mr griffiths there with the swedish foreign minister and antonio tatars who was if you've been watching our inside story program he was in america this time yesterday at that migration conference taking place that my colleague. was covering will stay with these pictures because obviously the three key players involved in this as in terms of being outside external players who want to see peace being established or at least seeing the confidence building measures towards a meaningful peace process being established there that looks like we're going to hear from mr gutierrez first. i suspect there is some analysis going around the past twenty four hours saying of the discussions have gone down to the wire on wednesday night local time but they would people would always say they've gone down to the wire because you've got to lock people into the same the same space literally of the same headspace to get them on the same page to get them talking about those things as they have broken down the big issues so they can deal with one issue at a time mr griffiths is now talking let's have a listen

envoy mr griffiths for having carolled the delegates to be there as well let's just listen in to what the foreign minister saying. it is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to all of you to sweden for u.n. led consultations and i must say i am all really proud of you who have come to this remote siri place part of sweden with the great score the. there is a tester fi unfolding in yemen and we have to stop it the people of yemen not least children have already waited far too long for peace far too long for the humanitarian disaster to be i.d.d. eight hundred and four steps to be taken towards a renewed political process twenty two million people require humanitarian assistance the eyes of the world are indeed upon what is happening in this small community sweden over the coming days. there are hundreds that hundreds of journalists through of or did you notice present here and many more following what goes on here from afar and this attention of course means that there are expectations about what you will be able to achieve but it wants to shows the engagement of the international comm

mr. griffith will see to it she is not trouble. which is nonsense. host: you believe this is changing now? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> i think the law schools in particular are conscious of the fact that they have excluded women, capable, intelligent women who would otherwise qualify for enrollment except for their sex, and are beginning to expand their admission policies and more and more women are having an opportunity for a professional education in all fields. not just law host: what do you see as the impact, not just on women, but on men and children, of the women's movement? >> i think and a way, the women's movement has been a result of the impact of changing times. more education for women, more divorce. women have to look at the fact that they are going to have to be responsible for themselves. the old myths just don't work. in place of it being the women creating an impact, they are reacting to an impact, i think. >> i think it is done a good deal for men in the country. it has given them a greater sense of freedom and independence, where as

and i'll give the floor to mr martin griffiths. mercy mitchell a busy don't thank you mr president welcome in members of this council. i come before you today with some good news and also a message of hope. after two and a half years of missed opportunities i think it's fair to say that the political process to find a comprehensive solution to the conflict in yemen has finally resumed this week during our consultations in sweden parties to the conflict reached several agreements included in the stock arm declaration which came into force on the thirteenth of december upon the publishing of the documents this is no small achievement made possible first and foremost by the commitment of the parties and the credit goes to them i was extremely impressed by their dedication all made concessions all engaged in depth and at length and intensively and in good faith last week's consultations saw the highest level of interaction between the parties ever seen in consultations in yemen and that is a quote quotes from representatives of the diff

is in as mr griffiths who's been so instrumental in making sure that these talks got to where they got so far and it has been astonishing to see because they did they did a week ago as mrs ralston was saying there they did go into the very beginning of the first session with pretty low expectations but mr griffiths has been so instrumental in making sure that they managed to make real meaningful sustainable progress particularly with that prisoner swap and also when he was giving his opening address and this was generally perceived as being a very very good call on his part he's put together a committee of quotes ordinary yemenis to give him advice including eight women and eight men from civil society so they're not politicians they're not fighters they're not rebels they're not sponsored by anyone outside the country they are real people who've enjoyed the conflict and they're going to feed back to him on a regular basis how they think these discussions are going how they think the peace process is going and to make sure that he's folding into his th

from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron. will lead the dutch general patrick who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told or form follows function they'll look at the security situation see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from.

thank you mr president of course i wish to thank the special envoy of the secretary general mr martin griffithsi also wish to thank mr mark lowcock undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs for their informative briefings a delivered to this council i also thank mr dave at the command of him but the new permanent resident of yemen i will focus in my brigade briefing on two points first the consultations among the parties and second the development of humanitarian and economic it's so if you're going to situation yemeni regarding negotiations and we have listened with great interest to to the briefing of mr griffiths which of delivers a a a message of great hope put with a view to mitigating the scale of the crisis that has been taking the country since twenty fourteen and there have been consultations or where they get any parties and hosted by the government of sweden. and this constitutes a reflection of a the international community's commitment to to address in this crisis a crisis that has assumed staggering proportions of threatening regional of peace and security and bringing in it

from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron. camera. will lead the dutch general patrick camera who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told or form follows function they'll look at the security situation see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from member states the united nations people with military experience but people who operate on the ground in an unarmed capacity one of the problems the un is facing here is that the talks in stockholm went much better than expected so the un is having to pull together this monitoring mission at very short notice well i've been speaking to hussein now because the journalist based in the yemeni capital sana'a he says the ceasefire is holding but that sporadic fighting could e

among the parties to that and to assist that process forward mr griffiths is in sanaa right now we will see when we can announce the dates for talks but we are hopeful that it will happen in fairly short course but we need a number of conditions to be exactly right before we can know before we can settle that. haiti is a member of the these political bureau he explains how the evacuation agreement came about. he. talks about this deal have started months or a year ago we offer to the media a deal to release or hostages and detainees in exchange for releasing prisoners and hostages at the other side and this is because there are a source of pain and suffering to their families the war has been going on for a long time and there is no justification for not releasing them however no agreement was reached and told two to three days ago at the beginning we signed the deal in the u n envoy was able to convince the other side to sign the agreement now ukraine is continuing to build its military capability as armed forces launch a series of drills across the country. that's after russia sees of

correspondent who's in rimbaud north of stockholm so how should i mean the foreign minister and mr griffiths are they signaling to the delegates there look you can do this you can succeed this time. yes they want them to show the world that they will come back home with some concrete results particularly when it comes to the peace deal now they made some significant achievement with the president swap deal announced today that an instrumental element of the confidence building measures and they're hoping that there would be followed by issues like a cease fire to be extended across yemen before they can start talking about the comprehensive peace plan i mean what kind of authority should be put in placing them in many of the new future and who should have a big say but right after that announcement about the deal tension was building up once again with government representatives saying that the hippies are manipulating the international. community showing that they are the victims of the war and that they are not genuine about a peace plan when i asked yemen's government delegation chief man

from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron general camera . will lead the dutch general patrick camera who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told or form follows function they'll look at the security situation see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from member states the united nations people with military experience but people who operate on the ground in an unarmed capacity one of the problems the un is facing here is that the talks in stockholm went much better than expected so the un is having to pull together this monitoring mission at very short notice us president donald trump's travel ban is preventing the yemeni mother of a dying child from seeing her son two year old abdullah has has a rare brain disea

from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron general camera . will lead the dutch general patrick who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told of form follows function a look at the security situation see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from member states the united nations people with military experience but people who operate on the ground in an unarmed capacity one of the problems the u.n. is facing here is that the talks in stockholm went much better than expected so the u.n. is having to pull together this monitoring mission at very short notice u.s. president donald trump's travel ban is preventing the many mother of a dying child from seeing her son two year old has a rare brain disease and has been receiv

mr. griffith, can you explain why the u.s.d with saudi arabia to not welcome, to demand the word "welcome", out of -- oh, thank you. ok. i thought you wanted to get the contact information. well, we are standing in front of the united states of america delegation office. we followed wells griffith, who is a representative of the trump administration, formally a top aide to reince priebus, to ask u.s. side program yesterday, were they pushed coal and fossil fuels at the u.n. climate summit. i went up to him and asked him what he thinks of president trump saying climate change is a hoax. i asked about why the united states is here at the u.n. presidentmmit, given trump -- i have to catch my breath. can you say who you are? let me take the card. you're not going to give me the card? he said someone would give me the card. you're not when you give me a card? u.s.representative of the government was about to hand me a card and then decided against hae min lee a card. wells griffith said they would allow us to get a contact, so we'l

from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron. camera which . will lead the dutch general patrick camera who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told of form follows function will look at the security situation to see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from member states the united nations people with military experience but people who operate on the ground in an unarmed capacity one of the problems the u.n. is facing here is that the talks in stockholm went much better than expected so the un is having to pull together this monitoring mission at very short notice yemen was the poorest country in the region before the war the un says it's now in the grip of the world's worst humanitarian crisis around eighteen millio

repercussions on the people of yemen is there a calculation however hashem being made on the part of mr griffiths and also margo will strummed the swedish foreign minister that those people cannot go back to their different constituencies their different constituents and say ok we failed because those people are so tired the first four years of this and they've seen peace process the start and feel before. this explains why this with us a foreign minister. was basically saying that it's now going to be a long process for for for for the delegations present here in sweden to come up with one with an agreement and of course the hope is do understand that it cannot go back to sinai and say we failed and the same thing for the government delegation which lives in some sort of self-imposed exile in saudi arabia the thing the irony here is that the government although we control some areas but its representatives cannot live in those areas which are under the control of other militias the these are the only entity which has significant influence over the northern part of the country but both parties ha

we can now speak to a security expert, mr griffiths. good morning.y have not woken up to the threat from drones? no, i don't think so. i do know from discussions i've had of late that the aviation authority have been doing risk assessments for this particular type of attack or incident over the past three or four yea rs, incident over the past three or four years, so prior to that it wasn't pa rt years, so prior to that it wasn't part of the risk assessment that it has been for three or four years and i have no doubt they have procedures and are adopting those procedures at this moment. right, but it's too late, isn't it? well, the thing is, it's never happened before. this is the first time that i don't think it will be the last time that it is the first time, and obviously they will be on first time, and obviously they will beona first time, and obviously they will be on a learning curve as well foster it was a waste going to happen, sooner or later. as i said, they have a risk assessment in place. i have no doubt that risk assessment will be updat

mr. griffiths were able to get the parties to show up, first of houthis dids the not do this last round. advanced some confidence building measures in order to get the process started, and actually, a couple of those have come about. first of all, a planeload of tonded houthis has gone moscow for medical treatments. this is something that griffiths was not able to accomplish last time. it happened this time in no small part because the united states weighed in with a number of the parties, most importantly, the saudis to make sure this happen. havew that the houthis arrived there, i am more confident that the delegation will go to sweden. griffiths has also been pushing for prisoner exchanges as a confidence-building measure. i saw in the news today that it appears that one of the first exchanges has actually taken place. so again, i don't think it's appropriate to be over optimistic about this immediate first round, but we have seen a couple of small signs of initial progress and i think we have great confidence in this and i think if we can get the parties to show up in sweden this tim

mr. griffith: thank you, mr. speaker. i will attempt to keep myself in check on the time. everybody knows we have to secure our border. and when we talk about building a wall, we're not just talking about bricks and mortar. we're talking about securing our borders with all devices available to us. whether that be drones, smart fences like they have in israel, where they protect 17 miles of their border with a fence that if something hits it they send people out to find out what's going on. we have to use all the tools in the tool box. and the $5 billion is just the start on what we need to do to protect all of our borders. but it's an important start. you know, we've heard about the drug crisis. and all of our districts are affected by it. a lot of people say in the mountains of southwest virginia, why are you so concerned about this illegal immigration? let me tell you why. the mexican drug cartels are bringing meth into my district. they use it as a distribution area. they're the main supplier of that drug. and now that we've gotten opioids a little bit under control and

mr good turn as antonio terra's the u.n. secretary general kind of maintaining that energetic pressure that martin griffith has brought to bear when he says look. he seems to be saying before you go back to a conflict pick up the phone because we're here if you need to talk to us we can talk to you because people like diplomats like mr gutierrez they're heading towards a christmas recess now i guess as well and he doesn't want to he doesn't want anything to to dip back down into a state of war conflict or even low level skirmishes over the intervening what three three and a half weeks between now and the final planning for the talks in january. you know absolutely there's a lot at stake for yemen there's a lot of stake for the u.n. just look at the various files the u.n. is involved in in the middle east and none of them are going in a positive direction whether it be libya or syria so the fact you got progress on what is the worst humanitarian situation in the world yemen is good news a lot of praise i think for the special envoy martin gryphus in the way he's gone about this you've got the secretary general there in stockho