and in so instilling in his country and sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is here and this time on al-jazeera. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing we fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . more protests in the palestinian territories against president trumps jerusalem

news but the arab league stopped short of calling for action. of this is al jazeera lawyer from doha coming up iraq declares its war with says it's not in complete control of the iraqi syrian border plus. could agree. to allow an individual to. this wonderful. boycotting the president mississippi's black leaders protest against donald trump's appearance at the opening of a civil rights museum. i'm thousands poor onto the streets of paris to bid farewell to the man known as the french elvis. dozens of palestinians have been injured and arrested during a fourth day of protests against the u.s. decision to declare jerusalem the capital of israel. in occupied east jerusalem

israeli forces fired stun grenades and tear gas as they charge a crowd of peaceful demonstrators at one of the city's busiest shopping streets al-jazeera alan fischer was there. was good it started as a small protest handful of people but as they walked towards all jerusalem dome one of the city's busy shopping streets there was blogged by police and soldiers told they had no permit to march that they were blocking the road they were forcibly pushed back to it was in a city where anger has been close to the surface since donald trump's controversial decision it sparked a series of running confrontations. police sent in horses to break up the crowds creating widespread anger and panic this has been a pattern throughout the afternoon as crowds gather by the side of the street the horses have been sent ten some pace to try and break those crowds up the writers have even been using their weapons it really is quite frightening for the people

who are standing here watching these horses racing towards them. i don't want to see that we're getting here because like today then the back down. and they were would never give up this other country would say that was the clerk at that and i was seven at the end and generally it was. just you know seeing. it. was. the security forces you saw in grenades and there were reports of injuries from rubber coated steel bullets if anyone produced a palestinian flag it was taken from them forcibly sometimes violently the flags destroyed in front of their face was the. then the woman we spoke to earlier was arrested the police couldn't tell is why. this is what's happening. and that it. though that.

throughout the afternoon the security forces backed off the crowds gathered the police moved up and the whole cycle began again. the security forces tried to grab people they thought were throwing stones at them identified by police photographers who'd been in the crowd by nightfall the situation had stabilized but the under come to tension and the anger was still there but she was no sign of going away. in occupied east jerusalem. funerals have been held in gaza for two of the four people killed during the unrest two hamas fighters were killed by israeli air raids israel's military says it was targeting hamas weapon sites in retaliation for rockets fired into israel late on friday at least twenty five palestinians including six children were also wounded in the evening bombing according to officials separately two palestinians were killed by live testing on friday.

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is accusing european officials of hypocrisy for criticizing donald trump's decision comes as the french president. is set to host netanyahu on sunday his visit has triggered angry protests in paris. but reasonably certain i ascribe great importance to europe while i respect europe i am not prepared to accept a double standard from it i hear voices from their condemning president trumps historic statement but i've not heard condemnations of the rockets fired israel or the terrible incitement against it i'm not prepared to accept this apoc recy and as usual at this important forum i will present israel's truth without fear and with head held high. unacceptable and dangerous that's the reaction to trump's declaration from the arab league at an emergency session in the egyptian capital cairo arab leaders also said u.s. action is illegal according to international law in his tayyab reports. at an

emergency session of the arab league a show of unity and anger the twenty two nations that make up the organization gathered in cairo to forcefully reject u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital of this decision threatens jury summons legal status and affects all the arab muslims and christians and the islamic world all together we would like him to be frank and call things by their real name the decision taken by the american administration to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to move the american embassy to jerusalem is unacceptable and very dangerous the arab league has long been involved in the palestinian struggle first by denouncing the creation of israel and through its involvement in the one nine hundred forty eight arab israeli war. it later supported the creation of the first international body representing the palestinian people which led to the formation of the palestinian liberation organization or

p.l.o. which was admitted as a member in one thousand nine hundred sixty four. three years later after the six day arab israeli war league issued the so-called khartoum resolution which set what became known as the three no no peace with israel no recognition of israel and no negotiations with it. but at the beirut summit in two thousand and two the league adopted the so-called arab peace initiative a saudi inspired peace plan to end the conflict a plan offered full normalization with israel in exchange israel was required to withdrawal from all occupied territories to recognize palestinian independence in the west bank and gaza strip with east jerusalem as its capital as well as a just solution for palestinian refugees peace initiative was indorsed again at the riyadh summit five years later but never resulted in any kind of agreement now with president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital an arab led

solution to the israeli palestinian conflict seems further away than ever. whatever the case arab league leaders announce they reached an agreement on how to respond to the move. this decision is rejected and the arab league with all its consequences second we have agreed to form a committee he's making which will deal with the international community this is an order to achieve progress in respect of the palestinian issue jordan will be head of the committee which will be formed next month despite the anger the arab league put forward no measures against the united states although it said it would consider its options while continuing efforts to find a lasting solution to the palestinian struggle a struggle that shows no signs of easing in al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister has declared its war against eisel is over our bodies says troops are in control of the area around the iraqi syrian border after driving

eisel fighters out i still advance from iraq three years ago and quickly captured around a third of the country including important cities like mosul and saluja iraq's announcement comes two days after russia said it had defeated i still in syria. and now out of the having got on the rockies your land has been completely reliable races your cities and villages have been returned to the nation the dream of liberation has become a reality we achieved victory in difficult circumstances and with god so steadfastness of our people and the bravery of our heroic forces we prevail thousands of people have marched against fascism in northern italy on saturday in response to anti immigrant groups italy is governing democrats led the rally in como where members of far right groups have denounced what they called the migrant invasion earlier this week swastikas and other fascist insignia were painted on the walls of a leftwing association in d.n.a. more than a hundred fourteen thousand migrants have landed in italy so far this year the

former president of georgia has gone on a hunger strike in a ukrainian detention center after he was recaptured following his daring escape four days earlier mikhail saakashvili had been on the run there since his supporters freed him from a police van his pizza shop. he was rearrested late on friday following a police raid on an apartment block in kiev the former president of georgia have been hiding there since his escape from custody after being arrested on tuesday. in fronting of his first campaign to and preach ukrainian president petro poroshenko criticizing his failure to hold corruption. secretaries press secretary confirmed his arrest he was. detained and now judging from the number of police men he has kept there they don't let anyone in i don't know who managed to get in there i can't get in there at his press secretary i hope there are lawyers

in there and more of our people. dozens of supporters gathered outside the detention center vowing to stay until his release. they are trying to set up a regime. here if people don't rise up against it now ukraine is finished. with corruption no change and no investment because no one will want to give money to a corrupt country in extraordinary scenes on tuesday ukrainian security agents dragged the former leader from neighboring georgia across a rooftop after seizing him from his home in kiev then bundled him into a police bus. before he could be driven away supporters managed to free him four days after the botched attempt to take him into custody police tracked him down on friday. back in custody again his future looks bleak. he's now stateless because he's been stripped of his ukrainian and children

citizenship and he faces extradition back home to julian worries wanted to face corruption charges allegations which on tonight he's also denying the accusations in ukraine and they started a hunger strike in an effort to clear his name peter shop al jazeera. firefighters in california say they've made some progress in the battle to contain multiple large wildfires raging across the southern part of the state the blazes have killed one person and destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced two hundred thousand people to leave their homes one of the worst fires in ventura county is now possibly contained but full cost as a warning high winds expected this weekend could fan the flames further. as more from los angeles as. well the fire fight continues on many fronts here in southern california and everything is going to depend on the weather firefighters and residents tired of all the flames and so many areas got a bit of a break over the last twenty four hours the winds calm down

a little bit firefighters were able to divert resources from structure protection for protecting neighborhoods and actually attack the fire and they have made progress on many fronts on these many fires however what happens in the next forty eight hours is going to determine fire behavior the national weather service does have a red flag warning up there saying that there is a potential at least for very high winds through the end of this weekend winds that could gust to eighty or ninety kilometers kilometers per hour those are the common santa ana winds that happen every winter here but when they happen and there's some kind of fire ignition those fires can explode and that's what we've seen over the past week or so for now we're in a bit of a holding pattern we'll all wait and see what the weather brings over the next forty eight hours. come here and al-jazeera including. the women of south sudan have decided that we have had enough of this we'll tell you why these women. hit

the streets and protest. the japanese babe ruth and he's just been sold an american baseball team for twenty million dollars more in that state. by this guy nine if asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. the weather's looking pretty quiet across the middle east over the next couple of days little bit of cloud over towards afghanistan possibility of wanted to fly as the snow coming through here but for many it will be settled dry and sunny a little bit of cloud over towards the western side of the region so easing in across the levant so little bit of a murky skies just pushing through cyprus heading towards syria lebanon jordan to just aleppo to around thirty nine s.

but ninety nine hundred nineteen degrees there for by road that also for jerusalem . as well for baghdad jim we settled and sunny twenty degrees in kuwait city and we're looking at dry skies winds easing down across the eastern side of the region as we go on through sunday so much of the arabian peninsula will be settled and fine twenty four celsius in twenty three degrees as we go on through monday something of a chill in the air i suspect meanwhile this twenty four celsius for to how does burgers well we'll see that a bit of wet weather coming into that eastern side of south africa by the way to see whether we'll be up towards more than parts of mozambique into tanzania into madagascar and they run up into the congo basin joining up with the showers that we have across central parts of africa with one or two showers to the guinea coast. there with sponsored by qatar and he's. just looking for your bio. diesel or not is trying to shoot themselves and there

are other countries have managed to solve this problem are you worried that this conflict could erupt into account right open war that the city general security people who pay the price here the writeup being prejudiced setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back to the top stories here this has been a fourth day of violent protests across the occupied palestinian territories demonstrators angry of the u.s. decision to declare jerusalem the capital of israel israeli forces meanwhile of.

protesters. and arab league foreign ministers meeting in cairo said the u.s. decision is unacceptable and dangerous they described the move as a violation of international law but stopped short of putting forward any measures against the united states. and iraq's prime minister has declared its war against i saw a body says troops have driven the remaining fighters from the iraqi syrian border and are now in control of the area i still advance in iraq three years ago capturing about a third of the country. now back in israel protests are growing against prime minister benjamin netanyahu was accused of government corruption. that consistently denies any wrongdoing and says he's been the target of a campaign by political opponents he suspected of receiving gifts from wealthy businessmen and negotiating a deal with a newspaper owner for better coverage in return for curbs on a rival. the tendency of the opening of

a civil rights museum in america's deep south has sparked a boycott by mississippi's black leaders many of them stayed away from the lords claiming the president encourages racial division. reports from jackson mississippi . they gathered to pay tribute to the long struggle for racial equality in america it was a grand opening of a new one. teen million dollar civil rights museum that traces the history of black americans who led that fight but when donald trump said he would attend some african-americans boycott it including congressman and prominent civil rights leader john lewis the national association for the advancement for colored people or and. the most storied civil rights organization in america had asked trump not to come. to allow individuals to stay this wonderful thing of honor an individual who sacrifice. when they work so hard to

ensure people have access to affordable health care and he seek it to undermine it at every turn. trump was slow to condemn racist groups it protested in charlottesville virginia earlier this year you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent but he has released he condemned n.f.l. players for taking a need to bring national anthem in protest against police brutality and injustice against mostly young black men but there is another side of the story many of the people who are here on the first day of the museum's opening said they very much support the president's visit he should be here to represent who we are not a segment not a political view but the people of united states best mate and you're happy i'm happy here. to at the newseum and then gave a speech with a presidential tone that stayed on script we want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear

innocent of hatred and surrounded by love opportunity and hope. today we pay tribute to our heroes of the past his words were appreciated by many we came here is words were powerful and at the end of the day it's about the two museums that are here mississippi has a dark history when it comes to civil rights in the last century it was one of the last states to fully integrate black americans to have equal rights medgar evers' a famous civil rights leader from the state was murdered here in one thousand nine hundred sixty three this entire history now on full display at the new museum everyone agrees the struggle for equal rights is a story that needs to be told that disagreement on if the current president is the right person to tell it. al-jazeera jackson mississippi

al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's been an egyptian prison now for more than eleven months sainz accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly denied the same has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december on december the twentieth while visiting family. how does a woman in south sudan's capital juba take into the streets calling for an end to the suffering in their country millions of fled their homes since fighting broke out in december twenty government and rebel forces the u.n. says half the country's population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance even more than it was at the march. hundreds of women have come out to march on the streets of south sudan capital juba calling for an end to south sudan's war which is going on to hear they say their mouths shut but really the signs and posters that they're carrying feet tall they're tired of the war they want their men back from the fighting and they want but if we care for their children that i'm sure which broke out in december twenty fifth and has resulted in tens of thousands

being killed and a quarter of the country's twelve million population displaced. we the women of south sudan have decided that we have had enough of this list war has been going on for a long time we thought independence has come in the war has come to an end ten to thirteen happened and nothing has changed twenty sixteen happened and the still the work continues to intensify women continue to be raped and killed and they don't have access to their homes there's no humanitarian access for people they need as we are tired and fed up of this and we want our leadership to understand that this is it this is their chance their final chance to bring peace to this country because we're tired the u.n. says six million people which is how of the country's population is in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and that one point two million are at risk of famine if humanitarian assistance is not delivered by next year now there is a peace agreement which was signed in august twenty fifth but it was largely regarded as over when fighting broke out in the capital in july last year there are efforts right now to try to rebut that peace process to bring together all the were

inside and put an end to the conflict which the women say have taken so much from them and their future. but as we go to the polls on sunday to vote for the mayors of three hundred thirty five minutes apologies the ruling party is expected to sweep the board given a boycott by most opposition parties who say the electoral system is biased in favor of president nicolas maduro sean reports from caracas. this still voting in venezuela the municipal elections despite opposition boycotts accusations of electoral regularities more widespread disenchantment with politics and politicians. you know we can win at least some districts across the country they won't be able to cheat us we have to do that and then they won't be able to close us down completely there are precious would not be total they won't be able to stop us for. just a few months ago thousands took to the streets to protest after the pro-government

supreme court. nominee to the national assembly more than one hundred twenty people died these university students march too but not now. believe deeply in protests we've been on the streets and will return to the streets but only for the right fights with the correct strategy and in conditions that will result in the fewest casualties possible the president says venice weyler is the victim of the u.s. led economic war the conspiracy after eighteen years of first billboard calvinists and now take a listen to dawdle empower the opposition is fragmented disillusioned angry and cynical but they say that they must have hope and the wheels of democracy must go grinding on. tens of thousands of left venice weight tod of rising crime and chronic food and medicine shortages you know that people don't want to live any longer with this government. so surely

a moment for the opposition to sweep to power they're going to. have to say no their internal divisions show that their capacity to govern does not exist and the people's perception is that they don't have the capacity to govern. as many than a swale and say that politicians from all parties. cannot mix attrition is bad bad the political parties not to run but all of them are finished done for. so many than assuage the political debates last and the daily struggle to make ends meet take a look at it. this. a legal challenge has been filed to a null the results of last month's honduras presidential election the opposition party led by candidate started on us that allah is claiming voter fraud and the current president won orlando amanda's have declared themselves the winner fourteen people have been killed in protests. sure lanka has formally handed over commercial

activities in its main southern port to a chinese state owned company china merchant port holdings is paying one point one billion dollars to operate the port in a ninety nine year lease it also gets a seventy percent stake in it the deal is a boost for cash strapped sri lanka but it's raised concerns of a china's growing influence the ports are expected to play a key role in beijing's plans to create a maritime silk road. the u.k. foreign secretary boss johnson's due to meet iran's president hassan rouhani in tehran on sunday to push for the release of a jailed british charity worker nazneen that gary radcliffe is serving a five year sentence for spying which she denies johnson's been accused of jeopardizing her case after he said she was in iran to train journalists. hundreds of thousands of parisians lined the saturday for the funeral procession of the man known as the french elvis johnny holiday died on wednesday at the age of seventy four he sold more than one hundred million albums but was relatively unknown

outside the country but. the role of motorbike engines filled paris's prestigious avenue the shells the say it was a rock n roll farewell for france's most famous pop star johnny hallyday friends lined the streets for the funeral procession. this was a chance to celebrate and remember an artist regarded here as a national icon whose music in strolled fans for six decades is your niece it's time to time johnny he's a legend he's more than that he's an idol he's my whole youth i've loved him from the start and well here we go i only had one god he gave me such happiness and today he's gone so really all ages and that's because the holiday really appealed to people from all generations and more so many tell us is that his music that

accompany their lives is part of our generation also direction of our parents for example he was there but it's a measure of the first two years ago so it's very special to me and i remember my dad singing journey. to the release of holiday break through in the one nine hundred sixty s. as a teenager inspired by elvis he soon became a sensation and france's highest earning music star. has the years he adapted his style to changing the school tastes it was one of the keys to his success at the historic madelyne church family friends and past leaders gathered for a service on the steps outside france's young president pay tribute he had probably a fair bit to show he lived through nearly every experience he. new challenges he knew failure as he crossed through time through eras generations and all that defined society it's for this that we are here today. he may have been unknown

outside france but few musicians anywhere could have moved so many people to come together in this he has few equals tasha butler al-jazeera paris peru's football captain an all time record goalscorer is set to appeal a doping ban that could keep him out of next year's world cup aero tested positive for cocaine but his legal team claims it was the consequence of him drinking coke to get over an illness the former by a new player has been handed a one year band and that could rule him out of peru's first world cup appearance since one thousand nine hundred two. now japanese baseball player has been compared to the great babe ruth has been sold by his club to an american team for twenty million dollars but the player will only earn half a million dollars a year the los angeles angels signed twenty three year old tawny after a frenzied bidding wars due to his rare to a skilled as both a batter and a pitcher but also because it was a huge bargain earlier we spoke to

a cause and they got sukkos a sports writer based in tokyo he's been giving us a sense of how the story's been received in japan. it is a massive news you know baseball is the biggest or in japan and has been the biggest star without a doubt in the last five years so you know his transfer although although he he came into up in his baseball way growing eventually he would go to their marriage make a baseball but now it happens officially and that everybody is looking at all those news on television radio and in newspapers and magazines it's a massive. the top stories here this hour there's been a fourth day of violent protests across the occupied palestinian territories from demonstrators angry with the u.s. decision to declare jerusalem the capital of israel forces fired tear gas and stun

grenades at jesters. meanwhile arab league foreign ministers meeting in an emergency session in cairo said the u.s. decision is unacceptable and dangerous they also describe the move as a violation of international law but stop short of putting forward any measures against the united states. this decision was rejected and the arab league rejects all its consequences secondly we have agreed to form a committee for peacemaking which will deal with the international community this is an order to achieve progress in respect of the palestinian issue jordan will be head of the committee which will be formed next month. where protests have continued around the world again strums decision hundreds of demonstrators gathered in paris to denounce a planned sunday visit by israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu accused european officials of hypocrisy for criticizing the u.s. . i ascribe great importance to europe while i respect europe i am not

prepared to accept a double standard from it i hear voices from their condemning president trumps historic statement but i've not heard condemnations of the rockets fired israel or the terrible incitement against it i'm not prepared to accept this hypocrisy and as usual at this important forum i will present israel's truth without fear and with head held high iraq's prime minister has declared its war against over the body says troops are in control of the area around the iraqi syrian border after driving i still fighters out. on iraq three years ago when the critic captured offended at the country including important cities like mosul and. iraq's announcement comes two days after russia said it had defeated i still in syria. a legal challenge has been followed when all the results of last month's honduras presidential election the opposition party led by saw that i'm not claiming voter fool both the president one or as i've declared themselves the winner fourteen people have been killed in protests. firefighters in california say they have made some progress in their

battle to contain multiple large wildfires raging across the southern part of the state blazes of killed one person destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced two hundred thousand people to leave their homes but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront. he was born in ireland but it seventeen found himself in the middle of a political revolution in egypt i went on stage and i spoke about democracy in a cell. with the sixty people who were put a hundred thousand people after four years imprisoned in cairo. talks to al-jazeera at this time donald trump says jerusalem is the capital of israel and the palestinian authority says if that's the case the two state solution is dead but why did the palestinian leadership have so much faith in the united states to begin with the palestinian ambassador to the u.s. and in the arena will.