you just went to the security council security council you must know that they don't really get into this kind of damage and i think that are all kinds of problems within security council to get into i think after going to you when you and i do say i think what because why african union i mean up to anyone and it's up to you no longer nations if you don't use words but i think one thing that all these 3 member. countries treat a member solve it so we'll be able to pull a possibly it will kind of box acceptability but also if i may that if i may just if it's timely because we keep moving talk about it's a decade so we could talk about this when alan special but i want to play you what he did say that slim who actually reminds us what the entire. great having relations standpoint was all about me and the only way for countries to secure their interests here is through cooperation that would allow sudan and egypt to ensure that ethiopia commits to allowing enough water downstream during filling during times of drought and ultimately this will ensure that egypt and sudan get a minimum or to supplies and also that all countries are able to benefit from the rice on s

security council. the security council will have five permanent members and six others elected by the general assembly for two years. it is to be the enforcement arm of the organization. an international court of justice in permanent session will decide legal aspects of international disputes. the economic and social council will have 18 members, elected by the general assembly. special agencies like the food and agriculture organization will be affiliated with it. the trusteeship council for the advancement of territories held in trust will be part of the general assembly. it will be equally divided between those nations which administer trust territories and those which do not. there will be a secretary to do the administrative work of the organization. these provisions were not easily arrived at. they were hammered out of debate, stretched and contracted by compromise. the result is a constitution which is at the same time an expression of high ideals and of practical measures. to be effective, the charter needs the active cooperation of people everywhere. the same efforts and understanding that went into the writing of the charter will be needed to make it a working instrument. to fulfill the mutual responsibilities of nations as set forth in the charter, to bring about free world trade and the full employment of man's productive resources, men and women of goodwill everywhere must come to know and understand one another. in this charter, humanity has declared its united purpose to work towards those economic goals. the social and economic council of the united nations organization gives the peoples of the world an instrument with which to promote a higher standard of living everywhere. through their delegates at san francisco, the member nations pledged to use that instrument. they pledged, too, to stimulate the exchange of culture among peoples and, in the words of the charter, "to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors." at san francisco, 50 united nations reaffirmed their faith in the dignity and worth of the human person, without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. the representatives of 2,000 million people pledged to promote freedom from fear and freedom of expression, freedom from want and freedom of worship. the second week of the conference brought the news of germany's surrender, proof of the power of unity against a common enemy. ♪ but in their wake, the germans left horror and devastation, a specter of fascism in the price of total war, which would hot haunt civilization for decades to come. strong and effective machinery must guarantee that succeeding generations shall be spared such destruction. therefore, at san francisco, the delegates of the united nations took concrete steps to settle their disputes by peaceful means, to prevent threats to the peace, to suppress aggression, and pledged to place their armed forces at the disposal of the international organization. for speedy combined action, air forces will be held immediately available. final responsibility is vested in the powerful securityil, authorized to work swiftly and effectively with the aid of its military staff committee. this machinery was not designed without disagreement and dispute. but the final blueprint had the unanimous approval of the participating delegates. >> and it is now my duty, my honor, and my privilege in the ther to call for a vote on approval of the charter of the united nations, including the international court and also of the agreement on interim arrangements. if i have your pleasure, may i invite the leaders of delegations who are in favor of the approval of the charter and the statute and the agreement on interim arrangements to rise in their places and be good enough to remain standing while they are counted. [applause] van dyke: this was a people's conference, responsible to the conscience of the world. here in the midst of war, the world's people collaborated in the drafting of a workable international constitution. it was a conference to write a people's charter, opening with the wor

council in particular. during our term in the security council and in the netherlands together with a lot of other countries frequently us the security council to acts. for instance to to revert. mr r. and then the syrian leadership to the international criminal court to open the country for humanitarian help and i'm afraid you're right. it waltz. actually impossible to take such steps so dare history they will rightfully be very critical on what has been achieved so far. an important reason part netherlands decide it to holt's the syrian government responsible for international law for violation of human rights and especially did the 5 nation off the international treaty against torture is about it's all coming to you a new proposal and what you're doing in just a moment but i'd just like to explore a little bit longer your time there on the security council and i personally remember one speech where you held up a picture of a little 7 year old girl nor i suppose she'd be about 10 years old now someone who like many young syrians has never seen anything but conflict in her country can i ask you as one of those men this is who's countries wa

council in particular during our term in the security council and in the netherlands together with a lot of other countries frequently us the security council to acts. for instance to to revert. mr r. and then the syrian leadership to the international criminal court to open the country for humanitarian help and i'm afraid you're right. it waltz. actually impossible to take such steps so dare history they will rightfully be very critical of what has been achieved so far. that was an important reason pied netherlands decided to holt's the syrian government responsible for international law for violation of human rights and especially. the file nation off the international treaty against torture is that it's all coming to your new proposal and what you're doing in just a moment but i'd just like to explore a little bit longer your time there on the security council and i personally remember one speech where you held up a picture of a little 7 year old girl nor i suppose she'd be about 10 years old now someone who like many young syrians has never seen anything but conflict in her country can i ask you as one of those ministers whose countries

council in particular during our term in the security council and in the netherlands together with a lot of other countries frequently us the security council to acts. for instance to to revert. mr r. and then the syrian leadership to the international criminal court to open the country for humanitarian help and i'm afraid you're right. it waltz. actually impossible to take such steps so dare history they will rightfully be very critical on what has been achieved so far. that was an important reason pied netherlands decided to holt's the syrian government responsible for international law for violation of human rights and especially. the file nation off the international treaty against torture is that it's all coming to your new proposal and what you're doing in just a moment but i'd just like to explore a little bit longer your time there on the security council and i personally remember one speech where you held up a picture of a little 7 year old girl nor i suppose she'd be about 10 years old now someone who like many young syrians has never seen anything but conflict in her country can i ask you as one of those ministers whose countries

security council. it was the turn of the soviet to preside. he deliberately ignored the north korean communist aggression and began a systematic campaign as president to block any action on the korean war by the security council. the united nations troops battled the soviet armed communist invaders. the security council tried without success to prod the soviet delegate to his responsibility. as august day followed august day, the united nations continued its fight in korea. on the security council, the soviet delegate sat impassive, rendering impotent the council's efforts to end the bloodshed in korea. as august waned, united states delegate warren austin made clear for all the world to see the sinister actions of the enemies of democracy. >> whose troops are attacking somebody else's territory? the north koreans. whose territory is overrun by an invading army? the republic of korea. who is assisting the republic of korea to defend itself? the united nations, with the support of 53 of the 59 members. who has influence and the power to call off the invading north korean army? the soviet union. who is responsible for the bombing and bloodshed that inevitably ensues from the fact of aggression? the north koreans and those who support them. who, then, can stop the bombing and the bloodshed? the

security adviser was that the national security council was severely underfunded. and severely overpopulated. but one of the problems that manifested itself was that two-thirds to three-fourths of the staff on the national security council were from the inner agency, from the defense department, from the state department, from all over the government. on loan to the national security council. and therefore paid for by their parent organizations. and what happened was that this loan was temporary. it was either one or two years. not much more than that. and what we found is after one year about half the national security council staff, professional staff rotated. and new people came in. and i thought that was wholly unsatisfactory and argued for more funding. and basically an ability to make the national security council sort of a mini agency with the budgets for the type of work that the national security council needed to do, which we did not have. so yes, i think 400 is way too many. but i think more importantly it would be great to have a national security council that would have a smaller staff, but a dedicated professional staff who would be there for the long haul instead of losing 50% every year. >> let me throw

what member of the security council is supporting the north korean regime in the security council? the soviet union. supporting the united nations charter and really working for peace? the 53 members of the united nations who are supporting the republic of korea. is the soviet union one of the 53? no. , but, not the soviet union 53 of the 59 members of the united nations, which are sharing in united nations action in korea. ♪ these are the nations united for peace who have used peaceful methods of mediation in five years of united nations progress, and the nations who stand ready to meet and halt aggression anywhere with all the powers vested in them by the united nations charter. ♪ >> many news reports and public officials refer to the current refugee crisis in the european union as the worst since the end of world war ii. next on american history tv's "reel america," a look back to 1946 with "seeds of destiny," a 20-minute war department film depicting the situation faced by millions of orphaned and homeless children. the graphic scenes of traumatized, hungry, and poorly children

security council staff, professional staff rotated and new people came in and i thought that was wholly unsatisfactory and argued for more funding and basically an ability to make financial security council with a mini agency with the budgets for the type of work that the national security council needed to do which we did not have and so yes, i think 400 is way too many but i think more importantly it would be great to have a national security council that would have a smaller staff that are dedicated professional staff that would be there for the long haul instead of losing 50% every year. >> let me throw out another question i will start with you, ambassador bolton. i think probably have two brush up on this. i have discovered that the transnational scrutiny advisors have different views on where the role is for foreign and international versus domestic and what the portfolio should be for the national security advisor and particularly i've spoken with president trump's current national secured advisor robert o'brien about this very issue where in cases like the pandemic that were currently dealing with, where is the response abilities of the national security advisor when you have a very large domestic component in addition to the international and -- >> i think apa

security council security council the nec respectively to coordinate as though they were in the white house. thaturious why you decided that was important and if in act it turned out to be better strategy? >> thanks to the miller center and to the partnership for putting this program on, it has been terrific. i think this is a good transition from the last panel. theously i had had experience of coming in to the clinton administration in its early days and then handed off to andy and josh at the end. i had reflected a lot on that. when i first was asked to cochair the transition and help run the transition, that was in the summer before the financial crisis had really developed. i went out and saw then senator obama in his home in chicago and we talked it through. i told him i thought one of the big mistakes that president clinton had made was that he waited until the very end to pick his white house staff. he concentrated on picking his cabinet and that i thought was understandable where his cabinet was his staff. suggested we reverse the process. transitionabout the to bush 43 made the same point. we picked the white house staff very early so that they could begin in the transition to for the prospect of governing. when lehman out, brothers did collapse in the financial crisis hit, i think that was reinforced -- that reinforce the need to get people who were being selected, the economic team, the national security team were selected relatively early postelection to begin to work on what their plans and strategies were in both a national security space with respect to afghanistan and iraq and certainly in the economic space. i don't think during that summer to the whitewent house, we were anticipating the kind of economic crisis that unfolded in the fall and we went to work immediately. i will say just one last word, which is we've talked about the transition as if it's from the beginning to end, but there were two big phases. one before the election and one after. , there waselection enough -- the first rule of transitions is don't make any trouble with the campaign. completely to plan in a secure environment in silence, do not let anything trickle out that might be a crisis for the campaign or force the campaign off its message and so we had to develop that economic program almost divorce of the campaign, but once the president was elected and came into office, it was critical that the people

the national security council remains, the national security council remains doing itsjob is, and inthat is there that are meant to support the operations of the presidency. of course, it is different working things from walter reed hospital, but for the most part, everyone that works for a president, republican or democrat, they are pretty much 100% committed tojust doing theirjobs. by all indications so far he does seem to be pushing through this and the symptoms do not seem as severe. we hope that remains the case and he gets back to the job and the election proceeds. it was wise to move him off site for two reasons. one, just in case things got worse he would be where the best treatment is available, rather than moving the treatment to him. and, b, to get the white house cleaned up, if in fact there was infectious bacteria around the white house, it's important to clean up that space and get people out for a time to do that. those are some of the operational explanations for what was going on. the most compelling message is going to be able to see the president in a day or two, p

security council he hoped the security council he hoped the exchange would build confidence and momentum towards further agreements. a call echoed on the ground. translation: this deal must be the beginning of other one says this issue is humanitarian before being military or political. therefore this one must be an introduction, otherwise we have to have pressure cards which will push the enemy to accept other gales. as we still have saudi and sudanese prisoners. and that's the reality, whilst the number of people handed over is impressive, thousands more remain detained and 80% of yemen's population require a vital aid. this crisis is far from over. finally, karl burges — a young man from utah — was out for a casual afternoon jog, when it turned into a life—or—death situation, after he came across a mountain lion and her cubs. i was just out from my kind of morning... it was actually kind of an afternoon trail run and i ran into some wildlife. bleep! and now have a mama cougar who is really mad because she things i'm going to hurt her kids, so she was just doing what she was supposed to do. this is when i... nope! get the bleep away! the scariest part for me was when she kind of charges three times at me. go away! no! and that third time is when she got probably within four feet of me and i was like, oh, my gosh, i honestly almost squinted my eyes like, this is going to hurt. come on, dude. i don't feel like dying today. i really wanted it to end because these six minutes were very long. actually, i was able to pick up a rock and toss it and it kind of startled her or hit her a little bit and, like, ok, then she left. dammit, ok. yeah, so, thatjust happened. right now, it almost feels like a dream. very surreal, it's kind of like, wow, this could have ended so badly. i'm glad it ended the way it did. i was able to get home to my family and the mama cougar is able to get back to her baby cubs. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones this is bbc news, bye—bye. hello there. we're moving into a quieter spell of weather. it may only be short—lived, mind you. essentially we've got high pressure dominating but again the centre of the high pressure is towards the north of the uk, hence those winds off the north sea as we've seen over the past few days bringing with them a few showers as well. probably not as many showers today compared with what we had yesterday. and more places will be dry with a little sunshine. but it will be a chilly start to the day on friday especially where we've got the clearer skies in the west. we start with a few showers mainly for the eastern parts of england. they'll run their way through lincolnshire through the midlands towards parts of wales and some showers in the extreme south—east of england, the odd one possibly in northern ireland too. but more sunshine for south—west england and more sunshine for northern england. and the best of the sunshine in scotland, i think, will be across the western side of the country. for many parts of scotland, it looks cloudy. it's going to be a cool day as it was yesterday. that cloud continues to push down across scotland into northern england. one or two showers continuing into the night, may be a few more showers arriving in the far south—west of england as well but probably not quite as cold early on saturday morning compared with friday morning. those temperatures under the cloud at around 6—7 celsius. the weekend looks quiet, little or no wind. the winds very light, we have a lot of cloud around, many places will be dry and still quite cool. got a few showers towards the south coast of england, the south west. the odd one from the cloud across england and wales and a bit of drizzle coming in across northern and eastern scotland perhaps into the north—east of england. that's going to make it feel quite cold. temperatures struggling to make double figures in northern scotland. 12—13 again is going to be a fairly typicalfigure, a lot of cloud around too. and on the whole, it looks quite cloudy on sunday but if anything, the cloud is a little bit thinner for many areas, so a better chance of seeing some sunshine. a better day for the south west of england for example. but signs of a little rain just beginning to arrive in northern ireland, perhaps the north—west of scotland, and that's a sign of things to come really because if we look further ahead into the early part of next week, instead of high pressure dominating the weather, the pressure is falling and low pressure is going to take charge. you can see we've got a number of weather fronts on the scene as well. so, we can tidy that up really into just this sort of headline because the early part of next week looks like it's going to be a big change in the weather to wet and windy conditions, maybe not quite as chilly as the weekend. this is bbc news. the headlines... donald trump and joe biden have been holding separate town hall events, instead of the second tv debate which was cancelled due to the president getting coronavirus. while questioned by the moderator, mr trump declined to condemn online conspiracy theories involving him. twitter is investigating a global outage as millions of users weren't able to post or read messages. twitter says there's no evidence to suggest it was caused by a securityorganization has given a warning to european countries to impose new restrictions to save lives, as europe reports more covid cases than the us and india. a curfew will come into force in france on saturday in nine cities. for the first time since the spring national lockdown,

security council staff. these so-called fire mcmaster campaign, and also that campaign went after individuals on the national security council staff, individuals who in the past would just be working hard every day for the country in the white house. thosehink that exposing who are waiting and even unwitting agents of the russians is tremendously important. i think we can begin with employingons that are americans and putting them on the payroll to enhance russian propaganda. from anyo takes money russian media arm ought to be profoundly embarrassed about their un-american and disloyal activities. so i think exposing people who engage in that activity is important, to use may positive social pressure to convince people that it's not worth that paycheck they're getting to act against our own society and act against our nation. and there are some extending examples of this. there have been even members of congress who have been extraordinarily sympathetic about russia's agenda and --ecially super helpful to our old colleague from the u.k. used to call it implausible deniability. so i think this is a big aspect of it. what we d

the national security council remains, the national security council remains doing itsjob is, and inat are meant to support the operations of the presidency. of course, it is different working things from walter reed hospital, but for the most part, everyone that works for a president, republican or democrat, they are pretty much 100% committed to just doing theirjobs. you can see that the president is itching to get back to work. he wa nts to itching to get back to work. he wants to campaign. there is a wall street journal poll today saying wants to campaign. there is a wall streetjournal poll today saying he is trailing joe biden by 14 points. but shouldn't his health be the priority at this point? isn't there a real tension there? priority at this point? isn't there a realtension there? when it priority at this point? isn't there a real tension there? when it comes to polling it is somewhat heartening in 2020 to hear a pole like that because almost exactly to the day there was a poll saying hillary clinton was ahead 14% on october ten in 2016. for most of the republican faithful t

and the bursary of the un security council resolutions $1325.00 on women peace and security which was a landmark resolution now that watered highlights another un security council resolution $2417.00 which as they say for the 1st time makes explicit the link between conflict and hunger and that's very interesting they have been very clear on making that the link that conflict and hunger are interrelated one leads to the they're in a vicious cycle and i think therefore the prize and it's a very relevant topic for peace building at the same time it addresses and issue that affects millions and millions of people and which today in the 21st century is still a scanner that so many people in the world south or from hunger how well a prize like this the. winning a prize like this how it bolster the cause for the world food program. it in 2 ways it will bolster the semantic issue of hunger which remains. economic developments on many other ways and at the same time it will highlight a u.n. agency which has been mentioned also is an desperately needed for more funding and that therefore should be a secondary relevant contribution and it is saying that it's a year's eve

security council." >> pelley: had you ever heard of the u.n. security council? >> murad: never. >> pelley: in 2015, just a year after we met her, nadia murad asked the security councilhold isis accountable. >> murad ( translated ): i've seen what they've done to boys and girls. rafficking and genocide need to be brought to justice. >> pelley: the security council voted to approve a first step. in 2017, it created an investigative team to collect evidence of isis's crimes in iraq. the team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known. now, the question is whether the evidence will ever be heard. iraqi courts are convicting thousands of isis suspects of terrorism, but none has been tried for the crime of genocide against the yazidis. small pockets of isis fighters remain in syria and iraq. but u.s. and iraqi troops have shattered isis as a cohesive military force. is that justice? >> clooney: absolutely not. you know, if you speak to yazidi witnesses, victims, survivors, they will say, "it doesn't help me if somebody's killed in a drone strike." in terms of justice, that means something very different. that means being able to be in a courtroom and look t

security council the fact is that's a good example steve the security council looks like the power balance of $945.00 if you don't have to pay man or india or an african country or a south american country it and security council as a permanent member it doesn't really reflect but world as it is doesn't reflect at all the world as it is in the 21st century so the i.m.f. the world bank the world health organization needs reform the world trade organization where china is getting off with a lot of large as needs reform and what president trump has done is to say it's too hard they don't do everything we say we're walking away that's not our leader operate so a leader will understand that we have to pinch in the american voice has to be heard right united states needs to put shoulder to it and i think that's what i hope very much that america returned a better attitude one last question nic i recently had a conversation with former national security advisor h.r. mcmaster and he made this point that's been hovering in my brain a little bit said america to succeed needs to become less strategically narcissistic that it needs to become a more empathetic nation both with its rivals but also with its allies it

security council staff when in fact it's the national security council staff that actually helps the president more than any other organization to understand what options exist across those departments and agencies and then implement his decisions and his policies so i think it's how it's used i think of the 13 months that when i was there we presented options we put into place even i think some good and right about this is not a rational person it can shift to our policy some of which have been sadly reversed i think and and but i think the way it functions and i wrote about this on dereliction of duty the point of you know it relies many on person hours of relationships but you know even more than organizational structure you know let me let me ask you about iran from in and you and i don't have share exactly the same world you want to run i saw more benefit to the g. c.p.o. that way than you certainly did but you make a really interesting point you said that you know the duplicity. you know the tugs that are involved inside iran to national character are ones that are not going to go away overnight and i guess my question to you is as you're dealing with adversaries and we dealt with this soviet union as an adversary but we still do deals with them i'm just wondering is your book doesn't give us a playbook of how you deal with that or in the world despite what you see is really serious. this flawed motivations and character that you're not going to change through you know one negotiation well stephen i think the 1st step is to reject strategic narcissism in the form of creating the adversary you want rather than the adversary that actually exists and and what are what are you in that in your chapters is that we did we did that with a rant rave we've always fallen for the trick of a red putting forward kind of the shop window right that the public face of the regime while the regime really is still very much captured by the ideology of of the of the revolution and the desire to export that ideology as what it is sees as the main way before it to extend its influence across the middle east and he wanted which he wants to keep the arab world perpetually we and meshed in conflict so it can establish that a modicum influence drive the great satan you know the united states out of the region and threaten the little satan israel with destruction as well as the arab monarchies you know with with destruction and so i think it's a poor 1st to recognize this is what's driving them as well as this now corrupt who are really a criminalized patronage network that's established that puts these bomb yachts you know the children most often of the most senior clerics in charge of these business conglomerates so what they what they want to do is continue to profit from this exclusive grip on power that the supreme leader of the guardian council have over over over the the regime as well as the islamic revolutionary guards corps keepers of the revolution but every time a new president comes in who seems like he might be conciliatory this is hot to me remember in the late ninety's well he's a librarian you know he would be very nice you. have your rouhani was the next great hope and now we have mr zarif you know goes around the world speaking the queen's english you know acting very conciliatory while the regime continues its 3 decade long proxy war against the united states the arab marquees and his. and so what i argue is when you look at your adversary look at what they're doing more than what they're saying and try to understand better the emotions and the ideology the drive and constrain them and when you do that with the right you realize that you have to you have to compete with the right and conciliatory approach is not going to work with the regime general president trump recently referred to generals out there and soldiers let's hear the clip i'm not saying the military is in love with me the soldiers the top people in the pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. but we're getting out of the endless wars you know how we're doing. so general are you and your colleagues in the defense establishment really just committed to ongoing war as the president says no not at all i mean that the last people who want to fight a war are those who are actually doing the fighting here who see you know the threat as cost of war we see the human cost of war i would say that the wars that we have been fighting stephen across the greater middle east south from south asia to the you know to the fertile crescent in iraq and syria are i would characterize them as humanitarian interventions are we are at war with the enemies of all civilized people these tax these these ocelot the jihad as they they are they are murderers and criminals who try to cloak their criminal and murderous agenda in it in the in a cloak of of of a perverted interpretation of of religion right in and of course it's very important for us to remember the greatest victims agrees victims of these terrorist organizations are fellow muslims right and so i see these as interventions on behalf of the muslim world and behalf of all humanity i think we're engaged in many ways on a modern day frontier between civilization and barbarism right these are these are people who are determined to stay for human freedom and have visited the most horrible heinous acts on our humanity so so i think that's we're not fighting to because we want to fight wars i mean i think we're fighting on behalf of of humanity in these conflicts and by the way we're fighting alongside amazing partners right in it in afghanistan for example this year we lost 10 of our our courageous soldiers in combat there but we should remember that in afghanistan about 30 afghan soldiers a police die every day fighting to defend the freedoms the they've enjoyed since that country threw off the. yoko of of of the taleban in 2001 and so so i think that we have tremendous partners and you know of course i'm so many friends now across the middle east and afghanistan i care deeply about their families and that's why it's in these wars well general h.r. mcmaster former national security advisor and president i'd say congratulations on the book battle grounds i have worked through every page of my own your folks. enjoy yours and i really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on where this country is going and what its strategic deficits are thank you so much stephen thank you not to be with you so what's the bottom line my guest is a decorated general and he's fought america's wars abroad general mcmaster believes that americans need to unite domestically and be more engaged globally he believes america needs to become less narcissistic and more empathetic towards both enemies and allies and understand what's driving them that's the opposite in my view of america 1st that's how to read her a foreign policy that will have traction and make america a more effective more dependable and more responsible coble stakeholder and that's the bottom line. not just the republican party but america needs 4 more years of president donald trump in the white house then the outcome of

security council structure and the role of the national security council. these procedures improve policymaking, policymakers' approach to national issues? general jones, maybe we can start with you? general, i believe you are on mute, sir. general jones: ok. vivian: go for it. general jones: i should probably start out by quoting daniel , who president eisenhower used to like to quote and one of his famous quotes was america is great because it is good. that is something that we know through the century that is very complex and different from the 20th century. nationalconcept of security and everything it entails is much broader. it is all happening at a much more rapid pace than ever before. i'm sure that john would agree with this. facing things every single day is almost doubled, does the pace of things every single day has almost doubled, if not triple. the ability to deal with the 24-hour news cycle, technology, and the never ending demand of answers for complex questions never seems to go away. characteristic has a great deal to do with the effectiveness of the national security council. we should be as strategic as possible and we should serve as a coordinating mechanism across highlight they to presidency, those things he or she has in real time. this is complex. work,ands an awful lot of and ability to deal with an ever-increasing speed. vivian: the world was a different place when briscoe croft had this vision, -- brett croft -- whatpe you think you saw the nsc as needing to be under certain models into you think it was the right model? general jones: ice th

security council's unanimous adoption of a resolution $2417.00 which for the 1st time explicitly addresses the link between conflict and hunger. the security council also underscored u.n. member states obligation to help ensure that food assistance reaches those in need and condemned the use of starvation as a method of warfare. with this year's award the no we didn't nobel committee wishes to turn their eyes of the world towards the millions of people who suffer from of face the threat of hunger. the world the world food program plays a key role in multilateral cooperation on making food security an instrument of peace and has made as strong contribution towards mobilizing u.n. member states to combat the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. the organization contributes daily to advancing the fraternity of nations referred to in alfred nobel's will. as the un's largest specialized agency. see the world food program is a modern version of the peace congress is that the nobel peace prize is intended to promote. the world food program. the work of the world food program to the benefit of human kind is ever that's all nations of the world should be able to endorse and support thank you very much. if. you're looking at images live from oslo the 2020. as. in conflicts. the 2020 about peace prize has been awarded to the u.n. world food program something of a surprise richard yeah well i mean i think it was not really in the top kind of list that have been put together by people who watch this every year as kind of hot button things i didn't see the well program food program

security council in april he lost brief the security council in september saying that actually covert 1000 was going to kill a lot of people in the poorest countries of the world but the economic effects were going to kill many more clearly a recognition of the work of the world health organization no response yet from the rest of the un or from the un secretary-general but we are hearing from the w.s.p. themselves and it's interesting that the head of the w f p who i just mentioned the executive director david beasley is actually out in the field looking at the peace work he travels a lot he's someone who got coded in the early months of the pandemic and got it quite badly but has since recovered he was in bikini fast so yesterday he's in the air now and obviously that's an area that the w.s.p. and the rest of the humanitarian community of very very worried about because of conflict and because of hunger david beasley the w.s.p. executive director said a short time ago i think this is the 1st time in the light in my life i've been without words i was just so shocked and surprised referring to being without words i think most people who know mr beazley will know why that is unusual he is a very passionate and frank individual. all very unusual in his approach certainly public approach at the united nations and what's interesting about him as the head of the w f p since the 1980 s. the davia p. has had an american head the us keeps and covets that role as the head of the w f p so he was put into the job in 2017 by the trumpet ministration he is a former republican governor of south carolina now you often get president trump talking about how he should get the nobel prize although quite often he misspells as though it's the word high minded not a reference to alfred nobel who bequeath his his wealth the swedish chemist who invented dynamite mr trump obviously what's the nobel prize but perhaps will we please that it is a republican or a us republican who is known before you got this job as a trump supporter who is the head of the organization that's being recognized in this way james thanks very much indeed our diplomatic editor james base at the united nations. one of the countries the world food program has been warning about is zimbabwe where it says more than 8000000 people won't have enough food if there isn't a origin to help by december but it's blaming recurring drugs and the economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic is of course made things worse out of the tassel reports from national and worse problems where impoverished communities are mostly affected here. one hint of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is all in mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says she'll have to make it last as long as possible to feed her family of 8. life is hard we don't have mashed to eat there is nothing good about our situation we are barely surviving the un's world food program says more than 8000000 zimbabweans would not have enough food by december if there's not agent intervention that's roughly 60 percent of the population militarization is of course something that affects mostly young children pregnant or tasting women in zimbabwe also it is a large number of people who are dealing with chronic illness of course their needs an additional needs are different from people who are otherwise healthy so it's very important that we keep an eye close eye on that in the current circumstances basic goods and now beyond the reach of many people growing enough food is not an option for some years of drought the economic crisis rising unemployment soaring inflation and now coronavirus of hit families hard millions across the country are struggling in bad light cities and rural areas. desperate families like eating less she has to feed 10 grandchildren her own kids either died or left the country to look for work. i can only hope my neighbors take pity on us and give us food even if it's their left overs we really don't know what we are going to do the obvious cash strapped government gives food aid and a co-pay $1000.00 and now it's about $20.00 a month to some vulnerable families local officials are worried. sick sometimes. it was the situation. back in the kitchen the children wait for frustrated they grab by the says she hopes to never have to say to them one day she has nothing to give them how to al-jazeera. province zimbabwe where the world food program is also operating in sudan and recently scaled up its emergency assistance following massive flooding in large parts of the country here morgan is joining us live from the capital khartoum just give us an idea how the flooding and of course the ongoing conflicts and violence that sudan has been seeing have contributed to the food supply there. yes indeed rob now we have spoken today at the height of the flood emergency crisis that has hit all 18 states off of them that has led the country and the transitional government to declare a state of emergency now that we have peace had that access to many people that have been affected by the floods has been very challenging and that roads and infrastructure have made it very hard to reach those who have been displaced especially those who live in rural areas now they're also trying to reach those who have been affected by decades of conflict in sudan we've seen deadly of he being the 1st aid organization to reach conflict areas in the southern parts of the country such as blue nile state and south kordofan state it's also played a role in bringing the prime minister of the country dr abdullah and the head of the sudan people's liberation movement north abdulaziz in meetings that has resulted last month to the signing of the declaration of principles that will pave way for the negotiations of peace now doubly of he says that they're trying to make sure that humanitarian access and humanitarian supplies are delivered to those affected areas of conflict this is of course also true in other countries such as neighboring south sudan where again floods have affected the ability to reach those who have been affected by the floods and in need of humanitarian aid doubly if he has said that it has pre-positioned most of its supplies but that conflict is also posing challenges on monday just last monday the deadly of we have a convoy that was attacked with one but one of the aid workers presumed presumably killed and several others injured and missing so obviously there are challenges in terms of trying to deliver aid to those in need but doubly of be both in south sudan and sudan say that they're trying to make sure that in spite of the conflict in fact in spite of the challenges those who are in need of assistance get it. hippa thanks very much indeed that's her morgan talking to us from hard to. well jane howard is a spokeswoman for the world food program and she's joining us on skype from london thank you very much indeed for being with us they the bulk of the work if i understand it correctly from the world food program is essentially logistical it's not enough just to have the supplies it's getting them from point a to where they're needed most how has the w.s.p. been working through the corona virus pandemic and the other restrictions and conflicts that there are around the world. well it's been a really difficult year for us and i'd really like to start off by saying we're just to see how. the committee has on it at the world through program with the peace prize because in the last few years what we've been seeing is that sadly the fight to end hunger is being going not to well the number of hungry people in the world has been rising not falling as it was before and not to mainly to do it culturally that we are also confronting the challenges of climate change and if you can imagine on top of that this year with the impact of the coronavirus. it's really changed the way we were. the estimates of the number of people 'd who are suffering and going to bed hungry every night you know with think 80. so it's really really important i mean historic moment really for the program it is significant isn't it that this is the nobel peace prize and that's an element i was talking to our correspondent james bass about this earlier the united nations this is an element that sometimes gets overlooked when it comes to the fight against world hunger because there is a diplomatic incentive isn't there in dealing with hunger the this is perceived to be a route to world peace. i think everybody in your lives being little growing recognition that not only does conflict and a lack of peace affect the number of hungry people in the world because obviously if you run from your homes that iting violent conflict all around you you have to leave your home and you can't feed yourself but bit by bit where we're starting to understand that you know shrewd and stability in your own village being able to feed your own family that really is probably a factor you know there's a link between the food security and security in the world and it's really interesting we know it's only one factor that would make you have to leave your home decide to migrate to 30 but you know we really have now much more of an understanding that the food and accessed through and being able to look at your family cook food on the table that isn't a tremendous factor in peace and stability in the world how much of a hurdle is it when we're faced with governments around the world which are turning inward they're taking much more of a nationalistic approach and there is. an entire going has a more at least an antipathy to some degree towards global organizations like yours generally do you find that the doors are still opened to the ws he or do you find that it's getting harder and harder in some places to get in. ok while working in a complete turn it's always difficult to get access and every day we work with people on the ground to get through the front lines asked staff put their lives on the line to work but i

security advisor bryan has gone off to meet with his counterparts from russia, the equivalent of the national security council in geneva. obviously, we did that many times when i was in the national security council. even then, at that particular set of junctures, which was much earlier on in the term, the russians and others were always questioning about how authoritative were our interactions. we moved along with arms negotiations that seems to have hit a crucial period, but in the months since the election, how can they really press ahead on some of the critical issues, that, you know, like bill is suggesting, that require calmer atmosphere? it's very hard to make breakthroughs on critical issues like arms-control, which are very sensitive and detailed, and complex negotiations that are technical, when you have chaos and uncertainty. as bill was talking about in the domestic front, just a metaphor also for national security, it is very hard for anyone who's under these circumstances to get on with their job when it's not clear how much authority that they actually have. thomas: thank you. celia, this is really the latest development not just in u.s. politics for the rest of the world, but also

national security council beginning in the first 1:45 thousand 18 after thenational security strategy was released . diplomatic effort is something that we described in the national security council in 2017 as forging a new consensus. and really before you can address any problems or have a plan or have astrategy you really need to understand the problem . though the main problem we were addressing was the inability of the united states to get its interests promoted within international institutions and this lack of geopoliticalpower in those institutions .and the primary reason was because most of the nations in those institutions were beginning to look to china and china's model, its economic and political and social model as more beneficial to its furthering their own interests and being aligned with the american view of the world. about democracy, human rights, civil liberties, rule of law and free-trade. and the fact that the united states needed to forge a new consensus similar to the western consensus that sought to really bring democracy together again in a very tight relationship economically, financially, through trade and information to match its already strong militar

security advisor bryan has gone off to meet with his counterparts from russia, the equivalent of the national security council in geneva. we did that many times when i was there in the national security council and even then that particular set of junk tu turs-- jung -- and the russians, it seemed to hit a crucial period, but in the months since the hee lex with great uncertainty what's going to happen. how can they really press ahead on some of the critical issues, that, you know, like bill is suggesting, that require calmer atmosphere, you know, it's very hard to make breakthroughs on critical issues like arms, very sensitive and detailed and complex negotiations that are also very technical when you have chaos and uncertainty. as bill was talking about in the domestic front, also for our national security, it's very hard for anyone who's under these circumstances to get on with their jobs when it's not clear how much authority that they actually have. >> thank you. this is really the latest, you know, development not just in u.s. politics for the rest of the world, but also in the handling of the coronavirus, how is it being interpreted in france and in europe and what sort of the main le

security adviser brian has gone up to meet with his other parts, nikolai partnership from russia, the head of the international security council in eva and we get that many times when i was in the national security council. and even then, that particular set of junctures which was early on in the term, the russians were questioning about how authoritative were our interactions . we moved along in arms control negotiations with the russians. it seems to have hit a crucial period but with a month out of the election with grit and uncertainty as to what happens in the press ahead on some of those critical issues like bill is suggesting, require a calm her this year. it's very hard to make breakthroughs on political issues like arms-control which are very sensitive and detailed and complex negotiations but also very technical and you have so much chaos and uncertainty that i think this is just a metaphor also for our national security. it's hard for anyone who is under the circumstances to get on with her job when it's not clear how much authority that they actually have area. >> thank you. stevie, this is really the latest development not just in us politics for the rest of the world but also on the handli

security adviser. he really defined the purposes of the national security council and, indeed, brought a military ethos to running the eoc. eisenhower said again and again, the meetings of the national security council were the most important meetings of the government. in fact, he said that to john kennedy when they were meeting during the handover, during the transition. he said, you have to understand the noc is where everything happened. john said, yeah, i've got bobby, i'll be fine. he didn't use the noc, and it represented a staff system and cutler was the one who brought it in. >> george marshall. >> that's a lecture in itself, but marshall made eyisenhower. we owe eisenhower to general marshall. it's a story with some pathos to it. he ran war plans to running the american theater to taking command which marshall probably wanted, and he said, mr. president, it's not up to me, and he said, okay, i'm going with ike. george marshall had been criticized for many, many months by senator joe mccarthy. he said, hey, that marshall guy was over in china when they went communist. there must be a connection. maybe he's a traitor. believe it or not, of all the people. well, you wouldn't think that marsha