This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

We go immediately to Havana, Cuba in these last days.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres praised efforts to support

the global South, capital G, capital S. In the international arena, as he opened a summit of the G-77 group of developing nations,

the focus is the scientific and technological divide between rich and poor countries and its impact on development.

Professor of very good evening to the General Secretary makes an excellent point about the technology cap.

Addressing the G-77 he's including a great deal of information we've had recently about this gap developing in this century to be a new way of talking about those left behind.

Do you measure that the global South is a positive to divide the world again into pieces or a negative to divide the world between what appears to be

troubled nations, especially with climate change and migration, troubled nations banging on the doors of the prosperous nations.

I'm looking at the Mediterranean Basin and the English Channel where migrants from Africa and Middle East are banging to get in and being turned back or spoken poorly of by the government.

The same in our hemisphere with the trouble at the border, global South moving north.

So is this a helpful construction in your measure? Good evening to you, Evan.

Good evening to you, John. It certainly is a difficult construction.

I think it's one that is a little bit historically outmoded and has some difficulties in pressing forward a constructive agenda more than kind of lamenting that the situation of those countries that are less developed.

But certainly it's also what the G 77 has taken on new relevance in the current order.

We can remember that this was formed in 1964 originally with 77 now with 134 participants at a time when it was really designed to be kind of a voice of the developing world.

One of the problems always with that many organizations with that many countries is getting consensus on what you actually want to do and rather than the wrongs that have been done to you.

This one also was interesting because again it took a place right before the UN General Assembly summit in New York.

Many of the leaders such as Louis de Silva and Gustavo Petro of Columbia who were essentially on their way to the UN General Assembly meeting basically stopped there at the G 77 first.

But I think what we see is really kind of more of the same.

I mean there were some legitimate points raised about the difficulties of developing world faces.

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