where the armistice was agreed one hundred years ago ending a four year war cost as many as nineteen million more lives james by al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program twelve dead after more to rancho rain and flooding hit jordan and other parts of the middle east also why drinking water from the taps in chicago could put children at risk of brain damage. hello the pattern remains the same weather wise in that much of central eastern europe is largely cloud free and relatively won't start the year or the clouds rolling through from the atlantic into the west it's usually quite active wet and windy weather that will be the case on sunday to running likely in london over flanders field which is belgium and that line of green extends down through the bay

of biscay to northwestern spain and portugal it's slowing moving here will be a lot of rain in that part of the world i suspect him but i get to monday the thing hasn't moved on very much as you can see but all this time we're still relatively quiet from austria science words towards turkey was temperatures in the middle teens now the mediterranean has been fairly shallow in the east recently and is still a chance of showers around crete possibly side first but the obvious wrap around here the circulation is over libya in tripoli looks like being a wet place and actually in contrast is warm and sunny in algiers and rabbit and further south in both morocco and algeria knowledge it will last forever once again the rain swings in from the atlantic to the moroccan coast and we still have a tripoli and the western side of egypt just about but then it's fairly dry all the way down through north africa one to showers in liberia and sierra leone otherwise nothing much.

american man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled. removed i saluted bergstrom is to be huge. he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al-jazeera well tells the story of the dissident abraham so fatty morocco's montana. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour turkish president russia says they have

shed or your recordings relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi with saudi arabia the united states person france and germany. yemeni military officials say pro-government forces have seized the main hospital in the key port city of the data but they've stepped up their offensive on the french and us presidents of smooth diverse national defense as they met in paris without attending world war one commemorations on his way to france donald trump attacked emanuel back on school for a european army. when all the stories were following the democratic republic of congo says it's facing its worst ebola outbreak in the country's recorded history the government says the virus has killed nearly two hundred people since an outbreak was declared an august groups battling for control in east india ossie stage regular attacks making it difficult for health officials to help those affected the health ministry says its teams are attacked three or four times a week the aussies health ministers paul cost and message in support of the families of the victims. well. at this point three hundred one

thousand cases and one hundred ninety eight deaths have been registered in view of these figures my thoughts and prayers go to the hundreds of families grieving to the hundreds of all films and the families which have been wiped out all sudden right across the arabian peninsula or spot flash flooding and left a trail of death and destruction in its wake jordan was worst hit with twelve people known to have died and thousands of tourists evacuated from the ancient city of petra for brennan reports. the deluge came barreling down the valley with a thunderous roar sweeping away everything in its path. visitors expecting the serenity of petra's two thousand year old architecture had to scramble frantically to higher ground as the water raged beneath them around three and a half thousand tourists were in the area at the time but none were injured police were running around the main street shouting up up up going go up go up go

up we were in the. temple so we were up we could see that. was it was right. before taking with the biggest. thing three minutes or four minutes that were for all of the overall petra's flood channels worked as intended the volume and intensity of a torrent or meters high test at the flood barriers to their limits humorous other areas were similarly affected the city of declared a state of civil emergency and across the country the fatalities included two children and one of the divers in gauged in the rescue efforts. the less a searching incoming operations by the jordanian search and rescue teams and divers teams are still continuing backed by around forces john di maria public security

personnel unfortunately the death figures have risen include one of the civil defense divers in saudi arabia to friday's sudden downpours quickly filled traffic underpasses with water hundreds of motorists face being stranded by the rising floods. it's only a fortnight since a flashflood near the jordanian dead sea killed twenty one people including thirteen children who were on a school trip when the bus was swept away that tragedy led to the resignations of both the education minister and the tourism minister over perceived failings in the government's response to the jordanian response in the aftermath of this latest deluge has been an extensive search and rescue efforts but the receding water has left the affected areas in jordan need deep in mud and sludge making the search effort doubly difficult paul brennan al-jazeera. but at least eleven people have been killed in fountains left homeless as two wildfires continue to burn out of

control in the u.s. state of california one of the fires is in the north where twenty seven thousand homes were evacuated in the south all residents of the city have not been been ordered to leave the huns a state of emergency is in sight and clad rob reynolds has this update from not in . malibu is a place normally associated with bikini's and surfboards today it is a smoke shrouded scene of utter disaster the fire began in the hills and far to the east of here and you can see that the area is still smoldering after the fire swept through there have been two hundred fifty thousand and more people evacuated from this area and other parts of southern california as part of what they're calling the woolsey fire. so about one hundred and fifty structures so far as we know have burned at this point in time there have been no

fatalities. according to authorities but about fifteen thousand hectors have burned completely and many structures likely lost there in the northern part of california the situation was more deadly what's called the camp fire has destroyed at the time of paradise in northern california at least nine people were killed there trying to escape from the blaze in the town of paradise and many more are missing dozens missing so that number could rise meanwhile president trump tweeted that the blame for these fires lays soley with state officials and what he called poor forest management he also threatened to cut off federer. all funds to california for forest management saying millions

of dollars have been wasted the california democratic congressman ted lieu tweeted back to the president saying dear mr trump what is wrong with you he said that disaster victims deserve sympathy and support he also pointed out that ninety eight percent of all forests in the state of california are run by the federal government and that the trumpet ministration has cut funds for forest management so those tweets by the president not being met with a great deal of gratitude or appreciation here in southern california the fires are still burning but the wind has gone down at least for today that is a good thing firefighters may be able to get some level of containment around the various fires that are burning around the state but the wind is expected to pick up again on sunday and that could be very very bad news for more parts of malibu

southern and northern california major cities across the united states struggling to stop that and old pipes from contaminated water systems the latest is chicago an investigation by a local newspaper found that seventy percent of homes in the city had lead in that tap water have chemical carries many health risks including the potential to cause brain damage in children john hendren reports. sam corona fears the pouring from his tap is a blend of life giving water and brain damage when i was younger i remember going to the filtration plants and taking a tour of it being told this is the safest drinking water in the world right what i was like eleven thirteen years old and here i have thirty seven years old finding out that there is lead inside the water for over the past two years the chicago tribune tested water from nearly three thousand homes in nearly seventy percent of the samples the newspaper found lead in three out of ten samples lead levels

exceeded five parts per billion the maximum level the u.s. food and drug administration allows in bottled water it's a health hazard in cities across the united states and around the world. lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water

fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there's also the public and mention of having claimed for many years that the water earth and the city's department of water management tool down to zero in a statement year after year chicago's water exceeds the standards set by the u.s. e.p.a. led in copper rule for clean same. drinking water additionally that you're going to parchman of water management takes a proactive approach to mitigating lead in the water system chicago is also offering free water testing kits but sam corona is still waiting on his water is basic right we needed to survive and it has a contaminated so how is the quality of our lives of our residents if they're drinking contaminated water waiting and hoping he and his family have not been drinking poisoned water all these years john hendren and his here in chicago

thousands of central american migrants left a stadium in mexico city early on saturday for the longest and most dangerous parts of that trek to the u.s. border local authorities allowed them to travel on the subway for free as they continue making their way north they took the metro to the end of the line and then continued on foot with the hope of reaching tale one on the u.s. or dept president donald trump has signed an order that would deny asylum to any migrants who enter america illegally is also deployed thousands of american soldiers to the border. you know there is no yes. there's no work in nicaragua and there's a lot of selfishness there are a lot of gangs and if you get something there they take it away from us there are wars in our countries to another. i want my son to be better off for me to be working i want my son and my family. my wife to have a better future. some news from a city thousands of people have been protesting in rome against racism in the

government's stance on immigration they're angry over a new water which could result in the tightening of immigration regulations and limit the right to asylum to mimico to kano the mayor of the southern town of reaction was suspended as a result of his policy of welcoming refugees he also attended the protests. there during the program. i'm here because i am part of these people who follow a dream of humanity to protest against the hatred the fascists in the racist drift it's a verging not only in italy but also in europe because of my personal situation not of my city which is but a different type of reception of migrants respect for human rights and human dignity possible. well u.s. state of florida has once again at the center of an election recount battle eighteen years after the race between george w. bush and al gore descended into chaos

a recount has been ordered for two high profile races for governor and for the senate after they were too close to call with the republican candidates just slightly ahead some races in georgia and arizona are also still to be decided after tuesday's choose days midterm elections. is live for us in washington so there the results in a number of these midterm races have yet to be called but particularly close race in florida. yeah imagine that florida and a close election right as you mentioned go back eighteen years ago to the george w. bush and al gore presidential race that was decided by less than six hundred votes the state of florida course as history knows now bush won that and went all the way to the supreme court and the rest is history now we're seeing something similar with high stakes as well with all sixty seven counties in florida just within the last couple hours submitted their unofficial election results from all the counties

there it is looking like we are going to get a recount for both the senate and governor tauriel race there just to give you some numbers here rick's on the on the on the senate side rick scott has fifty point zero percent of the vote he's a republican bill nelson the democrat forty nine point nine percent of the vote it's less than fifteen thousand votes that separate the two and imagine this there were eight million votes cast in florida alone so that just gives you an idea of how tight this is and the governor races well republican ron descent is. forty nine point six percent the democrat andrew gillum forty nine point one so there's going to be a recount for both of these no doubt about it and it's a lot at stake here but clearly it looks like we are going to recount in florida for sure and that decision has now been made but what about the argument that we count ready change the course the statewide races. yeah it could

because it's going to be a complicated recount that's going to last a while there's going to be a lot of lawyers involved there's going to be lawsuits going back and forth and this is going to take some time and it could be very ugly you've seen both the democrats and the republicans both coming out and saying that the other side is trying to quote unquote steal the election we've seen donald trump getting into the mix and he's saying that suddenly votes are appearing for the democrats no evidence of that the democrats say we just want all of the votes counted but a lot of the votes that are outstanding come from broward county which is the second biggest county in florida with two million people it's heavily democratic so a lot of the votes presumably that are outstanding or they could be challenge or democratic votes they could go to to bill nelson or andrew gillum the two democrats and so you see how critical this is i'll just say we're in the senate race rick scott on election night was up fifty eight thousand votes as more votes were coming in and counted by the next day he was only up by thirty four thousand

and now as more votes are being tallied he's only up by about fifteen thousand so you see how close this is why both sides really want to get this resolved it looks like it's going to be a while as we go into this recall all right thank you for now gabriel is on those efforts in washington and he's from sri lanka the largest posse that says it will mount a legal fight against the president's shock decision to dismiss parliament and call a snap election might tree policy are saying has been struggling to stem a political crisis triggered when he sacked as prime minister and replaced him with controversial former president and the righteous except cena wants an election on the fifth of january but the united national policy says it violates the constitution and has accused the president of acting like a tyrant well there is much more on everything we're covering right here all the latest on our top stories but also analysis that takes you behind the headlines.

quick look at the top stories now turkey's president says they've shared ordeal recordings relating to the murder of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi last month with several western nations. we have given the recordings to saudi arabia the americans the british the germans to everyone they've listened to the conversations almost recordings but you know what's being said there's no point in distorting this funked among the fifteen they know who the murderer is or the murderers are from the saudi arabian administration can succeed in bringing this to light by making the fifteen speak meanwhile yemeni military officials say pro-government forces have seized the main hospital in the key port city of the data around seventy percent of yemen's food and medicine passes through the data which is controlled by the rebels thousands are trapped by the fighting. the french and u.s. presidents have smoothed over a spot on defense is

a mess in paris where they're attending world war one commemorations on his way to attack the manual call for a european army. the democratic republic of congo says it's facing its worst ebola outbreak in the country's recorded history the health ministry says the virus has killed nearly two hundred people since an outbreak was declared an organist fighting in the east of the country is making it difficult for health officials to assist affected communities. sudden rain across the arabian peninsula response flash flooding and left a trail of death and destruction in its wake jordan was worst hit twelve people are currently known to have died and thousands of tourists been evacuated from the ancient city of petra. at least eleven people have been killed and felons left homeless as two wildfires burning california one of the fires is in the north where twenty seven thousand homes were evacuated in the south all residents of the city of malibu have been ordered to leave their homes and the u.s. state of florida is at the center of an election recount battle it's been ordered

for two high profile races for the governorship and for the senate they were too close to call with the republican candidates just slightly ahead. although the headlines do stay with us now for our weekly look at the world's media in the listening post i will see you a bit later on. iran is bracing for what figures to be a major blow to it's already. told us to go because of all you. can achieve that. if i'm sexy. and i can also see it i'm talking about it but if

i ask for it i ask today from. a one hundred gives birth and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the u.s. iran and sanctions round two gets its start on twitter where does the story go from here president trump gets into an argument with a c.n.n. correspondent you are a rude terrible person when the white house declares the journalist persona non-grata israel and palestinian memories the archives it keeps under lock and key and egypt president sisi gets on his bike cue the cult of personality on the airwaves we begin with the sanctions story they're reimposition by washington on iran and the optics and messaging around it president trump dropped the word on twitter with a game of thrones inspired tagline sanctions are coming november fifth the retaliatory tweet from tehran was no less confrontational back in two thousand and fifteen when former president barack obama signed the multilateral deal designed to

monitor and limit iran's nuclear program few would have predicted that is successor would not only pull out of the agreement but really impose sanctions tehran has put on a brave face trying to convince iranians it can weather this storm and making its case moral and political to a global audience the trumpet. says it wants to force iran back to the bargaining table but given the severity of the sanctions the list of conditions from the u.s. and the tone of the trompe and rhetoric the question becomes is the white house really looking to create a dialogue or a confrontation our starting point this week is washington d.c. . the. president to win the game but again. just before midnight last night trump tweeted starting with a misconception donald trump is not the first american president to conduct foreign

policy with iran on twitter the obama administration did plenty of them in the goetia in the nuclear agreement of two thousand and fifteen which trump has dispensed with what is different now in tweets that resemble something out of the game of thrones television show a medieval fantasy is the language used the term but this shows first on the donald trump side is this cavalier approach towards sanctions we're talking about something that is going to impoverish a very large segment of the iranian population and the fact that this is a movie poster that i think also reflects in the eyes of some folks in this administration this is very much a game it's unfortunate because i think it leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation and a lot of room for a particular kind of bravado vs social media that can prove to be dangerous in the long term because they're not directly talking to one another but this unforeseen

seems to be the reality i think there are probably elements of the iranian government which don't disapprove of their more than happy to see the u.s. government destroy its own public diplomacy so great you guys are self harming right now we say we spent forty years telling our people down with the united states these guys are your enemies we fail. you guys did the job for six months it's incredible thank you we cannot allow the world this second round of sanctions against iran did not come out of nowhere the trumpet ministration has been setting the stage making its case for a while now iran's leaders so chaos. death. and destruction and not just through the president on stages such as the u.s. directive is to starve the iranian regime of the revenue it uses to fund violent and stabilize activities secretary of state mike tom pale has done the same as has john bolton who was

a prominent hawkish figure at the state department during the run up to the war in iraq and is now president trumps national security advisor the murderous regime and its supporters will face significant consequences there is nothing diplomatic in what the administration has been saying deriding the leadership in tehran constructing a narrative of iran as a malign actor preparing the ground for the withdrawal from the nuclear agreement and the new set of sanctions most americans don't know anything about iran they know about the hostage crisis maybe they know about death to america death to israel which are slogans that that are chanted regularly and so they are predisposed to believe that iran is a very bad country and of course iran doesn't abuse human rights it does support groups that have committed acts of terrorism it does oppose the existence of the israeli state as presently constituted so you know there's some justification for this but i question whether hyping iran's abuses is going to really get you into

a better place i think it just makes it harder to reach compromises in the future iran has helped the the position of the bad guy in american media and american foreign policy or at least for a decade or a following twist in the nuclear standoff with iran that is something that has persisted with democratic. republican administrations at the helm now the obama administration try to do something different by pushing this iran deal but with trump pulling out of the iran deal i just see us returning to that to that rhetoric which is completely american mainstream media establishment i think is willing to be a little bit more skeptical because of the experiences of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq that they're asking for things that are patently impossible to get so is there some other altera motive here but more isn't that the trump administration has been attacking american media outlets for the past two years fake fake you have to leave that word and so i think that's also made and

journalists and media outlets much more willing to be skeptical and to push back on some of its claims not not at all but that you tell us that politico is that as you peach how you feel the iranian media some of which can be fractious at times has coalesced behind the government there one newspaper abd a car called washington's attempt to reduce iran's economic presence wishful thinking another. reported on anti-american demonstrations and said the only response to the sanctions is unity iran has banned twitter and instagram so they cannot be used domestically however the leadership takes to the platforms to get its message to the world in multiple languages if necessary the supreme leader ali common it did not respond to president trump's game of thrones tweet directly the response i will stand against you came on instagram from a senior army general general hossam soleimani is no diplomat and the optics and

implications of his role have been noted how many himself did his talking in front of students and to the television cameras and aimed at directory a truck. as well let the iran logic does that that he gets it they get all you had before that. it was a message as being to be to say to the world where response or even though the other side has abrogated its commitments we're going to keep our word as long as we get the benefits promised to us by the nuclear deal and i think that goes down well with the iranian people they're saying that ok for the first time in the long while we can tell the world we're not gross thing i mean states which is a vote regime not us supreme leader hummin a he said when he gave permission for the nuclear deal to be negotiated that it was a test you know if the united states would abide by its commitments then maybe we could talk about other things well the united states has not abided by its

commitments it walked out unilaterally but it's a shame really because what the u.s. has done is sort of fed not only iranian paranoia but iranian propaganda. we must beginning to define what it is that we demand. some of the twelve conditions the trumpet ministration has attached to the lifting of sanctions such as iran ending its ballistic missile program and not just missiles built to carry nuclear payloads are clearly deal breakers they are hardly the basis for productive negotiations washington says its goal is not regime change or to hurt ordinary iranians it just wants the regime to change its behavior but the administration's talking points it's stated attempts to get iran back to the negotiating table after abandoning a nuclear deal reached at that same table simply don't add up there are numerous

false hoods that the trumpet mistress was presenting in their narrative. one is that this will not her tea party nation that is as ridiculous and as a preposterous escape i think sanctions particularly such broad based sanctions always hurt the population first that's one alter the iranian regime's behavior that's our expectation that's the reason. the president trumps policy secondly the trumpet instructions say to doing this to change your behavior and bring it back so you go to reality is the iranians are after the ocean the only party that is not in the ocean is a trump and strange they don't want to know that when any administration for. twelve demands as a very does this is what the us and put on the table do you really have no. you're not interested and then. they're telling them we're telling the world they have to comply. we've seen the outcome of this kind of rhetoric in the past and need up to

the two thousand and three new invasion of iraq the perpetuation the kind of demonization of adversaries of the united states is very problematic i think media should now hold itself to higher standards and be more accountable to itself. you know. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo phillips flo donald trump's first press conference after the midterm elections went seriously off the rails that ended with the white house revoking the press pass a c.n.n. correspondent what happened there things escalated really quickly and that press conference from. it's not unusual for trying to be aggressive with reporters but that often he seemed particularly eric simple it's such a hostile media it's so said what really made the news was the back and forth between trump and c.n.n.'s chief white house correspondent jim acosta was present

right by me i should have a harsher you worried i said no that's a that's a that's one of the you know that's what c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for c.n.n. because he was pretty persistent when asking the president for a follow up question and eventually had the mike taken from him a few hours later white house press secretary sarah saunders announced a cost is hard pos that's the permit that allows an access to the white house had been revoked but this president is quite accustomed to difficult questioning how has the white house justified this. so that too is problematic saunders said decision was in response to a cost quote placing his hands on the young woman just trying to do her job as a white house into now saunders included a video in her tweet showing the moment that a cost as might was being taken from him the footage is zoomed in and looped a few times the implication that acosta acted improperly is misleading or to say

the very least a stretch this coming from a white house occupied by a president who is in no position to school anyone on how to treat women you've also been looking into a story in thailand not the kind of thing we've ever reported on before the government and some of its critics on the war and are now slugging it out in a bar got this right a rap battle well that's what it looks like the first shot was a music video posted on you tube a few weeks ago by a group calling itself rap against dictatorship it's had nearly thirty million views and the criticisms were direct rappers and not known for mincing their words . but given the jail terms handed out to dozens of government critics since the military coup in twenty fourteen posting that kind of video in thailand is risky and what's the government's response been a little dab drop you could call it that initially there was some tough talk from police and thailand's computer crime unit which called the song defamatory but then

the unit changed tack and down saying that no one should be prevented from expressing opinions and released its own rap thailand four point. zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero but the online blowback has not been coming about a thousand likes to twenty thousand dislikes his one comment so lame the beats a so out of date don't make more songs like this i'm getting second hand embarrassment now time will hold elections in february the first since the military took over the viral success of the first video tapped into some serious discontent social and political we'll see how much more of that surfaces how much the government is prepared to take and how it all plays out on election day ok thanks will. turning now to a story about memory how knowledge of the past is produced and kept hidden in a place where history and its narration is highly contested israel and palestine for years material that could reveal details about israel's treatment of

palestinians has been sealed inside the country state and military archives under the pretext of security or privacy more than ninety eight percent of those documents are classified they're under lock and key it's a form of censorship that has been criticised not just by palestinians but by the former chief archivist of israel itself historians and journalists say the policy of censoring material in the archives exposes the deep insecurity israel has about its past with archivists acting as the gatekeepers of history for palestinians it's part of a wider trend of cultural and historical denial that beginning before nine hundred forty eight has gone hand in hand with the regular theft and appropriation of not just their land but their story but its name post often now in the silencing of palestinian history in israel's archives.

for palestinians displaced despair occupied in the past is a constant struggle which is by design because field in israel occupies the libraries a hidden palestinian story entire chapters of history that were looted from palestinian institutions and hunted. after the palestinian people were expelled from their homes israeli forces came in and quite methodically proceeded to seize all of the contents in their houses it was done in such a way that to this day we don't have a complete idea of what items were taken documents are scattered in so many places some in the israeli archives in jerusalem some at the national library many of these boxes haven't been catalogued to this day there is often no possibility for research or to have access to. all of the archives in israel are really very much

founded on they re sure palestinians every single israeli attack on palestinians has usually targeted an archive this happened in one nine hundred forty eight and mass but also in one thousand to one israelis invaded lebanon and targeted institute of palestine studies one of the reasons that they're threatening is because they're really our record of palestinian life and palestine more broadly. there are important items like the personal papers of palestinian leaders and intellectuals like. library and jerusalem considered one of the most important palestinian private libraries then you have palestinian lawyers whose entire offices and files were seized to this. de if you go to the archives you'll find there's a palestinian lawyers category which i find strange palestinians lawyers these are

very private documents the fact that they have been taken away is a sign of contempt for palestinian history it's an attempt to suggest palestinians have no history no documents no belongings what imo who does the home. israel of law things that anyone can access the state archives the most sensitive material can be censored for up to seventy years but in practice the state can and have restricted indefinitely anything it decides is damaging to its national security and israeli historian one othella has spent twenty years trawling the archives uncovering truths of previously unseen footage and photographs thieved as far back as the one nine hundred thirty. two thousand and seventeen she made a film about last palestinian history called looted and hidden.

over the years seller has found historical material that has been sealed but decker . in israel's military archives she discovered films from the era of palestinian revolutionary thing emma and photos shot by one of the founders of palestinian photo journalism are thought us. sellar also uncovered aerial photos taken by the jewish militia the hagana of palestinian villages before they were destroyed and repopulated in one thousand nine hundred forty eight. the hagana decided to photograph all the palestinian villages from the air this material would later be used for the conquest and rule of these places and their people however when we look at the photos with the historic perspective we have today their meaning can flip so to speak and they can reveal the history of those who were conquered someone once asked me if i wasn't concerned that these materials might be closed off after i'd asked them to be opened and indeed the material has been

reclassified when i went back to the archive a few years later i was told the photos do not exist in ok i mean. it's not just that materialists censored hidden from the outside world once inside the archives origin of the race were interpreted to fit a different narrative and never tell home again when i started working with material from the archive i saw photos with comments and notes written on them by the censors in archivists for example palestinians are described as terrorists as gangs seeing all of that taught me about how the materials go through a process of rewriting to aid or benefit design is narrative so the colonial operators that starts with the plunder and looting continues with colonial control and management other than your colonial of aim at that but if you let that the role

the archives play in reshaping history is under the control of political masters israel's military archives is managed by the defense ministry its state archives by the prime minister's office. before stepping down this year israel's my thena archivist yeah cause a lot of egg criticize not only that lack of independence but also the state tendency to fence the material under the guise of security victor klein to be interviewed for this piece but in a revealing report summing up his time as chief archivist he wrote the vast majority of material the thiele and will never be opened. according to the israeli n.g.o.s active out of the fourteen point eight million files held by israel's state and military archives less than two percent are accessible to the public that includes restricted material that could expose israelis to and comfortable truths about their history like war crimes perpetrated against

palestinians have been minimal israel is terrified of the contents of its own archives and doesn't want its history to be exposed take one of the most important examples of censored material the cover costs a massacre in one nine hundred fifty six many scholars argue that israel used to cover costs and massacre to force those palestinians who had stayed on their land to flee i believe there were direct orders from the government for the massacre to take place so as long as the state keeps censoring these documents it means it's trying to hide the past to prevent it from being part of the present and the future you know how they're almost. who are the allowed to remember and who is made to forget is an expression of power. erasing the archival record denies palestinians the right to know right their past and to connect it to their present. but israel does not have a monopoly over history. in the occupied west bank

a major project is underway by the palestine museum to collect and digitize hundreds of thousands of items of historical significance in the face of continuing historical denial palestinians are finding other ways to preserve collective memory archival fever or this attempt to really record and. these histories and stories has been from the very beginning part of the palestinian struggle for memory and to a certain extent for liberation there is no single authoritative palestinian archive that may be a blessing in disguise because the more voices and the more multiplicity we have i think all of those things are sources of richness not poverty and the host have a taste of the finest i don't think that palestinian history should be deprived of documents and evidence it is important to return the material to the owners so that

it won't be me someone with privilege and access who writes the palestinians history but rather palestinian researchers themselves israeli society must learn to respect a knowledge and understand palestinian society and its history because without that there is no future for this case in a cage in the fullness. and finally we haven't checked in on egypt for a while the state of the media space there and last week we got a reminder of the on ending admiration that egyptian news anchors have for president. all he has to do is take a bike tour of sharm el sheikh ahead of the world use for a personal inspection of the preparations for that meeting essential a photo op and the talking heads on channels like l.t.c. t.v. dream t.v. and d.m. c. suffer a collective loss of breath and critical faculties will leave you now with a few sycophantic snippets from the cult of personality that for the most part is

a gyptian television and we'll see you next time you're at the listening post. but i. will be. out of the for you to. hear. that and then you know. i think it. showed up in a place. that a lot of. lives because of. your question about going to what you see on the surface of the middle east loves all of that so the coverage of the.

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have shed or do you record ngs relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi with saudi arabia the united states britain france and germany but russia type one has yet to confirm that turkey possesses ordeal of the actual killing of the journalist inside the consulate in istanbul more than five weeks ago on also said that he might be meeting u.s. president donald trump in paris where they're both attending commemorations marking the end of the first world war bar reports now from the french capital it's the first time turkey has officially acknowledged the existence of recordings related to the murder of journalist. of the saudi consulate in istanbul last month and the timing could not have been more telling just before stepping on a flight to paris and a potential meeting with donald trump president of us up by your time with field recordings with the u.s. saudi arabia friends germany and the u.k.

it was a move designed to put further pressure on the international community and the u.s. in particular to take concrete action against syria. the reason is we have given the recordings to saudi arabia the americans the british the germans to everyone listen to the conversations on those recordings by you know what's being said there's no point in distorting this fact amongst the fifteen they know who the murderer is or the murderers are in the saudi arabian administration can succeed in bringing this to light by making the fifteen speech. the turkish president did not say exactly what was the recordings but accuse the saudis of stalling the investigation and called on the kingdom to identify this killer. abdul as an ounce meant we not have gone unnoticed as leaders gather to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war us president donald trump and french president even well micron had their own agenda to deal with trying to

overcome differences about european defense spending but the journalist was not ignored they agreed saudi arabia must provide more details about his murder. a former saudi spy chief says the kingdom would never agree to an international investigation. the kingdom is proud of its legal system. it will never accept. foreign interference. as other countries have refused to allow. international tribunals to gate horrific acts that have happened either on their soil or elsewhere committed by their citizens. running. it will take its course police have now under the search for

this body it's widely suspected his remains were dissolved in a set. turkey seems concerned the u.s. of the european union may not be willing to push for a tough stance against saudi arabia given the loquats of weapons and business deals with the all writs kingdom but they're hoping the recordings might force the saudis to reveal who ordered the murder of a hush hush about al-jazeera barrus well in all the headlines yemeni military officials say pro-government forces have seized the main hospital in the city of the data around seventy percent of yemen's food and medicine passes through the data which is controlled by the rebels thousands are trapped by the fighting and the democratic republic of congo says it's facing its worst abode outbreak in the country's recorded history the government says the virus has killed nearly two hundred people since an outbreak was declared an orchestra on groups battling for control in east india. stage regular attacks that making it difficult for health

officials to help those affected the health ministry also says its teams are regularly facing the challenges and obstacles in athens to help those communities excel boundaries there are a world has the story of the jewish moroccan dissident who was jailed in exile for criticizing his country's regime.

a moroccan man spoke out against french colonial rule in the one nine hundred fifty s. and found himself in exile. a communist and a jew he became a thorn in the side of us and the second in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's. his fight against injustice cost him twenty two months in hiding seventeen years in jail and thirteen years in exile. but he eventually returned to morocco a free man. he was praised for his sacrifice for moroccan independence and fight for democracy and freedom. he was. sometimes called the moroccan mandela. was born in one nine hundred twenty six into a wealthy moroccan jewish family. despite his comfortable upbringing his left wing politics started young and when he went to paris aged eighteen he joined

the french communist party. in one nine hundred forty nine he graduated from one of france's most prestigious mining engineering schools and would go on to work in morocco's mining sector. a young students heard about serfaty in the one nine hundred seventy s. while he was a government adviser to the. republic . the engineer created. the engine you know if you don't. want to be and. he said but yeah to move move here we. should go around. more.

and more we should move more. to move more. to the. deficit and. informed him that he she couldn't have. done this. because you. should have a yeah pick up as she was saying you know their. kids don't have to. do it but because your dream. felt she couldn't yeasts can be made to bend back up if you make. sure to don't. upset that she said.