do stay with us revel architecture as coming up next thank you for watching. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we weren't able to see the secret we were able to tell it in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called terror the holy land falling at this time on al jazeera. architect has always defined the human. from the simplest structure to the greatest money. rebellion is underway. led by a new breed evocative puts people before i can. take using the tools of the trade. the structure and the surroundings.

and to redefine. you know. i low. you know. schmuck. you know is there you up i gotta go ploy or. if they shout that me. because i have sucked oh. i must go above that actually of chemical move there. lemme cups of coffee love. to you. lemme.

see no there's a little bite you. know mentally must. doesn't look ridiculous inside these pipe ousts like being the king of the hill and say these to you my name is a vitamin i'm an architect i'm a writer i'm an activist. my work is to do with the intersection of architecture and violence. my key texture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence. pielke

you patient is an environment that slowly was conceived to strangulate palestinian communities villages and towns to create an environment it will be unlivable for the people there. the crime was done on the drawing board itself. the settlements which are here in blue have been built like wedges not only to serve the colonies themselves but consciously to create material damage cutting apart the very sort of fragile palestinian built fabric. architecture is used by architect as a weapon. we are looking at the buttons and the weapons and ammunitions off in

a fairy simple elements there are trees there terraces there are houses there are clarity there are barriers. everything in this panel rama he's a tactical to within the architecture for he patients just need to know how to decode it. the first thing i want to show you is the neighborhood oh you know. off the sixty seven israel annex is a large part of the west bank and calls the jerusalem and immediately starts building remote neighborhoods to these neighborhoods a called the living move around the city. immediately after the occupation all of the sudden you see that buildings that make

us feel like we in the center of jerusalem in fact we're miles away. look actually at the corner of the buildings in architect know that we need to look at the corner of the building in order to study in scenes construction i see that tells me that this is a concrete building and that the stone is merely a veneer of one and a half century to fix. so the government wanted to tell the people living here that they're living in part of the holy city of jerusalem and it was left for architecture to tell that story. architectural principles of the israeli occupation he's way off painting separation and exercising control. so this is the time of the road building ninety nine seats . now called the apartheid road was the road to simply serve

the jewish communities to jewish colonies and settlements to the south of jerusalem we have a whole jewish neighborhood overhead. and now we are driving over for palestinian family. settlements to build on hilltops overlooking the palestinian in the valleys between the. main reason that they have built on hilltops is for self protection and for them to dominate the surrounding. soldo israel built hundreds and thousands of structures in the west bank the number

of take policies is very limited there overreaction on the single or double family houses with red roof very suburban take apology in fact read for free something that is mandated by law because this is allowing the military to navigate the landscape to understand what's always what's there was friends with way you can bomb and where no. you would enter the house through the in the circuit as you move through the house you open towards the view the house itself is like an optical instrument and when it is laid in rings around the hilltops it is like a suburban scale. optical device that can survive a big tire territory around. no way. no way no.

it is not a simple good there's. no a difference i'm sure you get there. no but you'll probably see a lot of material i thought we knew about of you have been at it now. that puts the loading vocationally sobota with english l.m. when your very last thought of course your system when you get in the church is a little extreme when you call the condition noise to both of us and because they have a confession to simply put it we're selling. and you know it's like if you think. over let me get you there but. when we think about borders when we see even the wall we magine a single instrument that separate israelis and palestinian two sides off

a map. but actually in the israel palestine from tear the border had splintered into various border devices defenses around the settlements there are blockades around palestinian cities the highways that operators borders their checkpoints in sterile areas and all sort of other border devices that shrink and expand the terrain at will. to control a space you need to create differentiation in speed of movement. when you put israeli colonies on highways york salary and for the space. was. in a same way and every twist and turn of the terrain palestinians would encounter a border a checkpoint a fence

a valley that they cannot close. sometimes you can read politics on the most mundane of architecture elements. turnstiles in israel when they put them as the most important instrument in checkpoints they've reduced the arm of the turnstile for it to press against the body in case there is anything a person carries but that creates horrific situations when people who are a little bit. larger would get caught up within that turnstile so cruel and degrading and reduces palestinians to nothing more than bodies.

but if you remember. this you left without. just this i remember that yeah i was a child we used to good that i'm to blame but after they decide to take it that the nouns added to the street were can't go down anymore so this is affectively the wall it's just not a wall here it's a fence he adds we got there we can't there walk we can't do anything here. if you're not the staff there for around. and you have a shot. what is very cruel about this tower next to the wall is that if you

start to hide the presence of the army so you don't always assume this somebody's looking at you. you see apartheid in action at this moment here. when conflict a ruckus the slow violence of the environment is being put into immediate use israeli soldiers move down into palestinian towns and villages from the settlements themselves the checkpoint hardened and nobody can move through the border completes

around them and they tie a territory springs into use. in two thousand and two sharon ordered the israeli army to occupy the entirety of the west bank as part of operation defensive shield. they had no problem with the open areas but invading the cities was somehow the most difficult part. of the moment. we're now at the heart of the journey refugee camp. this is palestinian ground zero .

in two thousand and two days really army try to take hold of this camp and then they've decided to enter the city by first using the nine bulldozers. the way they did it really is a kind of a design by destruction off the can. they cut literally new streets through the dense urban fabric in order to allow the tanks to come in. the resistance retreated into the core of the camp and at the end of the battle effectively the bull. those is collapsed the heart of the camp on those on those fighters.

i don't know. it was in the first times israel used bulldozers but it's the first time that the bullets were integrated into the battlefield. the fleet of bulldozers rew exponentially and the bulldozers become really the means of israeli fighting in palestinian urban fabric. the april two thousand and two attack on janine and that blows was the poor tree for the go s to think about the urban warfare in iraq and also training in the israeli training sites scope. cities that were built in the in the desert in the south.

we are now in a city of nablus was one of the biggest bore trees in two thousand and two for the development of a new type of urban warfare israelis were studying not only that city but how cities operate. they understood in order to occupy the city they need to invent and move in the city in a different manner. i started to study tactics which i thought were very architectural. even the our no one but me for this should give us. got the whore and. the feel as if i got the movie got to go to go see much they got to put the. i need. a new bill i'm sure you'll know about the hopeful thing show

me vinnie keep their bets sam the candice a theme then becomes holy man but kewl. what they're actually doing is they're turning private and public space upside down to private space becomes a space of circulation. and a public space the space of the street is where the resistance fighters be killed. who. you know. there's a palestinian architect that lived through the israeli invasion and these stealing charge eleven years later on the ongoing project off reconstructing the city so

that was the first invaded the troops came in and they surrounded the old city and this is where the men destruction this. other guy i'm up to my mother and on. going through the old city of. it's like going through one. where everything was demolished the streets with them all rubbish. what's dumb here is a comprehensive list only one of the quarters the earth was affected by the invasion. you see you get all of it. yes. this is one of the so useful it was. more of those to indicate to the un the soldiers you should go.

after has you. know you. so this lady is one of the living witnesses of what happened during the various invasions in a two year period two thousand and eight two thousand and ten on it that. she was smoking had a lot of pot to get when the soldiers came from to watch. and you were she was as if you speak it in english sorry to say that she was telling him off and she continued smoking her water five he went and then the whole room behind her went blasted but she didn't make a move and she said ok i hope i will die and i will be recorded on guinness

as the first one who was killed whilst walking the water five in the us so that was the story i mean you can see what it means to live in such a place. that has. when violence is acted through architecture architecture must somehow arise to resist it it must find the tools in must find those tools within its own toolbox.

now that most wars take place in the city which most war is urban warfare. architecture becomes really the most important evidence to read the contours of the violence. we can reconstruct. we can reconstruct the battle itself and what happened by looking very closely at the ruins. i gain the confidence of the e.u. to fund this project called forensic architecture to present architectural facts as evidence in legal and political for. a major project if we do here's an analysis of drone warfare in pakistan afghanistan yemen somalia and gaza forensic detection working with the mandate to

look at particular strikes and to do as far as we can and accurate reconstructions against which to assess the competing claims about the strikes themselves. in gaza during two thousand and eight two thousand and nine the i.d.f. started employing a kind of a tactics of warning. there was shooting a warning messiah on a roof or fielding's waiting for about three minutes before they demolished the buildings complete. to sell her family is one of the saddest and most horrific instances when you kind of warfare that tries to be legal the kind of for humanitarian war has gone completely wrong you missed the failures and mr nose thank you very much for coming

here to speak to us for. our work has been actually in that time to reconstruct what happened between the warning shot and the lethal shot. or how a family gets organize how they understand the options facing them. the family was trying to leave the house they divided themself into two groups. in their hear loud and mama. so loving the bit the second group when it was just about to exit food of mange or the big bomb hit demolished a building and killed seven members of his family. thanking a situation like that is using a very particular story the story of

a family in the story of a house in the traces that we can see in this house to pose a kind of a political challenge to israel humanitarian war in gaza. your personal tragedy is enormous it's also a part of the tragedy of the palestinian people. why's that. egypt and europe do. i love this land and i care deeply about both peoples living here and i think looking at the landscape i see this kind of slow process of killing. i would have loved to practice my architecture free of the constraints and violence of this conflict but i think that to be an architect is not only to build and to contribute to the space struction of the place that i love most but to use

architecture as a way to both interpret protest and resist. this is architected by. the self-appointed time asks to create sustainable housing for the rural poor and to bring jobs to beauty into vietnam's chill king urban spaces and to convince developments that his dreams are attainable but changing minds can be as good as altering space a. little architecture continues with meaning in the city at this time on our disease. the latest news as it breaks the government of mali so mikey has pushed to have a series of laws that it says will make argentina's economy more competitive with

detailed coverage in two thousand and sixteen when the government stop subsidizing the cost of college or jumped by sixty percent the queues disappear at least for a year from around the world the military and the establishment in the capital bangkok know that it's very difficult for them to win support in parts of thailand like this. in the philippines millions live in over a crowd. but some of found another place to call home public cemeteries one of the nice meets those living among the dead at this time on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. every. kind of a problem in doha with the headline five al-jazeera north korea has accepted the south proposal for high level talks on tuesday the meeting will be held and saw that the militarized zone discussions will focus on pyongyang's participation in next month's went lympics and the south analysts say seoul is also like.