david what do you think it would take for that to happen i mean this in this idea of an international criminal court that was you know totally objective what's in a way right now of that happening. the structure of the united nations the structure of the international criminal court the power of the united states as a rogue nation that is understood to be increasingly by much of the world as a rogue nation that is sinking in the polls and respected as a model for other nations around the world i think we need to open up and democratize the united nations so that it is not under the form of a handful of nuclear powers but is actually a democratic body representing nations that represent their people and and that's a huge step and one that many in the united states as you know are are against i think it's an important point david to talk about this how you say you know thinking in the polls in the respect level around the world. what you think i mean a lot of people sort of look at what happened i know back in the ninety's the u.s. involvement in bosnia a lot of people you know saw that still as you k

. >> libya has detained four envoys from the international criminal court on allegations of spying. this move after one of the lawyers was found carrying "suspicious documents"related to the case of saif al-islam gaddafi. >> the former bosnian serb leader radovan karadzic has asked the hague to dismiss charges against him. the international criminal court is trying karadzic on war crimes charges related to the srebrenica massacre. karadzic and his legal team contended there was no genocide in bosnia. >> in israel, unknown perpetrators have spray-painted graffiti on the holocaust memorial. some of the graffiti accuses israel of collusion with the nazis'. >> big crowds in brazil have operated through the streets of san paulo to urge an end to homophobia. hundreds of thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and their supporters joined in the 16th annual gay pride parade in the heart of south america's biggest city. >> self sudan has set up only about a dozen -- south sudan has set up only about a dozen embassies since it declared independence. >> its government wants a quick resolution

he is wanted by the international criminal courts for, among other things, recruiting child soldiers. duma is 17 years old. we have changed his name to protect his identity. he and four friends were on their way home from school one day in april when they were captured by a group of armed men. >> they taught us how to shoot and they gave us boxes of ammunition to carry. and they made us carry their bundles of clothes appear >. >> duma man is to escape, but he doesn't know what happened to his friends. the un has sent more peacekeepers, but their forces are stretched. since the fighting started in april, about 100,000 people have sought shelter in refugee camps. much of the people here say this all the fighting with their own eyes and they ran away when the mutinous soldiers came into their villages and the shooting started. this of people fleeing to their villages and decided to get out before the fighting started. people's hit -- people here are no strangers to conflict. at the national park, they are no strangers to conflict either. the congolese army is distracted by the rebellion

is promising it might protect him from prosecution by the international criminal court well no formal charges have been brought against him but nevertheless could that be an incentive for him to cooperate that sort of threat. from what i you know i said will not give up. power right now. the way the west wants him to give it up. pretty sure that he will stick to power until elections in two thousand and thirteen and. you know information clues to us from the inner circle of. confirming that he was saying powers told and then he's going to offer. a fair election. under international scrutiny and. it's going to be as clear as possible and as open as possible and if he is reluctant by the free will for the majority then he will play if not he would leave but in the meantime there's no more than just in the meantime how many more deaths can be tolerated by the international community until such time as reach. in my opinion it's a political decision. that will force saudi arabia and qatar to stop sending weapons and sending fighters to conduct jihad against the regime i think we have this

the brits to say i do not agree with such a measure here of him potentially facing the international criminal court on behalf of the us it is an empty threat we would say because there are no grounds for him to stand trial. exactly and my friend in moscow do not forget that the chinese and the russians they are one of the major superpowers and they are members of the security council in the united nations and they have a veto so for until now and they cannot agree with any aggression or any military intervention as such under their article seven for example for the charter of the united nations unless there is a consensus and the security council to have a mutual. you know military intervention by the whole ground or by the whole globe i'm sorry under the u.n. umbrella to attack syria's president and his own government and to lose them by force according to the western edge and the so far in their own foreign policy would it be the answer for syria for assad to voluntarily step down. well i i do not think that he will voluntarily step down as they want to actually to see that scenario accordingly l

sudan is referred to the international criminal court by the security council. the question now is how to bring president assad to justice before that court. and that involves very much a concerted effort by the international community to shut down the economic lifelines of sudan and, basically, continue to delegitimize his leadership of that country. and that's what indictments serve to do over time, they delegitimize these leaders even to their own people. we saw that with milosevic in spades in serbia. so those are just two possibilities, but they do fall on the shoulders of what occurred in the last 20 years. now the institutions are there to actually achieve justice, but it's still part of politics to figure out how do you get these individuals before these courts. it's still a very, very political game. >> thanks, david. and to professor lieblich, julia, your book is such a deft portrayal of the step-by-step process of recovering from the experience of great traumas of the kind the ambassador has just been talking about. your collaborator survived terrible

in newton as general and former warlord is wanted by the international criminal court for recruiting child soldiers amongst other things. they were captured by a group of armed men. gosh they taught us how to shoot and they gave us ammunition. they made us carry bundles of clothes. >> he managed to escape, but he doesn't know what happened to his friends. they say that the rebels are getting support from rwanda across the border. it force -- the forces are stretched. since the fighting started in april, 100,000 people have sought shelter in refugee camps. people saw the fighting and ran away. when the shooting started, there were plenty of others that say they saw people fleeing and they decided to get out before the fighting started. people here are no stranger to conflict. >> how they are no strangers to conflict either. these blood hounds are trained with poachers. the army is distracted by the rebellion and his men are facing other dangers filling the vacuum. >> new alliances are forming and moving into areas where they were not previously present. it is a major concern. dodge th

these comments with reference to the elections in kenya, the united states, and to the international criminal court. an incident report from the san francisco sheriff's department, the nature of the incident. president chiu: could we have the overhead, please. >> yes, please. city hall, third floor. i was in full uniform and assigned as a deputy. at 900 hours, the deputy and i were dispatched to investigate a suspicious person in room 48. the department of elections. upon our arrival, we observed at bonafide -- unidentified black male with copper wire wrapped around his head and he was wearing a long brown road -- robe with a rope around his waist. [unintelligible] another incident report from the san francisco police department. incident 110153149. official declaration, prop 115 certified. star number 299. on february 22nd -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the executive director of the library users association. i am pleased to concern that thanks to efforts including research and assistance from attorneys, we were able to stop the paint out of the histori

. >> stephen: could we appeal to the haig or the international criminal court, or anything, the justiceeague of america? get superman to weigh in. >> usually conservatives aren't so excited about having foreign judges oversee american law. is that okay with you, to go outside to give our constitution up to the international-- . >> stephen: politics makes strange bedfellows. let's talk about these judges. why should just a couple of guys in black robes get to decides what's constitutional or not? >> five, it always takes five to make a decision. >> stephen: but just five necessarily beat four? (laughter) i mean they haven't ruled on the constitutionality of math yet. >> that's true. you could argue that-- you could say that there had to be six, for example, you could change the number that has to make a decision. >> stephen: listen, there are 300 million americans, we could gang up on them and jump in on them. >> it's true, one things about those judges is they don't have cops out enforcing things for them. they are definitely vulnerable, i think. >> stephen: all right, i think-- i think

fairly, including gaddafi's son who authorities say should be tried in libya and not by the international criminal courts. that tussle remains unresolved but what is more certain is that gaddafi's former prime minister will face a charge -- trial on home soil. >> you are watching "gmt" on bbc world news and these are our top headlines. turkey's cabinet is meeting to discuss a response to the shooting down by syria of the turkish fighter jets saturday. egypt's first democratically elected president is starting to assemble his government. jamie robertson is joining me to bring us the business news. greece, as ever, at the forefront of the use some of later this week and the kind of dumping on. >> one of the problems is we did not know if they were going to turn up, because the two main people, the prime minister of finance minister in a hospital. the finance minister has not even been sworn in because he had to go to the hospital with stomach problems the end of last week. he is coming out of the hospital tomorrow, but even so we are not sure whether the can make it to the conference. also we have the gent

we've seen charles taylor, the former dictator of liberia sentenced and prosecuted in the international criminal court evidence being compiled against bashar al assad and he's got to be increasingly worried that the international community someday will drag him in front of that court. ashleigh? >> there has been just evidence upon evidence of atrocities there, the secretary of state in this country, hillary clinton making some pretty strong accusations about the russians and some of the arms that it's had with syria particularly in the form of attack helicopters, those are her words and now we're hearing some mitigation from the department of defense on just whether or not the russians really did send or are sending attack helicopters or if there is some kind of a spin on this. can you explain what the controversy is over the attack helicopters at issue? >> reporter: sure. i mean, russia is the largest arms supplier to the syrian government, and the syrian government uses russian-made helicopters. russia has said that all it did was fulfill existing contracts to refurbish military helicopters used by

most eu states with the case to be taken up by the international criminal court in the hague. >> it is safe bet that syria will dominate talks between russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel today. >> putin is in berlin, his first visit to germany since taking office again last month. russia, along with china, has blocked condemnation of the syrian government by the u.n. security council. >> vladimir putin arrived an hour away from his previous stopover in belarus, lasting just a few hours, perhaps the surest -- jordis visit yet to berlin by a russian head of state. the meeting was not cordial. chancellor merkel's these are far removed from the russian president's. the 90 minutes of talks were dominated by the situation in syria. germany supports the international peace plan for the violent country. merkel has been scoring her position with the american and french presidents. >> prospects in syria look really bad, and we absolutely candid the human rights violations taking place there. >> in the u.s. security council, russia and china had been blocking inte

the international criminal court for the former yugoslavia has acquitted the bosnian war crimes suspect of one of data we would charges of genocide. however, he still faces prosecution over his alleged involvement in the massacre of 8000 muslim men and boys. president obama is in an area of the western united states devastated by wildfires. the situation is worse in colorado where flames have reached the outskirts of its second largest cities -- second- largest city. more than 30,000 people have been evacuated. authorities in china are cracking down on anyone trying to stir unrest. right and clashes with police appeared rose been sparked by complaints of police brutality. about 30 people were injured in trouble in the manufacturing town. the bbc has been there and filed this report. >> the sheer force of numbers. hundreds of police brought in to quell a simmering tense town with a large population of migrant workers. digital we are not of rioting were sparked by allegations of police brutality, and up to 100 people may have been injured in the trouble. more serious than most, but just o

representatives of the international criminal court are in the libyan capital of tripoli to try to secure the release of four men detained in a town. the libyan authorities say one of the detained delegation attempts to give the son of muammar gaddafi documents pertaining to the safety of libya. he's been indicted for crimes against humanity. at least five people have been killed and 13 injured when a small plane crashed near the ukrainian capital of kiev. the plane was attempting to land during a severe storm. police in chile have used tear gas and water cannons to try to give a breakup of protests against the screening of a documentary praising the former military government of general augusto pinochet. the screening of the film in the capital also led to one of the biggest gatherings of pinochet supporters since he died in 2006. this is "bbc world news." i'm geeta guru-murthy. the headlines -- markets around the world rise sharply in response to the bailout of spain's beleaguered banks. and the former prime minister, gordon brown, faces questions about his relationship with news intern

is saying he was a democrat but only the other day some attorneys who had come from the international criminal court were arrested by the new government and i just being held indefinitely i mean at least on the gaddafi he had actually cooperated with the international courts when he handed over the lockerbie bombers so this is clearly a de generation rather than progress all right gentlemen i'm struggling and we're going to short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the american empire state with our teeth. there hasn't been a thing yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the full source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. an issue free could you take should be free to store charges free or make amends free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media project a free media zero down to r.t. dot com you. can. start. welcoming your crosstime people to imagine we're talking about america's exceptional empire. and you can. start. ok george i'd like to go back to you in new york i m

what it doesn't say specifically is these kind of violations should be referred to the international criminal court. now, there are other members, european union members say in particular who would have liked that wording in. it may be that we will still get another stronger resolution. the meeting just started. there's going to be a lot of debate ahead. >> imogen with the latest live in geneva, thank you very much. you're watching "bbc world news." we're getting reports of an israeli military air strike in gaza. sources suggesting it targeted a group of militants traveling on a motor bike. reports of serious injuries, possible deaths as well. it follows just a few hours ago after palestinian militants and an israeli soldier were killed in an exchange of fire close to the gaza border. a palestinian man opened fire after managing to enter israel by cutting through the border fence. the russian president, vladimir putin, will be under strong pressure to drop his continuing support for the syrian regime when he meets the leaders of germany and france. mr. putin will be holding talks with the german ch

as it's unlikely that he would attend talks during which he could be packed off to the international criminal court however should assad accept an offer the question has to be asked who and what would fill the power vacuum if he steps down now there are thousands of tons of weapons on the ground in syria and enough factions within the opposition vying for power that we could see a repeat of the violence which is marred the transition of power in other countries who toppled their leaders during the arab spring. who will have to take into account the fate of those arab leaders who were not offered this kind of deal in egypt mubarak was sentenced to life in prison tunis is ben ali is in exile in saudi arabia and t.v. news audiences around the world witnessed the brutal slaying of colonel gadhafi by his own people well his personal safety aside the syrian leader must also consider what would happen to the sizable portion of the people who still support him they won't receive the same clemency and may be subject to the type of brutal reprisal attacked which we see continuing in libya following the killi

a lawyer for the international criminal court has been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi sonsaif al islam officials claimed she was trying to deliver documents that they say posed a danger to national security the lawyer is now being questioned under house arrest so you follow islam is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. euro zone finance ministers are set to discuss a possible rescue package for spain's beleaguered banks which could ask for help this weekend the international monetary fund says a cash injection of at least forty billion euros is needed however madrid has so far did nine it will ask for a bailout the eurozone fears spain has troubles and a possible greek exit after next weekend's elections could break up the currency union. forget called tales or treadmills an increasing number of women in new york are taking to the shooting range to let their hair down after a hard day's work and they're also taking their hobby home with sales of guns and pistols to american women doubling in the past few years. story.

for members of the international criminal court have been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi saif al islam earlier reports claimed one of the noise was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were danger to national security saif al islam is a accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. at least eight civilians have been killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the violence it's not clear who is behind the killings the u.n. has had a peace observer mission in the country since two thousand and four to help and its civil. police have fired tear gas and stun grenades in bahrain's capital as tens of thousands staged the biggest anti-government demonstration in weeks since every last year the country seen nearly near daily protests in which dozens of died the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the country's sunni rulers. well while european banks are struggling to survi

or members of the international criminal court have been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafison saif al islam early reports claim one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security saif is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. at least eight civilians have been killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the attack it's not clear who is behind the killings liberia said it sealed its border fearing that the government had used the country for the cross border assault. finally maria sharapova has won the prestigious french open in paris twenty five year old russian has become only the tenth woman to have conquered all four majors are sports presenter paul scott reflected on the achievement. amongst the greatest players of all time to have ever walked the planet have ever played the game of tennis or won the wimbledon on grass at the age of seventeen th

for the international criminal court has been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi son saif alislam officials claim she was trying to deliver documents that they say posed a danger to national security the lawyer is now being questioned on the house arrest so far his mom is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. of the state civilians have been killed in an ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the violence it's not clear who is behind the killings un has had a peace observer mission in the country since two thousand and four to help end its civil war. and eurozone finance ministers are discussing a possible rescue package for spain's beleaguered banks which could ask for help this weekend the international monetary fund says a cash injection of at least forty eight billion euros is needed however madrid has so far denied a last for a bailout the eurozone fears spain's troubles and a possible greek exit off the next weekend's elections could b

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