you have the u.n. panel on racism that turned into nothing more than a format for anyone who wanted to take a cheap shot at israel. i genuinely question what purpose the u.n. service. i am a veteran. i've been in the military for 14 years, and the army, and i have deployed numerous times on u.n. -supposed missions. every time i was in a foreign country, i cannot count the number of times when people said, "what are you doing here?" not just american soldiers. french, british, australian. every one of them are like, "why are we here?" these guys did not do anything to us. host: "the hill" newspaper has this headline. "here they go again: the threat of shut down." "the washington times" has this about this story. "democrats oppose the program cuts, saying it could cost thousands of jobs." host: that is the second democrat in the house, steny hoyer. "$7 billion for fema would need 60 votes." that is the latest on disaster aid and possibly the threat of another government shut down in the house. here is th

isn't yet fully in control of the country and the u.n. has also agreed to lift some of the sanctions imposed on the khadafi regime or he's got a check young has more. one of the things that the new resolution inventions is a special u.n. support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in what the climate insists is essentially a political operation it would give advice on restoring security but would cause and trade on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote national reconciliation and generally help the government in libya organize the elections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. principle asian is welcomed by all members this is something that russia's and went to the united nations was talking about saying it's a u.n. responsibility to help create some kind of a law and order system that would put an end to the chaos there as a result of the failure to properly implement the previous u.n. resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale

achieve peace through u.n. resolutions but only through direct negotiations between the parties. >> a fight for survival in pakistan. devastating floods have left many of the most vulnerable crying for help that is in short supply. and taking on einstein. scientists say they've measured particles traveling pastor than the speed of light. is the world of physics about to be up-ended? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. today, we are coming to you live from the united nations where, after weeks of anticipation, the palestinian president has made a formal request to become a member state of the u.n., a move which both israel and the united states have vocally opposed, saying a palestinian state can only be achieved through direct talks. the palestinians say 20 years of negotiations have failed and they have no choice. >> new york city disappeared into the fog and the rain. a brewing early autumn storm was not a metaphor for almost 20 years of failed peace negotiations. according to

wants stronger u.n. resolution condemning the violence in syria russia is against any resolution of such kind it insists on social economic reforms in the country. reports that some two thousand people killed since since march an anti-government protests there is some. grainy footage that no one's very fired most foreign journalists are banned from the country so it's unclear where they're getting that information from some in fact think these are actually anti-government protests the infighting between religious groups in the country. from syria we want to. get this is where generally people are gathered. at the center of homes demonstrations this is where most of the best you can see this is a very lively area every time something of a transition happens it's more of an effect now when we talk to people they told us that majority. in the city because of the religious basis they're not against the government they're not for any political matter this is most of the things that do happen in homes most bec

president obama sets up a standoff with the u.n. general assembly the palestinians set to clash with a veto wielding us over a bid for statehood despite overwhelming international support. and the eurozone teeters under as rapidly. as with greece tried to speed up the i.m.f. warning i knew were session is on the horizon. and in business while europe was struggling to sliding back into recession russia's finance minister it is minister is saying that the country will avoid the two thousand and eight will call for the two thousand and eight. year more in business and twenty minutes. it is i could have you with us this is the last from moscow with me. thousands of palestinians are marching all across the west bank to support their leaders and move to win recognition for their state the united nations there's an atmosphere of jubilation as government services and schools were closed to allow people to go out onto the streets and demonstrate he. is following events. it seem high so it's right across the west bank is this major that some

the u.n. security council unanimously approved a new resolution on libya giving support to the country's transitional government in its efforts to rebuild the nation it provides for the establishment of a un mission to the un freezing of assets of two major oil company. police to kosovo.

historically this is your fourth u.n. g.a. how does this year stack up compared to others as far as highlights show attractions. well you know lauren it's really interesting how the united nations general assembly sessions really always become a great reflection of what goes on throughout the world how countries are crocker waiting and not managing to cooperate with each other of course one of the might mean highlights this year is that the face of the arab world has really become completely different in the aftermath of all the uprisings that took place in the arab world one of the means show man that traditionally became sort of the clown of the of the spectacle gadhafi is not here this year he's not here being followed by his female bodyguards he's not here trying to build up tents at central park and he's certainly not here ripping up the u.n. charter which some are seeing sort of as an example of be careful what you wish for he was here attacking the international community and he's no longer here now the other you know i

country at the u.n. general assembly next week as with the arms embargo imposed on libya there or uncertainties whether everyone at the u.n. security council is on the same page here russia called for removing a ban on small arms supplies to leave you to protect u.n. person personnel diplomats and humanitarian staff but the essence of the french british proposal with regards to lifting the arms embargo is yet quite vague so there might be some tension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in the game and its potential impact on the regional peace everyone seems to be on the same page in the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in libya that are up for grabs is that stream really worrying former president his authority left behind are brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons mean very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then defeating could offie that's the kind of

brings up the data regarding what the latest offering the u.n. . well clearly more heads of state will be addressing the united nations on their vision to bring peace and security to the world but the issue of of palestine is one that's going to continue to dominate all the discussions the u.s. president barack obama will be meeting one on one with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and shortly after he will be meeting one on one with palestinian president mahmoud abbas so he will be talking to both of them what many believe is that the u.s. is trying really hard to prevent the palestinian campaign for a u.n. membership or at least stall it so the u.s. would not be forced to cast a veto. live in new york to boston. u.s. israel's biggest supporter the united nations but it's backing for the arab spring threatens to leave its main the middle east ally in total isolation america got behind the muslim movements for democracy but the new regime in egypt has left israel picking up the pieces of broken relations. explains. democracy has a price peo

as a standoff at the u.n. general assembly overwhelming support for the palestinians could clash with a veto wielding u.s. . the eurozone teeters on the. deaths with greece trying to speed up the i.m.f. warning a new recession is in the. twenty four hour news live from moscow this is artsy with me. thousands of palestinians are marching all across the west bank to support their leader's move to win recognition for their state at the u.n. now there's an atmosphere of jubilation as government services and schools were closed down to allow people to head out onto the streets and demonstrate. has been following the events. it's being high so it's right across the west bank is this major that some twenty thousand people have taken to space or but not let people took off work the schools closed early i mean if businesses shut down i'm standing in omaha which is really the focal point of the trial there and in this area the businesses the shops in the restaurants have been opened so that people can really celebrate w

excuse me pushes for u.n. membership in state but there are certain deals that we are being told are being made that if submit it for it beneficial requests the security council can sit on it for a little while and not take action right away this would help the u.s. in a position of not casting a veto and looking hypocritical because the u.s. president obama has called for an independent palestine but the president mahmoud abbas is also saying that it's time for the international community to stand by its words he has the option of going to the general assembly where palestine has a majority of support that would not get them full u.n. membership but it would make history and it would send a clear message to the u.s. and to israel so right now the u.s. is trying to maneuver a way in which everyone can save face there is a lot of discussions being made but we do know that representatives of policy in israel will both be addressing the general assembly on friday which way policy will ask is not clear right now b

violent so we had the u.n. security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of serbia and russia and no final decisions were really made from that there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement take a few of these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation political analysts scholars under-powered it is the nato led mission in kosovo assisting the republican installing customs controls maybe violating the u.n. mandate. ok for meeting nato have absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking i mean one side they're clearly taking the albanian side these the session is the government increased to the capital of kosovo and so this is bound to stir trouble and be openly sided with them together with the western countries the western powers that are sitting in th

today by saying that the u.n. the peace doesn't come through things at the u.n. through resolutions of the u.n. probably not for america usually it's war that comes through resolutions of united states proposes at the u.n. when he when george mitchell his peace old boy resigned and he sent susan rice to veto a resolution on israeli settlements we know where obama's money comes from the government does go there's a back and bombers proved himself and the united states now it will be hated right across the arab world and i do hope the american government realizes quite what the consequences for the united states personnel united states people all around will be for what they're doing right now regardless of whether about folds of oil well if the vote does happen what do you think the fallout will be. well back in the forty's the soviet union used to veto veto things and the united states where the unilateral decision to say we will not veto applications or join the united nations so they will be broken that rule already some say of course palestine. it satisfied th

did say as early as this morning the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. that if the time will come and it the u.s. has to it will cast its veto against the palestinian aspirations for you and membership now russia has called on the u.s. not to do this not to use its veto power to block palestinian aspirations for u.n. membership that this is something that no country should do specifically when you look at the fact that the majority of the international community the majority of the one hundred ninety three member states of the united nations do support the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and statehood so at this point there's a lot of diplomatic diplomatic offensive going on behind the scenes on the part of the united states they're trying to avoid being put in this position but at the end of the day they will use their veto power as i understand what you're saying members of the vote would force to put all of the u.s. if indeed it's going to try to wield a veto but for now the bring us up to date today at the u.n. what's happening. well today is the

standing down the u.n. was involved in that and so the u.n. was just in the ivory coast running a giant murder operation calling it peacekeeping the un's up to its eyeballs in the nato off handing al-qaeda the control of libya and giving them one of these seats there i mean it is a criminal organization rotten from the head to the tail it needs to be abolished and you know the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. is right i don't agree with their their spin but their right how to resolution israel's got four hundred eight hundred nukes they're not going anywhere this is all just an escalation in the middle east as a distraction from economic implosion now being engine neared over in the west as alex counted thirty going to be an interesting week and we do you appreciate you sharing your insight with thanks for having me. well conversation over the size and strength and power of a future palestinian state is one you know we realize this has dominated the global stage for decades it is no doubt a conversation that most people turns out have a very strong

and the u.n. to try to convince israel and palestine to get back to the negotiation table and this way it doesn't put anybody in a bad position because if there's a vote in the general assembly israel will likely be isolated if the u.s. casts a veto it will face heavy criticism on among the arab world but if the president of palestine backs away from this campaign he could face heavy criticism from all the palestinians and all of the states around the world that are supporting his campaign for u.n. membership so right now there are talks about how everyone can get out of this saving face but as of now a lot of people are working around the clock to see how the story will develop while palestinian leaders are battling for u.n. recognition at the u.n. thousands of palestinians have poured onto the streets across the west bank in support schools businesses and government offices all shut down during the day marked by this fear of celebration or his pulse leader has the latest from ramallah . at this

prevail in violence so we have the u.n. security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of serbia and russia and no final decisions were really made for not there are a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make these statements take a group of these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation. alexandre pato a political analyst from belgrade thinks that the nato led mission impossible is violating the u.n. mandate by siding with pushkin are on the border crossing issue ok for meeting nato absolutely overstepped their mandate there un mandate it's clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking anyone's side they're clearly taking the albanian side these the session is government increase tonight in the capital of kosovo we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two man western states so

that is not the u.n.the organization as such. >> let me just -- i'm going to bring jamey rubin in, but jessica, have you heard any serious discussion from white house officials or obama administration officials at all? they don't want to eliminate u.s. aide to the palestinian authority to the west bank and i don't believe they want to cut u.s. financial contributions to the united nations, but maybe you have more information than i do. >> no, i see this as a nonstarter for them, wolf. for the president, the united nations is an important international body and my expectation is what they would say is let's see this play out here before we get to jumping the gun and talking about cutting off aid. they in essence don't see this as coming to a head quite yet, the palestinians are loading the gun, so to speak, by threatening to take this to the security council. but that doesn't mean they necessarily will and there's still a lot of hope that that can be averted and that there are many steps that can be taken

such a draft u.n. resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular the oil flowing again. western enthusiasm for liberty and independence faces a tough test. in getting their u.n. recognition although a yes vote is by no means a certainty israel is already. has a lot of. territory. if. the team is taking on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the collapse. life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost. goes. to so it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold. the close up special. those have been police assisted by e.u. forces have taken over two border crossings with serbia in the north of the breakaway region the locals are mostly ethnic serbs and they've been trying to prevent the takeover by blocking roads to the checkpoints and staging protests for more. well we're at one of the border crossings you're ready and the right leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest is now we actually can't get to

the first was the recognition of the u.n. general assembly of their right to represent at the united nations. neighboring egypt led the call for the resolution to be accepted. >> arguing against that would only prolong the suffering of the libyan people and delay in achieving justice, particularly the 90-member states of the united nations have recognized the libyan national transitional council as the only representative of the libyan people. >> shortly after the jubilant visit by several world leaders, the resolution was always expected to pass. for the transitional council, it marks another important step towards their aim of full recognition by the international community. >> the general assembly is setting. >> it was far from unanimous. a block of latin american nations oppose the move, led by venezuela, whose president, hugo chavez, is an ally of colonel gaddafi. >> we do not want them to be a protector of natal where the security council. >> hours later, the plan received universal support. the security council passed

just to recap now talking to the u.n. general assembly they're going to go when think about it he submitted his bid asking for recognition of a palestinian state of course israel saying tonight now after what he's done will be no more negotiation no more room for talks to be very very interesting to see where this one plays out over the coming days been over the coming weeks because we're not expected although president of past has asked for this to go through quickly to be decided quickly that was his request a blank you move the general consensus is it's going to take a week at a number of weeks before this really gets hammered one way or the other. it's the youngest members of the european union romania and bulgaria have been denied entry to the border free schengen zone e.u. interior ministers failed to vote on the issue because of harsh opposition from the netherlands and finland disputes already turning bitter with romania blocking the import of dutch flowers in a move describes old school blackmail by the netherlan

essentially hands off although the majority of the u.n. members do support the powers sitting in the would it be for membership so clearly this is trying is a trying time it's a showdown a lot of diplomatic conversations are taking place behind closed doors all the diplomats are trying to avoid any kind of train wreck but i can tell you that after listening to the speeches of president abbas and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it sounds like they are just as divided as they wore you know six months ago a year ago they stand firm in their positions so we will see how the international . help bring them together in one way or another but absolutely report no new york thanks so much just remind our viewers the news we're hearing that within the next probably wrote thirty. thirty minutes time we have mideast peace called to meet to discuss a way forward is very soon to put in a good deal on the table to get people talking again and then to discuss the story further let's talk to. several rounds of peace negotiations on the israeli pa

finding four u.n. agencies or programs that support palestinians and membership to the united nations would end immediately now late in did accuse. of scheming to get membership out of the united nations of all not recognizing israel's right to exist she has openly said that of course the timing is not a coincidence she introduces this bill in this legislation to stop coliseums from seeking membership of the united nations this bill proposed by a u.s. congresswoman puts the us in a very weak position it takes away its credibility at the united nations because clearly this extends far beyond diplomacy this looks more like arm twisting. that was lost. because the prose really congresswoman seeks to curb us on things the u.n. . the international war crimes tribunals has also provided a unique interview with former bosnian serb general luggage was the channel managed to obtain will the interview was recorded shortly after the alleged massacre in srebrenica in one thousand nine hundred five which not it is

in 1957, the u.n. recommended switching palestine to a jewish state and a palestinian state with jerusalem kept under international control. in 1958, israel fought for and won independence. palestinians want a state held on land that they held before the middle east war. the west bank and gaza with the capital in east jerusalem. palestinians believe that a full seat will force change. others believe it is a distraction, even a threat. >> joining me now for more on today's addresses is the bbc u.n. correspondent. listening to mahmoud abbas and benjamin netanyahu, it did not sound like this got us any closer to peace in the middle east. >> no, it did not. mahmoud abbas framed his speech in terms of his main concern that he says the peace process has failed largely because of the israeli policy of moving settlements in the occupied territory. he called this a process of colonization. he says unless the stops there's no point in going back to the peace talks. he repeated how small israel is. he said that t

the u.n.'s new report following it's analysis of the accident at japan's fukushima daiichi. a number of u.n. organization s worked together to compile the document including the world health organization and international atomic energy. the report blames the accident at fukushima daiichi on the plant's design. it says the owner of the facility based its plant on poor hazard assessments of natural disaster. the u.n. says the international emergency response framework should be set up to deal with nuclear accidents so human health and food safety can be secure. it also wants to create a global system to allow the international atomic enemy agency to monitor radiation levels. the united nations report goes on to stress the importance of nuclear power as well. it says, a peaceful use of atomic energy will help improve the lives of 2.4 billion people in developing countries who lack electricity. the united nations is holding a high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security on september 22nd in n

the problem is not a new u.n. resolution the problem is that none of the old nations' resolutions the advisory opinion of the international court of justice and the consensus opinion of in the whole of humankind has been consistently ignored for the past thirty years there is no this new whatsoever there is no controversy whatsoever on the terms result in the conflict israel has to fully withdraw to the from the territories the darky part in june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven there has to be mutual recognition between the powers the knee and state and the whole of the west bank gaza and east jerusalem on the one side and the state of israel on the other side and there has to be a just resolution of the refugee question. exactly let me just get in here because you know we're going through a lot of details but let's let's focus on just exactly what happened today should palestine be recognized as a state at the u.n. . i think that prime minister abbas the president abbas today in his speech made a very clear

membership now the u.n. has reportedly put tremendous pressure on abbas to drop the u.n. bid and resume peace talks with israel but regardless the palestinians are pressing on and say that they will continue on with their campaign for u.n. membership washington has even public publicly threatened to use a security council veto to block this move now if this is a vote that is just taken by the general assembly it looks as though the palestinians will be supported they will have two thirds of the majority of the vote and that will gain them an observer status at the u.n. but it will also gain them a symbolic and historic victory so obviously we can expect that this issue will be discussed day in and day out leading up to friday now president of. the palestinian bid you will tell me tension. to happen almost school. that's right well currently the united nations is holding a high level meeting on the situation in libya and u.s. president barack obama will be speaking at this meeting he is expected to highlight the international success removing moammar gadhafi from power oba

that was constantly to the u.n. report ahead blame tel aviv for using excessive force but still find that the israeli blockade on gaza is legal i'll bring you more developments in just a few moments on television. libyan rebels close in on gets out these last remaining stronghold will become or himself amount of wheat straw one of you see the problem it's revealed to the fugitives the same group could stretch way beyond the rebels we. mean steps to war crimes tribunals tunes in southeast finds an archive interview with former poles in sub general brown came out it was on trial for genocide the first each and every recently to provide protection the crucial evidence in the case they can stay. in business ukraine has issued russian ultimatum on its gas still more in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is a live from moscow turkey is downgrading its diplomatic relations and military cooperation with israel over televisa refusal to apologize for last year's deadly raid on the tele he attacked left nine turki