 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Murder of 27-year-old Rashad Brooks in Atlanta leads to fresh protests across the U.S. Israeli government approves construction of new Israeli settlement in Jolang Heights named after Trump. Egyptian LGBTQ plus activist in exile dies of suicide. Thousands of protesters occupy Sao Paulo's Polista Aminu in anti-vault scenario protests. They begin with the United States where protests against police violence have intensified after the killing of a black man, Rashad Brooks, in Atlanta. The 27-year-old was shot dead by a police officer on June 12. A post-mortem examination conducted on Sunday by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office has confirmed that Brooks' killing is a homicide. A statement released by the FSME stated that Brooks' death was due to gunshot wounds in the back. According to reports, the police officers were called by a Bendy's employee who complained about Brooks falling asleep in his car at the drive-thru. The police officers tried to arrest him, which Brooks resisted. When he tried to flee the scene, one of the officers shot him dead. Brooks was killed a day before his daughter's eighth birthday. The killing of Brooks has intensified the anti-police protests in Atlanta on Saturday. Outrage protesters gathered near the Bendy's outlet where the incident took place. Protests also prompted the dismissal of the accused officer Garrett Reuf and led to the resignation of the Atlanta police chief, Erika Shields. According to reports, Brooks' murder was the 48th police shooting in the state this year, 15 of which ended in fatalities. In the meanwhile, across the United States, protests against police violence triggered by the murder of George Floyd have been going on for over three weeks. Police reforms, defunding, and even dismantling of the police have become key national debates. On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department, said a Reuters report. Moving on to our next story, Israel Settlement Minister announced on Sunday that the government has approved the construction of a Trump Heights colony in the occupied Jolan Heights. According to the announcement made over social media, the proposed colony will house 300 settler families replacing the existing Brutium settlement with 12 settlers. Israel captured Jolan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war. Apart from the US, no country recognizes the Israeli annexation of this territory. One of the Israeli claim over Jolan Heights was one of several pro-Israeli moves undertaken by Donald Trump's presidency. Trump also proposed a plan in January 2020 which will allow Israel to annex 30% of the occupied West Bank in return of a ramp Palestinian state. Israel reciprocated the support by naming the upcoming settlement in Jolan Heights after Trump. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at first announced the building of the settlement last year in June 2019. Similar to the Palestinian occupied territories, Israel has built several illegal settlements inside the occupied Jolan Heights. There are currently around 26,000 Israeli settlers occupying different parts of the disputed territory. On to our third story, 30-year-old LGBTQ plus and human rights activist Sarah Hagezi died of suicide on Sunday at her home in Canada. Hagezi has been living in exile since March 2018 to escape persecution by the Egyptian government. Her suicide note indicated that the exile and political persecution had taken a great toll on her emotionally. She was one of the around 60 activists who were arrested for the participation in a rock concert by a leading band from Lebanon in Cairo in September 2017. The lead singer of the band, Mashrullah, is known as a gay celebrity and a large number of the participants beaped pride flags during the concert. Sarah Hagezi and Manfuk Comrade Ahmed Ala who was just 21 years old at the time were arrested after a week of the event from their homes and were charged with habitual debauchery, inciting indecency and for joining a band group. She along with others arrested at the time were subjected to various kinds of mental and physical torture by the police and prison authorities. Finally, thousands of Brazilians participated in the occupation of Sao Paulo's iconic Paulista Avenue on Sunday. The occupation was a part of the protest against rising fascism and racism and it demanded for the end of the regime of president here, Bolsonaro. The demonstration which started at 2 p.m. in front of the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo mobilized around 2000 people and had rivals football fans, groups coming together in the defense of democracy. The event was attended by prominent political activists such as Congress member Gleesie Hoffman of the Workers' Party and Gulher M. Bolos, leader of the homeless workers movement or the MST. Bolsonaro's government has been severely criticized for grossly mismanaging the coronavirus crisis. The president has consistently denied scientific data and opposed containment measures by state governors and mayors. He has even issued open goals to revolt against these measures and encourage a violent right-wing movement. Recently, several progressive opposition parties have jointly filed an impeachment motion against him, which is still pending. In our infocus section today, we bring your conversation with news clicks Pravee Purkayastha on the Trump administration's decision to sanction the International Criminal Court for its investigation into U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. Last week, the Donald Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court over its probe into alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. Now, this is the latest example of U.S. exceptionalism and its disregard for international law. We bring you a discussion with Pravee Purkayastha on this. Pravee, thank you so much for joining us. So, we do know that this issue has been going on for a while. In fact, we are looking at war crimes that took place from 2003. And it's a fairly long period. And the ICC did look into the issue last year. They initially said that they did not give a go-ahead for a prosecution. This year, in March, they did. And so the U.S. has been building up this campaign against the ICC for quite some time. But this is also part of a larger issue, considering that U.S. never joined this court and has always questioned its legitimacy. Well, as far as joining the court is concerned, neither is Russia, China, or India. So the U.S. is not alone in that. And of course, Israel. But the bigger issue is that these threats against international organizations actually has been there for quite some time. If you remember, John Bolton actually attracted the ICC, International Criminal Court, precisely on this ground about three years back. And the threat was that they will sanction the individuals involved in the investigations. And therefore, not only they, but even their families could suffer. So this is one track that they have been using, that we're not going to only fight the institution concern, but we're also going to make, in some sense, examples of the key officials so that you suffer from the rest of your life. Now, and not only you, but your family. And Bolton, if you remember, had actually on the OPCW, the organization looks after chemical weapons, the chemical weapons treaty. And that, I think it was Jose Bustani, who was the head of that, who was a Brazilian. He not only was threatened, but Bolton went so far further than that, in fact, far enough to say your children studied the United States. So it was an implicit threat against his sons. Now, this is the kind of politics that the United States has been playing sometimes openly, but certainly behind the veil, so to say. And this has now become far more clear on the issue of the sanctions against the ICC. Ben Suda, the chief prosecutor of international criminal court, and also her associates who are investigating this case. But it is also not only the United States and Afghanistan case, it's also the Israel's case. Israel has been also under investigations. I think it was announced in December last year. And this has been building up. And the US threats against international criminal court predate, in fact, its opening investigations against Americans on the issue of Afghanistan, essentially atrocities. And they said they will investigate both the Taliban, the Afghan government, and the United States, all three of them. So you can see clearly what the US is sending is a message that all international organizations have to accept US exceptionalism, which of course was there by default. And therefore, if you don't accept that as a default state, then of course we're going to come and use all the instruments that we can against you. And it's not only the organizations, but it is also the individuals. You can see also the Huawei case, which of course is a very different case. But you can see the target was not just Huawei, but also the daughter of the largest shareholder and when she was traveling on business and she was the chief financial officer of the CFO and she was arrested in Canada for violating the domestic laws of the United States. So the effective message that is being now passed and we had the earlier also the Noriega case, the US law runs all over the world, but international law does not run in United States. This is the broad position that the US has. It is not sanctified, shall we say, but the sanctions are imposing on the people involved. And of course, the international criminal court was really trying to rectify one glaring issue that has always plagued it, that it went after African states leaders, but it never went beyond that. It really accept the Serbian case. It really did not go beyond that. And therefore this has been held that it was essentially a pawn in the hands of powerful Western powers. And that is what it was trying to get out of, that no, it can look at the issues of atrocities and national human rights violations in places like Palestine and Afghanistan. And of course that it does bring up the basic issue that is there in the world. Does the US writ run all over the world? Or is it that it is bound by international law and international treaties? And the US position is that it doesn't. And that's what comes out more brutally, shall we say, with the Bolton and the Trump, that it does with more soft-spoken persons earlier, whether it be Barack Obama or it be Clinton. So when the Republicans of a certain stripe come into the administration, it becomes more open. George Bush, of course, was, as you know, the architect of various wars, but leaving that out. He also had Bolton. And it was under his presidency that Bolton had threatened the OPCW head, Jose Bustani. So, you know, those are the kinds of things which you normally associate with international thuggery. You don't associate with civil, shall we say, administrations which claim to be the global leaders. But what we are seeing is really that. And that is coming out in the absolutely, shall we say, without any veil in very naked form. And this is all we have for today's International Daily. Round up for more such stories and videos. Visit our website, peoplesdispatch.org. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.