the, the dw news line from berlin accused of helping israel commit genocide that is explained by nicaragua, against germany, earrings and start that the international court of justice in the hey, logwood, plains, berlin is an accomplice. do a legs genocide, team go on to germany, says the case is not justified. pedal also can be up to night. sky gains is across north america, or just minutes away from seeing where the natures most spectacular shows a total solar eclipse. you're looking at live pictures from now, so it has the new swallows of the sun over parts of mexico in the united states, tens of millions of people in the path of the eclipse are looking up at this moment,

hoping for clear sky the library golf is good to have you with us. so we begin with the accusation. ating in genocide hearings began today at the international court of justice in the hey, we're in the herancha is claiming that germany is, quote, facilitating the commission of genocide in the gaza strip. nicaragua is arguing that germany is breeching international law by supplying weapons to israel for its military campaign against the mos. germany has rejected the accusations. israel has also repeatedly denied committing genocide or war crimes in its response to his mazda is october 7th terrorist attacks nicaragua, his case against germany, has to main goals to hold spellings, military exports to israel,

and to restart german funding for the u. n's palestinian refugee agency. the arguments that germany's actions are in breach of the genocide convention government is taking 2 on the result, another jason to present in the side what with respect of international humanitarian law. gemini, supply of alms to israel, is a central pillar of nicaragua, his case germany is israel, 2nd largest on supply of behind to the united states, accounting for about 30 percent of all israel's weapon imports. nicaragua argues that by continuing to provide these weapons, germany is enabling israel to commit acts of genocide in gaza as the international court of justice is currently examining whether israel has committed genocide in a separate case launched by south africa in bringing this case before the court nicaragua says it is acting on behalf of the palestinian people. i mean, this is a very important case. obviously for out understanding and brothers. but also for

the people in the care, i will, as you may have heard of how expression indicate we have a norm's sympathy with the palestinians, with the suffering device to new people are going through. and that's why we felt, if we had to do something, obviously the only thing we could look into issues the 2 records since it has been one of the few things. i think that i've had some experience with the international court of justice, close ties between nicaragua and palestinian organizations, dates back to 1979 when palestinian groups supported the send. and this the guerrilla forces that over through nicaragua, as dictated, ship germany staunch support of israel, goes back to just off to the 2nd world war. the german government sees supporting israel security as a historical responsibility for germany's actions in the holocaust. lin

categorically rejects nicaragua, as accusations does not, and never did. while at the genocide convention nor international directory is not in the gym and he will get its chance to make its case in court on tuesday. jeffery nice is a barrister who led the prosecution of former serbian presidents up along the looks of age back in 2001 at the international criminal court. i asked him for his take on what is motivating nicaragua to bring this case against german. i am, it is actually quite intuitive. i think if, for example, you know that your labels about 2000 cuz the neighbors pop net and you provide the neighbor with a gun and the neighbor use it. and of course you're responsible for the crime. the impact for the crime, the neighbor commit, sir, it's quite easy to understand. most being said here,

and it's not just in respect to your country, but also an extensive in respect to the united kingdom as well as in america, is that if the time has come and many people think it has, when a israel is coming back to the will no longer be justified in well, of your to then if you provide weapons to assess your country or becoming a partner in breaking the law, the whole that was jeffrey. nice speaking with me earlier, north america, it's about to experience a total eclipse of the song. just a few moments, the path of to tower the will cross of the mexican west coast at mazda at the line in the state of zillow. and it was in head, it's way up, north, west, across the us, in, into eastern candid up here, a live pictures from the west coast and mexico river. thousands of people have

gathered to watch the eclipse from culminate, and the sun being completely covered by the moon. in that moment is expected in the next few minutes. well as people their ways we want to go now to keep count, he's out of there at nasa. watch in washington. d. c. keeps good to see you. so the lunar shadow, just about reaching the mexican west coast as we speak around the city of mazda, of blond. tell me, you just saw the crowd there. i mean, there are thousands of people standing looking up. what is so special about the total solar eclipse? as well this in the past week we had an earthquake on the east coast, which is rare here in the us. and a lot of people were astonished that so much of the ground could move an icicle live on a planet. and the things are moving around well flash toward a week totally unrelated to the earthquake. we have our planet and then our big

move in the sun. and if you think about it for a moment, you're standing on this planet. another world is going to come by like this block, the local store, and it really get into, it does a moment. it was in where you really can sort of appreciate what it's like to live on a planet in the solar system of which they are going to say. and i don't know what the word is, the german, but many, many solar systems in the universe. you can be very, be very small, st. john's and keep and we're looking at these while i think this right now. and we are right now in the moment of totality there on the west coast of mexico. the moon has just moved completely in front. see right there of the sun. i mean, you know, have you experienced a total solar eclipse before? yeah, i have just barely i, i got a gosh. i was reading the edge where it was happening. so i got enough to experience it, but um yeah,

that's what it suddenly gets dark and it gets cool because the sun goes away. and although i didn't see it the right time of day, and i will experience this here in washington the right time of day. if there birds that sharp at certain times of day or night, they think, oh, it's like time. yeah, it'll stop or don't start. it did so the change and we'll get all confused and circle back with the should be doing. but if you're paying attention it has an effect and you can really understand how sudden warms are planning. oh yeah it, it's happening right now. we've got these live pictures showing over the west coast of mexico. it is amazing to see it live as it is half a day the yeah. and what you're seeing is huge. those are, those are slayers cutting off saw it. and then if you were to look really close to the ragged edges, those are the move. so that is the atmosphere shining through. and if you look out,

we're just seeing the corona which you normally could never see. that's the thing about eclipse. you're able to see this stuff because you completely block the sun, but it just are getting into enjoying, it's going to be over at the board to have visitors at most and you're going to get every, keep what is the corona and what we're seeing right now. what is that? that is the super hot atmosphere, son, and again, you can't, none of us can see it. if we're looking up at it during the day, you should look at the site anyways. but by blocking the break break right sun, which jim are corona, is, is visible, but only if you block out the light of the sun, you need to do it by user utah stuff with the little disk or have your local moving part of the sun. yeah, i mean it's nice to get the service and the moon today to do that for as i understand nasa is conducting experiments, but they've got by planes flying in the sky during this. why we, why is

a toyota solar eclipse, a good time to conduct experiments? well, 1st of all, it's, it's far better in many ways. and, you know, these part official things you could do because the way the mood is and so forth. and you're able to see detail that you really can't see with just the telescope of a little disk in front of it. and what they do is they fly the jets on the pass for the shadow is it goes across the or service. meanwhile, those people up with the space they should will be looking down and we'll see if you, which is a bit later you can sort of see the shadow creeping across the united states up to the bridge looking out to the atlantic ocean. but like flying and there's just path, you get more than 4 and a half minutes. you can get 101520 minutes depending how fast you are hired. so we understand, i think up in main the, the town in the united states that will be the last place. they have to challenge that they were expecting a new 9 to 12 private jets to land there today. and there were people that were

going to use their probably yeah, let's do enjoy it. i mean, it, are they getting the best seat in the house, if you will. i don't know. hardly, simon had a son back of the 70 years. so vain about people who did the same thing. i was rather be in the ground looking up with a bunch of people around me. not looking out the window, babysitting it, and spending a lot of money. yeah, that song are. that song said there were clouds in my coffee and i think but in the united states is going to be a lot of clouds in the sky today. i mean, what are you hearing there in terms of visibility? well, it depends. i. i just went outside with my official glasses and i looked up and we don't have any chunks of the sun cut out yet. here in washington dc. it's about to hit texas like you mentioned in the clouds, or there's really not clouds here, but you know, clouds are sort of the one thing you do not want with an eclipse, but those airplanes fly above the clouds. and you said that you bet your glasses

and tell us what, how do you know that the glasses are safe to use to watch to look at the sun a well 1st of all and a geek. so i know all the numbers and in order to get them and so forth. and you can either get these things which are they have a very specific standard on. i mean, you may, you have to make sure that, you know, you're finding the right ones, or you can use welders goggles if you happen to have some, as long as they're grade 12. but it's been very responsible for, you know, governments and nasa, and other places to make these things available to people. you could buy them online, you can, you can, you can pick them up at the local library. so i think it's a very attentive to worrying about people born in their eyes though. and so far i haven't heard anything bad happening. everybody seems to have the same shape glasses and they're all looking up. so, and we're looking at these like pictures, pictures from the west coast and mexico and that moment of fatalities ending now

we're actually seeing the moon begin to move out of the way. and the sun is beginning to reappear again. and you can see the effect that this is happening on the people there. keith, you mentioned the earthquake last week in the northeast of the us and now this solar eclipse. i mean there is almost, there is a certain power that these, these powers of nature have over humans. i think i heard you weren't saying earlier today that this could all, it is almost like a zen moment when you are in the totality of a cell the right? yes, i again have a gig. so i kinda know all this stuff, but i mean, i had an experience so that if you go to uh nasa watch and twitter, i actually posted some pictures. a friend of mine was climbing mount everest and we had some apollo 11 moon rocks and we thought, hey, were bulky, lets eclipse the moon with pieces of the move. and so we got a very profound that this guy had phone space 5 times and we stood back and said,

wow, this is really profound. and it's not, you don't have to be a gate to appreciate this. i mean, you don't even need the glasses. you can go outside of the spaghetti, strayer, and all the little holes will actually form images of the sun down on the paper. and if we have leaves out here, it's the same thing would happen as well. so this is a phenomena anybody following very simple rules can appreciate and understand. and i hope that as a result this some people become astronomers or astronauts. yeah. but i can say, i mean, it makes me wish that i were on the other side of the atlantic right now. because i understand the next time that there will be a total solar eclipse in the continuous united states will be the year 2044. yeah, i'm going to be kind of old. yeah. but but, but there's, you see, there's one of these roughly every year, somewhere around the world. so you just have to get your producers to give you some travel funds that you cover. one, like the way you think there key if kelly, editor of massive watch keith,

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