, the united nations. >> there can be no way that we can be enemies to the united nations. it is the individuals that will be in the system of the u.n. who are creating programs. if we talk about what what is the role of the united nations, yes, they have the mandate, whether they are dealing with it effectively, that is the mandate. allowing the rebels, they took them by force, or they give them and then they came. the vehicles with the machine-guns to fight forces with. >> you are accusing the united nations of one double standard when it comes to this conflict and of tacit report to the rebels by handing over vehicles or turning a blind eye to vehicles used to mount machines guns, is that the accusation. >> not the whole united nations, it is that group here with us. >> so united nations stuff in juba and south sudan have given tacit support to the rebels. >> we askediations for his reaction to the accusations. >> salva kiir had been making those remarks for days and they were nothing knew. >> argentina stepped up to introduce restrictions for online shopping. people wil

the united nations has begun shipping chemical weapons out of syria. the hazardous cargo was brought to a port where united nations workers loaded it onto a danish argot vessel. >> warships from norway, russia, and china accompanied the transport into international waters. the u.s. navy will destroy the toxic cargo later this week. according to a united nations resolution, syria must hand over all of its chemical weapons by june this year. the report coming in from iraq that government troops are delaying an assault on militants who are holding the city of falluja. >> they say their sphere of civilian casualties after fighting and missile strikes in nearby romani (teen nine dead. a defense ministry spokesman said 25 of those killed in the fighting were al qaeda militants . also on tuesday, a car bomb destroyed a police station in the northern city -- nordic city of cure cook -- cure cook -- kirkuk. a very warm welcome to the "journal." let's start by the lack of appetite on the u.s. part to have roots on the ground. can iraq he government forces win th

diplomacy you're worth for your friends diplomatic service for a number of years before joining the united nations and forgive me for saying but some people would find the french and gauge went into world affairs not always conducive to peace and what i mean here is in a french role in the suez crisis in the a wand and genocide more recent gauge ment's in iraq in libya in mali some would say even the recent sabotaging of talks with iran and i'm not going to ask you on the french policy is i know that you wouldn't comment but i would like to ask you how challenging did you find that transition from being a french diplomat somebody who has to defend french policies to being an international official who has to defend peacekeeping because some would argue that these two objectives may be at odds sometimes on the first part of your common let me just remind you that in mali early this year france had not intervened we would know of a potential afghanistan right in the heart of a. very close to europe so i think from this is a country that can take its responsibilities and live up to them but mr let's

our top stories over the next hour -- the united nations human rights office calls for an investigation after a ukrainian activists claimed he was kidnapped and tortured. >> and no surprise he first round of he's talks to end the war in syria -- first round peace talks to end the war in syria ends with no tactical results. >> the german president says the time has come for the country to overcome its sense of guilt over the second world war and become more open to sending troops to conflict zones. >> he has told world leaders and international security at talks in munich that germany and its allies should not deny help to others when crimes against humanity are taking place. >> united nations secretary-general urged the chancellor on thursday to show more global leadership, but it is a prickly issue for germans. a new poll today shows three quarters of people here are hostile to such a move. >> for more than five decades, delegates from around the world have been meeting at the munich security conflict -- conference to discuss security conflict. one issue to emerge was germany's role a

are a member state of the united nations. there can be no way that we can be enemies to the united nati s nations. it is the individuals in the system of the u.n. creating problems. if we talk about what is the role of the united nations, yes, they have the mandate, but whether they agree effectively or not. that is the mandate. they allow the rebels, either they took them by force, or they take them, their vehicles. and then these vehicles, they have them with the machine-guns and fight. >> sorry, you are accusing the united nations of one double standards, and two, of tacit support to the rebels of handing over vehicles or their vehicles used to mount machine guns, is that your accusation. >> not the whole united nation, but this group here. >> so united nations staff in juba. >> in south sudan. >> in south sudan. >> yes. >> have given tacit support to the rebels. >> of course. >> we asked the united nations to its reaction to salva kiir's accusations. it didn't comment, except to say that salva kiir had been making such com

diplomacy you're worth for your friends diplomatic service for a number of years before joining the united nations and forgive me for saying but some people would find the french in gauge went into world affairs not always conducive to peace and what i mean here is in a french role in this suez crisis in the genocide more recent engagements in iraq in libya in mali some would say if the recent sabotaging of talks with iran and i'm not going to ask you on the french policies i know that you wouldn't comment but i would like to ask you how challenging did you find that transition from being a french diplomat somebody who has to defend french policies to being an international official who has to defend peacekeeping because some would argue that these two objectives may be at odds sometimes on the first part of your common let me just remind you that in mali. early this year if france had not intervened we would know of a potential afghanistan right in the heart of afghanistan and very close to europe so i think from this is a country that can take its responsibilities and live up to them but mr let'

membership in the united nations so palestine sickening full membership in the united states depends on imaginations united nations depends on a negotiation well. we have committed ourselves to in nine months periods and we are respecting that we are not going to do anything you know until the twenty ninth of april after that we will see what are the outcomes and what are the options and so until that this moment we should not talk about plan b. rather than you know trying to see how we could maximize the existing efforts to make the current what's initiated by secretary kerry a successful and well palestine except yours alone as a capital for checkbook to uncap. states we are accepting jerusalem to be an open city west jerusalem as capital of israel and its rows of them as the capital of palestine and that people can move freely from east to west from west to east without any problem respecting the religious freedom for all religions and this is really how jews eventually should look like what do you think of the canadian proposal to establish international control of city. well. i

go into the specifics of that of that mission i would like to ask you about this idea of the united nations acting preemptively is it an efficient way doesn't create more problems than it solves because you know look at clip it's not a pretty picture. i think intellectually one cannot disagree with that prevention is always better when you look at the recent period maybe only one situation where preventive diplomacy really worked it was in macedonia. in the ninety's so desirable as it would be more often than not. the international community takes time to react people take time to make decisions we are facing exactly the situation these days in the central african republic where everybody agrees that there is a military and disaster in the making that things are getting very ugly confrontation between religious denominations more and more terrorists j. heard this also probably get involved so the sooner we can get involved i think the better well bring it back to the same point in syria in libya rather the united nations acted fairly quickly faster than in many other conflicts. they have of

go into the specifics of that of that mission i would like to ask you about this idea of the united nations acting preemptively is it an efficient way doesn't it create more problems than it solves because you know look at least it's not a pretty picture. i think intellectually one cannot disagree with that prevention is always better when you look at the recent period maybe only one situation where preventive diplomacy really worked that was in macedonia. in the ninety's so desirable as it would be. more often than not. the international community takes time to react people take time to make decisions we are facing exactly the situation these days in the central african republic where everybody agrees that there is a military and disaster in the making that things are getting very ugly confrontation between religious denominations more and more terrorists jihadists also probably get involved so the sooner we can get involved i think the better well bring it back to the same point in syria in libya rather the united nations acted fairly quickly faster than in many other conflicts but as the

mysie of the struggle and i think the united nations. has treaded this issue very carefully over the last two years and resisted both french and american attempts to legitimize the militarized opposition and legitimize the means of that they have chosen for probably very legitimate political aspirations so i think when you refer to the conflict in syria as as a civil war you're actually breaking the ranks with your own boss bank and one who was very careful on that issue. the thing what it is you know and let's face it you know the problem is how do we get over this huge problem i know that you actually looked into that issue your department has developed some contingency plans and you said before that the implementation would depend on the political breakthrough it now seems that there is a small chance for a political breakthrough do you think that chance could be increased through the participation of the peacekeepers and if so what form that participation could take open their way well you know what we can say as of today. syria is n

the united nations also is expressing that view.he secretary general spokesperson wouldn't comment on the specifics of its correspondence with syria. >> kristin, thank you very much indeed for giving the position from the united nations on events inside syria. >>> italy has named the port that it has volunteered as the site for the transfer of syria's chemical weapons. the first ship will be taken to the area. let's go to rome now. the people who live in that town and around it, they don't seem very happy about this idea. >> yes, david they are not just particularly happy about the award. they said it was imposed on them. they said they just chose the port without really asking them at all, and they said that was very undemocratic, and puts them in a very difficult position. there were two mayors surrounding the port, and one said they are killing me, he says because if something happens then the population will come after me with pitch forks, and the other one has threatened to shut down the port, because despite reassurances that

the united nations. but once you are. barney says the african union is driven by a headless people who do not care about african people ambassador for us we talk about this complex issue. of who pays for what and who sends how many troops. but two cents regarding the central african republic i think that i'm going to put its own local oh snap and coming back to the context of the need to be the summer musical. lol when it cruised into the copper mountain in two thousand won to keep the cool balls to go to somalia. momo the time was indeed be living on base action but. the platoon of mile three of them me some to go for all of the ground doing a good job. we are the kind of combination of the night admission it will continue we haven't yet which is going to look into a job and doing the job anyway. and the pecan all. directv peace and security in somalia. so all you want to go on with what generalist think i was soon to be patient. we need to be patient when you do so you don't eat it with a candle to cal

well guys usually in the united nations. and trust to do the hard spanks then rush out with full respond to it. we hope the right decision will be taking solace in recent years. this is because we are so going on links. sort of ideological considerations. why on our positions we are negotiating with their antics. with respect to nuclear issue there have been told is between iran and the united states for a stake to the fact that american forces on. in the room. their act it says i'm convinced that the syrian crisis is just as important an issue as iran's nuclear program. and in my opinion. every country they can help in this situation such as saudi arabia prince and should be about respect to human tonight. i would like to cite as you yourself pointed out. unfortunately they lost all five groups and the opposition movement is not a unified front seats emo. therefore students. you never know. that old. a multitude of small groups such as the islamic studies human time the islamic from soulful so small. organize nations people

iran and the israeli-palestinian conversations, we start with iran and their ambassador to the united nations, mohammed khazaee. it is a possibility for cooperation between the two countries or not? this is something that can be sneen the future. it depends on many other issue but we are not relying on cooperating with the united states on this particular matter or another country, this is the principle of foreign policy to try to achieve the region iraq in particular secure and stable and we are offering on the iraqi government to do it. >> and for perspective on the israeli paisraeli-palestinian ns a second item on secretary kerry's agenda we ten to riyad mansour, the permanent representative of the palestinians to the united nations. >> it is up to them to decide what kind of a state they want to be, do they want to be a democratic state where i see ail will be the state for all of its citizens or do they want to be a state for the jewish people and, therefore, excluding 1.6 million palestinian arabs who are israelis from their society. that debate is not our debate. that debate is their d

we have relations with the government in syria as a government that is recognized by the united nations as a full fledged member of the united nations it's a legitimate government of syria those world supporting. others who are using extremist measures in order to. advance whatever political cause that they may have violated international law. the fact is that there is a legitimate government seated in damascus in syria recognized by the united nations. because that is the case those who have relations with that government will continue to have relations with that comment but iran is not providing volunteers to syria we are all having relations with syria in accordance with our agreements in the past and that would just be your deputy foreign minister in an interview to russia today told us that iran was actually providing military expertise and help to syria how we have longstanding military cooperation with the syrian government has the government recognized by the united nations and those corporations within the context of international law within the context of our international obl

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to the united nations.ck in a moment. stay with us. >> we focus tonight on the turkey prime minister. he is being accused of corruption. several members have resigned and the cabinet is being shuffled. some call it a coup. it is widely believed that some followers are involved. he a reclusive preacher residing in exile in pennsylvania. have joined forces as a series of trials one. many have accused the government of using the trial to curb the opposition. joining is a former u.s. ambassador to turkey and iraq. in new york -- on the phone from istanbul, benjamin harvey. he is a bloomberg bureau chief on turkey. i'm pleased to have all of them here. ambassador tommy tommy what you think is happening at the moment in turkey and what it means -- ambassador, tell me what you think is happening at the moment and turkey and what it means. >> many of the institutions that have had a separate existence in a pluralistic system have been accommodated or otherwise shunted aside by the prime minister. it is probably a m

for human rights at the united nations headquarters. he said he discussed his hope the team would change its name and the u.n.'s global role in fighting racism in sports. >> freezing temperatures didn't stop hundreds of people from removing hundreds of wreaths from arlington national cemetery this morning. >> it was the best kind of traffic con gegs. hundreds showed up to lend a hand. >> we've been coming down here. they are here to clean. cdc.irst group was >> we're picking up the wreaths that were on the graves that people put on in early december. >> we are trying to show them respect for those who served our country. >> the thuske people have and we love to see the families come. >> i'll be here next year and the year after and my kids will probably be here after i'm laid here. >> you get a little choked up. i found out when i walked in and saw all those people there and i dond i see the names. >> 24 degrees doesn't feel so bad when you were doing this. >> it sure doesn't. it was cool this morning but it's warm now and the people ar

the united nations and the patient is actually what is the one thing at this point. but with a very risky move by the un the ferry national coalition has made it bears down on the lawn is very clear over and over again. i mean a position on the wrong depending upon them during the evening. by the bnp spokesperson following their political committee meeting hope your weekend and it was a kid that was the unanimous decision by the coalition. so this is not a surprise at all and silk and that the opposition is under huge pressure from the west but dissipated you see it as amusing airlines imitation as an excuse. it. i don't believe it to be an excuse for the hearing national coalition on the contrary i think it'd be united nations report that he and the difficult position yes the united nations chief office that he had assurances from iraq's foreign minister to their respective i would play a constructive role. yes that is part of it is a daring states. i mean if he didn't see any nodded. they don't want clear declaration for the one thing that is that she's the one i kn

ambassador to the united nations samantha power. here's what she had to say about the situation as it stands at the moment. >> as of this morning iran still has yet to demonstrate it's willingness to explicitly and publicly subscribe to the full implementation of the geneva communique that is a minimum requirement for participation in this peace process. >> so as you were saying it looks as if at this moment these two peace talks are dead in the water before they've even gun. >> when will we learn finally whether the talks will go on wednesday? >> i think we will learn quite soon because the opposition national council in syria said look if iran is not disinvited to geneva two by 19 hours gmt today, that's about 3:00 eastern time, then we're pulling out. so time is not on anyone's side. >> john terret at the u.n. thank you very much. >>> this morning i talked to former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. i asked whether iran's participation in the talks will cause the process to unravel. >> i think what we're seeing here is a poorly prepare

we have relations with the government in syria as a government that is recognized by the united nations as a full fledged member of the united nations it's a legitimate government of syria those who are supporting. others who are using extremist measures in order to. advance whatever political cause that they may have. international law. the fact is that there is a legitimate government seated in damascus in syria recognized by the united nations and as long as that is the case stores who have relations with that government will continue to have relations with that comment but iran is not providing volunteers to syria we are having relations with syria in accordance with our agreements in the past and that will continue in just that foreign minister in an interview to russia today told us that iran was actually providing military expertise and help to syria and we have longstanding military cooperation with the syrian government as the government recognized by the united nations and those doors cooperations within the context of international law within the context of our international

he is russia's ambassador to the united nations. russia's playing an increasingly prominent role on the world stage, along with the united states, it brokered the ongoing geneva 2 conference which aims to tend syrian civil war. the country's also a key player in nuclear negotiations with iran. closer to home, president vladimir putin recently bailed out ukraine's embattled government, a move seen as an attempt to increase moscow's influence. the eyes of the world are on russia as it prepares to host the winter olympics in sochi next month. as concerns mount over terror threats, president obama has offered the kremlin full security assistance. for those reasons, i'm pleased to have vitaly churkin back at this table. welcome. >> thank you very much. good to be back. >> rose: let's start first at the g-2 conference. it seems to be a dispute among some people over the objective of the conference. and certainly what it means for president bashar al-assad. where is russia on this question? >> well, the objective of the skfrns to end the cr

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we have relations with the government in syria as a government that is recognized by the united nations as a full fledged member of the united nations it's a legitimate government of syria those who are supporting. others who are using extremist measures in order to. advance whatever political cause that they may have they think international law. the fact is that there is a legitimate government seated in damascus in syria recognized by the united nations and as long as that is the case stores who have relations with that government would continue to have relations with that comment but iran is not providing volunteers to syria we are having relations with syria in accordance with our agreements in the past and that will continue in just the foreign minister in the interests of russia today told us that iran was actually providing military expertise and help too. we have longstanding military cooperation with the syrian government as the government recognized by the united nations and those doors cooperations within the context of international law within the context of our internation

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did the united states apply pressure on united nations to withdraw the invitation to iran? >> the back story was .ascinating to see it is stunning to me that ban ki-moon would proceed without some acquiescence on the part of the americans. how that all works out is unclear. clearly, we, the martin government, would have been open to iranian participation with a clear commitment to geneva one. ban ki-moon had one of two options. deliver, oriled to he delivered and was under pressure to retract, or alternatively, ban ki-moon got out ahead of himself in the united states and thought he had something he didn't. either way, it is indicative of the troubles and travails to come. >> how is this going to play into the progress that we know was made on iran's nuclear and the easing of sanctions? not at the iranians were publicly invited and disinvited to these talks, how is that going to play out? >> not well, but i suspected to be compartmentalized. the russians, the americans, and iranians -- the three key players. think, is one of the more interesting and nuanced features of this

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they are paid to the united nations and international media to break this silence on the issue of missing bus stop. it's a the scot. besides the us decision to wendy's and sad looking members of ethnic will give him another key of china. sadly i can come to slovakia. medvedev on about who does all this captured in two thousand and one of the og on this humble about and get to the us base in cuba. us authorities are not gonna look to beijing on the deck of a doctor the slogan ministry staff of the united states on thursday sending the creative eating at me. chinese inmates out of the guantanamo bay detention center to slovakia. see that with terrorists who pose a real security danger. abbas said a colleague. and what yet but on the move. although the loss of twenty two was the minority chinese nationals to be moved from the dot com i will be committed to prison in cuba according to the pentagon slovakia is intended to deceive himself. the central european country was taken to st we do this. chinese foreign ministry spokesman jean clark said. this week the members of the separate does he st

do you support the claim that 5,000 people are against the united nations? >> we support the haitian people. >> reporter: can you answer the question? do you support this claim, please? >> do you answer my... do you... do you hear my answer? >> you are the level of the health ministry. >> reporter: suddenly, she'd had enough. she headed for the door, jumped in her car, and drove off. the haitian government says it's working on a ten-year plan to rid haiti of cholera. but the aid agencies trying to hold back a disease that's already claimed over 8,000 haitian lives says it's an emergency, right now. >> so who's going to treat these patients, yeah? this problem is not going away, yeah? an eradication plan over ten years is a great idea, a great initiative, but it doesn't address the needs of the haitian people today. >> reporter: four years ago, the world responded to haiti's massive earthquake with promises to rebuild the country and make it better than before. four years on, many pledges still remain unfulfilled, and the world body stands accused of heaping

geneva 1, when kofi annan was the negotiator for the arab league and the united nations was a moment of agreement between the parties. and they agreed that the way forward was a come up with a transitional body they called it, not even a government, but said that would have full executive powers in syria, and that body should be comprised with members of the syrian opposition and government. key words - it said in that agreement that they had to come up with the transitional body. it's taken a long time since then, 18 months to get the parties around the table for the next stage trying to form the transitional body and rules of syria. i think the key words, the words by mutual concept. that's the difficulty. how are the two sides, when the battle has been brutal and bitter on the ground. how will they come up with a government that both sides agree with. it's worth questioning whether the syrian government is - believes in geneva i, it signed up for it, but the sir yabs say they don't want a transitional government, but want a government led by bashar al-assad. they think he should t

he is embarrassed and remorseful about his recent behavior in kno north korea. >>> united nations committeenation. >> it was a highly unusual hearing there is quote no excuse for child sex abuse. the un panel on the rights of geneva talking about what kind of sanctions are imposed on priests. they were also asked about what is being down to transfer to cover up abuses. reaction from the catholic community has been mixed. the fact that the vatican was going to act. the catholic church has explained himself. it gives them the impression that it is on going. our problems are behind us. i'm concerned about feeding a stereotype. one vatican official ensured the panel that the issue is a priority pope francis told a senior official that the due proceedi proceedings feel guilty since march. >> coming up, actor author activist and social media s sensation talk about their newest project. stick around. ♪ humans -- even when we cross our "t's" and dot our "i's," we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness with our auto policies. if you qualify, your rat

. >> a united nations spokesperson says reports that a deal had been finalized were, however, an accurate. outstanding issues include timeline and verification. the european union deals directly with iran on behalf of the u.s. and other major world powers. for more, we're joined live in the studio by our middle east analyst. welcome to the program. first off, has there been progress on the nuclear program in iran? can you fill us in also on what is likely to have been agreed on ? >> i think there has been progress. i believe the american and european statements today, but as it seems their hand was forced by the iranians. it was the foreign minister in tehran who came up with the news , and i think that is quite problematic, to talk about negotiations while they are still going on. >> what about the timing of this? could we soon see something that looks like a deal, something that could at least be signed? >> at least the iranians believe in it. i do not believe in the final agreement right now, after this history of nearly 35 years of hostilities between the americans and iranians, who a

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the united nations withdrew his invitation to iran today.ks will begin wednesday in switzerland. >>> iran began pulling the plug on parts of it nuclear program today. in response, the u.s. and european union began easing economic sanctions on iran. yet there are 59 senators pushing for a new set of sanctions. >> reporter: a team of inspectors pays a visit to iran's nuclear facility. the team was on monday making sure that iran was living up to its commitment to stop enriching uranium by 20%. >> translator: i believe by early afternoon the measures will be completed. >> reporter: but washington and the u.s. congress, many in the senate are pushing for tighter sang showns. the iranian americans are worried. they are canvassing the offices of u.s. senators to let the politicians know they are opposed to the proposed legislation. >> iranian-americans are very opposed to war. they see a potential opening for a diplomatic resolution between the u.s. and iran, and they see that the senate is potentially going to torpedo that. >> reporter: if past i

it has been recognized by the united nations. it is recognized by the international committee as a government. there are some problems over there, of course, we will not deny it. the most important thing is that we have to have people from syria -- >> that iran support will russia and the united states are trying to do with respect to the chemical weapons and getting them out of the country? and develop some kind of dialogue that will lead to a january 22, some conversations in geneva? does iran want to participate as secretary of state kerry said they could be on the sidelines. what does iran want to get out of this? >> you are well aware that we and russia work together. unfortunately, we succeeded and came to a deal about the elimination of chemical weapons. we know that -- >> from iraq? >> we have been working and pushing for it. the chemical weapons issue in syria -- it is something that we and the russians are working on together. it should be appreciated. on the syrian situation, we have said that we are ready to participa

to withdraw that invitation a few hours ago in new york after iran refused, according to the united nationsto accept the principals of geneva one which basically stated that a transition government would be set up in syria. ban ki-moon said that's the reason why the invitation was withdrawn to the iranians, because they would not agree to the principles of geneva one. this coming at a delicate position. he's going into the peace conference in switzerland in a slightly weaker condition after the developments of the last 24 hour. in the last hour we also heard from the russian foreign minister who spoke about the syrian peace conference, and the fact this the invitation to iran had been withdrawn. let's listen to sergei lavrov. >> translation: russia is doing all it can to solve the crisis. tomorrow in switzerland an international conference will start. we are fighting for a dialogue based on a geneva communique on june 2012. it's up to the syrians to define the future of their country. >> the syrian regime is being accused of committing war crimes. the report funded by qatar is based on the

the united nations is warning spiraling crisis in the central african republic, also south sudan and syria.