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lo, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. 3 european countries say they will recognize palestinian statehood sparking an angry reaction from israel. prime ministers of spain, norway n. ireland separately announced the decision earlier. most western countries have resisted recognizing an independent palestinian state for years. but israel's war guess a month following the october 7th terror attack has put renewed focus on the issue in a moment will get more on the announcement from our correspondence in jerusalem and brussels. but 1st, here's a little of what the irish prime minister had to say. about the move by his country . today orleans, norway and spain are 9 saying that we recognize the space of policy for each of us when i undertake whatever national steps are necessary to give effect to the

decision. and the lead up to today's announcement, i've spoken with a number of other leaders and came to parts. and i'm confident that further countries will join us and taking this important step in the coming weeks. this is and started. unimportant stay for arden's and for palestine. or for there's less bringing and dw is rebecca rivers in jerusalem and jack, perfect in brussels. jack, we'll start with you. we've got 3 e u countries recognizing palestinian statehood. what does this mean? yeah, logically, it's a political and the symbolic acts by the 3 countries that have made this and that is meant today, but it is also extremely significant. and i think you see that by the reaction from these rated government. now what we've heard from spain, for instance, the spanish prime minister who lives this in the parliament that he said the, the recognition says to tell the people of the palestine that we all with the spain

is with them. we also heard further from the irish lead assignment harris. he said the recognition of the palestinian. it's a recognition of the palestinian people to the right to self determination. this is a really significant step today, also because our countries say that they will only supports the policing and reconstruction of a post will gaza if western nations do recognize the state a state of palestine as well. so this, oh, those are the 3 countries. and then not necessarily the biggest, the most diplomatic, the powerful countries, even in europe. it does, does not the dial a little bit for the $140.00 you and countries did already recognize palestine or rebecca introduce one israel says it's now recalling its investors in norway in ireland. what other reactions are coming from is real

well, israel is really strongly opposed to the central that comes as no surprise to most view is and as jack said, it's potentially shows the significance of today's decision by these 3 countries. just how vehemently is around has come out against that. as you say, they've recalled the 3 ambassadors of the countries involved for consultation. we'll have to see how that goes and prime minister benjamin netanyahu has long said that establishing a palestinian state would be an ex ex, essential danger to israel. so that's really what they think about it. we've heard from israel's foreign minister, israel katz, he's come out swinging, saying that it sends a message to palestinians and to the will. but terrorism pays basically saying that, you know, people may think that this is, uh, you know, the gift that is being given to the palestinians for carrying out this attack. so, you know, i mean is ro couldn't be moved against this decision. but as jack said,

a 140 other you in countries have already recognized palestine as a state and it does appear that more a states will follow. rebecca, this is happening just one day after the prosecutor of the international criminal court announced he was seeking arrest warrants for the is really prime minister in his defense minister is all this pressure having any effect on then you mean nothing else or well, there's no doubt that pressure, particularly this week, terry is mounting on prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and that pressure is having an effect. as i said, there was strong reaction with saying from israel today, the strong reaction we saw from benjamin netanyahu from york, alon and from the government across the board in response to the i. c. c. news yesterday. and we have see of the day before. rather, we're seeing, you know, this strong reaction, you know, because it is having a huge effect. but when we talk about a political effect, i think that's something entirely different. and i don't think we'll see

a change in the way that permits to benjamin netanyahu is conducting this war in response to this pressure we, he is facing an existential, like political uh we fighting for his political survival if you will. and in one way he is showing himself to do that is to continue this war in gaza. he does not want to face the political consequences in the wake of the war. he keeps saying that all the response and all the investigations will take place when this war it has ended. so it's very unlikely that we'll see it change in his course because of this pressure. jack, what about other european countries? we heard ireland prime minister saying that he expected other countries to follow suit in the coming weeks and recognize palestinian statehood. what. what do you seeing there in brussels or yeah, it was expected that perhaps belgium could join the 3 countries today. other countries like from so known to be considering it,

it is expected the future. so the countries in the european union could recognize palestinian statehood. now what's interesting about this is, well we're seeing this, the division between the countries that have made this, and i'm assuming an israel. it also also shows a reflection just how messy this topic is within the european union. we have had one country you country do this before sweden recognized palestinian statehood back in 2014 a multisite principle. gary a check here and hungry in poland. they had already recognized palestinian statehood before the end to the european union. the issue with this is the really the biggest significance would be if, in your opinion itself, made a decision for all of the you countries on the us self to recognize a state of palestine. that's unlikely to happen. countries like germany, we stand on the side closely of israel and the israeli position. they would be reluctant to do that. the spines, the european union saying that it was

a 2 state solution that's always been the position of the us to work towards a negotiated piece through a 2 state solution. the countries like germany and others indeed as well. they believe that recognizing the state of palestine wouldn't help in reach that to stay solution. that would be the sort of outcome of those negotiations. not the starting point from is and that's probably why we want to ever see the you do that. germany's diplomatic voice and this issue is very strong. jack rebecca, thank you both very much. jack patrick there in brussels and rebecca richards in jerusalem now to gauze itself, where the united nations is warning, this humanitarian operations are nearing collapse. the organization says it is no longer able to distribute food aid in the southern city of rough a due to the lack of supplies and peers over safety. it says it's main agency for

palestinian refugees, who monroe and the world food program are unable to access their warehouses in rafa because of israel's ongoing military operation. of the fleeting russell many come here to the above the camp in central casa. but this situation here is not much better people for basic supplies as temperature, sol, desperate for water. reasonable to become show up. there is no water. we come, drink. what are you? there is no war to the come to the vicious, become to anything probably lives tops with suffering allows you to do to deal with heavy fighting around rafa. these really military says nearly 900000 people have slept the area, the satellite images show the scale of the move mean in recent weeks. hundreds of tents and shelters have been removed. the un says humanitarian operations in

gaza and the collapse as almost no 8 come into and they no longer have access to it to warehouses in rough uh, of our colleagues that onto our report that today the agencies distribution center as well as the well food programs warehouses both in rafa or now inaccessible. jude ongoing military operation on was says that it's health centers have not received any medical supplies for the past 10 days. despite this health care staff continue to provide thousands of medical consultations each day at health centers that are still operational. people have hype. the p. o constructed by the us would bring some urgency needed relief. but so far, it hasn't been nearly enough to get done and we have been waiting for this a was and we have not received anything. it just doesn't reach us. i ask america, the international community at old, from us in the world to end this war. when we want is for this war to end,

the us says is working on creating alternative routes to speed up 8 deliveries until that happens. many people div here, empty handed, now to air ran and around supreme leader, ayatollah ali company has been leading prayers at the funeral service of president abraham. right. you see tens of thousands of people have gathered into iran for the funeral procession. right. you see, along with the foreign minister and other officials, died in a helicopter crash in northern europe on sunday. 63 year old, right. you see was widely expected to succeed, coming to a s supreme leader. and because of that, i asked sarah buzzer bundy from the german is to the global and area studies if there is a shared sense of grief. era to this morning. well, i'm present, right? you see was the, the only presence in iran since the islamic revolution

mom tied the lowest rate to participation when he was elected. am all the, is nomics republic, president types higher rates of course the nation when they were elected. so that tells you a lot about how popular they get in the political rom, any wrong was of course, his economic performance on his economic policies, but disastrous, none of his campaigns were delivered. and during his time, one of the largest cracks down on a peaceful protests and they were on took place in 2022. so despite the fact that we do not have access to all the society any realm, because when it rained in government allows west and media to go on for bad reports . they watch them, they take them to set the places that on to allow them to speak to such and kind of

people. everything is pre space and premeditated. so we don't really get a ride picture about what's happening. you know, despite all of that, i think these numbers and these, this facts about an events that happens doing. and he's, excuse me, presidency really tell us, tells us a lot about what's the overall sense is there have been campaigns online. and that's sure there's a sense of relief, a sense of happiness, iranians and that asper, i've been expressing happiness him, it's not because of the big dish of one past. and of course, nobody will be celebrating at this. but it's the fact that he was associated with lots of crackdowns with, with um, you know, execution of the positions of the 80 is when he was a public prosecute to any right. and the fact that he was very close to the supreme need. i really that didn't help his case, so i don't think there is

a widespread sense of grief as to be to be sure. now we've seen footage of a black turban on the coffin of the late president. can you tell us what the significance of that is? yes, in the she face the clarity's where either white stabbing or black tub and the black tub and signifies that they are defendant from prophet mohammed. um and it's, it's in the, in the local culture and especially in the political culture. it's a very um, as soon as the symbol of related to my as they sion of power, if you will, because if you are to send them from the profit of the faith, then by default you carry a 2nd degree of gravity. awesome. and they just timothy, and the interesting thing about this prayer session was thoughts of the supreme need that repeated the sentence. that is the best in the especial prayer for that and sees that says we have not seen anything but good deeds. but from these people

in arabic, he, he repeated that quite a few times in his prayer. and just to give you an example of how important this bus is when he was doing the prayer for, for me as a rough and johnny he did not at recycle, not best. so it shows that he uses these vices of, of the prayer to express his own views about people. okay? so just briefly, because what does rice is death mean for those fighting for protection of human rights? any around because there are, have been quite a few people going out on the streets demonstrating for the so it's a, it's always a system. and when you take one and a month out of the system really doesn't make that much sense. it was symbolic because he was associated with executions in eighty's. but i don't think it means that we are going to see a more peaceful approach from this one. so thank you very much,

that was sarah both of us and the from the german institute. global areas studies dw can reveal to officers from bangladesh as a lead to counter terrorism. force implicated and tortures and killings are now being sent on un peacekeeping missions. the findings, paulo and investigation together with sweden based net renews in germany. it's due towards the title. the officers are the are among 65000 peacekeepers, deployed world wide to stabilize countries in crisis and support civilians when the government's fail. and it seems the u. n. is unable to stop it as our dw investigative team, they'll reports these soldiers were deployed as un peacekeepers even after they served in the unit the kills and tortures. they were high ranking officers of bangladesh as a lead unit,

rapid action battalion. and in particular, it's notorious intelligence wing in 2023 we revealed with the government continues to deny the rob murders of ducts and tortures a legit criminals and political opponents un peacekeeping missions cannot have in amongst them offices who may have been responsible for these kind, a very serious abuses that defeats the purpose of peacekeeping for months to be looked into banquet as one of the largest contributors to your admissions. and found that the 2 officers were not a unique case. we analyzed classified military personnel files and secret un deployment lists and found more than $100.00 soldiers who went from rab to peacekeeping. some of them admitted to extrajudicial killings during their time at rob did the on the day of the execution, the target is taken out with his hands tight and blindfolded. although it was tight

after the blood heat. he these got some blood and brain fragments best on my uniform. and yet the officers were deployed on un missions. afterwards. we went to copenhagen to meet a man who in 2019 raised the alarm densmart deck served as what appeared to her for the u. s. committee against torture. and the report on bangladesh stated it was gravely concerned about rob's abuses. the recommendation was that the former and current members of wrap should not be allowed to as to do a service in peacekeeping operations. but we found at least 40 rob numbers who were deployed to p submissions after the report was published. confronted with our findings, un peacekeeping in new york road, we do not have the resources to review the information of all personnel deployed and the vast majority of troops perform well. this form,

are you an official told us that the organization has barely any power over which officers countries select as peacekeepers, it'd be an option. do you think that's until 2019 federal gilmore was the one assistant secretary general for human rights and experienced firsthand what happens when the un pushes countries to exclude possible human rights abusers? one country that was really important literally said okay, we're going to pull out or to give the us 2nd general at that time to go basically to that country and apologize for that as state. otherwise, like for you, every single ration is would have cloud phone if you wouldn't tell us which country, but said that the un is stuck in a dilemma. the is the reason faced with dangerous and deadly emissions. western governments increasingly pulled their troops out of peacekeeping operations. instead, they prefer to pay for them, leading the supplying of troops to countries like vanquished packaged on egypt and

china. many of which are known to have abuse of security forces. we get some really pretty useless troops as a pretty brutal ones as well. but if you're spending that you and you've got to actually say that we also confronted bangladesh as government and every individual officer mentioned in this report, they didn't respond. and with me in the studio now is naomi conrad from dw investigations. she is one of the authors of that report. you just saw me, your port focused on the dubious records of un peacekeepers from bangladesh. are there documented cases of other from other countries that i see? i mean, we also looked into sri lanka, and as one case of an officer where the un was actively wound about deploying him. so just a couple of days before he was sent, this man had been involved,

most likely been involved in the atrocities committed in the final months of the civil woods for land cut in 2009. and was about to be deployed activists told to you and about him. we sold the e mails that they send and nothing happened. so they're likely to be more cases. these are the 2 countries that we looked at. but i mean, look at the list of the major to contribute. as you see, countries like bangladesh pack has done egypt. they are likely to be more cases. what do you make of the you in response to your investigation is the you and really powerless to keep human rights abusers out of its peace course of the other was peace keeping troops. the system, as it stands at the moment, is that is up to the countries the send the troops to select and let them say in a way you're asking, in some cases, a piece of government, suicide, which offices to us. and there has been cases where the un, it's human rights branch, have teamed up with countries to select and to,

to bet these people where they got to see these. and they looked at people and they switched it out. people in some cases mention that to begin to pull it what quite well. now the say we don't have the results is we need more stuff. but the major problem is that some countries just don't want that to happen. they don't want other people to look at to the sending, and in those cases, they threatened to withdraw to the troops completely. so in a way, there's not much that you can do as long as they need these. be these countries to provide true. well, are there any efforts under way to address this in some form? i mean, there could be some regulations i would think that could be put in place to at least mitigate the risk. so in the case of bangladesh, the bean repeats, it's requests to disband, rub entirely from peacekeeping. so you could do that. but then again, countries would say, look, if you don't want us to take this particular unit, this and the units in the case of, of bangladesh, we're going to withdraw our troops entirely. so,

as is quite often the case and international relations it's, it's a real dilemma. what do you do to push for more human rights? risking that may be peacekeeping operations, collab tool there. that's something that the un stressed to us wouldn't happen. and they said no made to, to contribute to provided so many chips that missions would actually collapse. or do you may be, except that some of the troops may or may not have dubious records and go go ahead with these missions anyway it's, it's a very difficult dilemma that we recognize that it's a very difficult dilemma, but the un faces and that doesn't seem to be an easy solution. what a lot of people say, well, why, why don't western countries provide low troops, but again, it's not really palatable back here that we send also just to open the deadly missions. then we thank you very much. that was my colleague, naomi conrad from dw investigative failed. the boss of singapore airlines has offered his quote, deepest apologies, after a man died in dozens,

were injured on a flight hit by severe turbulence. flight data suggest the plane of owing 7 subs have been dropped around 2000 meters and just 5 minutes on his way from london to sing for the jet was forced to make an emergency landing in bangkok, where doctor se 20 people remain in intensive care injured passengers are carried off the singapore airlines flight by medical staff in bangkok airport where they receive immediate treatment and some are taken to hospital passengers have spoken out about the horror when the plane suddenly plunged. it was a long way, so sub there's no want, it gets old. and i ended up picking my head on the ceiling. my wife,

there's some 4 people walking around and up doing something so um, it was obviously terrible. this animated graphic shows the plain traveling on its intended flight path from london to singapore. before it hit a bout of severe turbulence and dropped more than 1800 meters, about 6000 feet from its cruising altitude. it was then re routed to land at bank cocks main airport where authorities are still piecing together. what exactly happened on board that a preliminary investigation to indicate that the deceased suffered from a heart condition. he was a 73 year old, but these national, however, they stood in the next stage of the old topsy process, the singapore airlines ceo. apologize for the incident, promising to help everyone affected and to cooperate with investigators on behalf

of single airlines. i would like to express my deepest condolences to the family. i loved ones of the scenes. we are very sorry for the tomato experience, the everyone on board s q 321 went through as the investigation continues. several of the passengers who felt well enough to continue their journey board at another plane bound for singapore. if you're watching dw news, just a quick reminder of the top story, we're following for you with this, our 3 year p and country, se they will recognize a palestinian state despite israel's opposition. leaders of spain, ireland, and norway made the announcement on wednesday. israel has recalled some of its investors in response saying the decision amounts to quote, rewarding terrorism after the october 7th terror attacks. by him us

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