fear hosts muslim friday press for the 1st time involving 18 years with the latest on president arafat's controversial decision to convert the world monument back home. i'm still go welcome to the program china has ordered the united states to close one of its called units the foreign ministry has given us official 72 hours to leave the consulates in the southwestern city of chengdu this comes after washington told beijing to close its diplomatic mission in houston texas earlier this week relations between the 2 countries are at their lowest point for 40 years . it was less a question of if china would retaliate but rather how and the answer is here the u.s. has been told to close its conscience inching to. raising the stakes get further and this diplomatic standoff. through major to the current situation in china u.s. relations is not what china wants and the u.s. is completely responsible for all of this. all of this includes the u.s. imposing sanctions on communist party officials and companies linked to the mass detention of weaker and ordering china to shut its mission in houston ci

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brakes thehe u ule sacrificice a abraham waseady to make offering his son is about to go out on mount arafat in mecca. the boy was so bad when godd gave him a land to sacrifice instead. the owner of the profits and begins a three day cease fire has begun in afghanistan between the taliban and government forces. it's only the third official truce in eighteen nineteen years of war i'm also ready shaky before it began. just hours before the start of the a car bomb killed more than two dozen people in the country's east. the taliban denies involvement. despite that ceasefire clalashes took place at this friday on the afghani pakistani border this as crowds of civilians tried to cross the frontier for the eat holiday. now different accounts emerge from kabul and islamabad about the incident afghani ofofficials accusingg pakistan f firing shells and gunfire across the border into a crowd of civilians killing fifteen people while islamabad said afghan forces fired fast.t. dozens of travelers were alalso hot during thehe clashes and around a hundrdred and fifty peoplele were trying to cross te borde

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1st time in nearly 90 years the building opens for muslim prayers we have the latest on president arafat was controversial decision to change the status of the world in this monument also coming up security forces.

open today for muslim prayers we have the latest on president arafat wants a controversial decision to change the status of the world's famous monument. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the spokesperson for the iraqi armed forces said on twitter that the military has freed german art curator helen mavis who was kidnapped. by militants earlier this week the official said that mavis was rescued on the outskirts of baghdad this morning 5 days after she was abducted by gunmen outside of her office in the capital the german national is a well known figure in baghdad where she runs an arts program for young iraqis she's also known as an outspoken critic of the government it remains unclear who was behind the kidnapping. huge time and has ordered the united states to close one of its consulates in a tit for tat move the foreign ministry has given us officials 72 hours to leave the consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu it comes after washington told beijing to shut its diplomatic mission in houston texas earlier this week on tuesday the u.s. accused 2 chinese nationals of attempt

and to ramallah in 2000 and then you know occupied and the ants round in former president yasser arafat for for a long long time and so on they overtook many other places sell it all exist really and and then all and sort of rhetoric and and and and and in terms of code nation basically security coordination between the palestinian authority and there is really so that you know to really effectuate they are to a process know already outcomes out of process that should have been crowned with their palestinian state had gone on a long long time gone ago as so that is no longer a viable case and i think that also and that buddha said that you know it is really in behooves a palestinian to look at where they have to look and how they can resist and what to fight for to lead to a spouse and then perhaps you know an ocean articulated by the great american journalist the wire he says you know when injustice is law then resistance is dirty and you have to come up with a creative way to resist this system or about a god that is in a holy supportive of external supported. let's just suppose for a

yasser arafat as well as the u.s. gets back into the. act like an enormous tragedy who observes its international obligations and they can join the other members of the agency if you are indeed on t.v. and a normal. discussion about the nuclear issue as the 1st that you need before president trying to sign it we need it if you'll let me ask your subject questions about the accusations that have been hurled against your country let's start with the tanker attacks in the persian gulf with which the united states and others including the brits say they have evidence that you have done this what would be your response to that sir. you have not seen any shred of evidence he provided to you don or to anybody else iraqis a chance each have been. you know will be jested by you know on and as i said if they have any and he had a guy who had. the whole international bank i mean i'm going to caucus but they try not to watch the information prior to even after the assassination of general salim mahdi the united states says that he personally includi

today marks the 41st anniversary of the first visit of yasser arafat to europe — it was to vienna ine chancellor there, then bruno kreisky, and the engagement started the pressure by europe and the international community to accept the plo, accept the two—state solution. the argument was should you arm yourself with international legitimacy and law, you will get a state on the 1967 borders with eastjerusalem as its capital and all of your historic issues, legitimate issues, like the issue of refugees — will be resolved. that was the argument. so that was never — the two—state solution was never a palestinian demand. it was a palestinian concession to ally ourselves with international law. this moment is more about international system, international order than it is about us. i think we have compromised enough. you were the palestinian representative envoy in washington until the trump administration decided it didn't really want you around any more. so here you sit as the palestinian envoy in london. therefore, you know better than me the realities of politics and diplomacy today. d

our black rock they're not full by donald trump they're not fooled by don't your bank tell yo to arafat's wagon comcast apple or wal-mart 18 to your united health ripping them off blind disenfranchising them stealing their a commie and returning america to a slave economy where everyone is i click farms trying to make jeff zucker but rich so i mean mark zuckerberg and the rich people all think they can leave before the guillotines really come out max ok if you go look at america right now there's a book on the new york times best seller look list by stephanie calton saying that deficits don't matter deficit myth i think it's what it's called and it's this whole idea of modern monetary theory that says the u.s. is the reserve currency can effect of we print this much money as who wants it this point without triggering inflation. so anything that anybody wants is a program can be formed right but if deficit style got a richer how come america can make 50 cent masks we spent the last 40 years max outsourcing our action capacity to right i am as a result we crave if you go with dependency on

annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as the heart is in its 2nd day pilgrims on their way to mount arafatbut this year it's unlike any seem to fall last year 2000000 people climb the sacred hill this time the pandemic means worshippers from abroad have been banned only a 1000 people will be allowed to perform the hard all of them either nationals or residents of saudi arabia. believes muslims from all around the world have been impacted by that decision here are some of the stories. that really a lot of my i already bought to go to the celebration before going to harsh i voted some religious leaders we made a stage we spent around $1000.00 u.s. dollars is that you're bitching to because normally when we celebrate it we go out but this movie restricted you know. we can do it in our part in our garden event few friends are friends so even children i been restricted to probably. probably out in on each. day i'm no one in your eyes began to get be able to feeling very sad and it worked very hard for hodgson i was selected for highs but it's canceled due to corona bad arrival back their bathro

pilgrimage to mecca known as the hug she is in its 2nd day pilgrims have been on their way to mount arafatthis year is unlike any seen before last year 2000000 people climb the sacred hill this time the pandemic means that worshipers from abroad have been banned and only a 1000 people will be allowed to perform hajj all of them either nationals all residents of saudi arabia but millions of muslims from all around the world have been impacted by that decision and there are some of the stories. that many of my i already bought to go to the celebration before going to harsh and voted some religious leaders we made a stage we spent around $1000.00 u.s. dollars is going to be changed because normally when we celebrate it we go out but this. we can do it in our power lot in our garden event few friends or friends so even children i've been restricted to public. public outing on each. day i'm no one and you're not going to get be able to feeling very sad that you've worked very hard for house and i was selected for highest but it's canceled due to corona was bad. when i watch mckown t.v. it's sad

egypt's parliament has voted to allow president arafat's l.c.c.to deploy troops abroad is allows for a possible intervention in neighboring libya since he has previously threatened to support war khalifa haftar his forces if tripoli's government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of sirte that the area is under the control of have to as forces and is a gateway to libya's oil rich region a delegation of west african leaders are heading back to mali later this week to help mediate an end to the political crisis there the opposition has already rejected their proposal calling for a unity government there instead insisting that mali's present a case that must resign well those are the headlines and now it's back to part 2 of al-jazeera well stay with us. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazee