Murders. And warnings parts of the us could soon be overwhelmed by a resurgence of covert 90 with new cases near their late april peak. And in school liverpool move within touching distance of the premier league title the closing in on a big win of a Crystal Palace that would take them to the brink of the championship. Un secretarygeneral antonio has urged israel to abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank calling it a watershed moment and the most serious violation of International Law members of the Un Security Council and the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week our diplomatic editor james baker has. With the clock ticking towards a july deadline for an accession the u. N. Secretary general made his position to the Security Council extremely clear if implemented and accession constituted of serious violation of International Law or grievously harmed the prospect of a 2 state solution and the gulf the possibilities of a new will of negotiations i call on the Israeli Government were bound and its an exception class Palestinian Foreign minister maliki says the israel of Benjamin Netanyahu doesnt believe its bound by International Norms or laws israel things as has been its experience so far that it will not be fined or asked in its millions that Security Council resolutions are binding for others. International course have jurisdiction over others sanctions are well others israels ambassador demeter non went back in history to justify an accession ever more that led the people of israel out of egypt. Over into the land of israel we dont live in the land that gather one of our jewels or believe in an exit out sovereignty in the land but the vast majority 14 out of 15 members of the Security Council are following more recent history the councils own resolutions what israel took East Jerusalem the west bank and gaza in the 1967 war the Security Council declared in numerous subsequent resolutions that these were occupied territories since then large parts of this Palestinian Land has been taken over by Israeli Settlers but this is the 1st time in 52 years that israel has come close to declaring sovereignty and taking permanent political control it is never been arent yet to impose a solution the only country that could stop it is close ally the Us Ambassador kelly craft said little on the issue of annexation but speaking at the same time as her in washington d. C. Her boss the u. S. Secretary of state was clearer decisions about his release and its this is it is this is a decisions that you really just made some might see that as a green light for israel certainly israel is now in the driving seat its not clear if it will actually carry out an exception and if it does when it will take place and how much of the west bank will be annexed james aljazeera of the United Nations. Richard fall is a former un special rapporteur for occupied palestinian territories and current chair of global law at Queen Mary University here in london he joins us via skype from a a yellow kava in turkey sir thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera the u. N. Secretary general calls the potential enix ation by israel a most serious violation of International Law do you agree with him and how do you read this potential move by israel yes is no question that it is as flagrant about lation International Law as you can imagine. Back in 1967 after the. Israeli occupation of the west bank East Jerusalem and gaza a unanimous Security Council resolution concluded that no territory can be acquired by force and thats been viewed unanimously including by the United States in the past and so its not even an interesting question from a legal point of view its so clear that israel is defying International Law and is counting on its past impunity and counting on the geo political muscle of the United States to be able to manage whatever reaction occurs whether this is a correct assessment of the situation remains to be seen as a lot of pressure building up against an exaggeration including even in israel itself i mean you mentioned that this is a clear violation of International Law but International Law only has teeth if theres people behind it willing to to enforce it and i suppose what weve seen all just now but in the past decades is that no one really has shown that kind of willingness think this now at least takes away the pretense for the International Community that a compromise can be found that we are working towards a 2 state solution. Yes i think thats the politically explosive dimension of this undertaking it strips away the the delusion that a compromise was what the United States and israel were seeking and it makes rather clear that what is happening is the imposition without diplomas of a israeli version of a one state solution and that is a radical political step it is in a way confirming the de facto annexation that has been taking place ever since 1967 in the form of a stablish ing more than 240 israeli unlawful settlements in the west bank as well as creating a network of jews only roads that connect the settlements to israel and also the separation wall built on. Palestinian territory which the world court declared by a vote of 14 to one was a serious violation of International Law what do you think will be the impact of all of this son nick station which have a form it takes both all on the palestinian territories themselves but also in the wider region weve already heard the arab league you know use quite explosive language saying it could ignite a religious war. Yes i think its uncertain how this will play out if israel in fact goes ahead with the annexation plan that netanyahu has projected ever since the election in these various elections that israel has recently had in the past of cos when israel and next to go on. Around it when the u. S. Moved its embassy to jerusalem there was a lot of hostile discussion coming from the arab world but nothing really happened and so one wonders whether this time it will be significantly different is there more than rhetoric at work here and as far as International Laws concerned its true that it needs enforcement to be affected but when it has geopolitics behind it can be very effective the problem here is that israeli but ill ations of International Law had geopolitics behind those violations so its that. Can fluence of what the u. S. Is doing and what israel is doing that makes this such a distinctive reality and this has been reinforced by the fact that israels own an exception plans call for an unprecedented deference to the United States to give its approval and as your earlier report indicated the american secretary of state. Indicated that it was up to israel to decide. Had its sovereignty over the west bank and so do one has a very unusual situation where a country is conditioning its claims on approval by another country and the other country isnt taking responsibility for what the claims that will be made so its very uncertain and complex what will happen and its very controversial even in israel where on the one side there is the great pressure that israel should pursue its expansionist agenda while donald trump is still the us president and on the other hand there is the fear that this will create instability in the neighboring countries at possibly great consequences harmful consequences for israel so it is a moment of decision i think it is indeed richard fault former un special rapporteur for occupied palestinian territories sir thank you so much for having joined us we know its very late where you are havoc in turkey so we really appreciate it thank you thank you for having me. Cos of us president has pulled out of a meeting with servian officials at the white house on saturday after he was indicted for war crimes prosecutors at a court based in the hague say that hashem touchy and 9 other former separatist fighters are responsible for nearly 100. 00 murders other charges related to enforce the disappearance and torture a special court has been investigating crimes against ethnic serbs during kosovos war of independence in the 1990 s. Al jazeera is of me i am attach a small fish to well. Because of all precedent hushing thought she and the former speaker of the parliament a couple of a silly who has also been invited were commanders of course of the Liberation Army during the war in 9099 many times they were confronted with questions related to alleged war crimes then they always been annoyed and the wrong doings and the implications of the indictment thing possible could be big and they are already starting to show possible precedent have already canceled his trip to washington on saturday. At the white house he was supposed to meet with the serbian president to talk about the dialogue and the ways how to normalize relations between kosovo and serbia after many decades of tensions the 1st to react after the indictment was made public were the cause of a Liberation Army veterans they say the course of the Liberation Army did not commit and they work crimes and they were only defending their families from Serbian Forces who were committing systematic atrocities in kosovo one of those invited indicted is the president of the Democratic Party of costa he says the charges are politically motivated. I hope would be to answer for them as theyre not all covered. With these controversial statements the prosecutor is trying to hide the real motive which looks like its political i want to assure people that i will not allow this prosecuted to denigrate the kosovo Liberation Army. We were forced to defend ourselves and our people and their country and we would do it again if they want to accuse us we will prove with facts that the k. L. A. Fought an honorable war for kosovo against one of the most aggressive in the world led by a serbian criminal gang. Us President Donald Trump has hosted his 1st International Visitors since the coronavirus pandemic he welcomed polish president under a do that to the white house to discuss the fence trade and energy 2 days running in a closely contested general election on sunday and hes hoping that the visit well give him a boost at a joint press conference trumpery yes or a said that u. S. Troops would be moved out of germany because of how little it pays nato what some of them going to poland paying a very small fraction of what theyre supposed to be paying should be paying 2 percent and theyre paying a little bit more than one percent depending on how you calculate you could also calculate they paid it that being less than one percent but if you assume theyre paying one percent thats a tremendous. Delinquency lets use that word delinquency so were going to be reducing our forces in germany some will be coming home and some will be going to other places but poland would be one of those other places other places in europe well in freshers life for us at the white house and was listening to that News Conference delinquency thats quite a strong word that the president is using there to describe countries that according to him dont pay their fair share. For nato who were the main points do you think that came out of that News Conference between the polish and american president. Well the to be fear brother was a great deal of news certainly were donald trump was talking about something that hes talked about on previous occasions that he believes the number of countries havent reached the 2 percent threshold for spending on defense that need to require is of course that was set at a summit in wales its 2024 is when theyre meant to hit that figure so the fact that many of them havent done it right no isnt really a strong argument from donald trump but he believes that hes managed to cajole more countries in to spending a lot more and defense one of those would be poland that has spent a great deal of money renewing its military including on us fighters and thats really Donald Trumps driving point that he wants to see money spent and he wants to see money spent on weapons being sold from the United States now hes already talked about moving troops out of germany he said at the News Conference they had 52000 at one point theyre going down to 25 the actually of 35000 at the moment the plan is to go down to 25. 00 at least a 1000 of them will be moved to poland and certainly donald trump held out the possibility that a few more possibly up to a 1000 more could well join them in poland was the polish president pleased about this well i think hes always happy that people will move across donald trump said that when the 1000 troops score then poland will be paid for it so if theres more to go or not entirely sure the polish president has budgeted for that but he also expressed his concern that the americans were pulling out of germany he didnt want to send their own message to russia he wants to make sure that the russians understand that need towards eastern flank is still strong so wasnt perhaps entirely in agreement with donald trump but its certainly a theme that donald trump has a ton to again and again he believes its a success that hes managed to get countries to pay more in defense something well hear a lot more about between now and november the 3rd al officially the latest there from the white house silence thank you. Well staying in the u. S. Knew her and a virus cases there have risen to their highest level in 2 months with about half of americans 50 states seeing a surge more than 2300000 infections and 121000 deaths have now been reported across the u. S. Both numbers are the highest in the world new jersey and new york and connecticut have imposed quarantine periods for travelers from other states with a high infection rate but secretary of state my pump says hes confident the u. S. And the will be able to agree on a range plans for the resumption of International Travel there have been reports the European Union is considering temporarily blocking americans from traveling to e. U. Countries. Californias governor and Gavin Newsome says people shouldnt be surprised that the state is experiencing a spike in corona virus cases he ordered californians to wear face coverings when in public last week sparking more resistance from residents who say that they believe the emergency is over were still in the 1st wave will get through this there will be a vaccine we will get to a point where we can substantially go back to the way things were with modifications so we never go through this again theres no doubt that will happen be optimistic not pessimistic but let us be responsible at this moment to meet it head on with the new reality that we are seeing an increase in spread as more people mix as the economy opens up as more people are out and about the World Health Organization says half the worlds kovac 1000. 00 cases are now in the americas where more than 2 122000. 00 people have died its urging governments across latin america to Work Together as cases surge across the region. The pandemic for many countries in the americas has not peaked they are not reaching a law level of transmission within which we can achieve a sustainable exit from from from from. Public a little social measures or extreme Public Health and social measure so i would characterize the situation in the americas in general central and latin america in general is still evolving not having reached its peak yet speaking of not reaching the peak brazil is just reporter more than 42000. 00 new coronavirus cases and 1185. 00 deaths in the last 24 hours taking its total number of deaths to nearly 54000 theres also been a record rise in new virus cases in mexico which reported more than 6200 infections late on tuesday there are now nearly 192000 confirmed infections and more than 23000 people have died but the country has been criticized for a severe lack of testing to get more now from john holeman in mexico city so tell us a little bit more about the situation in mexico what reaction has there been to the fact that we are now seeing another record rise. I think that depends on who you talk to if you talk to scientists and you talk to medical professionals their reaction to that would be why are we easing the law down in the country we need people to stay at home weve been speaking to people in intensive care units and ambulance workers over the last month and theyve just been saying everyone should just be staying at home of ways were going to get overwhelmed the medical system in mexico hasnt been overwhelmed so far but thats their worry now on the other hand youve got the government that saying guess we need to bear that in mind the countries coronavirus saw google has got tell had said the mets group of law and the curve by now and it obviously hasnt done that we said we also bear in mind that weve got to get working again an