 Hello and welcome to another episode of Around the World in 8 minutes with People's Dispatch, where we bring you news from working-class struggles and people's movements from across the world. For our first story today, we go to Italy, where workers at the Genoa port went on a strike on May 20th and blocked the dock in protest against Italian authorities' decision to grant access to a Saudi cargo ship transporting military equipment. The ship, Bari Yambu, carrying armaments docked at the port around 6am on Monday. These weapons are reportedly meant for use in the war in Yemen. The same Saudi ship had met with protests on May 9th at the Lavre port in France. After being prevented from being able to load a planned arms shipment due to protests by humanitarian groups, the ship left for the northern Spanish town of Santander, on reaching it was met with demonstrations in Spain as well. The dock workers and transport workers from the Italian General Confederation of Labor in Genoa said in a joint statement that they continue to think that Italian ports must be open for people and closed to weapons. Italian newspaper Contra Piano reported that the ship contains war materials loaded from Sunny Point in the United States, which is the world's largest military terminal, and work in Belgium, Santander and probably Tilbury in the United Kingdom and Bremerhaven in Germany. US, UK and France have been providing arms and technical support to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, in which more than 70,000 people have been killed and vital civilian infrastructures like hospitals and sewage treatment systems have been destroyed. The UN has called the situation in Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis in which more than 14 million Yemenis have been brought to the brink of famine and more than 24 million are dependent on aid for their daily survival. For our next story, we will be looking at the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement Against Israel, that is the BDS movement. The BDS movement condemned the German parliament's decision to pass a bill which equated it to anti-Semitism. The BDS movement also took to Twitter to denounce the German bill, tweeting that the German establishment is entrenching its complicity in Israel's crimes of military occupation, ethnic cleansing, siege and apartheid, while desperately trying to shield it from accountability to international law. BDS has also stated that the bill is contradictory to international law and German democracy. The bill was passed in German parliament on Friday after a close vote. Too far right in pro-Israel parties, the neoliberal free democratic party and the anti-immigrant alternate for Germany had been campaigning for the bill in the German parliament. The bill was welcomed by Israel with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeting that he hopes this decision will bring about concrete steps and he hopes that other countries will adopt similar legislation. The Palestinian Authority Labelled Germany's Act of Labelling BDS as anti-Semitic, very dangerous. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the passing of the bill shows that Israel is still forcing its agenda on the representatives of European nations, adding that it is blackmailing the German parliament through its historic mistake related to the Holocaust. The statement also said that this decision is turning a blind eye to the fact that Israel is a state of ethnic cleansing and continues committing crimes against the Palestinians without being held accountable. For our last story, we go to the conflict Kashmir Valley where at least 162 deaths have been reported in the first three months of 2019 alone. Of these deaths, 21 were civilians, 58 militants and 83 were personnel of the Indian Armed Forces. These figures are the latest findings reported by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, an organization based in the Kashmir Valley. It's not just this militant group that they say we torture to put these people into discipline. No, that's not the thing. They torture anybody. And in Kashmir in general, things don't get reported that much, you know, because we have the Indian media who always manipulate the facts, distort the facts. They don't want the world to know what's actually happening in Kashmir. In 2016, 100 people were shot dead in five months, civilians. Shot dead during protests, shot dead either at homes. What you saw in the newspapers, what you saw coming out in news channels or reports or writing is not even 30% of what happened on the ground. In 2016, they attacked hospitals. They went inside and fired tear gas shells into the beds, into the wards, into the wards of the injured people. I mean, that's an international war crime. Media was even banned in Jammu and Kashmir. For three days, there was a blank out ban on producing of newspapers. They seized newspaper copies. They seized communication. They did not want any communication to let out. They went to the printing presses, seized those communications. Number of casualties has increased in comparison to last year. When 119 deaths were counted in the same period, according to the report, this is the first time in 29 years of armed conflict in Kashmir that the number of deaths of Indian armed forces personnel is higher in ratio as compared to the killings of militants. Counterinsurgency operations are also being continuously carried out. Almost 90 cordon and search operations were conducted between January and March by the Indian security forces, resulting in killing of three civilians, 58 militants and destruction of 18 civilian houses. Besides this, the internet services were suspended 23 times in these three months, the report said. Of the total 21 casualties, seven were killed by unidentified gunmen, six by shelling at cross-border line of control, three by armed forces and four people were killed in explosions. The report also found that three of the civilians killed were minors, including 12-year-old Atif Mir, who was first held hostage by militants at his house in Harjan, Bandipura and was later killed when armed forces blasted the house where he was being held hostage. This is all for this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories and videos, do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.