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recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead. on its security pyongyang wants direct talks with washington moscow says it's ready to facilitate. accused of treason a judge orders the arrest of argentina's former president. says the order violates the rule of law. and a new budget from zimbabwe is a new president with an aim to revive the country's economy. at least a hundred palestinians have been injured in protests across the occupied territories the angry scenes were sparked by the u.s.

president donald trump formally recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. demonstrators and several palestinian territories have clashed with israeli troops who fired tear gas and live ammunition at them in the occupied west bank thousands heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days before age. has more from. anger disappointment and a sense of. among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regardless they do. have a few chips palestinian state now there's. march is a show a few usually you would see the many flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. for jerusalem that's the only thing we can do this time to clear a sions a slap for us here to wake up and realize the peace process was just an illusion

it's the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians saudi kuwait emirates jordan all of them then to us here in palestine we defend it but we can't do without support but if those peaceful protests there were also clashes across the occupied by bank usually a 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. now friday is another day of rage and more of this kind of violence scenes i expect it all a general strike is also in place closing shops businesses and schools harry fawcett reports are occupied east jerusalem. the day after the

us 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 the 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 this decision every way we can exactly as we stood up against the closure of today there's a general strike and protests tomorrow. a short distance from the mosque a skate inside the old city it's clear that most of the businesses here are observing the 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 business is exempt

from the strike was born here and what palestinians views their capital he says trump has jeopardized its future status. jerusalem is a sacred place three religions you can't just give them something that is just for them it 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 and besides in 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 a peace process stalled for two decades and now thrown into ever greater jeopardy sorry for that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem well palestinian leaders have said they will announce their next steps in the coming days one of the first moves

by palestinian president mahmoud abbas was to meet with jordan's king abdullah as you can see and they both stressed the importance of a coordinated stance. rated that the u.s. no longer has a role to play in the peace process let's us speak to virginia tillis is a professor of political science at southern illinois university she's also the author of the one state solution a breakthrough for peace in the israeli palestinian dead long joining us via skype from carbondale thanks very much for speaking to us before i get into the issue for the one state solution that you write about and let me first ask you about the impact this the says and by donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital what impact it's having on palestinians that live in occupied east jerusalem right now and for those who live in other occupied territories and want to make their way into jerusalem to visit the holy site for example. well it's speaking for the united states and those opposed to the action of some of the other people on your

program but i think it's very natural course we would expect to see a mass demonstration of you know the kinds we're now seeing. a spontaneous popular uprising principled action against this just your. presence. and the difficulty is that there doesn't seem to be much political context for there's a very strong protest against it what would you not hearing is a clear political plan about what to do about it well we hope to hear some sort of promo code statements over the next few days we understand there are a couple of readings going on of the palestinian leader as well as the u.n. security council on friday but go for one states with equal rights for everyone living in historic palestine from the river to the sea what is your response to that well i think that's very clearly the case i think it's been the case for a while the perhaps it took a symbolic gesture like this and again i call it

a gesture because everything about the united states' position has been consistent with this woman. but what it actually brought into the to onto the table and seems to be momentum towards this idea of a one state solution no. well it's out of necessity of a two state solution is clearly fairly detailed a long time ago let me mention my book i wrote my book in two thousand and five that's two years ago now and it was obvious then that there was going to be a two state solution i'm glad that this is seems to be a turning point that people are facing the absolute failure with absolutely. no further reason to go along with the oslo process or to to pretend that it's going to lead anywhere. losing jerusalem as a final symbolic blow. against clarified it for a lot of people i mean you know if i quality for all how difficult is that going to be to accept by some israelis and some palestinians well what is going to be very

difficult just sort of. palestinian side because of the legacy of injury and heard and saw our grief and loss on the israeli side the typical use of a settler colonial state you know fear of retribution fear of the natives fear having its roots credit being thrown into the sea we saw all of this is exactly the same thing. africans were terrified of what would happen if blacks ever came to control the country they were certain that there would be a bloodbath. so these are all over predictable reactions by the population and it's what it takes is a clear principled movement to find a philosophy a coexistence that can rise above that and form a higher moral ground. version italy we thank you very much for speaking to us from the u.s. . well the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong il once direct

talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. live rob said he passed on pyongyang's desire for direct talks to the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday meanwhile the u.s. and south korea continued to carry out combat drills despite pyongyang is warning the exercises make the outbreak of war an established fact. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table intil they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is it agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k.

is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles period roles and jordan has more from washington d.c. . even though north korea has been actively building its nuclear weapons program it seems to have picked up speed with the advent of the presidency of donald trump certainly the latest test launch of what north korea says and which the pentagon agrees was an intercontinental ballistic missile has raised real concern here in washington about whether enough is being done particularly in the sanctions realm to bring north korea to heel to get it to give up its nuclear weapons ambition now comes this apparent offer from pyongyang to have direct face to face talks with washington about its nuclear weapons program the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov apparently transmitted this request to the secretary of state rex tillerson

during a meeting in vienna on thursday even though the spokes person here at the state department how they are now it says that she doesn't have much in the way of that particular discussion she did reject the idea that there would be any face to face talks between u.s. and north korean officials at least not until north korea repudiates its efforts to build its nuclear weapons program and demonstrates that it is serious about doing so however now we're told reporters on thursday that in light of the repeat it tests of nuclear warheads as well as the repeated tests of medium range and intercontinental ballistic missiles washington doesn't believe that north korea is serious and neither do the allies of washington in this case turkey's president is insisting greece extradite members of the fatah group who fled there after the failed coup attempt and his country are so tired berto on is on a historic two day visit to afghans the first by

a turkish leader in sixty five years but the encounter has been overshadowed by a long list of grievances as johnson reports. honoring the greek war dead turkish president. embarks on a historic visit that got off to a difficult start in an interview broadcast the night before his visit everyone spoke of revising the treaty which set the border between greece and turkey and nine hundred twenty three official statements from the two sides reflected territorial tensions particularly over two failed negotiations to reunify cyprus divided since one thousand nine hundred seventy four turkish invasion. endeavour's the greek cypriots promised us that we would reach a solution to the cyprus issue and that did not happen recently we had another meeting in switzerland again over cyprus and who walked away there again it was the greek cypriots. i'm

forty three years old and this issue has been ongoing for forty three years there's always a discussion about who's to blame we mustn't forget that this issue remains open because three years ago it was an illegal invasion and occupation of the northern section of cyprus. greece invited everyone partly because it's concerned over three thousand airspace violations by turkish fighter aircraft over the aegean sea this year marking a five year peak and greece says territorial water violations number sixteen hundred this year a ten year high that's an uncomfortable parallel with the recent quadrupling of refugee arrivals across the water from turkey causing camps on greek islands to overflow but greece's refusal to extradite eight military officers seeking asylum here is a major personal irritant for turkey accuses them of involvement in last year's failed coup two of the officers are thought to have been the ones intended

assassins but that coup has also offered greece and turkey a chance to develop a special relationship. ever since the turkey is looking for allies in the region because of the unfriendly stance as western countries they did not immediately condemn the caterer's but waited until it had resolved itself grace was the only country the a mediately condemn the killing and thus gained the trust of the president and. turkey has been increasingly isolated from the west since july twenty sixth in greece's invitation it's only the second official invitation from a european union member in the last eighteen months so greece is currently in the position of mediator that is a natural role for greece since the issues europe cares about stemming the flow of refugees maintaining peace and reuniting cyprus are doubly important for greece. athens. still ahead. former peruvian government officials arrested after an

investigation shows widespread corruption in the so-called cash or car wash scandal cats are signed a deal with france worth fourteen billion dollars to both turn military capability . from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. how the winter breezes come back in again for china should be felt now northeast lays down to nine is a mix in shanghai in the sunshine twenty one in hong kong no humidity and it tucks back in and increases the cloud in uniting further north west but still surprising to me that is thirteen degrees in chengdu on friday the numbers different on saturday hong kong still hovering around the twenty mark so looks like winter sets in here which usually encourages the rain further south is not much for the south

at the moment is not the philippines a lot of the free of most showers come down through borneo and for the sas and that's where the white topped lives are a good part of southern thailand is now in the sunshine there is still flooding on the ground but it's not being topped up whereas it could well happen in that part of malaysia and it's you malaysia as today in sumatra cyclone pushing up or expect shout or even longer spells of write that's also possible in jakarta less likely at the moment in bali and you can see the trend is to push that range further south again into northern borneo and still singapore and sumatra but we took away from that the masses of rain that caused the thing in thailand in the first place and it's now developing into a tropical depression heading study north towards andhra pradesh and odisha and probably flying today. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. is a. compiled testimonies

a victim of the congolese mustnt. as this intimate evidence finds its way to international courts the central african republic is plunged into further. and intricate tale of a people and a nation crippled by recent history. but one of a two part series at this time on al-jazeera. top stories on al jazeera hello again a senior official in president mahmoud abbas is ruling fatah party says palestinians won't meet the u.s. vice president mike pence during an upcoming visit because of donald trump's the

session to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile at least one hundred palestinian testers have been hurt in violent clashes with israeli troops who fired last unishe an of them that happened across the occupied territories. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong il wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. live rove said he passed on pyongyang's desire for direct talks with the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. is on a historic two day visit to athens the first by a turkish leader in sixty five years but all disputes have overshadowed the state visit earlier one said the nineteen twenty three treaty that settled turkey's borders after world war one was not being applied fairly repress it and rejected any changes. an arrest warrants been issued for the former president of argentina

relating to an one thousand nine hundred four bombing and want to sirees christina kurtz there is accused of covering up the alleged involvement of iran in the bombing of a jewish center twenty three years ago eighty five people died in the attack she denies the charges and i'm not going to come on you know but asked the political maneuvers continue we can say it's also a feeling of unfounded pennsic you ssion of the opposition plus harassment and humiliation as well that permanently violate not just the rule of law but democracy too from a political point of view these measures degrade argentinian justice and show the government and the president receiver machree to be ultimately responsible for a legal and political organization that pursues the opposition that. there is a bow has more from been a series. we're here in front of a presidential palace and when a site is where thousands of people have gathered to protest against what they say is political persecution right behind me you can see people carrying flags with the

face of former president cristina kirchner who on thursday will pop to the news that a judge issues and the rest warrants against her against her former foreign minister . and other members of her administration or people close to her while she was still in office kirschner he's being accused of treason and she's being accused of interrupting an investigation against a jewish community center back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that killed eighty five people the accusation is mostly based on a memorandum of agreement between the government of iran and argentina a cursory saying about agreement was supposed to guarantee that argentina would interrogated iranian officials. into this investigation bras a cuter. that he was the precedent at the time that there was a secret deal between agreement saying that there was a trade deal between iran and argentina an agreement to exchange cheap oil in

exchange off cheaper grains that argentina has appeared with a shot in the head back in two thousand and fifteen it's not yet clear whether he committed suicide or he was killed the judge has asked congress to strip christina kirshner's of immunity she was elected senator and last october's legislative election and up this point has sixty days to decide whether they would treat this case or not at this point it seems highly unlikely. peruvian civil rights group staged a march against corruption after recent developments in the auto brushed on the so-called car wash scandals for decades brazil's construction giant build public works in more than ten countries across latin america now the large scale investigation by peru's. parliament commissioner showing just how widespread the corruption is arianna sanchez reports from lima. was the former and current top executives of the loose most important construction

companies led to jail. and investigators say they paid millions of dollars in bribes to a film a precedent for government contracts the company get on a month later was brazil's other bridges most important partner in the men deny the claims against them well it. is a criminal organization that established an office to pipe bribes in order for them and their partners to win huge infrastructure projects. in the past several months more than ten former government officials have also been jailed after allegedly receiving bribes from a president again though milo was imprisoned in july for accepting money for his presidential campaign which is not illegal in beirut none of the detained have been charged with any crimes but the judge ordered the measure to ensure they don't escape or obstruct justice. turning himself into the authorities rules out

any suspicion that there is any intention of him fleeing. hollywood it has been working in they do since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the carwash investigation in brasil says all the rich financed all candidates who had a chance to become president a congressional commission has been investigating president kaczynski for allegedly receiving bribes for his presidential campaigns in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and sixteen but the president denies any wrongdoing. he was a government minister during the government of one hundred a little who is in the u.s. with a warrant pending for his arrest or the village says it paid twenty nine million dollars in payoffs to interlagos and governments analysts say the carwash corruption scandal is one of the worst corruption cases in. history is what. it's about extensive corruption involving many governments in peru brazil and across latin america it involves public and private entities and businesses it's about

government financing and because we're talking about mega projects it compromises the political arena. all the religious employees collaborating with brazilian prosecutors have only revealed two major corruption scandals related to pay two but analysts say the construction giant got so many public contracts here there was much more to come. raging wildfires in the u.s. state of california have burned down dozens of houses and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes as the fires and to the country's second largest city los angeles two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate and the largest blazes in ventura which you can see on these live pictures it's burned more than that was the pictures of land and put more than twelve thousand homes in danger fanned by hot and dry winds off the already say they're expecting the fires to continue to spread. zimbabwe's first budget under the new

president has been announced in parliament the new government has pledged to reengage with international lenders curb spending and attract investors the aim is to revive an economy battered by years of corruption under the ousted president robert mugabe her with also reports from harare. zimbabwe finance minister protection that says there's now a new economic order and that the government's policies will invest a friendly indigenous ational a controversial policy that the famous black zimbabweans will be amended. fifty one forty nine. this is. too little to no noone really want.

no. it's the first budget since last month's removal of longtime leader robert mugabe the finance minister estimates an economic growth rate of four point five percent mixture you don't even have to have. you can just come in invest in that you have a local partner you know you're not limited to the percentage prescription regarding the percentage participation which is good so we begin to create a free environment for. president was new administration promises to tackle corruption cut government spending by closing a privatizing bank and increased developmental projects one of the first at was to order three months amnesty for a return of stolen funds to the country the new leader says zimbabwe is open for business and wants to reengage with the international community some international

community of course is they want guarantees that the bar is not a safe investment destination before they pour billions of dollars in restoring the country's fortunes and international standing will be a challenge some western countries impose sanctions the early two thousand and four rights abuses decades of economic isolation later company closures and job losses independent economists say the unemployment rate is more than ninety percent there is a shortage of foreign currency some people make ends meet selling and buying second hand clothes on the street zimbabwe's first test will be in next year's elections if the polls are seen to be free fair and credible that could show signs of stability and encourage investors to release needed funds. al-jazeera. catherine france has signed a memorandum of understanding to combat terrorism to countries also signed commercial contracts worth more than fourteen billion dollars.

and. we have adopted certain procedures to not allow any funds to go to terrorists and we have had investigations into all the claims against god since day one the arab and muslim countries are the ones who have suffered most from terrorism and we are committed to fighting terrorism with our friends and allies. the more. president. was briefed just a few hours but apparently it was full of results the two countries have not only struck deals on combating terrorism and in the fields of education but also is going to buy twelve fighter jets from french defense companies along with four hundred and ninety vehicles for qatari. also going to give a multi-billion dollar deal to a french railway consortium to build and operate that though how metro system aside from this the two leaders discussed most of the major issues in the region

including jerusalem and the crisis in the gulf. has been trying to maintain a neutral stance with regards to the crisis but we know that it is. very early on has called on neighbors to lift the blockade and now he has reiterated the need for all of the g.c.c. countries to come together to the negotiation table and find a peaceful resolution of this conflict. angela merkel's chances of keeping her job as german chancellor significantly improved after her party's former partners the social democrats agreed to begin talks over continuing their coalition in a change to his previous stand social democrat leader martin short successfully used his opening speech at the party conference to persuade his members to vote for a coalition dialog.

to headlines on al-jazeera a senior party official says the u.s. vice president mike pence is not welcome in palestine hence was scheduled to the region to arrive in the region later this month the move follows donald trump this isn't to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile at least one hundred palestinian protesters have been hurt in violent clashes with israeli troops fired live ammunition and tear gas that. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong un wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. blob or i've said he passed the request on to us secretary of state rex tillerson. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of the conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in

till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles here in an arrest warrant has been issued for the former president of argentina relating to a bombing in one of sirees twenty three years ago kristin occurred stars accused of covering up the alleged involvement of iran in the attack of a jewish center in one thousand nine hundred four. and i'm not going to come on your behalf the political maneuvers continue we can say it's also a feeling of unfounded persecution of the opposition plus harassment and humiliation as well that really violate not just the rule of law but democracy too from a political point of view these measures degrade argentinian justice and show the government and the president creates be ultimately responsible for a legal and political organization that pursues the opposition. there's about lines

inside story is coming up next on al-jazeera. pending decades of american diplomacy the u.s. president infuriates muslim and world leaders by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital funnel trump also announces plans to move the u.s. embassy it's a momentous change but change of what sort this is inside story.