middle east all her life she is the 1st woman to hold the seat in the highest executive body in palestine and i'm a strongly thanks so much for coming back on the show i'm going to 1st ask about your own covert what's it like having coronavirus given that israel has been accused of denying medical help to palestinians yes well thank you find that the man she inspired to be with you again. suddenly i mean it's not that it doesn't experience going through the. 19 now and the summit with me it took some. 4 or 5 weeks but it was in that city you know a life threatening and as they said generally. decided to show the world what did not want that system this is as a sponsor that it was to provide for the end and they were being a good people under occupation according to the 1st any of the conventional and international humanitarian law and international law but that if you know i mean in a way we spoke last week to the director of operations in iraq he was mentioning the 4th article of the geneva convention about medical care under occupation when israel changed all that 5000 vaccines availabl

superimpose greater is there not a man historical palestine so what advantage will bump ale isn't one of the people i just mentioned the nobel peace prize but i know you're not backing push now and the for the peace prize in the end of your last day all of them i think it nice as they have been totally discredited. they have become partners in occupation now known as fulfilling an agenda this is not the land americans out of that it be said john that they have almost succeeded in destroying good chances are these and i think ultimately that will be held to account well yesterday's man all the. autocratic leaders as you describe them whether it be in the u.a.e. the shakes or the moroccan government would deny there's any instability created by this but others said they yesterday's men heard anything from joe biden about the 780 new illegal settlements that have been planted these the british government said they were seriously concerned i think the foreign secretary yeah i don't like united we stand up to. the u.k. and we stand to europe for this serious concern because it only concern

jerusalem and palestine were very uncertain was barely the disk through the expectation palestine washe is coming. this was frightening, especially officer for the jewish population of palestine. but the meaning was extremely unclear. on the one hand there's been a news report from london in the end of june that said secret information smuggled out of occupied europe said 7000 jews have been murdered by the nasis. some in a gas stations carried on trucks. for occupied europe, the world murdered in europe. here's how the item appeared in the "new york times" on page 7x of the saks fifth avenue ad. this is not because the editors didn't think the story was important, it was because they could not be sure if it was true. they were not alone in being doubtful. in a tel aviv editorial on the same day that said these items, these reports, come as rumors from the air. from one informant to another when a writer to another. it's actually irresponsible as the editorial said to be publishing these numbers because it causes despair we have no idea whether not it's true. so for 75000 jews in egyp

in a tweet, the palestinian authority called it a black day in the history of palestine.e only way to peace is the end of israel's occupation. equally swift has been the flow of money and deals between the countries. this is the israeli arm of the water technology company fluence. it specializes in desalination, transportation and reuse of water. a dealfor business in dubai, a city in the desert, is one of the first to be signed. this is the fastest deal i've ever encountered in my professional life. it definitely makes it much easier now when we have a direct approach and welcome in a muslim country, a strong country that can be a hub to us. and this is the hub he is talking about. the port in dubai which has opened up markets in asia and africa for israeli goods. but the operator of this port, dp world, is notjust transporting goods here. it's one of the many companies that has invested in israel. and this is a load of goods in dubai arriving in the israeli port of haifa. trade is notjust in goods. deals with football clubs, finance, food technology and cybersecurity ha

israel has argued that the court has no jurisdiction over the occupied territories because palestines not an independent state, but the icc judges have rejected that argument. the ruling comes two years after the icc's chief prosecutor found that "war crimes have been or are being committed in the west bank, including east jerusalem, and the gaza strip." on saturday, palestinian foreign minister riyad al-maliki welcomed the icc's decision. >> israel has always been treated above the law. there is no responsibility when it comes to israel. now, no one, including the u.s., can provide protection to israel. usually when we go to the security council, the united states of america is usually the one who shields israel and prevents us from getting whatever sanctions are needed against israel. today, the united states of america cannot do anything, and as a result israel has to be treated as a war criminal. amy: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu blasted the international criminal court, accusing it of engaging in quote "pure anti-semitism." meanwhile the biden administration said it

palestinian and we all know that is not the case maybe it will be in the future but as of today palestine is not a state what we saw it's powered over the diplomatic terrorism of the palestinian authority and unfortunately is caught not yet if not the. finally yet by the way goes to that they called it in with the palestinian authority trying to blame israel and i want to remind you in the audience really the only strong democracy with strong legal institutions in the region so i don't think what we saw coming home that is the intention to help anyone just intended to embarrass israel well there are several things at play here one the un has recognized palestine as a state for these purposes years ago and to some extent the fact that the west bank is occupied is certainly a reason that plays into the justification by the i.c.c. for investigating for investing in potential crimes no. so when you look at the allegations themselves they mainly come from the conflict we had the border with gaza where we had terrorists trying to to storm into the well in we broke them and that's what we expect

well palestine he is a signatory to. to the i.c.c. it has observer entity status but it's not a state it's not been recognised by the united nations general assembly as a nation state so what the un did was vote in palestine ian is a nonmember observer state 2012 so there is a long period of time between 2012 and now which suggests that this is. not a surprising set of events on the part of the i.c.c. . what the i.c.c. did was recognize palestine given as a state but the legality of this has not been ruled on by the i.c.c. prosecutor per se so we can go back and forth in terms of jurisdiction now others would argue that israel as a non cygnets war signatory and the united states is a non-signatory that israel isn't. really to be held under the jurisdiction of the i.c.c. i think that's rather a weaker argument the i.c.c. has $123.00 members $123.00 signatories which gives it. a powerman to a regime that upholds international law having said that right rather than getting into the sort of back and forth is that every way that the i.c.c.

and in chicago, the cofounder of the electronic intifada and author of the battle for justice in palestine. thank you for joinin us. i would like to begin -- this is not the first time we are being told palestinian elections are going ahead. it all sounds great. everything that has been agreed to. do you think these elections will actually go ahead? guest: i don't know if they will go ahead. there are plenty of reasons to think they might not. but even if they do, i would not argue they are necessarily a great thing. as your report noted, there were elections held in 2006 which the hamas affiliated list one. the problem was mahmoud abbas result and aligned with israel, the united states, and various arab regimes to overturn the result and isolate hamas and created the disastrous split we are living in now. i'd don't know why hamas would trust the same people, the same mahmoud abbas and same so-called international community to respect an election result. the bigger question is what do elections mean for people under occupation? it is a fiction they are electing a government. palestinians d

if it were not for the victory, it remains in palestine. i hope you enjoy reading the story.k you very much. >> thank you very much. i am thought gershom, author of one set of writing this i hope you enjoyed it, is a combination of thriller, middle east and also my take a lot of explaining how a lot of research your ability to honestly recommend one thing he did very well in the month for every character, i really appreciated. i'm curious, what began you to tell this incredible story started in jerusalem seven years ago, a son of mine told me during world war ii, is father was a british officer in the british army wanted to evacuate from palestine as they did with the family and officers. it was not expected so immediately. middle eastern history, i knew it existed but hadn't grasped until that moment how immediate it was like that of looking into it and i saw the scattered puzzle pieces of the espionage story behind what happened. those pieces were distorted because they were memories people have after the war. people who were inside the organization were told what was going

international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine the i.c.c. chief prosecutor has been asking the court's commission to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and palestinian groups. u.s. president joe biden has a congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollars and demichelis plan and outline has been approved by the house of representatives and democrats are hoping to pass a final version by the end of the month. the diplomatic fallout over russia's treatment of opposition leader alexina valmy is intensifying it comes after russia expelled 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against him being jailed under centers as more. russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats had attended what it called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexina valmy thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rallies and industry isn't saying how many of the diplomats from germany sweden and poland they're expelling. but then she comes only hours after an avanti was back in court again and the european union's top dip

the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction of the palestine and the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor has been asking the court mission to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and palestinian groups. and u.s. president joe biden has urged congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic when he will outline it's been approved in the house of representatives and democrats are hoping to pass a final version by the end of the month. not travelers arriving to the u.k. from corona virus hotspots will now have to quarantine for 10 days the so-called red list of countries including most of latin america southern africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms now see an airport something booked and arrivals will have to foot the bill as designed to stop the spread of new take to virus strains that involve has more from london's heathrow airport. we know precious little about the details of this corn team hotel scheme apart from the obvious fact that it's going to be a big challenge to get it in place by the deadline of february the 15th so

said frontline medical staff the elderly and people with chronic conditions will be given priority palestine was among the 1st states in the middle east to approve the use of the sputnik feature a statewide inoculation program got underway there and choose the following the delivery of the scene from israel. with the world's richest man jeff bays are stepping down as amazon c.e.o. promising to dedicate his time to charity we look at the mixed reaction the move has generated particularly from his workers who struggled during the pandemic as the retail giant saw a record profits that after the break. ruling class is released real much but when it comes to china it is agreed the u.s. needs to somehow get tough with beijing which is a really neat engaging china well trying to contain it is that even possible combined ministration will eventually have to answer this question. i might. show somebody in the accident where a car goes through a field sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw a stop sign stead of the sign. in these experiments many will adopt the suggestion we cal

secondly it doesn't recognize palestine as a state at all and 3rd it's always rejected any attempts to alter or see what it does in the occupied territories that's the struggle all the time with international law and human rights has no teeth the i.c.c. and how you know it has law independence shrinks still you know nevertheless you know it has a quite a bit of effect in terms of public opinion you know if israel can can be recast as a war criminal that really means something washington a traditional ally of israel of course was quick to slam the ruling despite the fact that previously the president biden the championed progress on human rights. we have serious concerns about the i.c.c. is attempts to exercises jurors stiction of israeli personnel the united states is always take the position that the court's jurisdiction should be reserved for countries that consent to it all that are referred by the un security council. stand for our values of human rights and dignity i work in common purpose for more secure peaceful and prosperous world jeff help believes the bottom ministration is

the potential spread of new strains we have journalists covering the situation in both israel and palestine will hear from ybor him in ramallah in just a moment but 1st here's our e. forces in west jerusalem. there are. communities within israeli society particularly palestinian israeli and ultra-orthodox communities where there is less trust in this vaccine where it's been harder to get people to come in to the vaccination senses and indeed there are many people under 35 are complaining that while the vaccination centers on is busy and we can't yet get our vaccine and so it's been reported at least that in one clinic over the last few days some 1000 doses of had to be thrown out and at a time when there's been a big fuss about israel finally 100 over some 2000 doses to the palestinian authority that seems like a lot and when you also consider the fact that these 2 populations very well interconnected with both populations mixing in occupied east jerusalem day workers coming in from the west bank still into israel so there are concerns in a practical point of view as well as from an interna

than $120.00 countries and states accept the international criminal court's authority including palestine where the i.c.c. now says it has the power to investigate suspected war crimes by the israeli military and armed palestinian groups such as hamas the decision was quickly and fiercely rejected by israel which isn't a member of the court doesn't recognise its jurisdiction when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti semitism. the court established to prevent atrocities like the nazi holocaust against the jewish people is not targeting the one state of the jewish people. first it outrageously things that when jews live in a room and this is a war crime circuit it claims that when democratic israel defends itself against terrorists who murder our children rocket our cities we're committing another war crime the palestinian authority and hamas say the decision off is vital protection for the palestinian people with a mass insisting its military activity is lawful how to get there how massive a guard to hold how massive the resistance groups are engaged in a le

the 1st batch of russia sputnik vicodin vaccine has now arrived in palestine to delivery will be enough to inoculate some 5000 people the local health minister said frontline medical staff the elderly and people with chronic conditions will be given priority palestine was among the 1st states in the middle east to approve the use of the sputnik the germ of a statewide inoculation program got underway there on choose they following the delivery of the madeira vaccine from israel the u.k. government has been accused of neglecting vulnerable groups by not giving them the necessary assistance during the pandemic benefits for many disabled people in the u.k. have not increased in line with payments for other types of welfare david allen is one such person who's been left out of pocket he says he felt abundant after multiple sclerosis led to him being bedridden sometimes we hear a really new storms where somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the home for several days. potentially that could have happened to me and nobody would have checked up on me even if i did have a carer he woul

is co-founder of the intifada and author of the battle for justice in palestine a very warm welcome to you all thanks for joining us here on. inside story i'd like to begin with you ali abunimah this is not the 1st time that we've been told that palestinian elections are going ahead it all sounds great everything i just read out there sounds great everything that's been agreed to do you think these elections that are being planned out now will actually go ahead. i don't know if they'll go ahead there's plenty of reasons to think they might not go ahead but even if they do i wouldn't argue that they are necessarily a great thing as your report noted there were elections held in 2006 which the how massive fairly a to do list run the problem was that mahmoud abbas and fatah did not recognize there is result and they 'd aligned with israel the united states and various arab regimes to overturn the result and to isolate how mess and created in fact the disastrous split that we're living in now so i don't know why have mass would trust the same people the same measurement a bias in the same

now the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine that strengthens the prosecutor's early a submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and occupy palestinian territories this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem high force it joins us live now from west jerusalem how important a moment is this harry. well it's a very significant moment in this what has been up till now a potential full investigation by the i.c.c. of the situation in the occupied palestinian territories it was more than a year ago that. the chief prosecutor of the i.c.c. judge that in her view there had in all likelihood been war crimes committed both by the israelis and by hamas during the last few years and that it warranted a full investigation what she wanted was the guarantee from the pretrial chamber that there wouldn't be any retrospective attempts to say that this investigation was unwarranted because palestine is not a full state recognized everywhere in all parts around the world and indeed isr

now the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction of the palestine paving the way for an investigation into war crimes to alleged war crimes this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem in 2019 the i.c.c. his chief prosecutor bensouda said she was satisfied war crimes have been or being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip she asked the court to determine if she had jurisdiction for an investigation prompting the ruling the palestinians who joined the i.c.c. in 2015 have been asking the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip in 2014 they also want israel's construction of settlements in the occupied west bank and i nixed east jerusalem investigated talked to susan powers from the palestinian human rights organization aha and cautiously welcomed the decision i mean the one thing that we are there and. there's been a very it's back. right back there might be approached truck. and. we've been coming to where there were about a 100 years in your ear and them when we thought we were t

supply and the potential spread of a new strain over to need to bring him in how many people in palestine have actually been vaccinated. the palestinian authority has started you know killing a dozen of palestinians they are from the front line medical staff after the palestinians of received 2000 jobs from israel they are a part of the 5000 that israel is go to be providing hosting ins for emergency use they are waiting for more 5000 vaccines that are coming from russia and 37000 from the w.s.j. was the b.o.h. kovacs program but all of that is not going to be enough to meet the urgent needs the palestinian health ministry says that there are around 100000 palestinians who are working in the health sector and these are going to be the top priority in addition to the elderly and those with chronic diseases and the minister has said that they're looking to inoculate around $3200000.00 palestinians over the next few months but this is not going to be an easy trust us giving that did not direct scenes haven't arrived yet and she also said that some of these vaccines will be getting or a they

told, and this was believed, that you can't secure peace in the middle east and without buying off palestine will create world war iii. but we did, and the accords forced peace in the middle east. [applause] thank you. the abraham accords revealed decades of failed negotiations. we were able to go against the elites and champion your values. it looks like the new team appears to be heading back to be appeasing iran and this will be a zastrow for the united states of america and the region as well -- this will be a disaster for the united states of america and the region. i was meeting with chairman kim to prepare for the historic summit that was held in singapore. we threatened fire and fury. we threatened fire and fury not to go to war but to deter it. and we did. those two summits, the north koreans haven't tested a long-range ballistic missile and they have not tested their nuclear weapons. [applause] i was -- it was humbling because on the second trip i had a chance to bring home american hostages from p.r. and -- from pyongyang. [applause] america first always, we never forget about our

cause so many people have already received jabs on $3000000.00 people have gotten their 1st dose palestine however there's ongoing concerns about the low vaccination right a lack of supply and the potential spread of the new strain how a force that has more from west jerusalem there are. communities within israeli society particularly palestinian israeli and ultra-orthodox communities where there is less trust in this vaccine where it's been harder to get people to come in to the vaccination centers and indeed there are many people under 35 are complaining that well with vaccination centers aren't nearly as busy and we can't yet get our vaccine and so it's been reported at least that in one clinic over the last few days some 1000 doses have had to be thrown out and at a time when there's been a big fuss about israel finally handing over some 2000 doses to the palestinian authority that seems like a lot and when you also consider the fact that these 2 populations are very well interconnected with both populations mixing in occupied east jerusalem and day workers coming in from the west bank

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from paris and from berlin international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine that strengthens the prosecutor's earlier submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel in the occupied palestinian territories well that includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem those that lines coming up next chocolates heart of darkness looks at the dark side of a $100000000000.00 industry that's the program coming up next. chocolate is an ever increasing global passion. each year we had $7000000.00 tonnes of it and the amount doubles every 10 years. chalk that is celebrated through trade fairs and exhibitions. the industry flux in from the uk to senility chocolate maker to the transnational corporations that dominate the market even export in countries come to tell european kids the beautiful story of the cocoa bean mother of their favorite tricks google is a local do you want. to be. the person to call. the freedom. of his upper lip couples if they got to like i do look up both plus one good no bra to the

be put in place the international criminal court says it does have territorial jurisdiction of a palestine the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor has been asking the court's permission to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel and palestinian groups. u.s. president joe biden has urged congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollars pandemic relief plan he says it's needed is new data on jobs showed how the american economy is still struggling to recover in the wake of the pandemic 10000000 jobs lost at the start of the pandemic have still not been replaced and outlined the deal has been approved in the house of representatives and democrats i've been to pass a final version of the month 10. european leaders are condemning russia's decision to expel diplomats from sweden poland and germany for taking part in what moscow labeled unmovable opposition rallies the protests followed the jailing of opposition figures alexina down the russia's action coincided with a visit to moscow by the e.u.'s top diplomat yes it but. it was aimed at repairing relations after the e.u. condemning

. >> israel and new state of p pale palestine.nderstand that president biden hasn't spoken with prime minister netanyahu, right? >> they spoke during the transition. one of the first calls the president had was with the prime minister. i have spoken to my israeli counterparts many times already. the two-state solution, the president strongly supports it. it's the only way to secure israel's future as a jewish and democratic state and give the palestinians the state to which they're entitled. >> he has spoken with so many other world leaders, is there a reason he hasn't spoken with prime minister netanyahu? >> i'm sure they'll speak in the future. >> you said the united states will keep the u.s. embassy in jerusalem, it used to be at tel aviv. do you regard jerusalem as israel's capital? >> i do, yes. more importantly, we do. >> would you support a palestine having its capital in east jerusalem? >> what we have to see happen is for the parties to get together directly and negotiate these so-called final status issues. that's the ob

and the potential spread of a new strain we have teams covering the situation across israel and palestine all here from the day brought him in the ramallah in a moment but 1st his hairy forces in west jerusalem there are. communities within israeli society particularly palestinian israeli and ultra-orthodox communities where there is less trust in this vaccine which has been harder to get people to come in to the vaccination senses and indeed there are many people under 35 are complaining that well the vaccination centers on really is busy and we can't yet get our vaccine and so it's been reported at least that in one clinic over the last few days some 1000 doses of had to be thrown out and at a time when there's been a big fuss about israel finally 100 over some 2000 doses to the palestinian authority that seems like a lot and when you also consider the fact that these 2 populations very well interconnected with both populations mixing in occupied east jerusalem day workers coming in from the west bank still into israel so there are concerns in a practical point of view as well as from a

palestine martin luther king and climate change all jostling for space here. after a few yards of no man's land the graffiti is very different. you'll see that the british army and the british pound part salary of the say. the loyalists are a minority on the island of ireland changing demographics means they'll soon be a minority in northern ireland to. the artwork on this side is inward looking it captures a siege mentality. selling supporters up ira flags and unison of u.v.-a flags rangers matches so the conflict that's here is carried on and the hours go. elsewhere football is seen as cathartic war by proxy. but when celtic and rangers clash glasgow streets can seem like a battle ground. turf war sometimes breaks out on the pitch too. since the scottish league began in 1901 these 2 teams have won it over a 100 times between them. animosity has made this darby one of the fiercest in world football. at queen's university in belfast the 2 tribes are seen in a deeper historical context. football is the last preserve for the expression of those $900.00 centuries

in libya well the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine paving the way for an investigation into alleged war crimes by israel well this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem in 2019 the i.c.c. chief prosecutor fattah bensouda said she was satisfied war crimes have have been or are being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip she asked the court to determine if she had jurisdiction for an investigation which prompted the ruling the palestinians who joined the i.c.c. in 2015 of been asking the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip in 2014 they also want israel's construction of settlements in the occupied west bank and an excuse to jerusalem and ics of east jerusalem to be investigated. are joined by dr susan powell from the palestinian human rights organization she joins us from cork in ireland so as you were saying this clears the way for the i.c.c. chief prosecutor to move forward with an investigation into alleged war crimes how how quickly might we see an inqui