here in the palestinian city of ramallah, many told us they had seen america as an honest broker in thece process, now, they see betrayal. nabil shaath: you cannot be a broker if you are the enemy of one of the two parties, or if you are only the friend of one the two parties, or if you side with the, with the other party all the time, particularly in important issues, and before you get started. scott: do you ever see yourself at a bargaining table with president trump or his administration? nabil shaath: alone? scott: sure. nabil shaath: no, no i don't think so, but with him together why not? why not accept the fact that the world is moving towards this multi-polar world? why doesn't he accept the fact that he is not anymore the owner of the universe? scott: we went to tel aviv to meet another former foreign minister, this time for israel. tzipi livni told us the palestinians and choose to respond with violence or negotiation, it's up the them. tzipi livni: what i said to the palestinians is the following, maybe, or i'm sure you didn't like this declaration, and maybe you have differe

the long term u.s. engagement in trying to create economic opportunities for palestinians not the same time also on tuesday afternoon in another palestinian city of ramallah a protest took place in front of the prime minister's office by a group of palestinian refugees who were complaining against the recent reduction of services being provided by the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees and all this reduction follows the announcement by the americans that they are cutting millions of dollars of funding to the organization and they are demanding that the fund the organization. and there goes a fundamental examination now again that decision came in light of the american president announcing his recognition of to receive them as israel's capital he did that in the same bill last year and since then he's also said that he will move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by the end often makes to all of this has left a lasting impression here on the ground wait tensions continue to climb i see that authorities pull us lee i thank you for those details paula but we'll get back to off to this short break with mor

we decided to go to hebron, the palestinian city in which the settlements have taken over a whole neighborhood and pushed out the palestinian majority. there we visited the home of a long-time residents and one of the few homeowners who has resisted a takeover by the settlers. >> an israel ya soldier who had served in hebron defending this very settlement is breaking the file. they are a group of israelis who served in the military and have decided to become witnesses to the injustices that take place there. they seek to educate the public through lecture and photography. ♪ >> in is not something i know from my own army. this is why the soldiers are talking, because it's so dehumanizing both sides. people who sit here went to the gas chamber. >> you know, this is like -- i don't have any words. this is like the basement of anything that judaism would stand for. the army of tomorrow is the group of children today. what is there for you when you become 18? 36% of the boys have to go. 45% of them witnessed the beating and the killing of their fathers. they immediately switch from the helpless fat

the west bank big if it's not just. this process and also this is this is a big if it's on palestinian life in this thing is converted to be still in city in jail for palestinians and it's make it's hard to transport between the palestinian cities in the east bank i think when you see it in yemen see that's he's believe in two state solution he means that one state for israel and another. so far this year israel has approved the construction of more than one thousand settlement units in the occupied west bank that's according to peace now and n.-g. o. that tracks and analyzes developments in the settlements palestinian foreign minister riyadh many key criticize the plan blaming the united states full given the green light to israel to do what ever it wants with palestinian land now remember that in december u.s. president donald trump announced that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a move that cools international outcry and condemnation from the united nations does imran khan joins us now from ramallah welcome back to the stream and ron i want to start here on you tube so we asked the question that you heard f

recognizes jerusalem as israel's capital or so on tuesday afternoon there was a protest in the palestinian city of ramallah in front of the prime minister's office now there are protesters object to to the reduction in services being provided by the united nations relief and works agency for palestinians that is now that follows an announcement by washington that it was cutting millions of dollars of aid to the agency until such time to quote that there was a fundamental examination of how it works last week the american vice president mike pence was here in jerusalem and the protests that we've been witnessing for the first time came inside the message all these radio parliamentary building. a group of blue makers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament stood up themselves and started shouting and holding up anti american plaque cards. or. should have since it is. now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans would be moving their

the open areas but invading the cities was somehow the most difficult part. of the moment. we're now at the heart of the journey refugee camp. this is palestinian ground zero . in two thousand and two days really army try to take hold of this camp and then they've decided to enter the city by first using the nine bulldozers. the way they did it really is a kind of a design by destruction off the can. they cut literally new streets through the dense urban fabric in order to allow the tanks to come in. the resistance retreated into the core of the camp and at the end of the battle effectively the bull. those is collapsed the heart of the camp on those on those fighters. i know. it was in the first times israel used bulldozers but it's the first time that the bullets were integrated into the battlefield. the fleet of bulldozers rew exponentially and the bulldozers become really the means of israeli fighting in palestinian urban fabric. the april two thousand and two attack on janine and the blues was the poor tree for the go s to think about the urban warfare in iraq and also training in the israeli training sides of welcome cities that were built

the shooting continues to be a fluid one this is the main route in and out of the south of the palestinian city of nablus the who are a checkpoint behind us here was closed early on wednesday june the time we've been here and seem to be operating pretty normally but in the last few minutes they've decided to close the exit route out of nablus that turning around all the vehicles and telling them to go back just a few kilometers away to the west is the illegal outpost of how about gilad that is where the thirty five year old victim of this shooting at the rabbi. had lived with his family his six children and wife it is now where his funeral has taken place this afternoon according to his widow very much according to his wishes he wished to be buried there it is an illegal outpost built without even any israeli permissions the fifty or so homes there there are now cabinet ministers some of whom have attended the funeral calling for israel post talked to legalize that construction of course all settlements in the occupied west bank are ruled illegal under international law and around novelis espec

divide the contested capital of jerusalem in any future deal with the palestinians and it reduces the palestinian population of the city by one third new borders have been drawn up so that several arab neighborhoods are now outside jerusalem it could all have a dramatic impact on any peace deal between israel and palestine with some saying it's yet another fatal blow to the two state solution we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first mohammed jam jhoom reports from west jerusalem. at its core this new law would require that eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members who are a full two thirds of the knesset would now be required to approve any future legislation that would attempt to divide jerusalem essentially that would ensure that jerusalem would remain off of the negotiating table when it comes to any future peace talks of course that would complicate an already very complicated situation now this vote comes on the heels of another contentious vote vote that happened on sunday this was a vote by the central committee of the likud party they voted to annex large portions of the occupied west bank now the

protesters clashed with police and churchgoers as the office the third made his way to the church of them city palestinians accuse the greek patriarch of setting land to israelis in favorable deals and a north korean lympics official has suggested the country may send a delegation to the winter games in south korea souls also believed to be open to athletes from the north competing the two sides that used to hold talks on the matter on choose day now u.s. president donald trump has rejected claims made in a new tell all book about his presidency in response to questions raised in the book about his fitness for office trump said that he would not qualify as smart but jenius sounded very stable genius it's that. well u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson also disputed claims in the book saying he has never questioned the president's mental fitness but in the meantime the book entitled foreign fury has become an instant bestseller. the book the u.s. president could not stop from hitting the shelves sold out within minutes and many stores deeply critical it depicts a chaotic white house and questions donald tr

any part of jerusalem to the palestinians the amendment proposed by the right wing jewish and party comes less than a month after the u.s. president donald trump recognized the city as israel's capital his move has infuriated palestinians and was rejected by a landslide vote at the united nations jim jim has more from western. at its core this new law would require that eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members or full two thirds of the knesset would now be required to approve any future legislation that would attempt to divide jerusalem essentially that would ensure that jerusalem would remain off of the negotiating table when it comes to any future peace talks of course that would complicate an already very complicated situation now this vote comes on the heels of another contentious vote vote that happened on sunday this was a vote by the central committee of the likud party they voted to annex large portions of the occupied west bank now the first thing to remember is that that resolution they voted on is not binding and also we've not yet heard any reaction from prime minister benjamin netanyahu as to whether he will indorse that resolution and actually t

palestinian refugees the u.s. is its largest donor both measures if they go ahead would cost around seven hundred sixty five million dollars a year in aid to the palestinians. jhoom reports now from the city of ramallah in the occupied west bank for. a mother of three palestinian refugee children a routine trip to the doctor was already riddled with complications. but after hearing the u.s. may decide to cut more than three hundred million dollars of annual aid to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees or as it is known she now worries a bad situation may worsen. it's getting more difficult it's getting more complicated and things aren't getting solved everything is becoming more expensive gold laws available to the poor is not nowadays on wednesday residents of the occupied west bank woke up to the news that u.s. president donald trump may halt aid payments worth hundreds of millions of dollars to palestinians if they're no longer willing to talk peace sixty year old with dylan a fool like so many other palestinian refugees here relies on this supported clinic in a refugee camp a health center that depends on foreign aid. it's hard because of the difficult si

thirds of parliament to approve any decisions made regarding the boundaries of the ancient city the office of the palestinian leader released a statement saying the bill has all but ended the political process between the two we spoke to political commentator amir oren about the. every once in a while when the polls show that netanyahu is quite close. there you go again shouting jerusalem they are all self-styled harry houdini who try to tie their own hands and put themselves into a box and then jump into the river and hope that no one will be able to send a giant crane via the great powers to them out of there because if at some future date some future government would like to negotiate the future off the territories occupied by israel for the last fifty years including east jerusalem these parliamentarians hope that it will be unable to do so but of course this is just a new lucian because if the reason some formula by which there will be a negotiated peace with the palestinians that the government of the day will change the law and therefore it will be able to split the jewish part of jerusalem from the a

we approach the two thousand and eighteen general election when we get up a little al-jazeera mexico city all those christians around the world celebrating the christmas holiday palestinian christians are marking the day with parades in the occupied west bank city of bethlehem eastern orthodox faith follows the old julian calendar which puts the birth of jesus christ on or near january the seventh russians. and ukrainians are also marking christmas correspondent jim joins us live from bethlehem so it's time for celebration for many of those christians what's the mood. well laura look the organizers have tried to make this occasion as festive as possible but this is a year in which there is a lot of anger there is a lot of hopelessness mostly stemming from the decision by u.s. president donald trump just one month ago today to recognize jerusalem as the capital. by this time of day usually in manger square it would typically be packed i'm going to ask our cameraman joseph to just try to pan around a little bit and show you it's really not all that crowded yes there have been for sessions of ushers and marching bands that have come through there has been music there are ch

two percent have access to the legal water grid in the palestinian areas once again you know about water you're talking about a society when the city was unified that was far behind and i agree that we have to do more to narrow the gaps where they exist but we're committed to doing so well in not doing it very fast another feature of life in east use of the frequent raids by your security forces on palestinians and then the dead of night one example three months ago the night of october twenty second around eleven thirty at night hundreds of israeli police border police special patrol units raided the palestinian neighborhood of a so we in east jerusalem according to bet selema the forces entered dozens of homes arrested fifty one there's an unseen clued in twenty six use between fifteen and seventeen they were forced to sign a declaration a statement of what they'd said in hebrew they don't they can't write read hebrew why do you do this to so i don't have the specifics on this i'm happy to get back to when i found out exactly what happened on that night i do know it's a pattern though isn't it you know it happens repeatedly accor

the capital of israel provoked protests and outrage among palestinians the allies and other critics worldwide that anger hasn't been placated with the visit of the u.s. vice president the divided city israeli palestinian members of parliament were forcibly removed was listening to his speech the applause in the class it was especially loud when pence promised the move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem will be complete by the end of next year and when he repeatedly referred to jerusalem as the capital of israel we'll get to our panel in just a moment but first harry forsett reports from west jerusalem. on the day he would become the first u.s. vice president to address israel's parliament the knesset mike pence was greeted with almost presidential ceremony by israel's prime minister he didn't take long to return the favor by a great offer to be out of the president's state of the big. israel's capital jerusalem. was a description of jerusalem the pence would repeat three times during his set piece a vent. up before he was interrupted by israeli palestinian members of the knesset decrying the u.s. position and any prospect of u.s. involvement in the peace process there i

jerusalem as israel's capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by where the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services after the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protests anger on the palestinian street have gone as far as to enter the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset where just last week the american vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with anti american messages citizens of israel. now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans will be moving

jerusalem as israel's capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services after the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protest and go on the palestinian street have gone as far as to into the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset where just last week the american vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with anti american messages citizens of israel. now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of makes sure the americans would be moving their

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jerusalem as israel's capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by where the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services after the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protest and go on the palestinian street have gone as far as to enter the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset where just last week the american vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with and american messages citizens of israel. now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans would be moving

the highest ranking u.s. official to visit the city since president recognized it as the capital of israel. and palestinians protested against his arrival. and hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the u.s. will have to stay at home as the government shutdown continues money for federal agencies. the senate failed to build a new spending plan in the coming hours. bringing his six day tour of south america to an end while he was welcomed by millions of catholics and chile and spain overshadowed by sex abuse cases and both countries. reports from. more than a million people joined francis for his farewell mass. the last time proving prayed with the pope was nearly thirty years ago here that now. says the pope's visit was inspirational when they're mostly and i'm going to i'm going it's been such a wonderful emotion for me you have no idea how much i've cried. peruvians followed eighty one year old friends from the amazon in the south to the beachfront mass in one chuckle in the north. many like seventy year old. made long journeys to see the pope. so i believe in the holy father so i started from my b

gone off in a car in southern lebanon the lebanese say the attack in the southern city of sidon targeted a member of the palestinian group hamas but he was wounded in the blast but his condition is not yet. at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmonella outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy farms french dairy giant like tellus says twelve billion boxes of powdered baby bill car being recalled more than thirty children have been poisoned in france alone thousands of people are on the streets of the two diseased capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring. many of the issues which brought people to the streets back then are still causing problems today the government's promised more assistance for poor families suffering from tax increases and price hikes after days of recent protests. the arabian oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last week is said to have sunk in the latest footage broadcast by chinese state television the ship is barely visible above the water iranian officials say there's no hope of any of the twenty nine missing

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