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but not everyone is reaping the rewards to some of paying the ultimate prize one eye when east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. al jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes after 70 years of little progress this could be the last opportunity they will ever. u.s. president donald trump unveils his plan to end decades of conflict between israel and palestine. we say a 1000 times. the deal of the century but palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls
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trump's the ally conspiracy saying his people's rights are not for sale. meanwhile trump's trouble at home isn't over isn't pietschmann trial moves on to the next stage. of china to defeat a deadly virus that's killed a 106 people but alarm rises as the outbreak spreads beyond its borders. and. with your sports 7 is the lucky number for roger federer he reaches the australian open sydney final of the surviving several match points against american famous. last opportunity for palestinian statehood that sowed donald trump as the scribe to his long awaited plan to end the decades of conflict between israel and palestine
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the u.s. president unveiled his proposal to a packed room in the white house alongside the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu 7 quick look now at some of the key points from the plan now it calls for 2 states israel and palestine trump says that gaza and the west bank will be connected by bridges and tunnels the president has declared an undivided jerusalem would be the capital of israel but the pan. the syrian capital will be in parts of eastern jerusalem the plan calls for a 4 year freeze on israeli settlement activity but says the us will recognize current settlements as israeli territory trump also says palestinian territory will be doubled my vision presents a win win opportunity for both sides a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks of palestinian statehood to israel's security today israel has taken a giant step toward peace yesterday prime minister netanyahu informed me that he is
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willing to endorse the vision as the basis for directing goshi asians and i will say the general also endorsed and very strongly with the palestinians a historic breakthrough. it's a great plan for israel it's a great plan for peace frankly mr president given all that you've already done for israel i'm not surprised you have been the greatest friend that israel has ever had in the white house. a palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls trump's plan a conspiracy and says that no palestinian can accept the state without general slim as its capital. in the announcement we did not find anything new compared to what we heard 2 years ago it is sufficient to say that 2 years ago we heard that there is the undivided capital of israel as claimed by them
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we cannot wait and wait and keep on waiting our position has not changed and after we had. we say no no no to the deal of the century. or stephanie decker any to abraham and ramallah with the palestinian perspective or harry force that has the israeli reaction from west jerusalem 1st though let's go to mike hanna in washington michael the scene over the years we've seen a lot of potential peace deals or potential peace plans come and go what would you say is different about this one. well it's different in terms of its extreme favor billeted towards israel is what most observers would contend very much based on the plan that was introduced by president george w. bush back in 2003 however it has adopted aspects of that plane and made some of the
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aspects even for more severe and any prospects of a contiguous palestinian state living side by side with that of israel president trump those as a held held as a steeply significant move as as has repeatedly been stated the deal of the century so did the prime minister netanyahu who was a few serve as you heard there in his praise of president trump but certainly as we've already heard from the palestinian leadership this is the deal that was produced with immense amount of fanfare in the largest room in the executive mansion that is the east room absolutely packed with people about certainly with all this fanfare it is still according to most a deal that is literally dead on arrival in terms of getting any form of agreement to the other part involved and that is the palestinians and i cannot with the latest from washington d.c. mike for the moment thank you let's go live now to harry foresaid who is in west
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jerusalem for us obviously the steel is very favorable to israel as we heard there from my hanna as so what steps might israel take over the next few days considering that the palestinians rejected it before they even heard it but they certainly rejected it since. well yes i think the most resonant elements of the plan as far as israelis and indeed palestinians will be concerned firstly the green light that it gives israel to extend sovereignty i.e. annex large parts of the occupied west bank and the fact that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his office says that he will put an accession of west bank settlements to a cabinet vote as early as sunday so that is a hugely significant and consequential step it is one that many on the the right and even the center right in israel may well support certainly on the on the right
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they will support it but on the further right for instance in terms of his defense minister naftali bennett who is from a separate party in terms of the most influential settlers grouping the council they've condemned the plan saying that any mention of a palestinian state no matter how truncated it might be in this plan is a step too far natalie bennett saying they must work against it and so as well as the the annexation element there's also the element of jerusalem saying that jerusalem will be israel's undivided capital and in the details of the plan saying that israeli sovereignty will extend all the way up to the israeli wall and only the parts that are defined as jerusalem beyond that wall would be available for a palestinian capital in the future that is entirely different from what the policies have inspired to before but again it could well be very politically
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popular financing you know in the runup to the election on march the 2nd so a somewhat mixed bag electorally the blue and white party of benny gantz has welcomed the deal in slightly more sober terms saying that it will take 4 years of negotiation with partners and requires a stable government led by some. one who isn't under indictment for 3 separate corruption cases and in netanyahu case that is exactly what has happened on this very same day his indictments were lodged in the jerusalem district court harry forsett with the latest there from west jerusalem high for the moment thank you let's cross live now to of ramallah in the occupied west bank and speak to all that you are him who is there for us some a little earlier anita we heard some quite strong words from the president mahmoud abbas calling the deal a conspiracy that was trying to break the palestinian people what options are open to the palestinian president as to what to do next. we've been hearing
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a lot of things from the palestinian president over the past 2 years in response to israeli plans to build more illegal settlements or to the u.s. and to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital however we haven't seen much of that being implemented on the ground we've seen threats of cutting security coordination with israel this of course didn't happen if the course. is still holding to its term let's say and it's what it has signed in the all slow accord since the 1993 and they're often saying that israel is not doing that usually what we see from the palestinians in a response of that is calling upon the international community to intervene to respect its rules we've seen the palestinian president mahmoud abbas to date reference to the i.c.c. the international criminal court's prosecutor has said that it believes that there
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are bases there is a basis to open an investigation into war crimes in the palestinian territory it hasn't been finalized yet so he threatened more international moves rather than moves on the grounds however we've seen a couple of protests here and there in the west bank there have been calls for protests to morrow in the west bank as and the jordan valley and remains to be seen how big these protests are going to be it will indeed need a victim for the moment live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank need to thank you and let's go now to stephanie decker who is in gaza for us tell us a little bit about the reaction there. to stephanie and also i suppose looking at what future for a potential reconciliation between the palestinian factions. it was interesting also that our producer just told me now before you came to me that the fatah has
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officially announced that a delegation will be visiting gaza next week for talks with hamas this follows we just heard president abbas say that there would be efforts to put divisions aside into a community i think we're going to have to wait and see this is true very complicated in the pasta the division between the palestinians playing into the hands of course many people would say of israel keeping them divided so we're going to have to wait and see if anything comes out of that but certainly they are united in their opposition to this plan have masses rejected it said that it's going to fight it with all means necessary we're going to have to wait and see really how things play out over the next couple of days i just want to bring it back to the people here they were talking politics we're talking this plan we're talking it's almost abstract when you look at gaza you're talking of a tiny strip of almost 2000000 people that are besieged they cannot leave what comes in and out of here is controlled by israel they don't have access to air
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space they didn't have access to the sea it's controlled by how far the fischman can go out people are desperate there is desperate as they've ever been here there's unemployment over 50 percent the youth are unemployed over 60 percent these are university educated young people they are desperate many of them have had their legs amputated during these a border protests that have happened over the last year and a half or so it is a desperate situation the people here need a solution you see conflict with israel come and go that's not going to end that cycle unless there is a political solution this plan basically offers no hope barbara and i think this is very important to remember that we're talking about people here particularly in gaza who are living under siege and under a desperate situation the plan very briefly calls for how massive this army and for the factions to demilitarize here that is certainly going to be hugely challenging if not impossible which probably means that the status quo here is going to remain . so i think certainly a provocative plan for people here and not offering any hope stephanie becker in
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gaza with the latest reaction from there stephanie thank you. well in an interview with al jazeera a little earlier president trump senior adviser jared kush there is said that the status quo isn't working and that something has to change we tried to carve out a way with land swaps and with bridges and tunnels to create a palestinian state that can be contiguous where you can drive from the top through tunnels and bridges and through land and highways all the way to the bottom and so we've been able to achieve that the map will be released publicly and that's something that was very very hard to do but quite frankly if we don't do this today at the rate at which israel is growing i think that it will never be able to be done so we see this as the last state for the palestinian last chance for the palestinians to have a state and the other big accomplishment the president made today was getting israel to agree to the palestinian state the status quo is not working it has not work and when you stick to these ideas that everyone's used for all these past
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years to try to solve this there's been a lot of great ideas but they haven't gotten it done and the palestinians are still stuck. i'm joined now from paris by al-jazeera senior political analyst amar one bashar some are when we have this peace plan and when it was drafted you know it's a peace plan between the israelis and the palestinians the palestinians where in there when it was drafted a lot of key countries egypt which borders gaza jordan which is the custodian of the king is of the holy sites in jerusalem they were in bury there it's sort of makes you wonder why the u.s. and israel went through the motions of putting this plan together at all. i know i wondered the same but clearly it was a very happy ok jand and clearly the president romp you know mend the fences a least between the 2 or the 2 main parties in israel so now there is apparently some sort of a peace between gunson bibi netanyahu and of course it's all got for the by trump
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except as we said earlier you know in the whole celebration this incredible wedding there's no groom why because the groom is not invited the groom has never been consulted and there is this celebration going on and it's really unilateral and clearly most of the neighbors are not happy with it because everyone understands that this is unprecedented in terms of how obnoxious it is towards conflict resolution and towards the palestinians considering them as if they are the aggressors when they are the victims closer than they are the terrorists when they are the occupied people over the last 5 decades this process for over 7 decades and yet we have an administration in washington that is readily happy to basically give israel all it asked for to give the prime minister netanyahu
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particular everything asks for including supporting him for a 4th mandate to be prime minister but we are hearing now though is that as soon as sunday that could be a cabinet vote in a nice lead to executive affectively give the go ahead for illegally occupied settlements in the west bank i mean again i know it's difficult to answer you know why have they gone forward with this deal but could it be a sort of american way of greenlighting action like that by israel or did israel even need the u.s. to green light stuff like that. you know absolutely barbara there's no doubt about it because what happened at the white house today is that trump made his shield and then netanyahu repeated the very important point that he knows are very important to his public opinion and hence what that the now has underlined is the fact that basically has a green light from washington to our next major portions of the occupied west bank
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in addition to the already annexed. is jerusalem so all in all the palestinians are promised something very vague down the road based on so many conditions while the israelis have already been granted a green light to annex much of the west bank including all the areas on the jordan river including all the settlement blocks and as netanyahu said no settlements big or small in his words will be dismantled and hence everything that the prime minister of israel has asked for everything he's ever wished for all his dreams have basically come through through this where you one particular american president and his son in law. giving them all they need on the refugee question on the on the occupation question on the annexation question on the settlement question on the israeli control and security question and that leaves the
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palestinians basically with nothing but false hope and i want to share a senior political analyst joining us from paris my one thank you. now still ahead on al-jazeera remembering a homeland they can never return to revisit palestinian refugees living. in lebanon plus a win for competition or a security old gold boris johnson's huawei decision has him offside with the u.s. and back on the field rugby's controversial star finds a new club peter has the details. while donald trump's been announcing his middle east peace plan his lawyers have concluded their opening arguments in his impeachment trial in the senate from steam called on the senate to acquit him and played down allegations from former national
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security adviser john bolton but some republican senators have proposed bolton's unpublished manuscript to be made available for senators to review on a classified basis the senate may resolve the issue of whether to call witnesses in a vote on friday or saturday well the impeachment trial next moves into the question and answer stage the senate leader chuck schumer has reiterated the democrats the man for key witnesses including john bolton to testify. the bottom line is very simple we want the troops the whole truth and nothing but the truth that's what witnesses and documents mean the president's lawyers have spent 3 days avoiding the truth pointing fingers here there and everywhere even one of them gave a political speech on the floor it was like a campaign rally because they don't want the facts they don't want the truth they're afraid of them. why does your house was following events for us on capitol
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hill and the of course the potential of john bolton testimony still and one of the key issues and now we're hearing some republican senators have proposed that bolton's unpublished manuscript be made available for senators to review on a classified basis explain to us the significance of that and the reaction that there has been to that request. sure well 1st of what it is that bolton is alleging in this unpublished manuscript goes to the very heart of what democrats say they want to prove they say that trump have a corrupt motive of wanting to gain personally and getting a leg up on his political competition in the upcoming presidential election by asking ukraine to announce investigations into former vice president joe biden a democrat and that trump used security aide to ukraine as leverage to compel those investigations and all of that boils down to the motive because trump has denied
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that those 2 things that the security money and his request for the investigations he says they were not at all linked well john bolton in this unpublished work has directly put those 2 together same way he was in a conversation with the president where it was explicitly said that the 2 things was one for the other none of this though factors so much into the evidentiary record of the trial because as republicans have pointed out and as the president's defense attorneys said and ran. being up there opening statements today is that these are still alleged allegations they've been reported on in the press but they're not part of the trial record and so democrats say the only way to get them into the trial record is to get john bolton in as a witness he has said that he would do so in so subpoena but to make that happen at least 4 republicans would need to side with democrats on a vote to open this trial to more witnesses so republicans moving even an inch on
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that same that they are interested in reading this manuscript democrats are still seeing that as hope that they may prevail at least in getting bolton to testify but as you cast through with all the developments there from capitol hill thank you. ok well now the number of known cases of corona virus has doubled in one day more than 4500 have now been diagnosed globally the vast majority in china the best toll stands at 106 factory staff across china working overtime to meet the extra demand on medical supplies masks and protective clothing many of the workers are volunteering their time and in ruhani where the virus was 1st the tech to the doctor is about to operate on a pregnant mother believed to be infected they performed an emergency syrian section and she gave birth to a baby boy nearly 16000000 people are now in lockdown across china the european commission has become the latest to announce it is airlifting e.u. citizens from scott scott hyder has more from beijing. a 50 year old man was the
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1st person in beijing to die from the corona virus he had returned from the epicenter in mohan on january 15th just 5 days before he died he texted a friend saying that he was sure that he'd get better some of the capital are not surprised by the 1st death. i am not too worried it is a serious disease it's normal to have some i don't think we have seen the peak of. the beijing government has last train service 10 percent even though the holiday has been extended until sunday many people here are coming back early they're worried they'll be more restrictions on transportation lays out danger of my train stopped in minutes nobody got on the tray but i was still scared and if you're very uncomfortable the united states is evacuating it's consulate and some civilians still in the city who are on lockdown japan is also dispatching a plane to pull its citizens out and deliver supplies. the 1st plane to
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the airport tonight we also deliver a protective and the other relief supplies to chinese and japanese people in the kind of kuwait among other countries south korea is planning a series of flights over the coming days to evacuate their citizens and once they arrive home they'll face days of corn teen the director of the world health organization was quoted by chinese state run media saying that he does not agree with the evacuations and the people need to remain calm and not overreact but with the city of 11000000 bunkered in their homes and more than 50000000 people on a transportation lockdown it's far from clear how long a plea for calm will last it's got either al-jazeera beijing hong kong's leader has announced a number of strict measures in an attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus from mainland china has more now from hong kong. hong kong may be part of china but a border still separates the 2 it's one of the world's busiest frontiers more than
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$40000000.00 mainland visitors crossed over last year but a highly contagious virus means that traffics being drastically reduced rail and ferry services will be halted from thursday flights between the mainland and hong kong are being housed. and verified pictures on social media appear to show more visitors than usual trying to enter hong kong before this crossing point was closed the new measures were announced by hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb a leader under siege and behind a mask for the 1st time. it's always here in ny they create things on the mainland has also decided to temporarily pause to hong kong when they make up about 20 something sent to china the rest would be business travelers and those visiting relatives and coming for other reasons. the partial closure of the border is
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unprecedented and would almost certainly have needed the approval of china's leadership the outbreak of this virus is feeding into a growing anti mainland sentiment here it's been a theme of the ongoing protests but many legislators say this latest measure simply doesn't go far enough and they're demanding that kerry shut down the entire border local people we spoke to agree. i think the government has done too little the government should shut down all the ports to the media and instead of a partial shutdown. i think the government announced these measures too late since there is already an outbreak of the corona virus in the city the ports should have been shut down earlier there's a run on face masks in some pharmacies their prices risen almost 30 percent in 4 days there is uncertainty over how quickly the virus is spreading here and uncertainty as well over how many people from the worst infected areas have made it
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here. adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. a powerful earthquake has struck between the caribbean nations of jamaica and cuba the 7.7 magnitude quake was recorded off the northwest coast of jamaica at a depth of 10 kilometers a tsunami warning has now been lifted. 2 people have been reportedly have reportedly been killed in the iraqi city of could as clashes broke out in several cities between security forces and anti-government protesters. caught. in the capital baghdad live ammunition and tear gas were fired on crowds of them. strangers were resisting attempts by the security forces to clear their camps thousands of people gathered for similar protests in the cities of basra and that jeff security forces launched a nationwide attempt to close down such settlements this past weekend al jazeera zimmern khan was among those in the capital this is killarney square where
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protesters have been beaten back by security forces you can see. just over there what's happening is there's a can melt going on the protesters run that way and they use rocks and they throw sticks. and then they fire back we've heard a lot and as you can see all of. the protesters are very determined they say they want. this is been going on since october on the protesters say they want a new primary elections the u.s. says recovered human remains from military aircraft that crashed in afghanistan the plane went down in a mountainous area of province which is largely controlled by the taliban washington denied reports that taliban fighters shot down the aircraft. has more from kabul. losing intelligence aircraft in snow covered mountains in disputed
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taliban territory no doubt a nightmare scenario for u.s. forces in afghanistan exclusive footage acquired by old as iraq shows the crashed u.s. plane in a province a day earlier this place was filled with people now the site is clear a witness on the ground told all jazeera u.s. jets and drones could be seen circling the area even firing warning flares to keep people away from the wreckage. and it was around 1 30 pm yesterday that the plane was coming from the city towards this place then it began flying a little lower and it crash landed so i don't know why or what exactly happened to the plane. afghan and american security sources in kabul have confirmed the aircraft that went down on monday afternoon was an 11 a a modified bombard the a passenger plane it's used by the u.s. military exclusively in afghanistan as a communication supporter across an american spokesman in kabul said an investigation is underway but since the crash separating fact from fiction has been
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difficult officials from afghanistan national carrier ariana airlines denied earlier reports the crash plane was one of theirs. and i think it's hard to know who the victims were at 1st we thought it was an ariana airlines plane later on i found out it was a foreign plane but i don't know anything about the casualties. at the americans dominate the sky over a kind of sign so when there are u.s. planes around taliban fighters even civilians tend to flee the area for fear of missile attacks. in the immediate aftermath of the crash the scene was very different people roamed the site freely and video posted to social media showed the wreckage of a plane still on fire u.s. markings near the tail section left little doubt about who was operating the doomed flight with a lot of should not come here with this is at the scene can be heard talking about the black box and even keeping some of the debris as a souvenir much of the country is under direct control including parts of the
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province now we don't have a lot of information about recovery operations carried out by the americans but it is something that no doubt would have made it a difficult and dangerous task for u.s. forces to recover any sensitive technology and especially the bodies of those on the plane same dystrophic al-jazeera cobbler. plenty more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including on the frontline in libya government troops strike back against the war and the fast path and in sports the countdown is on to one of the year's biggest sporting occasions peter we'll have that and. how i would got some odd weather pushing into western parts of year pay for the next couple of days that means cloud and it means ryan added increasing wind you can see how tightly packed. across the british isles pushing into where france gang
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of weather systems pushing through that will introduce the rain and it is some snow some slushy conditions there just around the out some wintry weather to a little further east see that pushing across. into ukraine western parts of russia but mild for many moscow still getting about freezing mild enough in stockholm and also in also 11 increase neema to cross western parts of europe temperature around 9 or 10 celsius there for london in paris next weather system pushes stray model still 13 celsius there for paris as we go on into thursday basin pieces of rain will continue to drive the way across france pushing into that western side of germany through the low countries be some places the snow down towards the southeast rain sleet and snow there into a good part of turkey as they say when she weather continuing here but to the south of that it's not too bad it's always lots of fun and dry across northern areas of africa lots of sunshine in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of i
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to exploitation. people in power investigate. little pakistan. welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera donald trump has outlined his plan to end the palestinian israeli conflict his 80 page plan suggests there should be 2 states israel and the contiguous palestine it says an undivided jerusalem will be israel's capital but palestine would also have its capital in easter and jerusalem as gazans express their anger towards israel and the us palestine rejected the
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proposal president of the palestinian national authority for the bass said the plan won't work and would be thrown into history's garbage he said jerusalem is not for sale. lawyers have concluded their opening arguments in his impeachment trial in the us senate trumps team called on the. senate to acquit him and play down allegations from former national security advisor john bolton. go back to our top story now and that's trump's plan for the middle east when israel was created 72 years ago 750000 palestinians were forced to flee their homes for jordan syria and lebanon many of those who are left still dream of their ancestral homes but on the transplant the refugees right of return will be refused so hard at the reports from beirut. i am a bit of code was born in palestine in 1942 he now lives in a refugee camp in the lebanese capital with his children and grandchildren he's
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been displaced twice but remembers the smells sights and sounds of his hometown and it still pains him that in his old age he'll never be allowed to go home. within palestine. couldn't go home. lots can i say. no words can describe it. getting near the border just to get close to my palestine but too strong we believe in ourselves as a nation this compass come a long way from being made up of just tents but it's now overcrowded with thousands of palestinian refugees crammed with in one square kilometer daily life is harsh rubbish collects electric wires are a hazard and there's poor sanitation. unable to gain lebanese citizenship hundreds of thousands of registered palestinians are still denied basic social and economic
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rights as a result they can't work certain jobs and their children can't go to public schools thousands of palestinians born in this camp have never even seen their homes and a dream of a right of return or even having a states of their own seems to be fading fast with this middle east plan but one thing the refugees say is that they will never give up hope for generations of palestinian refugees live here thousands more turned up a few years ago fleeing the war in syria while the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees provides aid it's still not enough many to space palestinians don't support the u.s. president's middle east plan and say they've been forgotten. for. my grandchildren come ahead government. is the heart. of.
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and a memory problem everything in my life is palestinian and i am proud of you but no one is looking for us. these children only hear stories from their elders about their homeland the more they play football seemingly castree their families know only too well they're stuck in this camp stateless for the foreseeable future. al-jazeera. well joining us now live from the white house to discuss the more transplant from the middle east is former middle east envoy for the trumpet ministration jason greenblatt sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now we've seen the outline of this plan when it was drafted there was no palestinian input a lot of the key arab states i'm thinking egypt jordan were not present we've seen as was expected that the palestinian both sides have rejected it so what is the
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point of presenting a sort of unilateral vision that you know is going to be rejected. well 1st of all i'd like to address the segment that you just aired with the palestinian refugees i find it interesting that you chose to do that without mentioning that there were an equal number of jewish refugees who were forced to flee arab lands i think that in order to understand the conflict one really has to understand what happened back in those years show i don't know if i'm not even stranger that i want to use but can i think i'm sorry let me let me just finishing about i'm sorry ma'am i well i'm happy to but i would like to say a message to the gentleman that you interviewed or your colleague interviewed in beirut we do care about the palestinian refugees we find it sickening that those palestinian refugees are in those camps for decades we want to unlock their potential we want them to have a place to go and to live better lives and that is the reason why we are putting forth this plan well palestinian leadership could reject it if they want. your
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question ma'am the palestinian leadership could reject it i would have hoped that it would have been much better to have president abbas on that stage with prime minister netanyahu and president the president abbas chose not to be there he now has 4 years to take care of his people he has 4 years to lead he has 4 years to take his people to a thriving and prosperous future so the point ma'am is to give palestinians hope well but that is this exactly what this field does not do and we've heard that from both the west bank and the guys it doesn't give them hope because issues like the status of jerusalem which is a non-negotiable for many palestinians all palestinians hasn't really been addressed so my question to you is again what is the point of presenting a deal that you yourself know better than anyone because you know the region as well as you do a deal that was never going to be accepted what is the point is this just an american way of sort of green lighting while israel has already said it's going to do which is to vote on possible an extension of the settlements in the west bank.
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no i don't think so at all and frankly i've spent 3 years touring the region speaking not only to the diplomats and the leadership but the ordinary people ordinary israelis ordinary palestinians jordanians egyptians and so on and so forth they want a better future this plan has a point it is to give the next generation a better future you say that the west bank and gaza don't want it i don't agree with that i've sat in i've sat and taken input from so many palestinians and i know that while there are many challenges to get this extraordinary complex conflict result and i know that on many pages they will be very upset as israelis will be about the many significant compromises that are necessary in order to implement this plan i also know that it provides tremendous promise for then they could create out of this plan something as prosperous and thriving as the israelis have managed to create under threat of war and terrorism for decades i suppose on paper at least this plan does present a kind of 2 state solution now the reality of it is that because of the details
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that's where the devil always is it doesn't really give them the option so i wonder whether you think that this will also shifted the focus as a 2 state solution becomes ever more difficult because of expanding settlements do you think it will shift the focus in israel itself between 2 state to now citizenship or israelis will be faced with the question of either they have a democracy and they gave everyone a vote or they can no longer really have a majority jewish state which they have now because it is all one state and the number of palestinians within the west bank is no longer makes that majority jewish . well that of the up to the israeli and the palestinians right what this does provide is a realistic 2 state solution the palestinian leadership has been asking for a state for a long time this provides them with the conditions on the path to get that state if they choose not to take advantage of it i think what will happen is serious or. we
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will continue to thrive and to prosper and palestinians will fall further and further behind that will be tragic for the palestinian people but i do think that the question you raise is an interesting one and it's an important one but i also think that both sides would prefer to have their own state and i hope that the palestinian leadership takes this tremendous opportunity to work towards their own state as this plan and using this plan as a basis for that when you say you have on a final point when you say that israel will thrive and prosper i mean as well as an exciting the legal settlements in the west bank do you foresee even further settlement expansion in the west bank. i think the plan is clear that israel is going to set aside if there is not exempt as if indeed even a plan is not accepted. meaning in 4 years from now no meaning now because the palestinians haven't accepted the plan so as far as they're concerned there is no plan. well but israel i believe is going to accept the
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halting of activity within the areas designated for the palestinians we have given the palestinians 4 years to absorb the plan and hopefully to change their minds lead their people to a brighter future 4 years is a long time for that to happen that's why i think this plan is not only bold and courageous it's quite historic former advisor to donald trump a middle east envoy jason green black thank you for joining us. thank you very much . now in other news libya's u.n. recognized government says it has shut down an emirati supply drone in western libya which is being operated by forces loyal to the warlord had before have tied government troops i making further advances into have to our controlled territory and have halted an operation by the warlord to take the western city of misrata tony brooklier reports now from the frontline in the town of. driving to the frontline through territory that just 3 days ago was held by warlord
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khalifa haftar dance forces. this government soldiers passing on intelligence about a possible air attack he tells everyone to be vigilant the threats from the air is always present heavy artillery and air power unable to have to as units to overrun government forces and take the town of abu grain 80 kilometers east of misrata on sunday but in the face of a massive counter offensive they could only hold it for less than 2 hours soldiers and civilians are answered the call. that up to the families of misrata are all together united of one voice of one hour print he found him came from misrata to abu grain with ammunition and weapons this is the new frontline after retaking abu grain units then pushed have to ask forces back 20 kilometers they may be wounded but they are not beaten they are a well equipped and heavily armed enemy which can attack at any moment but only.
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it's dangerous they're using drones heavy artillery rockets but god willing it will protect us we are taking our precautions. they lost 11 men in the weekend attack in 100 were injured including some civilians this is the funeral of a little girl who died of natural causes the people have remained here living with danger every day and they are suffering by 3 o'clock in the ocean is that your heart then you are facing life shooting it's the biggest danger from all sides it's indiscriminate it's difficult because in wars you can't predict what will happen. this medical facility in nearby zam zam is the only community health care center for 100 kilometers the administrators said have to as fighters ransacked the place and sold ambulances and all the equipment it only adds to the misery and increases the anger. why assume that no less this young wounded fighter has lost comrades
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he is calling have a dog he like many others may find reconciliation difficult when police eventually comes out but many are growing weary of fighting near worked for the local we prefer a ceasefire we are all libyans and we want to stop the bloodshed but if these old man at half time announces every day that he wants to take them all and kill more living in the young man then we will continue to fight until our last man it's a wild rugged land where little grows but so much blood is being spilled to control it even though there is a notional ceasefire in place no one yet. happened and in the running attack thing properly showed just how. and how quickly the bloodshed tony burke out of there or the misrata the u.k. has decided to lead the way build the non core elements of its 5 g. network the u.s.
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had called on its closest ally to exclude the chinese tech firm from the project because of security fears but the prime minister barak's johnson has resisted the pressure in one of the biggest public breaks with washington in decades that he reports from london. it's a yes but one with caviar it's as the u.k. government approved chinese firm huawei providing infrastructure for the promised 5 g. rollout they were at pains to stress there was no security risk defying warnings from the us a key member of the so-called 5 eyes intelligence alliance we looked at the issue of how to maintain network security and resilience over many months and in great technical detail. we would never take decisions that threaten our national security or the security of our 5 eyes partners who are we itself says it's reassured by the long delayed decision we have supplied the cart age technology to operators in the yorkie for more than 15 years we will build on this strong tracker are
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called supporting our customers as they invest in 05 g. network the chinese firm as a so-called high risk vendor will be banned from quote core functions like data stations it will be excluded from sensitive geographic locations such as nuclear sites and military bases and it won't be allowed to own more than 35 percent of the infrastructure in any 5 g. networks periphery including radio masts but senior members of boris johnson's conservative party are still worried and their fears are shared by the opposition let us be no doubt 5 key infrastructure from china is not safe under chinese law every chinese company is mandated to give whatever help it is asked to give to the chinese intelligence services and in secret that a lot of should have been enough for the prime minister to decide against allowing this company access critics of who are ways involvement say chinese hackers could
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access internet connected things such as self driving cars as a backdoor into strategically vital networks allowing them for example to disrupt power stations a complicating factor here in britain is that many providers already rely on while way technology and they'd warned that seeking alternatives would be expensive remarks like these installed by who are way across the u.k. the companies involved in existing infrastructure so a total ban would have meant removing lots of technology bringing higher costs. to the rollout. the u.s. government has said in no uncertain terms that it doesn't want quote way involved in 5 g. threatening to review intelligence sharing with the u.k. if it happens with secretary of state coming to london on wednesday that transatlantic conversation is far from over. 0 london. still ahead on
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the program novak djokovic continues his march towards an 8th australian open title the action from his latest match in sport.
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it's time for sports now here's peter. barbara thank you so much the n.b.a. say they are working with the l.a. lakers to decide when the team will return to action following the death of legendary player kobe bryant tuesday's game with the l.a. clippers was postponed tributes continue around the world including in italy
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bryant's favorite football team ac milan and their fans offered respects during the cup game with torino banners inside the stadium red always cody. he spent 7 years of his childhood in italy and it was a country close to his heart lauren smith reports. in a gym far away from los angeles young basketball players remember kobe bryant he grew up in italy where his father joe enjoyed a professional career in the sport. 12 year old cody would go on to join the team at reggio emilia. kabhi kabhi record or be played for us for 2 years and always kept a tight relationship with italy he gave italian names to his daughters he was very competitive and passionate about the game in his teammates here playing in the n.b.a. was just a dream i remember him many times saying guys one day i will be a professional player i don't know where in. italy or
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a new upper or lower. i would play basketball and for sure in my life i tried never forgot his italian roots and returned many times off to make it big in the n.b.a. he often spoke formally of his time there including playing each of these main sport football board towers where bathwater out there playing soccer when i 1st our players are going to be just stuck me in a goal because i had these very long arms a long legs and said ok kid just stop whatever ball comes your way and that's what i did and then i started getting better and better but i was i was never. close to being as good a soccer as i was about it but he committed to. his house was down there and he used to play there koby loved to play every kind of game so you know i was put on a corner waiting for kobe to visit us again the last time was june 19th 2007 i remember the day well he stopped by
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a tape o'clock in the morning and i saw him that the playground with a disposable camera taking pictures of way he used to play but koby was one of us he was like us legends like him never going to look we bryant 7 years in italy left an indelible mark on this small community now left alone the boy they grew up with who would go on to excel in the world stage. thanks me i i roger federer overcame injury and survived 7 match points to reach the semifinals of the australian open he was up against tennis sam britton the american ranked 100 in the world who has been leading up to his 1st name at this tournament tennis went to states to one up as federal struggled with a growing problem but then it was the american who got injured when a ball goal ran into his leg during the 4th say tie break what could have been the greatest moment of his career kept eating him federer saving match points number 5 here the swiss breaking sandra's resistance in the 5th set to reach 46 grand slam
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same if i. i federer now faces a race to recover for a semifinal against the defending champion novak jochum h. the serb had a much easier match against canada's media sure around it should winning in straight sets talk of each has already won best grand slam a record 7 times it's. over on the women's side world number one ashley barty is on course to become the 1st australian winner since 978 she came through against czech picture of it's of are in the quarter final mixed up 40 is american saffir cannon in the semifinal it's. controversial australian israel folau is making a return to rugby he's been signed by french rugby league side catalan dragons for now a 2nd by the australian rugby union for making homophobic comments on social media he has been given a one year contract at the super league club. the build up continues in miami ahead
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of super bowl $54.00 that one taking place on sunday one of the biggest spectacles in world sport sees the san francisco $49.00 is up against the kansas city chiefs it's the chiefs 1st appearance in this showpiece game for 50 years and they are ready to seize the moment. we're going to find tonight here their little tweaks ritual make down here. not drastic changes in the game plan. but i like the focus that they have as a super bowl. as a super bowl i mean if you're out ready for this one then you're. you do your team injustice man. ok we'll leave it there for now barbara back to you on the peter thank you very much and that is it for this news hour don't go away the i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news and of course more reaction and analysis that announcement for middle east peace by.
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00. and. after 70 years of little progress this could be the last opportunity they will ever have us president donald trump unveils his plan to end the decades of conflict between israel and palestine. and we say a 1000 times no no no to the deal of a century but palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls trump steal a conspiracy saying his people's rights are not for sale. alone barbossa.

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