u.n. human rights committee and the first u.n. to visit venezuela thank you. and one of the points to this of course the u.n. security council was convened on thursday to discuss the situation in the crisis stricken country russia and the u.s. proposed their draft resolutions both rejected. by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield woodrow and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now they're going to use them with us finally we have reached the culmination of the american workers treated double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time are pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems and then you call upon the whole world to solve them we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people. you have to

u.n. human rights committee secretary alfred the zionist spoke to me earlier he was also the first u.n. repertoire by the way to visit venice well he is of the belief the u.s. is waging war on international perforations have been already since year in the southern command has had the plans already prepared but the question is what will the. international price and prestige be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against. the united states did so in two thousand and three when the coalition of the willing. bombarded iraq the war which. kofi annan on repeated occasions declared to have been an illegal war so the united states if. specially with a precedent like trump is capable of doing there is a danger of violence and it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that on the other hand i listened last night to the bait in the security council on venezuela which i consider to be so realistic i mean it is quite clear to me that the united states is waging war on international law now that trump does that does not surprise me. thi

u.n. human rights committee where we need to investigate these war crimes will we actually see an investigation of this or is this a kind of another one of those reports that just comes and goes and the country is too powerful too well connected no one ever sees it as i international. i was going to say you know in in in journalism you guys know we call that a throw away question because you already know the answer to united states is never going to be punished by the u.n. for a war crime and i did not misspeak when i said the united states. israel will never be prosecuted for any of this or or there will never be tribunals held because israel is an extension in the un of the united states us its veto power over anything the un decides to do and would never allow that to happen so absolutely not i don't expect to see anything come from it other than the continued refusal to accept that people people matter right people's lives actually matter israeli lives matter palestinian lives matter and yet it is not treated that way certainly in our media certainly and our governmental apparatus whether t

of the human rights council will not be happy until key important details are given particularly who these perpetrators are and what sort of power what sort of leverage does this u.n. committee on human rights actually have i mean can it compel the saudis to to produce evidence or answer questions that it once dealt with does it over is it really just a talking shop without any power whatsoever. it doesn't have any real legal way to force saudis to comply bucks last week at the start of the hearing thirty six different members of the human rights council came together and tabled one joint statement this is never happened before and the entire history of the human rights council so under that kind of pressure for saudi to explain exactly where it is violating human rights it's very difficult to see how saudi community of course is still completely alone there are several members of the human rights council that are diplomatically close to saudi and we heard some of them speak up to the saudi statements they had about one and a half minutes to speak some of course some critical others were some praise saudis advances when it comes to improving levels of human rights but undoub