united nations has commented on the situation in gaza in saying that the killings by israel's defense forces are a breach of the geneva conventions. it's difficult to see how time burning or stone throwing. or even more of course thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as gaza killings resulting from the use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention in response israeli state attorneys responded to concerns from the un and human rights groups by seeing the protests on the gaza border fall into quote the state of war category so the human rights laws do not apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement so a lot of speed. but let's not bring in a libya ruffle fetes reserve colonel in the israeli defense forces and also former foreign media spokesman welcome to the program can i put it to you first is israel not grossly mischaracterizing the situation by calling it an armed conflict rather than an occupation. g

people to join in and has indicated they may try to breach israel's border near gaza as israeli defense forces have doubled the amount of troops stationed along that border in anticipation of today's events. it's following several violent clashes which broke out over the weekend including in gaza at the temple mount in jerusalem. talk to me about what you ooefz been seeing there. i know that you arrived late saturday afternoon. what have you been seeing on the ground there so far? >> well, there are three important days and as we were talking about this yesterday, yesterday marked jerusalem day, a controversial day in its own right. it's the day that israel

that's from where tires would have been set alight throughout the day is really defense forces they have responded as well with that tear gas that's been happening a bit chilly right through at the wake or particularly yesterday and also this morning quite come up the moment there are enough of the west bank today we're expecting more violence today marks seventy years since the creation of israel known as not or catastrophe to palestinians under did flare up on monday yesterday a protest over the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem as well as. a. lot of state. lawmakers. thanks. to this. letter the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may there be peace. we pray for the peace of jerusalem. i write. these may be soldiers who you might be able to see behind me have made their way into northern my life away they've been firing rounds of tear gas this tear gas causes us to run from this position where we're standing and then return and then run again this is heavy stage of tear gas in the air that makes. breathing and seeing al

now on these developments we're joined by jonathan corn recessed a spokesperson for the israeli defense forces in the golan heights and welcome to you jonathan we thank you so much for joining us we've heard that that you know for israel's part you are saying that the the rockets which were fired into the golan heights that they were fired by an iranian brigade what evidence do you have for that. thank you for having me a good day it's very clear we have a very good in confidence picture of the iranian deployment in that syria we have been following their movement for quite a long time and we have seen what the iranians have been trying to do over the last month and that has been to attack israel almost at all costs they have been trying to do this for the last month we have been able to defend and change our posture accordingly it was very clear what the iranians were doing we saw the movie about will launch or. positioning itself and when we spoke to the fire it was very clear with the iranians were doing they were attacking israel from the syrian soil something that we see naturally as a ve

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the law for use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention in response israel said that the state attorney's claim that the garza protests fall into the state of war can't agree and that human rights laws therefore don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement reserve colonel with the forces told us that in his view the israeli military's actions therefore justified. any nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just the same kind of pacific not of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you have him go in and you just leave or you defend yourself in a war you have to put the abilities or you we or you lose you cannot let people kill you you know they are to

our alliance coordination between the japanese military, defense forces, and the u.s. force in japan was excellent. good communication. however, we should realize how complicated the old command of the united states in case of a korean contingency. eventually, the u.s. had a combined command. think there were basically to theaters in east asia. one is the korean theater of operations and the other is the japanese theater. the command is basically by the pacific command. however, what u.s. forces in can tell to the japanese counterparties are very limited, because they did not share with u.s. forces in korea. with regards the information agreement, that practice was not so, the japaned team being a contingency from time to time, so frustrating. that oh, we don't get direct information from the counterparts south korea. and even u.s. forces in korea. such a dialogue was solved. i asked korea, let's set up a meeting. between military and japan, that was smooth and set up. u.s.,n south korea and already set up. but on our side, it was not formalized at this moment. however

sayisraeli defense force attacks onaunched iran in syria in return for rockets hitting them. president trump welcomes home three americans from captivity in north korea. the u.s. top diplomat arrives home with talks from pyongyang with a u.s.-north korea summit looking more and more like it could be on the agenda. south kenyan officials say they are trying to afte ascertain the extent of the damage of a dam bursting in nairobi. we cross live to nairobi for the latest. coming up, we will have our business update with you. we will have the latest for you coming out of the cannes film festival. parise watching live from on "france 24 ." ." ♪ our top story, israel a defense forces have launched extensive strikes on iran military facilities in syria for what they say is in response for in the golan heights. that would not be the first attacks from iran against israel. the 2 foes could be heading to a conflict. what is the latest that we know about those israeli strikes? >> what we know we know from the israeli military. that is that there was a series of strikes, massive airstrike

this is not the video that anyone wants to see this week the israel defense forces will do everything to protect the civilians from the math that hamas is planning ever since donald trump and nouns the embassy and has promised what he scored the deal of the century i.e. peace between israelis and palestinians we've witnessed nothing but growing tensions and violence on the ground so more people are really asking whether this conflict that is essentially centuries old is in any way going to be better served by moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and more people are coming forward and saying unfortunately no. both states have long time claims over the territory here's a look at how the conflict all started and what's next after washington's embassy move. jerusalem is a city that's been a point of contention for nearly a thousand years ever since the first crusaders arrived to drive the muslim population away for nearly two centuries the area was governed by christian congress under the name of kingdom of jerusalem but the end of the thirteenth century had been eight c

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions. can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as cars or killings resulting from the uncle or for use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a great breach of the fourth geneva convention israel's responded to the cry from the un and human rights groups the state's attorneys claim that the gaza protests fall into the category of war and therefore that human rights laws therefore don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement or reserve colonel with the forces told us that in his view the israeli military's actions are therefore justified any nation america friends of course israel as a full right to defend them so we are not facing just a simple pacific margin of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you just leave you do you know you have to put the ability or you with or you lose you cannot let people

the iranian leadership has not commented on the events and use read only said that syrian defense forces had been fairly successful accounts of casualties and damage caused very widely. as you can actually get. the israeli rockets took the lives of three martyrs two others were injured a radar station and an ammunition depot were destroyed. but syrian opposition sources say losses were much higher with at least twenty three dead. tensions remain high on the golan heights the israeli army has sent reinforcements to its nose and vote. with the crisis in syria is demanding attention from both germany and russia today in moscow and german foreign minister who must held talks with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov while russia is a firm backer of iran germany insists that israel has the right to defend itself but there was one key issue that the diplomats did agree on. paying respects to the rick tim's of the world was an obligato stop for german foreign minister visiting russia for heikal mass it's a symbol for how much is at stake in biliteral relations massa's host and brushing counter

after fifty nine people were killed and over two thousand injured during clashes with israeli defense forces today marks seventy years since the creation of israel known to palestinians as nothing or catastrophe flared on monday had protests over the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. water. this. was the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may there be peace. we pray for the peace of jerusalem. these radio soldiers who you might be able to see behind me have made their way into northern ramallah from where they've been firing rounds of tear gas this tear gas causes us to run from this position where we're standing and then return and then run again this is heavy stage of tear gas in the air that makes breathing and seeing almost impossible today is not the day and across the west bank palestinians are commemorating what they call the day of catastrophe it coincides with israeli celebration of what they say is the day of independence that harkens back to nine hundred forty eight when the state of israel was declared yesterday

target the iranian leadership has not commented on the events and usually to only said that syrian defense forces had been fairly successful accounts of casualties and damage cause very widely. likely to get. the israeli rockets took the lives of three martyrs two others were injured a radar station and an ammunition depot were destroyed. but syrian opposition sources say losses were much higher with at least twenty three dead. tensions remain high on the golan heights the israeli army has sent reinforcements to its northern border. all the. middle east demanding attention. and russia. foreign minister heiko mosque held talks with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov while russia is a firm backer of iran germany insists that israel has the right to defend itself a lever of stress that the remaining signatories to the iran's deal which the us withdrew from this week should discuss how best to keep it alive i go must expressed germany's hope that russia would use its close ties to iran to convince them to stick with the nuclear deal. while there may soon be a breakthrough on that seven month impas

israeli defense forces claim they were responding to protesters who were throwing fire bombs, explosivee barrier. but the death toll was high. according to the health ministry in gaza, at least 56 palestinian plnts were killed, including at least six people under the age of 18. the health ministry also says more than 2,700 people were injured today. the committee to protect journalists said that at least seven palestinian journalists were injured by israeli gunfire. gaza hospitals are struggling to handle the wounded. the international committee of the red cross reporting that "the health system is on the verge of a collapse." the same day -- after seeing a day this deadly along the gaza strip. the trump administration flew jared and ivanka and treasury secretary steven mnuchin on this day to celebrate the opening of the new embassy in jerusalem. donald trump had promised to switch the location of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem in december and on the campaign trail, much to the outrage of palestinians who believe that this made it clear that the u.s. was not serious about w

the israeli defense forces have defended their handling of protesters in gaza on friday meantime saying in a tweet that the use of riot dispersal means and fire is in line with standard procedures just hours before friday's demonstrations israel's supreme court rejected a petition by human rights groups against the use of lethal military force targeting palestinian protesters in gaza in the ruling judges also rejected the demonstrations have been peaceful calling palestinians part of an armed conflict is our middle east correspondent paula slipper while the supreme court has sided with the israeli military and blamed her mass it says that israel is involved in a longstanding conflict with the militant group and as such is authorized to use lethal force now this has outraged human rights groups one of which tweeted that i just missed an opportunity to prevent further killings and injuries the israeli supreme court completely ignored the broad factual basis presented to it by the petitioners which includes multiple testimonies of wounded and reports of international organizations involved

mistrial on its way to destroy and a fence system this slowdown fit each bradleys by israel's defense force shows one of a barrel of strikes on iranian military sites in syria israel's prime minister gave the justification. of iran has crossed a red line our response was appropriate our army has carried out a large scale attack on iranian targets in syria. we're engaged in a long term conflict and our policy is clear we will not allow iran to establish a military presence in syria. israel says it strikes me retaliation for a rocket attack on territory it occupies in the golan heights according to israel iranian militants fired the rockets from syria but none of them reach that target if so this would be the most serious direct military confrontation between israel and iran and syria. europe russia the u.s. and the u.n. are calling for restraint. if you need getting more done there's a risk of escalation and growing tensions we must avoid that that's what i told the reigning president rouhani and i'll pass on that message to prime minister netanyahu and president putin who in a statement in

obvious that's why listing us will continue to protest and won't give up on protesting the israel defense forces defended their handling of protesters in gaza on friday they said in a tweet to that the use of riot dispersal means and fire is in line with standard procedures. just hours before friday's demonstrations israel's supreme court rejected a petition by human rights groups against the use of lethal military force targeting unarmed protesters in gaza now in the ruling judges also rejected the idea that the demonstrations have been peaceful claiming that the situation amounts to an armed conflict with more hears artie's policy or while the supreme court has sided with the israeli military and blamed her mass it says that israel is involved in a longstanding conflict with the militant group and as such is authorized to use lethal force now this has outraged human rights groups one of which tweeted that i just missed an opportunity to prevent further killings and injuries these really supreme courts completely ignored the broad factual basis presented to it by the petitioners which includes

israeli defense forces tweeting a video warning hamas may breach security. over 100,000 palestinians are expected to demonstrate. cnn's coverage continues with ian lee live from gaza. what are you seeing now behind you and how large are they expecting this to get? >> reporter: christine, right behind me now you can probably see this is the thick black smoke from burning tires. the protesters have used it to obscure the sight of the movement from the israeli snipers. we have seen tear gas. it is shaping up to be a volatile day. just this morning, it is still ferre fairly early for the protests. we have seen people streaming if. they are expecting over -- streaming in. they are expecting 100,000 people along the border. this is one of multiple camps here. the berm behind me and their goal is to breach that berm. they want to return the lands from the 1948 war. on the israel provide, they say that will not happen. they will have verbal warnings and non lethal means like tear gas and if they push forward, they will use live ammunition. christine, this is expecte

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance of heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the uncle or for use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention israel's responded to the cry from the un and he rights groups the states attorneys claim the gaza protests in fact fall of the state of war category and that human rights laws therefore don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement reserve colonel with the force is told is that in his view the israeli military's actions are being taken in self-defense any nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just a simple pacific mart of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you dreadfully or you define yourself in war you have to put the abilities or you we or you lose you cannot l

rules of engagement in the reserve colonel with the defense force has told the same thing to them in his view the israeli military's actions are justified that any severing.

from the doj's ongoing obstruction, all that plus breaking moments ago, israeli defense forces are reporting that iranian forces launched missiles at israel from syria. multiple rockets were fired. israel has responded tonight, and we will give you all the details. that and more and are very important breaking news opening monologue. as we speak, the secretary of state mike pompeo is in the air with three released american hostages were on their way back thankfully to the united states after spending months inside hard labor prison camps across north korea. this was a major diplomatic win for the president and the trump administration and a very important step forward for north korea. most important, three american lives thankfully were saved. now president trump's historic summit with kim jong un is now moving forward, as planned. take a look. >> i appreciate kim jong un doing this and allowing them to go. we picked a time. we picked a place for the meeting. or summit, as you like to call it. i think it will be very successful, but as i always say, who knows. who knows what's going to happe

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance of heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the contests of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a great breach of the fourth geneva convention in response is royals given some feed the outcry from the un and human rights groups the state's attorneys claim that the guards a protest fall into the state of a walkout agree and therefore human rights laws don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement reserve colonel the force has told us that indeed in his view the israeli military actions are justified. any nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend them so we are not facing just the same kind of pacific not of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you just leave sanderson you know you have to proceed beauty's or you we are you look you cannot let people

israeli defense forces opening fire on palestinian demonstrators killing 59 and wounding thousands. the israelis blaming hamas for inciting terror attacks. we have cnn's ian lee with more along the gaza strip. >> reporter: good morning, dave. we are waiting to see if people come out here. yesterday at this time there were thousands of people here. thick black smoke behind me. today it is calmer. we are expecting the funerals to happen within an hour's time. that is where a lot of people are right now. yesterday was the deadliest day in gaza since that 2014 war here. a lot of people reeling from that violence. we talked to some of the people over in the camp here who spent the night out here. they say they are still energized, but wondering if they still have momentum to keep this protest movement going. yesterday, with that violence, you had the white house blaming hamas and hamas blaming the united states for the bloodshed. when you talk to people, there is a lot of anger of the current situation in gaza. gaza is under israeli and egypt post blockade for over a decade and anger ove

israel for its handling of the ongoing protests campaign in gaza it says the killings by israel's defense forces violate the fourth geneva convention which prohibits the targeting of civilians it's difficult to see how time burning the stone throwing. or even molotov cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat.

forces which are u.s. partners on the ground so self-defense if indeed this was a strike by u.s. forces as you know little little grounds for self defense so far away from the front lines we've been there it is incredibly remote it is just away from from everything nevertheless the important thing is is the correspondent for us said this will happened just as the syrian army has launched a big offensive huge offensive against the remaining. isis pockets in the area it's a big pocket there are suspected to be hundreds and hundreds of isis fighters there the skirmishes now they've launched this attack and one o'clock in the morning there's an air strike there are a few well there's a lot of fuzzy details but there are a few inconsistency here the reports we're hearing is that the united states was behind the strike the u.s. led coalition rather nevertheless the pentagon has come out and said on twitter in writing that they cannot substantiate information that there had been a u.s. led air strike the wording here is very important because usually what happens when they want to keep q

target the iranian leadership has not commented on the events a news reader only said that syrian defense forces had been very successful accounts of casualties and damage cause very widely. yes you can actually get it and you know the israeli rockets took the lives of three martyrs two others were injured a radar station and an ammunition depot were destroyed. but syrian opposition sources say losses were much higher with at least twenty three dead. tensions remain high on the golan heights the israeli army has sent reinforcements to its northern border. our joining me now here in the studio is general gary locke he is a journalist and middle east expert a familiar face your good to have you back on the show daniel i want to ask you about the timing here now this comes just two days after double trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal is there a link here i think so yes there is a stuff again they have been israeli strikes on syrian territory before they have been also targeted strikes against iranian offices of the revolutionary guard so this is not the first time this happens but i

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the armed law for use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention israel's responded to the outcry from the un and human rights groups the state's attorneys claim that the garza protests fall into the state of walker agree and that therefore human rights laws don't apply to the idea of rules of engagement reserved colonel with the forces told us that in his view indeed the israeli military's actions have been taken in self-defense. any nation american friends of course these were the food right to defend them so we are not facing just the theme. of nice people well facing people who want to invade country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you have to go in and you just leave. all you have to proceed beneath you or you we. cannot let people q you know they have to rea

this after the israeli defense forces say that iran fired over a dozen missiles into the golans heights. we'll bring you the latest on this tense situation. president trump just wrapped up a rally in indiana. we have the highlights. we also have so much news out of the deep state to bring you. an unholy alliance between mueller and comey. vice president pence calling for mueller to wrap up the witch hunt and vice president dick cheney came out swinging in defense of gina haspel and enhanced interrogation programs she oversaw. he was right. we are going to show you all this and more intimates very important breaking news opening monologue. the president just wrapped up a huge, raucous, fun rally in indiana. we'll bring you all the a highlights throughout the show. here is just a small sample of what went down. take a look. >> if we would've told you during the campaign that we would create 3.3 million jobs in this short time, everybody back there, the fake news media. look at all of them. [booing] fake news. everybody back there would have said, can you imagine? he is saying we are going

a spokesman for the israel defense forces say more than 20 rockets were filed from syria believed to be fired by iranian face forces. the day after president trump announced the united states would leave the iran nuclear deal. it was to say the least a controversial decision with some concerns being it could light a fuse in the middle east. the hope tonight is that the fuse has not been lit. oren liebermann joins from us the golan heights. orin, resign what's happening now, what are you learning? >> anderson, over the course of the last couple of hours here in the golan heights overlook syria behind me we have seen dozens of rockets frierd from syria into israeli territories and interceptions from the iron dome army testifies system on top of that syrian and i aircraft fierpg firing at what appears to be israel surface to surface missiles we have heard art tillry fire from israel fighting towards syria. all of that is on top. what you pointed out shortly after midnight local time there was a report from the israel defense force that is 20 rockets were fired from syria into israel. so

definition of the law international interest in just recently the two people captured by the syrian defense forces who are alleged to be water. what. american captives here the americans are saying these two individuals have committed war crimes is complete hypocrisy and it's complete and it opposes more importantly international law which which outlaws torture completely and it said is that not only physical torture for those so it's psychological the use or to force confessions out of. thanks for joining us for the weekly here on r.t. international the program returns at the top of the hour. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand islands. to join judges. eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. . and a russian stuff. show you how. the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of when you need to transport. that will help out of crimea. most of those you know won't go for more familiar with it a bit but. when the whole make this manufacture come sentenced to the public wells. when the ruling class is project themselves. with the final merry go round of lives on

the iranian leadership has not commented on the events and usually to only said that syrian defense forces had been very successful accounts of casualties and damage cause barry white. yes you can actually click here and you know the israeli rockets took the lives of three martyrs two others were injured a radar station and an ammunition depot were destroyed. but syrian opposition sources say losses were much higher with at least twenty three dead. tensions remain high on the golan heights the israeli army has sent reinforcements to its northern botha. are joining me now here in the studio is daniel gayle our he is a journalist and middle east expert a familiar face your good to have you back on the show daniel i want to ask you about the timing here now this comes just two days after double trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran's nuclear deal is there a link here i think so yes there is a softer get they have been israeli strikes on syrian territory before they have been also targeted strikes against iranian offices rouge unary got so this is not the first time this happens but i think th

last month two palestinian journalists were killed by israeli defense forces while reporting on protests in gaza both were reportedly short with the live ammunition while wearing vests and helmets identifying them as members of the press the u.s. state department says the incidents in gaza should be investigated by israel however washington has taken a different approach on the recent investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria when the u.s. launched air strikes on the country before any official probe taken place journalist dave lindorff believes the u.s. is acting with double standards. the united states is really using doubletalk here they are they know that the israelis targeted these journalists they were wearing press written across both sides front and back and they were reporting on a peaceful protest and on the shooting of unarmed citizens and the israelis didn't want the reports out so they killed the poor of the reporters it was not self-defense of israel these killings of palestinian journalists was deliberate and the u.s. won't condemn it that's a total double st

or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as garza killings resulting from the use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention israel's responded to the cry from the un and human rights groups the state's attorneys claim the gaza protests quote fall into the state of walkout agree that human rights laws therefore don't apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement or reserve colonel but the force has told us that in his view the israeli military's actions are being taken in self-defense. any nation or america friends of course israel has a full right to defend themselves we are not facing just a simple pacific margin of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you just leave or you defend yourself in war you have to put the beauties or you win or you lose you cannot l

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well last month two palestinian journalists were killed by israeli defense forces while reporting on protests in gaza both were reportedly shorts with a live ammunition while wearing vests and helmets identifying them as members of the press the u.s. state department says the incidents in gaza should be investigated by israel however washington has taken a very different approach on the recent test a geisha into the alleged chemical attack in syria when the u.s. launched as strikes on the country before in any official probe had taken place journalist dave lindorff believes the u.s. is acting with double standards. the united states is really using doubletalk here the they know that the israelis targeted these journalists they were wearing press written across both sides front and back they were reporting on a peaceful protest and the shooting of unarmed citizens and the israelis didn't want the reports out so they killed the poor of the reporters it was not self-defense of israel these killings of palestinian journalists was deliberate and the u.s. won't condemn it it's a total doub