his address to the security council, he said, the united nations must respect national sovereignty inted states and everywhere else. the united nations serves nation states, not the other way around. this principle is central to the legitimacy and the ultimate survival of the united nations. it is a principle that must be protected. like senator helms, we believe that sovereignty is critical. it is also at risk. to many want america to surrender of sovereignty. too few understand that to it was certification -- traded to serve its members and not the other way around prayed too few understand that we defend american sovereignty because we value the u.s. constitution. that guarantees american rights. for over 25 years, we have turned the spotlight on the united nations to expose its waste, fraud, and abuse and to demand better of it. we worked closely with allies on the hill and senator helms was the best -- was the best of them. the list of what the united nations does poorly is unfortunately far longer than what it does well. this is a point that ambassador john bolten makes. we have

barbara, the united nations troops, where are they stationed in the united states? >>>> caller: they are all across. training exercise missions. all across the country. you have the training. >> host: have they been dispatched? >> caller: work issue with the federal government. >> host: mark potok, anything to what black bra had to say? >> the whole idea of united nations and troops are being prepared, this is a part of the idea they are going to help impose marshal law and so on. the caller referred to something that came out of mississippi fusion center, this is the state, local troop that worry about domestic terrorism and so on. the report actually, most people like the caller have never read the report. what the report was very similar to the dhs, department of homeland security report that was leaked last spring. it was assessing the kind of resumption of the radical light. it had a couple of statements in it that were written. they said things like you might want to watch out for people with certain kinds of bumper sticks. ron paul was mentioned. those kinds

the argument that we are required to pay what has been assessed by the majority of the united nations, i think, is an argument that ultimately means that we have agreed to an international taxation. i do not think that is what we agreed to when ratifying the charter. i do not think that is really what the whole mechanism for funding of the united nations was really intended to do. the right now, under the helms- biden legislation, we pay 22% of the contributions for most united nations agencies. let us say that the overthrow of saddam hussein had outraged the membership and they decided to show the disapproval of this action by, for one fiscal year, making the u.s. share of the un budget 99%. would we be obligated by treaty to pay a 99%? i think, just like joe biden, they would be headed to the weeds to avoid that conclusion. i think the answer is to get away from it the system of contribution entirely, and move toward a system that is totally voluntary funding by the united states. we would give money to programs of that work and withhold our money from the many programs that do not

this is a view that says america is one of 192 members of the united nations. elevated over any other nation. it is not one where balance of power play personal politics applies any more. i think this view of america's role in the world stems in part from the president's lack of support for the concept of american exceptional is some, latest infant which moves him get away from the law line of american presidents. he was asked about his view of american exceptional is and during his first trip to europe as president and president obama in response to a question said i believe in american exceptional ism. that was the first third of the sentence as an answer. the british exception lonesome and, 192 members. the president could have gone on to say as the ecuadorean believe in ecuadorean exceptional isn't, or others believe -- just as it is popular in the exception of dozen. this comports with the notion that the u.s. is one player among many. the observation of the president's view has been widely perceived. and after president obama's speech at the d-day anniver

united nations. and now president obama is the host. so as the host, he had to have one-on-one bilateral leaders, they came all this way, respect must be shown, and a president's got to do what a president's got to do, which was sort of a version of speed dating diplomacy today. did you see his schedule today? small talk with the whole big wide world. ♪ >> prime minister singh, i haven't seen you since when? >> since those imposters showed up at the state dinner in my honor. >> right. right. sorry about that. >> did they get a reality show? i don't get cable. >> so how are things in kazakhstan. >> we didn't find borat either. >> me either. >> so you're hosting the world cup. >> we call it soccer. >> we call it fut ball. >> i've got to keep it moving here. >> good luck jonathan. >> i get that a lot. >> king abdullah, how did your bracket work out? >> i had syracuse. >> so how long are you in town for? not long, got to get back to kiev. >> i'm pressed for time. will you be willing to send us all your h

before the earthquake, security was a challenge for haiti and a united nations peacekeeping mission helpedomote the rule of law. now the dedicated u.n. workers in haiti have suffered terrible losses. so have the haitian national police, which were building their ranks and their capacity. with so much dislike -- destruction and this location, security is even more tenuous. drug-trafficking is a half a billion dollar a year industry in haiti. it thrives on political and social instability. trafficking in human beings is also rampant. tens of thousands of children are trafficked in haiti every year and now even more are even -- are more vulnerable. each of these problems directly affects the people of haiti, but they indirectly affect us all. and if they worsened, it is not only the people of haiti that will suffer. i have great confidence in the resilience of the people of haiti. their history has tested them and now they are being tested again. so are haiti's leaders, in whom i also have great confidence. we

have nine and a half in afghanistan, all of the air and logistic capability with supporting a united nations sanction operation in the 44 nation coalition, now if you want to mention the cost on that, then you need to add that on to the figures that chris is just given you. we provide, you know, security in the green zone in cyprus, you know, there are -- there's capability that we're providing in different parts of the world as well as, you know, paying our dues to these organizations. and it's a pretty complicated formula to try to add up what the cost are. >> but the due that is we pay are all -- we've already provided the foreign affairs committee. you already commented in your charming report again. >> i'll come on to our report in a minute. i want to ask, because i'm trying to get the sense of all of the government collectively, knowing from the fco paying or what perhaps some other department pays. but to have the sense of the scope of this would be really helpful. if we're going to have a clear view of the international security strategy, bringing everybody together, then it would be

also, nato wants to become global and elbow away or substitute the united nations as an operational body for peacekeeping or intervention whenever nato decides to do that. >> before we go to the last question, i was reminded, and it's a point you have made a number of times, first of all, the only nuclear arms control experience in the world is between the u.s. and the soviet union and the u.s. and russia. the treaties and experiences we have had thus far have never actually verify the part that goes boom. it has always been the delivery systems. i remember briefing members of congress a few months ago and i realized they did not realize that arms control had never dealt with the part that goes boom. that's how i explain it. there is the part that flies the thing and a part that goes boom. we have destroyed this parts that fly but never dealt with the parts that go boom and he said, you are kidding. i said there are weapons that have been dismantled, it just was not verified and counted. many of the lights when you turn on your lights in your state, the power is supplied from the fuel by

years, all of our countries have learned many lessons, particularly from the tsunami that the united nations was instrumental in leading the response to. we must put those lessons to work in haiti. i am very excited and very committed on behalf of president obama, the government of the united states, and the people of the united states to help haiti and to help the leaders of haiti lead a recovery effort for the of their highest hopes. thank you so much, secretary general. [applause] >> ladies and gentleman, central to the action plan which the prime minister of haiti has just sent us, this is a decision to build 80 a new. we're committed to helping ap achieve that goal. since the earthquake, our agencies have been among the many providing humanitarian support to haitians under extremely difficult circumstances. much remains to be done. a as the rain begins and the hurricane season begins, the needs are particularly pressing and we must said that unless the urgent humanitarian needs are met and they revised appeal for haiti is fully funded insuring that the smooth transition becomes more dif

i also want to emphasize that the united nations is too simple to speak of the united nations as a kindf monolith. there are many different dimensions and bodies within the u. n. what we usually mean when we criticize the un is the security council because it has a difficult time agreeing on anything and as a consequence the principles and ideals of the united nations charter are not given effect. at least that is what appears to be the case. this instance in east timor was one in which there was unanimity within the security council that some kind of intervention was required and that intervention came and stopped the violence. what i would stress in this case is it would not have happened had it been left to the deliberations of major powers within the united nations. it happened because those powers were held to account by their own citizens. there were massive demonstrations, there was massive media pressure. there were people from their own countries in the heart of the storm in the line of fire and it was that political pressure on those countries, on metal and albright, that forc

and i also want to emphasize united nations it is too simple to speak of the united nations as a model with. there are many different dimensions of the when they usually when we criticize them it is the security council because it has a difficult time to agree on anything and as a consequence the principles and ideals are not given the fact from what appears to be the case. and there was indeed the security council of some type of intervention was required and it came and stopped the violence. but what i would stress it would dodd have happened had it simply been left to the deliberation of the major powers within the united nations and have been to there we're held to account by their own citizens and massive demonstrations and media pressure and people from their own country and the heart of the storm and the political pressure from those countries from clinton and madeleine albright that forced their hand that cannot make them act in a way that stopped the violence. left to their own devices devices, without that pressure from their own citizens, i would venture to say nothing would

of the things that the liberal democrats would want to do is take away britain's seat on the united nations security council, then replace it with a european one. that gives us the ability to punch her way to the world. >> there is no chance of britain giving up its seat on the united nations security council. we will continue to lead with labor. >> summer frightened to think that we cannot change year. -- some are friend to think that we cannot change europe. >> the next question comes from coal field in bristol. >> given our involvement in afghanistan, there is another noddy international operation to take out al qaeda or another terrorist groups -- with the u.k. participate? >> will the u.k. take part in other multi-national operations against terrorists abroad? >> clearly, the principle of the reason that we went into afghanistan and why i supported our mission in afghanistan is to keep us safe. it is because we believe that, if you allow it to be a haven for extremism and terrorism, there will be more terrorist attacks here in britain. if it were to happen again, we should. the problem

not mention in the introductory remarks and that is there are blocks of countries within the united nations and there is an arab block for various needs and purposes but prior to the most recent election of the current incumbent of united nations, secretary general, all 22 arab countries voted for this individual to be their representative and their candidate for the secretary general of united nations. [applause] i am in the eighth grade and i enjoyed the speech about peace. on behalf of this audience, we could say that the rest of us are in kindergarten and we, too, enjoyed it. >> thank you so much per in [applause] -- thank you so much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the carnegie endowment for international peace has a discussion about u.s. security relations with russia. the two countries recently negotiated a revised start treaty on reducing nuclear weapons stockpiles. our live coverage of this event begins at 10:00 a.m., eastern time, here on c-span. the pact between russia and the u.s. is

said at the united nations -- as he said the united nations, nations do they united nations no favorhey choose vitriolic attacks against israel over construct a willingness to recognize israel's legitimacy and it's right to exist in peace and security. america's cup and meant to israel will endure. everyone must know there is ano space between israel and the united states when it comes to security. [applause] our commitment to israel's security as unshakable and it is as strong as ever. this president and this administration understands very well the environment regionally and internationally in which israel and the united states must operate. we understand very well that for peace and stability in the middle east, israel must be secure. the united states will never waver in defense of israel's security. that is why we provide billions of dollars annually in security assistance to israel and that is why we have reinvigorated our counsel to make sure israel military edge and we undergo defense exercises that involve more than 1000 united states servicemen and women. we do these effort

when he goes before the united nations and speaks for the first time and chastises israel in front of the united nations but has nothing to say about the palestinian group hamas launching 7000 rockets in israel, that is a mistake and of course the decision to withdraw our support for missile defense from poland and the czech republic web those great friends to be very concerned about america's willingness to stand with them. at the same time, perhaps designed to re-sever relations. we got nothing for it from russia so i'm afraid the steps that he took have confused our friends, made our foes if you will continue headlong and in some cases to a course not helpful to the world. you have both iran pursuing its nuclear following headlong in north korea of course did nuclear test even as the president was speaking, carried out various tests. this is, in my opinion, an indication that they thought the president was not going to be a strong defender of american values and american principles, human rights, democracy, free trade, free enterprise, those words of apology and the statements have

now what we have to remember is that there have been three previous united nations sanctions resolutions and the chinese negotiated in each one of those and in every one when you go back and interview the negotiators, they'll tell you the same thing: the chinese used the process to both slow it down and water it down. >> the chinese view of their role in the world has matured. and i think the financial crisis has left the chinese aware of the fact that their interests are more vulnerable than they've ever been before and that's led to a recalculation on their side. but the idea that you can a fix each of these problems without an overarching strategic concept is just flawed, it's tail chasing, really. >> rose: we continue with ken gormley, a law professor at duquesne who's written a highly praised book called "the death of american virtue: clinton vs. star". >> the hardest thing about writing this book, charlie, was knowing that both ken starr and bill clinton would be disappointed with parts of it that weren't favorable. but i did my best, i tried to call it down the middle. you know, i

finally, this day demonstrates the determination of the united states and russia and, the two nations holding over 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, to pursue responsible global leadership. together we are keeping our commitments under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which must be the foundation for global nonproliferation. the new start treaty is an important first step forward, it is just one step on a longer journey. as i said last year, this treaty will set the stage for further cuts. going forward, we hope to pursue discussions with russia on reducing our strategic and tactical weapons, including non- deployed weapons. if president medvedev and i have agreed to expand discussions on missile defense. this will include regular exchanges of information about our threat assessments as well as the completion of a joint assessment of emerging ballistic missiles. if these assessments are completed -- at their completed, i laforce to launch an a dialogue about missile defense cooperation. but nuclear weapons are not simply an issue for the u.s. and russia. they threaten the common

president, as the united nations special envoy to haiti, you have a tremendous amount of convening power as well as tremendous reach across multilateral efforts in haiti. i know that work is only going to get harder, even though we have had a tremendous response. it will only get harder in the days ahead. it seems in some respects that haiti is an example of not just a technical challenge but a leadership challenge as well. i am wondering as we look at haiti and our response is there, are we doing enough, whether it be haiti or overall long-term thinking about how we do foreign assistance, and hal in that context are we looking at how we develop leadership at the end of the day to help us, whether it be global health initiatives are health initiatives? we can externally provide resources and make a difference, but at the end of the day, the question is, how at the same time do we create indigenous leadership to move us in the right direction? mr. gates, if you could comment on that as well. you have a unique ability through the foundation to make long-term commitments in which individual

save the children, malaria nomar and the united nations foundations are this season's beneficiaries.om/larryking. all right, randy, you're auctioning off something? >> yeah. i did a save the children thing in mississippi with morgan freeman. kara and i are personally auctioning off various things. we're auctioning off singing lessons, vocal lesson to the highest bidder. me and kara, come on. >> randy, do you sing? >> yeah. >> and kara, you're teaching someone how to sing? >> yes, ryan. i am. and it won't be you. >> larry: why are you making fun? >> no, she has a beautiful voice. >> how does it work? >> well, this is just another way to raise more money. randy and i are going to actually define pitchy in the vocal lessons. we're going to tell people what it is. >> pitchy, the definition. >> nic . >> larry: spell it. >> p-i-t-c-h-y. >> larry: is that your pitch? >> it means you're between keys. i'm not landing o ining on the . >> larry: are you pitchy? >> i can do pitchy very well. ♪ somewhere over the rainbow >> i can bo bitchy. >> i can do bitchy, too. >> larry: ask why the idol peop

but prior to the most recent election of the current incumbent of the united nations secretary-general, all 22 arab countries voted for this individual to be their representative and their candidate for the secretary general shape of the major nations. no small honor. [applause] the last question is not so much a question, it's a statement. it says i am in eighth grade and i enjoyed listening to your speech about peace. and i think on behalf of this audience, we can say that the rest of us are in kindergarten and we too enjoyed it and learned a lot. >> thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the postal service this week suggested that saturday delivery should be eliminated to save money. we talked about that another issues facing the post office on "washington journal." this is 40 minutes. >> host: and introduce you to ruth goldway, chairman of the postal regulatory commission joining us live from los angeles, where for the very early hour in the morning. thank you so much for being here. would you explain us to begin what is the authority o

nation colliding with its past. poland is and has been a true friend and ally of the united states. our two nations recently celebrated 90 years of diplomatic relations. the contributions of polish americans to the united states are numerous. from the families who lost loved ones in the plane crash, to the nation of poland and to chicago's own shaken polish-american community, this loss will be felt around the world for years to come. we will stand with our friends as they find the resilience to emerge stronger, as they have before, following this unimaginable tragedy. i look forward to poland's ke re-covery and re-emergence as a country that can and will overcome. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: i'm delighted to wish a happy birthday to my good friend tom oosterhuis. this thursday night, the 15th, he will be surrounded by many community activists from the keys to celebrate. tom will be t

save the children, and the united nations foundations are this season's beneficiaries.ng. you're auctioning off something? >> well, yeah. >> larry: as part of this? >> i did a save the children thing in mississippi with morgan freeman about literacy. we're all personally auctioning off various things. kara and i are auctioning off a singing lesson to the highest bidder. vocal lesson to the highest bidder. it's good. >> larry: for randy jackson. >> me and kara, larry, come on. >> you sing? and kara, you're teaching someone how to sing? >> yes, simon, i am. >> larry: are you making fun of them? >> no, no, no. >> larry: come on. >> beautiful voice. >> larry: how does it work in association with your charity? >> how does it work in association with the charity? this is another way to raise more money. and randy and i are going to define pitchy in the lessons. we're going to tell people what it is. pitchy, the definition. >> larry: spell it, p-i-t-c-h-y. >> no -- >> pitchy, yeah. you're between keys. >> larry: give me an example. sing a little bit -- i'm not landing on the n

. >> rose: the next slide is a view of the united nations from... there you go. >> well, the united nations, of course, was his great hope that the world was going to be a place that will understand freedom and understand its responsibility. >> while we're looking at things let's look at... this is louis kahn's original drawing. >> that's his view of it. yes. he had a very real feeling for roosevelt because he'd been in the w.p.a. artist program so he had been helped in his own life and career. so this had special meaning for him doing it for roosevelt. >> rose: the monument at the tip has aspects of a greek temple, doesn't it? >> it does. without the ceiling. but it will certainly be a magnificent place for thoughtfulness and reflection, medication and public events. >> rose: let's move to the notes from the sketch book. there you go. look at this. >> you had nathaniel kahn on. and his documentary about his father, that really brought this back into focus. >> rose: roll tape. we have that here. nathaniel kahn talking about his father louis kahn. >>

around the globe. >> larry: was yours the united nations foundation? >> malaria.e what the funds had been doing. there was one orphanage that we built rooms for people to live in. >> larry: and what was in arizona, simon? >> it was a mobile health clinic. they travel -- they bring mobile hospital down that they didn't have the hospital there, they'd have to travel like three or four hours until i met the doctors, kids. >> larry: how do you raise the money? >> basically, through the people who watch the show. they donate. >> larry: the donations are done right through the program itself? >> we started something different this year where we could have people who were watching the show a couple of weeks out from the special that's wednesday night donate themselves individually. that, of course, throughout the telecast on wednesday night, a two-hour broadcast. throughout the performances, we have people to call or text for donations. >> larry: there are performances wednesday night, right? but this emphasis on the charities? >> oh, yeah. that's where a lot of the mone

we do not take any funding from the united states government or the united nations.ll of our funding comes from private sources, foundations, and individuals. we can take on the powers that be when people are getting lost in the process. host: 1.2 million people displaced by the count of reorganization. how long does this situation last in haiti? will they get stabilized? guest: they have had a decades of a lack of capacity building. the international community has not focused attention on it as much as it should have. president bush and president clinton of trying to rebuild haiti. a society that has not been very well structured and lay on top of that one of the most serious natural disasters of our time, and it is going to be tough. we have to make sure the organized nations of the world do not forget about haiti and drop off the radar. one of the things we doé÷ is tae places that are neglected and try to keep it on the world stage. host: 2.6 million people were internally displaced in one area. with that kind of scope, what can your organization realistically do?

. >> this demonstrates the determination of the united states and russia, the two nations that hold over 90% of the nuclear weapons, to pursue depaul university leadership. >> this was a historic moment. >> the most important thing is that there are no winners or losers. it is clear what has happened. both sides have won. >> the message from here to iran which is expected of seeking weapons, sanctions might be on the way. >> my expectation is that we will be able to secure a strong and tough sanctions on iran this spring. >> on one level, to day changes very level -- little. america and russia will still be able to wipe each other out several times over. it does help president obama's ambitions for a nuclear-free world. it might discourage others from joining. >> the pakistani assembly has passed a reform transferring important powers from the president did the prime minister and parliament. this takes away the right to dissolve parliament. five suspected taliban militants were arrested. officials say the men armed with guns and vests were stopped trying to drive into the capital. a land

we have been very fortunate in that when the earthquake occurred, we had united nations stabilization mission there. we had nearly 8000 u.n. troops there led by the brazilian major-general there recently turned over command to another brazilian general. we operate within the envelope of the safe and secure environment due to those forces that were there at the time. and have continued to do that. so we've been the u.s. military and the joint task force have been able to focus our efforts on humanitarian assistance, and of course security tasks that were associated with doing just that. >> how much longer will u.s. troops remain in haiti? >> as a nation we are in a transition phase. we started transitioning the size of our military forces, as i said before, dialing it back, based on the conditions on the ground. and we have done that since february with the departure of the aircraft carrier and we continue to do that today. i expect us to, on or about june 1, to stand down the joint task forces. we will be able to do that because of the capability that is being built up by civilian org

and we'll also be speaking to former united nations secretary-general kofi annan this hour about good governance in africa and whether the u.s. should be involved with the indicted president of sudan. >>> but first, turkey and a look at prime minister erdogan's word, cnn's ivan watson has that. >> reporter: erdogan first swept to power in 2002. his campaign promise then, get turkey into the european union. he introduced democratic reforms and succeeded in launching eu membership negotiations in 2005. but erdogan's government has also repeatedly clashed with the powerful turkish military and this overwhelmingly muslim country's traditional secular establishment. >> he will be a person who wanted to turn a secular democratic republic into a sort of islamic society. >> reporter: erdogan insists he gave up political islam in 1999. crowds escorted him then as mayor of istanbul he was sentenced to six months in prison for reading an islamic poem in public. but last february it was the once untouchable retired military top brass who were under arrest, accused of plotting to overthrow erdogan

united airlines and u.s. airways may try again to merge. it was widely reported today the two carriers are in talks to combine-- creating the nation's second rgest carrier. delta is the largest. united and u.s. airways also considered merging in 2008, but ultimately shelved the idea. wall street made modest gains today after news that sales at major retailers were up 9% last month. the dow jones industrial average gained 29 points to close at 10,927. the nasdaq rose five points to close well above 2,436. scientists have publicly unveiled two skeletons of a creature that may open a new chapter in human evolution. the fossil remains were found in south africa. they're nearly two million years old and may have been a transitional species between apes and man. the find was detailed in the latest issue of the journal "science," published today. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: the situation in kyrgyzstan remained unsettled today. the opposition claimed it was in charge, but the country's presiden

russia has accused the united nations -- states of conniving with afghanistan's drug producers by refusing to destroy opium crops. last year, they reversed their policy of the eradicating opium. opium production has risen by nearly 50 times and russians have become huge consumers. it is estimated at 2.5 million russians are heroin addicts. it is predicted to that 30,000 will die this year. some of the scenes in the report are disturbing. >> in the siberian city, they are bringing out the dead. igor was only 20. two days ago, he was found slumped in a stairwell with a needle in his arm. now, he is being taken home to his parents. unemployment, and decay, and alcoholism. the average man here will be lucky to get to 60. now a new scourged sweeping the city -- where one. -- heroin. this is one of the worst drug neighborhoods in the city. we have been told that this area wilhas one of the worst drug us. we will watch the door. it does not take long. others are easy to spot. some are not. above, the lookout keeps watch. over the next hour, a stream of people come and go. my local guide says most

the sanction the united nations has put on iran because of nuclear ambitions and lack of cooperationtigators hasn't really done much to stop iran, it seems. >> on a tactical level, contessa, it has caused difficulties to iran to purchase equipment, issue letters of credit. but strategically, it didn't attach a significant price tag. indicated to the iranians if they continue with the project they jeopardize the existing of their regime and maybe think it over again. >> how important are the chinese for any pressure to make iran tow the line. >> the only chance of the world to prevent israel from striking iran, because israel see iran nuclear as an threat would be significant sanctions. there would not be significant sanctions without the aiding, participation of china. if going back to the chinese foreign minister speech, mr. young just two months ago in munich, he said there would be no sanctions. maybe during these two months, maybe during the summit today, president obama would be able to change china's mind. for the time being china is iran's closest economic ally. from their poi

russia's started to see nato as an aggressive alliance that used its force arbitrarily out of united nations security council framework, out of for a mark of international law, at will. what is more importantly that it did not change the official attitude toward nato, but the grass roots, russian attitude toward nato. i lived at least half of my professional life in the soviet union. i do not remember ever seeing such an outcry of anti-nato, and that-western movements at the grassroot lovell of the russian public as in 1999. the more official propaganda was coming against nato. the more russian people like nato. but that changed dramatically after 1999. then, russia started to judge nato not by the nature of the state's which are native members, whether democratic or not quite democratic, but by the nato actual functions. by the actual operations. the operation in iraq, which was not a new operation, but the united states and a number of nato allies, intervened without

. >> it demonstrates the determination of the united states and russia, the two nations to hold over 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. to pursue responsible globe or leadership. >> the russian president, too, saw this as an historic climate. >> the most important fact is that there are no winners or losers. it is what you might call a win/win situation. it is clear what happened. both sides have one. >> the message was sent to iran, which was suspected of seeking nuclear weapons. sanctions may be on the way. >> my expectation is that we are going to be able to secure strong, tough sanctions on iran this spring. >> on and one level, to date changes very little. america and russia will still be able to wipe each other out several times over. it does underline president obama's ambitions for a nuclear-free world and that may pursue -- persuade other countries not to join the nuclear club. bbc news. >> de ambassadors of six world powers will be meeting in new york to discuss sanctions against iran over the disputed nuclear program. china and russia have so far refused to back the new m

president since the 1945 conference that founded the united nations. >>> a mother and her 3-year-old daughter murdered in alexandria and police are looking for their killer. investigators saying the little girl's father slashed their throats, tossed the knife in some bushes and took off. neighbors heard the screams from the apartment on south reynolds street. the details left them stun giant food it was crazy, you know. i looked out. i saw the parking lot and stuff blocked off. you came down and they was telling me it was a mother and daughter. i mean it's crazy. >> take at this photo. this is the suspect police are looking for. investigators say he was last seen driving a 1999 silver acura virginia plates xks 1522. >>> police are investigating an attack on the campus of george washington university. they say two suspects pulled out knives and chased somebody early sunday morning following a verbal argument. one of the suspects stabbed the victim in the upper arm and ran off. we are told no one involve was afull yaitd with the university. victim was at any rate and released from the

national airport in washington. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, it happened on a united airlines flight that took here from reagan national airport. the trouble began when a passenger tried to sneak a smoke onboard and made a flippant, and very unfortunate remark. it was a harrowing night for 157 passengers aboard a united airlines flight, though it ended safely. >> it was quite an inconvenience, but better than a tragedy. right flight 663, a 757 like this one, was well on its way, about an hour from its scheduled stop in denver before going on to las vegas when a passenger in first class spent a long time in the bathroom. federal investigators say when he came out a flight attendant smelled smoke and notified two federal air marshals onboard. they questioned the man, 27-year-old mohammed al madadi from qatar. assigned to its embassy in washington. he was on official business to check on the treatment of a federal prisoner, convicted last year of being an al qaeda sleeper agent in the u.s. when asked about smoking in the bathroom he replied, "i was trying to light my shoe on fire." and refused to give up his ligh

my suggestion would be for the united states to remove its technical news from europe to its national territory and russia to keep its tactical nukes only on its territory which actually russia does now. and to have a formal agreement that those nuclear weapons would be kept in storage and not deployed with operational conventional forces. if you want to go further than that and insist that all of them are in centralized storage, you would have to have verification procedures by which russians would be able to come to every american air force and naval base to make sure that in the depots of these bases, there are no cruise missiles or for any other weapon. in charleston, according to available data, about 100 nuclear warheads or cruise missiles. it would be prohibited and russia should have the right to come to every base and to say that as strategic. if it is tactical, you would have to get rid of it. that might be possible but it would be extremely difficult. >> let us take two questions. >> thank you very much. i have a question on ratification. those of us who have been through o

chavez come mugabe denied him the special status i think that is a mistake when he goes before the united nations and speaks for the first time and chastises israel but has nothing to say about the palestinian group hamas launching 7,000 rockets at israel is a mistake. the decision to withdraw our support for mr. kohl defense from poland and the czech republic led those great friends to be concerned about america's willingness to stand with them and perhaps to reset relations with russia. we have nothing. i am afraid the steps that he took have confused our friends and made our foes continue have long and of course, it is not helpful to the world you have by man pursuing nuclear folly and north korea of course, did nuclear test even as the president was speaking carried out test prep of this is in my opinion an indication that they felt the president was not going to be a strong defender of american values and principles human-rights democracy those words of apology have emboldened of those who find access s a weekend enemy. >> host: you make the argument in the book is important to keep america

, switzerland, spain, sweden, thailand, turkey, united arab emirates, the united kingdom, the united nations, the iaea and the european union will also be there. the president is currently planning to host a number of bilateral meetings. those include the president of armenia, the president of china , chancellor merkel of germany, king abdullah ii of jordan, the prime minister of malaysia. the prime minister of pakistan. president zuma of south africa. and the president of kazakhstan. in addition to the president's activities this evening, the -- at the white house the president will host a screening of the documentary film "nuclear tipping point," a film which focuses on today's nuclear dangers. the screening will be attended by four distinguished statesmen. formers secretary of state george schultz and henry kissinger, former senator sam nunn as well as film narrator dunn and colin powell. they share the personal experience that led them to write three "wall street journal" opinion editorials to reduce reliance on foreign oil and ultimately end them as a threat to the world. >> which -- >>

. >> though the government is cruising to a landslide election victory, the next part of the united nationalparty is far behind at only 46 seats. of far behind that, the alliance of the former army chief who fell out with the president, stood against him in the presidential election in january, and then and present. he has won his own parliamentary seat, standing despite being incarcerated. the only three districts that fail to put the government in first place are in the north and east, tamil tiger dominated districts. the tamil national alliance came out on top. that is a party that was recently seen as a proxy for the defeated tamil tigers, much reviled by the government and most of the population. the president's government has won the election, do not really to the popularity of the politicians were not really a popular bunch but due to the popularity of the president himself. it will now be up to him to perhaps reach out to those people who do not necessarily see him as their natural politician of choice, for him to reach out so he can win the seat, having won the war last year. >>> th

we believe relevant actions by the united nations should be conducive to ease the situation there and conducive to pushing forward a solution through dialogue and negotiation. >> brown: iran insists its enrichment activities are peaceful, but the obama administration is seeking tough sanctions to keep it from building nuclear weapons. iran was not invited to this week's summit. today in tehran, a foreign ministry spokesman said chinese-backing of a new round of sanctions was hardly assured. >> (translated:) we don't consider such statements as their approval and support of the u.s. authority's unjust measures, although we have repeatedly said that the issue of sanctions and going toward increasing sanctions is a logical and unfair and will not harm the iranian nation's will to achieve its rights. >> brown: it was also revealed today that secretary clinton met privately last night with the permanent members of the united nations' security town is sill in germany to discuss the next steps on iran. still, the president today kept the focus on the nuclear terrorism issue. this afternoon a

host: where are the 400 troops from the united nations? where are the station in the united states? caller: there are all across the country in different areas. you have the training. you have them working with the federal government. all this stuff is happening. host: mark potok, anything to what barbara had to say? guest: the whole idea of foreign troops being prepared, this is very much part of the idea they will help impose martial law and so on. the report that was referred to was up and that came out of the

the united nations, international atomic energy agency will be looking to sanction iran as well. these are things that will come newspaper the sideline meetings that will be equally important to what comes out of the summit. >> way to go on handling the lye pictures of president hu arriving. i'll be quicker next time. way to go. suzanne malveaux at the white house. >> directions in my ear. >> i could use that information, by the way. still to come, more on the importance of the summit. next hour, a conversation with nuclear weapons analyst joseph sorencioni here in the cnn newsroom. they have been going hard at it. 24/7 for 30 years. one group's mission to rid the world of nuclear bombs never sleeps. >>> and another stormy day. particularly out west we have the storms. rob marciano in the cnn weather center playing a video game there, i see. we'll get him on the maps in a second. we're back in a moment. you're in the cnn newsroom. youtube didn't exist. and facebook was still run out of a dorm room. when we built our first hybrid, more people had landlines than cell phones, and no

this includes the united nations, the international atomic energy agency, the multilateral partnershipthat strengthens nuclear security, prevent nuclear trafficking and assist nations in building their capacity to secure their nuclear materials. but as i said, today was about taking tangible steps to protect our people. so we have also agreed to a detailed work plan to guide our efforts going forward -- the specific actions we will take. i want to commend my partners for the very important commitments that they made in conjunction with this summit. let me give you some examples. canada agreed to give up a significant quantity of highly enriched uranium. chile has given up its entire stockpile. ukraine and mexico announced that they will do the same. other nations such as argentina and pakistan announced new steps to strengthen port security and prevent nuclear smuggling. more nations including argentina, the philippines, thailand, and viet nam agreed to join, and thus strengthen, the treaties and international partnerships that are at the core of our global efforts. a number of countri

but the united nations is warning that could quickly change. >> if you're looking at malnutrition rates of 46% now, that's a terrible situation. we're very careful about describing the kind of context that we're in. but if we don't get some help soon we could be in a mess. >> on the edge of town, a makeshift camp for an anxious family. they fled their village after it was attacked by a rival tribe. now the drought has destroyed their crops. do you have enough to eat for your family? this is all you have? just soaring scompum -- just sorghum and meat, no vegetables? tens of thousands of families like this one are too afraid to go back home, a wave of violence and hunger is sweeping through this region. these are testing times for south sudan. trying to stop the violence, local soldiers have confiscated hundreds of weapons. but officials still fear that hunger will provoke more attacks. >> somebody will look for a gun again and get a cow. >> this 3-year-old has just been brought in, faint with hunger. an extreme case perhaps, but a troubling one. in such a vulnerable region. andrew hardin