that reduces palestinian statehood to an entity devoid of sovereignty territorial contiguity and economic viability would fatally damage the cause of a durable peace for palestinians and israelis alike let's get more on this our senior political analyst. is joining us live from london it is a strong statement but will it have an impact do you think. well my guess is that this statement has not come as an embarrassment or as a surprise to european leaders and hence i think there's probably some sort of a synergy between former officials and present officials in europe which also means that both sides the former and the and the president are are worried about what the administration is trying to do come june perhaps in israel palestine they've been bad bankrolling american initiatives over the last twenty five years

in israel palestine and don't want to see everything go away because prime minister netanyahu was able to dictate to the administration is his conditions for whatever the next steps are and these are according to him jerusalem will stay united under israeli control israel will also control everything western of the jordan river meaning all of the west bank the occupied west bank and that israel will not withdraw a single illegal settler from the occupied territories sought in or really this sounds like it's going to be quite a bad deal for the posts that you absolutely must have on bush is again why the europeans say that they have written this letter but do you think again is it going to put any real pressure on this u.s. administration on the israeli government given that in the days leading up to the election we had prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he plans to annex the west bank and when the secretary of state my pompei was asked about it asked you know

when netanyahu was asked whether the u.s. knew about his plans he said sure yes. well precisely i think we are in a bind because the trump administration is doing prime minister netanyahu is bidding in israel palestine and that's actually a very dangerous path to take as i said that europe i think is probably mostly united on the idea of us two state solution of international law u.n. security council resolutions and equality between israelis and palestinians and in fact the letter does underline the idea that we are moving towards a one state reality with an equal rights between palestinians israeli that's in other words separate but unequal is a part of dade and i think europe does not want to see a parted in its borders so europe will take a stand the question is will it make a dent in the trump foreign policy in the coming years my guess is they

would put pressure but the trump has not exactly been listening to europeans on not just on this issue but on a whole other bunch of issues that are important europe the question will be is how will the palestinians and the arabs respond so far many of the arabs including the can give jordan they can give surrogate arabia and others have said that they will reject anything short of two state solution again the question is whether the americans whether mr bush and his father in law are preparing a bit of a surprise where maybe gaza or an expanded version of the gaza strip would become some sort of a thing over state in the very distant future in order to take the air out of the palestinian and projection to it it all remains to be seen because we don't know what the details are of that plan or what we know is there is a radical extreme zionist in the white house called jetted questioner who's workin

on it hence we can't expect anything positive to the palestinians and everything positive to the israelis but on thank you very much for that for now that. as a senior political analyst but when bashar live in london thank you still ahead on the bulletin french weapons used to target again many civilians and you claim by an investigation using secret intelligence documents. hello there it's lots of wet and windy weather making its way across japan at the moment the satellite picture is picking out the system very clearly but it's all now beginning to pull away say things force in japan are improving and if we had to choose a we should get to around twenty degrees in the sunshine in tokyo by wednesday we're looking at a bit more cloud the way to weather just in the fall south of japan for the north

a good deal of cloud just a few lighter outbreaks of rain towards the west it's getting pretty hot for some of us now beijing thirty two degrees by the time we get to wednesday but of the towards the south it's been fairly on settle for the southeastern parts of china over the last few days and that cloud or a need back if you choose day some of the outbreaks of rain are likely to be pretty heavy that oakley is though as we head into wednesday but only from really to reform it does look still fairly unsettled across this region as we head through the next few days i mean further towards the south a certain loss of showers here but to kiev of parts of borneo through java and the marcha further north over there will also be as more showers here as well so some sunshine coming through but then don't be surprised to see the old shower if you're in parts of thailand including bangkok and through cambodia as well there are showers probably still with us as we head through wednesday and we're also likely to see a few more in do so on that. egypt's

strongman is ruling with an iron fist and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. is perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security why are western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london and in cairo on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories hundreds of people are outside saddam's army headquarters demanding immediate civilian full

military leaders say they have made concessions and have asked political parties to recommend and dependent candidates to be prime minister. thousands of civilians have been forced out of their homes on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli un backed government forces and those loyal to war. have been conducting air raids and an. investigation by french media organizations has revealed the use of french weapons by the sa the iraqi coalition and gehman leaked documents from france as a military intelligence show that french battle tanks helicopters fighter jets and ses artillery pieces have been deployed on the battlefield and in civilian areas the investigation found that since twenty ten one hundred thirty two seize the artillery to riyadh and between march twenty sixth seen and december last year. thirty five civilians and clued in children were killed in areas that were then the range of those weapons natasha butler has more from paris. well this report

certainly seems to damage the credibility of the french government now investigators from two frauds is because media organizations radio france and media parts say that they received a leak top secret defense documents which shows that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are using french made weapons in yemen but not only for defense purposes now the french government has always maintained that the weapons that they have sold to these countries are being used only for defense and pose no risk to the civilian population while this investigation is quite detailed it talks about some of the arms which are publicly sold to these countries such as helicopters armored vehicles mirage jets it also has some real detail for example it says that along the border between yemen and saudi arabia sees a guns cannons are posted more than forty of them and they have

a range of around forty kilometers so that means that civilians could well be at risk and the report also talks about two french made naval vessels that are being used as part of the saudi coalition's blockade on yemeni ports preventing humanitarian aid reaching the civilian population. the u.s. secretary of state has met venezuelan refugees on the border with colombia as he reiterated his call for president nicolas maduro to step down my pompei also the u.s. will use all economic and political tools that cad and ought to hold accountable. in the colombian city of cocoa thought to a four nation tour of latin america aimed at pressuring middle. the united states will continue to utilize every economic and political means at our disposal to help the venezuelan people using sanctions vsa revocations and other means we pledge to hold the regime and those propping up accountable for their corruption and their

repression of democracy we are deeply aware of the recent intimidation tactics used by the madeira regime this past thursday. but those should know we are watching and our support will not waver. now protests are taking place around the world to keep the issue of climate change in focus environmental activists have started blocking some of london's busiest roads at an effort to quote shut down the city organizers and volunteers of a group called extinction rebellion have used the tactic before the protests on climate change have grown in recent months and many demonstrators have been led by students around the world let's go to our correspondent ben a smith he is joining us live from those protests in london what's happening there bit. of the elizabeth the managed to bring to a large parts of central and blocked various major arterial roads bridges i'm here

in at marble arch rather drama on a similar sort of thing and you're seeing similar things repeated in more than eighty cities in thirty three countries worldwide and there's little of the huge variety of protests there i'm joined by the oh wait family we've got live and frank . moment james i'm around james first of all was walking down. a really suppose and an urgency like you need to know what persuaded you go to act now what is it was persuaded to come out. i think the movement is growing new momentum so. i'm not i wouldn't memory consumption of the support that i've seen i think of being drawn in by the months of the movement and miranda as well you know it's a lot of people here are already persuaded of the case of the problem environmental change how do you persuade people who normally wouldn't pay attention well i mean i think this is getting a lot of press a lot of publicity and you know people in the cars as we go past again leaflets and you know some people look at it and they don't like it makes them angry that

everywhere there are others agree and others are worried about climate change and they see what we're doing and we're like the eye of the storm and are getting sucked in and they you know we're getting publicity and sympathy and it's empowering to people people see that something that they can do but we talk to our friends and family about that we've been and it makes them feel like you know this is there something that they might not come but they get they're sympathetic they respect us for going and they sell it to their friends about that is the heart of the problem with the challenge with environmental changes persuading people to to care about them if they can't feel or see or touch when you live in areas like this they don't really feel it but people persuaded i think people are starting to feel i mean we have illegal levels of pollution in london children increasingly have breathing difficulties like my daughter sometimes has breathing difficulties. parents are worried or you know classrooms are polluted and you know we see the where there is not how we expect it to be we here are cyclons in mozambique you know i think it is becoming less intangible i think it's becoming more real. around

the thank you very much james thank you lie a lot from you all very thoughtful wanting to carry on trying carry on these protests for the next two weeks in terms of the civil disobedience on the block routes and things like that how long the police will go let them get away with that is another question go back to harvest verna thank you very much for the finale that's been a snake live in london thank you. to indonesia now with a presidential challenger is promising to take the country's economy in a new direction beyond those running against incumbent has all the same solid course and his first part his rival in wednesday's election says no many and of nations aren't gaining from its benefits when hail reports. in indonesia capital jakarta drivers of three will taxis have more time than they used to to talk politics the president joko widodo has encouraged other modes of transport that can be ordered online meaning business has reduced dramatically for these workers they

say they'll vote for change in wednesday's election in the hope it will improve their economic situation i do so. these days it's so difficult for me to make a living we don't have enough money for tomorrow's food if we don't work today two to three dollars a day or the economy has been one of the main points of debate during the six month election campaign it's growing at around five percent which is short of what the president was aiming for body enough he says to earn a second term in office. to continue to develop the economic independence of indonesia jacoby's main focus has been on infrastructure development like the opening of an underground train line in jakarta which was first proposed more than thirty years ago. on the campaign trail joko widodo has spent much of his time trying to sell voters on the economic achievements of his government over the past five years which he says have led to the lowest unemployment rate in twenty years

his opponent has opted for a much more populist approach. like the last election in two thousand and fourteen the other choice for president is former army general. he says he'll lower the cost of living and he has also promised create more jobs through a boost in the manufacturing sector. our nation has. long been running in the wrong direction if this direction is continued it will not provide welfare for the indonesian people. there is concern among some economists indonesia can't afford many of the measures pro bono is promising but they agree there should be a greater focus on manufacturing in the last thirteen years. experiencing. premature industrialisation switch means that the growth of the manufacturing sector is. below or lower than the. growth campaigning for the election has come to an end now many indonesians will be asking themselves if their lives

have improved over the last five years or that they and their country need a new economic direction when hey al-jazeera jakarta. to nigeria now the country is africa's largest oil producer but more than half of its population lives in extreme poverty and as a recent election campaign president obama the promise to diversify the economy away from oil has had on the toss of reports from all the state by jerry is even struggling to grow its own food. first is cleaned the machine also peels off the skin removing any soil live from the plant. in its ground into a sticky pot the water is squeezed out after a few more processes that becomes a flower a staple food for nigerians the government's trying to increase food production for local consumption as well as to celebrate what it says agriculture could help reduce nigeria's dependence on crude oil different.

imports. exports. and. nigeria is the largest producer in the world to encourage more farmers to grow. the crop commercially the government says it will improve access to finance and will try to attract more private investment in the sector nigeria imports a lot of the lead which is the fourth using money earned from selling its oil now farmers will be encouraged to grow more stable and over has been some progress if there are not enough to feed the country. cooking with has been a way of life for generations but much of it is to systems farming not commercial these women grow just enough for their families the little left over is sold for a few dollars siddur does everything by hand she can afford machines to grind the

into flour she says she barely makes enough to feed her six children. you know sir. now. to new. children sort out the need by which you don't need to mourn the life you have to know around and there are money can be. lived. on what. economists say diversify my cheers economy after decades of relying maybe an oil won't be easy it needs more political will and more input from locals but there are signs some people are starting to see farming as a viable business one delivery at a time. al-jazeera ogun state nigeria. hello again on as a proud of and with the headlines on al-jazeera hundreds of people are it's outside

saddam's army headquarters demanding immediate civilian full military leaders have asked political parties to recommend an independent candidate to become prime minister the protesters fear that the army is trying to break up their demonstrations have a morgue and set this update from car thought. we've spoken to activists and protesters in front of the army headquarters and they're saying that they are concerned that the military will try to use force to disperse them the military this morning try to remove some barricades that have been placed by protesters ten days ago when the sit out in front of the army headquarters started of course for the protesters that this barricade is very significant under third and fourth day of the sit in security forces loyal to the former regime of president bashir tried to break the sit in and tried to breach the barricades and to try to disperse the protesters until the army responded by firing back at the security forces so for the people in front of the army headquarters these barricades represent

a barrier from them and you forwards that would try to disperse them to libya now a number of fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have reportedly handed in their weapons and army their calls to forces loyal to the u.n. backed government in tripoli the two sides have been fighting for control of the capital since earlier this month the u.s. secretary of state has met then his weight and refugees on the border with colombia as he reiterated his call for president nicolas maduro to step down my palm pale says the u.s. will use all economic and political tools to hold the venezuelan leader accountable . israel's president is meeting several political parties to decide on who will form the new government move in revolution will choose a knesset member who has twenty eight days to prove that they have the best chance of forming a coalition and becoming prime minister last week prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a liquid party won thirty six of one hundred twenty seats in israel's parliament putting him in a post position to form

a coalition well those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thank you for watching. getting away with murder and how do we ensure those who commit atrocities face justice there was an international court for war crimes and human bots violations box more and more perpetrators are escaping punishment so how can we hold them to account this is inside story.

and welcome into the program i'm in is a problem murder war crimes crimes against humanity including genocide these are some of the worst atrocities and international law from conflicts to the persecution of minorities because of religion or ethnicity the world is facing more instances of human rights violations and increasingly the people responsible for getting away with them it was holding a two day conference on the issue attended by more than two hundred fifty representatives from the un and various rights organizations they're discussing ways to ensure the perpetrators of such crimes don't escape justice and are held to account there are calls for the un to appoint a special repertoire to combat impunity the un's human rights chief says they called the peace of those responsible for crimes don't face justice. society says that where consulates are faced are saying ten readings must however be of a suppress reference when you see firsthand accounts of men women and children who

have been subjected to remember horrific crimes massacres torture sexual violence displacement starvation deniers access to basic medical care to education we've asked the mayor to bring the perpetrators of this class to justice and to protect the buttons victims have a right to justice on average. try to take sustainable peace under consideration this is a must al-jazeera as a solomon job it has more from the conference and the. basic human rights and civil rights exist on the statutes of most countries in the world but human rights workers and activists say that they are constantly being pummelled upon a gathering of more than two hundred fifty representatives of non-government organizations as well as stakeholders from various parts of the world have gathered here in door to discuss efforts to try and end that impunity with which rights are floundered people here have been talking about rights of in combat zones in places

like syria and yemen to libya and other areas where there are sprouting sense of achievement by the people similar to what is happening in sudan and this is what the organizers have been telling us that they've been trying to achieve is to bring people under one roof where these ideas can be formulated into a framework which can be then presented to various human rights organizations in the world who can try and see how these basic rights can be given to the people and we've been hearing stories of frustration from activists from all over the world who say that yes there have been conferences but these tend to become echo chambers of similar voices and the people who are actually carrying out the violations of the. yes rights are never part of these conferences and that remains to be the challenge in not just conflict zones but other parts of the world where the right to assembly the right to free speech the right to housing or various other rights

are not being it had said this is what activists have been telling us that they want the world especially in the case of syria activists say that they want the world to take north of what its inaction has achieved and they want people to hold responsibility and then also people who have been violating these rights to be held responsible for inside story i was in the. let's take a look now at some recent cases the cia reportedly concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salam all of the murder of journalist last october but u.s. president although trump has avoided implicating him saudi arabia has detained eleven people but none of them other close aides to bin sound monts want to be involved in killing saddam's deposed leader omar al bashir it has evaded to international criminal court arrest warrants are war crimes and the army says it won't extradite him to the hague syria's president bashar al assad has been accused

of war crimes in the eighty eight conflict but has ally russia has vetoed un resolutions to refer the matter to the i.c.c. . well let's bring in our panel now joining me in the studio is toby cadman international human rights lawyer and barrister at going to thirty seven that's an international law firm in beirut as rami who we professors of journalism at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard kennedy school and also in the us from the conference is more. chief of the rule of law equality and nondiscrimination branch of the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights a very warm welcome to all of you. before we talk about more in more detail about those specific cases that we mentioned let me start with a general question to you why are we seeing a rise more human rights violations and war crimes and does impunity and the lack of accountability that mean that such crimes will only continue. let me

just start from perhaps a different point of view that. where you actually posed the question i'm not sure we are seeing more impunity actually we are seeing more awareness that human rights violations are taking place it's thanks to a book at the civil society human rights defenders a lot of special representatives questions of inquiry very active human rights council view and human rights council that is why there are knowledge of what is going on in the world and basically we are a lot more aware of what people are going through in different parts of the world we are much more productive there's not much more information. flow and that for me gives us that is an urgency to deal with what we know the good story is that we have a framework we have

a framework we have all saw institutions that are in place and we can do something about it we need the political will we need the support to be able to move forward and that's actually is the responsibility for all members of the international community to make sure that this is happening ok so possibly not more crimes being committed but definitely more awareness of the ones that are so how do we take that awareness and hold people to account had been let's talk about some of the cases that we've already mentioned there are plenty of big cases of possible immunity impunity here rather and what can be done if we look at the most recent one the toppling of long time sudanese leader or the shia who's wanted for war crimes you know for his role in the deaths of millions of people and that for between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight the military who are now in charge in sudan have said they want to extradite him to the hague they will try

him one of the chances that omar al bashir will face a fair. trial and saddam was a big question that the i.c.c. is going to have to deal with now because as he's indicted by the i.c.c. the i.c.c. has jurisdiction but of course the i.c.c. operates under a principle problem entirety as a law a court of last resort and so it is preferable that cases such as this all are tried to mystically in the place where the crimes were committed so as an advocate of justice not because of victims' rights i always want to see justice. in in the areas where the crimes were committed but he's going to very difficult to put an individual such as a share on trial particularly during the the current situation with the with the military rule and whether there would be a sufficient legal and institutional framework in sudan to try him in a civilian court that would meet fair trial standards and that will be one of the

questions that the i.c.c. has to ask recent. when they're been put in the same position as far as libya is concerned and they allowed for a trial to go forward in libya most international lawyers such as myself thought there was an absolutely ridiculous situation and so i think they're going to have to look very very carefully at what legal institutional framework they have in place to put him on trial that there is not the death penalty and to what extent the international community will be able to support it i think the likelihood is that people will want to see him tried in the hague at the i.c.c. but it's quite clear that this the sudanese or thirty's currently in place are not going to hand him over and we also have to understand that the military rulers who are in place are part of a system that have committed crimes over a lengthy period of time and so they're not going to want to see him hand them to the i.c.c. and so that's that's also

a problem. mr cody i want to bring you in in on this i know that you watch events in the region very closely how do you see what's unfolding in sudan and relation to the shade and will what happens to him depend on whether the military stays in power or a civilian government is a mountain those two things will be important in the great dynamic that's taking place right now in algeria and in sudan is a historic unprecedented and really pivotal moment when millions and millions of citizens are peacefully trying to actually put into practice the principle of the sovereignty of the people in the consent of the governed. they governance of the arab world for the last fifty years or so has been dominated by security and military services and this is what these uprisings have been all about they started eight years ago and now they've reached a dramatic moment again and. and so that if you can get

a genuine civilian legitimate accountable part. to support tory and democratic and for listing governance which is what the people want there's a possibility that we can then re furbished our judicial system and allow for really high quality accords of international standards the likelihood of that is there but it's going to take a long time in the meantime the real problem we have with the i.c.c. in the international system is that it seems to be a kind of a new form of western imperialism or colonialism where basically these institutions are dominated by the permanent members of the security council the ultimately go back to the security council in most cases and the permanent members of the security council the great britain and the united states and france and russia are all actively at war in the middle east they're selling millions and billions of dollars of arms they're actively fighting in places like yemen and syria and other

places so that and libya the french and libya and so the idea that the i.c.c. will actually hold accountable people all over the world at an equal level of justice is not a very realistic one unfortunately that's why it's been mostly hapless african tyrants who have been put on trial with a couple from former yugoslavia so this is the problem that we see a kind of a double standard and it's not easy to see how almost how some of the shia will be held accountable mr. cadman i do want to bring you end on this now because i know that you would you know you have a lot to do with the i.c.c. but before i do mr shaunie what do you make of that you know the fact that the. the i.c.c. and who has power and the international criminal court make up the pennant members of the un security council who are also involved in different conflicts around the world including. conflicting policy.