to discover well you know other people from different cultures. and the boys in the school truth and me as one of them. nevertheless many people think that islam is a violent religion at all i'm against this idea so i think you could to try to change these ideas. mohammed is not the only muslim in the school and on some days they meet together with an. i think what will happen is that the islamic world will actually find its own sense of self confidence through the rock prosy do think this will lead to what it did between arabs and muslims i mean like. why don't. i just think it's just an amazing moment so how is. this a practice playing musical and he loves playing many instruments. he's told me that

i can reach my school through music and this is something you knew that i hear from him. today is the school concert and i'm thinking and it was thought that the best the single at the beginning of this and other really enjoyed it is the first singing experience for me. and the piece of music is called brooklyn yeah but over there. it's been

a formative time for my hamlet he's heading home for easter and the requiem is a fitting end he's been busy and flourishing and is having an impact on his academic work as well which is always strong and is getting stronger i'm very fortunate to have a house filled with musicians he's taking part in. this extraordinary occasion and i think he's coming around to my way of thinking. that actually it is part of what makes his wheel. thank. you when. this is my exam i have fourteen exams this year which is massive i think compared

to many other boys in my year this is the first public exams for me in the country i want to do i'm preparing i think. this term is dominated by exams but the boys do get a morning off to watch the wedding of the year. watching the royal what the from the country that it's being in is very exciting. for you. it was a great quote being a very moist area. but it was very long. generally not really keen on. monarch who is what links there are other people and there were.

mohammed has had a busy few weeks but finally it's his last exam today no i'm not there in their first look this is the last min through vision when i was in labor i was the top of the class and. i'm like i'm the other student so i have to do. well this week was very tiring for me i had exams from. day to day so i had to do a lot of provision specially in the last two days i think that. period. with exams over mohammed can enjoy the english summer. so. that's why you. try.

someone catches the ball so ok. and i can't see very well. and. each is most famous annual event is called the fourth and commemorates the birthday of two . it's a reminder of the privilege education that the boys receive there's a slight danger that they may pass through reason with the notion that they are more special rather than because it is not unusual place which has a lot of cultural baggage historical baggage so actually probably more important is

that while they appreciate and recognize the opportunity to have they don't go away thinking they're too special. i met many who were really friendly with me and i discovered. from very. very really. backing braun's so it's one of the things that makes me more. the school. even has a long tradition of rowing and the day's highlight is watching the time honored procession of boats. pushing. into the sort of to do one would expect not least into the shoes. for the boys. they are really most like you so. well i've seen boys rowing before but it's

a special thing today because they already during these special suits with the for the house with the flow was so you know it's. with his first year nearing an end mohammed visits the family that has funded his scholarship and. he's just one of forty international students that they have helped you sort of lose a little bit of faith in a little bit of hope in terms of the whole political process ever reaching any sort of positive resolution at least in our lifetime and so you do what you can and i mean you you try and our young people and i hope that they will then improve the lives of people in their community in terms of the long term i mean you see yourself going back to love the law or you see yourself saying around here or it's my. liver you know i want to study here and then try to help my people i mean palestinians who live in they really suffer from very bad conditions so i

think it's the duty of people who had chances like me to go back and hell changing these but and this is for people. mohammed's applying to study engineering at university but it's one of the professions that he can't practice in lebanon because he's a palestinian refugee everything. and i think about my future i following that situation is obstacle in front of me while i have to work even if i find obstacles in my way. it's the end of term and waynflete is packing up nothing else to go back to mohammed has been invited on a trip to europe with some of the boys before he heads home to lebanon i don't he's more excited actually i think because i know you are but we are two for you. yeah it would be very. good research and we want to thank you and it's

a good job already but let's. have a great summer. but. most of the months. i think my experience here in prague in my mind i became more confident more thoughtful and more aware about what's happening in the world. and. in between my old cult and this cult. but. i'm still alive. and i think my experience made me more conscious about helping other people and. that was more than six years ago and i'm sure you're wondering what's happened to

muhammad well i'm pleased to say that he is joining us now from london studio great to see you muhammad so as we mentioned you graduated from eton in two thousand and twelve what's happened since i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship by the arising foundation to continue my studies at u.c.l. in london i was a. a job offer in london at a global engineering consultancy called macdonald what i've been working for more than a year now what sort of projects are you working on there i've been mainly working on two projects the first one is a road expansion in the u.s. actually after that ice the start of the way working on a. you just scheme in london called the cross trail and the aim is to build and you railway that connects south west london with north east london do you have any plans of going back to the lead the norm or even go into palestine the

reality at the moment is that as a palestinian i am deprived from the right to free and to palestine because of the israeli occupation there united nation has it offend our right as palestinians to go to back to our home countries every single year we have since nineteen forty eight since my grandparents were kicked out the united nations resolution one thousand for a fair and our right to go back we've never been allowed to go my grandmother who was featured in this documentary passed away two years ago without achieving had a dream of going back so in terms of going to lebanon i love lebanon because my parents are i miss them and they miss me but the problem is that as palestinians in lebanon we deprived from many civil rights we are not allowed to work in more than

twenty professions me as a civil engineer i wouldn't be able to practice libin and many of my friends who have graduated from university have actually gone back to lebanon and at the moment they are still unemployed and so where is home for you now and how does your family feel that this has so far been a one way journey for you my dream is to be back in palestine and the ultimate goal of a home is actually palestine but at the same time i still have my childhood memories of lebanon i love lebanon because i grew up there my family is there the u.k. on the other hand has provided me with life changing opportunities. i spent their formative years of life my. i made many friends i was made connections so i would always have a connection but home will continue to be in the back of my my palestine thank you

very much mohamed for joining us and telling us about your life now well that's it for this week you can find lots of other specially selected films on the rewind page of the al-jazeera website but for now until next time goodbye. in a full part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view put him into somebody with a difficult job rather than an authoritarian leader of imperial ambitions and many critics of putin are equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum andrei necromancer discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia the now jazeera. this is the opportunity to understand in a very different way where there before something happens and we don't leave.

short films of the hook and inspiration. stories of three young women challenging the world around. al-jazeera selects. called the muslim which is saying has now been held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he's a journalist has journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence weiss's of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but

journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of all colleague mahmoud to same and all journalists detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. this is al-jazeera. and i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes another day another round of talks to resolve the partial government shutdown in the u.s. and still no breakthrough. a plea for members of the religious minority in syria

who fear for their safety of the u.s. for the draws is true. delays fears of violence and u.s. troops on stand by the disputed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo suffers another setback and i'm. standing up against a so-called slave law unions in hungary call for a national strike against the government's controversial labor reform. united states government shutdown of tracking on for its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock senior troponin astray ssion officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government is remaining defiant refusing to sign a bill to restore a government until he gets over five billion dollars to build his mexico border

wall is live for us in washington d.c. so they have been meeting over the weekend where do things stand now diane. well it doesn't look like these meetings this afternoon saturday gained much headway or bear much fruit and it kind of depends on who you ask vice president mike pence jarrett cushion or the president's son in law and close advisor and cures to nielsen the secretary of homeland security met for about two hours in the vice president's office with congressional aides the press the vice president said that the meeting on saturday was productive however president trump tweeted that the two sides really didn't make much headway now those two sides are going to be meeting again on sunday and the president is going to be meaning in camp david with his advisors to discuss this shutdown that as you mentioned has gone into is going into its fifteenth day later this afternoon house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement saying that house democrats are going to be meeting next week and

they're going to be passing individual appropriations bills that would reopen the department of treasury and the internal revenue service so that the i.r.s. could begin processing income tax returns and get tax refunds in the hands of americans she said in a statement that the senseless uncertainty and chaos of the trunk shutdown must end now as you mentioned we're in the fifteenth day of this shutdown. we're going into the third week if it goes another week this would be the longest government shutdown in u.s. history all right and esterbrook live for us in washington diane thank you. while the politicians continue to argue eight hundred thousand government workers are still going without pay or not working at all that's creating a knock on effect for essential services across the country it's being reported that transportation security agents at major airports are starting to call in sick

because they don't want to work without pay the t.s.a. is responsible for screening passengers the program providing food assistance to about thirty eight million low income americans could face drastic cuts if the shutdown continues and staffing levels the national parks have been severely reduced the government a society to keep most parks open even if there's no supervision there so far three people have died in accidents at the parks since the shutdown began joining me now from washington d.c. is political analyst eric hamm thank you so much for joining us so those things that i just mentioned you know food stamps being cut there's no supervision at the parks is is the country at any type of risk the longer of this this goes on. absolutely without question and think about it when we if this shutdown goes another week this will be the first time within this shutdown that federal workers are not receiving paychecks and so think about that you have not had the holidays

are over college students are going back to school and you have parents who are not working and so the question becomes do they pay mortgages or do they pay college tuition do they pay for groceries or do they pay utilities and so these are some of the bread and butter issues that people are faced with now as this shutdown continues to loom and hear the president say that this shutdown he could take this shutdown for year or four years that i'm sure has many workers hitting the panic button on how they were actually survive going forward so we're talking about eight hundred thousand workers which is obviously a lot of people but that the effect of a ripple effect beyond just those eight hundred thousand people there is that there's an economy also that depends on that. sure because when you look at those eight hundred thousand employees many of those eight hundred thousand employees are

not with in washington d.c. they are scattered throughout the country and so think about small businesses think about food trucks that may set up around government offices or building on the lot of small businesses and now that those workers aren't coming into the office that's putting a crimp on small businesses opportunities to earn as well so we're not just talking about eight hundred thousand employees going without paychecks we're talking about the residual small businesses and other entities that will not be getting paid as a result of these federal workers not working and so i mean it's a ripple effect and i just don't think either the president or even congress really understands what's at stake and i think we're going to really see the pressure ramp up next week when we see government workers start losing paycheck but looking ahead to next week's palosi has tweeted that what some of that democrats are going to start doing is introducing individual appropriations bills to slowly open up

certain departments might that change the game once that actually starts to happen . well what it shows is that you have at least one branch of government that is actually trying to address the problem and i think what she's doing by by doing this one bill at a time remember appropriations bills do a ridge and a in the house of representatives so she's actually showing the american people that the house is actually doing its job and she's passing bills that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has already passed so the bills that she will be passing already are experiencing bipartisan support so now what she's doing is she's putting that pressure now on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to actually act on them and to pass them and force the president to either sign the bill signed these spending bills or veto these bills and so i think we're going to see the house continue to do that over the over the next week and joining us from

washington eric thank you. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned syria's government they withdrawal of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons arrived in israel and will meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday before travelling to turkey i'm sure has promised to take the lead in the fight against eisel in syria but it reportedly wants american military support to continue even after the u.s. pull out their affairs trumps decision will clear the path for a turkish assault against kurdish forces who fought side alongside u.s. troops against eisel has more from gaza on tap on the turkey syria border. talkies priority least is that it's a moment of kurdish why preview fighters who want full to long side u.s. troops in the fight against yourself hold them many times before the most effective force against but to talk to them nothing more than

a terrorist organization an extension of the kurdish workers the p.k. k. and want them just a move on the disc and with taken out of territory and they were needed turkey's border with syria actually turkey doesn't want to be a y.p. decontrolling and if syria and has been immobile cruelty and recent weeks saying they will talk all the tom the city of mumbai each with a view of removing the white preview from the ones just to call on support from the united states u.s. troop withdrawal process is complete but u.s. officials hope to pull him from a clear timetable so will times took hold would now expect john bolton when he visits. on tuesday to come up with a media timetable for troop withdrawal. the community has also called on u.s. troops not to withdraw from syria they phrasing the foundation has warned that if

american forces leave before ice was defeated. the armed group will make a comeback an estimated three hundred thousand were killed when i saw fighters swept across northern iraq and syria and certainly government officials have expressed alarm that their withdrawal of u.s. troops will embolden iran to expand its influence in syria as a michael there is a professor and international relations at regents university he says washington strategy in the middle east is confused the message use is completely incoherent on the one hand the united states and top and installation talk about small push only on the visa v the nuclear issue while the main concern for weezer the real concern is and is actually having iran too close to the boulder whether in syria the pork saved by the freeze by law and even directs now supply off weapon in ammunition or huge scale to the burner so what is the message more push on iran less pollution or

is it on is a major threat to stability in the milk and interests of the region or we always know and that's what it is waiting in these other allies in the region to a coherent message just started to foam from washington on the day they don't find it and we've the expectations that iran actually when when president tom say it doesn't mind if iran will do whatever it wants in syria that's obviously the kind of message that stays of the government is afraid of. then comes the contradictory message that came. to washington when mine diffuser would operate but if really in syria but then it would lead for pleasure if russia that's unhappy about it especially since the downing of the planes in september so actually what it in violence is further clashing in its rates the the regional disoblige in this sense way less stable. well you had in the news hour including a plea for help you manage to make their case to the u.n.

special envoy about the devastating impact of the war the dependable donkey under threat and nigeria will tell you what's being done to stop them from dying out. and manchester united's new manager continues his perfect start to the chops on the one about in sport. gyptian police officer has died all trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo officers were called to the eastern suburb of nasr city when the suspicious package was found on a rooftop to other police and an onlooker were injured in that blast it comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas egyptian christians have been targeted and a string of attacks in recent years more on this now i'm joined by associate professor of political science at long island university she joins us now from new .