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the couple movies in the capital of israel for three thousand years israel's prime minister says it's time for palestinians to get a grip on reality so the peace process can move forward. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a controversial move venezuela's lead up to the opposition from next year's presidential vote plus. a lot of women as well just do not feel that he holds the same values that we do a judge not a bomber accused of sexual misconduct could be on the verge of heading to the u.s. congress. the head of lebanon's hezbollah is calling for mass demonstrations on monday against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital on sunday protests were held. the u.s.

embassy in beirut meanwhile the anger in occupied palestinian territories continues to grow more than one hundred fifty people were injured in clashes with israeli forces the palestinian leaderships decision to snub vice president mike pence during his visit to the region has been described by the white house as unfortunate and binyamin netanyahu has reiterated trump's decision as merely the reality on the ground the israeli prime minister meanwhile has met the french president in paris emanuel urged him to end the construction of settlements which are illegal under international law saying the holder has more now on the protests outside the u.s. embassy in the lebanese capital. lebanese security forces are using water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowds several hundred people gathered outside the u.s. embassy in beirut to protest the u.s. decision as a vatican isis really is the capital to recognize jerusalem as the proper clothes as well palestinian of a newsgroup several hundred protesters stairs trying to reach the u.s.

embassy compound but security forces have cordoned off the road preventing people from approaching further people being pushed back from the smell of the teargas people are angry there is defiance they're chanting and they're chanting words against arab leaders saying that they haven't done enough to to confront the u.s. decision that words are not enough they want action they want the peace process to be declared that they're calling for but they're supporting a new intifada and calling on person in the lead to stop talking and building any dialogue with israel. people across three continents show their solidarity with the palestinians enough. for many this is not a geographical issue but a muslim one is stamboul transformed into a sea of turkish and palestinian flags i feel like i should defend palestine because i don't know any i don't know any other way to defend them so this is what i can do this is the least that i can do president ridge

a type one has been one of the most vocal critics of trump's decision he's called for a summit of his lama countries a wednesday. and in asia a different language but the same words get it down but i didn't i'm please president trump use your brain to not push on and get beyond the limit with patient enough america please go back withdraw yourself from jerusalem jakarta indonesia the capital of the world's most populous muslim country president. to nice and rejects trumps move in denise. voiced their anger outside the u.s. embassy. and then rabbet the moroccan capital was the word. they yell slurs against the u.s. president with banners that reads drew saloon is the capital of palestine in the crowd of government ministers and officials the an army of pro palestinian

protesters rolled down cairo streets cell phones held high the was the muslim solidarity even spread to the embattled nations of yemen and syria was the summit live city to daraa where the syrian uprising began the global to sit against the u.s. embassy in jerusalem marched on charlotte dallas. has more now on that meeting in paris between mccraw netanyahu. the greetings were warm and friendly but this could not have been an easy meeting the french president and israeli prime minister are divided over the u.s. decision to recognize theresa as the capital of israel a move that has drawn international condemnation it often takes i have expressed to prime minister netanyahu my disapproval of the recent declarations of the president of the united states that france believes to be against international law and

dangerous for peace it was plenty micro called on israelis and palestinians to restart talks urging netanyahu to freeze illegal settlement building as a gesture of peace netanyahu said he was open to discussions but that there could be no question over jerusalem status in paris is the capital of france drusilla is the capital of israel it's been the capital of israel for three thousand years it's been the capital of the jewish state for seventy years the israeli leader also hit out of the turkish president at a one had spoken by phone on saturday the two men reaffirming their condemnation of trump's announcement. and one is attacked israel. you asked what is my response. i'm not used to receiving. lectures about morality from a leader who bombs kurdish villagers in his native took

a palestinian leaders say but the united states could no longer be considered an honest broker in any future peace talks and barflies some eggs both couldn't leave the door open for him. to take the meat but not everyone here was pleased with my girls decision to host netanyahu saturday hundreds of protesters gathered in central paris. jerusalem is not the capital of israel it's not only the palestinian capital it's the capital of all religions whether for muslims christians or jews macros recently mediated in the political crisis in lebanon he may be seeking a greater role in this one but if he was looking for encouraging signs there were few to be found here. al-jazeera paris. hart is from the university of oklahoma he says trump's decision has isolated the u.s. from the international community. i don't think anybody agrees with that and then

miss haley and mr trump and people around you know everyone has known for thirty years that this is one of the one of the most sensitive issues with regard to the palestinian israeli conflict along with borders along with the plight of refugees and security issues this is a final status issue and so this is an issue that the united states could have used as leverage with both parties with the palestinians and with the israelis to actually reach some kind of peaceful negotiation and solution with the united states has done is provided a huge disincentive for not only misra bounce but for any arab leader to take the united states seriously as any kind of a mediator in this conflict which of course we knew the u.s. was not a neutral mediator some time ago the united states presently is the most powerful country in the world but i think many of us have said for some time that the palestinians and the arabs need to circumvent or bypass the united states with

regard to this issue that is to appeal to the international community and particularly the united nations the european union the brics brazil russia india china and even south africa now is emerging major powers directly and by bypassing the united states that will actually show the united states that unless their position changes and they're more evenhanded they could be excluded from the middle east even more than they are presently going in that direction. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has announced that the country's main opposition parties will be banned from taking part in next year's presidential election it comes on the day his ruling socialist party won at least ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five may or seats in sunday's local elections as more from caracas. voting in venezuela is not obligatory but many still put their faith in the electoral process however several opposition leaders boycotted the vote accusing

the governments of manipulating the process to maintain its grip on power as you know he has been a plague nicolas maduro and his regime said he should go he should resign democratically so we can have elections and choose candidates at every level of society over the years and president that those parties that boycotted the municipal elections will no longer part of the political landscape of the you're going to you're part of the parties that did not participate today had boycotted the elections cannot participate anymore that's the criteria laid out legally by the considering assembly and as the head of states i support that. a move that will have repercussions on presidential elections scheduled for october next year these are municipal elections that's all the venezuela's problems and the government is hoping some of it solutions to a focus here a country divided and then crisis through a process that some hope will provide some answers. the voting itself passed

generally peacefully with only isolated reports of violence an irregularity is here the system. barrier bounce or technical level but it's also very advanced level of participation of the people of mobilization of the vote. in this way the remains in crisis with inflation rampant food in medicine scarce and crime rising tens of thousands of left the country and many of those. to remain so they have little faith that elections alone will solve their problems some however are optimistic and. all countries have crises and they recover we learn from this and we move on we don't stay where we are our country is a valving. president maduro blames outside interference of venezuela's problems and despite his deep on popularity the opposition boycott and international criticism

these municipal elections only seem to have tightened his grip on power. there al-jazeera caracas thousands of hondurans are spent another day protesting against what they call electoral fraud the main opposition party says it will respond with nationwide protests if the current president is announced as the winner of last month's election the opposition candidate and the president both declared themselves victorious the president has led the vote count by a small margin but some ballot boxes will be counted after irregularities the opposition says the process was manipulated. also to coming on al-jazeera including wildfires in southern california burn out of control as more people are ordered to evacuate. and we travel to zimbabwe's killing fields where families of thousands executed by the army thirty years ago still wait for an apology for that stay with us.

from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello the weather has broken through from europe now is the time of the year where you'd expect temperatures to be down off and it'll be cloudy no clear blue skies much the clouds benign this is coming out of egypt out of the east and so hard actually shouldn't bring much with it just made stuff you have in blue skies twenty one degrees in beirut eleven the anchor all this snow that fell you know i mean you're in georgia and tookie still there but some of it will be melting a bit in the beautiful blue sunshine the temperature creeping up in iraq in kuwait a couple degrees from a couple of days ago but it's quite a breeze blowing down through here and that breeze carries on dion's through the gulf as the show and it's quite a strong one which means the twenty three degrees might look fine to you if you live in northern europe i can assure you it's part of the world this is the cult time of the year the breeze keeps going for the next two days quite a dusty one rotten through to the eastern side of mung it's quater and warm in

western society thirty plus degrees in mecca in southern africa once again we watch the showers build in causal in the towel derbent in line therefore jo'burg quite possibly much of mozambique is dry it's cool down a bit in cape town twenty one degrees if you want big rain think of zambia zimbabwe and tanzania. the weather sponsored by cats. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage with every day but the message is a simplistic you have no frame. rational. and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera violent protests have taken place in lebanon donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital security forces used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds outside the u.s. embassy in beirut lebanon almost four hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees. israel's prime minister says palestinians to get it to get to grips with the reality that jerusalem is israel's capital in order for all to move towards peace in the netanyahu made the comments was meeting the french president. hours. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has banned the country's main opposition parties from taking part in next year's presidential election it comes after three

of the four main parties boycotted sunday's miral votes claiming the electoral system is biased. and more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire threatening coastal towns firefighters are warning the so-called thomas fire near santa barbara could become the worst. in the state's history reports from carpentaria. california got no respite from fires burning out of control good canyons and rocky hillsides towers of flame twisted skyward firefighters dropped tons of water from helicopters but high winds and weather conditions were making their jobs extremely tough the brush here is tremendous it's very very thick it's bone dry there hasn't been a lot of rain out here in a long time so that coupled with the santa ana winds and single digits humidities has made this fire grow rapidly and it spots ahead of itself tremendously

firefighters on the ground and in the air are doing everything they can to keep this fire from moving towards santa barbara city of more than ninety thousand people officials could not guarantee that santa barbara is out of danger we can't say it's not there are some concerns of course there have been historic fires in this area so this area is not any stranger to large wildfires here vast clouds of smoke and ash falling like snow made air quality extremely poor over a wide area of southern california hospitals reported a sharp increase in patients admitted for respiratory problems in a low income ventura neighborhood volunteers passed out donated face masks to residents activists say many impoverished spanish speaking residents make their living working on big fruit and vegetable farms in the area and they are

particularly at risk of health problems from the smoke got thousands of farm workers making this horrific choice whether to lose the income they need to put put roof over their family's head or be exposed to the this dangerous toxic air some neighborhoods were almost entirely burned out but in others the fire showed a cruelly capricious quality destroying some. unleased homes but leaving next door houses intact jim cole's house survived his neighbor's house did i feel guilty i house is almost untouched and my neighbors with whom i have a good relationship are overwhelmed they're in denial they're in shock you can't even talk with no rain in the forecast and we still whipping the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california in the u.s.

three democratic senators are calling for president donald trump to step down of allegations of sexual harassment in the past few months a growing number of women coming forward with their experiences of abuse by men in powerful positions during the election campaign more than a dozen women accused trump of sexual harassment u.s. ambassador to the united nations began he was asked about the subject how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president. well i mean you know the same thing as women who accuse anyone should be heard they should be heard and they should be dealt with and i think we heard from them prior to the election and i think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way they have every right to speak out and sexual harassment allegations have dominated the campaign in tuesday's u.s. senate election in alabama it drew nationwide attention when republican candidate roy moore was accused of molesting teenage girls when he was thirty years old despite that more got the support of president trump jabatan see reports.

on sunday churches across alabama christian evangelicals. could they put aside the allegation of child molestation that's been leveled at republican candidates drawing a vote for him or should they allow the possibility that a pro-choice democrat might assume the state's vacant senate seat if they don't for republican elizabeth bashir there's only one possible option a lot of people myself included feel that roy moore is just not an acceptable candidate he doesn't a spouse the views that are important to me are a lot of younger people a lot of women as well just do not feel that he holds that we do it's not just the allegations of sexual misconduct for years more has reveled in racism and discrimination but he often clicks in bible scripture recently he mused that life in the us had been better while slavery existed these thoughts often delight a call right wing evangelical base in alabama who feel that washington has allowed

the u.s. to descend into godlessness starting with allowing a woman reproductive rights spoke at brian baptist church in late november and the past of this says there's no proof of child molestation the women should have due process and so should judge moore the problem is is because of this election being so short we don't have. tom ford so you're going to have to make a rush decision bashir says she feels some more voters are employing circular thinking i also think there's something going on and some tech hers in terms that well i couldn't support somebody who would do these things so there's no way he did those things because i support had this race is being defined in many different ways and referendum donald trump a key movement for the republican party so the movement where key demographics like younger people and women feel they have no choice but to split with the party's extremism even if they too are against abortion but despite the consternation

that's been expressed nationwide about moore's nostalgia for the us during slavery for example he does speak for a large section of alabamians there was that insider but there were certain certain principles of that ok that was a man's word was his was his bond so to speak we value human life better at that time as far as the white population. in some areas and if more does win on tuesday night it's not as if he'll be the only republican in the u.s. senate who holds such views she ever turned see al-jazeera birmingham alabama. has bought twenty four euro fighter typhoon jets in the british defense and aerospace company b. a systems the six point seven billion dollars deal was signed by the british defense minister gavin williamson and the qatari minister of state for defense the jets are said to be delivered in late twenty twenty two. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's been an egyptian president for

more than eleven months hussein's accused of broadcasting falls and used to spread chaos which he announces in a stronger than i the same has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twenty eighth of december while visiting family. now al jazeera has spoken to victims of mass killings in zimbabwe which took place in mass appeal and more than three decades ago twenty thousand people died when the former president robert mugabe ordered a military crackdown against a rival liberation movement the new president emerson and god and former military chiefs appointed to his new cabinet were in government at the time andrew symonds travelled to the taller district to meet those still waiting for an apology. it seems like a happy setting yet the children are playing on one of the zimbabwe's killing fields seven teachers were murdered in these grounds then dumped in a bit it was thirty four years ago they called it a military operation named. meaning the rains washing away their chance with

god which with no more sibanda is trying to work out where the bodies were buried. they called everyone around the village to come here and dig new toilet but really we're digging graves we're told by those who saw the teachers are lined up the one of the young soldiers told him to move over a year they lined up again and they were shocked. there's no dignity here no respect for the dead no marc graves no way of absorbing the scale of these atrocities spread over a landmass the size of switzerland liberia sierra leone no comfort for the people and no apology. it all took place decades ago in the first years of zimbabwe's independence but doesn't believe zimbabwe's new

president will ever apologize. he takes us to another village following his memories from one thousand nine hundred three to this place. even the sun can lift the darkness for those who live here. names etched in stone twenty three of them mainly women locked inside a house burned alive in the north korean trained fifth brigade were under orders from robert mugabe his security minister was the new president emerson. and the armed forces were headed by men who now have senior ministerial posts. in march nine hundred eighty three the chronicle state run newspaper published reports about defending the fifth brigade like ning the dissidents to cockroaches and bugs the minister said the bandit menace had reach such epidemic proportions that the

government had to bring in d.d.t. to get rid of the bandits d.d.t. is an insecticide. for decades victims like jane were lousy have been too frightened to talk jane still lives with physical injuries and having to watch her fourteen year old sister being raped and uncle was killed. cruel it's very painful as i speak it still hurts me those who took these things should come and apologize to us otherwise nothing has changed in the current. special advisor to the president have this response to our report zimbabwe needs a break to continue was the eerie diggins pursed to settle scores from the past is if it can not be the future is seemingly to and here for it's irresponsible davis in a geo way from what should be done every country's corroded tortured history going to be living there millions does dog of the sea rule the american civil war your

country is to make mistakes you made for starts back in a village deep in the bush. that goes to pray in one hour an hour prayer asks for help and comfort and the words shatter the still is. or not they carry the anger and pain of tens of thousands of. andrew symonds al-jazeera. that's a big land a beauty salon in south sudan has become a refuge for many widows of war they're among the thousands who are now the sole breadwinners after their husbands were killed during the four year civil conflict here morgan reports from the town. many young warriors is hoping for her style that comes as close to perfection as possible her styling for her is not just a job it's a form of therapy the twenty eight year old is left to take care of four children on her own after her husband was killed in the civil war. what brings me here is

the need to support my children i'm a widow i need to feed them and this alone office me the chance to do so and provide them with the basics tens of thousands of south sudanese men have been killed in the four year war in africa's youngest nation four million of the twelve million population is displaced eight out of ten of them are women and children in africa's largest refugee crisis the cell phone in a provides not only way forward is to earn money for their families but offers a chance to talk of their ordeals some say they too are victims in more ways than one. when the war came to our village we ran but we needed food so we went back eventually we found soldiers there who raped us i had lost my husband shortly before that i struggled to raise our children but coming here reminds me that i'm not alone in what i'm facing. because polygram me is common in south sudan the work

has left behind hundreds of thousands of widows who lost their husbands no want to track of the number of people killed in south sudan's were but it's estimated that more than half a million widows are left behind many are the sole breadwinners for their children and there were has cost high inflation and for shortage for have the population. for many widows who are single mothers the burden can be too much to handle mary runs the reader's group here in a kobo she says we don't benefit from helping each other. when we brought together the widows they had all lost their husbands in the war and were tired of taking care of their children alone some thought of suicide for killed themselves last year but those here in the group look at other widows and realize that they're not alone and have others that they can talk to see if a lot of their. war years knows her life won't be the same again after her husband was killed but at least she has a place you can talk about her trauma and hope for a better future people are going on just there are a couple of south sudan. for

a walk into the history books on the telly and performer has become the first person to cross the tiber river on a tightrope on the trail of any stony instilling a steel cable that linked the banks of italy's longest river crowds gathered to watch him cross the one hundred thirty five metre long cable suspended twenty metres above the water he said at the end the walk was more difficult than expected because of the way and the rain. the third leg of the world's longest single sporting event is heading into one of his most dangerous stretches competitors in the nine month around the world volvo ocean race have left cape town heading into the unpredictable southern ocean all route to a brief stopover in australia this leg of the race is expected to end around christmas in the final not a six hundred kilometer contest is set to finish next june in the netherlands.

a quick recap of the top stories here now jazeera more protests are planned in the coming hours in lebanon after a day of violence at donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital security forces used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds outside the u.s. embassy in beirut lebanon is home to almost four hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees but israel's prime minister insists that president trump's decision on jerusalem is merely a recognition of reality which palestinians must accept in order for all to move towards peace. the sooner the problem students come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think president trump's announcement was so historic and so important for peace on the quest for peace there is a serious effort underway now by the united states and all i can say is i said related to prison in mccall i think if you'll pardon the expression you should give

peace a chance. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has banned the country's main opposition parties from taking part in next year's presidential election came after three of the four main parties boycotted sunday's vote claiming the electoral system was biased. thousands of honduras have spent another day protesting against what they call electoral fraud the main opposition party says it will respond with protests if the current president is and is announced as the winner of last month's election . in the u.s. three democratic senators are calling for president donald trump to resign and the allegations of sexual harassment in the past few months a growing number of women have been coming forward with their experiences of sexual misconduct by men in power during the election campaign more than a dozen women accused of sexual harassment. has bought twenty four year of typhoon jets from the british defense company be a. six point seven billion dollars deal was signed by the british and qatari

defense ministers. in the u.s. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire threatening the coastline firefighters are warning the so-called thomas fire near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history but those are the headlines the news continues on al jazeera after listening post such events of which. he was born in ireland seventeen found himself in the middle of a political revolution in egypt i went on stage and i spoke about democracy. if you . put a hundred thousand people after four years imprisoned in cairo. at this time. for the president. has been killed. can you have an hour. or two.