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strikes and gaza since the world again enough to tell you that the us and bush falso strikes the targets to begin the rebel book as the question to respond. and taiwan for pass to head to the poles. presidential candidates are getting ready to hold this final campaign round. the will begin at the hague, within a few hours as well. will defend itself against accusations, as commission genocide and gaza. south africa launch, the young president of the case of the international court of justice on thursday. the way is presented evidence of mass cuttings, widespread destruction, and, and the death of children and babies. they say israel's plan to destroy gaza is coming from the highest level of state. let's go live to stephanie deca. she's

joining us from occupied east jerusalem. and let's me the reaction this stephanie, to allegations that israel is commissioning the most serious of the crimes. and what are we expecting from israel and today of the outrage really at the highest levels, these really 5 and mr. benjamin netanyahu. and as far as the cool south africa monster saying the world is upside down, that israel is the one pushing back on genocide referred to the attack of how mass on october, the 7th, the foreign ministry. good. as far as quoting south africa, the legal arm of how mass. uh, also the newspaper headlines this morning. one of them embodied a cooling yesterday's case. a hatred show is really support this or the majority has already the behind the government as to what is happening in gaza. i think what we're going to expect today we haven't had any details as to how israel is going to re bought those allegations. they do have a strong team, it is led by a british lawyer,

professor of international and genocide, miles, i'm sure we expect them to remind the port of new trustees on october the 7th that this is self defense. we expect that to reiterate what israel does, want to know that it is how most places it submitted to infrastructure among civilians among schools and hospitals. and we expect israel also to maintain that it does the most to protect civilian life that it warns them through different ways . i do want to read out the statement made by the south africa justice minister yesterday ahead of that through our proceedings where he said no armed attack on the states territory, no matter how serious even involving atrocity crimes. and this is referred to october. the 7th can provide justification for or defense for the breaches of the convention. and he said is ready those response to october. the 7th has crossed this line. so we're going to have to wait and see how is ralph,

responds to that. there is acknowledgement there of the scale, the severity of october, the 7th. now israel has been pushing back hots of the applications throughout the last 3 months that is doing nothing to prevent civilian life. so let's take a look at how, how that has played out of the last few months and unprecedented legal case against israel. for the 1st time, its answering for its actions before the international court of justice. the case was pulled by south africa. and israel stands accused of committing and having the intention to commit genocide against palestinians in garza. these where the government says the case is baseless. the load one month ago. the one of them know south africa. it's not us who came to commit genocide. it's come on and how most would kill us all if it could. in contrast, our military acts in the most moral way. it does everything possible to avoid

harming civilians. with more than 23000, we have this thing. instead, israel doesn't deny kidding high numbers of civilians, but it blames him us. it says the orange group is guilty of in storing its infrastructure in your hospitals, schools and homes. even communities vulnerable to attacks from is really forces. but evidence. israel is put forward to back, this claim has proven false in the post. this is a grab bag hours off to striking ship a hospital and goes to city. israel's army deleted this video, which it claimed proved there was a how must come on center under the hospital, when doubts were raised, it re posted a new version without the words, undeniable truth. israel, the sort to defend its air strikes, saying it takes care to warn civilians by dropping leaflets, directing them to what it called seats. so but it's also bomb to many of those areas, which is why palestinians and agencies maintain that. nowhere in goals are safe. in

an 84 page fighting south africa says there's evidence. israel is also targeting civilians by limiting the delivery of food medicine, fuel and water claim united nations and toughest human rights organizations agree on. but israel again points to hum us. unfortunately, to date the u. n. a to mechanism in gaza has been woefully unsuccessful because it goes through on rough age simply isn't reaching the people who need it, because how much hijacks it and on rock covers up for it. israel is expected to remind the court of the brutality of how masses attack the 7th of october kings concept, many in israel show that the country is facing legal proceedings and not thomas israel's foreign ministry has responded to the application on thursday at the international court of justice calling, it's one of the biggest shows of hypocrisy, and accusing south africa of being the legal arm of have that israel will get. it's charles to respond. officially, in court on friday. definitely decor,

audra 0 and occupied east to choose. let's take a closer look at the case against israel at the international court of justice. both funds are allowed to appoint one judge to the panel that's hearing the case as well as chosen, its former supreme court president on buck the 87 year old was the one in miscellaneous, and of the survival of the holocaust. his parents moved to the bushes, mondays of palestine and 1947. yeah, before the creation of the state of israel, mark has showed support as well as wall and gaza and claimed he has seen no evidence that israel has violated international humanitarian. you'll in an interview with the canadian newspaper of the globe and mail, he said it may be proportional to kill 5 and as of kids, in order to target then need to and argue the rules of collateral damage from the beginning of palestinian fighters. even if that leads to the depth of children, the 3 was approved by himself and the 2006 supreme court ruling. but because also justified the kind of fuel to the besieged gaza strip. saying that it may have been

used by palestinian sizes. and he's supposed to is riley miller trees conduct some gaza saying i agree totally with what the government's doing. 600 fine style and is a political scientist and full member of the national assembly of south africa. he says, israel will find it difficult to count to south africa, strong arguments in the case festival. i should say that i think the rebuttals both from the united states, particularly from the is ray. the state have been critics to put it mildly, these really response which was effectively to bad miles south africa decay south africa, the legal um, how much and an agent of the uranium republic is actually quite embarrassing. and what that suggests to me is it is rarely is going to find

it incredibly difficult to respond to meaningfully. to south africa is quite extraordinary submission, extraordinary in its detail, in its clarity, and this legal argument and its impact. i would imagine tomorrow the israel will attempt to argue self defense. but i would think that justices is experienced as those on the i, c, j. well, obviously respond to that in the knowledge that self defense is simply not a defense in terms of international will, of low foreign occupying power for its military actions in the territory that it is occupied. a discussion about correspondence thought it avoids him. he's joining us live from the alpha and southern gaza and thought of how people they had reacting to be applied to being presented in the was highest quote.

yes, uh, frustration mixed with a dilemma. the head of is the main general sentiment right now among palestinians in the territory regarding the south africa submission of accusation for the international court of justice regarding the use of any violation of the united nation genocide convention made and 19 uh for 2 days at that's completely punished a paying harm, so civilians in the territory. now slightly palestinians are frustrated because it's red, we'll do, we'll do its best and all that have spilled allegations made by south africa and also to the bass the these kinds. busy accusations being delivered to the international court of justice as we also have been hearing from is really especially that uh that to the, are accusing south africa for providing legal and political cover for the mountain group homeless. and this is also a part of the ongoing is fairly narrow shape, an escape that they are trying to do all the time being accused of something being

made and committed insight, garza's check on previously. palestinians generally remember that as well to refuse to cooperate with an investigation regarding the 2008 war and cause and also you an investigation regarding the 2014 attack on a question of the territory. and this is a part of what is, well, he's doing with each time to met smooth genocidal attacks on the territory. so this is the general sentiment right now among these people in the territory for big hope that to the international court of justice. this time will bring uh justice for palestinians as they have been for 3 months, a tax and sealed on daily basis. and the, and also the are looking forward to more resolutions could be made by the international community for a c spire that might bring some ins for the financing on the ground. i mean how much and israel thought it, thank you very much for that. we will come back to you in less than well for the latest updates on the ongoing violence and gaza. but for now that is static of was

in live in alpha. and there were demonstrations outside the international court of justice as south africa presented his case against israel sullivan. javan spoke to those calling for a 6 fund and gaza. laura was born in the back of an ambulance during israels with budman of garza, in 2014. the 9 year old wanted to bring this up freezing temperatures to show her support for the children of gauze. in the v was guess, i want to watch wind the children to be safe and to live and homes to be fine and not destroyed. i want to causes children to be okay, but it wasn't just palestinians, people from all over the world. the cabinet in south africa presented this case before the international court of justice. and the jewish religion is being misused to justify all these crimes. this is not the case, most of the jewish people are worldwide then occupied public fund or guns, or what is taking place, not only in goals or no, no it. but for that, for,

for these decades, over 75 years of brutal, illegal anti jewish occupational people here have been telling us that they're coming from all over europe. and they want to show solidarity with south africa. but also do tell the need is of the world we're standing with israel that this amounts to genocide and there needs to be a ceasefire that needs to take place while we're having this conversation. children are losing their eyes, they're losing their family, they losing their lives and losing their lives. there are people that are being bombed. there is no ambulance that can go to them. they will suffer as slow that because the entire health care system in the north is knock out. that is the situation. and that is indefensible. a few boys, real protest is also gathered at the peace palace, but refused to speak to the 0 on friday. israel will defend itself and try to prove that it has not committed acts which amount to genocide. experts that are hopeful

that south africa's case is likely to convince judges to stop israel's actions and goals that they think the deputy occasional needs very solely those improving the ceasefire is one of what essential measurements speak with an end to the on going to general side the dental site, the, the ox, to the in the god's us to you. then of course the question is, which would be thing for samantha with disabilities. i don't just legally binding as people deliberate. nowhere is safe. and garza and israel's on slow continue. so i'm gonna be driving down to 0 the he will join now by kenneth ross from geneva. he's a former executive director of human rights watch and full assistant united states attorney. thank you very much for your time, mr. ross. what did you make of south africa's case? yes. today as a lawyer or yourself and someone who's worked on israel's actions of the occupied palestinian territories for decades as well. it was clear that south africa had assembled an extraordinarily talented legal team, and it put together

a factually detailed, legally compelling case. this is an extraordinarily powerful case. and so it's going to be difficult today for israel to respond to that. um, you know what we've heard, you don't just on the program right now. you know, so far a lot of these really, governments responses have been really more public relations response scale. if they go into court today, then say, oh, but you know how mosque was committing atrocities? this was self defense. they'll get laughed out of the court because, you know, atrocities by one side clearly don't justify genocide by the others. it is self defense, doesn't justify genocide. so these kinds of arguments are just not going to work. if they go in and say south africa is the legal arm of moss. and as they've been saying is, is that's an yahoo even said, you know, that's almost evidence of genocidal intent because i'm south africa was defending palestinian civilians. they've condemned to box and didn't pretend that that

somehow is in defending palestinian civilians is the same as somebody that's equating palestinian civilians or from us. that's part of the problem. that's how the genocide is unfolding according to some of african escapes. so they think it's a more serious defensive, and you've alluded to them just a few minutes ago. um, one is on israel's gonna say, look, we gave warnings. you know, how is this genocide 110, let me one civilians to leave. but then the answer to that is going to be, well, you said it can go to the south. it would be absolute pleasure to meet you. yeah, i'm a so absolutely one of the noise even said that israel had dropped 2000 pound bonds, 200 times an areas that as well said, let's say for palestinians to go to a yes, that was a very powerful piece of evidence that they presented. and again, and of course, if you put on top of that, that they've, you know, cut off most of the aid needed to receive the 85 percent of the palestinian civilian population that has been displaced in casa, you know,

who they don't have adequate food. water, shelter, medical care, none of this adds up to say she main warning. it doesn't necessarily counteract the arguments made by south africa, israel's treating conditions that are meant to jeopardize palestinians civilian lives. now the other big defense, again you, we heard this was, you know, the human shields defense. it's all from us, as vault. i'm also spiting from within civilian populated areas. and you know, obviously can last as that. so there's an element of truth there. but still, israel has a duty as the attacking force not to fire any way the causes disproportionate on disability. so as you load, when you drop a 2000 ton bomb, that's not an arrow targeted effort to hit loss. and that's something that they, they know will have brawn, devastating consequences for this. absolutely, because we all know that garza is one of the most densely populated places in the world as one of the other things that was stressed by south africa's lawyers

yesterday. it would be really interesting to see how is real response today wanted just given that one of the possible defenses, as you say, they will not stand in the course of floor. if the cold orders, the protection measures that south africa is asking for how much pressure does that put on as well and its allies like the united states to respect that order. and i think it will be very significant. i mean, obviously the international court of justice, you know, doesn't have a police force or an army to compel compliance. it depends on the one security council. us will probably be to any effort there to apply towards the sanctions. but nonetheless, if, you know, the state of israel, you know, founded the cause of the genocide because of a holocaust, is found to probably be committing genocide and therefore provisional measures are ordered. that will be powerful stigma. and i think, you know, that could 1st of all affect natania who finds, you know, maybe finally she will agree to

a ceasefire. it clearly also will have an effect on probably because binding is continuing to shovel arms and military age to israel unconditionally, without requiring an entity atrocities on deck to generate a court order from the world court to generate real pressure and bind to stop that unconditional support mr ross, thank you very much for your expertise in your analysis. that is kenneth ross. joining us from geneva that's the navy, 100 days of as well as warn gaza. more than 23400 palestinians have been killed more than twice as many has been injured. and the casualties include a shocking number of children, which has been highlighted in the new report from saved the children since october 7th, more than 10000 children had been killed by his rarely strikes and ground operations . an average of 100 a day. that is one percent of gauze. his total child population afford into his

ministry of house. thousands more missing. they are presumed buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed by his ready bombardment. save the children says those who survive the attacks have suffered a life changing tool, not including the disease and adequate medical care. and the loss of the parents. 1000 children and gaza have lost one of both of their legs. the organization is cooling for an immediate cease fire. well, jason lee is saved the children's country direct to fully occupied palestinian territories. he says seas font is the only way to protect children and gaza. the numbers are not just staggering in the scale and scope, but the actual impact, the decent, don't just numbers. every single one of them is a child, a child that has lost their lives, a child that has but has suffered again inc and to both physical injuries, but also the mental, the longer to psychological and mental it consequences for children that a con, consistently surrounded by violence that have experience such laws and they've had

the homes, the families, the communities around them destroyed. it is imperative that that is the immediate and definitive ceasefire. this is the only way that protects civilians that protects children and that protects some semblance of a hope that they can rebuild. the future's, we've got a situation that when more than 60 percent of residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed, more than 60 percent of schools, educational facilities have been distorted, damaged, so the children that survive miraculously will have the physical injuries will have the low to mental inside the social needs, but also will need significant investments in, in rebuilding their lives. many do not have harvest to return to many do not have schools to retention. many do not have communities to return to begin to cease fire

is just the 1st step, but it is a critical step to ensuring that the weed that we do protect the features of children as rarely forces have code at least 5 palestinians. and, and as striking bid on the line and central gaza, there is not totally shouting in the central garza and con eunice further to the south casualties from the buildings over 90, have to be confirmed as medical team struggle to reach the victims us at a funeral has been held in gaza for members of the palestinian wed, present, killed and astro. like on wednesday, the 8 groups has in his way, his truck hit the ambulance while transporting injured people in the la full red present medical workers and 2 wounded people were killed. 11 conditions, a guessing was for palestinians across the gaza strip rains of close heavy flooding . indeed your body of refugee can hundreds of thousands of people without shelter in winter temperatures. the u. s. has as well as the weather tree campaign has

displaced more than 80 percent of gauze population. let's go back to our correspondent thought of was the room. his life was in the draft and southern gaza strikes across the strip. thought it and even around our locks the hospital we hear that those are just guessing was forcing even more doctors to flee. yes, more deadly attacks again and more morning that is full of air strikes that keep housing the territory from the north south where the southern parts had been to make coast and traction for the many trip attacks by israel in the past few weeks where the starting to move to a complete new phase of finding it in the middle in the southern parts of the territory today. not at the palestinians are mounted in the morning 9 palestinians who have been killed of and nights as strike and rough off for the same time, leaving them on their journey of family and also at the southern parts of the territory. witness more strikes, especially on new in

a city where the items were shooting did not stop since the early hours of the morning. and we have been seeing different, distressing damages on video is really a release to from the city of kind eunice showing how destruction and how the scale of attacks have to fight where a residential house is mainly destroyed and partially damaged as the roads. a civil infrastructure also being widely afflicted by these on getting defensive on the city where isabel is fighting to get on to take full control over the city of new this which is the largest, the, the 2nd largest city, of course, the territory also the middle, but roommates had been on the wide military attack was where uh, 5 got a city is very important. killed in an s strike today early morning for a palm city, an assembly who had been killed off to destruction of the residential building. and uh, several areas of the middle. uh, so the regions of the chat, 3 had been also witnessing more ongoing bombardment by the ill, some alto murray and the trash and step between the palestinian fighters. and it is

really so just continue in the outskirts of a great, almost all right, across the refuge account product. thank you very much for that. that is static. otherwise, than with the latest live in java to us and brush flows have carried out air strikes against a hook, the targets and yeah, and then multiple sites across the country will hit including near the capital, sauna. it is the 1st time that western countries have long strikes against the yvonne backs quote, since it started attacking ships and the red sea late last year. she have a policy report from washington, dc. the binary ministration said with us, as you came in, the trees were involved in bombing c, c. radars, missiles i'm drain sites, the aims to degrade the who sees the ability to conduct strikes on international shipping. and the statement joe biden said, today's defensive action follows an extensive diplomatic campaign and who the rebels escalating attacks against commercial vessels. these targeted strikes are

a clear message for the united states and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world's most critical commercial roots, us and british war plants at target throughout german through the control move, including the capital summer, the key parts of the data, i'm sorry, and the new place of the border with saudi arabia, a senior us administration official, emphasized the us was not seeking to escalate the conflict. however, the who, the, the, the suggested that escalation was now inevitable let in the thought that the insured law will confront the american aggression. any american aggression will never remain without a response. and the response will not only be at the level of the recent operation that targeted americans, etc, with more than $24.00 drones. and several messiahs, the response will be greater than that though, and more than that, us officials have too early to know if who the capabilities have been degraded. but beyond that, so they're all questions as to what exactly the us feels it's achieving especially

since but who things have been clear, they feel it is they who are acting on the international lou. specifically the international genocide convention which obligates them to act, to stop the bombardment of goes up to the question that has to be asked is why is it that the british and american governments prefer to escalate and go to war? essentially, in order to prevent the warranties from attacking ships rather than actually going to the top of a ceasefire and gaza, which would not only be more effective, but also would have other positive effects such as ending the starter. the bite to ministration insists it was acting defensively. if there's an attack earlier this week, forced washington's have because us the vessels were targeted. however, when aust, how the administration was they show that the us was specifically the progress of the attack. a senior defense official would only say that it was because us vessels were in the proximity of who would be far. she abraham c elder, 0 washington. let's go to

a correspondent pull brennan in london now and the attack come and just a few days on from the bushes defense secretary said that the hoot these will be the consequences if they don't stop attacking vessels in the red sea full. so how did the events unfold in the u. k? since then as well, the rising was on the wall, frankly, from weather's day when the u. k. defense minister ground shops spoke about what was asked about what would happen if the he's, he's continued attacks and he said watch this space. and that follows on choose day when the u. k. a u. k. destroyer shop down 21 who to drones, over the red sea. and on thursday nights last night, we had a cabinet meeting rapidly conveying 5 prime minister, which he soon i'm around 8 pm on thursday, followed by consultations which he held with both the speaker of the parliaments and remotely, with the lead. as a leader of the opposition and the opposition defense minutes of the shadow defense,

minnesota. so it was clear that something big was going to happen. and so it transpired over the course of the nights the strikes happening at around midnight, u. k. time. and so although reducing act wasn't required to bring in and consults with other members of the parliament and the other opposition policies, he had the time to and felt it probably wise to and full as we heard. and she, hans, it pulls everyone is saying, we don't want an escalation, but that's where things seem to be headed. this. yeah, and indeed, i mean, the statements that have been put out both separately by durban and riches to knock on the joint statement that was issued by the allies that were involved in math countries such as a strain. yeah. then they're all saying that they don't want this to escalate. they saying this was these with precision strikes, specifically aimed at degrading the who the capability,

so not trying to kill who is the personnel, but simply hitting who's the facilities. that said, though, it's clear from the statements that the intention is not to defend human rights or anything like that. it's to look after the trade routes, which is due next statement talking about it's been causing but been causing major disruption, survival trade rates, and driving a commodity prices. so it's play the global trade seems to be the major motivates for all of this. and the concerns have been various, for example, conservative and pay that's from the routing policy. and the other brands i've given on maintenance inventions. and the last 25 years i've been failures, i left the clear upfront what constitutes a success. how will we avoid being dragged into something that we don't want over this? how does that yusef, who is the leader of the scottish national party? he wants parliament recalled parliaments in the u. k. not sitting today friday and you guy doesn't have a good record of military intervention in the middle east. is that for incumbent parliament's is recalls that they can have

a vote on this. so there is concern across the board. full. thank you very much for that to run and live in london. still ahead on challenges. era attorney showing intolerable new york city trail, a head of an election that at this stage is to post the good news . the holloway i'll set to hang onto that cold and quiet weather costs a good parts of here, but things so slowly changes. we go on through the weekend. here's our massive area of high pressure, which is keeping it settled. we have got some stormy conditions, haven't set that up just around the met. it's right at the survey pressure will make his way further. east was very of light pressure, just around western russia, and that's producing some outbreaks of sleet and snow and introducing cold rabbits, the winds coming from move and they'll be direction. most guy minus 14 celsius tend to cold enough,

but at least it'll be try. they lost some snow showers just around about 6 days, and we'll see where to win the weather. just creeping back into west scandinavia. i with the next day or 2. this is a sort of a change. just pushing it across and all of this got to and on friday, sinking further south which is a weakening system. there's not a lot on it, but it would introduce automotive, coal, plastic. so you have is between data, i've seen the indicators every, when the gusty condition is coming in across the no say pushing down towards germany for the low countries last night around the baltic states. that sounds sort of weather that we have across the eastern side of the med beginning to ease off for the westwood grass. you see some wet weather coming into portable for much despite it is dry. so they show us that we have in the met it's right, and they will bring some wet weather to the far north of out to you area, grassy, moving all the way it to egypt. the, the, the latest news as it breaks,

for many people have religion to separate from the states. and they're not willing to change their traditions with detailed coverage over the next 3 or 4 months. when people enter into the main previous case, as a politician or rice, a guy from around the world, it was near here at valley forge that the us, he declared his independence, which still had to fight for this funding democracy. that is what joe biden says, needs to happen. now. the unique perspective of africans i'm willing to change in the streets because of the sense of urgency that we have. if we don't know more and more lots of voices, you don't often hear trouble. nations do stand with paula spine, it's the same struggle share of displacement. connect with our community and talking to conversations you will find elsewhere. you see where the political establishment is in terms of justifying genocide,

brand new episodes of the stream on which is your a news the watching i was is the over me, it is the put on and the other mind that was on top stories this hour and a few hours israel will set house its defense against accusation, since committing genocide and gaza, south africa launched as little so to the international court of justice on thursday, louis presented evidence of mass killings and widespread destruction. meanwhile, there's been no less health and israel's bombardment of casa as twice over the course of the southern and central tops of his trip. if he's 5 palestinians were killed and bid out by law and us and bush, festus was carried out as twice against the targets. and again,

it's in response to attacks on ships list as well for the red sea of the spots, then called an unjustified act of aggression and south africa. i present a detailed and shinning arguments at the i, c, j on day one of its genocide case against as ro. it code as well as military campaign, a long and systematic pattern of genocidal acts intended to displace and kill the palestinians. step lawson reports from the peace palace and the hague. step by step layer by layer the south african legal team unfolded what's been described as a historic case in front of 17 judges of the international court of justice. it's genocidal acts like israel's mass killings in gaza. form just one part of the crimes perpetrated against the palestinian people since 1948 1st killing is nothing short of destruction of palestinian life as it is inflicted deliberately.

no one is sped, not even newborn babies. the devastation resubmit is intended to and has laid waste 2 guys beyond any acceptable legal, let alone humane justification. in order to establish intent, south africa's lawyer say the court has the benefit of simply being able to listen to the words of the is for a leadership, is ryan's political leaders. committed to comments and persons holding official positions have systematically and an explicit tens declared that genocide, the intent the message is filtering down into the rank and file of the is really um, so you probably the, what state would i need to a general site, the intent to yes,

the distinctive feature of this case has not seen the silence as such, but the termination of the petition off to the side of the speech throughout the sphere of states. it is right. south africa. some lawyers have asked the court fun. urgent injunction saying in their words, the world is watching in horror. that's how genocide and god is unfolding as we speak. nothing can ever justify genocide, no matter what some individuals within the group of palestinians in ga us and may have done no matter how great the threat to his regular citizens might be genocidal. attacks on the whole of gulls of the whole of its population with the intent of destroying them, cannot be justified genocide case will possibly take us to finalize and people in gaza. don't have the luxury to wait. an unprecedented case here at the pace palace

in the hague. and that will be for as a state laid out such a detailed, expensive, and gruesome genocide case in front of the international court of justice. south africa has made a compelling argument that the world's highest court shoot or israel to stop its military campaign in gaza as soon as possible. urgent injunctions by the international court of justice of binding, the wills highest court, has no power to enforce them. it will establish something very important that 3rd state countries cannot escape. this is the crime of all crimes to the site and wants to the court establishes that this is being go with. the thing goes at least plus the states will find it very hard to escape. the responsibilities on friday is round. will respond to the genocide accusations. it supports us already gearing up at the beast palace to back up its defense steadfast and l g 0. the hate to the u. s. highest legal body has been hearing international disputes. the $7080.00 is

alex bed takes a closer look at the role. the i c. j has played the international court of justice or i c, j as being the united nations main judicial body. since 1946. its main role is handling disputes between countries, most individuals and its decisions a legally binding. but it's also office legal advice to the united nations despite being dumped the wills court. the i. c j's role is more limited than the name suggests. it can only result disputes of the countries involved have recognized its jurisdiction. the court has 15 judges elected by the un general assembly and the security council. it's laid by us judge join don't i. q a former state department official, and the peachy is russian judge could either give org informer invested as an invalid. they all represent different regions and legal systems,

and it looks like this. 3 seats occupied by african judges. judges from messing america and the caribbean holds another to 3 occupied by asian judges, 5 held by judges from western europe and other wasting countries and to buy judges from eastern europe. if a country involved in a case doesn't have a judge from its region on the beach, it can appoint a temporary one to that case. according to the union sha set, the judges perform the duties individually notes as representatives of the home country. in his history, the court has seen $193.00 cases, including disputes or the land and maritime borders and genocide. one significant case was between nicaragua and the united states in 1986 when the i c j rule that the us had violated international by supporting rebels in nicaragua. but the us ignored the ruling and blocked enforcement action to another major case was in 1993 when both in the year and hits a venus sued serbia and montenegro. if

a genocide the defendants were found, notes directly responsible. alex bid, which is 0. that is very ami has carried out more rates in the occupied westbank soldiers were seen storming neutrons, refugee camp and food cut in boulders, and military vehicles. the army has intensified lightly rates and the territories since october across the board of font is continuing between his body forces and hezbollah flights was 11 on no account and visited towns along as well as northern border, with thousands of people having evacuated. the tents, quiet and northern israel, punctuated only by cross boat of 5 between the is ready army and the hezbollah. bought with several military sites hit in the past few days is where i was preparing to try the escalation. the group hezbollah says it was, the response is right, the military assassinating senior commodities in lebanon,

about 80000 people have been evacuated from the north and border for the west. this becomes more evident. so i the rising sauce that's just behind me and these houses, hundreds of people have been evacuated, and soldiers have moved in creation off closed the transaction across the area in multiple towns across the board. as government says, tens of thousands of people. in fact, choices won't be able to attend until there was no longer a threat from has fall off were on route 899. this road runs almost directly paradox disputed food area between israel and 11 on and 57 on is not 50 maces away . and we see many empty towns along the way, almost completely empty roads bought a few middle tree vehicles out to spin, minute stream faces along here. check points. sandbags, blocking the way. this is a town of july. agency is being completely blocked off by the israeli military. it

might be a close soon. i'm not sure if we can go in there or not. it's not just no cheap preparation on the boat to the zip hospital and stuff of along with all the hospitals in the north have been instructed by the government to be prepared to take in thousands of casualties. we just arrived in the nova evacuated town called slow me again, empty holmes, empty streets, and this being fist fighting between israel and has fall out in this town. i just want to show you one of the points of territorial dispute between the 2, this very large zig zagging will. it is all built 2 years ago on the left to the will. is israel on the right is 11 on and just down south of that you have is righty homes. and if you look along the mountain side, the bones house area. that's what is wrong as being fighting has ball and trying to push them back past the ridge and all the israel says it wants to take the

diplomatic pump bus. it's making clear military escalation is still on the table. laura han, i'll just there are adult in his room the that spring you some of the days of the news now and bushes and taiwan a set to choose a new president and members of the legislative body on saturday that says tensions with china remain high. there are growing conserves badging could invade the islands that it considers its son. tony chang reports from the time when he's capital type a k m t presidential candidates who really set sounds on the campaign trail. after 8 years in opposition, many people had written off the national this policy itself to attitudes towards china. now they're right back in the race for some time when he's that's a real problem. mister lin lived in ukraine some more than a decade. like many others,

he never imagined or would break house as what it did. he abandoned his business and moved his family back home, where he opened a ukrainian restaurant. now here's the same rhetoric from beijing as he heard from muskets rolled over it. everyone always asked me, hey, ah, situation similar to what i think so. but at the situations are very similar. we still have some small differences. china has certainly made its presence felt in the selection race. as taiwan spar administer brief, the media on chinese hostility and the build up to the vote was interrupted by an island wide phone to that. i know objects pod into space or the taiwan described as a missed on an english, a satellite in chinese. it's in to the many people have concerns, closer to your fun, she say has had the presidential and vice presidential candidates on have popular youtube channel in the past month. sounds good, so it's not going to be able to go to china. is just one of many issues on those as

mine. so if it was, we just have to live with the threats of china. but on top of that, we also want to build our life better. we want to have a better economy. we want to solve our problems like, you know, our, like all young people is the low wages or our property values is too expensive. and a viable stood candidates in what is always being a 2 horse race. the taiwan people's policy led by a charismatic form, a type, a man. there are literally thousands of people here queuing around the blog for hotel opportunities with the tvs candidates. they've really managed to capture the imagination of young voters here in taiwan the ruling democratic progressive party, the d. p. p, a much closer election campaign and they'd hopeful the current vice president and a former and passed the to washington dc ticket they hoped would convey trust,

experience, and stability. but at this stage seems result is too close to cool. 20 chang, l to 0. type pay katrina you is joining us live from town then in china now and clearly and election that badging will be watching very closely. katrina of the whole bathing is certainly watching very closely. but time when easily does and the united states have accused aging of doing more interest bearing in these elections. now, tony's leaders have responded by dismissing those same, saying, it's the us that interfering in these polls. it's also says it's very angry about the type of us that is going to send a delegation tooth paste following the election and trying to fix that time. one is trying to treat this any visual communications to washington in one's mind. all the states preferred to time on the elections as an internal needs of that now as to

whether the people here 3 with that. so it was difficult to get the full picture as information environment is very controlled, very sensitive. but we have spoken, some locals here in the shop. and it's, we've also what they thought about the elections and they say, well, that quite indifferent to them, it doesn't matter who's on top in taiwan because they believe the china can take the island at any time. and it certainly choosing not to do so. now, because it wants to avoid now clearly that's not everyone's opinion, but certainly that does reflect the official narrative coming from the chinese government. and although we're not here over using any headlines on the main line about time when use democracy, not really in the interest of the chinese communist parties spoke about how high one of these people have the right to vote. but people here in the mainland to don't, however, they have to be extremely critical of the process of dressing, positive gpc and that kind of it liking to. they say that these are separate as pro independence forces. and a vote for the d p. p is

a lot of work for sending taiwanese people time when use use into the battlefield. the agent have not explicitly said so that 10 to 0, the policy, your preferences, the opposition policy ok empty because it came. so you have a self desantis, we just had on the aging, they want to close the ties and the only posse also the 3 in the running was official communications with the chinese data shift. so according to the genes, narrative of arts like the k m t is about to piece prosperity and economic opportunities provided by the may. why that although we're not reading about democracy and time on here in china, what we all reading about, the numerous initiatives that china has started to try to bridge that gap between the 2 slides integration. it says making it easy at the time when you sequel to come to the main line, do business lighting, business subsidies. and they're also saw some tools without a free trade zone between the 2 sides. so for china is very much an approach of the tired and to stick. trying to influence the people there. and so i want katrina.

thank you very much for that. katrina, you live in shellman? so the head on knowledge is there are donald trump says has trial on full charges in new york is itself afford the

of the people trapped in jersey. the station sedona with choosing the rapids support forces of targeting civilians. the problem in a treat group has been fighting saddam's army since april last year and took over the states in december. that's led to the displacement of about half a 1000000 people, but many more remainder unable to leave,

had to move into ports from car to another one that you may find some of the images and have a port distressing. i wonder there's always just this mobile footage shows civilians around it up by the power minutes. very rapid support forces in may leak in central to dance to the to see the ra separated the town earlier this week. and local groups say the killed several body can be seen a few meters away from the group for what the sizes are you dead or not yet? the man filming asks what the body doesn't to move. well, the more footage it shows other people being rounded up. i'm literally do digging rather than the good. the mental being here accuses them of fighting on the side of the army in a town known to have no military facility. c, r. a stuff has been fighting for dance armies since april, and launched an attack onto the the states in december,

taking it over after the army withdrew facilities, hospitals, universities and facts were destroyed. at least 500000 people were displaced due to the recess attack on the state. that's one posted the largest number of internally displaced people from the current conflict. local groups known as resistance comma tease safety risk has committed atrocities that include sexual violence, forcible disappearance of civilians and arbitrary killings. they say many bodies have been left in the streets for days, and a lot of civilian homes turned into military camps. many people who have tried to leave since the takeover has been forced to stay in the state as those were able to sleep save. they did so out of fear of falling victims to the our staff. we left our homes and how to move through allies and less unknown boots. when we left mcdonny, we saw the evidence of the atrocities that were committed by the recess. the dead

bodies on the streets. we feared for ourselves. we slept only with the clothes that we were wearing. in response to the accusations, the recept tools out to 0 that those who targeted civilians were not part of their forces and described them as outlaws. to which was the history of the group targeting civilians was going back even before the start of the current for survivors of the crimes in may only. and just the to say, they don't doubt who's responsible even more going on 202 months from a us president, donald trump says a law suit accusing him of fraud as itself. fortune. and he made the comments during the closing arguments into civil try the new york christian selling me reports. president trump, everybody, former president donald trump, defending himself and a civil fraud lawsuit brought against him by new york state's attorney general. we prove, in this case, so conclusively, and we've asked the directed verdict many times, they don't have any facts. they don't have any evidence against us. millions and

millions of pages, years of litigation and are all politically motivated. leticia james, a democrat, and judge arthur anger and have been targets of the former, president's ras, throughout the 44 day trial. during closing arguments, trump spoken the court room, ignoring the judge's warning to stick to the evidence, presented in the case the state accuse trump and his 2 adult funds of over inflating the value of his assets and seeking loans and insurance. the state says that fraud was central to the operations of the trump organization. this case is about the facts. and the law. mister donald trump violated the law. we have produced evidence about the scope, the scale, the depth, the rest of the illegality, the fraud that him personally enriched donald trump in his family at stake,

his ability to operate a business in new york. the judge has already found him guilty of fraud, but must decide on 6 other related claims and how much he owes in damages. the state is asked for $370000000.00, judge arthur anger and is expected to make his decision in the coming weeks. meantime, police and his hometown are investigating threats that were made against him. on the morning of closing arguments, christian salumi al jazeera new york and president joe biden. san hunter has pleaded not guilty to tax evasion, charges. the case stems from business stevens, that of also prompted an impeachment investigation into his father. and divide is accused of failing to pay $1400000.00 in taxes between 201620. 19. he faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted,

but us federal aviation administration has launched a formal investigation of the boeing 737 max 9 across the announcement follows the emergency landing over the alaska airlines flight last week. after what's emergency door flew off mid air, 6 passengers have filed a lawsuit against boeing. echoes newly elected president has declared his country is in a state of war as gang related violence intensifies in major cities. president dani eligible and deployed within 22000 soldiers to restore order, and promised to stop organized crime by drug gangs. several american officials are due to visit equity during the coming weeks in order to help the country count to the fresh of criminal gangs. and equitable is public television channel has resumed programming off the most common broke into the studio during a live broadcast on thursday, a amigos so lucky seattle is starting with the news program is back here in the same space where they want to silence us. we are back now,

we've most strings and more committed to our ecuadorian brothers and sisters to the people who wake up to our signal to go out and build a bet to ecuador. and that set for me and the front of the to stay with us. we are back in just a few minutes with more news. the, the latest news as it breaks. i don't want you to remember that i'm not seen on restoring national, in unity with phyllis journalism. these people copying short towing just came from the relentless bombardment from the home to the story. many people born long, the q is open for a meal. so with all very crowded cans, unlimited aids, many are left with desperate need. it's undisputed that 72 muslims were massacred in the village of indiana india and 1987 witnesses say the perpetrators or

a mobiles locals along side the state governments prevention of constabulary personnel. over 30 years later, the district court acquitted the accused to date, no one has been as accountable. people in power asks why the victims continue to be denied justice. india is forgotten, must occur on the jersey to have the right to boycott. anyone i want to and the state has no business getting involved in that was just opening my annual contract from the state of arizona. and i was rather shocked to see this 3 part series explodes, the implications of us and people who close for freedom of speech and 1st amendment rights got chosen to bless us because we protect israel. i'm going to continue to

do on a state level. all that i can to support that part one on al jazeera, the, [000:00:00;00] the is around the set to defend itself against accusations of genocide by south africa in an unprecedented case of the international court of justice. the don't and as it was put on them. and this is all just even live from don't how?