Newsday - War denies Palestinians human rights, says Mahathir Mohamad - BBC Sounds

As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to have reverberations across the globe one of the veritable elder statemen of the global south has called for the end of the war.

Mahathir Mohamad dominated politics for decades in Malaysia - a majority-Muslim country in Asia - serving as prime minister for a cumulative total of 24 years and, even in retirement, he’s never really left the political arena.

When he was born nearly a century ago Malaysia was part of the British Empire - then at its most extensive, an imperial system governing a quarter of the world including what are now Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Newsday asked him - now at the age of 98 - how he saw the current war in Gaza, and the state of political leadership in a less Western-dominated, changing world.