With me, zeinab badawi. The recent release of Saif Al Islam gaddafi by the libyan Group Holding him has led to the International Criminal court in the hague, the icc, demanding his arrest. Hes been indicted by the court for alleged Crimes Against Humanity, murder and persecution. The icc was set up in 2002 as a Court Of Last Resort to try such individuals, but its met a barrage of criticisms principally that it has an anti african bias because only africans have been convicted and nearly all the cases before it are from the continent. My guest is the prosecutor of the icc, Fatou Bensouda, a lawyer from gambia. What does she say in the courts defence . Fatou bensouda, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. You were born in gambia to a muslim family, you studied law in nigeria, then you returned to gambia in 1987 to work as a public prosecutor. Why did you want to go into law . I believe it is my this, you know, sense of right and wrong, and justice thats something which is just i
Has let them down. In parts of eastern ukraine, voters are casting ballots on a referendum involving self rule. It has been described as a disaster by the kyiv government. The ballot has been held in two regions. Donetsk and luhansk well 6. 7 Million People. But only people under separatist control are voting. Organizers say there are more than 3,000 polling stations. People are being asked one question in ukrainian and one in russian. Do you support self rule . A recent opinion poll suggests more than twothirds of people in the east dont support the separatist movement to join russia and break away from the ukraine. But polls also show that the majority in the east reject the new government in kyiv. In a moment, we will go to kim vannel but first, to paul brennan, who is outside a polling station in donetsk. But i guess its not hard to speculate about what the outcome is going to be, paul . Reporter no. I think the outcome is a foregone conclusion. I am here at school 12, which is in
Well, lets start this news hour in syria. Most of the focus in recent days has been with what to do with the countrys chemical weapons. A car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the capital damascus killing at least 20 people. The blast hit a government building east of the city center. Amateur pictures of what is said to be the site of that explosion. Turkey has closed one of its border crossings with syria after fighters linked with al qaeda took control of a border town and they captured from the free syrian rebels. Both sides are are fighting to topple president al assad and his forces. Lets go to correspondent nassar hadid who is managed to get to the southern syrian why city of darra. There is fighting going on in darra. Nasser i dont know if you can here us there in darra. Is there fighting going on right now . Yeah, yeah, of course i hear you very well. Today is a little bit cool here in darra, we have just can, comparing to yesterday and day before yesterday its little bit c
Children are at risk of starving to death. And this 2000yearold tomb was lucid and how could this happen under the authorities. Prorussian government stormed another Police Station in Eastern Ukraine and its six hours since the deadline to the separatists to give up buildings they ceased past and ukraine government threatened military action against the prorussian armed groups if they dont lay down weapons but so far there has been no sign of that threat being carried out. They are separatists of 45 defenses outside of Police Headquarters and assault on number of buildings are under siege across cities in Eastern Ukraine. [chanting] 150 kilometers away this is an angry scene when prorussian government stormed city hall and several policemen were injured as they forced their way in. And in the last half an hour gunmen have stormed a Police Station in the city and these are the latest pictures from the town close to the square where separatists declared this and we have two correspondent
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