he tell them. they tell the settlers that your few hundred million dollars man his strongest is stronger than him and his strength is stronger than i imagine. lead that man by his own is really strong he refuses hundred dollars and he needs couples thousands so why is this place so important. you know about me i believe is my land so i don't need to sell it like for example you believe your land is just house but i believe my land is home life love. spirit everything's maybe maybe you could sell it and buy lots beter than this house but you could not. buy any kind of happiness if you have billions you know having a school doesn't close by money. is just. as

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i grew up in jerusalem to the second intifada with the bomb the. people i guess on both sides always look for excuses to go on with current conditions. most israelis never stepped in the west bank most israelis never. even for an argument. he never said down for a coffee most israelis have no idea what's going on on behalf of. twenty five minutes from their house. so when you don't have any idea of what's going on how can you resist can you support it or not supported can you be against it. i think i don't i don't think people don't care i think people have no idea. so my i grew up my parents' house in jerusalem was on a road called better world the world next to. me these have been real matter from

world leads to. pretty much in hebron road after about forty minutes forty five minutes you actually get to hebron. bring much the historical world changing. and i've never been to bethlehem i've never been to hebron until the army always i always tell that when i was fifteen during the second intifada it was my school was in jerusalem i think it was milano. city invited palestinians from better and palestinians from jerusalem for like a week vacation in milan or rest from all the violence and stuff which is very nice it was so stupid for me because i had to go to orlando to meet children at losing bethlehem action fifteen twenty minutes from my house so i think it just shows how the occupation is so close but you have no idea what's going on.

the checkpoint to know. it's one aspect of it's still prevention of movement that's the thing. is that people cannot go and open open their shops because of security reasons people don't leave you defiles anymore because. it's almost impossible to leave because of settlers violence either because they can be true fuz or do the street below there would be just schools he almost impossible to get through with a car with which if you leave. teaching so of course the checkpoints are a horrible thing but it's just one aspect of a much more bigger picture which is these really controlling what used to be deceased said to her brother like you have been the you don't need to be mean to palestinians but you prevent them from going out of the front door to step on a street they're not allowed to go because you're palestinians. you're from one of the. of the dives i think i really feel the most ashamed was when

a palestinian kid like decide came to me asking for some food and they gave him like few candies they had and then afterwards i felt ashamed you know what am i supposedly. social worker no they're into giving food and then will the rest is there that in a few hours what kind of logic is. the magically up an awful lot of between him and him fish mischa should go to bed. hostile image and cool whole thing with flood on solid belly. give people a should get out of a job one of his formative years with moral. agency has a terrible scene because the minimum mass in which it will ensue. will into good don't kill you can fall and had i'm still very young in the midst of the victims of

a small business. one has a has. been one of the midst of a you reckon but the people i know with a remarkable soul took of the love for the will of the. smith one hundred for a million or more and then he would fade anathema to sunny mark most of us are you know solution of this you ma'am i thought enough of the above and a bit of. a hilly place your own business. no plumbing. on. it it's a hell of course are not. chilling but. oh there's also the yanni. show listen. i had a lot of aplomb feeling sure an add on mr shelley or civil of their additional additional the silent was not i thought it was a lot of incident in july but that's the build up here political will and the most

commonly but that's really been this way you could see the secrets of a gentle way down in the sun and the star we learn. from the norm are the only one of us to your knowledge of fusion killers it was just what i took at anonyma one time unknown but lot have to have the kind of it we're sure vision dunno yet you want to tell us ok. give us had a foot of the day and just certainly said they missed michelle i shoulda b. what took a nice to be a slut all my life no yeah yeah but honestly in new delhi concedes but this is something the rebbe dreads john along with and so barbecue what is your name the also a lot of the albums that's been so i thought well this is well ok. oh

come on we're just. on the. phone that guy. down. this. alley or. village this is a good boy or had the desire to close the shop good because he thought he made. the bomb in the bottom of the filthy little he got it and go blow up the buddha to do with it imus said because i did was

a little south of the you can see in the myth that. they could only. really have a good start to fail to judge in the. beginning to this only seven want to come and. leave this.

looks of things. in arabic is called. why is what is. means the beloved of allah. they were referring to abraham to abraham. in the islamic tradition abraham is called ibrahim the beloved of allah so according to islamic tradition abraham is also buried in the tomb of the patriarchs and hence that what we call in the jewish tradition the tomb of the patriarchs of. the cave of my fella. in arabic is called. the abrahamic mosque is that it's the longest standing holy place in the jewish religion here we had the temple of jerusalem but the temples were destroyed the walls that we see down were just the outer retaining walls but

the tomb of the patriarchs was never destroyed the building that we see now was added on to so this is what makes it very important for the jewish faith and also the love that islam has for the prophets of the bible are also mentioned in the koran so hence the profits that are buried in the tomb of the patriarchs make it as well a holy place for islam because abraham in fact is abraham for muslims is considered the father of the islamic faith the the first one to testify and the oneness of god the father of monotheism. so the irony is that here we are in jerusalem and also in hebron which is considered a sister city to jerusalem. the children of abraham jews and muslims israelis and palestinians locked in conflict over the same holy land the same holy

cities of jerusalem and hebron and particularly over the same holy sites the temple mount in jerusalem and that the tomb of the patriarchs and yet it has such a symbol and possibility to be a place of peace because it's the tomb of the patriarchs is the only active mosque and active synagogue in the world that i know of except for maybe the the tomb of the prophet samuel also is an active mosque in the center but it's the same time but yet there's this division when you go in the building there between a jewish entrance and a muslim entrance. or

. after there is anything close to the story you could call it in the manner you think you know he's. going. to be crazy to be. he by then i think. when you are last thought i was you know i was going to. talk that you know there used to be able to gather here and with that we will have to go to this area and we're hopeful that this will come back again to live peacefully together and that you're very we have to leave this to come. yeah let us say. no wrong. but we have good relations with the two of you having.

well like. and who are offers i think. yeah. i think i think it would be good hundred one million dollars and i know you have various listeners best of all you. i think they should sit down with lawyers for life but that is often not on the guy to let you know before you let the you'll let slip because. they can then one thousand and one when i got nobody i got the stuff the one thing you can tell me in this house. well we got a lot on that but i got up like you got that and if you. think anything about going . there was no money for me i have it but i don't think. it's out of the shopping this lawyer which i would hope that i mean you both of us thought he sent

a message that he had a cold lock of his job and falsely you got a shove off and he quit from you. and those of his age who have peace and to make the hobbit well that's about as much. love as themself and that you should show and you should have an opinion with my view or go back and this is my hope that i would just open the. checkpoints. you have to look love yeah. well i didn't get to get called out it's not like i'm sure why you felt if you don't come up and this isn't i think of it my message. to people here in this in these. this is the man. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the

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director of human rights program at the american civil liberties union he says john bolton has long opposed the existence of the i.c.c. . now he has a chance under trump do not only to shut down the investigation as united states but also to undermine the credibility of the i.c.c. as one of the foremost and the most important judicial bodies that is in charge of fighting impunity and i think this is really important this is part and parcel of a general policy of the u.s. in particular under trump to deny any for injuries diction with regard to u.s. work crimes or crimes against humanity. thousands of people have been displaced within syria's province in the last week alone due to an increase in the number of as strikes against president is calling on international community to take action to stop the russian and syrian government attacks. eighteen people have been killed in central nigeria after a gas depo exploded it happened in the other camps of nasr our state more than

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you. what changed for me very dramatically and how i see israel is without the star and

occupation the conflict was me being there me being there as a soldier me being a part of you know of the depression of palestinian me being a part of the occupation as an act of war so for me with changed it was what i did as a soldier so i was just like the most regular soldier i was in a commander and fain. would have been there for staying in february fourth and fifth and since two thousand and eight for about five six months and been some just shifts patrols guarding to you know rests at night going to people's houses ballast kenyans else we would call making our presence felt and they gave the armies and. as long as we control a civilian population those people doesn't want to be controlled we need to remind them that we are here so that means you go into people's houses in the middle of the night random house is the most regular people and you just show you. prisons it

means you go you do a search maybe you interrogate people you can even take pictures of people who would be frightened. for everything we did and they'd used to show that your dear i never liked it i think most people don't enjoy it. with stuart think most problematic thing that happens to you as a soldier but as a human being is that you get used to it i mean after a while you stop caring about palestinian stop caring about settlers you stop caring about israel don't think you care about is going back to sleep. and you know you're shifts are like six hours every day twice a day. that you have to guard. and the need for seventeen days then you get back home for a few days to. multiplied by six months you get very very numb from what's going on so you don't really care about palestinians you don't like it i didn't like it but you just don't care about them you know way they're not human beings you know

they're just another thing in your job. we went into one of them like a neighborhood and palestinian neighbors who. started mapping the house you always go into people's houses that can know for absolutely sure did they are not involved in any kind of terror resume attacked soldier that that the israelis. once we went into the house before that my officer told me bring your camera with you he tells me start taking pictures of people these portraits of people who want to put it together with everything we will so we pass it on to the show about intelligence security forces and so on. so i'm starting to keep pictures of palestinian the two o'clock three or four o'clock at night about twenty twenty five pictures at the end of the night. you know when the story starts now in a way because a day in the next day afterwards i expect that someone will come in to us from what

i've. it is a very important intelligence material no one does that one asks anything and go back to my officers again the next day after tell them guys which ones have all but don't worry someone will come and wait another month at the end i just embrace the pictures in a found out that my officer just threw everything everything you wrote down and it took me a very long time to understand. the idea and were told this by our commanders by the officers they gave no just taking the picture is just writing the things known because no one ever wants to hold them away the idea is to make our presence felt we don't really care about their health more than we care about their neighbors they will start asking questions are they collaborators does it mean that the extent someone's going to mess up my house is there a big operation going on in there it's you know every night every day three times a week it doesn't matter but every unit that comes will do it all over again so

affirmatively can be visited twice a year because no one really needs the security aspects because they do is to show them the twee we're here we want to control you don't want to control we want to stay if you remember us. and you can. go. you know. google. google. google. if. you see those. over. the. me you need to be.

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never sure what to give. you for. that only if. i'm lucky. it's not really anything during. the summer. those are the sellers at the end of out all of the iowa scenario because yeah i saw. the house and got to hear how all of this is the reality of this or especially. not only. here but i'll tell you i don't know yet. and i'm shocked i don't follow. up i'll call it a one mile lane compassion fatigue as i'm a hockey fan for sure and as much as you thought i was a little more shallow well luckily for the you will have a tough job. but do tell us look ahead of us maybe there.

was a west ham sandwich as if they don't know you know when heston routinely is. smart they're going to miami the duma but then so is she the most luck to shove a philistine digital console we she can easily she and i have easily of will see a little eloy but the lives of the lucky one in the here and so we see again who was really enjoying this will surely she wanted to confront the loo rather early in the celebration szabo if he would leave it with the police able to look at it always will sort out a regular would do the sort who because they were hunted because they were surely most shocked. was. a chance you could the ballots isn't enough i mean what about for all i see one of them a little bit of this isn't. going to get much out of another dio in a saloon more to myself. and i don't know who does anything this or.

yellowhead these guys guys that's but the world would know what a lot of the state of the shareholders. are spoiled by almost all of really good. oh. that's going to have me all. a little less emotional than some of. those of snobbism never jubilant because i think my humanity back this morning was me your heart is i. think jennifer. i did have it with you and all of that from the hood but you didn't need this because i'm a lifelong you know not only whether the. clothes always looks good but i know you have to go to the.

most just most it's because it's nothing more than what i want to be beneficial to . and the kids honestly it's going to be going on for you and have for must be going to be no longer a shock we know that when the funds from the state when you move. from austin in houston have been going on that we have with them each group including mr low i do my usually it's a mix of clips from the because i'm jealous i would really go below that saying they're going this year open this is it then you know you're going to have any hope with the war that there are no could. have been in the military can get them on the bus or the summer off when the going to school with a little sore but a lot of them out of like thinking what you want to get what he didn't have so we did it because i. am going to have to i make at them did you think that we could

stick to detonate what's doing it in them or the benefit of alcohol that she still has been on a mission to get us to the school to do the right image of the d.j. to become what they should both suffer would like to but it's the bottom maybe the pull of the magic what he didn't end up doing at the shoot of the family a stock index of the film ideal. let's look at the back wheel spinning now one lois was. in some ways most of them with them all of them look like flawless t v. and in a dash in and out to get him on a mission. fast when the five minute i feel sure i have any interest especially. for your friends to see how he could never get down on the you much you know if you were honest enough i pad's just chuckle because he wasn't. the

polish on my system the whole thing should offer no question because if you could really just look this was the scenario how come even with believe you still feel more for the steve bonus of so those are so high yes this is one of my. things you will come to know your limits of what you know so you know who learns. would see if she puts the company might have some news for sure but the votes of a bill to cover bill to shine through to be sure but actually your question should she not spend so much she gets a good. question for this question. because. i did not so fast it was a bit some of their twenty four different shuffling same sharma. go off on a steamy record in new york bluegrass if it's over the. one.

with. another. the. key any of us because. you make them a human and. i think one of the most one of the events that really was for me very very significant very powerful. took me a very long time to actually in my testimony didn't say to my own the leader on that was very very strong and we had to evict family palestinian family. from their house. which is under direct israeli control. their house was just in front. of the settlements of a home of maybe in the started building in the even had permission because i guess

these release of administration didn't give them permission to renovate their house and so on and we gave them our warrants to stop building and they didn't stop building the point don you were just really getting inside the house and idea and we were like fifteen soldiers had two of them there were like these two people you know very poor haven't done anything. and it was so much. because you have activists you know that you have settlers the jail with you. and you were a vip to people from their houses or you it was for me always like this red line that i would never cross and then they die they just cross it and you hate it you don't like it you don't enjoy you understand and it's bad but what's even worse is that you're doing it you know after we finish evicting them people came in will be down like soldiers will the down the doors from the outside so they won't be able to go in i don't know what happened in the. well i think it's just an example of

how you get so numb after a while even though you understand it's bad you understand it's wrong you hate what you're doing you still do. the. the the. heat of. the.

i think it's important to remember that. at the end of the day i was and i wasn't a victim and the victims are the palestinians. i'm not saying that to be so much power so of course there is doing very bad for you for our society but of the end of the end of the day the ones that suffer for me the ones it needs to york and one i wonder sleeping because maybe the army will go into their house there are the palestinians and i just mean i had my house to get back to when i can go to sleep absolutely sure that no soldier will enter my house to every start taking pictures of me one from me something about the syrians and especially in hebron you're not going to sleep like that. for.

are you able to hold. those we're. going to. get.

from what. you know. the burial place of abraham is is really one of the holiest places in all of western civilization could even say the birthplace after jerusalem and mount mariah one of the birth places or the burial places of the founder of western civilization the monotheistic concept and why is it that we're so divided. that the reason why the jewish community is in hebron and the reason why there are soldiers and checkpoints from the jewish communities perspective is because of the need for security to secure the safety of the eight hundred fifty jews who live in the old city of hebron and the hundreds of thousands of his release and religious jews from around the world that come to the tomb of the patriarchs and the tomb of jesse and ruth and abraham avraham of you

know synagogue and neighborhood during the jewish holidays or passover suit coat procession and they're brought as a front line of the israel palestine conflict or brawn problem will not be solved by itself it's part of like i said a microcosm of israeli palestinian relations the jewish people the israelis why did it seem like from the outside world that they're arming themselves to the teeth. ask anyone they say because i'm afraid i'm afraid for my survival for my protection for my safety it's not to kill or to oppress another people palestinians see themselves as oppressed by that. the one. who. was.

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it was a big problem because it was different people admired him in the center of night life in beirut and he married miss universe he was a flamboyant character on the other hand a ruthless operative fighting for the palestinian cause some israeli intelligence sources claim that planned operation and for years the israeli try to find him and kill him al jazeera world examines the life of ali has and salaam the hunt for the red prince. hello showers reached out from turkey and reached just about cyprus in the far northwest of syria they may be repeated i suspect not really not for many any run the black sea and possibly occasionally in the caspian that's a possibility otherwise remain dry and still hot forty six in kuwait city and

slightly hotter just a bit further north in southern iraq is what you might expect is any very slow decline in this daytime heat if anything there are past still getting occasionally hotter but nothing much more to say about this part of the world it's still dry and is still hot we haven't seen summer and occasional breeze off the interiors made things a little less humid as suggested by thirty eight hundred the chances are it's going to become more humid it's about forty probably drawing below forty probably he would say was true in abu dhabi and we've seen some significant showers recently in the mountains of amman but it's really the south where you get reliable cloud drizzle and of course high humidity use for rain recently a lot of a reason we saw in south africa it moved east was through mozambique to the island of madagascar to tanzania forecasts wise now there's very little more to come and think up to what's not rainy.

getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world then soon there will be nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies a positive on the front and his commission for taking place here their story on talk to al-jazeera. another warning from turkey's president about the consequences of syrian and russian attacks on their province. zero live from doha also coming up the u.s. threatened sanctions against the international criminal court and confirms the closure of the palestinian mission and washington. russian and chinese ties grow

closer as the leaders meet amid the largest war game since the fall of the soviet union. and seventeen years after the nine eleven attacks in the u.s. why the reconstruction of a historic church near the site has stalled. turkey's president has warned of a severe humanitarian crisis if the syrian government goes ahead with its offensive and rebel held its lead province by saying in the wall street journal newspaper warns the syrian government against sacrificing innocent people on counter-terrorism grounds syria cannot be left in the hands of bashar al assad says and russia and iran must take responsibility for preventing a humanitarian disaster. if the international community fails to take action not only innocent syrians but the entire world stands to pay the price

a political solution is needed he writes as the expected offensive would create a massive security risk for turkey europe and beyond. let's go straight now to stephanie jack she's an anti-hero he's bored with sirius is stephanie strong words of warning there from two i mean turkeys potentially got a lot to lose from an all out offensive on it it doesnt. it does it is of course the guarantor of the province under the process in this deescalation zone it is the guarantor of the opposition groups it's talking to them so if there is an all out offensive you could argue you know that turkey has failed in its role but i think more interesting when it comes to syria is what is being discussed behind the scenes turkey has a lot of concerns its main concern alongside of course the civilian potential exodus is the presence of the kurds laura in northern iraq sort of further east so that is being discussed as well i think what's interesting when it comes to the

dynamics in that editorial by the president he mentioned you know he called for a more comprehensive international counterterrorism operation needed against terrorist groups inside it particularly. which turkey recently has deemed a terrorist organization he said moderate rebels played a key role in fighting terrorists in northern syria this is referring to the rebels that turkey backs inside syria mostly members of the free syrian army and he says their assistance and guidance will be crucial in as well and how this is hinting in line with what we've seen a couple of reports in turkish media over the last couple of days that these forces these turkish backed forces in northern syria have been told to be on alert to potentially move to it is also up in the air laura you know the question mark is will turkey actually undertake an offensive against h t s this group that is proving the real sticking point inside it remains to be seen but i think what is clear is well just briefly damascus has made it clear regardless of which group is

deemed a terrorist organization it wants to take it back from the entire opposition and in the meantime what preparations are we seeing being made by civilians ahead of what could be an all out offensive we've seen many of them on the move. we've had confirmation of a couple of thousand maximum ten thousand people on the move over the last week or so people are heading to the camps that are along the border turkey's border turkish aid organizations operating those borders we've been talking to the turkish red crescent there inside they've been seeing how they can expand these camps what turkey's trying to do what it is what it will do it tells us is that it will not open its borders it will expand the camps inside syria preferably keeping people safe inside it live but of course there's a big question mark as to how that's going to happen if there is an all out military offensive by tension or they could be setting up new comes in this area that turkey controls in northern syria the people of course laure

a terrify the apprehensive they have no control over what is going to happen playing out city remains quiet you know there is nothing really new stocking up of goods or food supplies or anything like that that people are scared some of the people we spoke to who left the southern areas were saying well we're heading to the turkish borders because we don't think anywhere is safe because the situation is simply going to get worse so very very difficult for the people and of course once is offensive moves closer to the more densely populated areas this is the real concern turkey saying there are turkish red crescent that they believe a first wave if it intensifies could be up to five hundred thousand people fleeing towards its borders setting tech reporting from thanks very much stephanie. now the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court if it pursues an investigation into american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton issued the warning in his first major speech since joining the trumpet

ministration in april in the same address he confirmed the u.s. is closing the palestine liberation organizations office in washington all white house correspondent kelly hellcat reports. protest in the west bank has news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton. made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliation for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials through the international criminal court you see actions in raged many in the united states

who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us were crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and is blind to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an. administration is that to diminish. its.

peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in one nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts. despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly help get al-jazeera washington. russia's three day eastern economic forum has begun and vladivostok brings together the leaders of russia china japan and south korea as well as five thousand delegates from sixty countries it's also in two thousand and fifteen with the goal of attracting investments to the far east region let's go live now to rory chalons he's in blood of all stocks every chinese president xi jinping meeting valid in within the hour these two leaders are pretty key don't need to build an economic partnership that could

counter u.s. penalties both sides of facing. yeah there are good strategic reasons why russia and china are getting closer chummy with each other at the moment they are both eurasian giants they share a border with each other china has a huge economy which it needs to feed with resources and russia has lots of resources but as you say at the moment they also have a common adversary the united states now russia is under u.s. sanctions and china is in the early stages of a trade war with the united states so moving together makes good sense and it's that rivalry at the moment with the west that is giving added impetus to the russia china strategic partnership so yes when she jinping and putin sit down with each

other later on they are going to discuss all of this the more business that they're doing with each other economic work but also regional and global issues the kremlin says that they will be discussing international affairs they'll be discussing the situation surrounding north korea as well and the chinese also taking part in the largest military drills in russia's history what's interesting here is these military drills and were initially held to counter the chinese threat. well yeah and this is interesting isn't it of the chinese a taking part in these drills stock two thousand and eighteen i call voss stark means east they are the biggest games wargames that russia will have held since one thousand nine hundred one since the times of the of the soviet union and russia has been sorry china has been invited to take part this will calm any fears that there might be in beijing that the drills are targeted to them but it gives you know the

russians and the chinese greater experience. in fighting side by side with each other both countries are modernizing and strengthening their militaries of the moment. these military technicians generals etc will be looking at how much they integrate command structures and weapons systems and or all of that sort of thing and of course there will be many people in western capitals taking notice of this and this could be. the opening stages of a sort of military alliance that pitot perhaps could see russia and china fighting properly side by side if push came to shove now these two countries don't yet have nato levels of allegiance and coordination but certainly these war games and the ability of russia and china to fight side by side with each other will be taken into account in western capitals in washington d.c.

so we have donald trump say starts to tire of his pen power relationship with kim jong un and seriously considers you know a military strike against north korea is just the the sort of war games that u.s. military planners will be looking at ok we're thank you. as security offices in afghanistan have confirmed that the taliban has taken control of parts of the north in the province of jewels john an area known as the common tricks district police officer says more than fifty of his men were surrounded by taliban fighters with casualties on both sides and it offices say they did not have sufficient backup to handle the attack. still has her on al-jazeera why muslims in china say they're being targeted by the government.