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Western governments seem to be in no doubt that president Bashir Al Assad is responsible for what appears to be a deadly Chemical Weapons attack in Idlib Province which has killed dozens of people including at least eleven children and injured hundreds more. The foreign secretary Boris Johnson said if proved then it is a war crime. The Un Security Council is holding an Emergency Meeting tomorrow to discuss the attack. If assad is the culprit, something the Syrian Regime denies, then it is surely...

A United States resolution to extend the mandate of an expert panel which monitors sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was vetoed by Russia in the Security Council on Thursday. This in effect abolishes the monitoring ...

AFL-CIO leadership cited a procedural rule to tell the San Francisco Labor Council it couldn’t even debate a resolution on BDS.

The fact that tougher sanctions did pass the u.n. security council last week, what does that tell you about the willingness of other countries in the region to really put the pressure on north korea? >> well, i give the administration credit for passing that sanctions resolution. i think it was a really important demonstration of international unity at a critical time. the question is, sanctions are not just an end, theyre a means to another end. and thats a negotiation. whether or not both side...

Menswear protest is impossible. newly released documents make that assertion. previous estimates of those skilled in the 1989 protests arranged in the hundreds to more than 1,000. china is a big worry for the pentagon, so are many other suspects. heres lucas tomlinson. >> the u.n. security council voted to crank up sanctions on the rogue communist regime. the first set of sanctions instructors long-range missile test last month. which flew higher and longer than any in its history. pyongyang res...

Latest sanctions have done we have yet to really put the economic squeeze on china. we have only sanctioned a couple of smaller banks. i think that the chinese understand that the alternative to negotiation and the alternative to a peaceful solution is military action they may be willing to do more because even though they sided with us on the sanctions resolution they did not go as far as the trump administration wanted to go. the united states wanted a total freezing of assets and the chinese ...

Risk. they might well attack south korea, go to war and at the same time i think it would impress them in ways that sanctions evidently dont. china and russia cheat after they approve every sanctions resolution. thats why we may be heading to war. its quite possible at this point, theres nothing left. i hope we try everything we can before we get to war. the problem is that its all been done. were now in the realm of hydrogen bombs for our time. not peace for our time. its very dangerous, neil. ...

Expansion of its military program. haley called that an insult. china thinks there is something to it. >> this joint initiative by china and russia is practical and feasible, aimed at addressing the most urgent security concerns of the parties concerned, easing the tension as soon as possible, preventing the escalation of the swaituation round after another round, achieving through dialogue the du nuclearization of the peninsula and maintaining the peace and stability of the peninsula and the re...

To the actual use of a nuclear weapon then the u.s. itself would be at risk. i think it is because i care about americans that i dont want to do something that might begin to spiral out of control when we have a very young person sitting in pyongyang who is at the center of this. >> you know, jim, intelligence, international security, military and diplomacy experts will grapple with this, and this afternoon an emergency u.n. security council meeting has been called for tomorrow morning, emergenc...

Korean peninsula. former advisor to the u.s. nato commanders is joining us now. how do you do that? hes not going to give them up. kim jong-un is never going to give up his nuclear weapons, i believe, and they have said as much. they said it is not on the table. they are not going to negotiate. we can all go take a hike. >> thats right. it would be a crushing prestige blow for his regime if he were to give up nuclear weapons. he almost might not survive that from the hit to his prestige with his...