u. k u. s. e u armed israel, also investigated for legible crimes, is continued its bombing of damascus, according to syrian state media. joining me now from california is professor emeritus of international law at princeton university, and the former un special were up to our own. the situation of human rights in the palestinian territories, richard fork. professor falk welcome to going underground. you're a legend as far as you in special up which as go we've had many you in special ravages on. but you made you in special opportunity. what it is arguably is railey is then volunteering to join up with the legend though, denied by them neo nazi affiliated, ukrainian army. i better stop by asking you as a special repertoire on palestine. what the situation in russia, ukraine, is as regards parallels or the israel palestine, or rather than in the sense that the empathy and the i'll call ring of response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the russian invasion of ukraine. has produced something absolu

u. k, u. s. e and israel also investigated for legible crimes is continued its bombing of damascus. according to syrian state media. joining me not from california is professor emeritus of international law at princeton university and the former un special repertoire on the situation of human rights in the palestinian territories . richard fork. professor falk welcome to going underground. you're a legend. as far as you in special are up, which as go we've had many you in special, robert is on that you made you in special opportunity. what it is arguably is re lease, then volunteering to join up with the legend, though, denied by them neo nazi affiliated, ukrainian ami. i better stop by asking you as a special repertoire on palestine. what the situation in russia, ukraine, is as regards parallels or the israel palestine. or rather i, in the sense that the empathy and the i'll call ring of respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by the russian invasion of ukraine. has produced something absolutely different than they haven't been in victimization over a decade. and it can be explained by many in many ways partly a renewal her idea logical her as the cold war is partly an expression of empathy for christian white. they've become the syrian refugees during the syrian civil strife. were welcomed with barbed wire in europe while they ukraine in refugees are being welcomed with open arms. and one shows hostility, hospitality looms hidden in britain, liberty control to see about that. but until you get here is secretary general of the you and very quick to declare russia violated the un job to, i mean, what is he like? did he support your work with virginia tilly and your 2017 report when you accuse israel of apartheid? i know amnesty international now accuses israel of about a do, which israel denies. what is antonio? there is like, what did he think of your report where i couldn't get were to paris, then are coming to the pressure exerted by the us. nikki haley in the security council thing goes out the report or condemnation. he was a new secretary general at that time. she threatened the un with funding consequences if he failed to denounce the report in actuality, he only removed it from the website. he never actually repudiated the report, but it was kind of the weakness of the un that it can respect the political independence of its own action and is subject to the what i call the primacy of geo politics. although because lima, lima calla, had to withdraw the report do. and she, she left the organization at the, at the un. what does it feel like for you? i mean is 10 years since your un general assembly report defacto arguing for b, the s because of israeli violations of resolutions. susan rice, i mean she's now a. m g was then us ambassador to the un have now she's about an official. she called your report irresponsible and acceptable, but she now supports a boycott of russia and you might have heard that we're here in whale in britain. chikavsky is being banned. m sopranos are being sacked in new york and conductors in milan. the prevail? double standard, the control of the international, political and moral discourse by the us. and that is a exaggerated group that has not been duplicated in other comparable situations like the iraq invasion of 2003. so there's every reason to, on the one hand, regret the humanitarian crisis that has been caused by a russian invasion. but at the same time, to point out that this is an illustrative of a geo political response. not a even the hand is legal and morrow respond. it was of course more to guys who knew who is honey drive here in london, who revealed to us what he said was the israeli nuclear weapons program. as, as one of the most famous former un special robert, who has how close do you think we are to nuclear confrontation? so gay lab said it's always nature that raises the threat of obviously the ukrainian president has raised the need to perhaps rearm with nuclear weapons. and russian nuclear weapons are being put on high alert. i think there is a serious danger broke from the nuclear reactors in ukraine and could be hit with either accidentally or deliberately, either by tears or by the russian military press. and then there's the danger of escalation. whenever there's a confrontation of this sort as occurred in the cuban missile crisis, back in 19621 has to worry about, they mutually catastrophic consequences of escalating across the nuclear threshold. and i think it's one hope that the leaders on both sides have the prudent awareness of these risks. well, i'm lacked reporting while we both and, and all of us who are going underground. so i sympathize with all the victims of the current conflict. do you think that we may be entering a new world order? we're all the we're all the so called unworthy victims. as chomsky and edward herb and talked about will that be recognised, there won't be any more iraq, afghanistan, emmans libyans, serious are too much to hope for realistically. i feel that the primacy of politics is such that the permanent members of the security council who are given them to send an exemption from complying with the un shot, to prove that veto power will continue to pursue their strategic. i think one of the things that they at the present time is whether the aftermath of the cold war gives rise to a 2nd cold war or, and the unit polarity that the u. s. has claimed and the end of the cold war and pro crime it's global security has no border planetary. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of this season. the team and i will be back soon with a brand new look. but until then you can keep in touch my all social media if it's available in your country. and remember, you can continue to watch all going undergoing episodes on odyssey. and it auto come see very soon ah, ah. with by the dim biden's tips to up the pressure on new daily against supporting rocks and the holes. a virtual summit with india's prime minister. also they found a oh, like you sound wheels from mass protest with tens of thousands taken to the streets over the out. think of prime minister in run con and what you call us back, i should say, p f is making long. they just had to evacuate his remaining radical trip for mario pulse with a dumbass city now almost completely under russian control. we report from inside the battles i'm fighting here. especially fero

u. s. from the u. k. and from the e. u. we seen similar situations in the past when u. s. army were used by libyan in syrian opposition groups. but what happens when those conflicts are over or seemingly over? oh, where did the weapons go? iraq church, it's a long time before these contracts are over. as you know, in afghan, a santa went on for 20 years, and it could good much longer. in libya, what we did was supply a lot of weapons to people who in turn. so some 2 other insurgencies of and terrors groups and others throughout africa and elsewhere. and of course, our efforts in afghanistan armed in effect against the soviets isis, or i'll should say al cater and then later isis. so he things have low back effects . ah, heaping in mine, he didn't have these amps industry, so it would be wrong to say they didn't invade ukraine. cooking did that. however, they, in their people, they were influencing and the government were willing to risk a war like this coming from their policies, which were in fact provocative. in terms of making it likely that the russians, any russian

u. s. and e u. k. are beginning to deliver, but germany, it's still very hesitant now. you've met german government representatives on a recent trip to berlin. what did you say to them and how did they respond? obviously, yeah, germany is moving and we've seen that very slow in the identification of this aggression. but i want to confirm after my today's work trip and meeting in germany and meeting all the key politicians in the german government. i can confirm that germans as a full and german government are united, which is pretty sell, laurie united in one front, it gives the russian aggression. we are getting incredible support from germans on humanitarian side. there are a lot of refugees. they've been taking in germany. you creating a refrigerator you, jeez, as well as with sanctions. i mean, the process is slow and it's never enough, but they're moving toward on the vacation of our, our mutual enemy. and that in this case is russian figuration. and this war that russia has has started. so even the process is slow, but we are moving together again. this aggression

u. s. at least as well as the u. k. are, are fighting on the side of the aggressors. they're selling weapons, they're providing military support. they're providing intelligence support to saudi arabia and the u. e. and other members of the coalition that are bombarding and blockading yemen and beer, it seems there's not a big world power advocating for the people of yemen. the way we're seeing for the people of ukraine, if they're no, you know, so the dynamics in yemen, saudi arabia initially intervened because they feared that iran was providing assistance to the who the rebels. what's ironic is that in the intervening 7 years, that assistance which had been fairly minimal has increased. the u. s. has imposed measures to prevent weapons smuggling. and for the most part, the weapons that the who are using our weapons, that they seized from the many military in part because they were allied with the previous president early in the conflict. and so had access to these weapons. but the point is there's, there's been this narrative that the united states is pushing back against this iran backed proxy. when in reality, this, the scope of what the, who these are able to do, especially against saudi a

u. s. government to sanction specific people identified as corrupt or human rights abusers. different versions of the law have already spread to the e. u, the u. k. canada and many other countries. and it's been a real foreign in the side of russian president vladimir putin since day one. so how and why did putin become so obsessed with this law? and how is it being used in russia and beyond? today we're talking with to the people who've been personally involved in the magnet ski act from the beginning. congressman jim mcgovern is a democrat who has represented massachusetts in congress for more than 25 years. and wrote this circ a magnet sky rule of law accountability act and introduced its follow up the global magnets act in 2016 and build router. the founder of hermitage, capital management, whose company was at one time, the largest foreign portfolio investor in russia. it's his lawyer, sergey magna ski, who allegedly was killed in a rush in jail in 20 o 9, setting off the chain of events that leads us to today. bill has just published his 2nd book telling his story, and it reads like a real thriller freezing order, a true story of money lau

head to the one k have to fight to the last standing ukrainian or could the you actually become a party to the conflict? ah, well, i believe that the e u. i have become vassals of the u. s. empire, and that they would like to see they wanted to see that ukraine became a de facto nato state. they are good with the u. s. plan to expand nato right up to the borders of russia and then to subject russia the russian federation to the same fate. as the former yugoslavia, that is to say to dismemberment. but there is a problem. wars have a way of expanding and this war and ukraine could easily morph into a wider regional war or even a world war. so it's in everyone's interest to bring it to a speedy conclusion and not to pump it. i make it true for a long it by injecting more money for arms. absolutely, and now there are reports they candidates guffman to is look for saying canadians to find in ukraine is that even legal at the canadian government is not directly recruiting for though a war in ukraine. how? because it's illegal under the foreign enlistment act of 1937. what the canadian government is doing is turning a blind eye to the recruiting. that's a legally going on by a

e variant. reportedly it's 10% more transmissible than the b a two. right now it's spreading in the u k. but here in the u. s, only three cases reported so far and none of them here in california. the cdc is once again extending its mask mandate on public transit. it was set to expire on monday, but now it has been extended for two more weeks. public health officials tell ktvu elissa harrington. that decision was made at an event abundance of caution as the number of virus cases is increasing nationwide. and more people are traveling. it was a busy afternoon at the mill break. transit station. passengers masked up before hopping on caltrain or bart. federal transportation mask mandate was set to expire monday. but now the centers for disease control and prevention extended it through may 3rd in response to an increase in the spread of covid 19. i don't like to do it. but if we have to wear it, just wear it and don't complain. the mask requirement is for public transit. this means airplanes, trains, busses and at transit hubs. in a statement on the cdc website, the agency explained. the cdc mask order remains