kristin saloomey has the story. kristin. >> this is the first time the human rights situation of north korea has been on the agenda of security council. security council has talked about north korea before, but only on 9 on nuclear proliferat. looked at human rights in north korea and found systematic abuses that starts from the highest levels of government and affect the population there, we're talking about things like last starvation, forced abortions, rapes, persecution of people on religious and political grounds, arbitrary arrests, lack of due process, torture, lack of free media, the list goes on and on and on. and as you are saying this comes at a particularly tense moment for relations between north korea and the united states as a result of the hacking scafnld involvinhacking scandal ofsony h korea of hacking into this company's e-mail system. >> kristin what do we expect to come out of the meeting in fact? >> we don't expect a formal action on the part of the security council. we know china has objected to

kristin saloomey reports now from united nations are headquarters in new york. >> reporter: just eight votes not enough for the palestinian state's resolution to pass. australia and the united states as expected voted against. >> regrettably, instead of git giflggiving voice this resolution addresses the concerns of only one side. it is deeply imbalanced. including unconstructive deadlines that take no account of israel's legitimate security concerns. >> reporter: five countries abstained including the united kingdom, expressing support for much of the resolution's content. france and other supporters said it was time for the council to do more. >> after more than 25 yoars of negotiations theyears ofnegotiations the united nations must bear its historical responsibility. >> the ambassador said the security council was failing his people. >> concerning the precarious situation that now prevaims, to address their -- prevails to address that are situation the council must now act. >> the vote went ahead at the time palestinians insistence. >> they never really expected the resolution to p

kristin saloomey joins us live from the united nations. kristin, let's start with the new threats from north korea. what can you tell us? >> well, pyongyang is threatening strikes against the white house, the pentagon and the u.s. mainland which it calls a, quote, cesspool of terrorism. in response for president obama quote recklessly spreading rumors of north korea's orchestrated attack against sony pictures. of course referring to the hack of sony which led to the cancelling of the satirical comedy "the interview" which featured a plot to assassinate north korea's leader kim jong-un. the u.s. promised a retaliation for that action but not comment whether the united states is behind the internet outages plaguing the democratic people's republic of korea. >> as far as the topic of human rights is concerned what is the significance of the u.n. meeting that is happening today? >> well, north korea has long been on the security council's radar for its nuclear program ant its discussion of nonpliftion in thnonproliferati. but this is the first

kristin saloomey joins us live from the u.n. what can you tell us. >> well the problems apparently started over the weekend, but now the internet in north korea is reportedly completely down. of course, there is a very small internet presence in that country confined mostly to the elites but it is not working at all. and this of course just days after president obama threatened to retaliate against north korea for that hack on sony pictures entertainment, which he blamed on north korea of course. but he never said exactly how the united states would recontaminate 88th, only that it would be -- re-- retaliate, only that it would be proportional the uniteproportio. the main lan which they called a cesspool of terrorism, because the united states had accused them of doing this hack. so back and forth but the state department as you mentioned will not confirm whether or not the united states is behind that outage. have a listen. >> as the president said we are considering a range of options in response. we aren't going to discuss pu

kristin saloomey, al jazeera, new york. >>> nearly 100 ra rangoons, fled the country trying to find a better life. approximately a thousand, around 200,000 refugees in bangladesh and from there, towards india and nepal, almost 100,000 rahinga are said to live in refusing camps on the border. places like indonesia and australia. florence louie reports. >> tatong village bustles, sustains many families around here. it is one of the few industries in which the rahinga, an ethnic minority the myanmar government does not recognize can still find jobs. around 40,000 were displaced after the war broke out in 2012. the rahinga are confined without freedom of movement. for sheik asmat the only way to provide for his countr family io leave the country. >> i don't want to stay here anymore. i can't feed my children. my children are always asking for food. i know the journey is risky but i leave it to a allah. >> he has bought an illegal passage out of myanmar, will plan to travel from malaysia or thailand. >>> this fishing boat which normally holds about ten fishermen and crew will have 50 or 60

. >> kristin saloomey report for us from new york. >>> al jazeera continues to demand our journalists who have been impru imprisoned for 359 d, peter greste, are mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed are all appealing against their convictions. much more to come on this news hour. find out why senegal is building a new airport terminal to help fight west africa's ebola outbreak and airbus delivers its first a-350 passengers plane. the opec is right to continue its current oil output. they are confident the prices will recover soon. erica wood reports from a conference of oil exporters in abu dhabi. >> all over the middle east and north africa gatherat a time when oil prices took a dive, hitting their national budgets hazard. saudi arabia and united arab emirates, reducing opec's output wouldn't help. >> it is a lot of surplus in the market. and so therefore, the supply is much, much greater than the demand. so i think the approach by opec is a very wise one. >> exporters from opec represent only 40% of the world's oil production. saudi arabia and united arab emirates ministers, say they lac

our kristin saloomey has more. >> bush era former officials are facing tough questions as more details come to light from that 500 plus page report detailing cia interrogation techniques in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. cheney defended these attacks which included water boarding, hanging them from their coffin size boxes and rectal hydration. these techniques stopped short of torture according to cheney as was defined by the justice department. the report does detail steps taken by the cia to make sure their agents did not cross the line as was laid out by the justice department. vice president cheney not only said he thought they were legally justified but morally justified as well. >> 19 rlg passengers with box cutters did on 9/11. >> a former prisoner of war himself, john mccain, takes a completely different view. >> this flies in the face of what americans stand for. you can't say that tying a person to the floor and having them freeze to death is not torture. >> there seems to be little appetite to prosecute anyone in connection with the cia tactics. on the international level how