is averted to ensure that in top condition to meet international standards and compete abroad. iraq used to be home to some of the finest arabian thoroughbreds. that value is judging by civil criteria, including strong physique, soft to skin, wide eyes, a large nostrils to help them in hail as much as possible, while racing. but above all, it's their intellect and ability to respond to commands that sets them apart. back at the race track, the iraq equestrian federation is hoping the event with revitalized this port and fatima is calling on other iraqi girls to follow her lead. i'm with abdullah alicia sierra in the poor, southern iraq ah

tougher picture of a headlines here on al jazeera, nearly a week on since earthquake structure kia and syria, the death toll from a disaster. as the past 35000 people rescue workers continue to search through rebel, but chances of finding any one else alive is becoming more remote. natasha domain is in ontario, search and rescue operations. however, do continue here. they continue in 8 provinces, here in the south that have been declared disaster areas to into other provinces. they have seized operations. this is a mammoth effort. 233000 people on the ground trying to help turkey out, recover, and with no electricity. very little food, no amenities. many people are still trying to evacuate, move to places that are safer, warmer and have food. meanwhile, united nations agency admits the international community has failed. northern syria,

the u n's hoping to open more border crossings into the country to get more urgently needed. humanitarian supplies for israel cabinet has recognized 9 illegal settler outposts in the occupied westbank despite us opposition far. right. minister also said $10000.00 housing units to be built in separate existing, illegal settlements. the u. s. hasn't yet commented, but it's ambassador to israel said last month. that opposes the legalization of israeli outbursts. better the white men mercenary group says it could take 2 years for russia to fully seize control of ukraine's eastern regions have done yet scandal. hence, any pre garage in the statement comes as the mercenary force claims to have captured these in the village of crushing a horror at near back moot, this video allegedly shows wagner soldiers in the village. the u. s. has announced that yet another unidentified high altitude the object has been shot down. there's a 3rd such incident and as many days, latest interception took place of a lake who road north of detroit. it was 1st detected of montana on saturday and

was not considered to be a military threat. and the stay just set for the biggest night, an american sport with super bowl $57.00 do to kick off in a few minutes time, the kansas city chiefs will be taking on the philadelphia eagles and a highly anticipated matchup between 2 of the most dominant teams. in american football. so those are the headlines and continues here now to 0 after upfront station. thanks so much bye for now. a week to look at the world's top business stores from global markets and economies to construction and small businesses. to understand how it affects todd, davy knives counting the coast on al jazeera. when the taliban re took control of afghanistan a year and a half ago, afghans and many in the international community feared that it would mean a return to the restrictive ways of the past. for women and girls in the country,

despite initial assurances from the taliban, women have now been barred from schools and universities. employment is restricted and so is their right to access public spaces. so what future is there for the women of afghanistan that's coming up, but 1st, january 26th was one of the deadliest days for palestinians in the occupied westbank years. israeli forces rated a refugee camp in the city of jeanine, killing at least 9 people. the next day, a palestinian killed 7 israelis near a synagogue in east jerusalem. this comes just weeks after a new hard line is really government was sworn in with benjamin netanyahu at the helm. and with far right figures occupying key cabinet positions. so what will this mean for palestinian? that conversation next on this week? ah. joining me on up front, our d n. a book to ramallah based lawyer and former legal advisor to the palestine liberation organization. and nora out of cat. she is

a human rights attorney and associate professor at rucker's university. her latest book is titled justice for some law and the question of palestine. thank you both for joining me on up front and i'm going to start with you. 20. $22.00 was the deadliest year for palestinians in the occupied westbank in nearly 2 decades. and now with the latest round of violence this year is on track to surpass that and january 26. so one of the highest daily death tolls in years when is really force is rated a refugee camp in jeanine, killing at least 9 people or the following day a 21 year old palestinian killed 7 israelis near a synagogue in east jerusalem. you're on the ground in ramallah. what do you think is driving the latest wave of violence? because it can, it's been years of the united states and other countries around the world cobbling israel, telling israel that it can do whatever on that there are no guidelines. and inside israeli society itself,

if you said it's okay for them to be able to kill palestinian, this is why we see not only the death toll rising, but we see the daily aggression against palestinians. these are numbers that are never reported. people are who are dying because of medical lack of medical treatment, people whose homes are being demolished, to land being taken. this is part of the daily violence that palestinians live under because of israel. and it's because israel can and because there is nobody who is effectively stopping every other thing to israel, that there are red lines. so this is why we see what we see. and i wouldn't be surprised if we surpassed that 2020 to figure very soon because of the fact that this is not only given they've been given the green light. but this is now also a brightening government that has also put palestinians literally in their cross here. i'm glad you mentioned this right wing government. nota benjamin netanyahu

has returned as prime minister, even though he left off is facing a corruption scandal. and in fact, even today, he's still facing corruption charges. it would seem like netanyahu had a strategy of forging strategic alliances with the far, i mean, far right in order to come back into power. but since a new government took office in december, these really public has opposed many of his policies, such as the recent move to weaken the country supreme court and abroad. several of israel's closest allies have expressed concerns about the recent moves by far right figures appointed to the highest level positions in israeli government was a strategic on the part of nathan yahoo to empower the extreme right to regain its position. i think as goes with most politicians, the idea of self preservation, even if it means scorched earth for everyone else. i think what should be we should be most concerned about is that way that the international community is responding

to netanyahu in a way that has rehabilitated him. in contrast to the moment where he was viewed very clearly as being an alignment with a suppressed racially supremacist movement and a neo liberal order and alignment with the trump administration. at which point we plainly understood him to be back. now what i also want to point out is as with many things concerning us committees, policy and israel, that there is much continuity as there is rupture in this situation. what we see in terms of the rise of the far right. and what is the most fascist government that is really has seen is not necessarily new because of the palestinians and eliminate tory policy regarding them. a very violent policy that marks them for removal in order to settle jewish zionists in their place. but in this case, what the israeli government has done in this iteration is to combine and marry

religious religiosity to this fascist regime. and that is what most israelis are objecting to. and that is the panel for religiosity tools. if you can explain that for you, and what you me sure, so historically, this fascist edge of zionism which has targeted palestinians for removal in order to establish uncontested diamond settlers sovereignty was secular in nature so that it was nationalized judaism directly or legal being that you can be a jewish national, distinct from being in israel, you citizen, in this situation, the far right government want to stablish a more robust biase that targets the l g b t q. community that wants to expand. it's holding a palestinians land within the link which of religion that wants to emulate right? the story, jewish biblical stories of the annihilation of, of palestinians in order to manifest that. and so the protests that we see amongst israelis is less to do with the concern for palestinians or how this is the height

of crisis. but more of an internal concern of what this looks like for them. and i think that the escalation against our means is another political maneuver that is used to deflect attention away from what is the domestic turmoil in order to focus on this constructed threat of the palestinian netanyahu appointed. it might have been viewed as minister of national security. now this is a guy who was convicted of inciting racism and for supporting an anti arab movement, outlawed as a terrorist organization. and last election, the religious zionism block, which compet has been given, as are you who did or jewish power party, made significant gains. they won 14 seats in the connecticut. what does it say about where the netanyahu government is when it's taking in extremis liter of a fringe party and putting them in a queue cabinet position?

well, it's not just a marketing there, it's also all of the individuals who are in that political party. actually there's a couple of 3 parties that came together. another individual man named treasure motor, which is the, or a minister of finance. he's the person who has very proudly in his worth. you called himself a fascist home hope. again, these are his words, not mine. and this is an individual who himself has been at the forefront of tried to push for the demolition of palestinian homes and the wholesale ethnic cleansing of some palestinian towns in the west bank. and so you have him combined with him are bendix beer who himself again, who says that he is the follower of my york, who was at one point in time dressed up as a group goldstein who's a mass murderer, a man who killed 20 and i've helped indians as they were praying at the mosque in hebron. he dressed up at him for poorer and said that he was dressing up with him

because he is his hero. wow. so it's the exactly. so that's the question why we're not to go into government with these people. and it's because because with no difference, and i think we make a big mistake, if we somehow just say that it's, these 3 individuals are that one political party that has been pushing for the ethnic cleansing of palestinians. well, what we know is that this has been israel policy since 948, and even before that. and it's just a question of whether they're more upfront about it or less up front about it and during the election campaign, then we're used to walk around and said and say we need to show palestinian who is the master of the house. and so this is where israelis are, people who voted for him. they either voted for him because they support his message or they voted for him because they wilfully ignore his message. in either

case, the results for palestinians is gently nor does the new israeli government or the shift from one party to another. have any practical bearing on the lives of palestinian people. i'm thinking about something that on a said was said, there's no left wing in israel. i did, there hasn't been for a while. if it's the code in charge of the labor party in charge, if it's the minutes party, which is which of the self described left is do any of those formations change the facts on the ground for palestinians? i think it's right to ask that question because again, the international community is responding to this bar, right? government because of the crisis that it poses for israel and it's emerging and consolidating itself as a theocracy and therefore it's threatening a democracy. but there is no democracy when it defines itself as a jewish state, it cannot be a democracy when palestinian and citizens of the state are treated as at the pillar . when all the palestinians in the west bank and gaza are denied the right to vote

. this is not a democracy under any situation for palestinians, and under all iterations, they are targeted for removal. they are killed with ease. they are already, they are racialized is always already a threat, a security threat. they are regarded as terrorists and can be killed and assume guilty until proven innocent, and the fact that they can be killed with this greater ease. and we've taken zionism to its most extreme logic and still seeing that the media discourse has not changed. and still seeing that the international community has not responded with, with sanctions on is real. but instead there have been rewards. there's a clear irony here that rather than be punished, they are somehow being rewarded and coddled, which is an extreme moment for palestinians to realize. well, at what point, how much money must they suffer in order to signal a clear shift in the international community?

and as this extreme government demonstrates that line is not apparent and is not clear in the price that palestinians will pay, will continue to be far too high in moral and clearly illegal. deanna given everything that we've discussed, everything that palestinians are facing with the new government, with the threats of violence, with everything going on in the global community. what do you think is the next chapter for palestinians in do you have hope? oh, it's hard to have hope and i'm a person who always does and the reason is hard for me to have hope is because as much as i am hopeful and proud and happy that i see the boycott movement taking off and people really understanding what israel doing at the same time i live a different reality reality in which at any moment i, my family, my friends can be killed. i think back to last year of may of

2022 during not just during the year, but during, during may when a friend of mine, a journalist shooting an auction was killed. she was going down and her. yeah, it's probably been the most investigated death. i've ever seen, and yet here we are. we're coming up close on the one year anniversary shane's murder. and nobody has been helped to account. so while i am hopeful and i, i really am happy all of the work that people are doing around the low to push to hold israel to account at the same time and very acutely aware that the pressure that's being exerted on israel is not strong enough. and change is not happening

quickly enough and it's that fear that you live in both the fear that at any point in time, you can be killed or injured or whatever it is. but also the fear that it's going to be lasting for generations to comb. that leave me with a sense that we are, are we, where are we, how has this in allowed to fester for so long? why is it that is really use? are going even shifting even further to the right. whereas if you look globally, they're shifting to the left, their progressive values. why is this the case? and i firmly believe it's because of the fact that israel has been allowed to get away with literally murder in a blue to note attic. i thank you so much for joining me on up front. the when the taliban reached control of ghana, stan, in august of 2021. they sought to reassure afghans in the international community

that the rights of women and girls would be respected and that they would remain active members of afghan society. neither a year and a half later, however, the situation for women in the country is dire. the taliban have effectively barred women and girls from secondary schools and universities. they receive to their employment and they've even altogether band their presence in many public spaces. so what does this mean for the future of afghanistan? and is there any hope, insight for african women? wanted me to help answer that question is i bel, arises former african ambassador to the united states and current director of princeton university, the afghan stan policy, lab, adela, thank you so much for joining us on upfront. you're currently in communication with women in the country. can you talk to a little bit about what life is like for african women at the moment? thank you for raising this really important and critical question for women off going to sun for all those who live inside the country. and as you said, and the dire situation, it truly is, it's dark, it's gray,

it's difficult. it's almost everybody is trying to grasp to something that gives them hope. and that hope is getting eliminated on a daily basis. and imagine a society where for woman education was the window of opportunity growth, space, freedom, prosperity. and that window is shut at this moment. and i want to put myself in the shoes of those women and those young girls switch for me personally. it wasn't too long ago in my life 25 years ago when i was forced, when i was enough to son and one for the 1st time came to power. i was among one of those women and those youngers where my window of hope was shut. and i couldn't think of a brighter day and i wanted to when you say it was shut, you mean we just had access to public space to school? yes, exactly, exactly. there was no space for women as public that we could go. we have to be

always whenever we were tight, we had to have one or 4 main family member. and i come from a family where i have 3 younger brothers. so that was pretty hard. and i come from a family where education twiggy matter like to many families and growing up one morning waking up when your school foreclosed and you're told to stay at home. i just simply couldn't process it. and i always tell and people the story that there is a muslim, we have a prayer of times when we wake up in the middle of the night and we pray. and we feel that that's when your prayers will be accepted the most. and i remember myself waking up quite a few nights and praying and asking for the medical for the schools to open up. right now we're seeing a very similar situation. right? taliban is effectively bad girls and women from attending secondary school also from attending university. yeah. that you are in conversation with people on the

ground there. yeah, yeah. from most of the work that we're doing, you've got some policy love, an important element for workers to be engaged with people who are inside the country with woman inside the country. because i always say, regardless of how much we try to make sure that we could reflect what life for them is, but it's extremely important to have their true voice. and through those conversations, whenever we have had with a woman in the country. as i mentioned earlier, the element of hope is dying. it's for especially for those women who are the bread winner for their households. when they're asked not to go to work anymore for those young girls where as i said school was with they could see freedom in future. and it's not there anymore for those young girls who are going to the university and, and they just were in last year of their universities and just getting in touch

with them and hearing their stories that they don't know when next time they can go back to the university that's painful. how much of that dissipating hope is connected to the fact that there was a promise that women would have accident, that it wouldn't be my one. and now it's shifted very quickly, is that a big part of this is well, the kind of pivot it have it is, but frankly, speaking with a lot of africans even then if you would have spoken, especially with woman, i think there was a very element there was the that it was an element of pragmatism and realism because we had not forgotten a win for the 1st time, telephone, war and power. they have been de schools and women from public spaces and working on site. so there was somehow that element of nightmare, everybody was waiting, it will arrive and, and they will go in that direction. it was just a matter of time. i think there was that element of hope still hoping that maybe

they won't, but they did that. so it's now expecting that they may ever change their mind a thing that probably may not happen because just from the sake of who they are and how, what they believe and what they have been saying. even we, even initially when they talked about girls school, if we look at every formal statement of the time that came out, not individual positions that some of the members had expressed. but the formal statements as, as, as a, as a group that was released all the time in each single statement, their language was the same, it had not changed. they said they will allow girls to go to school based on islam . mac showy and even now when they have been to school, they have not said that woman are not allowed to go to school. they say woman or not, cannot go to school for the time being until they prepare the right space for them

. and we know as of the pretext, the safety yes i or security, not really. i think for them when you go with the level of deeper conversation they, they assume to create a more islamic environment for them at school. and which for us, as we know, that's a way for them to say, no, we're not going to open up schools because they did the exact same thing. 25 years ago. they used the same language that they are using today. one of the things we're seeing now is resistance. we see women taking to the streets in protest. we see men, even with the males, students who are walking out of their final exams at university. many sort of extra development is a sign that things won't go back to the 90s or things we're moving in a different direction or at least people will stand for it. look, that's exactly for many of us hope s it is the people of kind of,

it is the society, the society that believes in and prosperity and education and wisdom and knowledge . and that comes both from man and woman, especially the last 20 years. the level of investment, the level of education that had change and i've gone on the growth that has happened. it's if people are there, people have not left. if they still live in, i've gone on and even know a lot of families are trying to find ways. we had a conversation last night with my brothers and, and it was exactly on the education area that how each single family inside the country are still trying and knocking every single door to find a way for their daughters to go and study. and that comes to the brothers as well. and that was a sign, as you saw, always, university students and july bought and come to hard in cobble as well when they walked away. when the regime says that woman cannot take or cannot come to take,

the examine cannot come to the classroom. that was the way of revolt. and today's woman's demonstration on the street too. i always say that it requires courage. that requires bravery, that requires ability and strength to be able to come and say no to, to an authority that doesn't believe and in education of woman and woman are not giving up. the society is not giving up before you go, you know, when you think about what the next year or 2 will look like, what's your forecast with people who have canister? ah, look the forecast, especially if we start with the top one. i don't think so. we should expect any that they may change their mind and start to make the right decision. ah, there is no prediction. there's no even

a statistics probability that why we should even put our thinking in that direction than the oil change. they're thinking. so it's almost like buckle up and prepare for the worse in terms of the over all environment. um it's, it's hard, it's very difficult. i think there are days i said back and i'm trying to find an element of hope for myself to move forward. and it's very, very difficult, but then i look into very small stories, the stories of individuals who are inside the country, and i know some of them when some of them are my own cousin who run homeschooled right now. young girls of came on to run home schools and teach their on neighborhood kids at youngers. and to me, say, look, that element of resistance within afghans is still there. and we will continue to have that resistance. and in order to make life awe bearable and accept

feasible in a way, thus the that's that utilize what we have in front of us. but i think my takeaway is, it's almost buckling up for the difficulties both. we should not on disengage with african people. i have to be very clear, i think engaging with taliban is a different argument and i'm very is generally the people people that makes sense or de larosa thanks so much for joining us. pleasure. thank everyone. that is our show up. thank will be back. ah aah! with

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