therefore, i want to emphasize that the international criminal court cannot force them to do this, butexert pressure at the level of the international community and in particular, the arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court - this exerts significant pressure on yelovova-beylova and on putin, forcing and calling on them to return the children and also to stop the policy of deportation, so there is hope that this will happen and this is precisely why the prosecutors brought this issue to public consideration. this publicity is additional pressure exerted on russia, in particular, regarding such a policy of deportation, but the most important goal of the international criminal court is actually to bring people to justice for such actions, guys, mr. putin is currently wanted internationally from the point of view of international law , according to the judge, what other problems can putin face because of this arrest warrant? you are right that now that such an arrest warrant has been issued now it will be much more difficult for him to move abroad, in particular, and of

officially announced suspicion, here we are talking about two levels, we have the level of the international criminal courtvel of the national system - this is what currently exists. countries that have the opportunity to open criminal cases, because international crimes are considered to be a matter of concern for the entire international community, and therefore even if their citizens do not appear there or it was committed on the territory of another country, if their legislation allows, then they can open and some countries have opened such, for example, i met with the general prosecutor's office with the relevant department of france. they told what proceedings they are conducting. that is, this is another such additional element, but the international criminal court now issued a warrant for the arrest of two children, it is vladimir putin and his commissioner for the protection of children's rights, maria lviv, more than 120 surrendered three countries that are parties to the rome statute, they are obliged to execute this warrant for arrest only in relation to these two people if we are talking about

you are a great fan of the international criminal court. of the machinery of internationaljustice, which you are a passionate advocate for. i believe in the court. i don't believe necessarily that it's covered itself with glory so far... but isn't that the problem, geoffrey robertson, that many people around the world — i referred to it in my introduction — do not feel that this charge against putin represents truly even—handed justice? they do not believe that the icc operates on a... if we can put it this way, on a level playing field. well, they should wait for the evidence. karim khan has said that he will unveil it in proceedings... but to be honest with you, i'm not thinking about the evidence in this case, however compelling it may be. i'm thinking about all of the cases which the icc has not taken up and which people around the world are very well aware of. one can perhaps put at the front of the line the us—led invasion of iraq in 2003. we know... yes. ..from reporting, from many different sources, that us forces were involved in th

but still in a timely manner next nowhere going for broke in an international criminal court, in factegin to ignore the verdict of the structure and end there. and the international criminal court. yes, this can be a sentence for him in the part that, well, his authority can hit. although i must say that he has never been great, especially not. uh, if you look, uh, his sentences are all over. that's how many twenty-plus-kopeck years of its existence, then there, uh, really considered did, in my opinion, a little more than a third of what he was going to consider most acquittals. and as far as i remember, those that are not exculpatory are there. eh, well, in general, nothing has been done. well, for example, it was here's the production, like otdafi, but then they didn't have time, okay, here, but in general there's just uh, you look and didn't show up for the proceedings , it's not worth burying international legal institutions. just don't have high expectations. international courts are an indicator of the degree of community integration. if e the community does not have a consensus

ah ah, in south africa decided to quit the international criminal court according to the country's president, where now the decision after the i see issued an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin. a warning you may find the following. images disturbing. dozens of dead to promote fighters in the streets. falling reports of 1st battle with the sudanese army as violence in the country. just in 3 day thousands of food in these people and foreign nationals are still struggling to leave the country with defense minister jose turkish radiant and syrian count spots in moscow. discuss steps to preserve the territorial integrity of syria. with by welcome to r t international, wanting to speak to scott to bring you all of the latest news from our headquarters here in moscow. thanks for joining us. now we start with breaking news. this, our because south africa has announced that it will withdraw from the international criminal court, as, according to the nations president. and it comes after the court issued an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir putin. a move that the sout

against or receive such a resolution because, well, the facts are on the face of it, the international criminal court initiates relevant cases specifically a for genocide, which is carried out against ukrainian children for the deportation of ukrainian children by the russian federation and violated it against putin and there uh, there are some women out there, yes, i hope that this daddy will grow just after this resolution and there will be not only two subjects, but still these countries that did not vote for them and cannot publicly express their position, but still hope for any relations with the russian federation, we have to remember this well, and accordingly strengthen our diplomacy and promote our messages , including in european institutions , including a-and in the un and which today is absolutely so inactive yes where is it -is for some reason, the russian federation is the head of the council of ministers, well, this is just a disaster, well, there are no such stories regarding this resolution. well, of course, it has important consequences, because it can be used as one of the pieces o

crime ready to say here and now that many of these priests will end up on the dock in the international criminal court therefore in prison where they will have time to think that they are not real christians and political agents of putin and how long does the investigation of cases in international criminal tribunals last in general, in particular , how long is the evidence base collected, how long are all the materials qualified, checked, well the key story, we understand that the case can be investigated for a year or two, and it can be extended for five or 10 years. i think that the trials will last quite a long time. as for the individual trials of individual criminals, it is difficult to say because there are lawyers who will trying to get these criminals out of custody, so it may take a long time, but i think that ukraine is doing very wisely by collecting documentation right now. ukraine is not waiting until the war is over, until all are committed atrocities, she is already collecting documentation. the international court of justice is currently in the process of collecting documentation, and

quarter fairly long because there is this piece agreement in place and almost universally, international criminal courts have has, but there can be no amnesty for international crimes. so there's the tension there, i guess, between the in scholar said the called the piece versus justice debase. and, but the legal physician seems to be pretty clear that, that you can't sign away and accountability french in atlanta crimes. i could, we just have a very, a brief word on, on the, the notion of crime scene war. what is for thinking that underpins v i v v i v of what is and isn't acceptable in a war when it's against blizzard purpose is to kill as many people as you can to achieve your political go. well, i can, i can contest the idea that that's the purpose of war to kill this many people as you can. i mean, the laws of war are hundreds of years old. and the idea is that, and they, the actions of the parties, general conflict, should be limited to those actions that offer a concrete indefinite military advantage. and so, yeah, so war crimes essentially are serious breaches of the law as a barn contact. we ha

mechanisms, and this, in particular, is the warrant for the arrest of putin issued by the international criminal court, as well as the expansion of the legislation of the united states of america regarding the prosecution of war criminals directly on the territory of the united states, but in general, american lawmakers emphasized that such hearings as this week help to expand the range of possible levers and influences, and such discussions can directly strengthen the approval of the necessary legislative projects or the creation of new ones regarding recognitions regarding a-a recognition of the deportation of ukrainian children to russia as part of the genocide against ukrainians of the people here, most of the legislation with whom i spoke really believe that this is an element of genocide against the ukrainian people, they say that in addition to these national hearings , there were also other hearings on the prosecution of russian kleptocrats and violators of human rights. to oppose the russian oligarchs , the durbint blumenthal senators declared that if putin and his leaders were physically bro

are you up to, and who knows the judges, who issued the arrest warrant for putin in the international criminal courtthis is the prosecutor of the karimha international criminal court. do you know who he is? he is the brother and darkness of ahmat khan, who was convicted in may 2022 of the uk for sexual violence. juveniles are normal, and february 21 , 23 years old. imran ahmat khan was released early from prison exactly three weeks before the same court issued a warrant for the arrest of the president of the russian federation on the rights of the child in russia, it was gavhov. this is gogol and i don't know how. just imagine that the people who saved the children are condemned for allegedly stealing and deporting them and for the occupied countries. and this warrant is issued by the brother of a pedophile who received a uk sentence for paedophilia. and look at this photo. here on the left this is sending kherson children. in artek, this is a war crime. according to the decision of the hague court, and on the right is a photo of the massacre of vietnamese peasants in song my in 1968 by us army sold

the rome statute, that’s why it exists and from the international criminal court of ukraine, that when crimes, they don’t distinguish between who is the victim and who is the aggressor. there is an absolute concrete evidence of war crimes is absolutely obvious to me the fact and this process proves enough of the international criminal court in the former yugoslavia, there are docks of serbs, croats and bosnian muslims and kosovar albanians and for no one there are no exceptions and no one says, you know, we will not judge the croatian general because serbia attacked them, there is a simple approach, yes, you were attacked, this does not mean that you have the right to commit war crimes , so countries whose armies are involved in some wars are not they do not ratify the roman statute of their own will, this applies to the united states, this applies to israel, because everyone perfectly understands that when military operations take place , in one way or another, there are people who go beyond the acceptable format, they are not necessary pretend that they do not exist we always want to

second, there is the international criminal court, it has nojurisdiction international criminal courttion over the crime of aggression. and the crime of aggression. and the crime of aggression is the mother of all war crimes. and it seems like now that if a leader of any country will start an aggressive war, in other country, there will be no mechanism to bring him to accountability. and this i think it is not a good situation.— think it is not a good situation. ., situation. so you are saying ou situation. so you are saying you have — situation. so you are saying you have no _ situation. so you are saying you have no avenue, - situation. so you are saying you have no avenue, no - you have no avenue, no international body you can turn to? ., �* , international body you can turn to? . �*, ., �*, , to? that's right, that's why we need to create _ to? that's right, that's why we need to create a _ to? that's right, that's why we need to create a special- to? that's right, that's why we need to create a special ad - to? that's right, that's why we | need to create a special ad hoc tribuna

who issued the warrant for putin's arrest in the international criminal court? is the prosecutor of the international criminal court karimkhan. a know who he is. he is the brother and bran of ahmat khan, who was convicted in may 2022 by the uk for sexual abuse of minors, on february 21, 23. imran ahmat khan was released from prison exactly three weeks before the same court issued a warrant for the arrest of the president of the russian federation to the commissioner for children's rights in russia, it was gavhov. this is google i don't know. well , just imagine that people who saved children are condemned for allegedly stealing and deporting them, and for occupied countries. and this order is issued by the brother of a pedophile, who received a term in the uk for pedophilia. and look at this photo. here on the left is the dispatch of kherson children. in artek, this is a war crime. according to the decision of the hague court, and on the right is a photo of the massacre of vietnamese peasants in song my in 1968 by us army soldiers for this massacre, where 504 pe

series of crimes that cannot be qualified as genocide, so i hope that the actions of the international criminal court will be effective and quick and effective, by the way. today , you probably also talked about it, that there was a statement that the decision of the european court of human rights about the collection of funds for human rights violations from russia in favor of georgia is still a crime of 2008, so i think that it will be much faster with regard to ukraine, and we are waiting for such effective and accelerated actions. look at the documents. i understand in this couple mentioned and belarus, in particular, lukashenka, what will happen to this manual of putin's, can they also issue a warrant for him? how can all this affect belarus? can it get out of the water dry, they say, we are here for nothing, it's all russia, er, lukashenko has appeared in the resolution because colleagues from the ukrainian delegation submitted an amendment and the specialized committee supported this amendment, and therefore the resolution contains a mention of lukashenka, by the way, who is in other resolutio

south africa announced that it is no longer going to recognize the jurisdiction of the international criminal courtse of its bias, the president of the country announced this. also decided this. that's it, the ruling party, the international criminal court. repeatedly accused of politicization of processes and illegal decisions, his verdicts do not recognize many countries of the world, including russia usa israel china india ruling party african national congress makes a reasonable decision that south africa withdraw from international criminal court. including because of the way the video of the case many people feel that this court is treating them unfairly, the ruling decided to repeat that we should get out of it. to repel an enemy attack from the air to rescue the hostages of a captured ship of a hospital all these are the stages of the exercise the arctic patrol, which took place in the barents sea, as observers there was a delegation from china on how they managed to cope with the task in harsh conditions sergey shiryaev this exercise can rightly be called historical watchdog set border gua

they also talked about the next steps and called on the international criminal court to consider the ibility of criminal prosecution for this crime . can, for example, get into this list of international criminals , in your opinion, i will say right away that the international court of justice works effectively and we saw a whole series of decisions in march and we thank you for the fact that such historical precedents were adopted uh, the decision uh, regarding the number of persons, i cannot tell you affirmatively because this is already a matter of competence and of the international criminal court. but i think that it is definitely not limited to only two persons because we are also talking about putin and the entire regime and their by the way, it is clearly written in the resolution that it is necessary to continue to record these crimes. and actually, not only those related to the deportation of children and other civilians . i hope that the actions of the international criminal court will be effective and quick and effective, by the way. today, you probably also talked about i

beginning of the invasion , the vice president of the european commission reminded the international criminal courtallocated more than 10 million euros so that it could accordingly cover the current scope of work and financial support will continue to be provided, and those involved in the abduction of children are promised to be found and turned into persona non grate 16 of the persons considered to be involved in the eu have already been blacklisted, and among them is the russian child businessman whom we have already mentioned , maria lvova, we remain fully dedicated to making every effort to ensure the prosecution of those involved in the illegal forcible deportation or transfer of ukrainian children, as well as efforts to return them safely home to their families and communities, the official reminded her of a joint initiative from poland and ukraine aimed at searching for abducted children and their return to the motherland in ukraine , the meps supported the intention, urged to involve all possible international organizations in their respective capacities to help and conducted historical pa

criminal, it has become clear not only to ukrainians, but also to the whole world after the international criminal courtn asia issued a warrant for his arrest for the kidnapping of ukrainian children by the international criminal court , they believe that maria lviv belova and vladimir putin quote is presumably responsible for the war crime of illegal deportation of the population, namely children and the illegal transfer of these children from the occupied territory of ukraine to the territory of the russian federation. just listen to what ukrainian children say about how they were treated either in russia or in the occupied territories, for example, in crimea. - these are terrorists, they kill people, you are not needed in ukraine, but the worst was when he called, cried, said, "mom, this is not a camp ." i disagreed, they lied to you, or something like that, because you are for ukraine, you have to say that you are from russia. the children were told that the store will come to you and they can pick you up. and this is another story. in one of the chat roulettes, a ukrainian woman saw a ukrainian boy

are still implemented in ukrainian legislation, but since the case has moved on in the international criminal court we hope for some international judicial activity in this regard direction, and it was rather documented for further submission, including to the international criminal court in accordance with international criminal law. well, of course, all civilian objects, they are not a legal target in the course of hostilities, but there is a separate type of protected objects that are almost in in no case. of course, a lot depends on the circumstances and i am generalizing a little, but in almost no case can they become a legitimate target in the course of hostilities, well, this is a medical institution, this is an educational institution , and among other things, this is a cult building , cult breeds have a protected status in accordance with ihl and therefore it is precisely this careful documentation that makes sense in order to prove another type of violation of the laws and customs of war another violation of international humanitarian law and here the number is important that is why enorm

he went on to push for the creation of the international criminal court order. this was one of benjamin ference's last public appearances. a year ago he received the governor's middle of freedom in the us state of florida for his tireless work for international law and peace. my hope was that we could create a more humane and peaceful world where no one would be killed of persecuting because of his res, so his religion or his political believe born in romania and 1920. he and his jewish family immigrated to the united states where he studied law at harvard university on a scholarship as an american soldier, he was part of the liberation of several concentration camps and witnessed the horrors and full extent of nazi ruled in 1947 at the age of 27, he was appointed chief prosecutor in one of the known burg trials. we add this court to affirm by international theme will have him man's right to live in peace and dignity. regardless of his race or pre ference, wrote history by introducing the concept of genocide into legal practice. he helped formulate the principles

course of the court process with the identification of all those involved before the commission of this crime, and from the international authorities, it can be the international criminal, which can take such a case into implementation, although it also has to, specifically, announce the implementation, and i think that it will be more than one only this case is specific, and maybe it will be a category of cases related to arbitrary deprivation of life - this is the execution of prisoners of war, a violation of the eighth article - these are war crimes. point one - this is intentional murder and, accordingly, it is e. there are several other relevant points that there related to this is the cruel treatment of prisoners of war, respectively, as well as the second and third subparagraphs of this article eight, which can also be used , but these are formal, so to speak, grounds for conducting an investigation as to how effectively and, let's say, it will be fully carried out investigation, collection of evidence , if this case is initiated and announced for consideration by the international criminal court, it will again be conducted jointly with, as i understand it , nat

international tribunal be the most effective fragment of this interview on march 17, the international criminal court finally issued a warrant against putin on charges of the deportation of ukrainian children from the occupied territories to russia. please tell me why the international criminal court chose this particular crime and why it is important. first of all, i believe that there will probably be more than one warrant issued for the arrest of putin for various crimes. which he is involved in which he carried out directly who carry out those further and all those his eh hmm members of this clique of putin and those executors who implement these crimes therefore i think that it is so very very painful for us on the basis of which this arrest was issued but the first swallow on those accusations and well-founded accusations that will be received by the head of the kremlin. and why is everyone there ? it is this corner, this direction. i think because this is one of those things that well, first of all, we have information about e- there are 16,000 confirmed cases of children who were forcibly dep

the commission of a crime , some additional things can serve as evidence, but still, the international criminal court will not have its own procedure to automatically take statements recorded by human rights organizations is not his problem , this is not a parallel job, i would say that we have an original job, that is, we collect a database that we already transfer to the office of the general prosecutor of the war department, with whom we closely cooperate on requests to the international criminal court, and they further on the basis of this collected information, additional actions are carried out , because the investigation is, well, it is an intellectual, time -consuming work on which the further investigation is based, but it is precisely this that must be collected by in hot pursuit and that is why human rights defenders, who besides us will not do this ms. anastasia, you have already mentioned that ukrainians in the occupied territories of the kherson region were forced to sing anthems, kept without hygiene products for months, and also beaten with electricity when the investigation of radio

in the 13th year, he was 95 years old, it seems, decided that the park should leave the international criminal courtast month issued a warrant for the arrest of the president of russia, vladimir putin, reports that zira warrant finally putin in march means that pretoria, which this year will be the capital of the south african republic of the bricks bloc , which includes brazil, russia, india, china , south africa should be detained after the arrival of putin, south africa should be detained so the ruling party made a decision that it would be reasonable if the steam exited the mts, ramaphosa said during the press conference he held together with the president of finland. the president of finland reacted to this at a joint press conference. well, ramaphosa, er, ramaphosa said that the decision that was made after the meeting of the anc at the weekend was made largely because of the unfair attitude of the court to certain countries. please tell me this is news. i how long ago was this news? the office of the president of par sirila aromaphosa issued a statement that the country does not plan to withd

do you believe every country ought to be subject to the international criminal court? 'm sorry. >> do you believe every country ought to be subject to the rules of principles behind the international criminal court? >> i think it is a sovereign right of any country to take such decision. we understand that the idea of the international criminal court is based on the procedures which were first used in the nuremberg trials, so the icc is something like the result of it the nuremberg trials. the idea of the icc, the need of the international criminal court is to step in where national government, national authorities are unwilling or unable to prosecute crimes especially war crimes. >> obviously russia isn't willing to. are any of your neighbors providing sanctuary to people that you consider war criminals? >> we have such information. i don't think that it happens on a massive scale. the problem we have that we come to use for instance interval for the matter of arresting of the alleged war criminals who committed war crimes because for the practice said that this is tre

is ready to say here and now that many of these priests will end up on the dock in the international criminal courtrefore in prison it's time to think that they are not real christians, but political agents of putin , in general, the investigation of cases in international criminal tribunals is ongoing, in particular , how long is the evidence base being collected, how long are all the materials being qualified and checked, well the key story, we understand that the case can be investigated for a year or two, and it can be extended for five or 10 years, which the courts

and the man with an international criminal court arrest the warrant on his hate. just of the president settled, i'm opposed. i made an announcement that the country will quit its international criminal court membership as well as if roman statues he spokesperson issued a statement reflecting that very same statement, leaving not only the country, but fellow briggs partners in disarray and clarity, has since become the order of the day this weekend to we are coming from the mission and executive committee of the amc. we had the executive committee sitting for 4 days. and in that meeting they've taken that decision. so the president has been communicate to that decision of the party. so it's not that to the president, is the chatting. anything because it still have to call to government and see to it . what is it that's supposed to happen? remember, it had paid. it happened in 2016 and our pipe in 2017 took our resolution and its humphreys, about that particular mission and thanking position is also the mandate of the brakes. a deputy foreign affairs ministers, and a

my title was wanted by the international criminal court. they did it and got out of prison. sure. they're suffering with their people to support the on process on statement caused a sensation raising suspicions about the past with gene support for the armed forces. i'm the will influence of the islamist inside the army on mine. juice after troops with international onregional efforts to stop this war. but all of these efforts will be useless unless the warring parties are from views of the need to stop law check on which are reasonable solution. what's in this with the news people interest about everything else? at the last i u. r t. so don harper, because the tails and horror he witnessed in sudan. i saw moments gives births. davies child is born in the, in the ground. i need to plan with teachers for before it's that what i need to do there is no work to do. how could, how could i use? i am very worried for my product. there, my family, my neighbors, my friends. i use me and i saw the look able to with my neighborhood. i child 6 years old, 6 years old. his father died before fif

legally valid is the evidence that you collect, how much can it be accepted later by the international criminal court how correctly the collected documents are. well, we are all interested in the fact that they are possible to manipulate these data , we do not replace the investigation, we collect information about the fact of the commission of a crime additional things can serve as evidence, but still, the international criminal court has its own procedure, it will not automatically take testimony recorded by human rights organizations, it is not for him to conduct, it is not a parallel work, i would say that we have a source work, that is, we collect a database that we already transfer to the office of the general prosecutors of the department of war, with whom we closely cooperate on the requests of the international criminal court, and they further take additional actions on the basis of this collected information , because the investigation is, well, it is intellectual time expensive work on which the further investigation is based, but it is necessary to collect on hot tracks and that is why th

.— innocence in the international criminal court. since the full scale of ukraine a year ago by russia over 19,000 ukrainian children have been taken to russia, according to the ukrainian authorities. translation: there are terrible situations when kids who actually have parents are transferred to russia. they are separated. families are getting forcefully divided. the ukrainian kids are sent to the russian federation to other families and their real parents are left in infiltration camps. these are really dramatic situations. those kids are made orphans artificially. i dramatic situations. those kids are made orphans artificially.— made orphans artificially. i have been speaking _ made orphans artificially. i have been speaking to _ made orphans artificially. i have been speaking to ukraine's - been speaking to ukraine's ambassador to the un and i asked him what he thought about the fact that the uk blocked russia from using the un to broadcast its meeting. i think that the uk did the right thing. i would like to avail of this opport

my title was wanted by the international criminal court, or was crimes on crimes against humanity in doubtful or you still got. they managed to get out of prison and they would protect themselves by their own hands. he also said that they did it on got out of prison, who shot the suffering with their people at the support the on process. how going to stedman caused a sensation raising suspicions about the pathway gene support, or the armed forces and the will influence of the islamist inside the army call man, juice, after truce with international unwinnable efforts to stop this war. but all of these efforts will be useless unless the warring parties are convinced of the need to stop check on which i was in a solution. what is this going to is people interest about everything else? of the last i u. r t. so done, harper, country, the evacuating their citizens from the nation. so it, it shows evacuated, voting, a french figure to import the dan takia, the usa, the u. k. i'm the you are also evacuating bad nationals as locals look for their own escape routes. we spoke with wiley demarco