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s america." s u.s. lawmakers consider legislation to sanction the international criminal court after its top prosecutor sot arrest warrants for israeli leaders. president biden criticizes donald trump after reference to a "unified reich" on his social media page. our british man dies and passengers injured after experiencing severe turbulence on a flight from england to singapore. welcome to world news america. we begin in washington where lawmakers are considering taking action against the international criminal court. beaker of the house mike johnson is looking at regulation to

sanction the icc one day after they issued arrest warrants for the israeli defense minister and prime minister, accusing them of war crimes including hamas leaders such as yahya sinwar. >> he is a war criminal. >> on capitol hill prpalestinian interrupted remarks by antony blinken. he was testifying about the state department budget but the line of questioning focused on the icc, with him calling the court's decision in impediment to progress on cease-fire talks. >> the shameful equivalents implied between hamas and leadership of israel only complicates getting an agreement. we will continue to forge ahead, but that decision on so many

levels is wrongheaded. suma: a bipartisan group of senators issued a formal statement tuesday condemning the court decision saying, these actions by the icc jeopardize efforts to bring about sustainable peace in the middle east and puts at risk sensitive negotiations to bring home hostages, including americans, and bring in humanitarian assistance. those who endorsed the statement include lindsey graham and katie britt. more senators are coming out against the icc on both sides of the aisle. here is what steve ricketts told the bbc today. >> what the icc has done is outrageous. israel has an independent judiciary. the icc does not understand hamas is a terrorist organization that started the war. wars are horrible, let is what you don't start them. to go into -- the u.s. had to go into urban areas in world war ii

to take out the nazis. israel must be allowed to do this to get hamas. chris coons is joining us live. thank you for joining us on world news emerita. you have strongly condemned the icc's actions. ready to sanction people involved. would you support that? sen. coons: we had a long and valuable hearing today with sec. in front of the foreign relations committee and appropriations committee and i agree with his statement that the icc has overreached its mandate that this was an outrageous exercise for the prosecutor to seek warrants of arrest against prime minister netanyahu and the defense minister because israel has an independent judiciary capable of handling potential charges. suma: do you think it is important to sanction those involved with the court?

sen. coons: i would have to weigh that carefully. it is something i am talking about with colleagues on the foreign relations committee. a couple of us had conversations about it last night. i am not there yet on imposing sanctions on the icc, as opposed to looking to see if an offramp of a ruling by the judges of the icc that they will not proceed with warrants may, in the next couple days. suma: you wrote condemning the icc actions monday the you have long supported them including in their investigation of russian war crimes in ukraine and said, i hope to continue working with them as they -- as they return to their legitimate role. can you tell me what you consider not legitimate in this case? sen. coons: the icc is a court of last resort, designed for actions either where a state party has ratified the rome

statute and agreed to its jurisdiction or where there is no other judicial path toward addressing conduct charged. that has been the case in the number of instances in other places around the world, one of the things a bipartisan group of us has worked on, to provide support for the icc in their investigation of russian war crimes committed in ukraine. jurisdictionally, i don't think they have made the right move in seeking warrants against elected leaders of israel. suma: you have been critical of israel's military operation in gaza and suggested you were open to if there was not humanitarian aid. one assessed that that raid has already begun. that is what we are seeing on the ground.

do you think what we are seeing crosses a redline for you? sen. coons: no, i disagree with her assessment. you used the word raid. as i have described it to prime minister netanyahu and the ambassador is, a full-scale invasion of rafah. there was a hamas attack on israeli positions that killed several idf soldiers, they went into rafah in response and it has been a limited incursion. this is a tough thing for us to gauge, how large and how long. there are a million refugees currently in rafah because the idf has been moving south through gaza in the context of this war, more than seven months long. we need to see a plan for relocation, a plan for the provision of shelt and humanitarian aid. but i do believe israel can and should continue their fight against hamas, as long as they

are providing adequate humanitarian relief. suma: are you saying that plan? we saw news from the u.n. that they are halting food distribution in rafah, citing lack of supplies and security. sen. coons: i havnot seen that plan. that is a question secretary blinken spoke to in front of my subcommittee today. it is concerning that despite repeatedly saying yes we understand and are committed to that path, israeli leadership have not produced a credible plan for the day after, for future governance and security of gaza, or for how they might relocate the more than one million refugees currently in rafah. that lack of clear planning for the day after is part of what moved the defense minister -- excuse me, benny gantz, who is part of the war cabinet, say he will leave the coalition with netanyahu in a few weeks if there is not a clear change and

preparation of a plan for what should happen in the coming months in gaza. suma: we will leave it there for today. thanks for joining us. on the ground medical workers in israel told the bbc that palestinian detainees are routinely shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear handcuffs and diapers. they rejected allegations made by medical workers at the facility. this report from our correspondent contains details and images you may find disturbing. reporter: they survived months of war unscathed, left military detention in israel permanently disabled. a taxi driver from khan yunis released without charge after weeks of invest -- interrogation. his return soured by sadness. >> my leg got infected and

turned blue and soft as a sponge. after seven days they took me to the military hospital. they operated twice to clean the wound, but it did not work. afterwords they took me to a public hospital where the doctor gave me two options, my leg or my life. reporter: neither israel's army or health ministry responded to these allegations. there is growing concern over the medical care of gazan detainees in israel, classed as unlawful combatants even before interrogation, doctors say they are kept shackled and blindfolded, inclung during hospital treatment. allegations have centered on a new field hospital at a military base one senior medic says patients are kt blindfolded and in nappies with all four limbs

handcuffed to the bed. >> the army creates the patient to be dependent 100% on your likability. you are, with diaper, you need water, you need everything. it is a dehumanization. reporter: the army told us the need to handcuff detainees in the medical facility was examined individually and daily, and the cuffing was done when a security risk required it. diapers they said were only for those patients with limited movement. a doctor told us these measures were applied to all patients without assessment, even those who could not walk. reporter: if they cannot stand on their legs, why are they shackled? >> i can't answer this, this is stupid. reporter: the hamas attacks on

october 7 left israel's hospital staff treating captured fighters alongside israeli victims. many detainees were released without charge, but the complex feelings of some medics remain. two told us painkillers had been rate -- and withheld, causing what one described as an unacceptable amount of pain. this man described a case took place in a public civilian hospital. his words have been voiced by an actor. >> i have knowledge of one case where painkillers were used selectively during a procedure. if you put together that someone is undergoing invasive procedure which involves incisions, and the patient does not know about that and is blindfolded, the line between lang -- treatment and assault fins out. reporter: treating gazan captives on military sites was meant to resolve doctor ethical

dilemmas, but those dilemmas remain. the moment the hospital closes, one tells me, we will celebrate. lucy williamson bbc news jerusalem. sumi: funeral proceedings underway for iran's late president ebrahim raisi. the city was packed with mourners tuesday with a larger funeral expected in tehran on wednesday lead by the supreme leader. not all of iran's residents -- some have celebrated his death on social media. the first criminal trial of a former u.s. president is coming to a close. trumps defense lawyers rested their case tuesday without calling him to the stand. going into court trump said he is dealing with a kangaroo court and conflicted judge. prosecutors say mr. trump was behind an illegal scheme to cover up payment to adult star stormy daniels. once closing arguments are

delivered, the jury will have to rule on 34 counts of falsifying business records. the court will not be back in session until next tuesday. let's bring in our correspondent who has been following proceedings in manhattan. what stood out to you in today's proceedings? nada: the question looming over this entire trial was wther or not donald trump would testify. today we learned he decided not to, despite earlier statements he wanted to take the stand. i think that was to be expected. legal analysts noted he would be opening himself up to damaging questions. ultimately the burden of proof is on the prosecution. donald trump had one of the largest entourages he had with him, calling in reinforcements today. among them his eldest son, don jr. i had a chance to question him

outside the court. he was asked why his father decided not to testify. he repeated a lot of his father's talking points, that this is something he should not subject himself to, there was no reason or justification to, because the entire trial is a scam. donald trump saying today he thinks the defense put on a great case. ultimately they only called two witnesses. both sides have rested and the jury will soon take the case. sumi: and there will be closing arguments. what do you think we can expect? nada: i am interested to hear the defense's statement. given this has been the prosecution's case, they laid out a clear narrative for the jury to follow. whether the jury believes the narrative is the question. it is up to them to look at evidence. the defense's job has been to

cross-examine every witness, poke holes in the defense, the 20 witnesses called over 15 days, 200 exhibits put forward. the defense only put forward two witnesses. in their closing arguments the defense have to match the prosecution's compelling narrative with their own and tie together all the doubts they sowed to get jurors on their side. they will have a long weekend to do that, but it will be the last impression they are able to leave with the jury before they consider what will be a monumental verdict one way or the other. sumi: thank you. donald trump's critics, including the biting campaign, have accused trump of invoking nazi language. a video on his social monday showed hypothetical headlines of he was reelected.

one shows industrial-strength increase, driven by the creation of a unified reich. the word reich is typically associated with nazi germany. the probable origin of the graphics is a tabloid website where users pay to download content they can customize. the stock template has the same wording of a unified reich, only the headline has been changed. the video on trump's page was taken down tuesday after almost a full day. the trump campaign said the video was not made by the campaign, but another account and reposted by a staffer who did not see the provocative words in the video. biden's campaign reacted to the video saying, donald trump posting a unified reich video is a pattern of his praise for dictators and echoing anti-semitic tropes. he is a threat to our democracy and americans must reject him and stand up for our democracy this november.

trumps allies are in court in arizona for allegedly trying to help him overturn the 2020 election result there. at least 12 trump associates were arraigned in phoenix on charges including conspiracy, fraud and forgery over an alleged scheme to give votes to trump. rudy giuliani was served a notice of his indictment friday. authorities had been trying to reach him for weeks. we will come back to that story in a moment. first, another big story today. a british man who died after a flight from london to singapore hit severe turbulence and has been named, 73-year-old jeff kitchen. dozens of other passengers were taken to the hospital, several with critical injuries. singapore flights experienced extreme turbulence over myanmar.

they will send officials to support investigations into the incident. that news just coming in. let's go back to the story we were just discussing. mr. trump's allies in arizona. we can go to cbs news senior white house and political correspondent ed o'keefe in arizona following this. great to see you. this is the first time rudy giuliani appeared in court for his arraignment. tell us what hapns. >> he only appeared virtually, phoning it in from wherever he was to this courtroom in phoenix to answer to charges he is part of a scheme involving 17 other republican leaders charged with fraud, forgery and conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections in arizona. it is a collection of arizona-based republican leaders and trump aligned activists and aides. the former mayor is one of them,

mark meadows is another, an attorney named john eastman, pushing the theory of the case most strongly. and a woman who oversees the election integrity, the republican national committee those charged. bottom line, the democratic attorney general of arizona sa they tried to flaunt the rule of arizona ands. it is a case not unlike we are seeing in michigan, georgia, nevada and new mexico. a collection of republicans upset with, concerned about results of elections, trying to put forth their own slate of electors to the electoral college which was counted on january 6, 2021. sumi: trump is named as an unindicted co-conspirator. why was he not charged? >> it is unclear why not because he was in the georgia case where

there is more evidence suggesting he was more actively involved. they have the audio recording of him telling state officials, help me find extra votes to flip the results. there does not appear to be that evidence in this case. beyond the fact he may have been texting arizona-based officials indicted here. it is mentioned several times, unmistakably him. they are referring to a president tryingo make changes to the results at that time. he, his team, those charges today say, it is part of the ongoing attempt to discredit him ahead of elections, part of a democratic attempt at all levels of courts, whether here in arizona, the federal court in washington, the trial in manhattan, to try to keep him from winning reelection. something prosecutors and elected officials denied. sumi: i also want your take on the criticism of trump over the

video posted to social media referring to a unified reich. the biting campaign has jumped on this. how much impact could this have? ed: what the biting campaign is hoping, is it begins to remind people who may have drifted back towards voting for the former president, while they may agree with him on border security, he is chaos, promoted and pushed for division. he would say or post or endorse or retweet anti-semitic remarks like thi and that is not someone the u.s. should have as their president. the biden campaign has been concerned, that controlled setting with a gag order, he has been unable to be doing and saying things he has been known to say and do in the past that help keep his support,

especially among swing voters, disaffected republicans. the swiftness with which the president, vice president and their campaign today seized on those comments and are trying to amplify them is a sign they will do that as often as they can in the coming months in hopes of keeping -- keeping trump support down and reminding them former years of trump is something we cannot afford. sumi: 73-year-old british man died of a suspected heart attack after a flight from london to singapore hit severe turbulence. dozens were taken to the hospital. this gentleman now named, jeff kitchen. this is what authorities believed to have been a heart attack. severe to -- turbulence means dozens were taken to the hospital, several with severe injuries. the flight experienced sudden extreme turbulence over myanmar and was diverted to bangkok and

the plane made a rapid descent, 6000 feet and minutes. monica miller is standing by for us in singapore. tell us more. monica: the flight with the non-injured passengers just arrived in singapore. we are seeing some of them disembark. an incredibly long, stressful day. they look exhausted. there was a lot of preparation before they arrived because their loved ones who arrived around 6:00 yesterday, it has been almost 12 hours they have been waiting, trying to get updates from loved ones. we saw one woman who was fairly shaken by the events of the day. singapore airlines had mental health officials on staff helping her. it has finally landed. almost 100 passengers wanted to

get on a plane, but many more are still at the bangkok hospital. sumi: what are authorities saying about what happened? monica: at this point they are focused on the well-being of the passengers and crew. singapore officials say they have a team working with thai authorities to get to this point where they can get people back on a plane, to singapore airlines which is for some their final destination. it is the well-being of the passengers and crew that is paramount. sumi: monica miller from singapore, thank you. that is our program. remember you can find more on the days news at ou website, bbc.com/news. don't forget, you can download our bbc news to get the latest headlines and analysis from correspondents around the world. thanks for joining us.

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