professor lee marler is a barrister and a director of the consultancy firm pavocat, which specialises in the law of war hejoins me now. good to have you with us today. can you explain what constitutes a war crime when someone is looking at evidence, gathering evidence and submissions, how do they decide whether what has happened is a war crime or not? whether what has happened is a war crime or not? ,., ., ., . ., ,, crime or not? good morning and thank ou for crime or not? good morning and thank you for having crime or not? good morning and thank you for having me crime or not? good morning and thank you for having me on crime or not? good morning and thank you for having me on the crime or not? good morning and thank you for having me on the programme. | you for having me on the programme. what is a war crime is an essential question now. contrary to what president putin and his commanders on the ground in ukraine and his soldiers may think, war is regulated by law. it is
can assess through open sources. if not the free world needs to provide ukrainians with the quality and quality of weapons to prevail in donbas. a loss will produce the opposite. there are others with knowledge of the dynamic in the region and the stakes saying the same thing, that right now, ambassador taylor saying ukraine needs to win. tell me what that looks like and how short we are of doing for them what you call for in your piece. first, two things. the red line that michael is talking about is an essential question and in my assessment it is not about attacking nato. it is not about a nuclear war with us. they rolled out to make that clear for us. it is all about whether or not he might use a tactical nuclear weapon or not in ukraine.
for jobs and honors and riches because of their membership in a family or a court or a religion or ethnic group. the american revolution is actually extraordinary because it argued against monarchs, nobodies and clerics and set up a monarch based observe what jefferson called a natural meritocracy based on talents. they move add long that path abolishing landed privileges and making higher basis on tests and skills rather than family and connections. today meritocracy faces attacks from the left and right, which argue it s a rigged system that doesn t achieve good outcomes. some of these criticisms are fair but woolridge asks the essential question, what would you replace it with? do we want to go back to using soft, fuzzy criteria like character, which is often a code
believe president joe biden was legitimately elected. how do we sort of make sure that doesn t spread and make sure that doesn t metastasize or is it too late? well, talk about a two-hour-long show that we can do on that topic. i have two hours. look, i think it s the key essential question, and we need to take it really seriously. but let me offer two thoughts. number one, people like me, not necessarily journalists, but people like me and frankly the citizens of this country need to do all that they can to support the institutions of democracy, by which i mean, the legitimate media. by which i mean, our courts. by which i mean, you know, community organizations that get together. all of those things that stood up against the authoritarian instincts of donald trump, we need to continue to rededicate ourselves to and here, again, i don t want to say that i think matt is wrong. i just think that his emphasis is a little bit misplaced
movie that you rarely see. it arouses very strong reactions from people. i think that s what cinema should be about. it s exciting. it s stimulating. it makes us think. i m quite happy to have a film that does that. smart filmmakers can use genre as a trojan horse to talk about other things. blade runner is based on phillip k. dick s novel, in and of itself, and the essential question of the in and of itself is, what s the difference between humans and nonhumans? is harrison ford a human? can you fall in love with an android? she doesn t know. she s beginning to suspect, i think. suspect? how can it not know what it is? commerce is our goal here at tyrell. more human than human is our motto. the screenplay was excellent. a rare entity because it told not only fascinating and different story, but it was written and described well. you could smell a movie. i don t think there s any