World Leaders Forge New Alliances Ahead of UN as Trump Faces Isolation

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0:30Ben Meiselas:World leaders are punching back hard against Donald Trump in advance of the 81st session of the General Assembly set to meet on Tuesday. First, it should be noted what the theme of the General Assembly's 81st session is when world leaders arrive on Tuesday. It is restoring trust, managing transformation, a united nation that delivers for all. the foreign minister of Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Rahman, is the president of the General Assembly. And here's what he says. I'm convinced that the world now needs a more effective and responsive multilateralism. By working together, we can build a more robust multilateral system that commands the trust of the member states and delivers concrete benefits for all.

1:25Ben Meiselas:Also, it should be noted that the United Nations Human Rights Division will be submitting their report, making findings that the Trump regime engaged in war crimes in Manab, slaughtering 168 little girls. The findings by the United Nations Human Rights Commission will be delivered in Geneva on Monday in advance of the General Assembly general debate on Tuesday. Also in the lead up to the United Nations General Assembly 81st session, Qatar held its annual Qatar Economic Forum. Prime Minister Al-Thani of Qatar talked about how Middle East nations, how Gulf nations need to be more self-reliant, need to be less dependent on the U.S., and need to ensure good relations with Iran and how the Trump and Netanyahu catastrophic war on Iran has so disrupted the region.

2:29Ben Meiselas:Prime Minister Al Thani of Qatar, he's saying it out loud right here, that a new order, a new rules-based system that doesn't rely on the U.S. needs to be developed. He's saying it right here. He's saying the not-so-quiet part out loud even louder. Here, play this clip of Prime Minister Al Thani at the Qatar Economic Forum. Let's play this clip. Iran is our neighbor. We need to understand that without having a security framework that brings us all together as Gulf countries with Iran, ensuring that none of us is posing a threat on the other, this region will not just be continuing in the same way as it used to be.

3:19We have to act together responsibly as a region and to make sure that we are having a good relation with Iran and Iran has a good relation with the Gulf countries. And we are working toward that. Our regional partners believe in this, and we are hoping that this war is a wake-up call for everyone, that it's time for it to happen.

3:41Ben Meiselas:And as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently, the United States is no longer a serious nation under the Trump regime. She says we're a very dangerous nation, a predator nation under the Trump regime, but not serious at all. So while you have these multilateral organizations that are working to bring countries together, the U.S. further isolates itself and behaves, frankly, like a demented Trump entity because that's what Trump has turned the country into. I mean, take a look right here. The Department of Defense, which unlawfully calls itself the Department of War, it's posting images like this after inviting Jake and Logan Paul to the Defense Department when the U.S.

4:29Ben Meiselas:is losing this catastrophic war in Iran. Welcome to the Pentagon, Jake Paul and Logan Paul. Utterly embarrassing. You've got Donald Trump out there posting memes of himself like the sex predator that he is, like the sicko deviant that he is. The Post says his hemisphere, and I suppose it's Donald Trump looking over the Western hemisphere. Donald Trump previously said that he would go into dressing rooms of his beauty pageants to inspect the girls naked, of course, non-consensual, absolutely disgusting. Donald Trump said, when you're rich, you can grab women by their genitals and you can get away with it because you're rich bragging about how he sexually assaults women.

5:12Ben Meiselas:He is a sicko predator and he's just engaged in sicko geopolitical predatorial behavior there. But everything he does is predatorial, like Donald Trump posting images of the Western hemisphere and putting the United States flag over Canada, over Mexico, over Greenland, and actually over an area that belongs to France. It's a French island, Saint-Pierre-et-Meclion, which is French, and it's French territory in the Western Hemisphere. And so French President Emmanuel Macron visited that French territory in advance of the UN General Assembly's 81st session on Tuesday. That's where all the world leaders will be addressing the General Assembly, right?

5:58Ben Meiselas:And so French President Emmanuel Macron is asked, So are you going to respond to Trump who recently showed Saint-Pierre et Melchion on a map as US territory? And Macron says, it is obvious to us that this is French territory and a territory attached to France. It is proud to be French, just as we are. We are deeply attached to it. There is no debate. There is no discussion. So I wait till affirm it. Macron goes, we are not going to reaffirm it every morning just because people have strange ideas or say strange things. It is obvious. Also, Canada's Prime Minister Carney, who's essentially the leader of the free world right now, took the first official visit of any Canadian prime minister to Saint-Pierre-et-Micrion to meet French President Emmanuel Macron over there.

6:53Ben Meiselas:And just you can see on the map where it is. I mean, it's right there, right next to Canada, right? And here is Emmanuel Macron greeting Prime Minister Carney. Play this clip. Welcome, Prime Minister. Welcome to Saint-Pierre-et-Micolomb. It's a huge pleasure for all of us to welcome you to this French territory in North America, our republic, your continent. This is the first official visit of a Canadian Prime Minister to Saint-Pierre-et-Micolomb. And therefore, your visit today and your presence here and the discussions we've had are already marking our combined history. This is the symbol of shared convictions.

7:40And that is that not only that our relationship are built between Paris and Ottawa, but also on this territory because we are neighbors.

7:49Ben Meiselas:And Prime Minister Carney wasn't done there, of course, after returning from the European Union, State of the Union, where he addressed the European Union Parliament in Brussels. He returned back. He met with Macron. And then he then met in Canada with the leader of Norway. And I'll show you what Prime Minister Carney had to say here. Prime Minister Carney responding to questions about Trump considering deeper ties between the EU and Canada as a hostile act. Here, let me show you. Let's play this clip. Deeper ties between NATO allies makes those NATO allies stronger, makes NATO stronger, and helps to achieve the common goals of all NATO members, very much the United States included.

8:44You know, we very strongly believe that Canada is a better partner if our economy is stronger, if we're more independent, we're more resilient. We have a deeper web of ties around the world. Those are all positive things. First and foremost, they benefit Canadians, but they benefit all of our partners if we're stronger. So this is how we see it.

9:08Ben Meiselas:Now, as I noted at the outset, on Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council Commission will be submitting the report in Geneva regarding war crimes committed by the Trump regime in Manab. Separately, the Pentagon has an internal report where they found that the Trump regime, the Pentagon, made serious errors leading to the slaughter of 168 little girls in Manab. The finding by the United Nations Human Rights Council, though, was that it was intentionally targeting, that there were war crimes. You intentionally targeted Manab when on the first day of the catastrophic war, you hit all of these targets and Manab was on your target list.

9:59Ben Meiselas:It's not mere negligence, which would be a war crime in and of itself. The Trump regime continues to cover it up. By the way, the Internal Pentagon report talks about how outdated systems, Pete Hegseth gutting the internal checks and balances and controls to protect against striking civilian targets. Pete Hegseth wanting ultimate lethality, kill everybody. Pete Hegseth's, I don't even want to call it a plan, but the idea that on day one of the catastrophic war, If you bomb like 35 ,000 targets all at once, that that would make Iran submit and surrender. That's what Hegseth and Netanyahu and other despicable and Trump, this is what they believed, that then Iran wouldn't shut down the Strait of Hormuz, that Iran would be so shocked because all of these targets would be hit that Iran would immediately surrender.

10:50Ben Meiselas:And so that's also why the United Nations Human Rights Council made this finding of intentionality, if you will, right? But remember, the Trump regime withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council via an executive order on February 4th of 2025. And the Trump regime in this executive order says the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Relief and Work Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, and the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, that all these entities, the Trump regime says, are anti-Semitic. And thus, that's why the US is withdrawing from anti-Semitic, or what are you talking about?

11:36Anyway, that's what

11:37Ben Meiselas:the Trump regime says. So on Monday, you have the UN submitting the war crime findings against the Trump regime. The Trump regime has pulled out last year of the UN Human Rights Council. Now, talk about the six pillars of the General Assembly going into Tuesday for the 81st session of the general debate. So this is the, like, they're all directed at Trump, basically, the six pillars. Pillar number one, peace, security, and justice for all. Silence the guns and amplify the voices. Peace is the founding promise of the United Nations. Yet conflicts and armed races continue to devastate lives. How about this next pillar two?

12:21Ben Meiselas:No one left behind, no country left out. Sustainable development, acceleration in countries in special situations. Pillar three, our planet, our pact, climate resilience and environment sustainability. Pillar four, rights and protection, freedom from fear and want. Human rights remain the bedrock of the organization's core functions, yet there is a backsliding on certain rights and freedoms, a shrinking humanitarian space, and a disregard for the protection of refugees and migrants. migrants. Again, directed at the Trump regime, obviously. Innovation with inclusion. And it says artificial intelligence, big data, and digital platforms bring immense opportunities alongside serious risks of inequality, bias, surveillance, and misuse.

13:13Ben Meiselas:Pillar six, we the people reimagine renewed multilateralism. To restore trust in multilateralism, the United Nations must demonstrate that it can adapt, reform, and deliver, right? So what else is happening though in advance of Tuesday? The Trump regime announced the following. And again, while the ICC, the International Criminal Court, that's a separate entity from the United Nations Human Rights Council, it's not part of the UN, but this is what the Trump regime also says they're planning to do right now as well. The Trump regime is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court that could severely restrict the access to the global financial system by the International Criminal Court.

14:00Ben Meiselas:The measures would ban most transactions with the ICC after a six to seven month grace period and could prevent it from conducting U.S. dollar transactions. In other words, the Trump regime is treating the ICC as though it is a terrorist organization because the ICC is prosecuting terrorists like Netanyahu and perhaps in the future, terrorists like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. I'm not mincing words here on the Midas Touch Network. When the words fit, you call it out. You are duty bound as a reporter to do that, okay? The move would go much further than existing sanctions on individual ICC officials and follows the court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant over war crimes in Gaza.

14:54Ben Meiselas:It says over alleged war crimes. Let's remove the word alleged, over war crimes. Marco Rubio, a war criminal himself, has said the U.S. could dismantle the court brick by brick, arguing that prosecutions of officials from non-member states threaten U.S. sovereignty. Oh, you threaten U.S. really? That the prosecution threatens you? You threaten everybody's sovereignty, you sicko terrorists, Rubio and Trump and Hegseth and your gang of war criminals and degenerates and sex predators and people covering up child sex trafficking rings. Back over here to Prime Minister Carney though, speaking in France at Saint Pierre in Macrion with French President Emmanuel Macron.

15:37Ben Meiselas:Let's actually hear what to be sovereign really means. It doesn't mean to abuse the international financial system to attack the ICC, but here's Prime Minister Carney. Listen to him for yourself. Play this clip.

16:11that canada and europe will build an alliance for the future that will strengthen our collective

16:16Ben Meiselas:resilience and talk about intruding on sovereignty apparently in advance of the general assembly meeting on tuesday you had donald trump call zielinski to threaten and harass zielinski to stop uh striking diesel stop restriking refineries that make diesel in russia especially after Zelensky struck deep in Moscow, hitting their main refineries there, disabling the refineries that Moscow's main refineries over there. A source familiar with the Trump-Zelensky call told Axios, Trump repeatedly urged Zelensky, stop striking Russian oil refineries. The word diesel came up many times during the call.

17:03Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump, you said that Zelensky didn't have the cards. You refused to provide interceptors. You refused, you promised you would end the war in 24 hours from after the election, not even after inauguration, after the election, you failed to do that. And so now you attack Zelensky every step of the way and say, hey, you can't even strike the refineries. And I guess Zelensky's position is, well, when Russia agrees to stop striking our infrastructure, will stop restriking Russian infrastructure. In any event, in any event, Donald Trump promised that he would end the war in 24 hours after the election.

17:44Ben Meiselas:By the way, from what we hear, both Zelensky's team and Putin's team think that the Trump regime, Kushner and Witkoff are absolute clowns. But Donald Trump will pretend that he now owns Greenland, right? I mean, Donald Trump heading into the United Nations General Assembly session is acting like we control Greenland when what Trump did was basically restate the 1951 agreement that Greenland made with the United States. But Trump and the propaganda networks here will go, Green New Deal, U.S. military gets forever rights to Greenland. We got the same thing we got in 1951 to sue the sex predator's ego.

18:30Ben Meiselas:I mean, utterly disgusting behavior. Now, going back to Prime Minister Alfani from Qatar's speech at the Qatar Economic Forum, him. He again reiterates Qatar's view that the Trump and Netanyahu invasion of Iran is a wake-up call for the entire region. Lessons need to be learned and a new multilateral approach needs to be implemented. Listen to what he says play this clip. Lasting security cannot be built through repeated cycles of escalations and retaliation or arrangements that leave any state permanently exposed to insecurity. We must address the source of tension and build confidence. Our region needs a framework in which sovereignty is respected and no country poses threat to another.

19:24Ben Meiselas:And finally, Al Thani says this as well. Let's play it. Last few decades, Qatar has been through a lot of challenges. And every time we emerge out of this challenge stronger. And whatever we have experienced during this war and the uncertainty that it has, our pledge to our people is to become stronger and build stronger resilience for us and for our future. Going back to that meeting between Prime Minister Carney and Norwegian Prime Minister Johans Garstor, Jonas Garstor. Stor says, I can hardly think of a better bilateral partnership moving at the pace that we have now as Canada and Norway. Wow, actual cooperation, shared values and principles.

20:17Ben Meiselas:Remember when the US once did stuff like this? Here, play this clip. Since then, we have signed agreements on how to move forward. And today, you have seen four pages summing up where we are right now. And I can hardly think of any bilateral partnership which is moving forward at the pace we do now with Canada, Canada and Norway. So we do it with an Arctic perspective of securing stability, low tension and peace in the Arctic, which means that we have to look after security in new ways. And then finally, Prime Minister Carney has asked, Hey, Prime Minister Carney, what would you advise other countries to do when Trump is basically extorting them and demanding that they do deals?

21:06Ben Meiselas:And it's not really deals. What would you say, Carney? And Prime Minister Carney, in his very kind of methodical and meticulous and kind of soothing but just deeply analytical way, breaks it down here. And this is why Prime Minister Carney has effectively become what the U.S. president used to be to the world. He's the leader of the free world. Here play this clip. Well, look, these bilateral trading relationships, particularly the United States, which is in the process of changing all of its trading relationships, they're unique. Each of them are unique. There's a common thread, which is the U.S.

21:49and I'm going to use their term. which is they charge for access to their market, either with a tariff, sometimes with a tariff and other domestic policy changes, sometimes with a tariff, domestic policy changes and investment commitments into the United States. That's the language they use. It depends on the overall relationship and it also depends on the other options that countries have. So I wouldn't give advice to others in terms of how to behave. are in part because we start from a different situation than most countries in that there's talk of having a deal. Well, we have a deal with the United States.

22:27We actually have a deal. It's called CUSMA, Canada-U.S.-Mexican trade agreement. And these actions are not consistent with that deal. So we start from a different position. Of course, we have to recognize, the Prime Minister used a moment ago, the term pragmatic. We have to be pragmatic and recognize realities. But our response reflects several things. One is the fact that we have a deal, point one. Point two is where we need to take action to protect Canadian workers and businesses. So sometimes the tariffs that we're responding to, American tariffs, are to ensure that our market is not flooded with American goods that are coming in tariff-free, while Canadian goods are locked out of the U.S.

23:14market. and being very clear about what our bottom lines are with the United States in terms of issues which we've had, which are relatively unique, I believe, versus the U.S. in terms of language, culture. The next point I'm going to make is less unique, but we feel very strongly about it because we are committed free traders. We do not want to have our hands tied in terms of our ability to cooperate with other countries or jurisdictions. So that's a clear aspect there. And then some very specific things.

23:52Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Of course, we are going to be covering what's going down at the United Nations General Assembly. The general debate opens on Tuesday. We'll be following it here, of course, on the Midas Touch Network. And Iran's president, Pazeskian, is expected to be there with Iran's foreign minister, Aragji. We'll see them in there. We'll see what happens. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.

24:39Thank you.