the same time this this talk about why it's a star that with four within organizations like the united nations so which one do you think should be tackled immediately i think it's a very tricky question and we are very troubling times because on the one hand we have leadership in the united states where we have always expected a culture that promotes human rights that is retracting on human rights we have some countries in the members of the european union who again retracting going back to borders going against human rights and we also have countries like china which let's be clever very public that they don't believe in human rights that they would like to take human rights at the table together and so there is this sort of critical mass of status for different reasons who are anti human rights what we need are the last american states many of the european states some of the african states who really believe passionately in strong being human rights to come together and to find ways of lobbying for effective change finding finding mechanisms together that suit all of their needs and ideologi

many visionaries in the end of the second world war two create united nations united nations and what i believe we need is to learn we want to happen with the league of nations to make sure that the same will not be repeated at the present types we need to understand that the level of sweat we have the man from all of us a much stronger bet in the cohesion of also and in the unity building a true and strong multilateralism to address the challenges of the present times thank you very much of the. the u.n. secretary general i don't know what you thought about that mark associate professor at the institute for graduate studies it was a pretty depressing twenty five minutes i mean talking about the whole middle east is a mess the secretary general of the united nations saying that the whole middle east is a mess he's talking about relaunching the geneva process with what stephanie mistura yesterday saying i've been doing this job for four years it's one of the toughest jobs that an international diplomat can have i mean what's your takeaway from what he was saying might be depressing but

we call upon the united nations and we insist upon this for the united nations to expeditiously deliver to iraq and assessment mission and a coalition which defacto controls that region to provide all the requisite conditions for this to be done further we expect the coalition leadership instead of creating quasi administrations in regions liberated from eisel for them to create a plans to bring them to accountability before the central government in the light of what has reaffirmed been reaffirmed by as you get a council that is aligned with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of syria this would be far more constructive then and with lee seeking. what does what do not exist under international law that is justifications for their presence on syrian territory if you have interesting ideas as to how to raise the standing of local government bodies and how to skillfully rebuild the ethno religious bounds ahead existed prior to the war then present them to the syrians at the geneva platform and let them themselves decide under the mediation of the united nations. visit the bends and

because of this commitment, israel was accepted at the united nations. these resolutions have yet to be implemented. and 194. israel is acting like a state above the law. it has transformed into a situation of colonization. territories in 1967. it was supposed to be temporary. it became permanent. it occupied all the areas it will take, including jerusalem. how can this happen? door here,t shut the we must reaffirm that our problem is not with the followers of judaism. judaism is a monotheistic -- as is as our christianity. those denying our independence and freedom. they disregard our religion. we met with the president of the united states, mr. donald trump, four times in 2017. absolutexpressed our readiness to reach a historic peace agreement. we repeatedly reaffirmed. this administration has not clarified its position. in a dangerous, precedented manner, this administration -- on president to manner -- to remove the issue of jerusalem. without any reason. it decided to recognize the city of israel and to transfer its embassy to the city of jerusalem.

we have the neither given up or the know how we have come to the united nations. believing in the purposes and principles of the charter of the united nations and affirms galia other the inadmissibility of the existence of the retore by force and affirms that the rights of the cell of determination large a golden age of fourteen and forty one reaffirmed nobody has held israel accountable when it all go by it and our territories and nine hundred forty eight has the charter affirms the rights of people deserve a nation which are another long the issue this will address to morrow we'll continue to engage with all of its agencies and and i will quest to end this occupation of our land and people get home in spite of all of that the united nations has failed to implement its relevant reserve illusions until this very day is this possible ladies and gentlemen is it logical that this embodied the adoption of seven hundred then five general assembly resolution almost seven hundred then five resolution was from nineteen forty eight on the list very day and eighty six secur

history. >> eleanor roosevelt became a delegate to the united nations because once she left the whiteouse, president truman decided that he wanted to do something that fdr had always planned on doing, which was to establish a united nations in the hope that an organization like that would prevent future wars. franklin and eleanor roosevelt had lived through two major wars, world war i and world war ii, and they wanted the future to be a peaceful one. president truman felt that eleanor roosevelt would be the perfect person to represent the united states at the organizing -- initial, organizing meeting of united nations. she was actually the only woman delegate from the u.s. she knew that none of the men were too happy to have her as a member of the delegation. she figured they were trying to find a spot for her were she could do the least damage. as she said, they thought she didn't have the qualifications to be a good delegate. they put her on a committee called committee three, which was going to work on more social kinds of programs. that would end up being the most important commit

that would end up being the most important committee that they had at the united nations, because her proudest achievement was the universal declaration of human rights. because in the 30 articles that are in that document, it outlines all of the rights that every human being on this planet should have in order to achieve world peace. she always felt that was the one thing that she accomplished that made everything she did prior to that worthwhile. we are on the second floor of mrs. roosevelt's home, and we are now entering her bedroom, and this was a room she probably didn't use a lot during the year, because she was traveling. when she was first lady, she travelled a huge amount of times. and remember, this was a time when airplane flight was fairly new, but she was a woman who liked to try new and unusual things. she loved flying. in fact, even during the war years, mrs. roosevelt traveled overseas at a time when it was pretty dangerous to be traveling overseas, but she wanted to study what people in europe were doing during the wartime. she went into some really not very safe area

states had the facts before them they would not back off their multilateral commitment in the united nations as for the world food program the u.n. may need reform and no question about that but the world food program is a different operation it's about feed people keeping people alive operating emergencies and sustainable development and so the united states has not backed down invite we're seeing that the world food program is actually a program this bringing nations together with all the division around the world the world food program we consider ourselves an opportunity to bridge relations so to interesting you say that because i think your agency is far more fortunate than some of the other agencies do you think perhaps they have a secret of. your success has has been your own personality or putting an american in charge i mean seriously it's a serious matter for many in the u.n. how crucial it is to have somebody who has an ear of the president or at least. he's got it well you've got to have the year of the leadership but you also have the right message in bringing bringing together

ambassador to the united nations nikki haley spoke thursday at the gop annual retreat. she talked about foreign policy and national security objectives. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] amb. haley: thank you so much. i appreciate it very much. i am excited to be here. when we heard about the train derailment yesterday, the country took a breath. and they quickly set of prayer. prayer.-- said a many of you did what you do every day, gave service. but at this point you are heroes. i want you to know having been in public service, you do a lot of sacrifices and you give a lot, but it is very appreciated. thank you and god bless you and i'm glad everyone is doing well and we will continue to pray for the families of the injured. i was told there was some sort of issue that made all the senators go away. [laughter] something about the memo. i don't know. [laughter] i was in the house myself in south carolina. i know all about senators. [laughter] [applause] i will just say i'm really glad to be here with a group of house members. [applause] all for the great members of th

contributions to the united nations have you done any preliminary asked cement so how they propose pattern now spending may affect the world food program you know the president's budget very well dramatically impacted us but if you know anything about the u.s. process of budgeting just the house and senate makes the final decision we feel very confident before that the process as it works its way through the president and the leadership in the senate in the house will come together with a budget that will be that i think will be good for the world food program so we can continue to address or. around the world and then when you think about the united states' commitment to the world food program last year two thousand and seventeen was two point five billion dollars this year you know we're hopeful that we come out with at least two billion but i'm confident that the leadership in the united states will stay strong on international humanitarian aid that in many of your public appearances you're stressed that feeding the world's most vulnerable is a viable alternative to military spending yo

of the united nations. thearations continue for upcoming conferences to support the security sector in the economy on the 15th of march. while the situation was quiet in , south off operation the blue, construction began in non-reservation areas on the seventh of february with no incident report. mr. president, returning to the israeli and -- israeli-palestinian conflict, we in the international community, must continue advocating a substantial -- substantial changes related to the west bank, including demolition and the areas of c. -- area c. support.ull our support to honor remains vital. i hope that we will be able to look beyond the closed to diplomatsooms and politicians to see there are israeli and palestinian -- working tirelessly to promote change. groups,d women's religious and community leaders have a critical role to play. we rarely discuss their role. we do not see -- speak often enough about the challenges they face. they must be supported. mr. president, we have spoken of the need for leadersh

and the importance of people supporting the united nations. >> it is right that we should be gravely concerned with the gaps that still separate us from each other with the problems we have left unsolved. >> so, off of this bedroom, there was her favorite sleeping area, her sleeping porch, and sleeping porches were added on to houses during a time when air-conditioning was not something that most people had. eleanor roosevelt was a person who loved outdoors. she loved nature. and here at val-kill, she would take at least two or three walks every day. she had little scottie dogs who would accompany her and her outdoor time was a time when she could kind of think about things and just relax and enjoy nature, and in her daily column, "my day," she would talk about things she could see from her sleeping porch, some of the birds in the trees or the pond or the purple flowers that grew in the pond. she would talk about every year in july and august. she could see a garden from here. she could see the tennis court that was put in for the family to enjoy. and even the outdoor fireplace where

we have come to the united nations, believing in the purposes and principles of the charter of united nations which affirms the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force and affirms the right of people to self-determination, article 40 and 41 we affirmed. nobody has held israel accountable when it occupied our territories in 1948. so the charter affirms the right of people to self-determination, which are among the issues this august council will address tomorrow. we continue to engage with all of its agencies and bodies in our quest to end this occupation of our land and people. yes, in spite of all of that the uunited nations has failed to implement it'srelevant resolutions until this very day. is this possible, ladies and gentlemen? is this logical that despite the adoption of 705 general assembly resolutions, 705 -- from 1948 until this very day, and 86 security council resolutions, in our favor, from 242 to 334, none of them have been implemented. where are these resolutions which your august council adopted? 86 resolutions with no result whatsoever. is this logica

the escape of the united nations units from the reservoir ranks with the finest maneuvers in military annals. the allied troops fight south l andpyongyang to seou beyond. l becomes the scene of a mass exodus. those have rebuilt the city see their work destroyed. the number of refugees is smaller the second time. the number of those who will return is smaller still. march the chinese conquerors supervised by the russian comrades. 's fall is greeted probably throughout the communist world. a new type of barbarism awaits the servicemen captured during the offensive. accompanied by brainwashing and crude torture. many will not survive the forced winter marches to the prison compounds nor seoul. by breaking contact with the enemy and withdrawing to the south, the u.n. command forces the communist stew extend their supply lines more than 300 miles. less than a month after the chinese invasion, the united nations returns to the offensive from the defense line 30 miles below the korean capital. >> although the communists have twice gained the advantage through sneak attacks, time and world op

in new york, the united states immediately requests a meeting of the united nations security council.hen the aggressors failed to heave the councils of pale -- appeal, the united states announces that air and sea forces are being ordered to attack korea. by a vote of 7-1 they vote to supply the republic of korea with whatever is needed to turn back the attack. ♪ >> first to aid our american forces from japan. 15 other nations meet the challenge. with this decision, the free world takes its first unified action imposing the side of communist armed aggression. two days following the initial attack, communist troops are in the outskirts of seoul. they flee the capital, carrying whatever they can salvage. the civilians travel every road. thus begins the week long march of women, old men and children as they are forced out out of the retreating korean and small american forces. safety lives -- lies only in the defense line. mistaking retreat, they are caught off guard when the united states has an offense of its own. [gunshots] ♪ >> seoul's seaport, and in fabius landing is made. they are

thank you well our diplomatic editor james bass is at the united nations for a said james i think you heard that interview or that we were just holding out moya had leuer been speaking to us from istanbul with us saying that effectively the people he said with her feel like the been abandoned by the international community tell us a little bit about what's going on of the united nations because strong words are being said but not backed up by action no action just strong words as you say there is an all day set piece debate going on in the u.n. security council talking about the charter of the united nations it means that we have on this particular day not one secretary general the two secretaries general we have the former secretary general ban ki-moon who has been talking about the situation in syria and condemning the american of the u.n. security council and we also have the current secretary general antonio good terrorists who have these strong words i am deeply saddened by the terrible suffering of the civilian population. is them good to four hundred thousand people that leave.

here with our jazeera live continuing coverage from the united nations security council in new york a special session being held on the issue of the israeli palestinian peace process and it has been an eventful morning started with president abbas the palestinian president using the line that israel was acting as a state above the law and calling in saying that to solve the palestinian question they needed to be a multilateral these are his words multilateral international mechanism in line with international law reference and he wants an international group to be able to bring the two sides together there was a lot of applause for president abbas as he finished his speech but then this happened as well as soon as he finished the speech president abbas waved to the crowd got up and left now as i understand members or anyone attending this are allowed to leave and come and go as they wish as it is in the general assembly but with the israeli ambassador speaking immediately afterwards it does look like something of a walk out. for the israelis spate let's try to clear it all up and get

attend the security council meeting for israel or the united states james out jazeera at the united nations are still ahead on al-jazeera. forge earth was on my. word in our quest. a fabled shipping route in the arctic undergoes dramatic changes because of global . warming plus. not have time to sit on the test when thousands of migrants continue to try to reach the united states but at this arrival point for deportees and some people tell us the routes have become much more dangerous. the weather's oh looking a little unsettling across western parts of the mediterranean over the next couple of days ago there's a lot band of cloud here that's been sinking its way down across france bright skies for northern areas say paris starting to see a few showers that much much drier and brighter than all of this out west the weather though to the south of france is that western side of the med it's right isn't disturbed weather too across northern areas of spine for you portugal that's because on through friday from wintry weather there across the pyrenees madrid of around nine celsius just for londo

that the fighting against isis and other groups that the united nations recognizes as terrorists will continue one of the groups. that it has been able it is open to. do allow the aid to come in but it will fight off any advances by the government if it tries to enter the. welcome to the security council's decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must be lifted to the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern guta as usual we didn't find any commitment by the syrian regime in its russian allies. northwest and go to southern wist and almost every front and go to has been stalled by the regime on sunday in order to achieve some advance but they haven't succeeded. so fighting words there. despite them all coming to ceasefire a cease fire that has yet to be implemented when and how is that going to happen. that is the big question on everybody's mind we've heard a lot of reaction since the united nations security council passed that resolution last night unanimously heard from the syrian government and its allies

contributions to the united nations have you done any preliminary estimates of how this proposed pattern of spending may or fact they world food program you know the president's budget very well dramatically impacted us but if you know anything about the u.s. process of budgeting this the house and senate makes the final decision we feel very confident before that the process is that works its way through the president . and the leadership in the senate in the house will come together with a budget that will be that i think will be good for the world food programme so we can but continued to address around the world and then when you think about the united states' commitment to the world food program last year two thousand and seventeen was two point five billion dollars this year you know we're hopeful that we can come out with at least two billion but i'm confident that the leadership in the united states will stay strong on international humanitarian aid now in many of your public appearances yes trust that feeding the world's most vulnerable is a viable alternative to military spendi

holistic approach revive sustainability sustainable development resilience for example in the united nations world food programme we believe that every single person this enabled body to know who's receiving food they ought to be in a community development improvement probably but for that you have to solve the number one issue which is meet conflict you mention the word the way yemen and i want to seize that this is a potential chalk specifically about this country because i think it's down south as as a confluence of disasters i heard you say that you've been trying to raise the issue of the saudi contact with the trumpet ministration did you find it responsive yes been interesting to watch and see that the international community has has come together to help bring about a change in the saudi in the sort of coalition by that you mean they the plaid that they made just recently of additional aid and easing up of their c h well you know two or three things number one the saudi led coalition in the blockade was creating catastrophic situation and so lack of money lack of access was a huge is

of aerial bombardment from the assad regime shelling reaches a new level of intensity as the united nations security council debates calls for action i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. three of these kids own pulled off an entirely predictable i'm sensible. results come forward in the four hours. since the breakthrough when the current generation thought in its future report from you know the receiving. end of a stupid from aloft in reality. the international community must take action and concrete action. we begin with desperate calls for a cease fire and eastern good as the united nations security council deliberated on thursday for the past five days bombs have been raining down on the rebel held suburb on the outskirts of damascus indiscriminately killing more than four hundred people the red cross says it is shocked by the violence and doctors without borders sais that thirteen of its facilities in the area have been destroyed leaving the remaining staff with very little to save the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day in just a moment we will speak with one of the few

profound gap between our knowledge and action this is why it is imperative for these council and united nations as a whole to fuck because much more on implementation and national follow up human rights must be weaved into united nations action at all levels from analysis to planning to assessment in the county ability for progress universe so pretty of the review in the three people or the persistence of the treaty body processes provide the three members resource of standards and guidelines and we must find streamlined ways to bring the outputs of these human rights mechanisms systematically into overall u.n. action and all our efforts to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals. but to uphold human rights in the first the current backlash we need to be better able to support member states to be implemented the expert guidance coming from the human rights mechanisms we do this by helping to draft laws and policies in line with its standards and building you see to tional capacity to help safeguard these standards for example we have assisted the offices of attorney general

a monstrous campaign of annihilation that is how the united nations human rights chief has described the syrian government airstrikes pounding the rebel held damascus suburb of eastern hundreds have been reported dead and nearly four hundred thousand civilians are thought to be trapped in the area amid a siege over the past five years the international committee of the red cross has requested access because it says local doctors and nurses have been overwhelmed the government say that they are only bombing rebel fighters but they have used similar siege tactics to drive rebels out of major towns including syria's second city of aleppo and civilians are often those who suffer most plus back in two thousand and thirteen the government allegedly attacked the toe with chemical weapons our coverage begins with this report and a warning that you might find the following image images disturbing. it's risky. for a war that's been raging for nearly seven years the image is a new less shocking and no less harrowing. this boy's parents fate is unknown and what's will become of him. in towns alr

we began with desperate calls for a cease fire and eastern good as the united nations security council deliberated on thursday for the past five days bombs have been raining down on the rebel held suburb on the outskirts of damascus indiscriminately killing more than four hundred people the red cross says it is shocked by the violence and doctors without borders say that thirteen of its facilities in the area have been destroyed leaving the remaining staff with very little to save the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day in just a moment we will speak with one of the few doctors who worked through similar bombardments of eastern aleppo but first this report from eastern and a warning that the images are disturbing. hell on earth and there's no escape this hospital now a graveyard. government were planes have been pounding eastern cuba for the fifth consecutive day children are under siege in one of the most brutal bombardments this war has ever seen in some of the mobile activists all but the most within we were unable to evacuate our patients or treat them. we had to do one o

place an hour ago but nothing so far are diplomatic editor james bays joins us live now from united nations headquarters any news or any information about what's actually going on behind the scenes could we see a vote in the next few hours. we could definitely see a vote but then again we could have seen a vote taking place on friday and there were many that wanted a vote to take place on thursday so it's not at this stage clear whether we're going to get a vote certainly russia is still calling for amendments still calling for changes to the draft resolution has already been changed several times this is the draft as it stood overnight a new modified version and i can tell you all the changes are on this the first main paragraph of the draft the operative paragraph one as they call it i'm told in the last hour numerous changes to that paragraph have been proposed they're arguing over individual words the placement of words it's all that paragraph about the seas far and how the ceasefire comes into effect and the timing of the cease fire but certainly russia is pretty pushing back i underst

and the importance of people supporting the united nations.e should be gravely with what separates us from each other. the problem we have left unsolved. off of this bedroom of her favorite sleeping area, her sleeping porch. porches were bedded onto houses during a time when was not conditioning something that most people had. eleanor roosevelt was a person who loved outdoors, she loved nation -- nature. she would take two or three walks every day. she had little dogs that would accompany her. her outdoor time was the time she could think about things, relax and enjoy nature. sheer daily column by day, would talk about things she could see from her porch, some of the birds out there in the favorite flower that grew them upon, she would talk about every year in july and august. she could see a garden from here, she could see the tennis court that was put in for the thely to enjoy a, even outdoor fireplace, where barbecues were held, during fdr's lifetime, as well as during a time when eleanor roosevelt was on her own, it was a big way of entert

i don't think we can call upon the united nations security council anymore because it has proven at least seven times now that it's. syria and syria is not necessarily a local problem anymore it's an international crisis wed only syrian civilians are paying the price germany has seen thousands hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing this what and they continue to feed the world but to the unknown now that is a need for this decision to be taken the united nations assembly and be a respected in a way i don't think we can call up in the united nations security council to do anything anymore because they fell seven times and they would veto it too to issue anything on syria so i think their word has to be here not just the five countries and the united nations security council. dog speaking with us earlier. the turkish president richard pryor better one has met with pope francis at the vatican their talks focused on the controversial u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel both men pogues the move the disgraced former u.s. gymnastics doctor larry nasser has been sentenced t

states had the facts before them they would not back off their multilateral commitment in the united nations as for the world food program the u.n. may need reform and no question about that but the world food program is a different operation it's about feed people keeping people alive operating emergencies and sustainable development and so you don't. states does not back down invite we're seeing that the world food program is actually a program is bringing nations together and with all the division around the world the world food program we consider ourselves an opportunity to bridge relations so to interesting to say that because i think your agency is far more fortunate than some of the other agencies do you think perhaps they have a secret of. your success has has been your own personality or putting an american in charge i mean seriously it's a serious matter for many in the us on how crucial it is to have somebody who has that i mean the president or at least any or if he's going to do it well you've got to have the year of the leadership but you also have the right message in bringin

israel's ambassador to the united nations says that any possibility of future peace talks will end if the palestinian president addresses the u.n. security council mahmoud abbas's to the later this month it will be a rare occasion because ambassadors not leaders are usually represented from u.n. headquarters in new york is our diplomatic editor james bays. with relations between the u.s. and the palestinians already at their lowest point for years the palestinian leader is taking the dramatic step of flying to the united nations this month it means a showdown with the americans and the israelis on the floor of the un security council every month the council meets to discuss the conflict normally ambassadors of israel and of palestine attend but in a deeply unusual move mahmoud abbas will himself be there he's angered by the trumpet ministrations decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to cut a large chunk of its funding to the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians the last straw was president trumps attack on him last week at davos he said

and the united nations security council now although fewer children were killed and wounded compared with the previous quarter attacks according to this report are becoming more lethal when they do happen they are killing more children why. it's hard to say i think that we're seeing that all parties to this conflict have complete disregard for the impact of the conflict on civilians and the numbers might be increasing or decreasing but we can never be absolutely sure what those numbers are because some of these areas are so hard to reach in any case any attack that impacts the syrian forces them to leave their homes is clearly in violation of the rules of war and something we call on parties to stop immediately another significant part of this report is increased reporting it says of the use and recruitment of children. to fight by not only the who things in on the ground you know rebel group but also by the the armed forces i mean surely measures could be taken to prevent what is an internationally or forces allied with an internationally recognized government from engaging in that

ground we heard from different countries represented on the fifteen member body that leads the united nations we heard from a deputy representative of the united states who gave a heated condemnation of the syrian government and russia who she blamed for the failure of a ceasefire this is the representative of the united states russia has announced a daily five hour humanitarian pongs in the it's in the aerial bombing of civilians in eastern. this is cynical callous and in flagrant defiance of the demands of twenty four and one assad and his allies want the civilians of eastern to walk into the arms of version that has been attacking them and starving them for the last seven years this is not a humanitarian gesture. now the area of eastern goods this is an enclave east of damascus and it is under the control of rebels and terrorists who want to overthrow the syrian government now the situation there is bleak people are suffering but it's a little bit more complicated than we're hearing from different forces and different countries and different representatives in mainstream media at this poin

james bays has this report from the united nations for a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on syria about sort of he got an agreement with the russians now. today we're going to see if russia has a conscience the russian ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart who's government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern puter even as the negotiations drag dawn diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one that comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. it was unanimous but there didn't seem to be much unity in the chamber. every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote the came a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us

let's take you back to the united nations where we can see representatives of the u.n. security council taking their seats inside the chamber that's less than. it is so decided. but. the security council shall now consider agenda item little to work with the. city council is seized of a draft resolution. as slash twenty eighteen its last one hundred forty six. draft resolution that separated by kuwait the united kingdom friends northern ireland and the netherlands and the united states of america and. i now give the floor to three members of the city council who wish to deliver statements prior to their vote so we didn't have the floor. thank you very much mr president. sweden and kuwait earlier this week put forward a resolution to respond respond to the desperate calls from the un and humanitarian community in syria for us to say tional still it is for an initial period of thirty days in order to allow for much needed humanitarian relief. we've been working intensely with all council members to operationalize the concrete requests from the un humanitarian community an

system is is concerned it is the veto holding members of the united nations security council that hold the entire international community hostage to their will so just look at this past week marty on the one hand we had nikki haley defending israel and its occupation of palestine and basically offending the palestinian leader the second day it was offending the syrian regime and defending the syrian opposition while a while on the opposite side the russian ambassador was of course defending his client the syrian regime and of course not paying even the lip service to the war crimes committed by the syrian regime by the iranian militias as well as by the russian forces so really the russians in the americas have showed so much hypocrisy over the last few days that it does leave both the international community as well as syria hostage to their strategic calculus all right now and thank you for that. well we've been speaking to the chemical weapons expert hey mr breton golden about these allegations of a chlorine gas attack in eastern. i think we are working at a chemical attack in torin

at the united nations a panel of experts oversees the regime of sank. it was imposed on north korea. they're familiar with the long reach of the camera she. got so he's a photo coward is one of those monitors he tells us how the trade embargo is undermined. i only see loopholes my question was where i closed the holes. which was so few compared to the number of loopholes loopholes exist in only china. but also all russia. taiwan south east asia they have also all proteins in europe one example of arms control busting launchers for north korean ballistic missiles are based on trucks manufactured in china key. portion was imported from china in two thousand and eleven and that's a side of only twenty four all six regal's have been called for by the united nations they have a clear. and we've had to think said if occasions which show that we can fit in the fall in full force the business. off road trucks for use in the logging industry are not covered by sanctions so was this a willfully misleading declaration they were used in china for military purposes

states had the facts before them they would not back off their multilateral commitment in the united nations as for the world food program the u.n. may need reform and no question about that but the world food program is a different operation it's about fifty people keeping people alive operating emergencies and sustainable development and so the united states has not backed down invite we're seeing that the world food program is actually a program is bringing nations to get. every with all the division around the world we're food program we consider ourselves an opportunity to bridge relations so to interesting to say that because i think your agency is far more fortunate than some of the other agencies do you think perhaps they have a secret of. your success has has been your own personality or putting an american in charge i mean seriously it's a serious matter for many in the un how crucial it is to have somebody who has an ear of the president or at least any or he's got it well you've got to have the year of the leadership but you also have the right message in bringing bringing togeth

and the united nations security council that we're seeing that all parties to this conflict have complete disregard for the impact of the conflict on civilians. the numbers might be increasing or decreasing but we can never be absolutely sure what those numbers are because some of these areas are so hard to reach in any case any attack that impacts the civilians or forces them to leave their homes is clearly in violation of the rules of war and something we call on parties to to stop immediately the united states is taking a tough stand against suspected chemical weapon attacks in syria the crumpet ministrations says it's not ruling out the use of force to deter the syrian government. washington says it's extremely concerned about a suspected chlorine attack on duma on the first day now if confirmed it would be the first chemical attack in thirty days meanwhile in hama province also held by rebels airstrikes have destroyed an underground hospital it was regarded as one of the best protected in syria but medics a repeated strikes on thursday put it out of service seventy deca has the lates

even if the united nations or the alliance one ought to get less involved. and this is why we need our own autonomous strategy in the best sense of the term. in other words our capability to intervene without having to call the united states to rush to our sick bed. well. to have them relocates their ideas are means more their logistic support from other c.s. harris so the european intervention initiative can be a facilitator to us it was important that this initiative should not be dependent neither from the e.u. nor nato procedures because the abilities but also the us habitudes that have been developed in this framework shell benefits both organizations. this acuity of europe is in device visible. it's not just by the e.u. or nato this is the wrong debate we need to concentrate on the threats of today and of tomorrow. to do that so we need to enable those who wants to act and can act so let's look into the future let's look at the new possible areas of confrontation space and cyber these are areas where i intend to spend a lot of money on and it is import