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in sight almost about those ramifications of the ramifications the warning that we had from the u.n. fact government is that unless something is done in libya pretty soon they say that they could see myself actually taking control of a large parts of the country and that is a very serious warning yet another big issue charlotte dubin ski in part of us live this hour thank you. greece is set to step up its demand for germany to pay world war two rep. to the sum of nearly three hundred billion euro athens has long been seeking compensation for the nutty iraqi patient but berlin says that it's been set off or europe correspondent peter oliver has the latest details on this long running saga. europe could be set for the reopening of some painful historical wounds the greek parliament has asked germany for billions of euro for the nazi occupation of the country during world war two the demand for german war reparations is a historical and moral debt for us it will help us build a better future in our relations with germany today therefore we have a duty to give our two peoples the opportunity

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it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories the head of libya's u.n. fact government has accused the board of khalifa haftar of the trail of a has military offensive on the capital tripoli prob mystifies out of iraq since the forces will confront how fast troops to turn the nation they have been protesting venezuela's capital for and against president the little opposition they took on the old around the borders and caucus while in another part of the city thousands backed. and thousands of protesters in sudan have mobbed on president omar al bashir his residence and the nearby army headquarters in the capital and it is the closest that got to that part of the city sudden anti-government demonstrations began in december a civilians also being killed in protests on both mon. israel heads to the polls on tuesday to elect a new government almost twenty percent of the palestinian israelis who said they're discriminated against or recent polls suggest that a growing number of them intend to boycott the election stephanie decker reports from northern israel these

. >> nawaz: you mentioned the u.n. fact-finding mission and you mentioned a very important rd to this conversation which is "genocide." that's a legal determination that has to be made. has the u.s. made the same determination. at would change if they were to? >> the u.s. has the state department carried out a very thorough investigation which outlaid all the atrocities thate appened, and largely echoed the fact-finding mission, but they fell short of making a determination of whether crimes against humanity or genocide happened. and that's important because you dmake thermination, and then there's requisite action that should me along with it. and that's what we haven't seen, and what we need to see is a coordinated global strategy towards this. and so we would lov to see an actual determination and these steps taken, a presidential envoy appointed to go after this. i mean, i think it'ling that the president of the united states has not yet directly addressed what's happened to the ivhingya. >> nawaz: dan su, of refugees i

though she was there in the height of the ethnic cleansing capaign that was happening and what a u.n. fact-finding mission said should be tried as genocide. and she described what is, unfortunately, very familiar from past conversations i've had with refugee refugees about mass happening, people being killed, and villages burned. she survived that and was unable to flee at that time bu now is able to flee but talks about how conditions haven't improved ae tting worse. >> nawaz: these are folks were able to tk to in bangladesh, but there are many who remain myanmar. what is life like there? do you have access to theitir comms there? >> yes, access is very restricted to the rohingya who continue to live in rakind state, and particularly rakhine state. and there are only a couple of t grout are able to get in. and there's also not eyes on the ground fora what ses are happening. we had refugees telling bus seeing food dropped off, and then as soon as the internat it was being confiscated. so there's a lot of abuses going on that we're hearing about, but thsinternational community not really be

indeed yes in fact the military action has very clearly taken the u.n. by surprise but there is some speculation in corridos here that it is precisely because of this conference that this military action has been started basically the argument goes that khalifa haftar is attempting to establish his credentials to be included in the political process using force armed force to do so attempting to remind the united nations that he is a player in libya needs to be treated as such that may be an optimistic view but to all intents and purposes while this military action continues the conference this very crucial conference in terms of the u.n. road map towards elections is going to be very difficult to pull together indeed mike many thanks. hundreds of thousands of algerians are out in the streets of the capital now they're demanding even more change in the government after reports the intelligence chief was sacked earlier on friday and their long time president resigned earlier this week has been at smith with more. algeria's military might be disappointed i

u.n. must send fact finding missions set up commissions of inquiry sanctioned perpetrators and collect evidence to prosecute cases at the international criminal court and you write it is shameful that most incidents of mass rape are still met with mass impunity does this resolution does it bring us closer. two the things you say have to happen and we're still very far from that this is a very watered down text today the language was about recalling about reminding there was little word a mention of the word in force for example i want to run you through some of the key points with regards to my op ed and then with regards to the resolution so the resolution recalls the responsibility of states to end impunity and prosecute prosecute war crimes it does not say what it will do if states do not adhere to that so no mention of the word inforce meant it does note that un commissions of fact finding and inquiry are appropriate in that case but sure that's the case with any war crime that has been committed in the past whether that is genocide whether that's the use of chemical weapons so not much new

u.n. blueprint the fact that the u.n. secretary general went to tripoli to help organize this particular conference a clear sign perhaps that the u.n. has taken note of the criticism against it for it's a lack of effort some contend in terms of dealing with the crisis in libya since the fall of gadhafi mike thanks very much let's talk now to have it all go well he's a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute at john hopkins university he joins us from washington if it all go well the u.n. secretary general antonio ters beyond his message of let's have a little bit of deescalation here what can he bring to the table. i don't think much he declared yesterday a very clearly and categorically that his. number one priority is to prevent conflict and that's why he is shuttling between tripoli and benghazi but that also gives a certain kind of weight to general huffed who is using very clearly military means to try to manipulate himself into the political settlement in libya and to impose his will i think giving him a large

u.n. council but in fact the european union is also facing the same blockage the g. seven is also facing the same blockage the p three plus three u.s. u.k. france italy u.a.e. and egypt none of these configurations include russia and they use the exact same language so the only thread that ties them together was the french and the french have been giving assistance they have to let me on the defense minister was and was in russia in eastern libya eleven days ago claiming that he was waiting for after his victories now with the duplicity of the highest order to us assume that they back into or give international support to the u.n. but government in tripoli was giving discrete military and diplomatic support and immunity for half there in eastern libya because until it gets there was was in tripoli last week and was unable to name him they've given the u.n. the hardest job possible on earth because they've been blocking and paralyzing the u.n. for the last eleven days and that is a serious problem that he has to face and because the humanitarian catastrophe that could

dimity yesterday and today including the fact that the u.n. secretary went to meet him and give him that legitimacy the fact that if the security council does not strongly condemn him by name and followed through with its promises over the years that it will put anybody any spoilers or any anyone who uses military means to impose political solutions in libya that they will be put on sanctions i think that will strengthen him more and that will divide the country it will delay the peace process and i think it can open the country towards syria's civil war because he's not going to enter tripoli without a serious and very bloody war. and that was a risk also opening libya all over again to powers like that. if the u.n. does if the u.n. names him points a finger at him do they not however run the risk of maintaining the status quo i.e. they run the risk of keeping him locked in to being part of the problem not part of the solution. well they've tried to include him in the solution for the last three four years and they have consistently failed tha

international community has given him more power and legitimacy yesterday and today including the fact that the u.n. secretary went to meet him and give him that legitimacy the fact that if the security council does not strongly condemn him by name and followed through with its promises over the years that it will put anybody any spoilers or any anyone who uses military means to impose political solutions in libya that they will be put on sanctions i think that will strengthen him more and that will divide the country it will delay the peace process and i think it can open the country towards syria's civil war because he's not going to enter tripoli without a serious and very bloody war. and that was a risk also opening libya all over again to powers legged out which if the u.n. does if the u.n. names him or you points a finger at him.

who haven't been sentenced to life in prison and what about i mean the criticism for that or the fact the u.n. is raising this and talking about. counter terrorism and countries just nation how likely are they to listen to this kind of report. does not have a fantastic track record on heeding the concerns that are issued by the united nations and certainly not from their own human rights defenders so frontline we are always saying that the experts on the issue are the human rights defenders on the ground the human rights defenders in the country quite to the contrary. has taken to punishing often violently human rights defenders who speak out against these abuses so as i was saying our own colleague is serving a life sentence in prison we have heard for example from women human rights defenders that sexual assault and sexual torture in detention is actually increasing for women human rights defenders who speak out against these sorts. violations against the stripping of citizenship people who are working on children's rights for example have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms tortured and

u.n. is more important than their needs, despite the fact the u.n. said there needs should be central to any efforts. amy: this is nonbinding. talk about the effects of us on the ground. you have long worked on these issues of sexual violence, and what it means to address sexual and reproductive health. >> the most important thing, which is true to all of these resolutions, many of which have important and great ideas in them, is to see them get implemented. i think how it will play out on the ground is going to depend on how much political will there is to implement these mechanisms that exist, even though we were not able to create more mechanisms. i think one of the important things in the new resolution is greater support for sanctions, for perpetrators. i think we have to see, are these perpetrators going to be sanctioned? can we use the existing tools which by large have not been effective to date, not because they can't be effective, but because they have not been used properly? i think what the survivors said -- amy: the democratic republic o

u.n. sanctions that have the fact the in the country who last couple years and it's looking for some kind of lean especially as the stimulator ization deal isn't happening very quickly. and really asked me could russia was keen on raising has gone commercial nuclear program and they did in these talks was any indication that some progress was made on this issue. well speaking after the talks flooding here putin said that north korea wants further security guarantees including on its sovereignty the sovereignty of the country itself in order to go forward with a deed nuclearized nation process he also emphasized that russia has. a lot in common when it comes to their position on denuclearize ation with the u.s. he said again that russia is interested in do nuclear arising and in the korean peninsula peninsula being denuclearize and also in nonproliferation around the world more generally after all for russia this is an important issue as well because they want stability on their border we shouldn't forget that russia after all shares a land border with north korea and putin was also very m

u.n. security council on the fact that francaise chatted for a month germany's chair and now for another it wants to chair it for much longer or at least it wants to get a permanent seat i have to correct myself on the security council what are what are its chances germany for a very long time as you say sara has tried to have a permanent seat on the security council some of the arguments that he has said is that is one of the sort of key donors a major contributor to the u.n. budget it is also a key provider of troops within the u.n. framework those are those are arguments that germany has that time and time again germany is not the only country that wants a permanent seat in the in the u.n. security council as part of a wider u.n. reform other countries just brazil or india also want the same thing so their goal is clear whether they will reach that goal that is something more difficult analysts said that it's a very slow process and that it is very unlikely they will happen any time soon ok well in the meantime though it's going to be an interesting month indeed something there are polit

military support for any of the parties in libya in fact there's a u.n. embargo on arms control but some countries have been blatantly ignoring that and the strange thing is that nobody seems to be in bulling until very recently to name them or frame them so do you think that this recent offensive by a highly for have to tripoli is going to change the mind of some of these countries whose back to him until now into not doing so anymore quite possibly yes certainly there was an article in the french position saying that from to the barest because they've given support in the past monitors or in the past when he was establishing its control in the eastern part of libya in benghazi and are in america but they weren't expecting him it seems to launch this offensive you can properly as a matter of fact i think. pretty well any observer of libya over the last to europe to has been well aware that that was his intention the timing took us all by surprise but the intention was the do you think. in london that western powers like france were indeed caught off guar

u.n. security council resolution that enshrines that deal which is effectively international law and the fact that the u.s. now by trying to stop the exemptions for countries that are still trading with iranian oil was encouraging other countries now to contravene a u.n. security council. a ruling and resolution which is binding international law so that was that those were the main comments with regard to those developments on the iran nuclear deal but in the last few moments of this gathering we've had a very important on. for i think from the iranian foreign minister he bought up the british prisoner notes to dean's adare rachleff and then mentioned in a rainy and who was being held in australia and then said to this gathering that he had the or thora to to negotiate here and now an exchange of all prisoners western prisoners being held in iran and others who are being held in the west he said that was a real offer and he had the authority to make that offer a prisoner exchange at a large level being offered in the final moments of this address by the iranian foreign minister. and of cours

u.n.. nothing, not createte except goodwill, which i salute. in fact we talk about rape conflict, we need to act and do it now. only society will make this change. >> thank you for speaking to us. just over one month ago, mali witnessed its worst mass killing in years. more than 160 people, mainly women and d childrenen, were slaughtered. is underway.ion the massacre led to the displacement of several people. report is by christine and frank. >> 1500 displaced live in this makeshift camp. the memorieses of the attack remain fierce. >> only those who could run managed to get help and escape. all of the others, the men and t they and children, slaughterered some of the chchildren. they slit their throats. pregnant women were disemboweled. brother, his sister-in-law, and three-month-old nephew. woman, , thethis village had been placed under an embargo. >> they were worried about getting hold of condiments. before we knew what was happening, they attacked the village. we have lost hope. >> when you see your family has been burned to death or your children,

let's talk about the those facts first of all the u.n. so called the inquiry commission for the human rights council it is a joke so what happened there and what happened last year you have sixty thousand people marching to our fans what would have happened you think if you would have come to the sense of the will break the silence and then what they would say that it we want to go back to gather no they would continue they would march into our communities in israel and their id card and there we were among them they said we want to kidnap israelis we want to kill israelis so that the law is the one is the solution then so let me ask you this question what is the solution to gaza because in the past your solution you personally called for quote the deletion you said every neighborhood in gaza from which a rocket is fired should be deleted you said electricity and fuel should be cut off to gaza all of that is a war crime you know that it's a war crime to do those things that you're proposing so let's look first of all what's happening in g

u.n. says that they are in fact supported by u.s. forces but really there is no accountability for them that they act with impunity they are calling floor specially the cost protection force which is this kind of pro-government militia which which goes into these areas and does these night raids that they need to be disbanded or formally incorporated into the forces because right now they can act with impunity and there is no accountability for the civilians being killed the u.n. says the numbers stand up they have verified that they have how they have conducted all the kind of research gathering is the gold standard for the u.n. in that they have got three sources on all of these the one positive is that overall civilian casualties are down by twenty three percent the reason for that coming from a massive decrease in the number of deaths from taliban suicide i text they have ranged that in significantly compare. last year the same last year they conducted nine hundred suicide attacks this year so far just four. are u.s. forces afgha

green mainly in the side here as well but all over the country in fact or to charlotte dubin ski reports now on the road between the u.n. and france over the north african nation. the un backed government in tripoli making some pretty stark allegations against the french government saying they're actually supporting the all the sides that france has categorically deny that today with an official presidential spokesperson saying no france recognizes the u.n. backed government in tripoli and that the president and the prime minister house a large is the only person the president might go on is speaking with including as recently as this monday but of course it's not the first time that france has been accused of pushing its own city to contests in this oil rich country ahead of anything else it's really has made this claim it would be very serious difference for economic or commercial reasons and blocked an e.u. initiative to bring peace to libya and would support a party that is fighting as minister of the interior or will not stand by and watch what we've seen in recent weeks is an increased escalation since the beginn

u.n. the major. supporting city of have to in fact have to has. a military base there actually. running the operations the military operations in tripoli. is there and say that the have this forces are putting snipers on top of the roofs on high buildings and they were getting ready for an expected offensive from the government forces to take control of the city of that again but yet the restall some buckets of have their forces in the south in the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli the govern forces seems to be trying to. surround have to as forces in the southern outskirts of tripoli today thousands of libyans took to the streets and many squares in several cities especially tripoli the capital tripoli and the city of misrata condemning the military attack on tripoli and calling on the international community including the united nations and the european union to put pressure on have to his forces to end this military escalation as you know that several civilians have been killed and wounded the beginning of this offensive on april fools and thousands have been forced o

u.n. is a major problem, in terms of the plant that it has got a plan a a. in terms of the facterms of the fact that it has got a plan a, they conference. the plan b is not in place and that poses major problems in libya. and while the u.n. supports the government in tripoli, there are some u.n. members who have been giving financial and military support to the rebels. these countries, such as egypt and the uae, maybe some members are bringing pressure to bear on them to attempt to curb the military offensive by the rebels. but it is a major issue. as i said, plan a was the conference of national reconciliation leading to an electoral process. if that does not happen, it does not appear the u.n. does not have anything ready to put in its place. host: thank you very much for the latest from the united nations as that special session continues, mike hanna. iq, mike. our the top story, -- thank you, mike. our other top story, thousands of protesters in the algerian capital as the president announces his resignation after nearly 20 years in power. it led to celebrations across the c

u.n. mediator can you know broker a ceasefire but the fact of the matter is you've got to back up your words when some threat of action well i obviously he has the strongest military forces but it would be a bloody battle because in addition to the government forces you also have in misrata you've got another militia and they have said they would fight with the government too so nobody wins if you see if you start some sort of war and the question is will you be willing to send in some peacekeeping forces to keep the parties apart oman slaughter is a professor of politics at the university of texas in san antonio he says a leaf of stars move on tripoli shouldn't be seen as a surprise. the man has been saying it over the last two years as you say number. and he has been building his is trying to do that ultimately he has the he has he has the the hardware he has the will and it to use that's all well and has communicated to his intentions among so why his surprise today they're going to they can make as many speeches and deliberation experience but it is a little of both i mean the timing see

u.n. that c.r. is stating in the end want to have. you know we've been involved in myanmar for a very long period of time decades in fact and it's one of the world's largest stateless populations as well so we've worked very closely with the me and mark government we have been involved in a tripartite arrangement with the u.n. development program with the myanmar government ourselves and part of that is to look at areas within state northern state where we can. implement quick impact projects to try to provide some support to host communities in kind but also to those. populations as well we have been able to access some areas but not all and obviously would seek to access all if we can about thirty five of these projects have been already agreed to with me in. our government these are very small infrastructure small water or health related activities and we have asked for support for about the same number in the second cycle so we continue to work on this again to develop some of the conditions that may make it possible we hope for refugees to be able to return voluntarily and safely. that was u.n.h.c.r. deputy high commissioner kelly

for the future of libya as they were planning for a national conference and the fact that all of this happened while the u.n secretary general was making his first visit in libya to try to prepare for those a national conference for that national conference i think they are certainly. very concerned about this and concerned about the sort of arrogance of the timing of it james bays thank you very much indeed. if you can investigators say the pilots of a plane which crashed last month followed correct procedure as recommended by boeing the preliminary report says the airlines jet repeatedly nose dived as the pilots battled to control it all one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew died shortly after takeoff from ads have a regular one hundred reports. it's been almost a month since a boeing seven three seven took off from ethiopia's capital addus ababa bound for nairobi it crashed six minutes later near the town of the shaft to killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board it's obvious transport minister has now released the first official findings of the investigation into the crash with says the p

well we have to look at the facts on the ground and as a former u.n. investigator for sexual violence i interviewed hundreds of rango women who'd been subjected to brutal gang rape and when they crossed the border from me a mile into bangladesh there was a lack of access to reproductive and health sexual services and it resulted not only in some of the women and girls dying but them being having children born of rape so we have to look at two parts of it one is the security council resolution itself and the absence of these services but what has been the impact on the ground and how are we going to improve services to women and girls were representing women and girls in south sudan who were brutally gang raped and subjected to sexual slavery when they cross the border from south sudan into uganda there was also not live aid ability of these services so the u.s. is this is a culmination of its policy of not just support organizations to assist women who have been survivors of brutal sexual violence and i think we have to look at the bigger picture and w

u.n. recognize government has asked the security council to appoint a fact finding mission to investigate alleged violations by the forces attacking the capital pressure is mounting on sudan's military leadership with one hundred judges joining protesters in the man being a civilian government demonstrating for the first time the judges marched from the supreme courts joint hundreds of thousands of people outside army headquarters shortly after the march of sudan's transitional military council announced it would hand over executive power to civilians but retain sovereign authority. almost seventy people have been killed and more than a thousand have fled their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in south africa it's once again raise the concern about poor government infrastructure the french president has announced plans to significantly cut income tax as part of reforms to quote transform france emanuel mccrone address the nation in the attempt to pacify the yellow vest protesters. where the top stories on al-jazeera stay with us coming up next it's one no one east tha

u.n. arms trade treaty and i am officially announcing today that the united states will be revoking. the a fact. of america's signature from this badly misguided treatment when taking our signature back to so what is it will the united nations arms trade treaty aims to promote global peace and stability and requires that signatories ensure the weapons they're exporting do not end up in the wrong hands more than one hundred countries have ratified the deal the us signed up to it under barack obama but never actually formally joined at the un has responded to the trumpet ministrations decision to drop its support for the deal. the arms trade treaty is the only global instrument aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the international arms trade it is a landmark achievement in the efforts to ensure responsibility in international arms transfers this is particularly important in present times when we witness growing international tensions and renewed interest in expanding and modernizing our. was during a speech president trump also said that he would never let foreign bureaucrats qu

well we have to look at the facts on the ground and as a former u.n.investigator for sexual violence i interviewed hundreds of rango women who'd been subjected to brutal gang rape and when they crossed the border from me a mile into bangladesh there was a lack of access to reproductive and health sexual services and it resulted not only in some of the women and girls dying but them being having children born of rape so we have to look at two parts of it one is the security council resolution itself and the absence of these services but what has been the impact on the ground and how are we going to improve services to women and girls were representing women and girls in south sudan who were brutally gang raped and subjected to sexual slavery when they cross the border from south sudan into uganda there was also not be availability of these services so the u.s. is this is a culmination of its policy of not just support organizations to assist women who have been survivors of brutal sexual violence and i think we have to look at it in the bigger picture a

there are allegations of chemical weapons attack being used fact finding missions sent that said though a lot of resistance now to this text at the u.n. security council and also mentally we could see is a very wanted down version of this text amounting to little more than an informal walking group on women peace and security helen hunt for your reporting there are a short while ago in northern ireland dissident group of the new irish republican army has said it killed journalists laura mckee during last week's violence and derry also known as londonderry mckee's death led to an outpouring of support and raised fears are over the stability of the northern irish peace process and his statements the new ira said mckee's death was accidental and that its members have been targeting security forces. the statement was received late on monday by the northern irish newspaper the irish news in it the dissident republican group calling itself the new ira admits responsibility for the death of reliever mckee in the northern irish city of derry londonderry the group apologized saying the killing of the young journalist was not intentional. in t

there are allegations of chemical weapons attack being used fact finding missions sent that said a lot of resistance now to this text at the u.n. security council and also mentally we could see is a very rude to down version of this text amounting to little more than an informal working group on women peace and security i mean it's frankly baffling how and why are some countries resisting this most notably the u.s. china and russia. i would say that. as well but without resistance coming from the u.s. russia and china what they are against is that formal mechanism to enforce that formal reporting mechanism in prominent prophets in the un special envoy on sexual violence in conflict zones and said we're about to be removed this would be a very weak text indeed how would you enforce how would you police the united states has also got further resistance when it comes to language over women's reproductive rights saying that this is essentially a tacit endorsement of abortion and that really echoes the policy we've seen coming from the trump administration in recent months with regards to women's reproductive rights now in terms of

policy in order to enrich himself whether any of these allegations are in fact true that military move by libya's warlord has put the u.n. backed government on alert troops loyal to the have to are opposed to video online showing a large convoy of heavily armed vehicles. based in the east but he's ordered his forces to head west towards the capital tripoli site what they call the remaining terror groups after his troops about by the u.s. saudi arabia and egypt are half of the al girl is among resident fellow at johns hopkins university he says relief i have to his time the troop movement towards tripoli to come inside for the libyan national conference in a couple of weeks. i think that would like to force the hands of the board the u.n. and those attending. in a way that does not exclude him fearing that this conference may start a whole new path for libya in the next few years and that he may not be. included in that process or his objectives are not included after it has one he wanted to do this for for quite a while i know directly from senior u.s. officials that during the obama administration that at the end of tw

i think it's clearly a development but given the fact that i have to decided to launch this offensive while the u.n. secretary general was in tripoli i think you got to see that as a measure of the amount of respect that the allen is willing to give the u.n. i think really though what we're getting from this security council statement is also the views of some of the backers of after as forces clearly for that statement to come out it has to be backed by france for example and we saw yesterday as well but you know the united arab emirates and egypt both issued statements calling for a cessation of the advance so that is perhaps an indication that have to didn't have a green light for his activities. vast crowds of protesters a flooded the streets of algeria's capital in the first mass demonstrations since the president announced his resignation abdulaziz beautifully his departure after nearly twenty years in power at the celebrations across the country but the protesters want radical change and say they'll keep up the pressure to push out a corrupt elite algerian media say the country's spy chief w

u.n. is a good stage on which to demonstrate that that's in fact what's happening so why does the u.s. keep going this route to accomplish what it is that it seems they're trying to accomplish. it's a good question i don't think there's an easy answer to that it seems from where i'm sitting that possibly be the main reason maybe that the u.n. is a good platform in the sense that it you know when when mike pence goes to the security council makes a speech obviously it makes a lot of noise and it makes the news wait and it puts the venezuelan situation in high up the agenda where clearly the united states wants it to be of mean this week we've got not only mike pence of the security council we've got. a i believe is going the secretary of state is going to colombia we've got elliott abrams who's the special representative on that as well and he's going to be in in spain and portugal so this is something that the trumpet ministration apparently is putting a lot of weight on and are the sanctions putting any pressure on nicholas when are they working at all. well this is a country in very

u.n. children's fund says that more aid is needed in mozambique alawi and zimbabwe nearly one thousand people died because of the psych loan and more than two million were fact that many of them in the harbor city of beirut and was on bank. houses destroyed and self are slowly being rebuilt but the u.n. is struggling to reach areas around mozambique second biggest city that are still water logged. rescue teams are using amphibious vehicles as well as boats and helicopter to work out there and it's painstaking and we just have to keep at it and again maybe the headlines are over in terms of like the big cycle and that it but the work and the gravity of the situation remains very much a reality today. the united nations world food program has managed to deliver tons of food and other aid to accessible areas hundreds of thousands of people have received hope. today i'm getting paid for the first time myself until now i have gotten by with most my daughter and grandchildren received after their houses were destroyed. around half a million small holders and their families lost their livelihoods in the storm harvests and a large part of their seed stocks for next

u.n. security council resolutions and equality between israelis and palestinians and in fact the letter does underline the idea that we are moving towards a one state reality with an equal rights between palestinians israeli that's in other words separate but unequal is a part of dade and i think europe does not want to see a parted in its borders so europe will take a stand the question is will it make a dent in the trump foreign policy in the coming years my guess is they would put pressure but the trump has not exactly been listening to europeans on not just on this issue but on a whole other bunch of issues that are important europe the question will be is how will the palestinians and the arabs respond so far many of the arabs including the can give jordan they can give surrogate arabia and others have said that they will reject anything short of two state solution again the question is whether the americans whether mr bush and his father in law are preparing a bit of a surprise where maybe gaza or an expanded version of the gaza strip would become some sort of a thing over state in the

political or diplomatic sanction that's crazy if we're going to consider the fact that this was done in the presence of the u.n. chief on his first visit to libya and we've been hearing from the g. seven they have not been condemning this latest push asking that for a deescalation in violence that interesting they its supporters such as the u.a.e. and egypt who have been calling for that deescalation as well what do you make of that. is duplicitous i mean we can only go back to the u.n. panel of experts reports the security handles own neutral impartial expert reports that show in the year that the un delivered a peace treaty and a government of national accord and thousand and sixteen the u.a.e. wrapped up an unprecedented levels on the back of oil ations and establish an airbase in eastern libya that has been draining civilians and is being investigated for the operations that it conducted in but huzzy an indefinite thousand sixteen seventeen by the i.c.c. for war crimes if that's the same kind of in a conduct the military conduct that then requires a politically passive message like we call for the escalati

u.n. is a major problem in terms of the fact that it has got a plan a the plan a was that conference of national reconciliation leading to elections if that conference does not take place it does not appear that there is a plan b. in place this of course poses major problems for the situation in libya but also here within the united nations building there's another issue and that is while the u.n. supports the government in tripoli there are some u.n. members who have been giving financial and military support to highly for half hours rebels now these countries such as egypt and the u.a.e. maybe some members bringing pressure to bear on them to a trend to curb the military offensive by the rebels but it's a major issue because as i said plan a was that conference of national reconciliation leading to an electoral process if that does not happen the does not appear that the u.n. has anything ready to put in its place thank you very much with the latest from the united nations is that special session continues mike hanna thank you mike. well to our other top story this hour vos crowds of protester