i still think that we're supposed to be doing that even though we're not for the fact that on my campaign i am one of my top four platform issues the separation of church and state and so when people come experience i don't want to rehab as i say need there let's not have any religion in the government let's work together on the . dems shari'a came up a lot in the documentary and serial pronouncing also the way i didn't realize it was a able to me pronounced they didn't even know what it. was not even a thing right so the idea that the industry takes a lot of words that sound foreign that average americans don't understand and they attach a negative connotation to it and that's what people take i mean we attended this march against syria that act for america planned last year in twenty eight cities and you had people out there with homemade signs screaming about shari'a and you know at the heart of it was you know they were on the receiving end of this messaging that comes from the islamophobia industry. doesn't it well i mean if i

may interject i'm definitely actions that i don't know about don't let me try to go through the the first is when we speak about government we cannot think of government as some entity that sits on its own if we believe in a government of the people by the people for the people when we speak of government it's very crucial that we understand we speak of people so who are the people in government who are the people that influence government or the people that lobby and pay for the campaigns of those who are in government that conversation is really what speaking the government ought to be about because it's not a given and it's not inherent that can change over time it depends on who's influencing the second point is when it comes to the street preachers in a way these are the least of my concerns their concerns they can be very dangerous but their point if you think of the islamic phobia industry as sort of an army of chess pieces they're the pawns the ones behind that line of pawns are the ones who we ought to be talking about is more dangerous they often get a pass in the media nobody talks about them or sort of family. as often and so

intensely as we ought to if we understood how influential and powerful we are on what the world is going through not just the muslim community in america likewise with the show at a second time when she goes to family needs there are so many more and the documentary touches the other books and reports and studies such that but it's not a debate it's not a narrative in mainstream american media yet not by a long shot but it needs to be if i can follow up so identifying some of the financier's behind the industry but you also have to look at the people who are in government you know jeff sessions is the u.s. attorney general he's received awards from the center for security policy mike tom peo is the secretary of state he's received awards from x. for america john bolton as the national security advisor he wrote the forward for pamela geller spoke these individuals who are very deeply connected with family gathered for anyone who hasn't seen the documentary yet it is a very important person in this yes she sort of came on to the scene in two thousand and nine with this term ground zero mosque it's shameful that we even use

it because that's not actually accurate but that's really where she sort of you know took hold of television networks and she was able to establish her message and establish her identity as sort of a leader in the islamophobia movement and that was a really key point in the history of this in the united states and that's what you had done before that you have to ask me and so on and so unless it was you just mentioned is that equivalent of getting an award and getting praise from a group it's not like the southern poverty law center identifies all of these as anti muslim hate groups and yes i mean they take they receive an award i mean on the congressional side if we're going to get into the politics more a lot of these individuals represent very safe districts and they're not afraid to associate themselves with fringe groups like act for america but yeah they're they're receiving an award in there i mean actually they pick them out there and they're all out there i never one picking up and saying thank you so much i think for me it's not their connections are so verifiable. it's

a fact they receive this award mike crapo sponsored a back for america legislation briefing on capitol hill he sponsored the room for them so that they could meet i mean these are real ways in which they work with the industry and benefit from the industry but when you hear about how systemic it is there then i wonder what you all of our panel makes of comments like this this is al abuse or who talks about how to combat how to tackle islam a phobia she says the leading cause of islam a phobia is ignorance if people spend the time to educate themselves about the islamic culture i believe we would see a significant change in negative stigma towards islam and muslims so you see a lot of people advocating for educating and combating stereotypes but then you have comments like this this is charlton walker who wrote in to al jazeera saying this is not islamophobia this is national security what do you make of the juxtaposition of those two comments because you you have people of many different camps in those two camps really this is where the bulk of my work which is trying

to explore how so much of the effort to fight this llama phobia has centered on explaining who limbs are to the west you know i teach these workshops and everyone in the audience that's where the islam is a religion of peace and then no one has heard about the material support for the u.s. but the u.s. has provided in devastating the country of yemen and i think that you know in the in the documentary there's this really there's this really provocative clip where a woman is saying you know she really wants us to cut heads off of people who want to talk about cutting heads are people we can talk about the code the alliance between the u.s. and the saudi government and i think when you start to have these conversations about geopolitics as opposed to understanding who muslims are you really start to begin to make some progress in deep bunking the very roots of islamophobia. that's right you you can't logic people out of a position that they were logic into and so you can't you can't try to convince them that the information they have is incorrect you have to be able to address it

in ways that they can understand and just explaining to them that muslims are nice and that you know we have some things in the koran that can be taken out of context just like you can have stuff in the bible that me taken out of context that doesn't resonate with people because they already believe that the bible is correct or that the bible is not correct but they don't understand the relevance so being able to take it to somewhere else that isn't about it's not really about fact base it's about having the human conversations it's about having discourse it's about not taking it personal so that you start becoming defensive and wanting to prove points that are so irrelevant to changing the dynamics that you've lost the battle date or there's a little it's employed again to distinguish between to be providers and the creators of. wizards. in the consumers i'm out on that i just played it because i think it

sums up what little talking about just self and you will evoke a very impressive degrees of very impressive resumes but what i feel it does come down to are everyday americans who are struggling with the misinformation that's flying at them so one of your constituents sat down with simon the correspondent his lama phobia inc and he almost had this family important question have a listen. their agenda is to infiltrate to get into our tix to get into churches to get into schools. how do we get to when we are not just vicious or people like me or you not worried about shari'a american. we're. how do we come to that point. and we get. we're not worried about should read.

to me that pause was so telling i didn't know how long she needed to pause before you could come up with an the answer before this film for this documentary. could you tell when that point might be in american history i don't know i mean i think the clip is powerful because you can tell she's thinking about it right this is not just some sort of knee jerk thing that she sang she's put a lot of thought into it obviously her sources for her research are somewhat questionable but it's something that gets her inside and she cares deeply about it it's very it's very evident on really trying to unpack in a head i know you want to say something but i'm just about to wrap up with seconds away from the end of the show but i wanted to check in with. how the conversation going down online first of all this from you tube live from elizabeth who says do you draw i hope you win we need intelligent people like you in government but this is another that kind of sums up what we're discussing lies and says the u.s. muslim communities are doing all they can it's up to the rest of us to stand up for them to say thank you to dan. for being with us let me just show you where you can

see islamophobia inc it is out is called investigation slash islam at the. and then you can watch it and they make your own decision and so watching everybody make and i will take. an international committee of. this partition. many have no say in the matter. the colonial power times of palestine. and what happens in one nine hundred forty eight are events that are still shaping the present. seventy years on al-jazeera towns the history of what palestinians call the catastrophe. and monday put it well on.

u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the you're. getting to the heart of the matter if well stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have told us would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera june on al-jazeera. with media trends constantly changing the listening post continues to analyze how the news is covered it's the most widely viewed sporting event on

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a gaza seaport where a boat carrying injured palestinians will attempt to break israel's naval blockade . launching al-jazeera life from the headquarters adel i'm dead you know again also ahead russia the u.s. and jordan agreed to meet on a deescalation cell in southern syria where tensions are high between the syrian army and rebel groups. france hosts libya's rival factions in an attempt to resolve its crisis we're live in paris. we begin with news from gaza where several rockets and shells were fired into israel but few landed after being intercepted by israel's iron dome defense system is really military says at least twenty five rockets were launched towards

communities in the south there have been no reports of injuries or damage also in gaza preparations are on to break israel's eleven year long naval blockade a boat carrying several passengers including patients and students is expected to set sail from the gaza port that is where bernard smith is joining us from to tell us whether the boats have already set sail and what is the ultimate aim here bernard. during the should set sail shortly that is the boat they're going to use it's a fishing boat has been modified to carry about eleven patients who need medical help and some students as well as a toilet on it they put plenty of water on it to carry it out to sea rides at the exit of the pole drives up there you can see a small seller of boats waiting to see them out of the hollow but they hope to try and break israel's naval blockade of gaza. it's extremely unlikely that the

israelis are going to allow them to do that the best that these guys can hope for is to at least highlight the fact that gaza is blockaded not just by land by israel but by you see a maritime blockade that stretches out the begins sixteen kilometers out into the mediterranean and how significant is that this is the first time we see boats leaving from gaza where in the past we've seen boats try to very obviously election playing a little bit further if they get that far out the best they can hope for is the israelis will try to stop them the israelis may intercept the boats they may try and turn them back this boat has been kept hidden under wraps essentially until today because in the last couple of weeks israel has destroyed a couple of other boats that were being prepared for a similar journey we understand so only just now as this boat been brought in in the last hour or so as you can see passengers getting ready to board it but as i

say everybody getting on board that boat knows that they're not going to get beyond israel's neighbors will say all right bernard smith giving us the update from the gaza port thank you all russia the u.s. and jordan have agreed to hold talks on syria's southern deescalation zone sometime in the near future the announcement comes as washington has warned a firmer measures needed to be put in place after several truce violations in the region the deescalation zone includes that. where rebel factions are preparing for a possible syrian government offensive the group say such an attack would compromise an area that is part of the deescalation zone agreements were reached chalons joining us from moscow what is russia saying about this meeting and why they are holding it now at this particular time. well they're talking about his meeting because of concerns that have come both from

united states sam from jordan that's the cease fire agreement that was reached between those three countries russia jordan and the united states last year might be about to fall apart and the reason why jordan and the united states feel it might be about to fall apart is indications from the syrian government military that they are about to essentially tear up this agreement's and launch an assault on the area down in the southwest of syria so last week governments leaflets were dropped over the area basically telling all the armed groups there to lay down their arms and effectively get out of the area or surrender so the united states responded to this basically saying that said any government offensive on this cease fire area would be met with a firm and an appropriate measure in response so the russians have basically been

saying that yes they are in bilateral contact at the moment with both jordan and with the united states and that they have agreed at some point in the future the sooner the better says the russian foreign ministry to have a trilateral meeting to try and reach some sort of further agreements on this ok rory chalons thank you. the leaders of libya's factions are to meet with the french president in paris for talks to end the seven euro political crisis the eastern based renegade general is there along with his rival the head of the un backed government in tripoli a prime minister faces a sort of libya has not had a stable government since the former leader moammar gadhafi was toppled in twenty eleven led to a power vacuum with no one all forty having full control and a myriad of armed groups carving their own spaces there are now two rival

governments flooding the country into east and west the one in tripoli is backed by the un while the other governments in the eastern city of to blue has been supported by the u.a.e. egypt and russia and they've been coordinating with the renegade general. who is the most powerful political figure in the east france to his supporters who have militarily by deploying advisers and special forces soldiers that's also butler joining us from paris covering the talks in a rainy paris i should say what is the ultimate aim here of the meeting and when does it actually get underway. when all the main participants have arrived here at the least say in the am says the french president is to try and in some way and be instability and political crisis that has plagued libya ever since twenty eleven and the fall of mohamed gadhafi now what he says is the way to do that is by getting libya's main rival

leaders around the table and he wants them to agree and we expected to see them sign a statement at the end of this meeting that would pave the way towards elections by the end of the year and several other issues including unifying the thankful bank and support for some sort of national army now held a similar meeting to the law at the time he invited the u.n. by. prime minister. also the renegade commander based in the east of libya khalifa haftar but it was deemed that that meeting was perhaps unrepresentative and therefore could not really fulfill any of the sort of commitments of a major in that meeting so that's why the french president has widened this meeting out he's included to all the problem of libyan leaders as well as representatives from the united nations major international organizations and their absence of some nineteen countries are all in some way linked to libya now the u.n. has had a process

a bit like this in place ever since last year but french diplomats are saying this isn't about trying to undermine that process but in fact trying to supporters and why is france taking such a prominent role in trying to end the libyan crisis. when there's no doubt. certainly taken an extremely prominent role in trying to end the libya crisis in many ways that is because whatever happens in libya affects the europe almost directly the instability and also the fact that it's libya is of course all of this migrant route from sub-saharan africa to european shores europeans have been very wary of more and more people arriving on their shores as something they want to stop him on or mark or is the sort of dynamic leader you might say you want to try and get things done so he's really tried to push for some sort of resolution to the crisis it is however fought with difficulty and if you

speak to and those they will say that there are some real problems say one is that trying to push for elections by the end of the year is simply unrealistic they also say that there are many factions libyan factions that are represented here and we already know that there are thirteen in eastern libya who have said that they don't agree with this meeting and therefore how on earth can you come to some sort of consensus on a country where not everyone is around the time. and finally these sort of peace agreements or all agreements to try and find a way out of the un passed have simply failed in the past and there is a certain amount of cynicism as to whether or not this one will be any different writes we will wait and see what happens the talks about their thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera a caretaker prime minister is appointed to head a technocrat government in italy but the country's political crisis deepens and find out why the u.s. chain starbucks has shut down thousands of its coffee shops.

hello there is now a bit of a boost in the strength of the showers throughout malaysia sudden philippines and back towards southern thailand but actually it's that is that i peping off of the monsoon trough that gives you a big white clouds to the west of tolerances through me and in the bay of bengal which means the showers elsewhere though quite significantly rather more scattered i'm used to like to get them in parts of borneo maybe in singapore but indonesia the picture particularly through bali i suspect and java is a mostly dry one so to the south where the season is the opposite and it settled in the trough so this way through new south wales having gone through victoria that usually means the sun will come out and be a few showers temperature wise forty in melbourne succeed in adelaide and perth for

a change and still warm twenty one degrees the wind out of the interior and in the sunshine and the cloud does increase after that otherwise it's not a particularly wet see the fact is fairly dry is rather nice looking picture of the winter i finished the land again the picture of a northerly breeze means it's what it was briefly forty degrees in oakland and bright even sunny by day all the rain to your west if you can see it so enjoy a couple of volume early winter days was surprisingly warm weather. in the next episode of earth royce clung to greenpeace crew on a voyage through the wood you'll see highlights the importance of protecting this fragile ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just t.v.

with live music so in the remotest pieces on and. on al-jazeera. talks or news on al-jazeera there's been what seems to be the biggest barrage of mortar shells fired on israel from gaza since the twenty fourteen war several rockets and shells were fired but most of them are interests up to by israel's iron dome defense system russia the u.s. and jordan have agreed to hold talks about syria's southern deescalation zone sometime in the near future the announcement comes as washington has warned of former measures needed to be put in place after several troops violations in the

region and the leaders of libya's factions are to meet with the french president in paris for talks to end the seven year political crisis the eastern based renegade general twenty five half that is there along with his rival the head of the u.n. backed government in tripoli prime minister of phases libya has been in a state of unrest and political instability since mama gadhafi was toppled in twenty eleven. it's the strongest indication yet a summit between the u.s. president donald trump and the north korea leader may still take place kim jong un's right hand man has been seen on his way to the u.s. kim jung il is the vice chairman of north. ruling workers' party and this and her thomas reports from seoul there's been plenty of movement to with other players involved. with just one flight daily from pyongyang to beijing shop light camera operators can watch and wait to see who steps off it's the man in the white shirt is kim yong stopping over in china before connecting on to

a flight to the united states on wednesday kim yong heads north korea's into korean relations department and he's essentially the north korean leader on denuclearization talks he came to the winter olympics closing ceremony in south korea in february that events was the catalyst for the positive into korean relations since earlier this month he was at kim jong un side when u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei o visited pyongyang last saturday he was in the room when the leaders of the two koreas met for that surprise summit that he's on his way now to the u.s. probably to meet pompei again bodes well for the trump kim jong un summit so to the ongoing talks between the u.s. and north korean delegations happening inside the demilitarized zone this was the u.s. team leaving the seoul hotel early on tuesday morning led by an experienced south korean born u.s. diplomat soon kim their focus will be on the issues that donald trump and kim jong un would discuss trying to move from the general to the specific the u.s.

delegation is staying in hair and so they drove an hour north and just across the border on sunday possibly again on monday it's thought that's where they were heading again on tuesday in a phone call on monday the u.s. president and japanese prime minister agreed to meet in person. we agreed to have a to pan us summit before the us north korea summit it's likely that will happen just before or after a g seven meeting in canada on the eighth of june like south korea's main. wants to ensure his concerns are addressed in any u.s. north korea summit not just exclusive to donald trump and al-jazeera so it's one of the greatest aviation mysteries and now it seems the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy will remain just that the malaysian government has announced that won't extend the current search for the aircraft which vanished in twenty four its promise to fully disclose the findings from the

final search but as the pollen reports from kuala lumpur many of the families of the passengers want to search for answers to continue. the search for m.h. three seventy has been an emotional journey for the families of the two hundred ninety eight people on board the plane when it disappeared. there was a passenger she has been following the investigation closely at one point she along with other relatives of m h three seventy passengers traveled to madagascar to look for debris from the aircraft the trip. like the numerous searches over the past four years it's definitely gone beyond it has become all about them keeping their promises it's about accountability and above all it is about prevention of something like this from happening again it is completely unacceptable that we have no idea how a plane vanished into thin air a three year long search by a stray chinese and malaysian investigators covering one hundred twenty thousand

square kilometers ended in january last year under pressure from the families of those on board the flight the malaysian government reopen the investigation twelve months later this time signing a seventy million dollar no find no fee deal with a u.s. exploration company. ocean infinity has been using one of the world's most advanced civilian survey vessels to scan more than eighty thousand square kilometers of the southern indian ocean but the mission has yet to reveal any significant clues the echo is now six thousand meters under underwater ok there are lots of earthquakes down there. lotsof a strong current movement and we don't know if it has broken up or soil so far if it has then we need to know what section has gone where. fourteen different nationalities were on board the boeing triple seven more than half of the passengers were from china. john hood still hopes to find out what happened to his mother who is traveling home to beijing he has written

a letter to my heart there mohamed urging malaysia's prime minister to pursue a long term search for songs here i firmly believe m h three seventy will be found in technology wise we see the efficiency has been raised almost ten times and in another three or four years it will be easier and cheaper and more efficient to do the search. the recently elected malaysian government side's budgetary constraints for its decision to stop looking for the plane the families of the m.h. three seventy passengers say the two hundred million dollars cost of the search so far doesn't even come up to the price tag of a brand new boeing triple seven. zero for the number two reuters journalists detained in myanmar have been back in court accused of possessing secret government papers while lone and so could face up to fourteen years in prison if convicted they were arrested while working on an investigation into the killing of muslims and rakhine states earlier a police officer revealed the journalists mobile phones were searched without

a warrant the men have been in custody since december. italy's president has appointed an interim prime minister it's a head a technocrat government carlow a former i.m.f. official has been tossed with that job his appointment comes after the president's veto derailed efforts by two populist parties to form a coalition government and a whole has more. political convulsions in italy meet the new prime minister designate not a political figure but a former international monetary fund official. i must underline that the government will maintain a neutrality a total neutrality with respect to the electoral debate. must now come up with a workable list of ministers but he's unlikely to survive a confidence vote in a parliament stacked against him so the new government will likely become a lame duck interim government until fresh elections in the autumn on the weekend

president sergio rejected the euro skeptic finance minister proposed by the five star movement northern league coalition dashing their hopes of becoming europe's first far right populist government. last night was the darkest hour in italy's democracy president chose to ignore his constitutional prerogatives and prevent from power political force the five star movement which received eleven million votes they've been calls for mass protests and the president's impeachment as head of state the latter seems constitutionally unlikely but it's a nasty turn that sets the scene for a potentially ugly standoff we are going to see throughout the next three. years and the overarching the people versus the. establishment that with the head of state for the first time becoming the main target of the entire campaign there's

also the economy to worry about italy's cost of borrowing is rising with the political uncertainty if the country's sky high debt were to become unserviceable then real crisis would arrive in the euro zone's third largest economy add to that a debate that will only grow louder perhaps angrier now about italy's membership of the eurozone as the nationalist northern league and anti. stablished meant a five star movement for an even bigger slice of the next electoral. carlow culture really did his best to calm the waters there. in the past few days tensions have increased on the financial markets you know that the spread has increased but the italian economy is still growing and the budget remains on to control i can assure you that a government run blocking me will guarantee a prudent handling of the public accounts. in italy political instability is a fact of life so they'll be little surprise about these twists and turns but no

less anxiety over the outcome. al-jazeera colombia's military says it's killed eleven dissident members of the former rebel group the fark in the country's south the defense minister says they have been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election the government's peace deal with the fark has been one of the main. bernardino perez salazar as a researcher of armed conflict and peace process at the catholic university of colombia he's disputing the government's claims about the operation against fark dissidents certainly there's a clear message from the government great that day after the first round of elections to deliver such a lethal. group which has not been clearly i don't if i am as a running start and they have been identified as being.

extortion threats but it's not very clear. what their identity is they may be but it's not. true that it was illegal you don't know if that was a military operation or.