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a dangerous decision that could have deep repercussions across the middle east that is a warning from world leaders including important allies as president trump prepares to announce u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel palestinian state it will amount to a declaration of war and have already begun protesting live reports from palestine israel and washington d.c. also on the graves more than syria more than iran and more than yemen the democratic republic of congo is a country with the highest number of displaced people in the world a new report describes the situation as a mega crisis with millions of people being forced to flee their homes well find out why and seeking a solution to pollution government leaders and scientists from more than one hundred countries are meeting in kenya to raise awareness about global pollution especially the huge amount of plastic rubbish in our oceans but can they be real international cooperation. when we live in nairobi what is drusilla mean to you

we've had thousands of responses to back question today and we want to keep hearing from you i mean to suppose some of your thoughts throughout the show using the hashtag it's a newsgroup. when. when we are with the news grid live on air and streaming online for you tube facebook live and dot com thank you for joining us it's a highly controversial decision that spawned international uproar and condemnation even before it's made official in just a few hours president donald trump is due to formally announce that the u.s. will officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and plans to relocate the american embassy there they've already been protests in the occupied territories with palestinian leaders in the west bank and gaza calling for three days of rage president mahmoud abbas says trauma's move will have dangerous consequences the status of jerusalem is at the heart of the decades gone israeli palestinian

conflict israel rejecting international law all claims all of jerusalem as its capital while qana seanie and scream the city's eastern sector captured by israel in the one nine hundred sixty seven war as a future capital of their independent state now not a single country in the world has its embassy in jerusalem and that's because the international community does not recognize it as israel's capital from slightly decision puts america at odds with the rest of the world and here is some of the immediate reaction we've heard from world leaders today turkey has strongly come out in opposition saying such a move would cross a red line for muslims as president russia has threatened to cut ties with israel the king of jordan which is eco so do you know the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem one of the holiest sites in israel in islam and judaism has warned trump of dangerous repercussions in iran supreme leader ayatollah ali how many say is the intention to move. the embassy is a sign of u.s.

incompetence and. also in the region saudi arabia qatar morocco iraq in egypt some of the countries against symbols the u.n. e.u. and the catholic church the pope have also reacted saying trumps unilateral action could undermine the middle east peace efforts and in the last hour both the turkish president and jordan's king have again spoken on the issue as they met any someone here's what they had to say. and the steps to change the current status of jerusalem would cause further disruptions clashes and damage peace in the region and the approach to jerusalem that denies the historic realities would be bound to be doomed i have this announcement to make to the rest of the world any attempt to change the legal status of jerusalem should be avoided no one has the right to play with the fate and well being of millions of people such a move would only help to promote the ill intentions of terrorist organizations.

mr president was concerned about moving the american embassy to jerusalem and that's why we have to return peaceful compromise between the palestinians and the israelis and this will allow the palestinians to have their own independent state together with the israelis and jerusalem as the unified capital that we have to work together to fight terrorism and up to our religious responsibilities towards some mosque we are in agreement regarding when assessor to you of having a summit regarding jerusalem. well we have reporters covering all angles of this story her job and jaime's is in ramallah in the occupied west bank carry foresaid is in east jerusalem bernard smith is in gaza but we begin with kimberly hall kate in washington d.c. where president trump is expected to make his speech in just a few hours three hours from now this announcement kimberly one made by the president will signal a stock break with previous u.s. administrations any more details about what we can expect from this speech

extolling its content well the white house is saying in fact that the president's pretty solid in his thinking but despite the fact as you point out that world leaders have cautioned him against making this announcement he is pressing ahead there are a couple of reasons why first the the white house says that this will reflect the reality on the ground as they call it the fact that right now the seat of government for israel is in jerusalem they also deny that this will complicate peace efforts saying that if peace is what both sides want that that will continue and this is not going to affect that effort although certainly there are many that would disagree with that statement but also to this is about despite the caution about hurting national security interests hurting the american interests abroad the president believes that this will help him particularly when it comes to delivering on a campaign promise this is a promise that he made to even christians that he made to

a hawkish republican donors and also very wealthy jewish donors who supported the president were pressing him to make this announcement and one that he now believes he can deliver in terms of a campaign promise really at the state department their concerns about the security ramifications of such a decision is there a timetable for all of this do we know when you know the embassy move is going to happen for instance. if we can look at previous embassies that have been built for example the more recent one would be in london or baghdad according to white house officials this can take years years beyond donald trump's term if he is a one term president the term of four years this is something that as a result could become a campaign issue in the next presidential election and could be undone given the fact that what is going to happen we're told by the white house today is that this is going to be a recognition of jerusalem as the capital but in terms of the logistics of moving

that embassy there are more than one thousand diplomatic personnel located in the region this will take some time and it will also take some time to construct so certainly this is something in terms of the timetable that could extend beyond donald trump's term if he is a one term president can be a whole kit at the white house in washington thank you very much for that let's not cross over to burn as smith who's in gaza for us a burn as even before the decision is made and the announcement is made they have been protests already in the occupied territories in gaza as well tell us about what's happened today. oh yes an indication really of the frustration that palestinians here in gaza and the occupied west bank feel protests already hearing gars of this morning and in anticipation of donald trump's announcement a reflection of the deep frustration and anger really that palestinians here in gaza in the occupied west bank feel frustration after twenty five years essentially of israel the palestinians in on off talks of the peace process where this final

status of jerusalem has always been on the discussion part of those peace talks nothing seems to have come of it come of it and they are particularly in gaza where hamas was the ruling power here is high in the process of handing over power to the palestinian authority in a reconciliation deal how much is warning mahmoud abbas the palestinian president that he should not live himself to the illusion that the rights that could be achieved through americans through an american backed peace deals are hamas warning about us that we shouldn't continue dealing with the americans is there because a bus had wanted the americans to be brokering the peace deal between the palestinians and the israelis we already know. that too many red lines will be crossed of trying to make his announcement later thank you very much for that burn it's been a smith live for us in gaza now over to the occupied west bank and. i mean it is there for as far as bernard said there palestinian leaders are basically viewing

this decision as a declaration of war they've called for three days of rage three days of protests beyond the protesting well what action can they take to denounce this decision specifically the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. well certainly we were we were told that not going to buses actually as we speak meeting with his advisers with his cabinet trying to put together a list of actions that they that he could take after that announcement is made he is actually due to be giving a speech also later today after he heard the words of donald trump now we know that one of the one of the ideas floating around at the moment is actually to put a draft resolution forward to the u.n. security council condemning the u.s. in which that resolution would state that actually do u.s. is going against international conventions it's had signed and also against several

. u.n. resolutions it had actually backed that is one of the ideas we hear we're also hearing that they might be also going forward at this stage with the membership for the various international organizations you might recall that the u.s. had pulled out out of unesco because the palestinians were granted membership there they they might be considering asking membership in other international organizations but i think the big problem is really here in the occupied west bank among palestinians it's going to be very difficult for president mahmoud abbas to calm to move here where whoever you talk to is actually absolutely furious people say that the surge was going to come out of it people do want. to see men with their best take a very firm stand do was do us many would tell you why don't we just close that

office of the palestinian liberation organization in washington d.c. some people to go as far as saying we should cut all relations with the u.s. so certainly he is in a very difficult situation all eyes on him by the stinney and eyes. for sure the wider middle east as well and he has to show that he's going to take a very tough stance this is a huge blow to him to the palestinians to the peace process and he is now under pressure to actually take action that will be as significant as the one the trump will announce very soon in a ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you very much for that not a harry foster who's joining us from damascus is a gate in occupied east jerusalem a very sensitive area where you are in jerusalem harry tell us first about you know

the reaction on these really side this is a decision that would will no doubt please these really leadership in the past the president especially the prime minister i should say benjamin netanyahu or certainly the. cost of israeli senior politicians who've been as a meeting in western islam earlier today and events and international diplomacy conference staged by a national newspaper and certainly that the right wing coalition members of benjamin netanyahu government have been welcoming this calling for other countries to follow suit saying that it's a sign of the american spirit and saying that anybody who doesn't recognize jerusalem doesn't recognize the right of israel to exist so very strong welcoming words coming from the israeli right so far the prime minister himself benjamin netanyahu also spoke voided largely the subject we're waiting for his reaction later on the ceiling after president trump speech.

for palestinians living in occupied east jerusalem the sudden arrival of winter on wednesday matched the news that the us president was set to recognize the city as israel's capital. this is an insane move that will inflame the whole region because he's attacking all of our values our sacred places and our humanity and jerusalem according to un resolutions is the capital of two states if he does this today he will destroy the peace process that america is sponsoring while some of his colleagues have been publicly welcoming the move israel's prime minister steered clear of the topic during a speech to foreign diplomats in jerusalem making only this oblique reference in a video for his facebook page as he drove away as our historical national identity is receiving important expressions every day but particularly today it's moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv was a campaign promise to important trunk financial donors such as las vegas casino

magnate sheldon adelson as well as trump's core right wing evangelical base president trump needs them more than ever as his popularity ratings plummet jerusalem will remain the capital. trump is certainly not the first to make such promises on the campaign trail but he will be the first to translate them into potentially hugely consequential action before his speech trump briefed arab leaders which led to this question at the state department briefing. it is 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 coolly about the decision. no again he spoke with five leaders that's hardly indicative of everybody across the globe. israeli mayor of jerusalem said the embassy move could

take two minutes by switching the sign on the current u.s. consulate in west jerusalem white house staff who didn't want to be named later said that was not going to happen building a new embassy would take at least three to four years they also said that president trump was simply affirming what they called reality both historical and modern that connected the state of israel to the city they argued issues of sovereignty would not change and said that not moving the embassy twenty two years after it was required by congress in one thousand nine hundred five had made any difference to the peace process the troubled ministration remains committed to a two state solution they said if that's what both parties wanted. so that is the line of the united states white house officials are trying to sell to reporters the idea that the phrasing of this speech will be all important not defining jerusalem yet that it could still be defined in a final status agreement between the palestinians and the israelis but people on the ground here are seeing this very differently there was

a letter that's been sent to donald trump by the patriarchs and the heads of the churches the christian churches within jerusalem saying that this could yield conflict and violence and cause irreparable harm and of course we've heard the reaction from the palestinians as well who say that this will really torpedo donald trump's peace efforts before even before they're even fully unveiled thank you very much for that harry fosset live for us in occupied east jerusalem mesan brain our social media producer and or ship out of the news great a lot of reaction on this story as you can understand and a lot of different views what if people saying honestly that's right it's certainly a story of worldwide interest and we're seeing that much of the arab and islamic world in particular is certainly watching it's a very closely now if you look at this you can get just a sense of how global the interest in this story is on social media at least now this is a trends map which tracks tweets that mention the word jerusalem just over the past day and many other conversations on twitter in particular include

a hash tag which is hands off. being the arabic word for the city of jerusalem others are using a variety of other has tags that state that jerusalem is the capital of palestine now if you had to sum up all of those tweets a lot of the content that's out there the general feelings that i'm seeing today i think it would look something like this cartoon by carlos latouche which echoes what many leaders and commentators are saying on social media and in official statements today that trump is basically lobbing a grenade on the city in the form of a u.s. embassy and because of this palestinian leaders like mohammed dahlan are wanting it withdrawal from negotiation. and an end to security coordination with both israel and the united states and on the topic of security you say says that trump is now the biggest threat to the war on terrorism he's bringing up some of the president's retreats the other day that were widely deemed to be both islamophobia and inflammatory you can also see concern that this decision will inflame religious

tensions that's something that the palestinian political analyst neuro day has said she says it'll add to what she calls a false premise that this conflict is a religious one o'dea says that president trump and the israeli government want to force this false constructs down their throats now plenty of other palestinians like jason shalwar here he lives in gaza he says that moving the american embassy means nothing as far as he's concerned the u.s. embassy already sits on occupied palestinian soil many choose to forget that tel aviv is also an occupied palestinian city and we've been asking you on both facebook and twitter what's jerusalem it means to you if you have a special connection to the city now arson. arson ostrowski excuse me told us that jerusalem is the eternal and undivided capital of the state of israel in the spiritual homeland of the jewish people many are of course hailing this expected decision in israel and the united states in particular and in addition so this

comment we've received thousands of others on facebook today answering this very question from turkey says drew sloan is important to the three face christianity islam and judaism so what about marking it as an international zone where everyone can visit feet of from malaysia says we have been sharing jerusalem among all faiths even with difficulties and differences we have always shared it trump politicizing this is utterly disgusting and disappointing. and kahin from nigeria told us that is like my home it's very sad if someone came to you and told you i gave your home to someone else so keep sending us your comments on facebook and twitter throughout the show and in the days ahead you can tweet me directly as well i'm at anderson pal or disease that has tagged it and it's good andrew thank you very much for that any know conflicts over jerusalem go back thousands of years including biblical times the roman empire and the crusades but the current fight for the ancient city is a didn't stink twenty

a century story in just time explains. two major events within weeks of each other in one thousand nine hundred eighteen have in part led to events now first the signing of the balfour declaration when the british government announced support for the creation of what it called a national home for the jewish people in palestine the signing was soon followed by the so-called battle of jerusalem where british troops defeated the ottoman turkish army which had controlled jerusalem for centuries after nearly thirty years of british colonial rule the state of israel was created in one thousand nine hundred forty eight after the so-called war of independence with west jerusalem captured effectively dividing the city in half with the historic and religiously important east under jordanian control that changed in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war between israel and arab states israeli forces seized large areas of territory including east jerusalem hopes were raised in one thousand nine

hundred three with the signing of the oslo accords which ended the first intifada or uprising and laid out a framework for the creation of a palestinian state those efforts ended in two thousand with the start of a second uprising where jerusalem was the frontline of riots and suicide bomb attacks the israeli government began building the separation wall in two thousand and three and continued to approve the construction of huge jewish settlements on occupied land making the creation of a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital increasingly difficult to see now the united states one of the key brokers between the palestinians and israelis is breaking with years of precedent by recognizing all of jerusalem as israel's capital and unpredictable consequences could be the result i let's now bring in our senior political analyst marwan bashara to the news great he joins us from london you sent to marwan before we talk about you know the. the question is

ramifications and so on i would just want to put you a very interesting question that we've just received here from one of our viewers on facebook david who says asking in fact isn't this move to jerusalem going to bring a stronger american presence wave security closer to the heart of the whole region isn't access for the palestinian people being enhanced you know i mean you know i don't know who david is but he sounds like the most ridiculous person in facebook and should really quit immediately i mean if he thinks that that brings american security presence into the region and i don't know what you know by the way in israel no american soldiers are allowed to be deployed israel is a self respecting sovereign nation that doesn't allow even the most important ally the most important superpower in the world to deploy soldiers or to have bases

military bases on its own its soil now i think i think what this move on jerusalem means is disastrous consequences for the united states if not on the short term because of the expediency of arab leaders certainly on the long term because of the anger of the arab street in the arabs in general muslims in general i think the man so-called quote unquote the man on the street reckons that arab leaders are in the pockets of of of donald trump and don't trump is in the pockets of of binyamin netanyahu and it's really israel that's calling the shots on how the u.s. moves its embassy in israel. cierra as you say is a very sensitive issue and you know this is one of the issues when you hear the reaction today you know despite all the problems and disagreement said has united arabs songs have been written about jerusalem embodies really the palestinian

struggle do you think something positive can come out of all of this trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital can it unite the arab world something positive to come out of all this while for you really hurting me today ok you know i'm sorry i cannot find the sort of a lining here yes i mean i understand the point about how pushing everything to the brink might bring the best out of people but be that as it be at this point in time the entire logic behind this step i believe is hitting the world the arab world where the turks and when it's down and the arab world is down the arab and muslim worlds are quite divided today as we all know for several years now or even since nine eleven and the and the american invasion of iraq and so on and so forth the region has basically imploded over the last decade and a half and so in so many ways the united states feels it can do whatever it wants

to do in the region and i think israel is pushing it to do so as such right because they believe the arabs are so divided the arab leaders are so expedient that they would be able to get away with it on that issue of division another interesting question i think marwan from one of our viewers this one on twitter a man who asks why can muslim countries not threatened threaten rather the us with sanctions with the jerusalem issue why can't saudi arabia not impose sanctions on america as they did for qatar it's a very important question it's a relevant question as it were and i think it just goes to the heart of what i was just saying earlier about. the certain skepticism in washington decisionmaking circles where they say that the united states has been wrong for the last several decades to be balanced between israel and the arabs that the united states will

support israel unconditionally and not give a damn about what the arabs think because it doesn't matter what the arabs think because the arabs or the arab leaders in particular don't really care about palestine or if they did they would they don't really care about palestine as much as they care about their own survival and about their american support for them and their relations with washington and i think today we probably see that more than before that we see is certainly the ships set a new leadership on the scene in the arab and muslim world that believe its relation with washington trumps everything else including the long held beliefs that there is such a thing as on earth as dignity as national sovereignty as i cause as justice all of these things are gone to the from the out a block sic on some media reports in the last few hours marwan has said that perhaps interim speech could be something for the palestinians that trump could be

a pet prepared to support the idea of a two state solution that he would mention if any speech today do you think that could soften the blow. well certainly the speech will probably try to you know come up with some carrots as it were but listen for that we need to understand where is the speech coming from certainly it's not rex tillerson and matters in the defense department that is writing the speech the people behind the speech and behind the decision to move them b.c. are three it's a real one is called dressing green belt one is called david freeman friedman he's the american ambassador to israel and one is called jeb bush not is the president's son in law these three people who are the only advisors on the peace process and on palestine to donald trump are three of radical zionist jewish americans who sponsor jewish illegal settlements in the occupied territories they are the ones

who are advising the are the ones who are dictating tromps policy to the region they are the ones behind this issue so whatever they say about a two state solution will probably mean no more than one and a half state meaning they will suggest half a state or in half of the west bank for the palestinians but they're more than happy if the palestinians were call it an empire if they were call it the how to fight they don't give a damn now but they're not going to get more than half a state on half of the west bank and gaza moron bashar is always very good to get your thoughts on this story as a senior political analyst he was joining us on the news great from london what will donald trump ultimately gain from moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem read this very interesting opinion piece just published in our website al-jazeera dot com daoud kuttab the award winning palestinian journalist believes it's a dangerous gambit that donald trump will get absolutely nothing out of read it

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. the headlines on al-jazeera and the stories trending on al-jazeera dot com a not surprising top trending there is us present donald trump's expected decision to recognize a jerusalem as the capital of israel and at number one palestinians calling for days of rage over this plan and number two turkey greece and the era of cold and peace and at number three world the world reacting to the u.s. decision to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem those stories and much more on our website at al-jazeera to. move on to other world news now and houses burned down children sleeping rough in churches entire communities living without shelter and in absolute equality it's a firsthand account of what the norwegian refugee council has been witnessing in the democratic republic of congo and is calling it a mega crisis in

a week in refugee council says this year more than more people have fled the conflict in the d.c. than anywhere else in the world ah pacing syria yemen and iraq this brings the total number of people displaced to more than four million seven point seven million people are severely food insecure up to thirty percent in a year and a lack of access to clean water has caused a cholera outbreak which has killed some six hundred people in the d.r.s. . joining us now on the news great is a rica brum who is the know we refugee council's count country director for the democratic republic of congo she is live from goma in the east of the. i thank you so much for being with us first of all what is causing this mass exodus the numbers are just simply staggering what's happening here now i am groot often known thank you for having it good now that this is a conflict that has been spreading in the last year or manere from. gaza and

sixteen as it is going to doing in two thousand and seven it's not contrary to human inside the country between different groups it has a massive humanitarian consequence so who are these people that are displaced internally displaced people are they externally displaced are they refugees from other countries of coming to the d r c just give us an idea of who the people are and what conditions they face no. absent my own retail. displaced in india i see are internally displaced persons and it's four point one million at this time. very in relation to that a number of refugees are less than that i mean. definitely a crisis inside the country and the displaced already. seen since two thousand and seventeen spreadin you're into new areas it has been to

curation crises in the house since october do you get a sense of reka that this conflict in the d r c is being forgotten by the international community because of the various other crises in the world right now with ed syria or yemen and how do you as an organization that's helping people on the ground get it back on the agenda. yes this is one of the most new directors cranston's in the world and considering your time has been declared a never three year emergency since october together with them yet back and syria you need much more attention. extremely i am going on and need more resources and we are working in different ways so also are trying to report on the actual situation on the consequences of not responding. to the crisis and water it has what happens to the displaced when they call on it when they are not

assisting thank you very much for speaking to us all week abrahm country director for the norwegian refugee council who was via skype there from goma in the east of the democratic republic of congo now as you heard the worsening political crisis and the delay in holding a presidential election also to blame for the growing humanitarian crisis in the d.r. see we've got a very interesting debate on democracy in the d r c on al-jazeera dot com on our outfront spoke to both a close ally of president kabila and opposition politician martin for you know it's a very heated discussion to watch it if you can it's on al-jazeera doc wrong saying with african leaders at a un environmental conference in kenya have adopted a resolution on plastic waste entering. now while the resolution is legally non-binding and has no timetable to be implemented the proposal means governments would create an international task force to advise on how best to fight plastic

pollution or what the u.n. is calling a planetary crisis will be life's nairobi in just a moment but first mariana han looks at just how big the problem of plastic is in a oceans. five trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans more than a million plastic bags used every minute millions trillions for many of us these are huge numbers difficult to comprehend well here's an idea of just how big the problem has become for our planet eight million tonnes of plastic ins up in our oceans every year most of it used just the once and then thrown away that c equivalent of a rubbish truck of plastic every minute at this rate that will grow to two trucks a minute by the year twenty thirty and for trucks going into our oceans every minute by twenty fifty by which time by weight they will be as much plastic if not

more in our oceans than fish plastic like this more than five trillion pieces is already there in our oceans creating these huge garbage patches the largest of which is floating off the pacific coast of the united states well as i'll bring in catherine sawyer who's been covering that summit for us in the kenyan capital nairobi catherine tell us more about this resolution and what can it achieve. absolutely and in all thirteen resolutions was adopted today including that resolution you talk about on plastic pollution and joining me to discuss this further is the un environment executive director erik solheim thank you very much so perhaps you start by telling us this resolution on plastic pollution is not binding so without a legal mechanism to manage plastic pollution do you think this is enough for such

a big problem. that this conference would be seen as very visually start to take concerted action against plastic in those i mean no government want to pollute . their options with plastic cannot just ban well news press to eritrea rwanda has done it in the show's promise to reduce that seventy percent so yes indeed governments now start to take actions and business need to follow up and there is there was also a political declaration that was made a police free world how do you think this is going to be achieved especially in times of consensus on a strategy because this has always been a problem for the first time the very last come together and set the aim of the verb let's create a pollution free planet it will be happening by business finding all the creative solutions citizens demanding action by government taking believe that me just give you an example remote see for the first time

a substantial reduction in the pollution in beijing and some of the biggest chinese cities and it comes of course from the strong action taken by the chinese government how do you get big polluters were on board and big polluters i mean in countries like the u.s. china india how do you get them on board especially when it comes to the radical aspects of implementation i don't think really there is a need to get them on board because china and the u.s. would not do it for you amenable to it for themselves and for their own. for pollution just last week your crew could merge with insulin coming there was cancelled because of pollution that's not good in the part of the very cricket is closed and we see the government stepping up its strong action in india just mentioned. doing it for themselves and for their people thank you very much sir i know you had a very long day and. i have spoken to many delegates here who are saying that generally they are happy with the progress they say that they see

a sense of direction policy wise but what needs to be done going forward is stakeholders walking together and there needs to be a real commitment and political goodwill from the different countries because for a success for this campaign to be successful in the end it all comes down to the individual member states thank you very much for that catherine story reporting there live from kenya's capital nairobi are less than take a look at the other stories that are making headlines around the world today here's barbara sarah in our london new center hi barbara farley thank you let's begin in yemen fighting is escalated in the north of the country forcing more families to flee their homes forces from the saudi led coalition are battling with to the fighters inside the province it's a who they stronghold near the saudi border now there are reports of airstrikes in four other provinces and who the fighters of broken up are rare protest by dozens

of yemeni women in the capital sana'a. the women gathered outside the military hospital demanding a proper burial for the ousted president aliyev sally he was killed by the around back to the rebels on monday after switching alliances to the saudi led coalition who these fired shots at the women causing them to the stores. britain's prime minister says she will protect the constitutional integrity of the u.k. during negotiations to break the deadlock in the break said talks over the irish border tourism a says the government is committed to ensuring there is no return to our so-called hard border between northern ireland and the republic but she told parliament that the issue could only be resolved once they go see a sions with the e.u. move on to the second phase the e.u. however has previously said it would only begin trade talks after the border issue was finalized we're leaving the european union we're leaving the single market in

the customs union. we will. be able to we will. we will do what is right in the interest of the whole of the united kingdom and nothing is agreed until everything is agreed the relations between the u.s. and iran have deteriorated since president trump took office in january the white house has threatened to pull out of a landmark two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and hit iran with a travel ban while the iranians may resent the new visa restrictions how they feel about america as a country is a little different same bus driver he explains though from tehran before the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine was a boxer that he says got him a job as a guard for the u.s. embassy after the chaos of the one nine hundred eighty s. he traveled to europe where he ate at mcdonald's for the first time he loved it so much he wanted to share the experience with his own people and must donald's was

born. iranians love american food because it's tasted delicious and has personality disagreements but the abscess are government to government not people the people and with a son living in the u.s. state of georgia he hopes to visit soon it will be his first time. we asked about the travel. he says he's not worried about getting a visa because he has faith in the system. i know. it seems that the american president were to visit iran he'd find at least one friendly face earlier this year the restaurant was named america's favorite burger and there's one right here in tehran you can google it but it's not exactly the same thing but everyone has the same for the united states many iranians say the new visa restrictions are islam. child. you as. the best for. the

ultimate if you reach there. you want after. maybe. i'm just finding another solutions for my life and while they may enjoy the food america is no longer the top of the mountain for young iranians maybe many years ago it would be considered something very important you know maybe it would be something which would make students iranian students. you know not the only goal or the only option that they have. experts say the u.s. visa ban is a miscalculation they cannot accept to be limited in traveling to other parts of the world including america this is very very. long in price so this bill back prior to. back at home pub the admires his

most prized possession a gift from an american stranded on the side of the road he helped a stranger fix his car and got him on his way. it was more than forty years ago before the revolution when u.s. diplomats still lived in iraq he said that night he made a friend of the american eagle and the islamic names of god symbols hanging together on the walls of at least one iranian living room. zero. that's it from on them for now that i have more of the day's news from london from sixteen hundred g.m.t. now let's go back to folly in doha by thank you very much for that said ahead here on the news great tatiana's coming up next with a sport and a tough decision facing russian and then peons as a team is banned from the winter games but cleanup phase are told they can compete on a mutual fund. it's

going to have people talking about it for three tatyana thank you very much for the russia's president vladimir putin says he won't stop his country sports dot competing at next year's winter games under unusual slack that's the big decision facing russian elim pins off to the international in libya miti ban to the country from in twenty eighteen baht said any clean athletes could compete as neutrals also known as a limb picked athletes from russia i.o.c. president thomas back described russia's doping program as an attack on the olympics integrities the fast time an entire nation has been banned because of anti

doping violations a report that followed the seventeen month long investigation into a state sponsored doping said and benefited over one thousand athletes particularly the last winter games which russia hosted in sochi in twenty fourteen well the announcements been welcomed by winter olympians from other countries online as well great britain bobsledder john jackson have recently received a bronze medal from the sochi games off of the russian team was found to have dived into the i.o.c. on twitter and said it was right that clean athletes could compete on tour in neutral flag will skeleton race them out on to one who's expected to have his bronze medal from sochi upgraded as well agreed he tweeted this that the decision to preserve the integrity of the olympics athletes around the world but it's not just athletes having their say on this u.s. and as a john mccain tweeted about it as well saying the ban was justice for blood to me putin's government and he called on faith added to a list of reasons why next year's world cup shouldn't be held in russia one need

just to say the decision hasn't been popular among russian athletes especially those who've never been implicated in any wrongdoing such as figure skates a huge enya met the ever who was only fourteen when sochi took place she'd been favorite to win gold in. chung but tokyo i.o.c. that dream of competing at the olympics may now be said unfortunately now i understand i can lose this child because of circumstances that do not depend on me in any way i cannot accept the option that i would compete in the olympic games without the russian flag as a neutral athlete or the head of the russia's olympic committee was a neutral more positive take a listen to what he said but keep an eye out for the logo in the top right of the screen. sort of scary does that preclude the decision that i should say from the very beginning is rather controversial there are both positive and negative sides speaking about the positive sides the international olympic committee allowed all

clean russian athletes both an individual and team sports to compete in the olympics this is first secondly this team will be called a team of russian athletes. ok so some of you may have spotted that the olympic rings in the right of that clip from russian t.v. had a line through it a similar sentiment was shared on social media platforms as well the hashtag no russian no games was started by a schoolboy from some pages bike in support of his country's athletes and it's got over eighteen thousand tweets in the last twenty four hours this house typing is mostly in russia as expected but also scattered across other parts of western europe and also some in the united states as well olympics twenty eighteen and russia bad the other hashtag is used by the now as popular as an irrational games well there's also been a lot of talk on how the games will be affected with some russian athletes not that the country traditionally dominates many went to sports earlier we spoke to eleven pics also a jewish boy cough who said it's one of many problems for guises. they must be in

freak out mode right now because ticket sales are very low right now the national hockey league full of all sorts of hockey stars is not letting their players go to play in the pianka chang olympics they've already cut down an ancient forest to make way for a ski run getting the ire of activists and the game's prices doubled from around six billion in the beginning to more than thirteen billion today so they have a handful of problems and the russian doping scandals not helping let's make no mistake russia is a big player in the olympic movement so for the international olympic committee to lay out this kind of punishment is significant as you mentioned athletes who will be participating in the pianka chang games in south korea just around the corner here they will be parted participating as neutrals they will not be wearing the russian flag on their jerseys that will be roughly tantamount to them wearing an invisible scarlet letter on their jerseys a constant reminder of the doping scandal that hit their country as well as the

wider issues in sports more generally as always say you'll feel if somebody has it us using the hashtag a chinese credo treat me a time tatyana i'll have more sport later this evening funny it's not the team. that and i thank you very much. a national popular june and often compared to elvis presley johnny hallyday died from lung cancer at the age of seventy four natasha butler looks back at his career. he was france's rock'n'roll superstar the nation's elvis with his piercing blue eyes blonde quick and charisma johnny hallyday dominated the stage and captivated fans for decades. and it is crisp and nearly sixty years he sold more than one hundred million records produced more than seventy albums and toured relentlessly his fame transcended music he was a national icon but outside of the french speaking world many people were baffled

by the popularity of the leather clad rocker they couldn't understand how he managed to appeal to fans of all ages and from all walks of life whether you were on the right or on the left he was a bit like getting the nerve him bodied fronts not an elite fronts but the one of ordinary people and the dreams the ones that went to his concerts in many ways johnny was from. halliday's personal story of rags to riches added to the myth he was born john phillips met during the second world war in paris his parents abandoned him leaving him to be brought up by his aunt and her american husband named lee halliday both were dancers when elvis presley broke through in the us in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven johnny found his idol and a template for his own career he hit the road as a teenage singer fast becoming a sensation soon he was france's highest earning music star.

always trying to do shows that are a little bit different compared to the ones i did before but yes i do try and do things that are out of the ordinary with nice lights and special effects screens anything that can make people dream. as well as music there was acting starred in films by top french directors including including louche. his personal life wasn't without controversy he was married five times and left france for switzerland to avoid paying high taxes. in his last years he battled illness but refused to stop working he'll be remembered as an artist to the end as a star all simply as his fans always called him johnny natasha butler al jazeera paris and finally on the news grid today a group of women who triggered the recent outcry against sexual harassment and spot a global conversation has been named time magazine's person of the year these

so-called silence breakers started the need to movement and this began a series of accusations against with that series of accusations against hollywood producer harvey weinstein. and that's it for today's show i'll be back with you again tomorrow at fifteen hundred g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera to six. you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on sad you know evil person just wakes up in the

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