it is the task of all nations acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the united nations for playing, pollution, hazards of nature, hunger of children foes of every nation. as man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirty and hunger, to stop poverty and disease. to banish literacy and massive human misery. we have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world. i want to make it the last. the provision of development assistance by individual nations must go on. but the united nations also must play a larger role by helping to all men the fruits of science and open new subjects held earlier this year at geneva, open new vistas to developing countries. next year the the conference on trade will consider the needs for these new markets. more than four fifths of the system can be found today mobile liesing the weapons of science and technology for the united nation decade of development. but more can be done. a world center for health communications under the world health organization could warn of epidemics and adverse effects of

it is the task of all nations acting alopnalone, in groups in united states. and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. as man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirty and hunger, to stop poverty and disease. we have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world. i want to make it the last. the provision of development assistance by individual nations must go on. but the united nations also must play a larger role by helping to bring to all men and open new vistas to developing countries. next year it will consider the needs for these new markets. more than 4/5th of the system cank found today mobilizing the sicience and technology. more can be done. a world center for health communications under the world health organization could warn of effects of certain drugs. research centers could advance our medical knowledge and train new democratdo doctor for new n. satellites could provide information for all corners of the earth. conservation could protect the forest. improve the marine harvest

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ambassador to the united nations, you're in new york. you've been at the united nations. what is the saudi perspective on the u.n. and their involvement? >> well, i wa the saudi governmt decided to go back to the u.n. supreme coursecurity council. i just confirmed that, and they said that they are going back. i think it should be this week or next week be. kerry it "s" there, and i think they have returned an agreement to return to the u.n. security council. the u.s. i think, will be more aggressive on syria, no strikes, but more aggressive in terms of trying to push assad regime out. >> ambassador, how significant is that news? >> well, it's definitely significant. the saudis have been throwing a bit of a tantrum over something that is very unclear, and i think their interest will be pursued much more directly if they're on the security council. it never made sense for them to say, we're going to take our malibus anmarbles and go home. they petitioned for two years to have that seat. >> looking at trying to bring parties together, and have a conversation about what is ha

what will become the first united nations commission on human rights and the united states is opposed. and so, that we have to -- she has to negotiate that and then she's appointed unanimously and plays the major role in drafting the universal deck ra lags of -- universal declaration of human rights, with four years of school, i might add. not college. >> and really interesting about her wanting to express her own views because you can see that in her writing and something my dad enjoyed reading every day in her column, "my day." as a final question, i wanted as a final question, i wanted to ask you if eleanor thought there was a difference between women's rights and human rights. >> initially, yes. at the end of her life, no. because she began to see -- she thought that the most fundamental human rights were food, shelter, the living wage and the right to education. and those were profoundly empowering of women and it took her a while to get there. but by the end of her life, especially when she's continuing to work with commission on -- the u.n. commission on the status of women, th

. >> the united nations says the humanitarian situation inside syria has considerably worsened in the past few months. the number of people in syria needing help has exceeded 9 million, more than six are displaced and 2 million has fled the country. the u.n. expects it to be above 3 million by the end of this year. joining us on the phone from geneva is the united nations office lens from the coordination of humanitarian affairs. in the past three months we have seen 3.8 million extra people needing help, it is an enormous jump. why is that? >> it is an enormous jump, numbers are staggering. we are 9.3 million in syria are estimated to be in need of humanitarian aid. 6.5 million are internally displaced. this high figure is an incemental displacement which has happened over the past month. the last statement was made in june. now, since june it has jumped up to the 40% of the population as you mentioned. >> i'm trying to get to the bottom of why this is so. back in october there was a united nations security council statement urging humanitarian access to these people, and it appears

so this is and if you want to look at the united nations from the prism of the u.n. security council then we have here five powers russia china united states france and germany which. the five members which are actually the the ones that have the veto power with china that they want to have the veto power in order to really enforce some executive powers. but again from the for instance from the perspective or from other countries some other countries or you can say from the syrian perspective the international community is is not the u.n. security council the international david they believe that elite is system. that they really inclusive it's actually exclusive they believe that the international community in other words in the more i think academic or professional awards it's more the general assembly or member of a magazine that. i would agree with you on that ok because every september there's a vote in the general assembly for recognition of a palestinian state and i'll have to check the numbers but it's one hundred eighty something against two or three or what

so this is and if you want to look at the united nations from the prism of the u.n. security council then we have here five powers russia china united states france and germany which. the five members which are actually the the ones that have the veto power with china that they want to have the veto power in order to really enforce some executive powers. but again from the for instance from the perspective or from other countries some other countries or you can say from the syrian perspective the international community is is not the u.n. security council the international david they believe that it is system. that they really inclusive it's actually exclusive they believe that the international community in other words in the more i think academic or professional awards it's more the general assembly or member of a magazine that's fair and i would agree with you on that ok because every september there's a vote in the general assembly for recognition of a palestinian state and i'll have to check the numbers but it's one hundred eighty something against two or three

united nations and violence against women. david chance for us kids discover that while we answer may lie in the way we raise boys to the man will be talking about. in the false and death today. start the hour or so in the newsroom on a busy news monday it's a low once again to an atm. thank you from top to cover let's take a look at what's making headlines this hour in the united nations announced as the series capital position was that as time attend peace talks in geneva. the french foreign minister says eu sanctions on iraq. as early as next month as part of a new trade deal which will house. the second and thousands of being taken to the streets of bangkok pulling that has the highest part of the stuff. washington is calling on all stock stir fry them up. top story and united nations is syria's capital position will for the very best to attend his talks in geneva on jenny twenty second of the u n america and russia have been trying for months to get both sides to create a political solution to the car the infighting withi

the united nations released $25 million of funds and is calling for more.o bolster efforts countries pledged support. aid agencies channelling food and resources. the biggest challenge is how to get the hope to those that need it. the united states - they sent the aircraft carrier "george washington", hmas "daring" is on route. and royal transport aircraft had been sent. aid agencies unicef are on the ground. chris de bono said aid needs to be distributed as soon as possible. >> at the moment we are looking at a total of 4 million children affected. the ones that are in urgent need of life-saving aid probably in the hundreds of thousands - 200-300,000 is a guess. we are doing the assessments to work that out. we have four teams at the moment that are conducting assessments. but you are right. the big issue is how to get the aid to those children in need. they desperately need food and shelter, access to clean water and sanitation if we are going to avoid the second wave of natural disasters. they need protection, and we are trying to get it in. we are hopef

nation when you take parts of syria and turkey and iraq but there is absolutely no prospect of the united nations or the world community recognizing a nation there and if the kurds who are doing rather well as a part of this old empire construct were to declare their independence from iraq they would find zero recognition from the united states from the united kingdom from france from the european union so we're dealing with a very different world than of course the israelis also disprove your point the israelis would love to annex the west bank and create what they call eretz israel but they are prevented from doing so by the knowledge that that would probably use the israeli regime so changing borders by force. and i don't think it is and i say that and i think that you know to think a really interesting here gentlemen is wentworth what we have to actually looking at it in two different ways we're looking at international law and the united nations which is all nice and fine but charlie facts on the ground are very different ok the kurds are not going to listen to that if they have any chance f

nation when you take parts of syria and turkey and iraq but there is absolutely no prospect of the united nations or the world community recognizing a nation there and if the kurds who are doing rather well as a part of this old empire construct were to declare their independence from iraq they would find zero recognition from the united states from the united kingdom from france from the european union so we're dealing with a very different world than of course the israelis also disprove your point the israelis would love to annex the west bank and create what they call eretz israel but they are prevented from doing so by the knowledge that that would probably use the israeli regime so changing borders by force. and i don't think it is and i say that and i think that you know to think a really interesting here gentlemen incident where it's what we have to actually looking at it in two different ways we're looking at international law and the united nations which is all nice and fine but charlie facts on the ground are very different ok the kurds are not going to listen to that if they haven't ch

stephen p cctv at the united nations in new york. following china's admission to the un human rights council the country's foreign ministry thank those who supported china's of action. well my mother tells feeling generally on some of the election of fourteen new mom that's too easy to minimize console time that gold's favorable votes from the mistakes we need a free in town running from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen initials and appreciation from the international community of china's achievements in protecting human lives and that china's insurrection inooperation with the loans. we did the valves and sixty s was asked to support his anti involvement. i know will continue on to actually get to bowl to know what the secular wise counsel and other un organs. i know we are advocates of mortality and the cooperation and promote secure their rights protection among countries will will make more contributions to the summit of the moments that you minimize protection. italian offer of renee souls on hand to run an architect to be in t

that the united nations general assembly. in september president obama asked me and our team to work with our partners in order to pursue a negotiated settlement or solution with respect to the international community's concerns about iran's nuclear program. last month the p five plus one entered into a more accelerated negotiation after a number of years of meetings in various parts of the world in efforts to engage iran in serious negotiations the purpose of this is very simple to require a rand to prove the peaceful nature of its nuclear program and to ensure that it cannot acquire a nuclear weapon and the reason for this is very clear the united nations security council found that they were not in compliance with the n.p.t. or other a and other standards. and obviously activities such as a secret multis centrifuge mountain hideaway which is being used for enrichment raised many people's questions which is why alternately sanctions were put in place. today. we are taking a serious step toward answering all of those importa

>> (clapping) welcome to the newly revitalized federal building at the united nations plaza as the new home of the recreational headquarters. it's a great day one we've been waiting for. today's event is the historic corner stone that celebrates the vintage building into a 21st century workplace. we have a number of guests. today's speakers are nancy pelosi congresswoman with the house of representatives (clapping) mrs. van with the fester of the general services administration (clapping.) the honorable mayor ed lee at the san francisco. and from hk architects. (clapping.) and crystal-clear barton artist with the cliff barton studio. thank you all for joining us the general services administrations is to deliver the best technology services to the government and american people. critical parts are providing with that,s that preserve the integrity off our historic fats and incorporating the design features all have been integrated. those of us who work here about work in a historically more than building. the m public works will homicide a place in his. at the history it dates back to 1

thankfully in the united nations, we have divided our responsibilities.protection agency and we are targeting particularly the elderly, the sick, the people who are -- who have lost their family, pregnant and lactating mothers, and other very vulnerable communities. however, when every one is extremely vulnerable, it's a very hard choice to make. we're going to try to target a lot of vulnerable communities, but i expect we are going to have to go to broader communities. the aid that we have, and assistance we're getting in is just not enough for the magnitude of the crisis. >> the un's huma humane -- humanitarian chief says countries aren't doing enough. do you share that view? >> well, the magnitude of the devastation has not yet been fully assessed. we can anticipate that the magnitude will be much greater than what we anticipate today so a lot more is needed. and also the philippine government is doing a good job, but they are stretched. for the past 60 days they have dealt with a number of emergencies. storms the earthquake, and now this. this was in

the united nations has launched an appeal for areas hit by typhoon. started sometime and place, at dozens of country, and organizations pledging tens of millions of dollars in aid. u.s. sending warships carrying thousands of soldiers and dozens of aircraft to help. request relief and recovery. a massive path of destruction, struck on friday. these rah the worst two provinces that have been hit. and northern sebu, there are large areas there of both islands where thereto cities absolutely no power, the super typhoon is as known now sweat across southern men core row. five days on information about just how badly hit they are. is still coming in. is lye for us where many people are in desperate need of food. in manila looking into the challenges of getting aid to those that need it. he is in pallor, which is one of the worst affected areas. >> it is not until you see it from the air that it becomes truly evident. very little was able to with stand its power. in this catholic country, the church is at the center of the community. some are still standing,

victims blame united nations peacekeepers for bringing the disease to their nation.ey've filed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking billions. jeff glor went to hate tow have a look. >> reporter: nearly four years after a catastrophic earthquake, this is haiti with 10 million people and little access to clean water, the country was hardly prepared for a cholera epidemic. lizette paul's family has been torn apart by the disease. her daughter, brother, and father all died. "when i think about them," paul told us "i know the pain they had to go through before they passed away." paul is now one of those suing the united nations for bringing cholera to the country, an epidemic that began after u.n. peacekeepers arrived following the earthquake in 2010. nicole phillips is the attorney handling the case from port-au- prince. if the united nations wasn't here in haiti after the earthquake, would this outbreak have happened? >> no. the people thought that that water was still safe to drink, and they kept drinking it. and now, the cholera has spread so far into the river systems, t

last tuesday the united nations general assembly adopted a resolution that in the united states to end its long running embargo against cuba the resolution was approved by the one hundred and ninety three nation assembly which one hundred and ici votes in favor. this is the twenty second year in a row that the un has adopted such a resolution condemning the us embargo on cuba. the chinese from industries said china would always support cuba's legitimate interests the chinese widespread me along yemen has announced a new measures to support the development of portuguese speaking countries over the next three years. under the new policy china will provide nearly twenty billion us dollars in concessional loans to asian and african members of the forum for economic and trade cooperation. while the dress the other thing of the fourth ministerial conference of the forum he said china would share a successful experience with portuguese speaking countries in the development of special economic zones and development areas while more southern city of china and portuguese speaking nations what's

so this is and if you want to look at the united nations from the prism of the u.n. security council then we have here five powers russia china united states france and germany which. the five members which are actually the the ones that have the veto power with china that they want to have the veto power in order to really enforce some executive powers. but again from the for instance from the perspective or from other countries some other countries or you can say from the syrian perspective the international community is is not the u.n. security council the international david they believe that it is system. that they really inclusive it's actually exclusive they believe that the international community in other words in the more i think academic or professional awards it's more the general assembly or member game i think that's fair and i would agree with you on that ok because every september there's a vote in the general assembly for recognition of a palestinian state and i'll have to check the numbers but it's one hundred eighty something against two or three o

>> well, it's the result of action by the congolese army and by the united nations that's been there 14 years and for most of that time has not really taken decisive action. but this year and last spring the united nations security council approved a tougher mandate for the force intervention brigade, as it's called. they set up a 3,000 person intervention brigade to go after and to neutralize armed groups in eastern congo and m-23 allegedly backed by rwanda, rwanda's government denies it but the united states, united kingdom, the united nationss have all said that, in fact, they do back the m-23 militia so that what happened was the intervention brigade working with the congolese army acted more decisively than it's ever acted to take action. >> ifill: did that happen because of the occupation of goma? was the u.n. more muscular in this? >> this happened late last year in november. the m-23, which had had this territory just north of goma marched into the city and basically the congolese army walked out. they abandoned the city. the united nations troops baseded in goma stood by and

we're pleased to lend our support in partnership with the united nations to train female volunteers as they facilitate, secure access for women at the polls. prosperity in afghanistan will take root only when women have as loud a voice as men, not only on election day, but every day. it's essential, it's the prerequisite to the future stability of afghanistan.

nation when you take parts of syria and turkey and iraq but there is absolutely no prospect of the united nations or the world community recognizing a nation there and if the kurds who are doing rather well as a part of this old empire construct were to declare their independence from iraq they would find zero recognition from the united states from the united kingdom from france from the european union so we're dealing with a very different world than of course the israelis also disprove your point the israelis would love to annex the west bank and create what they call eretz israel but they are prevented from doing so by the knowledge that that would probably use the israeli regime so changing borders by force. and i don't think it is and i say that and i think that you know to think what you really interesting here gentlemen isn't worth what we have to actually looking at it in two different ways we're looking at international law and the united nations which is all nice and fine but charlie facts on the ground are very different ok the kurds are not going to listen to that if they haven't cha

united nations. >> good round number, you know. >> you know, the changed the world. >> yeah, i know. >> they called him captain outrageous and the mouth of the south. >> there is no cut off between the brain and mouth with ted. >> ted was a little unorthodox and a little unpredictable. >> he built a media empire. he won the america's cup. >> got to go as fast as you can here. >> the world series. >> he put the braves organization on the map. >> and the heart of jane fonda. >> i will never love anyone like i love him. >> before his world came crashing down. >> it's been a very painful experience, obviously. >> a journey like no other.

. >> sailing, media, environment, the united nations. >> a billion is a good round number, you know? >> you know you changed the world. >> yeah, i know. >> they called him captain outrageous and the mouth of the south. >> there is no cutoff between the brain and the mouth with ted. >> ted was a little unorthodox and a little unpredictable. >> he built a media empire. he won the america's cup. >> we have to go as fast as we can here. >> the world series. >> he put the atlanta braves organization on the map. >> and the heart of jane fonda. >> i will never love anyone like i love him. >> before his world came crashing down. >> it's been a very painful experience, obviously. >> a journey like no other. >> the fact that he was taken

the united nations is drawing attention to the plight of children caught up in the syrian conflict. >> it estimates some 3 million people have fled syria, most of them into neighboring countries. amongst the refugees, children are the most vulnerable with an uncertain and precarious future. >> of dillow goes begging for stale bread to sell as bird feed. that's how the 13-year-old helps us family survive at this refugee camp in jordan. the united nations says more than half of all syrian refugee children work instead of going to school. >> child labor is a major problem. unfortunately, because of their social situations, many families send her children out on the streets to perform menial work. >> a new report by the united nations refugee agency is based on interviews with 270 children. its title -- the future of syria, refugee children in crisis. the findings are alarming. many of the children have been orphaned. nearly a third are so traumatized that they do not make their shelters more than once a week. other children form gangs, reacting with violence. all carry with them horrible

before the united nations on allegations of human rights abuses.ur reporter seeks to find out why journalists and activists receive so little protections from the state. of theremembering one darkest days in u.s. history. 50 years ago this week, president john f. kennedy was done to down by lee harvey also walled as his motorcade drove through crowds in the state of texas. many americans remember exactly where they were when they heard the shocking news. few people were actually at the scene. in this report, we hear how they recall the day that changed the nation forever. >> it largely unchanged for the past 50 years. dealey plaza in dallas where president john f. kennedy was assassinated on november 22, 1963. from the sixth floor of the school book depository building, lee harvey oswald fired three shots at the president's motorcade. firing] this journalist was covering the kennedy visit for local radio station and recalls hearing the bullets ringing out. >> the first missed. the second hit the president when the car was at that location were the

one of the people to a fallen victim to the worst ever storm to hit the philippines the united nations estimates that the death toll for taco by malone has surpassed ten thousand. this mom has a list of the people from his neighborhood who died or disappeared. i will be bought at the utah guard at the top of all follows an eight of the road will end up going into the coffin. tall. we met a woman who founded the cost to imagine that instead of going to do so. he did and her family survived by clinging to the roof of her helps. now survival depends on finding something to eat they're unsure whether the food the find is still edible grab them here in poland. maybe the guy. it means longer. one family had i saw daddy's. it is of me one woman in the syrian perished under a fallen tree her son is inconsolable the shoes and a good mother opiates. he's done. dozens of bodies have been buried in the greed your mind and still more are expected to arrive let's get more on me and in effect that now when joined by sporting ban on the regional humanitarian court may change a flea in jail. oxfam. tha

. >> the united nations treaty process has basically run aground.a clue as to how to do this. so we wrote this essay, "death of environmentalism" that argued that if environmentalism is that kind of small bore, then we need something beyond environmentalism. >> modern environmentalism with all its unexamined concepts and exhausted strategies must die so that something new can live. >> i would suggest thought will take more than dead penguins and melting ice caps to get americans to fundamentally get involved in this political transformation of our energy economy. >> we still didn't think we needed nuclear power. it really took us getting clear about how big the gap was between fossil fuels and renewables for us to take a second look at nuclear. >> part of the problem is intermittensy. that hasn't been involved. it's not always sunny and not always windy. there are a long periods of time where renewables wouldn't put any power at all into a grid. they have to have natural gas backup. so what you end up getting with renewables is a pretty big expansio

wiped out by the nazis final solution thank you moon's visit auschwitz was only the second of the united nations secretary general the first to visit the former death camp was a brut rose brut rose valley in nineteen ninety five the demonstrators from the far right british national party have protested outside the old bailey court house in london with a murder trial of two men accused of butchering a british soldier on the streets of london is due to begin this week i love the pretence of nigerian descent. michael a deadline you and michael at demo while they are expected to plead not guilty to the murder of me reading the conspiracy to murder a police officer and the attempted murder of a police officer. however at the time of the killing them and were quoted as saying the attack treat me as revenge for killing muslims in afghanistan. bnp leader nick griffin said

minister netanyahu went to the united nations general assembly last year, he put up a chart that showed a bomb and showed a line across the bomb which was the quantity then of iran's highly enriched uranium. and he was very concerned that in a little while, that line would get to the point which he described as breakout. well, wolf, under this deal, that line would come very far down, and the quantity available to iran would be much reduced. so even by his own standards, that is a substantial part of any good deal. but the other thing that needs to be understood is that we're not doing anything to undo the sanctions architecture. the relief that the iranians would get if this deal happened is as i said, limited, modest, temporary and reversible, and they will still be losing billions of dollars every month because of the sanctions that will remain in place and be fully enforced. so what they lose every month of this six-month period will far

i want to thank the united nations. e honored to be here even at this very early hour of the morning. i particularly want to thank my colleagues from the united kingd kingdom, germany, france, russia, china and especially lady ashton who is not only good friend but a persistent and d dogged negotiator and somebody who has been staying at this for a long period of time. we're grateful for her stewardship of these negotiations. if i can take a moment i really want to thank the team from the united states. they've been a great many people involved in this effort for a long period of time now. both here in switzerland with us but also back in the united states. they know who they are. i will single out our undersecretary of state wendy sherman who has been a dogged, unbelievably patient and skillful hand. she's helped through long and arduous months, years of stewardship of our party with this. i'm grateful to her with those long efforts and all of her team. at the united nations general assembly in september, president obam

there is even talk that the united nations might go for an executive mandate. in kosovo. and that would mean the united nations would come here and run state institutions like the police, military, and justice system until the country can get back on its feet. of course the president of the republic would not agree with that. for the moment he believes that he is the best man to run the country and that he can bring everything under control and stabilize his own country. >> but it's clear he doesn't have control over elements that are reportedly loyal to him. is there are sense of frustration there. france prime minister said that a genocide was happening there and they risk becoming another somalia. >> i think in the background behind closed doors. diplomats certainly told us that they are concerned with -- particularly with what al jazeera exposed here, a massacre in the western part of this country, and concern that the president cannot control his own security forces. there is a sense that this country is sliding towards becoming another failed state, but p

and god and the united nations whose role in the region. it almost always creating at least two large problem. it was a result of both of those deemed to be that good now matt's arm in the proxy they have to get rid of the ipl are there to get rid of a whole lot of other armed groups they have to protect the population. which neither the army ability to add this pic of it doing. in the last decade or more. and that they have to really interact but thank god for the day that underlying issues a plan to ship it underlined the complex and for the rwanda genocide and what key to the area of the twelve most of the core pm twenty three conflict. being for half a century now. it claims by questions of whether or not. congo will recognize the ancestral residents of will want the phone took a particularly creepy but not only origin as congolese citizens and the question of love wide open. but to achieve goals. it will be a cause for violence greed and down and all sorts of political disorder the gentle jeans you see that issue being brought to the f

if the united nations wasn't here after the earthquake, would this outbreak have happened? >> no.at that water was still safe to drink and they kept drinking it and now the cholera has spread so far into the river system that it would be impossible to eradicate. >> reporter: forensic studies have linked the spread of the disease to a flawed sewage system at the u.n. base from soldiers from any paul. they show that the bacteria came from southeast asia. cholera spread through human feeses, induces severe vomiting and diarrhea and can kill if not treated quickly. this is believed to be the initial source of the outbreak. it's about an hour drive northeast of port-au-prince. haitians here use this water to drink, to cook with, to bathe with. up until 2010 they said they never had a problem. more than 8,000 have died in the last three years. we went to a clinic that is still full today. it's run by oliver schultz. how bad is the problem right now? >> the problem in haiti is bad. it is the worst cholera epidemic in mod tern times. there's more here than worldwide alone this year. >> re

ensuring faster delivery is the priority of the united nations and their partner organizations. >> io feel we have let people down because we have not been able to get in more quickly, but at the same time i can see and i was able to see yesterday that our operations are scaling up significantly. >> well in the devastated city of tacloban people have been burying victims of the typhoon and they have di they did it ine on tuesday. these are volunteers from the philippines red cross. >> they are continuing to search for body. dozens of bodies were waiting to be taken to the so man cemeterye of the cities. 30 bodies in leaking black bags were loaded into graves without any prayers being said. >>> more on this disaster on our website u yo on aljazeera.com. it's a web site that is up dated 24 hours everyday. >>> now while much of the world's attention isunderstandably on the philippines there have been dove stating flood in somalia. 300 people have died in the united nations estimates 30,000 people are in need of food and water and they'll a shelter andl supplies. they are appealing for h