the the, you're watching the them, your name is coming to live from berlin. israel facing charges of genocide at the international court of justice at the hague, south africa is accusing israel of breaching the un genocide convention allegations that as well caused baseless, also coming up on the show riots and poplar new guinea as police strike, overpay the prime minister calls for calm and declares a state of emergency to deal with widespread looting lawlessness and arson. the claim. richardson, welcome,

the international court of justice and the hague. has begun. harry occupations of genocide brought against israel by south africa. now the case couldn't take years. but today, south africa has been asking the court to order israel to immediately halt its military operations and gaza hearings. this week will focus on that request for emergency measures to be imposed much sooner. south africa has long supported the palestinians linking their struggle to its own history of fighting apartheid israel for its part has strongly denied the claims calling the accusations baseless israel says it is doing all that can to avoid civilian casualties in gaza as it responds to how much this terrorist attack last october, but south africa alleges, not only is this on true, but the israel's campaign is targeting palestinians with the aim of wiping them out

as, as a peoples. and it's more than 80 page filing to the world's colt in the hague. south africa argues accent, emissions by israel, a genocidal in character as they are committed with the requisite specific intent to destroy palestinians in gaza as part of the broad palestinian national, racial and ethnic group. it goes on to say this constitutes a breached by israel, of its obligations under the genocide convention. a document drawn up in 1948 and the aftermath of the whole cost, which both israel in south africa have signed israel. those states, it has a right to self defense after the bloodiest attack in its history. its officials have renounced with anger to south africa's filing, pointing out but how mosque continues to call for the destruction of the jewish state. israel says it will flank back in the cold. the state of israel will appear before the international court of justice at the hague. to dispel south

africa is absurd blood libel. how tragic, but the rainbow nation that prides itself on fighting racism will be fighting pro bono for anti jewish races. palestinians in garza and the rest of the world, we'd be looking closely at the quotes response to south africa's request. a provisional routing could come within weeks, but any final judgement is expected to take is our correspond, it was the sholtes and joins me now from the hey, got, let's see. a tell us more about this 1st day of hearings at the international court of justice. yes sir, year in the hague, we have for today from south africa. and what is important to say is we have heard that says africa is bringing forward claims or obligations of genocide against israel. they're saying that each read has preached the genocide convention. but today the hearings were not about this, it was not about the marriage of the case,

but it was about the question whether the court should order provision or mattress or not. so if africa has requested provision or metro is these provision and mattress, all for example, did you say you should seize all military options? operations right now, as well as allow humanitarian assistance, also to not impede evidence on the genocide allegations to collect evidence for that. so what is important to understand is that the court, when he makes his decision, he's not bound to these requests from, says advertise, or you could also decide on other remedies that he could order to each, right? you and you sort of the get given that's a chance to reply tomorrow, just so this the 1st order of business, i tell us more generally, exactly what south africa is alleging and how serious these charges are. yeah, these are very serious charges. genocide is also often referred to as the crime of crimes. um, you can also see that there is quite

a big interest off the case uh all over the world. there's a lot of media that came today to be hate and to turn to spend the allegation of genocide. it is important to know that there is a special intense, needed to have the crime of genocide, which is basically that the act which are being crushed and i meant to intentionally destroy a group. so this is a very, very serious crime in recent history. and that has one that has been across the crime of genocide has been has been judged on in the case of trevor. and it said, which was a must occur on a boss, me, a muslims in the early ninety's. and just briefly, before we, i let you go, let's see, can you give us a clear idea on how long it will take to get a final ruling from the icy j? yes sir, this is a very complex case, as i have explained,

or to be said to prove this intention, it will take a couple of years. it is expected for a final ruling for the injunction that is being discussed here today. it is supposed to be much quicker and there is a decision expected to come within the next weeks on these provision and mattress. thank you so much for your reporting. that was here. shelton and the hague. meanwhile the palestinian red crescent size of 4 paramedics have been killed and it is rarely ever striking. an ambulance in gaza is roland says, but it's targeting how much the radical islamist group classified as a terrorist organization by several countries, including germany. daily reality team, gaza, people riding in panic after rain is really air strikes. the attack had a 2 story building in the central city of their l. bala and the people were queueing to receive aid at the school they were headed. 20 martyrs were buried at

the school with that and they show in this hospital in the same area, paramedics burst into tears as they recognized their colleagues. 4 of them were killed after and these really strikes keep their ambulance is got to move actually, i mean, i them, we're being directly targeted. so we won't be able to save the lives of the wounded village above we said many times before the ambulances will be moving, but it looks like they want to stop patients being saved because of this direct air strike in response to draw, we need through national pressure on monday, each real place that it would shift to a more targeted campaign and gaza with the fighting appears to be as intense as before. with no indication these really government is planning to pause this campaign. as well as no intentional, permanently occupying guys or,

or displacing that civilian population as well as funding come us terrace is not the palestinian population. and we are doing so in full compliance with international law with calls from washington to protect civilian lives in gaza. the stop diplomat continues his tour of the region. on wednesday, anthony blinked and metropolitan and president martin with a boss in the occupied west bank. we talked as well about the importance of reforming the pulse, spending authority, costs and governance so that it can effectively take responsibility regardless of that. so that the gaza and the west bank can be reunited under a palestinian leadership blinking force trip to the region since october ends in egypt on thursday, his main declared task has been to stop the conflict from spreading but

a week of meetings with the regions most powerful leaders has not is the suffering of civilians and gossip he but tvs regional director of the humanitarian agency care in amman. jordan, she told me earlier that there's been no improvement and conditions on the ground in gaza. unfortunately, this situation continues to be named very dire and harsh described as beyond catastrophic. there is an out of all of basic humanitarian assistance on this trend. 7 on food 11 wanted to or, and medicaid support the supplies and shifted items to those i need on massive, massive needs for those wants to see if its been happening. and this means that people are able to do something and to secure the basic requirements and needs. unfortunately, i can't describe in between them. and then he boasteth to have just shown where it

saves the kind of situation with these very harsh images. continue to be the lead off of people, gossip and, and you're here, what exactly is the problem with a distribution? is it a lack of deliveries that we're seeing from the international community? or are you facing checks at the border a carried out by israel's army, or did all this in seasons and the combination unfortunately also uses the aid that then nancy checks the approved items, the ability to distribute up to up to entry rough and because of the seas environment because of the lack of fuel to each different areas of all the guys are the restrictions on our combination system factors that are utilizing our company was 8 and reaching out to the people who are in need. and unfortunately,

as these plans, this is why you see all of us, all of the organizations working on human into in just phones. because things these fire that knows us with the consistency of the systems on only saving lives at this stage, only to see that i. so we have heard that call for a cease fire from multiple 8 organizations. not just yours interiors, the short of a cease fire coming into place. are there other conditions that could be present or that could be made present that would at least make your work easier inside of gaza or so i would just explain to you for instance, what my team is going through and our partners because we work with many partners and what we focus on on and medicaid support and 2 or 3 college inc, its in addition to the items lakes, more structured guns and checked as for, for the winter time, they are putting their, their own company's needs and requirements assign. we are trying to reach out to

the differentiators inside garza and the same thing that you went checked as basically, and they are trying to as much as possible to coordinate the delivery of the aid as close as possible to the distribution points, safe environment, more fuel and ends in a, in a situation that would allow us to jumpstart. after this, to prove the method, you wouldn't make it much easier. no ceasefire is going to be yet and very soon. thank you so much for speaking with us. i just have a tv from care. we really appreciate your time today. thank you. thank you you. let's take a look around some other world news headlines. turkey, romania and full. gary a have agreed to remove under water mines from the black sea. the 3 nato members say the mines walked into their territories after the russian invasion of ukraine, that they pose a danger to shipping. flooding and the democratic republic of congo is destroyed.

tens of thousands of houses around the capital. can shasta water levels and the congo river have reached their highest levels in almost 60 years. heavy rains and flash floods have killed nearly 300 people in recent months. and pop one who guinea has declared a state of emergency looting and arson in the capital port moresby, have killed at least 15 people. the violence was triggered by police protesting against cuts to their pay. and the unrest is now spread north to the city of lie. prime minister at james mark has called for com. an explosion of violence in port moresby, marked by protests of soldiers, police and prison guards, overpay cuts, angry crowds towards buildings and ransack shops. as the terminal is spread far beyond the capital, 24 hours without police turned into looting on a massive scale. one group of officials and civilians forced their way through

a security gate outside the prime minister's office. james morales, a apologize, but said lawlessness would not be tolerated in size. all our citizens step up today and give us back to your country one more time inside of your neighborhood that yesterday did happen. we have now let's look into how we report. we look at how we would bring responsible people to face a form of law. although the government has promised to fix what it called a payroll glitch. it's not so far been enough to restore order. a scale you have recently inc. a security deal with pop in new guinea saying it's ready to help the stretch police force. we continue to urge come at this difficult time. we haven't had any requests from the pay into a government. the local authorities are flying, police reinforcements into port morris, be to try and,

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