21 Sep 2022

World leaders at UN warned of growing global perils

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 21 September 2022

"Our world is in peril - and paralysed." That was the message for Jacinda Ardern and other world leaders on the opening day of the UN's general assembly in New York.

It's the first full in-person gathering since the pandemic - and comes at a time of escalating crises and tense geopolitical relations.

Our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch is in New York.