the north and the so these dualisms are off part of history. yemen the north south divide at this time. al-jazeera. it's. where every. donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel leads to protests throughout the middle east.

this is. also coming up seeking guarantees on its security north korea now says it wants direct talks with washington. thousands of firefighters were. spreading throughout southern california will have. accused of treason a judge told us the arrest of argentina's former president cristina. at least one hundred palestinians have been injured in protests across the occupied territories the angry scenes were sparked by u.s. president donald trump formally recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. demonstrators in several territories have clashed with israeli troops who fired tear gas on live ammunition at them in ramallah in the occupied west bank thousands

heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of rage. as more from ramallah. anger disappointment and a sense of betrayal some of the feelings among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regard unless they do consider jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state now this march is a show a few nitty 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 asians 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 uk you paid by a 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 mentality of unrest now friday is another day of rage and more of these kind of violent scenes i expected. but a general strike is also in place closing shops businesses and schools al-jazeera is how the force of reports from occupied east jerusalem. 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 the tens of thousands to protest against the placing of israeli metal detectors at the entry. says to the al aqsa mosque compound one activist says these protests could swell around friday prayers in the sea incident we jerusalem residents we will stand up against this decision every way we can exactly as we stood up against the closure of l.x. today there's a general strike and protests tomorrow be the 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 bush who was born here and what palestinians views their capital he says trump has jeopardized its future status can one what can the can address drew slim 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 sorry for said al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem meanwhile 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 they stressed the importance of their coordinated stance about reiterated that the u.s. no longer has a role to play in the peace process. well john's decision to recognized him as israel's capital also calls protests across the region hundreds of palestinians

march with a camp near jordan's capital amman county home to hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled the west bank and gaza following the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war. and in two zero many took their anger to the streets of the capital tunis some protesters are demanding the closure of the american embassy to denounce trump's decision one they say will lead to catastrophe in the arab world. now wildfires in the u.s. state of california forced more than two hundred thousand people to flee their homes the largest blaze in ventura which has already burned more than thirty six thousand hectares of land schools highways and businesses in the area have been closed fanned by hot and dry winds authorities say they are expecting the fires to continue spreading wildfires are also burning in the los angeles area allan shuffler joins us live from there now allan tell us where you are exactly and bring us up to date with what's been happening there. we're in the hills above the city

of los angeles which you see spread out behind me a bit of good news for residents and for firefighters here today at least in this neighborhood the evacuation here in the bel-air neighborhood of los angeles has now been lifted just a couple of minutes ago the skirball fire that was burning in this area firefighters were able to get the upper hand on that today it has laid down to a great extent it's at least safe enough that people can get back into these neighborhoods however in other parts of the southland across this part of southern california there is carnage still going on flames burning through neighborhoods as the hot santa ana winds from the interior are very common in the winter in this area keep blowing offshore blowing down to the coastal canyons and causing all kinds of misery two major areas of concern as you mentioned ventura county to the north and west of los angeles a fire that's been measured at more than four hundred square kilometers at least

four hundred and thirty five structures burned fire officials say there will certainly be many more than that when they're finally able to put out the last flame and get a final tally also new danger tonight in san diego to the south the governor has now declared a state of emergency there with a new fire flaring up in san diego county high winds the possibility of high winds predicted at least through the weekend yet i mean as you say we understand the biggest fires are in the ventura area i mean what more details have you been hearing about those fires then across the state in general. well the fires in the inventor a county of the most dire they are the most dangerous right now the towns of ohio and ventura threatened and neighborhoods being destroyed and damaged in that area right now those are really the biggest areas of concern that fire the thomas fire

is enormous at this point and doesn't show any signs of slowing down that is the area where if the santa ana winds kick up as expected to one hundred ten kilometers an hour or so we could see even more dire situations even if those winds died down daryn we're still talking about fifty or sixty kilometers an hour and that is enough to do severe damage this area this part of the country is absolutely parched right now there's lots of fuel for the fire to burn and it is bone bone dry there hasn't been much rain in the los angeles area at all so far through this so-called rainy season all right allan shell for them los angeles allan thank you now russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says kim jong un wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. lavrov said he passed on pyongyang his desire for direct talks to 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 and 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 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 period. al jazeera has rules and jordan has more now 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 sergei lavrov apparently transmitted this request to the secretary of state rex tillerson during the 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 the 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. so to come here and al-jazeera including setting diplomacy aside type this president russia type changes to an international border treaty and a historic trip to greece plus. i'm jessica baldwin in london looking at a new device to detect radioactive weapons. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello

big fingers of cloud well essentially rain bearing are stretching across iran up towards took my son beyond that's a frontal system that brought rain to many places in the levant and it's left behind sunshine breezes to stronger the temperatures probably have taken a bit of a tape sixty in beirut twelve in aleppo six in ankara an improvement in the weather in turkey and you'll notice we are some twenty now from iraq all are down towards kew wait despite the sunshine and this is a telling line that usually sparks a shower or two inside the gulf too but the moment but how to get saturday it's mostly blue skies and to rough in the stands again with is looking a bit more like winter up to eighteen by this time in beirut just as an example forty in jerusalem now as i said once you get these the lines of cloud coming through the chance of sparking the odd shower the greater than zero so it's possible that qatar maybe you will see a shower too otherwise it's

a dry period but so it won't feel very warm twenty three and there are seventeen in riyadh rather better on the western side of saudi and usually is temp she was at about thirty four degrees and dropping south raby through the went tropics to southern africa and once again it's this eastern side of south africa where showers are developing if you're in cape town is still enjoying the warmth. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. you are making very pointed remarks there 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 say no evil person just wakes up the over the morning in the sense i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying we don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a senior official in president mahmoud abbas's ruling fatah party says palestinians won't need u.s. vice president mike pence during his upcoming visit that's because of president trump's decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile at least one hundred palestinians of been hurt in clashes with israeli troops across the occupied territories. 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. said he passed on pyongyang desire for direct talks to sect of state rex tillerson they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. and while france and the u.s.

state of california forced more than two hundred thousand people to flee the has the largest blaze in ventura county where more than thirty six thousand hectares has burned schools and highways have been closed. more now on our top story the aftermath of president donald trump's announcement regarding jerusalem while white house correspondent kimberly get spoke with the deputy assistant to the u.s. president about his decision one day after donald trump's announcement that the united states would be recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel al jazeera spoke exclusively to ross shot deputy assistant to president trump and we asked him whether or not the status of jerusalem could still be a part of any american sponsored peace process borders sovereignty these are the types of issues are going to 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 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 in this is this was 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 we challenge raj shah on whether or not the president's announcement in the view of the top administration and here is with international law and un resolutions when it comes to the status of jerusalem shah answered that in fact what is top priority to the trumpet ministration is not international law but instead american law and the fact that the u.s. congress has reaffirmed the jerusalem embassy multiple times since it was created

in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. . president. is on a historic visit to athens the first by a turkish leader in sixty five years but the encounter has been overshadowed by his call for changes to an international treaty that defines the borders between both countries. honoring the greek war turkish president. historic visit the course off to a difficult start in an interview broadcast the night before his visit and spoke of revising the treaty which set the border between greece and turkey in one thousand 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. in davos 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 is 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's 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 coup turkey is looking for allies in the region because of the unfriendly stance as western countries they did not immediately condemn the cases but waited until it had resolved itself grace was the only country the a mediately condemn the killing and thus gain the trust of the president and. turkey has been increasingly isolated from the west since july twenty sixth in greece's invitation to everyone 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 jumpstart opal us al-jazeera athens and arrest warrant has been issued for the former president of argentina christina cash and she's accused of allegedly covering up iran and involvement in the nine hundred ninety four bombing that killed eighty five people at a jewish center and one is heiress stories about her as more. thousands gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against what they claim is political persecution a federal judge issued the indictment for treason against former argentinean preston cristina fernandez and called for her arrest said the current administration. is trying to stop dissent if. these measures furthered. just his branch and indicate that the government and the president is the top and true person who is responsible for

a political and judicial organisation to persecute the opposition four years ago argentina signed a memorandum with the iranian government that would allow argentina forty's to interrogate iranian officials suspected of being part of a terrorist attack against a jewish community center in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that killed eighty five people. but prosecutor i read it only one who was investigating the attack named the administration's real motive was to do business with data and in january two thousand and fifteen nice man was found dead in his home shot in the head a day before he was scheduled to testify before congress against the former president and what he believed was her commitment to leave the interpol red alerts against iranian officials. congressman while the wall says that what is happening now is the result of years of impunity if the memorandum is

a disaster because it has been proved that it was written in secrecy nobody in the foreign ministry participated in the draft we have almost five hundred pages that say that an illicit was committed the only ways to investigated investigate these days you persecute and if you don't there isn't punitive argentina as a society will have to find the middle point between the search for the truth through justice. kirschner and some members of her administration have been the focus of several high profile cases with arrests and diamonds seen center right. defeated her candidate than yours surely even though christina kirshner left office two years ago she continues to be a very popular figure in argentina in fact she was elected senator and tolbert legislative elections would transfer of immunity people here are saying that if christie to pressure is arrested they will take to the streets until she is released wasn't enos legislator has entered

a period of judicial recess until march but can be convened for urgent matters cation a detention would certainly excess ovate that dave divisions that already exist in argentina even more. the syrian government delegation will return to geneva on sunday to resume talks aimed at ending the conflict after walking out last week the eighth round of u.n. backed peace talks have been on hold while the syrian opposition waits for government negotiators to return the delegation left the talks very opposition demands the president bashar al assad should play no role in any interim post-war government. meanwhile russia's military says eisel has been completely defeated in syria says there are no remaining districts still on the ice will control the syrian observatory for human rights which monitors the conflict says i still still holds about eighty percent of their result problems

the u.s. secretary of state will meet with lebanon's prime minister saad hariri on friday to discuss the country's role in the fight against terrorism rex tillerson and participate in the international support group for lebanon meeting in paris is expected to reemphasize the us his commitment to the lebanese armed forces will be two lessons first meeting with hariri since he reverted resignation as prime minister. liberia's supreme court has ruled that evidence of fraud during october's first round of presidential elections was insufficient to merit a rerun means the final round of voting between the two leading candidates for a footballer george weah and the vice president joseph blocky can go ahead. and was challenged by the third place contender after the dress has more. justices of the liberia supreme court pointed out to some problems with the voter register and want the election commission to correct them for example the justices ordered the election commission not to allow anyone whose name is not on the register to cast a ballot in the runoff election now an official of the election commission to all

of that they have made significant progress in that direction includes in the voter register the justices of the supreme court want a final copy of the register to be published in newspapers and other mightest t.v. post as well as displays seen at polling stations where voters can easily access them and find out why they need to vote on election day now what is not clear is if the elections were to hold as one official told outage zero in two weeks that they would be able to answer all these questions and still the election in two weeks what is not clear at the moment is if the election hold in two weeks probably around christmas or boxing day time what will that mean for a smooth transition remember a new president is supposed to be sworn into office on generous sixteen when ellen johnson sirleaf is leaving office now if the loser in the runoff election challenges the outcome and the conduct of the election it could drag on and on in

the courts and that could probably result in the delay or shifting of the swearing in of a new president that will in fact throw liberia into a constitutional crisis if that happens a heinous abuse of human rights that may constitute crimes against humanity that's how the united nations security council has described the sale of african refugees into slavery in libya all fifteen council members asked for an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice in november an emergency meeting was called when u.s. media showed africans being sold at a slave market in libya. libya's prime minister promised to try and ease the suffering of thousands of refugees that are stranded in his country. after the album john summit some african countries began to organize flights to repatriate their citizens and we are very open and cooperative with these countries

. we are open to working with all regional and international organizations to end the suffering of the migrants and to help them return to their countries. now in a windowless laboratory deep in the core of imperial college london nuclear engineers are trying to make the world a safer place but using particle physics to try and detect nuclear materials its aim is to one day help border guards make sure that nuclear weapons can't be smuggled across countries just for board and went to see the super sensitive detector. the red in yellow the light signify the presence of radioactive material is it dangerous life threatening or just what you'd get in a standard medical x. ray. scientists at imperial college london are precisely measuring neutrons perfecting a new tool to detect radioactive weapons so-called dirty bombs that could be smuggled across borders that provides the information that the frontline officers need fully automatically which basically means that if there is

a real threat the response will also be most foster the risk is real. experts say the threat of a radioactive weapon comes from non-state actors criminal groups who want to destabilize governments and harm or frighten people on a large scale. many border forces around the world currently use detectors but they're crude instruments that generate false positives needlessly slowing traffic and raising questions about their effectiveness the end facet should be a game changer it's smaller more sensitive and more mobile than current machines put it in the back of a police car and it will find radioactive material in passing traffic pinpointing the car or truck carrying the dirty bomb although smuggling dirty bombs or radioactive material isn't common crime it is a threat and there's a real fear a psychological fear that something we can't see harmful radiation seeping into our

bodies and the environment it's not like the movies you know they're still going to have your face melting as such and so that the damage will be very very late and. for a long period of time so the concern is always that the hidden effects of a radiation device might be some time before it's detected the new detector is a byproduct of pure science looking at life's tiniest matter and made possible only by machine learning artificial intelligence allows the computer to constantly learn what is dangerous radioactive particle and what isn't after three years of war the engineers are nearly ready to send their detector out into the real world science helping to make it a safer place jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. a quick recap of the top stories this hour a senior official in president mahmoud abbas is ruling fatah party says

palestinians won't meet u.s. vice president mike pence during his upcoming visit that's because of president trump's decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile at least one hundred palestinians have been hurt in clashes with israeli troops across the occupied territories. wildfires in the u.s. state of california have burned down dozens of houses and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate from ventura county north of los angeles where more than thirty six thousand hectares of land and twelve thousand homes are in danger 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. labral said he passed on pyongyang's desire for direct talks to u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. 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 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 period and the u.s. secretary of state will meet with lebanon's prime minister saad hariri on friday the two will discuss the country's role in the fight against terrorism is expected to reemphasize the us his commitment to the lebanese armed forces the un security council has described the sale of african refugees into slavery in libya as a heinous abuse of human rights which may constitute crimes against humanity all fifteen council members are asked for an investigation to bring the perpetrators to

justice in the venda an emergency meeting was called when us media showed africans being sold at a slave market in libya well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream thanks so much and. he was born in ireland but at seventeen found himself in the middle of a political revolution in egypt i went onstage and i spoke about democracy and i was put in a cell if you packets loaded with sixty people we'll put a hundred and twenty people in the so after four years imprisoned in cairo ibrahim holloa talks to al-jazeera at this time. i am funny ok and you are in the stream today why have stories of police brutality gone viral in nigeria.