good to absorb your bucket list. then your corner. store for. some reporters to. go. the state of where you news and these are our top stories. gaza's health ministry says 20 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes it comes after hamas militants fired rockets from gaza towards jerusalem earlier hundreds of palestinians were injured in clashes throughout the city's all oxo mosque fighting broke out inside the holy site with police firing stun grenades and tear gas at palestinian demonstrators. the doctor who 1st treated alexander volley after he

was poisoned with a nerve agent has been found alive and well alexander more a cost vs disappearance cause concern as to other doctors who treated the russian opposition figure have died this year. a 79 year old french vietnamese woman says she will appeal after her legal case against 14 chemical companies was dismissed by a french court trento sued the firms for their role in supplying the u.s. with a toxic herbicide agent orange it was drawn into over large areas by american planes during the vietnam war the companies say the us government figures the responsibility for this is news from berlin you can find out much more on our website that steel you dot com. for. for a week now the tension in jerusalem has been building a girl over israeli plans to evict palestinians from east jerusalem today clashes

between palestinians and israeli forces left hundreds wounded in a place where the violence is so often triggered by events from the past this latest crescendo of walk of fire in silence is a fight for the future 2 competing versions and israeli versus a palestinian i'm bring golf in berlin this is the day. he's ready is committed to maintaining the freedom of worship for all faiths were created in the mosque something that such earth is good. because he lived there out that was there in the extremists who had the opposite in mind it's amazing this is a prayer and is not a place that rules this place. or.

i could hear as i can you know there are some kind of products. here this impact definitely. also coming up in january twitter banned donald trump permanently facebook kicked him out as well but for how long well we don't know and apparently facebook doesn't either twitter was very clear permanently you're permanently banned that's our ruling good night nice to see you you were been a terrible member of our community and you can't come back again and facebook wanted to have it both ways. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the staccato of shouts scream. and sirens heard today over jerusalem hundreds of palestinians were injured when protests turned violent there were clashes with israeli forces who say they were confronted by extremists at the mosque today's

eruption came after weeks of growing resentment over plans to evict a group of palestinians in east jerusalem jewish settlers have laid claim to the land which they say belonged to jewish families prior to $948.00 palestinians call the plans a land grab with no compensation for the people being forced to leave israel captured used to resume back in 1967 but the enix asian is not recognized internationally here is white house press secretary jim psaki we are continuing to closely monitor the violence in israel we have serious concerns about the situation including violent confrontations that we've seen over the last few days in a column for the weekend with his israeli counterpart our national security adviser jake sullivan reiterated concerns about the potential of fictions of palestinian families from their homes and they agree that the launching of rocket attacks and intending incendiary balloons from gaza to at israel is unacceptable and must be

condemned so this is something that our national security team is closely monitoring it was just talking there at the white house for more now i want to bring in baker he's a middle east analyst based here in berlin he worked closely with both the barack obama and joe biden presidential campaigns and he served as communication adviser to the head of the palestinian negotiating team arguments good to have you back on the day officials in gaza now report that a number of people were killed today how worried are you that this is just the beginning. unfortunately. this is going to be not only just the beginning we are the center colossal of all of this of the israeli occupation and talent who will say this was absolutely to be expected anyone with half a brain could see them as was going to outlive. the outrageous assault of the israeli

government on east jerusalem and on a mosque state and then showing the bombing of gaza this evening where apparently at least 20 people were killed and numerous children is simply unacceptable and the schilens of the international community is deafening today's annual march to mark the capture of east jerusalem in 1967 by israel was moved back just minutes before it was scheduled to begin we when you look at that i'm wondering is israel allowing this situation to escalate on purpose israel is not allowing the situation to escalate on israel is escalating the situation on purpose the at the escalation of the occupation and the absolute attempt to crush all palestinian aspirations of any kind of ending of this occupation that is what israel is related they are the owners of this a relation they are the owners of the. us claimed responsibility for firing rockets

towards israel today islamic jihad says that if fired anti-tank missiles there were scenes of celebrations in the gaza strip after what happened today is there a sense among the palestinians that they maybe they haven't won the war but maybe they've won a battle. these are weapons of the week look at what israel did over 20 deaths over 350 wounded and you're talking about some a few balloons that went up in the air are some what we call glorified fire crackers shot by a greek enemy. doesn't trust people that's the problem the problem is that that is absolutely not washable what israel is doing and it is up to them and it is on the united states and on the european union to put its money where its mouth is and to

and this this aggression and they have the power to do it. when i ask about that in just a moment but let me ask you about what's going on in israel right now how much of this do you think is connected with the political paralysis that we're seeing in israel. you know the problem is that this has been going on shore death this has been a homme student growth of the occupation a strengthening of the occupation over decades whether it was under able omar who was also accused of corruption or not and yahoo or b.b. or the right we are labor or for that likud it didn't matter they are simply implementing their plan of complete annexation of the in top of all stock and that is what they're doing and we are enabling them along with me and that's what's a well what would you like to see the united states and the european union do next . they need israelis to understand that it's most favored nation

most favored nation status the largest trading block with israel is not the united states it's europe and the united states has them are just subsidize or of the israeli occupation they half do they must insist on any kind of aid whether it be military economical or political be tied to israel's at the hearing to an international human off human rights and international law and the problem is that we are breaking rules in the west we are breaking our own laws and regulations by not subjecting israel to any kind of conditions for all of this aid that we're giving them a little military and economic law that has to happen this is something that i would have expected me to say. to a president but now we've got joe biden in the white house and it sounds like you're saying the same thing is he doing the same thing well because you know the principle has it the principle is the same whether it was truck or bike i think

that i know that i personally know that joe biden has some very good people in there who are trying to make a difference and i also see a lot of members. that are resident in the democratic party including senator sanders and rashida and you know see they are pushing congress to do this they're trying to christie administration and it doesn't need to push that ministrations on was absolutely joe biden this is somewhere where i hope that he he comes out and shows himself to be different than donald truck and yes i do expect him to do that ok bankers always welcome it's good to get your insights we appreciate your time tonight thank you thanks a lot. is france on the verge of a civil war and that is the warning in an open letter written by a group of french soldiers the letter appeared on the website of a right wing magazine on sunday and has since attracted tens of thousands of code signatories the letter was directed at president emanuel macron and it accuses him

of making concessions to islamists the soldiers argue that the survival of france is now at stake the authors describe themselves as active duty soldiers and younger servicemen and women known as generation of fire generation bet quote has offered up their lives to destroy the islam is a that you president macro on have made concessions to on our soil if a civil war breaks out the military will maintain order on its own soil civil war is brewing in france and you know it perfectly well there's a strong words for more now we want to bring in correspondent catherine field she joins us now from paris good evening to you catherine have the french government reacted to this letter. they have indeed and they have been very strong in their

condemnation they have sent the interior minister he said this was a crude maneuver he said that if you were in the military you don't do this sort of thing he said these people are anonymous they have no courage the defense minister she said it's crude political scheme she said the tone vocabulary the references are all those of the extreme right and that's the military they have come out very strongly and said this letter will not go without response and they've even said that if you don't agree with what the policies are of the elected president then you should leave the military and they have made it very clear that they will hunt down within the military anyone that they believe signed this last well we know this is not the 1st to wonder why this a group of retired officers published one a short while ago what would happen to them. yes indeed that 1st letter was published on the 60th anniversary of the failed coup against against then president

shall go all for his support of algeria dependents we know very little about what happened to the retired generals but we do know that those serving officers will. exactly know when they were shipped off into retirement or that was shipped off into a back office but at the time the french prime minister john kass states said that . no one will be allowed to have this sort of what he described as an acceptable interference in the political if you like the political discussion in this country and this form catherine has there been any support for these letters. it's difficult to say bret really and i'd be lying to you if i said i knew about most of the people who've gone online a bit at least 800000 people have gone online and signed supported that says that the dunce are not mostly so we don't know if the people have gone on 2 or 3 times

or if these are actually people who have done it we do know that in the stream room they said the election called spectrum and france there are those who support this and who do question whether or not french president to bend your back wrong has been strong enough in if you like painting some of the radical elements of some religions here in france and whether or not he has done enough to. immigration from people who have subsequently been accused by the carrying out terrorist attacks or supporting terrorist attacks here in france is there anyone in the. positions of power who's taking this threat seriously. you know if i can make i mean this thread that they are worried about is that this is going to whip up a lot more support for the from right ahead of next month's regional elections that they will get big in the elections that will then allow people to feel if you like

respectable voting because it's costly but they could be up that way you could be the president met you know micro points that says no this is what they're saying will happen this is what the national front since they used to call this is what they are saying they're going to do they're going to let out if they're in power so it could well turn into his. if you like his presence as full head and if he does decide to respond directly to these letters and i'm wondering just how fractured french politics or at the moment the older political parties i mean they've lost massive support that we know. that he came from nowhere became president if he disappears. is there someone to replace him. well 1st off a man who might follow showing no signs of disappearing off the political spectrum has to go to years ago before presidential elections and he still does seem to be

there is that what would make it to a 2nd round runoff against mccain le pen quiet writes the left of the political spectrum in france is virtually nonexistent now the socialist party i'll bet on crime financially they've had to sell their heads courses are getting very low turnout at elections they're also getting very little funding coming in from members so it's very difficult for them emmanuel micro stole a lot of emotions from the respectful riots that respectable christian democrat rice that is so. france you really within the community he got a lot of support from them so there's not much they are really the only wasn't getting big support in the polls. the far right national front but again we're a year of presidential elections and 8 years a long time even in french dollars and that's really that's an eternity that's for

sure catherine that she'll be 40 you know like from the paris kevin as always thank you thank you. i think he did some things that are great with some things i didn't agree with what i liked about donald trump as he was a disruptor you know he came in and shut the system up. well that was caitlin jenner former olympic champion transgender activists and on the republican party it's as strong as ever but his public voice was almost muted when twitter and facebook banned him for inciting the riot at the u.s. capitol back in january last week facebook's oversight board ruled that the ban was the right decision hal the decision was reached however needs a rethink in this instance mr trump we are saddened and very much indeed that they did the right thing when they remove this child from that platform's thoughts they

can't just invent groups as they go along they have to stick to their own rules because if you these 3 as you says have to follow christ those community standards and they do us well but my next guest has been described by newsweek as a silicon valley's most powerful tech journalist which is another way of saying that she poses the questions big tech doesn't like to hear or answer kara swisher co-founded the tech news website recoated she is now in opinions writer at the new york times and host of the pod cast sway care's good to have you on the program let me ask you about donald trump he won't be returning to facebook this summer but according to what the oversight board decided there could possibly be and all the return of donald trump is that how you understand the decision. no i decided no it's there's no decision and the ban is in place until facebook comes up with policies now the policy might be to ban donald trump and it might not be and then

the the board may weigh in on whether that was correct but all indications were that the board thought that the band itself was correct at the time the question is whether to continue. keeps doing the stuff that got him banned including the big law and things like that and so my guess is that he will continue to behave badly online and they will not probably bring him back on if they have the choice the the oversight board punted back to facebook the right i mean this was this true oversight that we had all last week well i think they were correct that wasn't their job to be monitoring this stuff this was facebook didn't have policies in place when they did what they did and so their demand and i think they're quite rightly it's not their job to do facebook's job and so they can rule on jobs that facebook does that's their oversight they're not rule makers and so their whole point was that facebook didn't have a policy here and once they have a policy they can rule on it and that's very different than what facebook did which was abrogate its responsibility over monitoring its platform and so they just

tossed it over there in hopes that this board would take up the ball but they were like no thank you we don't want this thing you have to figure it out and then then we'll look at it after you you do the hard work of figure out what to do about donald trump interviewed one of the board members last week about the trump decision and john samples of vice president of the libertarian think tank cato was just going to i wanted to find out about the questions that facebook didn't get answered the questions that the board had posed to facebook take a listen to this exchange did facebook answer all of the questions that the board had for it as it was trying to reach a decision. no it did not we talk about that in the decision it did answer most of them but there were other some decision some questions were not responded to there were questions that you didn't get answered i think one was if did facebook data on its users that allow advertisers to micro target people in

the run up to the insurrection i mean do we know did facebook make make money on the mob. i don't know we didn't confront that in the context of this decision so let me ask you how you interpret that i mean he just said that the question that they posed to facebook was not pertinent to the decision that they were they were making it although they had posed the question it made this this seem confusing at best when we were in the interview i mean how do you read it. i don't think that's quite what was going on actually i think maybe your inaccurate you know me to the crude but never taking that i think one of the the issues that they were looking at some of the ones that facebook declined to answer they've declined on the basis either privacy or stuff that had stuff to do with their business they didn't want competitors to know about but i think the real question is it the real focus which correctly was that the that the board put out

is that facebook didn't have any policy here the things they said they were judging donald trump on they weren't using his criteria such as newsworthiness that there aren't transparent about their punishments that you can't. ban someone indefinitely like at that point was one of the board members tell me you can't put someone in jail indefinitely while you can in certain countries but you really can't you know in a normal legal system and so they wanted they twitter was very clear permanently you're permanently banned that's our ruling good night nice to see you you were been a terrible member of ours our community and you can't come back again and facebook wanted to have it both ways they wanted to sort of ban him and get the halo effect of not being a hand made into sedition and at the same time not make the hard call that would get put them out of favor with the republican administration or republican lawmakers and so that's the problem here and i think that's with the with the board correctly pointed out is that facebook needs to put more meat on the bones of these

issues which are incredibly difficult no question but they built the platform and therefore they should be able to run it run it properly facebook has a policy for high profile profiles correct especially for someone like double john really that was the whole point no they didn't they were not using the newsworthiness criteria they just decide ad hoc and that's really what the board was pointing out and besides at the end of the day is this a mark zuckerberg decision i mean even what you have so there is just worse it's one person deciding so there's no policy. in place to what walk this through they sort of do it as a catch as catch can thing and there are certain policies in place are very clear on how to deal with with terrorists a group they formulate a policy but the board was simply saying have some policy here that's consistent and they were not consistent and that i think was a really good thing for the board to point out and the board was an aggregate in its responsibility what his facebook handed them was not their responsibility and

face it was hoping that marc wasn't the one that has to say donald trump is banned permanently from facebook mark does not want to say that he may have to and he also doesn't want to say he can come back and so they were hoping the board would do that this is a decision mark zuckerberg has to make at this moment in time in the history of facebook because that's there's no other way to do it because there's no regulation there's no other services to go to it matters too much and so he was trying to duck a responsibility and he was unable to because as warrant care got 30 seconds what's your gut tell you is he is he's going to say banned for life or is he going to say he can come back i have no idea i have no idea what he's going to do because he's one single person i think probably they'll ban him permanently at some point because donald trump will keep being donald trump and he cannot help himself even though he should all right kara swisher with the new york times you talking with you thank you thank you. for

earlier this year many marriage equality advocates were disappointed when the battery can rule that the catholic church cannot bless same sex unions but progressive catholic churches here in germany they've developed their own plan to give same sex couples the religious recognition and the blessings that they design tanya and cloudy a whole us a getting ready for an unusual church service there a married couple and catholic believers but until now their partnership has not been blessed in church. you know we love each other and we want to be together and we want to express that not just at the registry office as we already have but in church too because we both believe and love cannot be wrong. earlier this year the vatican reiterated his position that the roman catholic church cannot bless same sex unions because they are quote not ordered to the creator's plan but

the tough line has sparked defiance in germany this week more than 100 churches are holding special blessing services under the slogan love wins open to all couples irrespective of sexual orientation for those attending this is about meaningful public recognition fancy of the evening i found it very moving the words were wonderful and we feel really accepted i'm going on thank you. but even some reform minded catholics feel such events may so division and the official church reaction is disapproving before she and us to do if we understand there is a need for these blessings but the bishops conference is of the opinion that this is a provocation we're currently in a theological discussion in germany about reform in the church we have to have the debates 1st such steps can come later so is it. not for the 1st time the roman catholic church faces the question how to respond not just to changing attitudes in society at large but to calls for change from within. well the day is almost done

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