security council. meanwhile, the united nations troops battled the soviet armed communist invaders. the security council tried without success to prod the soviet delegate to his responsibility. as august day followed august day, the united nations continued its fight in korea. the security council, the soviet delegate sat impassive, rendering impotent the council's efforts to end the bloodshed in korea. as august waned, united states delegate warren austin made clear for all the world to see the sinister actions of the enemies of democracy. >> whose troops are attacking deep in somebody else's territory? the north koreans. whose territory is overrun by an invading army? the republic of korea. who is assisting the republic of korea to defend itself? the united nations, with the support of 53 of the 59 members. who has the influence and the power to call off the invading north korean army? the soviet union. who is responsible for the bombing and bloodshed that inevitably ensues from the fact of aggression? the north koreans and those who support them. who, then, can stop the bombing an

united nations security council met in lake success to take action. they chose to saanswer. the cease fire order was ignored. he was named commander and chief in the united nations forces in korea. he accepted the first of the communist invaders. the united states forces under the united nations flag fought to stem the tide of north korea communist aggression while the security council took all of the emergency steps in an effort to halt that aggression. the delegates of the soviet union appointed himself from the united nations deliberations and decisions. they fought and fell back on august 1st, for the first time since the invasion, but deliver rally ignoring the aggression started a campaign to block action by the korean security council. meanwhile they tried without success to cloud the soefuate council to his responsibilities. as the day followed, the united nations continued their fight. and they rendered impotent the bloodshed in korea. warren austin put in simple terms made clear for all of the world to see, they are enemies of democracy. >> whose troops are coming d

edge, whether it is that, is that the outcome of the previews and parents, you know, un united nations security council resolution, which called poor and you know, pragmatic solution to the 2 of them are often weapons that have a calming the illusion which is based on compromise, go in line with morocco's kind of autonomy. so what happened is that the police are you would have a grudge or you were not happy about the outcome of the recent reason. listen, there was no listen, the lobby did when what done it was like the it when then she went to europe and the m. r. u b. b, then were sent out of the scene during the pandemic. this crisis went to block the, it didn't act that much, and the and commercial person broke this year, maybe 5 of the international community. and then in the mind of all the former un security council, now the development, the demo that is happening in the tell me pharmacist when i have to say that 73 percent, that's how we're publishing believe in the province. they all enjoyed it. all of it got all part of the most, many of them are part of these and i are present in the, in the

several times since 2007 was that site in algeria was said to the world times that the united nations security council that they should step up to the plate and, and, and not say that they are only an observer to this, to be set artificial come to this conflict of the artificial conflicts, but the other may have to step up to the plate and find a solution with morocco. it's not live, we go back to history. yes, i agree with that. what the previous speaker told me, he said that morocco, algeria, that was against miracles, reintegration, to moroccan, western sahara in 1075. and that started with who were able to get it started with the send war and the problem from beef. and then get implemented this ideology through the national popular army. and it's when it went on and do not know who is who is responsible. yes. but also the, the rest. who should really be again the should i recognize that, that what happens now goes within the international legitimacy, is that now we see that the u.n. security council, recall her a political were in for a political solution pressure magic which go in line with the p

the united states is in syria without united nations security council authorization. in fact, the united states is there as an occupying force, and it appears to be looking after the interests of the emirates, the saudis and israelis. do you have any commonets that -- any comments on my observations? guest: sure, talking policy decision, right? so policy, the use of military force is different than the condition of military forces. so the policy debate that has gone on in washington, congress continues to fund the defense department. they haven't forbidden the use of military forces. so almost by default we have the u.s. congress, representative branch of the american people going along with this use of military power. when those forces were introduced in syria, it was absolute chaos. you had a lot of civilians who ere being massacred by the recognized government under bashar al-assad, use of chlorine gas. it was just mayhem. so there was an international effort, at least by coalition partners, to try to introduce forces, keep back some of the wars parties, support the

enhance resilience and also strengthen interagency coordination, and even the united nations, we have the united nations security councilh, in 2000 and... really draws attention to the involvement of the private sector. doctor, thanks very much and we must leave it there but thank you for your time. the british foreign secretary dominic raab says the government is "listening" to conservative mps unhappy with planned new covid restrictions in england. but he's warned a third spike in cases is possible unless the propsals are approved. many conservatives feel the new restrictions are too tough and don't take account of the situation in local communities. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. it's been difficult finding cheer in this festive season. in greater manchester they have been living under some been living under some form of restriction since the summer, and what's even more cutting is they're being placed in tier 3, the highest form of restrictions, from next week. if you look at some of the figures and stuff like that, the news stories about it, they seem to have cracked down a bit harder on greater m

this was done in breach of the chemical weapons convention and at the expense of the united nations security council. moreover, the americans and their allies have sought to politicize the. essentially they're turning it into a tool for furthering their political agenda. although, a corporation with the technical secretariat of the o.p.c., zoe is currently it's a low point. i would not call it the point of no return is an important platform for us to present our points of view and defend our interests. a new study has pointed to an unexpected consequence of covert 19 found that infection can trigger mental disorders. the research was conducted by team at the u.k.'s oxford university. they found one in 5 covered patients go on to receive a psychiatric diagnosis. within 3 months of testing, positive tens of thousands of people were assessed. the most common conditions relate to feelings of worry or fear and in some cases cause severe depression. and specifically the team found a heightened risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks and insomnia. we talked to a co-author of the study the, th

exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online, also reclaiming the narrative. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of by creating opportunity space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade. work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. transitioning a lot from huli service delivery where we respond to violations, to abuse, to trauma and has grown into space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through a change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional, whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation to fundamentally change somali society. and she believes she can do it with some obvious use by her side. and the this

exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online also. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of, but by creating opportunities, space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade. work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. transitioning a lot from purely service delivery where we respond to violations and has grown into space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through a change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional. he says whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation to fundamentally change somali society. and she believes she can do it by her side. and this remarkable woman is right here with me in the studio i

of azerbaijan why i'm saying this because by this statement the implementation of the united nations security council resolutions have been announced it means that those resolutions adopted back in 99 to free demanded the complete immediate and fool withdrawal of our army on forces from the almost departed fears of azerbaijan and with a statement of yesterday today in fact this today is a 10 for fun of ember and the surrounding region so if not go in the car behind all of the 7 surrounding regions will will be liberated the army and occupying forces will be withdrawn from these regions according to the concrete timetable you know that 4 of them have been already liberated by the azerbaijani army and the rest of the free regions will be liberated the army and on forces will be withdrawn from the other 3 regions according to the can. which timetable so it means that the security council resolution started to be implemented. chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has died after contracting kovac 19 he was transported from his home in the occupied west bank to a hospital in west jerusalem last month ac

it is without the united nations security council authorization. the united states is an occupying force and appears to be looking after the interests of the saudi's and israelis. do happen to comment on that? thank you and have a nice day. guest: thank you. we are talking policy decision. force isf military different than the condition of military force. the policy debate going on in washington, congress continues to fund the defense department. they have not for bid and the use of military forces. almost by default we have the u.s. congress, representative branch and american people, going along with his use of military power. when those forces were introduced in syria it was absolute chaos. you had a lot of civilians being massacred by the recognized government, the use of chlorine gas, it was mayhem. there was an international effort, at least by coalition partners, to try and introduce forces, keep back the warring parties, support the civilians there were under assault, and a lot of freedom fighters were called back that were representative fo

i regard women's and children's rights as united nations security council said any attempt to restore an islamic emirate would have an impact on our political and financial engage. in afghanistan's president has pledged his commitment to the peace process as talks continue in though, despite there are separate, i want to be very clear that the mcminns, the negotiations with the taliban remains for our negotiating remain, steadfast in their commitment to dogs. and we must bring an end to the violence that is something our lives and robbing our children of the joys of childhood police officers in paris being investigated after they were filmed, forcefully removing refugees and migrants from a campsite. the incident is to a mission wide attention. aid groups are trying to find temporary accommodation for the hundreds of migrants. after the incident on monday night it comes only days after police officers cleared out a bigger camp near the national school sadia. a mission to the moon to bring back lunar rocks. it's the 1st attempt by any nation in beijing is spending billions of dollars o

was a perception within the police ario that the latest security resolution approved by united nations security council was to close to the moroccan position and to ante. so the latest this latest, i would say events have really pushed, the police started to take action, and now the moral can still respond to this provoke ation or initiative. a senior official from south africa's ruling party has been released on bail after being in court on corruption charges, a smuggler. surely the secretary-general of the a.n.c. made his 1st appearance in court on friday. the charges are linked to allegations, millions of dollars of government funds were misused when he was a provincial leader. he continues to deny any wrongdoing. well as a by john is now introducing curfews in areas of nagorno-karabakh that it's captured and comes ahead of armenia's handover of land to azerbaijan. ethnic armenians have been leaving the areas that will be handed over. they have been some reports that people have been burning their homes as they leave the handover as part of the deal between armenia and azerbaijan. that's now ended w

of azerbaijan why i'm saying this because by this statement the implementation of the united nations security council resolutions have been announced it means that those resolutions adopted back in 99 to free demanded the complete immediate and full withdrawal of or i mean on forces from the all of 2 parties of azerbaijan and with a statement of yesterday today the fact is today is a 10 for fun of ember. or the surrounding region so if not go in the car bomb all of the 7 surrounding regions will will be liberated the army and occupying forces will be withdrawn from these regions according to the concrete timetable you know that 4 of them have been already liberated by the azerbaijani army and the rest of the 3 regions will be liberated the army and on forces will be withdrawn from the other 3 regions according to their concrete timetable so it means that the security council resolution started to be implemented now the question is that because there has been such animosity between the 2 sides at think a series and armenians which varies in terms of population in various pockets of the going to karbal

exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online also with the narrative. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of by creating opportunity space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade. work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. i work has been transitioning a lot from purely service delivery where we respond to violations, to abuse, to trauma and has grown into a space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through a change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional pieces, whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation or wants to fundamentally change society. and she believes she can do it with some obvious use by

meanwhile, the united nations security council is voting today to renew its mandate to keep a peacekeeping force in the occupied territory. amnesty international has issued an appeal for the u.n. to include a human rights monitoring component for the peacekeepers. most independent human rights organizations and journalists are not able to enter western sahara. the homes of right livelihood laureate aminatou haidar and human rights defenders mina baali and elghalia djimi remain under police siege since they and other activists launched new organization known as isacom that demands self-determination and human rights for sahrawis. visit democracynow.org to watch our special "four days in western sahara: africa's last colony." a teenage activist in hong kong was detained by police tuesday near the u.s. consulate where he was planning to seek asylum. 19-year-old tony chung helped found the pro-independence group student localism and had been arrested previously under hong kong's new national security law. two of his associates were also detained tuesday. in the gulf of mexico, tropical storm z

so we took this information to the united nations security council. i think everybody remembers. they were talking about how al qaeda and saddam were working together. if there was any american city. we found out everything was a lie. even colin foul and did not make sense. i said to him. why did you like. when he was speaking there is a big difference between compliance and cooperation. compliance, as when i get what i want to hear. he wants to hear them working together. we will get that information. and that's exactly what happened. it's very difficult for us to go to the white house and say they get the information they want at the time. so now, cooperation you get the truth. there is a difference between compliance and cooperation. well had limited sources to treat those around the world. in some instance we did. with information that they were getting. we wanted facts and what you see in this book and how we are getting facts what they did with these facts. and some of the threats about the brooklyn bridge for example, they are watching tv and they start joking. and then th

in addition to secretary of state henry kissinger hoping for a rigged vote at the united nations security councilgarding western sahara, president jimmy carter's state department in 1979 gave $200 million tohe u.s. company northrop page communications to build an "intrusion detection system" for the nearly 1700-mile wall morocco built in western sahara, which is lined with an estimated 7 million land mines. a yearater, carter provided morocco with $230 million in military aid. it's been a bipartisan affair ever since. king hassan ii with president reagan in 1982. king hassan ii: moroccan people and american people will be ready always to mix their blood for the dignity of man. pres. reagan: his majesty briefed me on the latest developments in his efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the western sahara, and i expressed my admiration for his support. amy: after the cold war ended, morocco became a key u.s. ally in the so-called war on terror. in 2004, president george w. bush designatemorocco to be a major non-nato ally of the united states, opening the door for more military d

exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online also. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of by creating opportunity space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade, work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. i work has been transitioning a lot from purely service delivery where we respond to violations, to abuse, to trauma and has grown into space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through our social change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional be says whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation to fundamentally change somali society. and she believes she can do it with some obvious use by her side. and

what it, what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online, but young people are also the narrative. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of, but by creating opportunity space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade old man's work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. i work has been transitioning a lot from surely service delivery where we respond to violations, to abuse, to trauma and has grown into space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through our social change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional be says whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation and wants to fundamentally change somali society. and she be

of azerbaijan why i'm saying this because by this statement the implementation of the united nations security council resolutions have been announced it means that those resolutions adopted back in 99 to free demanded the complete immediate and fool withdrawal of our army on forces from the almost departed fears of azerbaijan and with a statement of yesterday today in fact this today is a 10 for fun of amber and the surrounding region so if not go in the car bomb all of the 7 surrounding regions will will be liberated the army and occupying forces will be withdrawn from these regions according to the concrete timetable you know that 4 of them have been already liberated by the azerbaijani army and the rest of the free regions will be liberated the army and on forces will be withdrawn from the other 3 regions according to the kind of. which timetable so it means that the security council resolutions started to be implemented the chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has died after contracting co that 19 he was transported from his home in the occupied west bank to a hospital in west jerusalem last

as united nations security council said, any attempt to restore an islamic emirate would have any bad to know a political and financial engagement. while afghanistan's president ashraf ghani says he's committed to negotiations with the taliban. despite there are separate. i want to be, they clear that the negotiations with the taliban remains for our negotiating team remain steadfast in their commitment to talks. and we must bring an end to the violence. that is something our lives in robbing our children of the joys of childhood as her life out of eastern afghanistan. for the a contrary is the, as we were in a moment or 2 ago, this turns conference, which has just ended, the european union pledged almost one of the half $1000000000.00 in aid to afghanistan. what's, what aid going to be used for? well, you know, if you're in right now, there are so many needs right here in afghanistan and all it takes is just to go out of all out of the afghan capital to realize that after almost 20 years of international support to this country and billions and billions of dollars that have come in t

territories of us a by john what the us what john army is doing now they are implementing the united nations security council resolutions which demanded the withdrawal of the armenian forces from all the occupied territories of azerbaijan so we are ready. to sit behind the negotiation table and start political settlement of the conflict but again for this we need to eliminate the fact of occupation and to ensure the return of all the idea peace to the homelands thank you very much this is. the foreign minister. spokeswoman talking to us about the reaction from azerbaijani than the other by danny elfman one in 10 people here in the other by john are supposedly displays because of the conflict so it is again both militarily strategically and politically by johnny government and seem a bit lost. some of in java reporting live from. some of us go to yeah. i mean you heard the foreign affairs spokesperson describing this as a great. liberated what's the view in. is quite different you won't hear any honking here. basically i mean i did not confirm that. as they call it here has been taken away from them actually

perception within the police ario that the latest security resolution approved by the united nations security council was to close to the moroccan position and to ante portas arias. so the latest this latest, i would say events have really pushed the police started to take action, and now the moral consumer respond to this publication or initiative. so morocco has also been heaping criticism on the u.n. peacekeeping force there saying that they failed to deal with is alleged blockades by the palace area. how is the u.n. peacekeeping force regarded? well obviously as in any conflict, there are league ations and i keep coming from both sides. this is not really surprising. and i actually the min or so or so to be un mission in the western sahara has been doing a pretty good job of monitoring the situation and trying to report regularly on what is happening. now it's, i would say probably unfair to blame all the situation of the north. so itself from the mission itself. what is clear though, is that the united nations have been effectively turned a blind eye to a situation has been obviously quite calm

nature represented at all four to work out the provixs of the united nations charter and the structure of the general assembly, security council, and you dishl organization. these committees were divided into smaller working groups. 12 in all. chinese, english, russian, french, and spanish with the standard means of exchange. and in nine weeks the charter was ready to go before the participating governments for ratification. in the general assembly of the united nations organization, each member will have one vote. any matters within the scope of the charter will be discussed here. recommendations will be made to the security council. the security council will have five permanent members, and six others elected by the general assembly for two years if is to be the enforcement arm of the organization. an international court of justice in permanent session will decide legal aspects of international disputes. the economic and social council will organization will be afiluated with it. the advancement of territories will be part of the general assembly. it will be equally divided. there will be a secretariuate to do the administra

commissions set up to work out the general provisions of the united nations charter and the actual structure of the general assembly, security council judicial organization. these committees were divided into smaller working groups, 12 in all. chinese, english, russian, french and spanish were the standard means of exchange among many languages spoken. and in nine weeks the charter was ready to go before the participating governments for ratification. in the general assembly of the united nations organization, each member will have one vote. any matters within the scope of the charter will be discussed here. recommendations will be made to the security council. the security council will have five permanent members and six others elected by the general assembly for two years. it is to be the enforcement arm of the organization. an international court of justice in permanent session will decide legal aspects of international disputes. the economic and social council will have 18 members. elected by the general assemblies. special agencies like the food and agriculture organization will be affiliated with it. the trusteeship council fo

the united states is in syria without united nations security council authorization. act, the united states is there as an occupying force, and it appears to be looking after the interests of the emirates, the saudis and israelis. do you have any commonets that -- any comments on my observations? guest: sure, talking policy decision, right? so policy, the use of military force is different than the condition of military forces. so the policy debate that has gone on in washington, congress continues to fund the defense department. they haven't forbidden the use of military forces. so almost by default we have the u.s. congress, representative branch of the american people going along with this use of military power. when those forces were introduced in syria, it was absolute chaos. you had a lot of civilians who ere being massacred by the recognized government under bashar al-assad, use of chlorine gas. it was just mayhem. so there was an international effort, at least by coalition partners, to try to introduce forces, keep back some of the wars parties, support the civ

iran's ambassador to the united nations demands the u.n. security council condemn the killing of him. his vehicle was ambushed on friday on a highway east of the capital tehran. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but iran is pointing the finger at israel. so faris rail has said absolutely nothing. anything peyton walsh explains the ice railly government has been complaining about him for years. >> reporter: iran's most nuclear scientist lived largely in the shadows, the force behind the nuclear weapons program gunned down friday in an apparent assassination. he was traveling east of tehran when the reports say his car was targeted by gunfire and a vehicle explosion. iran's defense ministry say he and his body guards were gravely wounded, succumbing to their injuries at the hospital. believed to be 59, he's said to have headed the area. u.s. and israeli intelligence services say he was behind a secret program to design anatomic warhead. that effort was scrubbed in 2003 but it's claimed he continued to research by benjamin netanyahu in a 2018 co

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take the word of the united nations officials who have briefed the security council in the last meeting and declared quite unequivocally that the obstruction of a comes in who territories because of these intransigence and, and their desire to hold the who they the victims hostage to, to their demands, we know that both russia and saudi arabia are boil, which countries and back in march we saw that was an oil price down to off between moscow and riyadh. and the result was that must come at aipac, failed to agree on a production cost which led to a crash in the global price of crude. many people worried how can such disputes be avoided all prevented in the future by close quarter. they said, and i think close correlation is taking place between the kingdom and the russian federation. we are communicating continuously. the ministers of oil and energy in both countries are meeting from time to time and discussing these issues. and we have both proven to ourselves and to the entire warned that corporation and understanding achieves better results than confrontation and going it alone. and i

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mission mandated by the security council called the united nations support office for somalia that provides the logistical support for the african union mission in somalia. the african union mission now has about $20000.00, military and police, and it is supported financially, both through the un contribution and from bilateral contributions, notably from the european union, but also from others. so this is another component of un support to somalia. and then finally, we have the united nations assistance mission in somalia, which is a special political mission focused on coordination among the wider array of international partners in somalia. it's focused also on institutional support to the government and to the federal member states. and it's focused on so-called good offices trying to improve relations among somali political actors and other entities so that the country can continue to stabilize. so i think if we look back to the 1990 s. as a rather difficult period for somalia and for international partners trying to help, i think the record is much improved on both accounts since then