the united nations. this action recommends that the members of the united nations furnish such assistance to the republic of korea as may be necessary to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security. votes security council 7-1 to recommend military support for the republic of korea. ♪ in tokyo, the united states move swiftly to translate into action the united nations' call to arms against the aggressors. american occupation troops in japan are hurried to the defense of the korean republic. back in the united states, b-29 bombers are taken out of mothballs into which they were put at the end of world war ii. elsewhere in the united states, navy planes are taken from storage, where they also have been since the end of world war ii. caught by surprise, the united states nonetheless made all possible haste to carry out the united nations' call for action against aggression. ♪ units of the famous first united states marine division answer the united nations' call to vehicles amp

the united nations. ♪ >>> this is korea. a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. in the south the united states and the united nations strove to establish a independent democratic republic. two years ago at seoul, capital of korea, they supervised free elections south of the 38th parallel and the republic of korea was born. the president was syngman rhee. in may, 1950, the citizens of the this young republican went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government under their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in re-elections, the north korea community leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. and this was their target. a mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peace loving citizens of the republic of korea. at tack by the north korean communists come suddenly and without warning. facing

the united nations are remembered. we remember words he spoke shortly before he died, expressing his conference -- --fidence >> the american people will accept the vote of this conference. of peace fromgate which we can begin to build world in that better which our children and and finddren endure and grandchildren of the whole world must live and can live. >> american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend and in our archives at c-span.org/history. you can watch lectures from college classrooms, tours of historic sites, films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs. at c-span.org/history. in 1960, four african-american students sat down at a segregated woolworth's lunch counter in greensboro, north carolina, launching a movement that would spread to other cities. viewerracy parker takes questions about protests against segregation at that time. first, a look at 1960 greensboro from the documentary. [video clip] storen we walked into the , we wanted to prove that we were customers. we made sure to get receipts. we b

it is the secretary general of the united nations. saying unequivocally there that israel needs to abandon its plans for an extension in the west bank. and that he will always speak up against any unilateral efforts which try to sidestep if you like the united the 2 state solution. the next speaker the security council so you journal of yours i'm devoting my regular briefing on the situation in the middle east to the 14th report on the implementation of security council resolution 2334 the written report you have already received and it covers the period from the 21st of march to the 4th of june this year. before turning to the elements that have occurred since the written report i would like to reiterate to the secretary general's great concern over the continuing threat of is really an extension of parts of the occupied west bank process officials have said could begin. deliberations over this move brought this long standing conflict to a critical juncture. an exception of the record of need all to the nature of israeli palestinian

it's 1300 hours james a little after 9 am in new york where the united nations security council is about to hold its open session on the israeli palestinian conflict the issue though is the land specifically israel's plans to an excess palestinian territory in the occupied west bank something the united nations is urging israel to a band so we got special coverage on this news and analysis of course of the security council meeting with correspondents in west jerusalem and the jordan valley as well as of course the united nations in new york a diplomatic editor james bays is there for us james take us through what's expected today. well it will start we think in the next few minutes

representative at the united nations kelly craft u.s. ambassador kelly craft that will be interesting obviously the one security council member which we know backs israel's position of. already though we

yet we need to have the united nations and the other. in the market the countries and not a loving the international olympic committee to letting trying to host the olympic games while china is conducting a genocide against the retailers missing as i want to ask you i know that there has been this attention given by the top administration to what's happening to the weaker minority in china but with a u.s. presidential election coming up in november and with the u.s. president trump being down in the ratings right now in the polls he is going to be looking for ways to win voter support. does the wigger minority does that fit in to trump's thinking right now. well there are a lot of 1st speculations and the talks but the bottom line is the president trumps kind and took actual attentional step as i mentioned earlier china is running an intense campaign for this information and running concentration camps and conducting genocide and i question the rest of the world where is the outrage from this i mean countries where is the feminist activi

the united nations call to arms. amphibious -- vehicles get transported to the combat zone. other nations volunteer their help. canada answers the security council's appeal with ships. three destroyers leave british columbia to join united nations forces. across the united states, young men from every walk of life hurried to enlist in the army, the navy, in the air force in answer to the united nations appeal. as recruiting centers report washington,ments in president truman addresses a meeting of the reserve officers association. gentlemen, wean: face a serious situation. we hope we face it in the cause of peace. the only reason for the action which was taken on the advice of all of the brains i could muster hoping thatalways we will finally arrived at the place of the road we anticipated when we created the united nations. that is the only reason for the action. thank you very much. again, the security council meets to provide for a unified command. the president of the council invites the korean delegate to take a

servicemen and united nations forces still in south korea? for one, continuing essential purpose -- to help peace survive. since july 27, 1953, the guns in korea have been mostly silent, but the continuing ideological conflict between north and south have made it a setting for psychological warfare carried on by north korea through tabletop belligerency along with overt and covert acts of aggression. these hostile acts directed against the united states and republic of korea military personnel over the years since the truce are documented reminders as to how fragile still is the morning calm in korea. ♪ the roots of north korea's hostility and aggression have deep, seeded at a different site, cairo, egypt. there in 1943, the big three held a historic world war ii meeting. president franklin d roosevelt, prime minister winston churchill, and and sheng kai-shek of china, along with high-level military and civilian advisers, focused their attention on postwar liberation of countries and peoples including korea. ,the cairo conference included a

the question of korea became a united nations concern in 1947. the un's efforts to hold supervisory pre-elections throughout korea were blocked in the north by the soviet union. only in the south was an election eld had. the republic of korea was created and the national legislature elected with provisions for north korean representation if and when elections could be held there. syngman rhee became the first president. these free elections in the south produced the only legal government in korea. in december 1948, the soviet union in a surprise move announced that she had removed her occupation troops from north korea. we found ourselves compelled to do the same in the south, except for a small u.s. army advisory group which remained at the request of the korean government. the question of a unified korea remained unanswered. the future of the south korean people was another anxious american concern. american concern. north korea's plan for a unifying korea was made known to the world on june 25th, 1950 and was by military invasion. six division

serenity wrote the united nations charter and created a balance of power system which was the united nations security council that took into account the interests of the great powers which and their head hence the failure of the league of nations which didn't answer yes that's what he's insisting yeah we need to go back to that and at that time and he wants this out so that the leaders of the western powers always acknowledged a that the sacrifices that the soviet union made will do that they did the heavy lifting and that there was no symmetry between what the nazis did and what the u.s. assad it was and you had said it's just you never accuse the u.s.s.r. or be in aggressor rosell never did. and it had nothing to do with ideology if you look at the bound nations of of the united nations it didn't point out that it didn't focus on ideology it looked at the existence of sovereign states and how they would be as actors on the international stage alex let me go back to you and finish up on this point one of the things i think is also interesting about the article is the the rule of law

the united nations call to arms. amphibious -- vehicles get transported to the combat zone. other nations volunteer their help. canada answers the security council's appeal with ships. three destroyers leave british columbia to join united nations forces. across the united states, young men from every walk of life hurried to enlist in the army, the navy, in the air force in answer to the united nations appeal.

guns of united nation -- united nations ships also help. the struggle to defend the beachhead is a furious one but we are holding. ♪ on 24 august, on the central sector which is concerned with gu engineersof tae have built a pontoon bridge across the tributary. this bridge serves for the use of lighter vehicles and foot soldiers. with increasing supplies moving in, there is need for a heavy equipment bridge. south korean civilian labor is employed. sections,n many primitive native tools are still used, and although u.s. engineers depend on korean manpower, there is a change now since the early days of the war. heavy construction equipment is becoming a familiar sight. an accumulation of this type of equipment necessarily second and priority to arms and ammunition is an indication of the vast ball close supplies that are now being received. -- the vast bulk of supplies that are now being received. ♪ on 29 august, the british aircraft carrier unicorn moves into pusan harbor. on deck are british troops. within a week, they are rushed to fi

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the united nations has a duty to respond to the anger that has been so many for so long. as the heart of our. equal rights are shined in our founding charter just as we fought to. so rights the hatred oppression and humiliation today. president trump doesn't like other nations involving themselves in u.s. affairs back in 2018 the administration pulled out of the human rights council the united states is officially withdrawing the debate on racism and brutality will continue on thursday and the final declaration document is still being worked on with after intensive work by diplomats from the u.s. and some in geneva it appears the proposal to create a formal commission of inquiry has now been dropped james al-jazeera the united nations. lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president peter mystery has sent the country's chief justice into early retirement just 2 weeks before an election the president had earlier attempted to overturn a court ruling that a new election must be held. kazakhstan's former pres

the united states has long been due as the human rights police of other nations all other nations not only calling out human rights violations abroad but staging or working behind the things to overthrow regimes for their abuses. but those living in glass houses probably shouldn't throw stones at the recent murders of black people like brianna taylor a model and george floyd by police officers an armed vigilante justice seeking civilians rightfully sparked outrage instead of leaning in for understanding or looking at the policies that have nurtured the environment for racism and white supremacy to grow president trump demanded lethal force against protesters when the looting starts the shooting starts famous words from trump but for blacks like my grandmother who lived through the civil rights movement these words were new or original bull connor popularized them when thinking dogs and water hoses on protesters speaking to in jim crow they were also used by miami police chief walter headley in 1067 as he advocated for radical racialized police policy targeting young black and brown pe

guns of united nations ships also helped in this mission. the struggle to defend the beach yet is a fierce one. on 24th of august, on the central sector which is concerned with the defensive tackle and the river line, engineers have built a bridge across the taedong this is for use of lighter vehicles and footsoldiers. there is a need for a heavy equipment bridge. south korean civilian labor is employed. all on many sections primitive native tools are still used. although u.s. engineers depend on a korean man power, there is a change now since the early days of the war. heavy construction equipment is becoming a familiar sight. an accumulation of this type of equipment, necessarily second and priority to arms in a new mission, is an indication of the vast bulk of supplies there are now being received. on the 29th of august, liberation aircraft moves into the harbor. within a week they're rushed to fight along first cavalry troops to help stop a breakthrough along the river. these troops are the first ones to go to a foreign nation to join in

the united states proposed that the united nations oversee elections, but the united nations with considered by the to be a belligerent in the war. the united nations had adopted a countries toging support south korea during the war. that was something the north koreans could not abide. they and the soviets and the proposed the commission but theal nations, americans rejected that and so it ended in failure. so, we continue to have a war on hold. no peace treaty. no war, no peace. i am sorry. your first question related to ? host: it is a war that has never -- there has not been a cease-fire formal agreement. , a guest: the caller brought up the undeclared aspect of the police action. this is interesting. and as a journalist, i see it happen often. that was raised in a question by a journalist to president truman. would you consider it a police action? and truman said, yes, he went along with it, but this was not his formulation initially. and this was very early on when there was some thought from of theton that the entry united states forces in the war, which ended quickly, would become a

representative at the united nations kelly craft u.s. ambassador kelly craft that will be interesting obviously the one security council member which we know backs israel's position of. already though we have heard from the likes of nickell who is the un's middle east peace envoy. who is the arab league secretary general but 1st it was the u.n. secretary general and tony a good terrace he summed it up in calling for nothing short of israel abandoning its annexation plans. if implemented and accession of course into the most serious violation of international law grievously harmed the prospect of a to spend solution and the current possibilities of a new will of negotiations. i call on the israeli government would ban is an exception class. so has time space out diplomatic editor who is listening to that along with those early speeches we heard james what was your take on it. well we have the secretary general very strong comments we heard those backed by his man who's based interest in the north and by the secretary general of the arab l

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united nations that mentioning that an israeli state should. start but he didn't mention hundreds of the future of the united nations about that and give a shit about establishing a palestinian state also about that if you could get a good message we didn't reject any opportunity we were able and we are motivated to start negotiations at this i mean moment if this is according to the international law and united dissenters the us is on to that a good deed and signed agreements between us on the us a list signed agreements was that. security economy of the ballistics and as a leech only on line agreements it's a dish only what i have decided i was able to. hamas organized a protest in gaza city hundreds raised flags and banners denouncing israel for confiscating palestinian lands in the west bank earlier this month hamas leaders called for unity among palestinian factions in order to stop the annexation plan. near it coronavirus cases in the u.s. have risen to their highest level in 2 months it's now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infectio

outside of the united nations headquarters in yemen protesters are in disbelief they're condemning the decision to remove the military coalition led by saudi arabia from a un blacklist. you know one of the it's considered a list of shame for attacks like these exposing anyone who kills harms or abuses children in war zones the saudi led coalition was listed for 3 years expose for his war record in yemen but i doubt it's a disgrace that the united nations removed saudi arabia from the list for killing children everyone in the world including saudi arabia knows it's a shame on humanity you know have hours after the removal announcement who the rebels say 13 people were killed in a saudi little attack in northwest yemen 4 of them children more victims of the images 5 year war because the coalition has consistently attacked schools and hospitals also be listed for that violation knowing that they had attacked in 20202019 or schools and hospitals and yet they are not part of that list of better traitors the u.n. says the coalition was removed from the list because it's taken steps to stop h

the question of korea became a united nations concern in 1947. the u.n. effort to hold supervisory, free elections through korea were blocked in the north by the soviet union. only in the south was an election held. the republic of korea was created to him and the national legislature elected. these free elections in the south produced the only legal government in korea. 1948, the soviet union in a surprise move announced she had removed her occupation truth -- troops from north korea and we found ourselves compelled to do the same in the south, except for a small u.s. army advisory group that remained at the request of the korean government. the question of a unified korea remained unanswered. the future of the south korean people was another anxious american concern. [explosions] north korea's plan for unifying korea was made known to the world on june 25, 1950, and it was by military invasion. as six divisions of north korea's people's army slammed into the republic of korea. within three days, they had seized the capital city of seoul. become a hotden

next week our "the big picture" will show our united nations on offensive. you will see us recapture seoul he fall of the north korean capital of pyongyang and air rop and you will see the missouri the big mo am action giving support to the ground will be a with us combat veteran who saw as it "the big part of picture." this is captain karl zimmerman with us then.o be [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020]

the united nations says almost 80000000 people are now forcibly displaced from their homes the highest number since records began war persecution and human rights abuses forced millions of people to make a life or death decision every year to stay or go displacements have nearly doubled over the last decade reaching 79500000 people by the end of last year that's one percent of the global population and just 5 countries account for 2 thirds of those displacements syria venezuela afghanistan south sudan and me and maher let's bring in matthew saltmarsh a spokesman for the u.n. refugee agency. these are startling numbers how did it get to this point so quickly . well thank you very much for having me i think the report shows us that displacement is here with us and it's not going anywhere fausto and there's a danger that it's become ingrained and that it's simply accepted as being talked about more than an international system how did we get to have well displacement has been rising for a number of years in the most recent year and this report covers 2019 we've seen. displacement in afric

friday mark 75 years since the signing of the charter that established the united nations formed after the deaths of more than $60000000.00 people during world war 2 its mission to preserve international peace and security is a challenging now as it's ever been the u.s. deputy secretary general will join us in just a moment 1st this look back at the organization she helps to lead. june 20. next $945.00 as the 2nd world war came to an end diplomats and politicians gathered in san francisco to sign the charter of the united nations their goal was clear. the full unity of the terminations. by. war i in the last 75 years are a lot has happened the universal declaration of human rights peacekeeping missions and vironment and development aid i think it means a great deal to our organization which can discuss everything any any item and take up these items to do to take action if there is a need for action. there hasn't been a new world war since 945 but regional military conflicts have been keeping the u.n. busy and in recent years rising nationalism in many member states has started to thre

the united states proposed that the united nations oversee the elections but of course the united nations was considered by the north as a belligerent in the war. the security council having adopted resolutions urging countries to provide aid to south korea in other words. they took sides in the war. and that was something the north koreans just could not abide and they proposed, they in the soviets proposed, and the chinese proposed, a neutral -- a commission of neutral nations that the americans rejected and so it ended in failure. so now we continue to have a war on hold with no peace treaty. no war and no peace. i'm sorry, the first question related to ...? >> that it is a war that has never been -- basically there has not been a cease-fire or formal agreement between the u.s. and north korea. >> the color brought on the undeclared aspect of the police action. this is interesting. as a journalist i see this happen so often, that was raised into question by journalist to president truman. would you considered a police action and truman said yes. but this was not his formulation initial

the united nations is already actively engaged in development in this area. as far back as 1961 i conferred with our authorities in vietnam in connection with their work there. and i would hope tonight that the secretary general of the united nations could use the prestige of his great office, and his deep knowledge of asia, to initiate, as soon as possible, with the countries of that area, a plan for cooperation in increased development. [applause] for our part i will ask the congress to join in a billion dollar american investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. [applause] and i would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the soviet union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress. the task is nothing less than to enrich the hopes and the existence of more than a hundred million people. and there is much to be done. the vast mekong river can provide food and water and power on a scale to dwarf even our own tva. the wonders of modern medicine can be spread through villages where thousands die

united nations that mentioning that the israeli state should. start but he didn't mention 152 just what the united nations about that in fact that your vision about establishing a palestinian state also about that if you really didn't see we didn't reject any opportunity we were able to get our border ready to start negotiations at this i mean moment if this is according to the international law and united dissenters allusions to that a good deed to unsigned agreement between us and there's a list signed. in the security economy of the ballistics and i was a leech over the mine agreement it's a day old was decided i was. at least $9400.00 refugees including 30 children have been rescued in indonesian waters they were found by fishermen on monday after their boat capsized off the coast of the province the refugees have been the stuck on the fisherman's boat since then but as you and indonesia a favorite destinations for hunger fleeing violence in 1000000 mile and poverty and refugee camps in bangladesh which is a washington is live for us now in