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a 2 state solution as he wraps up a visit to the middle east. this is the palestinians, block roads and occupied east jerusalem to stop israel demolishing the homes of suspected attackers. ah, hello i mary. i'm the mozy in london. you're watching. ouch is 0 also coming up on the program. this is of a security breach, is the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in a pasha where police compound rises to a $101.00 ah rapturous welcome to the pope frances his trip to the democratic republic of congo denouncing the poison of grief . that stone king conflict that ah, and huge crowns march through cities across france on the 2nd day of nationwide strikes of plans to raise the retirement age to 64.

ah. hello and welcome to the program. will your secretary say anthony blinkin has warned israel and the palestinians that united states oppose as any thing that puts a 2 state solution further out of reach. but he stopped short have making any concrete pledges. lincoln has now concluded his trip to the region after holding talks with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. he says, some members of his team will stay on to help defuse current tensions amid the worst violence seen in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem in years. but it smith reports now from ramallah in his meeting with the palestinian president, b u. s. secretary of state sticks with the line, but washington remains committed to a palestinian state alongside israel. but on snape lincoln knows it's a diminishing prospect. we have been clear and consistent,

neither side to take any, you know, or actions that right now potentially would, would add fuel to a fire and over the medium to long term would make out the prospects of achieving 2 states even more distant than, than they currently are so far, $35.00 palestinians have been killed this year in confrontations with israeli security forces. benjamin netanyahu returned to power in december and appointed far right. politicians and religious nationalists in senior cabinet posts, one of them national security minister if my been given has promised to give more gum permits to his railey citizens and expand illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. i mean, there's a very high risk of escalation the, this new israeli government is very fast, it's far right on. it's very intent on committing inflicting violence upon

palestinians. and in fact, you know, their, their political mandates are where, where premised on that. so i think in the weeks, in the months to come, we're going to see a cooler regime of occupation inflicted upon the palestinian people. but mood abass and the palestinian authority are reliant on international pressure to make sure israel honors its commitments when it comes to the occupation of east jerusalem in the west bank. we want a complete cessation of all unilateral is really actions that undermine all signed agreements. it is the main way back to re engage politically and end the occupation for the heads of the jordanian and egyptian intelligence agency sat down with the bass, head of his meeting with blinking an indication of the concern in the region about the security situation. here. it's understood, they asked the palestinian president to adopt a flexible position with the americans. the palestinian authority wasn't expecting much reminds me of lincoln's visit, certainly not a commitment to re engage on

a peace process with israel. the us is concentrated on the war in ukraine threats from iran and its relationship with china. the certainly no evidence of any real pressure to stop a slide into a wider conflict here. the palestinians are on their own. bernard smith, al jazeera ramallah, like i now by senior plesk, i left my on the shire and so they made mention of the 2 state solution on this visit. my one did that come as any surprise to you? it seems to be now thrown around as a phrase to go through the motions rather than something that anyone really believes can happen. yes, so clearly the soft spoken are stuck there. stay fixed all the boxes speaking. oh, or the right words about the vision of the group. so solution and person israel is having equal measures of security, freedom and prosperity. but these words are so misleading because

they're not backed, neither by facts, nor by reality, and certainly not back by american action or pressure so that they are meaningless . and hence one would ask the question, what's the point of the fort more super power saying anything? if the israelis and even the palestinian will say ok the american has gone, let's go back to business as usual because that's what the israel would be doing. once circuit of state left the region, these ranges were went back to expanding the settlements and leisure sleuthing all kinds of laws, but simply run against international law in that part of the world the, our nationalists in this government in israel had been very clear about what they plan to do now the demolition of houses, but also i was thinking of the, the alex i must compound which tends to very much be in the, in the eye of the storm from time to time. nationalist groups already asserting

their presence before this government was sworn in and now you have it in my bank and they're in charge of at the police forces that monitored harrison's holy sites . yeah. whenever policy and see that it's being encroached upon that tends to set off violence that then spreads. how high is the potential now? i think is very high. and i told you why, 1st of all, because these are religious nationalists are you know, basically have nathan. yeah. how hostage to their to their, to their role within the government and within the kinessa without them this government will. busy fall under fidel cannot be a prime minister. he probably be indicted and go to prison. and to, and this is something that we really need to pay attention to. while some of those people are taught of crazies, but they are honest, something that you don't find in then at anyhow. circles then anthony, i was known from paris, washington and even to love eve. to be a liar. he's

a spin doctor. you know, he expand settlements, doesn't what the palestinian state and talks about to start solution. but these guys are honest, right? they say they, they say what they think and they do what they say. and they want to double the settlements. they want and they wish to replace our locks a mosque with some sort of a jewish stumble. they want palestinians out if possible. and if they are stay, they want them to be a 2nd or 3rd class citizens, basically vowing loyalty to their jewish masters. that's what they want, and that's what they're working towards. and nathan jo doesn't have much a choice with them. thank you very much. my wrong beacham, my la palestinians, unoccupied histories, and been protesting against pan disraeli demolitions of the homes of suspected attackers on tuesday. the israeli parliament moved closer to passing a bill to revoke israeli citizenship or residency status from palestinians involved

in attacks. tensions have been rising in. he occupied palestinian territory since israel's deadly raid. and janine last week in which 10 palestinians were killed, as also to has morphin occupied east jerusalem. that i did some clashes to confrontation between policy and protest says andy israeli board, their police here. so 15 palestinians were injured by israeli forces, starting formerly on palestinian residence, or john mc cabot have gathered in several parts of the district and trying to below the roads by the garbage trucks, by rocks, and also setting fire on pi years erecting the barricade and all these are fort worth to prevent the valley border pool as and the bulldozers gathered into the area. because the earlier this week, the valley kept security cabinet had announced some of the cornea, intuitive measures which many of the humor, right? say that some of them are causes truth in like the punishment,

but also these decisions made by the valid security cabinet. many palestinians in double cab or have received calls from the israeli authorities that they have been told there that they houses are going to be demolished. so after that you mom's local mom here through the most, they have made announcement and asking people for the seniors and deb cabra, to join a general strike and to join the protest. and also to below the road. to prevent is very bold. they're getting occupied east. jerusalem and 30000 seniors are living here so we can see that the moon is quite has here among the seniors because they feared that the home could be the next on at least under one people have not been confirmed dead after monday. suicide bombing at a mosque in northwest pakistan. most of them police,

at least 170 people, also injured in the last high security compound in the city of the shower. the bombing cause, the roof of the most collapse and rescue is to remove mounds of deborah to recover . many of the bodies in inquiry committee has been tasked with looking into the security lapse and what's been described as negligence. come all hide reports from the site of the explosion and shower. i'm standing on what was the roof of damage. it was afternoon prayer. the suicide bomber had placed himself in the front row of the congregational prayer, and i did renew detonated de weiss, although demand rescue and relief and recovery effort. and now over, you can still find the rescue teams here in order to ensure that nobody is still under the rubble and unaccounted fall. this had been a difficult operation guided out in the dead of the night. but it had also left difficult questions for the o. tarter deed,

what were doing when they knew that they were the security threat. intelligence agencies had daughter, your daughter, deans, that suicide bombers had penetrated into the studio for shaw that they were the tent of an imminent attack. but they took it lightly, that had a sense of complacency. people have go on. so for what happened here? how did the suicide bomber get into such a sensitive place? on said, are needed by the people who are angry. that asking difficult questions, but the administration under your tartar did except for 4 door, for junior deeds will tell you that there isn't a fight against a dead. it is what the people wanted to go to dig. hundreds of policemen were brendan care, dead of fort soldiers, who in short peace and security in this country, but they're not the most walner but. and we have seen an increasing spirit of our dogs against a policeman who have been complaining that they don't have sophisticated equipment

. they don't have flag jacket, they don't have the kind of sophisticated weapons that they're getting to say using people in bucharest on have rendered great sacrifice. and over the past few years or what 80000 people have laid down their lives in this country. and i've got the big question now raised in the administration, able to cope with the new challenge, people that asking difficult questions. the test is very high. the enemy ordered grocery is really quick and also committed. and it will be a huge challenge in order to condemn this new spike and violence. that $30.00 bond bugger thought i'd been able to bring and sophisticated rebrand from one. it's dawn . they are now trying to gain a fort gordon bog. it's dawn. and it will be a huge challenge for that security apparatus in order to ensure that the sacrifices of the people of bog, it's dawn, do not go in rain. well, also the data from a boating accident on a lake in north west pakistan has risen to 51,

an overcrowded boat carrying religious school students and teachers capsized in tandem and keep a pontoon club province on sunday. it's understood most of the victims were pupils age between 7 and 13 years old. augustine's military set divers and local emergency service workers rescued. 5 survivors. now pope francis says the democratic republic of congo a suffering of forgotten genocide. the head of the roman catholic church received a rapturous welcome as he arrived in the capital can charter at the start of his 6 day trip. but speaking at the presidential palace, he denounced what he described is a poison of greed stoking conflict in the country. pope will also visit saucy dawn and is aiming to bring a message of peace to 2 of the wilds for goss and conflicts. when around half the population of the d r. c, which is estimated to be around 100000000 people are catholic, the church pays an essential role in a society that's been racked by poverty and conflict. it runs about 40 percent of

the country's health facilities. it also runs around a 3rd of the diocese public schools educating some $6000000.00 children. malcolm webb has more now from kinshasa. after we landed the international airport, you drove through the city greeted by tens of thousands of cheering followers and went straight to the presidential palace where he met congolese president felix to kitty and other congress politicians where he said these things. and he said that political exploitation here in democratic republic of congo gives way to economy colonialism which he describes is equally enslaving. so that sounds like a reference in his 1st to the colonial pass. belgian colonized was now democratic republic of congo. and it was the belgian collection that brought catholicism here 130 years ago. but what we possibly even stronger was what pope france is said

about politics. hearing con guy. and he said that the must be credible election, still had 4 on the program. 2 years of trauma. how me in manila, chico, left children in coyote state, struggling for food in education. living in fear of asked me i am, i says the global economy is strengthened of it. boy by rising. wasteful cost of india and china is no good news for the u. k. ah hello, we got yet more wet and windy weather rolling in across northern parts of europe, a rattling of a shower cloud just coming in across scotlands very strong wind still in place. he was to go through the next 24 hours, wednesday, another particularly a windy day, ga force windsor across northern parts of scotland. this wet weather,

that windy weather, wintry weather punches its way down into central eastern parts. if you have quite a bit of snow just pushing further eastwards, that has some snow there to the east side of the kias wet weather and some windy weather to across that eastern side of. but it's ready to fight dry weather, settle weather that is a further west, not particularly warm, but getting up into double figures their intimate trade over the next couple of days, some dry weather, making its way across france as we go through thursday, where to weather coming back in, across the low countries in there we go to the snow, pushing down towards the outs, easing over towards the bulk as peninsula and pushing further east, which as we go on through friday, friday, rid of high pressure companies to western parts. marty, dry them for indian wells. good passover island as well. i should be a few showers coming to that western side of scotland shows to brisk wind, still grazing the far north east of africa, moore, to pass of egypt, and a chance of one or 2 showers on the gulf of guinea.

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bag. look at the main stories now. your secretary say anthony, blinking is concluded a 2 day visit to israel and palestine warning that the u. s. suppose is anything that puts a 2 state solution further out of reach, but he stopped short of making any concrete pledges of holding talks with the palestinian president. at least 101 people have now been confirmed dead after monday, suicide bombing at a mosque in a police compound in northwest in pakistan. an inquiry committee has been tasked with looking into the security lapse. and pope frances as the democratic republic of congo is suffering. the forgotten genocide that of the roman catholic church is in the capital, can chaucer at the start of his 6 day visit to the d. r. c, and south to john living conditions for people. and man mas kaya state continues to deteriorate 2 years after the february, 1st military. coups, nearly one and a half 1000000 people on our photo, flat homes. basic services across the country have collapsed. tony chang reports

from kaya state on the impact the vines has had particularly on children who have been largely cut off from education and health care to these children. this was the highlight of a difficult 2022. and this year shows little sign of improvement. 7 most have been forced from their homes for fear of air strikes and artillery attacks. but as the gifts are handed out, the smiles return bags of snacks and cake. a rare indulgence in difficult times. a dig, i've seen children with trauma because of the sounds of war, plains and artillery. they won't speak to strangers because they're so scared when they draw. i see pictures of gums and abandoned homes. the parents are too busy trying to earn a living and can't take care of them. these 8 handouts are all funded from donations within myanmar. international organizations can't operate because of fighting and restrictions put in place by mia mars military. you're clear, i say malnutrition amongst the children, there are grown ups and outlay people who aren't getting enough to 8. and they have

problems maintaining the personal hygiene because i've been forced out of the hans in another camp close to the city of demos. so women do their laundry and the pools above a waterfall, an estimated 75 percent of the people in the state have been forced from their homes by fighting basic facilities like running water and electricity has stopped working. even the journey to school is now an adventure. these high school students must run across a river in a dugout canoe just to get to class. english lessons in a jungle clearing this teenagers study for future jobs in the service industry. but it's hard to concentrate in these makeshift classrooms and teachers don't even have that basic educational tools. said me or go to mer hard, we want to open up higher education. but getting access to the internet and books for the library is still difficult. we're trying to solve this to most children in this area. even the basic education of plans for the future seem

a long way off. the best they can hope for is a hot meal and a beer. lucky, a full stomach, tony ching, i'll deserve 3 emergency medical responders have been fired in the city of memphis following the death of on our black man, tyree nichols at the hands of police. just a warning that tell you my friends, some of these images now disturbing they have been accused of failing to conduct a proper medical assessment and provide adequate patient care to nichols. 5 offices have already been dismissed for beating him during a traffic stop in charge with 2nd degree murder. 29 year old died of his injuries, 3 days later on these national monetary fonts, as the global economy has strengthened slightly since october, spurred on by surprisingly resilient demand in the us and europe, and easing of energy cost and china reopening after coven. 19. it's the latest update that raises the global economic growth forecast for 2023 from 2.7 percent

growth to 2.9 percent. now that still weak by historical standards, the average of the 1st 20 years of the century was 3.8 percent is also some slightly better news on inflation. the bank says it will start to decline at about 84 percent of nations as high interest rate start to take effect. he, i am, have raised the growth rates in to asian pow houses. it says that india's growth will remain at 6 point one percent in 2023, and rebound to 6.8 percent next year. while china can now expect 5.2 percent growth of having its rate slashed. you took beijing's 0 cov policy, same basra v reports. now for anyone who began the you worried about a global recession, it may be time to breathe more easily. the international monetary fund is highlighted activity in india and china as fuel for a world economy on the mend, more growth, less inflation, cheaper energy,

and an inching back to pre pandemic markets. all the indications are that we are witnessing a rapid reopening of the economy. and so here, when we think about the reopening of the chinese economy, it's going to have an impact on the supply side. because we can anticipate that once the economy fully reopened, we have less supply chain disruptions that we have witnessed in 2022 when they were logged downs and confinements. so we're going to get an expansion in production coming from that side. chinese household activity returning to normal and people traveling once again, are expected to drive the countries recover and ripple through the global economy. we've got an estimate for every one percentage point that china goes back to the rest of the world corresponds to point 3. but this is definitely a positive development with cobra, 1900 restrictions listed. chinese growth is forecast at 5.9 percent double previous estimates. but beyond asia, the picture is less bright. western economies, the u. s. in europe are only expected to grow about one percent. while the u. k.

economy is set to worse than raising interest rates makes borrowing in the u. s. more expensive, but whether the world's largest economy can avoid a recession, remains an open question. and in the majority of low income countries, the risk of economic distress remains real, if not already a reality. while the baseline forecast is positive, the i m f warns there is still likely to be a slow down this year just not as extreme. and an escalation of the war in ukraine or another pandemic could turn the tide again. then basra v o to 0. person is the only major advanced economy, the i m f predicted to be in recession. andrew simmons, i was more on this now from london. this forecast may come as no surprise to the city and its markets, but for the british people, it casts even more gloom on their mood. during this cost of living crisis, the i'm f says the u. k. economy isn't just bottom of the pile in the list of g 7

countries. it's worse than that. out of all the emerging markets and all the advanced economies, the u. k. economy is the only one that shrinking the i m. f had originally forecast some buoyancy in the u. k. economy growth at 0.3 percent. that figure has sunk. it's now the other way. 0.6 percent contraction. compare this to the russian economy blighted by sanctions. its growth is 0.3 percent. that's 2 and a half percent up on last year. you only have to witness the escalating industrial unrest over wages to realize how bad things have become in the u. k. on wednesday, the country will see the biggest number of people on strike. in nearly a decade, most aspects of life here are now being affected by strikes. so what's the calls?

the i m f says high energy prices rising, mortgage costs increase tax and the persistent shortage of workers. the i m f says things will get better. it's predicting a 0.9 percent growth in 2024. but that forecast isn't enough. to put kate the people at the u. k. right now. a 2nd nationwide strike against pension reform has taken place in france, disrupting public transport and forcing schools to close more than a 1000000 people march through cities across the country to denounce president emmanuel mac calls, new legislation. government wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. people also have to make social security contributions for 43 years to draw a full pension journal reports now from paris. for a 2nd time this month, the french workers and unions took to the streets across the country in their

hundreds of thousands against planned pension reforms, and public sector strikes tor, into the economy, affecting the energy grid, transport, education, and health services. there were minus scuffles between some protesters and police, and tension is likely to grow with more days of protests like this. ahead. as the government tries to raise the pension age from $62.00 to $64.00, and to increase the period of compulsory workplace contributions to compensate for a population that is living longer, it was unfair, unnecessary, unfair, because it's actually waiting much effort on the poorest because they're the ones that are going to have to work more and then they're the ones of the life expectancy. and it's unnecessary because it just did that, the governing, explaining, it's justifying to basic reform on it. only temporary. and you could just tack cooper of french 1000000000 or well, actually like that. it's just a political choice. reform of france. his social welfare system including pensions,

is a signature policy of the 2nd manual macros presidency. it could be that a signature feature becomes public protests, like the yellow vest demonstrations against rising fuel prices, the blighted microns 1st term. we are thinking about the future, taking our focus because the bigger the numbers, the more likely things can change. at least us what we hope to go on. thinking about parents, we don't want them to work for longer, they have already broken their backs, and after 64 years is intolerable. the government says pension reform is not just necessary but inevitable. and as these policies make their way through the national assembly, in february, the centrist minority government will likely prevail with the help of the conservative right. will be probably not. with president microns popularity and tax jona hall al jazeera paris. you k prime minister says it's not practical to supply

ukraine with fighter jets for she soon acts, officer training, ukrainian forces on extremely sophisticated british made warplanes would take time . keith has been pushing its western allies to provide the fighter jets, the u. s. and germany of also declined to send jets though france is indicated that it's open to providing some the allies of jail over the jail for president of georgia mc. hell, suckers really say the authorities refusing to move him to an intensive care units . despite his health getting worse, soccer is really serving a 6 year sentence for abuse of power. a charge he says was politically motivated. he left georgia in 2013 at the end of his presidency and was sentenced in absentia . he was then arrested in october last year after returning from exile. his medical team says his health is deteriorated significantly in prison, where he staged repeated hunger strikes. ah.