republicans in washington had a viable plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act which is obamacare and they just didn't and it turned out that the american public including. many of president trump's own supporters really don't want obamacare to be repealed and so he's now in this pickle where he's trying to essentially undermine the law in the hope that it will make it look worse over time and the people who are blamed president obama there's really not a lot of evidence that's happening in fact what's happening is that democratic and republican governors are trying their best to make the thing work despite the best efforts of president trump and many republicans in congress it's a very strange situation where the where the people who are actually running the government and running these programs really don't want them to succeed and it's very difficult for everyone else involved to try to make it work under those kinds of circumstances.

for a time for a quick check of the top stories here in al-jazeera at least eighty people have died in the second quake to hit in the nation and of lombok in a week the magnitude seven quake destroyed thousands of homes the government says hundreds of people have been injured. student protesters in bangladesh at the newborn the security forces will not allow the crowds to continue blocking the streets police have used tear gas on demonstrators in the capital dhaka but demanding better safety. has more from. the story goes that teenager ranging between fourteen eighteen and twenty one years old then that don't have an organized platform to mobilize so we don't know what will happen next few days are they going to be able to mobilize and come back in the street now the protests were not going to be just the social public safety issue but as well as why they were not facts remarkably why they fired rubber bullet at student demonstrators tear gas and where but not by ruling party man. six people have been

arrested after what venezuelan president nicolas maduro says was an assassination attempt on him it's alleged two drones exploded as he spoke at a military parade on saturday the opposition is warning that madeira may use the incident to further suppress his critics rival leaders in south sudan have signed a new power sharing agreement aimed at ending five years of war gives president south the care of his former deputy rick machar three months to form a transitional government a previous deal in twenty sixteen fell apart but the government says this part would collapse saudi arabia has frozen all new trade and investment transactions with canada accusing it of interference in the arrests of human rights activists canada's embassy in riyadh had expressed concerns about the detentions including that of women's rights activists. saudi state media says the canadian ambassador to riyadh has been given twenty four hours to leave the kingdom. israel's prime minister has defended the controversial new nation state law but is trying to reassure the druze community. during

a cabinet meeting binyamin netanyahu said the law was meant to protect israel its status as a jewish state on saturday the minority jewish community led a rally in tel aviv against the log online retail giant amazon has removed products with nazi or white supremacist symbols from its website advocacy groups and a u.s. politician complained to amazon after several items with the logos and imagery were found for sale online well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story of watching. will the druze remain loyal to the state of israel the arab speaking minority long

thought they're part of israel but the new nation state law says israel is a homeland for jewish people only the druze and other minorities are outraged and they fight the discrimination this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the new law declares israel is a homeland solely for jewish people non jewish minorities are understandably outraged including the druze minority tens of thousands rallied in tel aviv for one of their largest protests in recent history they say the new nation state law passed last month makes them second class citizens and after decades of loyalty to the israeli state they're disappointed at the discriminatory legislation which affects them and many other non jewish people the israeli cabinet met on sunday where prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say. the deep ties with the

jews and our commitment to them are also essential we will establish today a special ministerial committee that will advance those ties and these commitments and in parallel will also recognize those who serve in the israeli military and security services from all religions and ethnicities anderson ends reports from the village of beit jan in northern galilee. is from a minority excluded by israel in its nation state law she's a druze arab and her two sons were killed during military service for israel. she makes a promise. that. if this law doesn't change i will get your bodies exhumed from this military cemetery and bury you in your grandfather's. back home is her youngest son his brother's fuad who was eighteen and twenty three

year old sylar gave compulsory service in the military yeah i mean became a prison officer in israeli jail and he says that experience changed his perspective he became a human rights lawyer and activists for palestinians in the occupied west bank. i feel sad the blood of my brothers was shed and playing for a lie in an illusion they may have thought the military would give them rights but this law just proves that israel used them like mr aris. the druze are in all ranks for example major general chemical abu rukun is the new coordinator of operations in the occupied territories there is no public comment from him any soldier showing dissent is suspended. it was. we are the soldiers and officers not to get in the vault in this slope and to depend on us to refund his delegation but given the promise of a new law giving benefits to minorities in the military but back in bates jan and

elsewhere that isn't enough most feel nothing short of scrapping the nation state will. you could still sense the anger here despite political developments and questions about loyalty continue to reverberate one of them whether young people will still feel the same way about joining the israeli army about them this former soldiers loyalty is tested measure completed his military service before setting up a restaurant business now he doesn't want his son to become a soldier. it's up to him but now i say military service shouldn't be compulsory it's all a lie that we've been living for a long time in the nationality law made this very clear. bates gens dead soldiers make the feeling of betrayal him more potent more than sixteen names written in hebrew and below what now becomes an unofficial downgrades out of one of many

measures in what most people in this village believe is a racist look at. israel's population is just under nine million about seventy five percent are jews of all backgrounds twenty percent are arab of any religion other than jewish and five percent are defined as others the druze are an arab speaking minority of around one hundred thirty thousand people they form less than two percent of israel's population they practice an offshoot of islam and live mostly in villages in northern israel they are the only non jewish minority serving in the israeli army israeli government designates the druze as a distinct ethnic community separate from palestinian christians and muslims. all right let's bring in our panel joining us in west jerusalem ariel kahana diplomatic correspondent for israel heigho in tel aviv and on what a political science researcher at haifa university and also in west jerusalem mitchell barrak a former adviser to former president shimon peres and speechwriter for ariel sharon

welcome to you all mitchell i want to start with you based on what we heard today from prime minister netanyahu is there any reason to believe that he will back off from the stance he's taken all along here back off from from what sense as far as considering any changes to the law trying to cede to any of the demands of have been made by the druze community. i think this is just the start of the discussion i think that the government didn't realize that they were disenfranchising or almost insulting the gers community i think they didn't take it into account and i think they were a little bit surprised at the heated passion of the jews community to be included i mean they feel part and parcel of the state of israel as you showed in your segment they are fighting in the idea if they are dying in the i.d.f. just like anyone else and the israelis israel relies on that they are israeli in every manner of speaking so to not have some kind of dispensation or

special status in the law was hurtful to them i think this is a genuine protest on their part to be included and i think even the person who was pushing this stuff tali bennett from the jewish home party came out immediately afterward and say we have to make a an amendment to this law and they will fight hard and they know about israeli politics and they know about democracy and they will push it as far as they can go and rightfully so on just how betrayed is the druze community there feel by this nation state law will then reject these low thoughtfully and we are united the few the great food not at the inside own community as well as in these early society that support us why we reject this kind of low. discriminating against us and then bringing maybe in your reality where we might be a second class citizens in our country often seventy years ariel how blindsided was

prime minister netanyahu and his government by the size of this protest i mean this was tens of thousands of people in this was a very intense demonstration as well. well it was quite we get the restoration no doubt yet i'm not sure. all drew's community is united with this protest and law for example we have a minister is a government that you car which of course is supportive of the of the law and we have we can definitely hear the voices as you mean knows there wasn't a good negotiations last week between the leaders. with the government i'm not sure what's going to go maybe the negotiations will keep going this week so i'm not sure it's all that was going unities united behind this a protest and i may say it's least in my view. no pushing our political motivations you could see that into the restoration last night actually it was

needed by the opposition leaders by the labor party leaders and zero four we must know is that it's not it's not only a problems of the government has we said was in there is a problem that should be solved it's also politics elections are going to come in less than a year and all of that is part of the things we can feel on and you are listening to what area which is saying what's your response to his remarks about this playing out you know on the political stage at israel. well probably. not but then the rest of the square robin square in tel aviv everybody that came yesterday to the square could see a clear and sound that the jews are very much united in this rejection of this miserable low it cannot be accepted as well as the great other communities inside the israeli society maybe part of them are political yes it's all right we are coming we can be a sort of a two state that we the druze cannot accept that and it's our message now maybe

others have also other agendas it's part of this political discussion inside the zone a society we must remind that there one hundred years ago the deuce chose to be part of this establishment and to support the jewish people in their way to to establish their rare state and their homeland and we believe that we should do so and this alliance is very strong and later on this alliance was also based on the declaration of the state in forty eight where it's defined as a jewish and democratic state now yesterday we were afraid that the other part of this definition was spelled out and we cannot find the common ground of what kind of civilians we are going to continue to serve the state and to be together with the jewish people which i saw you nodding there you want to jump in and add

something. no i think i think you hear the genuine frustration and the genuine insult that the jews community feels i think it's a you know part of this is so you have to then take it a step further if the jews feel like they're not equal citizens well there's another twenty or twenty five percent of you know israelis of palestinian are israelis of arab descent who are muslim they are also equal citizens well the fact is is that in the law and in everything that the country is every citizen in israel is equal they all have a right to education to freedom of speech to democracy to voting and all of them can actually run for not only the knesset but for prime minister can service prime minister so on the one hand the language it's not clear what this law accomplished it did as as ariel was saying you know we are leading up to an election and the prime minister has done a very good job it seems of kind of polarizing the country polarizing before the

election and saying hey we represent the jewish jewish feeling of the state versus the people that want to define themselves as maybe israeli or european or democratic nation and we're going to go after the jewish side israel's jewish countries the jewish homeland and we have jewish laws and so forth and that's the main purpose versus everyone else so it's really just beating the drum of elections and he's done a very good job of getting this issue spoken about you know deflecting any other issues in government and certainly getting people defining the line in the middle of the country you're either with us as a jewish state or you're against us and that's how he's setting it up ariel the druze community has said for so long that they are among the most loyal groups to the state there so what does this do to that level of support. well i can tell you what what's going to happen with this blood ties that the jewish

people has and the state has a with it was it's for them to say but i do want to reply to what anon said before . independence the correction of israel do not go into democracy it's so we'll no mistake but. the independent inclusion of israel the david gergen on one hundred forty eight guarantees that israel is a jewish state it doesn't say democracy democracy is governed by the israeli system in for example as a human dignity and liberty law in maine the as a law by many a supreme court's decision during seventy years and so one but if the point is democracy then i wouldn't go to independence decoration because it's not a point but area if i can start a series i mean that given area rights to all poor minority area if i could just opt in for a second you're talking about equal rights but this basic law this gives only the

jews in israel the right to self-determination is a certainly you could see why there are groups there that would consider themselves to be seen as second class citizens and. so maybe that's a point let's let's separate between private people individuals and nationalities israel was established as a jewish state i think it's well accepted by the vast majority of israeli people by the way by the druze is an unsaid and of course upon by all of balls and nations of the world is a state israel should be what you have stated and that's a reason just a minute that's the reason ziska law was approved in the knesset two weeks ago to govern t. after seventy years also by the legislation that israel is a jewish state i would say a very very basic principle that until today just was was out of is a fairly low books ok that's

a reason it was it was approved in the knesset after many years of discussions two weeks ago all hours or rights like equal it the to all citizens to all people who live in israel including as a minority is of course including the druze ns the arabs as well all of that is government did as i said by other laws and by many decisions of the supreme court during the years and again one of the basic law which is equal to the nation state bill is it human rights human dignity and liberty law was a war that was approved in the knesset maybe it went to five years ago so the point is the quality it was going to be many years ago was a knesset did now is just to add. again is a very basic well recognized fake that is religious state but when it comes to private rights of all citizens of israel including the druze including the arabs including citizens who are against

a state of israel including its it is like the some of the our politicians who don't want israel to be greece don't steal the rights just like i have just like mick jagger and let me let me let me let me does governor let me step in here because i wanted to make a point michel same like you were going to be disagree with that point what do you want to say. no i mean what he says is correct that it was there are laws that guarantee that everyone is equal the point of the matter is why wasn't that mentioned in this law and you know the labor party which you know to be live in the is very in one of the leaders of that party came to the prime minister people said all you have to do is put in a line democratic just put in a line about everyone's equal and then you won't have sixty people supporting you.