let's cross overnight to kristen salumi she's live at the u.n. chris in that meeting as started now i want kind of thing are you going to be listening out for. the meeting has just gotten underway this is the 3rd meeting that the security council has held in just the last 6 days but it is the 1st one to be open and on the record with many countries signed up to speak and express their concerns about the ongoing violence in the region secretary general antonio terraces now speaking perhaps we want to go to have to. jump in there chris and this is until you get terrorists as speaking about security council meeting. your theory is that that part of the policy going forward that it was in gaza and shop and also lost about the places we needed that it sets. off it was already over to threaten what it might be very i mean i don't even know if you will feel a rock of love. i am above all i mean secular refugee can be nothing which there are members of whatever you want you you made it very salacious but people. journalists must be like what are you feel

paramount responsibility for more on the diplomatic reaction to all of this let's go live to kristen salumi she's at the united nations so kristin we seem to have people making the right noises but sort of momentum isn't building very much. well the united nations has remained uncomfortably quiet on the subject i should say the u.n. security council the secretary general and other u.n. officials have been speaking out daily about the situation calling for calm expressing their concern about rising violence and the underlying causes behind it but the security council has been able to unable to speak with one voice 14 council members did want to make a statement about the situation on the ground one council member opposes that was the united states they blocked even an informal statement the weakest form of the statement that the security council could make. saying that they instead wanted to focus on diplomatic efforts that were happening at the highest levels they were calling doing their own diplomacy they said behind the scenes to work towards easing tensions there of course in the meantime the

nations security council meets in under an hour to dress the conflicts that's close overnight in kristen salumi she joins us from the u.n. chris scenario where should maybe the kick out for this meeting at the u.n. . well this will be the 3rd meeting in 6 days of the u.n. security council the 1st 2 took place behind closed doors and while individual nations have been making statements via twitter or their foreign offices this will be the 1st chance for them to do so in an international setting on the record formally at the united nations until now the security council has been taking publicly anyway this way in sea approach at the insistence of the united states who has been. holding back more vocal action on the part of the council but i can tell you that behind the scenes intense diplomacy has been going on for the past week 14 council members as of friday wanted to make a public statement in the u. knighted states encourage them to hold off and put its foot down i should say. saying that diplomacy at higher levels needed time to work out so with the pressure mounting and the violence escalating

well, let's now speak try corresponding, kristen salumi. she's out the un for us. kristen. the pressure clearly mounting here on the international community. what's your sense of what might actually emerge from this meeting today? well, i think we can expect more of what we've seen in terms of countries calling for an immediate cease fire. the secretary general of the united nations, antonio good terrace, calling for an end to the hostilities. immediately a stop to the fighting. we can expect him to highlight the increasingly dire humanitarian situation that is unfolding in gaza. in particular, we expect about a dozen foreign ministers to be present in the iconic general assembly hall to deliver this message. the hope is that by appearing in the general assembly together that they will amplify this message, which so far has fallen on deaf ears. we know that the united states, as you mentioned, has been opposed to more formal action in the security council to issue a statement with one voice from the international community. they've argued that they don't want to undermine d

she wishes others had spoken up sooner kristen salumi al jazeera buchanan new york. a group of 6 american oil executives who were jailed in venezuela years ago on corruption charges have been moved to house arrest is considered a notes from materials governments to u.s. president joe biden the us administration is looking into its relationship with the socialist country including whether to ease sanctions the oil executives were detained in 2017 after being lured into a meeting in caracas. there's been violence across colombia for a 3rd day is people rallying against a controversial tax reform bill the worst of the fighting is happening in the city of cali where bosses buildings and even police officers have been set on fire several people have died and more than $100.00 we've been injured protests to say the bill which will move the threshold for those who have to pay taxes is an attack on the middle class. the iraq museum is hones of precious collection of ancient manuscripts dating back to the 20th century museum officially reopens in 201512 years after it was clo

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she wishes others had spoken up sooner kristen salumi al jazeera buchanan new york. the iraq museum is home to a precious collection of ancient manuscripts some dating back to the 12th century the museum officially reopened in 201512 years after it was closed in the aftermath of the u.s. led invasion but it still lacks funding to protect the treasures and its care a small a faulty reports from back that the delicate process of restoring ancient manuscripts these technicians at the iraq national museum reconnect the loose pages of books that date back hundreds of years but the head of the department says his team lacks the tools needed for more advanced maintenance and the millennia cooler than of the one with a gun and the other we hope to get a lab that can support complicated and difficult procedures in some instances we postpone maintenance because we don't have specialized experience materials or quit meant to do our work there are more than 60000 manuscripts stored in iraq's national museum spanning literary religious and scientific texts making this one of the

kristen salumi our correspondent following that so kristen just listening to 1st off the u.s. ambassador to the united nations it was clearly the ambassador talking sounded a lot like mr biden however. indeed although she took great pains to point out the suffering that's happening on both sides of this conflict this is the 3rd meeting that the security council has had in just 6 days is the 1st open meeting and the 1st chance for all countries to put their views on the table formally in this international setting. so far the united states have been resistant to that this is the 1st time that the council was able to come together because of u.s. resistance and we heard linda thomas greenfield who also is a member of biden's cabinet mentioned echoing some of his talking points she talked about the human toll of this conflict and the. i think sought to bolster the reputation of the united states here which has been taking some heads as being the ones who have been blocking international action pointing out that the u.s. has been very engaged with regional partners she pointed out that mr biden spoke to both the israeli and palestinian leaders in the last 24 hours as well as leaders from other countries in

kristen salumi our u.n. correspondent just before you and i started discussing these issues now but she was telling us yes there is the specter of tightening sanctions for example that's way way way off in the distance at the u.n. for the delegates who are now in real time to still ongoing i'm seeing it on a screen here on our set that is still ongoing there is talk of that there but nobody realistically is saying we are going to be the people that. 5 the momentum there is not a dynamic to move to that kind of economic clutch or grabbing of israel that you say you seem to be saying a is happening b. should be happening and see should happen very very very quickly. i'm not saying it's happening at the state level i never claimed that i'm just saying palestinians are not holding our breath waiting for the security council to wake up and become more wrote and impose international law on israel israel is sitting on a pedestal as a south african archbishop desmond tutu and said above international law protected by europe and the united states we're not waiting for this we're not so naive to expect the security counc

she is warning of a security and humanitarian crisis and says the conflict could foster extremism across the region the u.n. security council will hold a meeting on sunday to discuss the issue kristen salumi has more from the u.n. . the u.n. security council is on the sidelines of this latest middle east conflict as a result of american intervention diplomats confirmed that the united states blocked calls for an open meeting on friday during which countries could publicly express their views it was also the americans who stopped any form of a statement unified statement from being issued on behalf of the council something that all other members were pushing for a spokesperson for u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield tells al-jazeera that the united states wanted to give space for diplomatic efforts underway at the highest levels to to work they were looking to deescalate tensions and move towards a cease fire while of course the situation on the ground has only gotten more violent since then and diplomats as well as u.n. officials here have expressed their extreme frustration we would like to see member states. put to action the ideals that we all have to live up to within this within

we can cross now to kristen salumi who is at the united nations interesting that we are hearing this. about the meeting coming up on thursday especially after we don't see much as she would by the u.n. security council on sunday. how significant is it that they've called this meeting . well i think it is a sign that the security council is probably not going to be able to come together and issue of joint statement although the efforts to do so are ongoing they have been for the last week and we know that china and norway in tunisia have submitted another draft statement press statement to other council members for their approval and we've obtained a copy of the statement stop short of calling for an immediate cease fire which seems to be a red line for the u.s. government as we just heard from camberley but it does call for a deescalation of the situation a cessation of violence and respect for international humanitarian law including protection of civilians especially children something similar language to what we heard coming from the secretary of state just a short time ago it goes further though it does call for protection of civilian and humanitarian facilitie