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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
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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 at no such thing. they have been was 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
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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 refused you know it's a sign from a stranger that maybe taken the wrong why but it doesn't mean that me personally will handle it because we have already. any arab that wants to drive me out someone that wants to see to it someone 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 no that's the place the holy of holies this is what the arab world wants and this is what they'll never
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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
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understand that at some point in time. today i live in ships 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 back 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 times and all what is in the house i chose to put them and document my history and my story.
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to preserve. very well. everything. and anything therefore you think. to preserve and protect your traditions. whether it's.
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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.
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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 exhilaration when i was sixteen. and it was photography and that time it was the first intifada all the streets were filled with stickers and posters and. i regret fiji's everywhere so it was like walking in the big piece of art the series is called reconstruction because it's
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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.
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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. you 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
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values but really underlines the relationship between us if there's 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 are 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 and that 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
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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 fear 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 theory 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 if 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.
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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 traffic if i'm lucky that'll 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.
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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 into this and they were just a normal a few jews you know normal but the only way one day we just like to believe in war but you wanted to use the low. about eighteen years with the school that was used but there is plenty of food i was. 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 difference to work 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
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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 the only form of the city and then. 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 to be good people going make it to
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work. and to be being counted especially the incident of something that would make you put it like . there wasn't 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 god you have a better man if you would see him in front of the store just you sat down and she said i want you to sell it to me. at the so i just started making fun of what so i remembered me and other young people and other people in the city is that the just one good thing i'm going to grandma's and you need to go back you to do good. they're not going to let you head but she insisted she stepped on the mound and said i want to go to you know salim three. so of course the army but the son. and he come come in. said the something pressure on her to leave started
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encouraging we saw in her leadership that's not in us. and i remember. the voice totally enforcements another 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 please she was insisting then four soldiers try to carry her they could not then the so just give up and they said you know what this is how you would you go to play and i remember she could who she could then token saw and she jumped. and then like a three year old kid without the support of the community without the support of and it was funny because. she made it but you know sort of.
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a year of deaths detentions and political suppression crisis negotiations are underway. but could the dark days of civil war still retire. people in power investigates a frontline nicaragua on al-jazeera. i'm how the markets and into how the top stories on al-jazeera soldiers in sudan have stepped in to protect sansa government demonstrators in khartoum after security forces fired tear gas to disperse them assess an outside army headquarters is in its third day the e.u. russia and the u.s. so the latest urging an end to hostilities in libya after thousands of civilians
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fled sunday's fighting in southern tripoli as airstrikes were launched by both the un by its governments and warlords for the for have to his forces. i just spoke with the u.n. special envoy for some solomon this morning and i think the first message we need to pass united states is the full implementation of the my italian troops to allow the civilians and the wounded to be about made from. the city and to avoid any further military action and then a further military escalation and the return to the political negotiations and the political track here's your neilson is leaving her position as secretary of the us department of homeland security she oversaw some of president donald trump's most controversial policies including the proposed border wall and separation of migrant families israel has announced it will cause all crossings from gaza and the
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occupied west bank for twenty four hours ahead of tuesday's general election some members of the military have already voted with polls suggesting benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz are neck and neck nigeria has suspended mining in one of its northern states and ordered all foreigners engaged in mining activities to leave the move comes after a surge in crime in some far a state the military police and state security forces have been deployed in recent weeks to tackle criminal gangs behind the space of killings and kidnappings the government says the suspension begins with immediate effects. france's prime minister into our few deep has announced the findings of the country's greats national debate citizens and governments have second part in ten thousand local meetings launched in january by president michel it's all began in process to response to protests by the so-called deal of vesper tester's it was hoped they would help channel demonstrators anger from the streets in some meetings and
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provide a space for politicians to listen to local needs. saw the headline stay with us. 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 a very drastic and speedy transformation of our city wherever we go in this majestic damascus gate we see ours where police stations 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
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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 fair the city of jerusalem. on. getting a. reprieve. and this is their own house even if he gets his house and he never actually lived here in this house. the way. we are here in the muslim quarter you cannot go in unfortunately because it is an occupation because before the occupation was opened for everybody this is i think the most difficult and the most challenging part of the occupation.
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what i want to do now is take you to the center of west jerusalem and just show you how the occupation is not a part of the lives and the thoughts of the people here just as a visiting originally from the from the 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 travel to be refugees only able to 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 the ravens are able to dismiss that 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
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you know and you know this whole claim that actually isn't true but the whole claim that there's are a gamut between the israel sin the hebrews of the bible and the 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 differentiated 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 would know what the hell you're talking and that's where israel has really won its insulated its
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people so much from the political reality that. one hundred metres 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. ok so 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 too 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
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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 street you have basically major christian sites. that are muslim families for example who live in the christian quarter it just when you see
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christian course it also of course and it doesn't sound right to build on what dr most of us said my name is there are named after our motto for 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 a lot of roof has expressed with his. in concert with big three or so for us my dear mother breastfed our christian never heard me because my mother let me use we became. you know. that is not being used on a beloved you know line this is some milk relationship from roman times they had this thread to divide and conquer and the british implemented the strategy of everyone. we came down from the neighborhood that i live in good infrastructure the new us embassy and then you drive down the first thing you get is a police station
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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 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 as 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.
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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 the occupation is. 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 then 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 we have to get in this argument again like does it have to be like this every time you just not just be normal you know and that's part of
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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
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straight don't you think that these measures make the people of jews in fleecy for 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
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that's what the state looks like leverage that is the key thing we need to create it's possible 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 talk about what cut 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 get 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.
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i think honest in yours or. many in east jerusalem 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 the as bishop desmond tutu little from south africa and the as this famous saying that says it's an elephant to stepping 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
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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 eat 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 south 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 africans
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a 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 distance but of us batalla d. is to host people at all in essence and also as part of our diplomatic work but we had tonight that fundamentally south africa's did what was called the peace the arctic front. those that oppose departed 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 we were called 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 wouldn't name countries who have asked us to engage palestinians cross the border but don't you think the international
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community when it comes to south africa that is 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 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 in eugene is really a party and we engage 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
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today. you 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 deserts 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 built somethings the process has to be left to god the resistance began with the fall of the. nothing to the temple mount
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there's only one tunnel and it's a 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 managed to get away with with the a huge mosque on the chamber 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 the god was and with the jews about. the only people that know the future
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a prophets and foods and i'm neither. one of my favorite places to be here in jerusalem without a doubt 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
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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 the agreed on and on the muslim families they knew that these muslim families are one of the spark 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 a space. in the past we used to worship in this church this church just oil the center of the world because
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a fifth 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 for example no tourists 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 ideal ever since as a 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
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so sensi it medically is that the city is under. thirty six. it was one of the thousand hours of a settlement in the gaza strip. and. we this and i was one of the found there was of. 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
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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 or or 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 egyptian army in cia it was in an ospital for a separate mance when i start to look around me in the c.b.
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die. there as the day lose their 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
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you've met the politicians busy. there's no hope you meet the united nations they say that 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 and should the poet fall is that i really decision makers and that i lies the trumps and the powerful in the world we must come together we all were not only for us or for jerusalem. or allegiance but for of a future generation. empires come and go but the people remain and this is the story with what has happened throughout every empire across the palestine they have disappeared of the and became little ones but the people still
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stand. hello the heavy rain is continuing to pour over past south america at the moment the satellite picture is showing the cloud the stretches all the way down towards the rio area and this is where we're seeing some of the heaviest of the outbreaks of rain but you can see the showers stretch all the way further north across the amazonian basin and this is again the region will see the wettest of the weather on monday for falls forward to choose they not a great deal changes there shout do not
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a little bit further north with but still we're expecting quite a few of them in rio to the south of that it should be fine and dry for most of us here but it's always getting to around twenty six degrees now up towards the central america isn't here that is plenty of sunshine want to go to showers to pop up during the day and we'll see more of those as we head through the next twenty four hours or so however as we head through monday and into chews day you'll notice this area of wet weather here that's really just putting down from north america but it's going to really give us some heavy rain over parts of cuba and across towards the yucca temp and ensure that we also see the showers begin to creep up towards the south of that as well so choose day is looking like a wet today for us that area of rain that's affecting us then a little bit further south out of this system here has already given us the some very lively weather over parts of texas that system is just nudging eastwards we'll see more wet weather after that during the day on monday. the weather sponsored tony. thousands of people have been killed raped or mutilated in south sudan's
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civil a un report says government forces and other militia are financing the conflict with money from the country's oil industry you want a number out loud that break in south sudan and we will never totally does south sudan's oil minister talks to want to zero. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera i'm how the markets are you know with the news our life until coming up in the next sixty minutes assiduity soldier is killed as the army steps in to protect antigovernment protesters against police.
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fighting cool city all the airports on the edge of libya's capital forces loyal to warlords the have to have not pulled back. donald trump's homeland security chief resigns amid the president's anger at the flow of refugees across the u.s. southern border. also the face of iraq's youth unemployment problem we meet the political science graduates selling team in baghdad's traffic i'm joined again with the sport at the golden state warriors go into the n.b.a. playoffs as the top seeds in the western conference. and we begin in sudan where a soldier has been killed after the army stepped in to protect and see government demonstrators against the security forces they've been protesting outside the army
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headquarters in khartoum for the third day in a row calling on the president to resign at least twelve people have been killed in the unrest since saturday. we're going to bring you more on. story as it comes in but for now let's move to another scene of unrest the u.n. says that thousands of civilians have fled from facing sight of libya's capital as international leaders colt for a halt to military offensive warlord khalifa haftar us forces have made their first moves to take tripoli on thursday and have a clashes have now decreased surrounds the old international airports as have to as forces pull back the tour again has this reports warplanes flown by pilots loyal to the u.n. backed government in tripoli target forces fighting for wooed her before have to
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the strikes along the libyan coast a part of the tripoli government's counter offensive called operation volcano of wrath. the un school for a two hour truce on sunday afternoon to give civilians in south tripoli time to escape was ignored by both sides more than a million libyans live in the capital and there are fears for their safety i think the first message we need to pass united states is the full implementation of the my italian troops to allow the civilian center wounded to be evacuated from. the city and to avoid any further military action and if other military escalation and their return to the political negotiations and the political track. a us vessel was seen on sunday evacuating an unspecified number of american personnel from tripoli the u.s. has joined demands from other g seven countries to have talked to halt his offensive
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but analyst down the u.s. demand this statement from the secretary of state. to stop seizing the trying to see the capital we call it how to drink and what you can action behind this statement if you will drew of u.s. forces or relocation of u.s. was from tripoli to go elsewhere this does not look like an administration that is committed to the protection of such as government i libya's been divided between two competing governments for the past five years eve ministration in tripoli is backed by the u.n. the other in the eastern city have to prove by have to in them in miami usually really rare that the store one of the libyan armies tarsus to protect libyan constitution which guarantees and protects the nation's institutions and its citizens libyan army is moving towards tripoli with one goal which is to free it from the militias. have to us forces
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a fighting what they call terrorists groups in tripoli but their offensive is also about money and who controls lip. central bank and it's all companies based in the capital victoria. it was a fast moving situation let's cross live now to tripoli where mahmoud of the one hundred is standing by mahmoud could you just bring us up to speed with the current situation in and around tripoli. let me start first with this breaking news we're getting from tripoli international airport government sources say that. craft has just targeted the tripoli international airport with an air strike one military individual is it reported one did now also the government sources say that they have four of have to its forces in their custody they have taken them prisoners the clashes are going now in the around the
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airport at the tripoli international airport in an area also close to the airport was called gusev been of fear and another area called why did the government forces continue getting in for cements from. directions in the west of the country including from the east of tripoli from the city of this late in from the city of misrata and from the west of tripoli from the mountainous city of is in town we understand that the civilians near there fighting areas have been asked to evacuate and the ministry of health has just raised. emergency situation in the early years military sources say that twenty five were killed so far and one hundred seven wondered since the clashes started on april fourth. there are
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many international voices calling for a diplomatic solution to this crisis but given the s.s. coalition and fighting and i would likely support back seem at a stage. well it seems that neither one of the fighting over the very valid factions of the underground is listening to the international calls first of all yesterday the united nations called for two hours a truce to give a chance to event the way the wanted and also today. need the chief of the foreign policy at the european union has called for a truce but it seems that neither one of the factions is responding to clashes. now intensifying in those areas in this southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli civilians in areas near the shared south of
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tripoli say they have that as forces continue to receive munition and military vehicles they continue to receive enforcements from the city of the who are now the city of that want to be there where is now the bases of this sort of support for have to his forces we know that the big convoy that came from the east of the country before april fourth was positioned in areas that again and. it is now the government forces say that the volcano of wrath this is the name of the new counter offensive by the government they say that the out i'm going to push have to the forces back not only from the southern outskirts of of tripoli but they're going to chase them back to the south
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was in cities like that and to horner my words thank you so much for keeping us up to date on all the developments in tripoli that's mom with the other one had the joining us live from libya. first return to our top story now the situation in sudan where a soldier has been killed after the army stepped in to protect government's protest from the security forces asama been reports. the moment soldiers step in to stop police and security forces to run the government just as it happened as a protest outside the military headquarters in a car going on in the day medical sources say at least one soldier died in the clash. earlier warning shots and tear gas was used to disperse crowds who are calling for an end to president to model bashir rule activists say soldiers intervened to protect protesters from the police. i mean really and when we're
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through we will have to side with her again and it and i bet they're correct. that's a possibility or they would have to. take a stand and least. try to ask for the president to resign the same way as happened you know if you or i. i in videos uploaded to the internet the crowd swelled overnight saddam has been in a state of emergency since february after a government crackdown failed to stop the demonstrations president bashir acknowledges protesters demands and has stepped down as the head of the ruling party but he's also met military leaders and his defense counsel has warned against allowing any unrest the government insists change can come through the ballot box but the people on the street want change now on monday some security vehicles are overrun by protest as the soldiers mingled in the crowds as the army has so far tried to keep its distance from politics what started as anger against bread prices
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and kushal citizens and on to a couple of go turns. the call to organize protests at the army headquarters coincided with the thirty fourth anniversary of the one nine hundred eighty five uprising president john for the lemaitre us government was toppled then and the military later handed over power to an elected government that government was overthrown by president bashir was to be activists on social media at least are hoping for a similar intervention from the job over there. want to stay with us those are the there is a political analyst and spokeswoman for the sudanese professionals association she joins us now from london sara a soldier has been killed steve think this constitutes a turning point. definitely in the last seventy two hours and that has been positive to some extent although sadly we have lost lives that
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day army also obvious to us are supporting the protesters and protecting them from the national intelligence to curate these services and from the militia we very important is very critical at this point that we raise that we don't want the british out of the massacre that took place in september two thousand and thirteen . a few minutes ago that has been that her ration of the freedom and change forces council from the front of the army headquarters and that as well is a very positive step forwards we're looking for a step forward the army though has been quite keen to to remain neutral in this to you think the army is not going to start choosing sides after this recent developments. actually it was not unusual made.

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