palestinian peace process friends told reporters before leaving that the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution. but i assured him that even as president made that decision a decision that i will reaffirm in jordan and reaffirmed in israel before the end of this trip that will also reaffirm what president trump also said that we're absolutely committed to the two preserving the status quo with regard to holy sites in jerusalem that we are that we've we we we have come to know a final resolution about boundaries or other issues that are to be negotiated between the parties and if the parties agree i reminded president el-sisi the president said that if the parties agree we will support a two state solution put francis has condemned the killing of women which he says has to in latin america and to the most violent place on earth for women the leader of the catholic church will postpone. the steering mass in the north and peruvian

city. he then return to lima and spend time speaking with fantomas and blessing children. as the headlines on al-jazeera to do stay with us walls of shame as coming up next thank you for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in northern ireland. nearly a decade later al-jazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city

. the film you're about to see was first broadcast in two thousand and seven. there's not be a lot to laugh about in northern ireland over the last forty years the old mantra for god and our stuff has a new twist these days the fact that it's now possible to make a joke about it is a sign of the changing times in northern ireland. and yet in many respects belfast the capital of northern ireland remains a divided city the physical evidence is there for all to see. the modern history of northern ireland has been dominated by one thing the troubles

. and conflict both political and religious between those claiming to represent the predominantly catholic nationalist of those claiming to represent the mainly protestant unionists. broadly speaking the nationalist more so called republicans northern ireland to be unified with the republic of ireland while the unionists wanted to remain part of the united kingdom along with england wales and. i think. it was. for people who thought of my community and i think of taking the problems to the theatre as you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people that are in marched on the streets and were beaten off the streets and then the british army came in. there catholics and isis here actually had no basic human

rights the had no for the rights the had all those traits taken away from. us in nineteen ninety eight all the political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking three decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our a military group. after many false starts the assembly assumed its full power in may two thousand and seven the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became first minister and deputy first minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and tempered stalemate

of separate identities and separated lives there is huge pressure surgery in very large particularly working her three. kids going to school in different schools. schooling of course and school. would just not mix. consequence of the rules and the moves the segregation divisions were there before the war and the kind of fade into that and the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more than. thirteen years of the peace process and there was a conflict. segregation is a fact of life of life and of over thirty five years of trouble. and people aren't going to get over that very very quickly or very easily. the first of the so-called peace lines began the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate

the warring communities in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. from then on they became more and more complex today there are believed to be forty one deliberate barriers across belfast we estimate that about half of all the parents have either been there and you will have been expended. in some way. during the. most notorious burial was the one between the warring communities of protestant shanksville and catholic falls road the flash point of recent years has been the wall that separates the short straw and isolated catholic enclave in east belfast

from the surrounding area. in two thousand and two it was the scene of the worst riots in the city since the start of the peace process. a catholic lives with his family in the shah. though of the short strands war as vivid memories of what happened. there was spread. on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it was called the tree of a particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was a lot of time. here will leave. the whole everyone. destroyed. a good hour. and students in both improve.

both in. two thousand people were hurt i mean. covered up so everything was very dark going. to not just me. but lives with her family place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in here in the troubles in two thousand today because. other people here had children. and. by the people next door. we needed people to move in here that want to freed eleven here so i. and i moved in. she was at the head with a brick and it was just and the allies over there. said their man your own business talking to. the wall here between the two communities has become

the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between two traditions two denominations where. them mentality still it. they nearly killed us. what can we do the police don't stand up for us we did stand for people they command they attacked them back they went home and now. they have to be shown that we are not by ourselves that other people are ready to come in and. they have a sense of insecurity they've had it for four hundred years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold there and they have got away with getting their own way. ten years from now. and they out of the government has give give give them all the time. time they want to

squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to get government with. the bitterness felt by the protestant majority. being compounded by the feeling that their own politicians have let them. be tribal leaders rather than statesman above the their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the broader needs of the wider community. the difficulty and those with and staunch from moralist areas or staunchly republican areas. they feel a sense of betrayal because their politicians said that they would never share with republicans for example. and all of a sudden in a very short period of time. on the receiving side laughing and smiling.

politics. a lot of our news here that is a step backwards. even today politicians in the new northern ireland assembly still look asian we seem locked into their old mindset. with the republicans. she represents the main republican party. the first republican. still exists between.

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grade through the streets. of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration pool full of acacia. for the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in sixty ninety is at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. is very much a way of life a cultural expression of a partial. especially from the protestant community but it's a celebration of a battle which took place over three hundred years ago at the bowie. celebration

expression of freedom expression of liberty expression fraternity. and something which is not on a leo to american independence day to. the celebrations at the boston and france to the celebrations which we have and see and many other countries where people celebrate their liberty. for staunchly warless people know this i'm a libertarian about were against the catholic church basically it's part of their cultural identity. for the wider unionist community i think it is. a symbol of the right down to bring a lot of strong as someone else made them it's a very. hot from a catholic perspective the drums on triumphalist gestures calculated to keep all wounds open. you have to understand where we're the only common out of a complex situation there are people who are eleven and those areas that have been

murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that it's insulting for them to have have to watch an orange create one that is horton bombers off loyalist paramilitaries for instance you know it's it's very hard for the state to take us. on both sides of the postes is ever present. the boy more than three centuries ago. the last. time has not been. officially the conflict. is over. as a means of distinguishing. towering

. trees over the six hundred sixty ninety. one the hate symbols chiefly irish flags go up in flames. and. told. to market.

and. straight. scottish flags not from a foreign country. but. the symbolism doesn't always take the form of waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided northern ireland have been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. conflict. about five years ago by the locals i was. well into the peace process i think what they were

trying to say was future generations the individual the characters because i remember. funerals of palestinian young people killed in the west bank and at the funerals of a carry pictures of these people and i thought i would like to know who that person is what they represent why did they give us such a young life being taken and i think it's also transmitted into. the spheres is young people young men young women they ask the question why. a republican who has. time in the maze prison is now involved in the. protestant loyalist leaders. who in the past chronicled the troubles each on his own side of the walls come together to bring a new message to the city. separation is generally become more

entrenched since the end of hostilities it's a remarkable act of collaboration and. that's when the possible. pain years ago it just would not be now and i would never consider the notion ten or fifteen years will actually be an ally possible to be me a possible through the work of our people of the on the ground. as just carried on through miss out on the army which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society in my community the walls were used it was all the through the censorship and i was there with them with a she's the one else. would focus on. what the images you see in our walls reflected the feeling. within our communities so we were too and we were vehicles for fear or anger or frustration was taking place within our unfortunately

my community the murals were used to highlight the front lines. there were used to mark territory by groups and organizations through a fair channel read up by the political leadership of the tank. i believe that my community must an opportunity we're here also concerned. now the two men are determined to use the murals as a force for unity rather than division. mark and danny's hope is that their own writings on the wall may dismantle those of the walls the virtual ones that have been erected over the decades. we met accidentally. but there's also many buyers and from the people holding people back and it's those can be programmed that in my kids my grandkids can meet up with people from mars community and their faith in the sea and i got sick a chemist was so inspired as was his wall start to fall trying to change people's

main sets because that's where the party or success than the making room. but for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we don't mobile hopefully even a small part of that we can add something to it it's the hope that will make. we're not because we're friends hurt but let's try. but whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts in the communities are still bent on division and the moment there's a decision waiting to be implemented to him to to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between two communities we need to get to a situation where there's no more barriers being built and not only that the idea of building the barrier is considered to be unacceptable. the lesson of northern ireland is the dismantling a wall is far harder than erecting it wars are indicative not just of division

but of mistrust in belfast the day the walls come down is still a long way off they wanted to straight and may didn't get it but they may react that in the process. i am not going to justify anything else i love my country i love my culture a lot. just. the way i would do their heads as a tell you i was there before to measure but spirit shelf where. nearly a decade after this film first ad we returned to belfast to catch up with danny devaney he's still painting the city's walls so what is your focus on a shop that's right across all its doors no no the toilets city where they are.

you may be having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist problem see a projection light up the straw but the political work of danny and his nearest brethren have become world famous but some of their canvases. a disappearing. in twenty sixteen the fast rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by twenty twenty three. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were here at the residence to feign see if we need to be in a certain space where they made secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was played up that's on the back of people's homes so what does sachs what it was about this

strive to do that more people at the minute just don't face the article. let's just cut the stairs were the. other people. are doing is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the walls but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's troubles for the purpose of where they were first cheap. a lot of people told us the troubles we. were going to get. so much trouble to provide the. protection. that they really get your protection.

all the sectarianism still exists the government is now attempting to give the city and new image. encouraging artists like danny to find new subjects for them. and then. they want to you. he put a says office and he's still collaborating with protestant mirror nest mark on vine . always a star. going to rather than call the reimage in the should have called it reinvention because really what they're trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really hard on here you know and as danny says sort of sweep it on the carpet i don't enjoy looking about him or injury or understand thoroughly what's there. as well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the community's aspirations for a peaceful future. if the murals are changed it is because the main set of the

people and whose communities. today that painting for northern ireland's next generation. i think is our foremost you need to be part of the solution we use and towels for and that is what they are to try and say to our kids who. struggle and politics and solve when they come to us all through dialogue and white shoes and all the.

time. rio has big plans to turn its largest favelas into spectacles. but inside the favelas. has big plans of his own. building since the age of twelve listen trained yet skilled architect has as good a chance as any at seeing his vision come to light. the federal role and the master plan and the concluding part of rebel architecture at this time on al-jazeera.

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