impartiality

Shah and other senior BBC figures were summoned to give evidence about how the corporation is addressing concerns raised about impartiality in its news coverage.

The UN and its partners said the system contravened the fundamental humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence, and that channelling desperate people into militarised zones was inherently unsafe.

On Monday, he denied that - saying he's become weaponised, and that he has impartiality in his bones.

"I have impartiality through my bones," he told the committee, saying it was "drummed" into him when he joined the BBC in 1991.

The Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty, says doubts about impartiality are grounds to disqualify a prosecutor.