Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military
special inspector general and the same lessons learned report that came out in 2013. that did not impact anything that was done in afghanistan. you know, quite frankly, we had after action-type analysis of vietnam that seemed to have gone into the ether. and so despite the outrageous headlines and the waste of money and the tragedy that s happening in the afghanistan streets right now, as the security forces we poured $83 billion into training have completely disappeared, we just see this happening again and again. now is actually one of the biggest critiques in this latest inspector general report is that we have no plan for keeping this from happening the next time we go into a country like this. it s head-shaking, isn t it? terrific article in propublica. megan rose, really appreciate it, thanks so much. thank you. a grim task more than a week after that devastating earthquake hit haiti.
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the most seriously injured are being evacuated to the capital, port-au-prince. as joe johns reports, they have terrible stories to tell. reporter: the helicopter convoy bringing the most seriously injured from the earthquake zone to port-au-prince, haiti, running from sunup to sundown. today they re greeted by a surgeon, a broken bone specialist, who quickly evaluates their condition. the 7.2-magnitude earthquake left more than 2,000 people dead and over 12,000 people injured, causing hospitals in haiti to be completely overwhelmed. a short distance by air from la caille to port-au-prince, but getting here can be a slow process. this 23-month-old girl suffered a laceration running from thigh to ankle in saturday s earthquake. when she finally was flown into the capital, her leg was badly infected. took a long time to get her here.