Military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the humanitarian protection perspective and the military necessity perspective now there has been no one has been lambasted more for supposing disregard total disregard of the humanitarian law down the syrian authorities and i take it from some of your interviews that this phrase total disregard may not be accurate in describing the stance of the of the Syrian Government in fact i know that the i. C. R. C. Has done a study looking specifically into where when the law was upheld and when it was broken in the syrian context do you understand now the drivers the incentives and the hurdles that allowed or not allowed the syrian authorities to respect the humanitarian the International Humanitarian or in the context wanting to. Very difficult you have to admit it was very difficult to respect that law i see or see is not the. Generalizing. Condemnations or generalizing preys on the International Humanitarian law
Placed at the center of the ongoing disputes between these 2 countries may be getting a bit of a reprieve in New York Times reports that the trumpet ministration is planning to issue licenses allowing American Companies to supply nonsensitive goods to wall way according to sources u. S. President donald trump said he was willing to begin approving the licenses this last week this will allow the specific specific American Companies to circumvent a ban the white house placed on wall way earlier this year. There is a lot on packers so to do so we are joined by our america correspondent Alex Milledge in toronto and served as the ok here in the studio in washington d. C. Sarah lets start with you were seeing a lot of conflicting reports on how the meetings went exactly whats the latest well lets just say we are definitely hearing some conflicting reports that the south china post morning post reported that chinese ice from the air was going to be leaving earlier than expected leaving at thi
Old time i live here i live here 8 years and georgian people old time was a very very friendly. And now its not change the georgian government heard for cause more than 1800000000. 00 russian tourists would visit this year now war bank is predicting half that number and 300000000. 00 of revenue will be lost if the flight and goes on the placing that shortfall with new markets will be hard if not impossible Andrew Simmons to please. And here in the u. K. Hundreds of environmental activists have staged protests by blocking roads in several major cities protesters used a blue yacht to block a road in Central London at the beginning of a week of demonstrations the Extinction Rebellion Climate Group also help process bristol cardiff. Leads the Group Previously causing major disruption in the capital with 11 days of process back in april and that is the latest from here in a lot of back now to pisa investing thanks very much at least 24 people are feared dead after heavy rain and flash flood
Elsewhere in the territory. The Israeli Military had previously urged civilians to go there but now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has approved plans for an assault on hamas militants believed to be based there. The un issued this warning. The consequences of a Ground Operation in the current circumstances would be catastrophic for the people of gaza, for the palestinians. Catastrophic for the humanitarian situation. It would be catastrophic all round. The us is one of israels most important supporters but it seems that the Israeli Government has not shared details of the planned assault on gaza with officials in washington. Heres Us National Security council spokesman, john kirby. We have not seen it. We certainly welcome the opportunity to see it. As i said, we cannot support a major offence in rafah the doesnt also include a credible, achievable an executable plan to take care of the safety and security of malt in a million gazans. To move on right now in a major way wit
As his opponents are either dead, in prison or in exile. The authorities have called on Security Officers to be vigilant, after vandalism at some Polling Stations on friday. Our russia editor, steve rosenberg, has more. Russias democracy is the best in the world the kremlin says. And at Polling Station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. Democracy in action, right . Not quite. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man who has been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change at the top. Of course i voted for putin, she says, i trust him. But not everyone who came out today was voting. This, one of a string of attacks on Polling Stations across russia. They are unprecedented. After chaotic scenes here. An arsonist is detained. And green ink poured into a b