officially request. of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine at this time. you are making a point even mts when they're on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up in the morning in the saying i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion in lima about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. jerusalem is 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 his country's capital. but i get i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up from elections venezuela's president bands the main opposition parties from taking part in next year's presidential vote. more evacuations ordered in southern california as wildfires burn towards coastal cities and new files breakout. plus one hundred years old facing persecution remains a real hinge a refugee who doesn't believe he'll ever return to be. israel's prime minister surged to europe to follow washington's lead and recognize jerusalem as his country's capital regimen 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. peace is based on reality peace is based on recognizing reality and i think the fact that it drew some capital jerusalem as israel's capital is clearly evident to all of you live as it is will see where the seat of our parliament our knesset is the seat of our government my office the president's office the supreme court jewson him as israel's capital no one can deny it doesn't obviate peace it makes peace possible. we believe. that the only realistic solution to the conflicts between israel and palestine is based on two states. as the capital of both the state of israel and the state of palestine along the sixty seven line this is our

consolidated position and we were continued to respect international consensus on general salim until the final status of the oldest city is resolved to die that's a negotiation between the parties and we hope that the part this kind of gauge in many for direct negotiations with the support of the international community one hour from our zeros dominic kane in brussels. the reception with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu received in brussels was very cordial as befitting that of the head of the government of the israeli state but the message that he brings that jerusalem is the capital of israel and should be seen as such by the international community will that so is the degree of discord amongst the e.u. leaders we know that federica madine the e.u. sentinel policy had sent the use official position is that there can be no recognition of capitals as it were until a two state solution is implemented the point to make here is that it's not just the e.u.

as an entity that has opposed this decision by president donald trump's administration but also many heads of government many foreign ministers of influential countries of sand that they don't believe the step taken was helpful to the peace process certainly zygmunt gabriele the german foreign minister said he felt this was fueling the fire of processed but of course the point to make is that there are some e.u. countries have who have said that they will recognize jerusalem as the capital of the state of israel the question will be how this can be resolved from an e.u. perspective what position it will take on the face of it the u.s. position is that it does not recognize jerusalem as the capital of the state of israel and that yahoo's visits to the european union headquarters is the first by an israeli leader in more than twenty years and it's being closely watched at home harri forces reports from occupied east jerusalem. israeli media obviously reporting extensively on benjamin and yahoo's trip to europe so far concentrating

on the joint news conference between him and the french president emanuel mccraw concentrating within that on his very strong repudiation of the criticism that's come as way from the turkish president that itself drawing very swift condemnation from mr owens and spokesman who accuse the israelis of having massacred palestinians in their thousands also concentration on what's president said in that news conference as well as criticizing the announcement by president recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel and its potential impact on the peace process he said that france would not at this stage be offer a offering itself as an alternative sponsor of an alternative plan he said it was better to see what the united states administration had to offer of course the palestinian leadership is looking for just that an alternative having said that the united states has disqualified itself from that role through president trumps announcement on wednesday the other line which is taking a lot of attention here is what took place in west jerusalem on sunday an attack on

an israeli security guard who was stabbed a palestinian man has been arrested and is in custody for that attack the security guard doctors say his condition has been stabilized he was critically wounded in that attack and israeli security forces are on the lookout for any further such attacks also reports of gunshots being fired at israeli targets in the occupied west bank on sunday and overnight no injuries reported in those attacks however. 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 is running socialist party won at least ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five merril seats that were up for election in the mini civil poll 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 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 do you look at 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 within the electoral 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 isn't 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 and medicine scarce and crime rising tens of thousands. i have left the country and many of those who remain said 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. and there al-jazeera caracas in honduras thousands of people again protested against what they say is electoral fraud the main opposition party says it will hold nationwide protests if president won all under one unders is declared the winner of last month's election and under saddam position candidate salvador both say they won the vote president is in the lead so far but some ballot boxes had to be recounted due to irregularities the opposition says the process has been manipulated. 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 near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history will bring 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 emitted 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

wow says almost untouched in my neighbors with whom i have a good relationship overwhelmed their. denial here in shock there can even talk with no rain in the forecast and wind still whipping the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california we're going to weather update thanks to an al-jazeera then. turning anger into action a look at the challenge for palestinians as they respond to the u.s. is decision jerusalem and the united nations weighs in on the u.k.'s treatment of disabled people.

welcome back let's look at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia first of all that we've seen some pretty heavy rain affecting that northern parts of borneo really across malaysia and born about where the heaviest the rain is at the moment in that sort of northwestern corner further towards the southeast rainfall totals on java two now as we look at the forecast i still think malaysian borneo is going to continue to see some fairly heavy rain i think for the eastern side of central southern parts of the philippines it looks quite wet as that circulation of low pressure brings more showers in the move up then through the malay pincher we got showers to singapore in kuala lumpur but further north it's all looking dry strop into thailand cambodia southern parts of vietnam we've got fine weather conditions with temperatures there in the low thirty's heading down into a stray we've got a trough of low pressure came in the threat of a few showers in some areas but it will mean features will be the wrong is in temperatures taking place across parts of victoria so melbourne is going to see

a dramatic change with temperatures rising price wise much as ten degrees making for the warmest day since february you get to thirty six degrees pretty warm for sydney that thirty we've got to find conditions across western australia cool perth thirty twenty two degrees and then across into new zealand fine in north island but showers in the south. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.

get the top stories on al-jazeera this hour israel's prime minister a surging europe to follow the united states recognize jerusalem as his country's capital benjamin netanyahu was speaking at 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 won't be allowed to take part in next year's presidential vote is ruling socialist party one of these ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five mayoral seats in the media's full poll. and more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts

continue to spread a huge wildfire it's threatening the coastline firefighters are warning the blaze near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history. palestinian anger at the decision on jerusalem hasn't only been directed to washington to the end leaders facing growing criticism from the 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 near the 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 drew'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 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 refute trump's decision he wants me to 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 they agree mint 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 traveled 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 happen to 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 the choices perhaps for him as leaders 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 dimmer city of the united states and jerusalem was ultimate christmas present. put up that hamid in the occupied west bank let's hear now from someone from the university of oklahoma he says that's trump's to such an as isolated the u.s. i don't think anybody agrees with that and then miss haley and mr trump and people around him 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 what 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. bangladesh and working on a plan to send hundreds of thousands of range of refugees back to me and the u.n.

and rights groups say that the plan is flawed because it doesn't guarantee their protection when they return to sara's child stratford one refugee has fled violence in me and maher four times over the last seven decades he says that this time though he won't be returning. 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 region just three times since then in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight 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

their rights groups say the reinjured 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 religion men women and children have been killed. but the bangladeshi a myanmar government so already working on a plan to send bank hundreds of thousands of refugees to myanmar. they say it will be voluntary and he aint to start in two months so what would the range of refugees go back to inside me and the myanmar government doesn't recognise them as an ethnic group it withdrew 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 un 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 we shouldn't rush into this condition for return need to be addressed and we're clear conditions today in myanmar are not right for refugees to go. up to salaam says his village like many others was burned down by the myanmar military he has no way to go back to roman law they will not allow a single ranger to live there 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. to prolong

refugee camp bangladesh. 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 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 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 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 he'd 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 prison. the united nations has criticized the u.k. for not doing enough to support people with disabilities in its report the u.n. found that the government the government funding cuts are deprived a whole section of society of their rights but the barber reports. mary ellen has been registered disabled for twenty three years she used to work as a nurse now she relies on her full time carer and she's constantly worrying about the future. two years ago the government scrapped something called the independent living fun door i.l.f. and now her local council is cutting her care payments and since the i live so close to council has been raking is tied to supposedly can intervene as much money to put a can into trying to cut those hours social. came in and

said that they would be increasing mine dependence by providing me with incontinence pads rather than they can't support her need to be mideast a time late because then i would be dependent on someone to take help me to the toilet having a carer also means mary-ellen can go out to meet friends and protest for disabled people's rights five years ago a group of organizations lodged a formal complaint to the united nations that led to an in-depth investigation and some damning conclusions in its report earlier this year the un singled out what it called the u.k. government's failure to recognize the rights of disabled people to live independently in the community it also highlighted the growing numbers of disabled children being educated in segregated special schools calling for legislation to make sure mainstream schools provide for them and it called for urgent action to fight high levels of poverty which it said would you to multiple welfare reforms

and cuts in benefits the u.k. government says the un's failed to reflect the progress it's made in empowering disabled people including getting them into work. but roger lewis part of a group that helped to get the un to investigate says changes in the government's access to work scheme a cutting things like the specialist computer software which allows him to hold down a job despite being blind doesn't cost the there the country this is that this is the crazy thing that the access to work scheme for every pound they spend on may the treasury get spent between one pound forty one pounds seventy this is generating income for the government bob in work up by national insurance on paying income tax on not on unemployment benefits it's a net gain yet this game is under attack from mary ellen going into a care home would mean an end to her social life and possibly the slide back into the suicidal thoughts she's had in the past she's determined to do what she can to keep fighting the spending cuts the barber al-jazeera london. a beauty salon in

south sudan has become a refuge for many widows of war there among the thousands who are the sole breadwinners of their husbands were killed during the four year civil conflict morgan reports now from the town of a cobol mania warrior is hoping for a hair style that comes as close to perfection as possible hair 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 solemn 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 this place eight out of ten of them are women and children in africa's largest refugee crisis. the someone 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 marital

rents the readers group here in a kobo she says we just 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 the. 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 who are going on just there are a south sudan. finally japan is shortlisted mascots for the tokyo twenty twenty lympics and these other judges for the first time children will be making the final choice more than four thousand primary schools across the country participating in the vote their choosing between three pairs one based on futuristic characters the second features japan's lucky cats fox and the third inspired by ancient ornaments

will find out who has won their hearts in february. good have you with us adrian filling in here at the top stories on al jazeera israel's prime minister is urging europe to follow the united states and recognize jerusalem as this country's capital regimen netanyahu is speaking out of a meeting with e.u. foreign ministers in brussels ways 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 israel's capital i believe that all or most of the rupee in countries will move their embassies to jerusalem recognize crucial in israel's work up at all and encourage robustly with us for security prosperity. and peace 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 his ruling socialist party won at least ninety percent of the mayoral seats in the been a simple poll. thousands of people in honduras of again protested against alleged electoral fraud the main opposition party says that it will hold nationwide protests if president on all of the hundreds is a clear the winner of last month's election how does the opposition candidate solve it on a solid both say that they have won the vote. 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 blaze near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history 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 for on friday and care kiev he'd been campaigning against corruption within the government of president petro poroshenko. come all santa maria will be here in a little over twenty five minutes here on al-jazeera with a news hour that's right after witness which is next they live in a country plagued by poverty for even years billionaires like is only one plumber. and christine. one when east meets the new model rodgers at this time on al-jazeera .