deception. democracy of the gold. first on d. w. . this is live from berlin the ministration international criminal court the u.s. president approves sanctions on any court officials investigating u.s. troops for alleged war crimes in afghanistan also coming up syrians take to the streets in a rare antigovernment protests the prime minister is sacked as public. country's

economic crisis. and criminal charges in the largest ever all still more than 20000 tons of fuel leaked into waterways near the world's most northern city greenpeace compares the spillage to the exxon valdez disaster 3 decades ago in alaska. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has authorized sanctions against international criminal court staff investigating possible u.s. war crimes in afghanistan in retaliation for the probe the administration will block assets of court employees and put visa restrictions on them and their families a count of corruption investigation into the i.c.c. is also in the works secretary of state. the court questioning its

credibility. we cannot we will not stand by as our people are threatened by kangaroo court and indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world your people could be next especially those from nato countries who fought terrorism in afghanistan right alongside of us. russell gravely concerned about the threat the court posed to israel i.c.c. is already threatening israel with an investigation of so-called war crimes committed by its forces and personnel in the west bank and in the gaza strip your reporter stevens joins me now with more on this story one of these potential war crimes of the the i.c.c. is planning to investigate well let's take a look back to this all stems from a tear in your probe into possible war crimes in afghanistan ranging from 20032014 the court believes that there is enough evidence to support the idea that u.s. that the u.s.

military. tortured people at secret sites operated by the cia we should also note that they are looking into the taliban and afghan forces through the same period of time but what they really believe that there is enough to pursue more investigation into the u.s. this roll into what happened in afghanistan so what exactly is the trumpet ministration then questioning the work of the i.c.c. well the short answer is the united states doesn't really like interference from other bodies expression international bodies this is what trump is this is what he's built his presidency on and the latest act of this is withdraw from the w.h.o. but they also claim that there is corruption with and the i.c.c. and attorney general bill barr with absolutely no evidence said that russia and other adversaries have infiltrated the international criminal court and are using

it for its own agenda so they say that it's not trustworthy so how is the i.c.c. then responding to the these accusers right while they're saying that these are they call this the sanctions threats and coersion meant to interfere with the rule of law and undermine. the court's ability to bring accountability for mass atrocities and they're not the only ones speaking out there's various international bodies that are talking the european union's foreign policy chief says that he has deep concern and that the court must be respected and supported by all nations but this is something that the trumpet ministration says that they don't feel comfortable doing we should also note that part of the reason why is that the top administration says that it doesn't want to go along with this is that it is capable of punishing its own military members if in fact they've done something wrong but donald trump has released 3 people who were found guilty of these

atrocities of some atrocities so there's a little bit of doubt as to how dedicated to the court trouble ministration actually is because you don't do reporters to receive and thank you. to syria now where president bashar al assad has fired his prime minister amid a deepening currency crisis that has seen people dare to take part in demonstrations against his government protesters are calling for assad to go blaming him for the economic pain. of the. syrians back on the streets calling for the end of bashar al assad's regime a rare sight in recent years after a violent crackdown on protests in 2011 triggered civil war so they are a government controlled city in southern syria hadn't seen unrest or in the conflict but this week dozens of people have been demonstrating they blame the

regime for the country's deteriorating economy and the collapse of its currency. the syrian pound has plunged dramatically since the start of the conflict reaching new lows this week. people across the country are reeling from the crisis. the drop in the syrian pound is killing us we don't have any dollars we are in syrian pounds the syrian pound has fallen and the dollar is getting more expensive it's killing us oil is getting expensive what used to be 500 syrian pounds is now 3500 no one can afford to live. on thursday assad removed prime minister emerge khamis who had held the post since 2016 see media didn't give a reason for his departure but he has been the focus of criticism over the country's economic crisis a crisis that could be exacerbated by a new u.s.

sanctions set to come into effect later this month they target any country or company that does business with the syrian regime. the aim is to erode assad's power but critics fear the sanctions could cause serious battered population to suffer further. but a look at some of the stories making headlines. protesters have set fire to lebanon central bank as the country's currency plunged to a new record low demonstrators took to the streets in several cities to voice their anger lebanon is experiencing its worst economic turmoil in decades a crisis made worse by the corona virus pandemic. fears of a 2nd corona virus a wave have sent u.s. stocks tumbling the dow jones industrial average suffered its biggest one day lost since march the index lead more than 1800 points erasing most of the gains made this month following wall street's point plunge stocks in asia slipped on friday

morning. the death toll from the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of tunisia has risen to almost 50 after all 3 tuesday's recovered more bodies the bull set out at the weekend aiming to reach italy but capsized near the city of facts 53 people are thought to have been on board. australia plans to reopen stadiums for crowds of up to 10000 in july the prime minister made the announcement after only 38 coronavirus cases were recorded last week the chief medical examiner says the virus has been eliminated in many parts of the country. the world health organization warns the spread of corona virus is accelerating in africa it says cases doubled to more than 200000 over the last 18 days south africa is the hardest hit country accounting for of course of all cases. latin america has become a coronavirus hotspot with the number of known infections now exceeding 1500000

argentina's among the countries implementing strict measures to prevent the virus from spreading but that could be bad news for women their domestic violence was a serious problem even before the pandemic and its fear of the danger has increased due to the curfews and quarantine but argentina's women have been speaking out. no traffic jams for a change a curfew has been imposed and when a site is for weeks now but it has other consequences besides the traffic according to experts there's been a sharp rise in cases of domestic violence during knock down claudia cooney is fighting against this fine and every year she organizes a demonstration outside congress because of the corona crisis it's been cancelled this year. many women are locked up with violent partners at the moment with rightists this is a real problem right now. or 5 years ago claudia and other argentinean set an example they found at the neon i mean i was movement campaigning for equal rights

and against femicide. every year hundreds of thousands took part in some of the biggest protests by feminist groups more and more women have become involved in argentina and the movement has gained political momentum. recently though there have been only spontaneous tanner's like the one after the murder of a 23 year old woman families and friends are demanding more information including those of the silly of us are doing whose body was found in a garbage dump. you know a sicilian was an angel and the good girl. is in the path of traitors must because . they are usually i will visit them in jail until cd is passed i have to make sure they serve their sentence everyday be very attractive d.v.d.'s to begin again the muslim moderators daughter was killed in 2015 by her lover that's why masella

is now drawing attention to femicide during this corona crisis. really until last week at the moment some women experience violence 24 hours a day. and this isolation is exactly what perpetrators want. me until it was made mandatory by the state and know that. i don't know because we're going to feel any coming to us if we're really that good. usually must and that is one of the demonstrations purple shoes of one of the protests but they won't be making an appearance this time. that's the da if now during the crisis for the 1st time there's a whatsapp a margin see number for women. because they usually can speak freely on the phone. but now using whatsapp they can secretly make an emergency call from the bathroom when you know if i'm the editor instead of a large scale demonstration there's no live stream of the protest on the internet

it is crucial to send a signal of protest and against the fact that so many perpetrators go unpunished our fecal moment with the government has had as much of a quarantine plan for the tightly packed slums as it did for the issue of women's violence during this curfew. many here are hoping the lockdown will soon be over so they can get back onto the streets to protest from a science. the matter of the world's most northerly city has been charged with criminal negligence over a massive oil spill in siberia tens of thousands of tons of diesel fuel have leaked into local waterways around norilsk investigators say the met failed to react quickly enough environmentalist comparing the spillage to the exxon valdez disaster in alaska in 1989 and. to the. carrying out into a sea of diesel oil it's obvious that the water here is utterly polluted

when. cleanup crews have been working for days here in siberia their top priorities are to catch the oil slick with barriers and to pump as much as possible out of the water. but nobody thinks it will be easy. but. it is foolish to say or think that nothing will perish and that when it happened will go away without a trace of our workers saw dead donkey to day i myself saw a dead muskrat if a bird lands on fuel for muskrat swims in fuel it is definitively condemned to death but. more than 20000 tons of fuel oil spilled from a power plant here in the city of norris the facility is said to have been poorly maintained. the water in neighboring lakes was affected. it didn't have to get this bad for days after the spill authorities did nothing until russian president

vladimir putin got involved. but he's absolutely but you know why did government agencies only find out about this 2 days after the fact that it was are we going to learn about emergency situations from social networks do you have a problem or something. that got things going hundreds of cleanup workers were sent to the region managers at the power plant were arrested and investigation was launched against the mayor of the city of no risk who did. the investigation found that the mayor being aware of the amount of fuel spilled from the tank did not take proper measures to respond to the emergency and to deal with its consequences. the mayor is looking at a possible 6 months in prison but the environmental damage is expected to be around for years. you're

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