insurgents still control mountainous areas in is south providing a challenge for the new u.n. force. >>> soldiers assembled in front of the palace. his late father lies inside the building. he beefed up the army considerably during his reign. >> translator: we hearby celebrate the 81st anniversary of the >> officers of dialogue from foreign powers were a sham. he vowed to retaliate against any foreign attacks. military congressmaners a comma show their strength. north koreans will observe another anniversary this summer, 60 years since stopped fighting in the war. >>> now, senior u.s. and chinese officials have put their heads together over north korea. they agreed they need to find peaceful solutions to the nuclear standoff. u.s. deputy secretary of state william burns met on thursday with the chinese state counselor in beijing. burns also met the vice president. >> this is a moment of considerable opportunity in our relationship, and i look forward very much to discussing ways in which we can take advantage of that opportunity. >> u.s. diplomats have put pressure on china to dissu

conflict their report came out from i believe it was the un inspector general report was made of the u.n. force there and they were engaged in the same type of profiteering and just despicable behavior as all the other militaries in the region and the same thing with peacekeeping missions i mean the korean war was a police action to go keep your deal so short well no i don't think so i mean i don't think that the united states has any sort of onus to use its military to enforce on other people what we think is right i mean just because i'm a revolutionary socialist doesn't mean that if people in mexico are revolutionary socialist i should you know gen up some controversy and use peacekeepers to put them in place which is essentially exactly how peacekeepers are used now and i don't think we should repeat them. and you guys that's. it for the debate today thank you so much everyone i think that the most important thing is how many commonalities we all have with each other in terms of restoration of civil liberties and in the imperialism the militarism and thank you so much for all of your input

u.n. peacekeeping forces and i also think a great component a great backer of this will have to be the arab league in fact just a step back i think that it's the arab league that is going to have to play a leading role in requesting u.n. assistance here this is going to be about the legitimacy of any transitional government in the i of the syrian people so whatever it takes to create that legitimacy that is going to be the number one imperative john you want to reply to that because i still don't understand it was assad goes the war goes on the war probably will go on just the way it went on after the power vacuum in iraq happened when we took saddam out you know this marks prescription although it's more moderate than a lot of the. advocates of intervention that you hear from washington it has mission creep all written all over it you know when when international interventions occur that have a broad. sweeping support from the international community it ends up being the united states that takes on the most important role in the situation we will be flooding money into that situation we wi

u.n. peacekeeping forces and i also think a great component a great backer of this will have to be the arab league in fact just to step back i think that it's the arab league that is going to have to play a leading role in requesting u.n. assistance here this is going to be about the legitimacy of any transitional government in the odds of the syrian people so whatever it takes to create that legitimacy that is going to be the number one imperative john you want to reply to that because i still don't understand it with assad goes the war goes on the war probably will go on just the way it went on after the power vacuum in iraq happened when we took saddam out you know this marks prescription although it's more moderate than a lot of the. advocates of intervention that you hear from washington it has mission creep all written all over it you know when when international interventions occur that have a broad. sweeping support from the international community it ends up being the united states that takes on the most important role in the situation we will be flooding money into that situation

u.n. approved african force and maintained. hunger strike hits day sixty four demerge is that one inmate attempted suicide last month meanwhile prison officials are demanding more money to keep the jail running. and by private investigation in britain is but legal loopholes main a growing number of people can simply watch you anytime anywhere. and i welcome good to have you company watching this morning with me. francis started pulling its troops from mali the first step in handing over operations to a un approved african force only if french troops will remain by the end of the year january's french led intervention drive out islamist insurgents from northern mali but some retreated to desert hide in the vast area. as the details of the french are proposed and keeping a permanent force of about one thousand french troops on the ground in mali to continue fighting against islamic extremists and militants of the country they say though that they still plan on continuing that would duction of their four thousand strong military p

u.n. peacekeeping forces so far this is the likelihood is that they'll be there for a long time they don't think what's your prognosis this is all for the good or for the bad of security for that area. well there is the security business i think that it's good for the security business and it's bad for the security of the people. the country was systematically destabilized this intervention could have been prevented in fact they prevented a national army from fighting the rebels in the north for a long long time and when there was a putsch or a coup or in two thousand and twelve for the twenty second of march you actually had a lot of popular support because a lot of people wanted an end to the destabilization of the country an awful lot of people in mali were against the intervention in libya and they were hoping that the day when they suspected that the terrorists the north were being we pushed into the country by nato intelligence and so the hope at the time was that general to the leader of the coaches would actually we storm order in the north and prevent the partition of the country

u.n. approved african force the french anticipated a short campaign against his alarmist insurgents in january but now i plan on keeping one thousand troops by the end of the year the military intervention initially drive out the militants from northern mali but some are treated to desert hideouts in a vast area. has the details they say though that they still plan on that continuing battle adoption of the four thousand strong military personnel currently on the ground and keeping these a one thousand troops they say will be part of a few sure you when a peacekeeping mission however this is in stark contrast to what french foreign minister a lot more five years had said in january. regarding france's direct involvement it is only a matter of weeks later on comments barco but we have no intention of staying forever. now the french have gone into mali a warning against the threat of as long as the extremism advanced in europe now clearly any plan of a complete withdrawal is off the table now this one thousand troops that they plan to keep on the ground falls under a call made by u.n. secretary g

u.n. has labeled force feeding of prisoners a method of torture. how is it that the u.s. cannot tell them disregard for international law in this regard yet we're really good at preaching to others about their behavior but not very good at practicing ourselves so you know we condemn other countries for doing things that that we do so we just ignore the u.n. you know there was a report recently on drone strikes there was one about the waterboarding and torture in the past and now this one about guantanamo and we just tend to ignore it but the u.s. is kind of in a damned if you do damned if you don't position if they let the detainees starve themselves to death than they'll be oh my god the detainees are dying if they force feed them then they're condemned for abusing them physically so it's a no win situation because we've created this legal black hole where we let people sit for over a decade and just abandon them. you've said quote president obama doesn't have the balls to close the gap now to make it very clear for our viewers who are saying that obama can't do this is

u.n. has labeled force feeding of prisoners a method of torture. how is it that the u.s. can have total disregard for international law in this regard yet we're really good at preaching to others about their behavior but not very good at practicing ourselves so you know we condemn other countries for doing things that that we do so we just ignore the u.n. you know there was a report recently on drone strikes there was one about the waterboarding and torture in the past and now this one about guantanamo and we just tend to ignore it but the u.s. is kind of in a damned if you do damned if you don't position if they let the detainees starve themselves to death then they'll be oh my god the detainees are dying if they force feed them then they're condemned for abusing them physically so it's a no win situation because we've created this legal black hole where we let people sit for over a decade and just abandon them. you've said quote president obama doesn't have the balls to close the gap now to make it very clear for our viewers who are saying that obama can't do this is ha

u.n. peacekeeping forces and i also think a great component a great backer of this will have to be the arab league in fact just to step back i think that it's the arab league that is going to have to play a leading role in requesting u.n. assistance here this is going to be about the legitimacy of any transitional government in the eye of the syrian people so whatever it takes to create that legitimacy that is going to be the number one imperative john you want to reply to that because i still don't understand it with assad goes the war goes on the war probably will go on just the way it went on after the power vacuum in iraq happened when we took saddam out you know this marks prescription although it's more moderate than a lot of the. advocates of intervention that you hear from washington it has mission creep all written all over it you know when when international interventions occur that have a broad. sweeping support from the international community it ends up being the united states that takes on the most important role in the situation we will be flooding money into that situation w

u.n. peacekeeping forces and i also think a great component a great backer of this will have to be the arab league in fact just to step back i think that it's the arab league that is going to have to play a leading role in requesting u.n. assistance here this is going to be about the legitimacy of any transitional government in the i of the syrian people so whatever it takes to create that legitimacy that is going to be the number one imperative john you want to point out because i still don't understand it with assad goes the war goes on the war probably will go on just the way it went on after the power vacuum in iraq happened when we took saddam out you know this marks prescription although it's more moderate than a lot of the. advocates of intervention that you hear from washington it has mission creep all written all over it you know when the when international interventions occur that have a broad. sweeping support from the international community it ends up being the united states that takes on the most important role in the situation we will be flooding money into that situation we

u.n. led force to remove assad from his position now? need it or not is not going to happen because you don't gent the consent of all the u.n. members to do it, but, look, this is a situation where i'm afraid choices are ugly either way. if you intervene, it's one set of problems. if you don't intervene as we see, is another effect. >> would you send troops? >> look, i think what your president's doing and my prime minister's doing is right at the present time going through a deliberative process of seeing what works in this situation, but i do think if -- as it looks as if it is chemical weapons used, i do think, look, in any event, syria, brutality, the civilian population are cause enough to be concerned. >> indeed. i didn't bring in terrorism, not necessarily home grown, but the situation here, the boston marathon, where two immigrants had come in, claiming political asylum, and they now lived here, and do you, prime minister, did deal with that, not just with the ira, but with bombings in 2005 in london. what can we do -- >> what can

colonel richard kemp and former commander of british forces in afghanistan told u.n. and 2009 quote during the fighting in gaza, the israeli defense force, i'm sorry, i'll put it this way. during the fighting in gaza the israeli defense forces quote did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the conflicte than any otherrmy in the history of warfare. obama's u.n. representative called the report quote unbalanced, one-sided and basically unacceptable unquote. go it's felt complained that the israeli government had not cooperated with him, committing that he had had not interviewed any israeli officers in the core. however he eventually agreed with president obama that is anti-israeli report had been badly flawed. the record shows that of the president's who have consistently supported israel, economically, militarily and diplomatically obama ranks among the to i think i'm losing my voice. in conclusion, i suggest that apart from mutual self-interest, there are three main reasons why american presidents have supported jews and israel. one sympathy, to empathy and th

u.n. action. it always winds up us on point. short of that, david, what can we do? it what would the president be force forced to do? >> the u.n. action would be for a negotiated political transaction. the russians would say we agree he must go and those prepared by former secretary-general kofi annan. >> would they take the assad family to russia? >> that's been discussed in the past. if the russians refuse to support a settlement, the u.s. is going to have to take action, i think. and so they're looking at a menu of options and that you can imagine it ranges from syrian command and control facilities, facilities as associated with this chemical weapons program. the special units that have been the scourge of the syrian population and this are war. those are all very heavy -- >> bombing missions. >> heavy duty. >> bombing missions. >> well, they might be bombing. various ways you can do it but they're big operations and they require precisely the kind of major the u.s. wants to avoid. >> what would be our right to do that? this has gotten to be so practiced, it's an odd question but i'm going to keep asking it. what

that states no longer will use force in their foreign relations with each other this was a reversal of that principle and a reversal of course of the principle in the u.n. charter that prohibits the use of force by one country against a political independence or territorial independence of another country mr curtis doebbler professor of international law and human rights lawyer talking to us giving us an insight on this tenth anniversary of iraq by the city of kirkuk has become a hotbed of instability in post saddam iraq and as archie's that is the capital of reports now some locals say they feel that a dictator has been replaced by a great afia of the unknown. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here into a kook. this oil rich city has been described as a white a symbol of the country's most intractable escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take us in both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care coop and a

but enough of them did get there that they did, they forced the u.n. to have hearings pretty much just to make them all go away, right? someone had to listen to them. it was a formality. the diplomats, for their part, narrowed down the field fairly quickly, and it was a matter of geography. if the united nations were not going to be in europe, the europeans were determined that it should be as close as possible. .. >> they were considered to be too close to washington d.c.. the diplomats did not want the united nations to be in the influential realm of the national capital. the philadelphias never thought of themselves that way. but they did not take very well when they got this news from the united nations. hello. we was robbed. here is our colonial figure philadelphia. [laughter] being unfairly treated or so they thought by the united nations. but all was not lost. and i will go back to the map to explain this because as the that the met -- diplomats look to the sites they did find a place they liked but of all the hundreds of communities that wanted

. >> the african offensive forces will change to a u.n. peacekeeping mission as soon as possible. require the pacification of armed groups that seem far from being defeated. the field taker has been blown up and saw a police tikrit.rters in nine people were killed. 11 others were injured. this happened at a provincial elections next month in south korean president has promised swift response to any aggression from north korea. this came after a u.s. cent more jets to the region. north korea was being watched for the latest signal, the supreme people's assembly, a stronger messages came from its indian -- enemies. first the announcement that the united states had sent to the more aircraft to join military exercises with cypriot and then a tough warning from the new president saying the military and not politicians should take the lead in responding to any provocation. >> if there is any provocation against south korea, there should be a strong response without any political considerations. >> follow the sunday meeting of of thetral meeting workers' party. they said the nuclear weap

enough of them did get there that they force the u.n. to have hearings, pretty much to make them all go away. someone had to listen to them. it was a formality. the diplomats narrowed down the field fairly quickly and it was a matter of geography. if the united nations were not in europe, the europeans were determined it should be as close as possible and not meant in the northeast. they also determined that they wanted to be close enough to a major city in order to enjoy the cultural amenities and have access to universities and health care and the services. they did not want to be so close to abuse assumed in to metropolis. there is still thinking of the capital of the world, vast amounts of land that would be their own. what you see here are two concentric circles. one around austin, so they decided to look within this radius of boston and within this radius of new york. as 80 miles out from new york on a line drawn in order to could hide park, the home of franklin roosevelt. but you notice another circle here 25 miles? they didn't wa

u.n. has troops in lebanon, which could provide part of a peacekeeping force, but if you needed to rush thousands of soldiers into syria, frankly, the only way to do that would be to get turkey to deploy military units south across the border. turkey would want a u.n. mandate for that, and it would want assistance from its nato allies. >> the u.n. now has contingency plans, but they all require endorsement by the security council. the violence inside syria has dragged on for more than two years, but everyone here knows there could be a decisive event that changes things on the grad and changes them very fast. ssad eventually falls, there is no security that the council, which has been deadlocked through the uprising, would agree to a new mission inside syria. even if it did, the discussions and debates and a vote are part of a normally slow-moving process. if there were to be a sudden change in syria, do not expect a swift u.n. response. at the united nations. >> an adviser to the libyan prime minister has been kidnapped on the outskirts of the capital. he was seized on sunday. it was thought his

they allowed a small peacekeeping force to go into kabul because the afghans insisted on it. they refused the pleas both from karzai and from the u.n. to expand that peacekeeping force to the rest of the country, and they took the position that u.s. troops in the rest of the country would not do peacekeeping. the result was we turned security throughout a society of 70 million to the afghans, a society that had no army and no police force. so i think it's not remarkable that things deteriorated, that the taliban was able to reconstitute itself, to recruit, to refinance, to reorganize and to begin to project power to get pakistani sanctuaries back into afghanistan, and the united states responded in dribs and drabs over the years. we tend to say that this is the longest war we've ever fought. if you look at the major wars, it's also the least costly. in terms, certainly, in terms of military manpower, the level of casualties in afghanistan is not only smaller than iraq, but it's much smaller than vietnam or korea or world war i or world war ii. and as a practical matter, the serious fighting has only gone on for the last four or fiv

and south korean forces must stop joint military exercises, and the u.n. security council must withdraw sanctions. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said last week that american diplomats are ready to talk if the north koreans move to drop their nuclear program. members of north korea's national defense commission said the proposal was unacceptable. they called on the security counsel to retract economic penalties imposed after the country's latest missile launch and nuclear tests and demanded that u.s. and south korean commanders suspend military exercises currently under way in the south. the commission members also said the military forces and the people of north korea are closely watching what steps the u.s. and its followers will take. the remark suggests that there is still room for dialogue with the u.s. and south korea. >>> south korea's foreign minister is playing go between in an effort to keep an annual summit with japan and china on the calendar. yun byung-se in seoul says he will also raise the north korea issue. officials have been preparing

u.n. is talking about some additional attack force but so far it's really an idea while the clock is ticking. of course when you go well author and journalist perelandra reiterate what's happened to these couple french policy in africa reeses paris and the rest to me to the scale of the problem from the start. they probably didn't realize what they were getting into remember call and powell warned george bush on the eve of the invasion of iraq if you break it you own it and that's went to the french and wound up there that's what they're confronting now they're getting into a situation that was much more complex and much more in the end dangerous than they thought it was going to be i think what the situation right now is that a lawyer who has tremendous political problems back home in france would love to be able to to pull out a mile eight as much as possible kind of like george bush you know wanted to rebuild iraq. your kind of a mission accomplished speech and say ok we're leaving and the french in a way are trying to do that by pushing for me to be elections like most observers say ther

u.n. said some two million have been forced to leave their homes. most are in refugee camps. >> it looks like darfur. the same soil, the same trees. but to this darfur refugee this isn't home and it never will be. speaking foreign language] up to now there's no security. there is fleeing, fighting and air strikes. our people are still being punished and the world is silent so how can we return? >> over a quarter of a million darfur refugees have been waiting 10 years for the right conditions to return home as the war the u.s. once infamous now called genocide has fallen into the ranks of forgotten conflict. the u.n. is struggling to find funds just to feed and protect them. basic health care and education may be scaled back. security withdrawn and calories cut in half even has malnutrition is appearing in the camps. i understand that these are also new emergencies. but we still have people in this type of situation and we have no right to leave them. >> the challenge is multiplying. >> ja mill jamal mouhammad was 3 when she was fleeing. now she's a

well native syrians are not the only fighters battling the forces of president bashar al assad the u.n. to tara chief has voiced concerns over the number of europeans joining the ranks of the rebels the main concern is that europe could see all these people returning radicalized after the conflict and are just as are still you know reports. if syria's two year old conflict is over he's seen the spillover some neighboring countries but now is extended far beyond that it's estimated that hundreds of europeans from fourteen countries mostly young men have joined the rebels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad a london based international center for the study of radicalization but the tall figure at six hundred. will hear there were billed for the media coverage on the radicalization young people as recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son of dimitri want to excite him sort of radical islam is a group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody. kill planes are flying overhead all the

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pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have been affected over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what's act want to animal and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact eyeing him in jail and i think it's very difficult to. you know be able to to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. president vladimir putin has arrived in hannover in germany today where he'll try to calm the international hype stirred by office searches of non governmental organizations here in russia plus the role of the country's funs in that hit cyprus. has more on what to expect from the upcoming talks that. a lot of mia putin will begin his visit to germany in the netherlands by opening the world's largest trade fair here in hanover russia is one of the main partners of this year'

forced the u.s. to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have an effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a mo and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact in jail and i think it's very difficult to. be able to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so this is all to live here in moscow more news after this short break. that's a meteorite only. ten thousand tons per told through space towards russia. with the power. of a nuclear. city open sky full on r.t. . the international airport in the very heart of moscow. he's continues how naughty a salafi cleric has issued a fatwa online allowing warriors of jihad in syria to rape funny women human rights groups have already dubbed the situation in the country a rape crisis with both sides of the conflict bein

pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have an effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a mo and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact in jail and i think it's very difficult to. be able to justify this when you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. an oil spill has swamped a small town in arkansas or in america sparking fears for the health of local residents find out on r.t. don't calm white the state's attorney general spoke of the area as a scene out of the walking dead. and read and original memo online to find out who was doing the utmost to destabilize the former venezuelan president hugo chavez and tip him out of power all that and more on our website. a salafi cleric has issued a fatwa online allowing worries of jihad in syria to rape nor

pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure that's triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think amino may have a defect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on amoa and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact eyeing him in jail and i think it's it's very difficult to. you know be able to to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so or a special report named good garbage in just about. you know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut and get mall i hate that term condemning i

pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure that's triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think amino may have a defect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what's act want on amoa and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact eyeing him in jail and i think it's very difficult to. you know be able to to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. pleasure to have you with us here in just about an hour we'll take a look at the natural wonderland of russia's sochi region as a pass to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics this is a scene. what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a

u.n. ininspectors on the ground, monitoring and securing weapons, and i think that's where perhaps this is part of a step to force assad's hand in terms of agreeing to let the u.n. team in. of course, in the u.n. team would have their experts, but if we can secure these sites at least we know they can't be used or stolen. >> shepard: there are increasing calls for arming the rebels. >> well, that remains an option. it's not an attractive option, because as we have been talking about libya once you insert those weapons into a country, they don't necessarily stay there, and those weapons have gone to a lot of different places over the last few months, including mali. but it is -- remains an option. part of this would be a process where you know who you're giving the weapons to. obviously intermixed with the good guys in syria or these extremist forces and that's a great complication. >> shepard: in the mix here, politics. some on the right pushing for one thing, some of the left pushing for another thing, and in the end, it appears, at least, that one side is trying to make sure that its side doesn't look bad. i'm