century the bunny moves are brothers one was an astronomer one was a mathematician one was in the other. and they were really the center of scientific life in. the golden age of science the ambassador moon recognized the talents of the brothers from an early age and sent them to study in the house of wisdom in baghdad where great texts were gathered from across the globe and translated into arabic during their time in the house of wisdom they grew in influence and even became patrons of other translators as well as translation they wrote many works of their own including the book of tricks. it's called the tablet which literally means the tricks of trickery but they're not tricks in the sense of magic tricks these are contraptions and devices and executive toys is probably the best term for it but i mean it's full of beautiful diagrams showing valves and leavers and isn't very very clever they employ these incredibly forward thinking

processes things that weren't really adapted until many centuries later things like crankshafts they were using things like difference is in pressures in liquids and also in the air to make things appear to move by themselves to act in their own volition there's the famous robotic flute player and operates through sort of water pressure and there's the self trimming there's all these kind of things that must have seemed like magic at the time hence the idea of trickery i guess put a lot of the our ideas do go back to the action group people like archimedes for instance but they're putting them together in a way that was slightly different yes it's not just a translation movement it's a rethinking movement as well the stuff in this book is more than just fun toys it tells us that what they were doing at this time in the mid nineteenth

century in the senate of the golden age they were carrying out proper scientific experimentation. john scott is a mechanical engineer based in cambridge show in the u.k. . he builds and tests historic inventions and currently he's reconstructing one of the better brothers' most complicated devices the flukes which plays itself by jim here's the device. or you haven't got the little character yes so the brothers are said to have built this or at least wrote about this place itself how much detail was there that you could get hold of to allow you to reproduce well there was

a reason there are references but there are different apparently different translations so some things are not entirely clear presumably modern scholars historians looking back at this there's a lot of guesswork in oh absolutely yeah how they solve the problems they said talk me through how does this work right well the basic principle is that there is a driveway all here which operates this rotating drum that would have been water powered the right way and there are a series of effectively cams which lift little arms which then seal unseal the holes on the flute and there comes a passive throw air comes in here ok what can we have a demonstrator you know we hear a. little tone. what you might call programs of major scale verticals.

so you've got this just a scale but of course these could be a range yes in a sense this is an early programmable is very much. if you think it's way before musical boxes which were sort of sixteenth seventeenth century inventions but yes it's a very clever thing for the period but of course you use pressurized air supply to blow the air through how would the benami supply others have done this well far as we know from the references there are two ways one was apparently to provide a steam supply a very low pressure steam supply itself is well. powered yes the earliest seems sound that's right the other way of doing it was to use a system of chambers two chambers which could be filled up with water and emptied if you imagine the two chambers as one is filling up the other one is going down this one filling up the air trapped is being fed into here and then this one starts to empty this all starts to fill in the air trapped in there is then provides the

continuous flow right so it's like this operation much like a conventional bellows but this is a water powered bellows so the whole contraption is continue i was really of water . moving the wheels and the water powering pushing the through it fits in with their general philosophy because they were obviously involved a lot in water lifting water movement devices so water was obviously as a motive power was very much in mind so i imagine when they came to develop this water power was the first thing they thought of to make it work. water played a key role in many medieval engineering projects both large and small this nomic world inherited many techniques of irrigation a water supply from the egyptians greeks and romans this beautiful structure is an underground water reservoir in constantinople modern day istanbul it was built by

the romans in the sixth century the engineers of the golden age preserve this but they also modified improved. constructed their own water projects they were develop new techniques to capture store and raise water. many sophisticated hydraulic pumps and water raising devices were developed by al jazeera one of the most prolific engineers obvious manic world. born in the trial century he served as a royal engineer at the are two clue palace in what is now turkey. at istanbul's museum of the history of science and technology in islam they have built working models of some of al-jazeera water devices docked the debt left when turned explains them to me. as you have a look inside this building you can see the donkey and this stone creamery moving

mechanism bringing into running these years as you can see and then lifting the water up to these channels that's quite a sophisticated machine it is a surface. he was more fascinating engineering. water devices like hell gerry's were hugely important throughout the islamic world as their empire spread across the globe. engineers of the golden age built reservoirs and impressive dams many of which still survived today across the middle east and islamic spain as well as these dams in places like cord of iran and syria irrigation was also provided by nor ears from the arabic now which are giant scooping waterwheels but as populations grew throughout the islamic world it became necessary to have more advanced devices and towards the end of the truss century

developed sophisticated water pumps. so have all of this even more sophisticated water lifting devices as the water moves the water wheel round that's moving backwards of course it's like a double piston pumping up the water through both pipes up right up to the tower. lifts and pumps the water up to a high of eleven meter. al-jazeera combined several sophisticated mechanisms the pump works via val's that creates a partial vacuum causing. the water to be sucked up from the river below this pump is also remarkable because it has a double action each side takes it in turn this double pumping makes it much more efficient the machine is driven by the river itself which turns a water wheel and that water wheel is attached to gears and two pistons.

water is sucked up from the river by the pistons which slide back and forth as the gear turns. by doing this al jazeera is converting the rotating movement of the water wheel into a side to side motion is possibly the earliest description of a crank slider a fundamental component of many modern machines including car engines. we know about al-jazeera these devices because he wrote about them in great detail and an early copy of his greatest work exists right here in istanbul. the ottomans conquered constantinople modern day stumble towards the end of the golden age and when they took power many thousands of manuscripts are transferred

here to istanbul. this is a wonderful text it dates back to the mid twelve hundreds the title of the book is. which translates as far as i can tell to the complete book of knowledge and work what is lovely about it is that throughout the text are these wonderful vivid color diagrams of his contraptions and devices they get increasingly complex and ingenious. this is a particular favorite of mine because it depicts an animal an ox or donkey which is supposedly turning this axis and acting to pump the water but at least one account suggests that actually the animal isn't needed at all it's only there so as not to

scare people into thinking this is some kind of magic essentially the water is in the river here and as it drops down below the river the energy the kinetic energy of the water turns this axis by a set of gears which operates a vertical axis and spins it that in turns operate another gear which lifts the water in these vessels up to a higher level so it's self-sustaining it's beautiful and you don't need an ox or don't heat to operate it all. the way. in islam followers of the faith are required to pray at specific times during the day and so knowing the time accurately is very important today clocks like this

outside the mosque give the precise targets for prayer. s. l jaziri and other engineers of the golden age devised a great many clocks which were more accurate and elaborate what had gone before al jazeera he wrote about clocks that relied on candles which driven by weights or were regulated by water but his most famous creation was the extravagant elephant cluck. professor attila beer is one of the foremost scholars of the engineers of the

golden age he studied the original description of the clock written in al-jazeera his great text. book system and me are two major written that i learned them needed to whom it would it. is to know them well more than i know the pulitzer all the details about the mechanisms of all written something reserved in this book the elephant clock not only showcases the heights of sophistication in mechanics at the time it's also an early representation of the multiculturalism that existed during the golden age she can move given equal rock and beauty to your control and we believe you are almost rigorous. she not only. in sam will no longer be a feeling of yours this is them and they're the best the molalla believe there will be that be a dick or as you want maybe a show make on his must or to each shoulder. the clock tells the time with an

indicator at the top show. the number of hours since sunrise but the main mechanism for this clock is hidden inside the elephant's belly a ball that floats on a water tank and every half hour creates an eye catching display the bowl slowly fills with water from a hole in its bottom and sinks off to half an hour when it sinks it tugs a series of pulleys and strings which run all the way to the top of the clock. they connect the ball to a channel of boards which is concealed in the top. of the police and strings causes the channel to tilt and so one ball is released this makes the bird on the top spin round and the time indicator advances the ball travels through and fall from a full can speak into a serpent's mouth causing it to tilt and this causes the elephant driver to beat the elephant. as the mechanisms inside the clock are triggered the floating bowl is

pulled back and starts filling with water again for the next half hour. there's another inventor who's been associated with perhaps one of the most extravagant claims of the golden age. lived in the ninth century the same time as the brothers and came from and. is achieved ment's he studied glass extensively devising a new method of manufacturing colored glass and even making any corrective lenses a precursor to reading glasses but there's one story about him which if true is absolutely remarkable. human current is always dreamt to flights since long before the wright brothers built their first airplane if that we know that back in the

fifteenth century united have been cheating diagrams of gliders. supposedly seven hundred years before davinci. had already taken to the skies. and agreement is a pilot with the british royal air force and i want to get his opinion on whether it been for nasa could really have made himself fly over a thousand years ago. the story. years of his life to build. bird feeders accounts say that he jumped off a tower of hillside and remain. sailing over the flat lands outside cordova. just how likely is this story to have been true i'd love to think it was possible but he's got some big challenges in doing that and a thousand years ago having the engineering structural technology to be able to produce the wings the materials at the time would have left him with

a very heavy flying machine he would have had to run quickly to get it airborne even faster to survive the landing. having the center of gravity exactly the right place and actually having the control to be able to control the roll pitch your there's a hundred years of design and development of gone into the technology on this airplane right now. what also makes even more challenging is supposedly he didn't even have a tail attached to his wings which would have made landing pretty problematic i guess very simply without this pace this airplane will not fly or indeed you won't be able to control a lift when you come into landing. i would love to believe that it is possible he could have done this but more importantly he is

recognized as one of the. it might be apocryphal but it's what he stood for as as an innovator as an inspiration to later generations the simpleton he is paul's off the amazing story very. true but what we do know is that there were incredible engineers and inventors during the world in the golden age men like al jazeera and the brothers who. i'm richelle carey with your top stories here on al-jazeera there is outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests just outside of paris on thursday trade unions and far left parties lashed out at what they call police brutality after this footage went viral meanwhile the protests

continue in central paris where there have been days at times of violent demonstrations retailers have lost a billion dollars since the protests started. the pictures of the young people in recent. hard to watch you want to say it but i think it's important to put them into context there is truth there is contrary and there is also exploitation by some people expect that if you we found that high school students who were participating in blockades who joined by around one hundred hundred individuals with sticks and seen dri devices with the film intention to battle with security forces these are not movements from high school students but real urban violence germany's ruling christian democrats are such well liked a new leader to replace coal the chancellor has given her last speech as party leader and homburg ahead of a second ballot one thousand delegates will choose between three candidates arkell

is not seeking re-election but the winner could determine how long she stays on as chancellor. as president has again lashed out on twitter against the investigation into possible collusion between russia and his two thousand and sixteen election campaign new details are expected on friday that could shed light on how to have slumps close as former aides have helped or hindered special counsel robert muller spro. a second day of talks is being are being held rather in sweden aimed at ending the war in yemen there was a promising start on thursday when warring sides agreed up to a prisoner exchange deal. orators is reporting that iran has given the oil producing group a green light to cut its oil output by eight hundred thousand barrels per day starting next year groups expected to ask a nonmember producers to cut production by four hundred thousand barrels per day and a source from member countries have been trying to reach an agreement on how to reduce its output of crude oil since thursday russia which is not and opec has opposed to

cut off saudi arabia one of their production of about a million barrels a day those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come the stream is that next. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing realities the pain starts from the very beginning of the burning school while you're providing context housing is not just about four walls and there we'll hear their story and talk to how does iraq. hi emily could be here in the stream today we explore demands for the israeli government to address the sharp rise in femicide and the u.s. government's decision to permit testing for fossil fuels along the atlantic coastline a move that could potentially endanger aquatic animals but first what did the

syrian man learn while stuck for seven months in a malaysian airport leave your comments in the you tube chat and listen to what refugee has said when he was finally able to leave that airport. hi. i know i look like someone who would run from the store normally i'm sorry for that i'm also sorry for not being in perth for the last almost two months for no it's not a board that i have or what was going on with me. the boss is no longer with us what is the board going. to be toward the present and the future well for today i mean they want to come in from the airport or toward to i would be fine and i mean from vancouver canada. for the last the. long. journey and months it was very hard core i could not do it without the prayers

from all of you i could not do it without. well you could be different from. my lawyer. i love your. let's. move. over to war. has. become resigned to living in the domestic transfer lounge of the kuala lumpur international airport after being deported from the united arab emirates and overstaying his malaysian tourist visa unable to return to syria to the ongoing war he documented life inside the terminal in a series of viral tweets eventually attracting the attention of canadian activist groups who organized to file a refugee application on his behalf we're pleased to welcome to the show from his new home in whistler british columbia canada welcome to the us and i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet from justin himself there is a will there is

a way if there is a chance in a million to do something anything just to do it the result is breathtaking trust me canada is awesome and a picture there of you so i want to show you some of the reactions to your tweets from people just as happy that you made it to canada this is ken who says welcome to canada house and please don't hold our winters against us another person writes in this is sherry she says i'm very happy for you welcome to canada vancouver and whistler are also there have you skiing and snowboarding soon hope you enjoy your new job at your hotel in whistler and best wishes talk to us about what it was like stepping foot in vancouver canada after such a long journey what was going through your mind. thank you for having me first of all. i realize for the first time that there is a moment in the your life that is a moment where that become more beautiful than the team itself. staking overlimit.

i can't believe how the people kind generous they are the minute i put a foot on the. international airport and how that immigration officers treated me i told them that i have a bad experience when it comes to dealing with that if you are with immigration officers in both u.a.e. and malaysia and you just changed my mind. i keep receiving gifts and free things from the community here i get like that an invitation for skiing with equipments as well. invitation for the nutter for going outside or showing me around it's it's what i i could not imagine that it would be that that good and that's a beautiful i feel really relax i feel that i'm safe and legal finally but i'm still thinking of those who are left behind the people who lost it is suffering and how i should i be thankful and grateful for that is that my life. i'm actually much

more lucky to. sixty five million refugees in this world who still suffering until the very moment i want to share their audience someone who shares that sentiment that of course you're not alone but she's also very happy that you are in canada this is lori cooper one of the women and one of the people who helped sponsor your journey there this is what she told the stream. when i first heard about hassan i really didn't know what to do he was in a terrible situation he couldn't leave the country no airline would sound an airline ticket and malaysia wouldn't allow him to reenter the country because he'd overstayed his visa we eventually decided to raise the money to sponsor him and with help from the canadian government and u.n.h.c.r. we got him to canada but he's just one of over sixty eight million people who are displaced from their homes and we and we need to find better ways as a society to support these people talk to us about how you came to be stranded in

that airport it's a long story but the short version of it as a two faces bear some of and do it on one with we need you to the same conclusion i held that piece of documents say that i born in syria and for that sort of that only the international community the global system since two thousand and eleven when the syrian war starts are judging us because if it not because of our own mistakes and crimes even some allies are not alone thus the war than we are not allowed to use europe or set them what's in europe just because we all see it in even a park or does it stop its heart that's new to i will face is i'm upset story. global system has failed us and how the individual was like. a lawyer. they can make a difference they can change the law to change life if they decided to they are the you he it was either and they are. in the i was

a among with no choice. but we decided to court his last name by to ask what i believe human rights as a human. and you remained hopeful and did it in ways that look like this i want to share with our audience this is a tweet from has since twitter feed although i keep losing weight i wanted to try my new treadmill treadmill and doing some heavy exercises trying to make use of billable resources hashtags syrian stock at the airport and you can see there in this week doing doing a few actions i was there so with that in mind our audience has this question for you. and how did you remain hopeful under those circumstances you're always accompanied by a smile. but there was also i'm still a human and there was a lot of it on once. i did not share it. i thought people injured they have their own lives they have their own problems they have

their own tragedies they it's a better to explain my situation not to complain about it but are to deliver a statement with a smile. rather than an anger or upset or depression so i decided to go with a smile and i realize now life i can understand life from a different perspective hope is the main source for everything i hope to spare some cannot love going to war going to do anything even will wake up in the morning give it we need to understand that giving up is that is old not an option but is an order that's trying enough. given up so quickly. it's not like this it's hard it's lonely it's cool it's anger but if we believe in it we need to stand and we will reach a point when we be brought out of what we are doing in love what you are doing god's that is us hearing that story we got this comment live on you tube julie says i hope one day that all oppressed people will feel this kind of freedom how does

your experience impacted your feelings about these kinds of restrictions on refugees so in taking that has and what would your message be to an international audience watching you right now would you what would you want to say. we are living in the future of language we are speaking the future language you know there's a lot in the social media and the media so we don't they don't need to go all out to protest with a sign they can make a difference a white sitting in their living room by sharing by commenting by liking something out of their principles they can make a difference and create that we've it's the moment when their rights would imagine that their duties it's not only to do it their right to speak. freely or to expose themselves it's also the duties and there is a lot of hostile environment in social media they can make the change. they should do so so that negative people will go back to the caves and there's

a lot of love in this world and together we can fight all the negativity and we can make this world the but at least for us for that if you she's as well has been a perfect way to end this segment thank you for sharing your story with us on the street thank you very much appreciate it thank you we go now to israel where women throughout the country hit the streets on tuesday calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government to address an uptake and femicide and domestic violence take a look at this video of the rally posted to facebook by women's rights activists some are selling me. thanks so much the settlers going to get you over.

some of joins us on the phone now she's the founder and director of not arab women in the center also with us in tel aviv allison summer is a journalist for the it's real. newspaper ha'aretz welcome to both of you i'll start here with you it's in hebrew and it is all over instagram right now. translates roughly to i am a woman i'm on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency is the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin and tony i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by

close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day after the international day recognizing violence against women and it was also a day in the week that the government had rejected an earlier approved proposal to to give funds to fight this phenomenon so it was really an outcry of protest

against the indifference by this government and a demand that the people in charge start taking this phenomenon seriously and adjust it as seriously as they they take other security issues i hear there alison i want to share this tweet we got from someone whose handle is a syndicate they say if there has been a concrete accomplishment and sail from the me to movement it has been the demonstration of solidarity and carrying that israeli women have shown in their demand but the government mount a real battle against gender violence some i want to go to you with this because as we all know to sadly on fourth. julie is that violence against women knows no boundaries no race religion culture it happens everywhere talk to us about that idea of solidarity between women first of all thank you for posting this issue we cannot ignore that fifty percent of the femicide victims inside the israeli state of palestinian woman and we are twenty percent of the population that's mean that

we are more. as a victims and. out of woman and inside as it is i did much much as the jewish woman the oval fact that. two hundred thousand women are abused women and israel and the fifty four percent of them them honest and women also. you know the woman to the street together last two days ago. and of the state of which you know so-called democracy we have this expectation that a low end law enforcement will take at least. be equal you know and to treat our women as. jewish women are victims of violence or domestic violence equally but we see that when eighty percent of the are up there

betrayed the results killers are not behind bars and one hundred percent of the femicide cases against jewish women are sold and someone is saying you know what i brice so this is another kind of discrimination in the israeli society which has pushed us to translate our struggle as a feminist movement of palestinian feminist movement inside the israeli society and and it when this week it was too much to take from this chauvinist extremist government to give us a slap in the face and then became as any extreme. right wing government. violence against violence against. the jewish woman so you've listed there what women are calling for in organizers are calling for want to share a few more demands on twitter thank you for reaching out here are the changes we'd like to message violence is not just physical the government must provide financial support for women inks experiencing domestic violence and address the wage gap

another person writes and this is emily she says i think the government should immediately implement a sixty seven million dollar plan that they planned one point five years ago and stalled and i think there needs to be additional oversight to ensure police and other bodies adequately deal with this problem but alison we know that prime minister netanyahu has come under fire why. well because he is viewing this through a political lens i mean he views most things through a political lens but when he was asked to visiting a women's shelter last week with his wife as to why he had led his government coalition to reject a proposal to have a parliamentary committee and of inquiry into why this domestic violence was not being addressed adequately he answered that he had opposed it because the opposition had proposed it and his wife sarah who very rarely contradicts him in

public said this shouldn't be a question of opposition or coalition she said this should be a political issue it should be beyond politics and she frankly appeared shocked that he had indeed made this move so. you know most of most of his failings is that is that he sees this as a quote unquote leftist issue and his government is a right wing government but i think that the message has now been heard after the massive protests that really had no political stripe on them right or left women from the entire spectrum of israeli spoke out on tuesday so i think maybe going to take some action is political there is no feminine struggle without politics inside it we're talking about power and the balance of the power and the gap between the jewish and palestinian authority we are under this under this government for

decades and it's going from you know one gender ratios we required to we see what the government doing five like oppressing them and five million behind the wall in the west america and we see that what's happening and with the policemen and women in fight we cannot say that it's a social struggle and feminist struggle political struggle and we have to put the. yes it does and i don't know what position on coalition because we saw what this guy shouldn't do it right so much so i have to pause there i don't do it for fun i have to be there unfortunately because we're out of time for this but i hear and take your point that this of course is beyond politics mohammed here on youtube says it's very sad news to lose twenty four lives all in the name of domestic violence so we'll pause this part of the conversation in israel right now thank you to some of us than amy and allison summer for being part of it finally to the u.s. the mid atlantic coastline and the debate around offshore drilling policy that

could potentially harm many marine species here's how one environmental rights group campaign is addressing the issue. last month the trumpet ministration and obama measure that prohibited offshore drilling within fifty miles of the coast oil and gas companies will now be able to use seismic air gun to test for fossil fuel but a coalition of business owners animal welfare activists and politicians opposed the

decision michael jackson is the director for the marine mammal protection project at the natural resources defense council and he joins us from new york welcome michael to the stream. to you hi there this is from mali who says it is so upsetting that seismic blasting off of the coast got the green light this will have serious impacts on marine life and the existing coastal communities that depend on a healthy atlantico so we're definitely hearing from people who are opposed to this but before we get too deep explain to us in layman's terms. what is it why do you find it so problematic sure well first of all make no mistake what we're talking about here seismic blasting is a precursor to offshore drilling and that has very significant impacts on the environment but seismic blasting is something that has significant impacts and that itself in order to prospect for oil and gas miles beneath the sea floor industry to raise of high volume behind vessels there's. every ten seconds or

so united for months on end it's just imagine having an explosive go off in your neighborhood every ten seconds for months and that is what gas industry the trumpet ministration want to subject. the marine environment off the east coast to. the temp ministration for this discussion we reached out to get a comment from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration the u.s. government agency that's monitoring climate and here's what they told us. we have also while under finalizing these authorizations we've also carefully reviewed and ensured propre is the best available information scientific information available in meeting the requirements of the m.p.a. the endangered species act national environmental policy act and other implementing regulations for these geophysical surveys. and with respect to the endangered

species act to ensure that the effects of the authorization should not result in jeopardy of and dangerous threatened species under the e.s.a. and have prepared and signed a biological opinion documenting that analysis so michael it's a bit of alphabet soup there but her point is that the government has heard this complaint and they're making sure that they're doing things in compliance with laws when you make about. yeah i mean unfortunately this administration isn't exactly long on science and this is another case in which they're just disregarding the basic facts about the activity that they're that they're authorizing. seismic surveys have it extraordinarily large environmental print footprint we know that the blast that they had met can silence wells for hundreds of miles around a single array and what. they proposed here involves running some seventy

thousand miles of aragon track wind like a lawnmower back and forth. over the the mid atlantic and and southeast regions so you know it's what's the front of ministration is doing is it's like looking at that it's taking a smokestack and looking for impacts just within a few meters when in fact the pollution emitted by that smokestack goes out for miles and miles that's their approach and it it's just completely out of scale with what the scientific community understands to be the environmental impacts of the activity so i want to present our audience two opposing sides that because this is so low crafted to get into the stream thing that the impact of this is making america great and creating millions of jobs on the other side of that coin we've got a video comment from someone who stands opposite to that this is diane and she is

the campaign director for oceana have a listen to what she had say this action was in the days and nights of opposition to offshore drilling in times week and was including over ninety percent of coastal has a colony on the black family if we go down the path you live close to the turn from the town will the people of the ok that's not the one where the harm that comes from by the government was. prepared by going to last season when schools are considering. michael a lawsuit to think that's the way forward well it says as you just heard it's it's it's one tool that can be used to fight this the fact is that the administration has violated multiple laws in approving this this activity and whether it's before the court or the court of public opinion whether it's in coastal communities or and capitol hill where the opposition to seismic blasting

and offshore drilling is wide and deep in bipartisan. we are we are going to have to fight this action. michael and here with this from two peat who says the battle for the atlantic is now in full swing go tell your representative let them know that giving our pristine coast to the oil industry is unacceptable thank you to michael jackson that's all the time we have parade now be sure to keep tabs on the stories we discussed and the other stories we're following by following. twitter we're at eighty three we'll see you next time. bringing my. children so they can see and get more comfortable five children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons fact that makes the report stand there for a new machine and it's fun but the new generation is fighting fire with the reason we are fighting for you here because we don't want to see you speak it. never again

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isn't the easiest way to solve the. u.n. observers who you invited into the country to finish the job. do you think we're going to see some kind of change in the u.s. . we. live from studio fourteen here. welcome to the new. outrage in france thousands of high school students join the movement sweeping the

country but it is the image of. some. protest in the french government is putting nearly ninety thousand police officers on the streets. in the mediterranean sea its operations doctors without borders says it's because of a. dangerous waters now the fear is thousands more will be lost at sea. after nearly two decades as the leader of the christian democratic party. is stepping down the race is on for the conservative party. doesn't end until twenty twenty one. on the significance of what it means for germany. japan is facing an unusual

property problem it has. more homes than people to live in them so the government is giving houses away for free but not everybody wants them i mean the chapelle and i'll tell you why you can connect with us on twitter using the hash tag agency. and argue with the good news great i live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and al-jazeera dot com we'll get to those stories in a moment but first some developments coming out of washington in the past few minutes concerning the trumpet ministration donald trump says he will nominate a new attorney general and ambassador to the u.n. bill barr will be nominated for the united states attorney general position i think he will serve with great distinction i also want to form you that head there now or somebody that we don't very well who's done a great job at the as as it would by from peo and others over at the state

department head there now or will be nominated. he's going to work with the haley to replace vicki at the united nations g.o.p. ambassador to the united nations she's very talented very smart very quick and i think she's going to be respected by also had there now or will be nominated for ever has entered the united nations. so let's talk about that let's go straight to kimberly how kid who's live for us in washington so kimberly what to me what are we to make of these two announcements. what we can make from these two announcements with regard to heather nauert he has repeatedly praised her work at the state department donald trump saying that she has been a quote supporter for a long time he certainly likes the fact that she has defended him from the podium where she has been the state department spokeswoman having said that many people

are questioning her credentials whether or not she has the experience to replace nikki haley as u.s. ambassador to the united nations given the fact that prior to this she worked at the fox television network she's worked briefly with some foreign correspondents experience reporting experience including in baghdad but in terms of foreign policy or national security experience she certainly is very limited and when you comes to the. appointment for the attorney general this is another area where it appears that loyalty is what matters to this president not necessarily qualifications no in the case of build bar he certainly has done a similar role before in fact he was the attorney general under george herbert walker bush who of course recently passed but in the midst of all this he has been some controversy on some of his positions he's supported the donald trump's call for a probe into hillary clinton the former first lady and the democratic presidential

nominee in twenty sixteen and he's also in fact publicly questioned the direction of the probe into whether or not there was collusion between donald trump's campaign and russia in two thousand and sixteen so it appears that these appointments are critical we know the president has often criticized his former attorney general jeff sessions for accusing him recusing himself from that russia probe sort appears that what matters is that the president wants to see someone in the role of attorney general if confirmed who protects him perhaps over adhering to u.s. law in the constitution and kimberly all not going to rush of investigation the president has been on something of a of a tweet storm to day regarding that would suggest wouldn't that there is more bad news ahead for the administration on this. it certainly suggests a little trump is feeling the heat many believe that these two announcements may be

his effort to try and distract from what could be some bad news coming down the pike in terms of the russia probe there or it's a big day for that investigation there a number of fronts the special counsel robert muller is submitting a court filing where he will essentially have to lay out why he believes that donald trump's former campaign manager paul man afore lied to the f.b.i. this could shed light on the direction of the russia program which we know very little about because it has been so tight lipped many of the public filings have been heavily redacted as well we could see perhaps some details coming out with regard to a new york judge ordering the special counsel to provide sentencing memos with regard to donald trump's former personal attorney michael cohen that could also shed some light on this case and finally we know that the former f.b.i. director james comey of course donald trump fired him he will be testifying behind closed doors on capitol hill and well we don't expect to a media at least hear anything coming out of those closed door hearings the

transcripts will eventually be made public as well there could be some leaks and they could be unfavorable to the president so we've seen these ramblings the president on twitter sending out five tweets in the span of two hours pointing the finger at robert muller accusing him of conflicts of interest being best friends with the former f.b.i. director james comey even pointing the finger at what he called once again angry democrats once again many people believing these latest announcements these appointments to u.s. ambassador to the united nations and also potentially if confirmed the attorney general that these may be an effort to distract from potentially negative headlines for donald trump that investigation rolling on we know you. with the latest on that committee how could life force in washington. well let's talk more now about president picked to replace nikki haley at the united nations hillary mann leverett is in washington for us via skype she's a former u.s. diplomat and white house national security official thanks very much for being with

us good to speak with you again so what are we to make then of this appointment of heaven now it's. i think it shows how determined president trump is to have people that first and foremost look the part she will be a nice face on several media platforms it shows his focus on messaging particularly i know we've just finished with the november midterm elections and here in the united states but president trump is already gearing up for his two thousand and twenty reelection campaign and she will be in a fact nice looking spokesperson for him and his policies in new york on the world stage i think that's the biggest priority for the administration at this point is that there was talk as well that he she is more closely aligned with with the trumpet ministration on foreign policy more than nikki haley was she didn't get along with the previous secretary of state rex tillerson and that's part of the

reason why she was picked what do you say to that. i agree with that i think her early distancing herself from then secretary of state hillary sent who famously called president trump a kindergartner and a moron someone who wasn't very smart she is now or it distanced herself very early very clearly very decisively from secretary of state tillerson whom she saw as someone not following in trump's footsteps not fully supportive of president trump she in contrast has made herself indispensable to the current secretary of state pompei if she's been a very effective spokesperson for him she travels regularly with secretary pompei o works very very closely with him and i think within the trump and ministration within trump's circle at the and the oval office the. the idea is the policy is to have her and pompei all working hand in hand to support the president and

carry out his message so i think she's being appointed as it as a team player as a team player who will support president right or wrong on the world stage and what does our appointment tell us about the way that the trumpet ministration sees the united nations as an organization and where it fits into u.s. foreign policy. i think there tommy ministration sees the united nations and perhaps many other platforms that it deals with as part of a media platform where the president to continue in part what is a show that he's putting on as a present right states of course there are important substantive aspects of being president but i think for trump to meet lee he sees a big part of his drive as putting on a show and new york the united nations being seen with world leaders on a stage is something that trump seems to have valued from the start of his presidency and so i think that's where we see the value for the united nations in

the in the trump administration's broader strategy we have not seen it really as an independent player but that's that's not so untypical to the trunk administration i think this will continue. the the pot the practice really of having the united nations as more of a amplifier a media amplifier of the president's message is hillary mann leverett good to speak with you as always thank you very much now france is gearing up for another weekend of possible violence from anti-government protesters eighty nine thousand police officers will be on the streets across the country as yellow vests protesters rally again on saturday tourist attractions including the eiffel tower and the movie will be closed and there's outrage in paris on what some are calling police brutality this video which shows rows of students lined up after being arrested by police during protests just outside of paris but france's interior minister says none of

the high school students were in japan. the pictures of the young people at risk. hard to watch you want to say it but i think it's important to put them into context there is truth there is contrary and there is also exploitation by some people. we found that high school students who were participating in blockades were joined by around one hundred couldn't individuals with sticks and syndrome devices with a firm intention to bet on security forces these are not movements from high school students but real urban violence. are david chaytor is live for us in paris and david a lot of our rage over that video that's been circulating widely are online in the french government head of this weekend not taking any chances on security.