i was born here in the united states my dad is from palestine he came over in 1950 and lived here and started his family here and we've lived always in southern california i'm a professional violinist and i i do music for movies soundtracks and commercials and record projects i received an e-mail from an orchestra that i work with here in los angeles they had forwarded to me a correspondence they received from tim party from the palestine national orchestra on the edward sade institute looking for me i'm not sure how he'd discovered me or

knew that i was living here but they forward me the e-mail and it was kind of quizzical that somebody was looking for me from that part of the world professionally not it wasn't a family member or something like that so it was quite interesting and intriguing when i got this e-mail and when i learned what it was all about i was very excited to hear that they were trying to bring people from around the world back to create music. mostly orchestras that i worked with in my career have been in los angeles and it's about your ability and how you perform on your instrument doing a project like the. this was was more than just being able to play your instrument

it was communing with with people and in a way almost family. playing music with them and many of them from all over the world from europe and south america and then in the states and and being able to put it assemble a group together like that was it was really something you felt it felt like something very important was happening and especially through music music is such a great language. the it. was eat eat eat eat eat the eggs with the eat. eat. the. meat.

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the whole the old man walk or see a bus for shit that the feet she feeds him out of will trina filho up with them fill them awful leave the frequency man oh man if you rub them and forget the heloc to it in the jimmy and. anyway been there for mostly. not on the shores i. 2 was. 2 my name is mary m. to maddy my father is palestinian and my mother is japanese.

i grew up in japan and i studied in the united states and i live in paris now i certainly listen to all different kinds of music i like rock and. and popular music as well but very since very very early age i must say since around 3 or 4 i tend to fight very specifically with classical music and as soon as i started actually singing classical music myself i immediately knew that this was the way that i can express myself the most and the most fully always very important for me to sing in palestine and also with palestinians abroad as well too because i love i love palestine i love palestinians and i love being in this in this culture and a part of it my background as a palestinian and as a japanese those are the strongest of course that's part of my head.

i feel that my background has helped me immensely. is a big part of who i am so i grew up listening to a lot of classical music certainly song by my aunt danielle but also my father listened to a lot of bach and mozart at home all the arts played a huge part of my daily life since i was born i would just like to say that all was so thrilled to be here so thrilled to the always welcomed back they

say you know they say welcome home to me when i'm here even if it's been even if it's been a few years that i haven't been back and even if i'm so ashamed that i don't speak arabic but they but my family and friends always say welcome home and that is how i feel so i really am grateful for that. i was recording this morning at capitol records for a show called the x. factor we do it usually on sundays every week ranges from a couple hours to several hours today was about a 3 hour session. and my uncle is joining us he has traveled from northern

california. and he'll be arriving at los angeles international airport where we're on our way to go collect them i think are going to really. joy meeting him because he is from palestine born and raised in palestine speaks arabic unfortunately i speak no arabic so i'm and i'm really happy that i can bring my uncle and he can add some culture to our our gathering here so for now i'll grab my uncle and head back to the house and then i will spend some time ago. saying. why you made it up in the fantastic.

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to. you know. just what i want chickens have come from good ones awful sign language. as well as a wheelchair but. the fact is they took their land and i remember it became. but 19444546. it became impossible to go from one place to another without having an id and that's was restricting our freedom and it became ugly that we have to put up with a foreigner have telling us where to go when to go. and now what i see the situation is happening in palestine that you have to secede your land and give it to these people because they tell you

saw i'm sorry the military said we have to mow down your house we don't care where you go or we hope you die in the desert somewhere that is an affront to humanity these are some of the pictures of villa. and the tumbi a section of jerusalem where i was born. and this is a picture of the very last it was completed in 1926 this is a picture that is now out on the net to show villa how rashid. was taken by the israeli government golda mayer lived in this house and i think bay

was married in this house too and golda may have denied in her memoirs that and the arab ever lived in that house and she also marred the name of the village her rashid. so that's common folk bernadotte would not notice that she is living in the labs house. a victim. being his posture as an instrument of pinochet's brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. but his son's

quest for answers reveals there are often 2 sides to even the dacosta stories witness the cala of the chameleon on al-jazeera. the. al-jazeera. where ever you will. take the worst possible material you radio grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot and put it into a place where people live it is a cause colossal event. as well so many people are thinking this is the silent he.

doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and on mental disaster. an investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera north korea says its latest missile tests were a warning to south korea it's demanding that seoul ends joint military drills with the united states but the u.s. secretary of state says he is still open to talks with pyongyang about lifting sanctions in return for denuclearization. sanctions on north korea appear to be having a devastating impact south korea's central bank says the north g.d.p.

by 4 point one percent last year that's the worst drop in more than 2 decades and the 2nd consecutive decline more now from al-jazeera is rob mcbride from seoul. all of this rotten anger seems to be directed at south korea and none of it directed at the u.s. which after all is also taking part in the exercises and is supplying the f. $35.00 fighter jet so still very much following the line of not having any direct attacks or anger directed at the u.s. administration of donald trump keeping open it seems the prospect of further dialogue the u.n. is demanding immediate action after the worst mediterranean tragedy so far this year as many as 150 refugees migrants are known to have drowned off the coast of libya the u.n. is calling for safe and legal routes for those searching for a better life. the invisible is another is that. i lost my 7 year old child because of that they don't help they kick me out they told me and my children

to go find our own way why i don't want anything now except to go back to my country to dive there the european union says it will not renegotiate the brig's it will draw a deal with the u.k.'s new prime minister boris johnson you commission president john told johnson over the phone the existing deal is the best and only one. has been sworn in as interim president after the death of. presidential elections are held. 15. records were also set in the. world the diaspora.

when charlie found out about the palestine orchestra he was and through z. asked dick because of his background to go palestine and share all of his time with with all these people that you know he loved that he loved me there and i hope he can continue 2. there is something about music and it depending on the style that you're doing

but for me when i when i'm playing and performing especially if you get taken into a world where you know you're you're thinking about your music only you know you're not thinking about what's happening back home and you're dealing with issues that are difficult at home or in your family or your friends or anything like that you're in you're in the moment of the music and it's kind of a respite from from the daily grind of life so i really look forward to the concerts specially because you get a you get a break from from reality really you're just in this world of music and it's refreshing to me doing that and not thinking about everything else that you're going to be thinking about once it's over. so i'm just getting my things together for the trip and i'm packing what i think i might need over there the weather is probably. but might be

a little chilly so i've got a couple things that i'd like to have with me along with my performing outfit and some gifts for some family members and things like that we're joining maybe 50 or 60 members of the orchestra that are coming many of them from all different parts of the world including europe and south south america and this and the states like me and so i'm going to take these things with me and i'll grab my violin and i will head to the airport and begin the journey. from.

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with a sort of a tom. she in asia whore had the idiot beauty. yeah . my. mom was that obese it's like a gift this is the sign from the homeless. and. i'm always looking for palestinian poetry to sing and this poem is particularly special to my heart because 1st of all it's by

a great week and 2nd i really felt close to it because i feel also like i'm palestinian but like so many of us in the diaspora so many of us who had to leave. i speak also as somebody from a far away land. and somebody who who feels this great nostalgia whenever i return and also i feel that the poem is really speaking about the experience of somebody like my father who had to leave. as a child and. he feels he has been living in exile his whole life but every day dreaming of palestine every day has his heart in palestine so i feel that this poem really speaks beautifully about this experience of exile as the palestinian.

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when you perform back home it's a it's a different situation you're point you're auditioning and you're performing with people and you're trying to do your best and it's all about the play here that's why it's a much deeper level you're. mixing with people from your background and getting to hear the language and have the food and see the sights and it really is such

a different experience doing it for something like this than it was say a job back home it is a dream for me i have never had the opportunity to come to palestine and until tim 40 mohammad foggo contacted me i really didn't know when i would ever have that opportunity so it was really a great chance to come out and meet people of my heritage and play music with them and it's it's a very nonpolitical situation so it's really nice because we're here just to spread the word of palestinian culture because the good side of the culture. that.

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behind it's. had a must and i'd have to muck with metallic passion for missing vision good for them and showed it dearie and he said and it's good to be hated to have been know enough to be out of tune you will be hit by the dish and. by so that he could. rule. the room. thinking with the palestine national orchestra it's quite different because it brings together to. 2 of my passions my identity as

a palestinian and also my identity as as a musician and it's an experiment special experience because the orchestra is made up of musicians professional palestinian positions who live all around the world and work professionally and they we gather for the sake of this orchestra and all of us feel this sense of very strong identity as a palestinian and we have something very very specific and very passionate and important to communicate to the world and this makes the experience unlike any other i feel. when the palestine national archives to that day i think is something quite rare.

the latest news as it breaks it is long campaigned against what it calls attempts to undermine the state of israel from within. with detailed coverage called power being replaced by eco friendly plants all over the world environmentalist's here the folds of off. from around the world things just as visible above ground then on the surface are underwater. hollow lots of hot sunshine across the middle east as per usual little bit of cloud over toward ca since out of the region so into pakistan as the monsoon rains try to push their way into pakistan we have got some showers coming in here as we go on through the next couple days but across much of the as you can see is largely dry and settle our media could see some showers about john much just catch anywhere

between the black sea and the caspian sea but elsewhere across the middle east is dry hot and sunny 30 celsius and by right 44 celsius in fact that not as hot as it has been but it's still plenty hot enough and plenty hot enough to across the arabian peninsula. around 41 still a little on the humid side the winds coming in from the gulf picking up some of that moisture some of them was just pushing its way to central parts of saudi arabia could catch one or 2 showers want to downpours into western parts of yemen over the next day or 2 they're pushing their way across into the southern end of the red sea we could there was some right into south africa too much of that's on the cards as we go over the next couple days in fact across much of southern africa it's pretty much blue skies all the way we'll see temperatures getting up to 1718 celsius for thomas burke and for cape town a high of 20. 3 in harare and a 22 for the soka.

after 25 years of affording the world's waste china through the global recycling industry into chaos. the growing pressure for greener skies that is resulting in change we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. sanctions are hitting north korea ha dots according to a report from the south that says the economy has suffered its worst fools and i would twentieth's. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the united nations says as many as 150 migrants and refugees may have drowned off the coast of libya. palestinians that day

a culture with displays of pride but also protest over what they say is israel's repression of the heritage. and a heat wave brings the hottest day on record to central european countries and rising worries about global warming. sanctions on north korea appear to be having a devastating effect with the economy declining for the 2nd year running south korea central bank estimates the north g.d.p. fell by 4 point one percent in $29000.00 the worst drop since 1907 young yang does not disclose any figures on its economy well the numbers paint a dive picture of the impact of sanctions on the north south koreans try to agency estimates of pyongyang. exports plunged 86 percent in $2800.00 from $1800000000.00 to just $243000000.00 imports also declined by 31 percent to $2600000000.00

and north korea's international trade hard compared to 2017 falling 49 percent to $2800000000.00 but it's not just the sanctions hurting the economy a severe drought has had a big impact on parts of the country crippling some of north korea's industry as well joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul just put these numbers into context for us clearly international sanctions are continuing to bite north korea's economy. that's right daryn and the contraction in the economy does match exactly when these much tougher sanctions came into play as you mentioned they're just over 4 percent of the contraction in the economy in 2018 the year before 3 and a half percent and that you compare that with 2016 when in fact the economy of north korea was going along at a fair old clip it actually increased in size by nearly 4 percent which for that year was actually better than the performance of south korea's economy so we are

seeing this contraction very much coinciding with these sanctions being brought in it does show just how much of an impact they are having on the economy and as you mentioned there also earlier figures that were brought out here in seoul and it's worth pointing out that these figures are combat piled by the central bank here in korea they are not from north korea if north korea does produce its own figures then it certainly doesn't publicize them but trade figures as you mentioned there saw. of the north korea's trade with its neighbors and some of the key sectors that have been affected for example the mining sector really have hurt the north korean economy one of its biggest money earners is traditionally been coal and with these new sanctions that were brought in 20162017 there was a complete ban on exports of coal so that really has hurt the economy it also hurts kim jong un's strategy his stated intention of trying to improve the economy and

trying to improve the lot of the economic a lot of for ordinary north koreans he has made said in speeches he accepts that people have suffered and he wants to see an improvement in the economy down and rob more fallout from wednesday's missile launch north korea's warning the south it must stop importing high tech weapons and halt military drills with the u.s. i mean how is that playing out. that's right this seems to be this double strategy of north korea of wanting to improve the economy but obviously you can't do that while the sanctions are in place one of the ways it sees of trying to build up pressure to get sanctions lifted is of course by more military development and more military tests they have released images of kim jong un overseeing personally this test so they have said that these are new types of missiles that have this guidance capability in fact a south korean defense ministry spokesperson has confirmed to us that these

missiles do seem to be based on a russian east scanned called a missile this is a type of short range missile that does have a guidance capability and that is of concern for the militaries here in south korea and also japan because it makes these missiles a lot her harder to detect and to try to intercept but in releasing these images north korea has said that this is a warning very much directed at the war mongers of south korea as they have called call them. steering clear of any criticism or wrath directed at the u.s. and in particular the administration of donald trump and in fact donald trump saying on u.s. media overnight that he is not that concerned by these short launches his relationship with kim remains intact and the u.s. state department says it is still trying to push ahead with these working level talks to try to move towards another formal summit or to rome there in seoul rob

thank you. now the u.n. says $150.00 refugees and migrants may have drowned off the coast of libya they won board 2 boats that left the town of comms that's east of the capital tripoli with around $300.00 people on board only half of them could be rescued under schapelle reports. put her children on a wooden boat she was trying to make it to europe by any means possible instead the journey became the worst tragedy this year in the mediterranean sea nearly 150 passengers were rescued by local fishermen her son wasn't one of them she's blaming international organizations for a lack of support. for the invisible i lost my 7 year old child i don't want anything now except to go back to my country sudan to die there. survivors will return to libya a primary departure point for people fleeing poverty and war in africa and the middle east one person drowns in the mediterranean for every 6 that successfully reach europe's shores we've now had more than 700 deaths on the mediterranean this

year if current trends for this year continue but will see us past more than 1000 deaths on the mediterranean for the 6th year in a row it's a really bleak milestone the really bad thinking about it comes just weeks after more than 50 people lost their lives in a detention center following an ass strike into giora and really once again stresses the edge and see if it was needed of a of a need for a shift in approach to the situation in libya in the mediterranean. libya's coast guard continues to take migrants to 2 jura the detention center holding mostly african migrants that was bombed 3 weeks ago by air forces believed to be loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar it's near the front line of fighting as huffed are tries to take the capital the u.n. says the current model which is backed by the e.u. must change one where libya's coast guard intercepts and forcibly returns people

caught trying to cross the sea. there's a conflict going on and i'm i recently come on. there used to make money for people who have to pay their passage by being indentured servitude in effect a little bit with not just the not happy situation. turning away from their family members from rescuing people are simply not the way to go the u.n. refugee agency estimates that 6000 other refugees in migrants are being held in libyan detention centers even though they haven't committed a crime yet they remain highly at risk of getting caught in the conflict or dying at sea and are schapelle al-jazeera. a landslide in morocco's atlas mountains as killed at least 24 people on thursday a van was buried by the landslide following heavy rains in a remote area south america rescue teams are searching for survivors a government investigation is now underway.

there are no specific final figures on the number of victims of vehicle was buried under a huge dust it's a tragedy the authorities will issue more details after the completion of the removal of mud and dust. in is a speaker of parliament has been sworn in as interim president following the death of president bush he qaeda subsea 92 year old guided to his into a new era of democracy after protests in 2011 toppled the longtime leader as an aberdeen ben ali and sparked the arab spring wave of uprisings across the middle east a general election must be held in 3 months catching up as had a young a small. a new phase in tunisia's government the speaker of parliament mohamed in a sewer sworn in to serve temporarily as a country's president he will take over for up to 90 days while elections are organized. i swear by god almighty to protect the independence of tunisia and the safety of its lands to respect the constitution and law and fully take care of the

people's interests and be loyal to tunisia. in this young democracy a vacant post for the country's leadership could spark a power struggle among tunisia's political party is definitely what candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial. have been barred from running the presidential elections by parson parliament not too long ago this was not yet been signed by missteps and before he passed away and i think we'll hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days president benjy kiters said speed who spent the last few weeks of his life in a not of the hospital was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as prime minister and then tunisians 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech thanks. i'm going to have his accomplishments though were often overshadowed by

a weak economy and high unemployment rate there is despair nobody can deny that there is the sense of hopelessness nobody can deny that however in comparison to other countries there is still hope that we can fix the pot and go towards a more prosperous than $87.00 days of national mourning have been declared as the country honors the life and legacy of the same speech go nowhere is that the start of this mission on a positive note and he finished that the same way may he rest in peace his predecessors hurt the country but he was a good man who served his country no one did that before him no one shall. we hope the next president will be even better we hope our country will be stable and safe we had some terrorism but the country doesn't blame him it's unclear who will be the front runner in tunisia's next presidential election but the groundwork has already been laid out for what should be a smooth transition katia lopez so the yawn al-jazeera. time for a short break here on out is iraq when we come back sending a message to netanyahu why israeli demonstrators are rallying outside the prime

minister's home more and. how i want to change now across western parts of here belong not long gone but gone is that heat that we've had across the northwest in kona through the british isles into the low countries germany france to get through the next couple days requires the chinese 25 is the top temperature in london a good 5 to 15 degrees down on the recent valleys and 28 in paris and just for the way further to go on through the next couple.