bank are soon to begin work on the foundations for over 1000 new homes, along with 400 more in east jerusalem. israel says it is a legitimate response to the inclusion of hamas and the palestinian unity government. palestinians say it is a provocation. >> israel is carrying out a complete settlement expansion plan in order to kill the two state solution and to destroy the ability to create a palestinian state. >> the new palestinian unity government is appealing to the united nations to intervene. tensions are high on both sides of the divide, and the west bank city of ramallah, angry palestinian protesters clashed with israeli soldiers who fired stun grenades. the protesters were marking the day of the setback. it marks the six-day war in 1967 when israel seized control of the west bank and east euro solum. >> adored -- east jerusalem. >> authorities in kenya have seized elephant tusks and a port city. they were found in a warehouse. they were said to be intended for export. >> last year, poachers killed about 400 elephants and 30 rhinos in canyon national parks. one of the world's best-know

occupation reports now on how free running is helping them to taste freedom on the rooftops of east jerusalem also dean mohammed and could are warming up they are getting ready to run but this time it's not from israeli soldiers park or for free running is a sport that's played outside the only things you need are every day obstacles and these boys have plenty of those. sometimes i feel stressed and i want to break free so i practice the great thing about barak or is that you can do whatever you want. insel dean and his friends were present a new breed of palestinian youth modern internet savvy and connected to the global social media sphere. but there are. other things that i watched a movie called be thirteen me and a friend started doing part of course we watched movies on you tube and we practiced alone you practice in order to be professional and famous and while the seems an extreme activity in a deeply conservative society even their parents see the upside. of this are pairs that not accepted in the beginning because it is dangerous but after they saw our progress after they saw they w

>> guest: the old city was part of east jerusalem. c-span: and that didn't belong... >> guest: no. c-span: it belonged to jordan. >> guest: that belonged to jordan. jordan annexed it -- by american terms, annexed it illegally. the annexation of the west bank and jerusalem was recognized only by two states in the world, by britain and pakistan. c-span: now, how long did that israeli state stay together until it was -- i mean, in '56, what was that war all about? >> guest: the '56 war was about, on the israeli side, the fear that nasser had become a proxy of the soviet union, had acquired mass amounts of soviet arms. c-span: he was the head of egypt. >> guest: he was the head of egypt. and he had been sending palestinian guerrillas -- fedayeen, as they were called then -- to attack deep within israel, and it was only a matter of time before nasser used this massive soviet weaponry in an offensive war of destruction. and israel sought to launch a preemptive strike. it found an opportunity in the suez crisis. you recall that nasser nationalized the suez canal in july, 1956. britain and

they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish and an arab city. and in 1967, the six-day war happened when the israelis invaded jerusalem and conquered it. we have lived under the israeli occupation ever since, always longing to go back to our ancestral homes. >> and my father's story that we left the home that he was born in and his father, etc., always was with us. >> whenever i walk here i feel as though i'm walking with a shiver in my body. like i feel at home. they used to have the stables down there. and actually, this is my father's room right there. for threes three years i would say easily 50-year-old trees. because my father, when he came here, he said he remember when they left here they were a little bit taller than him. >> i was born the first generation to be born outside our house. to take someone's home is like worse than ripping their heart away from their body. >> i took david to meet my childhood friend. he and i went to the same school. i went afterwards to the united states, and he went to greece to study denyivityry, bu

israel unveiled plans to build 1100 new settlement homes in the occupied west bank and 400 in east jerusalem. the announcement came days after the swearing-in of a new palestinian unity government. toael has asked the west not recognize the new government because it has the backing of hamas which both israel and the west consider a terrorist group. the new plans have drawn criticism from germany. >> friday march 70 years since the beginning of the end for not nazi germany.- world war ii veterans attended a d-day celebration in france. heads of state and government also headed to france for the event, making it a day of diplomacy as well, especially concerning the ongoing crisis in ukraine. russian president vladimir putin was at the center of the talks. german chancellor angela merkel is said to be the western leader with the best relationship to putin. the two spoke for an hour behind closed doors. shortly after, there was a first sign of success. putin briefly spoke with ukraine's new president, their very first meeting. not a long conversation, but a possible first step toward ending the

major point of contention between israel and palestine up to eighty thousand palestinians in east jerusalem of spent three months without running water because an israeli utility company cut supplies middle east expert gideon bromberg believes that that's largely due to israel's uncompromising stance the current way the water it is man is really you know israel has full domination it's like having a single bath. and two straws drinking from it one side of the israeli side can draw from that straw as much water as it wants but from the palestinian straw there must be israeli palestinian agreement for every cubic meter for every water project to be advanced and that situation is not fear and it's really a matter of time before the population in gaza will not have clean water to drink i don't see any border any security fence or any military holding back one and a half million thirsty people while we understand that the situation of negotiations is currently on pause well water will simply not wait. on our website whistleblowers have a chance of getting their hands on some serious cash flow fo

conor powell live from our middle east jerusalem bureau with more. >> reporter: arthel, we're watching the violence in iraq escalate and also seeing the brutality increase there. the militants are -- continue their move across the country. they are only about 60 or so miles outside baghdad. the capital really knocking on the doors there, but they control now the major cities of fallujah, mosul and tikrit. they appear to be consolidating their gains in these cities before moving into baghdad bringing unusual brutal methods, essentially killing anyone who opposed them and in some cases we're hearing some people are being beheaded. their goal to create a unified islamic state across iraq and syria. in basra and baghdad hundred of volunteers answering the calls by the country's shop shiite clerics to take up arms and fight against the insurgents. nuri al maliki's government is dominated by shiite iraq and maintain strong ties with iran while the insurgents are sunni muslims n.recent months malaki has consolidated power in favor of the shiias and alienated the sunni population in iraq, they

general assembly, are beginning to know more of what is really going on in the west bank and east jerusalem gaza, thanks to the news and news sources on the internet, they're being perceived more and more on what is going on in palestine and the terrible conditions under which the palestinians are living. from last build assembly to this assembly, so we know more and understand more. we had some people on the floor who said some wonderful things to explain what is going on. we organized and worked very hard for this decision. and we succeeded and we're very gratified with this. >> can you talk about the companies that the presbyterian church will divest from? >> yes. we feel the church would be complicit in the occupation if we remained divested in the street companies. caterpillar, most people assume these very huge bulldozers which are weaponize. they have machine guns on them and i believe some are electrified. they destroy houses with one simple swipe. we assume them uproot olive trees. on may 19, they used bulldozers to destroy we believe between 1500 to 2000 fruit trees. they built ro

a major point of contention between israel and palestine tens of thousands of palestinians in east jerusalem have now spend three months without running water since an israeli utility company just cut off supplies international efforts to try and find a solution so far failed and according to a middle east expert gideon bromberg that's largely due to israel's uncompromising stance the current way the water it is man is really you know israel has full domination it's like having a single bath. and two straws drinking from it one side the israeli side can draw from that straw as much water as it wants but from the palestinian straw there must be israeli palestinian agreement for every cubic meter for every water project to be advanced and that situation is not fear and it's really a matter of time before the population in gaza will not have clean water to drink and i don't see any border any security fence or any military holding back one and a half million thursday people while we understand that the situation of negotiations is currently on pause well water will simply not wait. video here o

israel has announced 1500 and settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem in retaliationor a new palestinian unity government backed by hamas. the settlements are consul consd illegal but said they were "just the beginning." general motors has dismissed 15 employees and vowed to start a compensation fund for victims of an ignition switch defect tied to at least 13 and potentially hundreds of deaths. a internal report cites "pattern of incompetence and neglect" but denies an intentional cover-up of the defect, which took gm more than a decade to address. a former federal prosecutor hired by gm to conduct report found multiple groups within gm reviewed the problem, but failed to take action or acted too slowly. the gm ceo mary barra called the results troubling. >> i can tell you this report is extremely thorough, brutally tough, and deeply troubling. for those of us have dedicated our lives to this company, it is enormously painful to see our shortcomings laid out so vividly . as i read the report, i was deeply saddened and disturbed. democratictement, senator richard blum

exactly so there's people in villages across the west bank there are neighborhoods in east jerusalem like. there are activists who work on the legal framework to try to help dispy people who are being arrested because they're using nonviolent mechanisms there are prisoners in hunger strike using this most classic of nonviolent resistance methods which is actually denying yourself nourishment because the situation you are under is not you can't stand it anymore and this is the ultimate shout for attention right when you go on a hunger strike you are begging day international community to pay attention to what's happening to you inside the prison systems and what these people are very often protesting many of them something called administrative detention and minister detention is a process whereby these really government can arrest people in incremental periods of six months without ever charging them and never bringing them to trial under any under any accusation and their speech will who've been there for over and over six months of these periods of the tension and whose families ha

violence of the continuation of tenders being sued for more buildings india territories including in east jerusalem that is constantly accord to people on the ground who are actively thinking through creative ways to change the dynamic and why are we paying attention to download the good times you have the right no yeah yeah let's talk about those those nonviolent movements going on right now in palestine in israel and how people can get involved julia exactly so there's people in villages across the west bank there are neighborhoods in east jerusalem like. there are activists who work on the legal framework to try to help dispy people who are being arrested because they're using nonviolent mechanisms there are prisoners in hunger strike using this most classic of nonviolent resistance methods which is actually denying yourself nourishment because the situation you are under is is not. you can't stand it anymore and this is the ultimate shout for attention right when you go on a hunger strike you are begging danger national community to pay attention to what's happening to you inside the prison sys

hour israel plans to build one and a half thousand new homes in the occupied west bank and east from jerusalem in response to the formation of a unified palestinian government the announcement comes just two days after former rival palestinian political factions hamas and fatah swore in a new unity cabinet israel is fiercely opposed to this unity government as it regards mass of the terrorist organization. breeze some way workers have announced an open ended strike in some power in brazil with fresh protests against the staging of the world cup that's after pe talks fell through the strike could prove they were just a girl not mayor journey the tournament of the city's metro is the main transport link to its world cup stadium the opening ceremony is next week. nigerian authorities have confirmed it having armed gunmen disguised as soldiers attacked four villages in the north east of the country earlier this week slaughtering at least two hundred people witnesses say the attacks were carried out by the terrorise rubato harami which has waged a five year insurgency in nigeria with the aim of sta

east tour. speaking from jerusalem, he's saying the next step for u.s. in iraq is not a military challenge. the u.s. is not focusing on a military challenge right them. we'll keep you abreast of the situation. for now, let's take a quick look at where oil prices are trading right now. trading just above that 113.5 levels pushing higher in the session is light crude, 106.75. we'll talk more in the second half of the show about where oil is headed at this level. we also have spanish auctions this morning. we've got sprinkling just over 1.5 million euros. see if we can find you the bid to cover ratio on that. 2.1. the last auction it was 2, so slightly better as far as that's concerned. the bid to cover 2.3. as far as the yields are concerned on the three-year abdomen yield of 0.87 and the last auction that was at 96. so it's continuing to make lower .lower yields as far as pricing there shorter term debt is concerned. no complaints from spain right now. >> let's cross over to tokyo. apple is expected to release the iphone and firms are apparently ramping up production. akeeko has the story li

pyongyang, itself, used two called jerusalem of the east because it was the center of the presbyterianngelist franklin graham has been there at least once, his father, billy graham, visited at least twice. >> they came back. they went there, the grahams without any trouble. they came back to the united states without any trouble, right? >> they did. billy graham even at least on one occasion did a sermon in north korea at the behest or at least with the blessing of the north korean leader them, ki ee. >> thanks very much. we'll stay on top of this story for our viewers. >>> remember, always follow us on twitter, go ahead and tweet me @wolfblitzer. certainly tweet the show @cnnsitroom. please be sure to join us once again tomorrow right here in "the situation room." always watch us live or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> now let's step into the "crossfire" with paul begala and s.e. cupp. >> christmas eve for me. tingling with anticipation. i'm going to be up all night because if we're

east. this is within striking distance of damascus and jerusalem and beirut. this is quite a dangerous thing that we're seeing unfold here. it's probably not 9/11, but it's certainly in the same area code. >> that's pretty chilling coming from you, sir. you talk about this as being a state, this sunnisunnistan. president obama has just announced he's going to seek $500 million from congress finally to arm and train the syrian rebels. at this late date, what can that accomplish? >> well, your adverb finally is actually the most important part in your statement, chris. this is much harder to do now than it would have been one, two, or three years ago when the situation in syria was more malleable than it is now. but look, isis exists on both sides of that former border, and if we're going to try to cap their ability to do violence, we're going to to have to hit it on both sides, in iraq and in syria. i think this is long in coming. it's late, but it's the right move. >> finally, u.s. intelligence officials -- and it's been a big question as to why we were taken

jerusalem. >> a sad and worrying night in israel. we may be looking at a new country in the middle east. isis has announced it is establishing an islamic state known as a caliphate made up of territory seized in iraq and syria. it has proclaimed its leader is the leader of all muslims. iraqi government forces are fighting back against isis trying to regain control of the city of to crit -- tikrit. jeremy burn areas this report. --jeremy has this report. >> isis crosses borders. in the land where it wants its islamic caliphate, it wants to abolish them. these were jihadist fighters and aleppo and serious wearing allegiance to the leader of isis. >> ♪ >> this is an isis propaganda video. blowing a border posts between iraq and syria and claiming it is smashing the agreement, the deal imposed by britain and france almost a century ago that is the basis for the borders of the modern middle east. >> the so-called border affects people. we will never recognize it. this is not the first quarter we will break. we will break all of the borders. we start with this one. andyrian war is reinforcing

those of you here a couple of weeks ago in the jerusalem lecture, it follows a style that was popular in the middle eastin the early middle ages, using light and dark stone built into the structure. it meant the structure looks like it popped out of the environment like a rock outcropping. that was the whole point. instead of being a neoclassical building shoved onto the environment, it was an organic structure that grew out of the environment. and besides the fact that it separated pedestrians from, i am assuming, carriages overhead, the underpass also was a shelter. if you wanted your kid to play out of the sun. if you wanted to read a book and you did not want to be in the broiling sun, most of them had benches on both sides so it acted as a play area or a reading area. it acted thing it did, as a living frame, a picture frame, for the landscape to come. when you entered the underpass, as you moved through the next landscape and on the other side was a different landscape, the landscape opens up slowly but surely, framed by this. brilliant. who sees this today? when people go through this today, they

east and the world. what comes next is anyone's guess. but things do not look like they're getting better anytime soon there. the country is rapidly disintegrated. >> conor, thanks so much for that update from our jerusalem bureau. president obama is in california this weekend, just wrapping up the commencement speech at the university of california at irvine. while the u.s. is not sending troops to bolster iraq's ' embattled government, they are considering intervening in the coming days. doug has more. >> there are indications that iraqi forces made a strong defense of baghdad. young shiite men in the capital city have been flocking to military recruitment centers to join up. whether they can be mobilized into a fightliing force remainso be scene. they have been dropping your weapons and uniforms and fleeing. retired general jack keane says -- >> we're either going to deal with isis now or later given what they've done in iraq and in syria. we have to go after their sanctuaries and the lines of communications, the road networks that they're using to move their troops. all that is possible and very vulnerable to our air power in doing that. >> the president has said that the u.s.ip! must not allow isi

east, possibly gain control of some oil fields in northern iraq. and then they can move on to the next stage of the jihad which is jerusalem. they said so. and then the united states. that's the ultimate long-term goal for now. their target is firmly baghdad. >> incredible. all right. eric, thank you. >> thank you, neil. >> we respond with 275, the number of u.s. troops the president is sending into iraq. enough the white house says to help protect our embassy there. the colonel fears these guys could be sitting ducks if things turn south and fast. of course, he's the inspiration for blackhawk down, the torture of our soldiers there, trying to do humanitarian good deeds. that was then. a lot of people say these 275 are going to be essentially given the same assignment to do a good deed, to help american personnel and others in baghdad. what is your fear? >> well, the problem i have with it is why are we sending just 275? if we were going to evacuate the embassy that is there, we should have evacuated the entire embassy, got everybody out of there, and not had any soldiers on the ground. the biggest mistake i think we made with what's goi

the jerusalem post reporting on an unprecedented prayer summit at the vatican. look at this, pope francis prayed for peace in the middle eastith both israeli president shimon perez and palestinian president mahmoud abbas. they embraced for the first time in two years. pope francis told the leaderses it shows more courage to engage in peace. talks broke down earlier this year. >> that is something. kind of amazing. >> great. >> from the "san jose mercury news." a federal trial opens in california that could have a magic impact on college sports. a lawsuit is arguing the ncaa restrictionions on paying student athletes violate anti-trust laws. current and former players are bringing the lawsuit including nba legend bill russell. the ncaa which collects billions of dollars, strongly defends their current system. of course they do. officials say it promotes fair competition and guarantees education as a top mission for student athletes. >> it's complicated but something needs to be done. what's so funny, harold? "the new york times" president obama expected to take new steps to overhaul student loan debt in america. he is expect