level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoke the boredom with those people did setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. i mean this was different whether someone is going for someone who's very rich is this going to be any trick i think it's how you approach an individual and after that is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story and fly out. and live from studio three a team here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha back to gold welcome to the news great some aid at last an international convoy with supplies what trap syrians has entered the rubble and. for the first time in.

weeks but u.n. workers say a lot of the eighteenth looting equipment was removed by the syrian government will have the very nature of its own soul on the grid a messy outcome in its nice pot of entry lections no party has won a majority to govern alone but a right wing coalition by former prime minister berlusconi and the anti-establishment movement have emerged as the big one is forming a coalition government could take weeks of negotiations and explore the different options and al-jazeera documentary on cover is evidence of the involvement of sound the united arab emirates and bahrain in supporting the world's poor attempt to overthrow the government in one thousand nine hundred sixty we'll tell you about the reaction. from aleppo top only one syrian refugee took the stage at the oscars she didn't say anything but her presence started a twitter storm we'll tell you why i'm leah harding connected us to the hash tag a genius for.

you with news great live on air and streaming online for you to facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it's taken three weeks not aid has finally reached. in syria but there's been no letup in the government bombing of the enclave over the past few days syrian government troops and their allied forces have stepped up their air. and ground offensive despite a un ordered ceasefire they've captured a quarter of the rebel held territory the un's human rights council has now ordered an independent inquiry into the violence that's killed over seven hundred people in the past two weeks we begin our coverage with a report from santa harder in neighboring lebanon a warning some of the images in her report are disturbing. it's the first time aid has entered the rebel controlled enclave of eastern huta since the latest offensive began just over two weeks ago but world health organization officials say

seventy percent of what was loaded on the trucks was removed during inspection. it's not the first time syrian government officials have prevented trauma kits and surgical supplies from reaching besieged areas they have been systematically removed from aid convoys in the past to prevent rebel fighters being treated. but such life saving medical equipment is what is urgently needed medics say they are struggling according to the united nations up to one thousand civilians some of them critically ill need to be evacuated to receive proper treatment already a few thousand people have been injured in the airstrikes and the toll continues to rise. there yeah. we were sleeping when my cousin came and told us my sister's husband was killed god bless him then the warplanes hit nearby my cousin my mother and father and two of my siblings were injured two of my other siblings

are safe because they were in the underground shelter. i on the ground a pro-government forces are advancing on several fronts taking territory in recent days mainly farms and villages in the east forcing many people to flee to the western parts of the enclave this spite international criticism and outrage the syrian president bashar assad promised to continue the offensive until eastern recaptured the government says it is fighting what it calls terrorists and it blames rebels for holding civilians as human shields the people in eastern huda say the government wants to depopulate the area they are wrapping children killed in the bombardment with u.n. aid bags to show their anger over the organizations inability to help them others had a message to the syrian government backer russia. putin wants to displace the people

of eastern rule you have no business here and neither does your medical you shouldn't be opening recorded doors for us to meet you should stop getting us we were remain steadfast and no one can force us to leave our land god willing. the united nations says it has permission to deliver supplies enough for seventy thousand people in the next few days but it is estimated up to four hundred thousand people are in eastern huta an area that has been under siege for four years an area that doesn't receive aid regularly whatever aid does reach those trapped inside will help but it is far from enough. beirut. tom is a spokesperson for the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in syria and she told us that the aid that has gone into eastern go to is far from enough. of the convoy still contains nutrition supplies somehow supplies along with food for over twenty seven thousand people in need so this is of

course we are extremely disappointed that many life saving health supplies were not allowed to be loaded but we also have a follow up conway on thursday and we hope that we both medical supplies will be able to be loaded in in the rest of and the rest of the supplies that are destined for duma as we had said earlier the full package is for seventy thousand people in need in dumas but this is far from enough we haven't been able to reach the school on a regular basis the last time was on the fourteenth of february and before that it had been over seventy days that we had not been able to be through them we are working with all parties we are working with the government of syria we are also working with the non-state armed groups and our our main message is about access you know we are calling on all parties to give us unconditional stand and unimpeded access to the so that we can meet people in need with the lifesaving supplies that they have been waiting for we have to do the best that we can i mean

we're here you know we have been working on all fronts and we have been we have been working with the with the security council and with the cessation of hostilities that was promised by member states on the adoption of a thirty day cessation of hostilities we were hopeful that that would be impossible i think so that we would be able to deliver assistance to people in need wherever they are but as we had said even just this morning the u.n. and partners were informed that many of the supplies that were intended for dumas were not allowed to be loaded and in addition to that we were even not needed in order to replace those supplies that were taken off with other lifesaving items so these were basic things such as trauma kits and other life saving medical supplies . well let's get the latest now from alan fischer in gaza turkey syria border island some aid has gone in but where do things stand as far as a cease fire in eastern goot. or something what we know is that over the last

twenty four hours thirty six people have been killed in eastern gupta that takes the total from february eighteenth up to more than seven hundred and of the thirty six there were women and children included in that what we're hearing is that there are breaches of the ceasefire now there's been shelling in and around good to today but not where the aid was being distributed and we're not entirely sure that some of the shelling was during the ceasefire period but there are deaths during the ceasefire period a lot less than the word at the start of this offensive but still people who are being killed what we've seen in the last few hours has been a tit for tat between the russians and the americans with the americans along with the british saying that the russians are still involved in air strikes during the cease fire period so are in breach of the cease fire and a breach of u.n. regulations whereas the russians just the last have said the americans are not telling the the forces that they support on the ground in syria to stop their

attacks against syrian army forces so they too are in breach of the cease fire the up short of both of this of course is that it's civilians who are suffering now there was meant to be aid for seventy thousand people required in ghouta but with forty seven trucks getting through that will only supply around twenty seven and a half thousand so there's still a lot of what to be done they're hoping that they will get more aid in hopefully by thursday but with seven hundred thousand people needing aid you can see the size of the demand that there is on the services there to get help to this place to this on cleve and i can tell you that the i.c.r.c. are saying that they're glad that it has arrived but this is the first aid they've been able to deliver since november the fourteenth thank you very much for that alan fischer live for us and guys entebbe any turkey syria border and i want to point out to this very interesting opinion piece just published on al-jazeera dot com about what's happening in eastern gotta love nine re a syrian photojournalist says many people. convinced that the assad regime is

fighting al qaeda in eastern guta which is using civilians as human shields but this is a misconception she argues is not populated by terrorists of memory says plenty of syrians not only in ghouta but all across rebel held areas are standing their ground and resisting extremism and oppression from all sides it's a very interesting perspective read it on al-jazeera dot com and we've been getting a lot of comments from some of you on what's happening in eastern guta right now and on xena's report in which we saw some very disturbing pictures of people being injured children injured and a lot of suffering in eastern go to a comment here from john on facebook says what is happening is obscene the wrong on so many levels and another one from mohammed also on facebook who says the u.n. has become an organization of too many talks with little help thank you very much for your comments you can keep them coming on this and other stories that we're covering on the great today connects with us using the hash tag a.j.

news great and all the other ways to get in touch on your screen right now moving on to other world news now any time when voters have dealt a blow to the mainstream political establishment and song to watch parties on the fringe it was been an extraordinary parliamentary election far right populous and anti-establishment parties have made historic gains with the five star movement emerging as a single launches party but there is no clear winner and political negotiations could take months to form a coalition government from rome lawrence lee has all reports in. just five years of the first calls in the parliament the five star movement and see politicians policy or the clear individual with his in this election overcome pain a sudden fail to fight corruption and overturn traditional politics the vote was more than ten points ahead it's a form of governments who have said bitterly that promise not to go into coalition . equally lega formally the northern league led by matt seo salvini also appended

the established order but it's hardline and see immigrants euro skeptic policies it would be the biggest player in a right wing coalition but that group still fall short of being able to full authority as well for selvi though the result is proof that italians are fed up with the status quo. one of the clearest outcomes of the five years in power the center left an acrostic party have taken hits but they are still the second biggest party in the absence of any other solution they might stay on in government until another voting system and elections are organized and maybe ginty loney will be asked to continue as a caretaker in the meantime or and then they will work hopefully on a new electoral law that satisfies everybody and forces the formation of a majority would be with this lower percentage maybe thirty five percent it's also a setback for silvio berlusconi who had looked like being kingmaker in an

extraordinary political comeback but the biggest losers of all of the european union after a whole slew of election results in countries like austria the netherlands and france in recent months where the populace got close but will be sent back this is their breakthrough moments the result will be applauded most in capitals like budapest in warsaw where and see immigrants euro skeptic parties are already in power they will see this result in italy as their entry into the european mainstream all in all it's a deeply uncertain outcome for now italy is ungovernable barnsley al-jazeera rhode island speaks more about this not to go as a professor of political economy at the university of rome tor van got to his via skype from rome thank you very much for your time so your predictions what kind of government do you see merging in italy who do you see becoming the next prime minister. when we have very few chances for seeing clearly what's going to happen there might be the possibility that the two

are winning parties to leave and to find some tonight but this is very unlikely because the northern league now concentrates on becoming the first party of the right you know being that the right clearly shown who has the majority of votes goes to government and has the outside support of the losing a center left with a five star going to the opposition still complicated right of the the anti-establishment anti-politics five star movement has a big chunk of the vote but if they go into coalition with another party they break a promise they made to their base that they won't deal with any other political parties is it clear what the five star movement really stands for it i mean it's easy for them to say that they will clean up italian politics they'll get rid of crap quality and so on but they say what they would do instead what directions

they'll take the country. well let's first take home the very strong message for the markets that they're pretty clear they don't want out of the euro they have clarified that and that should reassure investors very much on the other hand if you look at who voted for them to my journey there are big got a plenty of votes from the south and the south has been hit very hard by your standards so i would expect them to push an agenda i would say even though i welcome agenda now of public investment in the south i asked for migration issues baier read the review and you thought it sounds going to be compared to countries like congo or poland the pressure that if any has decided all together to sustain these past years he's on comparable to the stance of hungary and poland so it is a tolerant attitude but that says we should control the flows and finally have it from europe which we haven't had in the past because title biggest some italian

papers have said today that italy is ungovernable we're talking about the third biggest economy in the eurozone here but it's quite a regular scenario for italian politics is it the end of the world you know for for italian dif they don't have a government in let's say a few weeks or a few months and it is it the end of the world as far as europe is concerned. we will have a government for sure we will be governed for sure. other countries like germany have seen our problems of governance like us i think that big issue here is absolutely not their government be it yes just several countries but the mission that we want to give to europe the policies that you request to stand for that are obviously for the moment wrong hands made people extremely unhappy so much i'm happy that they have generated revolutions a bad democratic ones and the rise of mags a fact these asked where i think these other countries should worry even more did

you tell any europe itself that must challenge its standardised model of what makes people happy and why what is the role of economic times. thank you very much for sharing your views with us here on the news great thank you for joining us say from rome let's bring in our social media producer natalie harding what is a conversation on nine. hundred eighty right what's definitely the largest conversation italy at the moment the main trending hash tag are italy election twenty eighteen or an italian. twenty eight team and hash tag italy is over party now most of the people online are very much not happy with the outcome of the election a user here tweeted saying i'm so sorry for my country i can't believe that italians did it again we are finally getting better and now what i voted against them i tried and i failed under it here says that we just had elections and the most voted parties are the ones against same sex marriage immigrants and vaccines think who

are for you move to italy she says then you have sorry here in italian tweeting saying let us realize that you have voted what is against civil unions and equality well done now we want to hear from you if you're in italy tell us what you think of what's going on in your country you can tweet us directly at hash tag a j. news grid or you can send us a what's up. telegram message with their number there on the screen thank you very much for that what challenges lie ahead for the next italian government on business program counting the cost has been taking a look at the economic issues the country is facing including a high national debt and one of the highest unemployment figures in the european union watch a report by clicking on the show's tab and then counting the cost on al-jazeera dot com now an al-jazeera investigation has revealed new evidence of sound eurabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain attempt to overthrow the government in one thousand nine hundred ninety six it includes interviews with coup leaders who conspired to remove share hammad been highly found funny the father of the current

emir of qatar who was the country's then leader investigation comes eight months into a blockade against. the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt the countries have accused qatar of supporting terrorism a claim qatar has strongly denied. they've done. a mock up of the whole countries that conspired against qatar in the coup attempt of one thousand nine hundred six are the same countries that were behind the attempt of two thousand and seventeen the actual military attempt at the time was in preparation for a military invasion. been a lot of reactions to this documentary on social media there have been especially in the region of the exclusive al-jazeera investigative documentary spark to social media conversation all across the arab gulf hundreds of thousands of tweets with the arabic hash tag what is hidden is greatest that's the name of the al-jazeera arabic program in which the documentary aired and has comments that with people

praising or either criticizing the documentary many others have been referring to the current diplomatic crisis in light of the film set to met here writing saying she's qatari must say she said whether it's one thousand nine hundred six or two thousand or twenty seventeen these countries have failed and failed again when will they realize they cannot break us then this user from kuwait saying with every development in the gulf crisis i say more positive that qatar is an innocent state facing all the accusations they are telling lies to make the qatari people change its perception of their government he says others think that the documentary is not relevant to the crisis years are here quoted saying that could tar is fully in its people by diverting attention from current crises we talk about two thousand and eleven and two thousand and seventeen why go back to one nine hundred ninety six now we also spoke to a citizen who was responding online about the backlash to this film

but. it is beyond imagination to behave like these and to feel the hate and be these ten just because of one documentary on al-jazeera. we want to know what you think especially if you're in one of the countries in the arab gulf you can tweet me directly at lee harvey and a.j. ear as always you can use our hash tag. and there's more in this on to terror exclusive documentary on our web site you can find out more about what was uncovered and interviews with the people with inside knowledge of the failed fascinating stuff on al-jazeera dot com time now for a look at the other stories making headlines around the world here's barbara starr in our london new center hi barbara. folly hello south korean envoys of met north korean leader kim jong un in pyongyang for the first time since he took power in two thousand and eleven south korean president when jay incensed five senior delegates in an attempt to establish dialogue between pyongyang and washington

relations a fall between the north and south this year but the u.s. says it will not begin talks until north korea takes steps to wind back its nuclear program. china is largely ceremonial parliament is poised to approve measures that will allow president paying to wield power indefinitely the move would reverse constitutional changes to prevent a repeat of the excesses of the cultural revolution adrian brown has won a from beijing where the national people's congress has opened its annual session tiananmen square has been the setting for some of the most defining moments in recent chinese history not all of them peaceful now a new political drama is unfolding this carefully choreographed gathering involves almost three thousand delegates and almost as many journalists like parliament the media in china is controlled by the party offering uniform coverage. the national

people's congress normally last for ten days but this year it's being extended by five days possibly to give delegates more time to discuss proposed changes to china's constitution which could mean she paying being president for life the issue is overshadowing this congress but most delegates we spoke to didn't want to talk about it i don't want to discuss it i asked them he said. and no comment from him either. party discipline though would ensure the amendment is passed that there until are those capable people should stay in their posts as low as possible to their decision is made by the party as a delegate i fully support it. the decisions made here will affect almost a fifth of humanity premier league chung presented his annual work report with his

boss seated just a few rows behind him he said the communist party not the country had faced an extremely complex environment both at home and abroad in his forty five page address he mentioned cheating ping eighteen times will be up to me to tell you that we were rarely even close around the party central committee was commerce xi jinping at his call hold high the banner of socialism with chinese characteristics and follow the guidelines xi jinping saw on socialism with chinese characteristics for a new era the premier presented a vision of a vibrant growing economy but in language often reminiscent of the maui era and there was one overriding message china will be great again so long as she jing pings at the helm adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. a new wave of revenge of muslims appear to have fled meum are for neighboring bangladesh in recent days this

mobile phone footage is said to show hundreds of people escaping the rakhine state at dawn on sunday the phone blogger says ranger homes inside myanmar were torched on saturday night nearly seven hundred thousand have fled since august report of reporting mass killings rape and torture by the military which me and maher denies puppa new guinea's been hit by a magnitude six tremor a week after after a deadly seven point five earthquake which killed at least fifty five people the mountainous southern highlands have been worse the feck did the remote region is about six hundred kilometers northwest of the capital port moresby one hundred fifty thousand people are still in desperate need of emergency supplies but landslides and damaged roads are hampering aid delivery the convicted killer known as carlos the jackal is back in court in paris over a grenade attack in one nine hundred seventy four that killed two people illiterate

minutes sanchez is appealing a life sentence that he was given last year he's already serving two life sentences for other attacks now sixty eight the venezuelan was once one of the world's most wanted criminals he carried out multiple attacks in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's in support of palestinian liberation before being captured in one nine hundred ninety four. and that's it for me for the news group now let's go back to falling in doha barbara thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next a story about one of the world's most polluted rivers millions of indonesians depend on its murky waters and the government has said it will finally clean it up and then later on the news grid u.s. president on trying benis really prime minister benjamin netanyahu are due to meet at the white house we'll tell you what's on the agenda to stay with.

her all over the weather is looking a little quieter across the middle east over the next few days still a little bit of cloud just rolling out of the black sea from turkey just pushed over towards the caspian sea even though too much wet weather to speak of as we go on through the next dial so there will be some sal as of right maybe some snow over the high ground into turkey pushing a little further east was through georgia edging towards armenia further south it's generally settled and sunny and more of that sunshine as we go on through wednesday twenty celsius in beirut that's not bad twenty seven the in baghdad meanwhile a little more cloud over towards took mine astonished but just down seven celsius the massy as we go on through the middle possible of the week warm sunshine meanwhile across the arabian peninsula thirty one so she's here in doha over the next couple of days that's a powder skis this gorgeous weather coming in for much of this week then so we are starting to look pretty good now if you try to across the western side of south africa we could do with the right of course into cape town the west whether bill

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morocco and iraq thank you very much for your company don't forget to connect with us one facebook live at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera on twitter our handle is at al-jazeera english and we're also on whatsapp or telegram across nine seven for final one triple one for. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson will be making his first trip to africa this week counterterrorism security and economic cooperation are expected to be high on his agenda and russia's top diplomat say gay lover of two will be in africa moscow has proposed a meeting between the two in ethiopia and let's take a closer look at the political implications of these visits rexx ellison's weeklong trip will include ethiopia bootie kenya chad and nigeria russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov will go to on golan namibia mozambique zimbabwe and ethiopia if you hope is the only nation both diplomats will visit the country as one of the fastest growing economies and its proximity to the middle east gives it strategic

importance africa was a big market for russian weapons and technology germ the cold war but after the collapse of communism interests in the continent waned russia wants to revive that relationship now the top u.s. exports to africa include machinery egg craft and vehicles worth more than eight billion dollars but in two thousand and nine china overtook the u.s. to become africa's biggest trading partner let's bring in ahmed adam now he is a research associate at the faculty of law and social science at university of london he is live from london thank you very much for being with us so what do you make of this simple tenuous russian and american charm offensive on africa. actually regarding if you did visit to a few key i think especially the united states of america the foreign minister i think visit is is about actually singling strong commitment to the relation between you not to set any still be as you know that the soup is

a very important country you know for the united states in terms of far counterterrorism effort that a theocracy is a very important player and also you know if son he wants actually to have to single that actually that but he has about a decent event which actually is built from the popular press it's protest actually in ethiopia because that continues right now actually witnessing a very critical kind of you know pretty quick crisis so that that one of the commitment to that kind of issue and i think that down to have certainly discussed you know the political you know situation and right to crisis with you know i mean it's still quite the structure in that country and i think that very very important it was that he got also to i mean i think also his visiting and because i showed that you know having like a meeting i should have thought of the economy. to discuss it quite a bit part in a ship and to advance our sort of trick during the cold war africa was one of the struggle areas if you will of the soviet union and the u.s.

how critical do you think the continent is today to washington and moscow. i think witnessing it i believe it or not the new era of the scramble for africa so africa right now has become like but to field of competition actually between all of this country is with. russia or so you're not you since you know on definitely the. i mean the russia i think wants to revive its long term relationship with south because it says it old soviet union because actually they need africa now they need new markets up today and they want to actually africa sure to be the center of their export especially after this you know kind of sanctions against russia you know sticky situation in a committee today shouldn't give it a bit with with with the with so that actually they look for africa as a new a particular to advance the economy and kind of course also i think russia i think also that

a good position also to to continue their you know i mean. some of the countries have symptoms of far you know some so loud that then you know that they are out of one of them in provide this or. the south african country i want to talk to you about the trumpet ministration and its policy towards africa at the time but ministration has had some of the rocky start when it comes to its relations with africa the african continent in fact it's still not clear what u.s. policy towards africa is right now do you think the u.s. is still welcome and respected in africa. i don't think so i think there is a deep mistrust actually between from a special term administration on african countries or african nations and let's not forget actually his you know latest meeting actually at the end of the general assembly meeting actually and knew it when he talked to them that you know i have a lot of friends once took wanted to come to africa to make money and it's the whole sing a song about you know from the many perspectives i'm committed to not about you

know kind of relationship between the two countries and also not forget i should he let us remind us very insulting remarks about the tours and some say that actually gets insulting africa might get old this kind of thing so i think with that there are sort of should have a look to do so that to you know to build the trust between the african countries and united says that's very important also africa to be understood do it's not a part of a. priority for this administration they don't they don't see that africa is a priority because right now that look important is another and this visit this in this very visit actually is very long overdue real time overdue kind of visit is supposed to be a long time ago so it's still that is i don't need to be done by the american administration i think and that should they really care about africa and they care about you know room to move kind of partnership but i think take them so i think they should have their own policy and twelve to coordinate so that to deal with this superpowers who are actually competing over there clinton and do they go to some sort of policy and strategy it's not just to be like i think teams for this

kind of you know competition iran really between these superposed and adam thank you so much for sharing your views and i thank you for joining us there from london . and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to meet u.s. president donald trump in washington in a few hours at the white house this is his first top during his four day trip to the u.s. and it's now had praise time sunni natural decision to recognize use them last year as israel's capital a praise it as a personal win and a major victory for israel the visit comes at a difficult time for the israeli prime minister was facing corruption allegations back home let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how kit kimberly what is on the agenda for prime minister netanyahu on this visit. well really fully there are two things that these two leaders are going to focus on when they meet here at the white house in about two hours time and it really comes down to iran and the stalled israeli peace process israeli palestinian peace process when it with respect to iran is certainly these two leaders are both keen on projecting

a common front there is shared concern about iran's presence in syria one both believe is a growing and concerning influence also there is concern about the iran nuclear deal to limit iran's nuclear program was struck by world powers in the united states in two thousand and fifteen which donald trump has said repeatedly he does not like is calling on european allies to fix as well there is also this issue of the stalled peace process certainly the decision by donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital has certainly hampered efforts and as from the position of the palestinians has made the u.s. no longer an honest broker in terms of helping to negotiate this calling on the other the international community to assist that is certainly something that's going to be talked about as well as the fact that this is a plan that has been very short on details despite the fact that the president's own son in law jared cushion or is supposed to be working on this he himself has

his own troubles not only a spotlight in terms of the russian vest a geisha but the fact that he has such a high level portfolio but has now lost his security clearance in order to do his job so certainly these are some of the issues that both leaders will be discussing and we will follow that visit and meeting with you. at the white house say in washington thank you for for now on tuesday the israeli prime minister sharon will speak at the annual conference of the american israel public affairs committee the three day apac summit is fed to discuss future u.s. policies on israel the american israeli public affairs committee is the most powerful and most influential pro israeli nobby group politicians across party lines including donald trump and his predecessor barack obama have. quoted this a fort in the past now one of the key agendas of the meeting this year includes opposing what they call iran's aggression and nuclear ambitions opposing the untied b.d.s. movement a palestinian international initiative that wants to end israel's illegal occupation through economic and cultural boycotts and supporting american financial

support for israel's security present trump as a ready accomplish one of apacs key demands in the past by recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital let's return to our senior political analyst. who is in london as we've said them i want a pack it seems has won one of its most important battles and that is getting the u.s. to recognize it you will see him as israel's capital how relevant is this group still today it's quite relevant especially when there is a republican oracle sort of if there were a white twingo or like donald trump in the white house and the fact that he has so many former aides and present aides who worked with him when he was a businessman in new york and they themselves like his son in law are radical zionists a thing or it all and all works really well and now we have this. try and go if you

will of that and you know trump and the israeli lobby in previous administrations like during the obama administration or even during the clinton and the bush senior administration sometimes the lobby was at the odds with the white house or even with the israeli prime ministers when they were more dovish than there is in a lobby because the israeli lobby over the years have went from basically little sons or to the rather call right it's interesting that you say that now and because these two leaders next now and trump are not solely the most popular in their countries right now and it's now is facing possible corruption indictment in israel in the us sean it's being investigated as an assertion is being investigated for alleged collusion with russia does that not matter when it comes to apac i mean will they continue to stand by them despite these various scandals surrounding that . this is a very important question and it goes to the heart of what the lobbies do in

washington who are there at present of course they back present herself organization that the presents wide american public especially jewish and non jewish public in america that sees america spins best interests as intertwined with israel although a number of commentators including jewish commented there is in the united states have insisted that a practice in fact is israel is lobby in america and it should be registered as a foreign agent as others do who lobby for foreign government but be that as it may the important thing about a pac is that it does not care about popularity it is not a grass movement even though it does have several thousand members what it cares about is power and it what it does best is pressure put additions not only in washington but also in their own home states and it does so through some serious

financial fundraising as well as political and media and activists pressure on these politicians through and through especially in the state level as well as in congress and also in the white house so really all in all as you said they're not even popular or they are not the most popular among american jews let alone among the american public in general because most for example most american jews today advocate two state solutions while prime minister netanyahu and president trump as well as it but is not are not committed to a state solution so really ought to know all they care very little about that the public think they care more about power and that way they are quite make a villian if i could use the word moron as always good to give you insight on this thank you very much for joining us there from london time not to go off the grade any is here with a story from west virginia in the u.s. the rate so in west for. new teachers are actually refusing to go to school because

they say they don't make enough money now as a result more than two hundred and seventy seven thousand students have been out of school for eight days now the decision to pay them more is in political gridlock though last week governor jim justice promised a five percent and crease for teachers the house of delegates supported it but the senate said that it was too much the senate offered a four percent raise and stead senator mitch mcconnell has suggested that any extra venue should go towards the state's health insurance program not to teacher because it's not what they're asking for it the teachers are still protesting. while the teachers near i just spent some time in the hallway because their point of politics with people's lives we are now until this gets to the people to serve with a living wage that person puts us a little closer to in this was the deal breaker west virginia governor jim justice

tweeted saying quote this wrangling needs to stop right now for crying out loud we're putting our children at risk i will not be a party to pitting our state employees against our teachers i strongly feel we are blessed to have both now west virginia high school teachers make an average of forty five thousand dollars a year in two thousand and sixteen only three states pay teachers less than that one of them is oklahoma and teachers there are not happy either the facebook page oklahoma teacher walkout the time is now are calling for the state's forty one thousand teachers to walk off the job as soon as april second the page has more than thirty seven thousand followers and growing right now we want to know what you think though do you think teachers should protest better pay if it means kids are not able to go to school let us know you can write me directly at lee harvey a.j. or use our hash tag their hash tag a.j. to get me a thank you the shape of water a fantasy about a mute woman and

a hybrid creature has won top honors including best picture at the academy awards but far from the annual glamour and glitz this year's ninetieth oscars ceremony was overshadowed by the private sexual misconduct scandals in the film industry from los angeles rob reynolds has more. thank you hollywood had more than awards on its mind at the ninetieth annual oscar ceremony host jimmy kimmel quickly brought up disgraced hollywood producer and accuse sexual predator harvey weinstein who was expelled from the academy last year the academy as you are no doubt aware took action last year to expel harvey weinstein from their ranks there are a lot of great nominees but harvey deserved it for both. the far reaching sexual harassment scandal in the growth of the need to end times up movements were on the minds of many finally saying time's up it's a new day in hollywood with new challenges ahead for all of us while those serious

issues overshadowed hollywood's big night to a certain extent the show as they say must go on and it did. and the oscar goes to. the shape of war. this may very well be the shape of water one of the best picture award to be the story of a love affair between a mute cleaning lady and a strange him didius creature at the center of a cold war weapons program it beat out stiff competition from get out ladybird and i toned yeah among other films. the shape of borders film director ki m.-o. del toro won the best director award. frances mcdormand won the best female actor award for her role as an angry and grieving mother in three billboards outside at the desert she asked all the women in the audience to stand and take up

a room thank you the room. as many predicted the best male actor nod went to gary oldman for his did it in polluter in performance as. instant churchill in the darkest hour. allison janney portrayal of an unlevel mother in i told you won her the best female supporting actor award. i did it all by myself. sam rockwell took hold the best male supporting actor oscar for playing a violent racist police officer who turns over a new lease in three billboards i like to thank the academy never thought i'd say those words the chilean transgender drama a fantastic woman won the best foreign language film oscar. and the audience pleasing cartoon poco one for best animated feature the biggest thank you of all to

the people of mexico coco would not exist without a show and lucy beautiful culture and tradition costume designer margaret olley woods big night is over but the movement against sexual harassment in the film industry continues to expand and grow stronger good night everybody robert oulds al-jazeera hollywood. and activism was also part of this year's oscar right there's always a little bit of politics involved in this you may remember the eight year old who is live tweeting from aleppo syria during the bombings and twenty sixteen well we're used to seeing her in war zones but on sunday the syrian refugee made her debut in hollywood and at the oscars no less we've been following banda since she was in aleppo posting videos of what life was like under barrel bombs. from i mean. she left aleppo at the end of two thousand and sixteen and moved to

assemble where she started writing a book called dear world even out of a war zone though she still posted videos like this asking for syrians for help for syrian children but on sunday her stage got a lot bigger. it's. there she is there is during this oscar nominated song stand up for something by under a day featuring common stood on stage with ten other activists she didn't say anything but her presence definitely started a twitter storm and not everyone was impressed by this some are still convinced by his messages during the bombing of aleppo were acting and were fake part of a scheme by the rebels to make the siege seem worse than it was tell here tweeted saying that bun i'll bet is at the oscars while congratulations queen of acting every one of your performances has been oscar worthy one man tweeted saying someone

earnestly tweeted bonna you haven't tweeted in some days are you ok all the while she was at the oscars he says others though like journalists goose three grafs fitzsimmons said he was simply amazed and bought to go she has the final word here she tweeted this picture with the caption saying tonight we must stand up for the children who are dying in syria a child is a child whether in america or syria we want to know what you think of her on screen debut in the a message. oris or hash tag get. thank you very much. hedwig . is accused of bending the rules when it comes to doping but if he didn't actually break them why does that matter in just a few minutes. thank

you with the sports factor thank you folly we're talking about doping again this time in cycling which is under the spotlight is off to a report by the u.k. government that claim that bradley wiggins and his team exploited an anti doping loophole to take prescribed drugs that in hans' performance the report claims that he was able to take a steroid before he won the twenty twelve tour de france it was to train his ass ma off to his team were given what's known as a therapeutic use exemption for it the system allows the athlete to take medication that would otherwise be prohibited to treat legitimate conditions well this is how wiccan's reacted to the reports claims he wrote on twitter i find it so sad people can be accused of things they have never done which are then regarded as facts i

strongly refute the claim that any drug was used without medical need i hope to have my say in the next few days while the report does acknowledge the what wakens and team sky did was within the rules of the world anti-doping agency it says they crossed an ethical line but the report didn't just look at cycling ticks was also mentioned on the committee said it was shocked that four time olympic champion mo farah had received an injection. of a legal supplement story before the twenty fourteen london marathon that the chief medical officer at the time had failed to record the report also strongly criticised said co the head of the international athletics federation it claims he provided misleading almost as to the questions on the scale of russian doping saying he may have known more about it and he revealed well lots of people have been all thinking that if what we can from far are being accused of is actually

within the legal limits then why does all of this matter pull here's what our sports correspondent lee wellings had to say. what we're dealing with here is effectively legitimized cheating nobody's going to get by and for anything nobody has technically broken any rules but this is a massive problem for all those that watch and enjoy sports want it to be clean want it to be people free does see very clearly as if what's happening here is the boundaries of being pushed and people are getting away with it the fallout has to be limited in terms of actual action remember the m.p.'s in britain that big power really is being i was a get things out into the open under parliamentary privilege though terms of actually doing something about it there's a limit there so what we're talking about here is very little damage and how far does that hurt someone like bradley wiggins or my fara who's been mentioned or indeed sebastian coe a slightly different issue with him that was more about the politics of how much

does it hurt that their reputation is being damaged when you consider just how poisoned the sport of cycling in athletics has been everyone has to live with suspicion but these accusations when you go into the detail are quite damning so these are men far and we consider being held up as heroes particularly around the london twenty twelve olympics in britain and beyond well now their reputations going to suffer a lot. let's take a look now at the social media reaction to this don wallace is an olympic silver medalist in swimming and he tweeted this he said large u.k. doping investigations coming to surface my far and bradley wiggins recurring names in the headlines time's up boys footballer ian evatt then added this so it finally comes to light the bradley wiggins was taking drugs it's about time to be honest when will everybody realize it's impossible to be the best in that sport without taking them as everyone is at it and cycling right to kill kelly said everyone

knows all teams are trying to push the limits but team sky purported to be something else they asked to be held to a higher standard now they are falling to their sword while the story of russian doping was a big hit at the oscars on sunday icarus the film which exposed the scandal and led to the country's olympic ban winning best documentary but it wasn't the only big sporting achievement at the academy awards. their best. even though billy's lead. former l.a. lakers star kobe bryant won an oscar in the animated short category for the deer basketball a poem he wrote off to render his twenty year career in twenty six dean he said after winning the oscar felt better than winning the n.b.a. . ok as a way share your thoughts of both using the hash tag eight

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