linda thomas-greenfield, thanks for joining us.we jump into the meat and potatoes of the conversation, i want to address an elephant in the room, black people talking about foreign policy and sadly you don't see that all that often. how hopeful are you about diversity in foreign service and what steps need to be taken for people in different backgrounds to be involved? >> that has been a priority through me throughout my career. i served, one of the positions i served in as director of personnel, director general of foreign service and the state department and what we should do is what you did, it is getting out to communities, talking, talking to young people so that they know that this is a career option for them. i didn't know it was a career option for me. i gave a speech at a high school recently for graduation and told them i never had someone speak to my high school class. i didn't know diplomacy was an option. now they have that knowledge as they go to college. i just think it is reaching out to young people at a younger ag

these countries, accordingly, came out with this statement and from this with this topic, linda thomas greenfield even began today's speech at the ride-security meeting, which concerned ukraine, now you can hear it, we know that the kremlin purchased hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles and is now working hard on their production inside russia and we know that in recent weeks the kremlin has used these unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy the ukrainian infrastructure and the killing and terrorizing of civilians, the united nations must implement security council resolution 2231, we still have no explanation why an expert on the movement of 22:31 was not sent to ukraine to verify the evidence of the origin of these weapons and the destruction that these weapons have caused, the un must act it is urgently a matter of life or death of the ukrainian people. ostap also states in this statement that, for example, the united states has documented and has evidence that russia received more than 100 drones, in addition, great britain and ukraine provided this evidence to the un, which is why there must be

ambassador to the united nations linda thomas-greenfield. please welcome them to the stage. ♪ >> hello everyone, make some noise for yourselves are coming out here today. [applause] >> welcome to true con 2023 into our live recording. the dutch i'm jocelyn hell. like a lot of you in the audience today i'm a policy nerd and i cannot lie, the part in high school is really excited now. i'm thrilled to be joined by a woman who does not need an introduction but i will attempt to give one anyway. before ambassador linda thomas-greenfield began serving to the united nations, she had already retired from a neared four decade career. she served as the assistant secretary of state for african affairs and had postings in several countries. this only touches on a few of her many credentials but for this conversation i want to do zoom in on the african continent and its role in geopolitics right now. thank you so much for joining me. amb. thomas-greenfield: thank you for inviting me. jonquilyn: before we jump in i want to address an elephant in the room.

the farc in bassett or linda thomas greenfield began serving as u.s. ambassador to the united nationsre she had already retird from a nearly four decade career as a diplomat. during that time she served as the assistant secretary of state for african affairs and had postings in several countries including liberia, kenya and nigeriato. this only touches on a few of her many credentials. but for this conversation i wanted to zoom in on the african continent and its role in geopolitics right now. ambassador, thanks so much for joining me. >> thank you, i'm delighted to be here. >> before we jump into the meat and potatoes of the conversation i want to address an elephant in the room and that is that we are to black people talking about foreign policy. and sadly you don't see that all too often. how helpful are you about diversity in the foreign service? what steps need to be taken to get people from different nbackgrounds involved? >> thank you. that has been a priority for me throughout my career. i served one of the positions i served and director of pe

will but supported this with quite an cancer among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed that a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial independence mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commissioner of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bayes alger 0 at the united nations. still ahead on algae 0. judges delivered athletics in the trying to form a brazilian leadership available sonata was accused of abusing presidential powers the the, it's the last day of june. here's our forecasts for europe in africa. let's go. we've got some rounds of rain around barcelona, that feeds into a storm system. moving out of france through northern italy, switzerland, that eastern side of germany, anywhere here. i think we could see some severe thunderstorm t

which blinking himself is advised. meanwhile, the current us ambassador to this body, the un linda thomas greenfield, is listed as a senior counsel at the albright stonebridge group. a self described commercial diplomacy firm that also for nest is government contracts for the intelligence in arm sector. and which was founded by madeline albright in for ms. lee known for her comments that the that's by sanctions of half a 1000000 iraqi children were worth it. so well, military age, ukrainian men are ripped of the streets by military police and sent to the front lines to financially and politically connected architects of this proxy or are planning to walk through the revolving door to reap on imaginable prophets once their time in the by the administration is over for them and negotiated settlement to this territorial dispute means an end to the cash cow is close to 150000000000 and us aid to ukraine. so in closing, when the united states, my country, a permanent member of this council has fallen under the control of a bi partisan regime, which seeks to perpetuate a proxy war for as long as it takes

what quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome at the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed there were a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial, independent mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commission of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bays alger 0 at the united nations. at least 2 people are being shot and killed on the outskirts of in full in india is money for the states. please say there are confrontations between members of the majority maintained on the minority cookie community. at least 115 people are being killed in the violence over the past 2 months. hold up, they'll have major pulse. it's a long way from home, but at least here, irene gunter is c. so you have to clear home down the impulse when violence broke out between th

what quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed there were a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial independence mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commission of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bay's alger 0 at the united nations. the still ahead on the programs to the us supreme court ruling that could change the admissions process for minorities. the july on of jersey, the thing goes to the post office, the local election, sort of shift to the right click the country with me. so now that you were being followed by government, 11 piece meets the indian women, breaking down gender barriers as they fight to become champ, features the coast applicant, meat is from across the continent as well. so

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what quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed there are a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial independence mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commissioner of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with. any of that is james bay's alger 0 at the united nations will still have here on out is, are we followed? the applies of people from the 2 key minority tribe and india's money. both states, his leg violence and judges deliver that extend the trial of former presently. indeed, the drive bolts and all the keys refusing presidential powers stories after the by the the hello from the al jazeera headquarters in doha, where it is becoming less few minutes and had solved because those winds have turned around were now drawing dow

what quite, i'm kind of all among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said, she believed that a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the u. n. is going to be is cooperation from the syrian government because the already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial, independent mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commissioner of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bayes alger 0 at the united nations. a british court has ruled a government plans to devote asylum seekers to orlando rather than assess the claims is unlawful court of appeal judges rule. rolando had not provided enough safeguards to prove it's a safe. the country that involved that has moved from london by a majority. this quote allows the appeal on the issue of whether rwanda is a safe country. it's a ruling that human rights groups of welcome to starting the british governments entire scheme for deportin

this will quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed that a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial, independent mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commissioner of human rights. but in 12 years of the syrian will, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bayes alger 0 at the united nations of african the present, sir, i'm a pose that has been cleared the wrong doing in a case involving $518000.00 stolen from his farm have as it was accused of covering up the theft which occurred in 2020. but we became pop it last year. we univer yet seeing how that protects are investigating the case accepted. his defense that he reported the crime to his personal protection unit. a brazil, a full web presence able sonata was facing a band from public office for up to

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. >> up next, un ambassador linda thomas greenfield present congressman jamie raskin with the award forptional moral courage in public service. during the ceremony the two touched on glol

ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield. what needs to be done here? either that, or stop talking as if we are the defenders of human rights on the world stage. when i was in the obama administration, we visited with several world leaders. i remember the yuan ambassador at the time being warned not to take too strong stance against local custom, local laws. completely forgetting the fact that the united states export of missionaries are all colonial export, it was part of why these customs existed that condemned homosexuality. stand up for human rights or recognize our complicity and a lot of the violence overseas. the sad thing is, when it comes to foreign policy, we often look at it as a matter of great power. if china is involved in uganda, if russia is trying to get a hand in uganda, than the united states is trying to make sure has power there too. >> such good points. thank you. at the top of the hour, three more republicans are expected to join the crowded 2024 presidential field this week. the grand jury and trump's classified documents case is

ambassador to the you in linda thomas-greenfield. they will be discussing issues facing america today. you are watching live coverage on c-span. >> live on c-span awaiting for remarks at the truman center conference in washington, d.c. hearing from msnbc host rachel maddow on issues facing america today as part of the truman center series hosting leaders in government, policy, and national security sectors. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. and all the papers, nbc, all those places do not say a word about it. it is always trump, trump, trump. not one thing about biden. he is corrupt.

what quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome at the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed there were a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial, independent mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commission of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bayes alger 0 at the united nations. mexico is bracing for its 1st heart and all the season has just now with the weather update. and here's how it's working on this last day of june across the america. it's nice to have your long so this is new tropical storm beatrice forms in the eastern pacific looks to strengthen into a category one hurricane on saturday. the red line is a potential pass it could take. so potentially a landfall around man's a neil. it is going to dump a lot of rain on her list. go st

what quite, i'm kind of saw among those to welcome in the us and boston, linda thomas greenfield. she said she believed that are a 155000 syrian people who are missing or detained. what the problem now for the un is going to be, is cooperation from the syrian government, because there already is a commission of inquiry on syria. there's something called the international impartial independence mechanism to gather evidence. and that's the office of the high commission of human rights. but in 12 years of the symbol, the syrian government hasn't cooperated with any of that is james bayes alger 0 at the united nations. so the head hair on elders era, $3000000000.00 bailout football costano the international monetary fund once in a time. and then tennis who's facing, who's 10 that has details of the joyful in the the, it's the last day of june. here's our forecasts for europe in africa. let's go. we've got some rounds of rain around barcelona, that feeds into a storm system. moving out of france through northern italy, switzerland, that eastern side of germany, anywhere here. i think w

in late april of this year, she joined linda thomas-greenfield on the u.n. security council that was being chaired by russia's foreign minister and she called on him directly to release her brother. she stressed that she didn't even know what her brother looked like anymore. coverage of this event made it all the way to paul's prison in russia, strengthening his reself-and reflecting the bravery of his sister. that is the incredible family paul comes from. the fortitude of the whelan family should be an inspiration to all americans. every single day i see them stand up for freedom, democracy and justice and they are fearless and they are the reason paul will come home. this is deeply personal to me and should be to all americans. not a single day goes by that i do not think about paul and his family. their pain is unimaginable and no family should endure what they have. it is my mission to see paul returned to michigan and reunited with his family and his beloved dog and outlived her breed by many years. she is waiting for her owner to come home. i thank my

additionally to include up to six new members without the right to wind the us post before linda thomas greenfieldalready consulting with diplomats from 193 member states organizations by collecting their feedback on such a us app plan reflects biden's desire. eliminate frustration with the current permanent council members and their inability to stop global conflicts. in particular, the conflict in ukraine earlier , washington signaled support for the addition of germany, japan and india as permanent members. the moment is unrealistically impossible, another thing is that the reform of the united nations organization is long overdue and this in due time. we have, yevgeny maksimovich primakov actively discussed our former prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. he was a member of the group of wise men, and it was precisely the question of expanding the membership of the un security council that he was then on the agenda. we can say that now a lot of water has flowed under the bridge and the realities have changed, but no, we have not, and sergei viktorovich lavrov has repeatedly said recen