again the only way you could have justified it as legal is if you have gone to the united nations security council that's it it's in the u.n. charter you could if you're going to use force to conditions either it's self-defense or if it's authorized by the security council it wasn't authorized those security council affect the security council strongly opposed to it and so the talking about who is violating international law i think with all of the spokesman for the west really should you know hold their peace on this one ok brian i'm going to give you the last minute before we go to the break go ahead jump in. yes well what we're away right now is a very expansive u.s. war drive and a full court press against russia and china what what what trump did and also by his there's a lot of continuity here same thing that reagan did in the eighty's maximum pressure on these countries reagan had somebody call captive nations trying to liberate the oppressed republics in the soviet union all of it designed for maximum pressure for regime change or what became color revolutions we have to understand that it

for a pandemic was helped by the experience of ebola and his decision to set up a us—style national security councilarliament for the first time since his resignation in 2016. peers and mps are holding an inquiry into how the uk's national security is run. he said the council was a place where senior ministers were able to discuss the big risks facing the uk. by the very virtue of the fact of having a national security council, we did have proper discussions on what were the biggest risks facing the country and the risk assessment. and we did make, for instance, pandemics a tier1 risk, which was important because that means it gets more government attention. as well as that, we set up the subcommittee on threats, hazards and risks, which were specifically looking at things like pandemics. although it was made a tier1 issue, i got the feeling that, actually, for the reasons you've very fairly given, actually not much attention at the very top... i don't think that's fair. and i tell you why i don't think that's fair, because we had a reminder of what a pandemic is when ebola struck. i think the mista

the gender policy council but there's also the domestic policy council that the national economic council and national security council we worked closely and we have started this fluid collaboration with our colleagues in the other councils to make sure that we are deliberately integrating gender equity and equality in terms of the economic plan in their works. our colleagues are mindful of this and we are reinforcing it in a daily routine and that is part of our job. one of our colleagues who is working with us, that is her task. it's within the white house but also through the entire government. it's short order but long-term. do you want to add something? jennifer: what we have experienced, what women have experienced over the course of the last year is a public health crisis, economic crisis and a caregiving crisis. the american rescue plan has a number of provisions in it that will bring immediately relief to women and help women get back to work and those range from individual payments that will go to individuals and families. child poverty will be reduced by half. there is a child tax credit which is of

policy and perhaps or a relief of united nations security council sanctions on north korea also we need to remember launched cruise missiles on sunday that was pretty much downplayed in the u.s. and completely withheld that information withheld from this is pretty public for several days why is that it would rank yet so what why is that because we also heard the president biden earlier just shrugging it off i mean are they just trying to well you know this is business as usual with north korea why are they downplaying at. well i think they thought that by downplaying it they would have more space to negotiate with or without having to demonize north koreans say you shouldn't do that and wave their fingers into north korean wanted to get their attention and certainly this morning they got their efficiency by again violating united nations security council sanctions and they are going to continue with this type of behavior and we also need to remember. this is a missile launch and the cruise missile is. an advancement of north korea's strategic nuclear capabilities being able to miniaturi

general has called for and i think that means convening convening immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on it because actually what the obligations of the international community should be and let nations of the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition everybody there has to be unified coordinated sanctions a unified coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and it immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that were pushing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right in front of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it almost anders when you see russian and chinese officials supporting what's happening and for example moscow's deputy defense minister even visiting the minutes for yesterday does this not frustrate any form of international attempt to keep the.

questions, the intelligence services of the states, which are permanent members of the security council of united nations that should be coordinated and the security council itself must be slightly expanded, which i will mention in a moment. regional conflicts, considering how much experience has been obtained in the middle east, and africa, and southeast asia, korea, yugoslavia, the caucasus and afghanistan, a special body should be set up under the united nations security council with the right to employ political, diplomatic, economic and military means to settle and prevent such conflicts. human rights. the european process has officially recognized the university guilty of this common human value. that is, the acceptability of international interference whatever human rights are violated. this task is not easy even for states which signed the paris charter of 1990 and even less so for all states, members of the united nations. however, i believe that the new world order will not be fully realized unless the united nations and its security council creates structures, taking into consideration existin

policy and perhaps or a relief of united nations security council sanctions on north korea also we need to remember launched cruise missiles on sunday that was pretty much downplayed in the u.s. and completely withheld that information withheld from this is pretty public for several days why is that it would rank yet so what why is that very good because we also heard the president biden earlier just shrugging it off i mean are they just trying to you know this is business as usual with north korea why are they downplaying at. well i think that they thought that by downplaying it they would have more space to negotiate with north korea without having to demonize north koreans say you shouldn't do that and waved their fingers in fact north korea wanted to get their attention and certainly this morning they got their attention by again violating united nations security council sanctions and they are going to continue with this type of behavior and we also need to remember. this is a missile launch and the cruise missile is. an advancement of north korea's strategic nuclear capabilities be

let's start with the united nations security council — that is why the security council exists, to deal the security council for a debate and a resolution and a vote, it should, that is what they are there for. if they can't act for whatever reason, it is important for those countries willing to take action to work together to co—ordinate a full range of options including tough focused sanctions that working together can have a cumulative impact, a power punch to the junta. you talk about like minded countries coming together and agreeing sanctions, that is what you think should happen? well, that's right, it has to be an emergency summit of countries willing to take action if the security council can't take action. there are dozens of various sanctions on regimes around the world. we need to co—ordinate them into a whole and focus them together so they will have the strongest possible punishment. to direct themselves to the source of revenue flowing into the pockets of this regime and empowering its brutality. and to be clear, part of the reason you think the united nations security co

as you know, today, the united states assumes the presidency of the united nation security council and we are ready to get to work. fortunately, i had the opportunity in my first three days here -- i arrived here on thursday morning and in those first -- since i arrived, i have presented my credentials to the secretary-general and i have had the opportunity in a marathon three days to meet with all of the members of the security council so that i could be ready to start this morning. be readys morning. and president biden's inaugural address he declared america would engage with the in president biden's inaugural address, he declared america would engage with the world. we would repair our alliances and be a strong and trusted partner for peace, progress, and security. peace, progress, and security. he pledged that he -- that we would be a nation that leads. his words, not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. this is how he has asked me to it represent the united states at the united nations. by re- engaging with the world, restoring our alliances and or p

they believe that something needs to be done to stop that from continuing well the united nations security council is currently holding a closed door meeting on the situation in myanmar a diplomatic editor james baker says that the united nations for us following developments james what do you expect to be the biggest stumbling blocks in this security council meeting. well i think there's the problem is lack of unity on what to do you just heard scott saying that people in myanmar say something needs to be done but the security council is not unified in that position certainly you have some members of the security council russia china vietnam potentially who are not keen on any punitive action against the generals and if the security council doesn't take some further action if it just comes up with another statement it's not clear where that takes us because remember the security council has issued 2 statements. a return to democracy in myanmar urging the release of all the politicians who have been detained and condemning the violence and despite that the bloodshed has gone on it. leads you to as

and to be clear, part of the reason you think the united nations security council may not be the routea and russia? well, that's right. people expect and predict that if it comes to a vote, russia and china would veto it. first of all, china has been making some statements, they have condemned the violence at least, they have called for the release of political prisoners. so i'm not sure how they would vote if it happened. and i don't know how russia would vote, but that is the point, it has not been before the security council, i think it should and that china, russia and all of the other members should stand up and be counted one way or another. get a bit more _ counted one way or another. get a bit more clarity on the economic sanctions you were talking about. are you confident that if the international community got together to try to cut off international funding to any institutions and organisations funding the myanmar government, and the funds going to prop up the militaryjudge, would that work, would it be enough? i think it would be a very, very important step. i think the key

review, one track will be without china and russia which will be outside of the un, united nations security councilina has been benefiting from myanmar�*s military between 2008 and 2018. china has gained 1.3 billion us dollars worth when they sold weapons to the myanmar military. russia has sold a lot of plans to myanmar, so in that case, the un security council rules of initiated and we hope they do not go that far. the european union and the democracy of the united states can co—ordinate sanctions to some sort of targeted economic combined with ascension and it can be done, they have done this in the past before and that is a possibility. in the past before and that is a possibility-— in the past before and that is a ossibili . ., , ., ,, i. possibility. professor, thank you very much _ possibility. professor, thank you very much for— possibility. professor, thank you very much forjoining _ possibility. professor, thank you very much forjoining us. - in other news. tanzania's vice president announced today that the country's presidentjohn magufuli has died. the announcement came on the country's

national security strategy. when he was prime minister david cameron set up a national security council with the aim of co—ordinatingacing the uk and integrating the work of the foreign, defence, home, energy and international development departments. by the very virtue of the fact of having a national security council, we did have proper discussions on what were the biggest risks facing the country. and the risk assessment that we did make, for instance, pandemic — say, tieri risk, which is important because that means it gets more government attention. as well as that, we've set up the subcommittee on threats, hazards and risks, which was specifically looking at things like pandemics. although this was a tieri issue, actually i have the feeling not much attention at the very top. i don't think that's fair. i'll tell you why i don't think that's fair, because we had a reminder of what a pandemic is when ebola struck. i think the mistake that was made was that in thinking about future pandemics, the focus was very much on influenza rather than respiratory diseases, and i think that's where... and i'm sure there'll b

general has called for and i think that means in a convening convening immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on exactly what the obligations of the international community should be and let nation to the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition everybody there has to be unified coordinated sanctions a unified coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that we're we're seeing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right in front of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it well miss andrews when you see a russian and chinese official supporting what's happening a man law for example moscow's deputy defense minister even visiting the minutes for yesterday does this not frustrate any form of international attempt to keep thos

the security council will require better support, more effective and more numerous peace-keeping forces. under certain circumstances it will be desirable to put certain national armed forces at the disposal of the security council, making them subordinate to the united nations military command. the proposal, which i accept, has already been made that a global system be established for monitoring emergencies. the united nations secretary-general should be authorized to put it into action even before a conflict becomes violent. closer coordination of un organs with regional structures would only enhance its capacity to settle disputes in the world. of course, the un's contemporary role, and, first and foremost, an expanded and strengthened security council, will require substantial funding. the method adopted for financing at the founding of the united nations revealed its weaknesses just as soon as, some years later, it became more active and came closer to actually carrying out the tasks assigned by its founders. this method must be supplemented by some mechanism tying the un to the world economy. my thoughts may, at first glance, appear somewhat unrealistic.

there was no genuine initiative on the part of the united nations security council or so-called human rights organizations are saying nothing much of that. and the. main heavy when you listen to these different organizations founded on humanism. and you observe their work out in the field and out of what they say has nothing to do with reality image will not be seen on the contrary humanity itself is trampled on. someone in cuba take nelson mandela and che guevara indira gandhi was an o.b.e. he was a female leader there are many historical figures who have left their mark on history theda the people continue to represent their ideal of the. knee has been shattered and what i've got have just everything. i lack in hillah unfortunately successive regimes have always driven people in another direction. powerful regimes are focused soley on their economic interests which generate don't benefit ordinary people like in a shop. and have the most. since the trip some $80000.00 former residents reportedly returned to wrack up and tens of thousands of displaced persons fleeing war zones have fo

general has called for and i think that means convening convening immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on exactly what the obligations of the international community should be and let nations of the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition everybody there has to be unified coordinated sanctions a unified coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and it immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that we're pushing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right you know it's one of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it almost anders when you see russian and chinese officials supporting what's happening and for example moscow's deputy defense minister even visiting the minutes for yesterday does this not frustrate any form of international attempt to keep the. ba

fourth, i had the privilege to serve as special assistant to the president on the national security council. my role was to coordinate national security issues between the congress and all of the agencies of the executive branch. i learned america is always stronger when article one and article two can work together. fifth and most recently, i served as deputy executive director of the international energy agency under a visionary leader and dr.. if confirmed, i look forward to being deputy to another visionary leader and secretary grand homes. i learned a successful deputy needs to put ego aside to support the leader to lift up all others and follow through. if confirmed, i would bring all of these experiences to the job of deputy secretary of energy. the expensive portfolio of doe and its experiences to the emplk a bit like frankenstein's monster. upon closer inspection, i would offer a clear thread throughout. doe, put simply, is where our country turns for solutions to our country's toughest problems. let me elaborate on what i mean of this critical role at doe as america's catalyst for

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all 3 countries a member of the united nations security council all 3 are nuclear powers so there's never a military solution for any kind of conflict so i think that sanctions became just another tool of international diplomacy doesn't really hurt a country functions very well with one exception to south africa. but all other countries like from sudan through libya through all of those never never does it will not bring the chinese communist party to to collapse let me ask them swear that she agrees with that and it is their joint action on the part of the u.s. and europe that could influence chimes behavior and i do agree that the sanctions are largely symbolic because it was just against a few people which won't bring much in fact really but i think that the action itself the symbolic action itself it's a big step because for europe it has it was so reluctant to actually take any stance and as you've already said it's the 1st time in 30 years and i think that's a big and i think that's a big step it's a big decision for them to take and in terms of and to answer your question if that's

1st of february and they've been met with tea a gas water cannon and live rounds united nations security council has called for military restraint but at least 60 people have been killed and more than 2000 are arrested. the moment any member of the overthrown political party dreads c.c.t.v. catches security forces as they pull up and rush into the house of john maher of the national league for democracy party he's a former volunteer guard for ousted leader aung sang suu kyi. john meagher in his white t. shirt is pulled from the home and pushed into a waiting vehicle as more assault weapon wielding forces move in to get in on the moment. such arrests have not slowed activism in me and mar this in da way in the southeast where a protest turned into a sit down with makeshift barricades at either end. another sit down protest in the northern city of mandalay so engineering students figure a way to keep police at bay using bricks turned vertically in the roadway the strategy is for quick hit gatherings and then a retreat to avoid security forces. and in mandalay police again arrived with a vengeance

weapons and the delivery systems of these weapons so today's launch which violated united nations security council resolutions were ballistic missiles that flew 60 kilometers in altitude it's a stronger message to the divide in ministration and the status quo continued united nations security council sanctions is not going to hold and it north korea will continue to has complete this type of behavior until the u.s. comes to the negotiating table with something to offer to pyongyang. for how people in south korea dealing with this ongoing and repeated threat. well we look at this in the international community and it's specially the u.s. nuclear weapons and nuclear tests they get a lot of play especially in the media in so korea south korea has been dealing with and or 'd 3 threat almost since the end of the korean war actually the korean war didn't end it only hostilities were ceased with an armistice but just north of the d.m.z. are. thousands of or tillery that are trained on stall and they've been there for decades and decades if there was any conflict so all would be targeted by very difficult

so fischel is here voiced concern they convened emergency meetings at national security council and said that they were working closely with u.s. intelligence services and other allies to address this at the same time the moon administration here has been very eager to try to restart. north korea so while they're likely to continue to voice is concerned they in other ways may downplay this in an effort to try to get those talks going again and what are the prospects for getting those talks going again now that we have a new administration in washington. well as you saw during years under the trumpet ministration not career time to die i'm going to fire for fury in 2 major summits which trumps so difficult to predict but at the moment many analysts don't expect north korea to return to talks quickly not least because they seem quite focused on issues that hold including economic problems that kind of fighting the ongoing virus problem just thank you so much for filling us in that was correspondent josh smith from the reuters news agency in seoul. now german chancellor angela merkel will f

more clashes in myanmar as the united nations security council meets to decide what action to take againstthey are considering taking strike action — after the government says it can only afford a 1% pay increase. also ahead — more from meghan markle's interview

immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on exactly what the obligations of the international community should be and let nations of the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition effort that either has to be unified coordinated sanctions unified coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and it immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that were missing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right in front of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it. well for more let's cross over to bangkok now and speak to reporter ayman time to spend covering events in myanmar for us in touch even covering the coup and its aftermath from the beginning what do you make of saturday's bloodshed. so what we saw on saturday is not completely unexpected we have been seeing

to get you up to speed with some other stories making news around the world the united nations security council has released a statement unanimously condemning the violence against peaceful protesters in myanmar and called on the military to exercise restraint and engage in constructive dialogue. language threatening further action was removed from the opposition after the opposition excuse me from china and from russia. says u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has described violence in ethiopia's region as ethnic cleansing and called for the withdrawal of eritrean troops washington's most senior diplomat calls for a reconciliation process to restore peace more than 50000 people have been killed since the war broke out in november. the us congress has approved a sweeping pandemic relief package the 1st major legislative triumph of the biden administration the covert $1000.00 bill is expected to be signed into law on friday the measures include direct relief payments for most americans and billions of dollars for schools local authorities and businesses and by. the number of daily covert 19

terms of what we've seen at the border over the last 20 years, two senior officials with the national security councild to mexico and guatemala to meet with officials there to discuss this surge in migrants that we're seeing right now at the southern border. juan gonzalez is the senior director for the western hemisphere. they're headed it mexico today to meet with officials there and then juan began zal ez will head over to guatemala along with the state department's new special envoy for the northern triangle to meet with guatemala officials including that country's president. what you're seeing here say focus on the emergency surge at the border itself, but really an emphasis on the root causes of that migration. the push factors as they call them. that has been a new focus for the administration. something that the previous administration did very little to address. this administration putting a much larger focus on the root causes of that migration that is pushing the surge. and so you'll see them discussing these efforts including the foreign aid that that they're going to try to send to the nor

after full consultation, the national security council, ambassador bunker, and other advisers, i have concluded that the actions of the enemy in the last ten days, clearly endanger the lives of americans who are in vietnam now. and would constitute, and unacceptable risk to those who will be there after withdrawal. of another 150,000. to protect our men, who are in vietnam, and to guarantee the continued success, of our withdrawal. i have concluded, that the time has come for action. tonight, i described the actions of the enemy, and the reasons for my decision. cambodia a small country, of 7 million people, has been a neutral nation, since the geneva agreement of 1954. an agreement that was signed by the government of north vietnam. american policy since then, has been to scrupulously respect, the neutrality of the cambodian people. we have maintained a skeleton diplomatic mission, a fewer than 15 in cambodia's capital, and that since last august. with the previous four years, from 1965 to 1969, we did not have any diplomatic mission whatever in cambodia. for the past five years, we

weapons and the delivery systems of these weapons so today's launch which violated united nations security council resolutions were ballistic missiles that flew 60 kilometers in altitude it's a stronger message to them i've been ministration of the status quo continued united nations security council sanctions is not going to hold and it more korea will continue to escalate this type of behavior until u.s. comes to the negotiating table which has something to offer to pyongyang. for how people in south korea dealing with this ongoing and repeated threat. well we look at this in the international community has especially the u.s. nuclear weapons and nuclear tests they get a lot of play especially in the media in seoul korea south korea has been dealing with it or 'd 3 threat almost since the end of the korean war actually the korean war didn't end. the hostilities were ceased with an armistice but just north of the d.m.z. are. thousands of or tillery that are trained on stall and they've been there for decades and decades if there was any conflict so all would be targeted by very difficult to defen

confirming that 2 projectiles worth fired south korea's national security council is holding an emergency meeting to look into this will be a significant development because of course for the past couple of years well north korea has continued developing its its arsenal of weapons and has continued to stage the launches of missiles and rockets they have all tended to be the kind of weapon systems that are not covered by u.n. resolutions aren't in contravention of that apart from one. missile test almost exactly a year ago and in fact there wasn't that missile test just over the weekend that was a cruise type missile which the white house was not bothered about in fact president biden saying he was not concerned it is business as usual but this does come at a fairly significant time where you have a change in the administration in the united states and in fact it was only last week that a u.s. secretary of state and to me blinken was in northeast asia formulating the policy towards north korea all of the indications from north korea have been that they will wait and see exactly what that p

nations in terms of the secretariat and the secretary general, and his special envoy, who have been speaking loudly and clearly, bringing attention to the matter, bringing the issue to the security councilt is an issue for the security council and we very much look forward to the security council speaking with a strong, unified voice so we can reverse the actions we have seen by the military on the ground in myanmar. right, looking at the security council, in any major conflict, the un can only go at the speed of the most cautious permanent member of the security council. in the case of myanmar, does this mean that the scale and the speed of the response is decided by china? look, i will leave that analysis to you. i think what is clear is that everyone has a role to play. there are no by standards here, whether it�*s the secretary general, whether it�*s security council as a whole, or whether it�*s individual member states. those who have an influence on the situation in myanmar, whether it�*s the regional powers, the asean countries, everyone has a role to play. and what is important is that we all move in the same direction, and that is stopping the violence, ensuring that the prison