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Ukraine war: What is the way ahead for war crime investigations? – BBC Newsnight
As more Russian missiles hit Ukrainian towns and cities, investigations are underway to see if they amount to war crimes.
A lot of attention has been focussed on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the possibility of creating a special tribunal to prosecute any alleged transgressions.
Newsnight’s Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban examines the vexed issue of prosecuting war crimes and the effect this will have on a lasting peace.
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Counter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe, after “new information and evidence has come to light”, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) has said.
“The police are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack. I will be updating the House further this afternoon,” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.
A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday but has now been re-arrested “on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”, CTPSE said.
Police said the “dynamic and complex investigation” had led to the new arrest.
On Thursday, 78-year-old Widdecombe was found dead at her home in Haytor, Devon, having sustained serious injuries.
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Three members of his government, including Home Office minister Jess Phillips, have resigned, whilst scores of Labour MPs are calling for him to quit following a disastrous set of elections for the party last week.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is among a number of cabinet ministers urging the prime minister to set out a departure timetable.
Sir Keir said he does not intend to quit and threw down the gauntlet to potential rivals to formally challenge him as Labour leader.
No MP has yet launched a formal bid to challenge him, which requires the backing of 81 colleagues or 20% of Labour MPs, according to party rules.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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@davet9708
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
A lot of war criminals in Western Europe and America, bring them all to court.
@lazarus4224
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." Jesus Christ
We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.
@maughan3061
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
"Journalists who peddle lies are war criminals." –Julian Assange.
@bronko5577
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
this war is a punishment for the murder of 200,000 Polish women, children and the elderly in 1944-1947, the genocide of the Ukrainian Nazis, Hitler's accomplices, will never be forgotten by Poles
@alyna7673
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
How convenient to cut the video, where the last of 'surrendered' rusians is shooting in ukrainian soldier with camera. Good job, pitoon approves
@meanhe8702
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
The international authorities can investigate all they want, but do they really go after and hold the people at the top responsible? Not really. Pootin’ and his goons are still walking around free. Talk, talk, talk… 🗣
@amtulmateen8846
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
So unfortunate the so called civilized societies of modern world, greed, injustice cruelty at a level never witnessed before. Even though there is enough for everyone to enjoy.
@ashokindian36
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
If you tell war crimes you get many atom bombs 💣 🤣
@user-gw2pr7ey4n
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Trickydicky: Putin started this war with a sickly smirk on his face – now the 'Fragile Monster' bully; a snivelling coward, is seeking a 'just' agreement. He, and his henchmen, should be brought to account FULLY – as an example for, and thus the benefit of, the future humanity of the world: Putin's aggressive war should not be seen to be rewarded, in any way, shape or form!
@teflerchina.2987
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
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BBC lies again, this time in Ukraine
@teflerchina.2987
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
BBC propaganda . Say they are impartial but they don't know the meaning of the word.
Ukraine has been committing war crimes since 2014. Shelling schools and hospitals and using petal bombs in Donetsk.
Recently they said a Russian bomb hit a Building in Donetsk but an independent reporter who was there shows it was the Ukraine that sent the bomb. He was actually at the building.
How can the BEEB support such a corrupt nation as Ukraine?
@shubhamdaulaguphu6854
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Idiots first of all investigate your war crimes in iraq. Killing millions of civillian peoples.
@user-qy5io4ke9e
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
❗️American journalist Deborah Armstrong known for her objective coverage of human rights violations in Donbass by Ukrainian government, support of Faina Savenkova and crusade against the infamous Mirotvorets website, has reported a first success – UNICEF appears to have finally taken the additional step of making an actual statement to Ukraine, asking Kiev to take action to remove the names of minors from Mirotvorets.
As reported by RIA Novosti on December 7, 2022, UNICEF’s statement came following a UN Security Council Meeting on Tuesday in which Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya spoke about the 327 children whose names have been added to the notorious database. Nebenzya asked what UNICEF was doing about this and what the organization’s position was on the publication of children’s personal data on the internet.
For years, young Faina and others targeted by Mirotvorets have appealed to international human rights groups such as The Red Cross, UNICEF and other but all they have received in response was silence, or platitudes.
The notorious Mirotvorets database discloses the private data of those it targets such as their home addresses, phone numbers and other personal information. It includes the names of more than 100,000 people including hundreds of children like Faina Savenkova, a 14-year-old from Lugansk who was added to the hitlist after speaking before a UN Security Council at the age of 12. The youngest child added to the list is only 9 years old.
@user-lo5ck4fg3t
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
アメリカだろ。
@pappa_paulie
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Find out exactly what those Russian soldiers did before you blame Ukrainian soldiers
@funnytrend5367
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Kashmir hold on
@hanxi1929
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Các vùng tự trị của Nga có thể liên minh để lật đổ Putin một cách dễ dàng
@hanxi1929
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Lãnh thổ Nga có rất nhiều vùng tự trị và Putin không có quyền hạn để điều quân, moscow chỉ điều quân ở những vùng Putin quản lý
@xaquinele
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
International Criminal Courts must be recognized by the concerned parts to be legally able to prosecute. The US does not recognize ANY international court. It has even passed a law that allows the invasion of Holland if American citizens are to be tried at the Hague Tribunal. Russia would not admit the jurisdiction of an international court,so all this is just political propaganda.
And no comment about the police in charge of imprisoning Putin in Moscow. Good luck with that.
@frankwetzel3090
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Don't forget: Julian Assange sits in a British Prison for reporting of war crimes committed by US military in Irak and Afghanistan. Any war crime tribunal for this? This hypocrisy is disgusting
@auro1986
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
it is bbc making war news
@tatianalyulkin410
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
For 9 years now the Nazi Loyalists were openly talking about genocide of the people of Donbass. And you're NOT gonna investigate what happened before 2022??? The Odessa Massacre doesn't count? The bombings of the innocent civilians on Donbass doesn't count??? You make me wanna puke!
@steverunner2805
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
HOW RUSSIA WAS DECEIVED.
Mikhail Gorbachev was assured that there would be no expansion of the military bloc to the East. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said in his speech that "NATO should abandon the expansion of its territory to the East, that is, approaching the borders of the Soviet Union." There is a recording of a conversation in 1990 between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow. In it, the representative of Washington talks about what will happen in the demilitarized eastern part of Germany. "The result could be guarantees that NATO troops will not be deployed in the eastern part of Germany. In fact, a complete ban could be imposed on this." It is also worth mentioning Baker's statement "not an inch to the East" about limiting the further expansion of the alliance. He said these words during a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev.
At the end of 2014, riots broke out in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and this was how this crazy government coup began. By February, the confrontation had reached a high phase, negotiations began. However, Ukrainian President Yanukovych hesitated. US President Obama called Putin and asked him not to dissuade Yanukovych from signing an agreement with the opposition. On February 21, 2014, in Kiev, with the mediation of Germany, Poland and France, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Euromaidan leaders signed an agreement on the settlement of the political crisis. The next day, the opposition refused to implement the agreement, and Viktor Yanukovych fled the country. "I and the entire Ukrainian people were cynically deceived," Yanukovych said at the time.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview with Die Zeit said: "The Minsk Agreement of 2014 was an attempt to give Ukraine time." Merkel's statement indicates that it was a deception, it was a falsification in order to pump up the Kiev regime with weapons, prepare to start the very fighting that we saw at the beginning of 2022, when the Kiev regime began to inflict simply deadly blows on Donbass.
@slackdee
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Start war crime investigations on the Ukrainaziscum installed by the CIA in 2014, who've been busy murdering Russian Ukrainians who are not "racially pure" since then. The descendants of Hitler's WW2 compatriots who were as hardcore Nazi as the German ones.
@John-ey3ws
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
The last prisoner came out shooting so the Ukrainians shot back killing the lot of them me personally wouldn't be taken Russian prisoners after all they invaded Ukraine killing innocent citizens I wish all Russians the best of bad luck.