united united nations now has palestine's application for international criminal court but where it goes from here is unclear. >> this is a formal step for which we will be going through it to seek justice through a legal option. it is a peaceful option. it is a sistlessed civilized option. it is an option anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of. >> if the united states has its way, the international criminal court will investigate the 2000 war in gaza, and land they say belongs to the palestinians. and what court will ultimately comply is open to debate. while most countries already recognize palestine as a state israel doesn't. >> the government of israel is very upset because of this unilateral step. israel says the that palestine is not an independent state yet so they don't have the right to go to icc right now. israel expects that icc will reject the application. >> leve les mans. >> u.s. led peace talks broke down earlier this year, but unilateral actions like this will hinder these negotiation. negotiations. the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon, says 60 days for jurisdiction to kick in and it could take months before the court decides whether or not to stay up a case. kristin saloomey, al jazeera the united nations. >> gideon levy tells us more why the israeli government is unhappy. >> this step might embarrass israel and put israel

united united nations. >> we're going to the court in. not the publicity. we're going to the court the most important international court on criminal matters. it is an impartial court. it is based on the charter that israel refused to sign and commitment. israel thinks that the international court is like it's own courts, kangaroo courts that have been sending thousands of palestinians to jail without any due process. no we're going to the international legality and to that court come what may. >> in yemen houthi fighters say they've kidnapped the president's chief of staff. he was taken from his office in the capitol on saturday morning. >>> the united nations said its increasingly worried about the refugee trapped. they have not been able to distribute aid for six weeks because of ongoing fighting. the camp south of the capitol of damascus is cut off from the outside world. erica wood has more on the living conditions there. >> reporter: the palestinians refugee who is once sought shelter here because of trouble back home are now desperate to escape. because of fuel prices generators are an expensive luxury that most cannot afford. >> the generate operates but not regularly. my electric generator operates every other day. >> every effort is made to reinstate power and cut off again. >> the citizens department has averted huge efforts to offer supplies to other cities. the regime has cut these lines. >> locals rely on rechargeable batteries, but it is not a dependable source, and it is expensive. >> we need $1.30 every day to recharge the battery. every single day we need $1 for the laptop and mobile phone but we don't have jobs. th

national convention. >> democrats must unite. we democrats must unite so the entire nation can unite. >> he was later considered a likely candidate for president but never sought his party's nomination. as governor he balanced budgets reduced taxes and created jobs in new york. president obama saying quote an italian catholic hit from queens he had his faith in god and faith in america to live a public life of service and we all better for it. he leaves behind 6 children and 5 children and 14 grandchildren. >> on twitter targeting mrils officers in st. louis, missouri 35-year-old jason valentine under arrest for posting phrases like this kill a pig night pick a side or die with them. many of the tweets mentioned ferguson and were unarm -- or where the unarmed teenager michael brown was shot by police officer. he threatened to blow up the st. louis city justice center. a man has been arrested after a nearly 8 hour manhunt. this started when shots were fired at a east palo alto neighborhood at 3:00 in the morning. gomez fired his gun with them and officer

it's the case of his life - they're trying to sue the united nations. >> the united nations have a lot of money, we don't have. and they have a lot of -- a hundred thousand lawyers. we have only 12! the balance is for them. if they need to comply with the law, the balance is for us! >> the lawsuit - filed in november 2011 - claims that un failures to screen its soldiers for cholera and follow international rules on waste disposal constitute gross negligence. it's based on the un's own investigation which concluded that the nepalese base leaking sewage into the river was a likely source of the outbreak. and it's composed of thousands of stories of personal loss, each one documented by mario and his team. the next meeting is in mirebalais... the town that's home to the un base where the disease is known to have started. henrietta paul's husband was one of the very first to die. she doesn't know exactly where he's buried - back then the death toll was so high that bodies were being dumped in mass graves. today, she and her daughter lisette are filing a new claim. henrietta's only son, die

united states and -- united nations and for five full hours with his shirt color open spoke for five hours to the general assembly. at the occasion of this general assembly, i believe any illusions one might have had about castro would have had to disappear. he who would say perhaps there is only an alliance with the communist or as a tool of the communists or was trying to use the communists for his own means had to recognize he had been completely wrong. it was clear there was a cynical plan for an alliance with the eastern bloc. little by little, it came so far that at the occasion at the u.n. that cuba voted with the east. >> another journalist saw it in pen and ink this way. during the third year in power cuba economy was in serious trouble. unskilled farm labor, students and clerk were commandeered. through government mismanagement and lack of incentive for peasants to work on state owned land, the sugar crop began to grow sparse. by 1962, cubans would be speaking of the harvest of the bitter sugar. there were cues for rations. there was hunger for clinical -- political freedom as well. tens of thousands of cubans became known as refugees. >> three ideas. those human rights we could establish. >> no oratorical harangue would dispel what their faces told of the real cuba as they went into exile. where once castro had promised a new life to the cuban people, he chose instead to restock his arsenal. in 1962, he boasted of having 350 medium and heavy tanks 300,000 machine guns, rifles and pistols, more than 100 jet fighters all at a cost that would be enough to feed, close -- clothes and shelter every newborn cuban baby for the rest of its life. what manner of men is this former revolutionary? what works in the mind of a man who in april 1959 said -- >> i'm not a communist. i am not agreed with communist. >> and just two years later at -- earlier agreed i will be a marxist-leninist and will be to the end of my life. what kind of consciousness does this man own? the man who told the man who works the land must own it. those who work the land must have some. three years later, he told the same people, why should we give land to the peasant? soon, he would want more and more and he would become a large land owner. a man of many faces. surely these are questions that will intrigue the historian and analyst for years to come. >> at this moment now, not as quickly as some, but not as slowly as others, we have realized castro is not following the right path. he had not called for elections in cuba. he rather consulted the people in open plaza to support the reject policies interject -- support or reject his policies naturally imply certain number of risks. we in latin america have long experience dictatorships and know full well when the people if consulted in the open plaza is because there is a dictatorship and we know a dictatorship always rings about jailing of groups, suppression of public freedoms stop from that moment on, we can no longer support the castro regime. >> in october of 1962, the world was not only disillusioned with the human revolution but -- cuban revolution but outraged with the discovery of 10 missile bases in cuba. aerial photos discovered their menace. the missiles could reach and conceivably destroy washington or lima, peru. >> now, your leaders are no longer cuban leaders inspired by cuban ideals. they are puppets and agents of an international conspiracy which has turned cuba against your friends and neighbors in the americas and turned it into the first latin american country to become a target for nuclear war. we know your lives in land being used as pawns are those who deny your freedom. >> the president of the uniteds announced the nation's intentions will stop among the decisions, and insistence upon immediate dismantling and withdrawal of the missiles will -- a quarantine not all offensive military equipment on shipment to cuba and continued increased surveillance of the military buildup. hemisphere support was quick. the organization of american states by a vote of 22 nothing approved the resolution. some nations offered active military assistance. surveillance did continue in the air as planes made passes to photograph missile installations despite cuban antiaircraft stop -- antiaircraft. and on the sea as the u.s. navy task force 136 steamed to a fateful rendezvous with cuban ships. all cuban bound ships would be commanded to heed to two -- he'ded through to be searched. one week later khrushchev who had never once consulted castro issued a new order calling for the return of the weapons to russia. then, like a penitent rigler caught in the act, he wrote to president kennedy -- "after all, yo

united states and the united nations. >> andrei lankov is a historian who has studied north korea for decades. >> north korea is a notorious human rights abuser. arguably the world's worst human rights abuser. having said that these resolutions have no impact whatsoever. because they understand: it's official now: if they lose they are not going to be spared. so they are going to fight and they are going to be even more repressive, not less. >> in seoul, kim ji-woo ("kim jee oo") - not her real name - told us she had been arrested and tortured by the north korean security police after she was falsely accused of being a spy. she said she defected in 2013 and that her family is still in north korea. ji-woo told us that when kim jong il died many people had a secret hope his son would bring change but she says it could not be said publicly and they had to fake their grief but she said that hope didn't last long. >> did you ever see something like that? did you see executions? >> there is a small dirty secret. there is very little resistance in an efficient and sufficiently brutal dictatorship state. resistance is possible when repression doesn't work properly. and if you have a well-run repressive state nobody dares to say anything. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> after more than 60 years the division between north and south korea is still a fault line north korea has now threatened a nuclear test because of the united nations attention on human rights in the country. ambassador joseph detrani is a former u.s. negotiator with north korea on their nuclear program. the six party talks reached a dead end in 2009. >> if they are not happy with something, they will tell you; well we're not happy with something. and if you persist we'll have a nuclear test, we'll have a missile launch. and i think the expectation has been: we will cave. threats don't work any longer. the threat to escalate doesn't work any longer they are not going to get what they want because they are threatening. they will get more by coming back to the table and being reasonable. >> the united states has announced a new round of sanctions as a response to the cyber attack on sony pictures they claim was orchestrated by north korea > outside policy is pro-engagement or pressure. pressure does not work. engagement might have some impact but only very limited. on balance we have this kind of oscillation between unrealistic hopes about pr

united nations? will america support a french initiative at united nations? all of these are questions for mondays and tuesdays. >> let me ask you about the united nations because a lot of people don't have utmost confidence in that body to handle some of these tougher issues. when we see nations very questionable in nature end up with seats on the human rights council and that sort of thing, there are those doubters that the u.n. would be an effective voice or body in that respect. what's your take? >> i understand that many, including many close friends to me, do not trust the united nations. we need to understand what the united nations is. it is not a government. it is not an independent organization, per se. it is made of all these governments. if the united states' mission, french mission, uk others, the majority in the security council push in the same direction, nothing could stop actions by the united nations. it's really the players. i remember having worked with the security council members ten years ago on getting siree out of lebanon. a coalition

united nations. the frustrations of the united nations are a product of the world that we live in. and not of the institution which gives them voice. to the assembly of nations than to permit them to fester in silent danger these are some of the goals of the american nation in the world in which we live. neither praise nor blame, neither gratitude nor obedience. we seek peace. we seek freedom. we seek to enrich the life of man. for that is the world in which we will flourish. and that is the world that we mean for all men to ultimately have. today we can turn increased attention to the character of american life. the greatest upward surge in the history of any nation. our flourishing progress has been marked by price stability that's unequalled in the world. our balance of payments deficit has declined. and the soundness of our dollar is unquestioned. i pledge to keep it that way. and i urge business and labor to cooperate to that end. we worked for two centuries to climb the peak of prosperity. but we're only at the beginning of the road to the great society. ahead now is a summit

i'm concerned about the united states of america becoming subservient to the united nations are a global government. when you look at the things coming out of the united nations, human rights commission and some other places are just recently the parents of michael brown from ferguson, missouri travel overseas to europe to go make a complaint before the united nations commission on terrorism. now i've got a big problem with the united nations tried to come in and supplant our rule of law and the standards by which we've established this great united states of america. you think about u.n. resolution 16/18 and how that is classified certain speech against certain religions to be seditious and you could be open to criminal punishment. those are the types of things we have to be concerned about. the united states of america is a sovereign state. when you have people who don't even believe we have a border that should be protected that should cause you a lot of concern. that does not say we as americans are not benevolent. we are the most benevolent people in the world. the founding fathers wrote in three different parts of the constitution where they cal

united nations. >> it's official. the unitedations now has palestine's application to join the international criminal court. but where it goes from here is far from clear. >> now, this is a very significant step in which we will be going through it, to seek justice through a legal option. it is a peaceful option. it is a civilized option. it is an option that anyone who uphold the law should not be afraid of. >> if the palestine palestinian leadership has its way the court will investigate israel's 2014 invasion of gaza which resulted in the death of some 2,000 civilians and also the ongoing construction of israeli settlements on land the u.n. says belongs to the palestinians. but how far back and to what incidence the court's authority will ultimately apply is open to debate. palestinians could also be charged for war crimes including firing rockets into israel and while most countries recognize palestine as a state israel doesn't. >> the government is very upset because of this loorl unilateral state. israel expect that the ic

a couple of months ago to my surprise the body of the united nations passed a resolution sending or asking the unitedations assembly to send the name of the north korean dictator to an international criminal. he was defending north korea and the united nations? cuba. cuba. cuba was the leader and rallying folks in the united nations against american. should the president be concerned? shouldn't the pres. and the administration be concerned about what is happening as far as cuba and syria cuba and iran? cuba is not simply a little island in the caribbean. we are not really about cuba. we're talking about the castro family insistent on doing everything that they can against the united states and the american people. that should be part of the debate. the other thing is simply very simple. now the president is talking about lifting the us embargo. what about suggesting to the general president -- remember, is the brother of fidel no other reason than that. what about suggesting to him that he ought to lift the embargo that the cuban government has had on the cuban people the internal embargo that cuba c

united nations. what do people here think about the united nations? >> translator: the u.n. here only causes problems. we see a lot of soldiers every day. and we don't know what they are here for. they brought cholera to our country, and they rape our women. >> translator: they have been in our country for 11 years and nothing has improved. >> reporter: one prominent activist says the u.n. is now hated in the country. >> wherever you have soldiers stepping in a foreign land you are going to have abuses. this is kind of part of it. but the real trouble people have with the u.n. has been this cholera outbreak. i mean you know, it killed more people than all the so-called insecurity in haiti has done. >> reporter: the u.n. mission costs more than $30 million a month, but if the ambassadors of the security council speak to ordinary haitians while they are here they may well discover most would prefer they packed up right now, and went home. james bayes. >>> plunging oil prices are taking their toll on communities around the world. in north dakota native american populations cont

that's a branch of the united nations. the united nations that's where all this stuff started. and certainly it would inure to their benefit to have people believe that we have to look at some international organization like the united nations to protect us from all these droughts and all these things that they say are going to happen. we had another little thing happen -- i only mention this because nobody has yet on the floor recently. i think everyone used to -- believes that everyone is already away of it. remember climategate. climategate, mr. president was when they were having one of the big united nations parties and it was going to be in copien copenhagen. i remember a lot of our people went over there to tell the 191 countries that were participating that the united states was going to pass cap and trade, was going to do all of these things and then of course they -- i went over at the very end of it and made my little talk and assured them that in spite of the fact that president obama had been there secretary clinton at that time had been there, secretary kerry and a

spotlight when he delivered the keynote speech at the 1984 democratic national convention. >> democrats must unite. we democrats must unite he balanced budgets, reduced taxes and created jobs for new york. president obama released a statement praising cuomo for his public service. new jersey republican governor chris christie remembered a giant from across the political aisle. he was a strong eloquent leader who loved new york and its people. as an italian american, he was also a role model for future generations that anything was possible through hard work and education. mario cuomo leaves behind his wife of 60 years five children and 14 grandchildren. >> it's quite a tale of two new york leaders this morning when you have the cover of all the local papers honoring mario cuomo and then you have just when you open up the paper and dig a little deeper inside, not so nice words for mayor de blasio right now. >> right. it's all about cuomo right now, but de blasio for all the wrong reasons has been on the cover of most new york papers and national papers because of the tension that he ignited in his battle with the nypd from

united states, the thai government and the united nations implemented a number of development programs aimed at getting poppies farmers to grow other crops and that was called crop replacement and now it is referred to as alternative development. essentially it is just that attempting to get poppies cultivators to grow other crops for export and in the case of thailand, and a whole host of things. but the program in thailand, you know which took about 20 years to really have an effect was seen as a model as a successful program and therefore if we do it in thailand, it should be tried in other places. it has occurred in other places around the globe particularly in some cocoa producing countries in south america. even in the nixon and ford administration, since the carter administration amid the u.s. is providing funds for proper placement in thailand and it is seen as a successful model because it does go down. in the long rented a alternative development really has mixed success in reducing the overall amount of illegal drugs being produced. nonetheless it was seen as successful policy in worthy of replication elsewhere. dea agents will look at the amount of purity of heroin in the united states to determine if there was a ratification programs having an effect on the amount being produced. is pure decoders down in the united states, they know supply has gone down, the amount being seized was another measure of success. so those are two of the metrics when it came to eradication policy is to see if they had any type of positive affect. when we look at the replacement of alternative development, one of the places for people who grow poppies, finding a replacement crop that brings a steady price and a good price is hard to find. we can see that even today in afghanistan, which is the world's largest producer of opium attempts to get afghan farmers to grow something else really runs up against that problem at the price you could get first day we you know is a good 40 to 50 times less than what you get for the same amount of opium. so while policymakers claim if we can get these people to grow something else it will be better for them, in many respects these farmers have h

victims' families a judge in new york throwing out the lawsuit meaning the capses of united nations -- chances of united nations answering questions about their role in the 2008 cholera outbreak is further away. the u.n. ban ki-moon and u.n. peacekeepers in haiti are immune from the lawsuit. growing evidence reported to u.n. peacekeepers introducing cholera, and sewerage the source was lacking from the u.n. peacekeepers pace. when the u.n. refused to admit fault victim's rights group and family members suspected a cover up and filed a lawsuit. lawyers reacted with anger and shock to the disagreements, and vowed to repeal the latest ruling. >> it's an issue needed to be decided on appeal. the implications are grave. it implies that there's nowhere in the world that one can turn when the u.n. doesn't comply with u.n. obliges and the u.n. refuses to provide justice. >> as for the u.n. ban ki-moon came to haiti saying the organization had a moral responsibility to end the outbreak and try to drum up support for a 2 billion fund. >> the u.n. position is the same. they refuse to take responsibility for the ch

travel overseas to europe to go make a complaint before the united nations commission on terrorism. now, i got a big problem with the unites nations trying to come in and supplant our rule of law and the standards by which we have established these great united states of america. you think about the u.n. resolution 16/18 and how that is classifieding certain speech against certain religions to be seditious and you could be open to criminal punishment. those are the type of thing wes have to be concern about. united states of america is a sovereign state. and when you have people that don't even believe that we have a border, that should be protected, that should cause you a lot of concern. that does not say that we as americans are not benevolent. we're the most benevolent people in the world. but the founding fathers wrote the three different parts of the constitution whether they call it repelling invasions, article 1, sex 8 article 4 section 4 stating clearly we have borders that have to be protected. and so it is not just that physical border, but economic borders, borders where all of a sudden the unites nations are t

united nations... >> hinojosa: the united states, right, of course. >> ...meeting in the u.s. and i think they decided that he would probably face a barrage of questions about arresting a 67-year-old grandmother and... >> hinojosa: i think he might have, yes. i think he might have found a lot of people protesting and probably a lot of women. your cause for women academics, for women journalists, for women activists, for feminists, your cause became so important. and i think that there are many people who don't know about the nature of the iranian women's movement. it is a very strong and historical movement of women in iran. and you were a part of that as well. >> yes. >> hinojosa: talk a little bit about that history of women's engagement. because, you know, so many people now in this country just see the veiled iranian woman, who seems submissive, who seems powerless. in fact, it's quite different. >> actually, even today... let me start with today and go back. even today, iranian women are not submissive. absolutely not. you know, for the last 30 years, it has been the wome

special session of the united nations security council last fall to rally the world to meet the threat of foreign terrorist fighters, including coming from syria. david and the united kingdom continue to be strong partners in this work. including sharing intelligence and strengthening border security. at the same time we both recognize that intelligence and military force alone will not solve this problem. so we are also going to keep working together on strategies to counter violent extremism that radicalizes recruits and mobilizes young people to engage in terrorism. and local communities, families, neighbors, faith leaders have a vital role to play in that effort. we also look forward to welcoming our british friends to our summit next month on countering violent terrorism. because whether in europe or america, a critical weapon against terrorism is our adherence to our freedoms and values at home, including the pluralism and the respect and tolerance that defines us as diverse and democratic societies. finally, i want to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate david on last month's stormont house agreement. it is a tribute to the courage and determinatio

united states congressman elected from the deep south since reconstruction. appointed by president carter as united states ambassador to the united nations. and, mayor of my city of atlanta from 1982 to 1990. taylor branch, pulitzer prize winning author best known for his writings on civil rights. his book, parting the waters won the pulitzer in 1989. our moderator is todd purdum contributing editor at vanity fair, senior editor at politico. he recently published a book, an idea whose time has come. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome todd purdum, doris kearns goodwin, andrew young joe califano and taylor branch. [applause] >> thank you very much, tom, mark and the entire staff. it is wonderful to be here. i want this to be a conversation. today i have only one exhortation -- no filibusters. [laughter] with that being said, i think it is fair to say that lyndon b. johnson and martin luther king were two of the most colossal figures of the 20th century. bill moyers said that the president was 13 of the most complex and interesting men he had ever met. stan levinsohn said that he was anything but the plaster saint that white america wanted

want to ask from you -- not only be united the same way like you demonstrate on the united nations general assembly. the same way like you demonstrate in the united nations security council. the same way like you demonstrate in the g 20 meeting at brisbane, the same way like you demonstrate in the european union council. and solidarity, we have four all over the world, starting from the united states and canada and finishing with japan and australia. we need to demonstrate a solidarity with ukraine, and a very important thing, we need to believe in ukraine. because we are fighting for peace. i'm the president of peace. i'm strongly believe that there is not existing be military submission of this problem. and we need to have a very strongly coordinated action to bring the peace, not only to my country, but to bring the peace in the world. again, this is the line of the front, when we are fighting. not only for our territory and integrity, independence, we are fighting for european security. we are fighting for european values. somebody said this is very expensive. to fight for peace. i think this is two complete with different concepts of the wor

united nations in new york. has there been reaction from the u.n.? >> reporter: we have been getting reaction here at the united nations on what is an attack on the freedom of speech many are saying. ban ki-moon happened to be touring the offices of the journalists that work here in the united nations. the original plan was to wish us all a happy new year. he came around to do that and the coverage was playing out in all of our offices, the live coverage of -- of the events in paris. and after he greeted us all and spoken to all of us he then made this statement. >> -- understand today very terrible terrorist attack has happened. so i would like to say a few words first. i want to express my outrage at the despicable attack today against the french magazine. it was a horrendous unjustified and cold-blooded crime. it was always direct assault on a cornerstone of democracy, on the media and freedom of expression. i extend my deepest condolences to the families and my best wishes to all of those injured. we stand with the government and people of france. i trust that the french authorities will do all in their pow

united nations. kristen, what's happening? >> reporter: well, we know that palestinian ambassador to the united nations is meeting now with the ce of legal affairs here the at the united nations. he handed over the appear indication for the palestinians to join the international criminal court. it's official. the u.n. has the application in its hands. what typically happens is there's a 60-day waiting period from now until when they enjoy the full rights and membership privileges of a member state. as i was saying earlier, this is a bit of unchartered territory. the palestinians are not a fully recognized member of the united nations community, although they are considered an observer state here at the u.n. this is a controversial move. we don't know how it will go forward, but we expect ban ki-moon will hand the application over. within 60 days they have some rights as a member of the international criminal court. >> a controversial move and a very significant one for the palestinians. the anticipation is it pafs the way for the pursuit of alleged war crimes charges against israel. >>> absolutely. but, again, this is a bit of

special session of the united nations security council last fall to rally the world to meet the threat of foreign terrorist fighters, including coming from syria. david and the united kingdom continue to be strong partners in this work including sharing intelligence and strengthening border security. at the same time we both recognize intelligence and security force alone will not solve this problem so we'll also keep working together on strategies to counter violent extremism that radicalize recruits and mobilizes people especially young people to engage in terrorism and local communities, family, neighbors, faith leaders, have a vital role to play in that effort. we also look forward to welcoming our british friend to our summit next month on countering violent terrorism, because in europe or america a critical method against terrorism is adherence to our freedoms and values at home including pluralism and respect and tolerance that defines us as diverse and democratic societies. finally i want to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate david's on last month's house agreement. a tribute to the determination and courage of everyone involved especially the l

united nations. they regret the incident and it was never their intention to harm united nations peace keepers stationed along the board. now israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has spent most of his day in a meet in tel aviv with top security officials discussing the developments and the escalation of the northern border, and he held the israeli government and the--the lebanese government and the syrian government fully responsible for attacks emanating from their territory and said that those behind the attack will pay the full price. that said, there is a lot of speculation about how this could develop in the coming hours or days. >> nisreen el-shamayleh with the latest from west jerusalem. thanks. >>> let's go to the united nations and speak to our diplomatic editor james bays. i imagine a huge amount of concern being expressed about what is happen at the moment. >> a great deal of concern. one, in the violence of the last few hours one u.n. peace keeper has been killed. confirmation that that is a spanish peace keeper. interesting to note that spain is now a member of the u.n. security counc

united states congressman elected from the deep south since reconstruction. appointed by president carter as united states ambassador to the united nations. and mayor of my city of atlanta from 1982 until 1990. taylor branch, paul pulitzer prize winning author best known for his writings on civil rights, his book, parting the waters, america in the king years won the pulitzer in 1989. our moderator today is todd purdum, a contributing editor at vanity fair, a senior editor at politico. he recently published a book, an idea whose time has come two presidents two parties and the battle for the civil rights act of 1964. ladies and gentlemen please welcome todd purdum, doris kearns good win, taylor branch, joseph califano andrew young and. [applause]. and >> thank you very much tom and mark and the entire staff of theson library and johnson foundation. it's wonderful to be here. i i want to this be a wonderful conversation and i have only one thing to say to my fellow panelists no fillibusters. with that said i think it's fair to say that lyndon baines johnson and martin luther king were two of the most colossal figures of the 20th century. b

from launching new drug trials to building new clinics, the united nations, the united states and non governmental agencies around the world are ramping up, scaling back and searching for new approaches to curb the epidemic in liberia, sierra leone and guinea. delaware democrat chris coons, the outgoing chairman of the senate foreign relations subcommittee on africa affairs has just returned from monrovia. and anthony banbury has just completed a 90-day term as head of the united nations mission for ebola emergency response. welcome to you both, gentlemen. senator coons, you just came back here, the first and only member of congress to actually have gone to the ebola zone, as it were. what did you see? >> well, i was really impressed by the impact that america's troops have had in the country of liberia. let's just go back for a second to september when president obama took the decisive the brave action of deploying the entire 101st airborne division, 2400 u.s. troops, to monrovia, liberia. at that point, the ebola rep demic in liberia was raging out of control, and there were predict

unite so the entire nation can unite. >> reporter: just hour before andrew's death his son was sworn into the office his father proudly held. >> he could not be here physically today but my father is in this room. he is in the heart and mind of every person who is here. he is here. >> reporter: president obama praising him releasing a statement saying he was chief of executive of the state he loved. a champion of progressive values and a voice that spoke out for fairness, dignity and hospitality. his daughter thinks he wait until andrew's swearing in to say his final good bye. >> he will be missed. thank you, rick. >>> why crews are having trouble battling this massive fire. and congress reconvenes next week with a republican controlled house and senate. what is on the agenda and will the president pull out his veto pen? that discussion is next. how do you know? duh. try credit karma. it's free and you can see what your score is right now . i just got my free credit score! credit karma. really free. >>> right now wild fires burning out of control down under. triple digit temperatures are fueling the flames in australia. crews working around the clock to put out the fires and warning people to get out of their homes. so far no reports of deaths or injuries or major property damage. >>> senator harry reid suffering from broken bones in his face after a fall at home. the office released a statement saying a piece of exercise equipment that he was using broke and caused him to fall. he received treatment at the facility in las vegas and doctors expect him to make a full recovery. he is heading back to washington to be on hand whether the senate meets again. >>> senator harry reid will be the minority leader. new year new congress and president obama has to go up against a republican-controlled house and senate for the first time. first up on the docket for the congress meeting is obamacare and the keystone pipeline. david is here from u.s. news and world report. the republicans are you know going to be in control of both chambers on capital hill. they said they will send legislation to the president. keystone is going to be the first. the president isn't a fan of keystone. what is going to happen? >> this could be a showdown we have not seen often with the president vetoing it and it will be on congress to see if they can override the veto. the president hasn't issued a specific threat about keystone but looks like what he is going to do. the first term of obama's presidency was about speaker boehner keeping the establishment republicans and tea party republicans united with the president's agenda. now he has a republican senate and the question is will democrats begin to abandon the president in his second term when he is never going to be on the ballot again, when they are free to be independent operators of the leader of their party and unite with republicans on any of these issues to override president obama's veto. so the question is can harry reid and nancy pelosi keep their own party in line with the president to stop the republican ideas. >> every democrat in the house is up for re-election in 2016 and a third of the senate is up for re-election. they have to be looking nervously after the democrats took a grudging. will their be democratic votes to override the vetos? >> i think there will be some. but look the other problem is if you are a republican, there is not that many moderate democrats left because they have been wiped out over the last couple cycles. so you have a partisan congress with very conservative republicans and liberal demo

the united nations and the united kingdom. within western europe especially traditional powers there's a tremendous amount of cooperation developed over the past decade and over just the past couple of years because of events in syria and now in iraq the need to cooperate is even more important. as mike said before especially in regards to travel. consider the case believed to have carried out the attack against the jewish museum in brussels brussels. he tried to hide his travel home. coming through the netherlands, making his way through brussels. the availability to travel freely throughout europe once you make your way in has them very concerned. >> michael, with the with free travel in and around certain parts of the world. it's hard to pinpoint who is truly serious about launching an attack and whether they have the resources to do that. today the reality is underscored by the alleged plot, the thwarting of the alleged plot. especially the young men who say they are working in conjunction or inspired by isis. here is a yo

united states is doing in burma. for example, in thailand where there's a legal opium production happening the united states, thai government and united nations implemented development programs aimed at getting poppies farmers to grow other crops and i was called crop replacement and now it's referred to as alternative development. but essentially it is just that. attempting to get poppies cultivators to grow other crops are export and in the case of thailand, it was a whole host of things. but the program in thailand, which took about 20 years to have an effect was seen as a model as a successful program and therefore if we could do it in thailand, it should be tried in other places. it has occurred in lots of other places around the globe particularly in some cocoa producing countries in south america. so even though in the nixon and ford administration since the carter administration, the u.s. is providing funds for crop replacement in thailand and it's seen as a successful model because illicit production and thailand does go down. in the long run two-day alternative development really has mixed success in producing the overall amount of

united nations. so they are utilizing an organization like the united nations to sanction the concept of blasphemy. that concept of blasphemy, which i as a muslim recognize, cannot be judged by immortal. it is judged only -- judged by a mortal. it is judged only by the creator in his created model. that kind of restriction is penetrating our own democracy. the idea of islamism is choking freedom worldwide, including here in home of the free. i'm absolutely opposed to any profanity at all against any belief system. i'm appalled by the art that was mentioned in terms of the desecration of the virgin mary that was -- in brooklyn here a few years ago. just as i would be appalled by the definition of judaism in any concept. but we cannot be censored because of that intimidation. that's giving islamists a victory. it's not just images that are giving them a victory but abandoning our ideas and not defending them to the last degree and then allowing our ideals to be completely disregarded by those we ally with. we have to do more. >> is there a feeling of powerlessness, though? it seems extremists are, you

special session of the united nations security council last fall to rally the world to meet the threat of foreign terrorist fighters, including coming from syria. david and the unitedtinue to be strong partners in this work, including sharing intelligence and strengthening border security. at the same time, we both recognize that intelligence and military force alone is not going to solve this problem. so we're also going to keep working together on strategies to counter the violent extremism that radicalizes, recruits and mobilizes people, especially young people, to engage in terrorism. and local communities, families, neighbors, faith leaders have a vital role to play in that effort. we also look forward to welcoming our british friends to our summit next month on countering violent terrorism. whether in europe or america, a critical weapon against terrorism is adherence to our values at home, including the pluralism and the respect and tolerance that defines us as diverse and democratic societies. finally i want to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate david on last month's agreement, a tribute to the courage and determination of everyone involved, esp

that's what the united nations member states agree on one solution. then a reform. not reform, how we want the united nations organization to be effective active, and effective, or just giant monster with big bureaucracy? no i think we have many challenges. it's not political. it's not war. it's not terrorist. we see today even disease. the world went crazy for one disease. what about tomorrow? what about the future? i think we should strengthen this organization to deal with all challenges. >> you can catch my full conversation for an up coming edition of "talk to al jazeera." a year at the helm of the united nations general assembly is now online and in book stores. >> antonio go daddy is pulling a super bowl ad after it caused an uproar on social media. it was released featuring a puppy named buddy who finds his way back home. here is the ending that made animal rights advocates angry. >> buddy. >> i just sold you on this website i built with go daddy. ship him out. >> in response the society for the prevention of resultty to animals tweeted if you can buy a puppy online and have it shipped to you

united nations. kennedy decides he would prefer to have a preliminary meeting at the united nations. he needs to know what the agenda is. all of these events start to file a, including 2 events in the last several hours. kennedy gives a big speech to the press corps on cuba in which he issues subtly the conditions. if cuba did this and this, we can live with the cuban revolution. it was intended to send a message not just other things were going on. jean danielle goes carrying this message. he meets with fidel for the first time. they have a second meeting on the 22nd. they continued to talk about this. and they meet, having animated conversation. fidel is positive about kennedy's message, talking about how kennedy be the most famous president in history because he would be the one that understood the socialist bloc and the capitalist bloc could live together and coexist on equal footing in a peaceful way, and not any way of aggression. this raises all sorts of questions of what if. lisa howard went back to cuba in february of 1964. fidel talked to her, talk on camera about the issue

i led a special session of the united nations security council last fall to rally against terrorist fighters. david and the united continue to be strong parters in this work -- partners in this work. at the same time, we both recognize that intelligence and military force alone is not going to solve this problem so we're also going to keep working together on strategies to counter violent ec too manyism -- extremism that radicalizes, recruits and mobilizes people especially young people to engage in terrorism. and local communities, families neighbors, faith leaders have a vital role to play in that effort. we also look forward to welcoming our british friends to our summit next month on countering violent terrorism because whether in europe or in america, a critical weapon against terrorism is our adherence to our freedoms and values at home. including the pluralism and the respect and tolerance that defines us as diverse and democratic societies. and finally, i want to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate david on last month's agreement, it's a tribute to the courage and determination of everyone invo