"Colombia’s President Duque on environmental terrorism, migration and democracy" PBS NewsHour 9/20/2021
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SUMMARY: The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week in New York to discuss the pandemic, climate change, and migration — as more than 80 million people are displaced across the planet. President Iván Duque of Colombia has been in office three years — at a crossroads of South and Central America — and manages all of these problems together. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the issues.
"As Biden touts American democracy, here are the issues allies want U.S. to deliver on" PBS NewsHour 9/21/2021
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SUMMARY: President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered his first speech to the United Nations as part of its annual General Assembly. Biden touted diplomacy and the endurance of democracy as he faces tensions with old allies, and global challenges, like COVID and climate change. Nick Schifrin reports from New York, and white house correspondent Yamiche Alcindor joins with more from the White House north lawn.
WATCH: Biden addresses the 2021 United Nations General Assembly
"EU’s top diplomat says it can deploy military forces without U.S., NATO approval" PBS NewsHour 9/22/2021
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SUMMARY: President Joe Biden spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday for the first time since France erupted with anger over a new Indo-Pacific defense alliance between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Nick Schifrin looks at European-U.S. relations with Josep Borrell, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission.
"U.S. and E.U. climate envoys on how China, developing nations can help combat crisis" PBS NewsHour 9/23/2021
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SUMMARY: The U.N. warns that unless the world acts faster than promised, Earth's temperatures will rise to catastrophic, irreversible levels. The U.S. calls the upcoming climate summit the last chance for the world to avoid disaster. Nick Schifrin discusses the crisis with John Kerry the President's Special Envoy on Climate, and Frans Timmermans executive [First] Vice President of the European Commission.
