pulls in place to try and limits the damage, but we have seen in past year matrix drones that sometimes they just don't completely successful. okay. a plus side is of course, the dazzling aurora light figured in places that they aren't normally all. this is looking at a friend posting from a balcony and ireland with a picture of the sky. let's hop and kill those that you know that you've never seen before. so where, and how can people expect to see this? and also i was reading, but you know, if they have this special gloss has left over from the last from the last eclipse in april, that they might actually be able to see some spots that that's exactly right. so for the award, we're seeing it at much higher and lower latitude and longitude. so what we're seeing is that instead of needing to be quite far south or north to see the aurora, it's creeping on down search. uh, one of the best bits of advice is just go outside when it becomes stock in the evening and try and catch a glimpse. you might even be able to set your phones to take a long exposure image to try and catch the beautiful ribbons of dancing line across

the sky. and yes, if you do have safe, solar viewing equipment, that is substantial to actually see the sun spots that have caused this on this to your magnetic event. so it is, it is a bright side to this. yes, we are concerned that it could affect our infrastructure, but it really sometimes is on my so once in a lifetime, opportunity for people who do not live near the north and south poles to see override and action. so our web strong and that's when the university of technology and melvin has been great to get your expertise on this. thank you for your time. we really appreciate it. thank you for helping me. its environmental activists in germany have tried to storm a factory owned by electric call and make a tesla near the capital berlin. hundreds of people broke through police lines and an attempt to occupy the pond. the activists want to stall the comic as plans to expand its manufacturing capabilities. several demonstrations arrested at least 3

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elections causes political return, reignite the separatists bid for independence, and how would it impact spain's political landscape? the catalonia elections on a jersey to palestinians play rafa following. israel's latest assault on the guides of strip will challenge the support of israel, who believes is really military's contacting guys. it has been just for the 1st in march. you, as president joe biden said that an invasion of rough up would be a red line in the united states of support for israel. so we'll divide the administration finally, take decisive action terrain in israel. and with a growing discontent within the administration itself, have an impact on policy will be asking those questions to a former spokesperson for the us state department. last week became the 1st career diplomat to reside in protest of bite and support phrase room. this was headliner, colorado, the hello,

right. thank you so much for joining us upfront. thank you so much for having me, mark. how about you? you've had an extensive career in us foreign service. last week you became the 1st career diplomat to resign over the united states as policies toward israel, but particularly the continued assault on guys of now israel siege, of course, is the length of the desk, the more than 34000 people. and it's destroyed much of the territory. after 18 years in the state department. how did you arrive at this decision? honestly marked it was an agonizing decision i never intended to resign. when i joined the foreign service, i expected it to be my career for the rest of my life, really until retirement. but unfortunately, presidents golf, the policy made it absolutely impossible. it was an indefensible policy. and it's, it's a violation of international law of domestic law. and then the conscience, i could not continue amplifying this policy because for one it hurt us

national security interest. and i was able to document that and it was clear that that was the case throughout the air world. it was also causing a generational cycle of pilots, as you noted the devastation for the palestinians, but also it failed to achieve any objectives to keep this really safer or get the hostages back. a. it was a failed militaristic policy. it continues to be a field policy and i could not in good conscience, stay within the system and promote this policy. israel has begun its invasion of the southern guys, a city of about 5 in march. you as president joe biden had called rafa invasion, a red line for the united states that it was a step too far. that would prompt the us response. now the is your eyes crossed the red line? do you think that the by the administration is going to change is the current stance. i certainly hope so,

and i have to say that the german netanyahu announced the invasion of the house right after secretary blinking was wheeled up from his trip into israel, where he again reiterated the us position, that they should not go into the, considering the civilian population but this is the frustration that's been with this policy this entire time. it's been just words. and diplomacy is an arts and you have to use your leverage and we haven't used any of the leverage that we have on as well. and so it is time now for president biden to take action. words are no longer sufficient. now is the time to leverage our influence by conditioning military aid at the very least, putting a sense of weaponry in line with us law. you know, at this point, there are many people who will look at the recent developments. for example, this week, it was reported as us has halted the delivery of munitions to israel. the people

who say, well, this is just a superficial move with this is just public relations that they're still going to try it out. those talking points that you mentioned that there are, that there's still to be empty, promises and leak. uh, you know, statements about buying this back door debates with nothing. yahoo! but at the end of the day, the status quote is going to maintain, how hopeful are you that things are changing and or, or, or, or not. this in march it's been, it's, it's very difficult. uh, i want to be helpful. i want to believe that they're going to take tangible steps, but at the same time, i've been in the service long enough to know that i'm not going to hold my breath until i actually see action. the whole was significant, but it was also a drop in the bucket and it was a policy shift. there continues to be rhetoric coming out of the white house and out of the, the department saying that we're going to continue. and we're going to amplify military assistance. now, it's not the time for that. then ministration needs to wake up and realize this

military policy has been a failure on all fronts. have the same something to have it is in that vein, right? if it's unethical, if it's in humane all the people or die, if it is bad for us security interest, if it is bad for israel's interest, these are all the things you've just said. why are we continuing with the status, quoting this, the $1000000.00 question right? because there's been ample analysis coming from the field a bit. this public knowledge at this point from diplomats not just me, but from multiple sources. and even if the under us government, i mean for every interest actually every single international organization calling for a sustain ceasefire, yet the by didn't ministration and present. invited himself continues to insist on this policy. our role as diploma is to provide information to washington that helps guide policy, but clearly the foreign policy is being made elsewhere. i fundamentally believe

that our system domestically is, has issues. politicians should not be able to profit from war. for example, the people deciding whether or not we send military assistance to a foreign country should not be the ones also getting campaign contributions from the arms industry or from lobbying groups that represent foreign governments. as a diploma, i have to have had to have an open book. my life was a complete open book. they know everything about us as rightly so, because we're serving the people, we're serving the country. we can't be making any profit off of our work. personally. we're doing everything we're doing for the country and for the people in the united states, it should be the same for politicians and as a diploma, i could not help the super, frustrated with the realities of our domestic political process. and it's undue influence on our foreign policy. the speaking of policy, internal criticism of us policy is not necessarily new. in fact,

uh you said before that robust discussion is what leads. 1 to change is what keeps the wheels turning. it's the norm with respect to the situation in gaza. however, you've mentioned that officials are afraid to voice disagreement against that prevailing policy. why is there a kind of climate of fear around this issue as it does, is coming from the top down directly from the top down. and when there is a situation like that, which in my 18 year career has been unprecedented, it's very difficult to shift things or even provide a contrary in analysis. so when i voice concerned repeatedly, i was silenced. i was sideline. there were actions taken against me. it has a chilling effect. so when i hear about your or deal, when i hear about your resignation and the reason why i'm left to wonder and i know

many people watching are left to wonder. is it even possible to change u. s. foreign policy in israel from within the i don't want to be hopeless. we are seeing a lot of churn within the department. clearly and within the interagency, there was supposed to be a determination today from the department to congress, whether or not as well was violating human rights. that submission has been delayed indefinitely, which i wonder why, but there is, there are a lot of good people in the department trying to do good work and trying to push back on the administration in ways that were advocating for the united states at the end of the day that's our job or advocating for us interest. so what our role is is to help the secretary or the president make informed decisions. and we're doing everything we can to do that. but then at the end of the day they have, they have to make the call and they have to take action, not just change, right,

right. hello, right, thank you so much for joining us and upfront. thank you so much. was the israel's war on gaza has been going on for 7 months. and just hours after, from us agreed to a cease fire proposal, israel laurence to ground invasion and seize control of the border crossing in or off, or where within $1000000.00 palestinians had been sheltering. meanwhile, here in the united states the correct down against campus protesters, calling for an end to us support for israel is more on gaza. continues, students have faced violence from the police. they've been arrested, they've been suspended, and some have even been expelled. jeremy, now to discuss this is about to younger sar. guarantee is the opinion editor at newsweek and believes that is really military's conduct and gaza has been just thank you for joining us. let's talk about what's going on right now. israel has killed nearly 35000 palestinians number that includes more than

a 13000 children the head of the world food program now has stated that then the northern guys entered a mode of full blown famine. you made the case that israel had the right to respond to the october 7th for master techs. at this point though, do you see is real response as proportional? yeah, absolutely. um, 1st of all, the numbers that you cited we get from had asked which, you know, has an interest in inflating the numbers. in fact, how nice itself released to report on telegram about a month ago in which it stated that it cannot account 411000 of the people that they thought had been killed. effectively reducing the number to 22000 by how mass is own count. what proportion it means is, it's not the proportion of civilian casualties on either side that we are comparing proportion and a war is the number of civilian casualties, proportionate to the operation. and when you think about the number of have mass

militants, israel has killed relative to the a tragic civilian casualties. it's very clear that that number is waste in the realm of what we have considered to be just war for, you know, modern history that you saw a couple of points 1st. um the, the guys and help them ministry historically has been very accurate with its depth reports. they held up to you and numbers within 4 percent of they've helped to israel's own scrutiny. in the past, they filled out to the westbank palestinian authorities. a numbers of course, they're not friends with for math. so if it, whether it's israel, whether it's the west bank or whether it's outside international bodies, these numbers tend to be pretty accurate as far as the, the 11000 number that you mentioned. i read the telegram in english and in arabic, and it wasn't that it couldn't account for the bodies. they just want to additional information, identifying those people. so i just wanna be clear,

i want people to think that somehow somebody started missing 11000 bodies in the beat, inflated the numbers. there's no evidence of it. but to your more fundamental point, which i think is an interesting one. we've seen some things that seem to be outside the boundaries of just war and countless human rights observers have documented how the attacks in you guys have been somewhat indiscriminate, a residential buildings being bombed schools or refugee camps hospitals. you know, even journals have been targeted. how do you make sense of it? i think the word targeted there is being misused. there are always tragic tragic occurrences in any war and what we have to what we have to determine in the case of israel and gaza is, are these war crimes, or is this just more which is always horrific? yeah, there are always tragedies in war. israel requires for any military attack to independently verify pieces of intelligence to attack a building or even more so for

a school or for a civilian building. you know, i'm curious what you think of the fact that israel has not entered a single hospital in gaza in which they did not find evidence, but how mass had been using it to a certain degree. now you might say, they've inflated the number of things they would have expected to find there. that they said there was going to be, you know, some huge compound and that maybe they didn't find it. and some of these cases, the ones that was on the box of dates i was like, you know, if i look under a, a hospital like i ship them for example, and i see, you know, minimal evidence of, of, of, from mass presents there. it makes me say, or this isn't a military target but, but that, but there's a bigger point here that i want to get at which your point, for example, are israel's october 9th straight. when did you buy the refugee camp and killed 39 people according to the you and office of high commission on human rights is real, provided no military objective. they provided no advanced warnings. this is an

example where this seems to be indiscriminate and certainly outside the boundaries of law. the vast majority of the operation has been based on not a single but inch on to independently verify pieces of evidence that a situation is used by some us any military way. now, of course, how would you explain these really represent me? 39 people's a large number, how would you explain it? then? this is a war, right? but there was no military objective and no advanced warning or those those 2 things can be defensive. um i, i'm not, i'm, i can't recall that specific event, but i can, i mean, there was even from his rails point of view, they killed 3 hostages in an accident during one of these operations. that obviously was not intentional, right? it would make sense to me, they're killing 39 people with no military objective or advanced warning seems different to me but, but let me give you another example of october 31st is really a military or something happens when a 6th story apartment building

a new the new sonata refugee camp in central guys is that one killed a 106 civilians, including 54 children, according to human rights watch. no evidence of a military target in the vicinity of the building at the time of the attack and is really far as of effort, no justification for the attack and the use of large numbers. how do we explain that? does that give you pause at least no, because you know, this is a war and in a war you have to go on the evidence that you have on the intelligence that you have. there are also evidence and the vast majority of israel's operations and guys that have been based on a lot of intelligence, they've significantly weekend, how mazda is ability to organize and to holley against them, that i hear you saying the majority, but i give you another example in february, a group of you in special preparatory to express their concern about the quote deliberate targeting an extra traditional killing of palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge or while fleeing. some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by these really army. again,

they are for every sort of claim that this is the just war and that you know, bad things happen in war. there are just numerous instances where they seem to be clear violations of the rules of war, clear violations of international law, clear war crimes being committed. uh, is it possible that 2 things are true, right? that there are some unfortunate casualties that happened. maybe the house that situation that you're describing. but at the same time, the also israel has committed some more crimes here. and there's probably at the end of this going to be evidence that israel has committed some more crimes. there has never been a war in which they were not work. crimes committed to that does not get to the heart of whether this is a just war and whether as i keep saying, the vast majority of the operation has been done. according to the rules of international law, but of course there has never been award without war crimes and there will be evidence of those. the shooting of the 3 hostages is of course, you know, very good example of one that even i think is where i would acknowledge. so do support then a full scale investigation of is really work arms. and um, of course,

i mean, why would we not, who would not want that? you'd be surprised how many guys have had one who say just the opposite. let's talk about these campus partners. i wanna talk to that because that's obviously something that's incredibly important in the united states conversation right now. you refer to students protesting as quotes into fido revolutionary wannabe's saying, ok, i hear you having a bit. i mean, it's an interesting try to frame you say that they're a privilege, quite cast, engaging and self indulgent narcissism where they chat and to find a revolution, right? like, what would you, i mean, they check their check, that's their chance, right? so i'm laughing because of the one of these part because like a someone who lived through the actual empty bottle like, you know, they need, it's like, i don't think that they're actually dangerous, but i think that they wish they were in a way because they chance into father revolution, right? that's like what, what, what do you think that mean by like vibes or um it's essentially course i guess what i was curious about was you equating the anti war protests to narcissism and self and don't ask, well that's the problem. i'm yeah, yeah, cuz cuz i,

i'm outraged about it actually because testing is deserve. but advocates and this is not that. and the reason i know that is because i look at what doctor king did, which was appealed to the common humanity in every person and say you are like me and i am like you. and i know that together this nation is better than what we are right now and can be. and he managed to change the nation to me, what these people are doing is the opposite. they're not showing up in saying, um, you know, the occupation is unbearable, right? how can we create a situation where israel will no longer be doing that? how can we convince the most amount of people in the us but also in israel, which is like the stakeholder here, and the person who hasn't been empty, it has control over it. so that this is the wrong way, and here is a different path. they are not trying to appeal to the broadest swats of the american people and changed mind still doing the opposite or intentionally using

extremely violent, vile, and triggering language to limit the number of people who are going to agree with their cause to limit it. so that they can feel moral superiority over everyone who doesn't agree with them. and i think that that's already just a couple couple thoughts. um the, the 1st thing i think the difference with the king argument is that in okay, was, was convincing his fellow citizens. yeah. mystically on it kind of civil response to structural injustice internally, i think that's different than kings response say to the vietnam war. he wasn't challenging the campus protest when king died. and 68, he wasn't saying we shouldn't be on college campuses protesting the war. it was our war. we are not fighting in god funding it though, and that's, that's that's, that's literally our, that's the argument. are we the just to me that's the argument of the students are making. they're saying that we're funding it to our tax dollars. we are sending weapons, and the universities that they're at are literally investing in these real estate.

and so they're calling for our divestment movement. they're saying we're complicit and we want to stop by complaints. but what we are actually doing, and this is the way the vast majority of american c a is we are helping an ally that does actual work for as a bad majority. yeah. 80 percent of americans back israel over on us. yeah. but, but, but 55 percent disapprove of visuals wash in gaza, a 70 percent support a permanent ceasefire. and the escalation by law does not support a permanent fees. and that's a yahoo. i support department and fees by use abuse and not this minute, but you need the war if that is not what they're talking. no, of course the boards pays. yeah. the guys crazy like that. it was not saying that is what they're saying. they're saying we like it and we want peace, but not a permanent ceasefire. everybody want to say no to that. people who believe that a permanent ceasefire is not possible because they believe that from us is perpetually violent. and that the only way they can, we can be controlled is by israel, maintaining

a back to control and effectively in apartheid domination of all the historic power . so that's what lots of personal logs but, but again, 52 percent, believe it and us commissions, heart weapons shipments to israel until israel stops the attack them above the o. it's entail israel stops. the question was, should america, i mean the, the pull that i thought should america cease halls, shipments of weapons to israel until israel stops hosting humanitarian aid? we don't, i'll read the trick that's just not accurate. i'll read the questions. okay, that is the study that i saw with. there's 2 more than one study and the one i read and i'm calling from says do you think that the us should stop weapon shipments, the israel until israel discontinued? it's a tax on the people of guys that input and 52 percent said yes, because the 27 percent of the people of gods are they are on how mass and how massive infrastructure and how mass militants. but then they're there been other people who have, who have made the claim that we're not at war with, from as what war with the state of guys, we're at war with the palestinian people say stupid things. i'm. yeah. but some of

them are in the people and got people in our government phase different things the john bolton, for example. we can't just say all people say crazy things. if you're the, if you're the architect inform policy that's different. i'm telling people in the cabinet or thing, the stuff. yeah, you have to show that it's had an actual impact on the way that the war is being executed. and what i did earlier i, i showed all the different, the refugee camps, the hospitals, the indiscriminate strikes that are killing dozens of people. i'm just going to give you an example here. a retired major general uh your uh, island. uh, also former head of national security council and the current advisor to the defense of ministers is this isn't just some retired guy was just talking from his chair. he clearly stated on november 19th that the whole guys and civilian population was a legitimate target, and that quote, severe epidemics in the south of the guys district will bring victory closer. so even the epidemics and then in the, in the south, are seen as evidence of defeating the, quote unquote interviews. epidemics aren't happening just from mazda mazda. is it

just carvings? a mazda is just getting 6. he said, israel is not fighting against a terrorist organization, but against the state of guys, the business, the advisors of administer of the place. you deny that how mass has a political wing that runs the state of gaza. i mean, the state meaning, like the political wing of having us, here's the, here's the problem. if you say we're fighting against all of the palestinians, they're all a legitimate target. and i'm not finding it from asthma. if i, the one should say everybody's a target, i don't think that's what it is, but i don't need to defend that. i need to defend the id f operation. and for the connection between i, there is no connection between that. because i know that the idea is not responding to what the square, no, looking at how r, as in history. oh, how the do? this isn't, this isn't the charge. it doesn't get off my law. this is the end of advisors administer the what the idea of has done on the ground. yeah, it's a fact that they have issued millions and millions of warnings. i mean,

this has never happened in the history of warfare before, where a military is literally telegraphing to the enemy, what they are about to do in order to warn civilians to get them out of harm's way . that has never happened before in the history of warfare. but a military is literally warning the enemy to protect the enemy's civilian what, what we have seen it before. we've seen it and sir, we've seen it in a row, but to the degree that these are really great and i was, i was respect your initial claim, which is that no, my armies ever done it, but the 2 millions and millions and millions of messages, warnings multiple warnings, literally allowing their targets to escape to protect the civilian population. i mean, does that not have any merit with you? do not think that's deserving of like, it's like recognition that people should recognize that that happens so. so i think this isn't extraordinary to get to allow civilian population. so normally the extent to which the idea of go with is extraordinary. all right,

but unfortunately we're out of time, so we have to leave it there by the younger started on. thank you so much for joining me on upfront. everybody. that's our show upfront. we'll be back the hundreds of officers closing in on the area where the students have been protesting against israel for them guys for almost 2 weeks. they also want the university to stop investing in companies. they say profit from east wales war. some of the students tried to prevent the police from entering the university, one by one. they were arrested. the police then rated hamilton hall and their objective to detain. the students who had barricaded themselves inside. they broke a window and entered view of the 1st floor. candles broke out on the capital. the students were evicted from the holy. johnson's were arrested. even the students

that were detained, nobody is resting, and we will not stop until columbia. it's our demand. columbia university is a place that inspired a movement across the united states to demand an end to the world got how many of the students would have spoken to are saying that whatever happens next, the students of columbia university have already made history a 106 kilometer stretched remote and perilous jungle. going the land route to south america for migrants. city, the size of the united states. a voyage, but for some is their loss. none the less for compass families, it's a risk. they are willing to take full lines in the box on this unforgiving journey to tell the story of one of the children of the dairy and go on up josie to the the

challenges with the as well continues to bombard eastern and central, but also with intense air strikes, 20 bodies arrive at alongside special hello on elizabeth, put on them, and this is all just even live from. don't ha, also coming up a damning but cautious report. the us says israel's use of american weapons may have broken into national no one gaza the results of the root is as follows.