did as alarming u.s. secretary of state might help what he called productive talks with north korean officials and singapore at the same time elite u.n. report suggested the north is continuing its nuclear and missile programs and evading u.n. sanctions by transferring oil from ship to ship while at sea and brazil's jailed former leader luisa has been nominated as the candidate for his workers party in october's presidential election lula is serving twelve years in prison for money laundering and corruption poll suggests he remains the most popular leader in brazil he says he was convicted to prevent him from running for office again those are the headlines coming up next a walls of shame belfast looks at northern ireland sectarian problems more news after that in about twenty five minutes.

in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in northern ireland. nearly a decade later al-jazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city . the film you're about to see was first broadcast in two thousand and seven. there's not been a lot to laugh about in northern ireland over the last forty years the old mantra

for god and our stuff has a new twist these days the fact that it's now possible to make a joke about it is a sign of the changing times in northern ireland. and yet in many respects belfast the capital of northern ireland remains a divided city the physical evidence is there for all to see. the modern history of northern ireland has been dominated by one thing the troubles . and bitter conflict both political and religious between those claiming to represent the predominantly catholic nationalist of those claiming to represent the mainly protestant unionists. broadly speaking the nationalists more so-called republicans want northern ireland to be unified with the republic of

ireland while the unionists wanted to remain part of the united kingdom along with england wales and. i think. the people of my community are. taking the problems to the theatre and you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people that are in marched on the streets i'm repeating off the streets and then the british army come in. there catholics and i says here actually had no basic human rights the had no full rights the had all those traits taken away from. us in nineteen ninety eight all the political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking three decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our a military group. after many false starts the assembly assumed its

full power in may two thousand and seven the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became first minister and deputy first minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge pressure surgery in very large particularly working three. kids going to school in different schools. scorning quarter century but it would just not mix. consequence of the rules in the movie the segregation divisions were there before the war and the

movies kind of fit into that and the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more. of a peace process and there was a conflict. segregation is a fact of life of life and over thirty five years of trouble. people aren't going to get over the very very quickly or very easily. the first of the so-called peace began the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate the warring communities in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. from then on they became common and complex today there are believed to be forty one deliberate barriers across belfast we estimate that about half of all the parents have either been there and you will have been explained. in some way.

and. most notorious burial was the one between the warring communities of protestant shanksville and catholic falls road the flashpoint of recent years has been the separates the short straw and isolated catholic enclave in east belfast from the surrounding area. in two thousand and two it was the scene of the worst riots in the city since the start of the peace process. a catholic lives with his family in the shadow. of the short strands war as vivid memories of what happened. there was spread.

on the smaller of short straw. and. it was called the tree of the particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was lord. jesus here will leave. the whole everyone. destroyed. our. children and students in both. the. ten. thousand people her. home and covered up. everything it was very dark going. to not use. lives with her family place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in during the troubles in two thousand today because. the other

people in here had children. and. the people next door. needed people to move in here that want to freed eleven here so i. and i moved in. she was at my head in the back and that was just and the ally over there. said their manual. talking to. the wall here between the two communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between two traditions to denominations where. them mentality still. they nearly killed us. what can we do the police don't stand up for us we did sandra people obey commands they attacked them back they

went home and now. they have to be shown that we are not by ourselves that other people are ready to come in and. they have a sense of insecurity they've had it for four hundred years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold there and they have got away with getting their own way. ten years from the. government has give give give them all the time. time they want to squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to get government with. the bitterness felt by the protestant majority. being compounded by the feeling that their own politicians have let them. be tribal leaders rather than

statesman above the their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the broader needs of the wider community is. the difficulty and as with and from your list areas or staunchly republican areas. they feel a sense of betrayal because. they were never sure of with republicans for example. and all of a sudden in a very short period of time. on the receiving side. in this modern. politics. a lot of our news here that is a step backwards. even today politicians in the new northern ireland assembly still look asian we seem locked into their old mindset. would go republican.

she represents the main republican party. the first republican. still exists between. the. future of. subscribe to.

it is this. raid through the streets of. belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration or provocation.

for the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in sixty ninety was at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. is very much a way of life a cultural expression of approaching. especially from the protestant community. it's a celebration of a battle which took place over three hundred years ago at the ball and. it's celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression for tornadoes. and something which is not on the label to american independence day to. the celebrations at the in france to the celebrations which we haven't see and many other countries where people celebrate their liberty. for staunch warless people know this i'm a libertarian about were against the catholic church this is going it's

a part of their cultural identity. for the wider unionist community i think it is. a symbol of the right down to bring a lot of strong as someone else made them it's a very. hot from a catholic perspective the drums on triumphalist gestures calculated to keep all wounds open. you have to understand where we're the only common out of a complex situation there are people here eleven and those areas that have been murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that it's insulting for them to have have to watch annoying. at a school bombers all fly less primal trees and since you know it's bad it's very hard for the state to take us. on both sides the postes is ever present. three centuries ago.

the. time has not been. officially the conflict. is over. many of the sectarian. victories over the six hundred sixty ninety.

one the hate symbols chiefly irish flags go up in flames. and. told. the pope. you will see a visible sign. and if straight. scottish but. not from a foreign country. the

symbolism doesn't always take the form of slide waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided. been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. conflict. but five years ago by the goals i was. well into the peace process they were trying to say was future generations. of the characters because i remember. funerals of palestinian young people killed in the west bank and at the funerals of a carry pictures of these people and i thought i would like to know who that person is what they represent why did they. take it and i think it's also transmitted into

. the spheres is young people young men young woman they ask the question why. a republican who has. time in the maze prison is now involved in the. protestant loyalist leaders. who in the past chronicled the troubles each on his own side of the walls come together to bring a new message to the city in a northern separation has generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities it's a remarkable act of collaboration and. that's when the possible. in years ago it just would not be now and i would never consider the notion ten or fifteen years will it's only been a lie possible to be me

a possible through the work of our people of the on the ground. as just carried on through miss out on the army which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society in my community the walls were used it was all the through the censorship what was there with them with a she's the one else. we focus on. the images you see in our walls reflected the feeling. within our communities. so we were too and we were vehicles for fear or anger or frustration is taking place within our unfortunately community the murals were used. by like different things. that were used to mark territory by groups and organizations through a fair channel rated by the political leadership of the tank. i believe that my community must an opportunity we're here also concerned. now the two men are determined to use the murals as a force for unity rather than division. mark and danny's hope is that their own

writings on the wall may dismantle those of the walls the virtual ones that have been erected over the decades. we met accidentally in the social many buyers and from the people holding people back and if those can be programmed that in my kids my grandkids can meet up with people from mars to move them and their fate in the sea and i got sick a chemist was so inspired as was his wall start to fall trying to change people's main sets because that's where the party or success than the making room. but for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we don't know but hopefully even a small part of the we can add something to it it's the hope that will make. we're not because we're friends first but let's try that lee was a little. but whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts

in the communities are still bent on division and the moment there's a decision waiting to be implemented to him to to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between two communities we need to get to a situation where there's no more barriers being built and not only that the idea of building the barrier is considered to be unacceptable. the lesson of northern ireland is the dismantling a wall is far harder than erecting it wars are indicative not just of division but of mistrust in belfast the day the walls come down is still a long way. they wanted to straight and made it all get it but they reacted in the process. i am not going to justify anything else i love my country i love my culture

a lot. just. the way i would do their heads as a tell you i was there before to measure what spirit shelf where. nearly a decade after this film first ad we returned to belfast to catch up with danny devaney he's still painting the city's walls so what is your focus on a shop well that's right across the arts there was no no the toilets were the are. you maybe having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist problem see a projection light up the straw. that the political work of danny and his nearest brethren have become world famous but some of their canvases. disappearing. in twenty sixteen the fast will began to come down here and the catholic republican

area of joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by twenty twenty three. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were here at the residence to feign see if we need to be in a certain space where they made secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was played up that's on the back of people's homes so what does sachs say i'm all what it was about this strike that the that more people at the minute just don't face the article. just got to. the people. when the. join is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many

to seek protection behind the walls but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's trouble. for the purpose of where they were first cheap. a lot of people are told the troubles will do when you work at your work look at. the profile the. walls of protection. but they really get your protection. all the sectarianism still exists the government is now attempting to give the city and new image. encouraging artists like danny to find new subjects for them. and then. they wanted too. he put aside office and he still collaborating with protestant miran asked mark i'm fine. always a stock. sound good rather than call the reimage in the should have called it

reinvention because really it's what they're trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really hop on here you know and as tommy says sort of sweep it on the carpet i don't enjoy talking about a mentoring quota or understand thoroughly what's there. as well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the community's aspirations for a peaceful future. if the murals are changed it is because the main set of the people and whose community. distances. today that painting from northern islands next generation. i think it's our foremost you need to be part of the solution we use and tell what is for us what they are to try and say it's our kids who struggle and politics can

solve when they come to us all through dialogue why choose similar. on counting the cost pakistan's new leader is facing some tough financial questions will be taking a look at the economic and human cost of extreme heat events plus china the u.s. and soybean economics counting the cost on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory with detailed

coverage what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world is taking things to a new level from around the world the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic power vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months. the middle east's most religiously diverse country you still have you going to just communities you don't have one vision for the future you have ninety nine divided along sectarian lines the confessional system in lebanon has destroyed the only good gritty real more and heavily influenced by regional allegiances and i was one prevailing over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that's if you kept following its first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of lebanon or not just zero.

zero. swear every. hello i'm maryam namazie and london here's a quick roundup of the top stories this hour tens of thousands of people in israel have been protesting against the controversial nation state law which defines israel is a jewish state and downgrades the arabic language this was the scene in tel aviv where people had been waving both israeli and druze flags critics say the new law tends israel's non jewish minorities into second class citizens andrew symonds was at the demonstration. it's rare to see demonstrations by the shrooms and these numbers are quite extraordinary it has to be said of one stage or being

square was absolutely packed with people not only the troops but also jewish people who.