long live the legacy of nelson mandela. viva nelson mandela. viva!re all looking for, peace in our world. it is that legacy that the united nations sees in the 17 global goals you're all here and standing for. and what we here to see is year on year, 2030, that we can take that journey, we can walk that 12 years to try to get to the 2030 goals. and so. i believe that we can do that. do you believe that we can? we can end hunger. we can end sexual harassment and violence against girls. we can certainly ensure that everyone is a digital citizen and we connect the world. tonight let us reinforce what we intend to do by achieving those 17 goals in the next 12 years. what's up, new york. we can do it. >>> please welcome ceo and co-founder of global citizen hugh evans. >> hello, everyone. great to see you, we've heard some moving and touching words said about nelson mandela, who would have turned 100 years old this year. in december, it's time to take those words and turn them into change in mandela's memory. it's my great pleasure to introduce you to two

into these turn blant times steps in nelson mandela. the ability to bring the death and destruction we witness on a daily basis to an end. along with mandela -- her own past as an armed freedom fighter. and she spoke movingly about her marriage. welcome to the program. >> thank you so much for having me. i want to ask you how you are feeling today. a few years ago when we spoke, well a year after nelson mandela's death, you said you are just trying to get through it and sometimes you wake up every morning and don't know what to do. how has those intervening years treated you? >> i had reasonably good time after the second, third year. but this being the fifth and with the concentration of celebrations on his hundred years, it has not been easy. because things come back, you relive the moments together. you are forced to think about who he is, the place he has in history and it is mixed feelings. one, he is being celebrated, but mostly at a personal level, i miss him most. >> when you think about him at this time, as you say, the 100th bi

honoring the legacy of nelson mandela, a global icon of peace and reconciliation. the u.n. day unveiled the life size statue of mandela with outstretched arms. south africa donated the statue in commemoration of 100 years since mandela's birth. >> trevor: so exciting, a nelson mandela at that why at the u.n. this is an interesting pose they chose. it's like he knows he's in america and he's ready for the police. ( laughter ) no, because in south africa -- ( laughter ) -- because the thing is, in south africa, we've got a ton of mandela statutes, and it's, like, ah, freedom! let's dance! or power to the people! but in new york, it's don't shoot! i'm not taking chances! don't shoot! ( applause ) top story, supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. over the past week, he's been fighting back against multi-million sexual assault allegations and, last night, he did something that no supreme court nominee has ever done before -- he went on tv to reassure the nation that he is not a sexual predator. >> i've never sexually assaulted anyone, not in high school, not ever. i've always tre

by 1961, it had been radicalized by the influence of a young nelson mandela, among others, and formedof the nation. >> man: do you see africans being able to develop in this country without the european being pushed out? >> mandela: we have made it very clear in our policy that south africa is a country of many races. there is room for all the various races. ♪ >> anthony: in 1963, mandela was charged with sabotage and conspiracy and sentenced to life imprisonment on robben island. it would take another 27 years of violence and injustice before the inevitable would happen. >> man 1: do you believe in apartheid? >> man 2: i believe that according to god's will that the white race should be preserved. >> anthony: with south africa's white minority under international sanctions, internal political pressure and the decline of the communist threat, mandela was released from prison in 1990. in '94 he was elected president of the new, free south africa. there have been very few figures in the entire history of the world as revered or as important as nelson mandela. but the question is, what h

i believe in nelson mandela's vision. i believe in a vision shared by gandhi and king and abraham lincoln. i believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal, and they're endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. [applause] and i believe that a world governed by such principles is possible and that it can achieve more peace and more cooperation in pursuit of a common good. that's what i believe. and i believe we have no choice but to move forward, that those of us who believe in democracy and civil rights and a common humanity have a better story to tell. and i believe this not just based on sentiment. i believe it based on hard evidence. the fact that the world's most prosperous and successful societies, the ones with the highest living standards and the highest levels of satisfaction among their people, happen to be those which have most closely approximated the liberal, progressive ideal that we talk about and have n

the nelson mandela peace summit was a huge story a paternity to reaffirm our faith and in the principle and values of the u.n. charter madam president the republic a pullout is committed to promoting peaceful equitable and sustainable societies boated home and internationally and we see the sustainable development goals as the most important framework for achieving our objective the path that it's country takes to achieve their goals will be unique but we recognize that all our interlinked in reinforce one another. for pullout our core priorities are hell oceans and climate change through which the rest of our development objectives through genuine and durable partnerships will be realized by lao has declared two thousand and eighteen as the year of good held at home we are implementing a number of events to raise awareness and cultivate healthier lifestyles to respond to the deadly problem of non-communicable diseases and c d's allowance ranked in the top ten most obese countries in the world and i am afraid to say why are in other parts of the world people are dying of hunger in pover

president barak obama who recited it at nelson mandela's future. our fate is up to us.nd to assure we remain undefeated. we have to make the choices essential to our soul. and have in the first standa. legal he head many hard ships. black it was a spiritual darkness and the soul remained untouched. it is a gift from god perhaps and he sdreebed in the second stanza. it is vifaged and he is mentally unchanged and a cool krasp. that is in spite of the awful situation. he didn't give in once or show signs of weakness. in the third stanza he looks to the future. and that is associated with life on this earth. he make its clear. there will be no giving in and capit always and he notes he is unafra unafraid. he will continue to be brave and has a clear intention to survive against all odds. the last stanza is probably the most will known. and that is that is what we all face. and that is what they inscribed. he is unafraid. lived his life in total control of what he wanted to do and is proud of his strength he only makes a section. and otherwise. he is comfortable to over come

the grammy—winning gospel choir inspired by nelson mandela goes global. man on earth, is flying home to canada in disgrace. all the athletes should be clean going into the games. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning, these people were in their homes. tonight, those homes have been burnt down by serbian soldiers and police. all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened, presumably in case the americans invade. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world. and so the british government has no option but to continue this action, and even after any adverse judgement in australia. concorde had crossed the atlantic faster than any plane ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: president trump says sexual misconduct allegations made against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh are part of a "big, fat conjob". an investigative website says its identified one of the suspects of the salisbury nerve agent att

president barack obama recited it at nelson mandela was funeral.ee, i think this poem serves to remind us that our fate is up to us, to ensure we remain undefeated, that we have to make the choices essential to our soul, the ones we won't regret. in the first stanza he is telling us although he has many hardships, black pits suggests that this was a deep depression he was going through, a spiritual darkness. yet his sole soul remain untou. it also implies that is uncomfortable soul as a gift from god perhaps -- on comparable thereto then describes in the second stanza although his body is ravaged with disease and pain, he remains mentally strong and unashamed. a cruel grasp. he states clearly that despite being tightly held in an awful situation, he didn't give in once or show any signs of weakness. in the third stanza begins to look to the future, take into account all the anger, the pain associated with life on this earth. yet in mexico there will be no capitulation, no giving in. in fact, he notes that he has been unafraid about his entire ordea

from soweto to scotland, the grammy—winning gospel choir inspired by nelson mandela, goes global.sident trump has suggested he "could change his mind" and withdraw his nomination of brett kavanaugh to the us supreme court, if some of the accusations against him prove to be true. at the same time, in a press conference, mr trump maintained a robust defence ofjudge kavanaugh, despite new and serious allegations of sexual misconduct against him by a third woman. the first to come forward, christine blasey ford, is due to testify before the senate judiciary committee on thursday. he denies all the accusations. live now to washington dc and the bbc‘s chris buckler. the impression there is a lot to follow his. we have a third accuser, a third woman whose is that brett kavanaugh a third woman whose is that brett kava naugh was involved a third woman whose is that brett kavanaugh was involved in sexual misconduct. she talks about being at teenage parties, where he pressed himself up against girls and tried to re m ove himself up against girls and tried to remove their clothes. that follow

we saw this in apartheid south africa, we saw this with nelson mandela.oh, you must be crazy, you've got to be jailed for a while to keep a lid on you. we saw this in the ussr back in the day -- >> wait a minute, wait a minute, just a second, jen. i've got to stop you there. how do you compare people talking about this president getting up, talking about shooting heads of state and this president being out of control with nelson mandela refusing to submit further to being treated less than a citizen in his own nation, based on the color of his skin? they didn't put nelson mandela in jail because he was eating big macs in the middle of the night, tweeting words that didn't exist. now, let's at least keep this within the boundaries of making sense. >> i wrote about this at the hill last january, so more than six months ago. look, these tactics have been used. they were used in apartheid south africa, they were used in communist china to jail people -- >> yeah, but they were protected against the ideology. we're not talking about people that disagree with hi

the end of this is going to be informed by what nelson mandela todd us. francine: do you have to change the constitution? you have said in the past you can take land without compensation. pres. ramaphosa: that is one of the proposals on the table, whether we change the constitution or we do not. that is all going to come out in the process of the consultation that is taking place. end, this is one of the andgs we need to consider, the answer will come up to a good end, where we will have a clear solution which will be inclusive, which will take into account the views that have been expressed by all south africans. whether we change the constitution or whether we don't change the constitution, i am confident we will come up with a very good all-inclusive solution. francine: investors were concerned about a number of things. do you feel it is because they expected to go too fast and the reforms and in cracking down against corruption, or do you think you are part of the turmoil affecting emerging markets? pres. ramaphosa: investors have been concerned about

united states doesn't like and that ranges not just from a country like iran but also to the nelson mandela's a.n.c. in south africa for example they were blasted in these terrorism reports early on and some of the political parties in iraq that the united states works with today like the tao a party was a was a was a listed organization for terrorism so there is very much a political motivation which muddies the word waters in terms of what's actually how king. in terms of incidents and and and and steps for events prevent terrorism terrorism spence abraham. was talking about the political reasons behind the and it will be pulled did it come to you as a surprise when if one was singled out in there with force. state leading space sponsor of terrorism in the world well as a regional analyst and politics of the region he has there was not in any way surprising to me because i thought that i agree with my colleague from washington that their philosophy and purpose of this report is highly highly politicized and it's used in a in an extremely selective way and in particular never mentions israel

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month old baby and she's been captured a balancing and kissing her daughter before addressing the nelson mandela peace summit i just said to odan already has the distinction of being the second world leader to give birth while in office and now she's the first to bring the child to the assembly. in the meantime though those gathering for the general assembly have already had some rather strong words to say particularly against washington a bolivian president evo morales has spoken exclusively to r.t. saying washington is using its own mechanisms to undermine latin american leaders. when. considering the problems we're facing today like always the united states is trying to divide us since we have established the union of south american nations they've been putting pressure on us we're developing a project that would ensure and strengthen corporation between latin american and caribbean countries we will be presiding next year and we have a lot of plans for example we want to use this platform to strengthen our relations with china russia europe it is a new policy of corporation with other contin

after nelson mandela was jailed, a man called steve biko emerged as one of the key leaders in the anti—apartheidfrica. in 1977 he was picked up by the police and thrown into jail. three weeks later he was dead. in this moving film his friend peterjones, who was arrested at the same time, back at the events surrounding his friends death. i miss my friend steve biko and i am forever in his debt. steve biko is one of the people that originated the new generation of young political minded black people. the black consciousness movement. we believe that in our country, those people will have the same status before the law and they will have the same political rights before the law. the apartheid government ensured that there was no resistance against its doctrines and against its policies. there was a roadblock and they then searched the car. they found an identity document which was mine. they then said who is peterjones? i said that was me. they said oh, and who are you, big man? is that steve? he said, i am steve biko. we were locked up together in one cell. the next morning we started getting an u

it was home to nelson mandela during apartheid in the years prior to his arrest.contemporary forms with traditional african dance — an act of cultural defiance against the oppressive white government. talk to me about the kind of social and political messages that you express when you dance. the first political message is to be seen as black people. we are powerful, you know. the second is we're trying to tell the world that we're still free, but we're still bearing a lot of problems. we still have to push ourselves. and we have to push ourselves, like, 10 times harder than any other individual. before i try out some moves with via vyndal, this teacher and performer has offered to show me some beginner steps. i've heard a lot about this train step. i know nothing about it. tell me about it. it is named for the mimicking of the effect that the trains are used. this is the first. and then we go back. that's it. now, you're gonna be fast, because the train is going fast. can't get on the train slow. you've got it! yes! i think i need a little bit more practice, thoug

the united nations says on a former south african leader nelson mandela ahead of this year's general assembly which coincides with the one hundredth anniversary of the freedom fighters' birth current south african president. and u.n. secretary general antonio. unveiled a statue of at u.n. headquarters in new york that talks on the sidelines of the gathering president called on nations to recommit themselves to mandela's vision. thirty years ago almost to the day president. address the u.n. general assembly for the last time he said we must ask a question which my naive to those who have. sophisticated arguments to justify. to eliminate these. weapons. why do they need them anyway. to this day is question has been met with no satisfactory answer that truth is that there can be no justification for the existence of weapons that carry with them the potential to extinguish life on this planet. so the african presidents zero oppose of their wealth in just under two weeks brazil will choose a new president it's been a tumultuous few years for south america's largest nation following the im

two days ago, we had and extreme ly summit to remember the extraordinary african leader, nelson mandela, and we spoke out to reject confrontation and war. to live up to his lega sane living up to the legacy of nelson mandela, we expect that we might be taking the world to peace, security development, and well-being for all. . voices its determination to continue working towards the negotiation and adoption of legally binding instruments. that will lead to nuclear disarmament in an effective, irreversible and verifiable way in order to achieve the objective of the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons. the international community of nations should also be worried by the potential humanitarian consequences and the global impact of any accidental or intentional nuclear detonation. and the international community of nations should cooperate on a level of international security to prevent normal state actors on getting the resources for them to be able to pursue nuclear terror. president, the republic of he n with a torial guinea is -- of orial guinea is part the iaea. i conclude the s

violence and hate and most to be solved a dialogue tolerance and democracy this is the same path and nelson mandela bravely demonstrated the real and genuine statesman but the u.s. national security adviser insists that iran should change its behavior. as i've said repeatedly regime change in iran is not the administration's policy is my pompei we just said we've imposed very stringent sanctions on iran more are coming . and what we expect from iran is massive changes in their behavior and until that happens we will continue to exert what the president has called maximum pressure that's what we intend to do and what a year ago the u.s. president called the north korean leader at little rock at mather his debut speech at the u.n. general assembly one year on donald trump is striking a much softer tone is that a second summit with can juggle news like his soon raising hopes of reviving the stalled nuclear talks drums and meeting the south korean president little jay and at the united nations michaela reports from new york. president trump arrives highlighting one major change in his position since de

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i think of nelson mandela and how sitting in a jail cell for all of those years did he not think, whene finally in power, blacks are going to dominate whites rather than think of a multiracial, multiethnic south africa for all south africans. most importantly, i think great leaders have a sense of humility about what they can achieve. david: humility. condoleezza: humility. david: versus arrogance. condoleezza: versus arrogance. arrogance and hubris are recipes for disaster. my parents were great people. they always taught me that you need personally to do three things. if you're going to lead and be successful, the first thing is try to be twice as good. work hard enough to be confident that you have worked hard enough to be twice as good. secondly, and remember i am growing up in segregated birmingham, alabama, and they were trying to armor me. secondly, never consider yourself a victim. when you think you are a victim, you have given control of your life to somebody else. you may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your responses to circumstances. there is

violence and hate almost to be solved a dialogue tolerance and democracy they say the same path nelson mandela bravely demonstrated to real and genuine statesman but trumps national security adviser insists that iran should change its behavior as i've said repeatedly regime change in iran is not the administration's policy is my pump just said we've imposed very stringent sanctions on iran more coming. and what we expect from iran is massive changes in their behavior and until that happens we will continue to exert what the president has called maximum pressure that's what we intend to do. the saudi led coalition in yemen says it will open humanitarian corridors within the major rebel strongholds of had data on saddam that doing it in order to bring in vital aid supplies. what could be shocked at how the coalition is working with the un humanitarian agency in yemen to establish safe humanitarian corridors to help the delivery and aid between the day death on army well the un's humanitarian affairs chief mark a local cause warn that a famine in yemen could strike at any time and lead to even mo

from some influential people such as nobel prize winner mohammed yunus and the granddaughter of nelson mandela but can bog chain technology really ensure that no subsequence are produced before a problem is actually solved with impact talk with this impact on my blog chain which is managed by the global community can i create saabs coins i always need an impact solution to create a subsequent so it's not possible for just anyone to create saabs coins with money sobs don't fall from the sky they'll only be a new saabs a new medium of exchange when somebody has created a solution and is making a real contribution. whether the idea actually works or not will depend on how many people companies or countries want to reward social commitment and volunteering. and they will need to have confidence in the new crypto currency so and accept it as a means of exchange. marketing from. what's clear is that some of the world's most banks is scrambling to catch the cryptocurrency wave among them german based. it's hired experts in the area to try to figure out how to retain business in a world where it would

violence and hate it must be solved in dialogue tolerance and democracy this is the same path nelson mandela briefly demonstrated to real and genuine statesman but the u.s. national security adviser insists that iran should change its behavior. as i've said repeatedly regime change in iran is not the administration's policy is my pompei we just said we've imposed very stringent sanctions on iran for coming. and what we expect from iran is massive changes in their behavior and until that happens we will continue to exert what the president has called maximum pressure that's what we intend to do. but also the u.n. france's foreign minister met with arab leaders in new york to discuss the situation in libya joy you want to make sure a plan that was agreed to in paris to hold elections in december goes ahead. fighting between rival groups and libya's capital is now forced more than five thousand families to feed adams the international organization for migration says the numbers leaving i've come up sharply in the last three days the battle for control of the air at tripoli's airport erupted lat

united states doesn't like and that ranges not just from a country like iran but also to the nelson mandela's a.n.c. in south africa for example they were blasted in these terrorism reports early on and some of the political parties in iraq that the united states works with today like the tao a party was a was a was a listed organization for terrorism so there is very much a political motivation which muddies the word waters in terms of what's actually how king. in terms of incidents and and and and steps for events prevent terrorism terrorism spence abraham. was talking about the political reasons behind and it will be pulled did it come to you as a surprise when iran was singled out in there with force. state leading space sponsor of terrorism in the world well as a regional analyst and politics of the region here. there was not in any way surprising to me because i thought that i agree with my colleague from washington that the entire philosophy and purpose of this report is highly highly politicized and it's used in a van in an extremely selective way and in particular never mentions isra

as nelson mandela put it, no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, background, or religion, people must learn to hate. if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. there is an impressive recant te views. cadre of hatemongers who have we're supposed to stand the enemy opposite of the enemy of the people. to quote our constitution's opening words, the media constitute an essential ally of we the people. the mediathe media constitutes r essential ally. crucial pillars of our democratic, republican, and also both liberty and equality. just as the media has a crucial responsibility to scrutinize and criticize all public officials as do we the people, we also allegedly negative attitudes on the crucial issues of both race and free speech on your campuses. here i echo heather mcdonald. tois the responsibility refute the victimhood ideology. i would like to cite some encouraging evidence that students attitudes are actually much more positive. it is much more positive on their campuses and we also get the impression. survey,6 gallup night nearly three fourths

. >> we had talked to michelle, nelson mandela's wife.ent about you ho he believed in principles and stuck with them even when it looked bleak. so some things look bleak right now, some of the trends don't look all that good. humans aren't as willing to help each other, you know, and take these long-term views and solve these tough problems but he was such an example. and you know, that is incredibly inspiring. i think young people in the room were all peering up as he talked about him and how we should all take that spirit of sticking with what we believe in and carry it forward. >> trevor: thank you so much for being on the show. plawtion plaws for more information about the bill and pe plinda gates foundation an pe plinda gates foundation an goal keepers go to gates hero: hey...yeah, that's what i was thinking. sofia: she kept going on and on and on. anyway i can't believe what she sai- (gets cut-off) ♪ toy by young fathers ♪ ♪ i'm chasing shadows in the gallows collecting what was stolen from me ♪ ♪ why test a hybrid engine for over s

i think of nelson mandela and i think how sitting in a jail cell for all of those years did he not thinke finally in power, blacks are going to dominate whites rather than think of a multiracial, multiethnic south africa for all south africans. most importantly, i think great leaders have a sense of humility about what they can achieve. david: humility. condoleezza: humility. david: versus arrogance. condoleezza: versus arrogance. david: right. condoleezza: arrogance and hubris are recipes for disaster. my parents were great people. they always taught me that you need personally to do three things. if you're going to lead and be successful, the first thing is try to be twice as good. in other words, work hard enough to be confident that you have worked hard enough to be twice as good. secondly, and remember i am growing up in segregated birmingham, alabama, and they were trying to armor me. secondly, never consider yourself a victim. because when you think you are a victim, you have given control of your life to somebody else. you may not be able to control your circumstances, but you ca

under the leadership and guidance of nelson mandela we were able to resolve it., his values and his principles and his vision is guiding us. we are not going to have land grabs. that is never going to be allowed. if wegoing to make sure embark on land reform, it becomes all-inclusive. it leads to nation building, social cohesion, economic development which will benefit all the people of south africa. >> it is one thing to say you are for peace and inclusion and another thing to achieve it when there is an unlimited number of money from narco trafficking. c i built my agenda for olombia based on three pillars. land -- law and order. opennted to be a country for business. the third thing, if we have entrepreneurship, the consequence is equality. that means closing the gaps. me gaps.aps, inco i am proud to have a cabinet that is a gallatin 50% men and 50% women. i am proud we are mobilizing investment to technology, agricultural development. my goal is we will be close to ending extreme poverty. ofwhat is your take in terms where we are in the world today? cap can w