In the coming week, the annual UN General Assembly debates take place amid global turbulence.

Hezbollah reels from unusual and shocking attacks from explosive pagers.

And President Biden hosts his last quad summit.

It's September 19, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

Well, Bob, let's start in New York, where I live and I am not today, with the UN General Assembly high-level debate, which spells an enormous amount of traffic,

and we hope some interesting events.

Can we expect any big speeches or at least some performance art from the podium?

Yeah, the performance art is rarely telegraphed ahead of time,

so it means you have to sometimes sit through some 40 to 50 minutes speeches,

or in the famous case of Fidel Castro, a four-hour speech.

Or in the case of Castro, he was somebody that people would watch just to see how much, how far he would go sometimes, or Gaddafi.

Although not historically the longest speech, but we can talk about that someday.

Yes. this year, comings and goings, the last U.N. address of Joe Biden, where he just seemed like

yesterday coming to say the U.S. was back multilaterally and he laid out all sorts of markers.

We'll get back to him in a second.

There'll be the first U.N. addressed by the new Iranian president, Peseshkian, who has been

making overtures towards reviving the Iranian nuclear deal as well as opening up

the country's economy, even amid reports that Iran is beefing up its missile deals to Russia,

which Iran denies, or certainly been backing its axis of resistance countering Israel.

So that will be interesting because it's on the same day as Biden.

It's the afternoon of the

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