as the credibility of the security council now at stake? ambassador thomas-greenfield: i do not think our credibility is now at stake. i think what has to happen is we have to redouble our efforts. there is a meeting later today on burma, where we will be looking at what other things that we might do, but let me just say, what the military is doing in burma to the people of burma, the violence, the attacks, the killing of children, they are appalling. and they are unacceptable. so we cannot just step back and allow this to happen. we have to keep pushing forward. you may know that the u.s. did issue from the u.s. trade representative office, it halted all trade with burma until the military steps back, and we are looking at other measures we might take in addition to the ones we have already taken. >> thank you, ambassador. cbs news. the big picture question is, what did you learn during this month in terms of breaking the impasse on many issues that the security council has had, and, specifically, will there be repercussions on the north k

security council for a 4th time so we've we've essentially been on the security council every 20 years since we joined the u.n. and we see it as a really important part of our foreign policy it's an opportunity for ireland to be a global voice for the things that we're passionate about international law multi-lateralism human rights the link between development and conflict peacekeeping so there are many areas where. irish values and an irish perspective of the world i hope can contribute positively to the often very partisan and difficult debate that we get on the security council in terms of the 30 or so files that the security council is dealing with and i hope that ireland as a as a non-threatening relatively small country but a country that has big opinions will able to will be able to to facilitate and to support more consensus building within the security council thus particularly the last number of years has been terribly divided and at times very ineffective in terms of preventing conflict one of the most pressing issues right now in international diplomacy is iran's nuclear p

march it to brief the security council members on. their view of the developments taking place since the fabry 1st coup in me and my. we've been listening to an activist and scholar from myanmar as well as richard horsley from the international crisis group the lady speaking right now is more she's a representative from. foreign ministry in exile a lot has been said so i was checking in with our diplomatic had sir james bays who has been following this story james joins us now live from the united nations been hearing there a comprehensive picture of perspective from voices for myanmar itself which is quite crucial for the security council given the difficulty that outsiders have had in getting into the country to get the story what struck you from what we've been listening to in the last few minutes. well i think i should make it clear 1st what we're listening to because this isn't a meeting of the u.n. security council they couldn't agree to have a meeting like this in the u.n. security council so this is an unofficial meeting somet

well what this is is not a security council meeting in a formal sense the security council has met 3 times with regard to me on martin put out 3 statements but the military has continued its killing despite those statements the security council hasn't though had an open meeting where we could see everything and where they could call people to speak to them particularly those who could give some testimony of what's actually happening on the ground that's because under the rules of the security council if there's a closed meeting then it's only people in the u.n. system who are allowed to address the meeting and so because some countries notably china and russia don't want to know been meeting the u.k. have called an informal meeting of the security council what's known as an aria meeting to get all of this into the open so you heard the u.k. ambassador she called the meeting backed by the other european nations on security council and also the u.s. and we heard a short time ago from linda thomas greenfield who is the u.s. ambassador to the united nations saying that the u.s. stands st

called all the members of the security council to a meeting but it wasn't a security council meeting that's because russia and china opposed in open security council meeting of this sort and they made it quite clear when they spoke that they oppose it so if they won't even agree to an open meeting the idea of agreeing to sanctions i think is deeply unlikely our diplomatic as the james spader's live in new york at the u.n. james thanks. let's return now to our coverage of the derek trial former police officer accused accused of murdering george floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes a quarter of the past few hours has been hearing from dr lindsay thomas a forensic pathologist also an expert on areas where medicine and law overlap the court currently in recess the taking the morning break alan fisher is outside the courthouse in minneapolis. up to speed with what's been happening so far on this day 10 of the of this trial. important testimony is again the prosecution go through expert witnesses as you see lindsay an expert in forensic medicine she was saying that the rea

council of the united nations should be coordinated, and the security council itself must be slightly expanded, which i'll mention in a moment. regional conflicts -- considering how much experience has been obtained in the middle east, in africa, in southeast asia, korea, yugoslavia, the caucuses and afghanistan, a special body should be set up under the united nations security council with the right to employ political, diplomatic, economic and military means to settle and prevent such conflicts. [ applause ] >> translator: human rights -- the european process has officially recognized the universality of this common human value. that is, the acceptability of international interference wherever human rights are violated. this task is not easy, even for states who have signed the paris charter of 1990 and even less so for all states' members of the united nations. however, i believe that the new world order will not be fully realized unless the united nations and its security council create structures, taking into consideration existing united nations and regional structures which are

security council kristie ensuring a burden i said there's also a risk of civil war. and france will enter its 3rd national lockdown this weekend as it grapples with more than $30000.00 new coronavirus cases that day schools be closed for 3 weeks and domestic travel is banned for at least a month. pharmaceutical companies pfizer and biotech say their vaccine has proven safe among 12 to 15 year olds they say trials involving more than 2000 adolescents show only minor side effects and 100 percent efficiency and preventing disease they hope to get emergency approval in the u.s. and begin inoculating young people before the next school year. is definitely a very special opportunity to be able to do something like this case usually i'm just there on doing online school and there's not much i can really do to fight back against the virus. breaches being in this trial and potentially helping other kids to feel safe and want to get the vaccine in the future one of the cons for glee available on what is really some way that could actually help out yemen has received its 1st sh

council it wasn't authorized those security council affect the security council strongly opposed to it and so the talking about who is violating international law i think with all of the spokesman for the west really should you know hold their peace on this one ok brian i'm going to give you the last minute before we go to the break go ahead jump in. yes well what we're witnessing right now is a very expansive u.s. war drive and a full court press against russia and china what what what trump did and also by his there's a lot of continuity here same thing that reagan did in the eighty's maximum pressure on these countries reagan had somebody call captive nations trying to liberate the oppressed republics in the soviet union all of it designed for maximum pressure for regime change or what became color revolutions we have to understand that it's really the values element of it is really pretextual it's a public rationale behind it is kind of naked old style colonialism dressed up with a new outfit all right gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and af

is the credibility of the security council at stake. i don't think our credibility is at stake i think what has to happen is we have to redouble our efforts what the military is doing in burma to the people to the people of burma the violence the attacks the killings of children they are appalling and and they are unacceptable so we can't just. step back and allow this to happen we have to keep pushing forward in the close in the council was briefed by the un special envoy christine trauner bergen she still wants to travel to me and martha speak to the generals she said i will remain open to dialogue and continue to signal this but if we wait only for when they are ready to talk the ground situation will only worsen a bloodbath is imminent this council must consider potentially significant action but the chinese ambassador said what he called one sided action or calling for sanctions would only aggravate tensions a similar position was relayed by russia and so for now any tougher action by the security council seems highly unlikely. sev

security council has been more of the nation is on the brink of civil war. a u.s. court is being shown the last moments of george ford's life from the perspective of the of the police officers who arrested him floyd could be heard begging them not to shoot him in the office his body can vote which was during day 3 of the trial of the former officer accused of murdering him. france will enter its 3rd national lockdown this weekend as it grapples with more than $30000.00 new cases a day schools will be closed for 3 weeks and domestic travel is banned for at least a month olds. shut down by saturday with the death toll from cove of 19 nearing 100000 french president emanuel was forced to act. we will lose control of we do not move now macro has tried to keep the country open as a way to protect the already battered economy but with many intensive care units at breaking point and a slower than planned vaccine rollout the economy had to wait. if you want to hold resource on don't remember this figure 44 percent of patients in intensive care are today less than 65 years

it was mentioned in security council meeting. you have seen lots of media reports including on al jazeera. the other factor the security council highlights is the humanitarian situation where it says it wants a scaled up the response and unfettered access. this follows comments that came from the u.n. military and chief when he spoke to the security council behind closed doors. >> a funeral has been held for daunte wright, the 20-year-old man black man -- 20-year-old black man shot by police during a routine traffic stop. john hendren reports from minneapolis. >> the family of daunte wright. >> it has become a familiar american scene. another black man killed by a white police officer. >> my son had a smile that was worth a million dollars. >> 20-year-old daunte wright pulled over for an expired license plate on april 11 was shot by a police officer who says she meant to fire her taser but drew her gun instead. that officer now faces a manslaughter charge. daunte wright was killed in the midst of the trial of derek chauvin. this

council. it contradicts much of what the government has been saying in public he says the humanitarian situation is deteriorating he says the conflicts not over and things are not improving and targeted violence mass killings execution as well as systematic rape gang rape and sexual violence taking place in tikrit province remember the ethiopian government said the eritrean troops were being withdrawn but mr lowcock told the security council i must say neither the un nor any of the humanitarian agencies we work with have seen proof of an era trend withdrawal he says there are even some reports that the eritreans are now wearing ethiopian defense force uniforms remember the ethiopian or thora his so the humanitarian situation is improving not so calling to mr local to the security council he says the vast majority of tikrit is completely or partially inaccessible and he says out of a population of 6000004500000 need humanitarian assistance they are not getting that humanitarian assistance so a

the security council has finally broken its silence on the situation in t. gray the military operation there is going been going on for almost 6 months and in that time the security council hasn't managed to agree the words of a statement they have finally done so brokered by the arash ambassador geraldine byrne nascent she said that she felt that they'd heard the alarm bells about human rights violations and abuses taking place in t. gray they've issued a statement which talks about that it talks about deep concern about allegations of human rights violations and abuses including reports of sexual violence against women and girls you've seen widespread reports of that it was mentioned in a security council meeting about women in conflict zones we could go seen lots of media reports including on al-jazeera the other factor the security council highlights is the humanitarian situation where it says it wants scaled up humanitarian response unfettered humanitarian access this follows i think strong comments that came from the un's humanitarian chief mark when h

security council is calling for an investigation into human rights violations in ethiopia's t. gray region in its 1st joint statement on the conflict the council says it's concerned about reports of sexual violence against women and girls and that once unfair that access to provide aid if the o.p.'s says its military operation against the people's liberation front is an internal affair but welcomes offers of help are diplomatic at the james bays has more from the un headquarters in new york. the security council has finally broken its silence on the situation in te gray the military operation there has going been going on for almost 6 months and in that time the security council hasn't managed to agree the words of a statement they have finally done so brokered by the arash ambassador geraldine byrne nascent she said that she felt that they'd heard the alarm bells about human rights violations and abuses taking place in tikrit they've issued a statement which talks about that it talks about deep concern about allegations of human rights violations and abuses including reports o

security council to act she wanted the country is at risk of falling into civil war activists on the ground say the situation is dire we've been kind of oppression from the military and continuous effort from our forces to this very. civil war you know must try and i i would like you know a few to the united nations to do something about it because we could see a lot of sanctions coming from that you carry them the united states and japan and other european 'd countries but they hasn't be any uniform sanctions coming from that you and. many demonstrators now believe an alternative force is the only way to return democracy to me and my several of the country's minority ethnic groups already have armed militias some have denounced the coup saying they will protect their territories and protesters. i'm now joined by tom andrews he's the un's special report on myanmar he joins us from washington tom the u.n. security council has strongly condemned the violence against peaceful protesters is that going to have any impact on the situation. well only if additional steps are taken words or c

security council. but in my opinion it is fragile it's the it's i mean the cease fire agreement has so many provisions within it and not all of it has i mean like opening the road the coastal road between the east and west it's been weeks now or maybe 2 months that they are trying to reach an agreement on this but the distance to the committee is responsible in this still didn't reach an agreement and beside you know stopping the actual military acts in the country nothing further has happened in this i. mean looting is excluded in this agreement so that's why in my opinion it is a for jives of are can be provoked any time nascar has. yeah i think i agree with with that it's so fragile but i also say through the negotiations into the g.n. you this new government of national unity that they were able to achieve that the libyan national army had about those forces that attacked tripoli were probably able to take out more through negotiations than they were to take out of the war they had a president or t

all security council members were invited but it wasn't a formal security council meeting both china and russia which object to an official open meeting only sent low level diplomats not surprisingly both countries seem opposed to any sanctions on the generals we share the same ones the main thrust of recent diplomacy has been in the region here earlier this week the indonesian foreign minister meeting her u.k. counterpart i'm told a meeting of the leaders of the 10 countries in the regional as the young group is likely in indonesia in the next 2 weeks but how do you persuade the generals to talk and to give ground the un special envoy christine seana bergen has had her permission to visit myanmar denied i'm told there are some countries that are contemplating the idea of appeasing the generals and giving them a future role in the governance of the country something that would a poor human rights activists and those protesting on the streets james al-jazeera at the united nations. prince philip is being honored with a $41.00 gun salute in many locations across the u.k. he died at the

security council people are determined to create your own democratic future this is a cutie council and a member state can decide which side of the history they have no interest to end with the people of the myanmar or with the war criminals who has treated the coup i pray wisdom and compassion prevail and that the new revolution will bring a new federal democratic young man there is some thank you for your attention. thank you very much indeed for your briefing i'm going to pass the floor now to richard hall see a senior advisor working on me and not for international crisis group who will brief on the humanitarian economic and security risks the military coup presents for regional security richard over 2 years. members of the council distinguished speakers thank you for this opportunity to speak today you've heard a powerful presentation from a civil society leader and you will hear shortly from a senior representative of the city of. as an independent observer i can perhaps best contribute to this discussion by situating the current crisis in the country's broader context to put it s

anchor: the united nations security council has been holding closed-door meetings on the situation in myanmar. our editor says members were warned of a potential bloodbath in the tree. james: certainly you have some members of the security council, russia, china, vietnam potentially, who are not keen on any punitive action against the generals. if the security council does not take some further action, if it just comes up with another statement, is not clear where that takes us. because remember, the security council has issued two statements, urging a return to democracy in myanmar, urging the release of all the politicians that have been detained, and condemning the violence. despite that, the bloodshed has gone on. individual country sleep -- countries can pursue their own policies and many have done that. certainly western countries have stopped doing business with me and martin sanctions on the military, businesses linked with the military. the u.n. secretary general would like to haveer -- like to have tougher actions. that is clear from his special envoy, who has been speaking

security council has stopped it from using its vital security council resolutions and just blocked them blocked them to give a very old man said if i have the ability to wage a war and also has allies in the u.a.e. russia and france russia and france being 2 members of the u.n. security council the ability to continue that war undeterred facing no condemnation and i sanction i would go into what hell i was selling at iran which is that ultimately libya is battle is almost like the great game if you look at afghanistan over the 19th century this great game for a battle of influence interest and ideology some countries in libya and simple and short some are playing chess some are playing checkers checkers meaning that they have very binary options some coming for economic interests turkey russia certainly turkey when it comes to its economic and maritime an interest in libya trying to get oil and natural gas out of the east the mediterranean from the ocean and really rewriting the maritime boundaries between libya and turkey. egypt you could argue is also it was an aspect you could say th

security council saying about what is going on in tigray. the grim situation on the ground has been relayed to the un security council in a closed meeting they've been having on the situation they were briefed by the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs the top humanitarian official of the un mark it was behind closed doors but we've spoken to diplomats and we have been told exactly what mr lowe cox said and it contradicts what ethiopian government officials have been saying he says the humanitarian situation in t. grey is deteriorating the conflict is not over and things are not improving he says targeted violence mass killings executions as well as reports of systematic rape going on rake and sexual violence taking place in t. grey he also contradicts the statement from the the european prime minister that eritrea and troops have been withdrawn from t. grey he says i must say neither the un nor any of the humanitarian agencies where we work with have seen proof of an era trend with drawl and he even says that there are trained t

bay says that the united nations with more on the security council was briefed by mark the u.n. senior humanitarian official the briefing took place behind closed doors but al-jazeera has obtained a copy of his remarks he told the security council there were reports of mass killings executions and the campaign of systematic rape much of what he said contradicted the official statements of the ethiopian government he told the security council i must say that neither the un nor any of the humanitarian agencies we work with have seen proof of eritrean withdrawal we have however heard some reports of eritrean soldiers now wearing ethiopian defense force uniforms the situation is clearly grim so what should be done now i put that to the spokes person of the un secretary general what should be done one is increase humanitarian humanitarian access to see real movements on human rights investigations given the restrict reports we're seeing from our own people sometimes even from the ethiopian government's own people and a real we conciliation. within the different groups in tikrit it's

representative on the security council, i thought it was important that the security council's voice also be added to the voices of concern about the situation there. we had seen -- >> brennan: well, you're clearly saying what is being done is not enough. >> it is not enough. and that's why i raised it in security council, because i think we have to make sure that the victims hear our voices, but also the perpetrators. know that we are concerned and we are watching this situation, like we're looking an addressing situations elsewhere in the world. so, yes, i agree with you, more has to be done. and that was the purpose of my raising this issue. >> brennan: ambassador, i'm told we are out of time. thank you for your time today. >> thank you very much. >> brennan: late yesterday president biden said that he limited the number of refugees entering the u.s. due to the influx of child migrants at the u.s. border. we couldn't do two things at once, he said, but he has promised to increase the numbers. we'll be right back. >> brennan: other than u. seen more deaths due to covid-19 than braz

but also coming up the un security council strongly condemns escalating military violence in the on the market but the junta shows no sign of stopping its lethal crackdown on protesters who oppose the takeover and german tourists flock to the spanish island of majorca for the easter holidays despite coronavirus travel warnings just how risky is this trip to paradise. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program of these 34 people have been killed in a train crash in taiwan dozens more were injured in the accident in which the train rails after emerging from a tunnel and collided with a truck survivors were seen climbing out of windows and on to roofs to reach safety rescuers still trying to reach passengers who are trapped in some of these carriages. dramatic images there correspondent william yang has the view from taipei is following these developments for us as we've heard there dozens of deaths have already been confirmed by the police is that toll expected to rise. fortunately i think we're going to expect that told to continue to rise at least 61 have been hospitalized and some of them h

security council and this party is not on police in belgium to step in to break up crowds after an april fools day prank gets out of hand. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program i was 48 people have been killed in a train crash in taiwan dozens more were injured in the accident in which the train derailed after emerging from a tunnel and colliding with a truck survivors were seen climbing out of windows and onto roofs to reach safety rescuers are still trying to reach passengers trapped in some of these carriages. william yang has been following the story for us he's joining us now from taiwan william what do you know at this hour. so like you mentioned at least $48.00 people have been confirmed dead and dozens more than 70 people have been hospitalized and the good news is no more passengers are still trapped inside the train so after hours helping in trying to rescue them out of the form the train carriage is inside the tunnel. able to remove everyone but there are still bodies there waiting to be transfer over to funeral homes we're looking at some dramatic images of the train and wi

security council has condemned the violence used against demonstrators but the junta shows no sign of stopping its lethal crackdown. and german tourists flock to the spanish island of mallorca for the easter holidays despite coronavirus travel warnings just how risky is this get away. i'm exposed or thanks for joining us. at least 48 people have been killed in a train crash in taiwan dozens more were injured in the accident which happened in eastern taiwan's while u.n. county the train derailed after emerging from a tunnel and colliding with a truck rescuers are still trying to reach people trapped in some of the carriages more than 350 passengers were on board. and correspondent william yang has the latest for us from taipei wm thanks for joining us dozens of death deaths already reported is that number expected to increase. yeah i think the next few hours will be critical at least the only good news so far is the no one is still trapped in the train which means that all passengers have been evacuated but the death toll could increase if those in critical condition now in the hospita

in that time, the security council has been absolutely silent. they have not managed to agree on a single statement on the subject. >> the development community has sent officials to northern mozambique to assess the threat posed by armed groups. last month dozens of people were killed when the town was attacked by issa linked fighters. now, nearly one million people face of your hunger. here is more. >> when palma was attacked by an armed group, many hid in the forest for weeks until it was safe for them to move. this group has just arrived in the provincial capital. some of them look traumatized. they say they saw their children being killed. some mothers say they don't know where their children are, they just saw them being taken away. the bishop says he suspects that they are holding children as young as 11 and camps. in some analysts say they believe this group is recruiting child soldiers. >> when families get to this reception center, they are registered, and they were's -- they will stay here until they can be moved to count internally di

security council meets to discuss the humanitarian situation. you know it is states hits russia with a raft of new sanctions saying it's punishment for election interference on cyber attacks and in sport the tennis world number one has a day to forget now that jock image has been knocked down to monte carlo masters by britain's dan after. the former us police officer accused of killing george floyd says he will not testify in his own defense derek show even was seen in witness video kneeling on the black man's neck from all the 9 minutes during the deadly arrest servant told the judge he take the 5th referring to the us constitutional rights against self incrimination. i have advised you and we have gone back and forth on the matter would be kind of an understatement right. but after the meeting. last night we had some further discussion. and have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your 5th amendment privilege. privilege today. well before going on recess the prosecution medical expert dr mart

special envoy for me on my has urged the un security council to act she wanted the country is at risk of falling into civil wall activists on the ground say the situation is dire with this kind of oppression from the military and continuous effort from our forces it is very. civil war you know must try and i i would like you know a few to the united nations to do something about it because we could see a lot of sanctions coming from the u.k. them united states and japan and other european countries but they hasn't be any form sanctions coming from that you and. many demonstrators now believe an alternative force is the only way to return democracy to me and my several of the country's minority ethnic groups already have militias some have denounced the coup saying they will protect their territories and protesters. and joining us now for more insight on this from london is caylee long a researcher with an esteemed international is long the u.n. security council is condemning the are the army violence and britain is imposing sanctions on any company dealing with the military but as i c