Thinking, with nick robinson. Should israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, should his Defence Minister, yoav gallant, face a Trialfor War crimes . That is what my guest on political thinking this week is arguing. He is the prosecutor, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Hes a british lawyer, whos trying also to bring the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar, to that court a court thats been derided, condemned for having no real teeth. And its notjust the two sides in the Gaza Conflict who hes targeting. Hes also said that President Putin of russia should Face Trial for war crimes. Karim khan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you for having me. Now, on the 24th Of May this year, you stood in front of a camera and you announced that you would be applying for Arrest Warrants at the International Criminal Court, for crimes committed during the ongoing conflict in gaza. Did you have any idea of the row that would follow . Well, i knew it was a powerful moment. I kne
To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,
Nantes, nice and strasbourg. Protesters said President Macron has made a mockery of those who successfully mobilised against the french far right in snap parliamentary elections. Translation a sense of disillusion, translation a sense of disillusion, we translation a sense of disillusion, we have translation a sense of disillusion, we have been| disillusion, we have been fighting like dogs to prevent the far right gaining an absolute majority. We succeeded, we had 21 days, a crazy marathon and we succeeded in stopping them. And what have we got here . A far right government. This summers inconclusive election in france left the country in a political deadlock the left Wing Bloc winning the largest number of seats but falling short of enough to form a government. President macron defended his decision to appoint a right wing Prime Minister by saying the leftist candidate, lucie castets, stood little chance of surviving a Confidence Vote in the national assembly. 0ur Paris Correspondent
and regions for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. millie bright leads the pride for england s lionesses as sarina wiegman names her world cup squad for the summer. were going to make sure we be at our best and we see how far we get but i think we still are in a good place. will it be lucky number seven for sevilla as they chase a record extending european trophy but they re up againstjose mourinho s roma later. british hopes in paris lie with cameron norrie, in the last few minutes he will displace in the third run. also coming up on sportsday. the future of london irish is on the line will they become the third premiership rugby club to depart from the top flight. and england captain ben stokes says he will play a full part in ashes unless he can t walk hello there, and welcome along to the programme. england s lionesses have been named ahead of this summer s world cup in new zealand and australia. sarina wiegman was always