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of palestine diplomatic office in washington d.c. of attempts to take israel to the i.c.c. . brazil's jailed former president lula da silva has filed to run for election and tens of. of civilians are displaced and live as government forces target the last rebel stronghold. the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court of appeals serious an investigation into american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton issued the warning in his first major speech since joining the trumpet ministration in april in that same address he confirmed the u.s. is closing the palestine liberation organization office and washington a white house correspondent committee health at reports. protests in the west bank

as news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliation for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials through the international criminal court you see actions in raged many in the united states who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c.

if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us were crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those. from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and its blind eye to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an administrative mission of this administration is that to diminish and. its policies of blackmail and extortion. undermining the peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any

closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly help get al-jazeera washington on the palestinian leadership says the u.s. has adopted a mist of his raving to mom's house that has more from ramallah. well the polar state of relations between the palestinian leadership and the united states was already in evidence for many months one of those factors is the fact that the head of the p.l.o. mission which has just been closed down has been here in ramallah since he was withdrawn from the united states in may by palestinian president mahmoud abbas he was informed early on monday morning palestinian time by a u.s. official who told him that it was because of the palestinian pressure for israel to be brought before the international criminal court that this decision was being made with the palace in leadership sees this very much in the context of other u.s.

measures against them in recent days in fact throughout the trumpet ministration just recently though we have seen two hundred million dollars in aid slashed from u.s. funding to the palestinian authority we've seen the united states and entirely its funding of unruh the u.n. organization that aids palestinian refugees just this weekend twenty five million dollars taken away from palestinian hospitals in east jerusalem and so when we spoke to the senior adviser to the palace in president now bill south he put this in that context does mr trump provide any answer absolutely not mr trump's ideas of destructive whatever remains of the peace process are one sided are extortionists. using economic pressure to deny any right for the palestinians and to deny the importance of international law and international institutions the palestinian leadership says rather than trying to bully them into

adopting a different line in terms of their rejection of the trump peace plan before its publication rather the united states has adopted a grocery list of israeli demands this latest move being one of them we spoke to the secretary general of the p.l.o. side erekat on monday he said that they would pursue israel at the international criminal court with even greater vigor adding another charge to the list that of the impending demolition of the bedouin village. in the occupied west bank he also said that after speaking to the un general assembly president abbas would return here reconvene the palestinian central council and start to enact real changes in the palestinian relationship with israel as a result of all that's happened since donald trump took power. ok alabama getting is a fellow at the brookings institution who previously served as an advisor to the palestine liberation organization and he says the u.s. decision will further damage peace efforts even the aid cuts and diplomatic

sanctions imposed on the palestinians and humanitarian sanctions imposed on on the palestinian people by this administration i think we're likely to see more instability a lot of that frustration on the palestinian street will be channeled toward their own leadership for you know. that house in leadership has banked on a u.s. led peace process for all these many years for more than two or three decades and there will be a lot of pressure on this leadership to come up with an alternative what is the plan now. and frankly the p.l.o. leadership doesn't have a plan b. . except perhaps to go back to international forums like the i.c.c. . but whether these forums can be effective in actually securing the primary demand which is an end to the israeli occupation is very very uncertain.

now the international criminal court has responded to bolton statement saying the holder has more from the hague. the united states and the i.c.c. have had a rocky relationship since the court's inception the united states is not a member it doesn't it refuses international jurisdiction over its nationals but following the prosecutor's decision to open a case and to investigate alleged war crimes by u.s. military personnel and u.s. intelligence personnel in afghanistan that relationship has worsened and that's when we heard john bolton really use very harsh language against the i.c.c. it's not really the first time that john bolton has used such language he was an official in the bush administration and since then he has been trying to undermine the credibility of the court now the i.c. i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x.

excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the

law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the united states uses the. court as a political instrumental when it wants to do so and they cite the example of libya for example when they referred libya to the i.c.c. the united states was among the un security council member states that did so so criticism human rights defenders and former prosecutors that the united states feels that it is above the law and the reaction from the i.c.r.c. i.c.c. really diplomatic language but at the same time strether dismissing and not attaching really a lot of importance to what bolton said. let's move on to other news now lawyers for brazil's jailed former president reason are fairly new to silver say he's still fighting to vote in the next month's presidential election is topping opinion polls but is banned from standing corruption conviction the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal it is spent monday mazing with hers would be vice president

fernando her dad he's expected to be announced as the workers' party candidate if it will a balance out a latin america editor lucien human is and could achieve or where he lives jailed. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate for the hard that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. made them . we vote for lula's ideals we have a program for our country. it's the same thing for us because we are voting for

a program but instead of a new candidate what they got was the message that is still not giving up hope against the odds that one of two supreme court appeals that he still has open will overturn an electoral court decision barring from running experts say it's highly unlikely that this will happen although legally lula still has options unless there's a favorable decision before september seventeenth it will be too late for him to run and that brings us back to the original question and the workers party risk it all and wait or will they give another candidate had that the chance to run in. they have almost no time left to decide. to syria now where the united nations says thirty thousand people have been displaced within a province in the last week alone and due to end crease in the number of air attacks russian jets and syrian government helicopters have targeted rebel held areas ahead of an expected ground offensive turkey's president is calling for the

international community to take action to stop the attacks and an article in the wall street journal. says a political solution is needed to prevent a humanitarian disaster and stephanie decker has more from on top here on the turkey syria border there is a huge numbers given by the united nations over thirty thousand people fleeing the areas where the bombardment is taking place and going to different areas inside it most of the people according to the united nations going into camps these are camps that are along the turkish border turkey's borders of course remain closed some people going to stay with relatives also others according to the united nations are an informal camps and others renting it just shows you the concern going forward particularly by turkey. potential civilian exodus towards its borders its borders remain closed as we've said and it has no intention of opening them up regardless

of what happens it says it is on its own and it is that capacity when it comes to dealing with syrian refugees hosting already over three million inside turkey so what what they're doing to prepare for this they tell us that they already have material inside syria in the sense that they can be setting up more camps more tense also medical facilities tree our facilities if that is needed because they do expect if the offensive gets closer to the cities to the more densely populated areas they are warning and a lot of people have used this word of a potential bloodbath. so ahead on the bulletin china under pressure while vice grips of the government is cracking down on its muslim population and the games a back north korea holds its first mass games in five years with a message of unification from to the center.

by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. well the tropical depression we were watching between luzon and taiwan has developed into a tropical depression and this massive green here is light to move in this general direction now you can see is already the forecast of showers in hind end which has been wet recently but it takes most of the rain away from the chinese mainland so taiwan and back towards north vietnam lots to track to watch for significant rain the next day or so will probably just about get enough strength to give it a name as a tropical storm but i want to guarantee that equally cloud is thickening in sichuan that's moving slowly south bringing rain with it so they're on some parts of china still seeing the end of summer rains if you like but the most part we're concentrating on the stormy stuff now in the western pacific so let's leave this part of the world jump sarsi a father right has got down through malaysia and indonesia good spacing between the

showers but every and every day jakarta gets closer and closer to seeing a significant downpour mostly the java in bali is dry borneo not so nor indeed sumatra or sudden tom than if you in singapore kuala lumpur all plan to travel there the chances are showers are not far away as for the philippines where you don't have a north of the zone for the rest of the audience yeah well it seems likely. the with it sponsored by. brazil's constitution grants its people the right to it. but it's been a long struggle and the system is constantly challenge to fight because. i know that nine some one medical treatment could lead to good death but on the other hand i also know that because of providing that treatment will have a negative impact on the rest of society. brazil's real drugs war on the people. on al-jazeera.

have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the u.s. has threatened to sanction the international criminal court if it prosecute its soldiers for war crimes when asked as security adviser john bolton also criticized palestinian efforts to bring israel before the i.c.c. for alleged war crimes and he confirmed that u.s. would be shot in the palestine liberation organization office in washington. lawyers for brazil's jailed former presidential reason asio there are just says he'll keep fighting to run the next month's presidential election there was banned from contesting due to a corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal the

united nations says thirty thousand people have been displaced within syria's at le province in the last week alone and crease in the number of air strikes meanwhile in an article in the wall street journal turkey's president has called on the international community to take action to stop the attacks well as a possible offensive looms of senior officials from russia turkey and iran have arrived in geneva for. talks hosted by the un reports. the united nations has warned an all out onslaught on it will endanger the lives of three million civilians trapped in the province one million of them children. the special envoy for syria has spelled out to the.