that's classified information. and occasionally published. discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers marcella. marcella this past wednesday we saw a trade war the one between the u.s. and china turned into a television spectacle and the actors involved weren't just moderating this debate they were in fact debating so let's start with the channels involved here for the debate pitted an anchor for fox is business channel trish regan against lucian of china's state owned english language broadcast the c g t m 4 week these 2 had been trading tweets about tariffs trade wars and technology eventually regan challenging you to a live show down the format was far from journalistic with these 2 presenters arguing in effect on behalf of their respective governments in washington and beijing how

do american businesses operate. if their risk for having their property their ideas their hard work you have to ask american business is whether they want to come to china or whether they find coming to china and cooperating with chinese businesses has not been profitable or not and they will they will tell you their answer is as far as i understand many american companies have been established in china and they're very profitable and agree so you have 2 anchors acting as surrogate spokespeople for their respective governments how did this program go down in china before the debates a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry big the event asking everyone to watch it because you know in china we have a saying the truth becomes clearer through the bates. it was a rare opportunity to have beijing's position on an ongoing trade dispute broadcast on an american channel new ch'ien was an obvious choice for the chinese side since she's a reputation for being schooled for western media coverage on china now that the

audiences get anything out of it soft to say the debate went on for 16 minutes and reagan a new had nothing much to add on the trade wars to what's already been reported but it'll be interesting and maybe a bit disturbing to see if this kind of debates network versus network grows more common ok thanks for some. turning now to a story about memory our knowledge of the past is produced and kept hidden in a place where history and its narration is highly contested israel and palestine for years material that could reveal details about israel's treatment of palestinians has been sealed inside the country state and military archives under the pretext of security or privacy more than 98 percent of those documents are classified they're under lock and key it's a form of censorship that has been criticised not just by palestinians but by the former chief archivist of israel as well historians and journalists say the policy

of censoring material in the archives exposes the deep insecurities that israel has about its past with archivists acting as they gatekeepers of history for palestinians it's part of a wider trend of cultural or racial and historical denial that beginning before $948.00 has gone hand in hand with the regular theft and appropriation of not just their land but of their story the listening post often now on the silencing of palestinian history in israel's archives. the palestinian displaced. occupied new rating the past is a constant struggle which is by design because sealed in israel occupies the libraries a hidden palestinian story entire chapters of history that were looted from

palestinian institutions and home. after the palestinian people were expelled from their homes israeli forces came in and methodically proceeded to seize all of the contents in their houses it was done in such a way that to this day we don't have a complete idea of what items were taken. documents are scattered in so many places some in the israeli archives in jerusalem some at the national library many of these boxes haven't been catalogued to this day there is often no possibility for research or to have access to the thumb of the left the house all of the archives in israel are really very much founded and they re sure palestinians every single israeli attack on palestinians has usually targeted an archive this happened in 1948 and it also in 1902 when the israelis

invaded lebanon and targeted institute of palestine studies one of the reasons that they're threatening is because there really our record of palestinian social life and palestine more broadly you have women with a welcome call there are important items like the personal papers of palestinian leaders and intellectuals like leave the 2nd library in jerusalem considered one of the most important palestinian private libraries. then you have palestinian lawyers whose entire offices and files were seized to this day if you go to the archives you'll find there's a palestinian lawyers category which i find strange palestinians lawyers these are very private documents the fact that they have been taken away is a sign of contempt for palestinian history it's an attempt to suggest palestinians have no history no documents no belongings well imo who does the home. israel of

law 3rd the anyone can access the state archives the most sensitive material can be censored for up to 70 years but in practice the state can and have restricted indefinitely anything it decides is damaging to its national security and israeli historian one othella has spent 20 years trolling the archives uncovering truths of previously unseen footage and photographs seized as far back as the 1930. 2017 she made a film about lost coniston in history could looted and hidden. over the years seller has found historical material that has been sealed the decade. in israel's military archives she discovered films from the era of palestinian revolutionary thin emma and photos shot by one of the founders of palestinian photo

journalism i thought us. sellar also uncovered aerial photos taken by the jewish militia the hagana of palestinian villages before they were destroyed and repopulated in 1948. the hagana decided to photograph all the palestinian villages from the air this material would later be used for the conquest and rule of these places and their people however when we look at the photos with the historic perspective we have today their meaning can flip so to speak and they can reveal the history of those who were conquered someone once asked me if i wasn't concerned that these materials might be closed off after i'd asked them to be opened and indeed the material has been declassified when i went back to the archive a few years later i was told the photos do not exist in ok i mean. it's not just that material offensive hidden from the outside once inside the archive

origin the right interpreted to fit a different narrative and never tell home again when i started working with material from the archive i saw photos with comments and notes written on them by the censors in archivists for example palestinians are described as terrorists as gangs seeing all of that taught me about how the materials go through a process of rewriting to aid or benefit design is narrative so the colonial operators that starts with the plunder and looting continues with colonial control and management other than your colonial of a man that if you let the role the archives play and reshaping history is under the control of political masters israel's military archive is managed by the defense ministry its state archives by the prime minister's office. before stepping down last year israel's my senior archivist yakov love of egg criticize not only

that lack of independence but also the state tendency to censor material under the guise of security no the victor kind to speak to us for the story however in a revealing report summing up his time as chief archivist he wrote the vast majority of material the thiel i will never be opened. according to the israeli n.g.o.s lack of out of the $14800000.00 files held by israel's state and military archives less than 2 percent are accessible to the public that includes restricted material that could expose israelis to uncomfortable truths about their history like war crimes perpetrated against palestinians the have been minimal israel is terrified of the contents of its own archives and doesn't want its history to be exposed take one of the most important examples of censored material the cover costs a massacre in 1956 many scholars argue that israel used to cover costs and massacre

to force those palestinians who had stayed on their land to flee i believe there were direct orders from the government for the massacre to take place so as long as the state keeps censoring these documents it means it's trying to hide the past to prevent it from being part of the present and the future you know how they're almost. who have allowed to remember and who is made to forget is an expression of power. erasing the archival record denies palestinians the right to know right past and to connect it to the present but israel does not have a monopoly over history. in the occupied west bank a major project is underway by the palestine museum to collect and digitize hundreds of thousands of items of historical significance in the face of continuing historical denial palestinians are finding other ways to preserve collective memory

archival. to really record. these histories and stories has been from the very beginning part of the palestinian struggle for memory and to a certain extent for liberation there is no single authoritative palestinian archives that may be a blessing in disguise because the more voices and the more multiplicity we have i think all of those things are sources of richness not poverty and the host have a taste i don't think that palestinian history should be deprived of documents and evidence it is important to return the material to the owners so that it won't be me someone with privilege and access who writes the palestinians history but rather palestinian researchers themselves israeli society must learn to respect a knowledge and understand palestinian society and its history because without that

there is no future for this case and. finally fasting and furious that's not the mispronounced name of the film franchise it's a school for rhapsody an ode to ramadan and fasting no food no water from dawn until sunset and it's coming to an end this week it's an act of faith and of discipline one that can make muslims hungry and slightly irritable this next video was produced by a jordanian and an indian a couple of musicians who have a youtube. channel called jordi india judging from the numbers more than a 1000000 views within days of its release this video has hit a nerve if not the spot we'll see you next time if there was.

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at least 13 people including the suspected gunman have been killed in virginia and the worst mass shooting in the u.s. this year. alone down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up mexico says it's open to dialogue after the u.s.

president for him to impose tariffs on mexican goods if it doesn't illegal migration. show support for palestine leaders of muslim majority nations condemn any decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel plus. thousands pay tribute to form opposition leader. at his funeral in the democratic republic of congo 2 years after his death. this is of spoken of their horror. civil servant shot and killed 12 people in the u.s. at least 4 were injured in the attack at a government complex in the city of virginia beach a suspect was shot by police and later died an official has this report. police moved in cautiously sticking with procedure but trying to get to the scene of the shooting as quickly as possible it was just after 4 pm on friday afternoon when the 1st emergency calls were made the shooting underway at the munich. simple center in virginia beach a coastal town about 300 kilometers south of washington d.c.

the center a complex of 25 buildings the administrative heart of the timing of the reports coming from one location building 2 there's little security here people need to easily come in go police believe the man move from floor to floor firing well some workers took cover at their desks others elsewhere on the campus were moved to safety i'm just going through a lot of emotion because it's too way too much killing going on and i'm just glad that they alert us and the time so we wouldn't be outside when everything was occurring those who made it out hugged their colleagues their friends know their fellow survivors others were taken to a local hospital student alert police say the shooter was an employee who'd want there for a long time at this stage the have new idea of motive but he has no date i can tell you that it was a long gun battle between those 4 officers and that suspect. we've recovered

a 45 caliber handgun with multiple extended magazines that were emptied at the time the suspect was reloading extended magazines and that handgun firing at the victims throughout the building and that officers this is a horrific day for the commonwealth of virginia our hearts say over the senseless violence that has been inflicted upon the virginia beach community today my deepest condolences and prayers go to the families of those who left home this morning. and one return tonight police know begin the task of trying to put together the why the question most people want an answer to this was the 43rd machete of the u.s. in me a loon and the worst in the u.s. this year alan fischer al-jazeera washington mexico's foreign minister says he will

hold talks in washington next week to discuss president trump's plans to tax all mexican goods trump wants mexico to stop the flow of migrants or face terrorists which could climb to 25 percent than a regular reports from mexico city. u.s. president donald trump has renewed threats against mexico over immigration enforcement trampling the mexican government via a series of tweets adding quote on june 10th the united states will impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such time as illegal migrants coming through mexico and into our country stop also threaten to slam mexico with tariffs as high as 25 percent by october mexico has for many years had a pretty tough immigration policy against americans and we're just asking them to help us to not be this gateway between the northern travel countries we have people pouring in you've seen the statistics 1000 just yesterday or so up to 100000 in

some months such as candy. during his morning press conference mexican president. called on the u.s. to engage in a rational dialogue mexico's deputy economy minister. offered her own jabbing at the idea of tariffs. they have to understand that this way of going forward is not in the interests of the united states and secondly of course know that mexico has the legal instruments. it becomes necessary because we think this is an arbitrary an abuse of measure talks going on now between the u.s. and mexican authorities will likely include with the latest developments mean for the pending trilateral trade deal between the us mexico and canada what remains to be seen is whether the threat of tariffs will simply evaporate like the time president from britain to close the us mexico border but never did when it up in mexico city where christopher wilson is the deputy director of the wilson center as

mexico institute he says border issues are taking over washington's and tar relationship with mexico. well traditionally in u.s. mexico relations there's been an effort to put these things on separate tracks to make sure that there's not contamination from trade to migration security issues to other things because there's such a big complex relationship between the 2 countries and so what this does is it shows 1st of all just how intense and focused president trump is on this might ration issue on control of the u.s. border with mexico but it absolutely holds some risks it risk contaminating the entire relationship it risks preventing the passage of the u.s. m.c.a. the renegotiated version of nafta in the congress of mexico and potentially also in the united states puts at risk actually the very cooperation on migration issues it's true that in the 1st 2 months of the new administration in mexico in december in january there was there were more vicious eases issued to central american

migrants and fewer detentions and deportations of central american migrants but at the u.s. urging in recent months mexico has been working very hard to not just try to protect migrants and their human rights but also to work on deterrence with the united states so there's not such a massive flow of migrants coming from central america so to have a threat of terror of starting at a 5 percent level just rising and rising and rising throughout the fall if the numbers don't drop it strikes me as a very strange thing to do to the united states' best partner in managing this this regional challenge. u.s. ports have started collecting higher tariffs on goods arriving from china president trump increased the levies on may 10th but allowed a grace period for sea cargo that left china before that date imports from a list of more than $200000000000.00 worth of goods are now facing terrorism 25 percent from the previous rate of 10 percent. for trade is the only area where the

u.s. and china are dogs washington is also taking aim at beijing's foreign policy speaking at a security forum in singapore acting u.s. defense secretary patrick shanahan warned china to stop threatening its neighbors sovereignty it also said washington is investing in the indo-pacific region to defend its asian allies. china should have one. too. but behavior to start and. china is change but. the u.s. secretary of state has been in berlin trying to increase pressure on european leaders to support its tough policy towards iran and its 1st official visit to germany before heading to switzerland might pompei o. and chancellor angela merkel discussed rising tensions with terror and germany's party to the 2015 nuclear agreement that the u.s. pulled out of last year european leaders have since set up a framework for trade with iran to avoid u.s. sanctions. we've been pretty clear about trade with iran there are items that are

sanctioned in their items that are not those items that are subject to sanctions we will do our best to enforce the american sanctions regime that is put it been put in place but for those that are for humanitarian goods things that are permitted to move whether they move through in stacks or through another mechanism those are lawful and appropriate didn't are permitted to continue under under the sanctions or the sanctions laws that we've put in place the need of lebanon's hezbollah is one that a war between the u.s. and iran to be devastating for the entire region. comments came as arab leaders met in saudi arabia to discuss iran's growing influence well if you don't know what i'm don't know mr crump and it ministration as intelligence agencies know very well that war against iran will not stop at iran's borders or against iran means the whole region will burn and i'm not by starting a month in the region erupt the price of a barrel of oil will rise to 200 dollars 300 dollars $400.00 and he will lose reelection this is the balance of power when the supreme leader of iran so there is

no war is because iran will not and has not started a war with any side and the us has to take into account the economic and human loss if it decides to wage war and this is what is preventing the war and leaders of muslim majority nations have condemned the u.s. for moving its embassy in israel to jerusalem it was ation of islamic cooperation as a meeting in saudi arabia delegate said any recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital undermined the 2 state solution. we shall not except rewrite the history exchanging just this economy benefits and this regarding dignity and legitimacy because of palestine on the always remained a core issue for all of us any peace deal reached doesn't throw away the creation of an independent and soden state of palestine reading the 1067 borders with shareef as as is kept with their will we'll be rejected by the ois community

iranians turned out in force across the country to mark what's known as jerusalem day demonstrations were held across the region in a show of support for the palestinian cause homage on june reports. in tehran tens of thousands of people came out the occasion could stay also known as jerusalem day iran's annual display of solidarity with palestinians which it has marked since the start of its 1979 revolution the islamic republic once again made clear its stance toward u.s. president donald trump's plan for peace in the mideast hayom it was it was seen as the message of jerusalem day is that palestine will live forever and jerusalem belongs to all muslims and over the past 2 years none of the plots of the enemies of islam against jerusalem has been successfully 1st they tried making jerusalem the capital of the egresses we saw that other than one or 2 small countries no one

else accepted that then they tried to give the golan heights to israel no country and all the international community accepted that now they're off to the deal of the century i believe that will be the bankruptcy of the century it will definitely go no way. from so-called deal of the century is expected to include proposals for large scale investment in palestinian territories from arab countries . even before its unveiling it has been rejected by palestinian officials many in the mideast wonder if it will be dead on arrival. in iraq at a time when but the dad is trying to calm rising tension between the u.s. and iran people held rallies to mark jerusalem day iranian backed shia brigades carry pictures of iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many will move was the vote in the little house a lot through sunday in baghdad and the other iraqi provinces and across the world

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