i don't think. because of. the famous potato. this is detail beauteous coming to you live from berlin turkey's president says his country will never accept to the limb as the capital of israel hosting a conference of muslim nations in istanbul and two hundred lashes out at israel and caused jerusalem a red line for muslims to go live to our correspondent in istanbul also coming up

a stunning victory for u.s. democrats as their candidate doug jones claims victory in alabama a special election his opponents defeat a major setback for the republican party that could alter the balance of power in the senate. and how we're brigs it affecting northern ireland the report from the emerald isle as the british and european parliament's debates its future and ask if prime minister to resign me can keep up promise of no hard border. i don't welcome to you i'm of the thought she. took as president of egypt a badge of honor has called in all countries to recognize east jerusalem as the capital of palestine was speaking as he hosted the summit of the organization of islamic cooperation in istanbul. he couldn't lead us to forge

a united response to u.s. president trunks decision to recognize to use them as the capital of israel drawn cool that move a red line for muslims he hopes today's summit will move allies muslim support for an independent palestine state. but he didn't discuss one door in jones is at that summit and joins me now from istanbul a dorian no ed john has put the question of jerusalem and palestine at the top of the agenda at this y.c. summit support is there for his position. well it certainly hear it it appears that he does have very much strong support he sees as some of his a bringing together of the muslim world to our pows trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and beyond that he's been using as a platform to issue a very strong condemnation of the israeli security forces calling them terrorists but as you said the key part of his speech is about starting

a process to recognize jerusalem as the capital of palestine he called it an occupy capital and a wider efforts to recognize the palestinian state as an independent country and very much so he sees this summit as the beginning of a process to achieve those goals the first president mahmoud abbas has said they'd refuses to accept the united states as an honest off air broker in resolving this con conflict is a consensus that that who should take away from the united states. well yes mahmoud abbas addressing the summit said the. united states had lost their moral and political authority to be their operator in the peace process and he said that this should be immediately transferred to the united nations he also launched a very tough speech against the united states saying attacking the congress for accusing them of being terrorists i think in many ways he is for the record trumps moves as a way of venting all this anger of frustrations been building up over the united

states over the years he said that now the united states' role in the peace process is over and will be looking very much to the international community and he is in fact very much boy but what he sees is the isolation of trump he said to many of trump's key allies haven't supported him over this move and he sees that as a basis to uniting. the international community to put pressure on israel to solve the peace process calling for sanctions on israel if they do not move forward on peace efforts and do it finally what kind of outcome is president john hoping from the the summits. he's hosting in istanbul. i think that. certainly he sees this summit as giving himself a person opportunity has put him again on the world stage he has been facing increasing isolation from many of his allies he sees this as a as a platform to reestablishing his international credential and he sees an opportunity of bringing what he sees as the wider muslim community to unite against

what he sees as the injustices in israel but it has to be said that there is a glaring omissions of many key countries haven't attended this twenty two leaders of the muslim world are here countries like saudi arabia and egypt their leaders haven't attended and that underlines that there are still deep divisions with freshly within the arab world over this while there is agreement about opposition to trump's move but going forward it doesn't seem to be much unity in the arab world about what to do about the decision by president trump. during jones in istanbul thank you very much. turning now to the u.s. and in brought it is being seen as a major setback for president trump the democratic candidate doug jones has won a u.s. senate seat in the deeply conservative state of alabama the campaign of the republican candidate roy moore was overshadowed by allegations of sexual misconduct numerous

republicans pulled their support from more after allegations surfaced yet president very publicly supported him the result in alabama also changes the balance of power in washington the republican majority in the senate now shrinks from two votes to just one. of all the states which the democratic fight should take shape alabama was an unlikely starting point the party has not won a senate seat here and a quarter of a century. we really have just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the way i will avoid was. the celebrations here or much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent earlier in the day the republican crusader roy moore had hoped his horse named sassy would carry him to victory but it was the final bed to

cast him as a thorough bred conservative in a campaign marred by multiple allegations from women claiming he had molested them decades ago when they were teenagers even for high ranking republicans moore's actions and policies were beyond the pale. he believes homosexuality should be illegal and that moved them shouldn't serve in congress. for donald trump the only thing that mattered was moore's loyalty to his vision the president has congratulate to doug jones on a hard fought victory but said votes cast for a third candidate harmed the rights and votes played a very big factor he tweeted bought a win is a win not so. he has refused to concede. but the votes are still coming in and we're looking at that but god bless you go all place

going and thank you for coming tonight weeks not over this going thanks in part by . but it is democrats who are smiling having narrowed the republicans majority in the senate to just one day says they see a sign of success is to come in crucial elections next year. listen take a look at some other stories making news around the. firefighters have only contained twenty percent of the massive blaze that has reached california santa barbara county the talk of the tomas wildfire has been reaching across los angeles region for two weeks it has burned more than nine hundred structures and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. german chancellor angela merkel has made a surprise visit to the site off last year's christmas market attack in berlin meccan has faced criticism from survivors and relatives of the victims attorneys an

asylum seeker kids trophy been injured around seventy when he drove a truck into the crowded market. in switzerland a month vehicle crash has led authorities to close a seventeen kilometer gortat road tunnel beneath the arabs media say two people were killed and several injured after a truck collided with a car the accident has reportedly cause structural damage to the tunnel one of europe's key transport routes. britain's prime minister is facing one for stiffest tests yet over break said lawmakers from her own party could push through a proposal that would allow parliament to reject any deal she reaches in a recent deal with the e.u. tourism a promise that there would be no hard border between northern ireland which is part of the you came and the republic of ireland which is a member of the european union but this promise could conflict with other pledges that she's made and many in ireland are now worried about the effect briggs it will

have. the s. jury in nuria northern ireland is actually a border and yet nobody can see it invisible borders have brought peace to northern ireland that's why people in communities such as nuri voted against press. corps damien making it he fights against an exit from the e.u. that would see the return of border posts nias far. at the back of that is the republic of ireland there are two hundred seventy crossings previously there was only eighteen points by which she could cross if it came back to the us if would be an enormous inconvenience a sharp break cept for us will be an economic disaster but it's not just the

economy that's at stake memories of the troubles the conflict between protestants and catholics that gripped the island for decades are still on people's minds jonathan powell was i'm a negotiator of the process that eventually led to. the will i fear be more violence as a result of this as you put the hard border back in again you have an installations you have to have border posts you have to have guards on the border and they will of course be targets for the dissidents powell says the deal with the e.u. will eventually unravel because prime minister to resign may enter government promised too many things to too many different people and the protection of the belfast agreement said to the irish that there would be no hard border they guaranteed it they said to the d.p. unionists that there would be no border in the r e c they said to the brics it is in their own policy that we would leave the customs union single market and they said to the use that there would be regulatory alignments if there was no over

agreement those four things are not compatible. some people like these protesters in london don't want to leave the e.u. at all but there is also a lot of pressure on me from within their own party to make a clean break with the e.u. one obvious solution for northern ireland would be for the whole of the u.k. to stay close to the e.u. to stay in the single market and the customs union but this would be very difficult to sell to the committee brecht city is here in parliament and the conservative party so the problem is far from solved yet. the u.k. will have to decide whether to align itself closely with the e.u. even after breck's it. and that's one thing that most people of the island of ireland are hoping for in the north as well as in the south. that we now join our correspondent catherine martins in strasbourg catherine the european parliament discuss the state of drugs if they go seasons to parliamentarians there feel

sufficient progress has been made. so. if it would be so easy and return it would be a different process and a breakfast story indeed regarding the performance of ship to go shoot or. most of the i mean he's had warm birds concerning his performance running a tight ship and keeping the twenty seventh united in their position but regarding the sufficient progress it's not easy us that there are the three key areas we know that its citizens rights the irish border and the bracks bill and there is a lack of solutions for all of this is clear here in the european parliament of was a huge debate this morning and they made clear that. is to go ahead catherine. so the european parliament is sum it up but they are probably courting for.

ok i think we're having some technical issues there on the line to strasburg catherine martin at the european parliament thank you very much for bringing us up to date on the latest discussions going on there over bragg said news now from the world of sport and tour de france and spanish winner chris froome has allegedly recorded an abnormal drug test result the incident took place during his victory in this year's spanish race samples reportedly showed a high level of when asked my drug that he was taking froome who has asked the massiveness statement that his symptoms got worse during the spanish road race and that he opted to stayed within the recommended guidelines the thirty two year old briton made history in september when he became the first rider to win the world at the tour de france in the same year. you're watching the news coming up ahead the

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