simply this lead to go. live to sky. live. live subscribe to a documentary to live. the trump administration approved sanctions against the international criminal court over its inquiry into alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan what's behind this latest u.s. attack on an international institution and what does this mean for the court's ability to investigate human rights abuses i'm going to have office in berlin this is the day.

we cannot or will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court it was a gross human rights violation of serious violations of international humanitarian coordinator have the right to express the truth i think cannot subject americans duress prosecution in jail. the court illegal illegitimate and cruel this league does not and you are doing the same with me by the last this is not a very big and indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world your people could be next. also coming up tonight a warning from the un that millions of children are at risk of being put to work many families are turning to dangerous child labor to put food on the table during

the global health emergency. my father was killed my mother is very ill. i go out to get money so we can buy medicine for my mother so we can treat her and so that we can buy food for us selves. us president donald trump all for us sanctions against staff of the international criminal court who are investigating u.s. service personnel over possible war crimes in afghanistan the united states is not a signatory to the court's charter and what select the retaliation for the inquiry . the white house says it will block the assets of court employees involved and impose visa restrictions on them and beth families and to corruption investigation into the court itself is also said to be in the works u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh questions the very credibility of the i.c.c. i.c.c. cannot subject americans to arrest prosecution in jail the u.s.

is not a party to the rome statute that created the i.c.c. and even if a prosecution were to proceed it would make a mockery of due process there's no requirement for unit nobody for a conviction the prosecution can rely on hearsay to obtain a conviction but there's no real guarantee it was speedy trial there stead of facing a jury of one's peers it's a panel of judges who aren't subject to any american accountability let's talk about these allegations with kid pal he's a lawyer specializing in atrocity crimes what do you make of the sanctions against i.c.c. stuff well they're close and precedented these type of particularly the financial sanctions are these are the types of sanctions that are posed on mass human rights violators or terrorists this not just to be the 1st time it would ever be applied to judicial professionals trying to hold those exact same type of individuals accountable under the law. says the i.c.c.

has no jurisdiction over the u.s. because the u.s. did not sign the rome statute that created the i.c.c. what do you say to the. wiley's definitely correct that we are not a member of the court jurisdiction and i.c.c. just like a jurisdiction and domestic court is not that simple for instance if i were to go to germany and commit a crime i would be subject to german laws in german courts the same apply here with the i.c.c. afghanistan and lithuania poland and scuse me and romania where the torture rendition allegations are there all state parties to the i.c.c. and the allegations are that american and other individuals took part in crimes on those terror territories of those state parties testings the united states supported many prosecutions by the i.c.c. but pump a seems to have questioned its very credibility. is that what what's your reaction

to the us well 1st of all the rome statute as he said is the founding treaty of the court this was something that even though the u.s. did not vote in favor of this room statute they did vote in favor of consensus on all the other documents that the u.s. fingerprints are all over i c c's governing statutes and laws and procedures so certainly and also our allies like germany france and other countries so certainly all these countries have lended its credibility and legitimacy to this and certainly as you just noted the united states has supported almost all the cases before the i.c.c. including transferrin of suspects so this argument is i would say a straw man argument. let's listen in to another statement by the u.s. secretary of state's never forget the american commitment to real justice and accountability from the north in tokyo trials after world war 2 to the more recent

yugoslavian rwanda tribunal says always thought hold good and punish evil under international law we will continue to do so. when our own people do wrong we lawfully punish those individuals as rare as they are who tarnish the reputation of our great u.s. military and our intelligence services we hold our own accountable better than i see has done for the worst perpetrators of mass criminal atrocities welcome let's pick up on that is. to suggest that the u.s. prosecutes its own war criminals and can do it better than the i.c.c. . well that is what the rome statute is build on it's built on something called the principle complementarity which makes the i.c.c. a court of last resort it only gets involved in a country in allegations in a country if the domestic courts are unaware laying around able in this example you noted states courts are certainly able to do this it's a political will issue so today extent that pail makes that statement the i.c.c.

would agree it's just the fact that the united states does not help investigate it in genuine investigations and genuine prosecutions not only people at the lower levels but the architects of the allegations. 3 years ago full 3 years ago i.c.c. prosecutor said they want to look into alleged war crimes by americans in places like afghanistan what do you think now is behind this apparently very delayed reaction that mother from a ministration. well there's certainly a procedural argument to be made i don't want to warrant your viewers with the details but this did go through the process it actually did find in favor of not going for the investigation that was appealed and to the peel chamber and that's when the prosecution one that appeal so there is a procedural argument however it is hard to not speculate and there is some evidence to it that this is a distraction from domestic events and also

a way to sensually pander i would say to the trump base which is trumping the trump ministration which are very much. you know been leveling complaints against international organizations most recently against a world health organization and now the i.c.c. on a more down to earth level one fact is this decision by the ministration going to have on the on the work of the i.c.c. well the i.c.c. even before these sanctions was didn't really have a reasonable expectation to be granted access to u.s. territory or to be access to u.s. officials that they can interview so in that regard these sanctions aren't going to . change anything that much except of course financial sanctions on court staff and their families would be a big deterrence however the biggest limitation that these sanctions have is on

actually people that don't work at the court for instance lawyers who represent victims more n.g.o.s non-governmental organizations that work on behalf of victims and may have evidence that is relevant to these cases these sanctions and the trump him as ministration is now leveled can be directed against these individuals and that could have quite a chill effect attorney kip hale thank you very much for this analysis thank you. as the coronavirus pandemic pummels the global economy the u.n. wants warns that millions of children at increased risk of being pushed into underage labor in iraq years of war have already forced many families to make hard choices to make ends meet for some that has meant putting their kids to work as we report from iraq's kurdistan region. a big load for a little person mohammad had need has to cart heavy fruits and vegetables around

ariel's market he earns a few euros a day working from 7 in the morning till 7 in the evening 6 days a week he's 12 years old. it's hard work but i'm used to it so i want to help my family so we can live. child labor is a part of daily life in kurdistan the latest figures say about 2000 miners work in the capital and be alone and that number is going up schools are closed because of the coronavirus crisis many families are desperate so they send their children to work. mohammad come out works full time in the garage also 6 days a week. he's 13 he stopped going to school 2 years ago his father has

a heart condition and he sees it as his duty to help his family through hard times . i don't like working in this area it's exhausting what can i do. i have to help my father because he's old and. my brothers and i come here to help support him i didn't want to leave school i'd like to go back and eventually go to university. but our government doesn't give us any help. children's aid organizations say that's no reason to take a child out of school. child labor is widespread in iraq and all over the middle east he is considered necessary for children to work. but that's wrong it's illegal to exploit children for profit and for other purposes. that may be but the reality

here is the children are working while the authorities turn a blind eye and parents simply feel they have no other way to make ends meet. joining us now from new york city for more on this is clearly is william says that associate director of the child protection unit at unicef we've just seen this report from iraq but this is of course a global issue earlier today that in africa alone 72000000 children are actually working what's behind these high numbers of child labor. well we've made some progress actually but still there is a lot there needs to be done so it over t.v. is one of the drivers right i mean it's economic factors families have to make difficult choices of how to sustain the climate. is going as you said you've

seen some progress where do you see progress and compared to when. so i mean from 2000 in. 2000 to now we have seen me early on great 1000000 children taking out of the work was so tremendous progress has been made in the last 20 years and what we're worried about tech surely the cool bit responses there would the trips the progress that we have meet with all these these children taking i've been to have been taken out of labor how did you achieve that how was that achieved. well actually we achieve there too you know we know what city if you ask me we have a 5 point action which we use to achieve that what was social protection ensuring that actually the families had a social safety net using cash transfer and social assistant to addressed issues of

poverty to address issues of fame financial stress and economic straits and the fact this 2nd one was the poverty of anything providing jobs and livelihood especially areas you know where they say in one economic one we believe there's some geographic appropriate and some group of people who suffer from economics one would believe that would have to make their hard choices to put in the achievement but then we also have education keeping children in school we have enough evidence now to show that if a charity is in school and the child is able to complete school they're most likely not to be engaged in full time. then we have the legislation the legislation and them the legal enforcement of this legislation is important i'm trying only actually one of the things we have been saying this has to be secret you cannot do this in pieces it has to be integrated and wrapped around which out and you start

really you said that you're concerned that the coronavirus pandemic is making things worse how. so what we have seen with. ben demi kind the response to the pain every kid is fun it is provoke you know unemployment it is pro who king. a lot of people have lost their jobs which is resulting in poverty a lot of people have lost their livelihood especially those any form of be able to have access to credit and they're going into debt and so in debts that go there is a likelihood that the children could be comin and buying their debt levels and their very few social protections kids step hurry ties to pay in primaries with children and you also have an impact on migration we need tents it's

going down canadians williams thank you very much thank you very much for having me. class in america has become a coronavirus hotspot with a number of known infections now it's saving 1500000 argentina is among the countries implementing strict measures to prevent the virus from spreading but that could be bad news for women that domestic violence was a serious problem even before the pandemic and it's fear the danger has increased due to curfews and quarantines. no traffic jams for a change a curfew has been imposed and when osiris 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 cloudier cooney is fighting against this finance 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 argentinian set an example they found at the knee when i mean i was movement campaigning for equal rights and against fantasize. every year hundreds of thousands took pounds and 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 on a spontaneous tennis like the one after the murder of a 23 year old woman families and friends are demanding new information including those of the silly about her doing whose body was found in a garbage dump. cecilia was an angel and a good girl. is in the path of traitors must because. they are usually

i will visit them in jail until city has passed a few to make sure they serve their sentence really they be very early. back in d.c. if you need a. muslim or it has daughter was killed in 2015 by her lover that's where muscle is now drawing attention to femicide during this corona crisis. it may never be an athlete at the moment some women experience violence 24 hours a day. but this isolation is exactly what perpetrators want. me until it was made mandatory by the state 50 kilo that it would because we're going to feel any government does is already that's going to. usually muscle as one of the demonstrators purple shoes or one of the protests but they won't be making an appearance that's torn. down ok let's see if now during the crisis for the 1st time there's a whatsapp

a margin see number for women. to class that they usually can't speak freely on the phone. but now using matzah they can secretly make an emergency call from the bathroom when you know if i mean it isn't 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 perpetrations go unpunished our fecal moment with the government has had as much of a quarantine planned for the tightly packed slums as it did for the issue of women's finance during this curfew. called. many here are hoping the lockdown will soon be over so they can get back onto the streets to protest from a science. all some countries worry about a 2nd wave of the corona virus many parts of the globe still haven't seen the worst of the 1st outbreak yet correspondents around the world filed these coronavirus updates for you. the nigerian government has appointed new to emphasise the use of

face masks and other protective measures but many people have become all costarred about getting the virus and more interested in getting their lives and businesses backing off its way look honest with you never pressing green on new mosque nor sadly its eyes are not keeping the message descends you it's very. scary you find most interesting because many people as to you moving out of the know so on the phone know where india faced mark and some of them they don't even care to do even believe that it's corner where was the. new zealand steam a 5000000 crushed go of it 19 but the celebration was short lived as that very same team now faces a long road to economy recovery ahead obviously we have a lot of and media issues to address and i'm a man's. international travel and also just basically getting businesses back small

businesses i mean i'm very hopeful that it won't take as long as should mine to supply. not we're all in love along and things all back to normal but you know we have the full disclosure of things like i will make it to me trivia as we open our borders that will be a real challenge and often the tourism is what brings some money to the smallest teams has a rural areas so i think that's going to and picks the very strongly there is still around $8000.00 new corona virus infections in russia every day and restrictions are still in place in most regions across the country but by lifting the lockdown in the capital the author already have given people across the country the sense that russia has essentially beaten the virus. it's been seen as a landmark case that could set a legal precedent for other teens everywhere a court and sole officially recognized the woman who was born in south korea as the

daughter of a korean biological father even though she was adopted and raised in the u.s. it's a right she spent years fighting for after south korea's put strict privacy laws prevent it from tracing have birth family. it was an emotional hearing for carra both the ruling makes her an official member of the family she was born into and entitle her to an inheritance but she says all she ever wanted was to find her mother this is just all my mom how good can you recognize my face please come to me please i think this day is momentous for all of us adoptees just to have a right by the way. to ringback the east to the struggles that we face with not having any rights whatsoever to be able to contact our family and i hope that this can change in syria born in seoul as cantonese soak boss was abandoned at the

age of 2 and adopted by an american family she's one of 200000 south korean children adopted overseas in the past 60 years laws prioritizing birth parents privacy over adoptees rights make accessing records new turi asli difficult the issue has long been shrouded in secrecy and stigma growing up in michigan the now 38 year old says she rarely thought about her birth family but when her own daughter turned 2 she decided to track down her mother. after conventional channels failed a genealogy website matched her to a young south korean student whose grandfather they suspected must be both his father she tried to contact him via his do which is her half sisters but her pleas fell on deaf ears. i even went to one of their houses and i begged like literally on my knees. and they called the police.

in november both filed a paternity suit a court ordered d.n.a. tests proved it was almost 100 percent likely the now 85 year old was indeed her father karr abbas plans to meet him next week she hopes he'll reveal the truth about her origins and lead her to her mother. back here in germany the desire for a 4 legged friend has grown during one of ours people working at home on some company the surge in demand has boosted the business of illegal dog breeders animal welfare workers were being sent to shelters. so far the huge demand for poppies has outstripped what the illegal trade can handle that's why dogs like this one have been abused as breeding machines once they can no longer go on or if they get sick they end up in a shelter but during the pandemic german breeders have been completely overwhelmed

by the growing demand never before have there been so few residents and berlin's animal shelter caregivers can now spend more time with them in peace the shelter is closed and is only reachable by phone. we found more new homes this year than we did by this time last year. lots more people realized they could work from home or their bosses allowed them to go at it may stay that way so people with office jobs have had a rethink and now have more time for a dog. for all. but shelter staff concern over the sudden love of animals. there are also more internet searches on classified ad portals that's true we urgently hope that they don't end up back in the shelter afterwards and that the huge flood of puppies doesn't end up back there. and just how long this

newfound love of pets will last might not be known until after the pandemic. the day is almost done love the conversation continues online join us on twitter us . next watch.

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