the syrian people will order the challenges that they are facing. and send a brit to christmas and. there you go on living in this country with all the challenges with the hope that the future will bring the peace in the area as mayor of bethlehem what can you do to help christians whose land has been stolen by israeli settlers say in the commies and valley look what's going on in palestine is going against the palestinian people. and muslim and. there is no difference in the. israeli occupation policy concerning the palestinians i understand there was a conference backed by netanyahu and it was an israeli hotel in occupied land in bethlehem and american tourists came to look at the wall around bethlehem firs is that ireland is not going to come back to

bet land because better them is a palestinian city and under the palestinian national authority under law and they are what coming in not when come to come back to the city or occupy the city where four hours something is not going to be and will not be allowed going to struggle against that because a better them is a palestinian territories and must be to continue as a palestinian territories second i don't know the americans if there were around the city or there and through the city or were around the wall i don't know or we don't. and general for us we insist that we are part of the palestinian people we are palestinians and our land is a palestinian territories and it's going to continue like this to be part of the palestinian state in the few. of course netanyahu is saying that that is from the

bible and the gospels of course which tell the christmas story that he told the congress u.s. congress that justifies the israeli occupation one are one. of his press conference in jerusalem two months ago all. of them by a press release i publish. told him not to use the religious issues or. in draw marketing is policy in palestine or in the middle east second for us it's not accepted. and will never be accepted in the future and not on you know home or say that he is the friend of christians because he's not a friend to anybody he's a cool player so and we never accept or will not never let not any or any other. israeli leader to speak about their palestinian people

it's time to question and and days i'll draw the point that if that is core give the palestinian people their rights in having the. set of determination in state in building their state their future by the by ourselves britain is being recorded weapons to the israeli government including sniper rifles to get to bethlehem do you have to go through israeli army checkpoints. as you know about the . area is divided in four or five zones. and nineteen sixty seven is a lot of confiscated the north side of bethlehem and then continue in two thousand to one. wall surrounding the bethlehem governorate and also confiscated from the land of bethlehem another area the total area of

bethlehem is six hundred and eight square kilometers the palestinian authority and the policy there people controlling. six seven point three percent of the total area zone a according to the last hour or so argument but the door and the rest area we speak about are around eighty seven percent of their is divided into different areas is on sea which is under the full control of is that on which is sixty seven sixty five percent of the total area and zone. national reserve also twenty two percent under the control of israel it means that the palestinian people in bethlehem area living with thirteen point four percent of the total area around seventy kilometers out of six six hundred and it's working on meters on the edges seven percent around bethlehem it is there is not just eighteen

settlement there is more than the. there is one hundred seventy thousand settlers living in the area and is available. now to build the new settlement in the south side of bethlehem call in a place called the national air and that and that is they want to build another one hundred one thousand two hundred settlement units it means that bethlehem is selling from the north by the wall from the south and west and east by the settlements that was built by the israeli occupation israeli embassy in london never gives us any much of a comment to try and get their response to that any irony feel that. us evangelical christians coming to the city of bethlehem this christmas they support the move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem first. jordan is occupied territories and to transfer the american embassy united states and the

embassy to jerusalem its illegal procedures took by the americans and that means that is that the americans the united states of america must. go back and dig. the from jerusalem back door to let you know according to their international. and according to the international law that said that it doesn't it's part of the occupied territories and it's under. jurisdiction of therefore geneva convention that is not allowing the occupier to change the status of that or the cool make any changes demographic changes in the area and what happened last week in the general assembly and then i did nation with votes that voted for the palestinian sit

a very clear opening in the world to fuel their nights sit. ministration procedures concerning the palestinian issue was on the palestinian territories and the palestinian people you must talk to some of the american tourists that are there for this christmas what do they tell you about their government's policies its record tourism apparently in bethlehem this year what we spoke to the people there is a lot of visited the city and. about. the united states policy in the middle east and the people who are hearing us and. understand what we are seeking and what we are planning for they show that they are again the policy that ignore and continue ignoring the palestinian rights and. in the future you were there at the siege of bethlehem as a negotiator

a few years ago you could see britain is now exporting weapons to the israelis because things are better now than under the siege right in two thousand better than was under siege. by that is that only occupation for thirty nine days added continue after that of the siege of the nativity but but things are better britain is now sending more weapons than ever to the israelis you can see britain saying things are better now than they were then. i want to say their weapons were this a curative for it is that i was given the security for israel and that is the peace with the palestinian people because. your neighbor is good and in good situation you will be in good so for us as a palestinian we are like the forty's equality in the area a very good neighborhood the relation to respect each other principles of

independent freedom it was a couple of the palestinian state in the future when we speak about equality want to speak about the respect for lever or good relation it means give give us their portrait to implement security for all people in the region without the continued the conflict will continue and with all the work and they will have from the americans when in peace because the neighbors whom we are the palestinians are not in peace so at the moment when bethlehem becomes the cultural capital of the arab world and twenty twenty you expect it still to be enclosed by eighteen illegal israeli occupation settlements and still surrounded by israeli checkpoints . look when we speak about our culture and it's back to the history of our city and for us we are going to send

a brit. bethlehem to keep it off. of the arab world and we have our programs and our events in the city no matter what the obstacles and behavior of the occupation because we believe that celebrating met them as part of the capital of up world it's part of our struggle against occupation and show the world that we are people who are deserve to live deserve their pretty dumb and their independence because we have a culture we are qualified our culture is a bit of music. by humans all all kinds of cultures where our showing and giving the attention on our culture means that we are people and we are not the groups and we are people who deserve to live in peace as other people and other nations in the world where of bethlehem thank you after the break i have tomorrow

as u.n. security council debate on palestine we speak to award winning well academy artist michael sample about why he's come to jesus as a british on his radio sixteen pilot told us more coming up in part two of going on the ground. you know world's big partners move a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

imagine that the six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things that they've been in an office and perhaps you sort of killings in excess or kids. are going to have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field on my head in my head. thinking it's like a real hard pressure my skin burns and that wireless access point there it's just continuous on saying with our students in the schools. we are just continually faith in our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and

it's getting worse. because there's a survival guide book stacie just like all the starts simply travel all the surfaces. be sure it's still there you don't get it back until after. all it's no good says a repatriations king look at the rest of seventy years. bill of the separate lives kaiser report. welcome back the un security council sits today to debate the ever growing fallout of nature's longest war afghanistan where unknown numbers of afghans have perished and more than ten thousand british soldiers have been killed or wounded but

afghanistan is just one of the countries experiencing the blowback from britain's humanitarian interventions and secret support for militants from libya to syria and yemen one artist you brushes away the hidden rubble of nature war mainstream media coverage is michael sandel his paintings edgings and sculpture look to criticize the heroic decadence of capitalism and its ever growing involvement in global conflict going underground deputy editor sebastian bagga went to speak to the multi award winning royal academy artist. look at television or read newspapers it's pretty terrifying. i just think that you come possibly quote. lost because it's. planted in. so you grew up in plymouth your house was bombed you think those bombs of

reverberated through your your artwork when i was in that we will record a baldwin was in one hundred forty one primitive gobo more than anywhere else in britain and you don't forget it i was a was twelve years old. if you're a truck it's a spectacle and you think that's normality but you don't forget it campaspe forget it it's seeing your city in ruins. and also knowing that it was you know it was all now our friends doing. that i remember is of his yesterday so i just think this is the he's so all for it tells you so much of how he is he would beings all europe it's soaked in blood. new thinking about how many wars there were in the twentieth century with just the second world war something about one very unpleasant horrible wars to one it

was spawned another one of your scopes is a twentieth century memorial yes can you tell me why you decided to change the name because account of why it was i was inspired to do it i was in berkeley compassed with some friends that. nixon has expanded the war by putting mines in the high from delta in the student riot it was a middle of a riot was put down with some force by the national guard and those were running away and the rubber bullets and abuse hurling and tear gas i thought oh somebody's got to do a sculpture book vietnam a lot of thought then with the sinking feeling oh gold is going to have to be me. and i did a lot of homework and i thought the americans were the bad guys are the jerk reaction so i'm going to call it. became else monument for america it was going to have to be mouse and machine gun i did some homework and i found out to my

amazement that the war in that was caused by the british and it is of historical fact that in in the it was the attlee government. just to be to after v.j. day the attlee government said a british general who general douglas gracie was small contingent of indian troops and he. was to take the surrender of the japanese forces who had occupied the no i told him no account get involved in the politics but he did just that he thought that the meeting was a puppet of the chinese communists they were nowhere near it no in fact the north pole was under these the jurisdiction of the chinese nationalists anyway instead of rounding up the japanese a policeman pretty armed them. the nine hundred forty five british of the japanese

fought alongside each other. and forced even who was a nationalist into the arms of communism and into the jungle also. he also the dogs with these indian troops also sprung the interned french guards the japanese interned and the french was alongside us and british uniforms we use spitfires against even the mes when i tell people this their mouths full open anyway i thought we cut i can't possibly blame the americans long cold it is a dream a moral for general perfidy and general stupidity not just americans it is also why i did the blair drawing it will at least go clean away with it a bucket erected of blair's good i mean you should send me expose him in new your i did around tripoli because i find him so disgusting in his

hypocrisy it's a lot of my work is against apocrypha come barrett so he pretends he's found jesus on the way you have his so saved when you go to heaven they want you to burn in hell and became a peace and that is the whole point i did i was interviewed o.j. is a peaceful the only magazine and is it the have turned he as a peace envoy in the middle east is like having king herod as a child by a girl on the left hand panel this couple paying who who did prisoners and beat them to cook as his simply the old hopefully by different sound turned into taking his mates and i'm thinking about the war in iraq which exercised me it was our party that because i'm convinced that tony blair went to war because of vanity. and in need of done. of us thought in many ways we're

a bit like vishy fronts. you know the french pretend they had nothing to do with the persecution of the jews because they did. so we didn't have to go persecute the rockies because that was attempted regime change. the regime joins as we know it's a kind of us look at look at libya look at something that was isis came because of the power vacuum and then you go out. getting rid of saddam hussein would seem to be a terrible mistake the mother being a monster away and he was a bulwark against radical islam and this peace in iraq the sound of your silence i mean always he's commenting on the election process he's made by the british army but it's also talking about asylum vote the when it when the point is the the war in iraq is that was it's catastrophe that millions of whatever have been iraq is

double deliberate and all the people say. yes the the the sculpture up i didn't know how to finish it i thought it would be square talking to friends going through but then i thought on the internet they photograph of a woman to carry her baby who had as hands bled off. and bandages i thought this is where i'm going to go and did a lot of research and you see a lot of iraqi prisoners with bags on their occluding bags put on by the british this is a very long just a short period the sculpture. ended up as appear to the reason these of course because again. against hypocrisy there seem to diary an amount of hypocrisy. in the world that had put christie in foreign policy is examined in the sculpture

behind us that yes this is this is it. we are poll that. says. cutting heads off with was knives but we cut heads off with droves of asteroids many ways it could be argued that ethically or morally superior to cut something for food pedal with a knife i could do it but up there but you won't particularly if the if you're in the i.d.f. the israeli defense force you flying over gaza you could be in an object your perfect safety dropping bombs killing those five children of the problems doing it that actually was the inspiration of the work when i when i when i saw a project growth of the children from seventy four laid out five of them i thought gold out of the obviously so i suppose it was my daughter who my daughter

is in that there's a portrait of her in that and then i thought well i don't want to attack this isn't really jesus i don't want to this is or a tuck although this point is based on i think all the lights of the car in the light of the world but i thought in many ways it would be a powerful statement of five point zero the fact that we do it been done throughout history but cutting heads off with with. a burning people alive is what we do with missiles and you know it is a pretty disgusting fossil right phosphorous i read about the trial to begin with that the doctors were horrified because steam was coming out of the trial feeder and it is called white phosphorus there is no hope for the they said they didn't use the course of all depleted uranium because so that of course they do and they kill first of all bugs didn't realize that when you think about it it was

astonishing. connection to dream of greed cruelty. stupidity is a huge amount of money made from rush to people alive the work i'm most proud of is the multiple siege memorial i want to give them all to go round trip the captain morgan's ship and i look up and i am sick with pride and the reason i got this commission is quite interesting because i used to go drinking in the very first job i had it lester in a pub called job wayne book thirty years later i got a letter from the. new veterans association is being set up called the george cross i love association an eye of the president of the maritime bronx building branch and i've watched your career. they want a memorial to the convoy that saved most of the of the codename operation at

a school pedestal when i actually got the monument finished after four years it was such a privilege working with these veterans i thought about the money. i thought that's it i mean. i was proud of and i was one of the b. of architect so you saw that destruction of your home and when you when you listen and you wanted to be a crater in a way or you think you got to go through you know you can't just but it's so incredibly important part of our history and we're heading towards sleepwalking probably into another war we're living in very very dangerous times of i'm convinced i worry about my children close. or not to be here but they're going to be the. so this is history just to repeat itself. a lot of something people who when they just seem to lack imagination. when you think is

a misery call the misery of the second world war the misery see what i hate is all these empty russian propaganda because they actually won the war twenty eight million died which is why we don't speak german. there's a conservative published politician was german they've got to be that these are was . bad mouthing russia i think this is a saying this is i thought this is a pity that the letter b. of putin wasn't cold roman and twelve stephanie peter why razz putin then he you are vilified even though at. that. ordering royal academy off as michael sandals be going on. so there are lots of the show on wednesday we'll have a review of the top stories of. steve. will

be back on wednesday seventeen years to the day that. would rule as the so-called pink. thing well. yes well this is all the good. old. uncle.

who put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want. to go on to be pros it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. my son. doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my system just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population. we

started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless number of people who are in prison for. certain sins for. minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

over that there was a lot of. top stories this hour. a p.p.c. reporter says her editors are quote out for blood and she asks another john list in france to establish any link between the kremlin and they get low test movement. and need.