of pertaining to the conflict situation in libya the u.n. mission is there supported by the security council the security council is working under the resolution which was adopted by at russia's initiative on a looking into the dangers which are there in terms of spreading weapons out of libya which were left of them that in the course of of the conflict we are helping the libyans to rebuild their political and economic structures so a lot of harmonious work is going on in the in the security council of the united nations even though we continue to have some ideological and political difficult is as to whether it is a loose and nineteen seventy three was properly implemented and the issue of possible civilian casualties which again simply has to be clearly fired and set aside to the satisfaction of everybody the libyan people and to help lee in the possible victims of the bombings and bus you touched on it just i want to pick up the. aussie rules of post conflict libya how they being made secure how is the u.n. stopping any of those weapons

the u.n. security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya one of members avoiding air or it is simply a case the ongoing conflicts and i'm more important. well you know first of all it was not projected the fact of the matter is that a number of security council delegations including the russian delegation raise the need to have some clarity about civilian casualties as a result of nato bombings because for months we heard from made from nato that they are adopting all those measures in order to make sure that there can not possibly be any civilian casualties and then we had on december eighteenth of this a disturbing investigation published by the new york times which showed that there were dozens at least civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be a pretty obvious thing to have this matter investigated in an impartial. and it's a political but also humanitarian case if there are people who became victims of those strikes m

executive director of the u.n. aid the u.n. and the secretary general. during the break where we will continue to discuss this this church matter the church religious aspects of fire against aids and what church you said is that the church is becoming more to help then than an obstacle in awareness in talking to people about it and so so it's been transforming to changing yes what i am trying to say we should we could not miss of the opportunity. of a social network which is an existing and that is very important for us if we want to deal with prevention if we want to also to make sure that stigma and discrimination could be read in a community level that's very important and they are becoming more and more an opportunity ok well as far as i know today statistics say that that most are the cases of infection of the known cases originally in version are through through injection needles and not through and not through other ways like for example sex yes is sexually transmitted and aids still a significant number i'm not really i'm not here so you have but

the u.n.'s top climate official admits it's not enough. >> we're going to leave here with a deal that will be an important step forward. but that is not going to match up to what the science says. that is very clear, so this is a very, very critically important step forward. but it is insufficient. >> also merging is that climate negotiations are really slowing down. the kyoto protocol runs out at the end of 2012. only the e.u. and a few others are prepared to stick with it, but they only released 15% of the world's emissions. a new global treaty may not come until 2020 or even later. this afternoon, protesters tried to disrupt the conference, accusing negotiaters of stalling. but jostling with the police will do nothing to budge the biggest economy. china, india, and america, all worries that a climate treaty could restrain growth. and that's the reality. >> to make the case for a really robust and ambitious agreement. can be supported by many developing countries. unless china and india and t

the u.n. human rights watchdog agrees to send an investigator to look at abuse allegations in syria but russia votes against saying a report criticizing the government crackdown is not the full picture. germany predicts it could take years to over stricken eurozone and save the single currency . the results of egypt's first post revolution elections are yet to be announced but the muslim brotherhood is already celebrating. everything because you want to maintain represent what people in town here feel free they want. more from cairo in just a few moments. strong sweeps through new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movements. across the markets and the week flats with a wave of selling in the final minutes of trade on friday as investors decide to play it safe by head of an election weekend more than twenty. international news and comment around the clock around the world this is good to have you with us this hour the u.n. human rights council has appoint

the u.n. human rights chief calls for the syrian government to please pube put before crimil courts. it is midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 1:00 p.m. in berlin, where german chancellor angela merkel told the german parliament today that only strict new rules in forcing fiscal discipline can rebuild trust in the eurozone. she said there is no quick fix and it is a process that will take years. merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy are coming up with a joint plan for significant changes to the eu treaty, which governs the eurozone. in a moment, we will go to berlin and begin our coverage with this report. >> the latest message is that it is really time to think big on the euro crisis. another summit loans. the key figure says the eurozone -- she warned the crisis will be a long haul. >> [speaking foreign language] >> there are no easy fast solutions. the apparent one last push. >> the resolution of the euro crisis will take years. >> french president nicolas sarkozy delivered

aussie rules of post conflict libya how they being made secure how is the u.n. stopping any of those weapons maybe ending up in syria. while they may be ending up in various places the best thing i can report of this point is that we're told that the most dangerous of those weapons in terms of terrorist use the so-called manpads man carried anti-aircraft weapons have so far not been that they're to the outside of libya so we hope that this concerted effort of the international community together with the libyan authorities can be successful in the containing the danger of spread of weapons from out of that country something else i'd like to ask you said libya of militants known to operate in syria what does that say about the nature of the syrian unrest that we've seen so far and why indeed does it appear that the u.n. members seem to be holding back from denouncing that what's happening there two weeks ago the russian delegation introduced a draft the security council resolution to the council trying to encourage the political process encourage the league of ar

the u.n.'s minister says it is not enough. but that it will be an important step forward, but that will not match the financing. this is a very critically important step forward, but it is insufficient. >> climate negotiations are really slowing down. the kyoto protocol, the first and only treaty on greenhouse gases, runs out at the end of 2012. only the european union and others are prepared to stick with it. a new global treaty covering all the major polluters may not come until 2020 or even later. this afternoon, protesters tried to disrupt the conference, accusing negotiators of stalling. but jostling with the police will not do anything to budge the biggest economies -- china, india, and america, all were that the treaty could restrain growth. >> the european union could make the case for a robust agreement that could be supported by many developing countries, but unless china, india, and the u.s. are on board, three of the biggest emitters on the planet, we will not have a global solutio

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mounting pressure the u.n. warns that syria is now in a state of civil war footing the day after all it over four thousand as the plans to hold emergency talks on the crisis they are. all eyes are on egypt as other country awaits to see how the people vote with the parliamentary elections despite the fact many doubt it will bring any real change. a record number to depends of course the vote but many continue to mourn that woman if you can do that step down and make way for civilian government move from cairo in just a few moments. thousands of protesters take to the streets of new york to stage a labor union rally demanding jobs and economic justice echoing occupy frustration at the gulf between the haves and the have nots. embers of the siemens will launch a new gas turbine manufacturing plant together with its russian partner had a heap of energy do it explains what the companies are teaming up for join you for more and are covered for. what you are going to live from moscow one pm in the russian capital syr

bring your office of the u.n. when will we have an effective vaccine against the charity did you have any idea do intervene and i think. here's a decade there were no locates ticking and i don't believe the wheel of a vaccine or your use of thirty difficult is a very complex because the first four look really more investment on our backs in. that's a very important and certainly it is a little virus and is not sort easy to have every box in which we have it if it casey the vaccine we have today is of a vaccine which if it sees it around thirty three percent so it will take some time to be able to really revive vegas isn't is a virus which is changing it's a mutating eating years litigating saw is a complex to have a vaccine but people are working on it in one of your recent interviews you said i quote we are moving from a period of opportunity to an era of scarcity that's characterized by many crisis particularly the global financial crisis as quote the financial crisis point of view it reduce the scale our view o

>> the u.n. has an agreement with haiti called the status of forces agreement to protect it from haitian courts but there have been other courts not in haiti and not with the u.n. but other courts that said that immunity cannot mean impunity and said that with the status of forces agreement the u.n. has a responsibility to set up an alternative dispute mechanism -- distut resolution mechanism and courts have said if they do not set up a fair, alternative mechanism, then they'll refuse to respect the immunity provision so we think that if the u.n. does not come back with a response soon, we can go in to u.s. courts. >> just for quickly before we have to go here, can you let us know how you think the government is handling the outbreak and how things are going? >> well, it's the worst epidemic in the world. there's over 200 people are dying each month and this is a year later. obviously, it is not handled well. what needs to happen -- this is what the clients is asking, for the clean water and sani

secretary general of the u.n. ban ki-moon decided to fly the u.n. flag at half mass in honor of the fallen war leader kim jong il which is a slap in the face to the million of people who died and the south koreans who are petrified of what happens next and the military trying to protect that, we have 40,000 or 50,000 u.s. military on the border. >> bob: but that is the protocol of the u.n. whether you like it or not he was head of state of the country. and if castro dies -- when he dies, they will have it at half staff. you know? that doesn't bother me all that much. >> eric: leftist dictator that killed and slaughtered -- >> bob: a lot of people you can say that about. if that is the case -- >> andrea: give money to u.n. why do we keep from hearing -- >> kimberly: exactly. >> bob: if they don't lower the flag at half staff with countries we don't agree with? >> kimberly: murderous dictator. why should he be honored? >> bob: it's the united nations. not the united states. >> eric: united states funds the u.n. in their budget. >> bob: if someone dies

u.n. human rights watchdog agrees to send an investigator to look at abuse allegations in syria but russia votes against saying a report criticizing the government crackdown is not the full picture. germany predicts it could take years to overhaul the debt stricken eurozone and save the single currency. egypt's announcing the results of the country's first post revolution elections saying the turnout is the highest in history. every month. to represent the people in town here still say they want the military out from cairo interest a few moments. a thousand strong march sweeps through new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movement. international news and comment around the clock around the world this is. the u.n. human rights council has appointed a special investigator to look at allegations of abuse in syria linked to a government crackdown on protesters russia and china are among those who voted against the resolution which criticized damascus mos

into the u.n. had to do base that our weren't forcible had to do with war i didn't i didn't realize that you know i know the u.n. does a lot of great stuff on human rights and civil rights is there actually a force of law that the u.n. can bring to it to the united states and they try to do this with countries around the world with third world countries that is this is more moral authority than anything else we're part of the u.n. because called upon by nations all of the country all the time to talk to them about democratization but if you look at the one thing it's the most consistent about the end. to your history is our emphasis on our value in the democratic process of being available to everyone so we get people from african countries european countries that are dealing with new immigration status greater diversification throughout their country and wanted to make sure they treat everybody right and knowing that the in those fights and learned a lot through the process we're taking this repor

. >> the u.n. high commissioner for human rights is demanding that the u.n. security council investigate syria for crimes against humanity. this is the estimated death toll of the unrest in the country, reaching 5000. despite the government's crackdown, syrian tv broadcast, wall-to-wall coverage of local elections taking place, but internet images show continued street battles. an estimated 23 people were killed tuesday alone in homs and other city centers. in new york, the german master westerwelle wanted to introduce further tough measures against the assad government. iran has rejected a request by the united states to return captured spite drone and says that plane is now the property of iran. the foreign -- the foreign ministry said instead of asking for the drawn back, washington should apologize for violating their airspace. iran's scientists are now analyzing the aircraft technology. iran announced last week that it had downed the unmanned u.s. spy plane in the east of the country. canada still has a legal obligation under u.n. rules to cut its emissi

the u.n. human rights council meets to force through a security council resolution on syria after a quarter earlier this week claimed the four thousand people have been killed since march. pulled their doubts over the objectivity of the report based on a just of use of two hundred witnesses more on that coming up in a few moments. germany says there are no rapid solutions to the ongoing debt crisis and it could take years to overhaul the eurozone and save the single currency. twenty five thousand people marched through manhattan angry at a lack of jobs and low wages echoing the mood of the occupy wall street movement. is now a four pm on friday here in moscow this is with me ruben sushi welcome to the program russia says a united nations report on syria is not objective all based on reality and the international community is receiving biased reports on events in the country it comes as the u.n. human rights council holds an emergency meeting on syria i mean to put pressure on damascus and cond

russia is defending its draft u.n. resolution on syria while the u.s. and its allies want the text changed but moscow is confident its drawn up a balanced approach to solving the crisis the draft condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions the u.s. wants the blame for the bloodshed put on damascus also knowledge that the opposition is armed despite the engine of only defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime on the other five thousand civilians are thought to been killed in syria since march asia times columnist thinks the west is looking to soften up the country before making its move. what's interesting is what the u.s. and nato countries go sit there and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they're getting weapons smuggled from the middle east to the borders in turkey any in jordan as well this has been already proved then about the u.n. figures a lot of people

the u.n.'s human rights council has condemned syria's bloody repression of anti-government protesters. diplomats from iran's embassy have arrived back in tehran after their expulsion by the british government. at least one person has been killed and 20 injured during clashes between protesters and police in peru. residents in the province took to the streets for a second day to demonstrate against the planned expansion of a local jail. they fear a bigger presence will bring in more criminals to their community. we report from lima. >> the violence started when police tried to remove rocks and burning tires from the main highway near the peruvian capital. residents in the province had set up the road blocks as part of their indefinite strike after failed talks with the government about the future of their local jail. they clashed with dozens of police officers. 12 rounds were fired and a man was shot in the chest and killed. it is a tourist destination close to lima and residents do not want the

the u.n. calls this a window of opportunity, but a narrow one. >> the window is very much limited. while there is gain, there are gains that should not be reversed, we have to fully recognize that this is very limited window of opportunity. >> just how limited was put on display for the secretary general. >> this is a real idea. >> there has been a spike in attacks with improvised explosive devices like these, and a deadly one this week. the u.n. wants to shift the focus from military to political by bringing in somalia office back to mogadishu. it is key to solving somalia's problems. there is still shaky ground to cover. bbc news. >> now, it is more famous than any film stars. it is the hollywood sign, an icon of the entertainment industry, but a real pain to live next to come at least according to wealthy homeowners. for years, people have been finding their way to the neighborhood. gps technology has them positively flocking there and the residents are not happy at all. ♪ ♪ everyone co

role in this here because i'm looking at ok first there wasn't a u.n. resolution to go into iraq and now the there is we have syria and there's a lot of cajoling back and forth but you first see that the nato could be seen to be used as the air force of some kind of opposition in syria i mean repeat the libyan example which seems rather doubtful right now with another scenario here. it seems doubtful but i can see a scenario where you could see some whatever a coalition of the like mind at the scene that's another scene and other arenas then i. the states can work with turkey with jordan with saudi arabia with gulf arabs to put together a coalition of the like minded the issue is that for the united states the united states is focused and has been historically on trying to defeat competitors to u.s. power so the focus with iraq and the regional players stay in the middle east is now we are move we are really focused targeted front and center on iran as the next great competitor to us power and therefore needs to be defeated just like iraq needed to be d

negotiators at the u.n.'s climate change conference are back at it today discussing how >>> next we go to our bureau in bangkok. patchari raksawong joins us. >>> we start with two deadly bombings in afghanistan, both explosions targeted shi'ite steve lyons more than 60 people have died. most of the victims were celebrating a muslim festival. one suicide bomb detonated in the heart of kabul around noon. officials say at least 60 people were killed and more than 100 people injured. shortly after a bicycle bomb exploded near another shi'ite shrine. this one in the northern city of masari sharif. president karzai expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. he said was the first time a terrorist attack had taken place in afghanistan on such an important religious day. >>> europe and the u.s. are mired in gloom but emerging economies can look forward to robust expansion next year. its forecast cover 14 countries in east and southeast asia. nhk world reports. >> reporter: it's predicted gdp growth of 7

paved the way for military intervention in syria was blocked by russia and china and they believe the u.n. continues to ignore reports of atrocities committed by opposition fighters and saying that foreign meddling would only make the situation was and political analyst dr gossip questions just the sanctions that have been imposed are aimed at . these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they're meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic level and on the security level it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions and to use the decisions of the arab league for their own purposes to put pressure on syria to put pressure not for the syrian regime to stop the killing as they put it but no what they want is to weaken the syrian regime and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think that they. so much for syrian blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people were killed by nato bombings and the come through was devastated that nobody said anyone so i can't actually believe that there

the u.n. general assembly has condemned syria for its nine month crackdown on protesters and human rights abuses and wage an estimated five thousand have died one hundred thirty three countries have voted in favor of the resolution drafted by britain france and germany activists say at least one hundred people have been killed across the country on monday the day damascus signed an agreement to admit arab league observers to monitor how the regime is dealing with the rest and he threatens to ask the u.n. security council to take action unless syria gave the green light favored based political analyst come out was named believes however that the real situation in the country is being highly exaggerated by arab states. well i think the syrian spoke very clearly they don't have anything to hide they have to they let those observer to witness how the weapons smuggling from turkey from lebanon on from jordan are coming into the country and how these weapon infiltration causing. those how to feed in