we were expecting more people, actually. —— amman.cting more people, actually. -- amman. they are scared of the regimes. they are regimes are puppets with the zionists and the americans. this security presence at the front of the american embassy in amman reflects the confused position ofjordan. the amman reflects the confused position of jordan. the authorities amman reflects the confused position ofjordan. the authorities were not happy with mr trump's decision yesterday. even members of the royal family expressed that on their twitter feeds. jordan is one of the strongest allies in the region to the united states of america. therefore, jordan needs to maintain a strong relation with that country. issam ikirmawi is a correspondent for bbc arabic — we can speak to him live injerusalem now. how would you describe some of the reaction you have seen there today? here in eastjerusalem, there have been some minor protests, mainly outside damascus gate, the main entrance to the old ofjerusalem. palestinians gathered and chanted slogans aga

to our correspondent rob matheson rob matheson is there he is in the omani capital muscat and rob amman is very interesting isn't it a because it it maintains always a neutral position on any of the disputes that affect the g.c.c. and it has done so this time hasn't it. that's absolutely right and i'm very distinctly did not take part for example in the south dakota led coalition and the fighting in yemen and it has taken and it continued to have an independent stance as it always has had when it's come to diplomacy with in the middle east the news that's coming out of kuwait about the summit is going to be very very disappointing for the for those people in amman because they were really hoping that the cohesion of the g.c.c. was vitally important that the it was extremely vital to their their existence within the the middle east and their positioning within the middle east and their diplomatic issues that the g.c.c. should remain unified and clearly it looks as though from what jamal was saying that is possibly not going to be the case it's fair to say that here in amman they've been

jordaan heights and with mt head amman. in lebanon. most likely over the next forty eight hours this area will be cleaner to from. opposition groups and they will be moved is that eminence of then they would be moving to northern syria the next stage as all indications show will be good as you mentioned in your introduction this will take a two track track off diplomatic negotiation involving the russians and us and took the track of military pressure i can see that between now and the month of february the situation will be settled an easy way. about that clearly is that it really is is now mobilizing troops around all of. those a situation is going in the direction of military confrontation or if the opposition accepts they will be moving toward the north to the. problems near the border as has had been done over in many areas including the west. so bored i was lebanon last summer when separate one hundred. militia members and their families where moved by buses to robin and. problems so it just remains to be see ok but clearly is th

the war in yemen began one escape route from the fighting has been by road across the border into amman some of money is a driving in the opposite direction taking truckloads of aid towards the battlegrounds matheson reports from moscow. for over forty days mohammed has been waiting he has on call his brothers and their seventy year old father have traveled over two and a half thousand kilometers to muscat from their home in the yemeni port city of aden lyon a lot of the services in aden are very bad there is no electricity water or food we have to buy it from the black market and it costs too much life is very difficult. father has spent those six weeks inside the muscat apartment they all share he has cancer he has a visa for treatment in germany mohammed is his father's official companion but his visa hasn't come through him and the health system in yemen has almost collapsed they can only do simple first aid and basic operations but for serious illnesses there is no treatment and people can't afford it much of yemen has been ripped apart by fighting between hooty rebels and saudi le

embassy in amman be closed they want the government cut ties with israel jordan's king abdullah is the custodian of holy sites in jerusalem. this was the scene in egypt's capital cairo hundreds of people there of them protesting in front of the. mosque. and in malaysia hundreds of people marched towards the u.s. embassy in kuala lumpur prime minister najib razak says that he's opposed to trump's decision he's called on all muslims to protest russia's foreign minister says that north korea wants direct talks with the united states so gay lover off passed on the message to u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in vienna on thursday it follows that office latest launch of a missile which it says can hit anywhere in america and threats of nuclear retaliation by donald trump the u.s. and south korea wrapping up a week of military exercises pyongyang has long called for an end to the joint drills. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in

the middle east they are still carried by men during important ceremonies and family occasions in amman the traditional me known as a handle is a source of national pride. omanis often say that is a symbol of their national identity. and similar knives are made in neighboring yemen and southern saudi arabia but the craftsmanship here in oman has been for centuries considered the finest in the region. silversmiths at this workshop in the historical town of from india. people they've been taught the arts of using traditional omani designs to make a dagger which can take months to croft my grandfather me this is the best things you can do with all of the life because this is the love of all my bebo everything and so that's a fairly you're taking this water project out for you and then the. government recently set regulations on how the omani should be made in order to preserve its specific characteristics the traditional saidee favored by the royal family for example must have four or seven rings depending on the status of the wearer handles that used to be made from black rhino horns are

omar al bashir as she was wanted on genocide charges arising from the conflict in darfur he was in ammanlast march attending the arab league summit. you're up to date those your top stories the stream is coming up next we'll see you in about half an hour by. five m. e r k i.

failing to arrest sudanese president omar al bashir is wanted on genocide challenges but she was in amman last march attending me arab summit to international warrants for his arrest on ten challenges arising from the conflict into for the warrants were issued by the i.c.c. in two thousand and nine but so far he has evaded arrest and steadfastly the challenges. hundreds of supporters of ukrainian opposition politician mikhail saakashvili have trashed with place in kiev as a herring was held into whether he should be held in custody the former georgian president is accused of conspiring to topple ukraine's leader at your part. following large demonstrations on sunday supporters of opposition figure in ukraine mikhail saakashvili confronted police outside a courthouse in the capital kiev. inside a plastic defendant's box the former president of georgia saakashvili responded to allegations that he conspired to topple ukraine's president the chocolate billionaire petro poroshenko there for very simple. there. we raced over words for a. profit out of the event of a new breath once an ally of p

war in yemen began one escape route from the fighting has been by road across the border and into amman but somalis are driving in the other direction taking truckloads of aid towards the battlegrounds matheson reports from ascot. for over forty days mohammed has been waiting he has on call his brothers and their seventy year old father have traveled over two and a half thousand kilometers to moscow from their home in the yemeni port city of aden. for the services in aden are very bad there's no electricity water or food we have to buy it from the black market and it costs too much life is very difficult mohamed's father has spent those six weeks inside the muscat apartment they all share he has cancer he has a visa for treatment in germany mohammed is his father's official companion but his visa hasn't come through. him and the health system in yemen has almost collapsed they can only do simple first aid and basic operations but for serious illnesses there is no treatment and people can't afford it much of yemen has been ripped apart by fighting between rebels and saudi led forces back

will tell you a centuries old way of and crafting knives in amman remains a symbol of national identity. welcome back as we look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia we've seen some pretty heavy showers affecting island of bali of last twenty four hours some significant rainfall totals being picked up in denpasar further towards the north the remnants of tembin and given some large rifle totals on the islands off of vietnam and through the mekong delta itself otherwise looking at the forecast we've still got some pretty disturbed weather across them parts of vietnam into cambodia heavy showers across the philippines heavy showers again across java and bali up through the malay peninsula we've got some time ports for kuala lumpur singapore but i think has to be a fair amount of dry weather here for the north a chance one or two showers affecting bangkok in thailand down into a straight here and here so look at the satellite imagery see some showers closed popping up across central areas and also across parts of the north we've got some heavy rain here from a circulation which

cairo and alexandria and amman we have morocco amman qatar and tunisia and out of those four last countries for missions there's nothing left so this was the beginning of two thousand and beginning of two thousand was when the peace process as you mentioned with prime minister. barak before going to camp david was its peak we had a honeymoon at that time with the arab countries and we had different mattick missions there. and now you know there was a tournament of judo in abu dhabi in october and there was a problem getting the israelis in and the compromise was that if the israelis will win the gold the anthem will not be sang and this was the deal actually one of the israeli jew doctors one demand a medal and they had to give up listening to the anthem i was in qatar exactly seven years ago for a conference of the u.n. . and the. qataris had issued visas for a group of israelis and the is where you were even invited to speak in public in the conference so these days i'm not sure if this could happen again because there is lots of how so there is you know israel is becoming kind of the mid

the country many of the victims are children saudi arabian horses international intervention in the amman back in march twenty fifth to support the government against little rebels the campaign has claimed thousands of lives. daoud chiral a professor of international law at georgetown university believes the u.s. government should end its support for the saudi military campaign in yemen are crimes are being committed against defenseless. people. market absolutely unconscionable washington should be. very small responsibility than other countries why because it is so close to saudi arabia because it is the fault of weapons that are rules in yemen and because it can go much more. than i think what the other part that i really would blame is the media international media and particularly the american media they don't do what is necessary to bring it to the attention of the public in general the scope of these atrocities. and explain libya's largest oil pipeline causing a major supply disruption it triggered an instant spike in the global crude price up to sixty six dollars a barrel the highe

in amman she's been talking to locals in eastern guta and she joins us from there thank you so how would you describe the humanitarian situation there. the humanitarian situation in eastern although is catastrophic the area has been under siege since twenty three thousand and now we're talking about close to half a million civilians innocent people who are triscuit starvation and dying because of the lack of medical supplies and refusal of medical evacuations and how much food and water is left there. there's not much the reports that we have been receiving from the ground is that there's barely any any food and that medical supplies are dwindling we're talking about children who are dying from medicines that are available ten kilometers away at the regular the mascot's pharmacy that they can't get to because of the siege sara the u.n. has put together an evacuation list of civilians but an evacuation hasn't happened yet why is that. so they want to cite administrative and security that is but there's also the fact that the syrian government has refused to evacuate these medical cases de

most thorny issues of the israeli palestinian conflict with both sides claiming it as their capital amman and . let's get more on this now we are joined by kilmer scieno he is a middle east expert for the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to the program and thanks for being there. a controversial vote the outcome is highly expected to be in favor of this vote we know what are the implications of that result would you say the surprising especially when taken into account for the general assembly of the u.n. which is already considered to be quite critical towards israel enormous a consensus that alone these specific unique circumstances unlike the security council resolution that was vetoed earlier this week this resolution is nonbinding nevertheless we've seen an enhanced diplomatic efforts by the israelis to weigh in what you can define is talk to convict or is convincing specific nations saying there's not opposed to specific reason to sion so a symbolic vote there but nevertheless i mean we have seen very strong rhetoric coming from world leaders and i wan

correspondent: that is good news for wadi karak, a canyon south of the capital amman, an oasis of biodiversity often arid desert landscape. a lot of water is channeled to farms and the towns in the area, but at this time of year, there is still water flowing in the river. local men have got together to look after wadi karak. some used to hunt, until they realised that there were fewer and fewer animals to kill. now they seek to protect the plants and the animals of the area. >> the men are doing important work. the most important thing is keeping the canyon clean. they go down there and pick up all the trash. they also tell visitors about the environmental issues and work as tour guides to earn some money. correspondent: a trip along the canyon can lead right through a waterfall. the guides have been trained to keep the tourists safe. the canyon is more than twelve kilometers long. much of the terrain is beautiful. but not the part near a sewage works. ten days earlier waste water was released here. the stones still stink. >> we say this impacts tourism here. groups we accompany hiking along t

good to talk to so many thanks indeed one robot either in amman. let's go live now to gaza and i was there as bernard smith is there and can tell us about the situation in gaza where i understand bernard funerals for those who were killed in friday's unrest have now begun. going to be for funerals today adrian two for two hamas fighters who were hit by an israeli airstrike earlier today those funerals taking place in gaza city in the next hour or so and also two three and also two people killed in confrontations with israeli security forces along the border for along the border for a fence on friday those two people were shot israeli security forces uses used live rounds along the border fence on tear gas in response to stone throwing by palestinian. palestinians in gaza on friday there's also been another protest in gaza today by one of the political groups here that was set off from here a short while ago and it's going to the city center so still a lot of. desire really hearing garza so show frustration and anger with donald trump's decision to

decision on jerusalem status let's bring in our mimi in the jordanian capital amman he's the author of the book. the un written chapters good to have you with us so after seventy years in power is handing over of thora t. in gaza as part of that deal the formation of a unity government is it seen by the palestinian street as a defeat for us. not really not a defeat for him us all palestinians realize that hamas has come under. siege as well as outside gaza and the rating humanitarian situation inside gaza is what prompted hamas to accept a deal which it would not have accepted under better circumstances because it is in a sense humiliating deal but it's accepting it for the sake of the starving people of gaza. now at the same time. the u.s. has of course taken a position on jerusalem recognizing as the capital of israel has that boosted the popularity of hamas least in terms of it as being a resistance group rather than a government well i expect that it would have boosted hamas popularity because what. trump has done is to prove hamas' point of view that the peace process was not taki

at amman look at them in the muscular say it was a male dominated world. people in the secular museums i had worked in there were more women. on the other hand when i left the vatican library twenty years later about half the staff were female and. the papacy adapted to social reality and it was inevitable that my day with that particular bit of function. the first woman to head the vatican museums still faces enormous challenges six million visitors pass through these hallowed halls each year as many as thirty thousand on a good day and all of them want to see the sistine chapel with its famous michelangelo frescoes. extended opening times haven't days the pressure. now. is trying to reboot the stream of visitors. to chill nicole chillingly book and i look at windows and there is only one entrance to the sistine chapel visitors have to pass through the map galleries and the room and listen to torah that. we're working on an alternative so that the chapel can get reached from various sides but whether that could be equipped with them it's complicated becau

asked me my relatives came together and decided to marry me off to a seventy five year old man from amman they are only told me on the day of the wedding when i saw the old man all i could do was cry i tried to persia estan said i'm far too young. to me. india outlawed child marriage in two thousand and six but in munir is case as with many other women here the marriage broker used falsified documents a corrupt imaan precisely did over the wedding ceremony munir was forced to go with the old man for three weeks he sexually abused her in a hotel in hyderabad then he disappeared when the man was informed that munir was pregnant he divorced her over the phone from oman that was eight years ago until recently the muslim practice of instant divorce was legal in india when there is still so much khan has never seen her father but i think that i have suffered a great deal whenever i think about it it still upsets me mentally i don't want to cry here in front of my daughter. can shouldn't have to ask why her mother is unhappy that would upset her too much. so we had to go. near it takes us to her

well in addition since early november saudi arabia has been blockading amman and that's plunged the war ravaged country into an even deeper humanitarian crisis. where rubbish rubbish and we drink from rubbish and if anyone accuses us of lawyers they can come to us with everything with the wrong place. on government were here looking for food we have no work no work places that is why we work here. today if we look at the middle east yemen is the most urgent humanitarian catastrophe or that the world needs to highlight the almost eighteen million people need some sort of humanitarian aid more than twenty people men women and children lose their lives on a daily basis in yemen food and and and medicine prices have really increased to an unattainable extent where people are unable to buy their basic necessities this is really unacceptable for people to die of totally preventable reasons. meanwhile after the fall of ice or in syria and iraq more tales of horror are emerging of life under the terrorist rule. kurdish minority families in iraq known as you see these suffered capture death or e

why because it is so close to saudi arabia because it is the source of weapons that are used in the amman and because it can go much more and it doesn't i think what the other part that i really would blame is the media international media and particularly the american media they don't do what is necessary what the bringing to the attention of the public in general the scope of these atrocities to put an end to them to put some pressure on responsible people i just don't understand why the u.s. is dormant on or not enough that it's an accomplice it's not dormant and why is it doing this what is the purpose that is being served in these atrocities i don't know. really feel so obsessed with what is going on continuously going on and for what. ok professor of international law at georgetown university carolla thanks for your insight today here on our international good to have you with us as always. an explosion has hit libya's largest oil pipeline that's caused a major disruption of supply it triggered an instant spike in the global crude oil price up sixty six dollars a barrel the highest

question whether america's long standing military engagement in the region is even helpful so highly amman also slammed washington's track record on promoting democracy abroad. no outside power can engineer democracy inside a country nor is democracy the solution to every problem examples in iraq and libya are in front of us after the fall of gadhafi and saddam what happened in this country's did they get democracy it is a syria currently and of course yemen afghanistan iraq all of these countries they have lost the stability and they are in serious problems in fact the moment there are some scribes in the new york press in the washington press who are predicting that if pakistan doesn't go the line of the united states of america if syria like situation may be created over here because pakistan cannot allow its territory to be used by others to engineer in the name of democracy and me farcical moves which will destabilize the country for wildfires have now been burning in southern california for six days authorities say the science of a claimed one life with hundreds of thousands fleeing

both the rebels and the amman say they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates but i would obvious denying the claim meanwhile iran which is being.

editor of turkey's her it daily news in tel aviv gideon levy con this with her at newspaper and in amman more in rabbani a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies a very warm welcome to all of you use of turkey in that calling this emergency summit sort of common response to the u.s. declaring jerusalem as israel's capital it certainly got a common response but it was all words. first of all it was important for do this them countries to have a calm voice and gazed. at a grace from the beginning as a provocative action by the american presidency. because so far is that states keep on talking about the palestinian problem but no one is taking concrete action concrete curb action further than condemnation or is there any actions or articulates they can against the palestinians now for the first. greet step. you submit has called on all countries members or does the recovery's and others. jerusalem as the occupied capital or palestine ok more in which even when you agree with that what do you see the outcome of today's summit as a concrete step in the right direction. i think i

spoke to human rights watch researchers in the jordanian capital amman she's been talking to locals in eastern gaza and gathered information for the report we asked her about the humanitarian situation there the humanitarian situation in eastern is catastrophic the area has been under siege since twenty thirteen and now we're talking about close to half a million civilians innocent people who are triscuit starvation and dying because of the lack of medical supplies and refusal of medical evacuations we are hoping that the star talks come up with with with the plan and actually push the syrian and get their actions to push the syrian government to allow humanitarian aid and access in this is particularly vital given that looters actually an area under one of the is a deescalation area under the supreme and which means out which means that there should be humanitarian access there should be suspicion of hostilities but even where there isn't civilians shouldn't be dying because of this and humanitarian access should be outlawed. that's human rights watch researcher sara coyote talking to

the drop in the value of the pound has weighed in british amman's volume sales to person from france fell lost yet by eight point seven percent. by comparison shipments to the us frances second biggest export market worries by six point three percent. the full in sales even t tough of the small busisinesses like frederikse face competition from big brands who can deploy marketing strategies to entice customers. and the uncertainty is set the snp d the nasdaq both trading up around over one percent at this hour here in europe stocks ended the week on a makes no attack on here in paris ended the session down just over one ten over tenth of one percent. father while the food see and attacks in frankfort ended the week in positive territory. the head of the international monetary fund is in the ethiopian capital christina god welcome the country's decision to devalue the currency by fifteen percent in october. that god added that despite a positive global trend and there are seventeen countries on the african continent that senior incomes go down not up take a listen. one who will say th

is limiting supplies of fuel food medicine says he's concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the amman where millions of people are on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak. the ukrainian president petro poroshenko has greeted ukrainian soldiers who were released by pro russian separatists they were freed us part of a prisoner swap between the government and rebels in ukraine's war torn east the exchange happens near the city of horlivka which is mainly controlled by the pro russian separatists the philippine government is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding in were always city the army we took the area from fighters linked to iceland toba after five months each only for tropical storm have been to sweep through the city . those are the headlines but stay with us on al-jazeera people and power is next. as another year draws to an end we'll take you around the world to find out what's expected in twenty eighteen. join us for a series of special reports as we assess the potentia

demonstrations in many palestinian cities in gaza on him and also in a number of arab capitals like amman jordan is done. lebanon and other victims and we do believe that and expect that maybe tension will escalate in the coming hours of days as a result of this u.s. declaration which is adding fuel to the fire in the destabilized middle east region and what about even in iraq shia militias there say they plan to attack u.s. forces over this decision do you see things escalate in there as well. well i believe in an arc it's. it's very important to note is that because that on a number of u.s. military advisers that autumn around five thousand u.s. military advisers and pearson in and in iraq and was invaded by the u.s. in two thousand and three and the u.s. government is also supplying and aiding the iraqis to come back i says another thing in vatican moves but what we have seen today is that. an iranian backed militia called the heart of it was below a new juba threatened the u.s. and its pearson and in iraq that they will be a target for this militia as a result of this u.s. declination

and amman otherwise the picture is a quiet one temperature wise for ankara we're talking about nearly into the teens the next couple of days possibly getting there quite nicely just a bit of brief southwesterly before winter talks back in so quiet well then levant iraq and iran mostly in the arabian peninsula too but you do know what's happening around here that rain might spread as far west as qatar possibly bahrain on both saturday and sunday but the concentration is probably going to be through abu dhabi dubai muscat the eastern side of her mouth and there could be some pretty heavy downpours in this process of flash flooding is a probability southern africa's gone quiet again at least if your way but there is a lot of cloud developing in the middle of south africa cape town's gone disappointing her temperatures back down to normal again. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they're putting out every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well d

speaker are relevant but they are not at the root of the problem the root of the problem is in the amman in the problem issues between the numerous factions that are in yemen do you see any diplomatic way out of this crisis well if there are in the there is a diplomatic way there is a diplomatic solution if the intention is and the willing there is to be diplomatic we have the a clear resolutions by the not nation we have the outcomes of the yemeni dialogue national dialogue and we have the. initiative there are the three main. pillars which could be referred to when we come to the political process but unfortunately until now there are some conflict there are some different entrances between different country. the super country the super powers in the world which doesn't look at the war and conflict in yemen as important as it is in different areas in the world that's why they don't try to solve it until this point of time and i think from inside the country the hope is after killing mr psylocke their ally the former president they are trying to claim that they are the only way to prese

and amman but two thousand and seventeen has been a year of crisis for the bloc three members saudi arabia bahrain and the emirates a blockading a fourth. many observers dowser the summit would even take place and when it did the two day meeting ended off to a few hours we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first mama june reports from kuwait city. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might end the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been hammered acehnese issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir shifts about how the with us obama and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a

moment for them. [ child babbles ] >> walk into this registration center at the u.n. refugee agency in ammand, suddenly, something about this millennium's desperate refugee story speaks to the last millennium's -- ellis island, circa 1900. that was the storied gateway to america. here, some 1,000 refugees a day come dressed in their best, hoping to find their own gateway to somewhere. mindful of the trump administration's efforts to ban syrian refugees, the unhcr's paul stromberg tells me vetting here is about as extreme as it gets. >> it involves many different agencies in the u.s., different security databases, several different in-face interviews over a period that can last up to two years, biometric verification at different stages of the process. it's basically the hardest way to get to the u.s. if you're a syrian. globally, less than 1% of refugees are resettled. >> that's tiny. >> that is. >> a quick walk-through reveals endless interview rooms, waiting rooms, biometric testing areas, creating an unprecedented and vast databank. in this game of human lottery, the weakest often wins. a

that crash of the housing market when people couldn't borrow against their equity anymore the rise of amman and amazon and other online shopping of course especially for clothes and the loss of middle class due to the stagnant wages and the upward shift in wealth towards household that are more likely to spend on luxury goods and items you might get the local mall. still some retailers including costco t.j. maxx and home depot have really beaten the trends and as we've reported on this program this year is black friday and cyber monday both set records with cyber monday two thousand and seventeen entering the history books as the biggest shopping day ever this suggests that there is still ways for chump change to survive if they can leverage their brick and mortar presence with a really resoundingly retail strategy. not too long ago the u.s. men's soccer team was eliminated from competing in the twenty first fateful world cup leaving fans feeling anguished one sports economist says that loss could also have some financial implications more about that we're joined now by the actor matheson p