of the international criminal court. in fact , his term of office began last year and this year we already had a lot of communication contacts. his team has been several times . in ukraine and now they are in ukraine, he wants to open an office in ukraine, his activity is very important for us, once again we remember the first days of the war of the president in a very powerful message and signal with this that international justice should work and it should be effective and indeed, this is already the history of not only the ukrainian people, it is the history of international justice in general, therefore, of course, on the instructions of the president, we did everything possible so that the icc prosecutor's office felt confident here, and the parliament held changes to the criminal procedure code are necessary, and today the prosecutor's office can work independently, this is provided for by the rome statute and is directly the very principle of its activity work, but also in cooperation with us, because for the firs

, there are several parallel and parallel processes when we speak now about the international criminal court of gazi. well, this is a court that is guided in its activities by an institute, and you correctly said that the russian the federation or other correspondents of yours correctly said that the russian federation does not recognize the possibility of bringing its servicemen to bear the responsibility of the roman union because the russian federation did not ratify the rome statute in ukraine, amendments were made to the verkhovna rada of ukraine to the criminal procedure code, a separate section on cooperation was agreed upon law enforcement agencies of ukraine with e-e representatives of the international criminal court regarding the recording of war crimes regarding their future e-e application already in international criminal court, and first of all , you should know to hope for the initiative that was supported by the european parliament, that was initiated by our western partners, that a special international tribunal like the nuremberg tribunal has an office in ukraine, well , r

special tribunal for russia and what should be its model throughout the international international criminal courtal events in ukraine ukraine has agreed to this temporarily ratified the treaty as you noted, however , states can inform the court that they do not ratify the treaty but recognize the court's decision regarding the crimes committed on its territory, therefore, any crimes committed on the territory of ukraine fall under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, the international criminal court can exercise jurisdiction over three main crimes and crimes against humanity and war crimes, it does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, there are proposals to create a special court that would be dedicated to ukraine and it is currently being discussed in various circles. i think that states are considering whether such a tribunal is needed now or that the international community should invest in existing mechanisms and institutions to guarantee their success, this includes the national courts of ukraine that have primary jurisdiction over war crimes and other atrocit

in 2018, the parliament sent two declarations, that is why the international criminal court is alreadygating the crimes that were committed without waiting for ratification, because it has the right to do so, and ukraine itself, several years ago, called on it to take this case under its supervision, but the problem remains absolutely right, we need to ratify the rome statute, because we are getting into very strange situations, on the one hand , we have an obligation to cooperate with the international criminal court, and on the other hand, we do not have any rights that other member states of the international of a criminal court under the rome statute. well, this issue should have been resolved a long time ago, back in the 16th year, when the constitution was amended, the constitutional reform took place, and it was possible to ratify the rome statute. this was not done, and here it is already a century old, according to article eight of the agreement with the eu about the association. that is, it is our simple task, which we should have done a long time ago, to write the same nonse

of justice, the international criminal courtich was created, including our law enforcement agencies and the office of the prosecutor general. okay, mrs. lyudmila, it is clear. any tribunal he can say then we take the property then the plane that arrived we don't give back this plane and so on and so on and so on something like that maybe even from the other side it turns out that there are the same sanctions now that i don't even know what else is possible if it is possible to limit the russian federation , taking into account the already existing sanctions, well, you know, if there were already such sanctions, they have almost all been used by the world in relation to the russian federation. the russian federation will not get all the gas now, and with this, it would not finance its war on the territory ukraine, i think the list is not the highest memory, but we need to talk about the personality. that is, we need to talk about putin's family, about all these high-ranking officials who directly participate in the publication of

this is an international criminal court because the international criminal court has jurisdiction, andwith regard to the three categories of crimes in relation to the situation in ukraine - these are crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, therefore, if the prosecutor's office of the icc has enough facts , the same goes for the national courts of ukraine , we have an article in the criminal code 442 if they see that there are things that testify to this, it can be national proceedings in national courts, it is also very important to recognize certain events as genocide by the political and right-wing parliaments let's say that it is a more political act, but it is definitely very important in the context of, you know, satisfaxi in the context of recognizing that what really happened is genocide, we already have eight decisions of the parliaments on the rubber today, there is definitely a lot of talk about geno because he zeltimeter is considered to be the most serious crime among crimes, the most evil of crimes that can be committed, but what crimes against humanity ar

this is a completely different procedure, we are talking about a lawsuit in the international criminal court tribunal or any other court, but these measures that we propose in our report are actually much simpler and easier to implement. we have already talked a little about what can be to do to prevent genocide, you mentioned sanctions, what else can be done. here, for example, what should ukraine do besides going to court, maybe there are certain necessary steps that cannot be missed at this stage of the war. in my opinion, the most important thing that ukraine can do is to collect as much evidence as possible and involve professional prosecutors and experts to collect and preserve this evidence, because in many similar situations it happens that everyone understands what is happening, but the evidence has not been preserved , evidence that will be presented in the future judges must be of high quality, i know this because i did something similar in the case of the rohingya and the uyghurs, the evidence must be of high quality they must be kept, it is almost like a police investigation, th

that investigation can be carried out to and by the international criminal court because the killing of shearing, letting been very clearly stated, is a war crime. unless such must be carried an investigation should be included and could be carried out by the international criminal court. the investigation could also be carried out by the commission of inquiry of the united nation, which as a broad mandate and could investigate that particular king andy, although unlawful killings in the o p t. so how does the when dealing ways press freedom? the special have alternative ways of violence against truman. the special have also dealing with the situation in the occupied territories. all of them as a mandate and the possibility to carry out this form of investigation. though there are different avenues that are possible. agnes, you mentioned there, the international criminal court, how important is their role and the evidence that is brought to them? no, for our audience who may not be familiar with the role of the i c say, how do they fit into this investigation? well, the international

the international criminal court's chief prosecutor has been in the city of kharkiv to see the devastation he said the court would prosecute the highest ranks of russians responsible. from there, our correspondent wyre davies reports. with this city still under daily attack... so, there was an air strike. ..karim khan's visit to kharkiv was more a statement of intent than gathering evidence. what were the ages of the children that normally you see? that will come later. the international criminal court's chief prosecutor toured several badly damaged parts of the city, including a primary school which was being used as a shelter when it was hit by russian shelling. civilians were killed here. explosions from the start of the war, russia's been accused of indiscriminate shelling and rocket attacks. this children's hospital peppered with lethal shrapnel from internationally prohibited cluster bombs, one of many such incidents which led to calls for the international criminal court to act. this icc investigation into alleged war crimes in ukraine has already been fast—tracked, and mr khan has

activities of glydkovskii and the activities of denisova. the prosecutor of the international criminal courtne the other day, and this is not his first visit since the decision was announced on march 2 that the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court begins collecting evidence on the most serious international crimes committed during the full-scale invasion of the russians in ukraine in april, in addition to khan, he came to the liberated kyiv region, in particular to buch. well, this time he visited kharkiv and let's try to figure out what the work of the international of the criminal court in ukraine what is happening with the coordinated work of the icc investigators with the investigating ukrainian prosecutors as well as with human rights defenders and what is next with this whole process ? it is important and whether it will be possible to really bring the matter to such an end as we would see it before a full-fledged trial of russian war criminals. i have no doubt that this will happen and here there is a synergy full synergy and the european countries of the europ

we will see this tribunal, we will see the work of the international criminal court and the work of thesecutors and investigators of this body, and accordingly, this is, if for the entire ukrainian context and for the international context, a legal consolidation of the not at the national level, but at the international level. and today we must understand that there is a recording and investigation of all facts of war crimes or crimes against humanity, these are exactly these two categories what matters the international criminal court is authorized to consider the events taking place in ukraine, and these facts must be properly confirmed and qualified, and then the question will arise regarding the prosecution of those guilty of crimes that will be the object of the investigation . and during the meeting with mr. karim khan, the question was raised about the number of episodes that will become the object of the investigation, we know that there will be very few of them, but they must be qualitatively qualified and properly examined and confirmed so that there was no doubt that this is

but it's worth noting that the united states is not a member of the international criminal court. and furthermore, in 2020 the united states imposed sanctions on the international criminal court because it was daring to look into the crimes of us troops in afghanistan. so it seems like the usa invoking the international criminal court in these circumstances is a little bit laughable. and filled with hypocrisy, but the un security council meeting concluded essentially with members the security council, not agreeing with each other. china called for call men and seemed to not be echoing the claims put forward by the united states and allied countries attacking russia. so it was quite a meeting and it's not really going to lead to any, anything clear. this is yet another meeting that serves almost a seattle purpose inside the un headquarters. right? our teeth, caleb mob, been there for us, keeping track of the u. n. in the states, push it, that number of kids and the west have unanimously dubbed the incident at the mall a war crime, despite russia's denial. that's a field in which we

and potentially criminal courts in europe if russian criminals will continue and we know thaty always do it. the legal front of the fight against russia is no less important than others . work on it is ongoing both at the state and non-governmental levels. ukraine's legal community has joined forces to help law enforcement officers record russian war crimes and also coordinate work with their foreign colleagues on the challenges of bringing russia to justice, universal justice and why ukraine must prove that russia is committing genocide iryna solomko spoke with anna o. grynchuk, president of the association of lawyers of ukraine. congratulations anna. before that, ukrainian law enforcement officers had no experience of working with such crimes. yes, these are specific crimes . how important are the evaluations? do they really play such a role ? we had experience, we had experience since the 14th year. of course, it is not at all on the scale that we are talking about now, but there were already human rights organizations that worked on the territory of donbas, collecting and

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, orany leaders before the international criminal court, or any other court, a domestic court,under universal jurisdiction. might have jurisdiction under universaljurisdiction. but one doesn't know. as in the case of serbia, in the mid—19 90s, president milasinovich felt safe at home. he knew that his people wouldn't give him up —— president milasinovich. but there was revolution, he was overthrown and he was bundled by his own people to stand trial in the hague. it is important to collect evidence and i have every confidence thatis evidence and i have every confidence that is being done both by the ukrainian officials, judicial officials, prosecution officials and obviously also by the investigators working for the international criminal court.— working for the international criminal court. justice richard goldstone. — criminal court. justice richard goldstone, thank _ criminal court. justice richard goldstone, thank you - criminal court. justice richard goldstone, thank you for - criminal court. justice richard goldstone, thank you for your| criminal court. justice richard -

the international criminal court's chief prosecutor has been in the city of kharkiv to see the devastationtill under daily attack... so, there was an air strike. ..karim khan's visit to kharkiv was more a statement of intent than gathering evidence. what were the ages of the children that normally you see? that will come later. the international criminal court's chief prosecutor toured several badly damaged parts of the city, including a primary school which was being used as a shelter when it was hit by russian shelling. civilians were killed here. explosions. from the start of the war, russia's been accused of indiscriminate shelling and rocket attacks. this children's hospital peppered with lethal shrapnel from internationally prohibited cluster bombs, one of many such incidents which led to calls for the international criminal court to act. this icc investigation into alleged war crimes in ukraine has already been fast—tracked, and mr khan has said that they will look into allegations of atrocities by either side. but if the evidence points to the higher levels of the russian military

so it's quite interesting to hear the usa offering support for the international criminal court. the representative of russia basically to bombed a lot of the garage of deceptive information. i pointed out that russia has supplied information to counter the claims that are being bandied about by western media. regardless of that fact, western media ignores the documentation. russia provides show it is not committing crimes against civilians. both keith and western powers have dubbed the incident at the mall a war crime, despite russia's denial. that's a field in which western powers have had more than their fair share of controversy or cheese and don quarter explains why. according to moscow, it was the massive explosion caused by all that ammunition going off at the same time that made the nearby mall catch fire as well. on top of that, the ukrainian cities mayor is saying that the malls management for some reason decided it wasn't going to shut the place down. if the air raid alarm started to go off neglecting array alerts is a crime which the trilogy at armstrong has. once aga

and its investigations and national ones, but the international criminal court , according tocy, focuses attention only on a few episodes; roughly speaking, it will consider 15 cases conditionally and all the rest will remain outside the responsibility of the national investigations, this huge number is only officially registered 13,000 proceedings, so our second if advocacy goal is to get support of the international community in carrying out the investigation and bringing to justice these war criminals a-a oleksandr, if you allow me, i will do a little more such an optop er-er i will return to to to to to the event that we discussed so well last week and i last week because actually, this weekend they shift my weekend in the middle of the week, i don't remember when the weekend was, okay, okay, when we had a resignation sent to our nose, we were fired on the 96th day of the war, we discussed this news and i also wanted to ask andria about it, i confess honestly on the one hand continues the extremely complicated process of returning our prisoners of war is primarily about de

one of many such incidents that led for calls for the international criminal court to act.s investigation into alleged war crimes in ukraine has been fast tracked. mr. con -- mr. khan says they will look into atroties by either side but if the investigation points to russia, that is wherehey will follow. they have set a base in key -- in kyiv. this was his first visit to the eastern front. >> i will keep trying to engage with the russian federation because i think any state that wishes to fly the flag of democracy and legality should have nothing to hide and nothing to fear. >> mr. khan didn't have time to talk as he walked past arenas that are damaged. there is no doubt who the investigation should find accountable. >> putin and his cronies, ukrainians have condemned them. this is not the way to do things. we are brothers. we are supposed to respect each other. why e they attacking us? >> they will have to be patient. the war is not over and investigations like this take time. cooperation from moscow is unlikely to be forthcoming. laura: the kremlin has banned top u.k. jou

they referred it to the criminal court.azeera" wants to see the international criminal court investigate this. can they be an independent, credible investigation to get to the bottom of what happened? >> yes. i think the focus should be whether the icc will indeed open an investigation in the murder or assassination of shireen abu akleh. having submitted the complaint to the icc does not mean anything, but a political legal statement [indiscernible] i think this is the right thing. the question is, what kind of investigation can lead to, remedy the enforcement and accountability? the icc is the only body with the legal frame to deliver personal accountability of specific people that will be found guilty in shireen's death. this is why submitting a complaint to the icc is the most important thing on the legal level. on the political level, the u.s. , we heard from the secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. that they were demanding an investigation. the israelis did not object to a collaborative investigation.

jurisdiction to the establishment of a hybrid tribunal for syria and prosecutions in the international criminal court at the hague in the netherlands. first prosecutions in the courts of syria. assuming that there may be a transition of leadership in syria at some point in the future, a new syrian regime may be interested in imposing accountability on individuals associated with the assad regime. examples of countries where domestic courts have investigated similar crimes after a change in the governing regime including cambodia and colombia. if prosecutions were to occur in the syrian courts, the international community including the united states could assist syria by supporting the establishment of specialized internationalized chambers dedicated to the prosecution of atrocity crimes within the syrian judicial system. such internationally tkphrorted domestic chambers have already been created in iraq, boss knea, and the concept of piracy prosecutions in kenya. second, prosecutions in various national courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction. universal jurisdiction provides every state

answer before the court there is no other way out there is no situation with the international criminal courterwise you can impose sanctions on putin declare him a war criminal issue a warrant finally if putin remains in power then nothing else can be done about it the matter is if the agreement was signed between the states, if russia is brought to justice for the commission of genocide, will the un implement this decision, the russian federation will not be able to avoid punishment now it may seem that russia doesn't care, there may be people in the russian government who are not fully aware of what is happening, but the fact is that in the long term, we must also understand that putin may not stay in power for long, and the next government may be much more inclined to settle relations with the international community and pay compensation, a good example is what happened in serbia, milosevic karadzic, they didn't care, they behaved as they pleased, ignoring all international decisions, until the next government came to power the government wanted to join the eu, but they were not allowed to

the international criminal court is also investigating a ledge war crimes in ukraine. willis in 1st to the ukrainian chief prosecutor every day in the ukraine. we have extra 20300 war crimes. for this moment we have near 15000 cases only about to walk rhymes. ah, we have armoires anchor. keith is crime of aggression. in these approach, it is gram for gresh, or we have more than $600.00 suspects. actually, it is high level off top military military's politicians and propaganda agents of russian federation. we can fairly conclude that the war in ukraine will be the most documented armed conflict. we have ever witnessed so far as the office is moving generally, and i've said it before my election to a greater feel presence or this is a key. we can't fly in and fly out from situations around the world. that's as true in a saddam as it is in ukraine, and we are hopefully in the next few weeks i will be working towards opening an office in kia and to help us understand, i'd like to bring in a cat over and over. i saw a ukrainian lawyer specializing in international humanitarian and criminal

the 1st visit by the palestinian foreign minister to the new prosecutor of the international criminal court carton. crime. but the minister has been here many times before since 2015. he has been pressuring this court to what he says, stop the impunity by is for out. the very 1st time the minister came here. he was accompanied by al jazeera journalists, serene or clay. now, 7 years later, he brings files with evidence of her killing. now nearly one month ago, evidence that shows according to the palestinian prosecutor that she was deliberately targeted by an israeli soldier. i also conveyed the hopes and expectations of the policy and people and the policy of victims who look up to the court as the last and only resource for justice and art and art rightfully so, frustrated with the full skill, impunity that israel israeli officials continue to enjoy, even when there is an ongoing investigation by the court will the case of sherry and i will actually ever be here. of course, you know, we have already, you know, delivered the outcome of the investigation that we have done officially, you kno

touch with us from kharkiv region, and we are waiting for the conclusions of the international criminal courtis currently working in kharkiv region and we will talk about it in more detail in an hour, a little more than an hour, it will be human rights defenders, what the investigating prosecutors will actually record there, what the work looks like, what the work looks like, how coordinated it is between the various countries that are currently accepting refugees from the war from ukraine, women and children, and what they are working with volunteers what are they giving to the investigators, how is all the information processed and when will this tribunal finally come for putin and his henchmen who are committing terrible crimes at the hands of the russian army in ukraine? well, here too the next one, i hope, is not yet our eight, we are recruiting him , eh, i am really waiting for him, too. and what can you say to dmitry medvedev, ah, god, who is he now, i don’t even know, it is written on twitter, the right person, the right person, the right person, the condition, dmitry medvedev, the ed

and palestine . foreign minister delivers new evidence to the international criminal court. part of the case submitted for the killing of al jazeera journalists, serene. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to catherine. your travel package today. there will be nor floods in southern china, but they're not is to be expected. this is the seasonal rate and it's quite heavy edging for the south. it will effect hong kong is obviously an orange bit to hear a bit of a hump in it. she's heading up towards que shoe chicago, who probably han shoe, otherwise it's going to be sharing the heavy stuff. i think probably staying just off shore. there's more rain on its way into wars, beijing, which is still quite hot between the 2. that means during the yellow volume yancey, it's warm and dry. well us, we should say hot and dry really. and saddle this a good scattering of daily thunderstorms concentration moves from day to day. but i think we're back in syllabus, in west papua and certain western side of borneo with our se, cambodia and the eastern side of thailand lo

the international criminal court has begun its own investigation, claiming the whole country is now aday in ukraine, we have an extra 200—300 or crimes. for this moment, we have near 50,000 cases on war crimes. as fighting continues, so does the desperate exodus of civilians. the war has forced them to flee their homes. when, or even if they go back, is anyone's guess. tim allman, bbc news. let's focus on the apparent attack on the chemical plant. aaron montgomery is the president of global chemical services and emergency response company, ouray. hejoins us now from south carolina. thank you very much forjoining us. a lot still to be verified, in fact, in terms of what we know about this attack but we know about this attack but we know that our nitric acid container has been hit, and this is a big plant, what would be the risk of that? nitric acid released is obviously toxic to humans and organic items. it's also incredibly corrosive to steal, so any other — many other chemicals within the plant, it is a nitrogen plant so it will have some ammonia, ammonium nitrate, fertilises for ind

friendship treaty, the palestinian foreign minister deliver as new evidence to the international criminal court. after the killing of al jazeera journalist, should he, in a block lay by is really forces ah hello, it's a move that's being described as a potential fatal blow. 2 chances of reviving the 2015 iran nuclear deal, the head of the international nuclear watchdog says iran plants to disconnect 27 surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites. around already switched off to on wednesday. in a statement to ron said, it made the decision because of what it called, the agencies on constructive approach. the chief fail, grossi says, disconnecting the security cameras will prevent the international atomic energy agency from monitoring the enrichment program. this of course poses as he's challenge to our ability to continue working there and to confirm the correctness of your degrees. number 2. so we thought just us, i announced the set of measures beyond this year say when this took place in back in february, i believe 2021. now we are seeing this as being in a certain sense, dismantled, and of cou

we had mallet keeps who the icy scene st. vasa reports from instructional criminal court in the hague. yeah, minister of a molecule has just entered the building. he has his 1st meeting with the new prosecutor here at the i, c. c karima khan. and he will also meet the president of the court. basically what he wants to achieve is to put more pressure. the case has been filed 2 weeks ago. it's now coming up to one month after the killing of for sharon r. r clay. and no justice has to be done. the investigation is not going anywhere. so the minister is bringing new files, new evidence obtained by the palestinian a prosecutor to the i, c c, to put more pressure. and these files and evidence showed that a sharon was deliberately targeted and killed by an israeli, a soldier, as otter investigations have also shown that there was a bullet that was armada that was going through arm or the clothing or was use a 5.56 millimeter a bullet and that she was actually trying to escape that she was ducking away from the shooting. so these new findings will be presented to the i c. c. and he who really

bush: the international criminal court is troubling to the united states.k: in 2002, president george w. bush withdrew u.s. support. but, today, the u.s. is aiding icc prosecutor karim khan's investigation in ukraine, where he's working with top prosecutor iryna venediktova. i spoke to khan today from the hague. when you opened your investigation in ukraine on february 28, you said that there was a reasonable basis to believe alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed. today, almost four months later, do you also believe that possible genocide has been committed? karim: it's a great question, nick, but we're at the early stages of an investigation. analysts, investigators, lawyers, forensic experts have beennd are on the ground. and we will in due course make determinations, but we can't put the cart before the horse. nick: some of the atrocities we have seen, including russia forcibly deporting ukrainian children, are specifically written into the genocide convention, russia trying to destroy entire ukrainian cities. even if it is e

the prosecutor of the international criminal court has described ukraine as a crime scene, where theyl be carrying out the biggest ever investigation. one week after the horrific school shooting in texas, our correspondent hears from parents who lost their daughter. cheering. after more than two months of full lockdown, shanghai eases its covid restrictions. and bts, the wildly popular south korean k—pop group, visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti—asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. . it's 8:00 in the morning here in singapore, and 3:00am in ukraine, where it's reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn't surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in su

criminal court investigate this. where do you see this case had it now can may be an independent credible investigation to get to the bottom of what happened? yes, i think the focus should be whether the i c c a will indeed open an investigation or assassination of chilion. ok. because having submitted it submitting the complaint to the i. c. c. meanwhile, doesn't mean anything. but our political allie, good list statement that it was says, submitted. but i think also, of course, this is the right thing, because the question is, what kind of investigation can lead to remedy or off enforcement and accountability? and the i, c, c is the only body and legal brain that can lead to a specific remedy of personal accountability of specific people that will be found guilty insurance that and this is why going or submitting a complaint to the i. c. c is the most important thing on the legal 11th, on the political level of the u. s. and, and we heard that a lot as well from the secretary of state and from the u. s. embassy, th