you think that it has adequately as a court incorporated the lessons of the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. international criminal court much more difficult position because. we regard one country. has to move it across is across the world from uganda congo african republic. so i think that it is a very differen

from abroad it's a very different international community that saved cambodia from civil war twenty five years ago and set it on the path of democracy many would argue the united states is not the international player it used to be and the investment from china that is changing the skyline of phnom penh tells you it's the chinese that are now the biggest influence here and beijing certainly likes the way prime minister hun sen he's doing things with his emphasis on national security and stability virtues that it approves of the country it calls rather cambodia. so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from paris we're joined by more such well vice president of the opposition cambodia national rescue party from beijing there to go director of the china national association of international. that is from washington d.c. we're joined by hoss oakley mark yama director of the european center for international political economy thank you all for being with us let's start with you you wrote in a newspaper article on friday that democracy was on trial this week in cambodia and th

in international for the u.n. and then in its membership of the international criminal court and of course the on the palestinian side the what's what's being discussed as president of the u.n. september is using the i.c.c. to challenge the legality of israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories so it's a legal requirement but it's there for very very clear reasons that are hostile to the palestinians ability to challenge the status quo and indeed it puts the u.s. administration in a difficult position and certainly open to the sort of charges we've already heard about its status as. an impartial broker in this very difficult thing nonexistent at the moment it has to be said called the peace process which brings me to my next question henry why has the state department decided to go ahead with this. well there is a there was a legal track here that the state department had i would say almost no leeway to control the law required the secretary of state to certify in november that the palestinians were

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accordance with international standards. it's important to understand the extremely complex country. the drc, the size of the united states with more than 80 million people and almost no basic infrastructure. all nationally elected politicians, not just president cabila, have over stayed their elected terms of office. society is deeply distressful of the sunnis and the government's commitment to elections. restrictions on freedom of assembly as well as politically motivated prosecution of opposition leaders have significantly exacerbated tensions. and even absent in many areas and sp elements of the security forces have committed mass atrocities. numerous non-state arm groups continue to omerate in the drc. it's one of the poorest countries despite having enormous natural resources. we know genuinely free and fair elections can be held in 2018 and there's no question that the people deeply desire to choose a new leader through elections. the africa, the state department is working with our interagency partners to insure they

for the first time losing its seat on the international court of justice joining me now is a man who believes it could be a sign of more fundamental geopolitical change in the balance of power bob neil is the chair of the u.k. just a select committee and former vice chair of teresa mayes ruling conservative party bob barr welcome to going underground we heard from former attorney general lord morris just before about this international court of justice decision just before you go to bricks it matters your reaction to britain not having a judge on the court for the first seventy one years but it's a serious setback and very disappointing the judge chris we're able to done an excellent job and i think it's a great shame i think is possibly an indication of a bit of a shifting power balance between both the security council and the genius driven assembly and also between you know the old established founding members of the un and the new emerging states but that's been going on for decades arguably i mean there's the head of the justice we are isn't it what do you think well it's done t

and international has accused me and maher of trapping there were hendra community and a. humanizing regime that amounts to apartheid the new amnesty report is based on a two year investigation that aims to reveal the cause of the current revenger crisis and accuses me of segregating or henge and an open air prison by confining them to their villages and restricting their freedom of movement human rights organization also concluded me and mar authorities treatment of the henge amounts to apartheid describing rakhine state as a crime scene hence a living in myanmar also denied citizenship on the basis of their ethnicity many are deleted from official records making it almost impossible for those who have fled the country to return home now reporters covering the story tonbridge hawtreys and cox's bazar at a refugee camp in the us first though let's go to scott heiler he is live in yangon myanmar so scott this is perhaps the starkest language so far describing what has been happening to the roof and there's all this talk of repatriation but you know how realistic is that whe

it is not easy bringing cases to the international court.some of the horrors in rakhine state as asia's srebrenica. a reference to the bosnian civil war. rakhine state is still firmly under the control of the myanmar government and any resolution of the problems will require the cooperation of myanmar. diplomats are trying to build bridges between the military and the myanmar government because in the end, they have 600,000 people stuck in awful conditions in bangladesh who bangladesh wants to come back. that requires a cooperative relationship with the myanmar government. all of these reports will of course document the horrors that will happen but we don't know the ultimate outcome. thank you for joining us live in bangkok. president trump has announced the us is re—branding north korea a state —— us television presenter, charlie rose, has reportedly apologised for what he called ‘inappropriate behaviour‘ after allegations of sexual harassment. his various shows have been suspended, following a piece in the washington post in which eight w

welcome to worlds apart the basket of international crises has created a situation in which humanitarian commitments increasingly look more like you told me and ideals and legal obligations faced with meager budgets and the need to help more and more people it's easier to just look the other way or force the problem to a neighbor what does it take not too well to discuss that i'm now joined by francesca rocket the newly elected president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies well mr olcott thank you very much for your time and congratulations on your election thank you thank you very much it's probably the worst time to be in charge of the i.f.r. c given both the a growing scope of humanitarian needs and the man's challenge of securing the funding to meet them why would you even want these kind of job but let me clarify for us all that this is not our job i. don't care paul starr and i am of all. i'm not paid for my position i've been a volunteer and in my national society for many years this is a is a passion for fashion for humanity try to improve.

but the international community needs to get serious about action action right now is far more important than any particular words that might be used to describe the situation. now phil i want to ask you secretary tillerson also advised against any broad based sanctions to be taken against the me and more government or military but he did seem to leave the door open to the possibility of targeted sanctions perhaps if it could be proven that certain individuals and me and more his military or government had had abused the revenge of muslims and had been complicit in those atrocities what do you make of that. well i would hope that he would recognize a broad based sanction like an arms and bargo on the bernese military is entirely appropriate and would be pushing for that at the u.n. security council in terms of targeted sanctions we understand that parts of the state department are actually working on targeted sanctions and trying to identify various different really military commanders were in the field in rakhine state as well as the chain of command they're trying to get more informati

the international community and they go on to fix the problems that are causing so many suffering of course there is nothing to be optimistic but if we look of the capacity of humanity of each human beings to do. to be even empathy to other human beings. every day so the problem is that we have to speak up we have to do. to call to the government to improve the. life of those in need to protect the life of those. risk especially in the war zone those are leading the consequences of climate change as an example but mr olcott i assume that this is what you have been doing in your capacity. while working in many positions for the italian. right crossed at a time when your country was facing the influx of challenges of refugees from multiple wars and demand the region and that it was a challenge that italy by and large had to face on its own didn't die experience undermined your face in solidarity in. this period that i had in this year of course that we found a lot of solidarity of the beginning but because the lack of vision of our of our policies created the perfect environment to mak

i would say that international quillan just to provide some measure to turn. to food for the first of some additional alone would deter current rather than from complete murder in order to stay in power international criminal justice it still is incomplete. hauling because there's a long standing cultural issues and throughout the year until you solve crimes you know not one has a very well brought to justice for jennifer the neighbor plenty of not to to talk. whether the pope or the composer militancy yochi up for this is part of the historical struggle for transform the culture of international relations and to change the boundaries of power and digital receipts and i do think that in the long run we are we are in. a year of very empowered by a little bit more costly to collate the prophecies of the use of staying in power and in that long run as the international criminal court you know now takes on this cause as the means for international justice in countries where the accused cannot be tried fairly do you think that it has adequately as a court incorpora

subjected to apartheid the treatment of her head and man maher as described by amnesty international in a report just published a lot of live analysis. richelle carey this is live from doha also coming up. should have happened a long time ago should have been here's a go yes president says he's designating north korea a state sponsor of terrorism paving the way for more sanctions plus. i love my house with nothing. sixty thousand haitians in the u.s. the devastation of a powerful earthquake are told they must go home. and zimbabwe's ruling party began to impeachment proceedings against robert mugabe as calls for the president to step down. and this international has accused of trapping there are a hedge a community and a dehumanizing regime that amounts to apartheid the new amnesty report is based on a two year investigation that aims to reveal the cause of the current crisis that accuses. a segregated where henschel in an open air prison by confining them to their villages and restricting their freedom of movement given rights organization also concluded men are authorities treatmen

not being us changed so this is a complete failure of the international community we should put. the fire from from the disposition of the people so the problem for us as human and i'm going to take care of the people but when you are confronting the communities you have to explain the reason why even about. the failure of the politics of the failure of the policies that has been set up to avoid people free their homes and their houses because no one that is escaping most of europe is to do it or no one is to try to cross the middle with these rubber bullets and i see that many of the people they see themselves not to do to escape from their country they were not migrants before the war saw this is the this is their wages that we have to do us to ourself and our governments and politicians but mr olcott sounds as if he are asking the ordinary people to clear out of the mass of the politicians have created which is fair but only to a certain extent the un high commissioner for refugees philippa grandy an italian like yourself recently spoke before the security council urgently cal

simon bill ines who is the executive director of the international campaign for the or hendra gentlemen thank you so much for joining us today we really appreciate it now matthew i want to start with you we know that the u.s. government has been weighing whether to declare the crackdown against rohinton muslims to be an ethnic cleansing but we did not hear rex tillerson use that phrase at all he did not say ethnic cleansing when he was in me and more what do you make of that and why didn't he use those words. well it's a good question it's it's it's not unusual unfortunately in situations like this for governments to fail to diagnose the problem properly from our perspective it's no question that it's a cleansing and right now it's very reasonable and urgent to be talking about the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity so the fact that secretary tillerson failed to make that sort of determination is unfortunate i think you know we can't speak to why specifically he did that but i think urgently not only the u.s. but the international community needs to get serious about action a

response up to now it's been an international response. yemen is the famine crime of our generation it is the destruction of an entire country through gradual degradation of its economic infrastructure its social welfare infrastructure the deprivation of food it's not as though the deliberate intent of the saudis and the reason that our allies has been to create starvation but the way in which they have conducted the war has had that foreseeable result and their priority of conducting the war in the way they wanted to has consistently over written any humanitarian sensibility even up to today and clearly. unless efforts are may not only to bring in urgently humanitarian assistance to open the poor to open the airports teacher to revive and rebuild the health care infrastructure but also to to rebuild the basic economy this is going to be a disaster that will last a generation when you talk about famine as a as a weapon of war and i mean the whole of war is obscene but there are some red lines for the use of chemical weapons or example do y

agenda and the best place to do that is brussels and this isn't pursuing the international agenda this is running the way it let's let's let's call it what it is this wasn't planned was it that they would go off on some trip to consult foreign powers this was to get away from the possibility of being arrested was that well that's the sole reason well obviously the prosecutor came out yesterday and he stated all the accusations the offenses which hang on these people now one of them is rebellion which could mean up to thirty years and jail the other one is sedition up to fifteen years etc and you have and that was a surprise because they hadn't considered that well that's a bit disproportionate isn't it for somebody who has been democratically elected who has organized a vote and afterwards tries to deliver on that vote now for once that politicians deliver we might as well respect them if they really hadn't considered that possibility they did the obvious around the state would level charges not that it has done yet but it's considering ok now the question is why is half of the catalan

i'm just international is accusing. fighters and philippine government forces of war crimes during the five month battle for the city of merari at least a thousand people were killed another five hundred thousand others displaced the organizations latest report details how the amount to a group kidnapped and killed civilians most of them were. christians hostages were abused and reportedly used as human shields the document says that philippines marines tortured some people they detained accusing them of being fighters but without any evidence just international claims both sides looted large amounts of cash and jewelry the organization also wants an investigation into whether government air strikes were proportionate and complied with international law. has more from manila. well this report of amnesty international is the very first detailed briefing on what transpired in the points along quietly in the southern philippines after terrence lee abbott international the scene traveled there in september and spoke to at l

and for more we're joined now by professor hugh doogan from the school of diplomacy and international relations at seton hall university in the u.s. professor thing is good to have you on the show so we've got this emergency session of the u.n. security council what can we realistically expect. the meeting was called today and there will be a more formal meeting on december eleventh when japan is the president of the security council but today the opportunity was to be briefed by the secretary of s. the nature of this missile attempt and to see if this was in fact new technology or old technology we're not sure about that it's also an opportunity for the member states to condemn this action and to remind north korea that they have been in violation of many security council resolutions against this type of behavior and it's also an opportunity and we'll see if in fact the security council decides to press for more another resolution i should say with more sanctions or if it seeks to try to improve its ability to implement and enforce existing sanctions u.s. president trump he's been mo

sustainable forestry management limited would have made more money if international regulations wereed to include carbon credits from all forests. the chronology of events raises serious questions for the prince. in february 2007, the duchy buys 50 shares, worth $113,500. at that time, sfm's directors agree to keep the duchy‘s shares confidential. mr van cutsem asks for lobbying documents to be sent to the prince's office. the prince begins making speeches, campaigning for changes to two international agreements on carbon credits. injune 2008, he sells his shares for $325,000, a profit of more than $200,000. but we can't find, nor has the prince's office been able to show us, any speeches prince charles made on this specific issue before he bought his shares. he made three major speeches in the seven months after he bought them. well, i think it's a serious conflict. there's a conflict of interest between his own investments of the duchy of cornwall, and what he's trying to achieve publicly. and i think it's unfortunate that somebody of his importance, of his influence, becomes invol

amnesty international's accusing philippine government forces and by selling fighters of violating international law in a five month battle for modeling more than a thousand people were killed another five thousand just less. now israel says it's prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia to unite against iran israel's military chief says in an interview with an arabic online paper that it's ready to share intelligence information with saudi counterparts it comes as tension between tehran and riyadh continues to rise lawrence korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says the two countries have mutual concerns on several fronts. well i think it's surprising that it became public but the fact of the matter is that they've been working together for quite a while particularly since president obama did the iran nuclear deal then they both realized they had to work together to make sure that iran did not become the dominant power in the region i think it will be concerning to some of the other arab countries that have very tense relationships with israel to think that saudi arabia the prem

the international community besides the come border and people rob mcbride isn't. the death of democracy that's what it says on the front page of the phnom penh post but it's the last major english language paper on the stands after the closure of a fellow publication the cambodia daily a couple of months ago all part of a general rollback of civil society that it's claimed has been taking place here in recent times it's also included according to rights groups curbs on the activities of some foreign n.g.o.s at the last election three million people went out and voted for the opposition c n n r p but you do well not to admit you were one of them under the current political climate. did you support the syrian r.p. . thank you. for your time oh i don't know about that. but we just want to have a good living and the country to develop. the c n r p leadership has appealed to the international community to intervene but while there has been condemnation from abroad it's a very different international community that saved cambodia from civil war twenty five years ago and

the reality of climate change is real and what we've been saying to the international community is that we do not contribute any significant. proportions today will gas gases come and gases. but we really will it was affected we're on the front line of climate change and the effects of climate change and you've been saying as the international community but i wonder what is the international community responding to i think people accepted people accept that the caribbean dominic intuited is on the front when the global will. will women and the effects of climate change. but if indeed there we have it with discussions and conversations about climate change and not taken sufficient practical action. to minimize the impact of such disasters consciously dominate thinking about practical action from what i heard herrick in my area claimed more than two hundred percent of your own g.d.p. almost overnight when you lose so much so quickly where do you even start trying to . it's a monumental task everybody's lives live has been impacted the economy has been dramatically impacted to twenty twent

you're back with are to international a report from a u.k.based thing claims the european union is effectively criminalising those helping refugees to cross international borders its laws in europe feel to distinguish between people trafficking which by definition is exploitative and smuggling which may not be well one of the volunteers mentioned in the document is a fifty year old former british soldier rob laurie now he hit the headlines back in january twenty sixth seen when french authorities run to him for trying to help a four year old and her father illegally cross into the u.k. he fund them living in a sewer pipe at the notorious pele jungle camp and this is his story. years ago i went over to help in in france in the notorious jungle and i was building shelters there. and i befriended a young afghan girl and their father and she used to help me for many weeks and you know amongst building shelters until one day i found out she had a family who lived literally two miles from myself and i decided to you know with with you know a little

morning to avoid the international legitimacy decided by the united nations they did that before by the way to invest then they separated the military track from. diplomatic. help by pressuring military groups to attend actually groups didn't have and you know they just attended to witness what was and the whole thing was devised by russia and iran but have a long and how are you as cynical when it comes to the russian plan of money would you make of the russian plan or if it's just a plan to push russia to the front of everything that's happening in syria the man what syria is just a part of the big game that's happening in the middle east and all not only in the middle east for russia the main thing is to build an anti american coalition with iran and hopefully with turkey on the basis of this syrian campaign of course iran and russia already kind of anti american russian military both by the poor and forces in syria russia outflanked nato but ultimate goal would be to part possibly pull turkey away from the united states and nato and of course syria is important because an asset is i

stablished rules of international law and also relationships like that which we have with russia which is a story which is a very deep and multifaceted relationship with mr newer up with our partners and you know live when you take one major cornerstone it's still somewhat impact the stability of the building so if i may ask you more specifically how does the change in the administration a fact your relationship and your foreign policy well we have. continued to foster this relationship in both democratic and republican administrations i think there is a. number of understandings and commonality in terms of strategic objectives that shelter the relationship from whatever. differences on issues that can exist between any two governments but the foundations in terms of the relationship its strategic nature the levels of cooperation still exists and still operate operational because they are in the best interest of both countries of both peoples as is the case with our relationships internationally now the terms of mistrust has been the. a very unusual administration so far but one thing.

the international airport on the indonesian island of bali remains closed for the third day.continues to spew volcanic ash the airport as they second biggest and and is expected to stay closed until thursday about one hundred thousand people. have been told to leave their homes as scientists of option could happen at any moment. al-jazeera is demanding the release of a journalist mark one hussein has been in egypt in prison for eleven months hussein's accuser broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twentieth of december visiting family. now. dutch shell is denying the latest allegations of complicity in a military government campaign of murder rape and torture and southern nigeria and the ninety nine takings and the international says shell played a role in crimes against protesters in the west reports from under. the homeland of the only people who saw how the nigeria is calm now but the old rich delta has a history of murder rape arson and all pollution and rust

peace, international regional peace and security. mr. president, egypt the need tor security council and all u.n. to assume their responsibilities in this respect. through endeavoring to reach a sustainable peaceful settlement so the situation that raises grave concern in the korean peninsula, this settlement should include the total elimination of all nuclear weapons and reaching sustainable peace between the two koreas in accordance with the provisions of security council resolutions including endeavoring to revive the party talks and associations so as to exit this vicious circle of continued violations by north korea of security council resolutions. mr. president, in closing, i would like to express our appreciation to the commendable efforts that you have made along with the members of the italian delegation as the chair of the security council resolution 1718 committee during the membership of italy and the security council. these efforts have had a positive bearing on facilitating the work of this important committee that play