This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.World leaders spoke this weekat the United Nations General Assembly.President Obama called on the leadersto speak out forcefully againstwhat he called the politics of division and violence.He talked about the killing this month ofAmbassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.He said the attack was "not simply an assault on America,"but "on the very ideals uponwhich the United Nations was founded."BARACK OBAMA: "If we are serious about those ideals,we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of the crisis.Because we face a choice between the forcesthat would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common.Today, we must affirm that our future will be determinedby people like Chris Stevens, and not by his killers."Mr. Obama called the anti-Muslim videothat incited violence in many countries"crude and disgusting" and an insult to Muslimsand to the United States.But he defended the protection of free speech in America.On the subject of Syria,he said the government of President Bashar al-Assadmust come to an end.BARACK OBAMA: "If there is a causethat cries out for protest in the world today,peaceful protest, it is a regime that tortures childrenand shoots rockets at apartment buildings."Mr. Obama said the time for a diplomatic solutionwith Iran over its nuclear program is not unlimited.He said the United States will do what it mustto prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said time is running out.BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: "There is only one wayto peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs-- and that's by placing a clear red lineon Iran's nuclear weapons program. Red lines don't lead to war, red lines prevent war."The Israeli leader used a cartoon-like image of a bombto show that a red line must be drawnon Iran's ability to enrich uranium.BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: "And by next spring,at most by next summer,at current enrichment rates,they will have finished the medium enrichmentand moved on to the final stage."President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu spokeby telephone on Friday.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbasaccused Israel of letting settlers carry out"a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against his people.He and other leaders in this story are heard through an interpreter.MAHMOUD ABBAS (INTERPRETER): "Israel refuses to end the occupationand refuses to allow the Palestinian peopleto attain their rights and freedom,and rejects the establishment of the state of Palestine."Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi,made his first speech to the General Assembly.He said the most important issue facing the worldis the need to settle the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.On the conflict in Syria, President Morsi urged the oppositionto propose a united vision of a democratic change of power.MOHAMED MORSI (INTERPRETER): "After this regime comes to an end,the Syrian people will choose, with their own free will,a regime that represents it and places Syriain its right place among democratic countries."Burma's President Thein Sein also spoke to the General Assembly.THEIN SEIN (INTERPRETER): "Myanmar should be viewedfrom a different and new perspective."The former general said his countryis on an unstoppable path toward democracy.The United States said this week that it will begineasing restrictions on the import of Burmese products.And Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejadavoided most of his usual attacks on the United States and Israel.This was Mr. Ahmadinejad's eighthand final message to the General Assembly.And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.