and engage with so many find themselves worlds apart. we choose to look for common ground ah, with. 6 fresh flashes ropes between israelis and palestinians near jerusalem. the idea raids, the i'm the most for the 2nd lights in a row forcing muslim worship is out of the holy sites. south african employees protest outside the u. s. embassy in pretoria. domonique bad treatment as up to many will start by local retailer owned by the american corporation warmer and you want to like a

promise is the top response to any move towards the pie one independent, which comes amid the regional. what we need is a meeting with high ranking us officials. also with rainy and on saudi arabian diplomats hold their 1st high level meeting in 7 years with the russian capital to the rest of the world. you're watching the international. my name is peter scott and these the top stories at 2 pm this thursday, thanks for joining us. for a 2nd nights of violence has a role in the alex of mosque in occupied east jerusalem with israeli forces kicking out palestinians out of one of his lambs, holiest sites. ah,

videos on social media show israeli troops storming the famous moscow resting hundreds of injuring dozens mall. israeli police use grenades. 5 bullets are palestinian worshippers during the raid. and won't video. you can see israeli police smashing down doors and windows to the mosque. a fell tensions following the aisle. i've surveyed half spilled over into northern jerusalem with rhodes on fire and gunshot, supposedly heard in the background of the images, shows several explosions in the dark out from specified locations already seriously . a 14 year old boy was reportedly shot in the arm of an encounter with israeli forces. the 1st rate on alex to the happened on wednesday morning when he's ready forces storm the mos using tear gas unbeaten palestinian worshippers is really police alleged that dozens of young men had thrown fires and stones into the mouth

and tried the barricade themselves inside palestinian says really actions can be justified and amounts a humiliation of their rights. religion and freedom had a fear. what happened in the courtyards of the alex a mosque, the stool. man, desecration of the alex, a mosque by design is the enemy and the expulsion of worshippers from it. is heart wrenching and it hurts all muslims in all the are countries, especially in palestine and gaza, with the thought that the wiring booth and tear gas inside the our acts mosque is a violation of the sanctity of the place. and the jews must know that these is a sacred place for all muslims. not just for the people of garza or palestine, also the bidding of women and worshippers who go to pray is not acceptable. our hearts are attached to the al axa mosque and it is at the heart of our faith. there is no way as governance to see scenes of beatings, especially women, and keep silent. we refuse humiliation and injustice also. and he's really prime

minister benjamin netanyahu says that he's taken measures to maintain that freedom of worship. adding to the army was dealing with extreme mr. armed with explosives and rocks. israel is committed to maintaining freedom of worship free access for all faiths. and the states a school on the temple mount and will not allow violence extremist to change this. they said was that i'm, it's certainly been in light of the criticism of this video showing the assault by these really army and the violence against believers. prime minister benjamin netanyahu tried to justify the soda. he set, the army intervened to evacuate a group. he called extra miss, which was aunt with explosives and rocks. he also band other muslims from going to the mosque. these rarely army still monitoring the state of its combat readiness at all the entrances to the old city of jerusalem. and at the doors of the alex somacki for the army, deployed its forces and introduced entry rules for worshippers. starting from and

to rose from a certain age, abandoned the entrance of young worshippers and women under 40. they began to fill out identity carts, which allow entry, but on the condition that they handover the certificates which will remain persley . this is done so that the worshippers did not stay in the mosque and to not pray late at night. israel defense minister promised that any one who tries to target israelis will pay high price. he visited the boat with garza and assess the security situation. as for security minister, been via in light of recent events, he convened to many security council and asked the israeli government to withdraw from the policy of containment and move to the policy of eliminating acadia in the gaza strip to my little o many in the international community of reacted to israel's options with the un saying it's shot as what's happening at the moss. the arab league is holding an emergency meeting with jordan center condemns. and he's really steps that affect the sanctity of the mosque,

the turkish presidents as israel's options of violence on provocative reaffirm in his nation support the palestinians. these are the baltic suppression i in the politics of what the baltics of provocation took here, could never remain silent and inactive in the face of these attacks site laying a hand on an axa mosque and trembling on the sanctity of the harem is sharif. he's all red line, or posting brothers and sisters who defend jerusalem at the cause of their lives when needed, or not alone. on behalf of my country, a nation i condemned unspeakable acts against the 1st key blow of muslims and call for an immediate and to these attacks. demonstrators outside the fatty mosque in bold to kia how the process in support of the palestinian worshippers were forcibly removed from the mosque. they waved palestinian flags and chanted slogans denouncing the violence of israel. authorities during its rates will opinions on

what's happening to our so are divided with some commentators just defined the actions of the police saying they're aimed at maintaining peace on the senate. israeli authorities are denied basic fundamental rights to palestinians. so early police, the claims they didn't know what happened during the night is that if it doesn't solve a young palestinians, they barricaded themselves in, inside the lock, some mosque and start started attacking the police, force it with the stones and fire works. and they say cause the police to go into the mosque and the rest, if you doesn't say young palestinians who were writing in the early police said this is an ongoing game. this is a result of an ongoing incitement campaign by amass and slimy kid. she had to cause

problems during ramadan and during the jewish holiday post over i. this is collation a doors bank on the border with garza and day in syria. a. this is a result of a campaign led by iran and they wanted they called the etc software resistance against israel to try and bring in your, on a steering to far down to west bank. and this is why desk escalation is happening. they decide to worship and church, or our synagogue, and all of a sudden military authorities decide that he or she are not allowed to pre at that specific time. in other words, israel as a military occupier, is determining when muslims can worship or when they cannot worship. absolutely, nothing will take place because the united states is complicit. i'll give you even

a clear example. as you all has been occupying ill legally or internationally recognized palestinian lands since 1967 and has called the death of thousands. oh, now simeon children women in men and at the same time with continuous violations proving violations and even international criminal court of justice. ah, case is being judged against israeli criminal politicians. and at the end of the day, nothing happens. they won the world through the russian security service has stopped an attempt by dozens of ukrainian soldiers to infiltrate to the russian region of brians. that at least is according to local authorities. now the incident comes after a small turbo prop plane that flew in from ukraine crashed in the same region. russia says the pilots entered the country's air space and try to escape with some

equipments before been detained. now the soft bait to the ukrainian citizen is now under investigation by russian authorities. he says he's a civilian pilots with no ties to the ukrainian military for russia media report, the man had served in the armed forces since 2014. there's been no comments on the instant so far from keith on to the battle for don bass now. eh, russian forces continued to advance him. incense fighting for the key city of abdi erica, in the done yet republic. moscow says that all the supply lines to the ukrainian controlled city are now under its control. what sanctioned infantry continued to encircled the fortified area. are these room acosta? have got a rare chance to speak to the crew and experience a russian tank 1st. hunt. ah, it's a day we are visiting with that sang battalion all the 1st army corps here in damascus. the russians are for sale. they are working on the

outskirts of the naz can rule interview the guys her sacrifice in their lives every single day. no news from the battle. my task in the have difficult era east to support infantry assault groups. we systematically carry out the tasks that are given to us. every day we see several 100 meters of our land. then we move forward and we complete the tasks. we have no other choice with we are standing on our own land, so our morale is high. i'm sitting in the sides, russian made c a t jack. now this is a commander's pulse right here where i'm sitting. and next to me is the so called hunter, a man who looks for targets. now they are a crew of this tank. their local from right here in dunn boss. and right now they'll tell me about their daily routine majority of the browser and also to my relatives and france. and i'm still here. we'll hold this will all and soon week to re will be ours. how we have reached the front line just on the outskirts of done

nets, kanza the tank t 80 will now commence its work. ah, this giant man, right here. he is showing us how the tank is shooting at the enemy in update. us. we destroyed the enemy fortifications which were stopping our infantry from advancing. the task was completed with finished firing and came back. so everything is fine. c, a did tank is now returning from its mission where it fired at least a 7 rounds against the enemy position near a heading back where they were re, lo. from on catherine harvey republic. let's discuss this on more with press tv, journalist, johnny miller. he's joining me live now in the studio. thanks for joining us. johnny. now have some western politicians on some western media who say that spring

in the summer, the better whether the better ground will be decisive and they expect ukraine to launch a counter offensive. what do you see gonna happen next week? months will not long ago, we were discussing the probability of a large russian offensive. both sides were indicating that that was going to happen, that never materialized. now that seems to be an indication once again from both sides, but it's ukraine that's looking at mounts a major offensive, sending a lot of poorly trained soldiers to the fun to try and hold apartments. but this feeling that they're holding back, well trained soldiers in preparation for an offensive, and that's very much a feeling, whether that choice to go down towards malleable. if i'm in land, bridge or elsewhere. but there's also indications coming from germany and elsewhere . that's if this attack fails, then there may well be more opportunities for peace. but at the moment, both sides of us around ukraine trying to get some traction on the battlefields

before negotiation. when those front lines settle or become absolutely started, then they will be the point that the stores quite possibly. but i mean, i've been before it's going to for, for a year and have numerous times. i said there's going to be an opportunity soon for more peace talks, and if there is a lot, you create an offensive. if that does fail, if it succeeds in some way, you may expect russia to want to take back to negotiations. we talk about it often, but still there a long way off. now, a couple of days ago, i believe, is sunday that there was i explosion, the cafe st. petersburg with the russian blogger was killed. do you do? what do you expect the west to to react more strongly to condemn this more over the remain fairly silent? well, this is obviously something that many john, this particular jonathan dumbass of concerned about that is i won't go into details what happens in st. petersburg from the still coming out. but what is clear is that

the ukranian government with the essence of need so is promotes and violence against john is particularly journalists who reported from don boss like myself, numerous foreign western journalist facing jail in europe being sanctioned. i fear in assassination. you have this list, middle voted of course, the peacemaker website. and it's incredible that this list remains up. if russia was the have a list that promotes the violence against journalists and children, i've little doubt that the russian government would take it down, perhaps prosecutes those who put it up as an extremist ukrainian website. and it's incredible that it is still up because it promotes violence against earnest. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. by the way, we don't have the sense of the accounts in this information, which is a ukrainian government agency sponsored by the government. they are now lighting allies, putting people on blacklist they write. 3rd lies about myself, puts out pictures of me on the internet, make accusations against me. it's,

it is itself a sense of this information. and then these lies that are written about western journalists, and i'm so russian journalist as well, that done in order to promote violence against them. and why is this being done? is being done because there are 2 sides to this complex. anybody who's been and don't bass. i spent a long time that myself has no choice, but to put the truth that's happening there, which is ukraine is intentionally selling civilians on the vast majority of people who don't yet support russia are no longer want to part of ukraine. and this is a truth, it's not being told to people in europe, you or nathan countries is when people realize that the vast majority of people who don't pass on the russian side no longer want to be part of ukraine. largely because of the selling of civilian then people realize there is a peaceful solution to be had. because right now, nice. so nice. there's only a path to peace is continue to support weapons, the ukraine. we're on the battlefield. there is another path to peace. and as many done the same, and that's why they've been targeted. and when the pieces eventually reached us,

he said, this is a war of 2 sides, and both sides have accused each of the old war crimes. do you see a time where i decide to be held accountable? yeah, i mean, it was only a matter of weeks ago when i was sitting in a cafe in don yet sc, living some time he used to take some time off. so i tried to think of some day off as listening and systems, some english football actually in a cafe, just trying to relax. no, my house. the building, shook the window shattered. some of the glass landed over me. 6 missiles, at least 6, not myself landed 2 of them either side of the cafe, one in front of my local supermarket. you know, many 2nd cafe beaten that's been hit to my apartments being hit, the bus stations go to the bus station, the markets, the bodies in the streets. i have personally documented as many fantastic journalists working dumbass documents, its numerous war crimes and the military targets in a sense of don't yet see the markets. this coffee that i was sitting in. the teenage waitresses, teenage people at the,

in the cafe there's numerous dozens of war crimes being committed by ukraine in done yet, sc and elsewhere. i don't suspect they will be prosecuted. they're not being taken to the i c. c. and there's a focus on a ledge lesson crimes, but ukraine seems to be able to get away with anything. now this is an interesting situation and keeps the moments around this chest laughter. that was part of the ukrainian or the don't leave have tried to, of said they decide the ukrainian government, even if you criticize church, of course they, they feel that it's connected to russia and anything connected with russia is that so that's why they're going after the church, but it's just one of many increasing human rights violations by the government. now know, finally johnny, i just want, you know, you've touched on this before and the peace process appears to be going nowhere talks failed in the early stages of war. we now have the west using moscow not wanting peace and vice versa. so we see

a most game trans predict what's going to happen, but how do we reconcile these 2 sides? now, how do you see this, this putting outs and where this is, this is one of the reasons i spent a lot of time in dumbass and as many fantastic dynasty through. and one of the most important reasons for reporting from dumbasses to report the truth that the majority of people in these regions, once, once we part of us, but also just want peace. you know, i was in medical, not long ago. everybody. i asked, what do you want? we just want peace. i was and submitted on yet scrutiny. of course, a huge battle for that city. people just want peace and this is not being told to you appear in audiences they. there's a feeling that the only way to create peace is the way on the battlefield. will know if we listen to civilians on both sides. stepped into the front lines. it's piece that there after that will mean you create giving up territory, but there is a peaceful solution to be how to china is becoming involved. at some point we're gonna have to get the piece has to be acceptable in some way to both sides. that's

why it's important to listen to the civilians on the grounds. just one piece indeed . well, fresh press tv journalist joining me that. thanks, jen. your experiences and your thoughts with us today. thank you. you are the foreign ministers of long time. rivals, iran, unthought rabies have held talks in beijing, where they confirmed their intention to restore biological ties. also contributes the use of july early as mol. this is the 1st time in 7 years that senior officials from saudi arabia and iran take part and engage in a meeting in person. so the foreign minister, saudi arabia's foreign minister based on been on. and i want a counterpart who's saying i'm going up the line met in beijing on thursday. the main goal of the meeting was to follow up on the recent beijing agreement, which took place back in early march between the heads of security councils of the 2 countries were the 2 sides agreed to normalize size and resume embassies that

engage more after 7 years of frosty relations. so today the 2 sides trust, they need to implement that agreement which took place in beijing down, which was brokered actually by china back then. the size also decided to build mutual trust and do all in their power to contribute to the security and stability and peace in the region. as, as you know, there are many developments going on against this meeting, of course is done against the backdrop of many developments, including the saudi war on yemen. and the fate of that war has so far been decided after that agreement. i was struck in beijing. so it will, of course, the facts. so many developments in the region today, the 2 sides decided to remove all obstacles to expand their ties in all levels. and

in all areas from politics, to economy and even security. they also agreed to reopen their embassies and we all went to iran and also their consulates in the saudi city of jetta. and in the iranian city of mash had the 2 sides also agree to resume direct flights between all and to run of course. so we want to saudi arabia also thank china for hosting the talks and hosting the meeting. and as you know, china played a major role instrumental role in normalizing the ties between saudi arabia and iran. after 7 years of i c relations that there have been several rounds of talks taking place and all man and in iraq, but none led to the normalization of ties between of on and saudi arabia. but the last one in beijing really contributed and thought the eyes between iran and saudi arabia and the 2 sides also invited one another to take part

in joint meetings in their respective countries. of course a ron and so to review have been have, have been engaged in as i told you, several talk st. oh man. in a raw i thought that back last one brokered by china was effective in normalizing ties. and as you know, back in 2016, the 2 countries sever ties. after the angry at wanting students stormed the saudi embassy into iran, after re all executed. the comp, shia cleric, no matter bog or number. and that led to the frosty relation between the 2 sides. now that the 2 sides are back and are resuming their ties, it is very, very significant step toward establishing and fro. of course, fostering peace and security in the region. as i told you earlier, the fate of several developments in syria and in yemen will be decided after the 2

sides will engage more and will contribute more to the peace and security of the reject. when china has lashed out the u. s. anti one, promising to take firm action to counter any move towards the islands independence . we are telling the democratic progressive party authorities to completely abandon the plot of taiwan independence and not to go all the way down the road of relying on the united states to seeking dependence. otherwise, an act of seeking independence will be smashed to pieces under the powerful force of the chinese sons and daughters to oppose independence and promote reification. the response comes amid the taiwanese regional leaders meeting with several american officials, including us house b, could kevin mccarthy recently pushed for an increase in on sales to taiwan china. views the island as an integral part of the territory. though it is similar,

moved in 2022 by then how the islands driving earlier. china also express con washington and the western media and spacing is active aggressively. while conservative political action conference board members gordon chart and accused asian of getting ready to quote, kill americans. china is preparing to kill americans and we've got to prepare to defend ourselves. and the defense department is making slow really slow molasses slow preparations to oppose china, which are professor the suit out. university big gal says washington is agitating for war, cross the 2 sides of the taiwan straits. welcome to meet with the local be that saying, learn of i one will advocate style independence and separatism is a violation of the one china policy, which is the basis for china us relations. therefore, i seems mcafee should be fully aware of the consequences of what is he not

a state seems to be agitating for a wall across the 2 sizes in taiwan straits rather than promoting peace and stability in the taiwan strait. what china. ready will do is definitely clear. china will stand firm in defending sovereignty and territorial integrity and defending the one china policy. as a matter of fact, no country including the united states, will be able to take child one away as a sovereign independent separate country. such attempt will be an attempt of futility. it will only accelerate the peaceful reunification. busy all reunification in other weights, so beware of the consequences. it will be completely in proportion to such a violation of the sacred one china policy. meanwhile, the french president, manuel micron says he's looking at china to get the ball rolling to settle the

ukraine conflict is just if i know i can count on you to sat in motion the 2 aspects so that i just mentioned to bring russia back to peace and everyone else to the negotiation place. well, the president microns remarks come as he's now in beijing for thoughts alongside european commission president on the lion, host of issues all set to be addressed by the power, including economics on trade and china, the floor as well. so those responsible for the war in ukraine on need. so on the u . s. s. for the responsibility on the ukrainian issue, i think that the united states and the military blocks such as nato should take responsibility. nato has no right to criticize china or put pressure on it. it's a very clear statement that who is behind the conflict. so by criticizing china, i think this is something that china will never take if europe and nato is not supporting what that was to you, craig,

the situation is not going to be coming to where it is. now. let us don't forget that peace talks or pulse what ceasefire between russia and ukraine did take place a couple of times before. who is the party that came me to interrupt about was of course they're not all on the front stage, but we will know what is going law is quite apparent to the, to the whole world. and it's not right. and if you keep supporting you crying by sending weapons, this is not going to end the war or anytime soon. so when it comes to the position of china, if you anybody, if anybody is going to expect china to spend all the side on the euro or of europe, this is not gonna work. china promotes a ceasefire,

promotes peaceful talks in south africa, members of a workers union have rallied outside the u. s. embassy in pretoria as after many of them were sacked by local retail. this owned by the american corporation formats. processes say the 600 workers were on lawfully fired by macro. the south african companies showed it stuff the door after they went on strike last june. and i mistreated now what the u. s. you pressure.