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about what different players in the global health architecture, you know, what their perspectives are.

But I think understanding more what the whole Accra Reset process is, what gives me hope that this might be the one that works among the 100 reform processes is the fact that there's life after the high-level panel, there's life after the UNGA process, you know, report unveiling, that is actually a mechanism to, you know, take all these recommendations and see who needs to hear them, who needs to act, who needs to do something about them.

And that is a sort of a time, maybe three, four, five years, where there's a mechanism to make sure that all these things happen.

If it's AU that needs to act, there will be somebody who will say, OK, AU, you need to do this.

And if it's UNGA, there's somebody who's going to do that.

If it's countries...

There's a mechanism to take forward the recommendations, and it's not like they're just there for whoever wants to do something, to do something about it.

My The most important thing for me, accountability is important, but is action.

And one of the things I did at the UN General Assembly was working with organisations, working with other governments, how do we improve health and humanitarian access in Gaza, for example? Because it's stopping the killing.

1,200 people killed since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza.

It's stopping the killing.

Hong Ji Kim, Kyu Seok Shim, and Joyce Lee report.

Climate Developments Director General of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, on Friday, said the agency's annual report to the UN General Assembly expects the use of nuclear power than triple by 2060.

The growth will be driven by electrification, data centers powered by AI, and technology companies' appetite for reliable, carbon-free power.

Edith M. Lederer reports for AP News.

So that's good news.

Meanwhile, what have businesses been saying? And I was listening to a lot of businesses who were at New York City for part of the General Assembly meeting and for part of the many, many other events in New York City in September.

And U.S. businesses are very strongly against shifting toward clean electrification.

Clean electrification is emerging as a critical route to reducing exposure to volatile fossil fuel power.

The urgency to turn ambition into delivery of results is very clear.

On September 21, at the UN General Assembly, the leader of the UN, Antonio Guterres, said, a future beyond fossil fuel is in sight.

The question is how? And Guterres called for every government to adopt a national plan for transitioning away from fossil fuel in order to help us all strengthen competitiveness, help us all with energy access, and help us all build resilience against a backdrop of geopolitical instability.

Many, many businesses have been saying in New York and many other places that annual renewable energy deployment needs to more than double by 2030.

You know, the act of architecture itself is political.

I just got back from, I was in New York last week for Climate Week and the UN General Assembly.

And what really kind of like kind of further illustrated this, and I was kind of one foot in one world and another foot in the other.

And...

Cuba has accused the Trump administration of threatening countries with tariffs, travel restrictions and other retaliatory sanctions to pressure them into voting against an upcoming United Nations resolution demanding the U.S. lift its decades-long economic embargo on Cuba.

For decades, a majority of the U.N. General Assembly has opposed the economic blockade.

This is Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

These methods of pressure include the threat of imposing punitive tariffs, the suspension of cooperation programs, the denial of visas to government officials, their family members, and their children, support for forces opposed to the respective governments, the threat of encouraging overthrow or subversion, interference in election processes, and the threat of politically destabilizing those countries.

I mean, you had a period over the summer where both presidents appeared quite close and made inroads in important areas of cooperation.

You know, you had the, during the NATO summit, you had the Patriot license deal announced, you had multiple calls, meetings, and even lately during the UN General Assembly week, you had a meeting between Trump and Zelensky, where Zelensky afterwards talked to to to reporters brief them and I was there and he was very very happy he was optimistic he was saying yeah no because they were they were already starting to be rumors and reports that the Trump uh team is making demands to the ukrainians about um you know going easy on on Russian oil infrastructure And I remember that, you know, it was, you know, the UN building somewhere in the basement, Zelensky's holding room, he's inviting some reporters and we were there and he was, and this was a number of questions like, in this meeting, did Trump make demands? And Zelensky was very clear, he was like, no, no demands made.

We even, we talked about the Patriot deal and it was even, you know, formally finalized a couple of days later that Trump came out and said, I agree with that.

So- Even then, the relationship seemed to be fine.

for reparations of some sort and that the worst crime versus humanity ever, most would think that's the Holocaust, right? Not her.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution officially declaring that the transit transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans is the gravest crime against humanity in history in the world.

And when the United States voted against it, the United States said the following.

It does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.

So so he showed up at the scene of that incident wearing a flak jacket.

He spoke to cameras and he he continued language that has been getting kind of more and more bellicose over the last several weeks, more than a month, starting when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

basically making the case that only he can keep Israelis safe.

Of course, there's an enormous swath of Israeli society that sees things far differently.