the program is john philpot, international human rights lawyer, joining us from montreal and firaz al naj manager, canadian defenders for human rights, joining us out of ottawa ontario, gentlemen, i welcome you both to the program here, i guess mr. philpot, we'll uh start with you, un special reports for uh, francesca albanese, she says she is not sure if the israeli regime. deserves un membership, basically how reckless do you have to be as an entity uh when you have human rights representative make that assertion about you to that degree. um 19th of july the international court of justice rendered a judgement recognizing the occupation as illegal um and obviously concomment to that is the right to take up arms, the attacks on the west bank are intensifying and violations of the 19th of july decision of the international court of justice, israel's right to self-determination is being destroyed, so the right to have israel expelled from the united nations is very appropriate, article 6 provides for this right, on the recommendation of the un security council she also said regime uh franci

gazza and lebanon together, that was uh, we're live in beirot there, that was the acting prime minister najal organization. also said we are thankful for the unity we are seeing of the lebanese people, please continue to forge together at these parilous times the lebanese army said is also persevering to strengthen border security, he we're also attempting to use diplomacy to bring an end to this war, but the rules of the jungle, he said, seem to be in place, and those who have imposed this war on us, the criminals, he referred to him in tel aviv, are doing as they please, as they always have, he just since uh, we since the beginning of uh, the gaza onslot have pushed for an end through a uh ceasefire there, and uh, never took form that cease fire would have put an end to all hostilities, including a resistance, retaliation and supported palestinians in gaza, cross border attacks and now instead we are pushing for two seasfires, one in gaza and one for uh lebanon, but it could have all been showed up long time ago and we would not be where we are today uh, that was najib uh mikati holding a

the last time he was on stage with black women at the naj convention where he had nothing but vile, harmfulters asking reasonable questions. like margaret mentioned, women don't tend to have the leeway to respond directly. i made that face because it's doubly more difficult for black women to call out harms from white men in public without being under the trope of an angry black woman. this might be a moment where the vice president could introduce levity. she could laugh in donald trump's face which, is his worst nightmare having a woman mock him nevertheless a black woman mocking him. i will be watching how she balances that out because she does have to call it out but she is running a campaign full of joy and that has to be engaged in this process. >> she could be a very patient, thoughtful, sober and joy us person, but if many people, as you are both saying, see her in a very heated exchange, that may be how they index her, what they remember, and their lived experience, because they don't follow as closely. we want to show you and the audience something in 2010 running for ag against a