u.n. authorization to liberate kuwait. we did not have u.n. authorization to go to baghdad. and it was the president putting into play once more the long-range thoughtfulness that builds on current circumstances to make the future better. >> the american people went kind of crazy for their soldiers. i'll never forget when we had the parade in washington but he wanted to make it clear. he said, this is for those who did it, not for me. >> america endures because we dared risk our most precious asset, our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our husbands and wives, the finest troops any country has ever had. >> it wasn't the president who was out there taking the high fives. and the modesty that was engrained in him by his family, by his upbringing, that's who he always was. if i built a van, it would do more than haul. if i built a van, it would carry my entire business. i'd make it available in dozens, make that thousands of configurations. it would keep an eye on my fleet. [ beeping ] and an eye out for danger. with active brake assist. if i built a van, i'd make i

u.n. authorization to liberate kuwait. we did not have u.n. authorization to go to baghdad. and it was the president putting into play once more the long-range thoughtfulness that builds on current circumstances to make the future better. >> the american people went kind of crazy for their soldiers. i'll never forget when we had the parade in washington but he wanted to make it clear. he said, this is for those who did it, not for me. >> america endures because we dared risk our most precious asset, our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our husbands and wives, the finest troops any country has ever had. >> it wasn't the president who was out there taking the high fives. and the modesty that was engrained in him by his family, by his upbringing, that's who he always was. >>> serving on a ship that bears the name "uss george h.w. bush," it is the only aircraft carrier with a living namesake. and that's significant because the presence of that living namesake is felt throughout the ship. >> one of the wonderful days in the life of the ship was the christening, and i

the son went to the united nations to seek authority from the u.n.urity council and got it, in a 15-0 vote, the way his father had recommended. and the way his father had done it when he went in. so i don't think there was a lot of, i mean, i know this. there was no -- he was motivated simply by his love and concern for his son. they didn't have, as far as i know, open debates about the wisdom of this or that or the other. did he have reservations? maybe so. he wouldn't talk about that. >> even to you. >> no. >> this is a guy who has gone skydiving in his 80s. >> yeah. >> what does that tell you about him, and did you -- were you ever tempted to join him? >> i was never tempted to join. he said when are you going to take your skydive? i said -- this was when i was 75 or 80. i said i'm not old enough yet. >> but it says something about, just the physical courage of doing something like that. >> yeah, well, how about the physical courage of enlisting in the navy at the age of 18, the youngest fighter pilot in the navy at the age of 18. and going off to

u.n. security council authorized military intervention on the basis of unconfirmed reports of massacres of civilian protesters. china russia germany brazil and india abstained. on tone was among the libyans who doubted the motivation of the intervention in two thousand and eleven he recorded a video message to libyans. the western world can help us to establish a real democracy in libya because real democracy means independence. but the western world doesn't want us to be independent. the airstrikes were soon underway. french president nicolas sarkozy was among those calling for a swift action. nato secretary general under his folk rasmussen also issued a call to arms to show not that it realizes that he cannot win the battle against its own people that bet. the airstrikes serve to diminish support for the rebels among the libyan people rumors about oil deals and the geo political strategy of the western powers were rife. a spontaneous popular uprising turned into a war waged by strangers. the euphoria that followed get out his death was short lived. rebel groups began to turn on one anoth

u.n. security councivoted unanimously to authorize the deployment, which will not be uniformed or armed.eida, which handles 70% of yemen's imports, has been the site of intense fighting this year, contributing to the ongoing famine in the country. the "yellow vest" protesuets continfor a sixth straight weekend in paris today, but showed signs of losing uteam. policed tear gas and batons on a few demonstrators following a number of small scuffles. authorities estimated only 800 protestors turned out today down from 4,000 last week and 10,00e the week bef. the yellow vest demonstrations began over increased fuel taxes, which were rescinded. protests continue over the high cost of living. two people were arrested last night in connection with illegal gatwick airport.r london's sussex police confirmed the arrests, but stressedhat the investigation is ongoing. flights were grounde36 hours after the drones were first spotted on wednesday. the airport has since reopened, but delays are still expected. the spanish lottery "el gordo" was played today and made a ergroup of lucky ticket ho very ric

and some countries are playing along with the ukrainian authorities confrontational course roscoe rejects the ukrainian sponsored u.n. resolution as a provocation as the document condemns russia over the alleged militarization of crimea. designed to rise against nicaraguan president daniel ortega has cracked down on the media and civil rights groups we could why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country but turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring under. also this hour investment bank goldman sachs faces criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars the company points the finger of blame at the. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me. the u.n. general assembly has now really adopted a ukraine sponsored resolution blaming russia for what it calls the militarization of crimea nearly half the member states abstained from the vote the resolution accuses russia of restricting navigation in the black and sees blasted it as one sided saying it gives kiev a permit to scapegoat russia here is how the assembly unfolded. the united states is pleased to co-sponsor the res

u.n. and the. and the leaders of germany and france the patriot claims ukrainian authorities a using the security services to put pressure on the priests and laymen of the church branch in ukraine with the local media trying them try to. stress the persecution campaign has been no wish to facilitate the creation of an independent breakaway ukrainian author talks church that's independent of moscow. that's a roundup of the news for now i'll be back in around thirty minutes with more headlines but do stay tuned for a documentary get up and touch them. you know i work with school shooters for a period of twelve years and none of the students we work with in our the syllabi ever went on to commit a school shooting so that gives me hope that if you catch the students early enough and provide the kind of support and mental health treatment that they need that they can come out of the crisis. may survive a no confidence vote but now is a lame duck hard. angle has announced a room pending political retirement and the menu well. as president of france is in the balance the three pillars of the e.u. are on shaky gr

authorities are currently assessing the information provided by . all the other side of the conflict iran was accused of violating the u.n. arms embargo against humans who the rebels a un panel was set up to investigate. and there are new missiles that were not possessed in yemen before twenty fifteen and their presence is considered a violation of the un security council resolution twenty two sixteen. there are also other weapons that our team collected data on including drones and materials used as fuel for missiles. from four or five countries and exported to iran. that's what. the panel also documented human rights violations by the who sees however at the same time it highlighted the role of the us brigades in time. in the beginning of the war there was a special committee in saudi arabia responsible for supporting the resistance and ties. money was sent by the committee to brigadier general. and a list of other faction leaders who should receive the money from him. with. the same happen for weapons. would receive it and give a specific amount to other factions according to a list. in december twenty fourth teen saud

porter he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the u.n. nucular scare and in plymouth we cross to patrick and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it and i to open up by saying thanking all three of you to come here to speak out on the behalf of the profession known as journalism it's all it's pretty scarce profession at least. acted out in the live by professionals so i'm glad that you're here gareth let me go to you first and let's talk about journalism because julian a songe is his case his case study as it were is a precedent in the making and it really galls me that the profession cannot see the slippery slope that we're all staring down at once it happens to julian assange as a publisher then who's next go ahead gareth. well i can't agree anymore with what you said it's clear that songe is on the block here in a way that is extremely dangerous to the profession of j

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ground you know many of these covert operations when they're not authorized by governments are illegal and they're violations of the u.n. principles fundamental ones so britain britain is itself a violator of the rules based into. oh system. thank you your that's over the show will be back on wednesday. predicting parliamentary defeat of a flagship policy of breaking up the united kingdom as plausible bret's of agreement until then as the leader. of the day the united nations framework convention on climate change paris agreement though undermined by president will trump after the withdrawal of the us. be over that's shaped france to work or is it time for him to go speaking up time to go with the vote looming just resume's time up to also my campaign wants to remake. all the love. he has there's a saying. there won't be cheap. and then he went through all the countries don't let the idea of the right to scold us come to that he said if we give them everything they do the best. in this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such a country. into the minds of. those who want to run up a similar similar.

ground you know many of these covert operations when they're not authorized by governments are illegal and they're violations of the u.n. principles fundamental ones so britain britain itself violate the rules based into. system. thank you that's it for the show will be back on wednesday. predicted parliamentary defeat of a flagship policy of breaking up the united kingdom as part of the brics agreement until then. the leader will still win the day the united nations framework convention on climate change paris agreement now undermined by president will be the jewel of the u.s. . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only mostly and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. hard. dr vision between. economic consequences as a lot of consequences for people particularly those who live along the border there's a lot of free movement at the moment people move back going forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social social activity and nobody wants to see. you know world of big.

u.n. peacekeeping mission has requested the lebanese authorities toward shore urgent follow up actions in accordance with the responsibilities of the government of lebanon. one of the world's largest defense contractors has warned the canadian government of liability if it's scraps of defense deal with saudi arabia earlier canada's prime minister justin trudeau said that he was looking for a way out of a multi-billion dollar agreement to sell armored vehicles to the kingdom trudeau is under increasing pressure to cancel a veil following the murder of saadi jonas jamal khashoggi and riyadh's role in the war in yemen. so to europe now where britain's prime minister is holding another meeting with her divided cabinet after announcing a mid january parliamentary vote for her e.u. divorce deal with just over one hundred days until britain is to to leave to resume a's cabinet as it is expected to discuss preparing for a break sit without a deal and also trying to decide how to win a half billion dollars in government funding will be allocated to absorb the potential economic chaos meanwhile the

we're going to talk more about this author this week as we broadcast from the u.n. climate summit.nna sustento, climate activist from tacloban, philippines. typhoon haiyan survivor. lost five members of her family and so many more in her community. when we come back, chasing the story. democracy now! tries to question a top climate advisor to president trump. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit here in katowice, poland. protesters on monday disrupted a trump administration-hosted event promoting fossil fuels. it was the only public event hosted by the united states during the summit. the event featured wells griffith, , special asassistanto the president for international energy and environment. griffifith is a longtime republican operative who served as d deputy chief of staff to reince priebus when priebus was chair of the republican national committetee. climate actitivists disruptedd griffith's speech minutes aftftr he began s speaking. >> over a

authorities are currently assessing the information provided by . all the other side of the conflict iran was accused of violating the u.n. arms embargo against humans who the rebels a un panel was set up to investigate. and there are new missiles that were not possessed in yemen before twenty fifteen and their presence is considered a violation of the un security council resolution twenty two sixteen. and . there are also other weapons that our team collected data on including drones and materials used as fuel for missiles. from four or five countries and exported to iran. the panel also documented human rights violations by the who sees however at the same time it highlighted the role of the us brigades in time. in the beginning of the war there was a special committee in saudi arabia responsible for supporting the resistance and ties. money was sent by the committee to brigadier general. us and a list of other faction leaders who should receive the money from him. with. the same happen for weapons. would receive it and give a specific amount to other factions according to a list. in december twenty fourth teen saudi ar

u.n. will play a leading role in the ports. >> french security authorities issued a wanted poster for the in the attack that killed three people. he has a long criminal record and has been flagged for extremism. >>> here at home, the aaa says more than 112 million people will travel this holiday season, 4.4% increase from last year most travel by car nearly 7 million take to the skies. the travel period starts december 22nd and ends on new year's day although there's another survey that says the busiest travel day is the 20th. forewarned that's the news update back to you guys carl, back to you. >> the song says the traffic is terrific >> there's no place like home for the holidays >> thanks, sue. >>> the major averages, s&p keeps dipping in and out of negative territory keep your eye on 2646. that's the level it is 10% off the september 21 highs another target slash for apple this week, one of the latest analysts to make a cut is with n e hesi othf is break. >>> welcome back a rough few months for apple, the stock down more than 20%, relinquishing the company crown to microsoft a number

u.n. headquarters on the security council in just the last couple of minutes authorizing monitors to observe the yemen cease fire. now session ists in the spanish region of catalonia once again at all with the central government a year after the regional parliament held a breakaway referendum without madrid's approval the prime minister is holding a cabinet meeting in barcelona that sparked protests from catalan activist sonia going to go reports. blocked roads. confrontations with police a far cry from the message spain's prime minister hoped to bring to the city headache for the politicians aiming to turn the page on the catalan crisis if there had been doubts about resolving it and friday's events certainly proved them right i don't care about what is being durai we'll stay here they will. share my opinion. and i will follow this movement to achieve our independent they just came here to show ours to show everybody that it is these their homeland and that we don't have anything to do under the spanish government's decision so far i haven't let me think that was according to them supposed

approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to data following negotiations in sweden the warring sides also agree to a prisoner swap of some sixteen thousand detainees. the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster the war has killed an estimated sixty thousand people as many as eighty five thousand children may have starved to death but. it's hoped the by bringing stability to her day to. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed and dozens more injured during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel a state of emergency has been declared in some cities and some schools and universities have been suspended him a morgan reports. this is one of the main markets in battery north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here see all the produce for sale have one thing in common i do need a ship of the mountain because i'm saying a cross is a hard tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it costs forty pounds or less i will everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things you can buy and then there is the bread crisi

u.n. secretary-general's special envond for climate action the co-author of "climate of hope." mayor bloomberg, welcome back to cheet the press." >> thank you very >> let's start with i want your take-away on the v yellowt movement in paris. what, what went wrong and how france implemented what they did? what lessons are you taking away from what you've seen so far? >> wha you have there is people who were asked to do somethind and didn'tstand what they were going to get out of it. you can take jerry brown, who stood up for gasoline tax. some people didn't like it. but he got it through. because people understood that there was a problem. they didn't have the infrastructure they needed. they need to raise the revenue. and they went and took that. and taxed themselves. because there was a value to and i think the big problem that we have right now, is we a have climate change problem. the world is getting hotter there are bigger storms than ever before. there are droughtsre we used to have floods and vice-versa. our water is getting less and we've got to do something about it. a

authority ahead of a planned. thousands of activists have been demonstrating in. action against climate change the march comes as the halfway mark of the u.n. climate conference in the polish city of culture you. get from nearly two hundred states they're discussing how to implement the goal of the twenty fifteen. summers . women have come forward in brazil to use so-called psychics joy did use of sexual abuse the woman claimed the self declared he abused them on the premise of transferring his so-called cleansing energy his reputation reaches far beyond prison but for those of the us europe and australia. a new leader is taking over the reins of germany's ruling christian democrats off the party's congress in. mr secure member support to replace. the party. now faces the dual challenge of unifying the party regional connections. and winning back both those from the far right from the germany which has made headway throughout the country in recent elections. as the new cd. is now in pole position to also become a potties candidate for chancellor when eventually steps down as german leader who's head of politics. spoke. about some of our fo

authorities are currently assessing the information provided by . the other side of the conflict iran was accused of violating the u.n. arms embargo against humans who the rebels a un panel was set up to investigate. there are new missiles that were not possessed in yemen before twenty fifteen and their presence is considered a violation of the un security council resolution twenty two sixteen. there are also other weapons that our team collected data on including drones and materials used as fuel for missiles. from four or five countries and exported to iran. that's what. the panel also documented human rights violations by the who sees however at the same time it highlighted the role of the us brigades in time. to get help. in the beginning of the war there was a special committee in saudi arabia responsible for supporting the resistance and ties. money was sent by the committee to brigadier general. us and a list of other faction leaders who should receive the money from him. with. the same happen for weapons. would receive it and give a specific amount to other factions according to a list. in december twenty four

u.n. climate conference in poland also coming up. unsafe conditions forced the closure of a massive migrant camp and want to and u.s. mexican border the migrants fear the authorities have an ulterior motive for moving them to another site. and a surprise announcement from qatar the gulf state has been drawing from the opec oil cartel it's been a member of that organization for about six decades so what's behind the move. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the u.n. secretary general says the world is way off course in the fight against climate change and tony a guitarist was speaking from the polish city of color beachy where the most important talks on global warming in years are underway the conference officially opened today the terrorists telling delegates that mankind must drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to avert runaway global warming for the next two weeks the delegates will be discussing how to implement the two thousand and fifteen paris agreement. well the u.n. secretary general opening that conference with an urgent warning we are in deep trouble with climate change climate changes are coming faster than we. and we much cat

u.n. would come to geneva stockholm or other places and say we need to talk about a transitional government authority and then to the war in yemen a national unity government they know that all the parties are in charge for the time being however this is what they are trying to do first of all they would like to start with some confidence building measures like presidents walk. and then they would like to move to words how to tackle the issue of her data which is a vital lifeline for the yemenis under the control of the whole thing as the government backed by saudi arabia says it is determined to take over by military means the city of the u.n. has suggested in suggesting that it would like to oversee the operation and the management of the seaport of data then they would like to ensure that all the parties will work together to words consider dating the economy and also agreeing on a central bank and someone who would run the central baghdad gets a backdrop of this divide in the country then they would move to the third phase which is basically the political for the time being when we we've been tal

airports authorities say their investigation is still underway flying a drone within one kilometer of an airport is illegal in britain anyone convicted of the offense could spend five years in prison. the u.n. general assembly has agreed along debated migration pact the non-binding deal aims to ensure the safe passage of migrants around the world and for most cooperation among nations five countries voted against it including the us hungry in israel austria and australia were among the twelve nations who abstained citing concerns about sovereignty of. british artist banksy has confirmed that a new graffiti piece in the wall of town of port talbot is indeed his season's greetings the image appears on two sides of a garage. locals have now put up a fence to protect the latest work by the famous artist whose true identity remains unknown. it's to china now where campaigners are hoping to secure the release of a photographer famed for his work covering politically charged issues that china's government controlled press prefers to avoid. has been missing for more than a month and chinese authorities have now confirmed that he wasn't he'd arrested in the shin jang region where there's been a mas

u.n. and so on so that was one of the concerns. people had about what rob but i think it's going to occur i mean there's not much the president has the authority as commander in chief to order the troops to leave and congress can can sometimes block measures but it's more it would more be cutting off funds for deployments already occurred not ordering troops back into the field they just don't have that authority it would seem from your point of view from your vantage point here in the region what is the reaction in the halls of power in the arab world to all of this well you know the political situation in the. north of the sari so there is chaos everywhere out of that is the arab league is not in a position to make any decision on anything and let's not forget that actually be a major crisis political crisis that. saudi arabia has with the. assassination of jamal khashoggi that probably that.

u.n. secretary general's special envoy for climate action and co-ah shore of "climate of hope." author. >> thank you. >> i want to take your thoughts on the yellow vests of paris. what went wrong and what france implemented what they did and your take away. >> you had people asked to do something and didn't understand what they were going to get out of it. you can take jerry brown that stood up for gasoline tax. some people didn't like it but he got it through because some understood it was a problem and didn't have the infrastructure they needed and needed to raise the revenue. they took that and taxed themselves because there was a value to them. i think the big problem we have right now is we have a climate change problem. the world is getting hotter, bigger storms than ever before. drought and floods, vice-versa, the water is getting less and we have to do something about it. we have this great challenge and we have an opportunity. the challenge is what we do about it and the opportunity is the value of what we do. that gets back to the same thing you were talking about in paris. >

u.n. from the secretary general's perspective of the perspective of the high commissioner for human rights our outrage at the targeting of minibuses and we've called for there to be. authority best occasioned this attack obviously these various attacks obviously all international humanitarian law must be respected and we need to make sure that there is a proper test a geisha and we'll have to see whether that happens or not. the thought the bus bombing triggered international condemnation. the commander of u.s. air forces central command lieutenant general geoffrey harrigan severely criticised both the coalition and the saudi authorities. the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrets went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi led coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack. and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident and what we want to see is a stop to the fighting where we want to see is

u.n. group of government experts was created 15 countries with no negotiating authority. the task was reconvened and met several times. by 2015 they had come up with quite an interesting stat of the norms for the internet and for reducing conflict on the internet and it was approved by the g20, which is the 20 largest economies in the world and also by the u.n. general assembly. among the most interesting norms was you can't ban any particular programs. you can't ban weapons because they are meaning less. but she can ban certain target and data civilian targets. we are to do that. we have norms. even when you're in a war you don't own the hospital. though assad does that. most major state do obey these norms. so they afforded these norms which you might call the laws of armed conflict and got agreement from 15 states. the problem was the russians immediately violated their actions in ukraine. s.the chinese were little better on this. just this past week there was a resolution passed at the u.n. to reconvened a group of government expertss which in 2017 has failed. they tr

u.n. to in the palestinian's bid for statehood and at the time the palestinian authorities were saying that she quote represented the narrative of the palestinians this is not the first time that her home has been demolished and again as she stood outside with many supporters rallying behind her she said my home has been demolished before we will rebuild again and this afternoon so the palestinian authority indicated that it would fund the rebuilding of her home indeed the top i mean the demolition becomes. hot on the heels of quite a tense we can israel on the occupied west bank and as we heard saeb erekat speaking to us earlier on al-jazeera israel concerned about an escalation in violence what's the general sense that you've got having spoken to people in the area in the focal point of where this incident happened. what we attended a protest a friday protest and honestly so there seem to be as many journalists as protesters there but the atmosphere is still quite tense i think it's more concentrated in pockets throughout ramallah schools and universities were closed about sixty five pale

u.n. force, but at the end of the day, the solution would be political. authority toe reach an agreement with the population in the north. knowre from malley and you there's a problem between the need and north, and we political compromise. the other part of the issue is libya. you regularly have terrorists groups going from libya to malley and they are stopped by the french. but, it is endless. that's the second problem. the victim of the situation in libya. just on you and reform, i don't think one should have hope for reform unless and until the united states has the leadership and will to take it on as a major endeavor, and that is not the case right now. jonathan: we haven't solved the world -- solved the world's problem and i'm not even sure if we -- with great people like this working on these issues, i cannot help feel hopeful. join me in thanking our fabulous panel. [applause] announcer: when the new congress takes office in january, it will have the youngest, host diverse class in recent history. new congress, new leaders. watch it live on c-span starting

u.n. group of government experts was created, 15 countries, with no negotiating authority. but they were given a task and it was reconvened and met several times. by 2015, they had come up with quite an interesting set of norms for the internet and for conflict, for reducing conflict on the internet. and it was approved by the g-20, which is the 20 largest economies in the world, and also by the u.n. general assembly. among the most interesting norms was that you can't ban any particular programs. you can't ban weapons because that's meaningless in terms of the internet. but you can ban certain targets and that's civilian targets and we already do that. we have norms. even when you're in a war, you don't bomb a hospital. assad does it but nonetheless, in general, most major states do obey these norms. so they imported these norms which you might call the laws of armed conflict, into internet conflict, and got agreement from 15 states. the problem was that the russians immediately violated it with their actions in ukraine. the chinese were a little better on this. and just t

approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to data following negotiations in sweden the warring sides also agree to a prisoner swap of some sixteen thousand detainees. the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster has killed an estimated sixty thousand people as many as eighty five thousand children may have starved to death because. it's hope that by bringing stability to her day to. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow. the u.s. senate has adjourned until thursday meaning there will be no immediate end to the partial shutdown of the us government is the third one this year and means that eight hundred thousand workers won't be paid over christmas.

u.n. more than sixteen billion dollars a year is moved offshore from west africa illegally which amounts to more than the g.d.p. of six of its poorest countries combined second governance authorities here either lack the ability or the will to stop money from being stashed offshore where computex and as the investigations reveal politicians are often the worst culprits . and then you have the media news organizer. on state run typically and by those in power or those close to the second average all too often visit away from holding the teacher count which is why didn't take long for these journalists to start finding some newsworthy stories. the second largest and the second poorest country in west africa. editor of the eleven more newspaper is investigating a government funded project worth of around thirteen million dollars in two thousand and nine a contract to build a modern refrigerated stroll to house was awarded to an obscure australian company rich studio with links to the new syrian minister of livestock. in the day i found that money was paid to the australian firm but a large amount of it went missing the new facility was meant to boost measures meat industry when he we

u.n. from the secretary general's perspective and the perspective of the high commissioner for human rights our outrage at the targeting of minibuses and we've called for there to be. authority based occasioned this attack obviously these various attacks obviously all international humanitarian law must be respected and we need to make sure that there is a proper test a geisha and we'll have to see whether that happens or not. the thought the bus bombing triggered international condemnation. the commander of u.s. air forces central command lieutenant general geoffrey harrigan severely criticised both the coalition and the saudi authorities. the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrick's went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi lets coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack. and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident what we want to see is a stop to the fighting what we want to see is

say that we are the legitimate authority of the control huge area that's russia's from saddam all the border with saudi arabia all the way to the city of ties. but for the u.n. and aid agencies it's a situation that could further deepen the humanitarian crisis which is one of the worst in the world we're talking about forty million people on the verge on the brink of famine two million children who suffer from severe malnutrition and thousands of people who are driven out of their homes and villages across the country they see that and the port city particularly against the backdrop of the international pressure building up against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for the need to stop the military campaign in yemen and and pursue a peaceful way out to the crisis this explains why there are huge expectations here in stockholm about the need for a breakthrough that would put and and to the conflict that has been going on for almost four years now in yemen. let's bring in our panel now to talk more about this joining us via skype now from london is elizabeth kendal a yale specialist at pembroke college and university of oxford in san our we have her s