couldn't muster. well enough so what can and that's for. all families invent their parents and children give each of them a story character fate and even a language there was always something wrong with how i was invented and meant to fit in with the world of my parents and four sisters. whether this was because i constantly mis read my part or because of some deep flaw in my being i could not tell for most of my early life. some times i was intransigent and proud of it at other times i seem to myself to be nearly devoid of any character at all timid uncertain without will yet the overriding sensation i had was of always being out of place.

how. did. we. were thirty our. candidate attempt one best so we can. be had being serious. or if by you can. leave you off their list. but on a better level because our all we can be any use doesn't. really have us mckenna have gained their money how has. the young woodward learned the piano and his love of music gave him an escape both from family and

from school he was an intelligent pupil but sometimes misbehaved. edward grew up playing and listening to our room and western classical music recordings on the gramophone of the great composer whose and finest performers. will say after little or. any. culling. will in fact who would name on sour. well last seven games. like other palestinians of his generation edward saeed became a living example of exile his early life in egypt coincided with the tumultuous events in the middle east of the one nine hundred forty s.

. when in one thousand nine hundred forty eight the british left palestine and the new state of israel was found hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes and homeland. the twelve year old edward in cairo didn't yet know how our nakba the catastrophe would later influences life and career. what overcomes me now is the scale of dislocation our family and friends experienced and of which i was scarcely conscious essentially unknowing witness in one nine hundred forty eight. it was through aren't near me that i first experience palestine as history and cause. it was also she who communicated to me the desolation of being without a country or a place to return to. but i couldn't really comprehend the tragedy that had

befallen them nor could i piece together all the different narrative fragments to understand what had really happened in palestine. the palestinian cause was always deep seated and edward intellectual emotional or. physical life. and what made him such an extraordinary scholar an intellectual was that he was always connecting different aspects of his life he never compartmentalize do you know there are many academics for you know the the private the personal one aspect of their life and then the intellectual the professional is another aspect where there were there was an integration of all aspects of of of of

being. after nine hundred forty eight the saeed family couldn't go back from cairo to jerusalem western loosen them had become almost entirely israeli but edwards didn't stay in egypt long he was expelled from school and sent to the east coast of america to boarding school. his first year in massachusetts stirred contradictory feelings in the fifteen year old of low self esteem alienation but also liberation. new york's tremendous scale its power english silent anonymous buildings reduced one to an inconsequential item making me question what i was to all this. my totally unimportant existence giving me an eerie but momentary sense of liberation for the first time in my life elusively almost imperceptibly

palestine would appear and then quickly disappear in our new york lives. that america can. only be leaked. that one had my love for my year. well you can say of. the teenager who attended the elite northfield known to home school he found it tough to go top grades and entry to princeton university in new jersey where he got his bachelor's degree. he then won a scholarship to harvard university where he spent five use and got his master's

and ph d. in english literature in one nine hundred sixty three. and . after harvard dr edward saeed joined columbia university in new york city as a member of the faculty of english and comparative literature he stayed until his death in two thousand and three. columbia is one of the top eight ivy league universities in the u.s.

where many leading politicians economists and public figures have graduated. columbia also helped to launch. into the refined world of academia and literary criticism. no not yet as a middle east specialist in the west or public supporter of the palestinian call. this day a place where i'm sitting right now used to be edwards aides office his secretary used to sit in one of the rooms you know down this down this hall and the room that you see here almost everything is as it was where when he was here you know the the book of this book this glass bookcase this desk was edward said that chair was edwards and this was theirs or her an office with

a lot of history. saeed's endeavor might have remained purely literary and his connection with the arab world simply a family one had it not been for events in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. between the fifth and the tenth of june israel's fault and defeated the combined on of egypt syria and jordan. the nine hundred sixty seven war changed the month of the middle east and still hampers the peace process today but it also had a profound effect consigned. to the year in one nine hundred sixty seven was a devastating year for me and everything i had grown up with i was in america by that time i was alone. being in new york there was a sense of triumphalism which appeared for the first time in one amongst the jewish but amongst everybody where you would walk down the street and people would say are

we doing and it was always understood that was israel you know pokey little state about to be overwhelmed by winning this tremendous victory i was no longer the same person after nine hundred sixty seven the shock of that war drove me back to where it had all started the struggle over palestine. the p.l.o. was formed in the mid sixty's and began to be a represent recognized as representative of the post in cause after the sixty seven war and for the attitudes changed enormously u.s. policy changed that if you take a look at the media coverage there's a spike in the one nine hundred sixty seven which remained very covered with israel is higher than almost any other countries and that and this became a leading issue in american political life internationally as well and the advert

was of course of that and it is quite true that his direct engagement and involvement in the issue really traces of one nine hundred sixty seven bad service at the end that after they were bought up at this house at the inside brain. than they did then there's had left a hole then imagine mile them and who we had for less than they i would them then let down i had done. and them a second to my fellow man and. i will stop to live in the hope of the author not the law and who i mean of course allowed them as lesson and. they do in a nice so i'll out that at the. end the who read and use the one accords as it melts and i and walk on from the scene they have a. saeed's preoccupation with the arab world began to manifest itself in his academic work literary criticism and polemical writing.

he began studying the cultural portrayal of arab peoples and places and writing the visual arts and media. he explored the relationship between the enlightenment which underpinned much of western high culture and philosophy and colonialism. this led to the publication of his most influential book orientalism in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight a work often considered to have forced westerners to reexamine their perceptions of the islamic world. this book grew in ways i hadn't foreseen and then suddenly became something much more it became the whole history of the representation of the other. i think it was one of the first books to try to do that. the book wasn't just

a scholarly thing but also explained clichés i had been used to govern the colonial state. room the book was very original innovative and perceptive an acute study of the way in which the the others the east is in this case you or adult countries were depicted interpreted and understood in the scholarly literature of the west reviewed a lot of the but also in the general culture but what it did was open it open minds to a willingness among many people at least to consider their own biases. predilections of the tacit beliefs and

esca whether these were distorting and modifying or interpretation of other cultures and what to say then based on them as though it might if it were happening to him with a book printing it's called gnashing it would throw it a hundred feet. up. labrador assisting items that would be delusion we be it is shock or be with our team while we were both at our shop. while mine had a deal for the immediate a buck at about that he has that he has that he has in a month only to get. a little about said that for this to me since the pleasure that many minute there was sort of people couldn't decipher what he did. in showing how the western misled itself in its literature its novels. was the first time we saw a western speaking intellectual of it passed in it who tried to show us the folly

of oriental if paintings oriental if the richer the arabs always had to be represented as his aging rather sullen lifeless people who obviously needed western help to raise them to the heights of civilization and edward got love across very well in orientalism i mean he he thought of that from the start and i think that after that i mean it became as a study in itself in the united states after he wrote that book. saeed's influential writing around him almost superstar status in some u.s. academic circles and he was a leading figure in a group of elite intellectual palestinian americans that began to emerge in the mid seventy's and eighty's. their aim of creating a new image of the palestinians in the american mind provoked huge has to lety in pro israeli new york especially as saeed continued to attack israeli violations of

human rights of palestinians and condemned u.s. policy on the middle east. prominent palestinians came under attack from both sides from the far right jewish defense league of the j d l and from other muslims ismael al photokina of temple university in philadelphia and his wife were stabbed to death at their home by a black muslim. edward saeed himself was attacked his office at columbia was torched and a right wing jewish magazine dubbed him the professor of terror a label that followed him for the rest of his life. we have a newsgathering team here that is second to none and they're all over the world and

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your headlines up next it's al-jazeera world osseous and. edward sally who's an american palestinian writer and academic who's influential nine hundred seventy eight orientalism challenge to western preconceptions about arabs and the arab world. born in jerusalem in the one nine hundred thirty s. he later became one of the most prominent champions of the palestinian cause in the west making him a controversial figure in the arab israeli conflict. although he only spent early childhood years in the middle east he none the less experienced a strong sense of displacement throughout his life and career in america expressed most articulately in his nine hundred ninety nine memoir of place as an outspoken

critic of israel in the u.s. he suffered verbal and physical attacks. edward had to deal with all kinds of terrible events this very often he was there were people who tried to break can to his office and this is one reason why your notice at the door it's a very heavy door there's a reason for that not all the offices in philosophy hall have that kind of go in the reason you might have noticed every boat was because they tried to break into his office so it's all connected to the professor of terror you know it came out of that terrible ugly moment. saeed found himself increasingly absorbed by east west cultural studies as well as palestine and the arab israeli conflict this was expressed in his published writing. he was

born into a christian family in west jerusalem so he was not a religious man but this did not stop him arguing strongly in covering islam that the western media distorts the image of islam. in the question of palestine in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine he traced the clash between two middle eastern people followed by his first book on structuralist literary critical theory here texts the book called the world the text and they pretty remains singular achievement of his literary signal. now after the publication of orientalism and soon after orientalism cultural imperialism that those two books became so important in the field of course grew of the studies that they overshadow his military work but the fact is that increasingly if you go from one university to another in u.s. europe the arab world etc you will see that the significance of his need to really

work is increasingly coming to the surface and in fact i would even venture to say without understanding his literary disposition his preoccupation with the question of my nieces we cannot understand orientalism and. harboring islam and so who are the two aspects of the scholarship are interrelated man if we are going to show you the facility with the heavy metal. model of steve biko can you acquire cilla if we had come in who are cool mom or in. what to what that is central or awful a mock when because of mr malik at the well maliki was would add words aid can be a method to just skimmin him in the name of cutting him as a divorce from the other than ever the man is the first minister in ministry and bill who would think oh let the stock part and to develop the gasoline are to many asian who are let me let me can run for it was rude to be. really good most would

have come at the bill mccollum will assist with setting the so we are there are certain i will call and ye will be enough. for again who is our wanted there to be what can yet free in other words they use gotta have that there are bad for a livin and it can have been this one you might think say not be a little pursuing. one of so he does most read ses was called reflections on exile in it he explores the relationship between his. own exile and that of palestinians. he sees exile as a state of mind as much as a physical reality a psychological condition shared by those rejecting regional and local ties including their native country. saeed's exile meant

putting distance between him and his cultural identity and he decided that it could ultimately be a valuable human condition. exile in the words of wallace stevens is a mind of winter in which the paths of summer and autumn as much as the potential of spring are nearby but unobtainable. exile is the and healable rift force between a human being and a native place between the self and its true home. the essential sadness of the break can never be surmounted. the achievements of any exile are permanently undermined by his or her sense of loss. record commitment. or hey the who can live you have got the philistine.

car. with the coffee not every year will are let me of some of it in c. but ballymena shot out. of it in sydney for the steam to see it has a shot of pollutants in it was sort of meant for. future say if you could build for most of the work. there were from the coffee were there is an advertisement as i said can we at that and then one fire. and they live there well econd the live and let him up there and miller the un to sit down. that it would make any at the norwalk any there is course again that it's not the columbia it's my delectable exile it meant for the coffee. keyboarding with

a coffee in it i mean really what effect fee on with this one yet got helen with a cough i looked at it and was stunned i well. either way i love died of the right there for the only samoan mess second if you will it was them. in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven saeed was elected to the palestinian national council as an independent the p. and c. is the legislative body of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. a kind of parliament representing all palestinians in the occupied territories and elsewhere. he tried to avoid factional infighting making what he felt were strategic interventions what it meant. what it meant sharper not obey you when. they are i'm you know i'm not i'm not that not. at a meeting of the p.m.c. in algiers in november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight p.l.o.

chairman yasser arafat made the palestinian declaration of independence it had been written by the palestinian poet and author mahmoud darwish but that would site had also had a prominent role in drafting the declaration proclaimed the establishment of the state of palestine effectively the two state solution. he was that he was very close to a part of the post an international cultural and he was also very critical of the many of their positions he was burned depended. absolutely. no can at the idea and then yes that there was sort of a lemon yet it can last out on our side and not home of a set out of five. well i can now get married. son son and. plan for what. he had the.

from the. idea kind of how the hell a sad home. i. guess that there are any of them in the buffalo and the whole. stuff is. that. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one edward so you'd was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia he had to undergo extensive chemotherapy and for his illness for the next twelve years. the suffering he experienced forced him to go back to his childhood and reevaluated his past he began work on the revealing biography who is our life out of place. by the time i began treatment in march one thousand nine hundred four i realized that i had at least entered if not the final phase of my life then the period back

i mean leaving the garden. and main one thousand nine hundred four i began work on this book these details are important as a way of explaining to myself and to my reader how the time of this book is intimately tied to the time phases ups and downs variations in my illness. lemon. at the end if what if and. and. cannot subject merely a law or law and lock in our language and babbles layette can our house a house in semi land. and. that's. a while ago. well i can't suddenly carry. all of the wide killa that they're now blah no doubt diagnosis of

leukemia was extremely important at what size psychological intellectual disposition suddenly without expectation he faced his mortality but as he said in an interview all it took was just one picture of ariel sharon to send him back to his. moral courageous imagination he never buckled down at the face of death saeed's illness brought feelings of loss flooding back to him he later described it as attempting to return to bits of life or people who were no longer there he wrote about trying to find a place to die. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two he went back to west to see to the toby a neighborhood where he was born he reportedly walked the streets searching for his

family's old homes where he'd spent his early years and which he'd left forty five years before but the story goes that when he found the house he was simply unable to ask the owners if he could look inside. i could not meet loss face to face. i stood by the door like a beggar. how could i ask permission from strangers sleeping in my own bed ask them if i could visit myself for five minutes should i buy now in respect to the residents of my childish dream would they are ask who is that prying foreign visitor low level of evolution. and what he learns already bear with us they all can't hear what's their. language

a little better everywhere. there are folk that i'll bet while i've been here when us have been back and. aesthetics gerald levert the king fell. in the. edward so he'd worked hard in the us media to explain how the one nine hundred eighty eight palestine declaration was in fact a compromise and this paved the way for the nine hundred ninety one madrid conference and then the signing of the oslo accords on the white house lawn in september nine hundred ninety three by yasser arafat blitzer could have been a mahmoud abbas. but saeed had become increasingly critical of the way the negotiations were heading and had resigned from the p. and c. in one nine hundred ninety one. he considered the oslo agreement to be unfair and

far too heavily weighted in favor of israel it amounted he said to a palestinian surrender. it was a complete chance i was outraged by the document. these rarely government letter to the p.l.o. was one and a half lines in which it says the government of israel recognizes that the p.l.o. is the representative of palestinian people. the palestinian letter was a page and a half long single spaced apologizing for terrorists saying that we've taken back this we're not going to do this again we recognize israel the right to live in peace recognized all this stuff dealing with a state that until today still hasn't declared its international borders. our return to gaza for the first time was about to go to gaza. it would rage at him

when i was speaking to reset this man he he cars are off that agreement he takes no maps with him he takes no lawyers with him in the israeli government or not with all the lawyers and this man has never seen a jewish settlement in the west bank and gaza and he thinks he can negotiate you know and i think it was right arafat's got taken for right to left for the ac man one of the men and measures the rotten ink on my lip they had their ear. about that i'm delighted to sign. up can hard to. develop the overheated might that subject. the c.s.o. the hand of the c.s.c. by name and nothing less that is imo that zero sum of the full icelandic theorem and the two that number c. a c. and this really the. assad feed and. when the sub in for the sting enough so who then we had at the the.

it was a had can and the mccann ive them and key feel what the. m for look of the full city hello eilidh though that then a while ago the democrat the it were head out again false in the. kenya the color been had and will again i thought that the no made a but it would on the whole though the word. again and again jani you me i lay in the yam in norman min i'm not going to do an hour should not but we are a for coffee and i were makin under a mosquito but the had just like this and you got to have been had before but was one month the question is for any and i see the main is for any man most of the units are in the opposition and they're doing that if you know miss i submitted then i missed this or you know i have the america i meant come up but it will have been no yesterday best to have me. and let's say that the north and norm that is the busiest and by that circle to see and gimmick to get a bit more kenyan i'm

a diety the vehicle in this again was that be found where mr also you on your side is that he been up to a sort of full sunni i think edward was reaching a stage of frustration that he was beginning to think there would never be a promised. you can it is very late so writing as if you read them in iran for example and some of his essays it comes across very clearly that while he's in one part of his mind he still stating the absolute injustice of what happens the palestinians and the need for a palestinian state any palestinian state but i think he was beginning to realize that the extent of jewish settlements colonies on arab land the theft of arab land for settlements and colonies for jews and jews only had reached a stage where he couldn't really see that being a palestinian state real i mean it would but it has as its own security which has its right to the land which you know cannot be overflowing by anyone else in this permission i think he began to realize that this was becoming less and less

realistic. saeed continued to care deeply about the impact of nine eleven and the two thousand and three iraq war but as his health declined he stepped out of the political spotlight. music had always been a passion but now it became the main focus of his life. he'd with books like musical elaborations on late style and with the argentine israeli conductor daniel barenboim parallels and paradoxes. in one thousand nine hundred ninety the two founded the west eastern divine orchestra bringing together young arab and israeli musicians. and what can most or fame men can have if you are better than my possible and that. can now.

can you see. that. shatter boy oh sure watch that at the bank all. mish should be of song or we ever had a hand of actually be had there. and know how many saddle. he had we can't possibly. get it. out of he. said a bulky ad words i said i cannot bear i'm one and. i'm to look at the one time machine for most of them was sequestered yes. and no less than like a fossil in the well financially when a system set of an. imperial the illiterate had the fear and though it is the

coffee to see a list keep as it were known in the exam have been with you really what was a piece of there full of. the spawn where mckeon had a little copy on phone them i gave you know on the. wall a little mark and you had a walk and i don't want to have a look at it and i'm not the loveland of since. during the two palestinian uprising it's called intifadas stone throwing became something of a symbol of the revival. in july two thousand after the israeli withdrawal from south lebanon saeed visited the former crossing fatima gate on the lebanon israeli border. there he famously threw a stone towards the disputed border and was predictably again the professor of terror. it will save your honor to walk on the same walk walkway that you walk or

throw any stone that you thought it was a symbolic move had nothing to do with anything they have changed the meaning try to change the meaning of intifada which has to do with violence has nothing to do with violence in the problem is a palestinian who stands up and says i'm a palestinian that's into power a palestinian who. goes to suffer that's an interpreter a palestinian who it's most often that's an interview. it's all of the father means resistance to occupation and theft of your home that's when intifada means throwing a stone from across a border is a meaningless symbolic act that has nothing to do with terrorism is expressing the fact that israel was repeatedly invading lebanon devastating southern lebanon bombing beirut over and over and this was a act of symbolic. resentment in opposition to this to these

constant attacks professor of terrorism is an interesting phrase has to do with with the term terrorism is used in the united states the terrorism has a very narrow meaning in u.s. discourse it refers to the allegedly terrorist acts of others but not of ourselves and our laws. edward saeed died on the twenty fifth of september two thousand and three. he'd had a huge professional impact particularly on the way cultures are examined described and defined. he tied a major political impact in the middle east through his work in the p. and c. and in the west as a high profile champion of the palestinian cause. his writing has been translated into twenty six languages. his last wish was to be buried in lebanon

on the birthplace of his mother to be as close as possible to palestine the place he'd felt exiled from all his life that had caused him to live and die out of place. he said if i die before you my will is the impossible. i asked is the impossible far off he said a generation away. i asked and if i die before you. he said i shall pay my condolences to mount galilee.

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hello again a welcome back we're here across sr it is the brushfires we are going to be watching over the next couple days that is all because the temperatures are really beginning to rise across much of queensland we ourselves to be dealing with a heat wave across that area temper wise townsville thirty eight degrees in your forecast so it is going to be quite difficult there of the next few days we do think it is going to last at least for the middle to the end of the week over here towards wednesday we're looking at townsville thirty six degrees maybe some showers coming into play but down here towards brisbane your temperatures are going up as well we do expect to see thirty four degrees shower down here toward sydney and melbourne but adelaide a little bit cooler with winds coming out of the south attempts are there of one thousand degrees well across much of new zealand we have been dealing with this pesky area of low pressure bring a lot of clouds and rain across the region i don't want to say it's going to get completely better but we do see a slow progress of clearing skies across much of the south island christ church

partly cloudy clear conditions few with a temper there of about fifteen degrees auckland is still going to be quite messy with the rain in your forecast but we do think by wednesday things start to improve not looking to bet on the temperature of the tempter there about twenty degrees and then very quickly across parts of japan we are looking at some clouds across and die but tokyo a partly cloudy day if you would temperatures of eighty. they joined one of the wilds most notorious sound groups. but found a way out rebuild their lives and now help us. a tale of course for crew and child soldiers and have the fifth exploitation of women in door to back part of the radicalism you'd see in the tunnel to zero.

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alleged war crimes committed by saudi forces in yemen in tunisia where he's due to land on tuesday activists are asking the courts to stop him getting in. reports now from the capital there tunis. first stop him have been some man's regional tour was to his closest ally mohammed bin zayed crown prince of the united arab emirates his saudi counterpart eager to show that it's business as usual for him and that he hasn't been affected by the fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi bin sandman is also visiting behind in egypt as part of his trip both countries have close ties with riyadh so close they are seen by many to be excessively controlled by the saudis no surprise then that he was welcomed with open arms but in tunisia the birthplace of the so-called arab spring a different type of welcome awaits the prince to newseum protesters angry that their government is welcoming the man widely believed to be responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi on the eve of his expected arrival the

journalist union together with a dozen or so civil society groups held a press conference denouncing the visit and holding on to new zealand's to take part in protests nationwide among them the head of the tunisian national union of students to solve the real for the tunisian people reject hosting someone who continues to kill and commit crimes against humanity in yemen we reject welcoming a man who continues to crack down on basic human rights. human rights groups and activists say that the proposed visit is an attempt to legitimize the crown prince and whitewash his crimes something they say must not be allowed to happen now been said many want to continue here just to give an idea that to be accepted by the people said to show that he is welcomed everywhere he goes and i think the position of the tunisian government the position of civil society sorry does show that. if

is welcomed by the government that in a sense if a society refuses that. we approach several politicians and m.p. used to find any who openly support the visits but none wanted to appear on camera possibly because it appears the popular opinion is so against welcoming the saudi royal. i don't want to had be we shouldn't be welcoming him if it were up to me i wouldn't let him into my country and the people who are against him he's coming to to nydia to clean his image as they are going out of just me i am i don't know why this visit is happening he said for economic reasons i don't know but i'm against it not side with this man this part of the popular opposition to the crown prince's visit the fact that he is being hosted by the president of tunisia is symbolic a message that the crown prince is still very much in power and that it continues to pursue its policies across the region especially in the countries of the so-called arab spring. well the crown prince is expected

to travel to argentina after that visit for the g twenty summit sarah leah whitson is executive director of the middle east and north africa division with human rights watch and she says the prosecutor is looking closely at the main submission here. it is up to the prosecutor to do to decide how to proceed with this investigation we are very hopeful there he will do a very careful and thorough examination of the facts of the evidence that has been presented not only of course by human rights watch but by various organs of the united nations including the panel of experts at the security council including the investigative commissions appointed by the un human rights council human clearing by the un high commissioner for human rights which have repeatedly found that the saudi led coalition has committed grave violations of international monetary many of which very strongly couldn't mount to work rhymes for that reason alone there's

an extremely strong basis for argentino to closely examine a very broad record of documentation and facts in this regard if they are fortunate enough to have the crown prince visiting them the international community people around the world are desperate to see real accountability of people who are getting away with terrible crimes and this is a great opportunity for the argentinean people to stand as leaders in the world to show that they will not go let crimes like this go unpunished that they will seriously investigate them and prosecute them if possible well meanwhile u.s. media reporting that donald trump's son in law pushed department of defense officials to inflate the value of arms deals with saudi arabia to increase their perceived importance a.b.c. news says jarrett krishna successfully had a fifteen billion dollars deal we categorized as being worth one hundred ten

billion dollars after a presidential visit to riyadh in may of twenty seventeen order has not yet been fulfilled leading democrats say the investigative the from family links to saudi arabia. the u.s. secretaries of state and defense are to brief top level senator. on relations with saudi arabia on weapons day they're demanding answers about the murder of jamal khashoggi specifically the saudi crown prince is alleged involvement in the killing there's also a growing condemnation of riyadh's involvement in the war in yemen which has created a humanitarian crisis mike hanna with more now from washington senators have been demanding a briefing from the trumpet ministration on the murder of jamal khashoggi and now they've got the secretary of state and the secretary of defense will come to speak to them but a couple of unanswered questions will the briefing be in public will it be to the whole senate or just to the intelligence committee a third and very important question will the director of the cia be present many

senators have demanded a briefing directly from the director of the cia with regard to the murder of jamal khashoggi particularly with reference to the possible involvement of the crown prince of saudi arabia there are a number of legislative moves in the senate as well one with respect to saudi arabia's involvement in the war in yemen and the u.s. support for that legislation along the lines is likely to be tabled during the week but also senator lindsey graham insisting that he's going to introduce legislation with respect to the crown prince in particular intent on finding out the full extent of the crown prince's involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi and what the senator terms his erratic behavior particularly with regard to the war in yemen and the establishment of a blockade against qatar so congress continuing to flex its muscle clearly angered at president trump's attempt to simply brush this whole matter aside and

move on the senate in particular making very clear it is not going to allow this to happen. the equally in parliament has approved thirty days of martial law in response to a naval confrontation with russia in the black sea russia opened fire on a number of ukrainian ships then seized three vessels international response has been swift and strong and resentments now from kiev. at every level the outrage over russia's actions in capturing three boats and more disturbingly for ukraine twenty three sailors some of whom were injured isn't coming down quite the reverse ukraine's parliament debated martial law for several hours it was approved by a large majority president petro poroshenko says it will start from wednesday not a declaration of war he says more remains of bolstering defenses against aggression from russia but the martial law would be national applying only to coastal areas

and regions bordering russia it will last thirty days my more. we have to reinforce our defense immediately so we can quickly react and mobilize all resources in case of an invasion. pershing co has managed to placate opponents who believes that martial law is going to give him a big advantage by limiting political activity in the run up to the presidential elections at the end of march next year right now his popularity is low although there is a long list of world leaders who are giving his support over this crisis. nato is demanding the immediate release of the ukrainian prisoners held by russia with this warning so there shaha standard stands that its actions have consequences and that's the reason why nato has reacted so firmly against the actions of

russia against ukraine over several years and in the u.n. more condemnation of russia we strongly support ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders extending to its territorial waters we express our deep concern over the incident which represent a dangerous escalation and violation of international law russia may have rammed one ukrainian boat opening fire on a total of three vessels injuring sailors detaining all crew and yet it continues to accuse ukraine's president is standing for reelection next year of deliberate provocation resume ears of the cuban duties and this banditry must be curbed and the international community must understand what ukraine is doing we would urge our partners in the security council not to shoulder responsibility for the dangerous conduct of the ukrainian authorities while the current strait may be calm and now

the combination of ukrainian anger and tension hasn't eased andrew simmons al-jazeera. well the russian foreign minister said ukraine violated international law by sending its naval vessels through the strait without any permission he says the crisis is a move by the president for partitioning code to shore up his declining popularity and bring more sanctions against moscow. it may be that while ukraine was planning the publication and no one has any doubt this was done with the goodwill and probably a direct order from the highest leaderships they were counting on additional benefits they wanted to get out of this situation first of all they were counting on the fact that the u.s. and europe recklessly take the side of the provocative words. live now.