leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the club a conversation at this time on al-jazeera and new perspectives can change a wild. one chin is even began as a hobby has grown into a passion a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so instilling in his country and sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is here at this time on al-jazeera. jerusalem as israel's capital no one can deny it doesn't obviate peace it makes

peace possible israel's prime minister urges europe to follow the united states and recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. i have a dream for them this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up barred from elections venezuela's president biomes the main opposition parties from taking part in next year's presidential vote. more evacuations are ordered in southern california as wildfires burn towards coastal cities and new fires break out. plus one hundred years old and facing persecution or a hinge a refugee who doesn't believe he'll ever return to me i'm. israel's prime minister to europe to follow washington's lead and recognize jerusalem as his country's capital. benjamin netanyahu was speaking ahead of

a meeting with the e.u. foreign ministers in brussels ways expected to face pressure to restart middle east the middle east peace efforts there's been widespread criticism of the decision by u.s. president donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we believe. that the only realistic solution to the conflicts between israel and palestine is based on two states which are as the capital of both the state of israel and the state of palestine along the sixty seven line this is our considered position and we will continue to respect international consensus on jerusalem until the final status of the oldest city is resolved to die that's a negotiation between the parties and we hope that the parties kind of gauge in many for direct negotiations with the support of the international community. has been the capital of israel for the last seven years i think what president trump has done is put facts clearly on the table peace is based on reality

producers based on recognizing reality and i think the fact that a couple of them is israel's capital is clearly evident to all of you visit israel see where the seat of our parliament or knesset is seat of your government my office the president's office the supreme court jerusalem as israel's capital no one can deny wideout of brussels al-jazeera as dominic cain is there dominick what will you for a minister's make of netanyahu simply for them to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. well adrian the thing to say here is yes there's a meeting of ministers but there is certainly not a meeting of minds between mr netanyahu and as we heard federica more going to any that and indeed many of the heads of state of the e.u. who do not believe necessarily that the action taken by president donald trump's administration and what we've been hearing mr netanyahu say himself well they just don't seem they don't believe that that is something that should be done right now

so we have the position here of this is the first time that an israeli prime minister has been to the e.u. headquarters as it were for twenty two years and clearly a very cordial reception for him as head of government ahead of the israeli government but behind closed doors definitely the feeling that the situation is not further forward in terms of middle east peace efforts are not further forward now certainly that's the view of many european governments following donald trump's administration's policy decision than they were before that's certainly the view amongst many e.u. leaders and one we heard there from federica madine. so how does all of this impact upon the e.u. role as a mediator in the peace process. well the thing to say is that there are some e.u. member states who actually believe that jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of of the israeli state certainly the czech republic and and hungary have

said that they and will do the same thing they will do likewise but the point to be made is that the vast majority of other countries do not believe that that's the sort of step that should be taken right now they believe as we heard federica morgan really say that the two state solution is the way to go certainly the city which i know many broadcast from berlin the foreign minister there said that he felt that the actions of donald trump's administration were fueling the fire of protest as it were so the question will then be well does the e.u. speak with one voice because if it does and it is saying that. opposes the position both of the united states government these are the the recognition of jerusalem and obviously the position of the israeli government well that suggests that they are in profound disagreement so some might say that would make it more difficult for the e.u. to be able to to be an intermediary as it were but from the e.u.'s official perspective clearly federico wants to present himself in the e.u.

wants to present itself as the. potentially in any talks and would certainly seek to to try to project that image i was there as to when it came to live in brussels tony things well to a case president strongly criticized trumps decision on jerusalem but i want to cuse the israel of being a terrorist states here's how israel's prime minister responded to that. was during one is attacked israel us what is my response i'm not used to receiving. luxuries. but morality from a leader who bombs kurdish villagers in his native turkey. now to other news as well as president nicolas maduro has announced opposition parties which boycotted sunday's local elections will be barred from taking part in next year's presidential vote his running socialist party want at least ninety percent of the

three hundred thirty five merril seats in the municipal poll daniel reports 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. 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 oh yes and president those parties that boycotted the municipal elections would no longer part of the political landscape do you look at the parties that did not participate today a 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 in crisis but the molech through a process that some hope will provide some answers. the voting itself passed generally peacefully with only isolated reports of violence and there regularity is here the system is barrier bounce a 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 in medicine scarce and crime rising tens of thousands of left the car. and many of those who remain say they have little faith in elections alone will solve their problems some however a mistake in those countries have crises and they recover we learn from this and we

move on we don't stay where we are our country is evolving. the president. interference of venezuela's problems despite his deep on popularity the opposition boy caught an international criticism these municipal elections only seem to have tightened his grip on power. that. thousands of people in honduras have again protested against what they say is electoral fraud the main opposition party says that it will hold nationwide protests if president hollande on the hondas is declared the winner of last month's election and this and opposition candidate salvador both say that they won the vote the president is in the lead so far but some ballot box that had to be recounted due to irregularities the opposition says the process has been manipulators. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to

spread a huge wildfire that's threatening coastal towns the fire department is warning that the blaze to santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history brunell's reports. 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 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 family's homes but leaving next door houses intact jim cole's house survived his neighbor's house did i feel guilty i houses. almost untouched and my neighbors with whom i have a good relationship overwhelmed they're in denial they're in shock they're can't even talk with no rain in the forecast and wind is still whipping the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california i weather update banks as they were then. we want to find another choice is what is the choice is. anger into action we'll take a look at the challenge for palestinians as they respond to the u.s. president's decision on jerusalem.

from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we have severe weather affecting many parts of western europe in particular at the moment the frontal narcisse is the area of low pressure now moving in and that's give me some with the strong winds across the bay of biscay region now we have seen a heavy snowfall affecting many areas already across the u.k. for instance i mean widespread travel disruption up to about twenty centimeters of snow in places enough to cause serious problems but elsewhere in europe we've had some heavy rainfall falling across parts of portugal for instance now if you look at the forecast we're going to see strong winds affecting paris we're going to see some heavy snowfall across the low countries into parts of germany some snow over

the alps but you see the wind coming up from the south so what's going to happen is the snow is going to form the southern side of the alps it'll warm on the northern side of the could be a serious thought taking place or an avalanche risk has got to be quite high snow still in evidence on choose a large amounts of snow across the alps that mon the run up to christmas across southeastern parts of europe that's where the best weather is plenty of sunshine here all be on the chilly side meanwhile across into north africa that frontal system is bringing cloud across parts of algeria but as you get further towards the east weather conditions looking dry and finally should be quite a pleasant day in cairo in egypt with highs here of twenty five. sponsored by qatar and he's. just talking. about shooting people are not going to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem are you worried that this conflict could erupt into a pulp right open war that the city's journal of security people who pay the price clearly their rights are being prejudiced setting the stage for serious debate up

front at this time on al-jazeera. well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera israel's prime minister is urging europe to follow the united states and recognize jerusalem assist country's capital budget in the new year it was speaking ahead of a meeting with e.u. foreign ministers in brussels where he's expected to face pressure to restart middle east peace efforts. but as well as president nicolas maduro says that opposition parties that boycotted sunday's local elections will be barred from taking part in next year's presidential vote is ruling socialist party while at

least ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five merril seats in the mid-east poll a more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire that's threatening the coastline firefighters warning that blaze near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history. palestinian anger at the u.s. decision on jerusalem has not only been directed at washington palestinian leaders are facing growing criticism from their own people frustrated after decades living under israeli occupation. reports from the occupied west bank. he has witnessed every clash for the past three years as so many have erupted neither petrol station where he works he doesn't join in but understands the motivation especially after trump's declaration over jerusalem. it was a real bad feeling for everyone it's like an insult but don't want to be able to do

anything at all either has only been to dru's a limb twice that's how often israel has granted him permission still like every palestinian he considers it the only capital for a future palestinian state this is the closest point to jerusalem many palestinians can reach even though the city is less than a half hour's drive from this checkpoint but to go through it they need special permission from the israelis and that's very difficult to come by. well cohen is from jerusalem he lived abroad for several years but decided to return home so his wife and children could get their residency twenty years later his daughter who is still waiting for hers. i don't have an id i don't have any proof that i'm a living human being i might not get my papers but i'm holding on to my rights best can't refute trump's decision he won't meet the american vice president but what else can he do the palestinian authority has come under criticism for being too

lenient it was established after the courts and many say it should be dissolved since the agreement has gone nowhere it's easy to say throw it away it's not something that you threw away this is an achievement the issue is you have to capitalize on it their issue is that you should not accept what is. this or sort of you to be when i say a service provider i don't want this orthodoxy to be a service provider only for the people that believe they can do that mahomet's abound there has travelled far and wide but never set foot in the holy city despite repeatedly applying for a permit he thinks that palestinians now need new blood and then you vision we have resistance movement in gaza the did nothing we have one of the authorities who believe in peace and they. did nothing for us that's mean we want to find a number of choices what is the tone and who's claim that he is leader for palestinians

should find this choices perhaps perhaps as late is cartoons express better than words how palestinians feel these days the peace process was a radius shipwreck trump killed it with the help of arab leaders who are a diversity of the united states and jerusalem was the ultimate christmas present put up that hamid al jazeera in the occupied west bank bangladesh working on a plan to send back honey. it's of thousands of ranger refugees to me and the plans been criticised by the un and rights groups charles stratford has been talking to one refugee to flood violence in myanmar four times over the last seven decades he says that this time he would return. up to salaam says he is over one hundred years old his wife mustafa begum guides him to the shelter in the coup to prolong refugee camp he says the first time he fled violence in what was then burma was when the

british were fighting the japanese during world war two but he has fled military crackdowns on the ranger three times since then in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two and a half months ago and this time he says he won't go back. i feel bad for my home but i'm afraid to go back because they could you know like you says there's no point in sending us back to myanmar because there is no security force there. rights groups say the ranger have suffered systematic atrocities by the myanmar army in recent months hundreds of range of villages have been destroyed and burned to the ground the un says women have been gang raped by myanmar soldiers. it's estimated that hundreds of region men women and children have been killed but the bangladeshi and myanmar government so already working on a plan to send bank hundreds of thousands of refugees to myanmar. they say will be

voluntary and he ain't to start in two months. so what would the range of refugees go back to inside me. the myanmar government doesn't recognize them as an ethnic group if we do their citizenship in one thousand nine hundred eighty two giving them limited access to education and health care and making them vulnerable to arbitrary arrest now the un says how can a people go back to a country in which they are still vulnerable to the kind of violence and persecution from which they fled. the u.n. says the root causes of persecution such as lack of citizenship must be addressed first. may suffer more violence one of the things we need to really underscores that we shouldn't rush into this condition for a return need to be addressed and we're clear conditions today are not right for refugees to go home of the salaam says his village like many others was burned

down by the military he has nowhere to go back to. they will not allow a single room to live he says they will slow through school please don't send this bank as bait for the monster. the fear of a man who has fled for his life time and time again. could you prolong refugee camp bangladesh several thousand people have marched in ukraine's capital to protest against the detention of opposition figure mikhail saakashvili the former president of georgia was arrested on friday in kiev has been campaigning against corruption within the government of president petro poroshenko prosecutors accuse saakashvili of assisting a criminal organization he denies the charges and has begun a hunger strike in jail. in the u.s. three democratic senators are calling for president donald trump to step down over

allegations of sexual harassment more than a dozen women accused trump of sexual misconduct. during the election campaign in the past few months allegations against met in powerful positions of forced a number of resignations the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says that those who've accused the president should be heard. 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 up opinion polls close ahead of tuesday's special u.s. senate election in alabama the republican candidate roy moore is accused of harassing and molesting teenage girls when he was in his thirty's boyle has the support of president trump of the republican party leadership is divided as she had

pretends he reports. on sunday at churches across alabama christian evangelicals. could they put aside the allegations 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 as well lot of women as well just do not feel that he holds the same values that we do it's not just the allegations of sexual misconduct for years more has reveled in overt racism and discrimination but he often clicks in bible scripture recently he mused that life in the u.s. 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 the selection being so short we had on her. have plenty of time for it 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. 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 him this race is being defined in many different ways a 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 in some areas and if 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 al-jazeera has spoken to survivors of mass killings in zimbabwe more than three decades ago twenty thousand people died when former president robert mugabe ordered a military campaign against the rival liberation movement sample you president anderson. and former military chiefs appointed to his cabinet were in government at the time. travel to. show

a lot so district in matabele land 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. it was thirty four years ago they called it a military operation named hunting meaning the rains washing away their chance with the cigar which with you know most abundant is trying to work out where the bodies were buried up up. 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 mark 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. it 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. 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 time line in

a special advisor to the president have this response to our report zimbabwe needs a break to continue was the eerie diggins past to settle scores from the past is not the future is seemingly to and here are forward see responsible. energy away from what should be done every country's corridor tortured used to going to be living there is the rule the american civil war your country is to make mistakes you made for starts back in a village deep in the bush momo sibanda goes to pray when aware that prayer asks for help and comfort and the words shatter the stillness. or not they carry the anger and pain of tens of thousands of people andrew simmons al-jazeera look at a bill and. terry

with us adrian sitting in here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera this hour israel's prime minister is urging europe to follow the united states and recognize jerusalem as his country's capital benjamin netanyahu was speaking ahead of a meeting with e.u. foreign ministers in brussels where he's expected to face pressure to restart middle east peace efforts there's been widespread criticism of the decision by u.s. president donald trump to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. i believe all or most of the rupee and countries will move the embassies to jerusalem recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and encourage robustly with us for security prosperity. and. venezuela's president nicolas maduro says that opposition parties that boycotted sunday's local elections will be barred from taking part in next year's presidential vote but duros ruling socialist party won at least ninety

percent of the three hundred thirty five merril seats in the miscible poll thousands of people in honduras again protested against alleged electoral fraud the main opposition party says it will hold nationwide protests if president quanah londo hand as is declared the winner of last month's election but on this and opposition candidate salvador nasrallah both say that they've won the vote. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire threatens the coastline firefighters are warning the blaze near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history. in the u.s. three democratic senators are calling for president trump to step down over allegations of sexual harassment more than a dozen women accused trump of sexual misconduct during the election campaign in the past few months allegations against men in powerful positions of forced a number of resignations the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says those who accuse the president should be heard several thousand

people have marched in ukraine's capital protesting against the detention of opposition figure mikhail saakashvili the former president of georgia was arrested on friday in kiev he'd been campaigning against corruption within the government of president petro poroshenko. who's the headlines more news for you here on al-jazeera up front next. on counting the cost the gulf cooperation council although there's not much cooperation these days look at how the region is being affected by a pause in economic relations over the shocking numbers on the plastic economy o.-m. g. twenty five years since the world's birth text and counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. 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. in the arena.