doff with the russian air power on the seat in force as so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the cd in me to go to that is that's mean the hizbullah. is there old so the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. assad regime on control of the southeastern syria media reports from every train suggests troops are being withdrawn from the heavy militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed the peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war the eritrean embassy in itis of about reopened on monday n.b.c. opiah has appointed a new ambassador to eritrea. well still to come this half hour the e.u.

warns member countries and businesses to prepare for the worst in case britain crashes out next year without a deal. and they're part of the world's most famous football team but some of thailand's rescued boys still face the challenge of this. welcome back ice look at weather conditions across levant and western parts of asia rosa requires across this region at the moment yes it's hot but it's not a sox it has been and all there's a chance of a little bit of lifted dust i don't think it's any great problem we have got a few showers around the caucuses and on the southern side of the black sea but otherwise fine conditions finer on the eastern side of the mediterranean temperatures close to thirty five beirut through the next couple of days movie and down into the arabian peninsula temperatures in the low forty's for medina and

mecca as i have been for recent days here in doha you look at highs about forty four degrees we will find a small wind picking up after the weekend but until then winds lie and probably on saturday humidity is likely be quite high let's move down into southern portions of africa where it's a largely fine picture to see from the satellite imagery so we're looking at fine conditions for k ten there eighteen degrees and a fair amount of sunshine across the rest of the region not a great deal of change expect as we head on through into the start the weekend for central parts of africa it's looking pretty lively we've got some big showers around the gulf of guinea and those showers a stand a long way towards the west even wanted to thunderstorms i think over the course next twenty four hours likely to affect mauritania. the promise of peace in the middle east not. enough

but a new dilemma after the death of the man at the center of the palestinian struggle . now more than forty years after to stablish how far has the p.l.o. come to achieving its hopes and dreams concluding the turbulent story of the struggle for palestinian home. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. a comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera arab lawmakers in israel have angrily protested at the passing of a controversial bill which declares israel the nation state of the jewish people

critics say legalizes discrimination a palestinian protester as being killed by israeli forces in retaliation for flying burning heights across the border three others were injured and the syrian province of queen netra has continued to come under heavy bombardment from government forces this by the opposition agreed to evacuate. footage showing one of the french president's top security officers beating a student protester in may has triggered a fierce public backlash alexandra been was not on duty at the time but he was given permission to observe police operations so they go has the story from paris. was a violent attack on to protest is but the man isn't a police officer he's an example of an honor a former bodyguard and currently an aide to president mcconnell he was only given

permission to observe the may day protest topple hosp says he was there and filmed the incident. i didn't recognize him at the time i thought i was filming an example of police brutality so i feel his face looked like he was worried about being recognized. and even the guy who was beating up on the floor was in proximity to power may fall under the illusion that they actually wield it and what should have happened here is that mr bet a lot of it reported to the police shot he wasn't and that's left many opposition politicians saying that it is one role for those close to mr mcconnell and another rule for the rest. but not was suspended from jus t. for fifteen days but he was soon back working even accompanying the victorious french football team on the open top bus tour on monday the president has since been accused of a cover up he said little on the matter when asked by journalists on thursday really commenting that the french republic was steadfast. and.

leaving it instead to the prime minister to denounce banal as actions. that while he was authorized to observe he went beyond the status of the investigation will allow us to look at how and why this happened. the incident has so far reflected badly on president michael he has been careful about cultivating an image of a dynamic youthful leader but his detractors it is yet another example of a president growing increasingly out of touch with that image something i go out jazeera paris. the european commission has warned other e.u. states to prepare for the possibility of a no deal breck's it in case the u.k. government fails to negotiate an agreement both sides say they are making progress towards a deal but aren't there yet. well for more on this son joined in the studio by

jonah hala so what exactly is the european commission telling the east aides to do as a way of preparing for this what well they're looking forward perhaps to a more likely scenario than it was a few weeks ago or seems to them of a so-called no deal exit of britain from the european union that means no agreed legal infrastructure by which business will continue after the exit date nothing to cushion the sort of economic impact on both sides is a scenario that the sort of hard right of the conservative party think is ok everybody else seems to be united in thinking it's bill's economic disaster and the european commission warning about this just as the new brigs it minister goes off to meet the use negotiator michel barnier for the very first time after a big meltdown in the cabinet here after two reason may's plans were rejected by some senior ministers to maintain closer economic ties with the e.u. what the e.c. is now warning of is this no deal they're telling member states and business to

step up their preparations they're saying in the event of no deal they will be no transition period e.u. law will cease to apply to and in the u.k. that means border issues transport issues the movement of goods and people money and medicines data everything gets held up that's the scenario of a no deal and how likely is the no deal scenario as you said we've kind of seen three's a maze government it's like a meltdown of the past week ten days so is it becoming more likely that we'll well i think it's the events of the last two weeks or so that have brought this into particularly sharp focus now two weeks ago there appeared to be a unity of purpose within the cabinet here the e.u. responded quite positively to that michel barnier said i think we'll have a deal by tobar the parliaments can all go and vote on them before march next year since then two big resignations to resume a court fighting for her future between pro and pro remain members of the her own party it's all beginning to look

a bit shaky and i would say there is absolutely no clear certainty now that a deal will be arrived at. john hall thank you thing in the u.k. british detectives are reported to have identified those responsible for poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter the press association says police of obtain security camera video of suspects thought to be of russian planting a nerve agent said gania were poisoned with a nerve agent novacek insoles bre back in march the russian government has denied any involvement. spain has dropped its european arrest warrant for the former catalan president catalyst for them all to and five of his aides the judge made the decision after a german court agreed to extradite push to mold but only on the charge of the misuse of public funds and not on the more serious charge of rebellion the charges relate to catalonia as failed secession bid last october all six remain abroad but

will be detained if they return to spain like i was president of danielle if a guy is preparing to celebrate the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution which put him in charge of the country for the first time he ruled from one thousand nine hundred seventy nine for eleven years and then he returned to power in two thousand and seven but the celebrations have been overshadowed to say the least by three months of protests against him rights groups say at least two hundred eighty people have been killed in the unrest ready in a sanchez reports now from. thirty nine years ago. then to put side by side with the new law and other revolutionaries who toppled dictator and the. leaders of the sunday least the revolution the dreamed of a country free and democratic. he's now eighty two years old but in past is a staunch supporter of president that he has governed that i will for eleven

consecutive years in three presidential terms for your social projects food bonuses hospitals free health care that's the social economic and political transformation i fought for and that's what daniel was doing. inspired by ideals of social and economic justice by you was a young urban guerrilla fighter but now he says the son the nice does have taken away his greatest love his eighteen year old daughter if. she was arrested i'm frustrated because as young people we are dreamers idealists we dream that our country will be a paradise. but godless and all these families here are waiting for their children to be freed from jail human rights organizations say hundreds of people have been detained in the past three months of protest some of them are here at the prison and they could be charged to twenty years in prison under the new anti-terrorism

law. but biggest government says it is fighting terrorist groups that want to overthrow the democratically elected government. but rights defender says he's desperate or now that you know now that the july nineteenth celebration of the revolution is on i think he wants to show that he holds all the power with everyone celebrating him but he's desperate you know he's he's got everything against him. but for a revolutionary like him. and his government have been exemplary. i thought i was going to die in peace watching this triumphant revolution and thinking that if we were on the same path for ten more years would have immigrants coming here to work would be the envy of the region. but now we got our ones are in the deepest social and political crisis since the revolution uncertain of what will

come. and i just i just got out. a new report by the human rights group fortify rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officials in me a lot it says the government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against range of muslims which constitutes genocide the group says the plans were made months before a row hinge armed group attacked police stations last august sparking a military crackdown. four of the members of the thai football team rescued from a cave are stateless but they're not alone nearly seven hundred thousand people in thailand are stateless including one hundred fifty thousand children as though they are now treated as heroes by the authorities and war invited to appear on national t.v. they barely have rights in thailand said fasten explains of the

most northerly tip of thailand lies the hometown of the wild boars the football team trapped in a cave for eighteen days nothing more than a small river divides may cite from neighboring myanmar. like many other members of ethnic minorities in this border region for members of the team are stateless go check up all chant i want crossed into thailand to look for a better education after his parents from the shan minority died the twenty five year old is seen as the man who taught the boys how to survive in the cave. they all gave blessings at a local temple i am happy to be home i was finally able to sleep well last night despite a night of rest his future status is uncertain born in myanmar he doesn't qualify for thai citizenship which makes work and travel difficult nearly seven hundred thousand people in thailand are stateless including hundred fifty thousand children

an organisation who promotes education for people in the highlands visit schools in an effort to help kids such as me pro. i really want to tie citizenship because when i graduate i want to continue my education i want to get a job so i can send money for my siblings to go to school in myanmar i'm the eldest of seven children i want all of them to have an education like me. the plight of the stateless children is in the spotlight since a team's dramatic rescue. i was happy to say that the stateless boys weren't treated any differently to the others some people were suggesting they should have been taken out of the cave last choice tyo non taiwan all have the same human rights that's far from reality for most other stateless children many growing up without their parents for five in six months of you due to the fighting spirit of the sadist members and govt of the wild boars for buffy from an early age they

learned how to deal with hardship and survive in a country that doesn't officially accept them now many hold with the seventh change of status the chances improve the rewards of citizenship the local district chief says he has yet to receive the applications for citizenship and they will only be successful if they were born in thailand and have birth certificates so while the team spirit of the wild boars has become stronger after the cave ordeal some players won't have the same rights as their teammates any time soon step fastened al-jazeera may for a long north thailand. china's premier league channel has called for cancer medication to be made cheaper after the release of a low budget film which shines a spotlight on the issue dying to survive has been a huge box office hit as adrian brown reports now from beijing well this is a film that really struck a chord here in china and this is one of the many cinemas in beijing that is now

showing dying to survive some of us say that it's destined to become china's movie of the year it is based on the real life story of a chinese shopkeeper who imports drugs from india to sell at a profit to leukemia patients here in china who can't afford to buy those drugs in china at first he's in it for the money but gradually compassion creeps in as he realizes all the lives that could be saved so what impact has this film had on people who've seen it. i cried many times the feel me is very a list it is shows many problems about the medical care system in china. many ordinary people cannot afford expensive medicine i can feel there is desperation this is a sensitive subject because cancer it's estimated claims the lives of some four million people a year in china it is the country's biggest killer and some medical experts

attribute some of those cancers to the sort of pollution we have in beijing today pollution that also afflicts other towns and cities across china dying to survive has now caught the attention of china's premier league who has said more has to be done to improve treatment for cancer patients in china it is an acknowledgment that inequality exists in china's health care system the issue has now started a big debate online but for now the censors appear to be holding off. on the impact of fail can have on a country where you can get the latest let everything else you've been covering on our website al jazeera dot com. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israel has passed the controversial law that for the first time the clear is the country to be the nation state of the jewish people arab lawmakers angrily protested the passing of the bill it makes

hebrew the only official language and downgrades arabic to an ambiguous special status the palestine liberation organization says the law discriminates against israeli palestinians who make up twenty percent of the population of the. us has this law establishes a system of bought it can see palestinian people and implements a policy of ethnic cleansing against them in order to expel palestinians especially when this law provides that this land is for the jews and knowledge of historical facts about the existence of palestinians on this line. how massa has accepted an egyptian proposal to end its disputed with fatah it's not clear whether fat thighs also accepted the proposal which reportedly calls for the lifting of palestinian authority sanctions on the gaza strip meanwhile gaza's health ministry says one person has been killed in an attack by the israeli army on palestinians flying burning kites and balloons towards israel for nearly four months for testers in

gaza have been sending kites carrying petrol bombs over the border fence and that's this fight reports that the israeli army may be preparing for an offensive along the gaza strip if the cuts continue to be flown. syrian government planes are carrying out air strikes in the province of quneitra despite the opposition agreeing to surrender and evacuate the area has been the focus of an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days under the deal rebel fighters from are taking are being taken to live in the north and that investigation has been launched into one of the french president's top security officers after video emerged of him beating a student protester in may this mobile phone video appears to show alexander been not allowed dragging the protests or on the ground before hitting him in the head several times but out loud was not on duty at the time but he was given permission to observe police operations and when

a crime has not commented on the incident those are the headlines i'm going to have the al-jazeera news hour for you in less than half an hour coming up next inside story of a. israel legalizing apartheid and peace pass and your logic there in israel as a nation state of the jewish people israeli policy is denounced by the prime minister polls and historic moment for zionism as dangerous and racist what does the future hold for them and what will be the regional reaction this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. the controversial jewish nation state bill has been in the making for years facing strong opposition all the way despite excluding twenty percent of the population that's almost a million israelis palestinians and other minorities the bill was now really passed into law the new basic law defines israel as the nation state of the jewish people given them the soul to solve determination the law promotes and encourages jewish settlement as a national interest despite settlements in the occupied palestinian territories being illegal under international law and arabic is downgraded from being an official language hero is now the only one the law also reiterate jerusalem whole

and united as israel's capital stefana deca has more from west jerusalem i its official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became rule by though to sixty to fifty families with tips tensions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition arab members of the knesset say the new legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state. i don't know controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state

sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another controversy is the status of the arabic language the new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic from second. deputy attorney general says the law also allows the construction of synagogues and ritual balts but not mosques. the israeli president says the legislation could harm jewish people and israel's enemies could use it as a weapon protestors against the will march to tell of even saturday. israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism they are you know included i came today to say that the

arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law will discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinians say they see the move as legitimizing apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into stephanie decker al-jazeera. let's bring in our gas from tel aviv by skype emmanuelle number one lecturer in international relations of the television a versity from gaza is a. professor of political science at all as i university and from was to asylum is

jim hoffman chief political correspondent of the jerusalem post thank you all for joining us eman well the more defines the country as an exclusive feed jewish state netanyahu says this is a defining moment the policy and say this is apartheid regime and racism how do you respond to this first of all the world or not but it is as an exclusive no jewish the sunni second wave. below. translates into a wall the fact that israel is the nations of the jewish people five percent of the world's countries or nation states including twenty seven out of the twenty eight member of the european union and what the low debt is simply translated into neagle sure because unfortunately israel still does not have

a written constitution it only their basic was it has basic laws of the separation of powers it had basic laws on the protection of rights of individuals have minorities but it doesn't have a basic low only a get the country which most european countries do have so israel just completed its complete yes but you took in constant. communication on the matter where with all due respect you're talking about totoo totally different contexts here and now they have been referring to the european union by the e.u. something the policy an israeli conscious is something which is quite different. you've heard what it meant when of what has been saying basically which is this is not discrimination this is a legitimate is rarely right to do so. well let me start by saying we the palestinians do not really have a problem whatever it is where it would like to call itself without they want to call it the nation state of the jewish people or whatever they want to but as long

that infringes on the original price of the palestinian people who are the or original inhabitants of this land that's why the palestinians are calling this a bill as a racial and of racist legalisation by the state of israel and i could say this for a number of reasons first of all this new bill does not recognize the right of the art of palestinians in the state of israel in which constitute about twenty percent of the population of israel second. this building fairly to the other palestinians as none do is it even does not even recognize them as as a minority in the state of israel it refers to them as non jews and third this bill speaks about the right of any jew i mean where in the word to how the fight to come back to the state of israel live in the state of israel and without giving the right of the palestinian refugees even to come back to their own land a number of other violations we will talk in my sky i can go. with them back to

those things later. sure ok jill i mean you've seen the concerns voiced by the policy is basically they saying that the new basic law does not mention the right of equality to the policy as their language has been downgraded and they're facing more uncertainty about their future. well first of all the there are eighteen arabs in the israeli parliament right now and there are probably going to be just as many in the next parliament this bill doesn't change that. their language has not been downgraded it hasn't affected the language at all in fact i have the bill in front of me right now and it says that the arab language is going to be protected and regarding equality that already was say i'm sorry and didn't have to be in this fell it is saying that their language is going to be protected by the further into their language as

a special status languages instead of an official language that is a double speak here right in israel will continue to have. as the official language of israel as it's been for seventy years and now arabic received this. special status officially none of this was codify before basically israel had twelve basic laws before the talked about israel's democratic state this is the first basic law that will explain what it means to be a jewish state and there can be a jewish state there if there are fifty seven muslim states twenty two arab states there's nothing wrong with there being one jewish state now or trying to figure out what it is. usually basic laws and constitutions of the four inclusiveness not for segregation and this is i think one of the ideas that people are here talking about is that this basic law does not show any clear

indication that is there to reach out to the minorities in israel. and you've got to understand you spoke about the basic issue of the we know that the we know that israel does not have a constitution it is having a basic law which ultimately will become in shrine as a constitution in the new future. but that's what i'm trying to explain to you we have a series of basic while this one is one of we also have a basic law that is called human dignity and freedom that talks about the rights of minorities we had well already we have different basic law but until today we never had a basic law that spoke about the identity of the state as which is always always part of our constitution you know hoffman just mentioned a labor strike sample the french constitution in its second article says the french is the official language of the republic and article twenty seven of twenty five

sorry of the french don't recognise local dialects escort of the french national heritage but they're not official languages but this so this law has a specific purpose but it is added to all the basic laws some of which are total and protect the rights of minorities including the arab minority of israel was named which is recognized and protected who are equal citizens who sit in the problem and or. why do you think the law all has come into effect now what does this and yahoo gain from this of this particular moment. well i think this is first of all a very good question i believe that netanyahu is trying to make use of the. of the existence of a u.s. administration led by

a president don't know who is very much in support of israel and ignoring the right of the palestinian people and i believe also is fine is where it is also trying to make use of the. collapse of the so called out of vision of system as a result of the internet chaos in a number of out of countries like syria. yemen iraq libya and so forth and it also is where it is also trying to make use of the didn't divide among the palestinian people and at the fairly out of the palestinian being factions fighting and have asked to put an end to their internal divide and come up with. an initiative that will unify the palestinian people i believe that netanyahu is also trying to avoid the internal the interim and the internment problems that we all know that netanyahu and the right wing coalition in israel are. accused of corruption charges especially against the prime minister netanyahu and

his wife and i think netanyahu is trying to escape those corruption charges by portraying himself as a new king of israel by trying to pass this low which is as we spoke earlier does not even mention anything about the palestinian or the palestinian right of statehood let me just add one thing that i should have mentioned in the beginning that as i mentioned the palestinians do not really care what what israel is trying to do court itself but this should come as a final settlement between the palestinians and israelis ok so as long as as israel does not look ignores the right of the palestinian people to save the to diminish and statehood the palestinian will own was object to calling israel itself as the nation state of the jewish people. still worse trump a factor a key factor here in the implementation all the new law given the fact that he has moved the embassy embassy to jerusalem and number two has been saying that he's

there for the ultimate deal between these rallies on the policy is that because happen any time soon there was a report to that effect on israel radio yesterday that the reason why mitt decided to move this ball forward is exactly as the professor from gaza says because of donald trump that there were attempts to move very similar bill forward during the obama administration and the obama blocked it from happening it would threaten israel if it moved that bill forward i personally checked with several ministers and politicians that are close to it to me out last night when they were sitting there voting it had nothing better to do and then answer text messages from reporters at one o'clock in the morning and none of them could confirm it so i actually don't know if it's true even after checking with with six or seven people very close to the prime minister it it's also internal israeli politics at everything is global minute to meow has a reputation among some israelis as not being someone who gets things done this is

something you can point to and show these are not all talk emmanuelle. basic laws or can situations are usually an expression of a consensus within a nation you have the left the white the center coming together and crafting the shape of the future of a country in a constitution in israel is a different case we have a right wing governing coalition that pushes for lol but what about the other voices within israel. well let me explain to you that in a democracy. already that first of all it's really israel it's everywhere else and there was a majority in the knesset. or was. democracy is working out in the jordan valley many. if it's a regular lawyer can be overrun by the old in many countries which is often the case in israel but like in every country in the world laws are passed by

a majority and if it were to happen and. what would be next for the palestinians well first of all let me just respond to what mr to what eman when just mentioned that israel is a democracy and usually in democracies our nose and bills are passed by the majority but it made in mind to him that when the maginot he is in contradiction with international law and it's in contradiction with the universe something clinician of a human rights and that doesn't mean that a majority can pass laws which are and discrimination of the minority of it of its own people now what that will going back to question what what's next for the palestinians are odd little put to you this way are the palestinian people for the past seventy years have been under israeli occupation have been under is way to persecution and the continuation of palestinian struggle again is this is way to keep ition and this is where the siege against the gaza strip will continue the

palestinian people have no other choice but to continue their struggle to continue their fight against israel until it is very put an end to its occupation put an end to its admission against the palestinian people and allow the palestinians to live in peace and dignity as. much as the other missions over of the international community. should what is going to leave these rally palestinian conflict now after this new law. this lot of all of the fact israeli palestinian conflict at all whatsoever what's going to affect the israeli palestinian conflict is that very soon donald trump's administration is going to reveal a peace plan and israel has already said it would come to the table and talk about it if that house any leadership will decide to come to the table talk about it can help the palestinian people i hope they decide to come and not sit and wait for there to be a different government in america. where you've been talking about. israel as

a genuine democracy what we're buffel baffles me here is two things first of all when the law talks about jurors of them as a whole and united cup it's a law of. israel you know that this is this is something that israelis cannot decide this is up there for negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians two you seem to forget that these are conflicts which has been going on for quite some time between these rallies and the policy is and sometimes you will be able to set into still rules and till you tackle some of those issues with the people with whom you have some problems or are i mean if you are as your guest from gaza said there were. well let me start by saying that this new basic law in israel has created a lot of not just discussion a lot of division even within the state of israel let me just remind your of participants that this new law was just passed with only sixty two seats in the

israeli knesset which is made of one hundred twenty seats which is a very slim majority is speaking of democracy and majority of the one and second did that this in you know is our basic law is definitely in contradiction with international law it's in contradiction with the also the peace agreement that let me just remind. you will get a standard of yours that. the close with regard to the general salim as determine an undivided capital of the state of israel is in contradiction with the partition plan of nine hundred forty seven which basically are classified jerusalem under international pieces and also it isn't going through the kitchen with many united nations security council resolutions ok starting from resolution two forty two one thousand sixty seven and ending with the resolution two three three four which was

passed in december of two thousand and sixteen all of this u.n. security council resolutions classify josina as an occupied territory and that of israel has no right to declare that all of joe was in him is the eternal and undivided capital of israel jill don't you think that by pushing for a new law the israeli government puts president mahmoud abbas in such an uncomfortable situation where he might not be willing to move forward in any political talks in the near future. look abbas is under pressure from saudi arabia egypt and jordan and the united arab emirates to be coming to the negotiating table they had all those countries have been working closely with shared questioner on the plan and telling them you're not going to get what you received from a olmert ten years ago when he was the prime minister of israel and offered abbas one hundred percent of the west bank with land swaps and that's not going to happen

anymore and it really would serve abbas to come to the table he'd ten years from now that whatever palestinian leader they'll be won't get what he would get right now and he's not well could a very well be that will be chaos after he dies he's eighty three and has been chain smoking for sixty five years i hope for the good of the palestinian people that he will come to the table and talk to israel emmanuelle do you think the chances for peace deal between the israelis and the policy is of the it has nothing to do or is there israel's internal domestic legislation the question of he said all the question because this is a separate question we're talking about israeli legislation the conflict between your ovaries and go into going on for over a century there are many reasons for it in many failed attempts but that's a completely different question and these are non-issues thoughts that's that's the way you lead into things which i do respect but these are not totally separate things you know that they're not contentious. but ticket is the issue of the.

jerusalem the right of the return for the palestinians we refused and this is not something that one can decide on his own this is this explains why we're asking these questions israel is a sovereign territory and russia britain can she has a right to legislation this legislation contrary to what has been said during this program is perfectly ok it's perfectly. suitable tension national i does not contradict international law at all to define yourself as a nation state otherwise twenty seven members of the union already legal the. state this is ridiculous israel has the right to the final as a nation this perfectly compatible with international law and has nothing to do with the palestinian israeli policy or casey appoint him any less than thirty seconds who can from the palestinians in the near future come to the negotiating table negotiate a settlement knowing that us

a limb want to be part is to resume in particular want to be part of the of the palestinian state would let me say that the palestinians over the past are quarter of a century have made our big concessions with regard to making peace with israel with me just remind you of august on the viewers that the per the piano are accepted the two state solution in the p. and c. of the p.l.o. and nineteen eighty eight and one of the oslo agreement was signed in nineteen ninety three between the p.l.o. one is where are the unit president of the palestinian yes and if not is the right of israel to thank live in peace and security and its is one who is not willing to make the good the enough concessions. to move forward toward the fun to tease out and went with the promise we're running out of time i met up with a man when the phone chill hoffman thank you very much indeed for your time i for your contribution to the program looking forward to talking to you in the near future. thank you too for watching you can see the program again and its time by

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fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israeli snipers as they work to reform the top israeli diplomat called must people not palestinian we'll go to what's known over there the same thing that it does in the bay are sending them to die it's a cause coalitions and when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacking his son goes head to hate with daddy and what israel is doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter. al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes fury in the knesset as israel. passes

a new law defining the country as the national home of jewish people critics say. discrimination french president emanuel crawl under fire after one of his top aides is filmed hitting a protester airstrikes continue to rain down on syria's. rebels surrendering in another victory for president assad. with the sport including all the latest from the open golf tiger woods is chasing down the lead on his five to parents the tournament for three years plenty more later this hour. israel has passed the controversial law that for the first time the clear is the country to be the nation state of the jewish people it makes hebrew the only

official language downgrading our of a. special status now critics say the law marginalizes these really palestinian minority who make up twenty percent of the population stephanie decker reports now from west jerusalem. it's official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty families with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into a fascist state. the most controversial clause in the bill the provision call. for

jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another controversy is the status of the arabic language the new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic from second. deputy attorney general says the law also allows the construction of synagogues and ritual baths but not mosques. the israeli president says the legislation could harm jewish people and israel's enemies could use it as a weapon protestors against the all march through tel of eve on saturday oh my god oh i love him very slowly and one thousand of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is

a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism. i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior the nation state law will discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinians say they see the move as legitimizing apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into law stephanie decker al-jazeera. well senior political analyst marwan bashara joins me now to discuss this in more detail so critics will say that this institutionalizes discrimination

which in a sense we've seen this criminal nation against israeli palestinians for that cade's what changes with this law look for four decades now. been balancing idea of jewish and democratic. most of its critics would say you cannot be jewish and democratic when. been a good number of twenty percent or more are not jewish i think this law make sure that israel. defines itself more jewish and less democratic so i think at least that discussion that debate within the israeli parliament has been decided in favor of jewish war jewish less democratic and for many of the coalition members in the netanyahu government the boast about that you know who cares about democracy what we care about is what we are jewish we are in our historic home land etc etc what does the world say about israel and who cares what the world says about israel

you know that the world can complain but israel would do what is our needs to do now this might be good enough for you know the neo fascists if you will in the netanyahu government but for the fifty five other members of the israeli parliament for the majority of the jews in the united states elsewhere around the world for most of the liberal voices within within the the region and beyond of course is not acceptable that that jews in particular who suffered for many decades for many centuries from discrimination by the europeans and even by arabs and others because they were jewish autumn now. under the zionist ban they're discriminating against by the senate we will actually be speaking a little later in the program to have represented from one of the american jewish groups who like many others have come out against this law but what's been interesting is this law is obviously been talked about for a long time it's been tried to get through parliament before why do you think it managed it now. just

a word on the american jews and sense of worth i am of the opinion that this is not about abram and moses this is about netanyahu and from. what do seeing now happening the timing of it and the reasons behind it and the objective is trump netanyahu not moses and our brother it's not about judaism and jews it's about zionism and the neos version of zionism and why now because trump is president why now because the coalition government in this netanyahu government unlike the previous netanyahu government and the one before is more than ready to embrace this kind of a law before for example justice minister sic livni was against the law and hasn't two thousand and fifteen to the fourteenth it wouldn't pass the first reading now why is it important now of course can have a lot of objections by europeans european union all those people who support as we spoke before b.d.s.

you know the the the disinvestments and boycott and so on so forth campaign but what it wouldn't do it would in shrine emerge israeli control over all of jerusalem including the occupied east jerusalem it would in trying discrimination allow ministries and private sector to discriminate against palestinians and not warry about blowback especially from the supreme court within israel and it would allow for the expansion of the israeli colonial logic in the occupied west bank in preparation for whatever deal of the century we might come from the arts speaking about that potential deal of the century if it will or will not happen obviously a lot of people say well you need for that is a unified palestinian sides of fatah and hamas and actually in the past few hours we've heard that egypt seems to have brokered a deal between hamas and fatah now you and i have spoken many many times of a possible unification of these two groups what do you think of this particular deal. struck up a toss of a coin right that's how it's been like

a cousin or right i mean where there were the not within a fifty percent right that's the best you can say but an electrically speaking. i would sense that there is maybe more possibility for two reasons or maybe three reasons one is because those who are trying to sponsor those new course the egyptians have more interest now and i think supported by the united states and israel this time around before is around the onset were not happy about their consolation when for the us now they are and that's for the second reason and the second reason is that hamas is quite weakened in the gaza strip simply it's bankrupt financially all the kinds of support or kinds of help from the scene of thought at the from gulf states and from other sources is not as not forthcoming it's besieged it's bombarded it strangled and have a simply count of four to three i think maybe the egyptians might want to reconcile in support of the president trump and the deed of the century but for hamas and

fatah who both opposed the deal of the century i think now it is within their interest both as the main political factions in palestine to unite in order to confront the challenges that they will be fit facing sooner than later when the deal of this jury comes down hard on them and certain arab countries like egypt like saudi arabia will toe the palestinians as the crown prince of saudi arabia told american jews the parisians would have to accept their merican propositions or shut up the policies are not ready to shut up but they would might do hopefully they will unite. well as they say we'll have to wait and see while i'm a shout out for that thank you as marwan was mentioning how massa situation in the gaza strip is becoming ever more strenuous while gaza's health ministry now says

one person has been killed after the israeli army fired on palestinians flying burning kites and balloons across the border into israel protestors have been sending kites carrying petrol bombs over the border fence for nearly four months how mass is still protest is that they have every right to keep doing it and that's despite reports that the israeli army may be preparing for an offensive along the gaza strip if the kites continue to be flown child stratford has more now from gaza . the palestinian authorities are saying that the man that was killed in this attack by israel today was a twenty two year old man a member of the kasam brigades that's the armed wing of hamas at least three other people injured in that attack the israeli say they targeted the area because it was being used by protesters to launch these balloons carrying incendiary devices which have floated across the gaza fence and so israel says it burnt three thousand hate of land in the last four months now there are serious concerns of an escalation in

violence as we go forward into friday big protests have been called for by various different political factions here in gaza calling people to turn up on the borders tomorrow and continue these protests how mass basically says that these protesters have every right to continue protesting using what it describes as known violent means but certainly there is a lot of concern that israel may respond with what certainly the israeli media is reporting could well be a heavy military response the one media channel saying that the israeli government have given hamas a deadline to stop these balloon attacks and we understand that that deadline could end tomorrow. donald trump has tweeted that he's looking forward to a second meeting with russia's president vladimir putin the u.s. president was widely criticized for failing to confront putin over russian election

meddling during a summit on monday while the white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us.