right james and at that moment the russian ambassador was talking about what you were just addressing before the transparency or lack of transparency in the negotiations that went on behind the scenes before these for our friends aleutians ribbon presented but let's get back to some of the tough language that was coming from u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley as she left the door open for some other potential response from the u.s. . yes in terms of response outside the u.n. security council and outside the u.n. itself because she has again mentioned what happened back in april when president trump ordered air attacks on on syria and on syrian government airfield and she said that attack in april is something that the u.s. would consider again she put the syrian government and the assad regime on notice that the u.s. was prepared to act in that way again so again saying that if the u.n. security council can't achieve this through diplomatic and legal means because the u.n. security council that you just watched and the very deadlocked u.n. security council is under international

james jackson didn't know kaufman who he was where he was from. he killed him for the one thing he did know about it . that he was a black man. late at night on march twentieth jackson's victim timothy kaufman found himself on this corner in manhattan just half a block from where he lived for twenty years. at sixty six and retired coffin made a small amount of money by collecting cans and bottles to recycle. that night he was looking to a trash can on this corner when james jackson came up from behind and stabbed him multiple times before running off. bleeding cough and somehow managed to make his way to the police station around the corner. when he was taken to the hospital he was pronounced dead. when i heard it i just i cringed and just felt that knife you know thing would hurt me you know his purpose he said he come to kill many black men and see. his ear but you were pushing clark and her own women's new timothy kaufman since they were children growing up here in queens new york. oh that's being a fancy. as i see it yet i didn't tend to nag f

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and predictable his words can be and i'm afraid that asian nations actually read him the same way james i'm wondering how his tweets play out in your studies and then when it comes to putting policy together in the sort of conversations that all these leaders are having ahead of trump's visit and sitting down talking to them well i think there are several things here one is his i'm fifty below and that's something that he wants i think that part of his him predictability is by just sorry and part of this is is by clever what i also think is that donald trump does not want to be engaged in a major ground war a third war after iraq and now alongside of us that what i think we're seeing is a strategy in which he is blistering and threatening and aggressive and that's a strategy that so far has failed to impress the north koreans nor it as worried some of its allies it has really oppressed the chinese to the best of my knowledge but at the same time let's face it yes a lot of this is about trade but. the united states is a pacific power it does have interests in the region a nuclear north k

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for a moment james thank you james bays live for us there in geneva now iran's president is accusing saudi arabia of targeting his country as a way of shifting focus from saudi involvement in regional conflicts tensions been grind between the regional rivals since sanctions on iran were eased under the nuclear deal. says his country has to act with professionalism when dealing with the kingdom. on saudi arabia is seeking to solve two fundamental problems that's why the tide a character as an enemy saudi arabia failed in qatar and feeling a lock in syria and finally failed in lebanon they failed in all these regions and want to cover the failure by portraying iran of an enemy secondly inside saudi arabia the stance and the internal disputes so they portray iran as an enemy to cover of their failure and then dental problems that's for the must acknowledge professionalism. yemen's former president has outlined his path to peace in the war torn country told hooty rebels in the senate to stop firing rockets or saudi arabia in return he says the saudi led coalition coalition must end its b

bays and james we're hearing. matthew right croft really echoing much of the sentiment that came from the french blame the russians saying they won't accept an inquiry that cites the assad regime as being the perpetrator in the use of chemical weapons. yes he said to me actually very similar to what he said to me just before the meeting started what was at stake here was accountability for the crimes in syria and the gassing of syrians he said by the assad regime clearly what this means the fact that we have had a vote blocking the renewal of a joint investigation mechanism means that all the efforts to investigate chemical weapons usage in syria come to an end the mandate of that team runs out the weapons inspectors their teams will be disbanded their work will be stopped and there will be no accountability from the security council for the use of chemical weapons he said that the u.k. will still hold people accountable french said they still hold them accountable but i think the real threat to the syrian governm

thank you james. navy is searching for a missing some marine with forty four sailors on board the air a san juan a german built submarine was last in contact on wednesday that was headed from a naval base south of argentina to mar del plata about four hundred kilometers south of. the navy spokesperson says it's too early to declare the vessel lost and it has sufficient food and oxygen supplies to last for some time. last position was two days ago not being alarmist a domestic fact is that there could be no food communications between vessel and command even with the backup systems we think there must be a serious problem with the communications or electrical supply cables in ten or eleven equipment the protocol is that it must come to surface so we have to actively look to establish some form of visual contact. joins us live now from buenos aires so what do we know is this just a search operation a rescue operation what do we know at this point. what are the moment is a search operation the archon fin

and the government delegation arrived at the air today as well james what more on that . you have there and hotel not far from the u.n. now a short time ago mr de mistura the special envoy was seen leaving here at the u.n. headquarters in geneva we think he's heading to that hotel for a courtesy call with the government delegation i think we'll have to wait and see how that goes to see whether actually any formal talks take place today here at the united nations it's already twenty past two in the afternoon it's possible that he talks here in the next couple of hours it's also possible that they will wait until thursday morning i could tell you the opposition delegation say they're really fed up with this process that we've seen in the past with mr de mistura talking to one side then the other they're saying let's just move ahead let's get both sides around the table james may's live for us in geneva thank you our forces loyal to renegade libyan general honey for haft are accused of summarily executing dozens of men in the eastern town of ben here's a human rights watch s

this is james jackson. because his expression here so it's impossible to know what's going through his mind at this moment just after he killed another person. this is the man who murdered timothy kaufman. james jackson didn't know kaufman who he was where he was from. he killed him for the one thing he did know about it. that he was a black man. late at night on march twentieth jackson's victim timothy kaufman found himself on this corner in manhattan just half a block from where he lived for twenty years. at sixty six and retired cop and made a small amount of money by collecting cans and bottles to recycle. that night he was looking to a trash can on this corner when james jackson came up from behind and stabbed him multiple times before running off. bleeding cough and somehow managed to make his way to the police station around the corner. when he was taken to the hospital he was pronounced dead. when i heard it i just i cringed and just felt that knife you know thing would hurt me you know his purpose

james thank you. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri says he is on his way to france he made that announcement in a tweet he's been at the center of a geo political crisis in the middle east since he resigned on saudi t.v. two weeks ago president says he will not accept to bring these resignation until he returns to the country. the argentine navy is searching for a missing submarine with forty four sailors on board the a r a san juan it's a german built submarine was last in contact on wednesday it was headed from a naval base south of argentina to mar del plata around four hundred kilometers south of minus hardass a navy spokesman says it's too early to declare the vessel lost and that it has sufficient food and oxygen supplies to last for some time. last position was two days ago not being alarmist a domestic fact is that it could be in a food communications between vessel and command even with a backup systems we think there must be a serious problem with the communications or electrical supply c

bay james what's he been saying. you know this was a news conference in the last hour where we heard from the saudi ambassador actually flanked by the ambassador from yemen and the deputy ambassador of the united arab emirates and he was clearly trying to signal that they are lifting the blockade but the reality is they're only partially lifting the blockade as you just heard there lifting the blockade in areas that are controlled by the military coalition and not in areas that are controlled by the who thiis there they say more measures have to be taken before they're allowed the aided with regards to the other ports get at least under the control of the rebels including one day that the coalition requests the secretary general to send as soon as possible a team of experts to the coalition command center and up to review current procedures to enhance ended livered a more robust verification and inspection mechanism aimed at facilitating the floor of humanitarian and commercial shipments while preventing the smugglin

up to the talks bombarding rebel held areas near damascus from geneva here's our diplomatic editor james face the syria talks in geneva are back on but for now with only one of the two sides present u.n. envoy stefan de mistura met the delegation from the opposition. but the government has been involved in a major intensification east and. its trip to geneva the suspicion is they wanted this aerial bombardment to strengthen their hand at the talks and you have any optimism when you see what's going on. as you're supposed to be. well i was just informed by do russia and then do it today or did people a meeting did the russians have their proposals there and the government they've accepted a defiant it's difficult because we were and are very content up till now we need to feel where they did take place but it did not please you then told that they've actually been proposed to end their greed upon just the day of the beginning of the station. there is tension within the opposition camp two groups the karo platform and the moscow platform were previously shunned by the rest of the oppositio

are diplomatic editor james is live for us now in geneva where those talks are taking place so james what can we expect then given that not everyone is even there right now. yeah has a my mouth side the hotel here where the opposition negotiating team are and they are going to be meeting stefan demas store about five hours from now at the u.n. headquarters for the first part of these talks but of course to have talks you need two sides and the other side is not yet here in geneva the syrian government making a point i think of coming late postponing their trip we now understand they will be here in the next twenty four hours they say the reason that they did perspire on their trip for a while is because they're on happy with comments made by the opposition who've been saying what they've always been saying and that is a sad must go but i can tell you there are people who think that maybe another reason is what you heard some are just reporting on the fact that the bombardment be an onslaught continues in syria particularly in eastern guta and we've seen this many times as rounds of t

james director james comey he's now invoking the fact that we need to get rid of the investigation because it's affecting us foreign policy that is going to be looking more into the investigation of the later in this discussion festool alexi i want to get an idea of the reaction there in russia to this particular story because the russia u.s. story will not go away will it and every time we see putin and chatting it's huge speculation about the relationship between these two men so. as for trump's attitude towards putting the whether you know it trust you mobilise him it's pretty outstanding that you know he talks about trust because there is no trust between russia and the u.s. and russia's relations are currently in the deep state of crisis there it is at their lowest point currently so this is why it's very hard to say what's trump a genuine approach your attitude towards put in and his words what's more importantly i believe is that basically trump purposefully tries to concentrate and focus on things which. you have the united states and russia have in common so basically the. joint s

where is diplomatic editor is covering things from geneva force james what sort of phase are these talks and of stephanie mr a sort of in the middle east got people coming to him from either side how would you describe the the the scope of these talks at the moment while he's trying to create some momentum in this talks process and he's moving pretty quickly in this around he's had for the first time on the second day of the two sides being here in geneva both of them in the building behind me at the same time that hasn't happened since the special envoy lakhdar brahimi some years ago what's called proximity talks the two sides in adjacent rooms the special envoy stefan de mistura shuttling between the two now they're not really talking about any of the really hard issues what they're talking about now is a statement of principles and they came up with one of those early on in the year when there was a different opposition delegation they at the time refused to accept his declaration of principles saying that was all laid out already in u.n. security council resolutions and in the geneva

bass joins me live from geneva hi there james so the russians have proposed the cease fire in eastern guta but how likely is it do you think to take place should be put in a faith and. well remember that in the sink really there's only one side involved in military operations and that's the syrian government bombarding from the same syrian government postponed its trip here to geneva they said they didn't like some comments made recently by the opposition but certainly there is the suspicion that they wanted to finish this military operation before coming here they are now coming here i put the situation to the special envoy for the un stefan de mistura about the ongoing onslaught and that's when he told us the news of the cease fire. i was just informed by do russian thing ended today at the people a meeting that the russians have proposed to end the government defects and they did a fifth i only thing for them because we were and are very concerned about till now we need to see where they did take place but it is not coincidentally that they've actually been proposed to and a greed

security council thank you very much james baseness. from the united nations there in new york and watching al-jazeera much more still to come government in disarray to reason may lose his her second minister in a week as pretty patel resigns at a secret meetings in israel and robert mugabe takes aim at other so-called conspirators after sacking his vice president. following place to save some quieter weather fir queensland australia as we go on through the next day or so still a chance of one or two on shore showers coming in have a set that lets a fair amount of cloud into central parts down towards south australia fair not the woman here as we go on through the next few days that's because we've got the only sure way is coming into queensland twenty three celsius the brisbane towels will twenty seven degrees and then we're coming in across the interior to twenty nine degrees there for adelaide and rising at thirty one celsius here on friday so that warmth also making its way into melbourne twenty four degrees the similar value across

thanks very much now james bays at united nations there where a vote has just taken place on there a new on the possible renewal of that mandate for joining us. sorry but we know that that joint inquiry won't now continue because the resolution was blocked by russia which is of course a veto wielding member of the council so we'll go back to that a bit later on but let's move on to other top story this hour robert mugabe is refusing to stand down as in by ways president despite being confined to his home by the military a delegation from south africa is in the capital harare trying to reach a deal on his and the country's future is holding talks with president mugabe and the head of the armed forces with a catholic priest acting as mediator the military says it wants mugabe to stand down so there can be a smooth and bloodless transition the army chief backs the former vice president. he was sacked last week he could then take over as interim president amid the political and economic uncertainty the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been speaking out after receiving cancer treat

headquarters in new york james what are we expecting to happen in the next hour. well in about fifteen minutes time the u.n. security council is supposed to meet there is certainly an atmosphere of tension right now ahead of this meeting which could see some drama and also a moment of some significance for syria what it looks likely we're going to see is two competing u.n. security council resolutions put to the vote this is the u.s. resolution it wants to continue as is the case now of the inspection mission looking into chemical weapons in syria and has already found that they've been used both by eisel and by the syrian government this is the rival resolution from russia that talks about continuing the mission but also talks about reopening some of the cases that have already been inspected and the russians green critical of the chain of evidence and the fact that the inspectors haven't in some cases actually gone to the scene of these attacks they've done it by the russians say by remote control what i think is likely if it goes to vote is that you're going to

disagreements mainly over whether president bashar al assad should stay in power we can go live to james frey's now our diplomatic editor who is in geneva the scene for those talks to get under way tomorrow that's tuesday so round eight james can we have any optimism that they will yield anything that will end fighting on the ground in syria. i don't think we can be too optimistic knowing the grim history of all this we're going to get some more details you mentioned stefan de mistura who's convening this process he'll be speaking to the u.n. security council in about an hour's time but the word is that this is probably not going to start on time in the past we've had the opposition of taken days to get here to get to geneva because it had last minute negotiations among themselves this time the opposition some of them already here others of lying in the next few hours it's actually the syrian government's side that is not it seems going to be here at the start of talks on tuesday here in geneva they say they perspire own their flight to geneva because they're angry that the opposition is

is is pressuring him and james we know the syrian government delegation arrived today what more on that. syrian government delegation to arrive there in the hotel now we expect was to de mistura as he did with the opposition to pay them a courtesy call in the hotel not to talk clear whether there will be talks that the u.n. with the government side here taking place on wednesday or whether that will happen on thursday certainly the opposition delegation want to get both sides face to face to actually meet together around the table but the syrian government reluctant to come here they came here late some reports even saying they don't plan to stay here particularly long. life for us there in geneva thank you i still add on al-jazeera reports that britain is moving closer to agreeing on its brakes a divorce deal with the european union. and finally some good news for thousands of tourists stranded on the indonesian resort island of bali. howlers a creeping cold is a bit more of a rush now to north korea and probably hard. as coming out of what is a very cold mass a ground this is not clou

headquarters in new york and james tell us more about why russia blocked the resolution to renew the investigation into chemical attacks in syria because it had its own rival resolution which it withdrew from vote after it lost a procedural motion certainly other ambassadors particularly the u.s. and other western countries are saying what russia is really doing here is trying to protect the assad regime we've had this joint investigative mechanism the team investigating the use of chemical weapons since twenty fifteen looking at all the allegations they have come back in that time and said that there are four instances where the syrian government they're pretty sure used chemical weapons and to where i saw used chemical weapons what this now dar's is stops all of the ongoing plan for accountability for those attacks and stops the further investigation of those uses of chemical weapons the security council when this expires this gym the student investigative mechanism that's been investigating all of this and expires we think there's some debate about the time midnight new york times

security council well our diplomatic editor james base is at the u.n. headquarters in new york james japan trying to find some way of keeping this mechanism to investigate chemical weapons alive are they making any progress. well it's a last effort really after a day of high drama with two different resolutions in the u.n. security council both of which for meaning this investigative mechanism looks like it is going to wither and die in just a few hours japan has put forward the idea that they could pass a resolution to keep it going for another thirty days to allow for further negotiations on the way into the meeting the british ambassador had this to say and i've read it and i would have thought that every single member of the security council would support everything single sentence and that but i thought that in the past and i have still never asked me to think. well he may have thought that but then the russian deputy ambassador arrived in the meeting and he told the other diplomats that no russia could not support this new compromise japanese draf

is liable james thank you more now from a hommage am jim on the situation on the ground in yemen. in yemen's capital lines to buy petrol grow longer as fuel prices rise higher having jumped more than sixty percent in recent days the result of monday's announcement from saudi arabia that it would block all yemeni air and land routes as well as sea ports in response to a missile attack from across the border earlier this week residents of sanaa already accustomed to a humanitarian crisis in their country that seems to grow more dire every day are angry i get even inside you know this is a humanitarian crime they are exterminating the yemeni people and no muslim should be doing that these are unjust operations but it's not unexpected for those who kill children to close some ports. the price of cooking oil has also spiked this temporary interruption of supplies in yemen is coming on top of an already catastrophic humanitarian situation we shouldn't forget this the population is already reconned the population already lacking cope and lacking basic essential services ranging from food

bay is live for us at the united nations james thank you so here i guess crown princess also accusing iran of what it is calling an act of war by supplying the rebels with arms these are warning that saadi and i'm writing airports could be in the firing line then i heard a report from beirut. it has been three days since lebanese prime minister sato had announced his resignation he made his statement in saudi arabia and hasn't returned home since instead he traveled to a saudi ally in the iranian camp for talks on an escalating political crisis back home but the crisis extends beyond lebanon's borders saudi arabia has made clear it wants to curb iranian influence not just here but across the region. is accusing iran of what it called direct military aggression by providing hutu rebels in yemen with rockets used to target the kingdom of saudi officials have also said the very presence. of saudi arabia through a stretch when the lebanese government and people to finish off has belong it's an invitation to civil war there's a new front saudi israel and the us against iran. iran has proxi

said to been the run of the technical director for the malaria consortium james a very warm welcome to the program lovely to have you with us so james just tell me how you got involved with the program and what it was designed to achieve. the program stem from research that had shown that s m c c no it says in america more prevention was very effective and in malaria consortium we were looking for the opportunity to scale it up because there were twenty five million children who could benefit from the intervention and very few of those were being targeted through research so we designed a project and submitted out an application to unity who fortunately enough selected us and we participated in a multi country project in seven countries with five organizations and extended as sim c. to cover at least on average i would say about three to six million children between twenty fifteen twenty sixteen and in total we've managed to save about forty thousand kids from dying that's amazing ajay why does it work so well this this post yes it works so well because treatment is something which

mark local unclear i'm much james bays our diplomatic editor covering that story at the united nations. now an activist group in the u.k. says the number of british made bombs and missiles sell to saudi arabia has risen by five hundred percent since riyadh intervened in yemen civil war a campaign against arms trade says around six billion dollars in arms were sold in the first two years of this conflict meanwhile medical sources told al jazeera at least twenty two people have been killed in the latest saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen it's been a fighter jets are targeted a meeting of who think commanders in the northwest and one jerry gen. now u.k.'s international development secretary pretty patel has resigned after it was revealed she failed to disclose meetings with israeli officials while on holiday the tel said her actions have fallen below the high standards expected of her departure follows the resignation of british defense secretary after claims of sexual harassment barker has more from london pretty paternal arrived at the back door of downing street her government ca

all right stay with us a summit is that we're going to talk to james in geneva and james the situation then facing the diplomacy is pretty grim indeed isn't it and furthermore the u.n. itself is battling with other processes that have been put in place namely by the the russians so what is what does the u.n. need to do tomorrow in order to get things under way. well i think first they need to persuade the syrian government to come here because currently they have perspire and their trip as sama says there has been a pretty consistent pattern i've covered these talks for five years now as we've had various gatherings taking place here in geneva he's right that this failed diplomacy the timeline or that has actually rather than bringing peace to syria has actually increased the suffering of the people there because as he says every time there are talks there's a scramble particularly by the assad government to take ground and that appears to be what's happening now this serves negotiating team say they're not coming here because they don't like some comments made by the opposition in riy

for more let's go to our diplomatic editor james face at the united nations. james famines don't come out of nowhere we've been hearing dialogue similar to this for quite some time but this is extremely stark language that he is using what is going on at the u.n. . well certainly it's a very grim warning coming from the u.n. humanitarian chief which he made not only to us reporters as you heard there in the last fifteen minutes or so but before that he spoke to the u.n. security council now he's left their meeting they are still meeting as we speak and i'm sure that warning will concentrate minds everything they say at the u.n. is gauged in terms of not just its effect in terms of the humanitarian situation but also in terms of the political and diplomatic situation it's worth telling you that mr low cost spoke on monday to member states of the united nations then he was very very careful with his language and said i need to be careful because i'm addressing the security council on wednesday between now and then i need to speak to keep parties about the situat

realised that vitamin was beginning to push him out of the way the other very important figure was james rothschild who attended this meeting. at the meeting it became clear to sykes that vitamin not gaster was the most important zionist. this is also the moment where most of the cast is dislodged. sykes's part on the french side because i haven't liked guest guster been insistent that should be a jewish state and nothing less coming into being after the war and pick up clearly wanted scientists who were much more willing to compromise with the interests of the great powers and the bison was certainly happy to fit that bill. the meetings between the zionists and the government seemed to give momentum to the idea of british support for a jewish homeland in palestine and their potential role in its administration. but the secret psychs agreements between britain and france which formed the basis of the future division of the ottoman empire planned to put palestine under international administration any change would have to be negotiated with france. niamh socolow of emerged as the man to t

and for lebron james lived up to his nickname of the king in the n.b.a. we'll have more in. hello there we're seeing a fair amount of cloud of rain across the middle east at the moment the satellite picture shows aspiring area of town just off the coast of turkey that's throwing plenty of cloud plenty of showers there around the coast and we'll see plenty more showers there i think in the far west as we head through the day on sunday on sunday though we're also going to see this area of cloud stretches through many parts of iraq and down past q eight and it could squeeze out one or two show as question addressed this way eastward say as we head through monday not a great deal to it really towards the west though another belt of cloud and rain is trying to work its way in for turkey looks wet as we head through monday even further towards the south and that cloud that's working its way through kuwait could just squeeze out a few showers around bahrain or in doha here to the south though looks like it should stay dry force across the u.a.e. and across a man so his staying fine

we'll leave it there for now we thank you james for that update from geneva and let's take it in new york now and just listen for just a moment i need your managerial situation in syria close to four hundred twenty thousand in ten beseeched areas the vast majority of them ninety four percent are in eastern guta the remaining six percent are infer and can fry in italy and in yarmouk in damascus mr president i want to touch first on some specific issues of concern and then i'll update you on the delivery of humanitarian assistance. fighting is escalated in eastern damascus the world health organization reports that from fourteen to seventeen november eighty four people were killed and six hundred fifty nine people were injured including hundreds of women and children earlier this week air strikes on doomer and other areas reportedly resulted in further civilian deaths over the same period more than two hundred mortar shells and rockets have reportedly been fired on residential areas in damascus resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries against this background news over the last two

official bizarre diplomatic editor james bays reports the security council has struck a different time. after three days of quiet diplomacy with saudi arabia the un is now changing course laying out the dire scenario if the blockade of yemen isn't lifted. there will be a famine in yemen. it will not be like the famine that we saw in south sudan earlier in the year where tens of thousands of people are affected it will not be like the famine which cost two hundred fifty thousand people their lives in somalia in twenty eleven. it will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims. the response from the security council seemed very guarded the current president the italian ambassador read out a statement strongly condemning the missile fired by the who fears but barely mentioning the country responsible for the blockade you have strongly condemned the missile by the who think he's given mr local tax dire warning isn't it now time to strongly condemn the country that is blockading yemen not allowing the humanitarian aid in saudi arabia. the focus by u.s

access to yemen could hamper humanitarian efforts let's go live to algiers there is diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. already a great deal of concern about a deepening humanitarian crisis in the country what is the u.n. saying about the now tighter controls over yemen's border boarders as you say there's been concern over the amount of aid of medical supplies and food let into the country for some considerable time but it appears now that humanitarian aid and aid workers are not able to get in because of this new blockade that has been announced by saudi arabia we learned from the u.n. they have two flights that were supposed to go into yemen bream aid workers in the last few hours and those flights were unable to take off they were not given the necessary permissions by saudi arabia and the un's deputy spokesman for harm harks says he's concerned we do take note of the fourth of november statement by the saudi ministry of defense that a ballistic missile was intercepted over northeast riyadh and that the who these have claimed responsibility for firing the missile from yemen where w

allow their korea to continue for thirty days to allow time for negotiations on a wider compromise james face has the latest from new york baber of the draft resolution contained in document two thousand and seventeen nine seven zero please raise the hand those against it seems this was the moment that investigations into who carried out chemical attacks in syria and did an eleventh russian veto on the side of the assad government leading to this angry rebuke from the u.s. ambassador in a world in which the council's time and attention could be productively devoted to one hundred different things. russia is wasting our time conflicts are raging outlaw states are acquiring nuclear weapons the human dignity of millions is violated every day brutal regimes are using chemical weapons on their own people this was russia's reply new war bird linnaeus a medal an extension of the gym's mandate for us is possible only a fundamental flaws in its work are rectified this was probably the last chance to save the international investigation tasked with working out who was responsible for chemical atta

what's next for them and their leader political hane al jazeera washington all right let's turn to james still see now is a senior fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies he joins us via skype from singapore thank you for talking to us i may say you can read almost a wink to intervene in and what many people are describing as that some is dangerous moment in lebanon for many many is. that's true nonetheless the fact is that i think the statement by the state department was clear it was clear that they feel that it is being taken and it was clear to that they were describing what is happening as a proxy war in lebanon and i think that will lead to mounting international pressure on saudi arabia as to let. career is done particularly at a time that which the country across all political stripes is really behind it and how the returns that would be a significant setback for the saudis and as i as i mentioned before there are quite a few people who are suggesting that this moment is perhaps the most dangerous when it comes to a possible open confrontation between saudi arabi

them store on wednesday our diplomatic out of her chair and spain's trying to slide from geneva so james what phase are these talks and right now well i think that the special envoy stephan de mistura is trying to move things on pretty far let me show you the scene here in journey room with the flurries of snow you can see the reporters outside the door that we've seen inside the door both delegations going at the same time for the first time actually we've had them both in there for what's called proximity talks since liked abrahim e was the special envoy going back a number of years what happens in proximity talks is you have both in adjacent rooms the special envoy talks to one speaks to one goes then to the next room and relays messages we understand that that is how they're going to proceed in next at least for the next few hours i also understand that the government delegation isn't particularly happy with things as you know they perspire their arrival here in geneva there on happy about some of the comments made by the opposition side in the special envoy has put out a statement s

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attack you can show her in in april eighty people died many of them children are diplomatic get into james bays reports from new york the ten veto by russia in the u.n. security council on syria and one that the council's efforts to hold to account those who use chemical weapons in the country. it was a vote that sparked outrage from the u.s. ambassador and she gave this warning that the u.s. may now work outside the u.n. russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council the assad regime should be on clear notice the united states does not accept syria's use of chemical weapons as we did in april we will do it again if we must we will defend the international standard against chemical weapons use there was drama even before the meeting began with ambassador hayley accusing her russian colleague of bad faith by refusing to enter into negotiations for some reason the phones at the russian mission aren't working we have tried to get a call with them and they've been too busy to talk to us this week and when i have tried to call the silly for so

security council diplomatic editor james spaces at the u.n. headquarters in new york so james what is the latest on this japanese sponsored draft resolution. well very high stakes because that meeting of the security council and a vote in the security council just about an hour less than an hour and ten minutes away from now and this most believe is the last chance to save the international investigation into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in syria the so-called joint investigation mechanism which its mandate is already run out but they are still trying to find a way to keep it going keep it alive it seems to be on life support with this one hour to go now and the key thing after two resolutions failed yesterday with a disagreement between the u.s. and russia on exactly what it should do in its new mandate the japanese of put forward what is just a temporary measure to try and extend it just for thirty days while negotiations continue and it's not to talk clear what the russians are going to do certainly the russian deputy amb