New York hosts the six-day UN General Assembly with some world leaders, including Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron, notable by their absence.
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00:00 New York City will be a hive of diplomatic activity this week as it hosts dozens of world
00:07 leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.
00:10 The war in Ukraine and challenges facing the global south are on the agenda at an assembly
00:15 notable too by those who aren't there, with the leaders of China, France, Russia and the
00:20 UK absent.
00:23 A ferry ride away on Staten Island and an example of international cooperation.
00:28 With Volodymyr Zelensky seeing an American hospital treating injured Ukrainian soldiers.
00:35 It's a vital high profile week for the Ukrainian president as he seeks to bolster military
00:40 aid commitments in New York and Washington.
00:45 Diplomacy and negotiation skills also showed results in Qatar where in a broken deal five
00:50 prisoners from each side were exchanged by the USA and Iran.
00:58 (dramatic music)