--:-- Gideon Resnick: Good morning. It's Friday, November 22nd. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: On today's show, what countries are rich enough to pay for climate change? Why more people are cutting ties with family members? And Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general, and Trump taps a new nominee. But first, arrest warrants were issued yesterday by the International Criminal Court for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: There was also a warrant for a leader in Hamas, Mohammed Daif, the military chief believed to be one of the masterminds of the October 7th attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 people and sparked the war in Gaza.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: In the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the court's three-judge panel alleges that Israel used starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally targeted civilians in Gaza.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Over 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war and more than half are women and children.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The court said that Israel's restrictions on aid and fuel and electricity cutoffs severely impacted the availability of water in Gaza and hospitals' ability to provide care.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Israel vehemently denies all the allegations, with President Isaac Herzog calling the warrants outrageous.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Netanyahu's office called them anti-Semitic.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And the White House said in a statement that the U.S. rejects the ICC decision.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: BBC News correspondent Anna Holigan, who is based in The Hague, reports that the allegations focused on a roughly eight-month period of the war between October 2023 and May 2024.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And she says initially these warrants were kept secret.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: One of the reasons why the ICC has released them now, they say, because they believe similar conduct may be ongoing and they consider it in the interests of victims and their families that they are made aware of the warrants' existence.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: In fact, PBS spoke to aid workers in Gaza who say they are seeing what the ICC described in these warrants on the ground in Gaza today.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Here's Arwa Damon with the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance.
--:-- Arwa Damon: Look, this is my fourth time back in Gaza since this all began.
--:-- Arwa Damon: And each time I leave, I think that it quite possibly could not get worse.
--:-- Arwa Damon: And yet it somehow does.
--:-- Arwa Damon: And the sense really is that Israel from the onset has been saying that its intention is not to collectively punish the population or to starve the population or to kill civilians.
--:-- Arwa Damon: And yet that is exactly what we see happening on the ground.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The ICC relies on countries that have signed a statute to follow its jurisdiction.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The U.S. and Israel are not signatories, but 124 other countries are.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: So for Netanyahu and Gallant, these warrants mean if they travel to one of those member countries, they could now be arrested.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: That includes the Netherlands, where the ICC is headquartered.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The foreign minister there said in parliament yesterday that his government would cut off non-contact with Netanyahu and Gallant.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And he said that both men will be arrested if they set foot in Dutch territory.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The EU foreign policy chief also said the treaty terms should be respected and implemented by member countries.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: But it is ultimately up to each member of the ICC to decide how to act.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Here's how NPR explained it.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Some states might elect not to do that.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Russian President Vladimir Putin is also wanted on an arrest warrant from the court for alleged crimes in Ukraine.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And when he recently visited Mongolia, a member of the ICC, he was not arrested.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Putin, for the most part, has managed to work around his arrest warrant by inviting world leaders to come to Russia and by joining international meetings remotely by video.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: He and now Netanyahu and Gallant are members of a small group of world leaders sought by international bodies for trial.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Others include Slobodan Milosevic and Nazis tried at Nuremberg after World War II.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Sky News reporter Alistair Bunkle says the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant could alter Israel's standing in the world.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And they'll certainly change how history remembers these two leaders.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: In terms of the reputation of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, in terms of their legacy, they are now wanted suspects, wanted to be put on trial for war crimes.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And it is a label that will never leave them.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Who is rich enough to pay for climate change? That is one of the questions at the heart of this year's UN Climate Conference, COP29, which is set to end today in Azerbaijan.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Grist reporter Jake Biddle told us everyone agrees that the world's richest countries should shoulder the costs of helping poorer countries.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Those countries are disproportionately impacted by climate disasters.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And everyone agrees this will cost trillions of dollars.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: From there, though, there are tons more questions.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Is China going to have to give money? Is Saudi Arabia going to have to give money?
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Is it going to go to decarbonize economies in the developing world? Is it going to go to protect against climate disasters? Is it going to go redress countries from disasters that have already occurred?
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Who's going to get it? Is it going to go to islands? Is it going to come in the form of grants? Is it going to come in the form of loans?
--:-- Gideon Resnick: So all this stuff is very much up in the air.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: These countries are trying to answer all these questions in a matter of days.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: At this stage, it's developing nations that have joined with China and India to demand that the U.S. and Europe bear the brunt of these costs.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Meanwhile, the U.S. and Europe are looking for commitments from China and Saudi Arabia, two countries that were not officially considered developed by the U.N. when this climate conference was created decades ago, but whose economies have ballooned since then.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The other challenge? With President-elect Donald Trump coming into the White House next year, what will America's participation in all of this look like?
--:-- Gideon Resnick: During Trump's first term, he pulled the U.S. out of the landmark Paris Agreement.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: He also stripped back the majority of money the U.S. had pledged to poorer nations.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Agreement again.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The U has always a very very influential role in these talks.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: They have experienced negotiators here who have been doing this forever.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: They quite shrewd.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: But I don't think that you know the world is necessarily looking to them for the ambition that going to be required to get this done just because there's a certain lack of credibility that will attend to any big promise that they make, at least in the near term.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Still, Biddle told us that these talks are the world's best chance to turn things around.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: You have a lot of countries, especially the least developed countries and the island states who basically say when the process is criticized, they basically say, look, this is the only forum we have really in the world to advocate for, you know, essentially the survival of like ourselves as sovereign states.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: There is really not an alternative at this point.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And you need global cooperation to solve this problem.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And as hard as these geopolitical fights are to have, I think, you know, we really have to have them every year or else we're really not going to get anywhere, I think.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: As we get ready for Thanksgiving, there are a growing number of Americans who may have at least one seat empty at their table.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: That's because more and more people are cutting ties with family members.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: I haven't spoken to my stepfather in almost 10 years.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: I've had to go non-contact with my mother.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Lots of things that attributed to me cutting him out of my life.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Intergenerational trauma.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: A narcissist.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: There was alcohol involved.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Politics or climate change.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Verbal abuse, some physical abuse.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: It has created fissures in my family that are beyond repair.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Those are just some of the calls that we received when we asked you for your stories of family estrangement.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: We were really overwhelmed with the responses, a sign of just how common this has become.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: So the question is, why is this happening?
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Here's what Joshua Coleman, a psychologist who specializes in family estrangement, told us.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: Over the past three or four decades, there's been this enormous expansion over what we label as harmful, abusive, traumatizing, neglectful behavior.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: Coleman says this is especially true in the child-parent relationship.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: A lot of these parents will say, emotional abuse, what are you talking about? I gave you a childhood I would have killed to have.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: In many cases, that's true.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: It just doesn't really matter if the child grew up feeling emotionally abused or has learned in therapy that the parent's behavior should be labeled as emotionally abusive or abusive in any other way.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: That's their psychology and that's their reality.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Coleman in part blames his own field for contributing to the high number of estrangements we're seeing.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: I am a therapist and think that in large part our field does enormous good.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: But I do think that therapists have become what the sociologist Allison Pugh refers to as detachment brokers, which means that therapists often help people to not feel guilty or bad about cutting off family members that in prior generations would have considered and other cultures would have considered to be the wrong thing to do.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: And are we happier I mean we have record high rates of mental illness in this country and loneliness and atomization and social isolation.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: And no we don seem to be a lot happier.
--:-- Joshua Coleman: So it's not really working is it.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Coleman is this week's guest on Apple News In Conversation.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: He offers tips on how these relationships can be repaired and acknowledges that there are certainly some that are simply beyond repair.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: To hear more listener stories and Coleman's expert advice to navigate these challenges, check out this week's episode of Apple News In Conversation.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: If you're listening in the News app, it's queued up to play for you right after this episode.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his name for consideration for attorney general on Thursday.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: He had been trying to rally support among senators this week for confirmation, all while his nomination drew renewed focus to allegations that Gaetz had sex with a minor, which he denies.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: In a statement about why he dropped out, Gaetz said, quote, It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: To replace him as AG, Trump nominated Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, who also represented him in his first impeachment trial.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Now to a major shakeup in education.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: MIT is making tuition free for students whose families earn less than $200,000 annually, beginning next fall.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The school says most American households meet that threshold.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And for students whose family income is below $100,000, the university says it'll pay for basically everything.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Tuition, housing, food, stipends for books, and more.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Now, tuition alone costs almost $58,000 in the 2022 to 2023 school year, higher than the average for other private schools.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: The university says this new financial aid is coming from alumni and friends of MIT.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And finally, in entertainment, part one of the movie adaptation of the Broadway sensation Wicked opens in theaters today.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Now, I don't know about you, but I've been seeing ads for this movie everywhere.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: So we called up Constance Grady, a senior culture correspondent at Fox and a Wicked expert, to understand why there is so much hype.
--:-- Constance Grady: It's based off of such a beloved property.
--:-- Constance Grady: Wicked is the fourth longest running show on Broadway ever.
--:-- Constance Grady: It's made over $5 billion in its lifetime.
--:-- Constance Grady: So the hope is that this movie will appeal to people who saw Wicked on Broadway 20 years ago and want to take their kids now.
--:-- Constance Grady: And also to people who never saw it, but listened to the cast recording over and over and over again and want to finally put some images to the words.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And if you're already listening in the News app, you can stick around for Shamita's full interview with Joshua Coleman.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: That episode of Apple News In Conversation is queued up to play for you next.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: And before we let you go, a quick programming note, Apple News Today will be off next week for Thanksgiving.
--:-- Gideon Resnick: Enjoy the holiday, and we'll be back with the news on Monday, December 2nd.
