and that's what i think we really do while. that's what we're talking about shooting people are not a pleasure to burn themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem are you worried that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war that the city's general security issue will the people who pay the price clearly their writeup being prejudiced setting the stage for serious debate out front at this time on al-jazeera. breaking decades of precedent white house officials say donald trump will

officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. protests out of bethlehem news of that angers palestinians living in the occupied west bank. peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead while police forces in honduras are refusing to enforce a curfew amid a political deadlock. also this hour not quite out of the woods spain withdraws an international warrant for the former president of catalonia but he may still be detained if he tries to return from his self-imposed exile. arab leaders are calling for three days of rage over moves by the u.s. to officially recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital the u.s.

president donald trump is set to announce plans to relocate to the american embassy from tel aviv later on weapons day white house officials confirmed the news in a briefing she ever tansey has more. after a day of some spectacular headlines some even suggesting that the u.s. embassy could move to drew slim in as little as six months and very little on the record confirmation of what was going to be said on wednesday from either the state department or the white house it took a background briefing from what would become anonymous officials to the public to clarify some of the details of donald trump's speech on wednesday. well that's beautiful at the white house there was no sense of the international uproar that's been caused by donald trump's forthcoming speech announcing the u.s. is recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital this is a campaign promise to keep trump financial danas like las vegas casino magnate sheldon adelson and his right wing evangelical base whom the president needs now

move them ever as his popularity ratings plummet throughout the day the president briefed the regional leaders which led to this question at the state department briefing i'm wondering if you can say that the that he's gotten the support of anyone for any decision that he might make so again i'm not going to characterize those conversations minutes later the white house press secretary was similarly callie about the decision i'm not going to get ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow to say other than israel which thinks that this move is twenty two years overdue that all of the feedback he's been getting from world leaders is overwhelmingly negative so no again he spoke with five leaders that's hardly indicative of everybody across the globe mr president the fifth fleet of the president called was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu israeli politicians have welcomed trucks decision jerusalem the israeli mayor of the city so that the embassy move could take two minutes by switching the sign on the

current u.s. consulate in west jerusalem administration officials who didn't want publicly to be named later said that was not going to happen more about building a new embassy would take at least three to four years to the question of whether that means of this decision could be reversed if president doesn't stay on for a second term the officials insisted once the process of planning and you embassy begins it would reach its conclusion they also said the president was simply affirming what they called quote reality both historical moment that connect to the state of israel to the city they argued issues of sovereignty would not change i was. said that not moving the embassy since it was required by congress in one thousand nine hundred five had not made any difference to the peace process the trumpet ministration was still committed to a two state solution they said if that's what both parties wanted but with reports over the weekend that the president's middle east envoy is pushing a saudi backed plan that gives israel full control of all of jerusalem it appears

that drums announcement on wednesday will be in keeping with the direction of his administration's emerging middle east policy so that's where we remain two dominant theories either donald trump is doing this to keep his campaign promise at least in principle keep that far right wing evangelical demographic the older evangelical demographic on board a time when they might be wavering on donald trump especially since don trump is now just indorsed a senate candidate in alabama who's been accused of child molestation this is just one more way to keep that central very minority base that he has in the u.s. on board or this is part of a plan the art of the deal create chaos and then swoop in with some sort of deal hatched by gerard cushion or the saudis which can be imposed on the palestinians as a way out at a later date well let's stay with that story for you for the next second or so news

of the possible move has angered palestinians in the occupied west bank dozens of protesters gathered outside the church of the nativity in bethlehem they set fire to posters with donald trump's image the saudi king says the move will quote inflame the feelings of muslims while the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is warning of dangerous consequences. our position the position of president this is very clear and if. this is going to be moved. this is again. this is this would be unacceptable for our son and. it would complicate things. for the peace process maybe it will be the end of the peace process. from this decision. well as we've been hearing there has been strong global condemnation and concern

about this intended move at least a dozen leaders and organizations have said they are against it as it would destabilize the middle east and it contravenes international law has just a few of the many voices that have been speaking out. mr trump so jerusalem is a red line for muslims. we will follow the struggle to the very last moments with determination and we could even go right up to cutting our diplomatic relations with israel. a way must be found through negotiations to resolve the status of jerusalem as the future capital of the states so that. this can be fulfilled. for. the council of ministers rejects this step and expresses its utmost concern regarding this step as well as the moving of the american embassy to jerusalem the

iraqi government warns of the consequences of this decision on the stability of the area and the world ignoring the rights of palestinians and the arab and muslim world and other religions. there are indications that the united states in the coming days will recognize the capital by the way without consulting with europe we all know what far reaching consequences a step would have germany's position on the should remains unchanged the solution a digital in problem can only be found. between the two parties spain has dropped its european arrest warrant for the former president of catalonia who is currently in belgium but scholars preacher man still faces charges over the succession vote in october called pen all reports now from barcelona. a roll call for the candidates this is the together for catalonia coalition its main policy is to break away from the rest of spain their leader carlos push demand deposed head of the

catalan government can only appear through video link he's in self exile in belgium . this is the start of an electoral campaign that will be very short and very intense and we must make this a special campaign. the seats have been left empty for the full former ministers they all fled to brussels when spain shut down the catalan government and imposed direct group spain withdrew an extradition request for them on tuesday but at home they still face charges of rebellion and possible sentences if the independents don't win a majority of. independent green. he's never think. it would probably be in a state. of standby but i don't think that these situation will arise gathered in a discotheque for its campaign launch the right wing p.p.

or people's party is anti independence and in favor of staying part of spain young supporters say the issue is split society and disrupted the longing to be independent. when a majority of our mind is not going to be like me so if they were in for us first amber would just study and just thinking and our careers i just leave here just mean another country in the working class suburbs the catalan socialist party tries to occupy the middle ground. party leader there is criticised what he sees as spain's heavy handed crackdown on catalan separatists but at the same time he rejects calls for an independent catalan republic. it's been shown that the independence movement has caused deep divisions in catalan society it's driven companies out of the region and we want to recover economic prosperity after. two

and a ha weeks of political rallies and gatherings the length and breadth of catalonia is a campaign that promises to be hard for him. but catalan separatists a defiant as they sing the ransom. a rebel song that speaks of breaking the chains of spanish oppression. whole al-jazeera basilan. a full recount or a run off that's the proposal from the hung jury in opposition to end a stalemate over last month's election the authorities have failed to declare an official winner sparking violent protest and a night time curfew has manuel report of. after more than a week since the presidential elections in honduras a winner has yet to be named prolonging a political crisis a nationwide curfew remains in effect but across the country protests continue well into the night hours. in the latest turn of events hundreds of elite police forces

known as cobras have announced they will no longer be obeying orders to enforce the ten day curfew one officer told reporters they are rebelling. our people are sovereign and we are in their service furthermore we cannot be confronting and crushing their rights the ongoing demonstrations continue to call for hunder and president one orlando at nine days to step down and for the national elections commission to finalize an announcement the organization of american states has expressed concerns over quote irregularities errors and systemic problems within the elections and have issued recommendations that the process become more transparent. demonstrations blocking roads and bridges are also having a significant economic impact across honduras several cities are reporting fuel and food shortages causing worry that the political crisis is only getting worse money went up on no. god but still to come here on al-jazeera relatives of

colombians wrongfully executed by the army are looking for justice. and at times any analysis becomes the first black woman to win the u.k.'s most prestigious award . hello there we've got a developing system that's making its way across turkey at the moment the satellite picture is showing that area of cloud here and as it works its way eastwards it's giving not only heavy rain but also a lot of snow and that snow is giving quite a few problems and will gradually sweep its way eastwards there as we head head into thursday so more snow is expected to be working its way into parts of iraq and iran there during the day for the south it will be rain and even for q.a. there's going to be the chance of seeing one or two rather lively thunderstorms

here in doha no major change for us over the next few days but still twenty five degrees will be our temperature and it looks like there be a fair amount of cloud over the next few days as well that could just squeeze out one or two showers but i think most likely is late on thursday as this system makes its way across us as we head down towards the southern parts of africa here lots of cloud also rain with us at the moment stretches from angola right the way down into the eastern parts of south africa and here is where we're going to see some of the heaviest outbreaks of rain so for jo'burg and for durban it is looking pretty wet and expect some thunderstorms around as well towards the west is quite different for us here forcing cape town we're looking at twenty eight degrees and those temperatures will even be rising as we head into thursday which should make it to thirty. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is

a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back you're with al-jazeera peter hart your headlines president donald trump will announce on whedon's day the u.s. will officially recognized the resulin as israel's capital and has plans to relocate to the american embassy there white house officials confirmed the news in

a briefing. arab leaders are calling for three days of raging protests that that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says could have dangerous consequences. well i stay with that story it all has to do with a mechanism that's called the jerusalem embassy act which was approved by the u.s. congress in one thousand nine hundred five now that declared that jerusalem should be recognized as israel's capital and that the u.s. embassy would be established there by may of one thousand nine hundred nine the act mandated shop cuts and funding for the u.s. state department if the deadline was not met however congress also allowed the white house to delay the move for six months at a time on grounds of national security and that waiver has been invoked since the one nine hundred ninety s. by presidents clinton bush and obama and donald trump's already done it once during his term in office. is co-founder of the electronic intifada group he thinks the

u.s. is ready for a palestinian state but in name only. and if trump's announcement is what you know stud you out of thinking that the u.s. was an honest broker i don't know what to say to the u.s. policy is to aggressively assist israel in doing everything it can to destroy any prospects for palestinian self-determination or palestinian liberation and that the united states has had the assistance of the so-called international community and the various arab regimes that are now complaining so loudly about this i think what they should be asking themselves is what have we been doing for all these decades while israel was busy. i mix in jerusalem building settlements expelling palestinians from jerusalem israel has

been gradually encroaching on on the old city and on the muslim holy sites and in fact you have this so-called temple movement funded by the israeli government whose open goal is to remove the unlock some mosque in the dome of the rock and rebuild the jewish temple and meanwhile the arab regimes which complaining about this move by trump a busy embracing israel the gulf states moving towards israel at lightning speed and there and absolutely no position to complain about this the u.n. security council has appealed to all sides in yemen to recommit to a un led political process to end the conflict is warning the country faces a catastrophic famine and close to a million cases of cholera councils pushing for unhindered humanitarian access. in particular their call on parties to immediately provide safe rapid anie

hindered and sustained commercial and humanitarian access to the populations of all affected governorates through all of yemen and ports and airports most importantly who data boards and sunnah board the member of the security council urged all size to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law the gulf cooperation council summit has ended early dashing hopes of a breakthrough in the blocks biggest crisis in decades relations have been strains in saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with cattle in june while he waits foreign minister says the bloc remains crucial to regional stability only kuwait and cattle sent heads of state just before the summit the u.a.e. announced a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia separate from the g.c.c.

. nato foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss global security challenges the talks are being held against the backdrop of increasingly strained ties between turkey and other members of the alliance from istanbul his simcoe sort of. turkey provides the second biggest military force tonight off there the united states but behind the smiles and handshakes its membership of the alliance is under strain doing a recent military drill in norway a technician depicted turkey's rebuke former leader like him on attitude and president rejected as enemies putting their pictures on target practice poster nato secretary general he stoltenberg has apologized to encourage twice stating the incident was the result of an individual's action and did not reflect the views of the alliance the technician has been fired an investigation is under way.

it's. just. turkey assumed the responsibility of protecting the southwestern border of the alliance during the cold war and over the decades it has provided crisis management and peacekeeping missions. but the war across the border in syria has brought new security challenges for turkey the u.s. decision to cooperate with kurdish forces on the ground has led to purchase russian s four hundred missiles which are incompatible with nato technology the turkish

government say is washington has provided at least four thousand trucks off weapons to the wipe e.g. the syrian branch of the court is the workers' party that turkey lists as a terrorist group in the near future you might find non-state actors acquiring such capabilities and probably the church authorities regard it as an urgent issue but i'm sure that in the long run we're going to acquire western systems in order to be compatible with nato with our nato. defense and nato assets. turkey insists it needs to be able to defend itself and different priorities for each nato country seem to be the reason for destroying political relations and mutual accusations turkey even considered with the moving from the alliance but the spike the war of words among the politicians many seem to be happy under the

umbrella. you can only trust russia there are many other countries in nato thank you very much it is not in our interest to withdraw from nato if we do it could be our loss in article five founding treaty members agreed that an attack against one state is an attack against them all. al-jazeera a stumble. human rights watch is calling on the colombian government to hold the promotion of five senior military officers they're being investigated for executing civilians who were wrongly accused of being guerrilla fighters as many as three thousand colombians were allegedly killed by. the government's campaign against the rebels. from bogota for almost ten years has been searching for the truth about the killing of her son five you've learned. lurd by fake job recruiters he left home and then returned alive months later she was told

by officials that for you to west's killed in a clash between fired gravels and the military and that her son was the rebels' local commander you know i did not go out of the ways that could have been his case even if he was twenty six years old he was like a little boy in an adult body he had the mental capacity of an eight year old he never learned to read or write and had a physical disability in his right leg and arm. and was just one of many who disappeared over a period of six years most were found in mass graves dressed like rebels in time investigators discovered that during the presidency. at least three thousand colombians were killed by the military or were victims of an apparent effort by soldiers to boost casualty figures driven by performance related bonuses a little over eight hundred military members have been sentenced so far in what has

become known as the false positive scandal almost all of them soldiers. but human rights organizations allege senior military officials played a pivotal role in the killings however few have been charged in coming days one general and four colonels will be promoted despite being under investigation interestingly enough there wrestle mess has been. playing or doctoring. to eliminate relevant information. during. the defense minister says the senior officers have the full confidence of the government. and. nobody on the promotion list is under formal penal investigation those who are have nothing so this means the resume is good to continue serving colombia. that is not surprising.

we see no light at the end of the road not the truth nor that those truly responsible ever be judged. after all these years lose my only hope is for the international criminal court to intervene if colombia fails to bring gertrud and justice alison that i'm. the u.k.'s chief breaks it negotiator says britain could align some of its regulations with the e.u. after it leaves europe negotiations with the e.u. hit a big snag on monday with the two sides unable to agree on whether northern ireland should remain subject to e.u. laws david davis is hopeful britain and you are close to an agreement. this issue we might be part of european union but leave one party united kingdom behind still inside the single market and customs union that is in fact not something that the u.k. government is considering no u.k. government would i was such a thing let alone

a conservative and unionist one. george is former president has been freed from a police van in kiev by his supporters may call saakashvili was detained after being dragged from his home by ukrainian security his supporters went on to fight with the police the former georgian leader has been based in ukraine for the past three years he was briefly a provincial governor only to fall out with the ukrainian president petro poroshenko since then saakashvili has been stripped of his ukrainian citizenship his home country georgia has requested his extradition on criminal charges which really says are politically motivated. you know the they accused me of having connections with people in russia and the whole of the post soviet world there is no bigger enemy of law then me i commanded an army against putin i built up my independence i brought a drop in offices sacrificing their lives for ukraine against russia how could they even think of accusing me of this. at least fifteen people have died and

a million others have been affected by flooding in southern thailand eight provinces have been inundated by monsoon rains that started late last month when reports from song claw in southern thailand. in southern thailand entire communities are partially submerged by floodwater in recent weeks heavier than usual monsoon rain swept across this narrow stretch of land separating the gulf of thailand from the andaman sea some people have left for evacuation centers but most prefer to stay and cope as best they can with the difficult conditions there i'm so unhappy about the situation i'm very stressed the water is high and i'm afraid that if there's another storm my house will collapse people come together on the nearest dry land to receive aid handed out by the government or local groups but they say they need more. if not this year is worse than last year and it's very difficult we

need assistance from the government because our livestock is stranded and needs food and the whole village is under water in the province of song all sixteen districts have been declared disaster zones to a large extent the people of southern thailand have become accustomed to flooding because it happens so often the last time this area was under water was in january but there's also a sense of frustration that governments in thailand come and go with little or no focus on long term solutions because of thailand's volatile political scene governments change regularly politicians are rarely around long enough to work on sustainable projects that may help those who live in flood prone areas like proper drainage and water management. governments only think about short term solutions because they only stay for two to four years so they only think about projects that can be completed within that timeframe. in the meantime it's mainly rural communities that suffer a year after year the people say they've lived here for generations and moving

isn't an option so they stay and put up with a watery existence which is becoming increasingly common wayne hay al-jazeera songkhla thailand. a wildfire in california has forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes the blaze northwest of los angeles has burned more than eighteen thousand hectares more than one hundred fifty structures have been destroyed with many more at risk tanzanian artist has become the first black woman to win the u.k.'s most prestigious arts award the turner prize sixty three year old who. was also the oldest person to receive the honor the judges praised him it's pottery work as uncompromising in tackling issues including colonial history and racism the zanzibar born artist who lives in the north of england will receive thirty three thousand dollars for.

updating the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump will announce today that the united states will officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and has plans to relocate the u.s. embassy there white house officials confirmed the news in a briefing arab leaders are calling for three days of rage and protest that the move the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it could have dangerous consequences. our position the position of the present program this is very clear and if. they're going to get in this is going to be moved to the give them this is again. this is this would be unacceptable for. this. it would complicate things it would not be maybe it would be the end of the peace process where we really get the nation back from this sit in. with. the main opposition in honduras is demanding either

a full recount or a runoff of the vote to end the stalemate over the last month's election the authorities have failed to declare an official winner sparking violent protests and a nighttime curfew and the police are now refusing to confront the protesters and the demanding an end to the crisis the u.n. security council has appealed to all sides in yemen to recommit to a un led political process to end the conflict it's one in the country faces a catastrophic famine and close to a million cases of cholera the un security council is also calling for unhindered humanitarian access the gulf cooperation council summit has ended early dashing hopes of a breakthrough in the blocks biggest crisis in decades relations have been strained since saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with cattle in june while q. its foreign minister says the bloc remains crucial to regional stability only kuwait and cattle sent heads of state three men in malta have been charged with the

murder of a leading investigative journalist daphne. whose reporting focused heavily on corruption in the e.u. island nation was killed in a car bomb attack in october another seven suspects are being questioned those are your headlines the news continues after listening post i will see you very served by. in syria citizens are collecting evidence. reveals shot of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria post six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice that puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. the bloodiest attack in the chips on this street however for

a couple of firefighters here a greater.