it's been a testing term but already mohammed has come a long way. he's i'm very willing to it is math and physics is performing a very high level there has been some things are two times that he's doing a course that assumed a certain amount of background knowledge that he didn't have with his work very hard to to fill those gaps. i don't quite like him to get away from the desk a little bit into maybe tries hundred a few other things and it's a strange thing for teachers to be saying but actually not work what's going on right. now. this is the schoolyard of it and call is this is this. tenor of the six the person who is who he is our father all the people here here are very proud of him. this is the chapel of. eaton's gothic chapel is central to school life there's

a service almost every day and those of all faiths attend going to temple is was one of them in the for us is. in them as a muslim i haven't been to a church. but i was excited to go to discover well you know other people from different cultures. and the boys in the school prove to me as one of them but nevertheless many people think that islam is a violent religion at all i'm against this idea so i think it's my duty 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 role prosy do think this will lead to what it did between arabs and muslims i mean like. why don't lawyer

i just think it's just an amazing moment if so how is. this a practice playing musical and he loves playing many instruments. and 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 the queen am above a day. it's

been a formative time for mohamad 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 work being. done. but it was very long. generally not really

he came. his what legs there were other people in 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 global flood and. i'm like i'm the other student so i have to do. well this week was very tiring for me. exams from monday until today so i had to do a lot of provision special in the last two days i think that this period has. with exams over mohammed can enjoy the english summer.

so when you go to. someone catches the ball so ok so. i'm. very well. and. each his 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 recognised. 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 man's 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 peace especially with the for the house with the fellow was sweden always. 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 in empowering young people 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 bourke and 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 every thought. and i think about my fuse i following that situation is obstacle in front of me well i have to work even if i find obstacles in my way. it's the end of term and waynflete is packing up nothing i have 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. here and here the big. group. research and we want to thank you and it's a good job already but i don't. have a great time not to do that. but. also about my. 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

a. palestinian 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 where 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 lunt thing called crossrail 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 her 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 engine there 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. made many friends i was made connections so i would always have that connection but i continue to be in the back of my mind . thank you very much muhammad for joining us. now well that's it for this week you can find lots of other specially selected films on the page of the website but for now until next time. we can bring your people back to life. with. the best of. following orders we've seen young people to fight these wars put them in the most

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diplomat tries to reassure middle east allies beginning with jordan. you're watching out to zero life from a headquarters and down i'm dead you know bill gates also ahead north korea's leader heads back to beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. and europe prepares for a more freezing cold after heavy snow killed seven in the alps. hello the turkish president has lashed out at what he says are mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about its plans to pull troops out of syria regift tell you berta one is also unhappy that the u.s. is asking turkey not to target kurdish armed groups who fought with american forces against eisold earlier on says his country will not compromise on fighters it

regards as terrorists. he says bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and ice all at the same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as the p.y.t. and the y.p. along with eisel we will mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations and syrian lands very soon while u.s. president donald trump announced last month that he was bringing home the two thousand or so american personnel from syria saying they'd succeeded in their mission to defeat eisel trumps national security advisor john bolton and his secretary of state mike pompei oh they're on a mission to reassure allies over that decision pompei it was beginning his middle east tour in jordan and will visit at least eight capitals including cairo riyadh

kuwait city and doha. that look to start the president to sit withdraw our folks are serious in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only are diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may these are simple asks we ask the public of iraq to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday and just in the last half hour general anthony zinni has resigned from his position with the state department's the former head of u.s. central command had been working as an for the trumpet ministration to resolve a dispute with cats harm he's the latest four star general to exit the administration stephanie tucker has more from amman. so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not

affect its fight to lessen to contain iran's influence in the region there was a press conference between state is your damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides wanted to see a political solution to it was in touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanian saying that they saw this as a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east now or the second if they will be heading on to egypt where he's expected to give a keynote speech interestingly that will come ten years to the time when the former president barack obama gave his middle eastern speech also a development on the same day that state was here in jordan that the former general anthony zinni who was tossed with trying to deal find a solution to the blockade the gulf blockade resigned saying that he was having difficulties in getting all sides getting the leaders of the countries to to allow

. any form of mediation so this is the context on which pump air now embarks forward but the message from the americans is that despite this pullout in syria they remain steadfast ally and they will remain very much present in the region let's talk about all of this with. a senior political analyst joining us here in the studio first on the resignation of anthony zinni so what he was tasked to do originally is to help resolve the dispute with qatar and also to introduce the concept of that middle eastern alliance what does his resignation mean for these two issues certainly we know three things one is that the the goal of course is not getting resolved to the mesa i think the middle east or the chick. alliance is not getting off the ground. probably the second because of the first we get assurances from the state department that if anything is going to go

according to plan meaning they're going to continue their efforts but there's nothing necessarily on the horizon we also know that he quit after both his boss is secretary of state tillerson and secretary of state's mattis that engaged in the first place have quit the from administration so i think that bit of a result of that as well i think the question is the timing the timing is that he quit right when secretary pump is in the gulf region that of course needs to give us some pows why would he quit just when one pale is in the region here let's say there is some and then at the speculation right one is that he feels like he's not in the loop. meaning on players of the regime there were some some reports not necessarily on the record that circuit them might issue something invitations for some kind of a summit with trump to dissolve the sink if this is true and he's not in the loop certainly he doesn't feel like he's useful like the special envoy to syria to do

isis didn't feel he was useful and he quit when person trump made incision to withdraw troops from syria without consulting with them and of course that is the idea that. neither he's getting the leverage from present trump the necessary pressure to pressure the leaders of the gulf to resolve the issues nor are there is there enough diplomatic pressure within the region let's all remember that film does not have ambassadors cutter the u.a.e. or saudi arabia so someone like me feels like he doesn't have the support from washington or the support from the region for his effort and and my cum peo you were just mentioning him he's obviously now in the region starting off in jordan and at the same time you have bolton who is in in turkey these two men are on a mission clearly how would you describe that mission for the region now is that some sort of damage control that they're having to embark upon because of these mixed messages from the trumpet ministration i think they're certainly one side of

it is damage control the other side of it is controlling the narrative about u.s. involvement in the middle east because there's been i think too much of flip flopping when it comes to what is washington's policy strategy in the middle east because if you are a leader in the middle east or even if you are a citizen of the middle east you don't know what exactly is washington's strategy at one point president obama told everyone iran is fine less engaged it we signed a nuclear deal with it come on board support the nuclear deal let's make sure that iran is contained and so on so forth now we have president trump saying iran is an indian number one the nuclear deal of the script we're going to reopen everything whether you want because it's the worst possible human in the middle east that certainly confuses people and then they're stop saying one thing in the beginning and then saying something else the worse the end so there's this for flopping with and truong and there is the confusion between what tom says and what some of his lieutenants have said for example just two days before the special envoy to syria

quit he said we're staying there on the lawn in the for the long haul and then two days later but it's been trump said would leaving in thirty days to one. and so on so forth so there's certainly all of these things happening and i think bolton and company you are in the region to tell the region what is exactly the search so what we've heard from bolton is that while the united states might be withdrawing militarily from syria it remains engaged in all sorts of forms i'm not sure a lot of people will take that seriously because if there isn't that presence in syria there's going to be less leverage to influence what's happening in syria i think in terms of bolton and i think that probably coincides with the xeni resignation is that both the needs to tell the region leader what exactly united states is ready to do in terms of getting their differences. sidelined in favor of this mesa initiative and what really is the american strategy views of iran on the

long term he needs to explain that to the people in the gulf and apparently he's doing a speech in cairo to talk about the global american involvement the middle east especially if he's of iran and let's just focus on bolton for a second in turkey and what he was up to there it seems that the relations between turkey and the united states are. more strained than ever yes it didn't look like adroit just a few days ago when person trump and present work on the phone and apparently they got some kind of a deal going and present the one insists that there's a deal and the deal is that the americans were going to withdrawal from syria and they're going to leave it to turkey in fact at one point person trump said well let iranians do what they arrange want to do in syria that's certainly something did not go down well neither israel nor in jordan nor in among american

allies in the gulf and certainly not in washington because people don't want to hear something like we want to confront iran and then say well let iran do whatever it wants to do in the region so certainly bolton it's. explain trump to the region saying look maybe trump say's all kinds of things but the strategy is we remain engaged in syria so much so that he upsets president their guard by saying their kit cannot do much in northern syria without checking with washington first president the one even took at the bit further by saying taking american permission to do anything though the syria that said it does not wash in turkey that consider a broker in northern syria that is that is the one of the been tasked by president trump after the full conversation to do what needs to be done now but as i now do and apparently assured the american president that he does distinguish between kurds as a people at between p.y.g. and and the cake the kurdish party as being more terrorist something

like an enemy of turkey worse than isis as we've heard before i don't think they've agreed that's what that's what explains the fact that they had two hour meeting and certainly aired the one continues to speak down at what. the national security adviser what it has said what does this take us i think probably do i need to have that conversation again withdrawn because he keeps saying i did with the american president i don't deal with his lieutenants that are in the region doing diplomacy all right thank you still had on al-jazeera the former chairman of this son makes his first court appearance since his arrest for financial misconduct. demanding a living wage in nigeria unions threaten a nationwide strike back in a moment.