eulogy demise or their bishops eve or those bishops or the majority of those bishops are slaves of their to come mr rejean there is no improvement and now there are things they and the talking about what. are they going to do with the thirty bishops in and around they're calling them to come up and did the bedouin say oh now we recognize the seven shops and you government recall nice our thirty bishops but i ask what do you mean that the government recognized the thirty. do they allow them to go on functioning as now in the end a ground in ability from the government you're in no and so they are invited to join b.

but you did association you feel so strongly about the vatican and the communist party jointly appointing bishops that you flew to rome to see the pope and to talk to him face to face just a few months ago what did you say to the pope as it does that's a think. ok to say the last word to the pope ok but the last word is not enough. i like to quote a hug a d n heroes ian he said sometimes formally verbal. seems that autonomy of the pope is respected. but practically you are giving the power into the hands of the government so if it's a government which choses the bishop and then through the bishops continent which

is fake the present name to the holy father and the holy father to say the last would a case sounds very good but what kind of last word hanky the pope can approve easily those names know all know and so he had to be told ok you can beat up but the other day we don't know if you see up to the companies to make under the name now how can good dame come from the common is what they know about the quality is required to be a bishop why did you feel compelled to go to rome to see the pope a few months ago why not just send him a letter or deliver a letter to one of his emissaries here in hong kong why did you feel the need to go to the vatican because it was the second time that this desperate bishop in china santo once you send a letter to the holy father because they told him to resign. to make place to the

illegitimate esko many take the bishop this bishop of they wanted to retire had he reached retirement age was he more than seventy five never in force that law in china don't talk about the age or the bishops are eighty or ninety is not a question of age he was asking for a successor for a long time they are not demean now to give the place of the is for many hated that's a problem it's not a question of of retirement it's a people who don't know the reality they may confusion. for a long time he adds to retire but now he feels to retire to get a place to live to excommunicated bishop i stand a priest to bring a letter not to the pope because he may not be able to but to to to to see the pope so today congress or even get a haitian tell him that please make a copy to them to the pope but i didn't know whether the letter which the pope

because my letters i cannot be sure if they reach the pub because he never answered the pope never answered the last my many letters he did answer a need even sign a. receipt maybe the pope didn't receive us or maybe. so i want you to know the real situation so i was doubting if my letters reached the holy father so now after christmas the second letter of that bishop came to me now up i thought i must absolutely make sure that the letter which it holy father the only way is that i go there and put into ends the sects so i took to the fly and went to rome is incredible it's incredible what did the pope say to you when you presented him with the lesser actually you see

that's at the end of a public audience so there is a queue of maybe ten bishops and i was the only so i was the first one to kiss the hand of the holy father the pope greeted me oh how is your health i didn't even answer his question i only his holy father i'm here just to bring you dissenter priest one time to read it then i went away. but then to my surprise in that up to no it was wednesday i received a call telling me that the pope is receiving you the evening of friday. so in my literature already father had a chance to look into the matter you know yes i told them or not to create under their case. what a fool answer because. he is so clear what would he say about so i was

so so happy and then i made also get a question i should prefer to have you received oh my lettuce you know what was the answer he didn't say yes it is a no said. i don't have a very clear impression. so what do you think about what what do you what you are going you not have a impatient of my lettuce they were so spicy monitors spicy in what way. i could any with holy father a making so many questions he maybe lost some sleep because of monitors so how could he say the impression so probably he did not receive this was a personally painful for you to challenge the pope because cardinals are supposed to be one hundred percent there to make sure saw also because imus and easier than

we are pep east's we are fanatic about the pope but now i'm not blaming the pope because as far as i know there is a variance between the pope and the people around him until the pope approves those things and make a senior church i don't believe that those things are coming for the pope so i have see some hope that the things may not. so you think the pope is being misinformed by his advisors. not completely aware inform. complicating misinform because the pope is so optimistic and now these people. are happy to encourage his optimism and without telling him all the bad things or the things that he may not like to do here. like the negative

things which happen in china which gives no foundation to any optimism what do you believe the pope's strategy is for china because to the vatican the china must surely represent the final frontier u.k. see the pope is going everywhere and bracing everybody. certain to say that many time you don't see much good effect for or that ever would happen cuba any improvement in cuba well the united states and cuba established diplomatic relations because the big church helped to bring about the downfall of communism in poland of value of the influence of the world makes only makes different things because they are sold different so different now i really i'm amazed what could the holy see do to put the united states and cuba together

i really can't understand they can reconcile only if they have interests if they both gain anything now is. surely not because of the the holy see the holy see cannot give anything cannot promise anything and the holy father to police two brothers. and i doubt even though they were converted by the pope. he didn't see much against oppression of the dissidents now. to captivate the goodwill of china the pope is abstaining from say anything against the chinese. but if the pope and she jingping eventually meet surely that's

a good thing isn't it rather than having the pope criticize china isn't it better for the pope and cheating to find some way working together i don't believe those things do you fear the pope is selling out underground catholics in china oh sure it's not easy money to to sell. anybody but if now we don't have any any direct information so we are completely in the dark but from the pieces. of things which leaked out from those information what we know and we suppose to happen now is really selling out of the church do you feel that you didn't must be you must believe that me a seventy years in china i mean spending six months a year in china for seven years meeting all kinds of government people all

kinds of bishops then you came have impression of how east a celebrity and the calmness which the communist party has trains they've lifted half a billion people out of poverty there is a growing middle class now and of people a wealthy who are what i have been ever before no no no the important thing for them is the party they just want to control everything they can give you what they like to give you now just an example of what is allowed by the law they can refuse you what is denied by the law they can grant you. what do you worry about if the vatican the stuff issues a representative office and version which is a possibility to use these days in a disaster. we are facing a disaster indeed of which

a church those bad elements those who really have no faith but they are just on the side of the government for their interests are those people now are happy because in these last ten years they did all sorts of things defiance to the holy see now they are will be rewarded the good people in the open church they must be very much disappointed because they feel betrayed yet because they are waiting for the holy see to give them courage but now the obvious you can do it in these years always encourage surrender everywhere so now that they just give up their hope now is to find a world with no agreement to stick and hope for

a change but none no change no use to legitimize asian of a wrong situation but but very probably many people from the integral become oh is this an issue do you think that could divide the church on a on a wider level outside of china i think many people in the universe are church may get a scanner lives it may lose their faith in the in the pope the the poor pope has so many critics already read this one and i'm a very salty. and very sorry thank you very much. thank you.

thank you love such a possibility for. me . and the. player base class should. go to. college. just. plug.

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counting the stronger growth forecasts the subsaharan africa but a big challenge is looming the world's second biggest aviation tradeshow takes off in the u.k. . three d. printed buildings are causing some. counting the cost. leaving syria at night through israel eight hundred members of the white helmets and their families flee across the occupied golan heights. a one hundred foot again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up attempting to return to normality gaza's markets a busy as a fragile cease fire holes. cleared of links to boko haram the children released

back into nigerian society. hoping to play go into the muslim minority in the philippines awaits a presidential order that could end of forty year. some of the white helmets volunteers who've rescued thousands of syrians over the years have left southern syria through the occupied golan heights israel's military gave safe passage to eight hundred of the syrian rescue team at their families after a un request around half of arrived in jordan from there they will be resettled in western countries including canada the u.k. and germany with me in the studio one couple and the director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies will be a lot of raised eyebrows over the fact that the israeli army was involved in this

rescue operation and the fact that the white helmets were given safe passage through the occupied golan heights what do you make of it well i think this is dated the regional and international efforts in order to bring the situation in syria and generally and in the southwestern part of the county in particular to where it was before two thousand and eleven. i think that is that it is the russians and the americans they are all trying to establish a presence the military presence of the city and the siege in autumn me. through the disengagement according to this this investment agreement which was actually reached. after the one nine hundred seventy three war between syria and the agreement actually allows a city in the regime to have its forces. like five kilometers away from the demarcation zone. that would also include according to the between the russians and the israelis pushing the iranians away from from the region and only allowing the

syrian regime into this area so this evacuation in my opinion is one part of that deal. we have seen over the past couple of these all saw the evacuation of some of the armed opposition groups towards the north of the country the next step and this will be. of the final show against the i say after leader to do group in this in this in this area with this deal has been brokered the it came to the evacuation came after a u.n. request israel open the golan heights to give safe passage through when exactly would this deal have been hammered out and i think my being is sparked off of the deal which was a teach between properly was reached between president from the us president and russian president vladimir putin at the helsinki summit the two leaders the decided

to focus mainly on the humanitarian aspect of the crisis. this seems to me that the president seems to have accepted already that the russians have won the war in syria and that assad will be remaining in power for the forseeable future and the focus right now would be mainly on the humanitarian aspect the evacuation of the white helmet is part of that we're going to see also the russians focusing behalves more in the next weeks and months on the one point seven. million syrian refugees to dear to their homes we have seen also that the french are trying to be part of that deal as well because we have seen that. the french are sending humanitarian aid to the east and which has come under the control of that in recent months so all in all we are seeing this sort of regional and international. force in order to focus mainly on the humanitarian rather than the spirit of the syrian crisis what

are we to make of israel's involvement here as you say it seems that america has accepted that president assad has won the war his forces now completely back in control of the of the southwest of the country right up against the golan heights but there are iranian backed forces that are helping his army out in that area how does israel feel about it. getting assurances and gotten teased by the russians that there will be no iranian elements. in this area i think the russians they have taken all of the quantum all of the key positions in the one heights especially the heights high lands in this in this area so i think that is somehow sending i mean some assurances or giving some assurances there is that i believe that the russians will be actually in control in this area but they on talk do still see a moment but he thinks it will militias loyal to iran have stopped a group of fifty five buses taking syrian rebels and their families to the country's north the buses were stopped and surrounded by fighters wearing military

style uniform near the city of homs a convoy left could pass over the agreement between the opposition and the syrian government to surrender positions in the south meanwhile france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern ghouta in syria the aid is being spent on a russian essential other one a russian plane the first time a western country has sent material to syrian government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces rita. eastern ghouta in april after a siege that lasted several years around half a million people live there but very little aid has made it in joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says that the french move opens the door for others to engage with the asad government small amount of aid but it indicates that france is willing to engage with russia and with us in order to supply aid. many policymakers

that said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no engagement with a side it will legitimize him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back iran they want to squeeze our side and bring about regime change hence big economic sanctions but this little feeler on the part of the french to engage with the russians and with assad and just a small amount of aid many people are going to be hoping that it's going to open the doors towards greater acceptance of the fact that assad has won and we've seen yes with you with trump's meeting with putin with the israelis telling the russians that they're willing to accept assad if if the russians can keep iran away from their border that increasingly the international powers are accepting the fact that assad has one and they're beginning to look for ways to help refugees were turn

they're worried that jordan and lebanon might blow it up the pressures are too great and stop big demonstrations in jordan demonstrations in iraq trade has to be started again between syria and iraq syria and jordan lebanon and the west desire to squeeze syria is really counterproductive today israel's defense minister has suggested that restrictions on gaza could be lifted if the truce holds every go lieberman says that israel will reopen the main commercial crossing and expand the fishing zone on tuesday as long as the cease fire remains in force funeral support held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday dozens of hamas positions were targeted after an israeli soldier was killed at least four palestinians died more now from charles started in gaza. the fragile cease fire here in gaza seems to be holding that no reports of any hammer. rockets being

launched or any of those incendiary kites or balloons being launched across the israeli border all eyes now on israel as to whether it will lift the temporary blockade on oil gas and cooking gas that was put on gaza as a result of last week's escalation in violence following protests last week also additional restrictions put on the area that fishermen can fish in from six kilometers sorry six nautical miles to three nautical miles we're hearing now that the israeli defense minister lieberman has announced that if the cease fire does hold then those new restrictions that will put on last week will be lifted in those vital materials that all gas and kookie gas will be allowed to come through and we understand also that that would include an expansion once wall to the very

restrictive area of six in the school miles for the fishermen it's operating but as i say this cease fire seems to be holding here and certainly the people in gaza very hopeful that that continues so those vital materials can come into gaza for boats loaded with aid are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says that it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters it will then hand over one of the boats to gaza fishing. more than a thousand jewish settlers have entered the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem triggering a standoff with muslim worshipers there marking a holiday which commemorates the destruction of the ancient jewish temples in jerusalem small confrontations have taken place over the last few hours leading to several arrests a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard. proactive open says that

a woman and child died when they were left stranded at the boat was deliberately destroyed. reports. of a desperate rush to save lives it's the moment to rescue workers the stranded migrates in the mediterranean a forty year old woman from cameroon is still alive but for another woman and a toddler it's too late. the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable aid group rock the vote open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of manslaughter the rescue team says libya's coast guard intercepted about one hundred sixty europe of bound migrants the two women and a toddler apparently refused to board the vessel as a result the rescuers allege the libyan coast guard abandoned the migrants and slashed their inflatable boat with a knife emotion. we have tonight at the court of palma damie orca the captain of

the three ideas for negligence and for reckless homicide and we are going to do the same with the captain of the libyan patrol which is a member of the libyan coast guard for negligence and for homicide on saturday the rescue boat arrived in the spanish island of new york with the now hospitalized my one woman and the two lifeless bodies they say politics came before she minutes hereon assistance the rescue group says it was denied proper help which made their four day journey across the mediterranean longer than needed. both italy and mata refused to let us disembark the copses on the ground they only wanted to take charge of the medical evaluation but they did not accept the bodies of the libyan coast guard denies the accusations it says it rescued one hundred sixty five migrants in that same area last week without leaving anyone on board but the rescue team insists this case has brought.