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
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in new york confirmed the raid saying the israeli military was doing everything possible to prevent civilians at the hospital getting caught up in the operation. and eyewitnesses told the bbc he has tanks inside the hospital grounds and more than 100 soldiers entering the main emergency department. in a statement, the idf says it is conducting a ground operation in gaza to defeat hamas and rescue hostages. it said israel is at war with hamas not with the civilians in gaza. this is the first time the military is directly entering al shifa hospital after days of strikes and heavy fighting around the grounds in gaza city. the white house has reiterated its earlier position that it does not want to see any targeting of hospitals. the raid comes after the us confirmed it has intelligent supporting israel s claim that hamas in the palestinian islamicjihad are operating from tunnels below hospitals, including al shifa. they say they are also storing weapons there. thomas denies the
like beyond you or me or president biden saying so publicly, what else should the u.s. be doing? look, you have defense ministerials, foreign minister ministerials, nato summits. our bilateral relationship with germany, know, we certainly called them out on the nord stream 2 pipeline and congress cut in place a partial green light for putin to think he could get away with it. there just needs to be a lot more pressure and noise rather than a blip and a headline that germany has completely done a 180 on their promises, as ukraine is being devastated and rather than just saying american taxpayer, you ve got to do more, how about we say, europe, you need to step up. this is directly affecting your national security, and i just don t see that from the administration. you ve been vocal on today s big news. the prisoner swap securing brittney griner s release.