other than the good. deed includes a 39 month transitional period the 1st time to want to be led by the military and the last 18 by civilians before elections are held but many of the details of the agreement have yet to be published the armed groups in the coalition say they wanted to ensure an end to the words in the various parts of the country another was. participated in this historic revolution so we just need to come up with a deal that is agreed upon by the armed and civilian groups and recognize the aims of the peaceful and armed revolution and we will work for peace so we are sure a deal can be reached that book sees the whole of sudan. big deal or no deal protesters who came out on saturday state too many lives have been lost to let go of their demands for justice this if the killers of the protesters aren't held accountable or in any agreement on the political creature will be incompetent even more going on to their own ideas about. coming out it's the weather then after that

india's tower of trash continues to grow daily despite a bad on some ground being used to dump waste. and we'll have the latest in the cricket world cup final campaign to win the title on the amsoil. howler the rain over southern china has been producing floods of course it's that time of the year it's now become a little bit disorganised you'd expect it to be along this line this front lawn of the my you by seasonal rains from japan down to china but there are showers are on the side of that particular on the yangtze valley it's had to bit of flooding recently and i think the next 2 days we will see some more heavy downpours here but

that's true of anywhere further south as well maybe a little bit little bit less in ground although it's still obviously cloudy is there at the feet of moisture so you could get a thunderstorm but the rains are certainly pretty widespread and the monsoon though it's front is got a long way to catch up with itself is still not filling in but it's got a lot of right up in our side in nepal recently and down through the western side of myanmar as is evidenced by the satellite picture out in the forecast it's the same sort of area north east india nepal possibly bhutan as well was precious little over india itself except through care around the west and gets a maybe a little bit further east but to be honest it's mostly still far to draw a picture which is not right for this time of the year however the monsoon season has got another couple of months to go so we could still catch up. every weekly news cycle brings

a series of breaking stories this maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most they moved closer and closer to the tire shut down both international and domestic news coverage on al-jazeera. covers a 2nd look at the top stories here at al-jazeera having clashes in hong kong as police try to clear protesters in the district of shot 10 thousands demonstrated

against what they say is beijing's growing political influence in the territories affairs the united arab emirates has recruited hundreds of troops affiliated to yemen's transitional council that's a secessionist organization in the south of the country for them to be trained in abu dhabi the move follows the announcement of the u.a.e. as partial withdrawal from yemen. iran says it's looking at legal measures to free an oil tanker seized by the u.k. of gibraltar britain says it would be willing to release a ship if iran can guarantee it won't deliver on oil to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions. now iran's 2050 nuclear deal with world powers well the controversy surrounding it is adding to the pressure. on the u.k. special relationship with the u.s. it's been a rather difficult week of the leaks messages from britain's ambassador to washington

published now another batch of leaked diplomatic cables critical of president trump that be made public for each other and has more from london. so here we have the latest blockbuster in the mail on sunday's series on the leaked diplomatic cables coming from the former ambassador of the united kingdom to the united states or kim darrick and this one reads trump acts the iran deal to spite a bomber now what's kim derek wrote back to london is that he thought that donald trump hated the iran deal mainly because he hated barack obama and that's why he walked away from it and so can barack described it as an act of diplomatic vandalism now these leaked diplomatic cables that have been hugely impactful to the united kingdom they sent shock waves through the diplomatic service which has felt badly treated like it's been thrown under the bus by the

politicians for political ends it's also put a big dent in the transatlantic relationship between the united kingdom and the united states with donald trump effectively making the position of. untenable by saying that he was going to fact of the cold shoulder him block him from business at the white house as to whether this will have the same kind of impact as the 1st round of leaks cables will have to wait and see but certainly it means that this issue is not going away and of course with the talk about the iran deal it's feeds into the hot issue of the moment which is the relationship between iran and the united kingdom and the united states. the united arab emirates has recruited at least 500 troops affiliated to yemen's transitional council

a session is to organization in the south to be trained in abu dhabi the move follows the announcement of the u.s. partial withdrawal from yemen senior iraqi officials are describing it as a redeployment and insists they remain committed to the saudi u.s. coalition which has been fighting who the rebels inserted 15 mohammed has more from yemen's capital sana'a. this kind of also recruitment has taken part in previous times it's not the 1st time for the united arab emirates to recruit people from the south also saudi arabia is involved in such recruitment of yemeni people from south areas and also from ties to defend its borders in the south of it's come 3. regarding also the. the question about the as this kind of recruitment and also the united arab emirates a work draw all from areas in the north of yemen as it has already withdrawn from

and double manned. according to reports the in these areas saudi officers have replaced united arab emirates officers in these regions which are strategic regions over block on the red sea whiston yemen so the strategic problem and also moca where the united arab emirates have extensively invested and also backed the saudi led quality in its fight against the whole of these in the worst course line of. many observations believe such a withdrawal will waken the quality. but others say that this will support the sweden peace agreement that was signed in stockholm last december u.s.

immigration and customs agents are expected to raid homes in 10 u.s. cities protests have been held in philadelphia and elsewhere against the raids president trump told reporters that potentially 2000 undocumented immigrants could be detained he said the aim is to quote get criminals out of the u.s. and put them in prison where they came from. one democratic congresswoman says some religious leaders in texas are offering sanctuary to anybody who might be part of the raids. but it is a place where people like me. people of faith are civic leaders union leaders are prepared to fight against a dastardly order from washington d.c. that is making margaret of the broken immigration system. i'm to see international has called on russia to ease what it says is the house treatment of civilians who are living along disputed border lines with georgia it accuses the moscow back to

administer a sions of south ossetia and abkhazia of stopping free movement and illegally detaining people for crossing the boundaries andrew symonds has been to the georgian side of one of many communities split into. he's $85.00 he's frail and david burnished really feels like a prisoner in his own home russia sees his small patch of land as an international border georgia calls it the line of occupation on a map it's a dotted line on the ground it calls his heart break. daughter and grandson live on the other side. cd a widow can cope with poverty but not the separation. going home i think they do only here. on c.n.n. or site it's so important to be busier periods. to look after them but if i

cross a line i'll be detained. we visit divots and he told us he feels trapped and like his daughter helpless. sometimes he comes here as far as the fence and cries because she can't cross and see her sick mother. it's hard to imagine but daf it's frequently risks detention by finding a spot to cross the line at night in order to get his pension from georgia the people here are poor they had an uncomplicated way of life yet the atmosphere now is one of repression more than 30 security bases built near the line only a few crossing points and there strictly controlled. much of the messages by protesters daily anti russian demonstrations in the capital is aimed at raising awareness that 20 percent of georgia is in their words occupy. georgia is renowned

for its stunning landscape its traditions its fine cuisine and the bonhomie of its people but at the heart of it all is what happened here 11 years ago and its legacy razor wire and human rights abuses. the european union monitoring mission patrols the jewel. inside russia has observed all parts of a peace deal and it's been engaged in what's called border eyes ation with plans amnesty international issued a report this month saying hundreds of people face of a tree detention each year trying to cross the line it says there's been widespread loss of land loss of access to water and livelihoods most of the land davy to vanish viddy used to farm is the wrong side of the wire he asks us if i die here who will find me andrew simmons outages are a whole village in georgia. after

47 matches in 6 weeks the cricket world cup is down to the final 50 overs host england are taking on you see them both teams looking for their 1st world cup title england have been set 2 $140.00 to victory and one without loss after the 1st day there despite surviving a 1st full scale we can go live now to lead wellings there's at lord's cricket got ground in london how confident then. that chasing down this total of $242.00. well the next few minutes the next half hour are going to be absolutely crucial in determining who wins the world cup for the 1st time. or. 200. that could have been a disastrous start for them survived a leg before we could appeal off the 1st ball of these kind of things and of course

affect the confidence of the next. tiles up. the start of a few hours ago. decided to but that's what they're comfortable doing teams in this tournament that have batted 1st haven't succeeded in new zealand like batting 1st is what i did so shocked india in the final the only thing is there was cloud cover and it looked like conditions for now if. they could have caused a lot of problems would i want the other big thing they would have. kept williams and when he got out to liam plunkett that could have been a decisive moment it's still close but england limine the favorites. thank you. that india's highest mountain of rubbish is well on course to be taller

than the taj mahal by next year the site in east l.a. is growing 10 metres every year is now around $65.00 metres and all that's despite the government banning its use 2 years ago when 2 people were killed after it collapsed elizabeth her on and reports from delhi. a mountain of waste this is where 2000 tonnes of easterlies of rubbish is dumped every day you know i love our young people living around the site say it's affecting their lives obviously as you can see the smell is unbearable and if the wind blows towards us then it's difficult to eat food at home it is such a mess here the rubbish dump doesn't just smell bad it's also dangerous me time gas from the way sparks fires releasing toxic fumes. began as a land for the 984 that reached its capacity nearly 20 years ago like the engineer landfill it means that you have

a big hole which is dug out and it is lined with non-power members so that your doc sick of chemicals which comes out from garbage does not lead into the soil and cause water pollution but in gaza where there's no such thing trucks continue to dump rubbish here despite delis govern abandon them after a part of the hill a collapsed 2 years ago killing 2 people. this is a cruel joke this is contempt of the people to sponsor will continue garbage in the site they haven't stopped for a day after the border. we asked the east delhi municipal corporation why this is happening but because of the northern ireland by the way with us so we continued to . dispose of all the garbage or dislike that so. it's estimated delhi produces 14500 tons of waste every day the problem of waste isn't confined to the cities robert. jumpstart around $3000.00 worth of the rubbish produced daily isn't

collected leaving it mining on the street and other odds and space just because charlie manages this recycling center and says waste isn't just the government's responsibility what i've got is that we feel that resegregation should begin at home if people start segregating reist then released can be recycled properly and the direct consequence will be that garbage mountains like the one it won't be necessary at all the municipal corporation has started testing of recycling program in 3 areas this year they hope to roll the top to the rest of the region within one year. they also say they'll start clearing dollars he put in september and some of its waste will be used to build a national highway elizabeth purana al-jazeera east delhi. power has been fully restored in new york city after a blackout hit more than 40000 people traffic lights blacked out the subway system was stopped and even broadway shows had to be called off mid performance officials

say was caused by a transformer exploding new york's governor says the extent of the outage was an acceptable. we have to have a system that is designed to candle destruction. and rather than domino we have overdone c. in the system so this doesn't happen you just can't have a power outage of this magnitude in this city it is too dangerous the potential for public safety risk and chaos is too hard we just can't have a system that doesn't it's that simple at the end of the day and that's what we're going to work on. the main story. that is in hong kong this protest is from the district 10 thousands demonstrated against what they say is beijing's growing

political influence in the territories affair as jimmy the island day then has this update from hong kong. this is the 1st time basically that the process has been taken to the suburbs of sats and i think the message is quite clear from protesters there localizing this movement it all started these will be like many other protests over the past month more than 800000 protesters came to shout and they marched for several hours and reached this particular area of the south and train station by just that that's when the situation became chaotic at about 6 pm local time we saw over $100.00 riot police arrived and basically what they wanted was for protesters to this person. and police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters in paris just hours after the annual bust steel day parade

protesters through barriers and set fire to rubbish bins as they made anti government. numbers people have been arrested. the united arab emirates is recruited hundreds of troops affiliated to yemen's transitional council which is a secessionist organization in the south to be trained in abu dhabi the move follows the announcement of the u.s. partial withdrawal from yemen. iran says it's looking at legal measures to free an oil tanker seized by the u.k. of gibraltar britain says it would be willing to release the ship if iran can guarantee it won't deliver all oil to syria u.s. immigration and customs agents are expected to start raiding homes in 10 u.s. cities protests have been held in philadelphia and elsewhere against the raids president trump told reporters that potentially 2000 and documented immigrants will

be detained he says the aim is to get criminals out of the u.s. and put them in prison where they came from and those are the headlines listening post is next. and this was different not whether someone telling someone it's very rare it doesn't matter when you meet you think it's how you approach an individual and that's it is a certain way of doing it you can't just buy a story and fly out. you're on t.v. and this story will live on on the web talking about israel and palestine how careful in. your words right now i'd like to think that i've always been careful. but at this moment i'm especially careful not because i want to get away with something but because i want to be heard. magine you're going on the air at c.n.n. and there are cameras there are bright lights there are questions being thrown at you what goes through your mind it's going through my mind is there are so few

opportunities for palestinians to be able to tell our own story i have to get this right it's like a hostile interrogation as a palestinian been i've so deeply internalized all of the landmines that we can step on that i. it's almost 2nd nature and i also know it said some tough stuff has to be said some critics have to be made but at the core i believe that if i am careful with my words i can help contribute to a conversation that will lead to an outcome that is freedom justice equality and self-determination for everyone. hello i'm richard just heard you're watching a special edition of the listening post from washington d.c. we're still more than a year away from the american presidential elections but there are already more than 20 candidates running on the democratic side vying for the right to take on

donald trump in november 2020 as they establish their campaigns stake out their policy positions and fight for news coverage among the issues threatening to divide their party is this country's relationship with israel. america's support for israel usually at the expense of palestine has been unwavering one of the most reliably bipartisan issues in congress with republicans and democrats standing with their israeli allies through thick and thin but there is change in the air you can see that online and to a lesser extent on the airwaves we have i would say probably the best relationships right now with israel that we have ahead of president trump's unquestioning support of israel and its ever more hawkish prime minister has shifted the debate. in the democratic party the firmly pro israel old guard faces a challenge from a rising wing of progressives and activists who are calling out israel as never before the goal must be to try to bring people together and not just what one

country which is now run like when. there i say racist government they sense an opportunity to force previously taboo topics such as b.d.s. the boycott divestment and sanctions campaign into the political and media mainstream one of the most critical rights that we have in our country it's freedom of speech. our country having the right to economic point the narrative on israel is shifting not just here in d.c. but in news rooms reflecting what is being said online on university campuses and amongst activists across the country. that's what we're here to examine in d.c. new york city and the states of michigan and texas. the most recent changes in washington began at the ballot box last year's midterm elections sent 111 new faces to the capitol resulting in the most racially and gender diverse

congress in america's history for the 1st time more than 100 house members scored today the 1st muslim women michigan's rashida to lead and minnesota's still had almost challenging conventional washington wisdom on immigration policy racial injustice and economic inequality is not what provoked the most intense criticism of these congress with their positions on israel to the same wave that brought in hung ahmed and xander. and the she that into office the same wave that makes bernie sanders so popular amongst young people that same progressive wave is actually creating space for 2 congresswoman to support us by sanctions for the 1st time ever to criticize israel very openly and to call out the us his policy on israel

more broadly the bipartisan nature of support for israel that for several decades has been sort of the standard position for any ambitious politician to take that has been blown wide open and part of it is the omar conversation part of it is the election of a militia to play we know that the progressive movement is increasingly seeing israel as an ally and increasingly are concerned about palestinian rights at the same time the critique and the punishment for critiquing israel is becoming much harsher we see that israel's influence is waning that the hetero doxie around israel as infallible as something that both. sides of the aisle will protect we see that crumbling so it makes sense it makes sense that as it's crumbling there isn't a head gemini that holds up itself where people just self corrects and self discipline but instead there is a rise in the coercive force to punish those who step out of line support of the

boycott divestment and sanctions movement has suggested that if you are supporter of israel your guilty of jewelled loyalty in the past and she along with so i don't mar is part of an anti-semitic tension the democratic party now being protected by the democratic leadership i expected. what i mean by pushback is you know ugliness and hate and misunderstanding and anger being directed at me and really my faith or somebody that looks like me kind of developed into this massive kind of targeting attack. which she did to leave has been pressured and scrutinized in a way 1st term members of congress almost never are and she says what her colleague you have omar has faced has been worse really critical time and hahn all mar in so many ways is at the forefront of being a person that is there at the right time at the right place and we have to uplift that so even before she became

a congresswoman omar had been branded an anti semite for her criticism of israel then in february after a republican congressman repeated that accusation and an online debate ensued omar tweeted 6 words echoing lyrics from the world of hip hop words for which she would later apologize the benjamins were a reference to $100.00 bill omar was talking about the millions the pro israel lobby spends in washington the online reaction was swift. but. the opinion editor of a jewish newspaper the forward accused omar of peddling a malevolent trick. omar responded by calling out a path the american israel. public affairs committee the most influential croak israel lobby group in the us but your. reply went far. this country is desperately in need of a conversation for how we can be leveraging our closeness with israel to end the

occupation of the palestinians that is not the conversation that congresswoman omar is having she did not criticize israel what she did was characterize support for israel among americans and among american jews in a way that was just off enough just long enough that it slipped to right into the well worn grooves of anti-semitic tropes what do i mean by that she criticized a pack the israel lobby. of course you can criticize a pack without being anti-semitic i do it all the time the problem was that she mischaracterized apac exactly in a way that fell into an anti-semitic trope just like everyone else you know i read i read the tweets and i thought i don't see this is being particularly anti-semitic riva sickly controversial there are progressive american jews people i know well who hear some of the things that are being said and just it hits something deep

inside of them and i think it hits them sometimes as allies who say i've been a good ally of the rights the palestinians or human rights but here this hurts me so much you've gone too far and the sense of we should be able to pull you back and tell you what is the right way to criticize israel so that you don't offend us by the same token it is not up to white or jewish progressives to tell palestinians or progressives of color what is the acceptable way to to to express their concerns that's not a good look for progressives to say the least. the controversy around omar's position on israel and palestine and the language she uses did not end with the tweet affair a few weeks later at a town hall meeting that was live streamed omar said this i want to talk to the political will in. this country that says ok for people to push

for a foreign country she was talking about israel the context was disregarded and once again she was called anti semitic the charge that the semitism is leveled at anybody who is potentially vulnerable to it so for example when. thomas friedman of the new york times says that a pact bought and paid for an applause line got congress to basically apply that to the other speech nobody or person that is anti semitic because they know the duck charge would not stick and somebody like thomas friedman by contrast when you have . muslim black member of congress making comments about the israel lobby she's much more vulnerable to that kind of charge but she's a hater i'm going to say she's the whole world is watching watch an israeli audience supposed to take from a comment like that what she did not say critically she did not say anything about american jews using money to control politics and she said absolutely nothing about american jewish loyalties to the united states or to israel or anything of that

sort and yet that was the dominant narrative in the media which i thought was really preposterous the media pile on did not come out of nowhere it was a long time in the making a congress are under attack. it developed in the corridors and back rooms of american politics where legislators the reporters tracking their words anti-semitic trope and studio anchors across the country have collectively constructed and reinforced a largely black and white narrative on a story with multiple shades of grey this anti-semitic charged that is used against jewish people literally for hundreds of years the condemnations from the political side came not just from republicans but also from democratic congressional leaders like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer they reflect simply prepared a resolution for a vote to condemn anti-semitism in effect they were singling out omar preparing to bring her to heel but the pushback was fierce and unprecedented the young

multi-ethnic progressive wing of the party demanded that any resolution any vote over what it will hand over markets it had to condemn not only anti semitism but also islamophobia hate speech against immigrants the l.g.b. tea community and other marginalized american children. then when key democratic contenders weighed in siding with the new guard over the old the democratic leadership did the math and realized it did not have the votes it had to concede to the pressure from the progressives the resolution as agreed and widen the scope of the resolution that marked a turning point. over the course of 70 years the american israel public affairs committee. has grown into one of the most influential foreign policy lobbying groups in washington. it's very

little conference is a key event on the capital's talent a mix of politics pageantry and hardcore partisanship $18000.00 people attended this year's gathering political consultants activists journalists politicians from israel and the u.s. including presidential candidates and congressional leaders. and. politicians have much to gain by aligning themselves with the group as a disproportionate amount of clout to shape legislation promote pro israel politicians and direct funding very way from allied donors but one of the pacs greatest achievements lies in what is or is not say its ability to effectively set the boundaries of the israel palestine debate in the us across the political and media sphere one thing that's really important to remember is that lobbying is part of the democratic process it's a pretty terrible part it is

a corrupting influence and not just the uses its power and influence to ensure the us has been oppositions but the n.r.a. uses its power and influence to keep there from being you know laws against the guns the oil and coal industry use the power of its lobby to make sure that environmental regulations are not passed even though we're in a crisis of climate change. in a capital kneedeep in lobby groups apac has plenty of company in foreign policy lobbying alone arab gulf countries like saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar all play a high stakes big money game to cultivate politicians influence them and shape media narratives usually out of the range of news cameras 8. used to be the industry standard in lobbying but the others have been catching up and there are a mistake about signs that things are changing this year 7 democratic presidential candidates stayed away from this conference as recently as 4 years ago in 2016 that

would have been unthinkable the longstanding taboo that you do not criticize a pac it's now being challenged d.c. is most powerful lobby is facing the kind of scrutiny it's never seen. i think apacs really losing a lot of power trump in a way he obviated right he's a sort of one man israel so he made them a little bit a little bit obsolete on the right and he sort of made them toxic on the left because anything associated with israel is now going to have to account for its injustice it back at this point i would say it's really sort of it's losing a lot of power. and other jewish advocacy groups j. street jewish voice for peace if not now have emerged in the u.s. progressive voices now challenging apacs dominance over discourse on israel and palestine and news outlets have grown bolder when dealing with a journalist dig deeper into the group's work and question it more openly than they

chose to or felt able to in the past as it becomes more and more clear that apac does not speak for the american jewish community and that in fact it is an odds with the majority of the american jewish community if we're going to see an increased willingness to investigate what is really about still the limits on discourse over palestine and israel remain and the consequences for venturing beyond them can be career threatening last november marc lamont hill an academic and activist as well as a paid political contributor at c.n.n. learned the hard way lamont hill made a speech on palestine at the u.n. it lasted 21 minutes and consisted. of 2837 words he ended it by calling for a free palestine from the river to the sea his critics online contended that those last 6 words from the river to the sea amounted to

a call for the elimination of israel the counter argument was that that was not what mont hill meant that the rest of his speech made that abundantly clear however within 24 hours without so much as speaking to lamont hill c.n.n. fired i can't say what red line across in literal terms because i wasn't given any specific reason or analysis obviously the speech was the red line the protests however from the speech where largely around those last 6 words from the river to the sea that's what at least became the pretext for the outrage from many people is there a double standard at play here because you get fired for saying what you said at c.n.n. and yet the network continues to employ for his punditry a former american senator rick santorum he once denied that palestinians even exist so how much of this do you feel has to do with what gets said and how much is about

who says it i think it's both if i had said as binyamin netanyahu son had said a few weeks ago on twitter israel is a jewish state from the river to the sea i would have not been fired i would have not been criticized i would have gone unnoticed now obviously when people of color or one muslim say it there are even lower threshold for critique in this in this vein c.n.n. succumb to a very serious smear campaign against marc lamont hill that was driven by a wide range of pro israel forces the united states. was the editor of the washington examiner he accused marc lamont hill of supporting genocide against jews which is just utterly ridiculous and they have even people like ben shapiro was a popular personality on the right he also joined the campaign to brand marc lamont hill in an environment. people are susceptible to smear campaigns there's no question about it and unfortunately large media companies are concerned about their image and so they sometimes respond in the wrong way to smear campaigns you know twice over the past decade c.n.n.

has fired veteran journalists jim clancy and octavia nasser for online comments that offended pro israel voices and unbeknown to most of the network's viewers its lead political anchor wolf blitzer wasn't always a journalist he used to work for apac a one time pro israel lobbyist now occupying a c.n.n. anchor chair his former employer and other pro israel advocates don't just focus their efforts on politicians elected to congress or news networks based in new york they do plenty of lobbying work beyond washington and it's paying off particularly at the state level more than half of the 50 states have now passed laws that shield israel from a campaign of boycotts divestment and sanctions the b.d.s. movement in some cases those laws don't just ban states from hiring employees who support b.d.s. they force american citizens to sign an oath of loyalty to another country israel

many of the anti b.d.s. laws are virtually identical copy and paste pieces of legislation written in clear violation of the u.s. constitution and americans 1st amendment right to free speech and many of my colleagues today even know and realize that's what they signed on to do you know that i've talked to them they did not realize that this wasn't about hey we support israel and israel is our friend this was also about suppressing people's freedom of speech by saying no one can economically boycott the state of israel and to me you want to show support of israel then show support in other forms not by oppressing the american public. from speaking out and we're turning in the country that is not democratic is not about. freedom freedom of expression religion speech all of those things. although 2 organizations care the council on american islamic relations and

the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union are fighting that trend in the courts and in some cases winning. public radio in the case of george hale for instance a radio journalist who station broadcasts out of texas a and m. university having once reported from the west bank and having seen the effects of the occupation hale supports the b.d.s. campaign last year the university which is funded by the state of texas required hale to sign a contract stipulating that he would not participate in or speak in favor of a boycott of israel and mention that i don't agree because i made it very clear and they rejected that immediately cosigner he won't work there's the exact words from the higher ups this past april a federal judge in texas struck down the state's anti b.d.'s law on constitutional grounds saying it threatens to quote manipulate the public debate through coercion

rather than persuasion the judge ruled that boycotts are constitutionally protected under the 1st amendment guaranteeing freedom of expression since he said such campaigns are inherently expressing how is it that you are going to condition somebodies employment on their political activity that poses no harm our national security threat right how is it that participating in a grassroots campaign to overcome diplomatic intransigence to hold a primary u.s. ally accountable to human rights norms in international law somehow a threat out to see the context it's what has been legislated across the united states in an effort. to defeat top down what has not been able to be crushed from the bottom up so now the effort is to tweak these laws to get around that by saying well it only applies to companies that maybe 10 or more people they're trying to figure out how we can tweet tweet tweet tweet tweak until we have legislation that

fine maybe it won't prevent george hale from boycotting israel and i'll still be able to get his contract but as a matter of u.s. law on u.s. policy it will deem boycotts of israel or settlements to be a cross around line illegitimate and to some extent illegal 250000000 americans live in states where laws like these have been passed so i think it's important for people to understand that this is not the issue it applies to only like a tiny little group of people it's not impossible to imagine a scenario in which the state legislature could basically make your employment contingent upon you signing that you won't boycott the n.r.a. or like at planned parenthood or whatever else so it's important that we take a step back and realize that this is not about israel it's not about the sun in the middle east but it's actually about our rights as americans and there really in many ways free speech is under attack you know across the united states. a danger

to free speech in what many americans call the land of the free over a conflict that lies more than 4000 miles away all those state laws too narrow what little space there is for criticism of israel may in fact be a tangible sign evidence that for the 1st time the pro israel lobby is losing ground in this argument. and israel's critics may have found an unwitting ally in president truck he's deeply unpopular among american democrats and even moderate republicans have grown uncomfortable with his seemingly unconditional support of the netanyahu government and its policies repeatedly. he asked a pack officials for an interview for this program they refused had they said yes we would have asked them whether donald trump is helping or hurting israel's comes to some the answer is obvious. the united states has long been biased in favor of

israel for many decades but when the trump administration has done is escalated that to a whole new level where the united states right now is an active participant in israel's war against the palestinian people in a way that we have never seen before and despite these extremely troubling developments on the ground we are beginning to see a shift in discourse within the united states on this issue work people finally identify pursuit of these policies with the extreme regressive right that donald trump essentially represents at this point you could be tempted to say oh my god things are getting more intense it's more draconian the battles almost lost and i say quite the opposite i'm saying because it's so tough right now because the policies are so intense there's a there's an opportunity here dr martin luther king said only when it is darkest can you see the stars. the policy moment some way is very dark but i see a star possibility and i think in the next 10 years we'll be having a very different conversation about palestine and about israel and about justice

than we've ever had before. the 2020 elections are still almost a year and a half away american voters will have a multitude of issues to consider before they cast their ballots and for the vast majority their countries relationship with israel will not be the deciding factor but elections do have a way of clarifying. and the campaigning the rallies good news conferences the t.v. interviews the tweets the terminology all of them will reflect what americans be they politicians academics or journalists are allowed to say what is permissible discourse on palestine and israel things are clearly changed what we do not know and will not know until the votes are cast is how much you've been watching a special edition of our program on palestine israel and american politics we'll

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. a standoff in hong kong where protesters are back on the streets they're angry at what they say is the growing influence of china and. i'm andrew symonds reporting from georgia on what's at the heart of recent protests over russia what georgians see as the occupation line for the war with russia in 2008 and i've read a statement on a big day of sports roger federer and novak djokovic battling it out in the wimbledon final and england all on the attack at lord's the hosts are playing new zealand in the final as both teams look for their 1st cricket world cup trophy. hello iran says it's stepping up legal action aimed at forcing the u.k. to release an oral tanker seized off or britain says it would be willing to allow the ship to leave if iran guarantees it won't deliver oil to syria in breach of

e.u. sanctions iran insists the vessel was never heading for syria in the 1st place bari has more from to her. for the 1st time since this incident happened on july 4th the rains are hopeful that the british government will soon release this vessel it's carrying 2000000 barrels of crude oil arabian oil and it's worth over 200 $1000000.00 now the iranians say that it is an act of piracy what the british have done and they are demanding that this bessel grace one be released as soon as possible we've been hearing from the iranian government spokesperson earlier today in the capital this is what he had to say and it's almost. as to what we have adopted in a series judicial process in regards with the old tankers used by the british military forces and we think courts in gibraltar are influenced by the policies of britain we're chasing up our legal measures fortunately the court itself has in

firm a strong evidence and they have released the sailors considering the situations and the comments i predict that britain will change its mind for now the iranian officials have said that they've hired a legal team and they're pursuing all the political and legal ways they can get this tanker back and they have said that the destination of this vessel is not syria but they haven't specified where it was going they say that the reason that british government sees this tanker was because of its destination that is under sanctions since 2012 and the iranians don't recognize those sanctions on the syrian government because they haven't been indorsed by the united nations for now it appears that this tensions that have developed between the iranian government and the british have said there is some hope that they will be deescalating them in the near future by the british government possibly trying to release this tanker in the iranians getting back what they've been requesting. there have been cautious in hong kong police tried to clear protesters who were holding out in the city's

district of shots and for hours. demonstrators hold umbrellas right police who wanted them out of the shopping center the violence came after thousands took part in a demonstration against what they say is beijing's growing political influence in the territories affairs the protesters want the full withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill and an amnesty granted to all protesters arrested in recent demonstrations jimmy love and covering the story for us he's joining us from shocked and so some of the biggest numbers we've seen over the past week talk us through what you've seen over there. well the reason you know just like previews protests that over the last month here in hong kong the march started peacefully protesters here tell us they were planning to really bring their fight

to the suburbs to localise. and so over a 100000 protesters marched from one area of shot then to the other as a scene that has not been basically witnessed by any resident here for decades but as night the situation became different protesters started to set up barricades in different areas and over $100.00 by our estimate of riot police arrived basically and there was the standoff for about 3 hours there were negotiations between police and local legislators here basically assuring both sides that there is no intention for anyone of anyone to be violent however you know this situation has become a similar scene over the past month and both sides basically have been tense. we've seen the police charging towards protesters from one area. some of the protesters from one other area moving forwards helping out and giving support in many

ways with the police successfully managed to disperse protesters who also said they were willing to leave anyway with the promise though that this won't be the last protest that caroline government will see they say at this point it remains unclear what sort of political concessions will be acceptable for these young protesters they see because of this deep seated discontent and trust over the administration and they felt essentially betrayed they would like they say for transparency accountability and justice from this government they say what they would like are real political reforms the actual addition built to be fully withdrawn basic fundamental freedoms to be protected and the assurance that these officials well basically lost the trust of public would step down eventually so jamila the list of demands by the protesters then is quite clear but any indication of how all saudis

there and. is going to deal with what appears to be a huge anti china sentiment. well that remains to be seen exactly nothing no statements in the past no concessions or efforts from the side of caroline's government have been enough basically to pacify these protesters the justification basically coming from young people here they describe all of what's happening here as deep seated anger bottled up discontent they've found a platform to air all of their grievances yesterday. we were at another protest this time it was a labor issue at the at the border town between mainland china and hong kong protesters were complaining about paris coming from mainland china this is an issue that has been going on for many many years they say and they would like to be better protected and regulated by. the hong kong government.

ok then sure exactly what would be like we said enough to pacify what we're seeing would be the efforts of protesters they say that they are ready and willing to take on and make with the sense like this one integrated part of their daily lives ok a jammy lotteries are going thank you for that update from hong kong let's bring in stephen vines he's a journalist who reported on the 1907 hong kong hand over to china for the independent newspaper he's also the author of hong kong china's new colonies joining us from the self-governing territory via skype thanks very much for speaking to us as stephen vines on the al-jazeera news hour to just pick up on what our correspondent was saying a moment ago that these protests are now in the suburbs of hong kong how significant is that but i think this is enormously significant as your correspondent has just said we've never seen that calls for so not only do you have protests in all these areas but you have these eruptions i can only describe it as

an eruption of these just individuals posting notices on the so-called lenin was named after john lennon that was something that was started in check so right there in the $970.00 s. and there's about $200.00 of the wall. street people calling for the end of the extradition bill so all of the things central theme really is about hong kong retaining the solidly that it was originally promised in 9097 when britain on come to chinese rule is there anything at this point that authorities there can concede to can they offer any sort of political concession or how much should the our forty's there be worried about what's taking place in hong kong. well i think the 1st point to make is that the operatives here really don't have a free hand i mean they're there essentially under the command of the chinese

communist party in beijing and so the question is what will the chinese communist party can see there are ways of diffusing the tension i mean that could be which people have called for an independent inquiry into these events that led up to the traditional there could be a simple promise that the extradition law will disappear at the moment the government just says it's been suspended and the protesters are talking about an amnesty for those who've been arrested during the protests that may defuse the situation it would certainly go quite a long way to doing it your thought is a said quite clearly that none of those 3 demands are going to be met so what do you think then china's next steps are i mean clearly they're watching. everything that's going down in hong kong is there patience wearing thin perhaps. well there's a mixture of fear and anticipation the fear is there is after all

a big garrison of the people's liberation army stationed you know and they recently . an exercise just remind people and it's for some reason they've forgotten but. secondly there is the possibility that you know those forces won't be used to talk with the old starters will go back into attack mode which is what we're seeing some signs of in terms of very heavy policing very unrelenting increasing against the protests but the hope is that because so many people i'm literally talking about millions of people who've been on the streets the hope is that there will be a basis now for some sort of negotiation problem with that is the protests are largely spontaneous it's very unclear who will be negotiating with who so you know there are far more questions than there are answers right at the moment ok stephen vines we thank you very much for joining us on the news hour. it's been

a difficult week relations between the u.k. and the united states after a leaked messages from britain's ambassador to washington were published and now another batch of leaked diplomatic cables critical of president donald trump have been made public or in chalons joining us from london how damning are these latest batch of leak story. well what has been released this sunday in the newspaper the mail on sunday and i have it here is yes as you say the latest back of the diplomatic leaks and they come from kim darrick who was until quite recently the u.k.'s ambassador to the united states and these leaks are essentially cables that he wrote back to his governments in london saying what he thought of donald trump and it's not particularly pleasant what he thought of donald trump.