u.n. general assembly has passed a resolution which condemns israel for the recent violence on its border with gaza one hundred twenty nations voted in favor eight countries among them the us voted against it a flare up of girls i have seen one hundred twenty nine palestinians killed by israeli forces in the past ten weeks the arab backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution in the security council as the occupation intensifies its brutality witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation and humiliation of palestinian men women and children by the is the occupying forces and extremists. and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people out of this occupation remains urgent and unquestionably. there's a south africa where two people have been killed in an attack on a mosque they were stabbed by a suspect who was then shot dead by police this happened in mon sprit which is close to johannesburg argentina's congress has been debating whether to decriminalize abortion laws hundreds of people gathere

u.n. general assembly threatening to totally destroy north korea addressing kim as rocket man in the distinguished settings of the u.n. general assembly i can tell you because i was there that ambassadors foreign ministers and presidents from around the world were appalled by this bellicose language this is in the way someone speaks at the united nations and yet that may well have been a factor in what has got us here today to singapore to sentosa island and to the cupola hotel where there may well be we think in the coming minutes a signing of a declaration now let's not go too far here north korea and the u.s. have signed agreements before and they've fallen apart and both say there was bad faith on the other side so we're not going anywhere we haven't been before in terms of signing an agreement what we do have is a personal relationship now between these two countries which are still in a state of war there was never a peace treaty just an armistice at the end of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three we see pictures i don't know if you're seeing them sammy. now of inside the hotel peo

u.n. general assembly will convene an emergency session on the situation in gaza on wednesday health officials say four palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded and renewed protests on israel's border the israeli army fired tear gas and live bullets in an attempt to disperse the crowd. to new york now where the united nations general assembly has voted for germany and four other nations to become nonpermanent members of the security council the new members take up their seats in two thousand and nineteen and will spend two years at diplomacy's top table germany has held its election as a vote of confidence and its global role. germany one hundred eighty four. while the news did want come as a great surprise the german foreign minister said he wasn't expecting such an overwhelming majority one hundred eighty four votes in favor out of a total of one hundred ninety. eight i know that's yet to be confirmed with one hundred eighty four votes is a terrific result for those of us that shows that the international community has great confidence in germany and want to live up to our responsibilit

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they paved the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he has repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations are serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have liked each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's comin

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they paved the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations are serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have many each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and will start their process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been a long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing from the council's continued and well documented bias against israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions fro

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records said on the human rights council for too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias a straightaway europe lashed out of the us decision to leave the un body the united states decision to withdraw from the human rights council is regrettable britain support for the human rights council remain steadfast today's decision risks undermining the role of the us as a champion and supporter of democracy in the world stage the european union will nevertheless continue to defend human rights and fundamental freedoms whether in multilateral fora around the world also by cooperating with us whenever possible. israel though welcome the move prime minister benjamin netanyahu called it a courageous decision some believe the u.s. withdrawal is a result of washington's close relations with israel the u.n. secretary general expressed regret at the u.s. decision while the top rights group said it refle

u.n. general assembly remember one hundred twenty eight countries water begins to us decision and in the second voting again there was overwhelming majority supporting . the motion that we put together with the kuwaitis and the egyptians and the jordanians i believe. to reject american. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel but also in regards to what happened at the border in gaza in may and now we have succeeded in. calling for. a protection force for the palestinians themselves so now the secretary general. is. mandated to bring an action plan to the general assembly in regards to how to protect the palestinian civilians this has never happened before in the entire history of the palestinian cause and this is thanks to this mobilizing force of all the countries that supported it muslim countries as well as european latin american and other countries and president no one pull out a single handedly heroic rock in mobilizing the international committee if this was just an election investment why should he take that risk because that puts us against you know some prominent cou

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they paved the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations a serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have liked each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming fr

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations is serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and we'll start the process i would say that would be the minimal no do then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming from an

u.n. general assembly essentially the us introduced amendments to the original resolution which was entitled the protection of palestinian civilians now those amendments were rejected at one point by the original sponsors of the original resolution they called for a no motion action what that was was a vote to be taken on whether or not they could be a vote on the u.s. amendments that photo was taken it was defeated by a simple majority then the general assembly president ruled that no it requires a two thirds for the amendments to be tabled in the assembly the u.s. objected yet another vote was held on whether the president is right or not that photo was denied so the u.s. amendments were not pasta ruled by the president because they did not get the two thirds majority finally we got to the vote on the original resolution and indeed it was utterly sweeping one hundred twenty nations voted in favor of the resolution condemning israel holding up responsible for the ongoing violence within the area accusing it of using excessive force forty five abstentions and only eight nations including the

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records said on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and assessed full of political bias for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but no. now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing from the council's continued and well documented by skins israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel and against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactio

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with egregious human rights records said on the human rights council for too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias washington has long had a troubled relationship with the un human rights council the us house frequently accused the body of being biased against israel while not being tough on other countries it sees as the authoritarian israel welcomed america's withdrawal with prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling it a courageous decision but the head of human rights watch has said it only reflects the commitment on the part of the united states to defending crimes committed by israel and while the u.n. secretary general expressed regret over washington pulling out the u.s. envoy to the organization claims there was no option as rights groups blocked attempts at reform it is unfortunate that your letter sought to undermine our attempts to improve the human rights council you put yourself on the side of russia an

u.n. general assembly has voted to condemn israel's use of quote excessive in discriminant disproportionate force against palestinian protesters over the past two and a half months since the end of march i.d.f. troops have killed over one hundred twenty people in gaza the resolution was one with widespread support hundred twenty members barking at forty five abstained just eight states including the u.s. and israel voted against it the palestinian busters said he just wanted to see civilians protected while washington's claim the vote would play into the hands of hamas. the nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day it is totally one sided it makes not one mention of hamas who routinely initiate violence in gaza the need to protect our people under this occupation. unquestionably and one should that be offending anyone. we're just asking for a simple thing we want a lot of civilian population to be protected and while israel maintains that its actions are necessary for defending its borders the use of line fire against antioch impatient protesters has on

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north koreasending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they paved the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations is serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have liked each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming fr

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he has repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations is serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like teacher there and we'll start their process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's com

u.n. general assembly diplomats were shocked that anyone could use such bellicose language and yet in some ways that is one of the things that may well have got us to this moment today this historic moment that's taking place in singapore at the capella hotel on sentosa island a very luxury island in singapore full of five star hotels and golf courses and that's where we're seeing pictures from now where inside we suspect something is likely to be signed very soon and then we'll see at the. end of that the motorcades part first we think the north koreans will be leaving because they're due to leave in a very short time now on their flight back to pyongyang in about an hour and ten minutes is the schedule for that to take off but of course these things don't always go to schedule and if there are more details to iron out they will stay and on those details even if it's just a broad statement that very generally covers the issue of denuclearization and some form of security guarantees for north korea how important is it for both leaders now to be able to have something to sign and go back to

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council. are going to cost lives to scale up more pain with more on this story and give us a rundown of what's happened well for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been a long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing this is mike palm pale and the council's continued and well documented by skins israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel and against the rest of the world combined. now israel was very quick to thank the united states for this move and there's been other reactions from

u.n. general assembly today is a small step but it's a positive step in the right direction are i read great to talk to you on this subject help us reprimands around and get some perspective rick stirling investigative journalist with us here in our team tonight you. are president trump has repeated his call for russia to be invited back into the g seven saying that member states already spend so much of their time talking about moscow. you know we spent probably twenty five percent of our time talking about russia and i said to myself would it be better if they were here now i'm not for russia i'm for the united states as an example. let me put who was sitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others we were having dinner the other night in canada donald trump already made this call last week at the g. seven summit happened and he called for russia to be reinstated to the group he said they should be able to rejoin the body when he said that it sparked quite a conversation as for the presidents of russia and the g. eight we will see for sure italy was traditionally a supporter of

u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north koreasending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations a serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming from

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and assessed for of political bias for europe lashed out at the u.s. decision to leave the un body british foreign secretary and dubbed the us decision regrettable and said the u.k. will continue to support the human rights council the foreign affairs spokes person in turn said the decision may undermine america's role as a country defending democracy and rights across the world she went on to add that the e.u. will still nonetheless cooperate with washington defend human rights whenever possible israel though welcome to u.s. move prime minister binyamin netanyahu called it a courageous decision against the hypocrisy and lies of these so-called un human rights council some believe the u.s. withdrawal is a result of washington's close relations with israel indeed there's also been reaction from the u.n. secretary general who expressed

u.n. general assembly today is a small step but it's a positive step in the right direction. u.s. special counsel robert mueller has asked a federal judge now to block the release of evidence that a russian company interfered in the us presidential election in twenty sixteen miller says the documents contain sensitive information on investigative methods prosecutors also claim the data could be used by a russian intelligence services to impede further investigations executive director at the wrong paul institute done mcadams says well is trying to save a fabricated case moeller is scrambling to try to avoid giving evidence which may not exist the whole nature of the indictment itself was full of holes it made no sense and now that he's being told to put up or shut up he's panicking inciting national security inciting you know the hysteria that's already been created it's an example of him being caught in a p.r. stunt not expecting anyone anyone on the russian side to answer the claims to answer the accusations and then when they have his bluff has been called in so he's taking out

u.n. general assembly today is a small step but it's a positive step in the right direction. and that does it for me this hour be back in thirty one minutes. after visiting the ten host cities i'm finally here in moscow and this is why it begins and ends i'm in this new stadium it's completely rebuilt for the world cup and i'll be seven matches played in india so more than a million people will be watching football in here and that includes of course the opening match between russia and saudi arabia and the final vote in moscow two venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spotted moscow stadium and for each of the five games that are being played here more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands going to see illegal messi when he takes argentina here to play the minus that that beats and the pick surprised from the euros two years ago iceland i mean the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on here what exactly peter schmeichel and i'm going to take some of that stuff out. in the middle of a skull and you can just sense the world cup

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been a long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing from the council's continued and well documented by skins israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions from el

u.n. general assembly supply member and then the speech the trump gave the south korean national assembly in the van der it's a very different speech no threats of use of force focus on the development of north korea the abuses the abuse of human rights of course but there were no threat of use of force so i think that he really backed down from his options like months ago not speaking about inflammatory rhetoric i think this is a very peculiar thing about donald trump he can be very aggressive when he's on social media but i think he's also. malleable to personal touch and number of american partners like israel for example have already exploited this trade in his personality do you think do you think i can john only will try to leverage this because he obviously does not come across as a people to charm or do you think he will put any effort into trying to win trump's sympathy i think so i think that donald trump is really confident about his capacities ability to persuade people and the power of his personality and of this kind of things i'm not really sure of this is a great asset for

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council and the council's continued and well documented bias against israel which is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel and against the rest of the world combined israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions from elsewhere and the secretary general would have much preferred for the united states to remain in the human rights council the un's human rights architecture plays a very important role in the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide and now we've heard from the executive director of human rights watch mr kenneth roth he responded saying quote the trumpet administration's withdrawal is a sad reflection of its one dimensional human rights policy defending israeli abuses from criticism takes precedence above all else he went on to say other governments will have to redouble

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records said on the human rights council for too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias of washington's had a long troubled relationship with the body it's frequently accuse the council of being biased against israel while not being tough on countries it sees as authoritarian israel welcomed america's withdrawal with prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling it a courageous decision the u.n. secretary general however expressed regret over the move the chief of the human rights watch said that it reflects a commitment on the part of the united states to defending israel's right to violations but the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. hit back saying that rights groups have work to block attempts at reforming the body and actually forced washington's hand it is unfortunate that your letter sought to undermine our attempts to improve the human rights council you put yourself on the side of russia

u.n. general assembly there's a massive source of embarrassment to the united nations that some governments with the greatest human rights records sit on the human rights council for too long to human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias for a long time we've heard the trumpet ministrations speak highly critically of the united nations and specifically the un human rights council but now we have the dramatic move of the usa officially withdrawing from the un human rights council not being a member of this body that it's been a long critical of now we've heard from mike pompei o secretary of state and he specifically cited criticism of israel by the un human rights council as a reason for the usa withdrawing from the council's continued and well documented bias against israel is unconscionable. since its creation the council has adopted more resolutions condemning israel against the rest of the world combined now israel has thanked the united states for their move withdrawing from the council and there have been widespread reactions fro