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deadly clashes in gaza as palestinians president warns that the united states can no longer be relied upon as an honest mediator. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching out there also coming up spain's prime minister calls for a new era of dialogue following the success of cats runyan separatists and baseball but rejects calls to meet the ousted leader karla's push to mount. united nations imposes tough new sanctions on north korea in response to its latest ballistic missile tests and the main powers backing syria's warring sides push for another round of talks and six years of civil war. palestine's president says he'll no longer accept the unite. it states as mediator

in the middle east peace process saying it cannot be relied on to play an honest role mahmoud abbas made those comments during a meeting with the french president in paris in which he called for europe to play a stronger role in peace efforts it comes a day off the united nations adopted a resolution rejecting u.s. president donald trump's decision to unilaterally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital reports now from paris. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the elise a palace emanuel mark karr has been a staunch critic of the united states' decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel after talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s. peace plan. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties and failing and because of this violation of

international law. macro has stepped up efforts to mediate in the crisis meeting with the king of jordan and israel's prime minister earlier this month he wants to try and help revive talks but he has ruled out unilaterally recognizing palestine as the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time these americans and the americans have marginalized themselves and i'm trying not to do the same thing and i think france has credibility lies in taking a position as we have today where we can talk to everyone emanuel michael says he's using france's position as a country that has good relations with all sides to try and help and with the palestinians there longer considering the u.s. as an honest broker it could leave the door open for france to play a greater role. so what we've seen as a manual macro getting really involved even of this is a very sensitive. stage france's position is difficult but macron to

really looking to restore the opposition runs once ahead and put it on a national day change that much the decision by the u.s. on driessen continues to draw international condemnation thursday more than one hundred twenty countries including france back to u.n. resolution demanding washington withdraw its decision and across the world politicians continue to voice their concerns. supports the position that the conflict between israel and palestine should be resolved between them and including the show of the final status of jerusalem. great importance to the palestine issue because with things palestinians also absolute rights to establish their own country. lazer the prime minister led a protest in the administrative capital putrajaya. macross says he has no plans for a french peace initiative he says he's waiting to see what the u.s.

has to offer but with the palestinians ruling out washington's unfoldment france and the european union could be called upon to fill the gap it's actually butler al-jazeera paris. meanwhile on the ground there's been more violence in the palestinian territories between protesters and israeli security forces at least two people have been killed in gaza where israeli forces used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators gathered there after friday prayers now one has more from those protests near gaza's border with israel. the gaza city is just a couple of hundred meters over there the border with israel just about one hundred meters over there and for hours all afternoon a crowd of dozens of protesters have been trying to get as close as they can to the fence trying to plant palestinian flags and throwing stones and the israeli soldiers along the fence retaliated with some gunfire and many volleys of tear gas has been a lot of tear gas the al-jazeera teams breathe a lot of it this is one of about six places along the separation wall in the fence

that goes around gaza where these kinds of clashes been happening similar to what happened last friday and the friday before the third day of rage palestinian leaders with different factions of have described it and part of the ongoing series of protests that happened ever since president trump announced on the sixth of december that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel phyllis bennis says the program director of the new internationalism project of the institute for policy studies she says the u.s. has never been an honest negotiator in the middle east peace process. i think this is a long overdue recognition by the palestinian leadership of a position long held by the majority of palestinian people which is that the united states has never been an honest broker it wasn't twenty five years ago it wasn't twenty years ago it hasn't been under any of these administrations and it isn't now so the deal that was being proposed by the u.s.

included explicitly a noncontiguous statelet the the capital would be probably outside of jerusalem in a in a little village called outside of the city of jerusalem it would not have any kind of sovereignty over its air over its water over landing rights over control of its own borders it would not be a state at all that was going to be the u.s. parameters it would never have been accepted and going through the motions of it simply kicks the issue down the road i think what we're looking at here is a moment when the palestinian leadership has been forced to acknowledge what has long been the position of the population which is that the us has no intention of bringing israel to the table on any serious human rights respecting international law respecting un resolution respecting proposal.

now sprains prime minister has rejected a call by catalonia as ousted leader has pushed him on to hold talks to separatist parties want to slim majority in thursday's regional election while mariano rajoy and says he's open to a new era of dialogue he also insists that the next castle on government must respect the rule of law brennan reports from barcelona. when all sides claim victory who actually wins it's a question cattle lands are asking themselves today. winning thirty seven problem entry seats the turning his biggest single party is now the citizens party protean a team leader in the us i don't mind us. but the three main secessionist parties together one seventy seats and so they hold the parliamentary majority council only has deposed president carlos priest or more celebrated in brussels where he'd fled to avoid arrest on sedition charges and he's made

a new offer to the government in madrid and i get sent eaglesham one should just dig that out about i'm willing to meet prime minister avoid brussels or any other european state that is in spain a multiple of b.s. reasons i'm willing to do it at the feet so that we can address this new political era stars in catalonia spain and europe it is an era presided over by political solutions not by common repression that we find ourselves in by now. the response today from the spanish government suggests dialogue might just be possible that. the person i would need to sit down with is the winner of the election and that's mr. wood i will make an effort to maintain a dialogue with whatever government comes out of these elections but as i've said before i will also ensure that we follow the law. on polling day voters of all sides spoke to us about wanting a return to normality with the results now in

a straw poll of barcelona citizens found dissatisfaction with the outcome. without favoring one side or another i think they've hurt catalonia a lot with this independence it's you know been so good. i think that the citizens party which one doesn't represent the majority of catalans i think the majority of people favor the probably independence party whose opinion. i don't think it's a good result the lift just parties have been marginalized and i don't see a solution for the differences between two clear blocks. so for now the spotlight appears to be on the attitude of the new catalan government i would say they will slightly step back this doesn't mean that they will wait and renounce today independence more but they will i think they got softer approach first because they were slightly less than fifty percent of the vote and they think that's important

because they're hardline by the chinese government and this elections have produced a rather messy outcome with both sides able to take positives from the results but neither side able to land the kind of knockout blow that they might have hoped for everything now depends on the succession this bloc and whether they will choose confrontation with madrid or compromise. al-jazeera barcelona. with china's backing the u.n. security council has slapped new sanctions on. north korea that will restrict oil supplies vital for its missile and nuclear programs the council unanimously adopted a u.s. drafted resolution that also orders the way patrick ation of north korean workers abroad and ending revenue of the kim jong un's government so mike hanna is lifeless now at the united nations in new york and like we have seen north korea continue its missile and nuclear programs for years in defiance of the international community what is the anticipated impact of this resolution on the north korean

economy this akira to consuls hoping that by tightening these sanctions it will push north korea firstly to suspend or stop its missile development program and drive or to to some form of negotiation this is the key issue that most members see behind it and tightening the sanctions is certainly is what is happening the. refined petroleum imports are slashed by some seventy five percent there's also a travel ban an assets freeze on nineteen individuals most of whom are understood to be representatives of north korean banks so certainly this is a substantial series of sanctions interesting though that both china and russia back to this u.s. proposal had been debating argument in the past about these two countries preferring to focus on a diplomatic track not wanting to introduce more sanctions until one's in place

with fully implemented but certainly the u.s. has been in close consultation with both china and russia in recent days and this is what the u.s. ambassador had to say. today for the tenth time this council stand united against a north korean regime that rejects the pursuit of peace the camera seen continues to defy the resolutions of this council the norms of civilized behavior and the patience of the international community their arrogance and hostility to anything productive has set their country on a destructive path and we've seen that u.s. diplomats led by secretary of state rex tillerson have been speaking about diplomatic solution to this crisis with north korea what do we know about efforts to try and bring some peaceful resolution into fruition. well the u.s.

position on this has been clear there was some daylight between the position of the secretary of state and president trumpet would appear but what that has been clarified to a degree the u.s. is insisting that there has to be a sustained sation as it puts it after north korea's nuclear development program before all the thought of talks can be contemplated now russia and china have been saying insistently that the u.s. and south korea should show some kind of quid pro quo end their joint exercises that they've been conducting for a long period of time in return for a pause in north korea's missile development the u.s. has refused to contemplate that but the u.s. continues to insist that it once a complete end or a containment or a pause in the north korean missile program for a period of time before it will go to the negotiating table but the resolution that was a group passed today commits itself to the six party talks so that idea of negotiation

is contained within this resolution to thank you very much mike hanna at the united nations. and watching out as there are still to come apple faces lawsuits in the u.s. south technically it deliberately slow down older models of what i phone. and pros president survives an impeachment vote over corruption allegations all that more coming up in just a minute. hello rather oddly the moment noles in europe is warming up the heart of europe is still cold but the winds bring in the swamps apparently is a northerly of the sea started summer a bit warm that but that is the situation we find ourselves in with an avalanche risk still in existence in norway and probably in finland as well snow does run

across this area but the temperature still actually well above freezing and it's warming up slowly in the heart of year eight degrees is the forecast max on saturday in vienna five in book arrest it's not a lot of different in turkey except that it's rather raining or snowing in turkey this is a concentration of weather right on the edge now further west anywhere from the british isles down to spain and portugal we're talking about double figures is particularly mild some rain will come in but really the feeding is of more like spring than winter at least for a brief time so clearly all the action is it is possible right time corner which translates to rain having started in the west of libya gone through to the east and really into western egypt the wind is quite cold a normal day so trip reason brought a weather at sixteen benghazi's in the rain the warmth that was ahead of that in cairo for example at thirty degrees is slowly dropping down to twenty by sunday.

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back let's update the stories making headlines palestine is president mahmoud abbas says his country will not accept any u.s. backed peace plan after the u.n. rejected president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel spanish prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected an offer to me as a carlist pushed along to discuss catalonia as political crisis region again backed independence from spain in first a snap election. in the united nations unanimously back new sanctions on north korea that bans nearly ninety percent of refined petroleum product exports to pyongyang. now and other stories we're following closely russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering prisoner exchanges and the mining in syria the agreements will majoring talks that have been held in kazakhstan russia and iran backed the syrian government in the war while turkey supports a major rebel groups but they have agreed to meet again in the russian city of sochi on january twenty ninth with the aim of bringing both the syrian government

and the opposition to the negotiating table. says that at least sixteen people have died while waiting for medical evacuation in syria's besieged east and guta region the head of the un's humanitarian task force for syria says many more will die unless the government stops blocking efforts to bring medical aid to the area jan egeland also says he hopes the latest round of talks in kazakhstan will help bring an end to the obstruction. on humanitarian workers doctors nurses we. are seeing see in syria. without a mission from those who see. it's going to go. so we're going to. the bottom this will. not come. south sudan's government and opposition forces have signed

a cease fire deal of humanitarian access to civilians the deal which was agreed in talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long conflict the truce comes into effect on sunday which is christmas eve it aims to revive a two thousand and fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year of the heavy fighting broke out in the capital juba well this conflict has displaced more than four million people creating the world's fastest growing refugee crisis hundreds of thousands have fled to northern kenya catherine sawyer reports now from a refugee camp in kakuma. mall of south sudan's displaced people have made their way to this transit center in nothing kenya with virtually nothing to call their own helen good arrived recently both her husband and brother were killed in the fighting she now has to take care of her brother's eight children as well as five of her own she has a family back home a good one she tells us

a moment. it's very hard for me i'm the only person now to take care of these children i don't know whether peace will come or not i'm not hopeful anymore there are about a thousand refugees in this reception center all have arrived in the last few weeks this year alone more than twenty two thousand mostly from south sudan have come for help the comp is already hosting close to two hundred thousand. been given talk that will enable them to get space in the constable top shelters will soon meet their new neighbors some of whom have been in since another civil war with the north but ended twelve years ago. people like par peter he's a head teacher and those schools have closed he wants to ensure the library he students enjoy is ready for when they return he escaped in two thousand and four to avoid being recruited as a child soldier the very reason many boys he stitching now have fled south sudan

and he knows exactly who to blame the president and his former vice president who's forces are fighting each other. so. yes. somewhat interesting not be put into consideration what matters is country. this is one of khan's students who run the fuck eighteen years old but still in primary school now. he's talking to his aunt who's at a comp for displaced people back home he's not seen ha his mother or four sisters since he left three years ago. and i'm young. i'm learning. south sudan has been in conflict for four

years it's one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world attempts at peace overseen by regional mediators have often filled and with no end in sight this refugees continue to wait out a crisis they say has destroyed their lives catherine soy al jazeera. in north and kenya where is president had republican water debate in congress to force him out over graft scandal this comes as an opposition politician accused him of securing votes by promising to free ex-president alberto fujimori from jail by honest and has has more from lima. an unprecedented outcome that is president. held onto his job nearly a week jordi of legislators passed a motion to impeach him when it came to the vote congress failed to get the necessary numbers to oust him. flanked by his lawyer could be faced congress he

said with the conviction of his innocence and the intention to show it. but i come today at your request ready to defend myself against a false and all minnes occupations that can only be understood in the context of an unconstitutional desire to separate me from power. the congressional majority accuse the seventy nine year old of being part of the largest corruption scandal a latin america they said he lied about receiving payments from brazilian giant all the money the company and the president say are legal but the political opposition didn't believe him. mr kaczynski is lawyers turn out to be state lawyers and that all the evidence that he's in charge of the presidency is not in capacity to continue serving as president yes. in a thirty minute address to congress cheese key said he's never received a bribe that he's honest and transparent his supporters said legislators didn't

give him enough time to prove his innocence. did not then you know they tried and the president hasn't had a chance the fend for himself not even the worst criminals are treated like the president being treated analysts at the impeachment put at stake not only the presidency but the micro scene in the country was outside congress demonstrators said they were great this was a coup in the making work at getting them to him what is more the forty mori party wants to control the government like in the past years and do whatever they want and we won't accept this because the fire. against dictatorship has a hard time. critics see it live as leaders try to remove the preceded without clear evidence of a crime. for final results of the so-called carwash investigation now he says it's time for a new foods for reconciliation to start by the innocent just. be do

it was president donald trump assigned his government's tax reform bill into law one and a half trillion dollar bill was approved by congress on wednesday making it the biggest liable for the u.s. tax system in thirty years it will repeal some parts of obamacare and it offers big tax cuts for businesses it's transfers mage's legislative victory of his first year in office meanwhile trump's former campaign manager is reportedly been asked to testify at an investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election it's understood a congressional panel question steve bannon in early january on alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia bannon also served as president trumps top white house strategist before being fined an august human rights watch has condemned the imprisonment of al jazeera journalist mahmud hussain it's now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt the organization says his detention shows egypt's deep rooted intolerance of free expression zain is accused of

broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and out as they are strongly deny is repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. a class action lawsuit has been filed in the us against tech giant apple after deliberately serving down older i phones critics argue it's a tactic to force customers to buy new devices alice explains. ten years of phones and in mr may should one point two billion songs the i thought has become a household name but when the i phone eight released in september customers complained the old phone slowdown in the next three months google searches for the keywords i phone slow jumped about fifty percent users speculated apple had slowed their phones to push them to upgrade on wednesday ethyl admitted it has deliberately slowed older i phones explaining that as i phone batteries age and

degrade they can overload and unexpectedly shut down slowing the phones if the company stops the overloading it affects the i phone six success and seven models our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of the devices last year we released a feature to smooth out the instantaneous current pates only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down it was a perfectly legitimate software fix but the problem was they didn't tell anybody they do have a stunningly good reputation for many things but open this isn't really one of them in the touristy secretive and then the court action began to law students in california filed a class action lawsuit then people from four different states filed in a chicago court more are expected they say they may have

a can seem to allow apple to slow their i phones and the demanding replacement phones and compensation if a nationwide class action gets the go ahead would apply to all. people in the u.s. with i phones older than an eight if you have software floors and trying to hide them all of those things then security research is like the one who found. and will find it and they will publicize it and this already a lawsuit in the states you know this is within a day of it being confirmed and i'm sure there will be others around the world the i phone is estimated to be the most profitable piece of technology to hit the market if apple continues to benefit it may depend on whether they come out of this saga unscathed shallop bellus al-jazeera treat me as a reporter from the wall street journal who specializes in covering apple he believes the scandal will most likely have no impact on the brand apple's

a very divisive company it's one that there are a tremendous amount of people who do have strong feelings about positively on a tremendous amount of people up to this and there's this play right into that so it all depends on which side of the aisle you sit on your you're a fan of apple is going to damage your perception of the plan no you're going to look at it and you're going to say this is apple taking care and concern on behalf of customers improving the performance of the device by preventing it from shutting down now if you're on the other side of the aisle you're going to say yes for my device is slowing down and it's weakening the performance of my device and it's making me feel like i have to go buy a new or the apple actually doing me a disservice it really depends on which side of the sun to be are you crimes. of law in that story and everything else we're covering including analysis that takes you behind the headlines just had.

a look at the headlines now. president says he will no longer accept the united states as mediator in the middle east peace process saying it cannot be relied on to play an honest role mahmoud abbas was speaking at a meeting with french president paris where they discussed president tom's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. of the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties really because of this violation of international law landed more violence in the palestinian territories between protesters and the israeli security forces after that embassy decision at least two people have been killed in gaza way israeli forces used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators protest as a gathered there after friday prayers. spain's prime minister has rejected

a call by catalonia as ousted leader karla's pushed him on to hold talks after separatist parties want to slim majority in thursday's election while mariano rajoy and says he's open to a new era of dialogue he also says the next catalan government must respect the law . the united nations security council has unanimously passed a resolution targeting north korea's fuel imports the measure proposed by the united states will ban nearly ninety percent of refined petroleum products exports to pyongyang. russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering prisoner exchanges and demining in syria after talks in kazakhstan they've agreed to meet again in the russian city of sochi on january twenty ninth. all in other developments the united nations says that at least sixteen people have died while waiting for a medical evacuation in syria's besieged eastern ghouta region ahead of the un humanitarian task force for syria says many more will die unless the government stops blocking medical aid. and south sudan's government

and opposition forces have signed a cease fire deal and humanitarian access to civilians the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to and four years of conflict and up to date with our top stories up front is coming up next i'll speak to you after that in about twenty five minutes time. he's the former somali refugee who now serves as kind of his immigration minister under justin trudeau but how good is the canadian government actually record on immigration and asylum issues and what of this will slip minister make of donald

trump's muslim ban all ask about hussein.