i believe the international rescue committee has been a remarkable experience for me. feel truly privileged to be leading 13,000 employees, 15,000 volunteers aroundhe world. we're an $800 million organization. we're really addressing a big issue.to i never want ieem like i've got anything other than full focus on that responsibity. equally, obviously, i'm not gonna do this forever, and so i don't know what i'm gonna do next. and some people might say, "oh, you should never say you don't know," but actually, it's the truth, and it's bettero tell the truth than not. and so why should i rule anything out? i mean, i don't know i'm gonna do next, so let's see. >> david miliband, witthat, thank you very much for coming to "firing line." >> thank you. >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible by... additional funding is provided by... corporate funding is provided by... >> you're watching pbs. the people who give the money to make mister rogers' neighrhood are the people who contribute to this and other... and... captioning made possible by u.s. department of edu

would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram some ethnic groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games amid rising political tensions ruled why will athletes abide by the new policy set by the i.o.c. we'll have our answer when the games start in. tokyo on the 24th of july. up next business news with. don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our web site dot com. thanks for joining us. this meters just shows the 1st split of shows. the smart way to. show everything w. .

and to from the streets of new york to a gold medals for the international olympic committee is considering adding breakdancing to its list of that is. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us after lebanese anti-government protesters clashed with police in the country's capital beirut the government has called on the army to restore call military vehicles have been used to disperse the crowds well earlier police used tear gas and water cannons against protesters who threw fireworks at police that's the latest flare. up in some 3 months of demonstrations against alleged government corruption and incompetence. let's get more now joining me is correspondent basile from our beirut bureau basile you're near the site of those protests in beirut just bring us up to date what's the situation right now it's like the old situation in lebanon turned into. right behind me as you know the well there's. also the old jordan is to move away from the point where that own security know it being mentioned. one of the what's happened and that's what you did twitter account i just told the yeah most of the prot

and this could be the future of the summer games as the international olympic committee considers adding great dancing to its list of. a michael ok welcome to the program. health officials around the world are sounding the alarm over a deadly new virus it's a highly infectious strain of the corona virus that's related to sars and it's already killed 2 people in central china where it's believed to have emerged in the city of han authorities there say $45.00 people have been infected but scientists believe there are probably many more cases than that the outbreak comes just as people in china prepare to travel for the lunar new year holiday. it's a race to stop a deadly virus from spreading passengers touching down in the u.s. on flights from central china now face a medical check health officials at airports in new york los angeles and san francisco are testing travelers coming from the region who may have symptoms of the virus most passengers will get questioned get their temperature taken any sent on their way but passengers that are potentially at risk to have the novel coronavirus th

this could be the future of the summer games as the international olympic committee considers adding breakdancing to its list of events. i'm michel local so glad you could join us health officials around the world are sounding the alarm over a deadly new virus a highly infectious strain of a corona virus that's related to sars and it's already killed 2 people in central china where it's believed to have emerged in the city of authorities there say $45.00 people have been infected but scientists believe there are probably many more cases than that the outbreak comes just as people in china prepared to travel for the lunar new year holiday. we're now joined from shanghai by journalists simone of the planet he has been following the story there thanks for joining us we understand that this new coronavirus strain is being like into the sars virus how serious is this it seems to be 80 persons to me are. the difference however is that it's less deadly and it's treads less so far it's less viral and so it's a bit less scary but there's reason to be worried and something to remember is that

and this could be the future of the summer games the international olympic committee considers adding great dancing to its list of events. i'm michel okumu so glad you could join me health officials around the world are sounding the alarm over a deadly new virus it's led to an outbreak of pneumonia in central china where it's already killed 2 people in a sea of one hon dozens of people have contracted the virus and the number of cases is on the rise it's the fear now is that the virus could spread further afield especially as people travel for the upcoming lunar new year holiday. it's a race to stop a deadly virus from spreading passengers touching down in the u.s. on flights from central china now face a medical check health officials at airports in new york los angeles and san francisco are testing travelers coming from the region who may have symptoms of the virus most passengers will get questioned get their temperature taken any sent on their way but passengers that are potentially at risk to have the novel coronavirus that is people who are sick and have been exposed to get to g

good to be with yoaret. >> you are the president and the ceo of the international rescue committee, globalelief organition that was founded by albert einstein in 1930. >> hard to do better than that, can you? >> no, i don't think so.ar yoalso the former foreign secretary of the united kingdom and a member -- former member -- of the labour party in parliament. i first must ask you about developments in the news this week. president trump ordered the killing of iran quds force major general soleim last week. had to say about it. >> soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attackson merican diplomats and military personnel. t we caught him in thect and terminated him. >> in your opinion, was president trump co to do this? >> well, obviously, we haven't seen the evidence that president trump referred to, in terms of the imminent attack on u.s. forceset or on u.s. a is obviously whatuestion the consequences of this are. and i can only speak to you from the perective of a humanitarian organization. preparing, across thee middle east, for more chaos,re onflict, more civilian casualties and al

decades of proxy piece all to discuss that i'm now joined by peter mauer president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's always good to talk to you thank you very much for finding time for having me now you are now in moscow to take part in a workshop that deals with what essentially are the laws of wars the geneva conventions but this is not how this event is officially called instead it makes reference to international rules governing military operations is it just me quibbling over semantics are has they indeed been a shift on the battlefield from the loss to the rules with the latter i assume being last restrictive well i think there have been many shifts in the battlefields over the last decades and recently we have seen that it is more important may be just to teach to generalities or flaws in try and in the geneva conventions to look much more in detail to. the ground rules the rules of engagements that militaries have in the battlefields to compare notes to look at good experiences as well which have proven to protect civilians better than others and i think this i

the international olympic committee has issued new guidelines that will ban athletes from kneeling in protest or making any kind of political statement at this year's games in tokyo the committee says those who break protest rules will face a disciplinary action but athlete support groups say silencing participants should never be tolerated. over 50 years ago american sprinters tommie smith and john carlos famously did the black power salute at the olympic games in 1968 bringing attention to the then plight of african-americans in the u.s. in recent years there has been a rise in political activism by athletes most notably call them kapur nick and megan rapinoe last august 2 u.s. athletes were placed on probation for 12 months for ensign ants at the pan american games in peru considered by some to be a warning ahead of the tokyo olympics international olympic committee president thomas bach said previous protests had no effect and the mission of the olympic games is to unite and not to divide box cautioned athletes any kind of boycott for whatever reason is against the submission of t

would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram some athlete groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games. the all business updates in just a moment more world news at the top of the. charlie crist meters just shows the 1st spoke of shows. since. the 1st smart way to.

would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during enter views and on platforms like twitter and instagram some ethnic groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games amid rising political tensions ruled why will athletes abide by the new policy set by the i.o.c. we'll have our answer when the games start in. tokyo on the 24th of july. let's get a recapping our top story here on g.w. u.s. secretary of state maicon pale and treasury secretary steven chu and have unveiled new sanctions on iran steel industry and on senior officials of the islamic republic to sanctions are the result of iran's missile attack on bases housing u.s. troops in iraq. coming up next you have your business africa with your h

out openly and often against anti-semitism and right wing hatred last week in berlin the international committee honored him for his stance which hasn't been without consequences. leave it in the last few minutes before the show. and focused.

that's what the international olympic committee is trying to do. fraught times, donald trump is president, around the world many issues, i think that's the rise we're giving it this scrutiny now, and i do believe we're going to be hearing athletes speak out as never before. they'll just be doing it through twitter and other social media which didn't exist for athletes ten or 15 years ago. >> as you point out, there has been a long history of athletes being able to protest in some way during the olympics. if not able, they certainly have taken the opportunity some of these athletes have suggested it is an effort to control olympic athletes, to possibly gag them. what would you say to them? >> i'm actually going to guess that while we're going to be discussing this a lot. this is going to be a very big issue leading all the way up to the tokyo olympics and the games themselves, i'm going to guess very few olympic committees will throw the book at their own athletes. and we already have a little signal of how it might workout with the united states ol

the international olympic committee say they wish the performer a fast recovery.he opening ceremony is due to take place here in switzerland on thursday evening with competition beginning on friday. the athlete here range in ages from 1a to 18 years old and for the first time at a winter games there will be an equal number of female and male athletes competing. 900 of each. many of those will be hoping to use again to compete in a future senior winter olympics. i will be here to bring you all the latest from lausanne 2020. you can go to the bbc website for more details. british two—time olympic gold medallist max whitlock says the tokyo olympics will not be his last. he'll defend his two titles injapan later in the year — and even though he'll be 31 by the time the following olympics come around in france — he sees no reason why he can't still carry on to 202k. there is a lot of pressure. i think the pressure ramps up every year. it seems to get more and more, the expectancy i bring home titles is high. which is really hard for any athlete to deal with. it is hard

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>>ow we t is one of these international committee creasing lincoln national far right popped up in th last few years. it is hard to know how many members they have, but they ascribe to a very violent ideology. tit is clear th ones who were arrested this week have been on the fbi's radar for some time hit nada: those three, why were they specifically targeting virginia? you playeplanned to go to the ry on monday. are you concerned it could be a repeat of the violence we saw in charlottesville? >> they had discussed according to the court documents that they seem to have been discussing going to virginia. they were found with a huge ammunition an improvised weapons. this had been sort of the that abole had been worrie the last few wks. what started as a run-of-the-mill r pro-ghts rally hasurned into something a bit more sinister in the past few weeks, with more extremist way to talk aboutheir own as a ideology and what they describe as a coming boogalooic, is the word they used to referred to a civil war. it is not clear how many more extreme i factions plan on attending. whats clear is

would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram some ethnic groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games amid rising political tensions ruled why will athletes abide by the new policy set by the i.o.c. we'll have our answer when the games start in. tokyo on the 24th of july. you're watching the news here's a recap of the top stories we're following feel canada's prime minister justin trudeau says multiple intelligence sources indicate an iranian missile brought on a ukrainian fastened to a plane yet there on u.s. officials have also said they believe it's likely that an iranian ed defense system hit the plane by accident killing all $276.

would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram some ethnic groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games amid rising political tensions ruled why will athletes abide by the new policy set by the i.o.c. we'll have our answer when the games start in. tokyo on the 24th of july. i think time for a bit of art then margarita and salvador dalí were 2 of the greatest icons of the serialist movement in the early 20th century now the 1st time they've been brought face to face in a major exhibition at the fine arts museum in brussels they didn't like each other but they did respect each other's work and then more than 100 works on show in the belgia

welcome back to worlds apart repeat them our president of the international committee of their brother crossed mr mara just before the break we were talking you were talking about. the importance of negotiations and allowing safe spaces especially for the civilians and this is what has been done in the context of bleep for at least a year now but during that time the territory controlled by the new reincarnation of al qaeda in the province has increased from some 57 percent to around 4045 percent and these people continue launching attacks and harm the civilian population elsewhere when you advocate for that as for that small process for essentially ignoring the military necessity because there is a military need to take them out in directly privilege joining the civilians in rebel controlled areas it is part of international humanitarian law that there must be a reasonable balance between military necessity and the protection of civilians if in the context like you'd leave the protection concerns are sold visible so great and so preponderant it is important that in the balance is is f

the international olympic committee president said that previous protests had no effect and the missionthe games is to unite, not divide. he cautioned athletes. >> any kind of boycott for whatever reason is against the mission of the olympic games, and i ask them to respect the political neutrality of the olympic games by not using them there as a stage for their political purposes. correspondent: potential violations of the new guidelines according to the ioc, would be , evaluated by the national olympic committee and respective sport federation. disciplinary action will be taken on a case-by-case basis. athletes, however, will be free to express themselves during interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram. some athlete groups have criticized the new rules, calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard. they point to bach's support of a joint north korean and a south korean team at the 2018 window olympics -- winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games. amid rising political tensions worldwide, will the athletes abide by the new policies se

democracy they will sort out their issues in june time and this reminds me of last year when the international committee and some particular high profile members the international community were supporting one quite oh what happened in the past year and you see here yes he has lost support and certainly at the closer he seems to be coming the more beholden he seems to become to his number one ally which is the trumpet ministration the more some people seem to have doubts about him i think he's been trying to find his way and when i say he i mean the opposition they do have differences amongst themselves they've been bickering a lot too but the long or short of it is that while he got off to a very what you could say a good start if you're on the side of the opposition after the end of april when after the failed coup attempt if you like or uprising against the government they tried to get the military to turn on my little when that failed people just said that's it we're back to square one again we don't think that this opposition opposition can do it so i was going to be people today they're saying you

him there is only one basis for legitimate peace talks an independent international committee. under trump's plan this border wall would separate the 2 capitals the us president calls it a vision people here call it a nightmare. tomorrow the u.k. will officially leave the european union and that will kick off an 11 month transition period of trust trade talks britain will stay in the e.u.'s economic framework until the end of this year while the 2 sides try to thrash out a trade deal despite the british government's vow to get an agreement before that a transition period ends the e.u. says the time span is too short very chaotic no deal exits. the final vote which after nearly 4 years european lawmakers overwhelmingly back breaks that happening this coming friday for the architects of the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. it can't come soon enough i mean well it's no accent like i know you're going to service i know you want to go national but we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future to working with you i saw a group. if you disobey the ruse you get cut off co

be given this is only one basis for legitimate based talks an independent international committee. under trump's plan this border wall would separate the 2 capitals the u.s. president calls it a vision people here call it a nightmare. a leading figure in germany's far right party is being investigated for tax evasion after lawmakers lifted his parliamentary immunity the 78 year old is one of the most prominent figures in the populist alternative for germany party and he was co-leader of the party until late last year prosecutors say the investigation into tax affairs will include a search of his private premises. our political correspondent tracking all the latest details on this story for us hi hans tax evasion is what suspected here what is gulen supposed to have done well this concerns his personal tax affairs we have to say that it has nothing to do with the tax affairs of his political party which in fact also being questioned but in his personal taxes it concerns the fact that he has been married for many years to a woman that he actually does not live with that he's separate

be given it's only one basis for legitimate peace talks an independent international committee. under trump's plan this border wall would separate the 2 capitals the u.s. president calls it a vision people here call it a nightmare. let's look at some more stories now that are making headlines of the australian state of new south wales has announced an inquiry into the bush fires that are still raging across the country new south wales has been the worst affected by the blazes the inquiry will look at the state's response to the fires and whether climate change played a role. and the official in the democratic republic of congo says $36.00 people have been killed in a suspected islamist attack it's understood the people were hacked to death during a raid on villages in the country's eastern in the region the attack is being blamed on the ugandan islamist group. now anticipation is already growing for this year's the 70th edition of the film festival it all starts on february 20th and preparations are well underway in the german capital it'll be the 1st festival under the directio

decades of proxy piece well to discuss that i'm now joined by peter mauer president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's always good to talk to you thank you very much for finding titus for having me now you are now in moscow to take part in the war that deals with what essentially are the laws of wars the geneva conventions but this is not how this event is officially called instead it makes reference to international rules governing military operations is it just me quibbling over semantics or has they indeed been a shift on the battlefield from the loss to the rules with the letter i assume being last restrictive. well i think there have been many shifts in the battlefields over the last decades and recently we have seen that it is more important than may be just to teach the generalities or flaws in try and in the geneva conventions to look much more in detail to. the ground rules and the rules of engagements that militaries have in the battlefields to compare notes to look at good experiences as well which have proven to protect civilians better than others and i thin

let the international committee had been on the board now for 64 years, and this is remarkable organization. and the president, foreign minister of great britain. i think it's probably the leading voice on behalf of refugees in america. >> want to come to this book. and i know if you see the cover of this book is so interesting. so starting is my weather working walking with robert kennedy in paris. maybe they tell us a little bit about the moment that that caption that it captures an attribute took with the senator kennedy. some of the highlights. it was in 1967. >> i think robert kennedy got tired. it's very personal things that have dealt with. so he told them, let's go to you're up. so the two of us went and it was a remarkable truck printed began and oxford. he debated phenom and oxford union. berlin was his host for the occasion. but we went and so i was thinking of the crown. the queen now recognized as being very much taken by harold wilson. and we it's been a couple of hours with harold wilson. it was remarkable from here especially with you going out today with the queen was liste

raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening your security that's why the international committee is determined to end war in libya al-jazeera. meanwhile in libya forces loyal to have to have attacked 5 eastern oil ports the state oil firms close down the sites and that's expected to result in the loss of $800000.00 barrels per day of the output of the one head is in tripoli and says the oil blockade is already having an impact on global markets. in less than 24 hours their libyan air dinar has lost about. 10 percent of its value compared to hard core of his b. because of the blockade of the buyer terminals and oil exporting ports in the east of the country the united nations' support the mission in libya has except 1st concern over of the blue kade of the installations and it's sad that the. must not be part of the conflict there and no see that's the state oil for the national oil corporation must stay neutral away from the current of the conflict that's going on the oil revenues are of the bag borne of libya's national income which is estimated at about $55000000.00 a day lost

not have the resources that other countries but at least their own is with the talk to the international committee they will say you know what since the arab spring for example we have never taken pass we have never sent troops we have never finance any party and therefore we do really how the legitimacy of being the country the only country in the region that all the evils can trust come to if they seek any political way out of any conflicts in the region thank you for that. here in the studio with us still ahead on al-jazeera with only 4 percent of its waste ever recycled mexico's biggest city introduces a new plastic bag. hello there is morning winter fog anywhere from the pope valley in italy across the bosphorus but you can see there is climbing elsewhere in fact there's a warning out for the day not a severe one but of strong winds and heavy rain for the british isles all of which is then heading up towards scandinavia so again most of europe it's under these rather benign skies it's still not cold and vienna is max is 6 kids up to 4 moscow's only just at freezing so as to with temperatures

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raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening you of security that's why the international committee is determined to end war in libya al-jazeera belin. several people have been killed in airstrikes in the rebel held syrian province of idlib it's the latest in a series of breaches of a russian and turkish brokered ceasefire for the region that was reached last week and russia though has denied breaking the peace deal as scott although u.n. reports. put a desperate rush to save lives to get this shelter for displaced people was one of several sites hit by recent airstrikes in syria. inside is a family including several young children have been heard and see crews take the injured to hospital for some of the missiles hit several towns in the northern province of aleppo. but for others it's too late for that some of the airstrikes hit this house which was for displaced people they came here looking for shelter trying to escape the bombing when we arrived we found 4 bodies on the ground. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan says syria's government violated the cease fire brokered by t

decades of proxy piece well to discuss that i'm now a joint by peter mauer president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's always good to talk to you thank you very much for finding time just for having me now you are now in moscow to take part in the war shawl that deals with what essentially on. the laws of wars the geneva conventions but this is not how this event is officially called instead it makes reference to international rules governing military operations is it just me quibbling over semantics are has they indeed been a shift on the battlefield from the last to the rules with the latter i assume being last restrictive well i think there have been many shifts in the battlefield over the last decades and recently we have seen that it is more important than may be just to teach the generalities of flaws in try and in the geneva conventions to look much more in detail to. the ground rules and the rules of engagements that militaries have in the battlefields to compare notes to look at good experiences as well which have proven to protect civilians better than others a

raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening your security that's why the international committee is determined to end war in libya. in. migrants any u.s. bound caravan have begun crossing into mexico earlier there were scuffles on the quote violent mexican border since then mexico has allowed some people to cross central american countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to stop migrants from reaching the u.s. border at home and has more from a guatemalan city on the mexican border. it was a scuffle it was a few young men who were trying to push their way across and they got repulsed by the mexican border guards and then after that the gates of that border bridge closed from then on in the midst of 30 started letting people through the 20th time the question was where they were taking them off to that they would take them in buses to migrant stations state run migrant stations n.g.o.s later told us that the migrants would be able to get out of the question to many that was sort of looking on and not going through that border was wherever they were being proces

decades of proxy piece well to discuss that i'm now joined by peter mauer president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's always good to talk to you thank you very much for finding tanks for having me now you are now in moscow to take part in the war show that deals with what essential.

gathered here if this group communique does gets agreed upon the creates what they're calling an international committee or are you see which will work on 2 levels one is a plan plenary one which will be working under the chairmanship of the un's and boy . they will meet month to be on the 2nd is one that will have working groups that will meet twice monthly either in libya or neighboring tunisia which ironically hasn't even been invited to this berlin conference ok jim i will cross back to you later thank you for that update from berlin so as jamal was saying a draft of the final communique expected to be released later at that conference in berlin is calling on all parties to refrain from hostilities against oil facilities and the latest attacks by forces loyal to have to have forced the closure of 5 of libya's eastern oil exporting ports they are how he got. there and libya's national oil company says that will result in a loss an output of 800000 barrels a day to talk about the impact of that let's bring in what are the raw had he is joining us from tripoli so to discuss the closure of the oil field