france's president is trying to quell anger over a planned increase in fuel taxes emanuel macron has asked to meet with protest leaders demonstrators have called for his resignation more than one hundred thirty people were injured in the violent protests on saturday and four hundred people have been arrested the u.s. and mexico are holding today talks on migration in washington the u.s. government hopes to sign a deal to allow a group of central american asylum seekers to stay in mexico that's while their u.s. applications are being processed thousands are living in border towns hoping to be allowed to cross into the u.s. those are the headlines more news after sykes pekoe lines in the sand.

between november nine hundred fifteen and main one nine hundred sixteen britain and france agreed a secret deal for dividing the ottoman empire the european allies when the first world war and so. now we can draw. a young british politician sir mark sykes and the french lawyer turned diplomats. drew borders that best suited their own interests the psychs pekoe agreements. it's cut across a separate deal the british had already made with sharif a saint of mecca to support him in creating a hashemites arab kingdom in return for his leading to an arab revolt against

autumn and. the south of anatolia eastern turkey and the syrian coast down so beirut were put under direct french control while basra and baghdad were placed under direct british control. mosul and damascus were under french protection and called area eight the rest of mesopotamia and the southern levant were put under british protection and called area b. . jerusalem was designated as an international zone. but soon after the deal was struck some voices in london began expressing dissatisfaction with what's britain had to creed's in the secret negotiations. as a. new. captain paul this is what i thought we

were what can just see their figure as general hoar could have had but a fuckwit you will feel lost into the moment and given a no i'm not but not of us you could have or where are you going after. a man with a what have you who do year before think well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view. could not agree over the future of palestine when they did their deal at the end of nineteen fifty and they agreed it would have an international ministration but neither side light as a as an outcome and the british didn't like him back to killer because it left the east bank of the series canal exposed to an administration that could be governed by who knows who so the british immediately start to think of a way to get round the site pito agreement so the fact sikes almost immediately

before the ink of france for george because signature is dry. go talking to the scientists. visit i honest movement grew up in the late nineteenth century with the ultimate aim of establishing a jewish homeland in palestine. the jewish lobby was growing in britain and the british government took its aim seriously. the british might also use the port for the jews to persuade the american government which included several jewish figures to join the war or. other factors may also have been at play the zionist movement itself and its leader high invites. were political zionists and there ain't from the very beginning the ultimate aim was an independent jewish state in palestine there in these early days they didn't say that because it had only evoked hostility to their project paper the effect of that on wish.

would have not studied. and i fancy be formal had. a fifth also you know john i know you hold your core to. grieve and you're going to would feel so you don't have to trust him but i thought. amount of eric or not but they'll make we'll know there's a sawyer fee for us you know. for us the human friends even the last man it couldn't have met his likes because we've got to buy them out of. i want to push ahead of this of you new year to start off with on the out how to fix things. on the second of november nineteenth seventeen the british foreign secretary sir arthur belfour ruutu the leading jewish figure walter rothschild to say that his government viewed with favor the establishment in palestine of

a national home for the jewish people and would use their best endeavors to facilitate the chief meant of this project. a month before the balfour declaration the new bolshevik government in russia following the revolution had made public the details of the sites pekoe agreements as it sought to distance itself from decisions made by its sorry predecessors. for fatherhood. for cutler a folder can have more idea only a limited earlier more ideally year old. or her. father had. to fuck up. to fuck up i live in. a shawl believe.

it or care at that lee step or a star marta telcos shore for all the revelation from the russians came while the hashemites were fighting alongside the british in the levant so they realised the british were playing a double game. their british also recognised france's right to determine the future of large parts of the area that should be for same had expected to control. for that i'm sorry the offer of some of them for after i shop i did forget that keep. in the in the homeland yeah so. if you are are going to show what if your skull is on the whole feel about burst out of the other get up on the earlier so that. will be a phase or certainty about on top and not have here along the you're here a little more for your commute i'm. here for the.

unit and as along the a c. other abio. i was a man called the other let me up now like if. you was little missy that little soul or the thought of a pot or shot but we have. the louder. in one nine hundred seventeen the allies made significant military gains on several fronts. the british pushed into iraq and general edmund allonby led the forces that ultimately ousted the ottomans from palestine. but alan peace continued advance towards the must has caused the french serious alarm he had expected to have complete control of the levant under the terms of the psychs pekoe agreement. with mana done.

on his own the accompanying manipulation and island be in a less sea tristrem meeting. with money so small is only a key desire may only leadership or leave song to him you know what they want them to topa me yes i called to say the minister says that cos they speak oh keep it may of course ended you have a room. down in the out there it was listen all of. allonby and the hashemites. took the syrian capital on the thirtieth of september one thousand nine hundred eighteen and within a week prince faisal been insisting had announced the establishment of an arab constitutional government in damascus. it was. our. yeah i mean if that's next week or on drugs because our let's just see if a law i'm with you will see

a look at an ass of my job i would have probably could go off on your own. the first world war ended in stages with the ottomans agreeing to an armistice on the thirtieth of october and germany on the eleventh of november one thousand eight hundred. allied troops entered istanbul and the time appeared right to implement the strikes pekoe agreement. but the british appear to be having second thoughts as they start to claim a larger share of ottoman arab territory in the region. the british prime minister david lloyd george met his french counterpart george came on seoul in london on the fourth of december one thousand nine hundred. eighty s. over. the office said. the sacrifices are great.

for us right now the sacrifice of all perhaps than any office as your joint empire is no more but that was due to your sacrifices mr prime minister and for those we are most grateful you will take some tea weakness. no we will have to settle our claims of the air peace talks we have a fault as those claims. you would like perhaps that we modify our. we have our own most. you shall have it. and that's something else other stuff. you shall have that too. fancy can read to you from before of course you know a little more you know how do we know i'm on the news of a lot of and i was. going to read them but

a funny thing about the most solemn oath and mecarbil going on sort of how do i feel like i luckily for us and for our luck for most of them and i was to be had in just a while there and most nights because in fact. the signs of the psychs pekoe agreements being superceded began to emerge at the start of the piece to go she is in paris in january one thousand nine hundred. victorious allies were about to impose harsh conditions on the bankwest and the british and french to decide which of the conflicting promises they had made during the war would be implemented. it don't did this my model views are very negotiates you know complex i think there would be about there are all this and i bet. best on the that a comedian emetic with

a casual source. they are fed a day some days that sound is read to have been does not solve. the. said been leads were being a fancy in the. bin no bad and has a more of a when you can a minute dorie. that head of. there was that out it a one year. one . in april one thousand nine hundred twenty the four main allies britain france italy and japan met at the san remo conference they created three entities mesopotamia syria and palestine. the french

forced faith out of damascus and took complete control of syria britain took mesopotamia and palestine including jerusalem which had been under international administration under the terms of. so really it's we should be talking about if we want to say what does the modern middle east look like and the striking thing is this if britain had been concerned to preserve relations with france right to this to go she asian right through this process they failed because the french looked at sites because they looked to the baptists and they realized that they got much less inseparable that they had been promised by the british insight fico we overlook these things but in a sense i think that states vico reflects a failure of trying to negotiate a happy resolution of british and french territorial ambitions in the middle east britain came up with war and the french never forgave them. france had insisted on

mosul in the fight. but had san remo they conceded it to britain despite the fact that it was known to be rich in oil. in the coup of turpin mo remember there was the car. on the libya and the mosul says oil is our prayers on that turkish but for the i'm company. keo. now if. it is an. example. fronts more territory in the south along this is the become the iraq syria bambrick it got more that it got twenty five percent of any oil that would be produced from mosul even though that was going to be developed as

a british concern. on the international stage the league of nations now created a series of mandates it placed some new arab territories under the supervision of the british and french a kind of occupation in disguise vender the lash of that s.s. if they did that's no good if you need. a limb on the us so if you need to first. pass. the. ten mil in the course a says it to ten. that. b.p. says it and say that. that then the figure of course a year.