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Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 15 years ago, a conference of the worlds nations agreed to the Millennium Development goals. The ambitious set of targets were meant to lift the worlds poore poorest eradicating poverty, and many more things. It was time limited and came to a close this year. The world did well. Around the world the way health and poverty are conventionally measured show improvement. Now theres plans that are more ambitious. Reporter back in 2000 the former u. N. Secretary...

Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 15 years ago, a conference of the worlds nations agreed to the Millennium Development goals. The ambitious set of targets were meant to lift the worlds poore poorest eradicating poverty, and many more things. It was time limited and came to a close this year. The world did well. Around the world the way health and poverty are conventionally measured show improvement. Ambitious. Reporter back in 2000 the former u. N. Secretary general came up with the plan,...

A smoking revelation. A hospital was mistakenly attacked. New revelations and a conversation with the u. S. Executive director will he or wont he the talk of a president ial campaign swirling around Vice President joe biden good evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. We begin in the stormsoaked southeastern united states. In the carolinas, the death toll stands at 17. The rain has stopped. In parts of south carolina, the rivers have not crested. The water rises. The tragedy has be...

Lessig. A conversation with carter and a discussion of Health Topics from around the world. Saturday night at 11, former vp Dick Cheney Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Deputy Assistant of state on their book exceptional which looks at form policy. On cspan three, saturday starting at noon, we are live from georgia for a commemoration a commemoration of the 13000 Union Soldiers whod died during the civil war and the Confederate Military prison camp questions will be taken before and after th...

You have to say it started in december thats when it authorized they are not or able to organize well. Theres divisions within iraq that make it very difficult. I just wish it werent so. Im afraid that is the reality we are dealing with. I believe the un has 4 million refugee, 7 million displaced person. It is obvious to me this is a humanitarian catastrophe. We need to to deal with it in an honest way. The most effective and honest way is to keep people as close to home as possible. If they the...

Secondly, even if we are producing okay a few hundred thousand barrels a day more, that in no way changes our linkage to the Global Oil Price and the exposure to a price spike. In fact, if anything, its both the fact that we are connected to the crude Oil Global Market and the fact that we are and i believe will continue to be major oil product exporters. We are exposed just as in that anecdote i gave about britain in 2000, we are exposed to the Global Oil Price spike and thats really the modern...

With Cardinal Turkson and cardinal who had been given the responsibility fof drafting. I was invited with a congressman from the philippines, mexico, south africa, to talk about the impacts of Climate Change, especially on those poorest countries in the world, and then what could be done in order to avoid the worst consequences. So it was a great honor for me to have been invited there, to help to shape the way they were thinking about the drafting of the incyclical. And they made it quite clear...

Welcome back from lunch. I hope you enjoyed it. This is our all catholic panel of the day. Although we are all catholics last week when the pope was here. I never met so many catholics i didnt know were catholic. And so today im going to announce a papal miracle, but after a few minutes into the interview, both of them met the pope. So im going to get a little papal dust on me, i hope. And senator markey, which i never call you that, but i want to be formal. Ive known ed for about 29 years or so...

A fair solution to the middle east conflict unquestionably requires the true exercise by the Palestinian People of their right to build their own state within the borders existing 67. Or to 19 we support their capital being n east jeruslem. People in eastern urope. This is the result of countries in the middle east and africa. As well as poverty and und development preveiling in countries in the african continent. E u. N. Should take on should help the crisis it helped create. After 56 years in ...

Mr. President , dear colleagues, the United Nations has gone through the test of time over the past seven decades. It has witnessed efforts made by all countries to uphold peace, pursue peace, and build homeland cooperation. Having reached a New Historical starting point, the United Nations needs to address the central issue of how to better promote world peace and development in the 21st century. The world is going through a historical process of accelerated evolution. The peace and progress wi...