i want to start with geoffrey, because the rules of law, we hear all these terms, ihl, internationalumanitarian law, the latin phrase, and a thing everyone has heard of but no one really quite understands all the details, the geneva conventions. i want to ask you to start our conversation off. give us the 92nd version. what -- the 90 second version. what are the rules of law? geoffrey: the rules of war are not rules of war. they have been with us for hundreds of years. don't kill civilians. don't rush to trial or execute enemies without fair trial. don't kill a prisoner who surrenders. there have been rules of war for centuries. in 1999 in what is called the rome statue, the rules of war were put in fairly straightforward english. they ban the taking of hostages. they ban the use of starvation as a tactic, which seems to be going on now in gaza. they are protected at all times civilians, unless they got messed up in the war. so they are the rules of war. fairly clear. james: just to be clear, are these binding on every country and every armed group? geoffrey: they are binding on coun

in a certain place, it becomes a legitimate target for strikes, including from the point of view of ihlent of heavy pvoi equipment in residential areas is a gross violation of it and leads to the tragedies that we have already mentioned today. we emphasize again that russia does not strike civilian targets or target civilians. our precision weapons. used exclusively to destroy the military potential of the zelsky regime and its facilities related. if ukraine uses port infrastructure to store ammunition from western equipment, it means they will be destroyed. i also cannot help but note that while pinning down the victims of the thunderstorm attack on the village and calling for its condemnation, our cynical western colleagues do not notice anything happening in other parts of the world. so last friday they blocked our proposed project. which killed more than 100 people, committed, by the way, as a result of the use of french drones production, in the same way, western pseudo-human rights defenders do not notice the regular strikes of the armed forces on peaceful areas of the city of don

of the un security council to in any way affect the land, which, accompanied by gross violations of ihling an even larger conflict within the region, possibly from beyond its borders, this thoroughly politicized document, the only goal which the civilian population cannot be saved. in order to stake out us political positions in the region, the authors resorted to a tactical ploy by filling their document with a haphazard set of humanitarian measures that israel could take during its ground operation, while they, of course, tried to ensure that nothing in the project would impede west jerusalem to implement it. in essence, the us resolution is a license for this from the outside. by the security council while thousands of palestinian children continue perish. several countries, including russia, proposed amending the draft resolution, however, as the chinese permanent representative stated, the americans ignored most of the comments. as a result, moscow and beijing voted against it. next , a russian compromise draft resolution was discussed, centered on an early ceasefire and the releas

along with civilians should not pay the price and should be protected and respected according to the ihl>> the israelis' concern is that the fuel will make it to hamas. the latest leaflets dropped by idf and the israelis contest this cnn translation, but it is that the palestinians do not move south they may be seen partners of the terrorists. what can you tell us about your organization's ability to provide aid to northern gaza if the order from the idf is to do move south? we know that there are still man many thousands of palestinians who are in the northern gaza. >> yeah. let me clarify something. the targeted area where they threaten to be evacuated i don't 1.2 million palestinians live in gaza and the north, hundreds of thousands of palestinians stuck in gaza in their homes or in schools or even hospitals. they couldn't find their way to evacuate themselves simple y because israel are asking people to evacuate themselves continuous bombardment. besides, there is no transportation, complete destruction of the roads and infrastructure. so absolutely hthey have nowher to go to. they d

affect israel’s possible forceful action in gas on the ground, which, accompanied gross violations of ihllarger conflict within the region, possibly for its outside, these are thoroughly politicized documents, the only goal of which is not to save the civilian population, from stake out a political... the united states in the region, the authors resorted to a tactical ploy by saturating their document with a haphazard set of humanitarian measures that israel could take during its ground operation, at the same time, they, of course, tried to make sure that nothing in the project prevented western jerusalem from implementing it. in essence, the us resolution is a license to do this, and from the outside. security council, while thousands of palestinian children will continue to die. the ground operation in gaza, israeli authorities say, could begin at any moment. in this case, pro-iranian hezbollah threatens to open a second front in the north of the jewish state. in response, some american congressmen are calling for the bombing of tehran. iranian foreign ministry threatens the united stat

typical example of double standards , there is no need to go far, on international platforms the topic of ihlgood, correct users of weapons and incorrect users of weapons, good weapons, bad weapons, well, it’s not hard to guess who has bad weapons and who has good ones, yesterday they asked the representative of the european commission a direct question, why when the russian federation strikes at ukrainian critical infrastructure, avoiding casualties, avoiding, why do you call it an act terrorism, and why, when they are now turning the gas on, demolishing the damn mother of everything, it seems to you that this is normal, the representative of the european commission seriously tried to explain, well, these are different situations, different the situation, these are various double, i don’t know, triple standards, you know, to the most important topic, this politicization, by the way, the topic is extremely complex, delicate, it is multi-faceted, but it is clearly politicized, unfortunately, the words literally, so to speak, abstract from this, as they say, node of the middle east is still clo

possible power action in gas. which we now see with gross violations of ihl, mass deaths of civilians, risks provoking a larger conflict that could engulf the entire region and even extend beyond its borders. israel, however , has already made it clear that , like itself, it is not interested in russia’s peacekeeping proposals and will rely on washington and london. on thursday, the middle east crisis will also be discussed at the un general assembly, but its decisions, unlike the decisions of the security council, are not binding, and therefore will not be able to influence the situation in any way. alexey vaselovsky, vladimirsky, ntv, usa. well, today the secretary general had to publicly make excuses. antonio guteres said he was misunderstood. i am shocked by the way my statement yesterday in the security council was distorted as if i were justifying acts of terror. hamas, this is a mistaken interpretation. i meant just the opposite. yes, i spoke about the suffering of the palestinian people, but i also made it clear that this suffering cannot justify the horrific attacks by hamas.