to protect it so. the people here didn't do anything wrong is houses in the family then them were simply in the way. this mother told me she used to have a three bedroom house with two bathrooms a washing machine and a t.v. . now all she has is a few dusty blankets under some plastic sheet. and boulders just opened. and they came to show they told us to get outside i was scared from the sound it explodes i left all the toys were the bulldozers were they broke my toys they are under the house what they did tell us anything except one tree when they were over there. living conditions like this

a particularly hard on children there's no sanitation no clean water and a shelter from the cold that's not even a safe place to play. and if the children get sick there are no doctors but even if they were the parents couldn't pay anyway. this road runs through the middle of the gaza strip. during the years that israeli settlers lived here it was closed to the palestinians. the settlers left in two thousand and five and the homes were destroyed by these were. many palestinian homes still bear the scars of the battles surrounding the settlement. battles the basheer family. that all four story house is situated between a form a settlement village and a palestinian village the israeli military tried to take over the house because it

wanted to use it as a lookout position but the family refused to leave so the soldiers took the top two floors and the. who have six children stayed on the ground to. the first time i saw the soldiers i was scared but i got used to them and then i wasn't so scared. i asked them if i could go to the toilet but the soldiers said no they would not allow me to go. they did not let me so i wet myself. they forced us not sides and i took my dad and myself and they blindfolded me and this was the most scary thing of all. and how do you feel now it's not it's all just oh. i'm so happy now they have a gun now i can go out whenever i like at night and day people can come and see us

i'm happy even my close friends can come visit me and i can go to their houses i mean i have to be happy happy and so so. was. i as internal tensions rising gaza children have also been caught in the crossfire between hamas and fatah the two leading palestinian political parties. in december two thousand and six three children were killed when their colleagues and little girls in an apparent attack on their father a senior fatter intelligence official. over fifty children have been killed in the past three months. and more than half of gaza's children are thought to be suffering psychological damage as a result of trauma and i love have them over the them are all this destruction and

mess we just wanted she moved we want it back as a team used to be before with all the trees we want peace and this for large because we always live and fair and you don't feel safe in these houses i swear we heard the sound of for kids and the noise of shooting and everything would love some peace in this war especially. what would she say to the politicians on both sides the goal of. my first tour is start to the arabs you talk about saving the children and you speak much about children but you don't truly mean what you say because children do not have any rights here. the prime minister of ezra i said to him kill children who are endless and. i think it's because he and the israelis are scared of children and this is because

they think the children will grow up to be fighters it's the opposite i want to tell him that children aspire to be educated go to the university get ph d.'s they warrant an education they just want an indication. violence poverty politics. daily reality for the children of god for. ingalls of the population is estimated to be about one point four million over hartford these people children just think about what kind of impact passing along the top russian generation it's it's got to be addressed i do g.m.

to be a journalist because because. because i like it when i get to go i'll describe the situation here still everybody how we live how. god willing i would love to be a professor of chemistry at university. that if i do not succeed in being a martyr. when you become the first female president of palestine which i'm absolutely sure you're going to be one of the first three things you're going to do and how and. if i'm president and. i would first give children. so they don't have to live in discern years and misery to actually live in. seconds i would you move all the sharpish i would not leave it the way it is now i were to see that there are municipalities that could clear the mess

left behind by the israelis and third build a new country. children of conflict from two thousand and seven now that was more than ten years ago so what has become of the kids we met in that film in the decade since children of conflict conditions in gaza have to tear ated badly and there were major israeli incursions in two thousand and nine and fourteen we returned recently to gaza to find out what has happened to those children who by now a well into the teens on the twenty.

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those which may still be used today. all while science in a golden age with professor jim allee on al-jazeera. zero zero. three. zero. hello i'm the star and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. rulings immanent on the disputed election in the democratic republic

of congo we go live to our correspondent in kinshasa. trying to break through the barriers donald trump's so-called compromise on his border wall in a bid to end the government shutdown. if we don't think this through this is going to be iraq on steroids a senior senator tries to reassure turkey over plans to pull u.s. troops out of syria. and the enormous effort to try to rescue a two year old boy who fell into a well in spain beanie a week ago. we begin in the democratic republic of congo where the constitutional court is delivering the final ruling on the disputed presidential election there the verdict is being announced despite the african union the government to delay the final

results citing serious doubts the electoral commission declared felix's it said kerry the winner of last month's vote but another opposition leader mohsen failure lou posed a legal challenge in the court calling it an electoral crew out as he has for me as a mellow joins us live now from the capital kinshasa for me to walk us through what the court is thinking about today. decides. well this is a very important decision for the constitutional court because there was great expectation that this would be the first of possibly peaceful democratic transfer of power but we know that it's essentially a political crisis for the d r c as you mentioned there we have little bodies like the african union wanting to intervene saying that these results should be suspended the ruling from the court could have been final and no appeal allowed should be suspended but that the r.c.c. responded saying well the government here saying that the a you has no place in

dictating to the courts here what to do this is an internal process we also heard from these of an african development community where it said that initially that there should be a recount but in backtracked saying that this is the internal process isn't the institutions in the d r c should be respected but there are a couple of options a few options rather for the quarter of this evening or one is that they could say there should be a recount because they have there have been disputes been lodged by the opposition largely based around what the catholic church has that its independent tally it had deployed about forty thousand observers across the country and according to the catholic church the tally showed it that at least fifty nine percent of the vote when two martin was of course large to this challenge one of the other options is that there should be threshold actions but given that the election that took place not that you're december we're already delayed by two years no one knows how long

a fresh elections would take another option is that the court could of course uphold the results that were announced the naming of felix security the winner of the election but of course a very controversial given that there is speculation that a deal was struck between to security who is an opposition leader but more for you . able to president joseph kabila that perhaps a deal was struck and and this is why that announcement was made rather then the announcement today actually the most preferred candidate coming of from the ruling party should ari had won that election. possibly no way that was be a step too far given the allegations of fraud around this election but we are expecting that ruling to come from the constitutional court any time from now so far we've had the judge say that according to the court to the electoral commission had followed all processes as expected there was nothing there were no

irregularities or there was nothing out of the ordinary with regard to what the electoral commission had done in its conduct during the election period but we do know that the opposition has complained and a number of fronts one of them is even the use of the electoral electronic voting machines saying that there should be a manual count because manipulation of course was a major concern and again basing their concerns very much on what the catholic church has ignored the leaked documents to the media showing that had in fact won these elections. following developments in kinshasa for us and we will be bringing you that ruling as soon as we get it thanks alina. now of the turmoil within the u.s. government donald trump's put together what he's calling a compromise to try to end a partial shutdown of the government the president's proposal includes temporary protection for immigrants and exchange for funding for his long promised border

wall trump is sticking to his demands for five point seven billion dollars to build the barrier to mexico he wants to increase the number of border security agents by two thousand seven hundred fifty and he wants eight hundred million dollars to improve drug detection technology at legal points of entry and return trumps offering temporary relief for young people brought into the country illegally as children known as dreamers as well as other immigrants from countries affected by war or disasters who hold temporary protected status they'll be protected from deportation for an extra three is this is a common sense compromise both parties should embrace the radical left can never control our borders i will never let it happen walls are not immoral in fact they are the opposite of the moral because they will save many lives and stop drugs from pouring into our country. rob reynolds joins us now from washington

d.c. rob is any of this likely to satisfy democrats what are we hearing from them. well this was a deal that the president offered to the democrats and it was an offer that they could and did swiftly refuse with the house speaker nancy pelosi saying that taken together all of these ideas are a nonstarter the leading democrat in the republican controlled senate chuck schumer also downplaying this and saying that the president's offer to provide three years of protection for dreamers and temporary protected status immigrants treated them like hostages so. at the first blush at least honest this is been flatly rejected by the democratic opposition whether that will remain the case as the government shutdown drags on and now it's approaching its one month

mark and the suffering and dislocation of government employees and government services continues that is another matter so what actually happens now is there any progress towards an end to the shutdown what happens next. so what happens next is that the republican controlled senate will take up these proposals that you outlined the president trump made in his remarks today they will almost certainly pass a bill that incorporates them as well as the five point seven billion dollars for the border wall as well as funding to get the government back on its feet and started again that will then have to go to the house where of course the democrats have just recently taken control if the democrats hold firm they can defeat this senate bill however if some democrats are peeled off and

again the pressure is pretty intense over the government shutdown then the bill might well pass there's some areas of compromise here now we talked about the dreamers and the temper protected status. immigrants they are already prevented from being deported by the government by court rulings but if the president and his party would agree to a permanent solution for these one million people that would allow them to stay in the country and perhaps get a path toward citizenship that might well be grounds for compromise that could break the log jam anastacio. in washington d.c. thank you rob well trump says the border what is needed to stop the flow of drugs entering the u.s. but most drugs smuggled through legal points of entry as how do you say castro found out brooks county texas and just

a warning you might find some of the images in her report distressing. brooks county texas a collection of branches hugging a highway leading north from the border is a corridor of drug smuggling from mexico. this is where sheriff benny martinez tries to hold back the tide this is small so it varies of on apartments in the i'm sure there's a lot of hard drugs going through this corridor this lot is full of vehicles confiscated by the brooks county sheriff's office more than three hundred of them all caught trying to smuggle drugs or people deeper into the united states they all try to pass through this border patrol checkpoint one of the busiest for drug seizures in the country the government acknowledges more than eighty percent of narcotics found near the border entered through legal ports of entry the marijuana was within the walls of this love triangle or one hundred twenty piles but the were

created to be small to fit the national cavity of the wall here critics of trans border wall say it's unclear how that would curtail drug smuggling through the ports but what is clear is that for migrants a wall makes an already perilous journey more deadly fifty bodies were found in brooks county last year extending a wall in certain areas is going to force people to a more dangerous area and more people are going to the humanitarian say this is the real crisis at the border the people who die in are eaten by animals in an attempt to reach a better life heidi joe castro al-jazeera berks county texas eric ham is a former national security advisor and a congressional staffer with the armed services committee he joins us now live from washington d.c. eric let's talk about some of president thomas rhetoric tonight it's quite a departure from his last oval office address on immigration. absolutely it

is and actually what we saw from the president is a willingness to compromise now we've already heard or received a statement from house speaker nancy pelosi basically saying that the what the president is offering will be away but the fact that this president is willing to extend an olive branch not necessarily give on the amount of money he wants for the wall but actually willing to give regarding temporary protected status and for dreamers suggests that the president is willing to make a deal and i think there is some room for negotiation the question becomes now how much are democrats particularly house democrats willing to give on this issue eric as you say president trump is describing this as a compromise is that an effort to try to shift pressure will blame to the democrats to end the shutdown and will that work. or i think it's twofold i think it's an attempt to try to end the shutdown but in order to do that i think this president.