for the worst of crimes? philippe sands, welcome to hardtalk. lovely to be with you. this notion of international justice, it seems to have sort of consumed you both professionally and personally for many years. is it possible to say which comes first, which driver is more important to you? which came first was professional. i got involved in these things in 98, really when the statute of the international criminal court was being negotiated in rome and there after and started getting involved in many cases. but i suppose it s true to say there was a personal connection because my mother had been a refugee child from vienna and had been a hidden child in paris during the war, hidden by catholic families. and so this has always been part of my life i suspect. was it subconscious or conscious? did you consciously think to yourself, i m an international lawyer and i want to dig deep into notions of accountability and justice? no, it idn t happen like that at all. i made the terr
and it s a wrap for a russian film crew that s just returned back to earth after shooting a movie in space. whatever 1 s race political beliefs be tolerant and try to understand. they added that their hearts had been shattered by his death. the home secretary priti patel has considered a range of measures to protect mps and constituency surgeries. the man arrested has been named, the 25 year old is being held under the terrorism act and officers have until friday to question them. our home affairs has the very latest on the investigation. a significant search operation at a large family house in london as the counterterrorism investigation into the murder of sir david amos and pete turned towards the capital today. this is one of the detectives have gathered evidence. yesterday there was a police guard at this house on a leafy street in north london. police have also searched a smaller house in croydon, where the suspect grew up. the man in custody is ali harbi ali, 25
was bombed overnight. we were upstairs, she says, then we were hit, and i started running. she tries to comfort her sister, but she has no idea that her mother and brother were killed in the strike. her father abdullah sits next to the body bags. he s still in shock. this is my son, he says. this morning, he asked me for biscuits. i went to buy them, and when i came back, i found him and my wife dead. munitions explode the ground offensive continues to deepen in the southern city of khan younis. ..where hundreds of thousands have fled from the fighting in northern gaza. israel says it s trying to protect civilians during its operation against hamas fighters. but it said it regretted what it called extensive collateral damage in a strike last weekend. the hamas run health ministry says at least 86 people were killed in the strike on the maghazi refugee camp in central gaza. israel says it used the wrong type of munition. people shout here injerusalem, thousands of te
well, i think these were very much crisis talks, weren t they? i mean, they are organised pretty hastily between christmas and new year, that s unusual in and of itself. we don t know the specifics of exactly what elements of this crisis they spoke about because we were not allowed to speak to the delegations afterwards. there was no media conference, no press conference. we don t know that there was any major policy decisions reached because they have not announced any. we find it unlikely that there would have been. but, clearly, there is value in sitting down face to face between the two sides when there is all this going on at the us border with mexico, some 10,000 people a day being detained and, of course, a caravan of somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 migrants from central america and other nations making its way through mexican territory at this moment. so, clearly, there was benefit, i think, seen by both sides of discussing this face to face. lawmakers in the us sa
firefighters, soldiers and police are searching for survivors as the temperature hits 13 degrees celsius that s about 9 degrees fahrenheit. those efforts carried on into daybreak as authorities warned that more aftershocks may occur. a second quake struck neighbouring xinjiang hours later. the damage from that 5.5 magnitude strike was not immediately clear. in a statement, chinese president xi jinping said: he s ordered full rescue efforts to gansu, one of the country s poorest regions. taiwan president tsai ing wen has expressed condolences to china on the gansu earthquake. the islands presidential office added that taiwan is willing to provide assistance to china. now, international pressure is growing for israel to ease its military campaign in gaza. on monday, the us defense secretary was the latest to add his voice during talks with prime minister benjamin neta nyahu and israel s war cabinet. the department of defense says mr austin underscored the need for concerted