controversial new nation state law but is trying to reassure the druze community direct cabinet meeting binyamin netanyahu said the law was meant to protect israel's status as a jewish state on saturday the minority druze community led a rally in tel aviv against the law they're angry at his definition of israel and how it downgrades the status of the arabic language. well those were the headlines and the news continues after al-jazeera world stage and that's watching buttoned up. it was. sad that he was born in algeria but has lived in france all his working life including seventeen years teaching arabic language and literature at the university of paris. from there he's taking groups of students to spain every year to the region his ass sisters came from and for which he has a driving passion and. today is the region covering southern spain but for nearly eight centuries it was the most western part of the arab muslim world. and. occupied most of present day portugal and spain and beyond from seven eleven to fourteen ninety two. it was a place where there was relatively peaceful coexistence between musl

marginalizes known jewish people in the country many direct to that israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. bibi go home nots the cry from some of the tens of thousands of people who turned out to protest against israel's contentious nation state legislation a law which essentially defines israel first and foremost as a jewish state arabs make up a fifth of the population and the trees a much smaller minority say the new law also sidelines them but. we are here to send a clear message to the israeli government we will not settle down for nothing less then equal rights as israeli citizens the nation state law to clears israel the exclusive homeland of jewish people its single site hebrew is the state language practically prioritising it about arabic which has for de kids been recognized as an official language to it spoken by the trees who make up just two percent of the population people asked us to consider ourselves we considered ourselves as israeli drools when he did that is the name of the rulers george states of the not the jewel shall we us because our government and the all the nam

of the jewish people in the country's basic law the measure pushed through by prime minister binyamin netanyahu declares that the right to exercise national self-determination israel is unique to the jewish people but also claims that the language of the state to be hebrew along with arabic given special status previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlements as a national value that the states must encourage for the one fifth of the population her israeli palestinians the fear is that all this leaves them a second class citizens. fany decker joins us now live from tel aviv phonies that proto stephanie give us an idea of what the protesters are saying and the mood there. is a couple of thousand people here there are gathering starting around now this is the crucial start time it is organized really representing the israeli palestinian citizens of israel what the protesters are calling for is for a full cancellation of the will many people were speaking to here calling it an apartheid goal many people are telling you they say well we were here first this is our

controversial new nation state law but is trying to reassure the druze community direct cabinet meeting binyamin netanyahu said the law was meant to protect israel status as a jewish state on saturday the minority of jews community led a rally in tel aviv against the law they're angry at his definition of israel and how it downgrades the status of the arabic language. well those were the headlines.

during a cabinet meeting binyamin netanyahu said the law was meant to protect israel its status as a jewish state on saturday the minority jewish community led a rally in tel aviv against the log online retail giant amazon has removed products with nazi or white supremacist symbols from its website advocacy groups and a u.s. politician complained to amazon after several items with the logos and imagery were found for sale online well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story of watching. will the druze remain loyal to the state of israel the arab speaking minority long thought they're part of israel but the new nation state law says israel is a homeland for jewish people only the druze and other minorities are outraged and they fight the discrimination this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the new law declares israel is a homeland solely for jewish people non jewish minorities are understandably outraged including the druze minority tens of thousands rallied in tel aviv for one of their largest protests in recent history they s

the measure pushed through by prime minister binyamin netanyahu declares the right to exercise national self-determination in israel as unique to the jewish people it also says that hebrew is the only official language downgrading the status of arabic and previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlement as a national value that the state must encourage. still ahead here on al-jazeera over there has been looted history books six hundred days in prison we look at the state of beauty of freedom in egypt. tightening security around the white house out of plan demonstrations by right wing activists the republicans to stay with us. hello there we've got plenty of showers over the northern parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is showing some quite lively ones there over beijing they've been very very heavy and then we've got more towards the north and all of this is sort of joining forces and edging its way southward as we head through the next day or so so we'll see some heavy rain particularly over the northern parts of china there for monday and

new nation state law but is trying to reassure the druze community during a cabinet meeting binyamin netanyahu said the law was meant to protect israel status as a jewish state when on saturday the minority druze community led a rally in tel aviv against the law they're angry at its definition of israel and how it downgrades the status of the arabic language. you know it's only about the room where you the state of israel is the nation state of the jewish people israel is a jewish and democratic state individual rights are anchored in many laws including the basic law human freedom and dignity no one harmed and no one intends to harm these individual rights without the nation state law the future of israel as the jewish nation state cannot be ensured for generations to come. therefore we will establish today a special miniscule committee that will advance those ties in these commitments and in parallel will also recognize those who serve in the israeli military and security services from all religions and its new cities. egypt says its military has killed fifty two people and arrested dozens a

languages and astonishes jewish settlements as a national issue that the state must encourage well binyamin netanyahu reacted angrily to the protests taking particular aim at the presence of palestinian flags at the rally. you know when we morning. we saw the palestine liberation organization flags yesterday flying in the heart of tel aviv in the heart of tel aviv we heard the chants with blood in fire we will redeem palestine many of the protesters want to cancel the law of return for jews they want to win all the and they want to fold up our flag they want to nullify israel as the nation state of the jewish people and turn it some of them say into an israeli palestinian state others will say a state of all the citizens precisely for this reason we passed the nation state law. professor at eugene confident of each in west jerusalem he and his organization the current policy forum have worked closely with the israeli government on the drafting of the nation state law professor this controversial law declares the right to exercise national self-determination but it fails to have any broad consensus ac

well the measure pushed through by prime minister binyamin netanyahu declares the right to exercise national self-determination in israel is unique to the jewish people it also says that he broods the only official language downgrading the status of arabic previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlement as a national value but the state must encourage with its top two dollars inches of public opinion expert and columnist with plus nine seventeen magazine and she attended the protest last night and joins us via skype from tel aviv dalia how surprised are you at the level of turnout on the streets i mean you were there i wasn't entirely surprised because we know that this law has been very very divisive in israeli society in other words the right wing which is about forty five percent of israeli society and over fifty percent of jewish society is quite supportive but almost everybody else from the left to the palestinian minority to about half the people who consider themselves centrist and course the druze have been very against it and so it has been galvaniz

hundred fifty palestinians have been killed during the demonstrations israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has declared a visit to colombia delayed rather a visit to colombia and called a special cabinet meeting on sunday to monitor garza developments. rowan's us live from gaza stephanie talks taking place we hear on what's being described as a possible long term truce it's not the first time we've heard that sort of thing any reason to think this might end differently. absolutely you're right i think it's very difficult not to be skeptical but the political movement the diplomatic movement that we've witnessed over the last two months or so does indicate that something may be different this time you have the u.n. special envoy to the region a claim largely of incredibly involved between the two sides when it comes to also just initially keeping the peace because we've had some serious escalations you that could have tipped into a full scale conflict even though both sides don't want it what we have here today .

gathered from kickbacks commissions and bribes israelis are once again questioning prime minister binyamin netanyahu over a corruption scandal is facing allegations that he made concessions to the controlling shareholder of a telecommunications giant in exchange for positive media coverage for him and his wife felice have recommended indict in the prime minister he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. the united nations has invited yemen's government and iran backed the rebels to geneva next month for talks on resolving the country's civil war the september talks aimed to revive un back negotiations that broke down and twenty fifteen nearly ten thousand people have been killed since the conflict started more than three years ago and much of the population is on the verge of starvation bomb and other has more from neighboring djibouti. both the yemeni government on full three flights of looks across the willingness for our terms of talks in geneva you an official said that the initial days of the talks will dwell on breaking the ice and also drawing up a framework for talks before planning the atten

jewish state but the people that live here entitled to be equal to us because they're bored but binyamin netanyahu reacted angrily to the protests taking particular aim at the presence of palestinian flags at the rally. you know when one morning. we saw the palestine liberation organization flags yesterday flying in the heart of tel aviv in the heart of tel aviv we heard the chants with blood in fire we will redeem palestine many of the protesters want to cancel the law of return for jews they want to and all the and they want to fold up our flag they want to nullify israel as the nation state of the jewish people and turn it some of them say into an israeli palestinian state others will say a state of all its citizens precisely for this reason we passed the nation state law. meanwhile a confidential report by israeli military investigators says an armed drone deliberately killed four palestinian boys on a gaza beach in twenty fourteen that's according to the online publication the intercept the report has testimony from officers involved in the attack who say the children were mistaken for hamas