and the difference is. in the similarities of cultures across that. al-jazeera. this effort is better referred to as the opportunity of the century jared cushion or launches america's $50000000000.00 formula for peace in the middle east at a conference in bahrain which is being boycotted by the palestinians. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program president trump warns of overwhelming retaliation to any attack by tehran after his iranian counterpart dismisses the latest u.s. sanctions as idiotic the u.n.

says the world is on course for a climate apartheid where the rich save themselves while the poor bear the brunt. of. the latest space x. rocket blasts off with $24.00 satellites on board and the ashes of $152.00 people. hello thank you for joining us it's been 2 and a half years in the making and it's being billed as the opportunity of the sentry for palestinians the u.s. president's son in law jared cushion there is in bahrain where he's presented the economic portion of america's plan for peace between the palestinians and the israelis a long awaited proposal has already been sharply criticized by palestinians and arabs across the region for not including a political solution cushion or says this will be unveiled later so let's look at the plan indeed. what it expects the donor nations and investors to contribute

$50000000000.00 to the palestinian territories jordan egypt and lebanon although no one has actually pledged any money yet it aims to create a $1000000.00 new jobs slash unemployment rates and improve living standards for palestinians within the next 10 years and among 179 proposed infrastructure and business projects a 5000000000 dollar transport corridor to connect to the occupied west bank and gaza by direct message to the palestinian people is that despite what those who have let you down in the past tell you president trump and america have not given up on you this workshop is for you the vision we developed and released if executed correctly will lead to a better future for the palestinian people the future of dignity prosperity and opportunity you can change your course for the positive if we are willing to try

new things and think outside of the traditional box let's get more now from roslyn jordan who joins us from washington d.c. of course the so-called deal of the century you know we've been talking about it for a long time certainly the trumpet ministration has but was there anything that was actually new in this speech. it doesn't appear that there was anything new one of the early criticisms of the cushion or plan if we can call it that is that it seemed to tap into a number of initiatives that had been put forward by previous u.s. administrations certainly he tried to put it in a larger historic context harkening back to the rebuilding efforts in japan and in western europe after the 2nd world war but certainly the big question is whether you can get enough private investment as well as get donor countries to actually provide enough money to actually make the palestinian economy self-sustaining that

of course doesn't even begin to deal with the numerous fundamental political and legal issues that are still unresolved between the palestinians and the israelis and also and how much traction is this deal actually likely to get because of course it does depend on you know pledges and donations and as far as we know many of these of command if any at all. well certainly it would be helpful if you actually had any palestinians actually supporting the initiative because people want to know that the money that they would be contributing or the expertise they would be contributing is welcomed while you had both the palestinian authority boycotting the event as well as hamas which i wouldn't have been able to get to about playing anyway for this event but you know given that there is this widespread distaste for the idea from the palestinian community writ large that's

one area that the plane would have to overcome you also did not have the israelis at the this conference the white house made a conscious decision not to invite them again raising the basic question of why not actually deal with the fundamental political issues 1st and then to focus on economic development once they have settled things such as the territory for a palestinian state the issue of hers israeli security you know dealing with all of the issues that extend from those 2 basic tenets and then basically you're not going to find a lot of business people particularly interested in putting their money into a precarious situation we certainly saw that in the early days after saddam hussein was kicked out of power in iraq he did not have this huge rush of western companies for example going into iraq to try to rebuild the economy because it was simply

still too unstable businesses don't like instability and really the big question comes back to this barbara what is going to be the overarching political structure into which these investors would be expected to contribute their money and time and definitely is roslin joining in with the latest from washington ross thank you well the palestinian authority and its rival hamas of both denounced the u.s. plan accusing trump of trying to buy them off in return for not having their own state how massa senior political leader dismissed a meeting him behind as a farce. the conference held at the moment in bahrain is a political conference with an economic coverup it is totally a political event with the financial and economic camouflage simply for the reason that this conference and the deal called the deal of the century is aimed at achieving the following 1st to lay the foundation for terminating the palestinian cause 2nd giving the green light to the zionist enemy to extend its occupation and

control over the entire west bank. so has more now from gaza city. before shouted coercion and stood up to deliver his opening remarks a speech had already been started by ishmael kindy a the leader of hamas the group that controls gaza he was making a very impassioned speech to a group of palestinian faction leaders here in gaza city and reiterating the point that palestinians have been making ever since details of this plan 1st came out a few days ago that there can be no economic solution to this situation until the political solution is found in his speech he describes the buckling conference as having been dead already because it carries the seeds of failure he said that the conference did not dictate the fate of palestinians now there was an interesting side note to this speech because he also held out an offer of unity to the leadership of the fatah political party and the fatah and hamas have been at

loggerheads for about 13 years ever since hamas took over gaza but this was a saying to the leadership of fatah now is the time to come together now is the time to form some sort of unity government so that we can represent palestinians in the face of this particular deal we are expecting protests to be held in gaza on the web and stated that it is a march that's being arranged to go from the u.n. headquarters here in gaza up to the main square but also later on on wednesday that are expected to be protests at the border with israel and everybody will be watching very carefully to see how israel decides to react to those protests given the level of intricacy and comments that have been happening since this conference and back train began the conference itself is expected to finish at the end of weight and stay but whether or not the fury that is currently felt by palestinians

will end then to as yet to be seen. all obviously it's by no means the 1st time the world leaders have tried to find a solution to the israeli palestinian conflict but as priyanka gupta now explains conferences like the one in manama have done little to change the reality on the ground land is at the heart of more than hough a century of israeli occupation and 71 years of palestinian dispossession and resistance and here is why 2 years before the state of israel was created in $948.00 arabs more than 94 percent of this land between $948.49 israel seized more than 3 quarters of it like areas around beersheba. lit and a trying cities of haifa suffered and. 750000 palestinians most of them farmers were forced from their homes neither they nor

their descendants have been allowed back but a 967 israel sees the rest the now occupied west bank including east jerusalem and gaza strip since the 1990 s. under your slow accords the west bank has been carved up the palestinian authority was given some control over areas a and b. but has no control over area c. that's most of the west bank including the most fertile land and according to the world bank that's led to the loss of $3400000000.00 to the palestinian economy across the occupied west bank and gaza palestinian farmers faced restrictions on basic goods like foot eliza farming machinery and even water permanent barriers restrict freedom of movement including loss of several work hours. a separation wall cuts of 150 palestinian communities from their land and they need permits from

israel to get around and these numbers show the person teacher of permits the united farm was an agricultural workers over the years unemployment in palestine has soared the highest in gaza which is under is to its air sea a man blockade for 12 years so why foreign aid seems generous and paper for palestinians on the ground their lives remain knowledgeably and altered because of the reality of these daily occupation. the u.s. president has threatened iran with obliteration donald trump made the comment on twitter after the iranian president suggested the white house was quote idiotic for imposing new sanctions on supreme leader ali i mean a tehran says the sanctions could spell a permanent end to diplomacy between the 2 countries zain bazarov the reports now

from tehran. in his 1st public appearance since iran shot down a u.s. surveillance drone last week president hassan rouhani did not hold back he said the latest sanctions targeting iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei are the irrational actions of a confused government. how they are suffering from mental disability the white house is afflicted by mental retardation and does not know what to do with the supreme leader occupies such a protected position in public life that in iran insulting him is illegal in the u.s. applying pariah status to someone so highly revered has angered leaders into iran you know examining a person loses his mind and does something insane and stupid so what they say they will put sanctions on our leaders property but what is our leaders property a simple house and a ceremony. iran is under such sweeping sanctions that the latest american move is entirely symbolic but later this week washington has said it will add iran's foreign minister zarif to the sanctions list attacking the country's top diplomat

is something to her and says permanently closes the path to diplomacy making an enemy go mom was ok if you're being honest and want to negotiate why simle teeniest lee do you want to impose sanctions on the foreign minister so it is clear that you are lying as the u.s. continues its pressure campaign russia has vowed to help iran counter new u.s. sanctions here and. iran has been and remains our ally and partner and we consistently develop our relations both bilateral and multilateral which means any attempt to portray tehran as a main threat to regional security or to bring it into line with isis or other terrorist groups is unacceptable to us. but some u.s. officials remain undeterred the president has held the door open to real negotiations to completely and verifiably eliminated iran's nuclear weapons program

its pursuit of ballistic missile delivery systems its support for international terrorism and its other malign behavior worldwide all that iran needs to do is to walk through that open door. on tuesday foreign minister zarif said once again iran's religious views mean it will never pursue a nuclear weapon he also reminded people that america is the only beijing to ever drop nuclear bombs on another country world leaders want cooler heads to prevail and washington keeps saying that it wants to calm things down through dialogue but the decision to sanction iran's supreme leader is something so insulting the wrong it might make a negotiated solution nearly impossible. well escalating tensions over iran were high on the agenda at a meeting between russia israel and the united states in west jerusalem russia's security council secretary told reporters that any attempts to present tehran as

a threat to international security are unacceptable moscow says its military intelligence shows the american drone downed last week was in iranian air space when it was shot down. the world food program says yemen's who the rebels have blocked the food shipment intended to reach at least 100000 families the u.n. agency is in talks with the group after accusing it of diversion food away from those who need it and partially suspending its aid program last week the war in yemen has pushed millions to the brink of starvation more than 10000000 people there rely on world food program aid every month. egyptian police have arrested 8 people in connection with the 2011 uprising and for their alleged ties to the muslim brotherhood they include human rights lawyers a man journalists and activists there accused of plotting protests to mark the upcoming anniversary of the military coup which overthrew the elected president mohammed morsi at least $1000.00 businesses allegedly linked to the muslim

brotherhood or also raided morsi died last week after collapsing in court. so in this half hour growing anger in the u.s. over the treatment of migrant children after hundreds are discovered being held in appalling conditions in texas and tears from the prime minister of ethiopia is a bid farewell to the country's military chief who was killed in a cooler. hell of the damaging thunderstorms have been around in southeastern from particular in the last week or so are rather less frequent than they were all we have says is now further west you may not see it it's not much cloud here atoll draggy cross the british isles with this is where the temperatures are increasing it's

a point of middle to even high surtees the next few days of what border on here in about 36 degrees for wednesday seems extraordinary highs so close to the coast but that's a general area i think france spain lift and stein let me bits of portugal and search for will see this extreme rise in temperature some that will spread across germany because you see there's a breeze coming into northern germany which tend to cut off any further north with movement but it might get to 35 which isn't extreme but it is high we are talking about june and paris is the 3 that might be conservative value enough to watch these close these records could well be broken somewhere in france but i may get to say same sort of figures prevailed on those 39 down in madrid but there has been a bit of a cooling trend again running through germany and poland with this great a sort of frontal system wrapped around that low just west of moscow and moscow is a 20 degrees and it's raining these green dots able to add 3 thunderstorms the can in southeastern europe.

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welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president has threatened iran with little ration if it makes any moves against america trumps twitter comments came after the iranian president said the latest sanctions against iran were quote irrational actions of a confused government and senior white house adviser jared cushion or has unveiled the economic policy of the u.s. middle east peace plan speaking in bahrain push there a doubt that the plan and the opportunity of the sentry and called the $50000000000.00 from investors to make it work. well as the bahrain conference was getting underway the u.n. agency responsible for palestinian refugees was asking for more than a $1000000000.00 at its annual pledging conference in new york it's been struggling to cope since the white house cut $300000000.00 of funding last year she has more now from the united nations in new york. after the trumpet ministration cut off all funding for the un relief and works agency $42.00 countries stepped up and

increased their share of funding in order to make up the shortfall this meeting in part is to remind and should be those donors to ensure that funding continues in 2019 what's fascinating about the timing of this is it does happen on the same day as gerard cushion his workshop in bahrain for the financial aspects of his deal of the century and the same arguments that were being used by gerard cushion or for his deal were being used by jason green blatt the trumpet ministration negotiator for ending funding for the un agency that looks after refugees we're doing this for the palestinians the un refugee agency isn't good enough for them we want the palestinians to prosper even though as a result of that funding shortfall there could be enormous humanitarian consequences it is also interesting that there is a suspicion here that it is intimately connected to the question of plows that there's a thought in washington perhaps that if you end funding for the u.n. refugee agency the relief the refugee agency that works for the palestinians then

perhaps you can say there is no longer a refugee problem there's no issue of the right of return and that's very much on the minds you can tell of delegates of this conference that they want to keep the funding for the u.n. relief and works agency to make sure that the issue of refugees doesn't disappear that the trump administration can't simply say look now that the unruh has gone maybe there is no refugee problem and we can just move on with the deal of the century. the acting head of the u.s. customs and border protection agency is to resign from his post next month amid an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children there have been protests rallies in washington after hundreds of migrant children were relocated from an overcrowded texas border patrol station that's prompted new criticism of president trump's hardline immigration policies in florida a democratic congressman and activists were denied entry to another child immigration facility as they tried to check on the conditions there being in

congress we have access and we have oversight responsibilities to see what's going on here and i should be able to go in i asked this person just man to man parent to parent or the kids inside ok and he wouldn't tell me and that really bothered me. if. the state funeral for its military chief and another general who were killed on saturday evening the attacks were part of a failed rebellion in the northern amar region police have showed that the man that they accuse of leading the strike harding has the latest from the. it's a national day of mourning as ethiopia bids farewell to its military generals harma conan was killed on saturday shot dead by his bodyguard in his own home mccone and was in the process of stopping a regional rebellion in the northern i'm higher state when he was killed another general was also shot and killed thousands attended the funeral service for both

generals including friends of general mckiernan. i cannot finish telling you what he has done for me my wish for his family and the few people is that they can be counselled especially for the people of tikrit now we are always crying 5 government officials were killed in the failed rebellion 2 were federal generals 3 were regional state leaders the man behind the attacks sygate was shot and killed by security forces on monday and i'm hard a state he was the head of regional security as much as this is a time for the generals family to bid their farewells it's also time for the military to say goodbye we have several different branches of military present here we also have military i says she's a from the embassies around addus to pay their respects we also know that the prime minister ahmed is inside as well this general was one of the most protected

individuals in the military his death has sparked fear about the security situation in the country. you know to know. when the country's chief of staff died it was a great danger and a failure this kind of thing is not good for us in an exclusive interview the prime minister's press secretary told us on. it is in full control of the military this is something that we need to assure in terms of national security as well as regional security and particularly with regards to the incidents that have happened in the tibet the government's 100 percent in control and things have stabilized particularly within the region as well the government blocked the internet on saturday in the wake of the attacks and it's still off as an added security there's also a strong military presence in the capital the country is watching waiting to see what will happen next hardeen al-jazeera. police in cambodia have charged 7 people over saturday's building collapse that killed at least $28.00 the prime

minister who in saying visited the site in syria revealed on monday as search teams continue looking for trapped construction workers the unfinished 7 story building was part of a recent crush of chinese investment india ukraine has walked out of the council of europe after it restored russia's voting rights they were suspended 5 years ago for most schools an extension of crimea but the pan european human rights body agreed early on tuesday to let russian representatives return or russia's foreign minister welcomed the announcement. sibel opening of the movie should we consider this a very very positive step it is important that the delegations that voted for this resolution and they constituted the majority clearly stated that the rights to the return to the russian federation cannot be challenged. in georgia scuffles have broken out between lawmakers inside parliament in the latest bout of unrest after hundreds were injured at an opposition rally last week politicians clashed with

each other have to georgia's ruling dream party refused to discuss calls for the interior minister georgie to step down demonstrators blamed a korea for the violence the sparse all of last thursday's rather. evacuations are underway at a petro chemical plant in southern spain after a large fire broke out spewing thick black smoke above the town of central can near gibraltar one person has been treated for smoke inhalation residents have been warned to stay indoors with the windows closed because authorities don't yet know the chemical composition of the smoke the cause of the fire is not yet known french authorities are working on safety measures ahead of a europe wide heatwave to avoid a repeat of the summer of 2003 when thousands died from weather related causes the alert level in paris has been raised to orange as temperatures in the city have climbed higher than 30 degrees celsius cool rooms have been set up to help the

elderly and charity organizations have started patrols providing water to homeless people nearly 15000 people died during the 2003 summer in france forcing supermarkets to be used as more trees. well the un says the world is on course for a climate apartheid where the rich buy their way out of the effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt in a new report that says corporations cannot be relied on to look after the poor in climate change since the council 50 years of progress in poverty reduction the un special rapporteur on extreme poverty philip alston warns that even in the best case scenario hundreds of millions will face food insecurity forced migration disease and the us what the problem is that if there is going to be any. revenge or if they will have a warming we need to be undertaking dramatically measures now all the sort of

things that have been doing in most countries not doing currently. and think in terms of the scale of the need. not focused on what needs to be done and not focused on the extent of the challenge all the change that needs to be ruled out we asked almost sleep walking into a climate change horror story what's being described as the most powerful launch vehicle in the world has avoided the into space space x. launched its falcon heavy rocket from the kennedy space center in the u.s. among the cargo are 24 satellites and the cremated remains of $152.00 people who wanted their ashes to remain in the earth's orbit the launch is part of space x. as grand ambitions to bring down the cost of space travel the u.n.

right has a space on the list he says the launch marks a major advancement in space technology. well this really was a spectacular launch as we just saw they turned night into day at the kennedy space center it's been compared to the final launch in the apollo moon landing program which did something similar so this rocket is very very big they've combined tree of their smaller rockets to produce what they call the south can heavy capable of loft. military satellites among other things into earth orbit on this occasion as you said they put into orbit about 24 satellites these are mostly military satellites designed to experiment. for new uses of outer space and how to project american military assets in orbit the americans are already working on an even bigger rocket at the american government and most the man behind

space x. is talking about an even bigger rocket that he predicts will bring when man and went on to mars. much more on that and everything else that we have been covering on our website the address al jazeera dot com. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a senior white house adviser jared cush now has the scribed his plan for peace in the middle east as the opportunity of the sentry the u.s. president's son in law is in bahrain where he's unveiled the economic portion of the u.s. peace plan and called for $50000000000.00 to make it work the plan aims to create $1000000.00 jobs for palestinians and to build the transport corridor between the occupied west bank and gaza. by direct message to the palestinian people is that despite what those who have let you down in the past tell you president trump

and america have not given up on you. this workshop is for you the vision we developed and released if executed correctly will lead to a better future for the palestinian people a future of dignity prosperity and opportunity you can change your course for the positive if we are willing to try new things and think outside of the traditional box the u.s. president has threatened to obliterate iran if it makes any moves against america donald trump made the comment on twitter after the iranian president suggested the white house was idiotic for imposing new sanctions on supreme leader ali khamenei tehran says the sanctions could spell a permanent end to diplomacy between the 2 countries the world food program says yemen's who the rebels have blocked a food shipment intended to reach at least 100000 families the u.n. agency is in talks with the group after accusing it of diverting food away from

those who need it and partially suspending its aid program last week the war in yemen has pushed millions to the brink of starvation more than 10000000 people there rely on the world food program's aid every month. the acting head of the u.s. customs and border protection agency is to resign from his post next month amid an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children there have been protests rallies in washington after hundreds of migrant children were relocated from an overcrowded texas border patrol station it's prompted new criticism of president trump's hard line immigration policies those were the top stories that stay with us the stream is coming up next that i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour hope you join me then.

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