Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The International Criminal court has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian Territories. The probe will cover events in the Israeli Occupied west bank, eastjerusalem and gaza strip sincejune 2014. Paul hawkins reports. Is this a war crime . Palestinian homes in the occupied west bank demolished by israel to make way for israeli homes, homes which the un says are illegal. Israel disagrees. The icc will formally now investigated this as a war crime. So too is well s military occupation in gaza. This was 2015 when the backlashes on the border with israel. The icc will also look into alleged palestinian war crimes, like hamas Firing Rockets into israel during the 2014 war. The icc s announcement comes after a five year preliminary investigation. It says it has thejurisdiction investigation. It says it has the jurisdiction to investigate because the palestinians signed up because the palestinian
But Boris Johnson expects optimism, saying the country is entering his last phase in the battle against covid19. We will be speaking to our london correspondent. And trailing behind its neighbors and accuse of being overcautious, france tries to accelerate its coronavirus inoculion program, with president macron meeting members of his cabinet to get things moving quicker in one of the worlds most vaccine skeptical countries. The u. S. President and the man who is set to replace him in less than three weeks time are both headed south the socalled peach state, with the donald trump and joe biden both eager to see their party back this russias fruit. Precious fruit. George it will be holding two runoff votes which will determine whether republicans or democrats hold the senate. Both men are holding separate rallies on the eve of this crucial ballot. One of the lets listen to what one of the georgia officials has been saying. Everybodys vote will count. Everybodys vote did count. I want to
Imagine how would welcome here in germany theres been a steady upturn in the number of new corona virus infections and its showing no sign of slowing the country boast price for its initial response to the pandemic back in spring when it quickly introduced haad measures to curb the spread of the virus but cases have spiked in recent weeks hitting a record high of almost 30000 new cases on friday its the in the number of death deaths thats causing the most concern thats prompted chancellor Angela Merkel to call an emergency meeting with germany 16 states latest that mating has just gotten underway. Well for more on that joined by our Political Correspondent hansbrough and hans the German Federal and state leaders are making now to discuss the situation given the numbers weve just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain is indeed that is correct the meeting is taking place in the chancery that you see here behind me but in fact its only a mark of a chancellor who be there in person a
The lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a virtue to deny the encroaching dangerous while the amazon went up in flames in a land grab by ranchers brazils right wing president jaya bull scenario was blaming environmentalists for manufacturing a crisis brazils handling of the situation strained its relationship with the e. U. Aljazeera so theres a bo has a report now from top in brazil. Every day the his who somebody see there goes into the National Park to look for seeds hes trying to preserve the rain forest and the dozens of species that live in it. The threat of deforestation has become a major problem and then goes lik
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year its been to the world put aside short Term Economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments end. At a trade war between the United States and china has put the brakes on Global Growth and is reshaping globalization. The biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be Climate Change and the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a virtue to deny