there are addressing that quiet action at summits the united nations are to pronounce or care to james bayshas been listening in see this has to be said a very busy day james the united nations what more can you tell us about. the statement made by just send there are certainly outlining a lot of priorities there a lot of action that new zealand has committed to take. and that's exactly what the secretary general antonio terrace wants he wants to hear concrete action he wants to hear new action and i'm not. next person off on new zealand's climate priority is to be able to check off each of those points against any previous commitments that new zealand has made and tell you whether they're all entirely new but that's what he's hoping to hear from each of the world leaders who are queuing up they're supposed to only speak for 3 minutes each right now you have one of the countries that is most affected by climate change because it could literally disappear under the sea and this is the marshall islands dr hilda hina who's the president of the marshall islands worth reminding you that last mar

to continue and for the people of it more than $3000000.00 of them there is nowhere to flee to james bays al-jazeera at the united nations. dozens of people have died in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan both of which hit the wrong targets at least 18 people were killed in a taliban suicide bombing outside a hospital in zabul province where 35 mm workers were killed in a u.s. drone strike in one province bride has the latest from kabul. a blast that reduced buildings in the city of color to rubble the taliban says it was targeting the local headquarters of afghanistan's intelligence agency but the provincial hospital next door took the force of the explosion it soon became clear from the schools of casualties that civilians among them hospital staff were the main victims with no hospital to treat them survivors had to be transported by road to neighboring found most you can. there are many civilians who are martyred mooned it and you cannot even see one military officer among. the taliban has stepped up its attacks head of the upcoming presidential elections and there's also reportedly be

and russian nuclear weapons deployments our diplomatic editor james bay is at the united nations and joins us now and chambers it's quite a sign of the state of international politics moment when you have countries like russia and china talking about the importance of working together to overcome divisions and and tackle the world's challenges. absolutely and certainly missed a lot of rough speech was very very strong on the problems of the west and how the international community is being divided by things that western nations do and you know every time we refer to the west of course the cameras cut to the seats of the u.s. in the general assembly hall the u.s. delegation there with some of the more junior diplomats sitting in those seats a typical speech from the russian foreign minister he always delivers these speeches at breakneck speed he always speaks towards the end because he's a foreign minister not a president or a prime minister and remember that bloodier putin does not come to new york very often to the u.n. he tends to come about every 5 years and we understand it's lik

as america is concerned those days are over well let's get more now from our diplomatic editor james bays he's at the u.n. and james trades and china regular themes with the u.s. president in a somewhat inevitable that he would turn his fire on beijing at some point during his speech. absolutely but this was the bit that the markets were watching and the markets drops a bit following these comments but yes predictable and we've heard president trump's tough talk on trade with other nations in particular china i think it's worth remembering the timing of all this there are supposed to be trade talks starting in october between the 2 sides so just a couple of weeks away and clearly i think he's trying to us lay down the line ahead of those trade talks but i have to say there are many that are worried about the on grow your own going competition between the u.s. and china and you're just economically but politically and earlier on we heard from the u.n. secretary general who said that he feared that could be a division into global level a great fracture as he called it with the world dividin

and blaming iran and accusations the terror denies diplomatic editor james bays joins us live for a preview of what's ahead james so what will the u.n. be concentrating on in the coming hours. well it is the normal procedure here which is the world leaders one by one queuing up to speak to the u.n. general assembly and as is tradition we hear early on from the u.n. secretary general i'm told he's going to be making one of the most important speeches of told of his 2 and a half year term addressing the growing divisions in the international community then as is also tradition the 1st leader to speak is the president of brazil now president is deeply controversial because 24 hours ago we had the climate summit we've had those fires in the amazon look to see some strong language from him on the environment then the next week is the big act of the day it's president trump who will be speaking to the general assembly watch very closely for his words on iran because we really don't know where the u.s. policy of maximum pressure is now going after those attacks on the oil installations in saudi ar

best of years and teheran will be with you shortly but i'm starting with our diplomatic editor james bays at the united nations. as i said james it was i felt there were 2 different tones coming out of that entire speech what was the biggest line that you had coming up. well i think there are a number of important lines there towards the end of our region is on the edge of collapse a single blunder could fuel a big fire i don't think there are many people who would disagree with the severity of the situation in the middle east and particularly the gulf at this stage but clearly president rouhani has a different view on what to do about the situation he came up i think with 2 important statements one about his new initiative i'll come to that in a moment but 2 of our sitting down with president trump and the iran nuclear deal he made it quite clear his conditions for doing so he said that the u.s. had to accept the existing deal because he said it was binding international law resolution 2231 of the u.n. security council he said too that the sanctions must be lifted then if all of that is

james bays agad secure for me again lots to keep track of and we will be of course be crossing banks the chains for our saints from the united nations the climate activists have been blocking traffic around key into sections in the us capital to draw attention to climate change she had written c. has more from washington d.c. than. this is what we've been seeing across. the sea for the last several hours this is independence avenue around rush hour just shortly off the rush hour actually to be honest but they've shut it down the protesters have shut it down if you can see over there there's another protest apparently shut down the intersection over there as well the point of the protest that says it can't be business as usual say it's a private emergency no more business as usual in maryland virginia and d.c. and what they're also talking about is the intersectionality of the climate crisis various locations have been chosen very carefully like immigration and customs enforcement up the street outside there was blockaded immigration mass immigration as a result of climate change the

start one of the toughest roles in diplomacy one that for others has become a 7 day a week job james bays al-jazeera at the united nations u.s. president donald trump says he's delaying an increase in terror son triton $50000000000.00 worth of chinese exports by 2 weeks trump says the decision was made at the request of the chinese and as a gesture of good will china had made a gesture that sound announcing it would exempt some u.s. products from tariff increases in the lead up to talk shuttle for next month the u.s. tires were due to rise from 25 to 30 percent on october 1st. united states congress members have returned from their summer break with gun violence high on the agenda but central to the debate is the unclear position of the president donald trump had said the u.s. needs stronger background checks but that led to a pushback from the gun lobby michaela reports in washington d.c. . the n.r.a. was one of president trump's earlier supporters pouring nearly $30000000.00 into his successful campaign a fact brought up repeatedly by the organizations leader we stood proudly with donal

this story zain by the in teheran will be with you shortly starting there with our diplomatic etta james bays in new york at their news conference as well james we heard you get a question through to the president what did you glean from that today. well i think you have to look at the big picture of where we are with our son rouhani doing that news conference and about to head back to where zain is to tehran what has been achieved what everyone have been looking for is an important week of diplomacy that could move very. delicate and dangerous situation in the gulf forward to a more peaceful one and i really don't think a lot sadly has been achieved even though you had president trump and president rouhani here you had peacemakers like president matt kroll prime minister of bay of japan has been trying to come up with mediation efforts we've even in iran come the prime minister of pakistan has been trying to see if there's any way forward because he spoke to the saudi crown prince before he came here and he also spoke to president rouhani but off the. 5 days of diplomacy here in new york rea

problems earlier president trying to announce what he called iran's bloodless our diplomatic editor james bays reports. as he arrived at the general assembly the world was watching for president trump's next move on iraq the u.s. is being joined by the u.k. france and germany in holding iran responsible for the drone attacks on saudi oil facilities but the president to launch the policy it lacks russia on tehran both want is still for now every talking about possible diplomacy and about it on iran i think we're doing very well let's see what happens with iran but we are we're in very strong position on iran and i think they'd like to do something and i think would be a smart thing for them if they did and of course when he took to the podium inside the general assembly whole there was plenty of criticism of radium policy but also i'm not the only brunch. america is ready to embrace friendship with all who genuinely and seek. peace and respect. many of america's closest friends today were once our great his foes the united states has never believed in permanent enemies we want hawkers not add t

all right let's go to our diplomatic editor now james bays james how big a deal is this then the announcement of a constitutional committee to move syria and along the path towards peace. well the u.n. has been pushing for this for months and months and months this was the work of the previous special envoy demas storer he was pushing for this he never got it gaffe pederson who took over at the beginning of the year a special envoy has been working on it since then the u.n. thought they got this deal last week when we had a meeting in turkey with the leaders of turkey iran and russia but they were still worried about the syrian government and whether it was really supporting this efforts are i spoke to secretary general antonio good terrorists last week and he said we think we've got the deal we're not quite sure and that's why he sent mr pederson to damascus in recent hours he sat down with the deputy prime minister of syria walid moallem and he had what he said was a positive meeting about his lead to the announcement it is an important breakthrough because this is what the u.s. has been co

it's moscow's 13th mito at the security council on action on the syrian conflict out of about a james bays report about the bones are you going to use your features you will see it was clear by the time the russian ambassador arrived at the security council that he was likely to yet again use his veto on a resolution about syria. 3 members of the security council kuwait germany and belgium have been working on a resolution calling for a cease fire need lived for over a month their draft allowed for what they called counterterrorism operations but only if they didn't breach international law is there a chance for last minute negotiations to avoid a russian veto at this stage we do everything possible to reach our goal and that is to protect civilians and have international humanitarian law be observed i'm afraid we will witness another very sad day for syria as your know the situation in syria is worse than ever in the real tragedy in the council chamber as predicted russia backed by china were the only ones to vote against the resolution this the 13th russian veto on the issue of syria it

nations and a destroyer of power destroyer of society rather let's cross to our diplomatic editor james bays who's at the united nations and is listening again see that speech there james what did you make of it. well let me not start with any of the words to begin with let's just start with the tone president trump is always different in a prepared speech from the sort of format he likes which is when he's off the cuff and particularly in a rally he's always more uncomfortable i think if he's prepared speeches but despite that and having said that this was i think much lower key you just had to listen to his words he was slower and a much softer voice than we've heard him many times before when he's addressed gatherings like this this is the 3rd time he's addressed the u.n. general assembly remember the 1st time he threatened to completely destroy north korea well there was nothing like that there was none of that bite in this speech in fact a lot of the speech was about things that potentially could be seen. as aimed at a domestic audience a lot about america a lot of what he's done for th

the make up of a proposed constitutional committee he's also pushed for a nationwide cease fire james bays is our diplomatic editor he is joining us for more on this from the united nations james what more was said. well they're talking very much about this constitutional committee which means diplomacy on syria is going to restart because really it's been dormant for over 18 months now constitutional committee will meet in geneva on october 30th 150 delegates 50 from the government side 50 from the opposition and 50 civil society of course we've seen talks in geneva in the past this time it's different they're trying just to do one piece of the very difficult situation in syria and that's to come up with a new constitution and the idea venture then is to have elections free and fair elections in syria this all comes from a security council resolution $2254.00 that was passed almost 4 years ago the special envoy made it clear that some of the other things in that resolution should also now be acted on for example the detainees all of those that are locked up in a science jails in damascus

well for more on all of this let's speak to our diplomatic and said james bays and he's at the u.n. edginess given the events in the run up to this general us general assembly we had been expecting quite a strong response in that speech from president trump when it comes to iran. yeah we were all watching to see which way the president would go with regard to iran and i think he took a pretty middle course clearly there had been hope a few weeks ago that this was going to be a week of peace and diplomacy and possibly even a meeting between president trump and president rouhani that is looking very unlikely of course things changed about 10 days ago with that drone attack on the saudi arabia's oil facilities which the u.s. and the u.k. germany and france believe iran was responsible for having said that it was still all of broad shoes in his speech when he was talking about iraq he said that many countries in the past who had been photos of the u.s. were now its greatest allies and he said countries should embrace friendship so an olive branch but also tough words on sanctions all na

quarters of the members to be in favor to be successful more on this without diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. in new york as we outline all of that james it sounds like a pretty good process progress i should say. well diplomacy on syria has been stalled for a very long time and this certainly is a development whether it becomes an important development i think will depend on how the meetings go when these 150 people these 150 delegates gather in geneva i'm told the target date is the 30th of october and they will try and come up with a new constitution for syria why is this important well this committee is meeting under the authority of a security council meeting and resolution from 4 years ago $20.00 to $54.00 now interestingly that as well as talking about a new constitution talks about free and fair elections in syria with every syrian including those that have fled the country being allowed to vote so potentially are we getting to a stage where there could be free and fair elections i put that to the u.n. special envoy for syria get pettus. what i can guarantee is that the ve

coast oil plant oil plant attacks on saturday is the team covering the story for us at this hour james bays our diplomatic editor at the un kimberly house our white house correspondent in washington but starting in teheran with. what we had from the saudis today was what they claim to be a lot of evidence and it was presented there was all that debris there were the maps there was the fact that it was all presented in english as well but in the end when pressed they couldn't actually say yes it was iran. and that's what iran will pick up on iran will see this press conference very much as an attempt to gain international support and opposition to iran like you said it was in english questions were taken from english speaking journalists but when pressed they couldn't say that these attacks these missiles and these drones came from iran the current diffidently point that and iran's narrative has been that the hutu rebels are behind this attack as the hutu rebels in yemen have claimed responsibility and that this is embarrassing. for saudi arabia with hundreds of billions of dollars spent on

let's go live now to our diplomatic editor james bays who is at the u.n. we saw briefly at the beginning of the program there federico mongering me james we didn't hear what she was saying she's been speaking within the last hour what did she say following that meeting. you know just speaking actually in the last 10 minutes here the meeting broke up and very brief comments from the e.u. high representative who of course was there when that deal was done in 2015 and is soon about to leave office will be the last time she'll speak here at the u.n. saying how challenging it is to try and hold the nuclear deal together she says that all out remain committed to it and that is interesting because obviously we heard some comments in the last few days from the u.k. prime minister boris johnson in which he said he thought it should be renegotiated those were then rolled back by u.k. government spokesman but the challenges facing not deal with evident even as the meeting was taking place here in the security council in the last hour because at the same time the u.s.

rights campaigners of welcomed it to stop but fear it's eventual conclusion could be suppressed james bays reports. the province of idlib is a sad loss target in syria's long war repeatedly in recent months hospitals and medical facilities have been bombed most suspect the syrian government and their russian allies now the un's announced the team that will head its inquiry to find out the facts but there are questions about whether those facts will be made public . board of inquiries and they routinely happen are. internal documents and not for public release that's what i can tell you at this at this point it's also important to know that board of inquiries are not. judicial bodies they're not criminal investigations they make no legal findings isn't it important the.

he told our diplomatic and to james bays iran's president is trying to fool the international community. when he is coming to the u.n. if we you speak very nicely about cooperation but when you go back to. finding terrorism do we expect that when you know the region there are the one who created all the problems in the 3rd of all moved their proxies thought that the best one was that they were gone and only a few days ago that pack the oil facilities so that's the joke we expect from the u.n. the international community to put more pressure on day when me and to demand from them to stop sponsoring them and not to buy their lives little honey thank you your . palestinian president mahmoud abbas is threatening to terminate all signed agreements with israel if it had legs is a key part of the west bank it comes after israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu announced plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank speaking at the un general assembly the international community to help end what he called israeli aggression in palestine i'm not sure i mean early in. a week befo

from world leaders who are meeting at the un in new york let's go live now to diplomatic editor james bays who's following all of these developments for us so a remarkable achievement i mean the display that we saw yesterday a round the world of people mostly young but also others as well galvanized it would appear by this 16 year old girl who started this campaign by skipping school on a friday. absolutely and she's going to be addressing the u.n. this is the scene in the trusteeship council of the u.n. you saw people power around the world led by young people world long young people are going to be taking over this particular global hall of power in the next hour grettir she's become known not only by one name by many will be speaking at this event along with other youth activists in fact the secretary general of the united nations antonio good terrorists will be there but for once he's billed as the keynote listener he's here to listen to the youth not to speak on this. and get not just jump him said james i think live to riyadh where they can see the saudi arabia minister of state the

any and all counter measures authorized under international law more without diplomatic editor james bays at the united nations in new york can you put this into some context for us i guess the well context of 8 years of war but also political movements more recent political movements. slightly imp good news that they believe here at the u.n. is that they've finally got a constitutional committee that they've been working on for 18 months together and it should meet at the un headquarters the european headquarters in geneva the end of october $150.00 delegates trying to come up for a new constitution for syria why i think this is potentially interesting is because the authorization for that committee comes from a security council resolution from a few years ago 2015 that also calls for a free and fair elections in syria something that hasn't happened for 50 years since half of the current president bashar father seized power in a coup that ever since there's just been sham elections so is it possible now that there could be democracy in syria it's a point that i put to the u.n. special en

teenage campaign aggressor totenberg who inspired friday's demonstrations are diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations headquarters. the day after people around the world led by the youth took to the streets here young people taking over one of the global halls of power this is the u.n. youth summit but the most powerful person was not here to speak u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists was billed as the keynote this snow and these are among the speeches he heard these negotiations and climate change policy started in 1902 even before most of my generation was fine for over 25 years and the emissions have only reson. we appreciate that you there are no other table we had the discussions are being held but our voices and our imports must be allowed to influence this disease yesterday millions of people across the globe. marched and amanda's real climate action especially young people. we showed that we we are united and that we young people are unstoppable the u.n. is hoping to leverage the people power we've seen in recent days led by the youth and gratitude ah

diplomatic editor james bays reports from the u.n. headquarters.the day after people around the world led by the youth took to the streets here young people taking over one of the global halls of power this is the u.n. youth summit but the most powerful person was not here to speak u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist was billed as the keynote this snow and these are among the speeches he heard these negotiations and climate change policy started in 1902 even before most of my generation was fun for over 25 years and the emissions have only. we appreciate that you there are no other table we had the discussions are being held but our voices and our inputs must be allowed to influence this decision yesterday millions of people across the globe. marched and demanded real climate action especially young people. we showed that we we are united and that we young people are unstoppable the u.n. is hoping to leverage the people power we've seen in recent days led by the youth and gratitude ahead of a climate summit of world leaders on monday amon

reiterates that the trump administration's current tactics are not twerking our diplomatic editor james bay is has more from the u.n. they spoke at the same podium in the u.n. general assembly hall they were in the same city for 4 days but all the high hopes of a breakthrough following a flurry of diplomatic activity led by the french president emmanuel merkel came to nothing no progress and no meeting between president trump and president rouhani the dangerous deadlock continues his trump perhaps was preoccupied by the impeachment allegations against him that were being formed while he was in new york developments the iranians were clearly following closely mr president while you've been here in the u.s. how closely are you following political developments here and is iran's best hope now president trump either being impeached or being defeated in next year's election. with regard to what's happening here in america we hear the news of what's happening but it doesn't matter for us because it's an internal matter for america what's very important for us is that the american government resto

are expected to attend as part of the annual united nations general assembly diplomatic editor james bays has more. it's the biggest diplomatic gathering in the world with delegations from all the countries the members of the united nations in 2 and a half years heading the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has made great efforts to resolve the world's most deadly conflicts but with little progress in an interview for al-jazeera is planet s.o.s. he told me he wants the focus of this year's high level week on an issue he says is even more important climate the set of each of these conflicts is to a certain extent localized and climate change became a global set for human kind and the global set for the planet and seeing that evolving in such a way that climate change became an excellent sort of conflict with tension growing between the u.s. saudi arabia and iran the situation in the gulf will be high on the agenda and one of the un's most experienced diplomats told me with so many key players in the same place at the same time there could be important developments and things c

response to this ok james bays life is at the u.n. thanks very much indeed. now the new snow the u.k.'s main opposition labor party has pledged to hold a 2nd referendum on bracks its if it wins an election however the parsi still remains divided on whether it should support staying and the european union for more on this let's go live to barbara who is at that labor party conference in brighton seem we now have is this a firm commitment to a 2nd referendum but what does this change for the labor party. will have to be truthful it doesn't change anything in terms of where it moves the party on from what the leadership has been promising in recent months and weeks and a lot of the conversations you hear from delegates are people who are really quite amazing what's happened because we have seen a motion which was a moderated from various constituency parties from around britain which wanted the party to commit to campaigning for remain in the referendum but they're promising votes motion was defeated but a lot of the people in the conference hall weren't so sure

problems earlier president trying to denounce what he called iran's bloodless our diplomatic editor james bays reports. as he arrived at the general assembly the world was watching the president trumps next to believe on iran the u.s. has been joined by the u.k. france and germany in holding iran responsible for the drone the time.

boys johnson has been putting out mixed signals about the iran nuclear deal is a diplomatic editor james bays. is the u.k. about to break seats from the iran nuclear deal there is great confusion after comments made in interviews by prime minister boris johnson in which he said it was a bad deal that needs renegotiating and that president trump was the man to do so as president trump rightly said there was a bad deal it wasn't a great deal iran was with and the is behaving disruptively in the region and i think this one guy who can do a better deal for years trump was quick to seize on what appeared to be a change in u.k. policy oh i respect boris a lot and i am not at all surprised that he was the 1st one to come out and say that later though this statement is clarification the prime minister supports the j c p o a that's the iran nuclear deal the iranians aren't currently in compliance and we need to bring them back into compliance. it all comes at a time of growing tension the u.k. france and germany have now joined the u.s. in declaring that iran was responsible for the drone attacks on s

the united nations in new york the u.n. 74th general assembly is underway our diplomatic go to james bays is there. the general assembly of the united nations the body representing all the u.n. member states has a new president. of nigeria. this is the start of the 74th session and as is tradition it gets underway at ambassador level one week before the leaders of all the countries arrive to take their seats this is where this part of becomes the setting for diplomacy is most important annual gathering. one that shuts down part of the city and pushes traffic elsewhere to a standstill it is extraordinary in the last couple of days however the mayor of new york's commissioner for international affairs welcomes the annual event which brings in a windfall in restaurant and hotel bookings and the reality is that the un brings about $3690000000.00 to the new york city economy annually and also employ about $16000.00 new yorkers world leaders arrive here in the next week but as ever it's too early at this stage to say which issues will dominate the meeting on monday the u.n. secretary general wi

represents an important breakthrough for the future of the war torn country our diplomatic editor james bays spoke with get medicine. for the 1st time of the 8 and a half years of war and conflict we actually have an agreement between the government and between the opposition as and c. so this sense an important message to the syrian people that change is possible have you vesey all the names with regard to human rights make sure there's no one with blood on their hands and given the tentacles of the assad spice this make sure there's no members of the intelligence community hidden in his communities and let's be. clear i'm on this we want to be have done is to is to work on the assumption that the government is responsible for their 50 that they have nominated the opposition is responsible for the 50 that they have nominated and then we have a middle 3rd that the u.n. them has been working on together with the parties so of course this is a compromise can you guarantee to us after all the time of the assads in power since $970.00 just sharm elections that the end of this whatever constituti

to continue and for the people of it more than $3000000.00 of them there is nowhere to flee to james bays al-jazeera at the united nations. but a new deal between turkey and russia has been waged on a demilitarized zone and in a province its dimensions will be different from one agreed in sochi last year but it will once again depends on the cooperation of the armed groups on the ground they know how to has more from. the revolution hasn't died in syria's north west these people were forced from their homes in the recent russian backed syrian government offensive that took control of the northern countryside of hama province and many towns in it lips else including. at least half a 1000000 syrians have been displaced since the end of april. we the people of hong kong we are not asking assad to allow us to return to our town we will never accept his role our revolution will continue until the downfall of this criminal regime it's been relatively calm since the august 31 cease fire but many people living in fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar assad's forces resume their

out at china iran and venezuela while laying out his strategy of america 1st diplomatic editor james bays reports. as he arrived at the general assembly the world was watching for president trump's next move on iran the u.s. has been joined by the u.k. france and germany in holding iran responsible for the drone attacks on saudi oil facilities but the president who launched a policy of maximum pressure on to ron is still for now talking about possible diplomacy on iran i think we're doing very well let's see what happens with iran but we are a very strong position on iran and i think they'd like to do something and i think would be a smart thing for them if they did and of course when he took to the podium inside the general assembly whole there was plenty of criticism of iranian policy but also another all the branch america is ready to embrace friendship with all who genuinely and seek. peace and respect. many of america's closest friends today were once our great his foes the united states has never believed in permanent enemies we want hard news not adversaries america knows that whil

on saudi's behalf was to launch any sort of military strike in return for what has happened here james bays diplomatic editor in new york thank you. well 5 months ago we had one inconclusive ballots and now in israel's 2nd election there is still no clear winner over 90 percent of the votes have been counted and prime minister benjamin netanyahu from likud is trailing his rival benny gantz of the blue and white party it means israel could now face lengthy coalition negotiations political paralysis and maybe a 3rd vote when things clear though choose this election was essentially a referendum on 10 years of prime minister netanyahu for him this election is crucial winning could be the only way for him to avoid criminal prosecution over corruption charges he stays as prime minister he keeps his immunity right now though netanyahu and benny gantz need the support from israel's smaller parties to form a coalition government and maybe the most important player is this man big door lieberman he leads an ultra nationalist secular party he quit is the defense minister back in april which ultimately

to international dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity or diplomatic answer james bays has more from the u.n. . syria's deputy prime minister walid muallem again representing his country at the u.n. general assembly hit out at 2 nato members for their military presence in syria. and with the what do the united states in turkey maintain an illegal military presence inside northern syria they have been so arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria as if they were planning to establish the zone on american or turkish soil the u.n. believes this is an important moment for syria after 8 and a half years of war at the end of october 150 delegates comprised of 3 groups nominated by the assad government the opposition and representing civil society will meet here at u.n. headquarters in geneva under these terms of reference the committee will come up with a new constitution for syria the authority for the new committee is a u.n. security council resolution from 2015 it also calls for a free and fair

800 schools were closed last year leaving 244000 children with no education our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. in new york. it is a haunting image here in the garden of u.n. headquarters you can see that the u.n. children's agency unicef have laid out backpacks blue u.n. colored backpacks they look like a graveyard they're meant to look like a graveyard because each of these backpacks represents a child who died in a conflict zone in 2018 there off $3758.00 backpacks and these are only the confirmed deaths they believe the real number is many more more than 12000 children were killed and maimed in 2018 frankly. it's a haunting statistic 3758 children died as a result of conflict last year that's the highest number since we've been recording numbers where most of those deaths. they're spread out but afghanistan somalia syria and yemen are the worst places to be chopped children caught up in the conflict situation this art installation by unicef has been deliberately timed in just 2 weeks' time leaders from all around the world will be here at un headquarters for the un ge

poled international law is vital in its own the rights and would help me made the political process james bays has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york so a moment off some opportunity on syria but it is worth remembering what is going on in the north of syria province which is where many people have fled to as the syrian government and their russian allies have picked off the various what we call deescalation zones it live is the last one the population there swelled to over 3000000 people they now have nowhere to run to and they're being bombarded by the assad government and by their russian allies and so i think there is a fear that although there's all this talk about diplomacy the syrian government may still be banking on a military solution a border harassing between syria and iraq has reopened for travelers and trades had been closed since 2012 to all traffic except government and military vehicles the trade route has been seized and controlled by various armed groups over the past 7 years including syrian rebels and i saw. fighters have carried out 2 attacks against foreign forc

top of his agenda and trying to get terrorists sat down with al jazeera as diplomatic had said james bays ahead of the u.n. climate summit you have convened a climate summit you said to those world leaders don't come with a speech come with a plan what do you want to hear now it's very simple we are losing the race climate change is running faster than what we are seeing is are getting worse by the day the rising waters. in the oceans the increase of temperatures the multiplication of nuts all these ourselves the dramatic impacts of the routes in different parts of the world all these is creating a situation that is a real sets to human kind and we are not doing enough or is a criticism of you and it was made of your predecessor as well which is that you are not prepared to stand up to the 5 permanent members of the security council on this issue which you say is so crucial are you prepared to confront them even if it costs you a 2nd term as secretary and i don't care about a 2nd term with the united states or china with russia or wherever i've been telling all of them that they need to d

start one of the toughest roles in diplomacy one that for others has become a 7 day a week job james bays al-jazeera at the united nations a court in the hague has acquitted a dutch doctor of all charges after she euthanized a patient will dementia a 74 year old woman died 3 years ago we had to administer the fatal dose of drugs the doctor said she was following the patients will and had consulted other doctors and the woman's family but she was accused of setting to verify consent euthanasia is legal under dutch law if the patient is suffering immensely and wishes for doubt . prominent hong kong protest has avoided a prison sentence for his role in a demonstration 3 years ago ivan lamb the chairman of the activist group demo system pleaded guilty to inciting illegal assemblies of a clashes outside the china liaison office in 2016 and was given a 2 week suspended sentence lam had previously served 13 months in prison for storming the legislative council and 2014. for the crackdown on protesters in hong kong has been condemned internationally the german chancellor angela merkel has told ch

un supported facilities in syria it is the last territory still in rebel hands diplomatic editor james bays has. the province of idlib is clearly the last target of the assad regime in the long war in syria in recent months regularly we've seen instances of medical facilities in hospitals being hit we assume that they were hit by the syrian air force and by russian aircraft the u.n. said in august that it planned to set up a board of inquiry the secretary general of the u.n. has now done that but in a press briefing his spokesman refused to pledge that they will release the full findings board of inquiries and they routinely happen our. internal documents and not for public release that's what i can tell you at this at this point it's also important to know that board of inquiries are not. judicial bodies they're not criminal investigations they make no legal findings all isn't it important the full facts given these are life and death situations are made public completely agree with you that these are life and death situation this is what i can tell you at this point negotiations at the u.

warming in the melting of the greenland and the west antarctica ice sheets is our diplomatic editor james bays. it's the biggest diplomatic gathering in the world with delegations from all the countries that are members of the united nations in 2 and a half years heading the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has made great efforts to resolve the world's most deadly conflicts but with little progress in an interview for al-jazeera is planet s.o.s. he told me he wants the focus of this year's high level week on an issue he says is even more important climate the sets of each of these conflicts is to a certain extent localized and climate change became a global so that for humankind and the global set for the planet and scenes that evolving in such a way that climate change became an excellent it's out of conflict with tension growing between the u.s. saudi arabia and iran the situation in the gulf will be high on the agenda and one of the un's most experienced diplomats told me with so many key players in the same place at the same time there could be important developments and thin

rights campaign is a welcomed its establishment but it's eventual conclusion can be suppressed james bays reports. the province of idlib is assad's last night in syria's long war repeatedly in recent months hospitals and medical facilities have been bombed most suspect the syrian government and their russian allies now the un's announced the team that will head its inquiry to find out the facts but there are questions about whether those facts will be made public. board of inquiries and they routinely happen or. internal documents and not for public release that's what i can tell you at this at this point it's also important to know that board of inquiries are not. judicial bodies they're not criminal investigations they make no legal findings isn't it important the full facts given these are life and death situations are made public completely agree with you that these are life in this situation this is what i can tell you at this point the u.k. organized a meeting at the un to discuss the situation in a live they were briefed by the former british foreign secretary david miliband who no

reiterates said that the trumpet ministrations current tactics are not working and diplomatic etta james bay is has more from the u.n. they spoke at the same podium in the u.n. general assembly hall they were in the same city for 4 days but all the high hopes of a breakthrough following a flurry of diplomatic activity led by the french president emmanuel mccall came to nothing no progress and no meeting between president trump and president rouhani the dangerous deadlock continues as trump perhaps was preoccupied by the impeachment allegations against him that was being formed while he was in new york developments the iranians were clearly following closely mr president while you've been here in the u.s. how closely are you following political developments here and is. now president trump either being impeached or being defeated in next year's election. with regard to what's happening here in america we hear the news of what's happening but it doesn't matter for us because it's an internal matter for america what's very important for us is that the american government re stores the damage tr

our diplomatic and its james bays is there james some of the missing now to discuss how to save this this deal one of the prospects. well that is what is taking place right now i'm gather with reporters outside the u.n. security council and inside the security council you're right that meeting is taking place just down the corridor all that the remaining signatories to the iran nuclear deal the u.s. pulled out but of course the other signatories are trying to keep the deal alive you have a china russia germany france and the u.k. meeting with iran some comments by the u.k. prime minister this week boris johnson suggesting he wanted a renegotiation i clarify that a short time ago with the iranian foreign minister and he certainly thinks the u.k. is back sticking with the deal and that certainly is the official u.k. position clearly what's not in the nuclear deal in many ways is the most important stuff and it's quite possible that touch on some of that and particularly that drone strike on saudi arabia which certainly the europeans and the u.s. believe iran bears responsibility for th

is that of a massacre that's james bays and james. what's barra's johnson said joan i can dissent he's due to be meeting the irish prime minister to talk about life after brett said any ideas whether he's going to stick to his shadow and indeed what about the speech to the general assembly. yeah we're watching very closely to see when we see the u.k. prime minister clearly extraordinary political developments playing out in the u.k. a prime minister who says he respects the opinion of the supreme court and then goes on and basically says that he doesn't just agree with tolls so doesn't really respect it all playing out at a time when he's not in the u.k. he's here at the most important gathering of world leaders the high level week of the un general assembly he has a number of different meetings arranged he's jew to see president trump in a couple of hours and that that meeting unlike the 2 weeks to escape the press because both the u.k. journalists who are in the so-called pool and the white house pool of journalists will be there an

said the trumpet ministrations much pressure tactics are not working all diplomatic had to said james bay supports from the u.n. . they spoke at the same podium in the un general assembly hall they were in the same city for 4 days but all high hopes of a breakthrough following a flurry of diplomatic activity led by the french president emmanuel merkel came to nothing no progress and no meeting between president trump and president rouhani the dangerous deadlock continues as trump perhaps was preoccupied by the impeachment allegations against him that will being formed while he was in new york developments the iranians were clearly following closely mr president while you've been here in the u.s. how closely are you following political developments here and is iran's best hope now president trump either being in each or being defeated in next year's election . with regard to what's happening here in america we hear the news of what's happening but it doesn't matter for us because it's an internal matter for america what's very important for us is that the american government restores the d