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Speaker 1: Tell you what, it feels like. It's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a tough time to be the UN at the moment,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. I mean, I can't help but feel that

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Speaker 1: often it's actually just being ignored. Right now, take for example,

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Speaker 1: what's just happened overnight. Right the UN's principal judicial body,

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Speaker 1: the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo. Now this is ballsy,

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Speaker 1: It's really ballsy, because this is the first time the

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Speaker 1: ICC has gone after a world leader who is actually

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Speaker 1: democratically elected and also one who is backed by a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of Western powers. And there's your trouble. What

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Speaker 1: do the Western powers do? Well? Sounds like a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are just going to ignore the ICC, or

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Speaker 1: at least that's a possibility. The US says they're not

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Speaker 1: going to arrest net and Yahoo. Well, of course, of

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Speaker 1: course they're not going to arrest net Yaho. There is

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Speaker 1: bigause backup. But they're also not a member of the ICC.

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Speaker 1: The UK, they're not committing publicly to arresting net and Yahoo,

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Speaker 1: and they are a member of the ICC in France. Well,

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Speaker 1: they won't say either. They just keep saying it's leely complex.

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Speaker 1: Now that's bloody awkward, isn't it. I mean, if you've

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Speaker 1: got three Western powers who are three permanent security members

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Speaker 1: to do what the UN's judicial body wants them to do,

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Speaker 1: doesn't that undermine the ICC and also the parent the UN?

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Speaker 1: Then what about the other big UN thing that's happening

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Speaker 1: at the moment. This is Cop twenty nine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a joke, right, It's an actual bigger joke

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Speaker 1: than Cop twenty eight last year, and that was a

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Speaker 1: big enough joke already. The big names haven't turned up

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Speaker 1: this year, Shijingping, Joe Biden, Nerendramodi. For the second year

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Speaker 1: in a row, the host country has been busted using

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Speaker 1: the climate You almost can't make this up. Using the

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Speaker 1: Climate Conference to strike secret fossil fuel deals on the

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Speaker 1: side so they can make some money off hurting the climate.

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Speaker 1: And then it looks like they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: stitch together the final deal, because if they don't, this

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Speaker 1: thing is going to look like a complete flop. And

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Speaker 1: this is without even mentioning the fact that the incoming

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Speaker 1: leader of the free world is already preparing, apparently to

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Speaker 1: all out of the UN's Paris Agreement, which is like

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Speaker 1: its top climate agreement. So I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like it's a tough time to be

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Speaker 1: the UN because we are increasingly, by the looks of things,

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Speaker 1: starting to tire of its overreach and its ridiculous targets

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