trust that you trust on al-jazeera. we've now declared that settlements are not per se illegal under international law . condemnation from palestine as washington reverses the decades old us policy on israeli settlements. alone daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on complete a just protesters still barricaded inside a university to leave peacefully as police continue to sell around the campus. tight security outside lebanon's parliament as protesters move to prevent politicians from entering the building. have

a listen around here in the western region after calling for a long day of work to the beauty of yeah it's finally burning to fix things up one of the worst massacres in colombia history to take up to the fact. the u.s. has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them illegal this latest pro israel move puts the us at odds with most of the international community and the un security council was in jordan reports now from washington d.c. . for 41 years the u.s. has called israeli settlements built in the occupied west bank illegal under international law that u.s. policy changed on monday calling the establish of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked it hasn't invents the. as of peace this is

a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians pump ailes announcement is the latest in a string of controversial white house moves designed to support israel recognizing jerusalem as israel's official capital moving the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv in 2018 and forcing the palestinians to close their office in washington leaving them no diplomatic presence in the u.s. apart from at the united nations pomp a.o. said the policy change had nothing to do with benny gantz afeard to form a new israeli government so the timing of this was not tied to anything that had to do with domestic politics anywhere in israel or otherwise this was about we were done we finished we conducted our review and this was the appropriate time to move forward the current israeli government was thrilled. this is a historic day and another great achievement after president trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of recognize all sovereignty over golan heights and now

put an end to the lie that settlements are illegal condemnation from jordan and from hamas we warned against dangerous consequences of the us change of position a continuation of u.s. policy to support occupation from the palestinian leadership not just anger but also a call to action that's prole is that i was a compassion war crimes and this is constituent a major threat to international peace and security and this is. international community from the orders of international law that all wars of solving conflicts by facebook means and to the horrors of the jungle the european union and many other countries say the settlements violate u.n. security council resolutions and undermine the chances of a 2 state solution but even with what the u.s. says are the hopes of renewed peace talks the embassy has issued a security warning knowing some could target. interests in israel and the occupied

territories in protest roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. well the move is the latest shift in israel's favor under president donald trump in december 27th seen trump formally recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel he then ordered the us embassy to relocate from tel aviv to jerusalem this angered palestinians and drew widespread international condemnation in march this year trump recognize the occupied golan heights as part of israel the directive made the u.s. the 1st country to recognize israeli rather than syrian sovereignty over the region or this is trump is also promising a so-called deal of the sentry to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict and bring peace to the region. is executive director of the arab center of washington he says the decision doesn't come out of the blue. i'm not surprised at all with regards to the content of the statement by the secretary of state i'm so surprised though like everybody else probably by the time you know the statement itself was

somewhat inconsistent i think it was definitely. considered despite the fact that the secretary said it comes after a long period of 3 assessment of the policy the fact of the matter it wasn't accidental that so many different administrations prior to this one looked at the israeli settlements in the west bank in gaza not in the golan and as illegal and a violation of international law there is a universal consensus about this issue so what is inconsistent is not what the secretary is accusing which is the wrong position by the obama administration or blaming it on former secretary of state kelly what is inconsistent here is this administration that is leaving if you will that international consensus and clearly

itself an accessory to an international crime meanwhile israel says its intercepted 4 rockets that were fired from syria towards the occupied golan heights warning sirens were heard in the area as the rockets were down by israel's iron dome ed defense system israel has occupied the syrian territories since 1973 taliban commanders have been released by the afghan government as part of a prisoner swap sources have told al-jazeera they've landed in qatar seeing a taliban leader and as a county is among them in exchange 2 professors in the u.s. and australia have been released after spending 3 years being held by the taliban afghan president ashraf ghani announced the swap last week. well a 4 day standoff at a hong kong university appears to be coming to an end as more student protesters surrendered to police there's been violent scenes as police and demonstrators for using tear gas and petrol bombs leader has condemned the demonstrators behavior accusing them of destruction so o'clock reports from hong kong. this is the

aftermath of monday night street protests roads blocked with burnt out cars tables and chairs strewn across major briards in hong kong central kalin district at polytechnic university protesters started to emerge from the campus after a not a violent confrontations with police the choice to surrender we just want to leave you know why did you not only. because i have a lot of political we are also afraid of water police say on the air and because we don't know what will happen and some people. are coming out always because they are. also injuring some cynical or something like police set up a checkpoint to the campus for questioning those charged with brushing face up to 10 years in jail some students managed to escape on monday they were met by police firing tear gas and rubber bullets on tuesday university professors school teaches

and principals negotiated a deal allowing students to leave the campus peacefully with those pages and they keep me in october at. the time. i might even held in photos in the media but i do think. we can reach the police based on the arresting them. make sure that they are they dealt with before the. meeting these protesters have emerged voluntarily for the still hard core group of protesters holed up inside the campus despite attempts by police to negotiate their exit they were facing to leave. hong kong. chief executive carrie lam condemned the protests she says $600.00 have been arrested $200.00 of them are under the age of 18 she appealed to the remaining group to give themselves up we will use whatever means to continue to persuade and arrange for the remaining protesters to leave

the campus as soon as possible so that this whole operation could be able to end in a peaceful manner and laid a basis for the subsequent work by the police to stop the violence in hong kong this protest at the university by almost be over but the cleanup is still underway with the added government movement vowing to continue the demonstrations which is now entering this 6th month sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. protesters in lebanon are attempting to stop politicians from entering parliament which is due to sit for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began a month ago as a heavy security presence around lebanon's parliament and groups of people have been seen attacking cars near the building meanwhile banks in lebanon have reopened on tuesday after a weeklong strike by stuff across the country where they know how to joins us live now from the lebanese capital as a mass of parliament sitting for the 1st time since these protests began tell us

what's been happening. on the street is a tense there have been sporadic scuffles between the protesters and security forces as you can see this is one of the roads leading to parliament building since the early hours of the morning protesters have been blocking the road so doing their best to prevent members of parliament from reaching that building and holding a session they believe will be illegitimate but we understand this after 6 members of parliament have managed to make their way. building but you are going to 65 he actually wanted to have the last one or only needed in order for this session to go . ahead so these protesters doing their best to stop members of parliament everybody that was a convoy of a member of parliament trying to make their way in so the street is technically really a politician's are going to possible laws especially a controversial general amnesty law that's going to protect them in the event that

there are corruption cases taken to court because that general amnesty bill is very ambiguous in its tact so people hear very much the fire and the politicians are very much a defiant because they are refusing to give up power what people here want is the formation of a cabinet of independent politicians people who are not affiliated with any political class in order to enact economic reforms and pave the way for early elections and center we understand the banks of reopened today how significant is this given that they've been closed for most of the month since protests began. yes the bank briefly opened joining the one month period but then bank employees decided to go on strike because they said that they were being harassed by customers people who were demanding to withdraw more money because right now there is a weekly cap on how many how much dollars you are allowed to withdraw from the bank

up to $1000.00 a week and you're not allowed to transfer any money abroad clearly officials are putting in place capital controls because they're worried about the devaluation of the lebanese currency and the economy is in a dire condition and it is on the verge of collapse officials have been warning that so banks have reopened schools and universities what those in power have been trying to do really is restore a sense of normalcy to the country in the hope that these protests will just fizzle out no doubt the numbers are much less than in the past but people here are vowing to stay in the streets in order for their demands to be to be met sign up thank you . all right time for a short break here and i'll just say right when we come back an escalation of tensions in iran through security force members a spam to death by protesters i'm going to quote what happened in georgia after the government rejected proposals for electoral reform or in that state that.

we've got more snow and rain in the full cost for italy and austria that brings with the added threat of avalanches saying lots of clouds showing up around central parts of the mediterranean pushing over towards australia and that's going to continue making its way through the race as it will turn a little dry as we go on is into the middle part of the way but the winds they will come in from a southerly direction around this area of low pressure amaldi direction that does add to the problems this is the picture in northern italy around the italian alps where we have already got a major disruption a widespread problems in and around the region as we go on through cheese they can see how the southerly winds pushing across much of italy rome at around 16 celsius 4 celsius the full 0 with that line of snow just around more than parts of the

region heavy rain coming through his stormy weather very strong winds or nothing a little further east which as we go on through wet and stay dry weather does come back in behind you can see the rain just makes its way over towards the balkans behind me we got some wet weather making its way into western parts of europe as you go on through wednesday say some cloud of rain there into portugal all the way up to the british isles could see some weather to into the far northwest of africa with a chance of heavy shower was from the and cinesias. sponsored by. protesting about how does. their on line life. directly translate slavery or if you join us this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about the

solutions on now to 0. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them illegal palestine's president has condemned the move but it's been welcomed by israel's prime minister and says it writes an historic wrong. chief executive asserting pro-democracy protesters have barricaded themselves inside a university to leave peacefully. also asked police to treat them humanely. and protesters in lebanon are attempting to stop politicians and from parliament there

due to sit for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began a month ago and groups of people have been seen attacking cars near the building. now 3 members of iran's state security forces have been stabbed to death by protesters their tear on that's according to state media at least 11 people are now thought to have died during nationwide demonstrations against fuel prices they began on friday after the government announced gasoline rationing and a cost increase of up to 200 percent but also jabari joins us live now from tehran dorsai so the death toll from the protests continues to rise do you think we're seeing an increase in the violence. no there and i think we're seeing an increase in the information flow that's coming through through the official channels here we know of the deaths that have occurred over the past few days since the protests began but the official state media has been announcing those death toll slowly and that is when we get the results and the state t.v.

has been saying that these deaths we don't know when they occurred but that over the past few days these 3 security members were stabbed to death near a suburb of tehran this is all part of an ongoing dispute between demonstrators and the security forces because the supreme leader on sunday made his position very clear that he supported this fuel increase and then following that announcement we heard from the intelligence ministry as well as the revolutionary guards on monday saying that they will confront these people and that they will restore calm and security in the country the officials here are calling these demonstrators not ordinary iranians they're being referred to as thugs and that they are also being true is that being fueled by outside forces so there is being seen as taking advantage of an opportunity inside iran to sow discontent and insecurity and that's why they are being met with such heavy handed force president rouhani promised that

subsidies would be paid on monday the people seen any of that yet. yes as of midnight this morning about $20000000.00 iranians received their share of subsidies they range from about $5.00 to about $18.00 depending on how many members are in the family this subsidies will continue on a monthly basis the next batch will be released on thursday and then the final batch on sunday so in total about $60000000.00 iranians we're receiving government subsidies this is what the government is trying to do it they're trying to help low income families deal with the economic crisis that is happening in this country inflation is i don't know 40 percent and unemployment is at over 30 percent and this is the reason the president has said that the government has decided to increase the fuel prices or i don't sort of are we there in tehran thank you south korea has confirmed 2 of its vessels have been seized by yemen's who the rebels in

the red sea soul is now lost in the u.s. and saudi arabia to help recover them who say they've also taken custody of a 3rd vessel which is saudi alone all 3 of being held in the data lets out the government's describing the incident as a terrorist operation earlier who thier fishel told al jazeera their release the ships once they're sure they belong to south korea airstrikes have killed at least 7 people and injured more than 30 others in southern areas of libya's capital according to government sources more than $101.00 have to drones targeted a factory where the victims are working the mostly from bangladesh some of those come from african countries mahmud up to why it has more now from the capital. military sources with tripoli and back the government of national accord say that the airstrikes which targeted a factory in whether to be area in southern tripoli and killed a number of innocent civilians and wanted dozens of them the other strikes

according to the government sources were launched by a drone loyal to the world lord khalifa haftar and many other sources say that this attack could constitute a war crime we know that the victims are just regular workers at the factory in whether it will be area and they have nothing to do with the ongoing fighting that's according to sources with the government of national accord medical sources say that most of the victims are from bangladesh others are from african countries along with libyan victims in that were killed or wounded in such attacks we know that since the beginning of the fighting forces have been targeting get his attention areas and civilian locations including get a make one detention center back in july the civilian operational airport in tripoli and also many other medical facilities including field hospitals ambulances

and also medical teams we know that some of such attacks could constitute war crimes and have the us forces have been targeting that is eventually areas with heavy weapons and air strikes since the launch of the military campaign to seize tripoli back in april. at least $24.00 soldiers and 17 fighters have been killed in the attack on an army patrol in mali's gauhar region the attack happened in the northeastern town of to ban caught during a joint military operation with no group has yet claimed responsibility well the ambush follows a series of recent attacks in west africa region especially in mali and but enough on november 2nd 54 soldiers and one civilian were killed at a military base in northeastern mali on september 30th 2 mali and bases were targeted by fighters linked to al qaeda 38 soldiers were killed there the violence

has escalated despite international intervention 5 countries created a 5000 strong g 5 cell force to tackle armed groups backed by france un peacekeepers also deployed in the region and leaders in west africa calling on the un to allow peacekeepers to be more aggressive against fighters in this region meeting in dhaka the capital of senegal leaders urged the tough a mandate following repeated attacks going to isolate and al-qaeda the un security council will need its mission in mali for 12 months in june aimed at stabilizing the largely lawless desert area really sort of form the united nations must reform itself not only in terms of training the permanent members of the security council but also in its peacekeeping policy which is not in line with today's terrorism challenges is certain. one thing is certain jarvis groups will take advantage of our weaknesses lack of coordination or inadequacies in terms of

resources commitment or training as soon as they can we must therefore not give them any chance any control. italian police have broken up a criminal gang they say had been smuggling millions of dollars worth of ancient artifacts video from police drones showed illegal acts of asians in the southern region of calabria the items on earth are being sold around the world italian authorities made 23 arrests in britain germany france and serbia as well as italy under italian law or any antiquities discovered other property of the state. police in georgia have detained 18 people after clearing anti-government protesters camped outside parliament last week governing party legislators rejected a bill that would have reformed the electoral system from tbilisi is robin forrester work. police were under orders to clean the streets outside parliament from protest this was a good look at her and anyone else who happens to be in the way journalists included the police have responded very quickly to listen 24 hours since the

blockade started around the parliament now they're simply moving down the street clearing people away some of the things actually sitting down in the harbor that the slogan was it was but it didn't take long to remove the makeshift camp last week the government no make is rejected of a bill on fully proportional voting it would have made it easier for opposition parties to win more seats in elections next year so protestors declared parliament now they accuse the governing party's chairman. of breaking his promise to reform to which is electric code opposition leaders say even if she really is an unelected only got too much control over the country we have another example of what is force so you would. want to do to the purposes too great comfort for those

people who were insulting the public by attracting the problems of the new delhi unfortunately the heart of all of the country should have made government officials say the opposition is deliberately trying to stop the rest not steal my part of the opposition has unfortunately again misled it supporters and what we have seen during the past 2 days went beyond peaceful protest in particular i am talking about the pickets of parliament and other state institutions and those activities that were taking place. they were home. elect true reform would have defused tensions instead a broken promise. to use political crisis. rubin forced you. to believe. an explosion in a coal mine in northern china has killed at least 15 people and injured others 35 miners a working underground in shanachie province when the gas blast happened john is modern industry has a poor safety record and that's

a common pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif fun to london for medical treatment judges granted him special dispensation to leave the country from month prime minister was convicted of corruption earlier this year and sentenced to 7 years in jail. from islamabad. former prime minister nawaz sharif for serving i 70 or jailed however a month ago or his doctors raised the alarm that his medical condition would worsening and id needed urgent treatment afterwards he would move to a government. the prime minister came around and also ordered that he be given the best parts of britain medical treatment within that country however to doctors and 58 that he has to go overseas because of very good derating condition. and to take him to london he will be accompanied by his brother shahbaz sharif and also his personal physician but there are question marks about the judiciary.

because people had in pakistan say that everybody is equal under the law however the word did come get your dishes themes according to people that some people are more equal than our day. now the victims of the worst massacre committed by far rebels in colombia have been laid to rest 17 years after they were killed but as i listened around petra reports in the town of the higher survivors a warning the violence is returning to the region for the last farewell for the victims of what's known here as the massacre of one of the most symbolic in atrocious incidents in colombia's half a century long civil conflict. is more than 70 people were killed in this community in 2002 when the cylinder bombs launched by 5 rebels fighting paramilitaries fell in the church where people had taken shelter it took almost 2 decades of peace deal

in 2 years event to find their remains buried in communal graves for this community to finally be able to give their loved ones a proper burial if you want. but it's an important day for us we finally having closure for our loved ones who lost their lives in such tragic circumstances and you know like yes. yes the procession and funeral follows a week of night long vigils in africa rituals mixed with catalytic traditions. as women sing. and sister all songs of lament for the adults and the children lost their day. despite almost 2 decades since the bombing the pain is still alive. without real closure pain remains words don't heal that's what we hope that after this stage will finally be able to go on with their lives and look forward to the future. profits are being very and this newly built. and

renaissance down was finally bringing some peace to a community that has lived through one of the worst massacres colombia has ever seen yet people here are warning that it could happen again. the peace deal sang with. response to the population for more than a year criminal gangs and the remaining rebel groups the occupying the territory once again to control the illegal gold mining and cocaine trafficking the catholic church and social again he's ations wrote harsh letter to president saying the government is once again not responding to repeated alerts. we have to live through this horrible time 17 years ago and we feel the same is happening now simply it's not the park this time it's the l. and the new paramilitaries and what worries us the most is the tolerance and even the collusion with the army it's a fact and we are denouncing it. it's

a fear of falling back into a cycle of violence just as the old wounds are starting to heal i listen to them. talk for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them in the legal. president has condemned the move but it's been welcomed by israel's prime minister who says it rights and historic wrong. 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 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. 3 taliban commanders have been released by the afghan government as part of a prisoner swap sources have told al-jazeera they have landed in qatar senior taliban leader and us economy is among them in exchange 2 professors from the us and australia have been released after spending 3 years being held by the taliban afghan president ashraf ghani announced the swap last week hong kong's chief executive is urging pro-democracy protesters who have barricaded themselves inside a university to leave peacefully carol lam there's also was the police to treat them humanely. just as in lebanon are tempting to stop politicians and entering parliament they do to sit for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began a month ago groups of people and been seen attacking cars near the building 3 members of iran's state security forces have been stabbed to death by protesters near tear on that's according to media there at least 11 people are now thought to have died during nationwide demonstrations against fuel prices they began on friday after the

government announced gasoline rationing at a cost increase of up to 200 percent. and south korea says 2 of its vessels have been seized by yemen's who are these in the red sea the rebels say they're holding another ship which belongs to saudi arabia the saudi government has described the incident as a terrorist operation and west african leaders meeting in senegal are calling on the united nations to allow a more proactive approach by peacekeepers in june the un security council renew their mission in mali for a year the leaders say the current model has failed to counter violence by fighters linked to eisele and al-qaeda. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera stream station thanks so much and i felt. the prime minister. should introduce the british on the 31st of october and making this country the

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