capitol hill has already been vocal since the news of this attack about the president's withdrawal essentially saying that what this is doing this this planned withdrawal that has already commenced is emboldening eisel with the announcement of soldiers coming home lizzy graham saying that he has seen this in iraq now it is being viewed in syria and cautioning the president saying that donald trump should look long and hard about what he is doing and where things are headed in syria so certainly while the president has not said anything in the press secretary not releasing any details whether there is a change of heart there is increasing pressure on capitol hill for the president to rethink his strategy having said all of this the joint chiefs of staff general dunford is in brussels this week he is meeting with his counterpart we also know that the secretary of state might pump aoe is in discussions with his counterpart about potentially protecting the kurds through a thirty two kilometer safe zone all right so it can really help that thank you

freezing weather is being blamed for the deaths of fifteen children in camps for internally displaced people in syria the harsh weather is also affecting camps in neighboring lebanon that's where hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees live in makeshift tents as in a hundred reports from august that's close to lebanon's border with syria. fatma is very ill. the two year old is suffering from respiratory problems temperatures regularly drop below zero during the winter months in this corner of lebanon but this year is particularly harsh and these children refugees from syria are the most vulnerable they live in tents made of flimsy plastic sheeting it is a struggle to keep warm and it is hard to stay dry. huddle most united nation gave us money to buy gasoline for the whole winter but their multi-cam purchase was not enough what a month and a half we need ten dollars

a day i have three kids. it's hard for fathers like up to when they can't buy medicine and meet the needs of their children these desperate families have survived to one severe storm already this year and now they're bracing for another storm the second in less than a week the united nations says twenty two thousand syrians were affected in the first storm flooding heavy rain and snow whipped by strong winds destroyed their tents last week many fear the worst is yet to come. i love it and also i am scared of the upcoming storm because i suffered and the last one my tenth was flooded and we couldn't stay inside my family and i had to live with others in another. and i'm sure this would happen again imagine how much harder it is for the elderly ninety four year old has and his daughter zahara are trapped as it should

be very moving when weather conditions are bad we can't do anything but stay inside and i wrap my father with a lot of blankets like a child to keep warm and i have no choice but to wait for the storm to and before going outside there are no shelters to accommodate these refugees in times like this the united nations says seventy thousand people are at risk because of the harsh weather conditions forty thousand of them are children they live and shelters and sites that are prone to flooding and are in danger of collapse because of heavy snowfall levanon refuses to set up proper camps to prevent the long term resettlement of refugees the u.n. says one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered in lebanon live like this for them in particular it is proving to be a tough winter senator are still northeastern lebanon still ahead on al-jazeera laurent gbagbo soon to walk free after the international criminal court but the

former ivory coast president of war crimes and why can't. the nine eleven memorial in new york are causing an uproar. get a welcome back to international weather forecast or we're going to be seeing a system coming out of the bad in this system is going to bring a lot of rain as well as snow across much of the divide over the next few days so here on thursday we do have. quite a bit of snow here across parts of iraq as well as some rain coming into parts of iran that system is going to be moving quite quickly over here towards the east as we go from thursday to friday for you're going to be getting out of those clouds and snow terms are there about six degrees and then as we go towards friday that is going to be making its way towards the east down towards quite city we do expect to see a part of a few but the temps are

a fifteen degrees one here in doha expect to see a drop in temperature as we go through the weekend so here on thursday twenty seven degrees winds are going to be coming out of the south but as we go towards friday well twenty degrees is going to be the high there temperatures are going to be dropping the winds are going to be coming out of the north same for abu dhabi good temperatures are going to be dropping as well with winds coming out of the north at twenty two degrees over towards miska a nice day for you at twenty six and then very quickly over here towards the southern part of africa we are looking at fairly nice conditions across much of the area over here towards durban we are going to see temperatures at about twenty eight degrees there up towards johannesburg at about twenty nine in capetown partly cloudy twenty four. in search of a safer neighborhood it was a huge and a little wind making now isn't. being a man who can put my family in a home that they deserve that's a problem for me struggling to secure

a home really really quite of our military and all that is all we don't we could potentially lose our house and living paycheck to paycheck there's nobody to blame and live with the consequences every day of the choices that have been hard. on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on. government is facing a vote of no confidence after an overwhelming prime minister. parliament debate is now underway and could trigger a general election. for us. there

in twenty fifteen. of the kurdish peoples protection units also known as the. freezing weather is being blamed for the deaths of. children in makeshift camps the winter storm is also affecting. the u.n. is saying lives could have been saved if medical care were allowed. the international criminal court will release former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after rejecting a prosecution bid to extend his detention the court in the netherlands ruled by boat was free to go a day after his shock acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity they related to post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed prosecution plan to appeal. and has been speaking to human rights groups about the decision. it's business as usual in the commercial district of john while there may have been celebration in the neighborhoods where. is very

popular most of the country have been watching the drama unfolding at the international criminal court with caution in their back of their mind is the violence that took place during the contested presidential election of two thousand and ten and eleven were refused to concede defeat in the decision taken by the judges has disappointed many especially human rights organizations when the pretty seized two thousand and two all the perpetrators of crimes linked to the civil war have been part of what will help a program with impunity victims are the ones to pay the price the country cannot move forward if we don't address the truth and provide justice. ivorians are wondering whether the decision taken by the courts will bring the much promised reconsider the asian or whether it will exacerbate divisions in tensions in an

already volatile and rocky political climate because in a year's time ivorians will go back and vote a new president. has said that he will not contest the next presidential election no matter what the court's decision by bo has been sentenced to twenty years in prison by and i've worn court much to the release of the victims of the civil war who are still seeking justice kenya's president of horror kenyatta is promising to find those responsible for nineteen hour siege at a nairobi hotel at least fourteen people were killed when attackers detonated a bomb in the lobby and opened fire the red cross says fifty people remain unaccounted for alexia ryan reports. outside this mall in nairobi anxious family members and colleagues white for news. now the seed. is over details of what happened inside the dusit hotel a beginning to emerge surveillance cameras captured the beginning of the attack

when heavily armed men walked into the upmarket complex collection from all over the place employees are running all over the place he was screaming about point i realize of the best thing to do is to find levels too high. for hours afterward terrified workers barricaded themselves in as gunfire and explosives rang out. others jumped from the windows of the deuce that veto which includes offices and restaurants frequented by some of nairobi's many ex-pat workers survivors spoke of chaos and confusion we go out to say for the iraqis some but they make a big mistake because it was not secure we go and the shabaab sub plus hundreds of others were taken to safety in an operation that lasted through the night they called them in the strongest towns possible this dust of the actual coming days of

accepted enemies of the of a human civilization. him as a joke divisions all sorts says divisions our own terrorists a one zero sum family depend on standing together against these agents of. the somali based on group al shabaab says it was behind the attack it's often targeted nairobi and response to kenya sending troops to help protect the un backed government and neighboring somalia kenya's president is vowing justice we will seek out every person that was involved in the for funding planning and execution of this. we will pursue relentlessly wherever they will be. until the. pictures circulated online appears to show the attackers bodies the hotel is now

a crime scene and iraq. al-jazeera. security expert focusing on the horn of africa explains the motives behind. well i. had two motives in carrying out these terrorist attack one was to mark the anniversary of the attack where the basically ran over. in somalia the second motive i think was to basically announce that they are still there are relevant this is a group that has been on its back. been wild and has been losing ground in somalia and basically they just wanted to make up a point by stating that they are still relevant about when to went in to do sit hotel and the you know within

a very short time the security agencies the multi-agency approach y. able to move means clear mission and effectively manage to pin them down so they were not able to carry out or cheve their goals as much as the deed in twenty fifteen when they carried out a similar at westgate and the security agencies have been on high allowed al shabaab has not been able to carry out attacks in the last three or four years in the city of nairobi because of the high levels of a lot that the security agencies have been i've been having zimbabwe's main cities have been calm but tense on the last day of a national strike it was call to protest against the government's imputes hike and impose a hike in fuel prices a leading activist has been arrested in harare and faces charges of inciting violence internet activity is back up and running in the country after the telecoms networks blocked access to social media sites wordsmith reports.

and activists pastor has been using social media to encourage people to observe a three day national stay at home protest triggered by a steep rise in fuel prices in zimbabwe that's how to rest it and facing allegations of inciting violence. how people away in constitutes mean to. close this is the. real. there's been an uneasy carman zimbabwe's main cities on wednesday the third day of the national strike businesses and schools remained closed mobile phone internet networks are still off on government orders the government blames the main opposition for the protests. as well. he's.

three people including a police officer died during violent demonstrations in the capital harare on monday and in the second city by the way zero shops were looted and cars set on fire hoping for the bitter weekend that maybe if you do these them because we mean to take us into call gracie was just doing it all just going to wake us if you can use mobile. you see. the snow to you. baby. if you pray to zimbabwe's president has been in russia during the demonstrations. is accused by protesters a failing to live up to pre-election promises to kick start the economy instead shortages of hard currency are affecting the imports of fuel and drugs rocketing inflation is eating into people say. the u.n. security council has voted unanimously to deploy up to seventy five observers to yemen's port city of who they are the monitors will be sent for six months to

supervise a cease fire and the withdrawal of rival forces it's part of a truce signed in stockholm last month fighters allied with the saudi led coalition have been battling the rebels for control of the city most of yemen's food aid and medicine passes through the day does ports. an art exhibit in new york has been removed after sparking anger and protests it was near in nine eleven memorial and included a flag of saudi arabia kristen salumi explains. at first glance they're hardly offensive giant pieces of candy wrapped in the flags of g. twenty nations countries that represent the world's twenty leading industrialized and emerging economies but seeing the flag of saudi arabia as part of a public art exhibit so close to the september eleventh memorial made terry strada furious. to have it anywhere near nine eleven memorial let alone right there beside

the oculus in the side where the reflecting pools are it was insulting and extremely hurtful stratas husband the father of her three children died in the world trade center attack of two thousand and one fifteen of the nineteen hijackers who carried out the attack were saudi. just days after strada complained to the public agency responsible for the exhibit it was taken down to be relocated the port authority said in a statement we believe the solution respects the unique sensitivities of the site and preserves the artistic integrity of the exhibit in recent years strada has lobbied elected officials for the right to sue the saudi government over its alleged role in the nine eleven attacks which killed nearly three thousand people as the head of the group nine eleven families and survivors united for justice against terrorism the case is still making its way through the courts the saudis deny any involvement in the attacks. i love my country i love america and i want to

be safer and i don't think we're safe as long as countries like saudi arabia continue to fund terrorist organizations that continue to validate kill and destroy us the french artist little ralston janko who created the sculptures and first display them back in two thousand and eleven say they are meant to celebrate mankind and the similarities between nations that message may have a better chance of getting through when the exhibit moves to its new location the airport christian salumi al jazeera new york. well you can read more about that story as well as the day's top stories by heading to our website. dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour the u.k. government is facing a vote of no confidence after an overwhelming defeat of prime minister to resign. parliament debate is underway and it could trigger

a general election may says now is not the time for a leadership change. today as we look ahead to the days vote back in the government today would enable us to find a way forward on breaks it and on the issues that she says that matter. and ensure that this country has the government it needs to take its forward for which to deliver on the referendum at least fifteen people some of the members of the u.s. military have been killed in an explosion in the northern syrian city of another nineteen were injured areas under the control of the kurdish peoples protection units also known as the y.p. there has been increased tension along the turkish syrian borders since president donald trump announced last month that u.s. troops will withdraw from syria. freezing weather is being blamed for the deaths of fifteen children in camps for internally displaced people in syria the harsh weather is also affecting camps in neighboring lebanon where hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees live in makeshift tents. the international criminal court will

release former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after rejecting a prosecution bid to extend his detention the court in the netherlands ruled by but was free to go a day off to his shock acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity they related supposed election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed. kenya's president has offered his condolences to the family of the victims of a deadly hotel attack in nairobi he's vowed to find all those who were responsible at least fifteen people were killed including the gunman a leading zimbabwean activist has been arrested in the capital after days of protest over fuel prices pastor evan was taken away from his house in harare there have been demonstrations across several cities in zimbabwe since the government's more than doubled the cost of petrol and diesel human rights watch says security forces have shot dead at least five people and wounded others during that crackdown on protests those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story

with foley about cboe is coming up next stay with us. celebrations on the streets of ivory coast after the international criminal court acquits former president of crimes against humanity what will this mean for the concierge in the country and the future of the i.c.c. after this latest setback this is the inside story.

and welcome to the program. he was the first former head of state to stand trial at the international criminal court. in two thousand and eleven and charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the violence that followed disputed presidential elections in two thousand and ten three thousand people were killed and more than half a million displaced during the rest but after a three year trial at the hague i.c.c. judges said the prosecution had failed to show bagwell as involvement in the violence and ordered his release prosecutors say they will appeal against the ruling the majority dissenting rejects the prosecutor's request. and mr blair in detention. directs the religious tree to obtain the necessary assert the servants assurances from mr bungle and.

in their respective lead counsel. in ensuring the return of mr boggle and or mist of legal duty if and when the presence of the seat of the court is requested as we said this morning for bible supporters the acquittal is a major victory but victims of the post-election violence are volleying to continue the fight for justice will bring in our guest in just a moment but first nicholas hock has this report from. supporters a former i rico sleeper loaned by both celebrated as news of his acquittal spread across the country. in the international criminal court ordered his immediate release. but it is a moment of incredible joy we feel like we all have been freed he is a leader our president a man of peace eighty witnesses gave evidence thousands of documents were produced

but after seven years in prison the judges say the prosecution failed to prove that by going codefendant charles bleakly they were guilty of crimes against humanity including murder rape and persecution for all these reasons the chamber by majority here by decides that the prosecutor has failed to such as. the burden of proof to the requisite standard as for seen in article sixty six of the rome statute. grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr bloomberg bull and mr childs bug who was arrested in two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots

went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood of hugo a backdoor stronghold. the chance bug is finally free for the people of. this is the cause of celebration that was this trial at the international committee of the the. the judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victims of the civil war who continue to call for justice to no one under way it. is free the violence will come back and it could get even worse maybe another person will take power and create the same problems we don't want to see he will come way from these crimes. will we still be considered a war criminal by some a hero to others the this in a country trying to move on from a violent past in search of reconciliation and

a brighter future because hawke al-jazeera. or let's bring in our panel jim warmington is on skype from abidjan ivory coast's is a researcher at the africa division of human rights watch also on skype from the car senegal is a political analyst and founder of the watty think tank and in berlin is mark ericson deputy director of the foundation and author of justice in conflicts the effects of the international criminal court interventions on ending wars and building peace gentlemen thank you all for being on inside story thank you for joining us jim warrington in abidjan the acquittal of law goes celebrated as we saw by his supporters but disappointment of course for the victims of the post-election violence of twenty ten twenty levon what implications for peace and justice in

ivory coast. that's the question that everybody is asking here in abidjan but i just want to touch on on your point about victims and. as you sir in the reporting that preceded this conversation this debate there's no doubt that awful crimes were committed in could you aren't ready ten twenty eleven people alive in the streets women were raped people were killed simply because of their political affiliation and it's important to say that this decision doesn't change any of that it shows that the prosecution was unable to connect in the courts. to what happened on the ground and for many of the victims that i've spoken to that's the the contradiction they know what they suffered they know what they saw and they find it very difficult to understand how a court's cases in the hague with foreign judges and lawyers can come to a different conclusion in terms of what happens next and it could be for i think that's the question the first narrative of course that's often buy back both of course it is is that this is good for reconciliation is what allow countries to

come together but of course the other narrative is that many of the factors that underpins the two thousand and eleven violence the lack of security sector reform and reform in the army and of course most important need to compete in putin sees the crimes committed by both and most powerful says is still very much present in the yabby into kajal fonts as does good for reconstitution as might both supporters believe. well. i'm not sure that it is good for reconciliation i'm not sure that. this is going to change the political practices in the country and my opinion as always be that lessons have to be grown from the crises that the country as witnessed and the greatest was post-election our presence it was a liberal conflict was just and it is a in a very long conflict which has been you know which has magic on t.v. for twenty two decades and i'm not sure that grant can we are not seeing kind of.

the report figuration the political reconfiguration that we make the election in two thousand and two and then again as and possibly about ants in do we like to come back to yes i was just going to go touch on that point that you make eight years on indeed jail the same political actors that led to the post-election violence of twenty eleven and twenty twenty ten and twenty levon are back in the picture whether it's by boa ta. how worrying is that for the upcoming election in two thousand and twenty. yes i think that is not a good sign the fact that there is no clear. recognition by of those personalities that they have been collectively responsible for what happened to the country again not just what happened during that but the labor a conflict that was i've been in the country and destroyed the country for many

years and i think that the fact that we're seeing these pictures and we're also seeing a situation that have not been strengthened after the conflict i think all be pointing to some reason to be worried about the two thousand and twenty but again i will lead to to come back to the decision itself because i think it's important also to say that the decision by the i.c.c. was logical in the sense that from the very beginning the way these kids as it's under by the at the and especially back with former prosecutor luis moreno ocampo i think is was problematic and some investigation by media probably the french newspapers it is very clear that there was too much political and deference in the way the case has been under as i never understood for example why you know that because of the bible and league with the and not for example if you military commanders and security actions iran

a prison by group which would have made it possible to shoulder ten of come on you know from the political decision to beg the question about an act on the ground let's bring a mock of them blown into the conversation mark what do you think went wrong for the prosecution in the bungled polls over the political interference in the contest . well i think it's important first of all not to get too carried away from one a vent at the international criminal court i think it's important to recognize that the i.c.c. is neither as good as its greatest success nor as bad as its biggest failures but this this this is worrying because clearly if our expectation is and maybe it shouldn't be but if our expectation is that the i.c.c. to hold people to account in and gets convictions for senior level perpetrators of atrocities then then this is the this is disappointing i think it the judges were very clear in this instance that quite frankly they did not believe that the

prosecution put forward good enough and sufficient evidence to proceed to to proceed to the second stage of the trial they don't believe that there's enough evidence to convict. or charles blow a good day beyond the reasonable doubt and this this i think sheds casts doubt right now on the ability of the i.c.c. office of the prosecutor to successfully gather enough evidence in particular to successfully prosecute high level state officials and this is i think a very worrying trend we saw earlier this year john here ben by the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo before that the current president of kenya or kenya then the deputy president william ruto indeed and now. i think there's a very worrying trend that the i.c.c. may not be able to hold senior state level government officials to account when

they allegedly perpetrate crimes while let's just pause for a moment if we can and give our viewers mark some context some background on the international criminal court and its work on africa the i.c.c. the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal it was established in two thousand and two it took the court nearly a decade to deliver the first very big finding congolese. rebel leader. guilty of recruiting child soldiers there are twenty eight cases before the court it's handed down eight convictions and two acquittals in six of the cases and it's indicted forty four people including sudanese president omar bashir and saif al islam the son of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. the international criminal court have accused it of being biased towards africa and twenty seventeen the african union passed a motion urging its members to leave the tribunals that's because all of the forty four people facing charges at the i.c.c. africans and ten of the eleven countries under investigation are in africa long. is

the latest high profile case against an african leader to collapse as you heard last year former vice president. against his conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity and in twenty fifteen the charges against kenyan president who are kenyatta due to a lack of evidence. in. what does this case say about the international criminal court and its ability to operate as instrument for international justice. no i think the first thing which not touched on of course the judges of the court have to be fair though if the defendants and victims and if in this case simply the prosecution didn't make its case to bring enough evidence then the judges were right to acquit and a good day and we'll see what happens ultimately on appeal so i think most of our

focus should be on the lessons that the prosecutor can control from this undoubtedly if these are difficult cases to prove you have to show the connection between something that happens that a very local level of killing or rape all the way up through the chain of command to the head of state in this case don't buy books that is difficult to do but at the same time the i.c.c. is well resourced and should have been the expertise to do that what i'd like to see is that as you touched on a detailed examination of the strategy of the outset as should is she was said to have been more pro backbone kamandi arrested so that they could perhaps turn coat against backbone testify against him what was the implication of the court's failure to go after pro what tara commandos beginning giving the cold perhaps a bit more leverage to force a strong cooperation from the with our government in all of the cases and then i think finally that question of was the government on assignment tara completely forthcoming in more of the documentary evidence that they gave to the courts

knowing that their relationship with the i.c.c. at least the last few years hasn't been perfect and they've had technical the absolute perfect cooperation with it. in the car why why do you think it was difficult to prove that connection between the bible and the evidence and coming back to the victims in ivory coast today how much confidence do they still have in the international justice system. well starting with mr going to question and i don't know anything. we still have confidence in the international justice we have to wait to be an obese person you read especially be abit but i think that we have to go see their books what happened at the international justice give it up to what i've been asking of justice level because i managed to geisha and some. cases where also on the white south. i think global opinion after all these years is that justice as not being real justice got up and partially just he says that you know we get the hurt of a commitment of

a new government and the result is that yes we have a long crisis we have had a lot of it is out of bounds including the very serious allegation of international humanitarian law but i do and it's not very clear again that listen i've been really lucky and that good signal has been given to get political actors and to be anti society on what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in the competition for all power that's why we could actually recurrence of outlets again because we have a sense that actually it is the impunity for the kind that have been committed so let me ask you you mention president ouattara he has promised to deliver justice but also anyone right now as not to be held responsible for the crimes committed in two thousand and ten twenty seven. in a number of people where where where. it could you go south but then there was also a decision a few months ago babbar prison where to rat for an amnesty of the lot of people who

were freed from from treasons again acting justice has been a release of due to political political decisions and then what or as be funding post-election. crises you know intercepted a way to preserve of course his own power its own supporters and we do we have to admit that it was difficult because again some people who were from the former rebellion had also to respond for crimes that were committed in the course of the conflict and that way for for me it was important not to look only at two friends that were committing doing that was in april conflict serious crimes were committed in the west from two thousand and two including some that were committed by the former rebels under the command of the m sirup so. your first question i think that the problem again is the sense that the i.c.c. as it don't you fareed the culprits of the people to be proud to get justice before

investigating it seriously because out of balance and i think it should have been doing be overweight the other way round mark in berlin looking at the wider implications now for the international criminal court the i.c.c. needs a big brand but it's been racking up the losses demented countries african countries the united states president donald trump who say that the i.c.c. has no legitimacy has no authority how how does the i.c.c. change them to become more effective and this is a damning moment for the court is system mail in the coffin for the isis. well no i don't think it's a nail in the coffin or a death knell again i think we need to look at the wider picture this is this this is a i think but when you look at the why did i say mondale hasn't been haven't been many planes have. there have been and there have been a number of convictions and i don't think and i think this is an important point i don't think that the full credibility and legitimacy of any criminal court should

just be a measure of the number of convictions and acquittals of course a credible court needs to have acquittals would have acquittals of course this is troubling for those who have expectations of the i.c.c. will be able to successfully prosecute more individuals particularly senior level government officials who have allegedly perpetrated war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide so when that expectation isn't met when there's a gap between what you expect or what we expect and what actually happens at the i.c.c. then there's a there's a hit to the credibility of the court but you mentioned yourself that you know one of the or very popular conversation argument is that the i.c.c. is somehow biased against africans right and simply goes after after you know fallen african leaders i think this is actually quite a difficult argument to sustain when you have acquittals of high level government officials who have fallen out of power or who are in power on the african continent

and again you mentioned kenyatta ruto and now lauren by bo and charles blow a good day it's hard to sustain the argument that the i.c.c. is somehow biased against african leaders when they are acquitted and ordered to be released or cases collapse i think that's a that's that's perhaps a silver lining in the wider conversation about the i.c.c. these legitimacy but just to reiterate i think what jim said you know what you want from a court like this that that has. that has a very difficult mandate in a very difficult mission given all of the crimes that are occurring in the world what you want is a court that learns from these types of mistakes that looks at what happened and changes or adapt itself to be able to better investigate the right types of cases with the right types of evidence so that victims who dedicate and sacrifice so much to be part of these proceedings so that their expectations are eventually met and

so that there is more justice and accountability for these types of crimes again i think particularly from from from government actors jim in abidjan there are many countries especially in africa who tend to the i.c.c. because they are unable to bring prosecutions themselves how does the i.c.c. become more effective how does it become more effective if it wants to be taken seriously. why the to such in your first point. could you why had a very strong national justice process to address the crimes of the two thousand and eleven crisis which are as you said he repeatedly promised that he would deliver justice will science he set up a special tasca force of judges to investigate and they actually managed to charge some greedy high level commas in officials both in the back those items which are a sign that is a huge step forward but i think it could you obviously what we should ask ourselves

is why you haven't been able to build as obvious you'll say because it is a hoary and groups and i'm worried victims why we haven't been able to build a border coalition for justice to show that justice is an essential part of the peace equation and could you walk in the faintest do that and out with tara in the summit it's a pos and i'm to stay with essentially you know the political consequences could be causative political kind of consequences but in short that's i think one thing the i.c.c. has to do is to continue to remain supports international justice and that's one silver lining of this outcome is that is that governments and african governments african civil society will have to think again about how to make just as something that can be delivered african courts and african jurisdictions. your thoughts on the future of the i.c.c. and its role in africa do you see i optimistic that this court can deliver justice for the victims whether in ivory coast or out of countries you know some of your if the damage from supporters of the i.c.c.

and repress people on which he was then they also. strengthening up in as our justice system that thing that be. called the folk using the most important friends that where you what's created but i do believe that you know full on institution including full. personalities magic to prove that integrates and we've got the dance of the people but the main thing that has changed i think and the i.c.c. is that people have to wonder. then the rationale behind these procedures people cannot understand for example for many years why just one comp i'd be. concerned by and that's a gauging if any of the person could tell you in saying that people also who supported what ross where being investigated but clearly included was a message was not you know cannot be understood by people if they have a sense that only one of her big things are being caused and i think that has to

change and people have to understand again the russian a sign any decision that is big and ever calls all right mark in berlin i'll give you the last word as we said a lot of criticism of the international criminal court from the us president most notably the i.c.c. still up to the challenge to hold the world's most powerful to account. i think that remains to be seen but you you cited trump he and his advisors are very concerned about the international criminal court i think that's the only explanation their only reasonable explanation for why they would so vehemently and vociferously criticize. the i.c.c. and have this kind of hissy fit towards the court which means that maybe the i.c.c. is doing some some good work maybe they're not always convictions but they're making powerful people worry about. about the reach of the i.c.c. and i think that that's a good thing and that's a good thing for the i.c.c. his credibility and legitimacy it's ultimately i think people's hope is that the

i.c.c. will will speak a lot to law to power whether it's able to do that through successful trials and prosecutions again i think remains to be seen but i think it's clear that a lot of powerful leaders around the world are nervous and worried about the i.c.c. and every time they criticize the court that becomes more and more clear so i think we can have a degree of optimism that hopefully in the future of the i.c.c. will be able to bring successful cases against these types of alleged perpetrators thank you so much gentlemen for a very interesting discussion jamie warmington and mark anderson and thank you for watching you can always watch this program again any time by this ng our web site at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to la face book page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. and side story you can also join the conversation on twitter of course i handle is that a.j. inside story from me fully back to one whole team thank you for watching by for now .

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is little evidence that she actually has one we begin in london with al-jazeera us paul brennan. she's not just clinging on she's fighting on far from quitting ever choose to night's historic defeat theresa may return to parliament on wednesday in competent mood the opposition labor party is accusing her of being in denial and has triggered a vote of no confidence for whedon's the evening this government has failed our country yeah it cannot govern cannot come on the support of most people facing the most important issue at the moment which is breaks it they failed again and lost a vote last night isn't it the case mr speaker that with every other previous prime minister faced with a scanner defeat last night they would have resigned. the prime minister seemed so taken heart from the knowledge that the rebels who voted against her deal have mostly promised to vote with her in the confidence motion so the chances of her

being ousted on whedon's they are very slim they say we would have waited to have the no confidence debate he has been calling for weeks for a general election in this country and yet on sunday when he was asked in a general election campaign to leave the european union he refused to arm sa you know once not twice not three times but five times seriously so europe has reacted with some alarm to the scale of choose days extraordinary result in westminster you nations have started accelerating their preparations for a no deal bracks it on march twenty ninth junko warned that time is running out his deputy expressed the use regret the vote last night's in the house of commons was crystal clear that what stalled agreement has been rejected. and now we will have to look for a way forward. the commission regrets the rejection of the word withdrawal agreement as representative of the council said because we do believe this was the

best possible outcome of the e.u.'s chief negotiator did hold out the possibility of some compromise with the british position he said first had to evolve and several m.p.'s in london are preparing to force parliament to put the brakes it question back to the british people jeremy corbett is going to decide do i now start to countenance a referendum which he quite obviously doesn't want to have and his backbenchers many of whom of hidden behind this slogan i want an election for elections taken off the table they've got a difficult decision to make do they want to leave the european union with no deal with this deal or do they want to referendum a threesome a formulates have plan b. on bracks ichy is offered to immediately start talks with any senior parliamentarians who are prepared to work as she put it in a constructive spirit but she specifically refused to reach out across the divide to jeremy corbin accusing him of being more interested in forcing an election than in forging a compromise the bracks it's deadline is looming and there is little sign of

a breakthrough solution paul brennan al-jazeera well we have two teams covering the story we have david chaytor who will join us from brussels in a moment but first over to lawrence leigh he's joining us from just outside parliament in london to tell us why the prime minister to resume is not talking to jeremy corbin. well you know on the most basic level she can't stand him that's why she does want to talk to him but the bigger point is i've been saying compared to guns and all europe where coalition politics is the norm and in a time of crisis parties would expect to come together to try to hammer out some sort of compromise there is no tradition really of that in british politics at all and so you know for some reason may there's nothing going on inside our heads that says that she should sort of jeremy corbyn and instead she seems only to want to talk so people from other parties who by and large support what she believes anyway and it looks like after all the excitement of last night when people thought she

might have to shift position plan b. one of that turns out to be isn't going to be very much different to plan a so the atmosphere here is all a bit flat frankly because no one thinks that labor is going to win votes and confidence in the government's tonights in the way forward isn't really any any clearer let's turn to jonathan less from british influence jonathan one of the intriguing things that's come out today seems to be the suggestion from the other opposition parties the scottish nationalists and others that they won't keep supporting jeremy colvin if he keeps wanting votes no confidence because i'm fed up with him not saying what his position is on a second referendum so it looks like this actually might be the only version of commons in the government that jeremy colvin is able to holes. well i suppose everyone's now playing their own separate school games aren't they may's game if you like is to dress up plan a is plan b. and keep presenting it and here and in the heat to something would change was

jeremy cool britain's idea because he's opposed to a referendum is to keep presenting his idea which is to present most of the day confidence in the hope that the government will fold and he gets a general election that he wants because he does he doesn't want to go second referendum because the other parties will want to have that referendum in saying that in a sense they're trying to push labor to follow its own policy but also carries risks for those parties because those parties also won't carry the tories they want a general action and so it's really a game of a kind of political party crazy like if if chairman khaldoon was true to his word and said the labor party policy will be defined by what the membership wants then he would surely sibal the second referendum because it's overwhelming isn't it in the light of the eleven membership i think it really depends on where the call been really doesn't want a referendum but it's been paid to if you like hides behind the membership or if you so vehemently opposed to a referendum that he's actually repaired to fight the membership i think that is going to be the discussion in the next couple of weeks and months because if you

really want to have a fight with his party you know he's been recording if you like tony blair's early fights in his party over say clue school in the iraq war it could we want to do that that's a dangerous path into folly but i think it's not easy for him to say i personally don't support second referendum but if the membership insists upon it by will follow it and there is hope that he has to do that and i'm just a little about syriza may as of last night she was saying she's going to reach out across across the bottom into development no sign at all of her doing that today i think we can start to reach the may with the tired line nothing has changed a famous times in the general election last year the may has just lost. the just finding votes of her premiership and in fact the since the wall fight that space historic and nazi conceit of seeing the red line is simply extraordinary ok jonathan stay with us we're going to be. back. the vote is in fifty three minutes tell him so we'll have results on the on the look of this motion the government's at about a quarter past seven on tuesday with us for that all right we'll cross back to you then lawrence lee for the time being thank you david chaytor will bring him in he's

joining us from brussels what are your leaders thinking as they see this happen in britain. well that washing on with dismay that we're seeing as we heard earlier that the situation will evolve in some way but what exactly will the reason may when she comes to brussels next week bring with her what is plan b. does anybody know what plan b. is and how on earth can the european leaders and the european go to see react when they don't know what she's going to bring but essentially they have been saying that they are speeding up preparations for a new deal because of that will have a large impact on some of the major economies here as well as the british economy of course and they must they must prepare for the worst but at the same time nobody here nobody in the european union wants

a no deal greg zick they know how damaging it will be so they are prepared to talk they are paired to negotiate but essentially the deal is on the table now it is taken so long to negotiate and that was firmly rejected by the house of commons is the one that's going to stay on that table they might offer some concessions but at sensually they want to maintain the european union institutions exactly as they are it's the united kingdom that's walking out of us divorcing at the moment and they don't intend to change their institutions just to suit the united kingdom so they want the red lines that tourism is always talked about change they want her to bring concessions it's not really the compromises phoned the european union are expected it's a compromise from two reason may but what can she do about that she hasn't even started as we heard talking to any other m.p.'s across across the posse so

how many how many new concessions how many new ideas karen she bring up brussels don't think that she can bring many and i don't think the of the talks when she starts from here in brussels will go very long at all very far because it seems that the e.u. is determined to hold its ground all right david taylor thank you. at least fifteen people some of the members of the u.s. military have been killed in an explosion in the northern syrian city of men another nineteen were injured areas under the control of the kurdish peoples protection units also known as the y. p.g. american troops also based in that region they armed and trained to wipe e.g. in their fight against eisel well there has been increased tension along the turkish syrian border since president donald trump announced last month that u.s. troops will withdraw from syria just as white house correspondent kelly hawk is doing now and trump also said that i saw was defeated in syria and now we have this attack on members with u.s. service members being killed in

a reaction. we're waiting reaction from president donald trump none has been forthcoming as of yet but al jazeera has spoken to the white house press office it has confirmed in fact that there were u.s. service members killed in that attack the number they will not confirm but there is reportedly a statement forthcoming the u.s. president is meeting with his secretary of state at this hour for a lunch where we expect that they will discuss the issue of syria but already the president is getting some fresh criticism from one of his staunch allies on capitol hill senator lindsey graham who believes that the announcement by the president last month that surprise announcement that the two thousand u.s. troops there in syria would be returning to the united states it's his view that this has emboldened essentially pointing to attacks such as this saying that he has seen this before in iraq and now it appears in syria and that the president should look long and hard.