one of them by the u.n., and while the u.n.gation did not completely eliminate the possibility of foul play, because certainly there were interests that might have imagined that getting rid of him would be a good thing for their cause. none of theless, the notion of pilot error has prevailed for 40 years. at this time, there's an investigation, privately funded investigation underway, and in september there will be a report on that privately-funded investigation by very imminent retired distinguished individuals, swedish, english, african. we'll see what that report says. that's the comment i want to make open -- on that. the next hour of my talk, which won't exist, is to say something about his spiritual life and to say something about the way his spiritualty informed his conduct as an individual diplomat. it is an immensely rich subject. it's the virtual subject of my book, and so i recommend, really, those of you who care for the u.n., let alone for hammarskjold read the book and see how it worked. the have comet to feel tha

u.n. ambassador and new mexico governor bill richardson, and former south korean ambassador donald gregg discuss current u.s. policy and seeing a way to encage north korea in nuclear talks and this is about at the asia society and about an hour and 25 minutes. >> now to korea, and a personal note to begin with. i am a relative newcomer here. i started in the fall and i was a journalist for nearly three decade before that. in thinking about tonight's program i was reminded about something that happened fairly frequently when you were on the international desk as i was for many years and something that happened to international news editors the world over. you would get a call, often, well, it might be during the day but more likely it was middle of the night wake-up call, kim jong-un or kim jong ill said before he wants to rain fire on south korea. he wants to destroy the american aggressors. he wants to take a shot at japan. sometimes it was a lot more than rhetoric. a vessel had been sunk

u.n. preamble it was creative quote to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person of equal rights of men and women of nations large and small. if confirmed your focus on the united nations will no doubt be on the crisis du jour the middle east area iran north korea afghanistan-pakistan increasingly north africa and the nations that emerged from the air of spring but i would encourage you to also keep your focus and castor staff to what is happening off the front page as well as on it. what may be happening on freedom of expression and latin america fighting hiv aids malaria and polio in africa, the status of talks to resolve the 66 year long question of cyprus women's rights in pakistan labor rights in bangladesh and sri lanka. the u.n. for all its faults has the credibility great ability to serve as an arbitrator factfinder and overseer of peace. i urge you to harness and strengthestrengthe n the interest of our nation and not coincidentally i

third, the u.n.ust stand up for human rights and human dignity, which are american values and universal values. today, the universal declaration of human rights is widely hailed and yet only selectively heeded. taking up the cause of freedom is not just the right thing to do, it is of course the smart thing to do. countries that violate the rights of women and girls will never approach their full potential. countries that don't protect religious freedom create cleavages that destabilize whole regions. if i am given the honor of sitting behind the sign that says "united states," i will do what america does best, stand up against repressive regimes and promote human rights. i will also do everything in my power to get others to do the same. this means contesting the crackdown on civil society being carried out in countries like cuba, iran, russia and venezuela. it means calling on the world to unite against human trafficking and against the grotesque atrocities being carried out by the assad regime. an

because what the u.n. is asking for is that access to all areas in syria in which the opposition are staying and claiming that the government forces used, cool weapons. at the moment, the government is allowing the u.n. to go to one area in which the government accuses the opposition of using chemical weapons against its own forces. we really need to wait and see the outcome of the meeting when it happens next week. >> how has the opposition reacted to the news? spoke with the syrian national coalition -- a spokesman for the syrian national coalition welcomed to visit and he said forces are willing to cooperate with the u.n. team to investigate the allegation of comical cool weapons being used by the opposition in the liberated areas. he did call on the u.n. to conduct a thorough, professional and comprehensive investigation, and not only to accept the areas in which the government will allow or give the u.n. team access to. so, they are really welcoming it. however, they want it to be more comprehensive a

the u.n.'s diplomacy in today's crises. as strobe alluded, i credit martin, in fact, for how my own career evolved. when i worked for martin as a gaza watcher, i did not intend to spend the rest of my time in this area, but martin inspired me to do that. martin also had the good sense to encourage me to get to know bruce jones. then with the u.n., as strobe mentioned, with the idea we could explore with the u.n. how to engage israeli-palestinian peace. given the way that norway provides in working on peace, i am grateful for ambassador stro man's presence here today. it has been an interesting 12 months. as strobe says, it feels longer than 12 months. for those of you that don't know it, the department of political affairs of the united nations works at the center of u.n. norks. in order to promote peace abroad and the u.n.'s support for free elections worldwide. it monitors political developments around the globe. it works hard at the international level to resolve conflict. one can say many

it's good for the u.n., that the u.n. is able to work with not a lot of actors and find commonground, and that takes, at times, a willingness to stand up and say no to the united states, and i think the key talent that the u.n. diplomats have is to know exactly when and how to say no to the united states, which you have to do carefully, but you can do, and that's striking that balance, using and carrying the weight of the united states behind you to some degree, but knowing when to break from the united states and when to say no matters. >> let me add one more thing. >> the u.s. mission to the u.n. does not calm me more than other key missions do. i don't feel i'm being watched as a, you know, as an american. in fact, other missions call me more than the americans do, but there was a meeting where i had a very strong point of view, and the americans had another point of view. it was a tough meeting with one of the members of the u.s. mission and the team that was with that representative. very tough meeting. i made it abs

kevin as you remember the u.n. investigation into the use of chemical weapons and near aleppo never materialized the syrian government requested such investigation but so. do you want officials demanded access into all syrian facilities which syria denied insisting on the investigation of that particular incident anyway that u.n. investigation never happened but nonetheless the u.s. came forward and said it had evidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons but there were a lot of questions as to the sources to which they got the evidence washington brushed up all reports that rebels could have been behind the attack the syrian government wanted the incident clarified and requested russian experts to look into what happened in khan near aleppo which they did and based on that analysis russia says there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used chemical weapons in khan take a listen. the results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordinance used in kind of a cell

germany wants to tighten the screws on u.n. data protection regulations it comes after an avalanche of criticism anger over what some see as the government's failure to deal with the scandal sparked by snowden's revelations expose burleson's role in massive u.s. led surveillance but many in germany view the move as a simple attempt to win back political points ahead of september's general election all of the reports from bunning. so two of germany's most senior cabinet members have written to the e.u. counterparts to try and get them to push the united nations to change their current privacy legislation that all seems well and good especially when you consider that the current privacy legislation was written way back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six long before things like mobile phones facebook the internet all of those things that the n.s.a. apparently looking into now this could be a genuine effort by the german ministers to try and help the privacy of the people of the european union or it could be something of a smok

now france's envoy to the u.n. just spoke to the media and said that the vast majority of you would member states already recognize mr jarba as the official representative of the syrian people legally i don't know how that can happen within the un there can't be official recognition of someone that is not a head of state or without it being processed within the united nations also with some experts are questioning is the overall legitimacy of the syrian national coalition critics say the group has no power and lots of work and recognition inside of syria remember the syrian national coalition was founded in doha and is based in its temple some see the group as outsiders lobbying for more arms to import into syria's already bloody civil war and during the bilateral meeting with secretary kerry he conveyed washington's commitment to help strengthen the syrian opposition so there's a lot of mixed messages taking place here on one hand the u.s. says there is no military solution only a political one on the other hand t

they wanted to give the u.n. the start and independent start so let's leave the decision of the diplomats. and so the diplomatic committees who came over had very little familiarity with the united states and they were trusting the boosters really to guide them along and boosters were more than happy to do it. there did come a point in that last round where they revisited that last group of cities where the united states government did become more involved at that point and did step in the final days to say the east coast is better than the west coast. but they were still letting the decision go where the u.n. wanted it to go. >> why did they abandon the desire to be no closer than 25 miles to the city? was just the financial help they got to purchase land? >> yes, part of it was a financial issue with the suburban land that they chose in the first place which was hugely expensive. and i think these were people who had come up in the age of imperialism. they were used to going places and taking what they needed t

i spoke to the head of the u.n. mission and to the overall head of peacekeeping. >> there are lots of things you are still lacking. a solide, but we have base to work from with 6200 troops. we're making sure more troops are coming from other parts of africa and other parts of the world, especially asia so as to reach the full complement before the end of the year and to supplement the equipment necessary. >> how urgently do you need things like helicopters and airplanes? >> is negative should be today. but we already have plenty of equipment. -- it should be today. it is just a matter of getting it to scrap. troops andave 1200 almost 1500 policemen. >> the man next year is running the mission. you have an ambitious timeline. the troops digging over today, in 20 days' time, this country is supposed to be having elections. it is almost impossible. >> is a challenge. it is up to the government to decide on the election. it was to be on the 20th. we are able to accompany the 40's of -- the authorities of mali. they have

/u.n. tribunal convened last week. the philippine government says china's claims run counter to international law. it's calling on china to settle disputes in line with the u.n. convention on the law of the sea. but china argues that territorial issues should be dealt with between the nations involved. beijing has shown no intention of responding to the proposal from the philippines. >>> russia's president vladimir putin wants to speed up development in the kuril islands including areas that japan claims as its territory. putin visited russia's far east to observe a large-scale military exercise. the week-long exercise began saturday. about 160,000 personnel from the army, navy and air force are taking part. military leaders have deployed around 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles, plus 130 aircraft and 70 naval vessels. putin later met with officials to discuss development in the province. the local government ministers four islands that russia controls but are claimed by japan. analysts say putin seemed to be putting pr

nations we're talking about u.n. organizations and n.g.o.s. are all or trying to operate in taliban held areas or areas where the taliban are very active to help the people there you know this idea that there's an automatic bias is simply false you can't really accuse them of being too conspiratorial because ultimately some of these wars in afghanistan in syria in iraq are seen as artificially engineered worse and worse that didn't have to take place now my question to you as a representative of humanitarian organizations you are asking donors western donors probably donors in many other countries as well for donations to how people in need but wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask western governments. do you think twice before they go into such military actions or make such consequential political decisions because obviously you are now dealing with the at least to some extent with the consequences of the policies that were promoted by your own country as well as by many authors well i don't think you'd find that n.g.o.s like mine had any su

he u.n. as strobe mentioned, with the idea that we were to explore how the u.s. and the u.n. could work together to chieve israeli-palestinian peace, a goal we still need to work on, bruce. given the leadership role that plays through funding and organizing u.n. mediation i'm grateful for his participation here today. here to easure to be see some friends. and to see such an interest in the united nations. it was exactly a year ago this month that i took up the the head of the u.n.'s department of political affairs. an believe me, it's been interesting 12 months. as strobe said, it feels longer months. for those who don't know it, the department of political affairs works at ted nations the certainty of u.n. preventive peacemaking. and the peace envoys abroad and the u.n. support for free elections worldwide. it monitoring the split cam developments around the globe, it works hard at the international level to prevent and resolve conflict. one could say the department of affairs or dpa plays

u.n. security council speaking about the conflict in the african great lakes region. then a look at how states and the federal government are meeting the october deadline for open enrollment of health insurance exchanges. after that we're live from the center for american progress with a debate on the role of debt and deficit reduction and economic strategy. and later, the senate returns at 2 p.m. eastern for general speeches followed by more debate on funding for transportation and housing programs and the nomination of james comey to be the next fbi director. >> at a recent u.n. security council meeting in phi, secretary of state john kerry and u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon discussed the ongoing cop flick in the african great lakes region as well as humanitarian assistance in the area. other speakers included the president of the world bank and the be u.n. special envoy to the african great lakes region. [inaudible conversations] >> the 7,0 11th meeting of the security council is ca

the u.n. and others try to get aid to refugees and citizens still inside the country. >> woodruff: and the world got its first glimpse today of the new royal heir. we get an update on the one-day- old prince of cambridge and his family. >> brown: then the obama administration is pressing young adults to enroll in health insurance plans. ray suarez gets two views on the benefits and the drawbacks. >> woodruff: a california program takes guns away from those who legally bought them, but are now barred from owning them. spencer michels has our next story on stopping gun violence. >> this is an ak47 assault rifle. this is a 500 caliber revolver. all of them have been confiscated within the last six months. >> brown: can elderly patients with dementia consent to sex? we talk to bloomberg reporter bryan gruley about his series of stories. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connect

the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has said that more than one hundred thousand people have now been killed in the syrian conflict and he's urging a stop to the peace process this comes as the head of the visit of the syrian national coalition to new york where is expected to meet with the u.s. secretary of state in the u.n. security council on porn are joining me live now with more on the story so what does the coalition plan to achieve by this trip to new york. well it's no secret that the syrian opposition wants to receive the weapons and military aid that the obama administration has promised to provide to rebels fighting against president bashar al assad and this is likely going to be the main topic that will be discussed between the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and the syrian delegation visiting the u.n. which is being led by the president of the syrian national coalition the new president ahmed jarba now the issue many experts are raising here is the fact that the group has no

that is according to this year's u.n. world investment report. it is up 17% in six years despite factions that prevent foreign companies from doing business with iraq. some of it goes to the petrochemical industry. the service sector receiving a little more than 8%. one sector that has the potential to make iraq and foreign investors rich is foreign mining that now it's only 8%. we have more from central iraq. >> it is one of the hottest places on earth and potentially one of the most lucrative in central iran. it is here and giving the failing economy a boost. despite the fact iran has some of the largest mineral reserves in the world, 57 billion tons, the mining sector is still undeveloped. the government and private companies want to change that with foreign investment. mining industry accounts for up to 25% of the stock market. should investment in the industry develop and grow, it should help the stock market in iran. >> especially now as the oil industry is under international sanctions. exploration projects have grown, outgoingy under ahma

on to syria now the syrian national coalition met with the u.n. security council and had agreed to participate in edging up a peace conference but as artist marina poured lyall reports on a number of preconditions still have to be met before the meeting could actually take place. the delegation representing the syrian opposition that is visiting new york promised to attend the geneva two meeting it seems as though the delegation has a lot of. before it will actually arrive that this should be able to meeting it seems as though they want to make sure that syrian president bashar al assad has no authority following the geneva two meeting and another precondition possibly that we could that was spoken about by the by the french envoy was the fact that once the transitional government is established that that transitional government would have full authority over the security of the military in syria as russian ambassador to the u.n. really underscored here is that all this talk of prevent the geneva two meeting from actually moving forward and taking

the u.n. also warns it is getting to be increasingly difficult for people fleeing the conflict to find a safe refuge. this is said to show victims near the capital of damascus. nine people, including a child, were shot dead. and there is the assistant secretary general for human rights at the u.n., and he says growing religious intolerance is fueling the violence. >> of the great problem with the situation is that we have an escalation of sectarianism, and our data speak about it. we have cases of sectarian massacres, and we have an escalation of the hate speech, but in the sermons and the mosques, on web pages, even in teachers, not only in syria but in the neighboring countries, we are hearing the hate speech, the escalation of sectarian violence. it would be extremely dangerous and would shortly be bad. at the moment, the most important is to prevent sectarian violence from further escalating. >> ok, well, let's update you now on the fighting in the ground in syria. there are reports of int

will sign u.n.aty on arms regulations despite lawmakers' opposition. >> now, in that he's talking about secretary of state john kerry. and he's speaking about the u.n. arms trade treaty. a treaty that was approved by the u.n. ygeneral assembly back on april 2nd. chief kessler leaves that this treaty will limit his right to bear arms. >> secretary of state john kerry, that piece of [ bleep ] traitor, who is he to decide what we can and can't own? and [ bleep ] the u.n. who are they to decide what we, the american people, can own? >> that's the video that upset lots of people. because he uses profane words in reference to our secretary of state. and also people are offended because this man is a public official. but now let's go back to that apology video. >> for all you people out there who cried and cried about, oh, i used profanity, go [ bleep ] yourself and get some more. >> you think maybe he's done here. maybe the message has been sent by chief kessler. no, he comes back for more. >> go [ bleep

ambassador to the u.n. said the shipments of arms or related material to and from north korea violate security council resolutions. >> obviously, this shipment, if it's confirmed to have what we suspect, would be of interest to the sanctions committee. >> dicarlo commended the panamanians for the seizure. she said they have a responsibility to ensure the panama canal is used for safe commerce. a spokesperson for north korea's foreign ministry says the ship was transporting old weapons for return to cuba as part of a legitimate contract. ministry officials are demanding panama release the ship and its crew. >>> we spoke with an expert who has been observing north korea for years and asked about his insight. >> as we all know north korea has been very severe united nations sanctions, so i think that north korea will engage in any activities that will make them money. international hard currency the dollar. so i think that what they've been trying to do is to engage in commercial activities that makes them mon

in light of that struggle, the u.n. everyone as officially declared this in lal ledee. she had been an outspoken advocate for girls education in pakistan a position that made her a target for the taliban. last october she was shot in the head. it stunned the world. she recovered to activism quickly. >> courage was born. [ applause ] >> reporter: taliban militants have continued to terrorize hundreds of pakistani schools and students but with an army of supporters, malala promises to keep up the fight. at the u.n., vinita nair kpix 5. >> glad to see her doing better. >> she was shot in the head, recovered as strong as ever could be. unbelievable. >>> let's get a check on our weather because it seems the fog lifted. >> have you noticed that? >> a little. >> we are watching the breakup outside. nice summer pattern settling into the bay area. the low clouds and fog now treating towards the coastline. just the way we like it. we have clear skies and fog toward the golden gate. but the temperatures beginning to heat up in some of the valleys. it is 78 in livermore, 72 in conc

the civil war it is now we see two and a half years france's envoy to the u.n. i just spoke to the media and said that the vast majority of you had member states already recognize mr jardine as the sole representative of the syrian people legally i don't know how that they're happening within the u.n. there there can't be official recognition of someone that is not a head of state or without it being processed within the united nations also with some experts are questioning is the overall legitimacy of the syrian national coalition critics say the group has no power and lots of them and recognition inside of syria. eugene per head activist for the answer anti-war coalition says the syrian rebels are willing to negotiate only when they harm the upper hand the united states and the united kingdom france other western nations have really made clear that they will only accept the fall of assad and despite the fact that they continually try to say that they're for peace negotiations it seems at every turn whether it's sending arms to the rebels whether it's in them q

and the u.n. envoy to syria. president ahtisaari is also -- a nobel laureate. future hopes to be a nobel laureate. [laughter] this event could not have been more opportune given the announcement friday the delegation is visiting washington at the start of this planned engagement. members will explore how they can be helpful. from washington, they would go directly to london meeting with -- meetings in beijing and paris will follow. today, they held talks with secretary kerry and susan rice, mainly on the middle east and why they are not in a position to tell us what they told them, exactly. we would be hearing from them about matters regarding the peace process and what needs to be done. i thought i would ask of your impression of where matters stand. what can we expect from the latest initiative of carries and the upcoming negotiations and people are still skeptical whether negotiations will need to break through or whether we will see another endless process. you have been a peace negotiator who has been able to bring the two sides together. what can you tell

former u.n. ambassador and new mexico governor bill richardson along with former south korean ambassador donald gregg discuss foreign policy and necessary changes to engage north korea denuclearization talks. this was posted by the asia society in new york city, it runs 1 hour and 25 minutes. >> now to korea and a personal note, to begin with, i am a relative newcomer here. i started in the fall as a journalist for three decades before that and in thinking about tonight's program i was reminded of something that happened fairly frequently when you were on the international desk as i was for many years and something that happened to international news editors the world over. you would get a call, might be during the day but quite often in the middle of the night, wake up call. kim jong un or kim jong il, has said he wants to rain fire on south korea. he wants to destroy the american aggressors, he wants to take a shot at japan. sometimes it was a lot more than rhetoric. vessels have been sunk, sel

and other countries so more has to be done than just starting a process about the u.n. privacy although this might be a step in the right direction but we would expect a lot more talk to christian executive director said john branch of anticorruption group transparency international thank you very much indeed several speaking to. unemployment in france reaches a record highs sparking a scramble by the governing socialist policy to contain a crisis that's forcing many of the country's young people to rely on home doubts from older generations. people's wages that going doll the mount of olives people working is going up. they're doing jobs that they increasingly hate just for a small box apartment of extortion out run and pretty soon people are going to be stuck and trapped in a cycle of oppression and a new leader is going to come it's a pall he's going to flip the switch and it's going to be talking tyranny. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and re

really pushing the u.n. to conduct an investigation on site that never happened in according to sergei lavrov very frankly he says he believes it's because of pushing and demanding by western partners abt the u.n. security council and this is why russia went ahead with this investigation on site on the ground i do to damascus and their claims that this was in fact that attack that took place in march in the suburbs of aleppo that it was by the armed rebels that it wasn't by the regime and they were the result of course have been washington is aware of them but so far. the only reaction we've had is that they think it's very unlikely that this evidence will prove that the rebels are behind this and that legislation to ship arms to to syria began after these allegations that the assad regime was behind this chemical attack with no proof congress has not given that the green light there seems to be a lot of i disagree on both sides of the aisle you have the white house you have very clear representatives from t

according to the guardian newspaper and the eavesdropping greek u.n. mission was known as powell and the operation against its embassy was known as wanda and snowden well that's just the name of the american that leaked the surveillance information that the world is now talking about reporting from new york more enough more nine r.t.t. . and a spy lekas left a massive trade agreement between the u.s. and the european union now hanging by a thread and german politician and member of the european parliament rebecca hommes believes a lack of trust between the powers could end up killing the deal. this is a huge spying attack from the united states help especially by the united kingdom against against their friends in the european union we have certain instruments as least i as a green member of the european parliament see those instruments we have two agreements. in between us and also europe on data so this is this with agreement and also the agreement of. data in the international flights p n r we could stop those agreements and. i really am convinced t

secretary of state john kerry and the syrian delegation visiting the u.n. which is being led by the president of the syrian national coalition the new president jarba now the issue many experts are raising here is the fact that the group has no official power and lacks support and recognition inside of syria the syrian national coalition was founded in doha and is based in is stamboul many see this group as outsiders lobbying for more arms to import into serious already bloody civil war now u.s. officials say that during the bilateral meeting that will take place between secretary kerry and the delegation of the syrian opposition that secretary kerry plans to convey washington's commitment to help strengthen the opposition and to discuss not only the situation on the ground but the power forward toward a political solution however several u.s. lawmakers have publicly opposed providing any weapons to the syrian rebels among the most outspoken is republican senator rand paul he recently accused u.s. president barack obama of asking the american military to op

her voice and i thought of reached more than one hundred thousand according to u.n. secretary general ban ki moon political science academic dr cullen cavell warns that president obama's overtures with the anti assad groups will bring nothing but more deaths anybody who stands arms to the syrian opposition they know that it's going to support their hearts. the syrian government the established government they don't get arms as most governments in the world do on a legitimate basis but when you go in and violate international law and support our position fighters in a country in a don't go through it then you are declaring yourself at arms and at war with that country the united states along with saudi arabia got monarchs and declared themselves at war with syria and. violating international law we have violated not basic principles of democracy and americans are bright enough to realize. it is generally wrong in the middle east we just went through generally expensive wars in the last thousands of american soldiers and now we get. barack obama or john kerry john get