so. this is al-jazeera. and obama has a problem and this is the news hour at live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes they are replacing international law with the law of the jungle the palestinians are condemned the u.s. for reversing a decades old policy on israeli settlements. protestors in lebanon blocked politicians from holding their 1st session among. public anger against fuel price rises in iran takes

a deadly turn as it's revealed $3.00 soldiers will stab to death. and hand in themselves students under siege in a hong kong university surrender of the police. forces cleveland browns n.f.l. star milds garrett's appealed against his suspension for striking are not apply up with this helmet. the palestinians are condemning the u.s. move to reverse its decades old policy toward session amends washington has announced it will no longer consider them illegal. by the trumpet ministration in its policy towards israel also in jordan reports 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 you. us policy changed on monday calling the establishing of

civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked it hasn't invents the cause 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 pompei o. said the policy change had nothing to do with benny gantz his efforts 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 face for means into the horrors of the jungle the european union and many other countries saying the settlements violate u.n. security council resolutions and undermine the chances of a 2 states with. but even with what the u.s.

says are the hopes of renewed peace talks the embassy has issued a security warning some could target american interests in israel and the occupied territories in protest. washington but we have 2 correspondents covering the story in a moment we'll go to new in ramallah but 1st let's begin high falsetto in west jerusalem as we heard in the package there harry israeli authorities and surprisingly happy about this decision but does it what is it mainly does it embolden them to go ahead with building. well i mean the settlement building had been going ahead anyway at a pretty high pace certainly since the trump administration took office it's accelerated just in october there was an announcement in approval of some 2300 housing units and that's something that happens several times a year so the settlements are expanding in any case it does as rosen was reporting

very much fits into the way that the u.s. has been trying to reframe the situation here in terms of any potential further negotiation between the israelis and palestinians in the israelis favor i suppose one of the questions is could it embolden something other than settlements to happen in the occupied west bank benjamin netanyahu before the last election in september he promised to an ex the jordan valley if he were given a mandate by the israeli voters and of course we had an inconclusive election we're still in the midst of coalition negotiations as a result of that but this does give a signal at least that that there would be that there could be u.s. approval of greater israeli sovereignty in the occupied west bank and of course whatever the motivation that pompei was talking about in his news conference it does come in an extremely sensitive time where there are 36 hours left for benny

gantz. was main rival to try to come up with a coalition government that he could lead before his time runs out before it gets into a free for all period of 3 weeks of desperate coalition scrambling this is a big victory for netanyahu in that context and as well as that it and allows him to further drive a wedge between benny gantz who has supported this announcement from the u.s. and the joint list that many palestinian israeli parties who could in theory support a dance led minority government from the outside they have entirely rejected it so benjamin a has already been tweeting about. divergence there now that israel should never have a government supported by palestinian israeli forces harry thank you for that for now that is how i feel live in west jerusalem let's bring in the ibrahim she's live for us and ramallah in the occupied west bank so what's been the reaction then either because despite u.s. secretary of state you know mike pompei as if it's to suggest that this won't

prejudge the ultimate status of the west bank i mean do palestinians see that way. well on the ground the construction of illegal israeli settlements hasn't stopped since $967.00 it's been there's been abs and flows when it comes to building settlements but most indians feel that israel has been trying over the years to impose a start the squall whereby they construct these settlements bring in their population to the occupied territory in a way that is against international law and then imposing them as some sort of facts on the ground for palestinians this is one of the main issues of the palestinian israeli conflict so we're talking about more than 250 illegal israeli settlements and outposts more than 600000 israelis residing illegally in the west bank taking our plans resources connected with a series and in that work of roads infrastructure and checkpoints so ballasted is

would tell you that they'd rendered the west bank into a piece of swiss cheese and they would argue that this cannot make any opportunity for a future contiguous palestinian states neither thank you for that neither for the latest from ramallah let's take a closer look now at the president trying to turn away from the years of u.s. policy on israel well the settlement declaration reverses the u.s. legal positions in 1978 known as the hansel memorandum it said civilian settlements on occupied territories is inconsistent with international law and 2017 trump recognized diversity as israel's capital and a year later opened an embassy there washington's policy had previously been that jerusalem status was to be decided in a peace process and in march trump recognized israel's annexation of the golan heights from syria in a boost for prime minister benjamin netanyahu is campaign for

a 2nd term and power well let's bring in al-jazeera senior political analyst might have on the shadow he is joining us live from london for. that some of the context madman on the set ministration this president's determination to reframe u.s. policy towards the conflict but has he greenlighted the behavior on the part of israel they have many behaviors but settlement activity that has most undermined the chances of a political settlement or yes i think this is basically the last pillar of the so-called good of the century that we were warned or promised force couple of years now that it's going to come out and i guess there's no point for anyone waiting for the official announcement of the of the sensitive because as you just stated in your report already the main issues that were supposed to come out in terms of you a specific on the solution for israel palestine that trumpet ministration is

clearly and utterly on the side of the extremist government in israel on the question of jerusalem on the question of the palestinian refugees and on the question of the settlements on the borders so all in all now we have a comprehensive u.s. approach to israel palestine where the united states is 100 percent on the side of the netanyahu government and completely rejecting every single principle that the peace process stood on or the palestinian authority advocates and now it's probably in the palestinians court to decide what to do next one of the options not one. well certainly the 2 state solution that would been saying for a while now is no longer viable it is certainly not viable anymore when secretary of state jim jim carey you were saying earlier that this was the last chance and

that was 40 years ago or 3 years ago for a 2 state solution that the one that was close in was the one to certainly close the now it is or it has a green light to expand even more the supply building with the end of the 2 state solution there are 2 possible alternatives one is a part tate meaning the israelis and israeli jewish settlers would continue to have an upper hand and their own network of roads and systems and industrial zones and so on so forth a superior one closed one to the palestinians and an inferior one where palestinians live although indigenous population but in a disadvantage position under israeli control many think apart it is not really much of a permanent solution in the 21st century so the other alternative would be the one state to reality meaning with

a maximum distance of some 6 miles between any israeli and any palestinian and with the expansion of the settlements making that proximity even closer the once to 3 attitude today is such that needs to be recognized by the israelis and by the americans and perhaps advocated for by the palestinians and it seems that might be an ideal situation meaning jews palestinians muslims and christians living all together. equally under the law the law of the land of israel palestine whereby palestinians and israelis have a right to self-determination have the right for democratic elections and have a right for sovereignty and security i guess that kind of a solution might be. fair for everyone and i think it would be supported by much of the international community the question is whether the rightist

government in israel accept it it doesn't seem like with a decent this point in time and not one you know while this is about the u.s. policy towards israel and palestine domestic politics are always at the top of trump's agenda how much does you know legalizing israeli settlements play with his pro israeli constituencies especially evangelicals as he campaigns for reelection. i think it's important to note here because there's a bit of a misunderstanding around the world about the question of the israel lobby it's interesting that during the trump administration there is a lovely is mostly un jewish not jewish most of the jews in the united states have supported and voted for the democratic party for many years and over the last election i think 70 percent of american jews what did for the democratic party in fact move more jews voted for obama and clinton

than they did for prime minister netanyahu. so what we have today is an extremist zionist elite in the east coast in the west course of the united states 'd and maybe in the rest of the country as well as an extremist event jellicoe all elite together making up in the foreign policy of the united states in israel by the sun and in fact throughout the middle east so it is that extremist right wing eventually it all as well as extremist zionist group that is also 'd you know a big donors to the that trump administration that are dictating policy fortunately most of american jewry is against this kind of policy most of american jordi might end up in the end of the day to be the bridge for a better more rational. more peaceful you aspire to towards the middle east but that will take a change of presidency of course but ron thank you as always for your analysis of

al-jazeera senior political analyst madman bashar live in london thank you and 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 shot down by israel's iron dome missile defense system as well has occupied the to syrian territory since 1967 we're plenty more ahead on the news hour including a $3.00 bonding does a freed and a president swap could it lead to a resumption of peace talks plus. analysts and the one in the western region after cutting columbia work at the. yeah it's finally hurrying to fix things up one of the worst. columbia's history 2 decades. and in sports some explosive action from basketball's n.b.a. and the bucs the battle of the ball.

now protests in lebanon have forced the postponement of parliament by blocking m.p.'s from getting in because what attacked me is a parliament building in beirut more than half the m.p.'s had already chosen to boycott what would have been parliament's 1st sitting since and take government demonstrations began a month ago meanwhile in another development banks have reopened after a week long strike by stock nationwide to let's bring in our correspondents anucha she is joining us live from beirut so one month on cena and palm and a still not able to sit because of the protests this time protest is actively stopping politicians from entering parliament. yes protestors are calling this a victory they managed to prevent parliament from convening like you mentioned this was supposed to be its 1st session since the protest movement erupted

a month ago what they did was gather in are along the roads leading to parliament from the early hours of the morning preventing members of parliament from reaching the building in fact what we understand is only 5 m.p.'s managed to reach parliament building even one of them forced his way through on a motorcycle but more significantly is the number of m.p.'s who actually boycotted the session this is a 128 member of parliament in order for it to have a quorum you need the 50 plus one which means $65.00 m.p.'s the governing alliance which is the president the house speaker as well as has been a law they seem to be confident that they have that poor and they have those number of seats in parliament but 63 m.p.'s decided to boycott these m.p.'s belong to opposition parties and independents clearly some opposition parties have been riding the wave of popular anger trying to benefit from this a protest movement but in the streets they are celebrating they have already

toppled the gun. the prime minister saga heidi resigning 2 or 3 weeks ago and now they are able to paralyze parliament they felt that parliament is illegitimate what they want is for a government of independent experts who are not affiliated with any political party in order to enact much needed economic reforms and then agree on a new electoral law and hold early elections so the feeling in the streets the people i feel really empowered but the question is what's what's next the political crisis is far from over and those in power are refusing to leave office so while polman unable to say to one institution that has reopened today the banks the banks with the restrictions on with trolls and transference of parole. yes capital controls are in place there is a $1000.00 us dollars weekly capped to withdraw from us

a dollar you know from bags and you're not allowed to transfer money abroad you are allowed to you know would draw as much as you like in lebanese pounds because what the authorities are trying to do is ensure that the local currency it doesn't devaluate but like you mentioned banks have been closed much of the month what they are trying to do is restore normalcy open banks open schools universities hoping that this protest movement will just fizzle out but what is clear is that people continue to stand their ground but how much more can they pressure the government because the army has made it very very clear they will allow them to protest in the squares but they will not allow them to block roads and to disrupt public life which means that is the pressure you need really to put on the politicians to resign so there is a political stalemate there is really we're at square one on how this crisis is going to be solved but like i mentioned for now people here really feel that

they've done a lot especially now that parliament has been paralyzed thank you for that of the nations live in beirut thank you. now 3 members of the wrong security forces have been stabbed to death by protesters that's according to media there at least 11 people are now 4 to have died during nationwide demonstrations against fuel prices they began on friday and the government announced a gasoline rationing and a cost increase of up to 200 percent let's bring in our correspondent who's joining us live from don so the death toll rising but how unusual is it for security forces to be killed in protests there. well elizabeth it is quite unusual because these protests are not like i know anything we've seen before in iran they are being there happening by people as the officials are here calling because they're rioting is not they're not gathering or demonstrating in

any kind of organized or secure fashion they are looting a number of banks petrol stations and police offices across the country that's what the officials are saying and that is why all the security forces has have been deployed across the country trying to deal with them over the past 24 hours we have not heard of any major gatherings which was the case over the past few days that is because since the supreme leader made his position clear on sunday morning where he backed the government's decision to increase fuel prices all the security apparatuses have issued statements the intelligence ministry the revolutionary guard as well as local police offices across the country have said that they will deal with these rioters and try to prevent from from gathering in any kind of organized fashion anywhere so as a result of that we have seen very few events taking place in the past few hours this is something the officials have said that is unacceptable that these rioters are being. are being motivated by outside forces and there are not going to have

any of that in iran the government has said that the money they're going to get from this fuel increase will go back into the pockets of about 60000000 iranians get subsidies because that's because this number of people they need it and they live near the poverty line and also the government also saying that millions of those families are stopping to see the benefits from the revenue that they've raised from increasing the fuel prices. yes as of midnight this morning about $20000000.00 iranians got their subsidies in the bank now the subsidies are based on the number of members of families they range from about $5.00 per month and they go up to about $18.00 per month for a family of 5 the 1st batch was given to about $20000000.00 people and the next will be released by the end of this week by thursday and then the final will be on

sunday so by the end of next week about 16000000 iranians will have received this money this is something the president has said there they had to do given the fact that the united states has opposed the series of very hard sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector iran's revenue from its oil sales have gone down drastically and they had to do something to help ordinary iranians come back the inflation that is occurring inside the country and this is the only way they could see to do that thank you for that for now that is do with the latest live and thank you now to hong kong with more student protest as a surrendering to police have surrounded the university for 4 days. has condemned students who threw petrol bombs and 5 analysts at police they responded with tear gas and water cannon police are appealing to old students at the polytechnic university to leave peacefully at least have been searching for he's told resolution using force has always been the last resort in response to

violence of the battles. over the past few days we've made it to the putative that is just a vendetta and if the campus however some. warnings and we feel has to be. so o'clock reports now 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 about why didn't really hard because i have a lot of political will also afraid of order police say on their head because we don't know what will happen and some people have. a calmer always because they

are. also enjoying some cynic and i say or something generally 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 professes school teaches and principals negotiated a deal allowing students to leave the campus peacefully with those under age and they police agreed not to arrest them to be tongue near by i detail the photos and then we beat them but do things. with rich people even with fist on the arresting them but. make sure that they are they dealt with before he left the base protestors 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's chief executive kerry lam condemned the protests she says $600.00 have been arrested $200.00 of them are under the idea of biting she appealed to the remaining group to give themselves up we will use whatever means to continue to persuade and arrange. these 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 lay the basis for the subsequent work by the police to stop the violence in hong kong this protest at the university 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 sirrah clark al-jazeera hong kong. now 3000 commanders have been released by the afghan government as part of the president's swap with sources have told al jazeera that they've landed in

cutter a senior taliban leader and as her cunny is among them in exchange 2 professors from the u.s. and a stranger have been released after spending 3 years in taliban custody afghan president ashraf ghani announced swap last week but let's get more on this now we're joined by michael semple visiting research professor at institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast and he's joining us live from belfast mr semple always good to talk with you on al-jazeera let's talk about these prisoners these taliban leaders who've been released because they aren't ordinary members of the taliban. absolutely they really are taliban elite the younger brother her maternal uncle of the deputy of the taliban leader who to surround. the brother or one of his regime your agent a friend of his father so who this is this is really keeping it in the family and

we 1st heard about it from president ghazi last week could it lead to those direct talks between the government and the taliban that president ghani has been so hopeful for. look i think we can be sort of clear of 2 things 1st of all that this is basically a prisoner for hostage exchange that we know that they the taliban were very keen extremely keen to get their people out and of course there's a big push by the leader who wanted his family home we know that the. fate of american hostages in afghanistan has been a concern for the u.s. administration for their families for a long time but then you get to the issue of the talks it is the policy of the afghan government and its president to push for direct talks with the taliban the trouble is that they the taliban have never actually agreed to this in fact they've made it absolutely clear that they you know they want to talk with the americans

and they don't even formally recognize they the government it describe it as puppets so i suspect that there is some kind of figure here for the taliban must have given some kind of reassurance to allow the president to come on t.v. but there's nothing to indicate the taliban have changed their political refusal to negotiate with the government and what about their willingness to restart negotiations that were canceled between themselves and the u.s. government. well on this one too i mean i think that they mean the taliban about they've said they've actually driven themselves into a colder sock on this one they you know we saw a year of negotiations there are a deal almost went through with the u.s. but then we saw that that deal simply couldn't be sold in kabul the government and the people in kabul. simply you know they rejected it and they were prepared to go

along with think they're being asked to release thousands and thousands of taliban prisoners before anything else happened on the taliban side taliban our side they want to root to negotiate but they only want to negotiate with the u.s. but they only want to negotiate on the basis of the deal which basically has been rejected by the other parties so i mean the war carries on the fight here the the killing continues but at the moment we don't have any viable peace process and the taliban are adopting demands which guarantee that and goes you should remain to block for the moment that's a simple thank you as always for your expertise on this video appreciate it that is michael semple live in belfast thank you and here in a few moments we'll have the weather where the editor and fox but still ahead on news hour. a ship seized by yemen for the rebels south korea appeals for help for their release. from saddam to syria a film festival addressing some of the was harsh realities and as for the new note the davis cup gets underway the best of the atlanta coming out in about 20 minutes

. however there was still enjoying some warm sunshine across parts of the eastern mediterranean but that's about it this far as you're concerned for the 5 and settled weather we still got some nasty storms rumbling away across central areas of the mediterranean war wet weather coming back into italy easing over towards austria this area of low pressure has were picking up a southerly way in the warm away and the avalanches that we have say across northern parts of italy southern areas of austria the weather in austria has been all full really since the beginning of november where we've seen some very inclement weather continuing for a day after day after day widespread travel disruption power outages i'm hopeful

that today will be the last day for the pole weather actually as this area cloud starts to just pull away still some snow on the northern flank for a time and that will make its way over towards the balkans braunches guys started to come back in behind not just some wet weather just pushing into greece if that stands still staying fine and dry warm and sunny that west of weather will not it's way over towards remain here easing into southern parts of ukraine another area cloud and right pushing back into italy and over towards austria it's going to be wet but nowhere near as bad as it has been recently. the weather sponsored by countdown anywhere. from lagos to jerusalem to miami the gomez's claim. form malice to man history and background. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against a fictional it's

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again on the product and these out the top stories this news out of the u.s. has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it were no longer consider them in the go palestine's president has condemned the move but it has been welcomed by israel's prime minister who says it rides a historic wrong protesters in lebanon will be attacked and cost me the parliament building once again pleased to postpone their planned session more than half the m.p.'s had already chosen to boycott what would have been parliament's 1st setting since anti-government demonstrations began a month for the and more student protesters of hong kong the surrendering to police have surrounded their university for days on call as leader has condemned street into petrol bombs and fired arrows at police they responded with tear gas and butcher cannon now public and pictures and hearings into u.s.

president donald trump set to resume with testimony from a senior national security official meanwhile in a tweet on monday donald trump called the inquiry a phony impeachment what charmed and even suggested that he would consider testifying a white house correspondent committee how good reports are you talking about the which 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 milledge. aid to ukraine he's in office way over his head and 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 that committee and

talk all the truth that he wants to 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 trouble 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 given not had directly heard 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. the person who started it all come in and testify

president trump is welcome to take a seat right there maybe that laughter from the tory asli thin skinned president that is 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 trump did something wrong regarding ukraine but only half of americans believe he should be impeached kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house. now south korean leaders are painting for u.s. help to recover 2 ships seen by what they fight as in yemen the hope they said they also captured a 3rd saudi on. near the vet's import of her day there the saudi government is calling this a terrorist operation the official told hour to say either the vessels including a tug towing a drilling rig will be released when south korea confirms they ownership mohamed

atta has more from the yemeni capital sana'a according to this press release released that they have captured the 3 vessels one belongs to saudi arabia while the they have been giving more details about the other 2 according to sources. the other 2 believed to be belong to south korea it's an oil rig but the whole thesis during this press release haven't giving the identical more details about the other 2 they have mentioned that they have tried to contact the crow on board of the vessels but they haven't received any reply and that's why because they haven't given them any permission to go to go inside the yemeni region waters so they have to target them to the neighbors to yemeni cause line we have captured the 3 vessels. just 3 miles from the yemeni course line near the band

island. syria millet syria of visual houthi in a tweet he says that the staff on board of these vessels. will not be harmed and that the if he received any confirm or confirmation from south korea that this these visitors belong to them that they will carry out the legal procedures in order to release them. airstrikes in libya's capital have killed at least 7 people and injured more than 30 others in southern areas of tripoli the government says. those drones targeted a factory where the victims working there mostly from bangladesh while some others from other african countries. now place in georgia have detained 18 people after clearing anti-government protesters camped outside parliament last week the governing party legislators rejected a bill that would have reformed the electoral system from tbilisi bob and forrester

walker reports. police were under orders to clean the streets outside parliament from protest is. such that anyone else who happens to be in the way journalists included the police have responded very quickly it's been less than 24 hours since the blockade started around the parliament now they simply moving down the street clearing a little away some of the street and actually sitting down. was the. city didn't take long to remove the makeshift camp last week the government has rejected a bill on 3 proportional voting it would have made it easier for opposition parties to agree on more seats in elections next year or so protesters declared parliament's bags they accuse the governing party's chairman. of breaking his promise to reform it is electric code opposition leaders say even if

you believe it is an unelected oligarch with too much control over the country we have another example of what is force so you would. call it the legitimate purposes to great governance all those people were insulted by the charter the problems of india very unfortunately have after all of this ultimately should have made government officials say the opposition is deliberately trying to. nazi omar part of the opposition has unfortunately again misled its supporters and what we have seen during the past 2 days with beyond peaceful protests in particular i am talking about the pickets of parliament and other state institutions and those activities that were taking place. there were hopes election reform would have defused tensions instead of broken promises his own people and today's political crisis. were in 1st you are now dizzy or to believe. and ambush on

an army patrol in northern mali has killed and injured both soldiers and their attackers at least $24.00 soldiers and $5017.00 fighters were killed in the town of top uncaught nolens claimed responsibility for the attack but the ambush follows a series of recent attacks in the sahara region especially in mali and booking a fast so on november 2nd 54 soldiers and once a valiant were killed at a military base in northeastern marty on september 30th 2000000 military bases were targeted by fighters linked to al qaida 38 soldiers were killed and attacks have escalated despite international intervention or 5 countries have created a 5000 strong g 5 health falls to tackle armed groups backed by france un peacekeepers are also deployed in the region and leaders from those countries in west africa calling on the un to allow peacekeepers to be more aggressive against fighters in the sahara region or meeting in dhaka the capital of senegal that he

does a tougher mandate following repeated attacks linked to isolate and al-qaeda the un security council renewed its mission in mali for 12 months in june to try and stabilize the largely lawless so how desert area reversal from 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. 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 honest report from the town of wire survivors a warning that violence is returning to the region. is the last farewell for the victims of what's known here as the massacre of one of the most symbolic and atrocious incidents in colombia's half a century long civil conflict. more than 70 people were killed in this community in

2002 when the cylinder bombs launched by far credible spiting 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 they wanted. 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 and africa rituals mixed with catalytic traditions. as women sink. and sister all songs of lament for the adults and the children lost that 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 in 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 people here are warning that it happened again. the peace deal signed with risk. by the population for more than a year with criminal gangs and the remaining rebel groups. are occupying the territory once again to control the illegal gold mining and cocaine trafficking the catholic church and social organizations roatan harsh letter to president saying the government is once again responding to repeated alerts me that it's a building we have to live through this horrible time 17 years ago and we feel the

same is happening now simply it's not the fark this time it's the yellow and the new paramilitaries 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 the. now pakistan's former prime minister has been allowed to fly to london for medical treatment that is wanted him special dispensation to go to the country for a month they 3 time promised us convicted of corruption. still ahead on the new. show you the ice hockey player find out the game especially .

now 96 films from 39 countries are being showcased at the film festival and cutter for a number of years it has been a platform for young talent to tell their stories and share their work and to nationally south hierarch has more. the award winning cannes film it must be heaven kicks off the 7th film festival is it circle comedy tells the life story of a palestinian director and they exult who moved to paris and new york yesterday man tackles identity nationality and belonging something he shares with many of those taking part in the film festival. it's about the young battery talents and it's about the middle east talent and it's about 1st and 2nd feature film makers. and

it's a very important sort of lab. this is selection of films as aims to push boundaries capturing the harsh realities of those living in war zones international ward winning documentary for summer is the story of a young mother who filmed a life of 5 years in the besieged syrian city of aleppo. sudanese filmmaker i'm sure that while ellen knows only too well how much politics can influence the filmmaking process his 1st feature film you will die at 20 about a young sudanese boy struggling with a superstitious prophecy isn't political but it's a hollow as says this is news revolution influenced the outcome after all that killing that happened i was so angry i was so nervous and i think that got the last got the screening here it was that i got beyond universal themes of poverty human

rights the refugee crisis half of the films and to tears yele festival are made by women. if you look at other countries also here in the region including qatar the women are you know stepping up and sharing their own stories the film festival or trying to international stars hoping to share their experiences and insider tips with young audiences hollywood it's you know it's it's been breaking down those barriers and others getting more inclusive you know inclusive and you know if there's if they're starting to wake up a little bit and i think that's really important for me it's important to meet other filmmakers from different parts of the world as you know which means generations in our because one of the many festivals championing young filmmakers through funding and mentoring. filmmakers and actors from this region are increasingly gaining recognition worldwide but its film festivals just like this one bringing local homegrown talent to the international film circuit. bridging the

gap between arabic cinema and the rest of the world isn't easy but with actors like rami malik making history this year by winning best actor at the oscars for his portrayal of rock star freddie mercury many aspiring young says believe it could be them one day. it's just they're. right and it's time for sports now has a whole elizabeth thank you very much we're going to start with the n.f.l. a mild the cleveland browns long lines when he was suspended after striking another player with a helmet is to appeal his indefinite suspension on wednesday to as the number one pick in the 27 team draft was at the center of a mass brawl during the browns going with the pittsburgh steelers on thursday at one point he ripped off the helmet of pittsburgh quarterback mason rudolph before getting in the off wasn't seriously injured and i fell have suspended garrett for the rest of the season without it's the biggest band ever handed out by the n.f.l.

for a single game incident. well that's not a great look for us both and neither is this in the n.h.l. nothing unusual about the brawl between the washington capitals and anaheim ducks but kept garnett half away in the red was thrown out of the going for spitting on the ducks erik good branson the rest reviewed the video and kicked him out but halfway could still get a fine and a longer suspension and have a shot at a 5 to victory for the caps to have more points than any other team in the n.h.l. so far this. ok finally to some positive sports in the n.b.a. basketball the chicago bulls are hosting the walky bucks and for the 1st time it was younis and he called. for the banks united 33 points and 10 rebounds including this impressive dunk but if you thought that was good it wasn't bad either from the blows of the tongue to hutchinson center wendell cartagena nevertheless it was on the box a lot to eye with a win by 11 points for their false straight victory. to the new davis cup it just

got on the way in madrid number one seeds france are in action right now against japan they once saw defending champion croatia whitewashed 3 nothing by russia watched by a noisy it's fast crowd in the opening singles rubber before her and catching up here russia had an unbeatable 2 nothing lead in the best of 3 time the russian pair then teamed up to win the doubles a sellout crowd is expected for their next match on tuesday when they take on the host. well much more of the traditional this cup atmosphere in the evening time is canada beat italy 21 the standout clash was the 2nd singles rugby canada's denis shop will follow i'm a better teenie of italy every set in this match going to a tie break eventually it was the canadian shuffle polo people vital to keep his team an unassailable. but as i mentioned before choose the spring play their 1st

match well number one rough on a dial over looking to win a 5th davis cup having made this his debut in this competition 15 years ago final play russia in the evening session and a woman not involved in the davis cup finals is roger federer the 20 time grand slam champion is in argentina playing in a series of exhibitions with alexander's already there's been speculation the swiss by scale down his shadow there's a prelude to retirement not so says the 38 year old. the most funny thing was back in 2009 when i won the french open and i wonder for the grandsons of the broad old and grandson record then the following months at wimbledon when the one wimbledon again i won the 15th that's when people already started asking me if i was going to retire soon and that was in 2009 so this is 10 years ago and. i can handle this type of question. i tried to give always a good answer because i know that everybody cares and wants to know about it but

there is on a said nothing new there at the moment i'm very happy playing on the tour now they've already got the likes of coca-cola and vai's and now the olympics have signed up another major sponsor in the form of accommodation giant abyan bay the $500000000.00 deal will last 9 years across 5 summer and winter games r.c. president thomas bach claimed there will help the olympics become more economically and environmentally sustainable for host city so it will provide accommodation they'd really reduce the cost for the olympic games organizers and all the stakeholders it will minimize the need to for construction of from you a coronation in for structure for the olympic games period and it will try to rate direct revenue opportunities for the host communities now that there were cover olympics in 5 major cities terry carey beijing harassed paris. tina.

i'm sorry and finally ally in 2028 say sorry athletes will benefit from $28000000.00 worth of free accommodation for competition or training related travel and athletes will get the chance to earn extra income by offering experiences to fans through ebay and they suggest training camps for personal safety tools how amazing would it be think about this if you could travel to the olympics see the games stay with the local and train with your role model. i'm excited today to announce that we will be launching next year air be olympian experiences olympian experiences will help olympian stay engaged in their sport while earning a living that they can be proud of but everyone's happy there including the mayor of 2024 hard city paris and he wrote to the i.o.c. claiming by removing a significant number of lodgings from paris air b.n. b. contributes to rising rents and worsens the shortage of apartments on the rental market at a cost for all parisians the company says it's working to address the issue all

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life. they are replacing international law with the law of the jungle. palestinians condemn the u.s. for reversing a decades old policy on israeli settlements. i wonder when jordan is out as iran live from doha also coming up. protestors in lebanon blocked politicians from holding their 1st parliamentary session in a month. public anger against fuel price rises in iran takes a deadly turn as 3 soldiers are stopped today.