the, the, the, the, the news line from the israel, the non so it's a decision by spain islands a no way to recognize that palestinian states prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the announcement alarms to be voiding terrorism. 3 european leaders say that would be no peace in the region without also on the program. furnished 5 minutes to officially suit calls parliamentary elections for july. the 4th, despite his conservative party trailing badly in the poles, do run supreme leave. that leads practice of a funeral service of president abraham, right? you see is tens of thousands gather content on the

feel. good, you're welcome to the program. spade no way an island have announced that they will recognize palestinian statehood and the western countries of resisted rest, recognizing an independent palestinian state for g. is israel as a war against thomas following the october 7th terror attacks? i've renewed focus on the issue as well as foreign minister denounced a decision as a threat to his country sovereignty on security. a bard off from israel by fences and barriers. the palestinian territories will be formally recognized as a state by 3 more european countries. spain, ireland and norway choosing to support the palestinian push for sovereignty, a step they say towards peace because of the time has come to move from

words to action. the millions of innocent suffering, palestinian said we are with 70 that the results and to make it very clear that no matter how many walls or rectors no matter how many villages are bombed and no matter how many illegal settlements are built on is the land and the identity of palestine will continue to exist in our hearts, in international legalities and in the future project of a better training and in harmony. and we get to those who made the new in the morning. previously 139 of 193, you one countries recognize the state of palestine. latest signatories calling on others to do the same me and admits. therefore, it used to be with tens of thousands of dead and injured. we must keep alive. the only thing that can provide to save home for both is r. e leads them to list and it will show those days that can live in peace with each other. israel and palestine to germany's foreign minister rejected unilateral recognition of palestinian statehood tablet and then that is x more not. i have repeatedly made it clear that

the solution to this terrible situation that we are currently experiencing does not require a symbolic recognition, which a political solution can own. a solution to the middle east conflict and a 2 state solution requires direct negotiations on both sides. all by divide, israel's government also hit back no sound enough regarding a palestinian state. there are people who support this opinion and there are people who do not. but this is not the place nor the time now to come and you know, let our leave recognize a palestinian state. and any such decision arms is rarely sovereignty and is rarely security. and we will not allow it to our order to recall our and passengers back home. and we will take all measures to prevent that today, even though president not mood, abbas the leader of the palestinian authority. welcome the recognition and called

on other nations to quote, support the struggle of our people for liberation and independence. always minister of foreign affairs is esp about ida. i asked him what he hoped to move for the chief. so this is the state then from uh for your be in congress. uh, very clearly saying that this is the right thing to do, but also the right the moment the right time. because we want to, to contribute to re establishing a credible face in the credible cost towards a $2.00 state solution. and uh, pennsylvania state living piece beside israel, which i seem to dream since the original also records. but what we also realized isn't just sitting idly by wasting for decides to negotiate this. so at the time of their own making is or amber has not worked for 30 years. and we need to spring in the position of the stadium site, but still trying to seek a 2 state solution where both peoples can live in the sense we do that together

today. we hope that although you'll see him come to as well solo. and we also do this as a supporter, the i read the piece vision for the comprehensive solution to them. at least the prices of michael link is a former un special russell to human rights and the palestinian temperatures and associate professor of law at the university of western ontario jones as not from the canadian city of london in the province of ontario. well, welcome to the w once changes as a result of today's announcement. well, i think the, the hand on the clock was steadily closer to the reality of a fellow city and state, even though that seems to be far off right now. now the move by these 3 european countries, 2 of the members of the you and a 3rd, which has a very close relationship with you. i think it's partly political. i think it shows that it's a exasperation with israel,

with respect to the direction that these really government is going both in its conduct to the war. as well as its very firmly stated position that it would never allow a palestinian state despite the wall to wall the acceptance of an outstanding state as a necessary component for last the middle east. peace is also, i think, symbolic in the sense that we now have a 142 or a 144 depending on your account. countries who have accepted or recognized palestine as a state which is about 75 percent of the membership of the united nations. and so i think this, no, i don't think anybody would think would believe that recognizing palestine is a state today, makes it a state or it is going to bring adjusting lasting piece overnight. but i do think they, they feel that given the direction of these really government, given the desperation of the palestinians, find themselves in this is probably the only car they have to play at the present moment. so when benjamin netanyahu says this move prompted by israel is war against

him, us follow him. your type of 7 terre attacks. when he says this rewards terrorism. what do you say? as i say, oh, i don't think that's the issue i, i think in fact it tries to the value of the impact of terrorism and recognize i guess those were the legitimate voices presently of the palestinian people who are in the pulse the name of 40 and civil society uh in uh, in palestine. i think by saying this rewards i'm us gives inflates. the important stuff from us in put in palestinian politics and down plays. i was seriously the palestinian authority is trying to find a peaceful path. consistent with international law to finally achieve a state of their own. so he's right though, isn't a wait, wait with that. this would not have happened. how must not launched it's terrible attacks last year. yeah, yes i, i accept that. but we've also been say,

this wouldn't have happened and the terror attacks probably wouldn't have happened if the world had moved steadily in the, in the, in the decades proceeding to recognize that israel, it did not have a, uh, was not negotiating good faith towards the palestinian state but now settles 300 settlements and 740000 is really set. there isn't occupied east jerusalem and the west bank which is the single greatest impediment to an independent, genuine in palestinian state. if those things hadn't happened, we hadn't seen, i guess the isolation of a gas of a former clicked the punishment says former un secretary general's, we wouldn't have had the attacks on october. so let's talk about the, the, the role of the, the united states and all of this because it's cool for a recognition of a palestinian state, as you say, nearly symbolic until the united states changes. it stands and stops a forwarding israel, a diplomatic cover. i know that's a very, that's

a very good point to the united states does hold a lot of courage in, in with how fast and we're, we're going with respect to israel and palestine with the american position has, has been long announced that they will, they support a palestinian state, but they will only recognize the palace, city, and state. the comes about through negotiations with israel. i think that may have been incredible position to hold 15 or 25 years ago when there was some life in the oslo peace process. but today, so in the interim, in a process where we haven't had genuinely negotiations for more than a decade, i think that allows israel to veto any critical path towards the palestinian state . and that's particularly on the face of the faculty. is really government has repeatedly said it will never uh conference a palestinian state. okay, thank you so much for talking us through that. so clearly mike, a link for my un special wrap it to on the punched in human rights. thank you.

thank you. now to the united kingdom, why the british 5 minutes originally, so not as cold as a surprise, the election at to be held on july the full months we've been expected a hand, he's conservative potty training badly and opinion polls the most observers and expected him to delay the vote to give his party a chance to make up ground. the prime minister said, now is the way i went for britain to choose its future. british prime minister wishes to knock followed his announcement of the upcoming snapped parliamentary election with an appeal to voters to put the face in him. i will find everybody i will earn your trust and i will prove to you that only a conservative government led by me will not put all harder and economic stability at risk. can restore price and confidence in our country with a clear plan and bold action will deliver a secure future for you,

your family and our united kingdom. so you know, also on the lines the need for strong leadership during times of global conflict and uncertainty. reactions on the streets of london were clear. it is time for a change everybody's looking for change now. um would you would you say like was a problem and so by default we didn't actually recommend doing so. i think here we, we, we right, go somewhere else. yeah, i think i think that the country is looking for a change. well i think label, we'll get to we need to change that. we'll see what, what they can bring to the table. things like that to me as a because people will just want to pose the tories out, won't be a particularly, they won't like for me. and they just want to resound. the main meal position,

labor party is also cooling for change of to 14 years of conservative government lead the kids stomach from us is to fund the social and health services best to tackle wealth and the quality if elected. look around the whole country, the sewage and all rivers people waiting on troll is and i and a crime virtually on punish mortgages and food prices for the roof. it's all every bit of it. a direct result of the tory chaos in westminster. the time of the dead, they pursue their own interests, rousing tackling the issues that affect your family. and if they get to another 5 years, they will look, feel entitled to carry on exactly as they all received. not cool, be on the back such as he steps out on the 6 week campaign trail. labor is

currently around 20 points ahead in the opinion, polls as get well for the course, folded shot at chosen po in london. welcome to charlotte. people had been battling on october election lines mister sooner. a chosen july. oh yes indeed. well, this is a pretty big gamble for the clement is that given as you've had in that report, that how significantly hit policy is trailing in the polls. now, the way that it works in the u. k, as a department is to hand off until january next is to hold the election. but in terms of timing, when it was going to happen, that really was that the prime minister of this question. so what heating key was when he found that his policy had the best tom, now that with many, including within his own policy, he felt very strongly that he would have stood it back to chance later. and he had given your calling me more time to improve. but of course the council says what the

appointments will be waiting off is that things could also get a little less. so it does have kids that he's looking to capitalize on a couple of wins for him on, on major policy points recently, one of them being the economy and the recently this morning he had some good news with inflation numbers dropping. that was something he was keen to point to uh today the, all the big thing that he'll be pointing to and have pointed to you today and we'll throughout the campaign is his policy on immigration. he's pledge to stop the boat, stop small boat crossings coming to the u. k. um and has this right of the policy as we talked about a lot on this program for policy flagship policy of sending illegal migrants to more run the. now that has recently become your after number of setbacks with the government saying that flights to take off within weeks. so i only saw suggesting that he is looking to capitalize on. well, he will see is not success really before the policy has,

has the chance to be put to the test. so department is clearly way not pay that with a chances in the polls. not looking good. now is the best time. okay. i'm pulling indicates that the opposition layer of policy has something like a 20 percentage point lead over soon as conservative. so how is he hoping to turn that around? it clearly is going to be a pretty big hills, a facile flow. the prime minister knows ditching prime minister has come back from poles like this. so place to an election, but how he's really trying to frame this now whole frame this and the campaign is that this is a choice between a policy. he says with a plan, a plan that's working and he's trying to characterize the opposition labor party as a party with no plan, a tool. now he of course, we'll be pointing to the economy as i pointed out. so the one thing that he was very keen to stress in his speech today as well was that at a time is global instability. he says that there's no more dangerous times since

the end of the cold, who the country needs stability and not change. indeed, the cause of the policy has done well, historically imposing on defense. so that'll be looking at that immigration as well . really trying to champion his rely on the policy. but the fax is that his policy protect in recent years has seen a number of scandals at school scandals and economics down 10 as well and off to 14 use in power with a number of successive prime ministers as you had in that report that they really don't seem to be at the moment. uh, an appetite for change. i got charlotte, charlotte shells and pills in london. and i to iran, very huge crowds of attended funeral events for the night to present abraham. right . you see, it was killed along with the country's foreign minister on several of us in a helicopter crash on sunday. rodney instate made us ivy cross was the result of

a technical failure on the says it has begun an investigation. c how the state funeral, heavy with symbolism. the black turban, top of president, april, he. murray's coughing the marking him as a descent into the prophet mohammed, they use and the richest bearer of power. the millions of mourners reportedly turned out. not all of them by choice. with some t, ron residents saying they received phone messages, urging them to join the funeral procession. to many iranians, right? you see will be remembered as the butcher of t. ron, a member of the so called death panel, which sent thousands of political prisoners to their death decades ago. and more recently had the leader who oversaw the brutal repression of women and a freedom movement that sweat the country. it's the fact that he was

associated with the loss of the crackdowns with width, you know, execution of the irena positions of the eighty's when he was the public, prosecute to any wrong. and on the fact that he was very close to the supreme need, that really, that didn't help his case. so i don't think there is a widespread sense of grief. the funeral also provided a glimpse of a smile honey, widely regarded as the highest official in her moss, the palestinian militant crew that iran has funded and armed during its war with israel. both of our experts say runs influence in the region will not be effected by the death of its president. i very much doubt that the uranium regime we've changed course, given the advanced level of this next era program, which it's, it sees as a bargaining kind of chip in, in negotiations with the west, with the reform is completely out of the system. the regime by definition has shifted to the to the a kind of right. and the abraham or i,

you see was widely seen as a potential successor to we run supreme leader. i told him in a no, no, no, no matter who succeeds and it seems unlikely they'll change the course of the nation. lead by religious hard liners. so easy, but him lies the staff live. it's a mean renewed increase in protest. movements any around us come around machin, eventually an international politics at the university of sussex in the okay. i mean, the, these protests and the wrong are not quite predictable, possibly because there is no organized leadership. and this lack of organized leadership is both a kind of, it's a double edged sword. on the one hand, it makes you know, of suppressing protest or suppressing dissenting. they're on difficult over long periods of time. but this also means that it's, it's more difficult to organize it in a strategic way to, to kind of track the government when it's a, it is at its weak points such as this of this car in days. so he is not clear,

you know, whether that would be process or not. so they definitely can reveal it. office as in bangladesh is elite counter terrorism, false implicating torch, and kennings. and are being sent to un keep a peacekeeping missions. the findings follow any investigation carried out to her 1st reading based natural news in germany deutsch at sites on the offices are among 65000 un peacekeepers have been deployed worldwide to stabilize countries in crisis and to support civilians when the states fail. dw investigating reports. the soldiers were deployed as un peacekeepers even after they served in the unit the kills and tortures. they were high ranking officers of bangladesh as a lead unit, rapid action battalion, and didn't particular it's notorious, intelligent, swing. in 2023 we revealed was the government continues to deny the

rod murders, objects and tortures alleged criminals. and political opponents. un peacekeeping missions cannot have, in amongst them offices who may have been responsible for these kind of very serious abuses that defeats the purpose of peacekeeping. for months, we looked into banquet as one of the largest contributors to your admissions, and found that the 2 officers were not a unique case. we analyzed classified military personnel files and secret un deployment lists and found more than $100.00 soldiers who went from rab to peacekeeping. some of them admitted to extrajudicial killings during their time at rob to be on the day of the execution. the talk is taken out with his hands tight and blindfolded, although it was tight after the blood heat. he, these got some blood and brain fragment,

especially on my uniform. and yet the officers were deployed on un missions. afterwards. we went to copenhagen to meet a man who in 2019 raised the alarm densmart doug served us when i bought her for the us committee against torture. and the report on banquet ash stated, it was gravely concerned about rob's abuses. the recommendation was that the former and current members of wrap should not be allowed to as to do a service in peacekeeping operations. but we found at least 40 rob numbers who were deployed to p submissions after the report was published. are confronted with our findings, un peacekeeping in new york road, we do not have the resources to review the information of all personnel deployed and the vast majority of troops perform well. this former un official told us that the organization has fairly any power over which officers countries select

. as peacekeepers, it'd be an option. do you think that until 2019 andrew gilmore was the one assistant secretary general for human rights and experienced firsthand what happens when the un pushes countries to exclude possible human rights abusers? one country that was really important literally said okay, we're going to pull out all together under you in a 2nd general at that time to go basically to that country. and since i apologize for that as they otherwise, like for you, every single ration is, would have collaborative on the she wouldn't tell us which country now are, but said that the un is stuck in a dilemma. the you, in the reason faced with dangerous and deadly emissions. western governments increasingly pulled their troops out of peacekeeping operations. instead, they prefer to pay for them, leading the, supplying of troops to countries like bond goodish pockets on egypt and china. many of which are known to have abuse of security forces

we get some really pretty useless troops as a pretty brutal ones as well. but if you're spending the you and you can actually say that we also confronted bangladesh as government. and every individual officer mentioned in this report they didn't respond well, no, we called rod from dw investigations as one of the reports office, a colleague on your cooper's mckinnon asked if the report implicates any other countries besides bangladesh. we actually also looked at sri lanka. i mean, if you look at the list of, of peacekeeping countries, the top provide is egypt and china pockets done. so take your pick. i'm sure there are quite a few cases in most of these countries, but we looked at a 3 line con, find at least one case where activists had one d u and about a specific officer who had been implicated in the atrocities committed in the the end of the, the civil war in 2009 and he was sent despite these warnings. so it's definitely

going on. i think if you dig in, in, took some of the records of some of these other human of, of some of these other peacekeepers. quite likely to find other cases to. so the obvious question is, i mean, why is the u. n. using known human rights abuses as part of its, its peacekeeping forces? well, the guns hands are tied because they need, they need troops to maintain these peacekeeping operations. a lot of governments have pulled out of peacekeeping operations. i mean, these missions a dangerous that awful, quite deadly. it's very different coats to convince voters in smoke as the spec home that you're sending soldiers and they get returned to you in 40 bucks. so it to it and to an extent you and it's stuck in this dilemma and that isn't really an easy way out. okay. and what is being done to address this problem? so obviously these issues all now being highlighted. so what's happening is anything happening to change it, but has been cases with you and human rights. bronx has teamed up with human rights

commissions and activists must be there to play the case. this happens in the pool, so they all examples. but the problem is that a lot of countries don't actually want not like, don't want external bodies or even the human rights organizations to look into the cost of the soul, just because at least in the, in the case of bangladesh. one could argue that high ranking members of the government are ordering or at least letting these abuses happen. so they don't really want to much scrutiny. okay. have to leave it there and become good from dw investigations. thanks so much amy. as i didn't find the full i dw documentary on our website, dw, dot com, all search documentary channels on youtube is reminded about top stores at this hour, 3 european countries are said that they will recognize that palestinian state despite israel's opposition, the leaders of spain. i am annoying, made the announcement on wednesday. israel has recalled at some past there's 2 old 3 countries in response, bridge 5 minutes to really soon cause i notice that

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