President drawn and ambassador for standing up for you are blind to belie. Like a puppet. Or we begin the day at the United Nations one vote that targeted two facets of u. S. President donald trump his mideast policy and his personality by a huge margin the u. N. General assembly voted to reject the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel it was how the u. S. President tried to influence that vote that is at the center of even more outrage tonight diplomats and heads of state including turkish president richard thai air to one accusing traum of bullying other nations to fall into line yesterday trump threatened to cut Financial Support to the u. S. In an individual countries as punishment today the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley again mourned that the u. S. Would be watching the voting and taking names it turned out to be a long list of names otherwise known as the bullies puppet. Those. Two days with pollution like property your property pooled by the three or you. Must lose i have no doubt that two days with lucian will end up in the trash bin of history we were all osterwald know or face the consequences some are even pregnant. Development aid cut such an attitude is unacceptable this is bullying and this jumble will not bow to the america well put our embassy in jerusalem that is what the American People want us to do and it is the right thing to do. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that but this will make a difference on how americans look at the un and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the us and this will be remembered the voting has been completed please lock the machine. And for more on that now we are joined by our correspondent in washington carson phenomenon and our correspondent in israel tanya kramer to both of you good evening karsten let me start with you the u. S. Has been defeated or at least embarrassed in this vote what now i mean is washington licking its wounds. Well this from ministration is doubling down on his decision concerning jerusalem as had to be expected to have been no tweets or other statements from the president himself so far but Vice President mike pence just tweeted and the President Trumped the u. S. Expects our allies to stand with us thank you to the countries that recognized our right to determine where we put our embassy and with that he echoed some points that nikki haley the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Made earlier today in which she said this was a question of whether countries respect disrespect the United States but i quite dont get that we need to be honest because of course the u. S. Has the rights to decide where its embassy to israel is located but also other countries have the right to disagree and to criticize this move and if you actually look at the countries that went with the United States here this list is knows very impressive that we have got somalia on dura told. The muscle islands and of cause is were you know this is not a very Impressive Coalition of the willing and tanya speaking of israel the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has commented on the outcome of the book today lets take a listen to what he just had to say israel completely rejects this proposed truce was aleutian drew swimmers are confident always was always will be. But i do appreciate the fact that a growing number of countries refuse to participate in this theater of the absurd so i appreciate that and especially i want to get express our thanks to President Trump an investor for their store difference of israel and theres no more difference of the truth. All right so he rejects the what next then for israel. What mr netanyahu doesnt sound to borat about it i mean that resolution of pass was expected and he made it keels in this video that he quoted in theater of the absurd pointing out again that more countries also abstain i think that is what is very official looking at at the moment from a point a few in israel you know the official line was here in the past couple of days that you know it doesnt really matter if this is a nonbinding resolution and some israeli officials also called it like a publicity stunt by the palestinians now if you dont i did call an International Point of view might say israel and the u. S. Have isolated blame to themselves. But that there might not be any implications that photo on that on the ground. That was did over used on you kramer in jerusalem interesting phenomena on the story for us in washington here at the big table now im joined by nicole verges on the fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the German Council on Foreign Relations you called this year we were talking about this is story in the vote and it was they are still up for debate but i was saying not a single european country voted for the u. S. Position today at the u. N. So so much for the Transatlantic Alliance here well there were a few European Countries which actually voted poland and hungary are among them not like the old allies like germany france or Great Britain which is very important because jerusalem and the whole Peace Process is an issue with it you know has been closely followed and supported by these european powers for many many years and the decision to declare to resign and as a capital is something that affects the Peace Process idea in a very bad way yeah and although we are constantly hearing from the white house and from nikki haley today that decision pushes peace forward so its like theyre singing from two completely different songbooks here when it comes to jerusalem well if you know if i dont think the Peace Process will not continue i think the president has a pretty good idea of what he wants to come out of the Peace Process it will be a Peace Process according to the rule with Benyamin Netanyahu this is his acceptable idea of what a Peace Process should be at the end its regulations and ideas that. These eighty. One i mean and. For what its not a Peace Process in which the palestinians have a real saying and have a role. They. They wanted to play well i mean thats also speaks to the transaction diplomacy dont trump and i was saying at the beginning of the show weve seen today there are limits to but maybe trump doesnt see those limits but when it comes to mideast peace you know how much can he impose his business deal on other countries i mean countries in societies are not businesses seventy five countries did not vote for the rest of the illusion this time so. To certain degree has a little bit off success in scamming this country is to take on a position a straight as among them canada is a miser you say the ones who abstained today exactly so by abstaining then theyre saying were not going to vote against the u. S. Were not going to vote for the u. S. So its better to stay neutral do you think they were staying neutral because they were afraid well the explanation was we want to be everybody stay at the table and this is why we dont want to take sides and we take a side when we participate in you know saying no or yes of the resolution thats the off official line but i think it has to do with being concerned what the results will be because nikki haley said they would take down names they were taking names and what do you make of that weve never seen that before we weve never heard a diplomat at that level use that language either way it shows that. From the very start. People were concerned that the u. S. President didnt doesnt quite understand how administration works on you know the Government Works because its not up to the president to decide which country will get how much money through the u. N. Its up to congress so in in you know threatening that they will not get the money if they vote against him he somehow. Understand how it works within you do you think thats a really key here because he probably sees it as the white house submit a budget to congress that congress then of course has to approve and can change but do you think he sees it that way do or do you think he sees it as the president submit a budget that will be approved i think so i think he simplifies the complexity of these Decision Making processes and this is how he has you know politics as a president from the very start to see this as a business deal as an act you know to negotiate i put some money invest in something i want to get something out of it and this of course is not how politics works because just place of all diplomacy place of all and a long Term Investment in these values in this you know ideas of you know it has to do with you know with trust with understanding the position of the other person and he completely ignores spyin is this this this notion of Intrinsic Value is like speaking you know mandarin to your dollar trump many people have said so or have to see how it plays out hes only in his first year theres a long time left in the term. I will say to go run but it was good to have you back on the show thank you. Well as we reported last night the german chancellor Angela Merkels troubles in finding a Coalition Partner have reached record dimensions never before has it taken the chancellor this long to form a new government but it doesnt have to be this way according to former social democrat chancellor Gerhard Schroeder he says its a problem with a very simple solution and he told us about that and more when he spoke to in an exclusive interview. I believe that any future government will see this project as a Good Business and will support it just as the current chancellor and the current foreign minister do i have no worries on that school. Dont you see the danger that because of this power vacuum in berlin german interests in brussels are of course that could be the case thats why im one of those who say lets get a move on lets act as soon as possible move. Whats your advice to your party a new coalition a loose corporation of the kind the dramatics and get on with a grand coalition what else do you think that in future governments in germany will always take so long to follow. Its difficult this is the first time that weve got a six Party Parliament two of those parties are not seen as potential Coalition Partners in fact they arent capable of being in a coalition with the left on the one hand and the f. T. On the other thats why it will become more difficult so im telling my party very frankly theres no way round it you have to take on this responsibility but you have to convince the Party Members that this is necessary and do it quickly. Europe needs it europe needs a stable france which theyve got in the form of macro and europe needs a stable germany with this in mind i believe the sensible thing to do is to form a government quickly. And as things stand the only option is a grand coalition thats what we should do and no one profits from new elections and no one profits from playing around with other ideas like case by case cooperation or whatever that wont get us anywhere but. It wouldnt a. Good of. Which cause should the new government take on russia what do you advise their. Cooperation rather than confrontation thats the sensible way to go it with you annoyed we need the equivalent of a new policy of daytona and its about time its high time im in favor of the step by step the removal of sanctions dependent on how things go in donbass we should not always be talking about an escalation when there are prisoner exchanges when the heavy weapons are withdrawn verified and supervised by the appropriate people then we should go ahead and say ok we see theres goodwill and we want to reward this by dismantling sanctions step by step. And by the way as the Economic Research institutes tell us of the sanctions most damage to gemini. Was the former german chancellor Gerhard Schroeder there now its interesting his remarks on russia its important to note that he was recently elected chairman of the russian state controlled oil giant ross neff hes also chairman of the nord stream to gas pipeline which is majority owned by russias gas fraught you see the picture here is close ties to russia and president Vladimir Putin have drawn criticism from his own party the social democrats. Still to come on the day the story behind the eyes of a syrian refugee we take a look back at the year in photo journalism and some of the prize winning images thats coming up later in the show. Through the u. N. War crimes court for the former yugoslavia has officially closed its doors after almost a quarter of a century and has justice been served the courts groundbreaking work was honored at a ceremony in the hague the tribunal was set up to prosecute the perpetrators of some of the worst atrocities seen in europe since World War Two u. N. Secretary general and tony a good test he said that the court gave a voice to victims and rolled accountability into the worlds collective conscience. Well despite that high praise in the hague the court is despised in parts of the former yugoslavia and despite its repeated findings of genocide and crimes against humanity there still widespread denial in the balkans that any atrocities ever took place we take a look back at the tribunals hearings and its legacy. Crimes. Forcible displacement the un tribunals for the former yugoslavia has tried many cases of atrocities some have made history. Perhaps best known in the trial of the former serbian president Slobodan Milosevic charged with crimes against humanity he was brought before the cool it in two thousand and one the list of indictments was known and the trial dragged on for years the loss of which died in custody before a verdict could be reached the trial is fear. Over more than twenty years the u. N. Tribunal indicted one hundred sixty one people. Not all of them face trials some refused to cooperate but there were some spectacular cases where war criminals were brought to justice such as the former bosnian serb leader radovan carriage who was arrested in two thousand and eight for years had been living quietly in disguise passing himself off as a faith healer. After the breakup of yugoslavia carriage pressed for the creation of a greater serbia he was blamed for the heavy loss of life in the brutal siege of sarajevo. The verdict forty years behind bars along with the former general ratko millet it carried it was found guilty of the srebrenica massacre in the summer of one thousand nine hundred five when some eight thousand muslim men and boys were murdered. The judges ruled the massacre was genocide it took years just to identify the victims. And the tribunals made another historic ruling classifying for the first time mass rape as a crime against humanity. Almost sixteen years after sixteen years on the wanted list right come let it was also brought before the court in the hague to see mr. For having committed crimes the chamber sentences mr each to life imprisonment. Or whatever. Yet. Im so happy the judgement cant bring thousands back from the dead but this is what weve prayed for. Is because in. The last hearing in november this year should have been a fitting end to the tribunals work instead it was a debacle the defendant slow down project killed himself by swallowing poison just off to being sentenced to a twenty year jail still Police Police a dont the course itself had become a crime scene. The tribunals should have helped with the process of reconciliation but its not as simple as that many in the former yugoslavia deny to this day that will crimes took place and many of those found guilty is still celebrated as heroes in their homeland. Its a mixed legacy at best when were talking about the tribunal and to analyze that a little bit more im joined here at the big table by our correspondent Frank Hoffman frank its good to have you on the show so what kind of legacy does this tribunal leave us with well the tribunal that sort of nine hundred ninety three Brought International justice to another to a higher level to a more intense level nowadays we have the International National criminal tribunal International Criminal court in the hague which is not come of that development and even the most positive juridical figures would not have folded at this is that this really can happen when they were. Developing the first tribunals in one thousand nine hundred three the first war crimes tribunals after the number of probes this gives a little bit of a Historical Perspective what we what we have and. A very important outcome of all of the sites delivering justice is the impact and the knowledge we got from that court and this remains in the ute. With a body more than one hundred sixty records and they are available the tribunal often had to defend itself against political interference i mean there were forces at work that wanted to influence that weve got a statement from christiane surely he was the high representative for bosnia and herzegovina from two thousand and six to two thousand and seven lets take a listen. There were some cases where you really wanted where is this meddling going to end. But the tribe you know refused to be influenced and the states involved had to learn one thing. If you had no respect for ruling its because you had no idea about the judiciary. And if you dont have a clue about the judiciary if a lot to learn about democracy. Well and thats true and i think that holds true today still doesnt it in the former yugoslavia absolutely and here you see what mr churchill in maine says the political effects are something on the one side and the use of this criminal war crimes criminal tribunals by nationalists agenda and politicians using that nationalistic agenda for their own poll purposes but then on the other side you have the Civil Society you have human Rights Groups you have people that are in the center and the call group of the of these societies the crisis. In the call of the call group transforming these societies towards democracy and for them that was very important to have the tribunals and would you say then as i asked at the beginning of the story was just as delivered to many but not to all i would say. But theres still crowds going on and sorry of all for example its a basis this reconciliation process is not over unfortunately theres no real loss to peace in the balkans yet but its a basis to move on from Frank Hoffman is always good to have you on the show thanks great insights thank you. Well this year has seen our full images in photojournalism unicef germany grants an annual award to outstanding showing the Living Conditions of children around the world the two thousand and seventeen winner is a sad testament to the hundreds of thousands of children who are the innocent victims of war displacement and exile the bewilderment of war in the eyes of a child shes five years old and comes from syria mohammed took this picture of zahra in a refugee camp in jordan in twenty fifteen czarist parents fled the war in syria with her and seven other children they have lived in a tent ever since every time i look at the picture i still go back to that moment. The war is all over her face. The ongoing war in syria and the flight of the revenge in the face of mass persecution in myanmar with essential topics in this years competition unicef germany grants the award each year to photos and photo series that best depict the personality and Living Conditions of children worldwide. It is a mirror of the reality that many children in this world live in a bitter reality which is why there are three pictures in this competition that address the flight of the range from myanmar to bangladesh but you can still find pictures from iraq there are still images from syria and if you had to find a headline for this competition it would be it is still not over people are still dying still starving people are still on the run but not. For this years winner theres still work to do. New project is shooting portraits of refugee children stranded in serbia. Well the day is really done but as ever the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter you can write to me brant off t. V. 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