>> i think the united nations isverly focused on israel. all i did was defend it whenever they were called t. >> do you think that the u.n. is an effective actor in international relations? >> i think the u.n. can be an effective actor, and the perfect example is what we did with north korea. when we passed those three sanctions that really pushed that was a sign that thetable, united nations can do good things. when they go and connue to have these irrelevant meetings on issues that aren't really our main focus in the wod, that's when they become irrelevant. >> so then, on north korea -- so, in recent days, leader kim jong-un has visited mount paektu on horseback.th it's a backdro is used for propaganda, and oftentimes, it foreshadows policy development or an event, an upcoming event. what do you think is going on in north korea right now? >> i think he's trying to push our buttons. sthink he's trying to get to move on the fact that he wants us to lift the sanctions. any sort of posturing is not going to get us to move, and we have to make

it's great to be here. >> ambassador haley, you were the united states ambassador to the united nations. you were a member of president trump's cabinet and a member of his national security council. and you were the first personnd of coloroman to be elected as governor to the state of south carolina. you've now written a book, "with all due respect:am defendinica with grit and grace." when you first considered taking the job asnited states ambassador to the united nations, you told reince priebus, you wrote in your book, "i don't even know what the united nations does. all i know is everybody hates it." >> yeah. >> tell me, do you have a more or a less positive view of the united nations now? >> i think it's interesting.ta i ink i unde it more, from the standpoint of here you have 193 countes that come together ithe name of peace and security. but whether it succeeds depends on how they take it forward. and i said this to the secretary general and to the ambassadors when i left is, ife ited nations is gonna be successful, it has to changehe withimes. they have to start talking about thi

united nations and participation of the soviet union in it. the soviet participation in the pacific war. it turned out it wasn't necessary. truman then was trying to stop that. at that point from the perspective of february 1945, that was a big success. stalin knew he would get away doing whatever he wanted in poland but there was also a formal agreement to support a democratic process so there was a hope for churchill and fdr. france was not only given occupation of germany but also sit on the security council so there were some modest reasons for churchill to be happy as well. and stalin, basically, got to keep his booty in eastern europe, the red army would take over, would be his to decide. so there was this euphoria to a degree. there was one exception when it comes to the americans who were not participants in the conference per se but there on the margins. the group of americans were the american airmen and also the ground specialists of the u.s. air force that was stationed in 1944 and 1945 at the three american air bases in today's uk

the united nations special advisor. talks to al-jazeera. thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure so you've been investigating the alleged crimes committed by members of ice all what sort of picture is emerging in terms of who are the victims humanity or communities nobody was spared anybody that refused to do the bay it to the contorted and twisted ideology of meaning allegiance to the only slamming state what i insist and jane is that an islamic state a complete perverted contortion of religion whose very name is peace. now as you're collecting evidence though the question comes up what ultimately are you going to do with it it has to feed into courts and this is what which courts that's a big question right now any court and that's the beauty of the mandate any court where fair trials are possible the simple reality is going back to the 1st question every community has been targeted. a sunni shabak cockeye he's e.d.s. every single turk meant any community of iraq and the wider world that were viewed as to apostates or were

theh was a problem for united states, because when the united nations was created that -- en british asked for their dominions have votes. and there was strong opposition to any country having more than one vote. fdr eventually agrees and he gets something back from stalin, where stalin said he would not mind that the u.s. also have more than one vote. there is a discussion that there hawaii thatska and would join the united nations and have that. but once that information was leaked to the american public, there was a major scandal. people were prepared actually to forgive stalin for breaking the one nation, one vote, but not prepared to forgive or accept that from their own president. we are not supposed to behave like that. so as you know, alaska never became a member of the united nations. and i am pretty sure that i am running out of time, so i will try to wrap up my presentation. again, i miserably failed to cover all aspects of the conference, but i tried to deal with the most important ones. aftere big question is this review, whether the history history of the 40's, 50's, 60

the united nations special advisor. talks to al-jazeera. thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure so you've been investigating the alleged crimes committed by members of i saw what sort of picture is emerging in terms of who are the victims humanity or communities nobody was spared anybody that refused to do the bay it to the contorted and quick twisted ideology of meaning. egypt's to really slumming state what i insist maintain is an islamic state a complete perverted contortion of religion whose very name is peace. now as you're collecting evidence the question comes up what ultimately are you going to do with it it has to feed into courts and this is what which courts that's a big question right now any court and that's the beauty of the mandate any court where fair trials are possible the simple reality is the 1st question every community has been targeted. a sunni shabak cockeye he's e.d.'s every single turk meant any community of iraq and the wider world that were viewed as to apostates or were viewed as. not buying in

nations mandate that i had. has to promote international standards and best practice i applaud those countries that are taking back their nationals and that are willing and able to do so and we are willing and we've expressed it to feed in and assist those domestic courts that have taken back foreign fighters if other states have national security concerns legal impediments or other reasons why they're not taking them back our job is to make sure that there still accountability and so what we are doing we're investigative team on the lookout for a court and policy decisions that rests upon the sovereign states of the united nations they must grasp this nettle of choice what we have to do is feed into any courts that exist and that are available i understand the political sensitivities of your job and if of course if you don't want to comment on something that's your you're absolutely right i would like to try me on it i would not walk away from a question. you know it's not that i don't like will put my pompei o

a surprise it seems to be a complete surprise certain into the officials here at the united nations that tweet came down a few hours ago obviously then we started asking questions of people here at the united nations they then confirmed it an hour also later and they seem to have found out by the same way everyone else to mr salami was resigning for health reasons via twitter he has so now sent an official letter to the united nations and then are talking about the transition in the peace negotiations going forward but this is salami of course is a very highly regarded negotiator someone who's been working for the past 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of be still in libya which is an extremely complex situation and the united nations will be now looking for a transition but let's just hear what the spokesperson had to say. the secretary general has received a message from mr salami expressing his attention to leave his post as special representative for libya the secretary general has always had full confidence in mr salamis work and the great efforts he has made to bring p

the united nations and make a commission for refugees, are coming together. the main objective is to prevent, to avoid at all cost the virus coming to the settlement, some are isolated, others unfortunately not, and at the same time to boost the extent possible the local capacity and what washington's facilities and all other mechanisms, the medical equipment, but they have to say looking into refugee camps, into the slums of many of the big cities in the developing world, these can be an effective nightmare and one reason more to do everything possible to support these countries for them not to become the weak point in the world. let's never forget one thing. our global health system is as strong as our weakest health system in the world. so there is all reasons to mobilise resources to support those that have less capacity today. finally, iwant to support those that have less capacity today. finally, i want you to just reflect on how you think the covid—19 crisis is going to affect the world? what is the impact going to be socially, economically, politica

you've mentioned the g20 and you can look to them, but shouldn't the united nations do that? after all, the world health organization is part of the un family, and surely you should be saying, i want the united nations empowered, which is the point that professor ian golding makes, a professor of development and globalisation, we need to empower the un so that we can come together to tackle this threat. why don't you say i'm antonio guterres, i want to be the focal point of tackling this covid—19? this is not a question of narcissism. what we need is a concerted action, and the un is ready to do whatever the un is asked for. we are now, for instance, putting together all our supply chain capacities, in order to offer the international community a possibililty to be much more effective in relation to, for instance, medical equipment in all parts of the world. but i believe the g20 represents 80% of the world economy. the leaders of the g20 have an opportunity, with no other similar, in the concentration of power, because power is not in the un. power, whether we like it or n

meeting that mainly dealt with united nations matters. where the canada morgenthau plan was apparently decided. moscow in the soviet union, churchill flew there. he flew 107,000 miles during the war to get to these meetings. were flown ins converted bombers. unpressurized, unheated so the travel was not very comfortable at the time. if you think about all the attending,urchill is i will talk about it a bit. moscow 1944 an important decision was made about how the balkans would be divided between the east and the west. a so-called percentage agreement. there was a san francisco meeting where the united nations was founded. there was also a big meeting in potsdam, germany at the end of the war where decisions were made about postwar germany including reparations decisions. you see it's a very long list of meetings that we are talking about. in all of these meetings important decisions were made about the postwar order. example, when they got to moscow in october of 1943, the foreign ministers talked about whether the soviet union would come

called them would govern the united nations. premiere powers in the world, united states, great britain, soviet union and china would sort of dominate as the four policemen of the united nations. there would be a againgeneral assembly where all will be represented. one of the sore points with the soviet was that the soviet union insisted they wanted to have all their 16 republics represented in the general assembly, georgia, ukraine, whatever would be representing as individual states would be represented there. churchill and roosevelt were not excited about that. i'm not going to talk more about it. i'm sure they will pick up that issue. the future of germany was a very important discussion part in all of these conferences. namely, the decision that ge germany would be ak pie e occup military by the big three. there was an incident in tehran where they were talking about de-na de-nazification. stalin said, we need to kill 50,000 officers. churchill was aghast at this. roosevelt choked back, well, 49,000 is enough. of course, no

nations special adviser. talks to al-jazeera. thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure so you've been investigating the alleged crimes committed by members of eisel what sort of picture is emerging in terms of who are the victims humanity. all communities nobody was spared anybody that refused to do the bait to the contorted and quick twisted ideology of meaning. agents to really slumming state what i insist maintain is an islamic state a complete perverted contortion of a religion whose very name is peace now as you're collecting evidence though the question comes up what ultimately are you going to do with it it has to feed into courts and this is what which courts that's a big question right now any court and that's the beauty of the mandate any court where fair trials are possible the simple reality is the 1st question every community has been targeted. a sunni shabak cockeye he's e.d.s. every single turk meant any community of iraq and the wider world that were viewed as to apostates or we

nations special adviser on talks to al-jazeera. you so much for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure so you've been investigating the alleged crimes committed by members of eisel what sort of picture is emerging in terms of who are the victims humanity. all communities nobody was spared anybody that refused to do the bait to the contorted and quick twisted ideology of meaning . agents to really slumming state what i insist and jane is an islamic state a complete perverted contortion of religion whose very name is peace now as you're collecting evidence though the question comes up what ultimately are you going to do with it it has to feed into courts and this is what which courts that's a big question right now any court and that's the beauty of the mandate any court where fair trials are possible the simple reality is the 1st question every community has been targeted. a sunni shabak cockeye he's e.d.s. every single turk meant any community of iraq and the wider world that were viewed as to apostates or were viewed as. not buying in

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the united states, fdr, got stalin to commit to being part of the united nations. and to accept the power and the way how the measures are for the security council. in exchange for that, stalin insisted that the soviet union have more than one vote. from that point in the united states there was a strong opposition that any country would have more than one vote. and fks dr agrees and he gets also something back from stalin stalin says he would not mind if the united states also had more than one vote. there is a discussion that there would be alaska and hawaii that would join the united nations. but once that information was leaked to the american public, there was a major scandal. people were prepared to forgive stalin and for breaking one nation and one vote, but not to forgive or accept that from their own president. so we're not supposed to behave like that. so that is very interesting. and alaska never became a member of the united nations. i'm pretty sure i'm running out of time, so i will try to wrap up my presentation. i miserably failed to cover all aspect

it was a long meeting that mainly dealt with united nations matters. quebec and canada where the morgenthau plan was apparently decided. then again moscow in the soviet union, churchill flew there. he flew 107, 000 miles during the war to get to these meetings. and these malls were flown in converted bombers. unpressurized, unheated so the travel was not very comfortable at the time. if you think about all the meetings churchill is attending, i will talk about it a bit. moscow 1944 an important decision was made about how the balkans would be divided between the east and the west. a so-called percentage agreement. there was a san francisco meeting where the united nations was founded. there was also a big meeting in potsdam, germany at the end of the war where decisions were made about postwar germany including reparations decisions. you see it's a very long list of meetings that we are talking about. in all of these meetings important decisions were made about the postwar order. for example, when they got to moscow in october of 1943, the foreign mini

united states, fdr eventually brought stalin, to commit to be part of the united nations. and accept the veto power, and the way how the matters went for the security council, in exchange for that stalin insisted, that the soviet union had more than one vote. which was difficult for fdr and the american public, because when they were league of nations was being created, and from that point, in the united states, there was a strong very strong position that any country, would have more than one vote. and that fdr eventually, and he gets something back from stone, stone says that he wouldn't mind if the united states, would also have more than one vote. and there is the discussion, that there would be alaska and hawaii, that would join the united nations, and have that, once that that information was leaked to the american public there was a major scandal, people were prepared actually to have one nation one vote, but they weren't going to accept that from the president. so we are not supposed to behave like that, it was very interesting. and as you know alaska never became

nations system stands squarely behind those countries and today the secretary general. and the director general of w.h.o. dr ted us are launching a major humanitarian appeal to support those countries dr ryan in the press briefings you conduct you've spoken often about vulnerable communities and so i want to ask you specifically about refugees and migrants i've reported extensively in the past on refugee related and migrant related issues i've reported extensively on the plight of the rink i've been many times of those camps and cox's bazar bangladesh and i'm here. bring repeatedly these past few weeks from refugees in those areas who are terrified about the toll that covert 19 could take on their population refugees in other parts of the world also extremely worried is the international community doing enough to protect these vulnerable communities and if not what should they be doing there's no question that refugee and displaced populations particularly those living in overcrowded and under-served camps are at a particular risk for 2 reasons one they live in a confin

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you've mentioned the g20 and you can look to them, but shouldn't the united nations do that? after all, the world health organization is part of the un family, and surely you should be saying, i want the united nations empowered, which is the point that professor ian goldin makes, a professor of development and globalisation, we need to empower the un so that we can come together to tackle this threat. why don't you say i'm antonio guterres, i want to be the focal point of tackling this covid—19? this is not a question of narcissism. what we need is a concerted action, and the un is ready to do whatever the un is asked for. we are now, for instance, putting together all our supply chain capacities, in order to offer the international community a possibility to be much more effective in relation to, for instance, medical equipment in all parts of the world. but i believe the g20 represents 80% of the world economy. the leaders of the g20 have an opportunity, with no other similar, in the concentration of power, because power is not in the un. power, whether we like it or not

certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but. this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n. are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum we've we've gained i mean the situation in libya is critical we're seeing we've seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. is to set i mean has made some great. great progress we don't want to lose any of that momentum. now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the

when the united states was the first nation to recognize the state of israel. (applause) since then we built a bilateral relationship almost without comparison. today we built a robust security alliance to protect our citizens and stabilize the middle east. together we build new technology to grow our economies and strength in the middle class. together we build vibrant democracies to practice our beliefs and pursue happiness. americas grateful for our friendship with israel we are a better nation because of it and we must never shy away from defending it. it is our responsibility to pass it along to the next generation this is the only way will survive and that is why we need the 4000 students who are here today to hear it doer. to them and the others i said ronald reagan said that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. we did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and handed on. that same applies to her bond with israel. (applause) friends we cannot allow those who accuse a backpack of bigotry and

nations system stands squarely behind those countries and today the secretary general. and the director general of w.h.o. dr ted us are launching a major humanitarian appeal to support those countries dr ryan in the press briefings you conduct you've spoken often about vulnerable communities and so i want to ask you specifically about refugees and migrants i've reported extensively in the past on refugee related and migrant related issues i've reported extensively on the plight of the rink i've been many times of those camps and cox's bazar bangladesh and i'm. hearing repeatedly these past few weeks from refugees in those areas who are terrified about the toll that covert 19 could take on their population refugees in other parts of the world also extremely worried is the international community doing enough to protect these vulnerable communities and if not what should they be doing there's no question that refugee and displaced populations particularly those living in overcrowded and under-served camps are at a particular risk for 2 reasons one they live in a confined

certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n. are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum we've we've gained i mean the situation in libya is critical we're seeing we've seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. is to sit i mean has made some great. great progress we don't want to lose any of that momentum now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the un

president donald trump has declared a national emergency in the united states over the spread of the coronavirus the move releases billions of dollars in disaster funding and give special powers to health authorities here's what the president had to say americans are the strongest and most resilient people on earth and in the coming weeks we will all have to make changes and sacrifices but the short term sacrifices will produce long term gain and again i've said we're learning a lot for the future and future problems like this or worse or worse it could get worse. now for more on this let's go to w correspondent stefan simons in washington stefan thanks for joining us now the trouble ministration has been accused of downplaying this crisis now trump is calling it a national emergency so what is the response been there well the response from observers friends and foes of the president is friends saying he finally got around it he acknowledges now the severe threat of the coronavirus and people who don't like the president so much say oh my god hopefully he has it now because they say

nations system stands squarely behind those countries and today the secretary general. and the director general of w.h.o. dr ted us are launching a major humanitarian appeal to support those countries dr ryan in the press briefings you conduct you've spoken often about vulnerable communities and so i want to ask you specifically about refugees and migrants i've reported extensively in the past on refugee related and migrant related issues i've reported extensively on the plight of the rain god and many times of those camps in cox's bazar bangladesh and i'm here. bring repeatedly these past few weeks from refugees in those areas who are terrified about the toll that covert 19 could take on their population refugees in other parts of the world also extremely worried is the international community doing enough to protect these vulnerable communities and if not what should they be doing there's no question that refugee and displaced populations particularly those living in overcrowded and under-served camps are at a particular risk for 2 reasons one they live in a confined

oppression of the people who are escaping regimes oppression and according to the united nations its reach is 1500000 people all these people are on our borders now and the regime is the real enemy here is just too may. lead from people all so that turkey would be in a difficult position because of the influx of the immigration immigrants so here of course is not going to sit and watch at. the observation point you have bells in it live and on the border. it is on. the ceasefire. recently we have agreed that we were going to establish the ceasefire in the region we have sent them forces in the region. so. we would you know trying to controls on the entities in the region who are trying to damage to these fires during this period the russian. we paid a lot of attention in our coordination with russian security forces the regime there gresham that directed on our security forces and the very unfortunate events have to lose because of that it is inevitable now to create a new status very edge. today in moscow with my counterpart the russian counterpart and with our delegation we have de

certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n. are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum we've we've gained i mean the situation in libya is critical we're seeing we've seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. is to say to me has made some great. great progress we don't want to lose any of that momentum now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the uni

the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with our diplomatic editor james bay secretary-general antonio tara says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's for as nations as specially in areas of conflict. well this is exactly an appeal for that it is a humanitarian appeal for those countries in conflict for those fragile states for refugee camps it's always placement camps. that emetic humanitarian needs that need to go on being met but on top of that the surete of coffee at 19 and you need to do everything to prevent the disease to come to those areas to the extent possible and at the same time in those areas you have people sometimes in slums of big cities or in camps in which it's very difficult to have isolation there is no water in the households and sometimes no soap else care facilities are extremely rugged mentary so we need to boost to the response capacity in those areas that's why we have asked and we mobilized all u.n. agencies that have trust with president movement

nations resolutions or within the american political arena there is a huge split when it comes with his they didn't accept it you talk a lot about the international community and international law and it's clear that the geneva conventions the security council resolution there on your side were now how do you take action where is your redress in the international system because as far as i can see it there are only 2 routes one is the u.n. the u.n. security council and of course of their israel has its trump card the u.s. which will use its veto if you take any action you have the general assembly where you can win a symbolic victory but it has no power on the other option is the international criminal court it's been dragging its feet now it's going to launch an investigation into the situation with regard to settlements but also with regard to the violence in gaza but it is asked it is judges whether it's actually has jurisdiction and there are some european countries who are taking israel's side on

the united nations special envoy for libya haasan sodomy has resigned from his post salim a says he's stepping down because of ill health he tweeted to say he has tried to be not libyans and prevent foreign intervention during his time as the u.n. envoy for the past 2 and a half years and speak to andy gallagher who is live for us at u.n. headquarters in new york and it is this resignation come as a surprise it seems to be a complete surprise certain into the officials here at the united nations that tweet came down a few hours ago obviously then we started asking questions of people here at the united nations they then confirmed it an hour also later and they seem to have found out by the same way everyone else to mr salami was resigning for health reasons via twitter he has so now sent an official letter to the united nations and then are talking about the transition in the peace negotiations going forward but this is salami of course is a very highly regarded negotiator someone who's been working for the past 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of be still in libya which

and this is why the united nations secretary general of the world which logical organization secretary general and many other leaders of u.n. organizations are saying we really do need to need to step up the level of ambition you know now there's been enough talk we really do now need to translate this into action we know what we need to do science has informed us of that and now we just need to do it right 10 dollars from the world michel tacl organization into never switzerland thank you very much for joining us on the stream thank you thank you and now on to a bit of good news i need to do some the largest doomsday food vote in the world has just accepted its millions seemed for rioting here's why that is so important where this material is gone then you have the bucket back up and then it's gone forever well it's dead is dead but it's lost is lost you can't read to you what is their dad. the rule is meant to be there in case that anything goes wrong around the world we always hope it doesn't go wrong but unfortunately things to go wrong and that is why it is comforting to know that

a tumor is the ethiopia representative the united nations food and agriculture organization for to me this is fascinating our audience around the world have been looking at these pictures wondering what happened why is this happening. this is happening because the locusts are finding unusual went here webster area in the region. they have we have seen cyclons that has happened actually there where there's in june july or august was president talk since june july 2090 but was he to asia who was deteriorated severely in december when a cyclon he got region for being in addition to the flooding and the all time the other disaster locust multiply you not time from each apia now 9 countries in the region are affected and 3 of those are worse than i think that is a troll yes for my area and kenya for tell us what it what is it like what is that experience like of seeing that many locusts in one place at one time for someone who was not used to locusts this is very scary is like seeing a cloud as large as. trying to then 20 square q. on it does as i read that sometimes it can even block the

distinctions various groups that it's just sweeping everybody and i think that the united nations security council needs to get people together they need to get these leaders they decided that g 20 on video conference they need to reconvene that and get these leaders to start talking to one another and and start imposing. directives of some kind and just really hold them to it and make people become aware that this is a crisis i don't know how you get people to stop bombing somebody else but it's got to be done and people have got to be able to receive the basic services for for basic survival as human being so i get your passion on this story and i appreciate it very much michael maloof former u.s. pentagon official michael thank you so much for making yourself available to us on this very important topic we hope to be able to talk to you again hope you and your family are doing well here's a programming note on what we're going to be doing for you throughout the rest of the day we're going to be coming back at 3 o'clock washington d.c. time 2 things to talk about there one there's this n

nations as our ambassador to defend zionism and condemned the hypocrisy of the united nation. up until the very moment i have never once doubted the commitment of our nation to support israel and i intend to continue the great work those in the past have done to keep it that way. [applause] now we are going to have hard work to do. but israel, the small sliver of land that is represented the hopes, dreams, aspirations of the jewish people for over two millennial's is worth the effort. and i swear to you, as long as i am the democratic leader, as long as air breeds into my lungs, i will do everything in my power to maintain the unshakable, unbreakable friendship between israel and the united states. the jewish people live, long may they live here. thank you aipac ♪ ♪ every week in 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here is some programs to watch out for. tonight they argued the two-party system is damaging america's >> tomorrow, reflection on her legal career that included her role as one of the three assistant special prosecutors. check your program guide or visit b

yes i can understand why many now look at the united nations and think this war has gone on for 5 years many people saw it coming for many years before that why on earth have they not managed to find a solution so confidence is low in the u.n. but think of it like this they really had a poisoned chalice i think that things have massively improved since martin griffiths took over a special envoy progress has been made a peace agreement of sorts a cease fire was signed in stockholm and 2018 it was very vague and it's been difficult to implement and things haven't got too much worse and so at least the un is neutral it's very hard to find other neutral players in this. i think that the u.n. is still everyone's best bet but what it needs is international pressure behind the coalition partners and other warring sides in the war to bring them to the table so that the u.n. can work its magic and at the moment particularly with western economies so reliance on arms sales and for example in the u.k. concerns over bricks it and wanting to keep our allies in the middle east no one really wants to

vote and the united nations on one hand on the other hand. the united nations have been like an extension of american foreign olympics since the establishment and. especially after the collapse of the soviet union the socialist block 19 months you want so i don't believe that the united nations can play any at all with the american presence in iraq jamal wakim professor of history and international relations thank you for joining us on the program this evening. the u.s. has scrapped another key strand of its investigation into russian interference during the last presidential election charges have been dropped against 2 firms accused of running a troll farm that to influence voters my colleague entered from or discussed the issue with taylor. well times russia gate and the infamous murder investigation have seemed never ending thought it appears that we might be seeing a ton in the tide because on monday the u.s. department of justice fall to motion to dismiss all charges against 2 companies concord management and concord consulting now these

he's the director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in gaza this is how he described the situation on the ground i would describe the situation as one. of haneke since the 1st 2 cases where announced a couple of days ago and very watery to walk which happened if there is. a serious outbreak as. in your report just now in the hospital sector here is wall shortly i'm prepared in many ways what i've been told is for every 100 patients what good you would need at least 5 intensive care unit. in the whole. mess as soon as they are more than 1500 people also the hospitals would simply not cope so that's one big concern the other concern is that in these crowded conditions you know with 812 people often sharing a 2 bedroom apartment let's say it's extremely challenging. the measures being advised by the world health organization like social distancing and of course proper hygiene it conditions in terms of hand washing and so on his challenge at the best of times. mathias gaza has been blockaded for years by israel in egypt of course how might those countr

i would like to refer you to the united nations commission of enquiry thatjust to the united nations commission of enquiry that just came to the united nations commission of enquiry thatjust came out a couple of days ago, clearly indicating that the russians... but is a rare transparency for the united nations, by the way, i know i indicated the russians and the regime committed warcrimes. you would support that view? you have no doubt... we know that and i can refer you to reports by the new york times proving how the russians just recently targeted all those hospitals. you see, they're supposed to be a un organised system, it has a terrible name, the humanitarian de— de—confliction mechanism, it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, but more importantly this is meant to ensure hospitals don't get hit. you said more than 90 hospitals have been hit in the course of the last ten months or so, 11 months, so what's gone wrong? is a list of sites... the different groups, produce, presumably including yours, provide co—ordinates to the un and the un is supposed to provide them to the

he is the director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in gaza great to have you with us so far. in factions in the gaza strip how would you describe the situation there right now. good afternoon to you i would describe this situation as one of a mixture of panic since the 1st 2 cases where announced a couple of days ago and very warry to walk which happened if there is an indigenous infection and a serious outbreak as was evidence and your report just now in the hospital sector here is woefully unprepared in many ways what i've been told is for every 100 patients what good deal you would need at least 5 intensive care unit beds a 60 in the whole of the gaza strip so you can do the math as soon as they are more than $1500.00 people also the hospitals would simply not cope so that's one big concern the other concern is that in these crowded conditions you know with 812 people often sharing a 2 bedroom apartment let's say it's extremely challenging. the measures being advised by the world health organization like social distancing and of course proper hy

are at the united nations in geneva the u.n. high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet said the situation in venezuela has worsened in recent months. since my last update on the human rights situation in venezuela political tensions and acts of violence by security forces and government supporters against opposition parliamentarians have continued. in a separate rally was convened in downtown can act as in support of venezuelan president nicolas maduro. the latest political tensions in the south american nations stem from a growing violence against members of venezuela's political opposition including the arrest of several parliament members according to the latest updates from the un some 4900000 people have fled venezuela as a result of the prices went up a little. the king of the netherlands has. apologized for the violence his country inflicted on indonesians during colonial rule is a 1st such admission by the monarch speaking on his 1st state visit to the country king william alexander expressed regrets for the c

nations secretary-general and tonio good sierra's iran's foreign minister zarif urged the united nations to bring pressure to bear on the united states to try to get them to remove what iran sees as illegal unilateral sanctions that it says is now hurting its ability to combat the coronavirus to illustrate his point tweeted about a list of approximately 30 bits of medical supplies types of equipment that health care providers urgently need to track and identify and treat patients that have contracted coronavirus includes things like ventilators gloves masks specific medicines all things that hospitals find they are in short supply and also earlier this week iran requested from its central bank to the international monetary fund an emergency relief package of $5000000000.00 and that is specifically to combat to help combat the coronavirus spread in iraq tweeted about that as well saying that it was imperative on the i.m.f. to be on the right side of history and facilitate iran as it tries to combat the spread of this virus now many here in iran do expect that the i.m.f. will be. to help b

well earlier i spoke with the director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in gaza we asked him to tell us what life was like right there . i would describe this situation as one of a mixture of panic since the 1st 2 cases where announced a couple of days ago and very watery to walk which happened if there is an indigenous infection and serious serious outbreak as was evidence and your report just now in the hospital sector here is wolf surely unprepared in many ways what i've been told is for every 100 patients what good deal you would need at least by intensive care unit that's now the os 6 the maximum in the whole of the gaza strip so you can do the math as soon as they are more than $1500.00 people also the hospitals would simply not cope so that's one big concern the other concern is that in these crowded conditions you know with 812 people often sharing a 2 bedroom apartment let's say it's extremely challenging to implement the usual measures being advised by the world health organization by social distancing and of course proper hygienic cond

for more on this story joined a moment ago by mathias he's the director of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in gaza this is how he described the situation on the ground i would describe the situation as one. of panic since the 1st 2 cases where announced a couple of days ago and very watery to walk what happened if there is. traction and a serious outbreak as was evidence in your report just now in the hospital sector here is woefully unprepared in many ways been told is for every 100 patients what good you would need at least 5 intensive care unit beds 60 in the whole of the gaza strip so you can do the math as soon as they are more than 1500 people also feel the hospitals would simply not cope so that's one big concern the other concern is that in these crowded conditions you know with 812 people often sharing a 2 bedroom apartment let's say it's extremely challenging. the measures being advised by the world health organization like social distancing and of course proper hygiene it conditions in terms of hand washing and so on has also a challenge

and this is why the united nations secretary general of the world which logical organization secretary general and many other leaders of u.n. organizations are saying we really do need to need to step up the level of ambition you know now there's been enough talk we really do now need to translate this into action we know what we need to do science has informed us of that and now we just need to do it right 10 dollars from the well michel trickle organization internee of a city and thank you very much for joining us on the stream. thank you and now on to a bit of good news i need to do with the largest doomsday food vote in the world has just accepted its 1000000 seemed for rioting here's why that is so important where this material is gone then you have the back up back up and then it's gone forever what's dead is dead past lost is lost you can't read to you what is their dad. so the rule is meant to be there in case that anything goes wrong around the world we always hope it doesn't go wrong but unfortunately things to go wrong and that is why it is comforting to know that we have ba

rejected such a russian resolution from the united nations gary thanks so much for that from the e.u. foreign ministers meeting there in zagreb. we're turning now to the latest on the coronavirus you health ministers are holding a special session in brussels today to discuss further measures to contain the virus in the u.s. president trumps expected design an 8300000000 dollars measure to help tackle the outbreak israel the palestinian authority of put the city of bethlehem under quarantine that after 7 cases were confirmed there and asian markets well they are plunging at this hour as fears about a world recession grip investors all coronavirus cases in south korea have now increased to more than $6000.00 in the capital seoul transportation officials are taking measures sending disinfection teams onto trains and into stations and requiring that commuters as well wear masks. south korea's transit networks are using strong medicine to combat the deadly coded 900 epidemic special teams are working overtime to sanitize the entirety of seoul metro with stations prepared to shut down if a

called them we're covering the united nations. great britain, the soviet union and china would dominate as the four policemen of the united nations. there will be a general assembly where all nations would be represented, but one of the sore point with the soviet union just and you all to, but it was discussed earlier that the soviet union insisted that they wanted and in the general assembly. and and i'm not will not talk more about it because i'm sure that they will pick up that issue. the future of germany was a very important discussion part and all of these conferences, namely the decision that germany would be occupied militarily by the big three after the war. there was an interesting incident where, in fact, there was talking about the notification of germany, and stalin said the best way to do not survive germany is to kill 50,000 officers. churchill was aghast at this suggestion. and roosevelt choked 45,000 is enough. they have to talk about the future order of post war germany in the sense of what we will do with all of