There was a plausible case to answer, but a finaljudgment is likely to take years. Today i have an exclusive interview with joan donoghue, Thejust Retired president of the icj, who delivered that initial court ruling that sent shock waves Around The World. In a sense, the whole idea of internationaljustice is on trial. How will it fare . Joan donoghue, welcome to hardtalk. Happy to be here. You sat on the International Court ofjustice for pretty much iii years. The last three years as president of the court. One of your last cases was the case brought by south africa against israel on the basis of genocide in gaza. Were you aware of the scale of International Scrutiny on that particular case . Yes, absolutely. It was very clear. And in particular, or, for example, outside of the peace palace, where the court sits, there were two groups of demonstrators, or interested people, and one of them had a Big Jumbotron Set Up Outside so that the participants there could watch what was going on
Efforts will be seen today. Lyse doucet, our efforts will be seen today. Lyse so russia and ukraine lawyers doucet, our chief efforts will be seen today. Lyse doucet, our chief international in court, side by side, correspondent, thank you very much. Arguing their cases. Were hearing, first of all, from russia. So how did we get here . Well, a few days after russian tanks rolled across the border, more women have come forward with allegations ukraine brought this case about Russell Brand. The Times Newspaper says several women have to the International Court contacted its journalists since saturday, when it published the accounts of four women ofjustice, claiming that russia who accused the comedian of raping or sexually assaulting them. Was abusing the Genocide Convention mr brand has denied those claims by claiming falsely genocide and insisted all his relationships were consensual. Was being committed in eastern David Silitto reports. Ukraine, in order to try to justify what russia
and don t be too quick to say nothing will come of it. i ve sat in court and watched ex president slobodan milosevic of serbia on trial for his crimes in the former yugoslavia a man most people assumed would never be brought to book. what happens is that dictators do fall sometimes and sometimes, their successors want a better relationship with the outside world and so, offer them up to internationaljustice. we ll have to wait and see if that happens in syria or in russia, for that matter. thank you forjoining me and the unspun world team. until we meet again, goodbye.
it s the first time a case has been brought in this way and they ve been too quick to say nothing will come of it. and don t be too quick to say nothing will come of it. i ve sat in court and watched ex president slobodan milosevic of serbia on trial for his crimes in the former yugoslavia a man most people assumed would never be brought to book. what happens is that dictators do fall sometimes and sometimes, their successors want a better relationship with the outside world and so, offer them up to internationaljustice. we ll have to wait and see if that happens in syria or in russia, for that matter. thank you forjoining me and the unspun world team. until we meet again, goodbye.
in the former yugoslavia a man most people assumed would never be brought to book. what happens is that dictators do fall sometimes and sometimes, their successors want a better relationship with the outside world and so, offer them up to internationaljustice. we ll have to wait and see if that happens in syria or in russia, for that matter. thank you forjoining me and the unspun world team. until we meet again, goodbye. another hot and humid one in eastern areas today by changes are afoot in