u.n. headquarters is that the me and maher government has not allowed u.n. aid workers as well as other in geos to go to iraq and state and to try to provide support to families who have been burned out of their homes who have basically been forced to leave their communities and certainly it would perhaps be awkward and that would is an understatement to end up having to confront or be confronted by u.n. officials who are very much concerned about the well being of the rock of the ruling a people right now absolutely life at the u.n. in new york thanks miles. at least three people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a cricket stadium in the afghan capital kabul the blast outside the kabul international cricket stadium happened during a t twenty match in afghanistan bacchis a cricket league all the players a safe but two police officers and one civilian were killed the president of the european commission says the block is back on track after britain's vote to leave the european union in his annual state of the union address. said economic

u.n. headquarters. now the u.s. says it strongly opposes the candid dependance referendum by iraqi kurds the state department is urging iraqi kurdish leaders to engage in negotiations with the baghdad government instead of going ahead with the vote on monday the president of the kurdish region of northern iraq however vows so press ahead with a vote on september twenty fifth but as hoda abdel-hamid reports from penned when many kurds are worried about the consequences of the referendum. on the streets of silliman it's business as usual here there are no signs of the historic referendum is just a few days away many believe it will be called off for the last hour others like shotgun there would be a worried about the consequences even though she plans to say yes because i want my country to be independent and name is enough for me in so many because we don't trust after there in front of our future is invisible we really don't know enough next year we don't know what next month and tomorrow what. opposition to a vote

u.n. headquarters in new york and really strong words there from the u.n. secretary general was felicity was extremely extremely strong language from the u.n. secretary general there's been a lot of mounting concern here at u.n. headquarters and there's been concern about whether there's been enough pressure coming from the u.n. on the government of me and maher and more particularly on the state council or on sun suchi to try to do right by the raw injured people my colleague james bays was in the press briefing with antonio good terrorists secretary general and he put this question to antonio good tallish about the situation in myanmar i asked you this question last week and it's about how you term the violence that's being carried out right now in myanmar your high commissioner for human rights said it seems to be a textbook example of ethnic cleansing given the situation has got so much worse in the last week do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the growing a population had to

u.n. headquarters in new york it is obviously now twenty two g.m.t. james that's roughly when we thought we were going to see a vote what's actually going on. well you are going to see a vote pretty soon but as ever at the u.n. things tend to get delayed a little what had been arranged before this vote was a final briefing of the security council members by closed doors by the architect of this new resolution and that is the u.s. ambassador nikki haley's she'll be going through the text of the resolution line by line trying to make sure that everyone is on board of course this resolution that she's putting to the security council is not as tough as she originally proposed in fact now it is or is obtained the original draft resolution that showed security council members and some key elements of come out of this resolution for example a total ban on north korean workers raising money for the north korean regime and also a total ban on oil and petroleum sales to north korea the original version also had the north korean leader designated for an asset fr

u.n. headquarters in new york warning that the world body isn't living up to its potential the u.s. president blamed bureaucracy and mismanagement but also promised to help reform. an airstrike as his own hospital in the syrian province of idlib three hospitals were targeted within an hour civilians and emergency workers have been killed. almost international has criticized saudi arabia for arresting two human rights activists of diller's is. founding members of the saudi civil and political rights association amnesty says they are prisoners of conscience and must be released immediately. in kenya the electronic voting system will not be ready in time for the rerun of the presidential election next month the french supplier says engineers need more time to properly install the system following the void result in august supreme court judges blamed the voting irregularities for another the reelection of president of medical yatta he's campaigning along with rival. for the planned rerun on october seventeenth as in the islanders in the caribbean are facing the fury of a category catego

u.n. headquarters. the president tom pallium met with latin american leaders on the sidelines of the un general assembly and he was critical of the venezuelan government for its crackdown on opposition protesters. are economic bonds form a critical foundation for advancing peace and prosperity for all of our people and all of our neighbors i ask every country represented here to be prepared to do more to address this unbelievably serious crisis we call for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in venezuela and we wanted to happen very very soon. and trump also met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu they discussed the stalled middle east peace process as well as the iran nuclear deal our u.n. correspondents rawson jordan has the latest on that. as you'd expect donald trump and benjamin netanyahu were very happy to see each other on monday on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly both men agreed that in their view the iran nuclear deal was a bad deal and should be rene

u.n. headquarters today actually do you know james would you mind recounting exactly how you and the rest of the team reacted when that speech came down because this seems to be a moment for us all as we heard this speech. we are all people who listen to speeches by international is very regularly and there's a group of us about six of us here and all the gasp when you heard those comments about north korea you have never heard a u.s. president say that in the general assembly threatening to totally destroy another country i don't think you've heard any other leader despite seventy two years of sometimes very controversial bombastic speeches it is certainly a very strong language that's how his own ambassador to the u.n. a short time ago nikki haley described it when she was leaving the general assembly and was asked some questions by reporters and i think many observers will be working at this and wondering what happens next because it doesn't look like the north koreans are prepared to back down and now president trump he's already had tough language remember far inferior earlier on in

u.n. headquarters in new york cares so i mean obviously we've had quite a lot of speeches in the past hour as a but trance beach is still i guess the one that everyone is talking about of the u.n. . that's right notably the fact that from the rostrum in the u.n. general assembly a sitting u.s. president vowed to was completely destroyed north korea if it poses an imminent and imminent threat to the united states or to any of its allies it's rather shocking given that the u.n. was created after world war two when the world was saying with one voice that it should try to prevent war it should try to promote peace wherever possible and that the united nations should be the venue where trying to achieve peace should be the top priority certainly a number of diplomats were highly critical of donald trump's decision to make such a blatant threat to the north korean government at this particular venue it's not unusual that presidents will threaten one country or another for any number of reasons but they typically do it either while giving a speech or while talking to reporters in fact barack oba

u.n. headquarters not clear who he's meeting at this stage but he is expected to speak in the coming hours in the general assembly a warning for me because i've heard him speak before and i've heard the north korean ambassador speak before these speeches can sometimes be somewhat opaque that's because north korea really the word of one man only matters and that is kim but we will be examining every single word very closely of what he says in the general assembly and then i think an important meeting that will take place with the secretary general here at the united nations antonio the terrorist behind closed doors but u.n. officials are promising promising us they'll give us a readout of exactly what happened in that meeting again will be poring over every word of that because this is a crisis that has been here since the u.n. gathered in fact it's been here for years but normally world leaders hope to come here and try and find some solutions to the challenges facing facing the world but all we've had here in new york is a war of words and things i think of definitely got worse while the

u.n. headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula it's unacceptable to something that north korea's nuclear test but it's equally unacceptable to start with in the korean peninsula or china and russia will continue to insist on a move reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they behave like children fighting each other in kindergarten and nobody can stop them it's necessary to those hot heads we need to pools we need dialogue the one thing that was raised is that from the beginning of the crisis russia and china have had a joint proposal for what they call a double freeze they have called for south korea to end its provocative military exercises and in exchange north korea would end its nuclear proliferation and its provocative missile tests this proposal from russia and china seems pretty straightforward but no one seems to be taking that proposal seriously so a lot of interesting comments from surrogate lab robert specifically talking about the korean crisis he was saying people need to be mature and t

u.n. . headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula one of the main thrusts of his his comments was that there should be a rational solution and that the kind of heated dialogue we've been hearing from the united states and from korean leaders is not going to solve the crisis he directly spoke about the need for for rational words to be used for diplomacy this is a surrogate elaborate of addressing the crisis on the korean peninsula it's unacceptable to sign it we watch north korea's nuclear test but it's equally unacceptable to start a war in the korean peninsula apart from sanctions all security council resolutions without exception demand a political process but our western partners refused to work in this direction china and russia will continue to insist on a move reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they behave like children fighting each other in kindergarten and nobody can stop them but it's necessary to cool those hot heads we need to pause we need dialogue. in donald trump's united nations gen

u.n. headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula one of the main thrusts of his comments was that there should be a rational solution and that the kind of heated dialogue we've been hearing from the united states and from korean leaders is not going to solve the crisis he directly spoke about the need for for rational words to be used for diplomacy this is a lab or of addressing the crisis on the korean peninsula sudha the as i said at the general assembly each and every one of the u.n. security council resolutions it far from sanctions they have a clause on the need for a political process i western colleagues when they refuse to work along these lines they're not fulfilling their obligations which we're undertaking during this you go of the u.n. security council resolutions together with our colleagues will continue to strive for the reasonable and not the emotional approach instead of the kindergarten fight between children and no one can stop them. now one thing that was raised is that from the beginning of the crisis russia and

u.n. headquarters in new york james i thought it was very interesting that even though the chinese ambassador besser did speak strongly against the sort of expanding nuclear program of north korea he did also stress that they did not want regime change in in north korea just talk us through why that would be so important for the chinese room. i mean i think the chinese will be very worried if there was a change of regime if north korea was toppled they were worried about having a u.s. ally south korea in charge of the whole of the korean peninsula they would be worried about the immediate effects of a collapse of the regime and refugees coming into china so that's a scenario that china certainly doesn't want and that's why you pretty much heard the chinese ambassador a master lou lay out a policy that has been a pretty consistent policy from china about their neighbor north korea you described them as an ally china certainly wouldn't i don't think now describe north korea as an ally but it certainly is a country that it has more dealings with than more influence over. any other country has an

u.n. headquarters to be in new york the. responsibility to provide everything necessary for this organization so strictly speaking if we want it to be parity based it's not four hundred fifty five pieces you have to subtract one hundred fifty so we reserve the right to make this decision we may reduce the number of use diplomats in russia even further by a hundred and fifty five but we are not going to take this step right now we'll see how things proceed first time you've got to security to. the u.s. reduce the number of our consulates they're entitled to make this decision. but the way they did it when we come skin was it clearly. inappropriate. it's hard to talk to people who confuse australia austria and australia sure and there's nothing you can do about it when you but that's just the level of political culture there because if. i was certain part of the us establishment the us nation the people of america american general this is really that. country. thank you in your case thank you mr one but still there is a large

u.n. headquarters in a development of every year when world leaders gather in new york in september they listen carefully to the words of the most powerful person on earth but for the first time since the u.n. was created at the end of the second world war the u.s. president who addressed them from this podium is someone who at times has appeared to question the multilateral order the united nations represents. diplomats are wary of what president trump will say in his nine months in office he's already attended nato g. seven and g. twenty summits on the global stage he's appeared at times uncertain his actions unpredictable donald trump does not perform well a big international summits when he attended a nato summit he actually managed to physically push another leader out of the way and his advisors must hope that he will be back here because this is his last chance to really convince other world leaders that he is someone they can do business with and not just nativist who wants the u.n. over to china as usual global leaders face a whole host of challenges among them an ongoing humanitarian

u.n. headquarters in new york. these were the toughest words yet from the secretary general on the ongoing violence in myanmar i call on the myanmar or thought it is to suspend the military action and the violence appalled the rule of law and recognize the right of return of all those where to leave the country the un knows the situation is deteriorating fast when mr good terrorist last spoke to reporters a week ago there were one hundred twenty five thousand rohingya refugees that number has now tripled given the situation has got so much worse in the last week do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the growing a population had to flee the country can you find a better word to describe it. as the secretary general has already taken the extremely rare step of writing to the security council urging them to take action as he spoke the council was meeting first with an open session on somalia it was only after that ended and they went into clos

u.n. headquarters in new york rosa i'm seeing pictures here the security council convening they will be discussing me and mark do we have any idea what's likely to come out of this meeting. well we don't know if there's going to be any concrete action coming out of this thursday afternoon briefing before the u.n. security council as you can see there the secretary general antonio gutierrez is going to address the fifteen members of the council bringing them up to date on the situation in me and more this was a meeting that was requested by france the u.s. and the u.k. among others it's a last minute addition to the calendar but it's a sense of just how urgently people on the security council and across the u.n. writ large want to see something done about this crisis the u.n. says that now more than five hundred thousand. are inside dash and that upwards of seven hundred thousand overall may have left me and more or burma and are in dash and other countries trying to escape the violence there certainly there is also a real concern about the behavior of the military which is the defacto power still

u.n. headquarters in new york one of the world isn't living up to its potential the u.s. president bureaucracy and mismanagement but also promised to help reforms mike hanna has more. the question is which president trump all turn up in coming hours to address the united nations general assembly is a going to be the confrontational president or is it going to be the man who's looking for national unity in the critical challenges that the u.s. is facing at present we've heard from a senior administration official that there will be discussion of north korea very tough talk is the phrase the official users we're also told though that china and russia are unlikely to be called out now president trump has insisted that china has a role to play in reconciling the north korean crisis bringing pressure to bear on its nearest neighbor and closest ally little result so far but it appears that president trump will not use the asian of the speech to call out china for its lack of impact on north korea also to be discussed of the issue of iran which president trump has constantly des

u.n. headquarters in new york and rose foreign minister saying that victory was within reach. that's right nick. told the u.n. general assembly that after more than six years of war against what he described as terrorists and what many others have called the political opposition and the armed opposition to the government of bashar al assad he said that this is a case where the regime is going to end up staying in power and it will vanquish the opposition of course he also went on to say that some members of the united nations security council have been trying their very best to subvert the assad regime and he said those efforts would not work he called on the u.n. to basically we commit itself to the principles of the u.n. charter including a respecting the sovereignty of independent states but clearly with many countries here at the u.n. including the united states believing that the syrians have used chemical weapons against civilians as part of their effort to dippy to defeat the opposition pretty clear that the ongoing efforts to try to come to a political resolution are go

u.n. headquarters in new york and roslyn what more we learn about how the government in baghdad is trying to prevent this kurdish vote from taking place. well what we heard abraham jaafari the iraqi foreign minister tell the general assembly is that the country is very much focused on maintaining unity especially in light of the fact that it is still trying to rid the country of eisel fighters or does fighters and their position is that if this kurdish referendum does go ahead in order to up possibly establish a separate kurdish state this could jeopardize iraqis security and that the central government in baghdad does not want that to happen so he is really appealing in a more diplomatic way marri him for a sensible approach to dealing with thought everyone's political grievances and aspirations the foreign minister also said during his address which just wrapped up that parliamentary elections will go ahead in early twenty eighteen as scheduled perhaps a reassurance to those who favor a separate kurdish state that their political aspirations can be addressed through the current politica

u.n. headquarters in new york so mike we have some lines coming through the use foreign affairs chief fredricka marina he has been speaking and she said that the iran meeting has been frank open and an in-depth discussion what more do you know. well indeed yes it was in fact meeting of the joint commission plan of action that is the five permanent members of the security council plus germany along with the iranian foreign minister the j c o p is of course the body that monitors this nuclear deal on behalf of the security council and there we heard from the chair of the commission the e.u. foreign policy chief for the rica marini who made very clear that all the members of the commission agree that iran is in full compliance with the deal she says that the latest report they received from the international atomic energy agency which monitors the deal on the part of the commission was ten days ago certifying iranian compliance with that deal she was asked specifically whether the u.s. agrees that iran is in compliance with the deal she said a very short yes so that is the position of the the body

u.n. headquarters in new york and i heard that statement made by the north korean foreign minister james first on the significance really of the the tone i suppose and exactly what was said by the foreign minister. well remember that he gave a long speech on saturday which was a blistering attack on the u.s. with taunts and nicknames directed towards president trump but he decided to make further comments as he was leaving his hotel which is the hotel closest to the united nations at the end of the u.n. general assembly general debate which actually ended just moments ago he was leaving his hotel and spoke to reporters and it was clear he wanted to pick up on two things that were not in that speech on saturday first was president trump's response to that tweet where he said that if they made comments like this and he referred to little rocket man again they wouldn't be around much longer and that the north korean foreign minister said in his estimation amounted to a declaration of war and the other thing he was referring to was a show of force that took place on saturday just before he spoke w

u.n. headquarters in new york i think it's fair to say isn't it rolls that everyone heard that speech was pretty stunned by what he said. people are very stunned u.s. president donald trump said during his first remarks before the u.n. general assembly it's not unusual for presidents from many countries to make deadly threats against other countries but you have never seen it happen at the united nations which was founded really on the rubble of world war two in an effort to never see war happen again to try to make peace the predominant state around the world and so to address the world's leaders in this particular venue and to make such a direct threat to north korea one was just shocking. even said it was inappropriate including the swedish foreign minister. and there are analysts who are suggesting already that this may hearten the resolve of kim jong un to continue developing its nuclear weapons program rather than comply with the whole raft of united nations security council sanctions that have been imposed including two new sets of sanctions in the past five to six weeks it was cer

u.n. headquarters in new york let's return to the iran issue iran actually criticized president trump's comments in his address to the u.n. the country's foreign minister mohammad that are if tweeted this trumps ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times not the twenty first century un unworthy of a reply fake empathy for iranians for is no one. here is south and buttercup with us again director the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at doha institute now we heard the comments yesterday we were on air when we heard donald trump talking about that we get a little bit of a preview i think from mohamed zarif of what the response will be like what are you expecting to hear from us on rouhani when he speaks. well i think he would obviously have to refer to the speech and try and defend the iranian position it was interesting yesterday that there was probably more mention of iran than there was of korea and we were discussing yesterday i think i did say that although the threat and the language of violence was addressed to korea the real threat is being addressed to iran and the way he l

u.n. headquarters the actual speeches to the general assembly haven't started yet but a lot of bilateral meetings are taking place and probably one of the most visible and important ones that have taken place in the past few hours between the president donald trump and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu do we know what came out of that. well they had some public comments before they went into their closed door meeting there hasn't been a formal readout from that meeting but certainly when they were speaking to reporters both netanyahu and underscored their suspicions about whether iran is holding up its end of the nuclear deal which was brought into force in the last couple of years that deal of course to keep iran from developing nuclear weapons and they also talked about the prospects for peace between the israelis and the palestinians the administration like the obama administration before it and before that the administration of george w. bush has been trying to see if they can broker some sort of definitive peace accord one has not come about but both men agreed that they felt that t

u.n. headquarters in new york so mike let's break it down there were a few different things that took place but we know that the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief fredricka. to speak and she said that they were meeting had been frank open and also very in-depth well indeed yes the whole day was taking place against a backdrop of increasing signals from the united states that it is considering tearing up the deal walking away from it now the joint commission plan of action otherwise known as the iran nuclear deal did have a meeting in the course of the evening the joint commission is charged with monitoring the deal on behalf of the united nations security council so that was the backdrop to a day in which the deal came and shot scrutiny. the iranian president arrives to address the general assembly well aware that president trump strident criticism of the iran nuclear deal is rejected by the majority of u.n. members i gather you have awful with us that now it would be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics the world will have lost a great

u.n. headquarters in new york and listen to those comments james the significance i suppose really of these a war of words as i went out describing it but this particular episode seems to have ramped up the pressure even more. yes remember that foreign minister really spoke to the u.n. on saturday and gave his speech to the general assembly it was a blistering speech full of torments and nicknames directed at the u.s. president but he's come back again and had more things to say before getting in a motorcade to take him to the airport and then to china and back to north korea and it's interesting that he was responding to things that actually had happened before he made the speech on saturday and that he didn't talk about on saturday and has now decided that he fear feels he wants the raise one as you heard the comment from president trump that the north korean leadership might not be around much longer he says now that amounts to a declaration of war and that show of force those fighter jets and bombers that came from japan and from the u.s. bases there that flew off north korea's coast in

u.n. headquarters so mike there's have some pretty strong words from president on venezuela how is it received there indeed yes very strong words indeed he's meeting with other latin american leaders the dinner continuing as we are talking the leaders of brazil colombia panama and peru conspicuous by its absence of course nicolas maduro the president of venezuela who has not come to the united nations at all he's being represented by the country's foreign minister now the issue of venezuela has been high on the u.s. foreign policy determinant and in recent days the trumpet ministration has labeled nicolas maduro as a dictator it said that the national assembly that he wants to rewrite the constitution is an illegitimate body so those strong words we're hearing from donald trump has had precedent from the trumpet ministration in recent days and weeks significant though that they coming at a meeting with other leaders of latin america showing that they are equally concerned about what is happening in venezuela and like there was also and meeting on me in mar held by many foreign dignitaries whic

u.n. headquarters in new york it's not the same as was that in the version that they were circulating last week which was clearly a much tougher resolution which has been watered down in order to try and get support from the chinese and the russians the regime has shown in the past that it is prepared to ignore sanctions we used to have a pattern in the security council go about a couple of years where the security council take action it would pass new sanctions and north korea would go pretty quiet for a few months that's not how it's played out since president trump took office every time the security council the u.s. do something then the north koreans don't fire the reply very quickly so i don't think this is necessarily going to stop the north koreans and they're only going missile tests and nuclear tests i think the u.s. had to think very carefully here yes they'd a much preferred a tougher resolution but if they push that through they may well have got a veto from the russians and the chinese and one of the things they do have going for them at this stage is the unity of security of

u.n. . headquarters and. brought him in so i had. the british. terror threat level to critical. aspects. on the ground attack. the iraqi kurdish parliament back at independence referendum. and the grand finale after a twenty year journey. spacecraft. and. we begin this program with global reaction to north korea's latest ballistic missile tests the international community is still scrambling to react to five days launch but the north korean leader remains defiant in a statement kim jong un says the final goal is to achieve an equilibrium of force with the united states north korean media says kim personally oversaw the launch of the song twelve missile but the u.n. security council has condemned the missile test calling it highly provocative and a threat to all u.n. members russia is pledging to implement the latest round of sanctions bob has been joined by china and france and pushing for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president may have other ideas in his speech to troops he emphasized that military options are also available well mike hanna has this report from w

u.n. headquarters in new york city. the united nations security council about to sit down and hold a meeting to approve a new round of sanctions against north korea in response to that nation's most recent nuclear test. live coverage now of the u.n. here on c-span.

u.n. headquarters in new york to korean peninsula, condemnation over north korea's latest nuclear attack. accused kimbegging for war and nikki haley wants the strongest sanctions on north korea. >> seoul's ability to wipe out kim's regime and a new willingness from the south korean defense minister to review plans with u.s. tactical nukes on the korean peninsula. >> a lot to get to over the coming hours but we'll start with our reporter live in seoul. >> reporter: john and isha, the u.s. and south korea are increasing the military pressure on north korea after the north tested its sixth nuclear weapon over the weekend, believed to be the most powerful weapons test yet. we know the president of south korea, moon jae-in, finally spoke on the phone with donald trump and they agreed on how powerful ballistic missiles can be. with more, here's barbara starr. >> reporter: this live fire exercise by south korean forces, a direct military response to the north's largest nuclear test. army and air forces simulating an attack on north korea's nuclear test site. even as north korean state media issu

u.n. headquarters but he said the united nations helped make it a success. >> actually saw great potential across street to be honest with you. and it was only for the reason that the united nations was here that it turned out to beat such a successful project. >> shepard: also meeting with the leaders of israel and france today. very busy week today. john roberts traveled to new york. >> quite a day. >> shepard: how are things over there? >> they seem to be going very well. the first bilateral meeting between benjamin yan high first time they met. he was unfriendly territory earlier, when he sat down with benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu had a lot of praise for the president saying his support for israel at the united nations was unequivocal and strong in both conviction and clarity. obviously, netanyahu. not everybody is not in love with him, but for those who do like his conservative approach to politics in israel, it puts to rest a lot of the pandering during which the campaign when people were expecting what kind of ally he would be with israel. the president again going to the idea that

u.n. headquarters with u.s. ambassador nikki haley this morning. the president addressed a u.n.nsored event on reforming the world body. mr. trump criticized the u.n. as weak and incompetent during his campaign. this week the general assembly is expected to discuss north korea's missile launches, climate change and tension in the middle east. the president will address the assembly tomorrow. >>> this morning, demonstrators in the streets of st. louis, they are angry about a white police officer being acquitted on charges of killing a black man. police arrested dozens of people when peaceful demonstrations turned violent last night. blake mccoy has the latest. >> reporter: good day to you. you can see some of the damage left behind by the protests last night after protesters came through and bashed in the windows to several businesses in downtown st. louis. today, that cleanup work is under way. more protesters are gathering here in st. louis today, and this has followed a pattern which is that the protester, the big organized protests have been peaceful. at night the protesters

u.n. headquarters and set the scene. this will be a very important speech, jeff. >> reporter: indeed it will, wolf, good morning. donald trump has been unsparing in his criticism of the united nations. when he was running for president he said it was not a friend of freedom, but today when he walks into the hall of the united nations general assembly and stands before a group of 170 other world leaders, he officially becomes part of the club. he's softening his criticism considerably, which is a more measured tone. in reality here, wolf, he knows he needs the united nations security council particularly on north korea and other sanctions as they are increasingly showing their nuclear program and the ambitions of what it can do. we are told he is going to focus considerably on north korea in the speech today, and he's foeing to call it a menace and talk about the iran nuclear agreement. this is another chance for the world leaders to take a measure of this president, to get a firsthand look and feel of his america first a

u.n. headquarters, a place he habt visited since this stop in 2001. real estate mogul came arrive. >> i actually saw great potential across the street. >> reporter: he said was a successful because of the proximity to u.n. >> reporter: jake that is one example of president criticizing and blasting the united nations for so long while running for president and now president suddenly needs the u.n. particularly the security council in sanctions on north korea. he'll be talking about that specifically tomorrow when he addresses the world tomorrow morning before the united nations general assembly. jake is. >> all right. thanks. as jeff just said top priority not just for the president but world leaders in general trying to figure out what to do about a north korea with nuclear weapons. it's a threat be lied by the nickname for kim jong-un president just bestowed on him by twitter rocket man. correspondent is also live for us at the u.n. some say time is running out for diplomacy for north korea. what are they hoping to do this week? >> reporter: hopieful

u.n. headquarters. a session fittingly on u.n. reforms. now, tomorrow he will make his debut at the u.n. general assembly, and the world is holding its breath over what the america first president will say and how he'll say it. the president also set to meet one-on-one with more than a dozen fellow world leaders, not including vladimir putin, she zing ping or angela merkel. all three skipping this year's general assembly. our jeff zeleny is of course not skipping it. he is outside the united nations with a preview of what is ahead for the president. the big to do is his speech tomorrow. it's unclear if his message is going to change significantly from where it's been on the u.n. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. we've heard president trump talk so much about the united nations, been very critical of the united nations as some american politicians are, but today he will come here to the united nations bringing essentially his america first policy here for all the world to see and dissect. now, we've seen the president travel a few times around the world, been on the world stage somewh

u.n. correspondent roselyn jordan has been monitoring those speeches and joins us live now from the headquartersin new york no speech by donald trump was expected to be boring but this was something else. this was because this is the united nations this is an organization that is built on the promise that it's supposed to prevent or that it's supposed to promote peace it was born out of the world war two and to have a world leader the leader of the host country for the delegates and. another sovereign state even though there are ongoing diplomatic efforts to try to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program that's simply unprecedented we have to know cool to be. prime ministers and with. other countries in fact. said. but there's a. television interview that he did not. to make this sort of. north korea that ministration focus on diplomacy it was the administration of george w. bush as you might expect felicity the reaction here has been ferocious. nikki haley told reporters briefly this was a strong speech much more of a horror frankly from other delegates saying that this is not th

u.n. headquarters in new york it's not the same as was that in the version that they were circulating last week which was clearly a much tougher resolution which has been watered down in order to try and get support from the chinese and the russians the regime has shown in the past that it is prepared to ignore sanctions we used to have a pattern in the security council go about a couple of years where the security council take action it would pass new sanctions and north korea would go pretty quiet for a few months that's not how it's played out since president trump took office every time the security council the u.s. do something then the north koreans don't fire the reply very quickly so i don't think this is necessarily going to stop the north koreans and they're only going missile tests and nuclear tests i think the u.s. had to think very carefully here yes they did much preferred a tougher resolution but if they push that through they may well have got a veto from the russians and the chinese and one of the things they do have going for them at this stage is the unity of security of

u.n. headquarters. the real estate mogul and trump came through the moment he arrived in the towering building today. >> i actually saw great potential right across the street. >> reporter: trump world tower, the president said, became a successful project because of its proximity to the u.n. despite disparaging the united nations over the years, the president knows he now needs them, particularly the sanctions help from the u.n. security counsel as he deals with north korea. the iran nuclear agreement also on the president's mind. he was asked this average plansp in that deadline and he said, you'll see very soon. >> jeff, thank you. >>> also tonight, defense secretary james mattis is talking once again about u.s. military options as far as north korea is concerned, as president trump works at the u.n. to keep the pressure on kim jong-un. let's go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joining us from the united nations. jim, the north korea nuclear threat clearly an urgent concern ov