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of the day's news. first on bbc news, our world. this week, young palestinian djs, rappers and musicians, living in israel and the occupied west bank, share their personal views on how the political situation affects their lives and their music. oppression increases creativity, let's say. the young generation exactly want to move forward. there is a lot of resistance in art. some of them fight it with rocks, some of them fight it with poetry. i fight it in music. ifind music, it is very connected to war in a way. and the only way palestinians are still going to survive is that they let out all the anger, otherwise they're going to go crazy. we are underapartheid. how can i accept that

as a native, as indigenous? you know? impossible. here in palestine, you are under occupation. people don't have their rights at all. i am a small person — i don't feel safe. i don't feel safe in my home, i don't feel safe in my work, i don't feel safe on the roads, i don't feel safe anywhere. the only place that i feel free is the stage. by existing here, we are resisting. my grandfather, he's well known as one of the old freedom fighters. and they had their way to fight, and we have our way to fight. for me, i think music is the answer,

i think art is the answer. some of them fight it with rocks, some of them fight it with poetry, i fight it in music. i fight it in what i do. the zionists came here, occupy our land, 1948, it's not about the religions at all. palestinian christians, palestinian jews, palestinian muslims, they were all living together. it's a holy land for the three religions. my name is sama, i'm a producer, dj, audio engineer, a bunch of stuff. and i party a lot. i never chose to be political, i'm just palestinian, so politics is part of your name. when i was a kid, yes, i was political, i thought i was going to free

palestine, but i was 13 then. nah, just starting to get pissed off and then to further and stuff. but then i was not, and i was trying to actually get it out of my life because it's very depressing and now i am a palestinian dj, touring, so... politics is back. even the basic thing of a person at clubs that comes to me and says, "what is this palestine that you're from?" i'm like, "that is a country", and then i get, "but where?" "middle east, you know israel?" and they're like yeah. "we're the annoying people that originally lived there and they're trying to kick us out." and they're like, "oh, cool i like it but you don't look like a terrorist" and i'm like, "yeah, because we're not." so it is shocking to me when i see what they hear outside. you can find everything

in bethlehem, everything. my name is laith al bandak, i started radio nard in 2014. everyone wants to dance. people choose maybe religious events to go dance to. and we choose parties. you have got to dance to let go, it helps to let go. bethlehem had, like, the craziest music scene in palestine

back in the '805 and '905, and during the first intifada they used to go and throw rocks and go party at the same night. the young generation exactly want to move forward, and there's a lot of resistance in art. dabke is a traditional dance that comes from the region of the levant, from palestine, syria, lebanon, jordan and bits of iraq. linking it with dub and dancehall.

dabke's all about freedom and happiness and gathering everybody together ina circle. the idea of dub—key, it's breaking it basically down into two — it's the dub and the key. it's the key that our grandparents kept in their hands, hoping that one day they will come back to their homes that they were displaced from in 1948 as palestinians. but they still kept the key and they pass it on and this is like our very traditional, like it's one of the core foundations of our identity as people. because what made us as a people? it's our displacement. from the moment you displace people,

they will always long for that place back and they will never forget it. we are refugees in our own homeland, and we are third—class citizens at the same time. so this is an action of reclaiming identity and reclaiming roots that we have been banned from acquiring and developing normally, as any normal society in the world. we are under apartheid.

how can i accept that as a native, as indigenous? you know? impossible. i find music, it is very connected to war, in a way. it started with the first intifada, it was a way of them resisting and just going and doing something else. you need to survive for the next day and the only way that palestinians are still going to survive is that they let out all the anger, otherwise we're going to go crazy. let people here dance from their hearts, they want to express themselves, they want to let go, they want to escape for a bit and then go back to reality, because this is how you stay sane and alive and stubborn and stay living where you are and don't go out and run away and leave home. this is raving in palestine.

i make hip—hop, but i put a palestinian twist to it. and we have palestinian lyrics talking about people living in ramallah. oppression increases creativity, let's say. if i make something about love, it's political because i live here, because we are

an oppressed minority, so whatever we say is an act of resistance. so it's love in the name of resistance, it's friendship in the name of resistance. because with war, comes love and sometimes it's really hard, you have your mind always occupied with things. you know, with other things, than love. so you try to reach for it in the smallest things, you know, and live on it, like, by the ounce, you know. the attacks with weapons went down, art is going up. like, it's crazy. like, there are so many artists right now. and at the time there used to be so many people that used guns. so i think this came

instead of that. yeah. not as a complementary thing, butas a... replacement. as a replacement. my parents don't agree with all the movement i'm making. they think it's filled with drugs and the whole party till 4:00am. they don't understand the resistance in it. we have a different message than our parents‘ generation had. no—one goes to throw rocks any more. there is no... absolutely no good outcome in that. there's just small kids go and get killed. my parents knew the world,

the area without checkpoints. they know how it was. i don't. we don't. so this itself, not only checkpoints, the whole political logistic situation is different from grandparents to parents to us. so it affects everything, not only music. they lost the palestinian interest. they are the ones who put on jeans, not us. they lost our culture. we arejust building on what they gave us. of course, we're creating something new. this is what the older people don't know. so this is what we know, right now,

this is our contribution to society, whether they like it or not. i'm born and raised in haifa. my family is originally from iqrit, which is in the north of the galilee. i grew up always with the idea of i must return back to iqrit to my destroyed and displaced village of my grandparents. it actually gave me the ability to be an insider outsider. you can see there, everything behind this mountain is lebanon.

on a clear day you can see haifa all the way from there. it was bombed on christmas eve 1951. a palestinian arab christian village. we're allowed only to return back to the cemetery, where all our loved ones are buried, you know. so the only way for iqrit person to return to iqrit is actually in a coffin. to return dead. but we as a young generation, we changed that equation, and we actually decided to live here before we die here. and that's why we still come here, and we still plant tomatoes

and still try to do masses here and pray in this church. so we're still alive, you know? 20% almost of the population in israel are palestinian indigenous people living within the borders of the state of israel, holding israeli passports. we used to call haifa umm al—gharib. umm al—gharib, like the mother of the strangers. it was always like haifa gathering everyone in sight together.

when i used to live in my village, there were parties. when i reached the entrance, i was rejected since it says i am an arab on my id. we just thought that, ok, if everyone is rejecting us, so we should start gather together and find our own places and our own sports and start producing our own parties. this place is a music bar. when you're occupied, you really need your own space. so that's why we created that here. every one of us, even me, we live at least two different lives. i'm a different person when i'm in haifa. when i go

to nazareth to visit my parents. and i'm a different person when i go to tel aviv. like when i went there at first, when i talked in arabic, everyone looks at you like you're going to explode any minute. i rarely talked in arabic. i rarely read arabic, heard arabic. and you start, like, feeling like you're nothing. like who am i, what am i doing here, why am i here? the difference between the scene here and the scene in the west bank, sometimes i feel like a bit of jealousy of them, because you feel like if we are resisting here, they are really resisting. so because of that, we are trying so much not to prove only to the world we're palestinian, but first of all i have to prove to myself that i deserve this title. we're messed up.

and we're not even aware of that. a lot of women around me, for years and years, like, they want to be djs, they want to do music, and they always expressed that desire, you know. but they have their own fears also about it, like some of them they really want to do music, but they don't want to be known at all, they don't want their name anywhere. i just walked down the street, i see it, sexual harassment.

i have experienced it since the age of six years old, you know. so whether you are a child or a woman in this society, that comes back in my lyrics a lot of times. i have one piece i talk about sexual harassment. some people even suggested that i come with another name and publish it anonymously, you know, like in a way that's how much women can be scared from talking about these things also, you know. but this is actually the reality of the society in itself, because they watch women as if they were glass. as if they are going to shatter if they try anything different. i'm notjust a female, i'm a person.

it just makes a lot of difference. as i always say, people might come to the party because i'm a girl, and they want to see that palestinian female that wants to play. but they're not going to dance for three hours because i am a girl palestinian. they're going to dance because the music made them dance. this feeling of partial freedom that we get here, i wish that other people in palestine also can feel it, because for us it's keeping us positive and it's keeping us breathing, and it's keeping us going. we build this dance floor and being together and being connected to each other, in everything, in sharing everything that we love in music, in art in general, that's the cause of everything, you know, to show that we still exist. i believe that life is good and bad.

it's not one thing or the other. i believe in this place. i believe it can heal. hello, so far this month we've seen disruptive snowfall, torrential rain and widespread gales. the week ahead is looking much quieter, but before we get there, we have sunday to deal with and this frontal system which will bring quite a wet start to the day across central and southern areas of england, wales too. soon clearing away eastwards,

but the rain may take its time to clear from east anglia. behind it, some bright or sunny spells, a peppering of showers. fewer showers for the north midlands, northern england, southern scotland, spells of sunshine here, but heavy rain across the far north of scotland, extending round into northern ireland, south—west scotland and northern england through the afternoon, coupled with some strong and gusty north or north—westerly winds, squally conditions for a time for irish sea and western coasts, and a coolerfeeling day, temperatures not much higher than 7—8 celsius. add on the strength of the wind, it will feel colder still. keeping an eye on this little feature working its way southwards overnight into monday, it could generate some wintry showers across the pennines, the hills of wales, and then our eyes turn to this area of high pressure building from the south—west, and high pressure is the dominant feature in the week ahead. away from the far north of scotland, most will be mainly dry, the days will be milder, the nights are still fairly chilly, leading to patchy mist and fog. but here is how we start the new working week, a much quieter day on monday, some spells of sunshine,

the winds will be lighter, more than a way of cloud for the northern isles during the day, northern ireland, and the western isles of scotland may be producing one or two showers, but most having a dry day, temperatures up a notch compared to sunday, 7—11 celsius, just 5—6 for the far north of scotland. as we going to tuesday, this area of high pressure becoming well—established across much of the uk, these fronts just trying to nudge into northern and western scotland, northern ireland, a breezy day here, cloudier, some outbreaks of rain, that front running into an area of high pressure, so the rent never really amounting to much. further south and east, the driest weather and the best of any sunshine on tuesday, temperatures quite widely into double figures at 10—11 celsius. as we go into wednesday, an area of high pressure drifts further south and eastwards, so what this enables is a south—westerly wind across the uk, and you can see this milder airflooding in from off the atlantic, so it is going to stay mild through wednesday, thursday and into friday. for wednesday, more in the way of cloud across northern ireland, scotland, perhaps northern england,

the best of the sunshine across england and wales, where it will be a dry day, in fact most will have a dry day midweek. temperatures again, ten, 11, maybe even 12 celsius. now, from wednesday into thursday, little change, here is our area of high pressure, notice that the isobars are slightly closer together across scotland, northern ireland and northern england, so breezy here, but that area of high pressure is keeping the front to the north and west at bay, so for most on thursday, it is looking dry, a good deal of sunshine around, stronger winds further north and west, temperatures again 10, 11, maybe 12 celsius. now, looking further ahead, let's keep an eye on what is happening with the jet stream, the wind high up in the atmosphere. diving down across the eastern side of europe, taking the cold out there, but for us we stay in this milder, and also still influenced by this area of high pressure. areas of low pressure will try to come close to the north of the uk as we go further ahead, but the general theme is that the weather is going to stay quite benign into next weekend,

and the week and beyond, so things will stay fairly quiet. that's all from me, bye—bye.