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by israeli forces. ah, he watching al jazeera alive from doha with me for the battle also ahead. you know that there are kids right now. okay. i didn't know how to defend himself bearing sick use texas police of a slow response to tuesday. shooting that left 19 school children entered teachers dead. china pushes back it says u. s. secretary of state antony blinking has made it in a policy speech. and decades of fighting on the gambia synagogue border escalades forcing thousands of people to flee. ah, thank you very much for joining as a group of lawyers has announced it will take the killing of al jazeera journalist, sharina utley to the international criminal court. she was killed by israeli forces

in the occupied west bank. on may 11th the international center for justice for palestinian said sharina. sammy gave permission for its legal action. the lawyers are representing palestinian journalist. they say were systematically targeted by israeli forces. this new complaint on behalf of allie insuring follows on april 2020, to submission to the i, c. c, which requested the icy prosecutor launch and investigation into the system to targeting maiming and killing of journalists and the destruction of media infrastructure sharing was killed only days. after the icpc prosecutor acknowledge receipt of our 1st complaints, israel has enjoyed a devastating impunity against accountability for the actions of his forces and is repeatedly demonstrated that it is a bad faith investigator. it has not managed to hold any one to account for the 10s of palestinian journalists that have been killed or maimed so far. crucially, on the 5th of february 2021,

the international criminal court ruled that criminal jurisdiction extended the situation in palestine and its territory territorial scope covered allegations occurred in garza and the west bank including easter islam. this presents for the 1st time, a real opportunity for accountability of israel alleged policy of targeting journalists and could lead to formal in a formal investigation by the i c, prosecutor, and potential prosecutions of the perpetrators. while al jazeera media network has also decided to refer the killing of sharing clay to the international criminal court, the network says it's put together a team of international legal experts. al jazeera has decided to take should, in the case to o, c. c, to hold her kilo accountable and bring justice to city. in addition, al jazeera is exploring all legal, was a bill was abilities and is determined to bring justice to should in. and we will

come every and she active to follow up on this crime. sr. bring in al jazeera nadine baba in london has been following that news conference for is nadine, tell us more about what was sat there and what they're trying to achieve with his case? we're fully the key message was varies. no shortage of evidence. israeli forces have targeted palestinian journalists carrying out their job and clearly marked as civilians in press jackets who have been either killed or maimed by israeli armed forces. not just am in recent times, going back to 2018 and via garza border protests in which 2 of the a cases in which are the initial complaint, the i c. c, a centering on,

but going right back many, many years. there are, there are many different journalists bodies around the world who have different figures. and depending on when you start, but it runs into that doesn't since the year 2000, that's journalists who have been killed in the occupied palestinian territory. most of them were palestinian journalists. all of them were civilians, clearly marked doing their job. and in the eyes of those journalists targeted for doing so because as we've heard, israel does not recognize the international federation of journalist press card, in effect de legitimizing palestinian journalists. so going back to earth, sharina, killing and the injury of alice m a. so moody, the evidence we've heard is compelling and lead unmarried. the bureau chief in

jerusalem for al jazeera, presented a video in which he went through his day explaining how he heard that shaheen had been killed. and then what happened subsequently, including the attack on the funeral for shaheen and, and i think that is what he had to say really brought home the dangers, the palestinian journalist face every single day. knowing that if they were to be killed or injured, it would be very unlikely that the israeli authorities would investigate on serene killing just this week. and he's ready. army spokesperson said, given that miss adel actually was killed in the midst of an active combat zones, there can be no immediate suspicion of criminal activity. absent further. evidence will, will lead, pointed out the evidence from cnn, from the associated press and other bodies yet clearly indicate there was no other

violence in the area that the only file was coming from israeli forces. nadine, what's the timeline on this case? that's going to be sent to the i see, see what happens next. that really is hard to predict how quickly things can progress. but the message here is that there's no reason that it shouldn't go ahead, even though israel is not party to the i. c. c and has a history of non cooperation because in 2021. as we just heard, the former prosecutor fatima been sued and said, yes, we can refer this to the pre trial chamber. and now there's the dossier from the lawyers here and a separate action by the company by al jazeera. i'm over what it says is the specific targeting of it's journalists, not just em. sharyn, not just the destruction of its office in garza city last year. but what it caused,

the continued incitement and attacks on its staff, doing their jobs, are in a garza in the occupied west bank. so the, the messages that there is no reason not to proceed. and that there is actually a comparison to be made with the speed with which things have happened in ukraine. of course, we've seen a russian soldier there admit to war crimes. thank us. perhaps it's not the same situation, but they want to see the same urgency. thank you for that. nadine babble life right there in london. well, earlier we spoke to swath on his i who is a human rights lawyer based in haifa. she explained why this legal action against israel matters. it is true that we're talking about widespread and systematic types, deliberate attacks, not only on journalist, but also on the wider palestinian civilian civilian population in the west bank and gaza. which, you know, a, basically a grant,

a war crime based on stuff but was not to mention is that there's also systematic lack of accountability. i'm systematic. impunity that has been provided by the israeli investigation system, but not also that, but also even by that is we're a supreme court. and this is very important because when the legal team gets to the i, c. c and one carried on as the prosecutor wants to open. one of the 1st questions that that he or the i c c court will examine is what has is well done in order to investigate what are the kinds of investigation they did. what are the results and how is where a supreme court deal with it? and throughout the years we see not only that the investigation system that have

that were opened. if since that and cast lead 2009, for example, or in me, 12 in guys a 2014 in guys, a 2018 and you just name it including even to the case of shooting or is that investigations are being closed as spring in al jazeera is wrong math to now who is unoccupied, east jerusalem for is at damascus gate. rob sharina case will now also be refer it to the i see, see, what's the reaction them on policy? well, i think on the news reaction could be best. i'm hopeful but don't really confident on those pretty good reason for this is we should stress, this is not the 1st time that this kind of cases and in this region, there have been many documented cases where journalists have been target the device to be killed. all they've been injured are media facilities have been damaged and on many occasions there have been efforts made to bring some sort of prosecution to find somebody accountable. so far there are no reported cases of anybody being

fined accountable and any prosecutions being successful. no palestinians are hopeful that this might be different because sharina bartlett is so well known because her case has been around the world. they are hoping they tell us that this will bring new lights to the case. it will force the international criminal court july 20 step up and take some action. we have ali in the press conference about an hour or so ago saying that the israel has enjoyed a devastating impunity and did the evidence is not the issue in this case. well, the problem for the palestinians is that it doesn't matter about the evidence because despite the fact that in all the cases in previous or many of the cases we've seen previously, they have involve generous who are being wearing clearly marked press fast. they have nevertheless been attacked and the evidence, it's been on video and yet there has been no successful prosecution. i just very

briefly tell you what's been happening given part time with regard to sharina case . the palestinian authority has held its own investigation. it says that 8 has concluded that the bullets that killed her was the dublin deliberately fired by an israeli soldier. it says it has that bullet, but it is refusing to hide it over to me because it does not believe that israel will be transparent and it's investigation. it's basically says they don't trust israel for it talk is only military is in the process of going through an internal investigation. we don't yet know whether or not results that are going to be made public israeli military police and not going to hold a criminal investigation because as far as their consent was no from analogy. so as far as palestinians are concerned, i say there is also, there might be something might happen to this is not a lot of optimism. what they are telling us hello is. this is a very important cases. 4 jurisdictions authority of the international criminal court. in this region is as we've heard, the i c,

c says it now has authority to come to this region. but if it doesn't come through as far as the palestinians, and it's basically going to undermine any authority that it could have in this region future. thank you for that brought madison every putting your life and occupy these channels and still ahead on the program, un vote. whatever sanctions or north korea is blocked by russia and china. we look at what's driving when you support for pyongyang, and 40000 people flee their homes in just 4 days. how fighting in democratic republic of congo is pushing the region to a breaking point. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world copies on its way to catholic book your travel package today. now you'll get daily warnings in parts of japan. no for heavy rain because the plum rains are reforming in china and that line is going to

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ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera this hour. a group of lawyers has announced it will take the killing of al jazeera during this sharina block lead to the international criminal court. the lawyers are representing palestinian genius, so say they were systematically targeted by israeli forces. and separately al jazeera media network has assigned its legal team to refer the case of the murder of sharina block lead to the i. c. c. the network said advantage has formed a team of international legal experts. illegal 5 will also include the israeli bombing of anxious. here is office in garza in may of last year. mr. in our attention to the days of unused now and the killing of an unarmed black man by police has led to outrage across brazil. a video of the incident went viral on social media. a warning that some viewers may find the following images in victoria getting beat report to stepping that it's still got

a thing to police officers pin down jenny valdez to hey, so santos, a black man. they say with resisting arrest. they then trap him inside the smoked fil trunk of their police car. a real look at the man there. oh my god, they're killing him inside the car says one witness. video of the incident went viral on social media. protests have been held in his hometown of m bow, but in ne, in brazil, and shock and outrage expressed across the country for years. human rights activists of accused police in brazil, of discrimination, brutality and excessive force. on tuesday the day before santos died, thousands of people was shot dead during a police raid on a criminal gang in rio de janeiro. yes. oh gosh assumable black to the face. yes, another massacre and if a valid truly shocking, we cannot allow it to be normal to the state enters of her valor and lees with 20

or more dead relatives of santos say he was unarmed and suffering from heart problems and skits, of freeney the federal highway police have opened an investigation into his death in a statement. they said santos was actively resisting the officers who pulled him over . they immobilized him then used instruments of less offensive potential to contain him. santos was taken to hospital. doctors say he was dead when he arrived at the emergency room. the officers involved have been suspended, but many in brazil fear this may be another example of institutional brutality and racism within the police. victoria gate and be al jazeera in the u. s. 21 funerals are being planned in ovalo, texas, following the school shooting on tuesday, along with the grief fair. now questions over the actions of police parents say offices could and should have done more. it's been relieved. no one confronted the gunman as he entered the school, john henderson is involved and he spoke to some of the young students who were van

during the mascot. it was supposed to be the last day of school for the children of rob elementary. instead on the lawn lay a line of crosses, marked with the names of the 19 children and 2 teachers gun down on tuesday. fernando rodriguez was among the students hunkered down as the gunman fired 233 rounds. now at the age of 9, he's a survivor of a school massacre. there were shoot over those lucia in for the class. it's brave of you to come back here and to give flowers to other people as it did you know some of those if you miss them i'm, i'm so sorry you had to go through that. this boy was also inside returning today to bring flowers to his fallen classmates. that's also for now this rural town of

16000 people is a profile in mourning. the front page of the local paper black. but for the date of the massacre, crosses, filling the town square. shane raymond came to write a farewell message to 8 year old hughes. i a garcia, another victim in the shooting. and one of the latest of americas decades long epidemic give gun violence. mazing kid definitely didn't deserve the on the day, parents came to retrieve the bodies of children who were gunned down 2 days ago. more flowers have arrived here at rob elementary school. and more questions have arisen about what exactly happened here. some here's a police acted too slowly to stop the gunman who was locked inside the school for an hour before border patrol agents found a key to the classroom. he was in and killed him in this video circulating on social media as the shooting was going on, parents urge police to go inside. may i can be like that man. can't be like that.

wonder people. yes i do. you know that there are, it's right. there little kids didn't know how to defend himself. he asked why it took so long. police on thursday had no answers. we want to give you the wire that's. that's our job. so give us time. at a tear filled vigil, senator ted cruz and governor greg abbott. mourned the loss, yet both continued to oppose gun control legislation. 6 ah, there's another town in america, joins the long list of places whose names are synonymous with tragic. john henderson, al jazeera, you vaulted texas, the un security council has failed to agree on imposing tougher sanctions on north korea. after china and russia opposed to move the council, certain other members voted in favor of a resolution put forward by the u. s. the penalties sought to reduce the amount of oil north korea can import in response to his

a firing missiles. recently i beijing and moscow called for renew dialogue with young yeah, we will not allow this vote to be set back. however, we will not stay silent. we will not ignore these threats jesses. we will not ignore the horrific human rights violations and abuses happening in the dpr k, including the abduction issue and officials in beijing era kissing at the washington, washington, top diplomat of smearing china, secretary of state antony blank and says the u. s. doesn't want your cold war with china, but warns at beijing is a threat to the international order she ever tanti before us. this was a sweeps, the secretary of state lincoln had been scheduled to give before the us presidents trip to asia as a kirkland razor. but it had to be postponed because he contracted cove it in the interim confusion was sewn by joe biden. when he gave this also during his tour, are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that?

yes. so in part, the secretary of state's task now was to explain whether u. s. policy towards taiwan had shifted. our policy is not changed. we do not support, i want independence and we expect prostrate differences to be resolved by peaceful means. angling. can read out the portion of u. s. law that encapsulates washington's position of so called strategic ambiguity . to maintain our capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize our security or the social or economic system of taiwan. the problem is, joe biden wasn't ambiguous at all, and this isn't the 1st time he's spoken at odds with official us policy. so the question does remain, how's policy changed quietly behind the scenes? or is this just a matter of a president given his personal views of the cuff, the rest of blink and speech presented a stork geopolitical framework of china versus the international. older blinking

insists of u. s. does not want a new cold war of oppose regional blocks yet at the same time, he talented the new alliances. the u. s. was making an opposition to china. this is not about forcing companies to choose. it's about giving them a choice. the speech is likely to be viewed skeptically in beijing, the speech will be seen in beijing, us, hypocritical, and be ruling that the fight and administration is picking a cold war mentality to deal with a problem in spite of entity, blink, and saying exactly the opposite. china is clearly crept to the international order as governed by the rules set by the united states and it's western allies. but it's not yet clear. if none of 9 countries feel this geo political change is necessarily a bad thing. she ever attempts the al jazeera washington, katrina, you has reaction now from aging. well, aging has been very angry at these comments. it's hit back at blink and speech,

saying that it does demonstrate the cold, who or there are some mentality. and while washington says it's not trying to contain china, it's actions and it's was prove otherwise. and when been chinese foreign ministry, spokes person on friday said that these comments are smearing china. that he imply that they are hypocritical, that the u. s. wild portraying china as a rule breaker as a threat to regional and global world order. the u. s. itself doesn't necessarily follow all international laws and what the u. s. really wants is not the china to abide by international norms, ought to follow us norms and to follow a us lead order. now, beijing has also mentioned the importance of taiwan, saying that this is really the cornerstone of the china us relationship. and he said that while washington says on paper, it does abide by the one china policy. he again accused washington of double speak

saying its words and actions simply demonstrates otherwise to africa. now, in fighting in the democratic republic of congo has force almost 40000 people from their homes in 4 days. government forces are battling rebels from the m 23 group. many congolese are seeking refugee, neighboring uganda. a government official there says resources are stretched to a breaking point. kenya was you to host talks between rebel leaders and the d. r. c . present. those meetings have been delayed. malcolm lab has more from nairobi. but in the last few days, the 23 rebel group is fight. it took control of several small towns and an army barracks in the east to companies army launched a counter offensive. and on thursday night, they read took an army barracks and that fighting right now to retake the town of cable, which is strategic is on the main road from the regional capital of goma to the border with uganda now the communist government lanes were one there. it says there

is backing the group, providing weapons and personnel to support them. m $23.00 is widely perceived to be a proxy of one in east and congo. but rwanda way denies it. and the u. n says it deeply, deeply concerned about an escalating humanitarian crisis resulting from this violence . it's important to understand that this conflict is very much of regional conflict, and it's a chapter that began in the 990. when you got, the rwanda invaded congo that prompted to, to was that through in much of the african continent and wonder and gander of being accused of meddling and ethan congo, backing rebel great looting minerals ever since. now there was an attentive talk here in ny robi last month. president 70 you got became president chickadee of congo. we're here, but no progress was made. but we do understand that the growing pressure now from the u. n. and the international community to get the heads of state or their

representatives together to try and this current and a slightly armed conflict in the cas man's region of senegal is sending a steady stream of refugees into the gambia authority, se, tens of thousands living in the border region have been displaced and is feared, the number will rise as fighting escalates amid each race reports from the synagogue. gambia border in less of 2 wins. the gumby and village of genic has seen its population swell by 17 percent. oh, if it's just 1300 meters from the trouble senegalese region of cosmos. it's one of the 1st point, of course for refugees. whatever fighting flows up on the water modulus camaro didn't want to leave her home at 1st. she was 9 months pregnant. but as fighting intensified, she changed her mind. now we'll take a full mouth and i need to know when the drones started dropping their bones are decided,

it was time to leave everything behind to save myself and my unborn child. i'm tired of running a pi a boy junk now once to make the gambia, his permanent tool, having been displeased 4 times since 1982, you will not alma, there's nothing to go back to them. i just want to have some peace in life before i die, lou. running back with very few resources new arrivals, look up to refugees like momma nessie who's been in the gambia for nearly 30 years . luke and why did millennia and a by deborah, we make money working menial jobs. it's with that income that we support ourselves and newly arrived. i, my just workers speak of unexploded ordnance is literally the border area between cumbia and san diego is not yet safe. for us, as at now for both live in written on. so it's not safe for the government to place on it. and what about as well as most cost, what are my grants? who are within that ambient bed?

to also go back to the casa, the cousin was cancelled broke out in 1982 when rebels launch of secession campaign to break away from senegal. the conflict has forced more than 10000 people from their homes. hopes for a peaceful resolution came one rebels declared a unilateral cease fire, but expectations who had dashed to an hospitality resumed in january. these yeah, cousins, lies behind this bush. over the past 2 months, an estimated 6000 refugees have caused this border into the gambia with fighting flaring up again, more i expected. but after 4 decades of conflict, resources are overstretched. along with the patience of some of the host border communities here in the gambia, where the current military build up and fighting in because a mouse, many refugees, t a things could get tough. i, in the coming months before they get any better. how many trees, alexander? oh, but.