i'll be under viewing karen pierce, a member of the u.n. security council. arthel: hello, i'm arthel neville. dramatic before and after pictures showing the devastation suffered sat one of the three -- at one of the three sites hit during the strike. nikki haley appearing on "fox news sunday" this morning saying the strike was necessary to send a clear message to syria that the use of chemical weapons will never be tolerated. >> al-assad knew russia had its back and would cover for them at the united nations. we have to be clear that we can't allow the use of chemical weapons. that's why you saw him strike this weekend and that's why he expelled 60 russian spies after the attack in salisbury. this could happen in the united states if we are not smart. arthel: we'll hear from a member of the house armed services committee soon. we start with kevin corke at the white house. what is the white house assessment of the strike, and might there be more strikes in the days ahead? reporter: the battle damage assessment is ongoing. they will keep an eye on how that goe

security council called quest of russia we already heard the russian representative speak karen pierce the u.k. representative speaking at the moment it's streaming online r.t. dot com nikki haley the u.s. representative will be speaking this hour to we'll be across that story a lot to come out of it and some other news we're covering as well and they vote in paris turn to gang life and hearty gets a glimpse of what life is like for residents terrorized by migrant teenagers. plus coming up to a campaign for israeli women to keep their seats on airplanes instead of switching with ultra-orthodox jewish ones to block by authorities cause a lot of controversy where cross it is well. again so many story dominating something right now the u.n. security council local russia meeting underway in new york let's cross over the u.k. representative for just. not quite sure his community indeed i just heard it will be nikki haley from the u.s. interesting as it were as the chinese got to say yesterday this council met on the tragic anniversary of the sarin attack and conscience on syria and master h

karen pierce there, the british representative to the un.om syria itself here's our middle east editorjeremy bowen. most of the casualties in syria's war were attacked with bullets and high explosives. but chemical weapons have a special horror. this is the aftermath of what witnesses said was a chemical attack, as douma, a town just outside damascus, fell to the regime. we are not showing you pictures we have of dozens of dead bodies with foam on their mouths, which can be a sign of a chemical attack. what happened looks likely to extract a response from western countries. a big price to be paid by syria's president assad and his russian and iranian backers, according to president trump. we will be making some major decisions over the next 24 to 48 hours. if it's russia, if it syria, if it's iran, if it's all of them together, we will figure it out and we will know the answer is quite soon. in moscow, sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, said there was no evidence that the russian accusations. translation: our military on the ground

envoys was not entirely hostile as you can see by selena benz and karen pierce found time for a friendly chat during a break in the session but they did not cross literary says but they did cross literary stored in an exchange quoting lewis carroll's classic alice in wonderland this paper has just been picked up what's in it so the. i haven't gotten it yet so the word that i would but it seems to be a letter written by the prison the dude to somebody the prison scandal writing us in other of the judum nor their knots of the word the baby please your majesty said the maid i didn't write it and they come provided there is no name signed the damned if you didn't sign it said the king that only makes the most the words you must have meant some means to let the jury consider devoted to the king so what about the twenty stone that they know more so the sentence first verdict afterwards woman does that remind you of anything as a. very good quote from alice in wonderland that is sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast so i think that's the quote suits my russia

future use of chemical weapons and threaten to act again if needed and then finally we heard from karen pierce who is the british and voice at the u.n. saying that the actions were limited targeted and effective three words that have been doing the rounds in the past forty eight hours or so since those strikes took place which we've heard from the u.s. france and the u.k. the u.k. prime minister used them in praising the joint military action she called those strikes and i say limited targeted and effective and has been outlining why britain believes that the assad government used chemical weapons. we've heard from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference here in london at downing street and confirming that for jets. they launched a series of air strikes how successful those airstrikes have been remain to be seen we're seeing reports from the russian foreign ministry that the vast majority of those all of those as stripes was shot down to reason may not speaking to the success of them but very clear to make it to make the point that this is not an attempt at regime cha

dot com karen pierce the u.k. representative there to the security council of that extraordinary meeting that's being called by russia in view of the ongoing scruple investigation. with more covering more of this because the u.s. is going to speak so in just a minutes time. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis acting rationally based on mutual misconceptions with tensions heightened over the scruple case other sites guided by misconceptions were deliberate misrepresentation. they've been waiting. for a long time because it talked about the dollar back that is the world reserve currency countries are tired of funding in america's wars because ever there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that line to wage wars all over the world. sell to international just to love mccloy here in the evening you're seeing there on your screen and i'm going extraordinary meeting of the u.n. s

and voice was not entirely hostile as you can see vassily no bends and karen pierce found time for a friendly chat during a break in a session but they did cross literary thought to the next change quoting lewis carroll's classic alice in wonderland this paper has just been picked up. so that. i haven't done so the word for my bits but it seems to be a matter. of the reason the due to somebody in the prisons company being us another of the judyth. nor there not so the word that i would lose your marriage is to serve the me if i didn't but i did and you can prove i did there is no name signed to do. if you didn't sign it says the king the only makes the most the words you must. let the jury consider devoted to the king so what about the twenty stone that the normal. sampson's first verdict afterwards. does that remind you of anything as a. very good quote from alice in wonderland that is sometimes i believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast so i think that's the quake's seats my question clearly best we spoke to a political analyst dang glazebrook he believes the u.k.'

the idea was also referred to by the british ambassador here at the united nations in new york karen pierce and she used a very british literary reference referring to the villain in the sherlock holmes books james i really don't see any kind of conclusion and we get a clue i suppose as to whether some countries are lining up between you can russia and russia has posted so far that they think they have the support of china do we have any sense of who is in whose side. i think that you are likely to see divisions around the security council table that are of a pretty well known we've already seen most of the e.u. and western countries strongly backing the u.k. in this and we've seen them as a result the tit for tat expulsions of diplomats from western countries and from russia watch closely i think the friends of russia on the security council those that do normally side with russia and yes china is often in that camp and the other country that often is on the side of russia is bolivia in the security council those are the three that i think will take russia's side i don't think though that

briefing from the high representative and then there will be a briefing from the british ambassador karen pierce who actually called the session of the security council she said that she said she would report to the security council on developments out of this affair and this is what should be doing in the course of the afternoon what we're hearing from the high representative at the at the moment is the contents of the o.p.c. w. report to discussing its contents further making very clear that the agent that was used to kill the russian was in fact a highly sophisticated nerve agent known as a two three four by its other popular name not be chopped part of the not be chalk group of nerve agents so we are hearing here confirmation and that details that have been heard in the past that the actual nerve agent used was extremely sophisticated and probably not likely to have been manufactured by anything other than a state of our accrete mike hanna thank you very much indeed. so to come on on jazeera . torture rape and executions human rights activists raise an alarm over the appalling conditions fac

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headquarters, ambassador pierce, she joined me and she basically said this is the new british ambassador karen pierce saying that, let's list listen. >> we find that many people, that the country that help build the chemical weapons convention and the global nonproliferation that russia can now be one of those rogue countries. >> do you feel russia is a rogue country. >> i think it has those tendencies. >> to put them in that classification? >> i think she's got it about right. i got that interview myself and i'm glad she's there. she will be a good partner to nikki haley. the two of them understand what they're dealing with. russia is committing war crimes on a regular basis as they bomb hospitals and prop up the number one where. [inaudible] >> will the world ever get justice. >> i think we should bring all three countries, iran, russia and syria to the international court. they are enabling them to conduct systematic warfare and they all are a pariah on the world stage and they should be called out for. >> general jack king calling them out on the fox news channel. thank you for your analysis. >>

you've been listening to karen pierce who is the british ambassador to the united nations responding release the half an hour over half an hour. so the summation really of the situation according to the russians from vassily immensely who is obviously the russian ambassador sequence of nations very different sums really let's go straight to james space he's been listening in for us at the u.n. james really not a really compelling evidence by either very much staking their positions. taking very strong positions and certainly ambassador menzies i think quite enjoying in his long speech picking holes or holes that he thinks are there in the british case and attacking british political figures referring to the foreign secretary boris johnson in the prime of the trees of may as experts in chemistry which clearly they are not and a reference even to the former british prime minister tony blair as he attacked britain's record on weapons of mass destruction the british case is very much the one we've heard throughout this investigation since the incident on the fourth of march that this is

yesterday i interviewed british ambassador karen pierce.d russia saying they were acting like a rogue country i. >> we find this astounding as do many people that a country that helped build the chemical weapons convention and the global nonproliferation regime that russia can now be one of those rogue countries that is looking to undo it. >> do you feel that russia is a rogue country? it. >> has those tendencies. >> ambassador pearce said the u.n. was founded on noble principles, principles that will being obstructed by moscow. shep, back to you. >> shepard: eric shawn, thanks very much. let's go to james jeffery now, former ambassador to iraq and turkey, now a fellow at the washington institute where he focuses on u.s., diplomatic and military strategy in the middle east. great to be here. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: do we have a way to know yet what we just did serves our objective? >> it probably did. first of all as reported from the pentagon just now, this was a very effective strike in terms of military capabilities in the f

the british ambassador karen pierce defended the strike as a limited targeted and effective one. the french ambassador and the u.s. ambassador haley also used language to get right to their point, that they believe the strike was justified, legitimate and proportionate. >> i spoke to the president this morning, and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous again, the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line, our president enforces the red line. >> and after today's meeting, there's talk about the next step, and the french ambassador indicated that he will be working with his allies to conduct -- to get a new resolution really together on the table to work on syria's issues, including getting more chemical inspections going, and on a side note, kelly, it just so happens that the entire security council including russia will be going to sweden on friday. and they will be going for a working retreat. so this could certainly be coming up during that retreat. we will have to wait and see how that -- kelly: no doubt we will be watching those develo

karen pierce, qaddafi with us. >> i had the great pleasure of meeting her and washington with presidentdomestic neighbors of the british embassy. we are very good friends to them. we really enjoyed meeting them. she was a wonderful lady. i think that affection was shared in britain and by the british people. if i may say so on behalf of the british government, and the british people, we send our condolences to our american friends and to barbara bush's family at this time. >> martha: you think about the relationship of the united states and the united kingdom, the closest of allies and if this is a family that has produced two american presidents that have had close relationships with the united kingdom. we saw and some of the images a moment ago, barbara bush with princess diana, obviously many, many visits both business and diplomatic and otherwise to your country. >> that's right, we've always been pleased to see them, president bush and mrs. bush got on very well with successive british leaders. i remember that sense of humor particularly. they once came to a play performed at the b

karen pierce, the british ambassador to the un, explain the involvement of britain in the military strikesst the syrian regime. acting with our american and french allies, in the early hours of this morning, the united kingdom conducted coordinated, targeted and precise strikes to degrade assad's chemical weapons and deter the future use. the british royal air force with storm shadow missiles launched them at a military facility some 15 miles west of, were it was assessed they were chemical weapons keptin assessed they were chemical weapons kept in breach of serious obligations under the chemical weapons convention. a full assessment has not yet been completed, but we believe the strikes to have been successful. furthermore, none of the british, us 01’ furthermore, none of the british, us or french aircraft missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by syrian air defences, and the results also no indication that russian air defence systems were employed. nick bryant is at the un in new york for us now. next, it feels as this, i mean, diplomacy was deadlocked before the e

that is karen pierce the ambassador to united nations is pressing the ducay‘s concern is that we have security far that the use of chemical weapons is becoming the new normal and what she has been calling for most emphatically is for a fact—finding mission and a nonpolitical, and independent investigation into what happened in the douma the alleged chemical attack. it's believed that up to 60 people have died in that with a thousand people injured. we also heard from russia who said they have investigated with their people going in and finding no evidence of any chlorine or a single residence that could confirm such an attack had happened. also russia extending an offer to the investigators the opc w to go into douma as early as tuesday to go into douma as early as tuesday to carry out an investigation and offering protection and an escort by russian troops for that investigation. 0r where the alleged chemical attack has taken place. let's go into what we have been hearing so far from the emergency meeting of the security council. right at the beginning, we heard an envoy warning that

because few have been shouldering the burden as heavily as karen pierce in the united nations although others in our diplomatic knot network has done so. will she 'degree we me that we are hooer to represent our people and not to wait for a veto in the order that moscow says no? >> well, i absolutely agree withmy honorable friend. it must be this -- the uk government that's turns into uk foreign policy and we must not hand over our foreign policy to a russian veto. it is absolutely essential that we determine our foreign policy and that the foreign office of course is the key part of delivering that. >> mr. speaker, there are many who support the principle of humanitarian protection, what it achieved in kosovo and sierra leone and what its absence cost in rwanda and syria. and of course we must uphold the international probition hibitio such military weapons. but as someone who supported it in 2015, you may i say gently to the prime minister that she should have come first to the house. >> yeah. >> before committing our forces to action. and there fore, may i ask her to give us an assu

s ambassador to the united nations karen pierce has been speaking and she spoke about lots. of ideas from russia that it should have a joint investigation with the u.k. that was actually voted down in the p.c. w. and she referred to it with a very british literally literary reference referring to the villain of sherlock holmes allowing russian scientists into an investigation when they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime insoles be would be like scotland yard in fighting game professor mariotti so i don't think that's a tenable way forward instead i fear that the russian motive in calling for a security council meeting today is another step in the pattern of obfuscation and contempt for international institutions that we have sadly seen all too much of that from the russian federation recently. i'm sure that's not how the russian ambassador will see things the security council meeting takes place in new york in one hour's time all fifteen ambassadors on the security council will speak but because they called a meeting i think you can hear russia speak very early on

do you think that in a way is a shame because it gave some ammunition to the russians to attack karen pierce the . the u.n. and with. you know the the russians are very adept at using small little pieces of information to try to draw fissures in and among the unity of the transatlantic space they also of course are going to use any potential slip ups of foreign officials some which like mr johnson have had issues with public remarks in the past to shed light on questioning this investigation but again the u.k. presented pretty significant evidence to a range of international allies and partners which of course had to back its position the united states france and germany in particular obviously saw intelligence that was strong enough to push out a significant number of russian diplomats and of course the u.k. is ready to investigate its position and defend it because they've sent the evidence to the appropriate commission to review it so you know despite these slip ups the u.k. is ready for this but they have to be steely in their resolve because the russians are going to continue to push on

the british ambassador also karen pierce defended the strike as a limited target and effective one. the french ambassador and the u.s. ambassador also using language to get right to the point, that they believe the strike was justified, legitimate and proportionate. >> the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line, our president enforces the red line. >> translator: the result of this vote sends a clear message on the understanding by members of the security council of the circumstances, the motivations and the aims of our actions yesterday. -- yesterday. >> after today's meeting the french ambassador indicated that they will be working on a new resolution that will work to address all the issues going on in syria, including chemical inspections in that region. back to you. >> all right, laura, it is important to note that russia has vetoed 12 resolutions dealing with syria, 6 dealing with chemical weapons, and they certainly were pointed as the culprit. thank you. arthel? arthel: eric, meanwhile president trump praising the military operation tweeting

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karen travers has more on the life and legacy of barbara bush. >> reporter: born barbara pierce in 1925 rye, new york. the daughter of the publisher of mccall's and red book magazines. at a christmas dance at just 16 years old, she met 17-year-old george herbert walker bush. two years later they became engaged before the young pilot left to fight in the world war. the couple had six children but lost their 3-year-old daughter to leukemia. >> it doesn't get easier to talk about. but it makes everybody more valuable. >> reporter: the family made their home in midland, texas where george bush went to work in the oil business. they moved more than two dozen times as he transitioned out of the private sector and into politics. he went on to win the white house in 1988. mrs. bush held the bible as her husband was sworn in as the 41st president. as first lady, she promoted reading, chairing the barbara bush foundation. the bushes are retired and spent most of their time in kennebunkport, maine. >> she told family and friends recently that she was looking forward to reuniting with her 3-year-ol