looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time and i just see it. protesters face off with israeli troops in occupied palestine as anger builds over the us the station to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital.

barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program turkey's president becomes the first turkish head of state to visit greece in decades but his story still loom large two years after russia entered the war in syria declares its military operation has driven i saw from its territory and wildfires in california forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes . welcome to the program at least one hundred eight palestinians have been injured in violent protests across the occupied territories after u.s. president donald trump formally recognized jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday. demonstrators in several palestinian territories

have clashed with israeli troops in ramallah in the occupied west bank thousands heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of rage the bill has made as more now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. anger disappointment and a sense of betrayal. among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regardless they do consider jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state now this march is a show of unity usually you would see the many flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. and that's the only thing we can do this time declinations a slap for us here to wake up and realize the peace process was just an illusion. the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians. wait emirates jordan

all of them then to us here in palestine we defend it but we can't do without support but if those were peaceful protests there were also clashes across the uk you paired bias bank usually a distil called fiction point that's when palestinian youth come face to face with the israeli army now the military had announced that it has deployed several extra battalion to the occupied west bank because it was preparing for the eventuality of unrest now friday is another day of rage and more of these kind of violent scenes i expected well there have also been protests outside the old city in occupied east jerusalem a general strike is in place across the occupied territories closing shops businesses and schools have a force that has more. the day after the u.s.

president recognized jerusalem as israel's capital palestinian residents of its occupied eastern half protested outside the old city's damascus gate the unfurling of the palestinian flag prompted the first of several interventions by israeli security forces it's less than five months since people here took to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest against the placing of israeli metal detectors at the entrances to the al aqsa mosque compound one activist says these protests could swell around friday prayers. we jerusalem residents we will stand up against his decision every way we can exactly as we stood up against the closure of today there's a general strike in protests tomorrow with a big way. a short distance from the mosque a skate inside the old city it's clear that most of the businesses here are observing a general strike that's been called in protest of donald trump's decision it's a pretty big sacrifice for them it's a sign of how deeply this is being felt. bakeries are among the businesses exempt

from the strike i had bushy was born here. and what palestinians views their capital he says trump has jeopardized its future status can homework and address drusilla as a sacred place for three religions he can't just give them something that is just for them there was islam judaism and christianity all here this is a city of peace. donald trump did speak of the need to preserve the rights of all three faiths in this holy city emphasizing that he wasn't taking a position on any final status issues including contested borders but his decision to recognize what he called the reality of its status as israel's capital is also emphasized another reality for palestinians life and occupation with the peace process stalled for two decades and now thrown into ever greater jeopardy well harry force and joins us live now from outside the mask a skate in occupied east jerusalem so i mean it was predictable i guess that we would see anger earlier today after that announcement and seen it before the announcement was actually made but going forward what do you think how do you think

this is going to develop how strong is the feeling on the ground there still. well it's hard to gauge exactly how it's going to develop in terms of what we're going to see on the streets on friday but certainly there is extremely strong feeling here i mean palestinian palestinians see east jerusalem as the capital of their future state they see jerusalem itself as a hugely important national and religious symbol and so to hear donald trump talking about it in almost exclusively israeli terms in his speech late last night is something that is being felt very deeply here we spoke to one activist the one that you heard in that in that piece he was saying that the. compound protests that took place earlier in the summer they were about a religious issue and so the feeling was even deeper and it gained the momentum that we saw the thousands of people on the streets for such

a long time he's not sure that that this more political slightly more distant distanced speech from donald trump is going to have the same effect as that very physical imposition as they felt it on that most important holy site however he was saying that around friday we could see more protests we spoke to the israeli police spokesman he was here a little earlier on and he was saying that there would be an assessment of the security risks this evening and if needed there would be further recruits reinforcement put in place that wasn't felt necessary today but it may be tomorrow we'll have to wait and see how the force are with the latest from occupied east jerusalem harry thank you. for the palestinian president says he's rallying international opposition to president trance decision calling it an unacceptable crime they have also been protesting gaza against a decision from where bernard smith now reports. this is a scene being repeated across the palestinian territories we are like the

palestinian people we will not accept this world state to fight and fight and fight to get jurors. capital of the sun. but beyond protesting palestinian leaders are now trying to come up with a unified action plan to respond to donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel most say the oslo accord is dead it's been the basis of twenty five years of u.s. mediated off negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis yeah. i'm telling my brothers in the palestinian authority that the situation should be clear we will go out of the darkness this decision has killed. the p.a.'s prime minister rami was in gaza on a prearranged visit as hamas hands back control of the territory well before trump's announcement poll showed two thirds of palestinians wanted him to his boss president mahmoud abbas to resign because they're no nearer

a deal on statehood now there's even more pressure on the p.a. to come up with a new strategy. we will confront this decision by having our own national unity the justice of our case we will establish on sixty seven borders. this is a demonstration of. how masses are doing now. is likely to remain just demonstrations because political leaders here realize this time they want the focus of palestinian anger not to be on the situation in gaza but to be on what's happening to jerusalem. al-jazeera. the white house correspondent kimberly hackett has been speaking exclusively to raj shah the deputy assistant to the u. s. president joins us live now from the white house are really what reaction do we know that the president has actually had to the kinds of things that. well we know

that the president is an avid watcher of television news and so i asked the deputy assistant to the president rush on whether or not in fact the president was surprised by the uptick in violence and demonstrations as a result of his announcement he said in fact that they believe what the reaction was one that was expected but it has gone relatively well that it could have been much worse i also asked him in terms of any sort of future american sponsored peace process what the status of jerusalem would be. when the president mentioned jerusalem he didn't say and recognize it as an undivided city doesn't mean that in a peace process that sponsored by the united states doesn't mean then that jerusalem could be on the negotiating table as part of a peace process look border sovereignty these are the types of issues that would be part of final status negotiations were all the parties are going to have

a role and have to negotiate a final settlement so that's that the decision yesterday has nothing to do with that and we're going to allow the parties to work out the details so was the language very specific that in terms of the selection of the president using the phrasing that he did of course it was again this is this is about a recognition of reality and not about you know putting our finger on the scale in the peace process we are an honest broker and we want the first word of being an honest broker is being honest and recognizing reality that israel's capital is risky. now mr shaw also told me in fact that the vice president will be visiting the region we expect he will be there sometime around december seventeenth there will be bilateral meetings held with the israeli prime minister mahmoud abbas the palestinian leader and the message that will be sent is that the united states believes that it can be a partner in peace that there is a concern on the part of the president for not just palestinian children or rather

not just israeli children but also palestinian children as well when i asked whether or not there was any concern about the strengthening of iran's position as a result of this they deny that that is the case and also whether this is harmed relationships with the fifty plus muslim leaders that the president met with months ago when he traveled to the region and of course made that that riyadh speech they deny that these have been impacted in any way despite some of the condemnations that we have heard following the declaration by the president in fact they believe in the words of raj shah that in fact the coalition with the united states remains strong and really how kind of the white house can really thank you stake a look at some of the day's other news now turkey's president is on a historic two day visit to greece the first by a turkish head of state for sixty five years however old disputes are overshadowing that's the visit i should type or the han said the nine hundred twenty three treaty that settled the turkey's borders after world war one was not being applied fairly

a greek president procopius from local also rejected any change to the treaty of luzon the nato allies also have territorial disputes in the g. and c. and disagree over the reunification of the divided island of cyprus john psaropoulos has more from athens. turkish president. set the tone for his visit to greece by disputing what the greeks see as the bedrock of the greek turkish relationship the nineteen twenty three treaty which set the border between the two countries. told a television interviewer the night before he came but he believes that treaty needs to be updated or revised the greeks have reiterated on thursday to mr. standard position that that treaty is working perfectly well it is perfectly adequate in terms of territorial delineation between the two countries in

dealing with respective minorities in the two countries and it doesn't need to be touched at all so that difference between the two has set the tone for talks here during the day and other disagreements have also chief among them mr guns demand after eighteen eighteen months since the july twenty sixth team coup that eight officers who have sought refuge here in greece in the aftermath of the coup be extradited to turkey for judicial processing the greek supreme court has considered that extradition request and turned it down in january this year saying that there is a danger that these men would suffer possible torture or even be put to death if turkey were to overturn its. banning of the death penalty as mr has at least on one occasion publicly threatened to do so that remains a thaw in the relationship between the greeks and the turks also greece reiterated

today that it will not extradite those offices however despite these difficulties the greeks and the turks also have mutual interests and they are trying to stress those financing for example their plans to build a high speed rail link between the northern greek city. and will and all. to declare how willing they are to talk about their outstanding differences and to smooth them over. still to come here i. can't. deal with france for fourteen billion dollars to bolster a bill has a military capability plus a vote counting begins in the polls and as the country moves towards a fully fledged. welcome back as we take

a look at weather conditions across western asia and the levant you can see a massive cloud moving through we've had some snow showers developing some rain at lower level so it's an unsettled picture at the moment back to windy heise just eleven degrees and you see some snow up over the caucasus further towards the south it's generally looking dry but temperatures nothing special to run a stroke at nine degrees bank sixteen couple should stay dry with highs of fourteen and cooler conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean two sixteen that beirut recovering slightly as we head on through into saturday and generally the snow risk moves away further towards the east eighteen degrees in what should be a fairly bright day and across iraq be in potential see lower temperatures generally riyadh struck me a seventeen degrees in front just working its way through the gulf just taking temperatures down a fraction with it as it goes so twenty two in doha with a thirty mile wind it's going to feel quite chilly here relatively speaking on the other side the potential light winds and thirty three degrees in mecca but medina quite chilly that twenty two across into southern portions of african see

a massive cloud giving some showers from had some heavy rain across more eastern parts of south africa that remains a threat certainly for durban sure in the course of friday but it should be fine in cape town and pretty warm at twenty seven.

a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least one hundred eight palestinians have been driven in violent protests across the occupied territories after u.s. president donald trump formally recognized jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday the leader of hamas which dominates the gaza strip has called for a day of rage in response to the move. and the turkey's president is on his story today a visit to greece the first by a turkish head of state for sixty five years but old this feud saw overshadowing the state visit. the u.s. senator al franken has announced his resignation after repeated accusations of sexual harassment but democratic senator for the state of minnesota has lost the support of many of his party colleagues as

a series of allegations from women have emerged franken who was a well known comedian before entering politics still denied the many of the allegations in his resignation speech to his senate colleagues i know in my heart that nothing i have done as a senator nothing. as brought this honor on on this institution and i am confident that the ethics committee would agree nevertheless today i am announcing that in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate will shiver townsend's following the story for us in washington d.c. accusations towards al franken have been rumbling for weeks now so tell us a little bit about the timing of this announcement how is the significant. right i mean that's that's an interesting part of the story this has been rumbling on for

weeks woman when another woman has come out saying look both before and after franken became a senator he acted inappropriately he groped people and so on and yet it was on wednesday that his democratic colleagues in the senate ganged up on him and basically said he has to go so what a change yes it's true another woman had come forward but they're all theories that this there's a political element to this right now there is a very close race in alabama for an alabama senate seat and the republicans and the president who himself of course is accused of sexual misconduct they roll back the republican candidate down there wrote roy moore who is accused of child molestation now there's a there's a there was some democrats who begin to realize that as long as franken with his very high profile allegations against him was in the senate it gave the republicans cover to support roy moore even though the accusations against roy moore are so much worse than something that franken even mentioned in his speech so there is

a theory that perhaps enough was enough because. franken having franken in the senate chamber was giving the republicans the ability to say look where you go franken haven't you and not only that if is elected to the senate having franken in the senate as well would make it more difficult for the democrats to at the very least go through the theater of trying to get roy moore expelled for his past sexual misconduct in addition franken has a safe seat as long as he goes now the longer he stays in seat might become contested in twenty eighteen right now the minnesota governor can simply replace him with another democrat so there's no political risk so there is that question is this a real reckoning in the democratic party at least about sexual misconduct or is this a political maneuver especially given how forgiving the democratic party remains about many liberal democratic figures like bill clinton for example himself accused of sexual molestation and yet so many of those you know condemning franken treat bill clinton with great respect and even even disparaged his accusers. with the

latest on that story from washington. now the syrian government delegation will return to geneva on sunday to resume talks aimed at ending the conflict after walking out last week the eight round of u.n. backed talks have been on hold while the syrian opposition waits for government negotiators to return the delegation left the talks blaming the opposition the man the opposition the bands that president al assad should play a no role in any interim post-war government meanwhile russia's military says that i saw has been completely defeated in syria it says there are no remaining districts still on the ice or control however the syrian observatory for human rights which monitors the conflict says i saw still holds about eight percent of that as of province russia began its bombing raids in september two thousand and fifteen in support of syrian president al assad's beleaguered forces it's in a holder has more now from beirut. the russian military saying that the military

operations against iceland syria have now been completed acknowledging that there are pockets of resistance but overall their mission has been completed now the statement wasn't clear whether the military operations will seize in the whole of syria or just in areas where i still used to operate because the russian military has engaged in military activity in other areas helping the syrian government fight the opposition groups but what is clear in that statement this is what russia wants to happen next and that is to start the political process it mentions the need for this political process to start and russia really has been launching a diplomatic campaign its own initiative really very separate from the u.n. sponsored geneva talks it wants to hold what is known as the syrian people's congress but it seems that it still doesn't have the backing of all powers because that congress was supposed to be held in november and now it has been postponed

till early next year it doesn't just have doesn't have the support of of players that oppose it really in syria but even within its own camp its own allies it's still not clear whether the syrian government and the iranian government is on board to actually make the necessary concessions because what is clear is that this has been a very costly war for russia it is looking for an end game it's looking for an exit plan it wants to translate its military successes into a diplomatic victory so it wants to push this forward but still little progress has been made more than twelve thousand homes are under threat from huge wildfires in the u.s. state of california two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate their homes as the fire is now enter the city of los angeles hundreds of homes have been destroyed many in the city's richest neighborhoods schools highways and film productions have shut down firefighters say that just five percent of the blaze has been contained with more hope to dry winds forecast. we are dealing with

a number of flare ups now the winds come back that's the big story at some point we have as you can feel here some strong winds and steady wind and some strong gusts occurring we do have some flare ups up in the bell or crest road airbender crest area same area that the fire was. burning earlier today so we do have our l.a. city crews as long as well as i we have the helicopters air operations are up there they're making nighttime water drops. and arrest warrants been issued for christina care schnur the former president of argentina relating to a nine hundred ninety four bombing in buenos aires a judge has accused her of covering up the alleged involvement of iran in the bombing of a jewish center twenty three years ago eighty five people died in that attack to raise a boy has more from what desirous. what it was a very busy morning here in one of scientists with a judge to tell you one of your ordering the arrest not only of former president cristina kirchner but also off her former foreign minister export of the amount of money and other people close to her administration kirschner is being accused of

treason of trying to cover up an attack against the jewish community say enter here i'm going to cite is back in one thousand nine hundred four that killed over eighty people most of the accusation is based on the what is called a memorandum an agreement between the argentinian government and the iranian government that would have allowed arjun time judges to interrogate iranian officials who were allegedly involved in this attack but prosecutor i've got a body for man who appeared with a shot in the head back in two thousand and fifteen it's not clear yet whether he committed suicide or he was murdered accused christina kirshner that the real reason between behind this agreement was a trade deal between both administration that argentina would get cheap oil in exchange in iran would get cheap grain from this country cristina kirchner has been elected as argentina's president twice and she was elected and senatorial last october so she's right now she has immunity it's not possible that she could be

arrested for this the senate would have to vote on whether to lift this immunity and it's unlikely that this will happen anytime soon not only because of the winter recess but also because of the deep divisions that exist in the senate today because kirshner has not been tried in fact and this is why question is saying that she's being politically persecuted because many of the members of her administration are currently detained on preventive detention most of them accused of corruption kirschner is saying that the accusations against her are and grounded that they are politically motivated by the administration of mauricio marketing. catherine france has signed a memorandum of understanding on combating terrorism the two countries also signed commercial contracts worth more than fourteen billion dollars the deals were announced as french president obama will look wrong visited though her wearing red the emir shaved her new been a lot of funny. vote counting is underway in the polls the election for national

and provincial assemblies the final step in its transition to a federal democracy security was stepped up for the elections with thousands of police and soldiers deployed so when a stressed out reports now from the capital kathmandu. most of the party voters seem to be undeterred by a series of explosions which marred both campaigning and election day queues started for me and got a menu from early morning to two state and national assembly this is the second phase of elections with more than twelve million eligible voters from forty five districts taking part now living in more remote mountainous areas voted late last month and soon after polls open we've found a ninety eight year old cultural historian who are just cast his ballot people are one step to getting the government started to go back to the most important goal we want from you. through this invention that both political parties have regrouped

themselves for these elections into two major alliances the super left alliance of my was former fighters and the communist party unified marxist leninist is competing against the so-called democratic alliance of nepali congress together with former royalist and other small parties new political parties have gained attention they claim to champion a new ethical style of politics in a country which has grown sick of endemic corruption however the new constitution sets the bar high for newcomers parties have to win at least three percent votes in the proportional system and one candidate has to win by the first past the post system. why should we look at the same old faces we need to give new people a chance. collecting the votes from all over the country and counting them is expected to take several days as well as elected members of parliament for the first time voters are choosing state assembly members however

a federal system of government remains controversial federalism received little attention during political campaigning and how the newly elected state governments will function it's one of the big questions going forward several devices were diffused around the country and an explosion in the south of nepal injured six people the election commission says voting has been mostly peaceful. al-jazeera government. much more on that and all the other stories that we have been covering on our website you can see the website on your screens right now and you can also see how much coverage we are devoting to our top story and that is that announcement that was made just under twenty four hours ago by president donald trump about the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem which he recognizes as the capital of israel. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera at least one hundred eight

palestinians have been injured in violent protests across the occupied territories after u.s. president donald trump formally recognized jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday. demonstrators in several palestinian territories of clashed with israeli troops a general strike is also in place closing shops and businesses and schools in ramallah in the occupied west bank thousands heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of rain. we should call for and we should work on launching an interrupt thought in the face of the zionist enemy today there will be half solutions and narrow options let the palestinian people unleash to express their anger and their commitment to their eternal right in jerusalem and all of palestine turkey's president is on a historic two day visit to greece the first by a turkish head of state for sixty five years but all the disputes are overshadowing

the visit richard typewriter the one said the nine hundred twenty three treaty that settled the turkey's borders after world war one was not being applied fairly however the greek president procopius from local also rejected any changes to the syrian government delegation will return to geneva on sunday to resume talks aimed at ending the conflict that allegation left to the eighth round of u.n. sponsored talks last week after the opposition demanded the president bashar assad should play no role in any interim post-war government. and russia's military says i saw as being completely defeated in syria but the syria observatory for human rights which monitors the conflicts i saw actually still holds about eight percent of that is or province russia began its bombing raids in september two thousand and fifteen in support of the syrian president's beleaguered forces catherine france have signed

a memorandum of understanding from combating terrorism the two countries also signed commercial contracts worth more than fourteen billion dollars. well those are the headlines and stay with us here on al-jazeera inside story is next i'm going to have the al-jazeera news hour for you in less than half an hour then by. the end. of the end. of pending decades of american diplomacy the u.s. president infuriates muslim and world leaders by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital donald trump also announces plans to move the u.s. embassy it's a momentous change but change of what sort this is inside story.