he wants to avoid all these emotional issues when i came here last time. from outside i was taking a photo the people inside the house saw the flash they parked their car in the middle of the street they called the police they arrested me they put the handcuffs in my feet and in my hands i told them but what crime have i done what's my case i just took a photo. not a banana republic we have a court system we have a court system who is definitely not in the pocket of the right wing or the religious of this country no one can get away with just driving someone in house of anywhere in this country i mean we know the british were here we know exactly who was kicked out in what e's and nine hundred forty eight the jews are also kicked

out of the area taken as prisoners of war that's real being kicked out and evicted by the arab world no arab is being pushed out or kicked out of anywhere actually been driven ash no such thing. there have been wars here we've seen this country since seventeen conquerors we're familiar with wars that have tried to driven us out when brought here is imperialists we have returned home as the indigenous people to our own homeland and there's basically nothing that the world or the arab world can do about it whatever attempts they've tried one succeed the make or timid jew living in some ghetto or statue under the nazis or under the czar or under whoever it may be the pirates we are today

a strong people who have come back to our lands we're back here now and no amount of arab terrorism violence or hatred is going to keep me up and they will be eaten up the richest you know it's a sign from a stranger that maybe taken the wrong why but it doesn't mean that me personally and look because we have off already. any arab that wants to drive me out someone that wants to see to some of the wants to drive me out. someone that wants to stab my god forbid much like we've seen before you know that person will be eaten up for breakfast now that one beat that would be something i would do personally the jewish people the state the police whatever has to be done that will be handled. not only are we looking over the temple mount seir the place where the golden dome is you know that's the place the holy of holies this is what the arab world wants and this is what they'll never get. abraham's children don't

get along some brothers don't get along in this particular case in fact it's even worse because there's parts of a very very violent streak in a south and l. which is the combination and part of the muslim world today. there's addict in that says a south hates jacob was he obsessed that abraham or isaac only gave certain listens to him and certain other blessings the him the children of a ram have been blessed in many different ways that the jewish people i am isaac jacob king david king solomon all the way to little daniel luria today in jerusalem is this one chain that's been blessed in a different way the little land of israel we have the covenant with god. we have returned home designers dream is being realized all the time and as the indigenous people here the world and especially the arab world is going to have to

understand that at some point in time. today i live in chips around where i live spiritually if i may say saw in the western part of the city i wasn't born yet in one nine hundred forty eight during that akbar but i feel that the dark but is grounded in. these times are times which i got from my father's house actually id processed the style when the house was put on sale and there they were uprooting all the ties and or what is in the house i chose to put them and document my history and my story.

to preserve. very well. everything. anything. you think. and protect your traditions. whether it's.

a very very very very depressed. the mother will be very emotional and very. boxers and i'm about her father's house the toy store and about. all this stuff so she's very attached to dear. to the past and to the emotional heritage the score that's.

for me for example why i try to focus more on the present. what to do in the present like well what what can make my life better now. i'm an artist so this is important for my art because my art is not a readymade it's also about exploration and investigation. i had my first exhibit in when i was sixteen. and it was photography and that time it was the first intifada on the streets were filled with stickers and posters and. i regret fiji's everywhere so it was like walking in there big piece of art the series is called reconstruction because it's

about reconstructing. the reality of the city so this series off work is my latest work it's called wonders and signs one can see it as a metaphor of jerusalem because of the layers on top of each other and layers of history the layers of writings of messages or political messages. and then you have the soldiers coming in and covering them with white paint and after it's covered with white paint and the palestinians come back and they put a new message on it. jerusalem is also a big ball a big bunch of things so it's not easy to find your place you feel like you're an intruder paradoxically the people that come from abroad they feel home because it's their promised land and for whatever reason you know.

most people think that the space has been always a battleground between religions and that's not true it was before nine hundred forty eight whether you were jewish muslim or christian we all saw ourselves as palestinian muslims palestinian christians but a sunni and jews. we have to know the truth but you have to understand the context most of the population of the country was palestinian mainly muslim and jewish and christian but mainly muslim minority was christian of ten percent and five percent were jews and there has always been synagogues churches and mosques. the shared

values but really underlines the relationship between us it is a book that religion i don't care if they play on friday or saturday or sunday i care about how the treaty we are one people but what is divisive is where do you stand on the policies or fewer government when it dehumanises me. you'd read the bible through palestinian eyes and we read it in the context of living under occupation jesus lived under occupation became a refugee under occupation his miracles were what done under occupation the thousands gathered around him under occupation so we see how the need jesus resisted occupation and we try to walk in the same footsteps. samjhauta is one of the founders of sabean and she is an excellent writer and she has an excellent blog most of the israelis are secular journalists but of

course they use this to justify. that this is the city and then you find all these crazy christians i call they call themselves christians than this their theory is is completely untrue because i mean when they say all the jews have to gather here. the tourists this is a happy about this part of the here but then so that the messiah can come and when the messiah comes they have to become christians and those who don't become christians then they will have to be killed i mean what kind of a religion is this what kind of a god is this god when the messiah comes if they don't believe then they have to be killed israel goes along with them they accept the fact the first part of it which is having them come over here well that makes many people say well if this is if this is god's will i mean who wants god's will.

i'm a professor articles university and my campus is basically the main campus is about three minutes walk off before the warning today i have to drive it depends on the added traffic if i'm lucky that to be like between half an hour to forty five minutes that's from a lucky i'm reluctant but i almost kicked the war. i feel really terrible because at one point i had three kids at the university studying university collectively would waste eight hours every day going and coming back from the rest. it's a separation war it's a part it's an apartheid wall it's a pretty spot a scene from palestinian only. reasons.

i started this building i mean i've thought of this building for many years and i would have but i've now i have to go visit me for about forty five minutes around the north side of the vans i've just arrived this makes sense i think the people who live in jerusalem they would stay and normal if you choose. but only one day a week just like the billion war but if you wanted to use a low. about eighteen years for the school that was used but hey it's twenty four hours to go. in britain because of the lack of sunshine for most of the time people talk when they meet each other they greet each other and they speak about the weather they would make a different story were a beautiful day and he and i have not to speak at one point they speak spontaneously about the checkpoint. today the checkpoint is interesting

what. the new one is definitely different from the walls of the city i accept the walls of the city. good moving from one jerusalem neighborhood the other through sort of neighborhood . this is only for the syrian neighborhood i view this is a good day before many people you know it's in the morning during rush hour it's the most difficult time when you have students sick people good people going to

make it to work. and to be being counted especially in sudan that is something that we thank you but i'd like. there was a was there a woman made when i got on my right here so and she was trying to go to three the soldiers were not letting go they were asking her you have a good american you would think in front of the store just use that card and she said i want to sell it to me. at the so i just started making fun of one so i remembered me and other young people and other people in the city is that the just one good thing going to grandma's and you need to go back to the good. they're not going to let you head but she insisted she stepped on the mound and said i want to go to jerusalem to do. so of course the army but the sun. and we've come to come in. the fucking pressure on her to leave started encouraging

her we saw in her leadership that's not in us. and i remember. the boy cody enforcement other four soldiers came in and they said grandma with guns you need to go and she said no i'm not going anywhere i want to go to jerusalem to preach she was insisting then four soldiers tried to carry her they could not then the soldiers give up and this said you know it this is how you would you go to play and i remember she couldn't move she couldn't walk and so on she jumped. and then like a three year old kid without the support of the community without the support of any but on god. she made it but you know sort of. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other

stories. provided attempts into someone else's work out. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers and the front lines i feel that i know if i have the data to prove. i am witness on al-jazeera. the most memorable moment of al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. to us if something happens anywhere in the world how does iraq is in place we're able to cover moves like no of a man's open as a show. we're able to do it properly. and that is our strength. twenty one the teenage years are left behind still trying to find my place trying to fit in to the whole picture and adult hood begins to take

a dude cook occasionally but doesn't really want me to you wants me to stay off my feet in two thousand and six south africa revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and much is changed over the past fourteen years twenty one up south africa on how does iraq. oh i maryam namazie and on the just a quick look at the top stories calls for an urgent ceasefire in libya have been largely ignored by forces loyal to the east and. the u.n. requested a two hour pause to the fighting to evacuate the injured but have those self-styled libyan national army has continued its advance towards the capital tripoli. and as

strike by saudi u.a.e. coalition forces on a warehouse near the yemeni capital was damaged a nearby school killing eleven many of them students dozens more were wounded in the attack on a residential area east of sana the coalition denied carrying out strikes in the area in syria government forces have killed at least fourteen people in the northwest of the country shelling happened in the countryside with the town of sark it hardest hit it live is supposed to be free of fighting under a deescalation deal negotiated by russia and turkey sudan suffered a total power blackout on sunday this is the embattled president tomorrow bashir met on the leaders to discuss the latest anti-government protests huge numbers defied a curfew to camp outside the army headquarters in khartoum overnight before rallying for a second day they want the army to back that demand for the president to leave office . and rwandans have been marking twenty five years since the genocide when a hundred thousand people were killed in just one hundred days thousands attended

a vigil at gandhi's national stadium which some took these ran to when they were attacked by hutu militia in one thousand nine hundred four more than ten percent of the country were massacred most of them minority tootsies and moderate hutus the are a composite group for all rwanda story. is profound hope for our walk local community. is beyond repair and the dignity of the people is never fully extinguished just one of the stories of bringing you turkeys criticised israel's prime minister over an election promise to an excel legal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank on saturday nescio who said he would extend israeli sovereignty if he won the election on tuesday turkish foreign minister jaffa so luke called the comments irresponsible or i'll have more on that story and everything else in the news hour

in about thirty minutes time to join me then. i cannot claim today that i'm respecting israel and because it's not possible to respect an apartheid regime and system which brings me and justice and fairness. when i organize the worst i try to show what we are confronting is actually very drastic and speedy transformation of our city wherever we go in this beautiful majestic damascus gate we see ours where police stations as they come in microscopes to watch and to monitor the youths and the people walking in the streets and so on this is not the political story but i just want you to see that there are israeli soldiers everywhere. there is

a very ugly scene today in jerusalem which i try not to beautify but to be indifferent to these ugly scenes and to show what's left of the beautiful palestine and treasures of the city of jerusalem. on the. grave. and this is their own house even if he gets his house and he never actually live here in this house. let alone. the way. we are here in the muslim quarter you cannot go in unfortunately because it is an occupation because before the occupation was open for everybody this is i think the most difficult and the most challenging part of the occupation.

and i want to do now is take you to the center of west jerusalem and just show you how the occupation is mocked. part of the lives and the thoughts of the people here it is as if visiting i'm originally from the from my students are you from where so come visit the old homeland. although zionism played a role in that i was able to come here you know unlike travels to be refugees only able because you know i thought the idea of israel wasn't such a bad idea if we could accommodate with the palestinians and i really believe that we could find a way to live together and so on graydon's are able to dismiss it they don't think about it it's the land of israel that's it's in the bible it's unproblematic kids ours we came back you guys. palestinians are intruders you

know and you know this whole claim that actually isn't true but the whole claim that there's an organic between the israel i see in the hebrews of the bible and jews of today you know is what makes that tie so you know this is our land just go back and look at the bible the and that's where israel of course gets a lot of support from christian fundamentalists. not just in the jewish community and abroad but don't use the word palestinian we talk about arabs in a very different is a way we never use the word occupation you don't talk about settlements their community you don't talk about settlers there are jewish residents of communities so the whole language is samatha that really if you talk to people what is the occupation where is the occupation what is the palestinian people will know what the hell you're talking and that's where israel has really won it's insulated its

people so much from the political reality that's one hundred meters away and so in that sense israel when does it take in the whole issue of palestine off the table for israel the only think about. it we have to talk about all right ok great. theologically assuming the verity of the few logical argument is included in the blessing and in the promise of the multiplication this is biblical to the problem is if you try and you do succeed in having an ideology imposed on politics or a mixture of dangerous mixture of both and this is by the way for all christians muslims and jews it's not forget it was almost more than four hundred years ago in

the year sixty eight approximately he allowed the jews back in jerusalem they were prohibited from living in jerusalem for about five centuries. at the six seven they demolished the model comported to expand the area in front of the western wall. the daughters demolishing everything historical buildings including the mall school during school and they have ultimately used to grade those two so that they would live in that land. tourists would buy the idea that we have well defined quarters all the way from lionsgate st you have basically major christian sites. that are muslim families for example who live in the christian quarter it just when you see

christian course it also of course and it doesn't sound right to build on what the for most of us said my name is there a model named after our model or though i'm a palestinian question from one of the main christian families of jerusalem i was named after him and a fair amount as a testimony to the beautiful relationship and to the beautiful tolerance that i want to fuck bob has expressed with his. in concert with big three or so for this minute mother breastfed our christian never heard me because my mother breastfed my niece we became a system you know. that is not to be used on a blog you know line this is some milk. from roman times they had this thread to divide and conquer and the british implemented the strategy very warm. we came down from the neighborhood that i live in good infrastructure the new u.s. embassy and then you drive down the first thing you get is a police station

a border police that kind of clarifies from this point on we need to be in control and then you drive through a neighborhood but because there's a settlement here the settlement behind us then you see this good infrastructure there's lights there's sidewalks and then the entrance of the settlement comes and just after it ends there's no sidewalk here in the neighborhood and he just really see the difference and the fact that nobody cares about the infrastructure from that point on because really it's about infrastructure for jewish population. that's the israeli plan to have as minimum people here it's possible to be able to keep the jewish majority and if you want to see a jerusalem that is i don't know worth living in for everyone in it then it has to be one that is free of those concepts of racism that's free of zionism.

and grew up in a kind of classic zionist left household so growing up knowing the were against the occupation but having no idea what you have to pay. for me one of those like a ha moments of understanding what those consequences are was actually. years ago i have a sister that's younger ten years younger than me and we were on this trip with different families just me and her and different random families and we were together for a week and it was a dinner and we were all talking about whatever small talk and i was twenty two at the time someone asked me what do you do in the military which is normal is really small talk on recession and just before i answered i saw my sister kind of her face turning into this really like we have to get in this argument again like does it have to be like this every time we just not just be normal you know and that's part

of what being a dissident in different ways means saying no we can't just be. the default. is choosing to be different and to define yourself as different and it has different consequences that are beyond prison it's choosing to be an outsider that is the problem there it's just a feeling that's there and it's and it's heavy and sure but it's nothing right i did that for a few months. palestinians sit in prison before they're even convicted in most cases just for the duration of the trial and for years on when they are sent

straight don't you think that these measures make the people of jerusalem fisi first but building walls or in more like a military police the we live in the state of fear and we are told to continue to be afraid regardless of what the reality is and i think that this is very strong within the israeli mentality i mean security we need to be strong we need to have. we need to be always in control and so on it's also very evident within the education system the holiday system and so on even when you ask israeli officials what is it about the wall that had to do with security like israeli security officials say very clearly the world doesn't prevent people from coming in inequality is inherent part of the city forty percent almost of the city or are not citizens of the state they don't have the the right to vote to be elected but more importantly they can lose that that's what zionism looks like and yours because

that's what the state looks like leverage that is the key thing we need to create it's passing resistance and we can hope that that resistance will be popular and will not be you know armed and things of the sort when we topple a boycott campaigns about divestment campaign is about creating different frameworks of power that palestinians have to leverage to tell israel you want this to end you want this to change ok let's go to the table let's talk about what you give for that that's not the discussion that's happening today. the first thing that struck me really the heavy weight of history that everyone here bears and somehow feels that you know people who live in jerusalem comes from time into their lives just to carry the burden of its history.

i think honest in yours or. many in eastern slow face pressure on us threats to or to move out. but if i can take the opportunity of this interview and speak through you directly to them i would say despite the cost and despite the difficulties do not give up never give up because palestinians are not people who are coming through this land and just just renting their apartments or their houses for a short period of time before they move on their part of this land they're part of this landscape when the far i would have patron founders of said he is bishop desmond tutu flew to from south africa and the as this famous saying that says it's an elephant is that being on the mouse and you leave it for the elephant and the most the figured it out you're taking the side of the elephant and this is i think most of us palestinians we feel the international community observing us while we

are on the margins and we need help with asking help and you're right to do that you're absolutely right to demand that from the international community not just to ask for it in any context this would never be a negotiation between equals so how much should we as palestinians or can we we feel we are drowning and we refuse to drown i think all of that. that's a question that your postings have to answer and for you we would. welcome to the african the president of the office think it's always good to see. you on a consulate here this is not really a state so we call it in south african the president of the office of the but

resents and it's an embracing of an embassy we see the occupation part of what we supposed to be doing is hosting palestinians home most palestinians i can host them at by a residence but of us batalla d. is to host people at all in essence and also as part of our diplomatic work but we have denied that fundamentally south africa's did what was called the peace the arctic front. those that oppose the party came together and we realized they were common principles and i think palestinians have to realize they have more in common than that which divides them interestingly. those so-called tele said we're a people now line up to meet us people want to benefit from our experience and even the international communities and i want to name countries who have asked us to engage palestinians cross the border but don't you think the international

community when it comes to south africa that is he more or less racist and it had to go away and there was strong solidarity with comes to us palestinians it seems israel has impunity we had the masses of our own destiny at the end of the day yes it is true international solidarity did play a role an important role in terms of boycotts sanctions and whatever else and isolation of apartheid south africa but if it wasn't the south african collective who took to the streets the palestinians have to work as a collective you have a mass movement. is really a party i mean gauge people in terms of the common values that we have in terms of dignity in terms of human rights in terms of democracy and these common values would bring us together. underneath the golden dome of today that has to be respected is the foundation stone of the world. and yes there is something there

today. just let me see. sin every religious jew believes that one day in the future there will be the third temple and we're told that by our prophets was saying in the desert bloom the in getting the exiles we have returned home but there are some things that in the hand of god so the third temple itself very much in the same position that abraham attempted to sacrifice isaac with the first temple was of king solomon and the second temple will also be the third temple but there are some things a hand by god not in man's hand having a jew go to the temple mount today to pray to walk around the holiest place the jewish people in a place that mohammad never visited the first temple existed seventeen hundred years before the dome of the rock was even build some things in the process as we left to god the reasons began with the fall of the. nothing to the temple mount

there's only one tunnel and it said parallel to the western wall nothing to do with the temple man itself it's absurd he steria from the arab world are people concerned about the illegal era building on the temple mount that's a disgrace and yet they've managed to get away with with the huge mosque on the temple mount destroying things the second temple period that's something that should be discussed not what the jews do walking on the outside of the temple mount . the jewish people have some responsibility to act in a certain way in accordance to the laws that were given by the bible itself it's very difficult for me to know exactly today as many rabbis found it difficult to know exactly what was the specific thing that god was and with the jews about. the only people that know the future

a prophets and foods and i'm neither. one of my favorite places to be here in jerusalem without a dash is this car door the old roman road that used to look like that. as a place in israel for christians or muslims or anyone we're not talking about sovereignty can't compromise on sovereignty you know what hands away their homeland this is not a multicultural democratic side this is not another astray at all or america or france or england no this is a jewish state the jewish people. so

we are now in the can he still pm it which translates to the church of that is that action every the very early in the morning the muslim families would open the doors of the church because the church is divided by different christian denominations and there was a dispute on who should have the keys for the for the door so they divided the church but when it came to the consensus they agreed on that and on the muslim families they knew that these muslim families are one of the suspects that just look right now i mean as for the seniors both u.s. officials and i as a as a muslim we had a very very tiny minority now when we are sitting you know where it's just like. as if this is not i want to space. in the past we used to worship in this church this church just spoil the center of the world because

a fourth of the importance. off the empty tomb of christ for some centuries we have been forced. to make space for graham's foreigners and we were moved to one of the churches outside the complex of the church of the resurrection the same thing at a much almost put example no tourist would be you know turned away if they would just go through the broken gate but there are restrictions on muslims even those who have risen in my view with evidence is shipped my nephew and my niece their dream is to come to jerusalem they don't have a permit their dream is to come to the church of the holy supplicant. they are guys that they are trying to judaize sa east jerusalem you are the only one that can save this city and if you will not do it it now they fear that in the future will not be now seemed too safe because they said to live they are working secretly systematically and they are taking everything they can so you should do

so some seek it medically it is the city is under. three skin. it was one of the thousand earth of a settlement in the gaza study. we this and i was one of the found there was of need. it's incredible a field during these days so for old to be a settler it takes. the do years before you realize that something it doesn't wark each ideology has a price and the prize that we are paying for their ideology of the great

israel. is is too much is too much. three months after i arrived in entering into the army to go to the army because they say that this is my are all zionist should go to the army and fi for the country. knocked over seventy two he you know the young people war started two weeks after a pause in jericho in front of the feared egyptian army in cia. who was in an ospital for a separate mance when i start to look around me in the c.b.

dying. there is the day news there are sounds or sounds that they lose their fathers then they started the process dad it's taken me from the right to being due to the left to desire an east left of the beginning and after then to do the known zionist left this is the blaze where i am now it was very hard to me to leave my right wing friends i change my mind but they couldn't change may sashi group and it takes one year before i say ok no more right wing. it's easier to change your man ain't down to change your social environment i was alone in this in the country. we've been travelling for a week and we've seen all the reality on the ground in jerusalem it's miserable

you've met the politicians busy. there is no hope you meet the united nations this literally there's nothing we can do it is up to you we must but it means resilient we must overcome justice for the palestinians and of the occupation join the civil society of the palestinian community initiatives like economic sanctions economic measures interesting documentation like b.d.s. and so on we cannot give in to the powerful is the rail a decision makers and their allies the trumps and the powerful in the world we must come together we all were not only for us or for jerusalem a holy place for diligence but for of a future generation. empires come and go but the people remain in the air this is the story with what has happened throughout every empire across the palestine they have this appeared and became ruins but the people still stand.

we live in a time of war and tragedy as crimes against humanity. activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to

combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament's. and global alliance of national human rights institutions. egypt's strongman is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you want to hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera or.

in. there. and you. will be. a rich and diverse culture explored through its music istanbul songs of the city on al-jazeera . zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up eastern libyan forces send more fighters to tripoli is the fighting escalates there despite

u.n. calls for a temporary truce. an airstrike near the yemeni capital damages a school killing at least eleven many of them children also. like reveres. for on this school is a message of hope as rwanda remembers the genocide which killed more than ten percent of its people twenty five years ago. and. sport is nearly one thousand foreign runners flock to north korea to compete in the pyongyang mirth and double the number of last year. we begin the news hour in libya where calls for a temporary truce have been largely ignored by forces loyal to eastern warlord after the united nations requested

a two hour pause in the fighting in southern tripoli to evacuate the injured but half the self-styled libyan national army kept up its offensive even deploying more troops from its base in benghazi both sides launched as strikes on each other as the un backed government in the capital tried to stop half dozen violence towards the city center tripoli's government says twenty one people have been killed in the offensive so far mahmoud abdel wide reports now from tripoli. and tripoli government moved trucks mounted with machine guns does the libyan capital on the. orders to stop war militarily for have to advance on tripoli a lot of them there we call on those brainwashed and radicalized to lay down their arms we will not allow the you wanted to return to roll libya will be a civil state and our pledge will be to the homeland and god we announced the launch of the volcano of wrath in order to restore the seized areas. have to his

assault began last week and so far his forces say they have seized some areas around the south of the capital. saturday the sand they taking over the old aid port but were pushed out by forces loyal to the tripoli based government have to his forces have now increase that attacks opening new fronts in the south of tripoli. they opened that government in the capital is urging civilians to leave as where there is fighting a natural is called by they and was ignored by all sides. have to his forces say the fighting terrorists are grooves that are backed by the. arabia and egypt are familiar tripoli has become the capital of terror and terrorists tripoli is the capital for a group of criminals who number around one or two thousand but they have weapons and they control the political decisions no stranger sway they have the money by

controlling the central bank of libya and the oil companies the head of libya's tripoli based a government has accused to have to end his forces of betraying the country and has won it over would without any winners. libya has been divided between two competing government says twenty fourteen analysts to say have to the fighters will face a stiff resistance in tripoli i don't see any lack of intent i mean control marketability and that's where i'm not sure whether his forces are up to the task i mean he was able to to you know take over much of the south west i mean easily tripoli is going to do you know he's going to face a lot of resistance so we're looking at you know a long track to conflict the u.n. says talks to rebuild libya's fractured political system will go ahead as planned but would really libyans are now facing the prospect of some of the worst fighting

since the twenty eleven uprising that toppled former leader. mahmoud up to. tripoli. well he five to has been part of libya's political scene for more than four decades now he joined the military in the one nine hundred sixty s. and became part of a group led by colonel gadhafi which seized power from king interests in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine gadhafi promoted have to and put him in charge of libyan forces fighting in chad cheering the one nine hundred eighty s. he was captured in one thousand nine hundred seven and get daffy disowned him once released after defected from the army and went into exile in the united states where he received backing from the cia while there he formed a group and overthrowing that duffy well he briefly return to libya in two thousand and eleven to take part in the uprising against gadhafi then in two thousand and fourteen he gave a televised address calling on libyans to overthrow the elected parliament a year later huffed i was made commander of the forces of the tobruk government

a rival to the un backed government in tripoli in two thousand and seventeen as self-styled libyan national army seized the eastern city of benghazi which became his power base or political on his use of shareef joins us via skype from tunis now i just want to pick up on that last point about the battle for benghazi which of course is a stronghold that took some three years are we looking now at a possibly long protracted conflict over tripoli. it's quite possible that he's good it's really too big to fail because you know for the moment there are slow elation that may be trying to make. something to show that he's powerful enough that the negotiate better in the upcoming u.n. . conference or in any upcoming negotiation maybe by by going to what it would say he want to show that is our goal and that he doesn't

really want to take you but but even indicate if viddy. willing to get ready and that will require actually more force than with now which means more support than we're going. along and respect the conflict similar an even longer the one we need. just to be clear if he doesn't have the troops in the minutes and resources to take tripoli as things stand now assuming that he doesn't get the external support that you mentioned does that mean that he is the the defeated will have to withdraw. yes of course i mean because for the moment he was a the big few but if you look at them in the map the are actually the rounded by areas that are and they're going through a lot of groups that are competing with him and so if he continues in and if he stays there he will. be the defeated in the coming weeks

and that's why i'm wondering whether he's he did this really out the out of no can places at all or if you want to just so to do it sure that the day that he can do thing even when people are going to the expect him to do that to them and that when he's in perhaps the bigger you know stronger position in any upcoming negotiations we've seen the international community large parts of it really heading that that when it comes to supporting or condemning khalifa haftar outright will they now consider the sanctions against him. no obviously we being the security council will not able even with a clear blame on him and his forces and actually we all know that ration of international community that you can between france and he said he the weakness of united kingdom the strength of russia the relation in the united states all these

together makes the situation actually very different from move from baby a situation where we're forces where fighting against each other because they're at least on the level it's been the international community is very divided and no one can really take it and i think now that we we're talking about the international community something is that. i think is what is happening in the syria and as long as the engines i'm looking in or and not and busy with their own internet but it is i think there will continue. to escalate as long as much as we can and therefore i think in the coming weeks one who sees actually more is going to ration and. and and the longer the longer war thank you for sharing your analysis with us you said shaddy is joining us from tunis. well now an airstrike

by saudi u.a.e. coalition forces on a warehouse near the yemeni capital has damaged nearby school killing eleven many of them students dozens more were wounded in that attack on a residential area east of santa fenton one hand has. a pile of rubble were school once stood. the explosion took place in broad daylight as students attended class panic set in as the building collapsed around the country had tested early can you everyone was hysterical and some were crying and shouting in panic the situation was horrible as the school population is two thousand one hundred some girl students were killed and others wounded and are in hospital as a result of the missile strike the school building was destroyed two. dozens of victims were rushed to hospital children who were lucky enough to escape with

their lives believe they know what caused the blast. the this is. the we suddenly heard a jet fighter while we were at school we then heard the first strike we remain calm then the second strike and then the third which was the strongest of all the building was damaged and we were injured by broken glass as the fourth strike came and we panicked and ran home. the rebels also say the saudi emirate he led coalition is to blame they say fighter jets targeted a nearby chemical warehouse destroying the school in the process. so far there's been no comment from the coalition. the u.n. says one hundred civilians were either killed or wounded every week in yemen last year with children accounting for a fifth of all casualties. the coalition campaign has been criticized by rights groups for the high number of civilian deaths including the bombing of a school bus in twenty eighteen but killed more than fifty children. yemen is in

ruins after years of fighting between government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition and who the rebels and despite growing international pressure there's still no end in sight for what's being called the world's worst manmade humanitarian crisis into monohan al-jazeera. syrian government forces have killed at least fourteen people in the northwest of the country shelling happened in the countryside but the town of hardest hit is the last rebel held territory in syria supposed to be free of fighting under deescalation deal negotiated by russia and turkey. it with the news hour live from london more still ahead for you on the program. the numbers swell in sit down this protest as rally outside army headquarters for a second day urging the military to back them. why despite a nationwide fuel shortage in haiti a ship loaded with oil is refusing to dock.