well i'm standing here right at damascus gate this is one of the areas where the whuffie know not of tensions and also right know there's a lot of israeli police over here just some time ago some stun grenades fired here chasing some of the palestinian youths that are usually gathering here away so what we understand is usually this black march of the true slim they should have passed through damascus gate here from but from what we understand this has now been be routed through one of the other gates apparently i'm what reason has been given the. knowledge the potential for violence. if this is about the. decision actually while it's very well known the tensions on jerusalem day and the flak march this is an annual event and there are always tensions and it always almost always ends in violence of course know what's happening in the. past weeks here this has caused you know security officials to say that it would be better to read. this march which usually goes from damascus gate than inside here the old city through what's been known as a muslim quarters through the palestinian nei

syria was divided into the streets of damascus aleppo the alawite state and mount druze. lebannon would become a republic 6 years later. freedom ash. though he did know that the dollars were. well of course in new york i would. forget about a very. different and you have. well there's the. british colonial office organized the cairo conference in 1921 hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill it drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place administered administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there had been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palestine ended up being unde

and damascus countryside that relate to the ruth causes her wise syrian refugees had misplaced. this includes arbitrary arrest and miss treatment by all parties of the conflict, including the syrian security services, catastrophic humanitarian conditions, lack of lack of health care, access, lack of shelter, lack of food, continued abuses, experienced by hearing population inside the damascus in damascus, governor it all leading us to the conclusion that syria and the mask or not safe for return. no, go ahead. well, i can totally understand that argument, but there's a lot of places, sadly in the world, dictators, and they don't have good conditions. you could also argue what about people who lives in baghdad? what about people who live in san on yemen? what about people who live in mogadishu and, and felons decision is that the country in the world are rude by dictators. and i wish that you ok, we're sending people back to the title from than once it's is being sent back. but if you do lose your residents permit and denmark, well then you will have a denmark. i'm in, but that,

in damascus, governor it all leading us to the conclusion that syria and the massacres are not safe for return. no, go ahead. well, i can totally understand that argument, but there's a lot of places, sadly in the dictators and they don't have good condition. so you can also argue, what about people who lives in back that what about people who live in san on yemen? what about people who live in mogadishu and, and felons decision is that the country in the world are ruled by dictators. and i wish that you ok, we're sending people back to take us from them. and once it's is being sent back. but if you do lose your residence permit and denmark, well then you will have denmark. i'm in, but that, that different reasons. but getting residents probably then secured, and then you will not have the rest of the permanent vote. but if you're flexible and general violence and the area came from, there's no more war. does no more violence, decent that magnitude. well then, the chance that the, the refugee appeals board will re send your reference permit, but it doesn't make, make sense to send a

this time the hatred flared at the damascus gate at the entrance to the old city. 8 ownership of land is at the heart of the bitter dispute. the prospect of forced evictions of palestinians from east jerusalem has brought arabs to the streets over the past 2 weeks hundreds of them have been injured as israeli police crackdown on the demonstrations. on sunday they were out again ahead of a controversial jerusalem day march through the old city. hard line israeli nationalists use the annual event to celebrate the capture of east jerusalem by israeli forces in 1967 war israeli security officials warn it could lead to a further escalation in violence. and we're joined by our correspondent in jerusalem tanya. tanya that contentious march is expected to take place by israelis today in jerusalem how much potential is there for the violence to escalate. well i said it's it's a very difficult day. israeli celebrate jerusalem day which marks the capture of east jerusalem $967.00 and the reunification. of jerusalem but that is of course from an israeli point of view palestinians want to see is t

an uneasy calm on sunday night but the palestinians remain defiant are a force that has more from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. so another night of tension here in occupied east jerusalem this is what we've been seeing a pattern throughout the night every now and again israeli security forces moving in to clear certain areas around damascus gate so far the clashes the skirmishes tonight have been less intense than they were over the last couple of days certainly of what we saw on saturday night was a good deal more intense in terms of physical violence however there have been uses of the skunk water cannon the chemical waste water cannon to clear areas as well as repeated use of stun grenades as well the driver of much of this continues to be the situation in the occupied east jerusalem neighborhood of shape sure are where palestinian families face it action at a court case which was due to take place on monday to hear whether the appeal of some of those families would be heard that has now been put off for at least 30 days that does give the opportunity for some respite some b

the united states and the european union's nations against middle east targets from the suburbs of damascus to the persian gulf to the iranian province of it as economic and military violence rages during a global pandemic from latin america to africa to northern ireland to ukraine let's go straight to rome to speak to the former am i 6 agent and the founder and director of conflicts for him to crook thanks so much for coming on you wouldn't think it's a here in britain where obviously people are grieving over the juke of edinburgh but just take us through some of the latest events i mean there's an attack on the nuclear plant an attack on the iranian side his vessel in the red sea and yet lloyd austin biden's pentagon was he's been in israel declaring is his absolute support for the israeli government. yes that's right i think what we're seeing is in fact there's something of a division within israel about what to do about this netanyahu has been stuck along on one track on iran by 20 years saying iran is only a few months away or 2 years away at most from a nuclear weapon and he's his pol

thank you very much there before i develop as far as hari force that damascus gate and occupied east jerusalem thank you. now the u.n. is saying that aid convoys to the to grey region in ethiopia are being blocked leaving thousands without humanitarian relief and hundreds malnourished now after 6 months of conflicts on of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he describes as genocide. the ethiopian government has been fighting the tigre a people's liberation front since november the conflict in the northern 2 gray region has killed thousands of people and displaced more than a 1000000. and now rare public criticism from inside the capital against if you'll be as prime minister of. the guy who i am not sure what the to great people did wrong what their crimes are i am not clear why they wanted to clear genocide and the people have to agree i do not know why they want to wipe the people of to great from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this. is the video of a beauty mathias a tigre a native and patriarch of ethiopia as orthodox church was f

and also using 30 liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least here around damascus gate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling where we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on their way although we have seen some images of that from from nearby ships jura what is key i think is the fact that the israeli supreme court at the behest of your israeli attorney general has decided to give him 30 days to review the appeal by 4 of those families whose plight has been so much of the reason for this escalation in protest and tensions suit to decide whether to hear that appeal or not there will be a date set within those 30 days and so that does give some breathing space potentially for things to calm down in the days and weeks ahead yeah and what does this decision to delay the court hearing then mean for those residents. well what they say is that they need to have a hearing properly. appealed they have tried in the magistrates court in a district court to say that they have coun

shortly but 1st here's harry forsett with the situation at damascus gate. so another night of tension here in occupied east jerusalem this is what we've been seeing a pattern throughout the night every now and again israeli security forces moving in to clear certain areas around damascus gate so far the clashes the skirmishes tonight have been less intense than they were over the last couple of days certainly of what we saw on saturday night was a good deal more intense in terms of physical violence however there have been uses of the skunk water cannon the chemical waste water cannon to clear areas as well as repeated use of stun grenades as well the driver of much of this continues to be the situation in the occupied east jerusalem neighborhood of shesher are where palestinian families face a dictionary and a court case which was due to take place on monday to hear whether the appeal of some of those families would be heard that has now been put off for at least 30 days that does give the opportunity for some respite some breathing space of more pushing o

and damascus were put under french protection and were called area a. the rest of mr petain mia and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . but palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from here. in this yes. the national. fates x. people. while they're not quite mean. don't really need to know the arab men are. called for most of the. mining is. done. shall be from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they'd agreed with the hashemites because they were still considering the territories if there is an informal british infection floyds as kingdoms to be

john of damascus, and a homily given for feast of the assumption of the mother of god. he spoke and used the word consecrate. may we come to consecrate ourselves to her, to dedicate and entrust ourselves to her, that if we do so, we are in that radiant circle in her heart where christ jesus is found. >> let me ask you this, as a layman, it's a pastoral question. i am a catholic until i began studying up here on the virgin mary and consecration, i don't know what my relationship with her was. how would you advise me or any catholic who wants to have a deeper, truer relationship with her, what can i do? >> same way you would get to know anyone. you talk to them. you accompany them. you share with them. she is more real than anyone. she's full of life, love, joy. she's the joy of all who sorrow. she listens. she accompanies. she awakens something within us that yes or nos to find meaning and value and most of all love within our hearts, within our lives. talk to her. prayer st. teresa said is simply a heart to heart conversation with god who we know loves her. we can pray

also using fairly liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least here around damascus gate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on the way israel is facing growing international criticism in the u.k. people have gathered across london manchester and birmingham to show solidarity with the palestinians they're calling for sanctions against israel. protesters in the iraqi city of kabul are demanding answers after an anti government activist was shot dead in an apparent execution supporters of. set the iranian consulate on fire iranian backed fighters are suspected of being behind the shooting the taliban has announced a 3 day cease fire in afghanistan during the muslim festival of adolf hitler this week it comes just 2 days after the government blamed the group for an attack outside a school which killed more than 50 people eat outfitter marks the end of the muslim fasting month of ramadan for the 2nd day in a row more than 4000 people

from the shia neighborhood to make way for illegal settlers herefore suit filed this report from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. so far things have been relatively reduced the tactics used by the israelis have largely been firing skunk cannon water which is water laced with foul smelling chemicals and also using fairly liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least here around damascus kate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on their way. protesters in the iraqi city of karbala demanding answers after 90 government activists was shot dead in an apparent exit q ssion supporters of the habit of wise new set the iranian consulate on fire iranian backed fighters are suspected of being behind the shooting at least 25 people are poor to do have been killed after a bus hit a landmine in afghanistan it happened on the kabul on the hot highway in zabul province local officials say women and children are among the casualties. the

also using fairly liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least here around damascus kate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on their way. the international reaction to events in occupied east jerusalem is extending to the u.k. people gathered across london manchester and birmingham in solidarity with the palestinians out on the streets calling for sanctions against israel 2. protesters in the iraqi city of karbala are demanding answers after an anti-government activists were shot dead in the parent exit to sion supporters of a habit it was nice that the iranian consulate on fire iranian bank fighters are suspected of being behind the shooting at least $25.00 people are reported to have been killed after a bus hit a landmine in afghanistan it happened on the kabul on the heart highway in zabul province local officials say women and children are among the casualties and the taliban has announced a 3 day cease fire in afghanistan d

over here a damascus gate just on the fringes of the old city and since it was the last 2 off hours or so really there's been a repeated cycle of clashes and then the calm between the palestinian largely young men groups here but families and children and elderly people as well and the israeli security forces it generally seems to be a case of of bottles being thrown by palestinians towards israeli security forces plastic water bottles and then every now and again they will come in and try and clear the square with liberal use or. to base stun grenades and it is so they've been using what's known as the skunk water cannon which distributes foul smelling water in areas where they're trying to clear we will so seen some running scuffles with people being dragged to the ground and beaten and then not arrested but simply sent on their way so so far the posse red crescent society is saying 53 people have been injured in tonight's violence it is so far not yet as well as extreme as the scenes that we saw on friday night the mosque itself there lots of mosques seems relatively quiet on what i

yes so far things are relatively quiet here at damascus gates on this saturday night but it's not just any saturday night we're in the last few days of ramadan and this is the night known as laid out which is that the holiest night of the month of ramadan which attracts usually thousands of extra people to the al aqsa mosque for nightly prayers so there is the prospect of a potential follow on from what we saw of those extremely violent scenes from friday nights already we have seen some confrontations on the road outside jerusalem the main highway number one bringing people down from the north towards jerusalem for this very holy night some buses were stopped there was a huge traffic jam as some people got off those buses and decided they were going to march all the way here to 2 occupied east jerusalem the police is saying that they were trying to intervene to target specific individuals that they thought were coming to try to cause trouble inside the mosque compound but the suspicion more why do is that they were trying to minimize the numbers certainly those sorts of videos are bei

police blocked the marchers from damascus - unbelievable.scus gate, but some are still worried. young palestinians aren't leaving, he says. from experience, we don't trust them. the unrest here has been simmering for weeks. it was first set off by police restrictions up a popular gathering spot at this entrance to the old city. more recently, nightly clashes after a long legal battle. it has become a rallying point. and tonight, a dangerous escalation. israelis running for shelter, with rockets from gaza reaching jerusalem for the first time in years. angry palestinians cheered. the troubles in jerusalem palestinians cheered. the troubles injerusalem look palestinians cheered. the troubles in jerusalem look set to palestinians cheered. the troubles injerusalem look set to spread. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. our middle east editor jeremy bowen is here. this has been going on for days, and it really seems to be escalating now? , ., it really seems to be escalating now? , . , . it really seems to be escalating now? , . ,. , ~ now? yes,

it was a big group of palestinian protesters who were down here chanting in the well just beyond damascus gate here and they quickly ran up the stairs it was clear that there was a large contingent of those jerusalem day religious nationalist jewish marches heading in this direction what was interesting is that these are the security forces pretty quickly separated them or at least turned those jewish protesters marches around and prevented them getting access or facing off against this group here is the real key question i think in the coming hours as to exactly how that will be managed going forward the police commissioner as late as sunday night was saying that he wanted to see those tens of thousands of marches able to carry out their march when they commemorate the occupation beginning here in east jerusalem what israelis call the unification of jerusalem in 1067 usually tens of thousands marched to the old city including the muslim quarter as tensions are as high as they are at the moment and it's a very beat there's been advice reportedly. from the israeli security establishment no

been following the developments on both sides of the conflict will start with harry forces from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. lilly's simmering tensions this violence it all really began with the situation here at the beginning of the muslim holy month of ramadan on the steps of damascus gate the decision by the israeli security forces to block it off to the usual kind of gatherings that we see mike lee during ramadan it was a real source of anger a source of protest and skirmishes between palestinians and israeli security forces all of that fueled and magnified by what was taking place in a nearby neighborhood. where there was the imminent threat of evictions on palestinian families who'd been living there for generations and all of that boiling over on monday those scenes we saw on the locks of mosque compound courtyards those very violent scenes with israeli security forces moving in in great numbers and of course leading to that deadline given by hamas for a complete withdrawal by the israeli forces by 6 pm local time on monday just after that the launching of 7 long rang

there have been a series of decisions 1st in attacking people that were in prayer or in fast in damascus gates attacking them journalists are after that and or at the same time as the attack i'm just shocked that we've seen we've also seen the attacks on the last mosque drew people from across palestine to show solidarity and only then when from started firing rockets at israel civilians in israel did israel choose to respond with great force killing so far about 50 people of them about 5014 children and that's within the past 2 or 3 days these are terrible terrible crimes to add to that. notion that these images that you're just showing are images close your eyes don't really get to see there are missing from israeli media they're not part of what we see here if you open israeli newspapers or news editions you would see the rocket fire from gaza this is so far killed about 5 israelis but hardly any images from gaza were dozens of health ins of them killed by israel and that is just twisting the way that was israelis perceive the situation and think of themselves ourselves as the main vi

likes of for several years in this city thanks very much that's how the fossa talking to us from damascus gates in occupied east jerusalem let's bring in. secretary-general of the palestinian national initiative political party is joining us by skype from ramallah thanks very much indeed for being with us ari was saying that this has been described as a perfect storm how bad do you think this could get. it's a bad idea because what you see here is this lection of a system of racism and discrimination against palestinians not only we have been under occupation for more than 54 years but on top of that is there and has established a system of apartheid and additional discrimination that the vast majority of palestinians today are the prohibited somebody changes a live man but it's a bit in the in the period in the mosque as much as the christians would also put it that don't participate in the east doesn't. do it in the easter time it will be in the church of the holy supplicant this is a discriminatory system and of course what you see here is protest against this discrimination now on top

states was a me the us and our allies i am without you just as it is being on the show we went to damascus and he said they're going to be elections this year presumably there can be no elections while the european union. well i don't know are they committing murder by these sanctions on syrian people and the united states continues to threaten syria and israel bombs damascus as it has in the muslim to do. yes i mean we do have. a extraordinary bad situation with turkey sponsoring jihadists in italy the maybe 2 or 3000000 people under the control of al qaida or had choppers if you like that i mean they're not very pleasant people to talk and then you have the north eastern side. turkey supporting a kurdish and america's 40 a sort of kurdish more autonomy and then you have the rest of the population most of the urban population but i think the will be elections held or it's possible to be held and they will be held in embassies outside syria who are those who are refugees if they're allowed i mean moved when they held elections here before i think i'm here to know something and in lebanon t

confuse and cause people to scatter although they can indeed cause injuries our own cameraman in damascus gate in a pretty slim the other day he was hit by a couple of fragments of those stun grenades he was only very lightly injured they don't usually do a huge amount of damage but in the wrong place at the wrong time they can and you can see and the smell is now coming it does seem to be that skunk water as well as the tear gas heading back in this direction. so this is very much the picture that we've been witnessing throughout the day and it doesn't seem like it's going to be dying down anytime soon i mean to talk a little bit more about where we are and why this is happening this is bethlehem this is. a city here in occupied east jerusalem that is really surrounded by and increasingly being cut off in encroached on by being a very large settlement blocks that are stationed in this part of the occupied west bank. and it is a place which has been hit by so many things recently has been hit by the the coronavirus pandemic among other things the tourist industry for this important biblic

from the shared neighborhood make way for illegal settlers herefore suit filed this report from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. so far things have been relatively reduced the tactics used by the israelis have largely been firing scant water which is water laced with foul smelling chemicals and also using fairly liberally using stun grenades as well but we haven't seen at least around damascus gate the same kind of hand to hand physical scuffling we saw several times on saturday night israeli police forcing people to the ground and beating them and then just sending them on their way the international reaction to events in occupied east jerusalem is extending to the u.k. people gathered across london manchester and birmingham in solidarity with palestinians protesters in the iraqi city of karbala demands being answers after anti-government activists was shot dead in an apparent exit usually supporters of a habit of the iranian consulate on fire iranian bank fighters are suspected of being behind this shooting. at least 25 people are called to do have been killed after a bus hit

earlier this was the scene near damascus damascus gate in the occupied east jerusalem protests as heated calls for demonstrations but were met with an israeli crackdown a photojournalist was targeted and protesters were beaten. in a moment we'll speak to all correspondent i meet who is in occupied east jerusalem for the very latest there but 1st let's let's hear from need to embrace him who was reporting live near ramallah when shots were fired and she was talking to my colleague heidi to talk more about what brings these protesters here we're joined now by a palestinian who was at the protest play ali how. do you have been living here you were born and raised under occupation what makes you think that the. crowds are leaving we're not sure what's going on there are palestinians who are who are steadily. getting to the same thing is. yes we are ducking now because a kid like this. needs and needs and we're going to we're going to we're going to let you get to play 66 it sounds rather dangerous where you're reporting from need to. check in with you and come back later on. it's worth point

been following the developments on both sides of the conflict will start with harry fawcett from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. lilly's simmering tensions this violence it all really began with the situation here at the beginning of the muslim holy month of ramadan on the steps of damascus gate the decision by the israeli security forces to block it off to the usual kind of gatherings that we see mike lee during ramadan it was a real source of anger a source of protest and skirmishes between palestinians and israeli security forces all of that fueled and magnified by what was taking place in a nearby neighborhood. where there was the imminent threat of evictions on palestinian families who'd been living there for generations and all of that boiling over on monday those scenes we saw on the locks of mosque compound courtyards those very violent scenes with israeli security forces moving in in great numbers and of course leading to that deadline given by hamas for a complete withdrawal by the israeli forces by 6 pm local time on monday just after that the launching of 7 long rang

now speak with harry force it is that damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem and it looks as though people have left the area for the day but just tell us what's been happening throughout the day whilst you've been there. that's right it's been a nights of sort of fairly sustained on and off clashes skirmishes between palestinian protesters and israeli security forces but one of less intensity than what we saw on saturday certainly there have been instances of indeed looks like a another mine a little disturbance there have been instances of palestinian youths especially throwing water bottles at israeli police sometimes slightly more other different objects as world pieces of wood stones and to a large extent there has been a pretty obvious change in approach by the israeli security forces they haven't been immediately coming in with the same kind of force that we saw on saturday when they were scuffling people to the ground and beating them as they held them down it's been largely written restrains to using the very unpleasant skunk water from the water cannon and fairly liberal u

the marine cotton has its update now from damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem. the work, the jordanians who actually run the alex mos compound on so happy with these visits. it's always been a bit of a flash point. now i have to say most of these visits do pass without incident. yes, they have what was the 1st visit is the ceasefire. had taken place and indeed since i still had broken out and they were. busy clashes more than 300000 people in india have now dined from cove at 90. the journalist doctors in crematory, all say many tests and not being counted. its health ministry reported 4400 jets on monday. and the northern state of punjab says vaccine make a montana has declined its request for jobs. but this is been accused of faking a bond threats for the passenger jet to land in order to seize an opposition journalist, us as condemn beller, is for diverting the flight in its course. the immediate release of the journalist, the e u, has raised the possibility of sanctions. the u. s. as imposed economic insecurity as restrictions on if you, if you're ever it's

that's now speak to a force that is at damascus gate in occupied east jerusalem and so just just tell us what you've been seeing and hearing there for the past few hours harry. we are still see evening so far at least is less tense than it was at this time on saturday night we have seen a few very young largely palestinian children use trying to sort of demolish some of the barricades that these ready security forces set up along the roadway that was the only time really that we've seen much an intervention from those security forces they moved in and cleared them away without firing the the water cannon we've heard a couple of stun grenades in the distance but certainly compared to the kind of actions that we saw from the israeli side on saturday night things do seem to be reduced so there's a potential sign that there is an effort at the escalation on the west and certainly there are fewer numbers on the palestinian side as well we should emphasize as for this very important court case hearing that was judge ruled for monday the supreme court of israel was to decide whether to hear