amy: as the united nations calls for a peaceful resolution to the crisis in venezuela, the venezuelan opposition is openly asking the united states and our light nations to consider using military forces to topple the venezuelan president nicolas maduro. this comes as at least four people died as violence broke out on the venezuelan borders colombia in brazil. government bringing so-called to military and aid into venezuela. we wilill spend ththe hour with venezuela'a's foreign minister jorge arreaza. >> venezuela is a peaceful country and we have to stop in the war in our hemisphere. we can find our own sovereign solutions in venezuela, and u.s. government and no other government has notothing to do with our internal affairs. we can guarantee there will be respect venezuela if we the charter of the united nations and the venezuelan constitutions of law. amy: all that t and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace reportrt. i'm amy goodman. venezuela's opposition is calling on the united states and allied nations to consider using military force

city is a credible concept tell us about the the thinking in the origins of this united nations city so the u.n. has been in copenhagen since one nine hundred fifty seven when the world health organization came to copenhagen. and we've seen several agencies move to copenhagen over time so when the the idea for this building was first conceived which was back in two thousand and two we had six u.n. agencies in copenhagen but six agencies working from three different addresses so you had a show in one spot one location with the original headquarters for your you had a unicef warehouse on this plot of land and then you had the u.n. house with an additional four u.n. agencies. and it goes without saying that that's not very cost efficient so there are a lot of savings that we could reap if we were to bring everybody under one roof because there's more than just a concept of a convenient prop up to the an ethos behind the sharing as well as well there is back in two thousand and five there was a process of reform within the un were. a concept was developed you don't that the un is one big

for people who think it might be some political influence it was a small country can host united nations into the sea of fear of any bias with a small country but we think big and we have been working for human rights for two hundred years the first was reading in forty eight so our most is is heard in that area and unicef we have had here for many many years delivering the stock delivering for home the world and we do a good job so that's one of the reason i think they know that we can trust us and we're good at the job we do i think that's the reason a fascinating history of the nation of denmark to empires you took over they would once yeah yeah you have sweden norway ten sixty one. canoe the great you got there before the normans yeah but it's a comfortable country in the context of of the european continent sees its place well defined before in europe or do you think there markers other ambitions for the future all i think we're fine where we are and will. develop still in denmark we had to do engineering design. and if we had to to have the factories most of them will be out of tha

city which employs some two thousand people eleven united nations agencies and the danish capital as find out what they're doing. and then the heart of the u.n. city and i'm going to said this marvelous staircase to speak to fleming you hansen the deputy director the communications who's going to tell me the the whys and wherefores of united nations city. fleming. dept writes of communications see the u.n. city is a credible concept tell us about the the thinking in the origins of this united nations city so the un has been in copenhagen since one nine hundred fifty seven when the world health organization came to copenhagen. and we've seen several agencies move to copenhagen over time so when the the idea for this building was first conceived which was back in two thousand and two we had six human agencies in copenhagen but six agencies working from three different addresses so you had to w.h.o. in one spot one location with a regional headquarters for your you had a unicef warehouse on this plot of land and then you have the u.n. house with an additional four u.n. agencies and it g

the united nations didn't just proclaim universal ideals, it was also the knowledge the nationalism was a good thing. if it had not been, there would be no u.n., because it was a collection of nationstates. and they were deeply involved in building new states after world war ii and one of the states was the state of israel. in this model, the idea is, if you want to protect the people, you give them a homeland. you give them a nationstate and that state is the way to give them rights and protect them. so for me, these two different images about what nationalism means it begs the question that i really wanted to look at in 1948. so, jews are going through the holocaust and coming out. why did they want a solid nationstate of their own at the same time that they wanted international laws that would undermine it or police it or limited? and if these things are diametrically opposed outcomes, why are jews working at the same moment to do both? the easiest way to answer that is to say, it was different jews. ahtv -- jews never agree on anything. some just wanted a homeland. to say this very

the oil companies nigeria's government the united nations and other agencies are sponsoring a cleanup campaign clearing did foliage spilled oil and planting new mangroves but the work will take decades to complete if at all meanwhile amongst all the poverty all companies will keep pumping out as much as they can people in the community say they are not benefiting from the oil wealth some of the things they're demanding are jobs some of the money and better infrastructure how to al-jazeera in the niger delta a british teenager who joined eisel in syria when she was fifteen years old may be about to lose her u.k. citizenship shamima begum was one of three girls from east london who went to syria and twenty fifteen it's reported an order from the u.k. home office to remove her citizenship just days ago she gave birth to a son in a syrian refugee camp a lawyer says they'll fight the decision. for the last twenty years cambodia has been one of the world's fastest growing economies and that's expected to continue this year but as wayne hay reports from prompt then there are some serious thr

and it may leave enough but in addition to that and based on the united nations rejection of rejection of the blockade and. stealing the natural resource. which is causing the suffering over people i think this has been ignored on a thirty two three. this is yet i don't know if that's a cost since well there's twenty seven commitment today but i didn't do that fifteen billion is not going to be just going on here and across the expropriation of our petroleum accompanied by the united states and auto venice on one. way and see. all of it by. and you can see it will be a mosque in belgium as well plus in towns billions of dollars that have been blocked frozen to day so hope can i get by god we think about what we need in business with everybody and i had the thought that i have people who are working and people are going to school people you don't know who you are going to university and they're going to kind of know this i won't be around the corner this is you know i don't know what they're going to do this year as it did last year and yes we have an official program but we're starting

seventy one hears i think that the united nations secretary general and the united nations security council both must get involved and broker some sort of us deal between the two countries if you don't call it a deal in deed at least it should try to deescalate the situation because this is the responsibility of the united nations to remove any threats to international peace and security and there is a very serious threat to international and regional peace and security in the region now with a basket as a security analyst and director of the society for policy studies and he says world powers can apply pressure on pakistan to take action against those responsible for the s. hack. i think what india would expect from the global community is that the united nations security council would prevail upon pakistan to do whatever is expected in relation to the mamma and the leader of the group as i said. used to be listed by the un france is likely to move a proposal to the un security council very sore but we are aware that china has played a negative role in not allowing the listing of. so this

a new world to a solution of syria we're from geneva where there is a united nations sponsorship just as in was the united states and person trump is trying to circumvent the united nations because it's because if the united nations has in fact in shrine the iran nuclear deal that president or i have to so in walsall they're trying to circumvent the united nations bypass international law and the various agreements that the international community made with iran and that's very important to note because it is a dark day in fact for the middle east whereby russia and iran on the one hand israel and the united states on the other the four countries that have created the largest degree of damage to the region and saudi arabia for good measure are the ones today meeting in war so and sort in order to figure out what the future of the middle east is ok and stay close i want to bring our viewers up to speed on another story and then get your insight on this parliament has overwhelmingly approved constitutional changes for moving term limits for president abdel fatah el-sisi until twenty thi

can do i think that the united nations secretary general and the united nations security council and the board must get an wall and broker some sort of. deal between the two countries if you don't call it a dean deed at least it should try to deescalate the situation because this is the responsibility of the united nations to remove any threats to international peace and security and. there is a very serious threat to international and regional peace and security in the region. all right now let's get the other side of the equation we can get the view from new delhi correspondent says jamail is that the pakistanis seem to be placing quite a lot of emphasis on un involvement in the un's role in in terms of deescalating the current situation how might india respond to that. martine there will respond the same way they always do the short answer is no india no matter what party has been in power has always flatly refused any third party intervention in the kashmir dispute they say it's a bilateral issue strictly between them and pakistan and pakistan on the other hand as we've just hear

states reports of united nations reports also claims that we could see a currency of war because china could try to count of those higher tariffs it was a devaluation of the chinese currency they have come to come back to you in just a moment i want to take a look first at wall street today markets in the strong on the strength of tech stocks apple microsoft and adobe leading the tech focused nasdaq index to solid gains that after overcoming initial market slump that followed the release of new u.s. figures which show declining factory orders in the number investors were still waiting in earnings report by google parent alphabet in asia lunar new year celebrations meant subdued market activity during monday trading. and let's go back to quick yes another good run for wall street today after so many dips late last year why are investors suddenly more upbeat. you know that's really interesting to see because we've been up here on wall street for the past six weeks and we also had a strong start into this week and i gue

the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying aid and bound for venezuela have arrived in colombia opposition leader one requested the aid he declared himself interim president last month. scientists in the u.s. say last year was the fourth warmest on record report by two government agencies warns the trend is leading to flooding heat waves and more destructive power. of violence between rival criminal groups and security forces in mexico has been blamed for some forty thousand missing people over a thousand graves already been discovered mexico's new government is launching a new effort to find the disappeared but as john hall one reports from the capital families of the victims have been searching for years. mario had a bar and a comfortable life once now he's heading romex crew city selling mesko to fund the desperate quest his brothers one of the country's more than forty thousand disappeared for the last four years money has been looking for him across hills and forests he still remembers the da

and unfortunately the united nations. and the sponsor people and the world. they are silent when it comes to these repent that their interference and violations in syria. this means that. they're not they do not want full security and syrian individual. we are happy that the three guarantor countries. are consuming their own measures their own efforts and order to reduce tension in order to get a. stable future for syria in the same way that we believed from the beginning those aleutian of the syrian issue is syrian issue is a political issue and military issue is not going to work we hope that the syrian people after years of tolerance. of problems on hot chips they should enter a new phase of. quality and the stability and international community should work hard to facilitate the return of refugees and reconstruction of syria i believe that the core of the nation are that that the cooperation between the three countries the important countries of the region is very important for the for returning is stability in syria it's very important maybe a few years

nine the un expiate the united nations population fund. through this stance oblique neutral party western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors the site the united states sweden great britain germany and switzerland. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control. the country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the united states participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control was high on the agenda. is for korean women grew up in the village two hundred kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. could it be years or the government said we should have fewer children and that's why we stuck to it . we women had abortions we thought we were doing the right thing and we did it voluntarily. western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units document show that that time was not healt

the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying goods have arrived in colombia for delivery to venezuela but the opposition is accusing the military which backs president nicolas maduro of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia well about three quarters of americans who watched president trump state of the union address reacted positively john hendren went to gauge public response in the traditionally democratic city of chicago. for many in middle america the president's speech was more popular than the man who delivered it thought it was a very good sincere speech and he had some you know points that should be discussed about the very serious problems of the you know the human trafficking in drugs that are coming and that should be addressed in the most divided congress in recent history one that could lurch from one government shutdown to the next within days the president urged unity. together we can break decades of political stalemate. but on capitol hill for much of the speech while republ

the united nations says desperately needed aid is being used as a political pawn in venezuela. scientists raise the alarm on climate change after recording one of the hottest years on record. uncovering the truth behind mexico's missing why some found it families are hoping to find answers after years of searching. donald trump is predicting victory over i saw as early as next week the u.s. president says he expects a formal announcement to be made soon declaring all territory belonging to the recaptured mike hanna reports from washington. smiles all round as members of the coalition gather for a group photograph much has happened since they last met most importantly president trump surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which

and yemen's warring sides are holding talks aboard a united nations boat in the red sea in an attempt to save the fragile cease fire and hope the meeting will finalize a timeline for the withdrawal of troops from the city on sunday the pope called for all sides to respect the yemen troops. al-jazeera has been saying how corruption in romania is public hospitals is harming patients chances of survival romanian children suffer the highest mortality rates in europe and no new government hospitals have been built since the fall of communist rule thirty years ago reports from bucharest. corruption kills people and in romania hospitals do not necessarily make people better because wrests children's hospital was built in one nine hundred eighty two and much of the equipment doctors and nurses have at their disposal looks like it hasn't changed in the thirty seven years since inside the hospital lies one year old iron valentino to mr diagnosed by a doctor he's now in a coma his young parents are living in the hospital as his body breaks down in front of them they look completely destroyed. fr

ambassador to the united nations joining us there from the. well with the news hour live from london more still ahead we're going to tell you about what prompted this work out at the united nations human rights council. that story also dozens of anti-government protesters are released and look at i'm way ahead of talks between the government and the opposition. and chelsea's ninety three million dollar keeper pays the price they support a nation i know have that story sport. now to a chaotic day of military strikes between india and pakistan pushing south asia into its worst security crisis in twenty years pakistan says it shot down two indian war planes in captured one pilot india has demanded he be returned immediately india says its forces also down the pakistani jet something islamic denies both sides have carried out strikes in the last two days indian on the first raids after an attack by a pakistan based group in the disputed kashmir region killed forty one troops thirteen days ago forces from both countries have also exchanged fire and

that goes awards are given by the united nations when bustards. actives it with data structures. at that time the united states was the most important member state contributing forty percent of the budget. was the u.n. population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors. forty years after these population policy supported by the west over thirty million chinese men remain in voluntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. this is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities. activist in yemen because it's the parents of punk shooting a little girl who disappeared but he doesn't have good news there are still no trace of their three year old daughter. push it off until how am i doing. i don't know. his message as we never found blood anywhere i believe she is still alive. and i wait for signs of life every day i'm very worried. that. the girls are often abducted by someone from the village before the child reaches the person who contracted to have her taken she will have passed through many hands from the kidnapper to middlemen from the village to the c

commit to chavez does and who are not going to roll over and when i was the first reporter on the united nations in venezuela and i spoke with the opposition and i spoke with members of the national assembly i told them. look whether you like it a lot there are these seven or eight million venezuelans who are really committed what are you going to do with them they're not going to roll over they're not going to disappear so you have to have dialogue that's why i support the mexican initiative to have a an international mediation and in more detail on the seventh of february why is america then not backing that why would they be so keen to put pressure for military intervention or really keep saying look it's on the table because that doesn't help a diplomatic solution does it no course not of course not the united states is only interested in venezuela's oil in venezuela bold on both sides and colton's there's a lot of money to be made and obviously if they talk for model the first thing that guido as washington's man in venezuela is going to do is to privatized oil industry and to open it by am

have to international and local pressure especially after the libya's a representative at the united nations has called on the security council to take urgent actions towards or in regard to the military operation launched by warlord cliff or have to in the south of the country and that includes according to a would much rather be that includes the latest strikes that targeted a civilian runway in the field oil field around eight hundred kilometers to the stars from the capital tripoli. libya's representatives are presented in an old school is also holding what a lot of khalifa haftar responsible for the airstrikes that targeted a civilian run away yesterday now the united nations support mission in libya has also issued a statement condemning the attacks and also is reminding all parties of their obligations to protect civilians and the countries sources now also their mill of the united nations support mission in libya is calling on all the warring factions all the evil factions towards sought to dialogue instead we understand that yesterday and now what a war plane belonging to warlord cl

the united nations and we have nothing to do with this so it feels like the russians and the syrians are putting on a bit of a show according to some people i've spoken to. these people say that actually what the russians and syrians are doing is saying yes we do take you very very seriously we're going to open the door we're going to allow people to leave but they haven't actually negotiated with. those people to leave and that's why you're getting that sense of. even know inside the camp itself the situation is incredible and what are conditions like for the people in that camp at the moment. well we've been speaking. to people inside the camp frustration a lot of it has to do with the fact that the camp is simply not a refugee camp as you might. expect it's actually very makeshift lots of people. living in makeshift tents themselves and you have to remember this forty thousand people in that camp in a very tiny area eight hasn't been getting through to that camp the u.n. was only able to deliver aid a few days ago and that was after at least two months where no aid was delivered i

it is obviously very in line with what has previously said before but of course united nations process has just begun it is a preliminary report doesn't. the the security council need to decide that there needs to be an investigation council has to be set up but i don't have any. assumption that the security council within sight accordingly because of the fact that it's from as mr ations behavior. but on the other sites when it you know when we look to the international political perspective mr truong has opened and created a safety zone for all the other an autocratic leaders who would like to you know engage in crimes and you know. do do. well there were day care and to silence their oppositions unfortunately it is not a moral act and we have to debate more on this i guess in the future driller common in manchester just picking up on the point that silva is raising do you see the sense of where she's coming from the logic of it and there is logic in it and it's this if you're an autocrat as far as mr trump is concerned we're ok with that because as long as we're doing business with y

the united nations is calling on u.s. backed fighters to allow safe passage for people fleeing violence in i thought the last pocket of territory in eastern syria the un refugee agency says families fleeing to this camp in the whole have described the harrowing journey through minefields and open fighting at least twenty nine children have died mostly from hypothermia the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say it's not to blame though for civilian casualties the u.n. insists more can be done to make people safer we have approached the authorities who are effectively in control of the area where we need to work. we have as i said before we have also appealed to. those fighting and those with influence over those involved in the fighting to do there are most to grant safety for the civilians fleeing. and to obviously allow the humanitarian access in the areas where we need the migrant rescue ships the watch has been detained in the syrian port of. the italian coast guard said the ship breaches safety and environmental law

the lack of food and medicine the united nations says this is a manmade tragedy. but. the last time relief aid reached us was two months ago and the u.n. promised that they would return in less than a month but they haven't come yet. it was in the member when aid reached for the first time in almost a year the united nations says it has verbal approval from damascus and moscow for a new aid convoy they're hoping to reach those in need in the next few days. camp lies within us russian agreed the escalation zone all sides accusing each other of hindering the delivery of aid the syrian government's siege of rock band is a tactic that has used in the past and rebel controlled areas to bring about a surrender this time however the united states is accusing damascus and its russian and iranian allies of using aid to pressure washington to leave it. there are reports the trumpet ministration plans to keep troops in kind of base to counter iranian activity despite its planned withdrawal from the north east regardless the syrians and rock band will remain pawns as rival powers

the united nations delegation has shown that their objective is to convey the facts and deliver true evidence in case to the whole world they have listened to my testimony as a friend of jamal khashoggi we have no hope of reaching justice as long as the first suspect the saudi crown prince mohammed bin is in full control of all aspects of governance including the judiciary the united nations investigation team has the same suspicions and are trying to reach the truth objective later and therefore they are seeking help from turkey correspondent stephanie deca is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul with more. it was amusing that last around an hour and a half un special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings meeting with his a senior party advisor is also the first official that the fiance of cold when she was outstanding outside here after he failed to reemerge almost four months ago now we understand from mr x.i.i. that he conveyed. that he believed that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saw a man who was responsible for ordering this killing we know from the un special rapporte

while you're simply asking what any responsible member of the international community in the united nations would do were asking for the defense of the principles of the overling charter wonderful namely a respect for sovereignty. political independence and territorial integrity and you know no intervention in domestic a lot of the right to self-determination of people and legal out equality between states but above all mr president we've come here to ask this council for our right to peace thank you very much. and you know to. be representative of the people of aryan republic of venezuela that's ok been watching the u.n. security council meeting there we're going to bring in richard becker from the anti war answer coalition to discuss what we've just been listening to now thanks for coming on to the program richard so much as said there wasn't. we've seen two resolutions on venezuela fail the u.s. and the russian can anything in your opinion be achieved through the u.n. security council. i doubt it very much actually at this point i mean i think that what we just saw from the u.s. . with i

is obviously very in line with what has previously took us gomen has said before but of course united nations process has just begun it is a preliminary report doesn't. the the security council need to decide that there needs to be an investigation council has to be set up but i don't have any. assumption that the security council within sight accordingly because of the fact that from as mr ations behavior. but on the other sites when it you know when we look to the international political perspective mr truong has opened and created a safety zone for all the other an autocratic leaders who would like to you know engage in crimes and you know. do do. well there were day care and to silence their oppositions are fortunately it is not a moral act and we have to debate more on this i guess in the future drill acumen in manchester just picking up on the point there that silva is raising do you see the sense of where she's coming from the logic of it and there is logic in it and it's this if you're an autocrat as far as mr trump is concerned we're ok with that because as long as we're doing busine

as china appeared before a united nations human rights panel protesters marched on un offices calling for the release of all week all i hear the protests. in their. millions. players is taking care of us inside china's actions were being questioned with some countries calling for the centers to be shut down we are deeply concerned by credible reports of the mass detention repression and surveillance of course and other months but chinese officials remain defiant about. quote you don't do that but. while china denies it's persecuting people based on their religion an unlikely source says otherwise and you say you know their. use of it is a wee girl who says he's a chinese spy. he claims the information he's gathered has sent people including his own family and neighbors to the camps. of players gone before. josh young. so are the evil going here. or do you hear the. use of tells us he originally agreed to spar to protect his family and to be treated less harshly as a weeder yeah sure where the poor dog but with our full. water therefore will go to. the use of says his fellow weaker as

escalation is always possible as these border protests continue and the united nations has made clear just how costly they have been in palestinian lives during their ten month run just a few days ago with a report showing that two hundred ninety five palestinians have been killed six thousand injured by live fire in all twenty nine thousand palestinians wounded during the course of these protests which began at the end of march last year all right terry foster thank you. now a developing story regarding venezuela and the us president donald trump has told a u.s. media network that sending american military to qatar is an option trump also says he has turned down a request for a meeting well my dear oh is proposing early parliamentary elections that's as pressure grows on him to resign but the opposition leader. as a ploy by men to stay in power and instead wants a presidential election or latin america editor of the c.n.n. reports from caracas. it looked and sounded like a carnival. but as far as the eye could see answer an opposition leader call to increase pressure to force preside

the united nations delegation has shown that their objective is to convey the facts and deliver true evidence in case to the whole world they have listened to my testimony as a friend of jamal khashoggi we have no hope of reaching justice as long as the first suspect saudi crown prince mohammed bin is in full control of all aspects of governance including the judiciary the united nations investigation team has the same suspicions and are trying to reach the truth objectively and therefore they are seeking help from turkey a correspondent stephanie decker is outside the consulate and istanbul. it was amusing that last around an hour and a half un special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings meeting with his a senior party advisor is also the first official that the fiance of jamal khashoggi called when she was outstanding outside here after he failed to reemerge almost four months ago now we understand from mr x.i.i. that he conveyed. that he believed that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saw a man who was responsible for ordering this killing we know from the un special rapporteu

united states and canada recognize the opposition leader one glider in latin america the recent rise of the writers wrote in support from a doer in brazil argentina chile and colombia among others several european nations including the united kingdom spain germany and france are also backing. let's bring in alfred maurice desire he's a former un special rapporteur and was the first to visit venezuela in twenty one years he joins us via skype from geneva how concerned are you by the events that unfolded yesterday on venezuela's borders maybe so violence in the deaths of protesters shot by security forces is a crisis spiraling out of control do you think. well the united states can spin provoking and will continue to provoke frank says you know our country to the united nations charter and contrary to the charter all of the organization of american states tomorrow here in geneva the fortieth session of the human rights council will be beginning i addressed an open letter to our new high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet and to the secretary general of the united nations something it was that i was asking for their good offices and for mediation as far as international oil is concerned it is

find ways to stop the protests from us and you are it's unprecedented that a meeting brings the united nations egypt and the movement leadership here to gaza this indicates two things the first one is the palestinian national project in its integrity and the palestinian question in its political dimension as well as the situation in gaza and the march of return to break the blockade the general national scene in gaza the west bank and jerusalem and all of this is now eighty junction at a very critical and precise stage. it's been dubbed israel's apartheid road a stretch of highway north east of jerusalem inside the occupied west bank that split in two by an eight meter high wall on one side the drivers are is really on the other palestinian harry fawcett reports. the israeli occupied west bank is hardly devoid of barriers but few tell the story of division here in quite such a dramatic way this is road for three seventy northeast of jerusalem the left side is for those with palestinian papers the right for those bearing israeli documents side by side but each part of an entirely different road

the united nations has desperately needed aid is being used as a political pawn in venezuela. special place. in the cold those who promoted that seat. from the european council president as the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels. or why the reopening of a religious school could help end this a dispute between greece and turkey. and in sports the refugee football of fighting extradition to bahrain is told he faces at least six more months in jail. while donald trump is predicting victory over eisel as early as next week the u.s. president says he expects a formal announcement to be made soon declaring all territory belonging to the recapture he was speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to fight in iraq and syria says there's only a tiny percentage of ground left to take back the united states military or coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces. have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis in syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the ca

the united nations, the red cross, and other relieief organizations have refused to work with the u.s. on delivering aid to venezuela, which they say is politicallyly motived.. meanwhile, in washington, d.c., medea benjamin, the co-founder of the peace group code pink, disrupted an event in washington, d.c., where guaido's envoy to the united states spoke. >> just t as you are trying to take over the venezuelan government, i want to say these people are a fraud. they do not represent the venezuelan people. they are representing the u.s.-or strict -- u.s.-orchestrated coup. this is a vevery dangerous situation. they want to create a crisis at the order that would be a justification for u.s. intervention. this has nothing to do with a humanitarian situation. amy: in news from the middle east, the white e house has announced it will keep 200 troops in syria. this c comes just two months afr trump vowed to withdraw all 2000 u.s. troroops in syria. the latest move was s announced after president trump spoke with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. at the vatican, a historic summit on c

the oil companies nigeria's government the united nations and other agencies are sponsoring a cleanup campaign clearing dead foliage spilled oil and planting new mangroves but the work will take decades to complete if at all meanwhile amongst all the poverty all companies will keep pumping out as much as they can people in the community say they are not benefiting from the some of the things they're demanding are jobs some of the money and better infrastructure how to al-jazeera in the niger delta. for the last twenty years cambodia's been one of the world's fastest growing economies and that's expected to continue this year but as well in a reports from plum pen there are some serious threats to its progress. the story of cambodia's rise is a remarkable one from the ashes of genocide and civil war this country has been for decades rebuilt and transforms on the back of foreign investment and strong exports this year cambodia is to have the sixth fastest growing economy in the world ranking its head for twenty years the wealthy have become very wealthy although exactly how much money t

iran nuclear deal that was conjured up by the united states europeans as well as ratified by the united nations one that donald trump has withdrawn from and the arabians essentially through their foreign minister today was telling the europeans if you genuinely do not agree with unilateralism that is essentially the policy of going gets a loan that the trumpet ministration has been pursuing then you've got to get ready and actually put your money where your mouth is and ensure that you stick to this deal and how european leaders are responding to that constant pressure from the u.s. and israel to be on iran so far at least they are very much in the new clinton as much as they can be after the u.s. withdrawal. well the europeans i mean their position probably was set out clearest by german chancellor angela merkel when she spoke roughly twenty four hours ago and she was saying well yes we know that iran is developing weapons we know that iran does have unsavory policy is one that we don't agree with however it is suze the deal that's leverage can be applied on ships iran in order to kind of brin

seventy one hears i think that the united nations secretary general and the united nations security council both must get involved and broker some sort of us deal between the two countries if you don't call it a deal in deed at least they should try to deescalate the situation because this is the responsibility of the united nations to remove any threats to international peace and security and there is a very serious threat to international and regional peace and security in the region well there is a security analyst and director of the society for policy studies in new delhi and he says world powers can apply pressure on pakistan to take action against those responsible for the attack. i think what india would expect from the global community is that the united nations security council ward prevailed upon pakistan to do whatever is expected in relation to the mamma and the leader of the group as i said muscled used to be listed by the un france is likely to move a proposal to the un security council very sore but we are aware that china has played a negative role in not allowing the listi

i'm christine when the while come to the news africa i'm glad you're tuned in the united nations has dedicated today to raising awareness about female genital mutilation if g.m. as it's also known is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or the injury to the female genital organs or medical reasons if g.m. is known to be practiced in about thirty countries in africa but it is on the decline and young women are at the forefront of challenging conine activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. when i do think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools that i have never seen before so that they could do this to. prove that. well to be honest i was mostly and with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was going in war even though will by d.n.a. look they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there. she says i'm traumatized when anyone talks to me about female circumcision i feel i can't breathe it eats away at me here if you set some rules so a

poland where the united states is stepping up its efforts to isolate iran it was billed as a meeting on security in the middle east but u.s. leaders called on the more than sixty nations attending to unite in putting pressure on iran the european union sent only. delegates to the talks in. any solution to unrest in the middle east was impossible without first taking on iran. you can't achieve peace and stability middle east without confronting iran it's just not there been one for eleven years syria and iraq. rages and who do so last night has all. these are real threats there are others as well but you can't get peace in the middle east up which. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu echoed the u.s. position of uniting against the wrong person. in our struggle turning. for some sixth foreign minister and representatives of dozens of government. and israeli prime minister for foreign ministers of arab countries stood together and spoke. truth or. immunity against a common thread here and you. are joining us now live from warsaw as our correspondent jim ellis show yeah so what are the main takeaways from from this conference then. well depends if we're going to spe

delegation to the inaugural session of the united nations general assembly. it was a job she would hold for six years and led to her becoming chair of the united nations human rights commission and one of the principal architects of the universal declaration of human rights. here are some of the questions from that period. the first one comes from a reader worried about the economy. on every hand, you hear that our country is heading into a bad depression. do you think this is true? what should be done to avoid it? eleanor says i do not think we need to have a bad depression. if our industrialists and economists learned their lesson in the 1930s, it cannot be prevented by greedy men. it must be prevented by men of wide and unselfish vision who see that no group can garner into itself great resources and leave the mass of the people without their fair share. the next one is of particular relevance do you think women -- equal pay to women who fill men's job is justified? eleanor replies certainly if women do the same work i have always believed that they should

the united nations security council approval. protecting human rights provided the justice. for syrian. troops in neighboring. allowing the opposition to drive them out. we hit it off these air defenses this was afrikaans first war and its commander in chief was the first african-american president in the words of the obama administration the u.s. position in the war against libya was that of leading from behind what is really interesting is of course the fact that the war was opened and directed first by africa. and then when the mission was taken over by nato. another all of these people running the show me till are themselves being run by the maybe the states which is formally in command of mate will not only that in one of his speeches obama after the bombing campaign had ceased and was praising the efforts of allies in libya revealed that even a number of french bombing missions were inside piloted by american it's. the intervention of libya is also a way of sending a message. other african nation states that should they pursue a course of such radical defiance radical