By a Kangaroo Court. And mass graves were uncovered in a libyan city reclaimed by Government Troops from fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. And going nowhere fast a fear manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the United Kingdom as thousands more jobs are lost. I really well aims with this sports news as football makes a comeback in spain to be in seville. For turns in the u. S. The tribute to george floyd and a promise to tackle racial injustice. Be with us on the news we start with a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa and its worrying the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98. 00 days. To reach 100000 cases 200000 in just 18 days a recent upsurge in Community Transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa affected country. More than 68000. 00 cases and isnt section spread to be big cities and into rural areas there are Health Systems and also quipped. Systems across the continent would struggle to cope with severe outbreaks. How countries in particular 3 being the hot spots. And. The cases were going to see in. Just such a time. Right now. And. Cases reside at least 10 countries on the continent but what is clear is that even. The whole system in africa. Probably see. Cases in the coming weeks because of the system in africa and were talking about. Some of the poorest in the world live and probably 5 to 6 people. Small group. Here. The situation would be a very very difficult thing youre talking about a country. Of millions of citizens have to go out every day. In order to put food. In such a situation it only takes one. Community. Dave you have. Almost everybody in the community right now the largest concentration of restrictions in the city of the cup human weakness which is you know if we go well Nicholas NixonSomething Else competent to call for the picture is a worrying one way you are nick real concerned about how the countrys medical infrastructure can cope with toll. Well right i mean before the outbreak even started people here were struggling i mean the Health Center with struggling theres only one radiotherapy sheet for example for an entire country and that was broken before the pandemic but during the outbreak the Health System here have managed to slow the curve but right now doctors are telling us that the situation is dire there are no longer any beds available for new patients theyre running out of hydrochloric queen which is used to treat patients and so it comes at a time when the government here and in other countries in west africa are easing restrictions just last week there were protests in senegal because people were more scared about the economic crisis thats looming and trying to feed feed their their families then the coronavirus itself so theres an easing of restrictions on that and the Health Authorities here fear there will be an uptick of cases and of course the fear here and also in other countries in the region is this sign that transmission so theres a lot of focus so on trying to detect people who have the virus but very little on people who have had the virus so theres many people out there that dont have the symptoms of the corona virus and yet are infected and chances are theyre infecting the population so thats an area that the Health Authorities here are warning that theyre worried about theres also the worry from. Health workers and aging aid agencies whats happening in this hell where weve seen 5500000 people displaced. In the last year there is no Health Coverage people live in close proximity and theres fear that the virus could spread even more and no one is keeping a tally of whats happening there in terms of people who are dying from the virus itself so people here in senegal and Health Authorities are worried of what is to come so nicholas conduct thanks for the update. On the show you know is the image of the Operations Manager for the World Health Organization enough he says early estimates of up to 3300000 deaths from covert 19 can still be avoided. This is. Particularly bizarre on they was having a sustained Community Transmission and we vote in the appropriate measure but i think since the beginning. They want to think would think that were not dissing their african countries is that they move to outlaw song of measures of course are feds also communities that is now triggering the there is but in india in general we cannot just out what we are observing is real oh well thats what was predicting based on the worst Case Scenario but we should not be complacent this situation was to really deteriorate we dove. Head facilities being totally overwhelmed so we may not have. Faced some tough in numbers but we have quite a good proxy that is also showing you what is the situation and how the situation is evolving and i think based on that the process probably think is to continue having Strong Public Health measures including Early Detection and management of cases what we are strongly advising countries that we need to put in place measures that can help us to my knowledge of it as well as dealing with. Health conditions we cannot afford to stop savitz is like a vaccination treatment of malaria tb and this is so obvious trash their resources but a country is to try to see how they can while scaling up restaurants to cause the. Continuities of of our services that are critical for africa. Now the International Court of the the job of prosecuting war crimes and genocide is not being punished by the us President Donald Trump is imposing sanctions on officials from the International Criminal court because of their investigation into the actions of u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan this was secretary of state might pump air making the announcement for a time it looked like the i. C. Might do the right thing and kill the investigation but last spring the prieto chamber unanimously rejected the prosecutors request to open the investigation but unfortunately then in the spring in march the Appeals Chamber overturned that sound judgment and gave a green light to the current investigation effectively eliminating constraints on the Prosecutors Office ability to launch new investigations of americans in the future. We cannot we will not stand by as our people are threatened by a Kangaroo Court and indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world your people could be next the United Nations has reacted to President Trumps executive order weve taken note with concern reports of the executive order authorizing sanctions against certain individuals at the International Criminal court. There were also aware that they had been previous statements by the u. S. Secretary of state mike. That any restrictions take it against individuals would be implemented consistently with the host countries obligations under the u. N. Headquarters agreed will obviously continue to follow very closely any developments on this issue my kind of our correspondent joins me now from washington d. C. So no one really interim sent to circle mincing their words mike uncertain on the verge of anger as we heard in light pomp a tone what do you think the sanctions actually mean in reality now. Well its a very difficult question to answer because you did following the president s executive order senior members of his cabinet lined up to give a News Conference including secretary of state mike on pay or the attorney general the National Security adviser the secretary of defense but they took no questions they said that certain individuals would be designated for the sanctions as outlined by President Trump perhaps the withdrawal of visas preventing them from traveling to the United States but they gave no further detail than that they did not name any names or isolate any particular individuals to whom these sanctions would apply so at this stage its basically a general intention that has been outlined but the fact that all these senior cabinet ministers stepped up members of the cabinet is a sign of how seriously the Trump Administration views the situation this has been brewing for a long period of time the secretary of state might pompei of a particular fork against the i. C. C. So certainly this is something that the Trump Administration has seized on to make a huge display of u. S. Discontent with the possibility of its soldiers being tried before the i. C. C. As well for the thanks very much what kind of a in washington d. C. The tension between the i. C. C. And the United States is nothing new when the court was formed in 2002 the u. S. Never signed up although american citizens do fall under its jurisdiction if the court is investigating crimes in countries that have joined in 2017 the i. C. C. Prosecutor toobin sudha said she wanted to investigate possible war crimes committed by u. S. Troops in afghanistan the following year president dalton criticized the court at the un in a wide ranging speech that condemned globalism but continued to pursue the allegations and in retaliation her u. S. Visa was revoked. To cancel visas for anyone involved in an investigation against american citizens bruce fein is a former United States associate Deputy Attorney general and an International Lawyer joins me now via skype from washington d. C. Always good to have you on the program mystified i mean what do you make of the u. S. Statement and sanctions against the i. C. C. I think its the culmination of our evolution from a republic to an empire that believes that we live by our standards and our alone i dont think that we should look at this particular act of mr trump in isolation i recall in the aftermath of the iraq invasion in 2003 belgium at that time head a universal crime statute that exposed to anyone in the world to prosecution in belgium for crimes against humanity for torture extradition killings and when several u. S. Officials including Donald Rumsfeld were named as targets mr rumsfeld traveled to brussels said if you dont repeal the law in 24 hours we are taking nato headquarters out of brussels and the law was repealed the United States is ready to jettison the nato we dont pay any attention to world Court Resolutions we believe that theres 1. 00 standard that applies to us and others standards to other people how does it is remarked a final question i might stick with funk lets jump in that how does that undermine the position of the United States when it perceives itself to be the leader of the free world that its also not up to scrutiny when its nationals may have committed crimes on International Soil what message is that sending out to the International Community that america can call out to iran and china in venezuela but it can look to itself. Yeah well the message is going to be received by other countries not cooperating with us and it wont be basically a license that the United States as long as you do what they tell them that you you can commit whatever Human Rights Violations you want for example mr el sissy in egypt is just one amongst many other examples or n. B. S. In saudi arabia but we are going to receive a blow back i know that at present the british have ceased cooperation in sharing information regarding the persons that we want extradited here because we have the Death Penalty and because britain now it feels that why should they be returning individuals to a system which doesnt necessarily comply with due process when it comes to terrorism cases and it will do who is mr pompei o to describe the International Criminal court as a socalled Kangaroo Court we have in the past supported the i. C. C. When they prosecuted people we didnt like and of course its procedures are modeled after those of the socalled nuremberg tribunal that we established with 3 other allies after world war 2 to try the nazi war criminals and one that was parallel in japan so this is just this a the culmination of an empire the strides that were like a colossus we do whatever we want International Law is whatever we say it is and no other country can do anything about it because we have military and economic might so now its back to the rule the strong do what they can the weak suffer what they must have been around for 2000 years ok so the hair now then mystified how about those who seek you might say to get help. As it is from the Afghan Government when the i. C. C. May want to go that to investigate does that not put for example afghanistan in a very difficult position where i might want to help the i. C. C. Because its not and its country one justice for those that have been killed and they think killed improperly and im more fully and then on the other hand youve got the u. S. I. Yes it does it listen afghanistan basically is a couple of the United States and the fact is they have no leverage the government probably would fall in an instant if we removed our last remaining troops there so what should what this got to do or how can it threaten the United States i mean we dropped a mother robot arms there committed war crimes Nothing Happened in retaliation because the Afghan Government is dependent upon the United States im not celebrating this fact but im just describing reality the afghans are left in the lurch its very very tragic their citizens can be the victims of war crimes and they have no remedy bruce funk in washington d. C. Always good to get your inputs and thank you very much for your analysis thank you. But other news now a multiple mass graves have been discovered in the libyan city of kut huda another however is recently taken from forces loyal to the warlord clique for health or libyas government of national a cold says they contain the remains of government soldiers whod been taken prisoner to huda was have to last remaining stronghold in the west of the country last week the cine recaptured the city when a trainer is in misrata with more on the discovery of those mass graves. Now today forces are saying that theyve been able to recover hundreds or or over 100 bodies in these mass graves these mass graves are yet another indication of the brutality of the libyan conflict and the on the on the residents in the area now in march the u. N. Support mission in libya released a statement saying they received reports of hundreds of enforced disappearances killings and the displacement of entire families in the city of tire huna by the kenyatta again the knife brigade thats the militia that was under the belief in control of the city of through a Un Support Mission also added that they verified numerous summary executions at the to whom the prison on september 13th so now the d. N. A. The Health Officials have told us that they are finding out that civilians are among the dead in these mass graves were also understanding that the d. N. A. Ministry of justice have appointed a committee to identify and investigate but thats the circumstances of the death and the minister of interior but the bush has said they will pursue the perpetrators of these crimes because lynn is an International Human rights lawyer based in london he says the evidence from the last crisis points to war crimes. I think the reports d that are coming out now are sharing that there are also some military leaders who have been executed with hands tied behind their backs and their reports coming out of civilians now of course still theyll need to be investigation to identify the cause of death but it certainly looks in the face that these are executions and thereby construed in a war crime the fact that theyve been buried in a minute mass grave would indicate that these are not individuals who died in the course of both of warfare. If they are military personnel there at the geneva conventions are very clear that the steps that have to be taken when a military personnel are whats called order come out they become prisoners of war and the geneva conventions apply and the fact that these individuals have not been found and in some circumstances where hands tied behind the acts demonstrates something far more sinister its not the 1st time situations such as this. From from have forces carrying out attacks like this its likely to need to go back to the i. C. C. To invest. The bodies of 22. 00 west african migrants including 2 babies have been recovered have to the boat that they were in sank off the coast of tunis here many of the victims bodies