riots have been escalating over the past couple of weeks gaza protesters have been using kites as weapons sending kites containing grenades and flames across the border a couple of days ago about fifteen thousand palestinians burned tires and threw grenades pipe bombs and stones at i.d.f. soldiers at the gaza border and the idea for spotted with tear gas meanwhile israel has said it will do whatever it can to defend itself and prevent clashes at the borders there were clashes taking place throughout the day today at the temple mount and all over jerusalem looting physical altercations that led to several arrests police say people broke the rules of conduct and with the circumstances would be thoroughly investigated the i.d.f. has doubled the amount of troops at the borders the un has voiced concern about israel using excessive force against civilians and i'm particularly worried about today in the coming days with the u.s. embassy move through jerusalem monday and with the planned protests in gaza and

take this opportunity again to call misrule to be very careful and calibrated the code uses force in the dressing the protesters in gaza but also call on the most of them believers of the protests in gaza to prevent friction to prevent situations in which provoke issues can happen the situation is rather heated and we'll have to see what happens in the coming weeks. we have also been protests in jerusalem against the relocation of the u.s. embassy opponents of the move see it as legitimizing israel's occupation of the eastern part of the city and reducing the likelihood of a two state solution more demonstrations are expected next week. meanwhile attitudes about the status of jerusalem will be tested this time next year after israel won the your vision song contest on saturday that means it gets to host the next event the winning singer took the top spot with her song toy which was

inspired by the anti harassment me two campaign he then welcomed everyone to jerusalem in two thousand one thousand and invited that was echoed by the israeli prime minister but with feelings running high over the holy city some people have been a voicing their disapproval on twitter how can your vision celebrate diversity and inclusion when steps away palestinians are getting shot in the head your vision is about to get very ugly absolute joke by the way let's not go to jerusalem until they stop murdering palestinian children israel is celebrating diversity through shooting unarmed protesters in gaza with snipers how will your vision be open for real diversity next year in jerusalem can all city residents celebrate equally unfollowing anyone who says that attend your evasion in jerusalem next year yes yes it's just the music competition i'm sure all of the palestinian children that die in the next year will see the distinction. bomber on a motorbike has reportedly attacked a police headquarters in the indonesian city of sirte there are reports of several

casualties the explosion follows bomb attacks on three churches in the city on sunday according to police they were carried out by islamist militants who all belong to one family thirteen people died in that attack forty others were injured . spanish region of catalonia failed to elect a new president on saturday. did not get enough votes in parliament because four members of his party did not show up for the vote however many expect the pro independence candidate to win office in the next round catalonia has been without a president since october last year after madrid decided to dissolve the regional parliament to remind you it was then that catalog held a referendum on whether they wanted to be independent from spain the vote was illegal by madrid and police used force against people in line at the polls leaving nine hundred injured hundreds handling of the cattle on crisis has been widely

criticized. meanwhile the spanish chapter of amnesty international has released a new report accusing madrid's prosecutors of showing a lack of interest in investigating police actions against voters human rights watchdog says that prosecutors disqualify complaints hindering authorities from looking into the facts it also says that rubber bullets allegedly used by police during the referendum clashes should be banned back in october madrid's representative apologized for the excesses of officers during the vote thomas harrington professor of hispanic studies at trinity college thinks amnesties report

makes clear who is to blame for the violence. what we're seeing here is a spanish judicial authority that has been highly politicized over several years and it is now being beginning to run up against the reality that international institutions. so this is a go for a number of years now and what has happened in madrid is that there is a media reality that says that the catalans are the people that are using going to us when in fact it's just the opposite and so the spanish authorities have no interest in discovering or investigating their own use of violence which in fact is the only guidance that has been used in the entire catalog process it's really a sort of case of self-induced delusion that is now coming apart. as outside observers such as in this international in the international troops begin to get a better hold of what was going on and what is going on. on wednesday

russia marked victory day and the defeat of nazi germany and the second world war the anniversary is considered particularly important because the war claimed more than twenty six million so we had lives there's almost no family that was not affected to honor those who served a special event known as the immortal regiment march is held every year. people here bringing photographs pictures or even just names of loved ones they

lost although you see just contributed to that great victory i found out more about my family as well my great grandmother in media all going to a doctor a military surgeon she actually participated in the battle of moscow she was on the front lines here full of many months and all the relatives of my great products could do small to fuel it was a soldier he pulls in the battle of stalingrad when he sadly died millions of people munching well deployed cities across europe treads on the lisbon across the atlantic united states truly a global event so all of those people that made their contribution and in many millions of cases gave up their lives it's all about the people whose faces are in these many many portraits. if you can hear their harangues that's also another remarkable feature of this march again back to the people and the portraits they survived the years of war and this is an memory of all of them this is

mikhail vibrance of who is the grandfather of my mom what he did like pretty much everyone else here on these portraits his first defended his motherland to make the nazis retreat and then he got a medal for liberating the city that's now known as kaliningrad. one of the most horrifying chapters of the war was the siege of leningrad which is modern day st petersburg the city was completely surrounded by german forces for eight hundred seventy two days because of the blockade all major supply routes were cut off with only one exception the famous road of life running across the frozen lake logica.

we're not that sure who did say it was june others we blocked out dutch and then my dad appeared with a changed look on his face and said it's war but i'd like to say that i had never had it for my dad gave me a little slap to stop my joking around just then and actually it's me chips me and left. below we walked we had a new year's celebration attack in the car play satirists on the benches and gave each one of us the command to open with an amazing fruit i don't think i had after each of them one single each. to your local ups i mean when i grew up the tips i find out of my mandarin was

brought to me by a maximum spread of jewels a hole that was in which i wasn't just holding it was holding from a not simple answer. on wednesday the u.s. senate intelligence committee held hearings on jinnah hospital who has presidential nominee to be the new cia director questions focused on her links to me agency's controversial and hance interrogation program which is widely seen as torture on cheese but i've got to have has commentary. trump's really pushing gina haskell is the perfect candidate strong really strong smart

tough and with thirty years of judy behind so why all the hate one highly respected nominee for cia director gina her support has come under for because she was too tough on terrorists tough and terrorists meaning she ran a secret cia detention said she was under reportedly tortured prisoners by the way the videotapes which allegedly documented some of the most horrific tortures were destroyed by the cia committed a crime when she destroyed these tapes that crime at the very least is obstruction of justice the crime also is to classify a crime it's actually illegal in the united states to classify something just because it's embarrassing or because it's a crime that's what she should be answering to why did she destroy the evidence now gina who apparently had no problem torturing tied up suspects is allegedly

squeamish about the confirmation hearing all those tough questions in public do you believe the program in terms that you interrogation program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question i have not but trump has a back don't tell me it doesn't work to what your works ok folk. you know have these guys torture doesn't work believe me it works ok trump was applauded for that

and many are of course against haskell. and for their troubles that targeted with. many respects. the prospect of. the nominee making incriminating evidence on gina has secret so that the american people couldn't see on t.v. that she was indeed the torture in chief of al nashiri in thailand make it go to the close session that was too much and that's why i got up and i said that i said senator wyden is entitled to a direct to an honest answer on that question fortunately those resisting the load . protesters place all across the country they're facing charges. felony counts getting be brutalized by the police certainly coming to our

surgeon and we need to put a stop to one hundred nine retired generals and admirals have urged the u.s. senate to reconsider given had ties to you know torturing human beings but make no mistake if the form of torture a gets the job despite everything many many people will cheer and applaud. the senate intelligence committee is expected to hold a confirmation vote on the house next week will be taken up by the full senate later this month. minister of georgia has apologized to demonstrators who have been protesting for the past three days following anti-drug raids in the capital tbilisi georgia. said that he will thoroughly investigate why the raids were carried out is also agreed with protest leaders to start relaxing the state's drug policy demonstrations started on may twelfth after local police searched nightclubs in

tbilisi for drugs the police reportedly took personal belongings including mobile phones and used physical force against them. as a protest camp in front of the. protests continue. my colleague be here in about thirty minutes time with stay with us the national. politics. because they.