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The Rest of the World Report | October 9, 2026 — Evening Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good evening from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Friday evening, October 9th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award in Oslo,
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  SPEAKER_00: decided her work to promote peace and international law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Committee Chair Jorgen Watney Freidness said international law is
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  SPEAKER_00: under heavy pressure and its institutions are under attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pillay is a South African jurist.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's 85 and she was born in Durban.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1967, she opened a law practice in Natal province.
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  SPEAKER_00: She defended anti-apartheid activists, Nelson Mandela among them.
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  SPEAKER_00: She later sat on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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  SPEAKER_00: The committee singled out her role in establishing that rape
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  SPEAKER_00: and sexual violence can be crimes against humanity and genocide.
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  SPEAKER_00: She served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.
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  SPEAKER_00: She now sits on the International Court of Justice in the case of In
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  SPEAKER_00: which Myanmar stands accused of genocide against the Rohingya.
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  SPEAKER_00: She also chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: It concluded last year that Israel is responsible for genocide in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leigh said Friday that Gaza Report was the last thing she delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: She asked why telling the truth should take courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: She learned of the prize in courtroom 600 in Nuremberg,
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  SPEAKER_00: where Nazi leaders were tried after World War II.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was attending a conference there.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the room applauded,
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  SPEAKER_00: she joked that if it applauded louder, she might share the prize with Donald Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amnesty International's Agnes Calamard filmed it and posted it on X.
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  SPEAKER_00: The joke referred to last year's winner,
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  SPEAKER_00: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado,
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  SPEAKER_00: who offered her medal to Trump in January.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they dedicated the award to survivors of international crimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel's foreign ministry responded in a post on X.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said the award was being used as a weapon to legitimize hatred of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres International Crime Corps President Tamoko
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  SPEAKER_00: Akane and South African President Cyril Ramfosa praised the choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hours after the announcement,
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the committee had demeaned
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  SPEAKER_00: the prize by giving it to Pillay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House also sanctioned the International Criminal Court that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll have that story below.
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  SPEAKER_00: William Shabas,
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  SPEAKER_00: an international law professor at Middlesex University in London,
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  SPEAKER_00: read the prize as recognition of the institutions Pillay worked in,
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  SPEAKER_00: the ICC among them.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also called it a mild endorsement of her UN report on Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prize is worth 12 million Swedish kronor, about $1.2 million US.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ceremony is in Oslo on December 10th.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump told reporters Wednesday that it would be a great discredit if he did not win the prize.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced them Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier, U.S. sanctions hit the court's prosecutors and judges.
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  SPEAKER_00: These target the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: They block its property in the United States and bar anyone from providing it funds,
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  SPEAKER_00: goods, or services.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are due to take effect in 180 days unless an agreement is reached.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rubio said in a video, either the ICC will end its threats or we will end the ICC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shortly after the announcement, the Treasury Department issued four general licenses.
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  SPEAKER_00: They allow some transactions for the court's telecommunications,
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  SPEAKER_00: software and pension payments, and for transactions linked to its detainees.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court has about 900 staff in 125 member states, and it's based in the Netherlands.
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  SPEAKER_00: The administration points to a past investigation into the actions of U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: soldiers in Afghanistan, which the court describes as deprioritized.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also points to the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
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  SPEAKER_00: And former Defense Minister Yoav Galantz.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Court's Deputy Prosecutor Najat Shamim Khan said that sanctions are meant
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  SPEAKER_00: to undermine the rule of law and that the Court's work will continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu thanked the administration for its leadership.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same day,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Treasury Department suspended sanctions on Russian diesel exports until April 7,
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  SPEAKER_00: 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2023,
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  SPEAKER_00: the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over
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  SPEAKER_00: the unlawful transfer of children from Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_00: The foreign ministers of Canada,
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  SPEAKER_00: Denmark,
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  SPEAKER_00: Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands and UK issued a joint statement.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said they regret the sanctions and strongly disagree with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said they will prepare for the court's assembly of states parties in December.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note,
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  SPEAKER_00: outside the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: the sanctions are read as a collision between Washington and its allies,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the pressure lands on Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuters says the move puts the United States on a diplomatic collision course
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  SPEAKER_00: with its European allies,
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  SPEAKER_00: Rubio said the United States expects those allies to reign in the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court's registrar asked the European Union this week to be ready
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  SPEAKER_00: to use their blocking mechanism.
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  SPEAKER_00: The European Commission called the sanctions deeply regrettable
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  SPEAKER_00: and said it was ready to take necessary measures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Le Mans reports the Union did not say whether it will use its blocking mechanism,
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  SPEAKER_00: which shields European companies from the effects of foreign sanctions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Dutch Prime Minister said the Netherlands is very disappointed and urged using
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  SPEAKER_00: the six months to negotiate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Switzerland and the UN backed the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: In that list, Netanyahu is the only one welcoming the sanctions.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ICC has not sought to prosecute any U.S. citizen.
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  SPEAKER_00: A 2002 U.S. law already bars extradition of Americans to the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also authorizes military force if a U.S. citizen is detained while the court prosecutes them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United States has suspended sanctions on Russian diesel exports until April 7, 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump announced the move Friday after a call
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  SPEAKER_00: with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said on Truth Social that Russia will supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another 500,000 tons will come in November, he said, and 1 million tons after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said diesel prices will come down in record numbers and fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued
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  SPEAKER_00: a temporary general license to allow Russian diesel into the global market.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kremlin said Russia confirmed its willingness to supply oil
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  SPEAKER_00: and petroleum products to the United States and global markets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin's envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, welcomed the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not clear what Russia receives in return.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Vladimir Zelensky said the decision fuels Putin and lets him wage more war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's negotiators are in Florida for two days of talks with U.S. officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are seeking a ceasefire that could begin with a halt to attacks on energy infrastructure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky said Ukraine would stop striking Russian refineries
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  SPEAKER_00: if Moscow stopped attacking Ukraine's power system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's defense ministry says its drone strikes have knocked more than half
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  SPEAKER_00: of Russia's refining capacity offline.
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  SPEAKER_00: The International Energy Agency estimates Russia's diesel production has fallen by nearly 30%.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia extended a ban on diesel exports by fuel producers through October 31st.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin said October 1st that Russia has enough diesel,
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  SPEAKER_00: but that sanctions keep it from supplying global markets.
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  SPEAKER_00: AAA puts the U.S. average for diesel at about $6.28 a gallon.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's down from a record $6.53 at the end of September.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note,
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  SPEAKER_00: outside the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: the deal is read as a concession to Moscow while peace talks are underway.
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  SPEAKER_00: The BBC calls it a sharp reversal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Congress recently passed and Trump signed a law authorizing sanctions and tariffs
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  SPEAKER_00: on countries that import Russian oil and gas.
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  SPEAKER_00: The BBC says the deal exposes Trump to criticism from European allies.
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  SPEAKER_00: They could say he's helping fund Moscow's war machine.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Kiev, Zelensky said Ukraine's negotiations were being used as a smokescreen.
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  SPEAKER_00: A European diplomat said the deal is unlikely to move prices, but that its symbolism will count.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Diesel fuels farming, home heating, and trucking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its price is up about 70% since the war with Iran began.
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  SPEAKER_00: Congressional elections are November 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Nations Human Rights Office said Friday
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  SPEAKER_00: that broadcasting Nadal Hassan's execution would be a public execution.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said the broadcast would violate the ban on torture, which has no exceptions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Pentagon has said the December 3rd execution by firing squad will be live-streamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump approved the firing squad on the recommendation
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  SPEAKER_00: of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to the Pentagon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hexeth asked that Hassan be shot at 1.30 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the hour Hassan opened fire at Fort Hood in 2009.
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  SPEAKER_00: Criticism comes from both sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the idea barbaric.
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  SPEAKER_00: Representative Adam Smith is the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the plan makes a mockery of the legal system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senator Chris Murphy called public executions medieval.
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  SPEAKER_00: Republican Senator Tom Tillis said Hassan should face the death penalty.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called broadcasting it beyond disgusting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Representative Yasemin Ansari,
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  SPEAKER_00: the first Iranian-American Democrat in Congress,
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  SPEAKER_00: compared the plan to executions in Iran and Afghanistan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Archbishop Paul Coakley,
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  SPEAKER_00: president of the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the plan must be reconsidered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Ned Price,
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  SPEAKER_00: a former deputy to the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Representative to the United Nations, warned that it could create a martyr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vice President J.D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vance said he will not watch if the execution is live-streamed,
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  SPEAKER_00: but he did not criticize the decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Britain abolished the death penalty in the 1960s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bridget Philipson, the UK's Equalities Minister, found the idea disturbing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said the decision is a matter for the US government and
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  SPEAKER_00: that Britain doesn't support everything a close ally does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, outside the United States, the plan is read as a step backwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Le Mans Analysis opens by saying the United States is about to leap back 90 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its headline says Washington is staging the killing ahead of midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The paper says the Pentagon blurs justice and vengeance by setting the shot for
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  SPEAKER_00: the minute Hassan opened fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Guardian reports that the UN's Human Rights Office put the broadcast under
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  SPEAKER_00: the prohibition of torture.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 2001 execution of Timothy McVeigh was shown by closed-circuit television
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  SPEAKER_00: to victims' relatives.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was not broadcast to the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: Media have sought to televise executions before, and courts have blocked them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli settlers are posting videos of themselves harvesting olives
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  SPEAKER_00: from Palestinian-owned land in the occupied West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: One video shows two men beating an olive tree with long sticks to knock the fruit down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was shared in Israeli settler groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: The grove is near Karyut in the northern West Bank, about 200 meters from Palestinian homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Local Palestinians identify one of the men as Avichai Suisa.
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  SPEAKER_00: He runs a farm on an outpost settlers set up on private property in Karyut.
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  SPEAKER_00: The European Union and the United Kingdom have sanctioned him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The outpost is more than a year and a half old, and videos like this help him raise donations.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the video, he says, we're gradually starting to work our way into the area.
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  SPEAKER_00: The land belongs to residents of Karyut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Palestinian activist Bashar Karyoteh Says they have not been able to reach it
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  SPEAKER_00: since October 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the army stopped farmers who tried to plow it a few months ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the army declared the area a closed military zone days ago
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  SPEAKER_00: after villagers complained and that settlers are now going to other groves
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  SPEAKER_00: to steal olives.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Friday,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission recorded
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  SPEAKER_00: at least 19 settler attacks across the West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: The commission is a Palestinian government body under the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said the attacks included assaults on olive harvesters,
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  SPEAKER_00: burned and uprooted trees, and stolen crops and livestock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Settlers uprooted more than 50 olive trees in Kusra.
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  SPEAKER_00: Harvesters were attacked in Jorish, Beta, Nakura, Berzait, Dair-Bzea, and Ferata.
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  SPEAKER_00: A farmer was injured in a reported gunfire in Kafr al-Dik.
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  SPEAKER_00: Live ammunition was reported at Dair-Balut.
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  SPEAKER_00: An elderly woman was injured in Berin, east of Hebron.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Yabrud, a man and his child were attacked and their vehicle was stolen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israeli rights group Yesh Din documented 109 incidents of violence related to the harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hit 75 Palestinian communities between September 27th and October 6th.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is an average of 11 a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Palestinian farmers now harvest in large groups that include international activists.
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  SPEAKER_00: A reporter in Ramallah said settlers wait until the groups begin to leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soldiers have taken trees too.
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  SPEAKER_00: In late September,
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  SPEAKER_00: after a military order,
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli bulldozers destroyed more than 400 olive trees in Beit Rima.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hazem Sanaf, 61, watched from a nearby hill.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trees belonged to him and a neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some were decades old.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were his only source of income,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Israeli military said,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the past,
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  SPEAKER_00: that it had cleared the land of trees to prevent security threats and ambushes
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  SPEAKER_00: on troops.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Palestinian Commission says settlers and soldiers have destroyed
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  SPEAKER_00: about 50,000 trees this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, in Israel's own press, the question is the army's role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aretz's news report on Friday's harvest says settlers
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  SPEAKER_00: and soldiers together kept Palestinian farmers from their groves,
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  SPEAKER_00: in some cases driving them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its editorial said,
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  SPEAKER_00: the military is trying to keep away the people who show up to protect
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  SPEAKER_00: the farmers instead of protecting the farmers from the settler violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hurriyet Daily News in Turkey reported that soldiers backed settlers
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  SPEAKER_00: who seized groves at the start of the harvest season.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American Raiders need to know is that
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States also previously sanctioned SUSE as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this edition of The Rest of the World Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will see you all again tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Friday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go do some dancing or something.
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