there be an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression it's a crime before the international criminal court so i think the case is settled let's get it before a judge let's let judges decide here few minutes ago you started to mention the international criminal court of course the international criminal court has opened a formal formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories do you believe that this new report is going to factor into the investigation in any meaningful way. when 'd i see prosecutor opened investigation and they began to do the same in their examination we submitted one of our submission of putting a human rights organizations were present victims and independent professional human rights organizations one of the subdivision where the precise on crimes against humanity and persecution. and the 12 intently focused on. apartheid was intended focused on the blockade of the gaza strip and so the parliament and the system in the west bank and the help of teens are treated and caught by the theater is by the state of israel. it won't. simply to state.

it is a crime before the international criminal court.nk the case is set out, let's get it before a judge, let's let judges decide this. mohammed: a few minutes ago, raji, he started to mention the icc. they opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories. do you believe this new report is going to factor into the investigation in any meaningful way? >> when the icc and the prosecutor open the investigation, they begin to do preliminary examinations, we submitted one of our submissions [indiscernible] one of the submissions was on crimes against humanity and persecution. it was entirely focused on apartheid and entirely focused on the gaza strip. the system in the west bank and palestinian territories held by the state of israel. it was simply to state the fact that we are having [indiscernible] with legal standards for apartheid, persecution, and crimes against humanity. the submission concluded that we do have crimes against humanity and apartheid in this part of the world. so that is why we are cont

situation has gone from temporary occupation to permanent domination it's calling on the international criminal court to investigate its allegations. we'll be speaking to need abraham in ramallah very shortly where protests are being held against the spending splitting up for families a key finding of the report but 1st we go to a faucet in west jerusalem areas we saw in your report a lot of the policies and practices described by human rights watch have existed for many years why they are releasing this report now. well they say it's on 2 fronts one that rather than looking at individual activities policies elements of israeli practice and the occupation they're looking at everything in the round they're setting up a definition for these crimes and they're using that as a legal prism to examine evidence over a wide range and they say that doing that bringing all of these disparate parts of the situation together does meet in those instances the definitions that they set for apartheid and persecution and the other point they make is that whereas some years ago some decades ago there was the idea that

e calling the convention, the other being the rome statute of the international criminal court. they require an intent by one racial group to dominate another. we found that through various statements, policies, and actions to manipulate to ensure israeli jews get access to land that palestinians don't. cond a third, you need to show systematic oppression and inhumane acts, and we found those in the occupied territories. examples being the mask up station -- confiscation of land, settlements to things like water, the palestinian villages. if you live in a vlage nearby, the settlements go up, but you can't even add aedroom without vernment permission. your 100 times more likely to get a demolition order for your hous then you are to get permission to build an extra bedroom. travel restrictions, relocation of residency permits. there are a variety of factors adding up to the kind of systematic, oppressive discrimination among apartheid. >> you have done your research, as you said. we heard in our report one israeli commentator calling human rights watch anti-semitic. we spoke with

never a by and by any international law to begin with not starting right now with the international criminal court but any international law at all we've never heard anything coming out of the international community or the i.c.c. concerning for example the. massacre in bed with 982 we never heard about further behind historic massacres that happened when the british landed in palestine and brought about what is now called as the israeli forces who killed hundreds of thousands of palestinians and move forward to 2008 also massacres in gaza when they bombed them with phosphorus and depleted uranium you ran you have a.p. reuters covering all of us incidents why would israel be open to this kind of and as to gays should when no other investigation was opened before and no international was maybe put. illegality on the israelis to follow the issue is to tell the world that there were war crimes and these war crimes need to be dealt with. space is cool a new 3 man crew has arrived at the international space station there so use rocket docked several hours ago after a flight from the baikonur cosmodrome

situation has gone from temporary occupation to permanent domination it's calling on the international criminal court to investigate its allegations will go to that ibrahim in ramallah shortly but 1st let's talk to her before that in west jerusalem and harry israel already pushing back on this very strongly how seriously are they are they taking these sorts of accusations in a report like this. well on the one hand they are dismissing this report as false and propose stress and propaganda coming from an organization that they say has long been anti israeli but on the other hand there is a pretty sophisticated israeli attent to try to head off accusations of this kind on a number of fronts when you think of b.d.s. the boycott divestment and sanctions movement especially in the united states israel has been working very assiduously to try to undermine that campaign against the international criminal court's decision to investigate both israeli and hamas officials for alleged war crimes the israeli prime minister calling that pure anti semitism so it does take these sorts of things seriously and i think

we need the international criminal court to take action because the united states has proved itself unabletake the corrective measures that need to be taken. i want to underscore that i have that right. and i know there are complexities, but what would it take for action like that to take place? nada: the international prosecutor of the icc has the capacity under the rome statute to do it on their own. they can say, we are looking we see that this happens with other countries. some reason, there is a reticence, i say for some reason, we know what they are, but there is reticence for that to happen in the united states. and are calling for that to happen we are also calling on the biden administration to voluntarily subject united states to the jurisdiction of icc, for such an inquiry to happen. this administration indicated black folks, and his words, "brung hampton the dance," and it was because of black folks in the work that we did in terms of voting etc., that he is in power right now. this needs to be addressed and one of the good faith actions should not just be to sign the treaty an

island was england's 1st colony what do you made for boris johnson's comment saying any international criminal court avesta geisha into alleged war crimes by israel in these areas it gives the impression of being a partial and prejudicial prejudicial attack on a friend an ally of the u.k.'s netanyahu of course has said it's i've been diluted and he semitism. well it's particularly i think painful and comes to britain because there is a british responsibility for the suffering of the palestinian which goes back to $917.00 to the balfour declaration and ever since the bulk of the gratian so many of the british decision so many many of its policy making has contributed directly to the palestinian catastrophe 948 and to the catastrophes that followed. now i know some of the british diplomats on the ground in the west bank they do sent every month a report to britain i'm sure boris johnson doesn't read these reports but these are some of these diplomats are honest people and if you read their reports you would rush to the international. criminal court to try and prosecute israel for its crimes so it's no

has never abided by any international law to begin with not starting right now with the international criminal court but any international law at all i mean the recent the most recent one that they brew was them actually not allowing palestinians to have a vaccine it's a pen if you go back further than that with the. with the war crimes that they are being now looked upon by their probe by the investigation of the i.c.c. there are mainly 3 ones which is the 2014 attack on gaza which was an incremental genocide by the israeli side we have the 2018 crackdown on palestinians in the west bank where craving for their right of return to their own ancestral land and it were a crackdown upon by the israeli occupation forces and you have also the illegal settlement buildings in the occupied west bank territories and further in jerusalem in occupied outputs as well these 3 incidents are not the only incidents we've never heard anything coming out of the international community or the i.c.c. concerning for example the shatila massacre in bed with 1982 never heard about 3 there behind historic massacres that ha

especially in the united states which it says is an anti semitic movement against the international criminal court which recently has launched an investigation into allegations of war crimes against both israeli officials and hamas officials again the israeli prime minister calling that an anti semitic move by the prosecutors and investigators at the i.c.c. but it does start to touch on very fundamental questions about the nature of what is defined as a jewish state one that was set up by the zionist project to be a homeland and a safe a safe protected space for jews explicitly and of course that was given greater momentum by what happened in the middle of the last century with the holocaust however in this modern setting when there is a greater focus on on egalitarian issues race issues of all kinds that become something that it does get subject to criticism within the israeli palestinian context israel the government does say that israeli palestinian israelis or israeli arabs as the government calls and have freedom of religion they are represented in parliament in the judiciary in all aspects o

ireland, do not want to see under any circumstances british soldiers brought before the international criminal courtame on them and our country, and the international criminal court's chief prosecutor has made it plain that in the event we hinder — and this would be a hindrance — we hinder the prosecution of war crimes, they would see it as appropriate for themselves to bring the prosecution. that seems to me — and much of this is a fantastic improvement — but that seems to me a fairly sizeable hole in the improvement. i take the honourable gentleman's point, but i think the point to bear in mind is that nothing in this bill will hinder the prosecution of that sort. what we must bear in mind is the prosecutor retains the absolute discretion to prosecute if there is a serious allegation, and the prosecutor will take into account the severity of the crime. but removing any more categories from the bill would unnecessarily weaken the reassurance to service personnel and veterans. labour welcomed the concessions but thought the bill was still flawed. this bill does not yet do. what it says on the table.

an unswerving opposition to torture or genocide could be the increased interest of the international criminal courtl — an outcome that i would regard as disastrous. one possible consequence of a diminished reputation for an unswerving opposition to torture or genocide could be the increased interest of the international criminal court in accusations against uk military personnel — an outcome that i would regard as disastrous. the united kingdom does not participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the use of torture for any purpose. and we remain committed to maintaining our leading role in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. ministers will have to decide whether to try to reverse the defeat when the bill returns to the commons. the supreme court will be the venue for the latest clash between the uk and scottish governments — this time, overa bill on children's rights passed by the scottish parliament. uk ministers say they're concerned the legislation could exceed holyrood's devolved powers. the snp's westminster leader sees another motive. apparently, th

is open to the jurisdiction of the court will put itself under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court and allow there to be this inquiry at that level thank you for that james i use some powerful language in the opening of today's show and i and i talked about our legacy our horrible legacy in this country of black lynchings and how some have viewed this police brutality and these murders that we have seen not just recently but over a very long unending period of time actually as lynchings by other means but there have been some other changes in atmosphere in tools and tactics in the recent decades like the global war on terror has ended up with police forces having equipment they would never have had had that not occurred and you've also and they're also complicit players in this that you've written about which i found so interesting and brave to a degree to say we've had black leaders in america that are also culpable that participate. in over incarcerating particularly men in the black community you know creating a culture that destroyed families and that kind of ripped the fabric

quasi—statute of limitations, our troops might, for the first time, have to appear in front of the international criminal courtnce? how can we hold those who breach international law to understand the consequences of what they are doing if we are, on the face of it, doing exactly the same ourselves? in my view, the bill does not diminish the seriousness - with which we view or treat torture or genocide, - but it is clear that- many people disagree, and that they will not be - persuaded by any words of mine or of the government. this is important. what people think about such matters is crucial, _ regardless of whether or not we regard their— interpretation as correct. reputations — national as well as personal — i depend on perception as well as on fact. - and the uk's reputation. in the international arena is not something to be taken lightly or to be hazarded - without great cause. one possible consequence of a diminished reputationj for an unswerving opposition . to torture or genocide could be the increased interest- of the international criminal court in accusations _ against uk military personnel, an out

has lifted sanctions and visa restrictions against employees of the international criminal court which were imposed by the former trumpet ministration the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor and another top official were among those targeted as the court began to investigate u.s. troops for potential war crimes in afghanistan u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says washington still disagrees with that and other investigations are steven rattner is a professor of law at the university of michigan he says it's another strong message from the by the ministration to its international partners. well it's a very significant move for the united states and i think it's part of the basically 180 degree reorientation of u.s. foreign policy under the new by administration that follows along with many other nations like rejoining the paris accord i think the u.s. is trying to send a signal to 3 audiences here and i think 1st and most importantly perhaps our u.s. allies many of whom are party to the i.c.c. statute and who saw this move as complete sort of overkill in response to an investigation it wou

international criminal court investigation into war crimes alleged against both israeli officials and against hamas in gaza which the prime minister of israel labeled pure anti semitism so there are real efforts underway to try to combat this kind of thing and that's because you don't have to go very far down this road before you get to some pretty fundamental questions but when you think of the zionist project which emerged in the 19th century it was to try to find a homeland for a specific group of people the jewish people who were subjects to violent pogroms to racism in europe where they had been dispersed and of course the dish will motivation of restoring a jewish homeland in such religiously significant historically significant place and the added motivation of course in the middle of the last century of the of the holocaust so all of that was to have a secure homeland for a certain religion a certain race and when you get to where we are now there are tensions between a of a modern idea of egalitarianism and those sorts of definitions now the israeli government has and continu

especially in the united states which it says is an anti semitic movement against the international criminal court which recently has launched an investigation into allegations of war crimes against both israeli officials and hamas officials again this reply minister calling that an anti semitic move by the prosecutors and investigators. india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus cases for the 6th consecutive day the military says it will ease oxygen supplies from its reserves to help overwhelmed hospitals cope there reports that at least one person has been killed during protests in chad's capital troops have been deployed in security forces have used tear gas to break up demonstrations against the new military transition council thousands of protesters in somalia's capital mogadishu have been calling for elections they oppose a recent decision by parliament to extend president mohammed abdul life from my just term in office by 2 years a module failed to hold elections in february saying there were concerns about security and called it 90 bahrain's only female political prisoner has been

won't take part directly but a delegation will be present at the international criminal court says it welcomes a decision by the u.s. to lift sanctions and visa restrictions on its employees imposed by the trumpet ministration the chief prosecutor was among those targeted as the court began to investigate u.s. troops for potential war crimes in afghanistan 100000000 people in the us and i received at least one dose of a covert 900 vaccine that's roughly 30 percent of the population more than half of the people aged over $65.00 and are fully vaccinated and occupations begin or began in december those are the headlines next here with more news in half an hour do stay with us we continue with witness. this morning i am declaring an outbreak of ebola virus d.c. public health emergency of international concern countries affected today simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak this size and complexity there are. people who see you. the whole of your body right. here what we do. when it's came. to restock the cards. because it attacks the very fabric the foundation of our foundat

tradition measures taken it would be very very important for them to be facing justice at the international criminal court and if that can happen in those countries that have universal jurisdiction some laws like germany should be actively considering imposing those kind of measures so that investigations and prosecutions could begin to hold these generals accountable for their reprehensible actions tommy mentioned earlier that there were a team is now reverting to have you know weapons we also know reports of them the demonstrators are lined with local militias are we really heading into a civil war here well it's certainly a great risk and i am hoping that this will not come to pass we know that the junta is looking for every excuse to reign in hell on these innocent protesters they've made up stories about violent protests protestors that they're trying to work a deal with they say that there is a utmost restraint that is completely false and what i'm afraid of is if there are militias formed that begin to fight back with weapons as is and is well a 2nd understand why they would want to do that that wo

has lifted sanctions and visa restrictions against employees of the international criminal court whichwere imposed by the former trumpet ministration the i.c.c. chief prosecutor another top official were among those targeted as the court began to investigate u.s. troops for potential war crimes in afghanistan u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says washington still disagrees with that and other investigations the u.s. and iran will open in direct talks next week as the european union spearheads efforts to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal but disciplines in the code including china france italy and britain will meet in vienna next week the u.s. won't take part directly but for the 1st time since donald trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 a u.s. delegation will be present. at least $54.00 people have died in taiwan's worst ever rail disaster a truck rolled onto the tracks just as the train was approaching nearly $500.00 people were on board the accident happened at the start of the chiming festival when people return to ancestral villages to visit the graves of their relatives so thos

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and their generals, that we can stop the flow of weapons, that we can refer them to the international criminal courte their day of reckoning. but none of those steps have been taken, and it is in my view really inexcusable. anchor: you say everyone is responsible, but isn't one of the primary justifications for the international bodies that it can help a global response in these moments of crisis, and in this case it has not been able to? >> that is precisely right. in an ideal sense, that is why we have a united nations, to come together as a world community to address a crisis just like this. but of course, there are obstacles in the way. th the united nations security council, it requires anonymity. any one of the five permanent members can veto a measure. however, there are options both inside and outside the united nations. nation's who are willing to take action can come together, join together, and establish coordinated actions, coordinated sanctions to cut off significant revenue from the junta. that can be done outside the united nations, but even that has been the -- even that has yet to b

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the international criminal court still wants him and two other suspects in sudanese custody. are you still considering sending omar al-bashir to the icc? prime min. hamdok: we are engaging the icc, we are talking to them. the prosecutor came to visit us. we have been talking to them over the last year and a half. and i think there are many options in terms of how we address issues of the icc, including the handover. >> you are in favor of such a handover, mr. prime minister? prime min. hamdok: we are going to decide this as a country, as institutions for it is not the of the prime minister--it is not the choice of the prime minister, but institutions collectively, political institutions, and all of them we have to understand one thing, the victims have to appreciate and understand and feel that justice has been served. >> right, just quickly, in dark fur, omar al-bashir was accused of war crimes f we have seen a spike in violence. are you concerned that violence could return after the u.n. and african union troops have withdrawn? prime min. hamdok: we regret the loss-of-life

well it's concrete resolution the calls for global hands above go and referral to the international criminal court situation as a whole the situation really couldn't be more critical. and the army is accused of disappearing people and targeting children what's the objective there. obviously is impossible to get any insight into the mind of me in the military but this is and i mean it conducts itself with absolutely impunity now reports of post of junctions widespread and this is something they have done in the past we have very much of the view that the reason we are in this situation today is because they has been this comprehensive failure to hold them to account for previous crimes. and it is we just saw in the report some protesters are creating local armed militias and there are long embattled ethnic groups already arms getting ready for a fight how close do you feel we are to some kind of civil war and myanmar it's a really really dangerous situation that's on conflict already or on the periphery as they have you know that there are these places where that had died down and there was a cease