the the, this is the, the, the news coming to lie from berlin. israel's conduct in gaza comes under scrutiny. the master on health ministry says 20 people to him for food aid were killed by his really tank fire. they're calling it a war crime. israel's military says the report is being investigated and israel awaits a highly anticipated ruling from the u. n's top court that could order an immediate stop to his military actions in guns. plus germany's power right problem calls grow to ban of political party linked to a mass deportation scheme. but it's on certain that a band can win court approval or do anything to death. the parties approval

the hello and terry martin, thanks for joining us. just a few hours from now, the international court of justice in the hague could decide to order israel to put an immediate stop to military action and gaza. we'll talk more about what's behind that case in a moment. but 1st, let me bring you up to date for the latest from gaza. the i'm us run health ministry there says is really tank. fire has killed at least 20 people waiting for humanitarian aid and entered another 150. israel says it's looking into the report is really military says it's fighting him, us militants at close quarters, in fountain unit, says it 6 to dismantle the group, which is classified as a terror organization by several countries named bodies filled the el cheapo hospital in kansas city after and is really attack

a desperate people were waiting for a rare delivery of food amid a growing family. the un says cousins are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded. with over 90 percent of the population surviving on less than one meal a day. we were waiting for the truck springing flower then is riley tank status with full shells. young people are mounted and others injured. i was hitting the fates and hand. meanwhile in southern gaza is really forces say they have surrounded the city of con eunice. the ordered people in the western part of the city to leave among them over 30000 displaced causes who had taken shelter at a un facility, which at earlier come under attack. on the inside, the agent is cooling han, you nice, where they said it was safe. this riley, he started telling us in las vegas to leave within half an hour we started running

and didn't know well, family lives on children where i get this 3 days ago. not where the see and don't know what to go awhile. families are unable to leave. the strip causes 2300000 people are being squeezed into an ever smaller area as battle spread. with no idea how long the fighting will go on, or when they'll have to flee again. meanwhile, the u. n's top court is due to rule on south africa's demand that is really immediately suspend his military operations and gaza. today's decision is part of south africa's case against is really choosing of committing genocide against palestinians and gaza. the final decision on whether israel is committing genocide there is expected to take years. let's have a closer look. what's happened with the case so far. it's a huge lead devices and emotive trial. please seated south africa's

case at the u. when's top quote states, but israel's acts and emissions and gaza, a genocidal in character? i'm not crazy. don't south africa believes that the publicly available evidence of the scale of the destruction resulting from the bombardment of garza and the deliberate restriction of food water medicines. i do like for such are you available to the population of casa, demonstrates that the government of israel, no jewish people, is really citizens, the government of israel. and it's military is intent on destroying the palestinians because as a group, south africa has filed a move in 80 pages of evidence to support its claim that israel has breached us obligations under the genocide convention. a document from 1948 rights which faced

israel and south africa have signed the petition of this quote. israel rejects the allegation, its legal team says the entire case is invalid. the sink of the reality is that the events which are the subject of these proceedings are, according in the framework of a war, instigated by hum us, governed by the legal framework of international humanitarian law. they do not fall within the limits of the genocide convention. and the whole but this limits a hole in israel and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu had strong go. ed, spell south africa's move off. it's hard to know. no one will stop us, not the hague, not the axis of evil. and no one else's or the hoops. the hypocritical onslaught at the hague, on the jewish state that arose from the ashes of the holocaust. innocent, both at the behest of those who came to commit another hold of cost against the

jews of is a model low point in the history of nations in its own, yahoo, the government, it's lawyers and the military. say israel is exercising its right to self defense and response to the how most tara attacks on october 7th last year, and that they are doing everything possible to protect civilians and garza but well respected international bodies, including the un, have caused doubt about whether the huge civilian death colon garza can be justified in the name of self defense. according to the health ministry and how much run garza more than $25000.00 palestinians have been killed during israel's military campaign. most of them the women and children. those who have survived thus far launch the displaced and living in conditions the un has described as a humanitarian nightmare to make a legal decision on whether israel's conduct amounts to genocide could take years

in quote, in the meantime, south africa, his of the judges and the hague, to old and immediate stop to as well as campaign and gaza. drawing praise from the palestinian, joanne and bassett on the lesson of the holocaust is not that you should defend is it a when it is committing atrocities but rather that one should stand against atrocities, regardless of who commit them. and who endued him the quote order. so israel to stop at school or in gaza would be final and legally binding. but the international court of justice has some history of being ignored. nobody is lucien schultz and is the international court of justice in the hague. i asked her earlier, what kind of ruling is expected today?

yeah, good morning. we have expecting an order on so called preliminary measures of provision and measures. these uh for vision and measures are an emergency relief that is thought to not make the case, which is i'd call verse. so to say so, so that for kevin had launched his application, it has ask for this provision and mattress and it has been asking for a number of provision emetrius among them. that is read, shut the order to stop all military action, but they have all to ask for, allowing more humanitarian assistance into the gaza strip. well, also that you sort of should be order to collect evidence for the law case later, sir, there's a range of these mattress and the court is free to decide whether i go further south africa and gr, on some of these provisional metro's war. but i'd rather have its own provision and mattress or also to dismiss them at all and do not order any provision in measures . which is if the you and judges do rule,

the israel has to stop its military action and god. so what would that mean for israel? this is all right. as i said, this would be one option regardless of provisional matters, but for which we still have to wait. but what i can say in general is that orders of the international court of trust is legally binding. at the same time, the court has no enforcement mechanism. so it's called really force a and you stay to follow it. i never the less what you have to keep in mind, this quote behind me is the united nations top world court. so to say, so the international community is watching this case very carefully. but you can also see with a lot of states have come out on the one side or the other. i haven't spoken out that the photo it. and that means that a judgement comes with a certain political pressure and with a certain symbolism. and that is something that legal experts say should not be

under estimated, even though there's no like hot enforcement behind it. um, but as i said, we're gonna have to stay of that. you'd rather, there are any legal consequences for you start at this stage and how they look like . let's hear. thank you very much. that was the w, as lucy schultz and in the hague sketchup on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. india is celebrating its national day. it marks the adoption of the country's constitution in 1950. only 3 years after india, one independence from british colonial rule. french president demanded will not call is this use guest of honor. frances, looking to strengthen cooperation with india of the columbia as president, whose stuff of a throw has declared wildfires. devastating large parts of the countries forest to be a natural disaster that's freeing up funds to help combat the blazes. soaring temperatures

associated with the l nino phenomena are helping the plane spread response team. so put out more than $200.00 fires this month of low former us president donald trump has testified and a defamation suit brought against him by the writer e. jean carol. while on the stand, trump violated a judge's order by accusing carol of making a false accusation. a jury in the previous trial found trump liable for sexually abusing the writer. russian cortez extended the detention of us journalist, even gaskets, which the wall street journal reporter was arrested in march last year on charges of espionage. the faces up to 20 years in prison. gas convention is the 1st us journalist to be detained on slide charges in russia. since the cold war the state of alabama has carried out the 1st execution of a convict using nitrogen gas. kenneth eugene smith had previously endured in

unsuccessful execution to attempt by lethal injection. the gas that killed him was administered to smith through a mask, depriving him of oxygen. the staging says the procedure is humane, but critics call it cruel and experimental and say the execution did not go according to plan. he's the 1st man to be executed by nitrogen gas in the us. the supreme court rejected last minute appeals by kenneth eugene smith. officials here in alabama predicted smith to fall unconscious within seconds and to die in minutes. the execution took 22 minutes as a supporter of smith describes his desk. well, we saw was minutes of someone struggling for their life. we saw minutes of someone p being back and forth. and we also saw correctional correction,

the visuals in the room who were visibly surprised at how bad this thing with nitrogen gas is an untested method for executions. death penalty opponents say, smith was used as a guinea pig. the united nations claims the method may amount to torture. smith was on death row for the 1988 killing of elizabeth senate. the mother was stabbed multiple times in a murder setup by her husband, senate sunset, her killer has now paid his debt. will say, is that the able, the has consequences is tennis may need some bad decisions 35 years ago and his dance page to

load a previous attempt to execute smith by lethal injection, failed authorities, couldn't find a vein to administer the deadly drug. so the decision to use nitrogen gas was made me want a choice that is re igniting the debate over capital punishment in alabama. and the us russian state media say the black box is recovered from a down to military playing have been taken to a lab for analysis. the kremlin claims ukraine shot down the transport aircraft near russia's southern border, saying it was taking 65 ukrainian soldiers to a scheduled prisoner swamp key and says it has no evidence that the plain was carrying ukrainian prisoners. russia called a meeting of the un security council to discuss its claims members days agreed. they were not able to determine what happened, but called them both sides to allow prisoners of war to return home to avoid

further escalation. we are all concerned to for his reign from actions, rhetoric, or allegations that could further fuel already dangerous conflict. the fate of prisoners of war should not be instrumental lives. we urge the parties to continue pursuing exchanges of prisoners of war. families of both sides are waiting to be re united with their loved ones. you know, we just need conley is in key. if i asked him if we're any closer to knowing who is on board the aircraft, we off and i think the biggest question that's being off here in ukraine is a very dark one where the bodies so far we have seen some very limited features, some pictures of wreckage that is alleged to a being from the crash site and of one bodies. supposedly it's a picture that's being blood, so we call it see the detail. but if indeed,

as the russian side claims dozens of ukraine prisons of what on this plane, i'm just the plane that crashed. what's the meaning of this guy from a very low altitude that it was flying on to avoid radar? so we would see more of this is a place that is not far away from human habitation is not some remote crest site. so this is all very strange why we haven't seen more in previous. it does also has previous downings of this kind like image 17, very soon had locals taking pictures of things they were seeing, you know, things that are full into that garden and in full a nearby. so the idea that we wouldn't see more that we wouldn't have evidence of this mass kind of day of these preserve or is very strange. are here in germany, there been weeks of protest against the far right alternative for germany party the a f d shock of a revelations that some of its members were designing a mass deportation scheme of turned into calls for action. there's talk of banning

the party and cutting off its funding, but the question remains, if a band would actually dent the parties, popular support, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across germany. they are protesting against the rise of the fall, right. and against the alternative for germany party, the a f d. the outcry was sparked by reports of a meeting in which some members of the a s d took part and with a mass that potations of people of foreign origin were discussed. a plan that code policies of germany's nazi past. the shock was called all the way to the top of the german government in a video address. johnson, the owner of charlotte is issued a warning and also so i guess i'm not. i'm saying it clearly and bluntly, i should think for this rightly extreme is our attacking our democracy to them. they want to destroy. okay, he's and, but all the warnings have made little difference. recent polls show that support for the f, the remains for 22 percent of people are ready to vote for it. it's

in 2nd place behind the conservatives and well ahead of the parties in the current coalition government and the i, if the is even stronger in eastern germany there it is projected to come 1st and 3 regional elections later this year. so what can be done to stop the a if the band at all dried some politicians and many protest us the month that but that's been tried before with the right wing extremist parties and was rejected by germany's constitutional court or another possibility. cut state funding for the right wing party, a possibility opened up by a recent quotes decision. it's happening. i have to wait a 2nd. all the continued i must be using the book. i didn't know if it's clear any of them either approved or some parts. those are no cutting of financial results, or if i continue to see about way well, but what the constitutional court accept such a move. and that's

a party that has been voted into the book this talk into the old 16 regional parliaments. on the other hand, the banding, the f d youth wing would be easy. it's being classified as right wing extremist by the authorities and his trust and association, not the political party. the interior minister put simply issue a decree to bind it based on the alternative. oh, radical has been that if it has been proven that they are radical opponents of our constitution, that we have to take actions, we will say a 100 b a. but that would not stop the a if the militant neo nazi youth groups. what about the tracking down on radical individuals with in the f d. this man beyond fucker is a case in point. he's a nazi, a court has officially found and he has enormous influence within the 1500s of thousands of his critics assigned to petition to banned him from political offers.

that might work in a couple of years time. but what it reduces influence that's thoughtful. the menu of the protest as in the past weeks and the and looked early at the a f d. the also cooled on sean to the shirts and his ministers to stop the inside thing and to implement policies that would swing voters away from right wing populism. and back to the democratic center. so while ago i spoke with kind of time, uh, a professor of political science at the university of mines and an expert on the far right, populism in europe. he told me what he thinks the most effective approach would be for dealing with the api. i think the approach is discussed in the field so far. we're all about legal measures against the ac and why we, why we should look into the use of these matches. i think it distracts from that.

this is mostly a political problem and should be solved by isolating the if the politically and pointing out the extreme is tendencies within the party. so argue that all this attention on the a, f d is only making the party stronger. what do you make of that? so well, in a sense this is right because the almost any kind of news seems to be good news for the a 50. on the other hand, we're in the territory where many people still have not formed a definitive opinion on the 8th day. so bringing these extreme, his tendencies to the, for discussing them in public protesting them is not necessarily helping da's the doesn't turn hot. the core a is the supporters into critics of the party, but it might still reach those who are even perhaps to millions about what the party actually stands for. the courts have ruled as we saw all that some prominent

pay of the members can be called nazi is. why is it so hard then to take legal action against the party itself? as you know, that's the beauty of the rule of no, it's never that simple and to hurdles for banding a party or stripping it m p o. it's right to see it as an m p is quite difficult to during the day. so the government would have to prove in the federal constitutional court that these people are actively working against the principles of liberal democracy that they're actively try it and not just thinking about actively trying to over throw the constitution. and then the court would have to root with a super majority. so this would take years and it's not quite clear, it's 6 of the 8 sitting judges would agree with the governments allocation. so that's the big fear. it might take years to reach a point where um, lets say 3 or 4 judges block step rolling because they're not fully convinced as it

happened with the entity. so some i think was 6 years ago. and that would, of course, best to flip back via that and, and would give like a seal of approval to d. i the, that's the big fear here. we've seen mass protests here in germany against the f d. and these deportation plans that are being hatched. uh, do you think those protests are making an impression on those who support the a f d? uh yeah. um that's an interesting question um, back in 2021 round about i think with 11 percent of the electorate support of d. a. d. and but then much of what we're discussing now. so the, the links to the so called items, terry movement contacts with right wing extremists outside, depart you writing streams tendencies within the party were over to discuss people still that didn't deter those 10 percent from supporting the 8th. the so i think

this is basically a hot, cool of supporters that will not be swayed by those demonstrations. but right now the potty is broad in high into pulse. we see a various poles all between 20 and 22 percent. so there is a gap between those who actually support the party in 21. and those who are now pondering the idea of supporting the party. and these maybe half of the current supported state might be impressed up to a point by those demonstrations. because the story of the a, if the has always been the claim that they are speaking for the solid majority in the country with these most demonstrations. now make it clear that the majority is not silent. and it's not supporting the a if d. and so perhaps it has an effect on them. the other mechanism that i can think

about is that those who support the democratic party is bought are disappointed by the performance. mike returned to the flock, so to speak of the steps of abstaining. kind of outside of a professor of political science at the university of much. thank you very much. my pleasure. thanks for having me. the paintings by austrian artist, the stuff, clint believe, to be lost. for nearly a century has been found in vienna portrait to miss liza is estimated to be worth 50000000 euro said was last seen in public and 1925 though it's unclear what happened to the painting afterwards. experts say there's no evidence that it was looted or otherwise unlawfully seats. painting will be put up for auction in april . china says it's giant pen to population in the wild is almost doubled in the past 40 years. conservationist estimate the almost 2000 giant pad is now live and

protected areas across the country. chinese officials say the growing numbers are due to efforts to maintain nature reserves and other conservation initiatives. in 2016, the species was downgraded from endangered to vulnerable on the global list of species at risk of extinction. to forego just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you this our the i'm us run health ministry and gaza says 20 people viewing for food aid were killed by his really tank fire on thursday and thousands more wounded. israel's military says the reports be investigated and the you and the top court to set the rule on south africa's demand for an immediate halt to israel's military action in gaza. ruling and part of the south africa's case before the court accusing is rule of committing genocide against palestinians in gaza. israel has strongly denied the allegations

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