for you all today the united nations general assembly underway in new york city we'll talk to phyllis bennis of the institute for policy studies on the escalating tensions between israel and iran and also take a look at what is going on with this global gathering what actual solutions are coming out of it to the current global conflicts so join me on the break a sweat. i want to talk to you now about an american soldier a thirty year old mother who in two thousand and seven moved to canada to avoid being sent back to iraq this woman is kimberly rivera she served three months in iraq and became a conscientious objector to the war after living in canada for years facing deportation back to the united states there were serious lobbying efforts in canada to help her state take a look at this video posted by activist group war resisters canada pleading to the ontario legislature to not deport kimberly. the government of canada is trying to deport kimberly and her family and if they succeed kimberly faces possible imprisonment as a conscientious objector my husband in the father of my children was

phyllis bennis who directs the new barrier nationalism project at the institute for policy studies andainab salbi founder of women for women international. it assists women survivors of war. the taliban are claiming responsibility for an attack on a british military base in afghanistan this morning that killed two u.s. marines. unlike previous attacks, this time the taliban says it was in response to the same anti-muslim film that set off a swell of violent protests in other parts of the region. libya, egypt, morocco, pakistan, algeria, kuwait, india, iraq just to name a few. in tunisia yesterday protesters breached the wall of the u.s. embassy where two people have died and 29 others have been hurt. in sudan, meanwhile, demonstrators got both the u.s. and german embassies and managed to set fire to the latter. a 14-minute video on youtube called "the innocence of muslims." nbc news has decided not to show any images from the film. the man behind the film, an egyptian born christian koptic was taken into custody earlier this morning and questioned by federal authorities reportedly abou

denounced israel's home demolitions as the ethnic cleansing of palestinians and i wore activist phyllis bennis says the u.s. is going too far in its support of a jewish state. it's absolutely within reach and the one thing it could accomplish would be joining the international criminal court which would set the stage at least potentially for a serious international investigation of possible israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on palestinian territory in gaza for instance during operation cast lead in two thousand and eight and nine the threat is of course the threat that the united states has made to the united nations and its agencies that any u.n. agency that welcomes palestine as on equal footing with any other member is subject to the punishment that happened to unesco last year when palestine was welcomed as a full member of you know asco and the u.s. immediately cut its seventy million dollar contribution twenty two percent of us goes budget it was a very harsh punishment i think that the threat to the u.s. and israel as a result would be massive international outrag