unflinching questions is war with lawanda, imminent rigorous debate. people are dying because of lots of medical treatments, challenging conventional with the fact that people are starting to get angry about this is in itself a sign of progress. join me more for me on hills upfront one out 0. the united nations general assembly votes overwhelmingly for c spa and garza. it came up precisely the same time as israel was launching since attacks us with the vote showing israel and the us mostly isolated over the world. kind of world public opinion make a difference. this is inside story, the hello that i mean chang space in 3 weeks of war. the united nations security council has failed to take any decision of israel's relentless attacks on 2300000

palestinians in gauze. if the security council is like the cabin to the united nations, the general assembly is it's paula with the voice of the world's nations. on friday it spoke loud and clear with an overwhelming vote against israel's bombardment of gossip. what influence will the 1st effective measure of official international opinion have on israel and its main ally the united states? could it have any impact on ending the we'll, we'll be discussing all of this with our panel of guess in a moment. but 1st, victoria gayden be has a report on the u. n. vote on gossip. at almost exactly the same moment as the us ambassador was addressing the united nations general assembly, calling for a humanitarian trees between israelis and palestinians. israel began its most intense bombardment of gauze and since the will began ca, single phone and internet services across the strip and amendment sponsored by canada in the us. that would have added language condemning how mass was very to

down. but the 193 member general assembly passed the main resolution offered by children in the arab group. his adopted goals for an immediate trees, the release of all civilians and the uninhibited flow of humanitarian supplies into gauze and the general assembly prevent and send the appropriate message not only to the palestinian people that there is justice and fairness and international humanitarian law uphold it. by the general assembly, but also it's send the message to everyone enough is enough. this war has to stop us was the only major will power the voted against it. along with 13 other countries, including israel, 45 nations of stains. after the vote, israel's ambassador accused the un old and his woods, insuring not preventing further atrocities. today is a day that will go down in, in inform me. we have all witnessed that the un no longer holds even one ounce of

legitimacy or relevance the resolutions adopted. in the general assembly and binding meaning, israel could ignore it as it's done in the past, with few consequences, 3 weeks into the conflict, the u. n. has finally spoken with one voice. but even with overwhelming support, it's unlikely the resolution will end the bombardment of casa victoria gates and b for inside story the well, let's discuss more on all of this by our panel of guess. and in ramallah, we have had on a schwab already a policy and political leda and full member of the palestinian liberation organization executive committee. she was also a member of the policy and delegation to the middle east. peace talks in the 19 nineties and johanna is book, ronnie cast, rails a full, the south african government minister, a leading member of the african national congress during the apartheid era. and,

and it's all about, it's maliyah ludy who served as pockets stones ambassador to the united kingdom, the united states, and the united nations. we have a most distinguished panel. thank you very much for joining us on inside story boss of the low, deep valley. how can i ask you 1st about the general assembly, because you served as pocket stones ambassador to the united nations? that will be people here who say the general assembly doesn't have any power. it doesn't do. and a thing you during your time is the ambassador. you actually one of the vice presidents of the general assembly. so tell me why the general assembly is important. and i think the general assembly is important because when there's a deadlock in the security council, as we saw when several resolutions didn't get through of the ritual or theme that stopping or the bloodshed, or at least getting humanity and thoughts, then the gender, somebody kicks in it's often guard the parliament of the word with every country

has one vote, and that's a body that really does reflect global opinions of the security council. dr. world has only made up a 15 members of the general assembly was a 192 members of dust demonstrate what the word is thinking. and i think what we saw in this resolution of the work for the resolution was where the word was standing. it was standing on the right side of history. it was conveying that it wants an end to the black chair to the cottage, to the genocide that is going on. and it was it built to those members of the security council who used to be to the united states try many a to prevent any kind of a cease fire or any kind of a board into fighting. so i think ok, so there is a solution is non binding, but i think the force of public opinion and global opinions is extremely important . and the word has spoken and it has spoken decisively against is drawn. and it has

spoken decisively in favor of peace. okay, i don't know, sorry if i could talk to you about the resolution itself. it took a lot of negotiation led by jordan to the our group. let me just read out what it called for an immediate durable and sustained humanitarian truce. but it also cold of, for she amount of terminate to come in and meet you continue with sufficient and hindered . and interestingly, it's specified what should go in water, food, medical supplies, fuel and electricity. this would be, would it not for the product senior people wonderful. if this was actually complied with a yeah, i wouldn't say it's one lesson, but it wouldn't be beginning to undo the injustice and damage and violence that has been inflicted on the palestinians of gas and times of the ending is as done aside, been cj and prevention of on, on the climate on somebody, not in their life, strictly speaking. so yes, it should have taken place that it shouldn't be even under question on about. it's

ready to answer except the chauffeur powers in the west. and given them sense that i do think the systems over the last time that's over 2000000 that a student comes. this is incredible. rodney, when we saw that votes and it's done with electronic voting and the un general assembly was really a snapshot of international opinion where each country stands, every single ambassador or rep, representative, representative, had to say, where they stood on the war in gaza. were you surprised by the way the boat went? no, you know the tool, because we see a month and that is what will be pinions about. and we see and they get no mess. response to this gross criminality falls on this is ro mr. board the united states and others give it. so it was not surprised. i was very pleased to see that we had

to fit in majority. can you imagine if we can set that up, can be the, please the say this of these wrote and the supporters with a being this was a huge model, plugs to those criminals and it shows that the palestinian people, the people who go so that they are not of those that the world stands by them. melia. let me just actually read out the list of the 14 countries that voted against this. that was all straight croatia. check here, fi g, guatemala hungry, marshall islands, micronesia. narrow popping, new guinea power. quite tongue. go. and then of course the us and israel, what do you make of those list? the, the fact that the us didn't even manage to get some of it's very close to stylized like the u. k. i'm from start with them. what i think it was very significant,

the countries like france, a permanent member of the security council broke racks with the united states sorted, assuming that you'd have been countries like spain, like quote, you go and, and others. so i think that just goes to show that the united states is increasingly isolated in the international community with the united kingdom. it's, you know, i am a ally of student in the world. so i think this is a very strong message to washington. the message is very clear, the word wants to blush, it to stop at president biden, by encouraging it is right. is really becoming complicit in what is going on. and i think that's how will it opinion is going. it's not just in the general assembly, you look at the streets, not just the out of the street. you look at the streets across the what, what are the largest demonstrations as taking place in london? they've been lots demonstrations in my country pocket stuff. so i think the message

should be responded to, and i think the united states should shift goals now and did the side of peace and justice. hold on, i'm going to redo the quote from these riley ambassador and he made this quote. in the general assembly, i'd like to know your response. we know there is no humanitarian crisis in accordance with international humanitarian law. he said that in the general assembly, despite what we'll can see of the others as being on the outside lie. he is it, see this ingenuous sometimes of trying to deceive the wife once again, when everybody can see that it plainly, the hardest advice occurs. the startling policies not bombing sending destruction is it's just uncomfortable that they say we know. so they assume that everybody would fall in step and say, yes, i'm class and it's not the 1st time. listen a james, this is i'm ok with the i'm my isn't in particular is that it has to

this day and for the you and it has always described it as actors, riley, or whatever. but it has never implemented its thing the new and is not well. and most of the repo repo is exercised by the u. s. let them in order to save business from any kind of accountability or constraints. so next steps would be many strang . this kind of good not just the suspect or disdain, even inside of the to the international community as symptomatic as an acting outside the law feeling that it can act was fully implemented that nobody was on the account on the other side that it can always lie and the lies to become a game and life on the, on every comforter basis of policy as happened and they're likely with the us. and on the use, the manufacturer knew it was done and saw just like the palestinians. so i think

this kind of this thing is expected, but at the same time what, what makes me very upset and on palestinians is that there's no that i'm not going to consequences. that is not the things to be paid. what does the whole world as maria said this has been kind of thing and song for us. bunch, wait, wait, hold on, sit back and accept this. why can't it enforce? there's no and forced much neglect flexibility, its decisions. and we saw that if that's the cost of a blockage all you and decisions that the security council in order to bring about peace. then the time assembly gains, it's united for peace resolution games affective powers. but so far we haven't seen it. i think that so long as it is treated as a debating society and so long as it's not look, i'm still treated without the account. then how can we hold this into account and

how can we stop this semester, this carnage. rodney, can i move briefly away from the golf? so do you think this has implications for western influence? western diplomats have spent so much political capital over the last 18 months, trying to get support for ukraine trying to get the global south to come on board with ukraine. have expended a loss of that right now with what many will size double standards the co absolutely to proceed. they failed in relation to the cray. the african countries refused to main bravo, beaten into the sessions were g that the us and the you were forcing done of threats. and how that started. this will be even more magnified because what the global saw clearly see is the complicity

of the phone. the colonial power was with the u. s. i the imperialist power that wants to most and dominate the world. but this shines through and it took a really affects the total abuse of people that the global suff and not continue in the, in africa, even way upside the ceasefire issues. other aspects we have frequent states of duty into telling the us so the you long legged rankles, they see the heat pump proceed. they see the racism and enough streets throughout the confident and throughout the global. so even in a place like india, you can see the many of those boxes so outraged at this absolute slow to the us side. and the use states those wisdom, the was

a party to they all criminals. and we must find the way to we. so in sure that, that, you know, we, we spend next week not going to go along with a guy and it's vital. now it's crucial, believe i want to bring you in on this and the whole idea of double standards. and i'm the west because you have a unique perspective, not only where you focused on some boxes of the united nations. you will also focus on passing that to the united states. and you, i, so actually school high commissioner to the united kingdom. so give us your perspective, i think it's going to be known that the west of the us leg west has practiced double standards. they talk about human rights in the country that they are opposed to, but they don't really show much concern for human rights. i mean, in my neighborhood, my country's neighborhood, there is the, the issue of occupied crush me, which like that is dying, isn't occupied data g a and has also seen huge violations of human rights. but

we've not heard any sound or any comment from wisdom countries about these violations. so i think what this will do is to bring into much shop will release the kind of double standards in the book to see that many wisdom countries. i think it be unfair to club for wisdom countries together. some have stored a foot by this time, for example, i'm and i think it's taking a very courageous position. so i think one has to be live together. but i will say that what it does reinforce is the shift in global insurance of from the us led wisdom drunk of countries to the rest. so i think increasingly we will see in a much more multi border setting, the fact that insurance at the global level is not just the monopoly of a handful of countries that have tried to actually to bottle the word of my go panelist, browbeat others into funding in line,

what country is no longer want to fall in line because they want to exercise, they don't supplement, right? to say what the please act the way they please. and to act in the case of palestine on the right side of history on the side of justice and on the side of fitness. i think it's also us are bulky, too old, but when we saw the debates in the general assembly before the vote, we actually with watching it, i was sitting in the studio and now is there a watching it live and see little tenuously in a most remarkable split screen moments, that was the oldest slope going on in gauze or in fact of the us and pass it up. well speaking, giving her speech, i don't now to 0. in another screen we could see really desperate images of explosions and gaza. colleagues, one sided resolutions, whether they are put forward in the security council, or the general assembly will not help to advance piece, not when they,

nor the facts on the ground. so that we have it. the us ambassador, speaking in the general assembly, and at the very same moment those pictures on, on, was that an active is reading the defiance. is that how some, in the general assembly we'll see it. i wonder even what the us ambassador made of that going on while she was speaking. it will look, i think it's not the 1st time. is that the is that is the sort of the, this number that they, the us are some, it's knows that the us on it was somebody us, it's for the blind support, unlimited funds, more lessons and so on. even including the fact that they want the us to find that it's worth on that to be have. so i don't know what that is can it's actually done to now does the on site special or not. but i think it exposes, instruct in the poker c and the i would like to do a go back to employing these by monday is that it's not on the students. it's not,

it's mainly the west stuff. and it was involved in for long have systems, particularly in the south and buttoned on the part of the one that is now behaving with that evidence of the colonial mentality, the wife mass. right. and the fact that the victim is the invisible and that they have to be the other nights and they can and draft some they can take positions pertaining to that i just of that on victims. so this is an ongoing buttons, frankly speaking, that step is even more invest was the creation of the state of isn't on the stadium 9 and 194748, and then continued with a new one. jack is that it can do no wrong is known of course as a colonial outpost. and that has continued is that it must never be had the account . it must be given preferential treatment. what palestinians out of some human species that we can take and we can be invisible, we get them and they kind of you and have to advise us. is that the process,

the whole process of the education on the ethnic cleansing, i've done this time, is something that the west has to embrace to, to speak is to become a western and enterprise. and then that sense, i think we, i'm not seeing the end of colonialism on the country and these are not to them. that's this just as any active system. oh, white supremacy of colonialism, of a sense of entitlement cd ought to be. and this has to be an actual written as well, and as a, as being in a way that is certainly within danger y one page. and certainly within range of all of these systems that weren't created to edwards based order and global do not law . and so on, because it, it stands outside of it. and if you have a international remind me that in law and the convention on all sorts of conventions are human rights and so on that much, they must have

a way of making the less otherwise we will continue to be extra week, a semester of the song of the noise, i'm the industrial countries of the white supremacist and continuing to victimize the global stuff, whether they cannot mentally or politically armada in the evening. i'm getting away with it because they have the instruments of power, mentally, instruments of accountability and control. i'm curbs running. let me bring out what actually seems to have happened on the ground and gaza when we sold those explosions, those dramatic explosions that took place at the same time as ambassadors with meeting in new york. in addition to the water being caught, the electricity being caught up low fuel coming in very limited to aid coming in. now it seems because there is going black to the world, the cell phone services internet services have been cut. what do you make of this

latest blow by israel to the people of gaza? well, it's not part of the most a plan that you want to cut god out of the world in time they, they want the black it out. if i can just make a comment about the coming incidents last night, when the this debate boost, i get guy said to you a, i think that was absolute. take the breath. it's is a rope and it's best to do that. the you a split thing into the face of the world, showing that we bought the boss, those that we don't care the thing about the rest of the world and we are going to destroy palestine. we deal with garza and we will come across the tale. the surviving cup of stadiums couldn't get to it until getting the desolate, etc. so this is what the game is type to leave. but i believe

that the voice together with the sub but the resistance of the palestinian people will prevent that happening. that's vital. that's the message we must will send to the world for the last night that she lives in big about. molly, i'm certainly with the some of the consequences of the internet and phone is being cut off means that people cannot ring for ambulances. it means that you and agencies 8 agents as comp speak to that stuff. they can't do that work just unless kind of reports and get the news out as a form. i'm box it up to the un. do you believe these are additional war crimes bias ro? oh, there's no doubt about it. i think is right. has been committing more crimes for over 50 years, if not more. but what it is doing? no. i think it has completely defied international opinion if it has defied orleans

norms of humanity and what is going on is the kind of black shit that i think in modern history. we have not really witnessed this before. last, i think we also have must look at the consequences for those countries that have been back in this very that have been going on and on. not getting about the beep or dying. and the civilians who are dying in the poses in gaza. but they've been going on and on about is raised, right to defend itself, defend itself. this is defense where you're taking the lives of innocent people. i think they will be consequences for these countries that border, the confronting of crisis, the credibility of humanity. and actually, i think they don't people, certainly, if you look at some of the demonstrations which are going on in cities in the united states itself, you'll see the public opinion there also is watching with honda and anguish about how did one government is encouraging

a country that is cutting out it's like tensing by by i mean, millions of people are being affected by this not and can i bring you in on, on, on that point. but molly has made about protest around the world because of that we've seen very, very large protests taking place all over the world. in fact, we saw one in grand central station very near the un, which was jewish people come painting to stop the war. do you think this protests are going to have an effect? maybe even more of an effect then a vote in the un general assembly? certainly, and yes, i am such a new that will have an exact because they jewish voice for piece of the as not. now, up to the organizations that have been active for some time, including others, jewish organizations that we have worked with for years. i remember before we used to come in for a demonstration on our reprocessed incentives that could be for now we'll have thousands. they went into the cafeteria into congress that occupied congress. they

went into that centered station and the thousands and they made the committee, the spectacle i'm, they gave the nice thing is an essential in all my support that you are not that know that the jewish people of conscience are standing with you. this is very important because isn't it? it wants to claim that it stands for on to speak, something about her own $0.02 on and then old use our designers, photos. you assume. and it's a gen assigned the policies, but that's not true. and they stood up and they stood on the sign. don't just there smell that impact was not only be sent in is right, but it is being sent to the community in the u. s. i mean, look at the public opinion polls the ratings of mind and have come down and obviously as a result of his blind support to base rent. and his embrace all of these work times that his entering through our partnership with these more kind of and i think

ultimately the international criminal court should look at these things. not just a bit. is there any profit? right, that's about that. the apartments on support is on their neighbors. and so let me, let me bring in, let me bring in, ronnie quickly running. um, we don't have much time left, but people power. how important do you think you can be this point? well, just started to recall what happened in the struggle against about that so that for cash rob is similar to so that's it can government and wanted to know all the resolutions, the united nations and the pro destructive world built up to an incredible part of the people's power and getting set that for career itself. and the one cannot depend the estimates, the power of international solidarity, the power in the streets, the power to pressure arise. governance last the us luck from you guys. we had the same opponents, enough struggle against above date and even the end they were forced to buckle. so

this is a very important west for a peaceful way to high the, to minutes a way put, and we'll do everything possible to mobilize the forces that, oh, growing and growing. and we will succeed in the and how that started with that for sure. thank you. very much ronnie, sign q to all our panel today. how to in a while, are you running costs reels? i'm only a lady if you joined us like you can watch the whole program again or any of our other programs by visiting our website out. is there a dot com? do you have any views on our discussion? we'd like to hear from you. you can go to a facebook page that's facebook dot com, forward slash a inside story for on x, that's twitter to you and me search for at a inside story from all the team, please stay safe. i'll catch you very soon bye for now. the

on counting the costs, the war on guns up was the resilience of israel's economy, the test as the nations torres and secular shuts down. how could other middle eastern countries be affected? and the world bank warrens the global economy? is it a dangerous jump? counting the cost on alice's here as the situation in gaza. escalades, we bring you expert news and then analysis. this is not a convention of war between 2 armies able to do states. this is a symmetrical news. really all means is not purposely so to kill children. unfortunately, children can be the casualties of the wall, the test. in real time, we really only taking them to call of the task. this government is mostly to stop the war. as you said, there wouldn't be no peace without justice for stay with us for the latest

development on tuesday and the phones came, folding on guns a day of israel's as strikes. no doubt, most communications in the besieged started the money. in spite of this down is their lives and also coming up a desperate struggle to rescue people trapped on the rubble in guns and medical facilities across the strip.