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For Palestinian Prisoners. Unconfirmed reports in us media say israel has given hamas a week to agree to the current proposal or it will begin its long threatened offensive in rafah. But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about the increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us secretary of state, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get s
commentators suggest president putin s visit to vietnam is designed to show the world that russia is not isolated from asia. he flew directly to hanoi from pyongyang, where he and kim jong un signed a pact to help each other in the case of aggression. the bbc s shaimaa khalil reports from south korea. vladimir putin s pyongyang trip was choreographed to a t, with some surreal, made for tv moments, like this one of him driving kimjong un on the streets of pyongyang. earlier, kim il sung square, at the heart of the north korean capital, was buzzing with crowds and colour, as the two globally isolated leaders revelled in each other s company and what mr kim described as a new level of alliance. translation: we highlyl appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for russian policy, including the ukrainian direction. i mean, ourfight against the hegemonic imperialist policy imposed for decades by the united states and its satellites. since his war on ukraine, vladimir putin
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in washington, where President Donald Trump has been singing the praises of china in sharp contrast to his campaign rhetoric. In an interview with the american cbs network, the us president said he was in constant touch with president xijinping, and believed he was putting pressure on north korea to rain in its leader kim jung uns nuclear ambitions. The relationship ive had with china, its been already acclaimed as being something very special, something very different to what weve already had. On north korea, mr trump warned that a conflict with the country could kill millions of people. But he had some surprising words of praise for Supreme Leader kim kim jong un. Dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others, and at a very young age he was able to assume power. A lot of people im sure tried to take that power away, whether i
Saif al islam gaddafi by the bolivian 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 this, you know, sense of right and wrong, and justice, that something which isjust in me. And the fact that i also grew up in a co