the look at their feet still lies in the hands of their colonisers. another paradise i witnessed a documentary on al-jazeera. will no longer recognize israeli settlements as per se inconsistent with international law the us abandons its position on israeli settlements saying it no longer considers them illegal. i'm darn tired of this is our 0 live from london also coming up. hong kong police talking this siege on a university campus where hundreds of protesters are trapped and trying to get out . i lease enjoy their fire water cannon and tear gas

to disperse protesters rallying outside parliament to demand an early election. and donald trump says he's prepared to make history by testifying it is only impeachment inquiry. hello the us says it's abandoning its position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and will no longer consider the illegal sector state says the construction of civilian settlements is not inconsistent with international law the move has been welcomed by israel's prime minister who says it right and historical wrong but pakistan's president has condemned it and the e.u. has stated that it continues to consider all israel's settlement activity illegal player says he will leave the status of the west bank to the israelis and palestinians because she's. calling the establishing of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked. it has an invents the cause of

peace the hard truth is there will never be a judicial resolution to the conflict in arguments about who is right or wrong as a matter of international law will not bring peace this is a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians. we have correspondents covering the story in washington d.c. jerusalem and the west bank let's start with that was in jordan in washington a talk as to how significant a change this is for the u.s. position. laura this is a very significant change in position this policy was 1st stud devised after analysis in the u.s. state department legal office back in 1978 so this is been on the books and u.s. policy for the most part of those 41 years yes there was a tweak in the way that ronald reagan looked at the settlements question when he was in office in the early 1980 s.

but consistently ever sense when you put the question to u.s. officials do you believe that israel has the right to build settlements in the occupied west bank every official from almost every administration with saying no we do not we believe that this violates not just international law under the geneva conventions but it also violates a number of u.n. security council resolutions going back to the early 1970 s. and as long as the satellites are there it's going to be much harder to negotiate some sort of peace accord between the palestinians and the israelis and more important to create a contiguous territory for the palestinians to have their own country roads and thank you harry for citizen in west jerusalem for us so what's the reaction been that to this announcement. well certainly for perspective it's a very happy and fortunate thing to have happened for him just 2 days before the

end of benny gantz as his main rivals mandate expires for him to try to form some kind of coalition government after a 2nd inconclusive election in a row then you know says as you say that the it writes is storable wrong rejects the false claim that settlements is inherently illegal and that opponents of this decision deny history and truth benny gantz himself his opponent has said that he applauds the statement where is the head member of the palestinian israeli many powers in israeli joint lists of politicians in the israeli parliament the knesset i'm annoyed a has come out and condemned it and finesse in yahoo this is one of the very gratefully received by products of all this it allows him to try to drive a further wedge between gantz and the palace in israeli politicians because he's been talking for the last couple of days almost incessantly about the threat to

israeli security the threat to the very state of israel should benny gantz make up a minority government with the support from the outside of palestinian israeli politicians so it gives him something else to argue on that front if you cast your mind back to the last election in september just before that he said he was going to annex the jordan valley he didn't get explicit u.s. support for the people contrasting the lack of that with the us recognition of israeli sovereignty of the occupied golan heights before the previous election in april so now this is whether the motivation is this or not it's a pretty big gift for netanyahu when it comes to his own attempts to try to stay in power the question is what will he do with this very big signal of u.s. approval for greater enhanced israeli sovereignty in. occupied west bank given the fact that in the moments israeli government is extremely tenuous he runs accounts

a good ministration with all sorts of negotiations going on to see who might try to be able to form a government in the coming days and weeks before thank you need abraham joins us from ramallah in the occupied west bank so a big change in u.s. policy on settlements so what are people saying there the main thing we've heard from different palestinian officials is condemnation although they would tell you that it wasn't a surprise this administration hasn't been siding by the palestinians they officials with tell you that they been they've been siding with their right is really wing government and they've been giving israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gift after another member were 2 weeks away now from the 2nd anniversary of the declare ration by the u.s. president donald trump that he's going to be recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital which he eventually did we've heard from the p.l.o. secretary general saw about it too said that the u.s.

is now replacing international law with the law of the jungle calling upon the international community to deter the u.s. saying that the decisions in the remarks by the current administrations are a threat to international peace and security we've also heard from hamas movement who said that this is a continuation of the u.s. policy and that the u.s. has been providing a cover for the israeli occupation ending how do these settlements affect palestinian lives. when we say israeli settlements lorand we're not talking about scattered units here and there we're talking about more than $250.00 illegal israeli settlements and outposts scattered around the west bank including east jerusalem where there are around 600000 israelis residing illegally in the west bank they are connected by a series of rude infrastructure they are taking up

a lot of palestinians natural resources including water now this is on the ground but they've been mushrooming also and they've been using the support of donald trump since he was elected peace now organization would tell you that the plans for it's really settlements in the occupied west bank has doubled compared to the 3 years before that now or on another level that palestinians would tell you that they are killing any opportunity for a 2 state solution they're eating up lands and they're preventing any possibility for a contiguous future palestinian state need abraham thank you very much. stuff about who she is the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he says washington's decision is a violation of international law. silden is a crime lucian international law and you took nice it doesn't stop it being

a crime in reality a mr going 3 years announcement is nothing but. violation of international law actually to mix the united states administration participant with israel in the violated international law in committing crimes against international law at the same time this announcement does not legalize illegal activities of israeli illegal settlements and that does not change our intentions with our determination to continue our fight and struggle to end all forms of racist settlement activities in the occupied palestinian territories. yemen's usually rebels say they've seized 3 vessels in the red sea including a saudi ship saudi arabia had earlier accused him of hijacking a ship towing a south korean drilling rig official has told outages there they will release the

drilling rig once they can confirm it belongs to south korea the saudi government is calling the instant a terrorist operation failed icon is a part triad global of march i'm secure she risk management company he says this isn't is a sign of why do tensions in the region. we've seen over the last 6 months alone the power play the interchange between iran and saudi arabia and let's not forget that's exactly what this is about so no doubt there has been that the proxy influence through the butties wire on to saudi assets and really the target here is the saudi vessels the tug the santa battle that is saudi flagged and is likely to be saudi crude so that's the real aim or target of all the of the captures of war so what's our reaction bob this is exactly what we've been advising our clients for the last 6 months it is that saudi assets in particular are a specific threat form iranian backed will proxy efforts against their own saudi

assets in the areas particularly in the sudden red sea dozens of protesters have staged a dramatic escape from the polytechnic university campus in hong kong that many more anti-government protesters remained trapped and 2 prominent figures went out by police on to the campus to mediate a sign that there's a growing risk of bloodshed that brian reports from hong kong. a number of streets in the cow loon district of hong kong turned into a riot zone other parts of cow loom brought to a standstill. protesters were called out in support of students besieged indian a by polytechnic university campus the idea was to stretch police was all seized to breaking point to take the pressure off the students still barricaded inside. after a fierce confrontation with police on sunday and early monday students who'd been

occupying the campus and its surrounding roads for days took refuge in the main college but. during the day groups of protesters emerged from the building to be confronted by police and arrested their treatment sparking anger from some people living nearby you have to give chance to students. meaning to me. how i basically said at the situation is more like these police have threatened to use live ammunition if the students continue to use potentially lethal weapons. most alarming. they did weapons were used in a 40 target university which has become a bit unfair treat despair as a refugee for extremely violent virus 50 bettman so far as has reached a critical level righteous. so intention murder officer at all costs

for parents of the students the wait for news is particularly fraught or hey mounting for i hope the government and police wake up thing and stop using violence so the kids hang on i'm out safe and sound to them to find they're. adding to their anxiety explosions have been heard from inside the building setting off fire. but as darkness fell some students were seen scaling down the campus building and disappearing into the night. their fellow protesters trying to cause diversionary mayhem on the surrounding streets coming on the 5 frontier gas rubber bullets and ball to kind and the protesters have been gradually trying to herd the way forward with made over they can find most notably these low jump rollers which is simply not so much full and there's more to cannot open up

i. proceed students represent to some the mob rule that is threatening the city's future for others especially younger protesters they've become a rallying point for further resistance robin bryant al-jazeera hong kong. to head this hoffa while the president of spain's catalonia region could soon be declared unfit for office. and iraq's protest movement is leading to a literally revolution. hello that the hate is still very much in evidence across much of australia the same radius of the south across into tasmania and we have had some very vigorous thunderstorms along the sunshine coast to the north. but as we go through the next

couple of days that heat is going to work its way across into south australia 30 celsius in adelaide and eventually work its way further east was not cheap bad choose to melbourne at 19 and temperatures have actually finally come down in western australia so by wednesday 27 celsius a mix of sunshine and clouds and then the time it is continuing to climb across the great by look at this in adelaide 42 degrees celsius not the only saving grace with this is that by thursday the heat continues to work its way east was so the temperatures go massively up by wednesday just one celsius off the november record of 42 of course we have to reach that 42 that on the thursday it does cool down dramatically 23 actually by then a couple of trees below the average is rather unsettled into christ church 20 celsius cloudy skies and o'loghlin but more probably in the way of sunshine quite brisk winds for the next couple of days into the north island and then as you see by wednesday we have got rain still impacting much of the south island but not bad

at 15 in christchurch and feeling ok in oakland at 20. the british iraqi journalist visualizing complex statistics and a simple. i think it was a summary sites of communities to break apart from the systems and to collect data in a way that makes a represent different. challenging mainstream misconceptions keep the bike rates in control in the stations doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people feel like i'm not smart enough to understand spews truth is it any way on al-jazeera.

reminder the top stories here are knowledge 0 the u.s. says it will no longer consider israeli settlements in the occupied west bank illegal palestine's president has condemned the move but has been welcomed by israel's prime minister who says it right to historical wrong. yemen's hoofy rebels say they've seized 3 vessels in the red sea including a saudi ship saudi arabia durley or accuse them of hijacking a ship towing a south korean drilling rig. dozens of protesters in hong kong are staged a daring escape from a university besieged by police plastic ropes and escaping on motorbikes. police in georgia have fired tear gas and water cannon to clear protests as rallied for a 2nd day near the parliament building in the capital tbilisi thousands of people attempted to blockade parliament demanding an early election opposition activists say more than 20 were arrested 1st began on sunday when 20000 people rallied in

tbilisi the anger that part of it failed to pass planned electoral reforms which would see full proportional representation. would be. coming 1st he will cause more from tbilisi. the protesters are now moving off track down the street from right the heart of the. 24 hours you rightly said responded the protesters on songs i put padlocks up around parliament entrances and hundreds blockaded the streets around parliament and i think they were expecting. a long wait before the police took action in fact the police of reacted very quickly indeed they are moving off down the street now clearing the opposition supporters who. were cooling for the government to resign after results on the last week

against electoral reform. the government had trimmings to make changes to the letter system so that they could be a proportional representation in the elections next year with a remake on that when the lawmakers rejected this legislation us we cannot court the opposition very angry. that the opposition say that george air is no longer a democracy because everything is rules they say by one man seen a vinney severely the country's richest oligarch who is governing chairman of the ruling party and it was he that made the promise of democratic reforms back in the summer so when he's governing party m.p.'s chose not to endorse those reforms that will pull people out onto the streets again those tensions were reignited off the governing party who will make his choice to reject that legislation here in parliament last week. russia's foreign ministry says 3 ukrainian naval ships that

were seized last year have been returned to gunboats and the tugboats were taken in the cut straight between mainland russia and crimea which moscow an extreme ukraine 5 years ago the handover is another step in efforts to end the 5 year conflict in eastern ukraine where russian backed rebels fighting the government. yes president all trump has tweeted that he likes the idea of testifying in his own impeachment inquiry even though he insists he's done nothing wrong inquiries examining whether trump leveraged military aid to pressure ukraine to dig up dirt on his political rival democratic presidential candidate joe biden a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports are you talking about the witch hunt is that what you mean is that we never in modern history has a sitting u.s. president testified before a congressional inquiry but president donald trump says he might. in a monday tweet trump said i like the idea and will in order to get congress focused

again strongly consider it congress is looking into whether or not the president committed impeachable offenses when he withheld military aid to ukraine he's in office. way over his head and trump's tweet is a direct response to this challenge on sunday from his democratic political rival house speaker nancy pelosi the president could come back before the committee and talk all the truth that he wanted he would expect and if he wants to take the oath of office where he could do in writing it's unlikely trump would appear in person and would offer only written witness testimony trouble went to great lengths to avoid in person testimony during the last investigation of his presidency looking into whether his 2016 campaign for the white house colluded with russia after months of discussions trub eventually submitted only written witness testimony to

the department of justice only chairmanship those are the whistleblowers we don't at last week's public hearings republicans repeatedly criticize witness testimony as hearsay so given 9 had directly hurt the president withhold military aid to ukraine to secure a political investigation against his rival former vice president joe biden that's when a democratic congressman quit i'd be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify present trump is welcome to take a seat right there maybe that laughter from the tory asli thinskinned president that his profit trying to up the ante dangling his potential testimony in front of the impeachment committees as congress prepares for another week of testimony new polling shows 70 percent of americans believe president did something wrong regarding ukraine but only half of americans believe. he should be impeached

kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house. the u.n. reporters accused iran of breaching another limit of the 2050 nuclear deal the un's nuclear watchdog says it's accumulated more than $130.00 tons of heavy water is a further breach of the agreement after iran announced it was increasing its uranium enrichment capabilities earlier this month u.s. president donald trump you know actually withdrew america from the deal last year and reimposed economic sanctions on tehran. and to government protesters in southern iraq are blocked the roads leading to the country's main port the standoff in basra is preventing employees and tankers from entering iraq relies heavily on imported food and the own cusser port receives grain vegetable oil and sugar shipments is the 2nd time it's been blocked since the protests began in october the 1st closure cost the country more than $6000000000.00. in the capital baghdad protesters of forced the closure of iraq's central bank also occupied the bridge

leading to the green zone the fortified area home to government buildings and embassies this is the largest wave of protests in iraq in decades at least 320 people have been killed in the unrest. an abandoned building in central baghdad has been turned into a makeshift library it only opened last month but has proved increasingly popular with protesters much of what's driving their anger is the lack of public services including access to a decent education and as the popularity of the library grows so too does its range of titles official name reports from baghdad. there's a saying here the egyptians write the lebanese publish and the iraqis dream they're doing just that in tahrir square the epicenter of the protests in baghdad iraqis are stopping by a library opened last month it's in an abandoned building that has become

a landmark during weeks of anti-government demonstrations have meant to me that i said tom there are people who didn't finish their studies or they have a low education a level this will motivate them when they see people reading here their educated people encouraging them to succeed and return to school. this library is a gift to protestors is operated by the well known al mada institute which publishes a daily newspaper thousands of books in arabic and english ranging in topics from cinema from science have been donated. past and use it is an injured veteran of the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. he says it's clear someone doesn't like this library in the building nicknamed the turkish restaurant which used to be on the top floor would you know a set of sort of the side being attacked most here in the turkish restaurant is the library it upsets our enemies on the officials that attack the protesters it's not

about using weapons we can fight using knowledge and culture but one of the protesters main complaints is what they say is the deterioration of the educational system such as 50 students often packed into one classroom illiteracy is also a concern the iraqi human rights commission says around 8000015 to 25 year olds can't read or write including a high proportion of young women unless of course what happened with the deterioration of the educational system in iraq its own purpose for the iraqi people 200-1000 we have schools made from its. catastrophe. news is the library has spread more books are on the way the ministry of culture is planning to set up a tent in tahrir square filled with reading material for war veteran has the news if hopes the government understands these young people are creating what he calls a revolution of culture and ideas intended to transform iraq natasha going to.

baghdad the president of catalonia is regional government has appeared in court on charges of disobedience to her was ordered by spain's electoral committee to remove pro independent symbols from catalan government buildings during campaigning for april's not national election he refused and prosecutors are now seeking to declare him ineligible for public office prop to 2 years sonia gandhi of course. accompanied by his family applauded by his supporters this. day in court the catalan leader may be the latest regional politician caught up in the crisis this time an act of disobedience for failing to remove pro independence symbols from catalan government buildings during the $29000.00 election campaigns.

as president of the catalan government fulfilled point u.-t. which is to defend the rights and freedoms of my fellow citizens of more came torah may be the 3rd consecutive catalan leader to a fallen foul of spain's laws but that hasn't led him to backing down from his view that the region should have the right to self-determination even the threat of being barred from office for up to 2 years didn't stop him from displaying the pro separatist images on government buildings. for the procession of the yellow ribbon became a symbol of their support for the cats politicians who were jailed for sedition last month over their role in the $27000.00 illegal referendum however electional board placing those yellow ribbons on public offices became according to them a tool of political propaganda. the regional leader has been a figure who hasn't shied away from voicing his pro secession convictions which is

led to criticism that he is only representing one section of catalan society. what he is doing which is not playing as president but playing as an activist is legitimate for at least half of the population in catalonia which is like playing this role of pushing the borders pushing the limits of the state and not really behaving as the president. but as the leader of the session isn't if found guilty daughter will likely appeal to spain's highest court the supreme. court in madrid why did castle and christ says there is yet little sign that there is any resolution in the offing or a leadership that is able to reconcile both the procession ist and the pro unionists anytime soon so nick igle al-jazeera. and people have been rushing to buy lifted subsidized onions in bangladesh's capital dhaka as prices soar to record highs the cost of onions has rocketed since neighboring india and export to late

september after crops were badly hit by heavy monsoon rains a kiddo of onions has risen from $36.00 u.s. cents to $3.00 us dollars an increase of more 700 percent even the bangladeshi prime minister has stopped eating them. and one of the top stories or not is there not a state has changed its policy on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying they're not illegal so extra state might compare made the announcement and says he will leave the status of the west bank to be israelis and palestinians to negotiate calling the establishing of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked it hasn't invents the cause of peace the hard truth is there will never be a judicial resolution to the conflict in arguments about who is right and wrong as

a matter of international law will not bring peace this is a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians. yemen's hooty rebels say they've seized 3 vessels in the red sea including a saudi ship saudi arabia had earlier accused them of hijacking a ship towing a south korean drilling rig hoofy official has told they will release the drilling rig once they can confirm it belongs to south korea the saudi government is calling the incident a terrorist operation. in hong kong dozens of protesters have staged a daring escape from a besieged university shimmying down plastic ropes and escaping on motorbikes that he said been stopping activists from leaving leave protect in versity after they occupied it for several days many still trapped inside. police in georgia have fired tear gas and water cannon to clear protesters who are rallying for

a 2nd day in the capital tbilisi thousands of protesters gathered near the parliament building demanding an early election but angry that parliament failed to pass planned electoral reforms which would see full proportional representation. russia's foreign ministry says 3 ukrainian naval ships that were seized last year have been returned to gunboats and a tugboat were taken in the coach straight between mainland russia and crimea which moscow an extreme ukraine 5 years ago hand over is another step in efforts to end the 5 year conflict in eastern ukraine coming up the data journalist using hand drawn sketches to break down mainstream misconceptions is truth is it anyway is up next it's watching see to us by phone. in china cancer drugs can be pretty beautifully expensive some desperate patients travel to india to buy cheap generic versions but what cost $1.00

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