now the online conversation around land expropriation ranges from expressions of support or reclaiming stolen possessions to criticism pointing to the economic impact of a similar plan in zimbabwe pierre writes people are so eager for land expropriation without compensation thinking they're getting back stolen property it's a lie you're violating the rights of fellow citizens and you're giving the government the right to take land away from anyone one day that might be you or other say the plan fuels what they call systemic racism against white south africans the debate around the planet follows petitions to western governments on behalf of white south africans more than sixteen thousand people signed a petition asking donald trump to accept white south africans into the u.s. fifteen thousand people signed this petition asking malcolm turnbull to accept white south africans into australia and more than sixty two thousand signed a petition to the e.u. council asking for white south africans quote return right to return to europe unquote so how will this plan impact south africans on bot

of expropriation for capital work, that these are projects the port is working on now.y in that addendum. and additional fund and projects underway are sometimes fun for projects where this is simply the next phase of works. so that includes money for the general fund request for the ferry landing and the seawell as they move into phases and also the case where the scope has been expanded or additional fund are needed to complete projects and the new number is $65 million. the program in the outyears of the capital improvement program. they are highlighted in the addendum and we will be bringing you more detail when we come back with a full cip. and finally there's the piece that we couldn't get to with our existing fund. $93 million of projects proposed by staff for consideration in this 5-year period that we were written able to fun with the existing resource wes have. it would be a priority should more become available or thing for which we would seek outside of fund if opportunities arise. and those projects are listed by name in the back of the attachment as well.

the farmer is being expropriated. but he is unwilling to sell up. attached to his land here in the remote spanish countryside near salamanca. >> it affects me on a personal level because i'll lose my work. my business is small, but it is my livelihood. >> an international corporation plans to extract 8,000 tons of uranium oxide here. it's a valuable raw material for nuclear energy. the land is already being prepared for the mine. after a long tradition of farming, it will soon house the biggest uranium mine of its kind in europe. the mayor of the municipality villavieja is against the mine. jorge rodriguez says the radioactive material will be harmful to the environment and the economy. >> this will primarily impact the farmers. their products will get a bad reputation. and the whole region will be tarnished in the same way. >> rodriguez has driven to a nearby disused uranium mine. it was closed down 18 years ago. the mine changed the landscape, and an area of several square kilometers is still restricted. rodriguez thinks the ground must be contami

there is a strong case to be made that the use of expropriation without compensation in certain circumstancesy consistent with the provisions of our constitution. it is our collective responsibility to use these provisions in our constitution more effectively and directly to drive land reform. tributes have poured into stephen hawking, who reshape the way we think about the universe and broad theoretical physics to the masses. he died at home in cambridge, england early on wednesday. his work on black holes made him a household name as he overcame his physical challenges. 0ur science editor david shukman looks back at his life. there is nothing like the eureka moment of discovering something no one knew before. stephen hawking had a gift for inspiration, a powerful spirit overcoming an ailing body to allow a mind to roam the cosmos. earning him a place as the most famous scientist in the world. it has been a glorious time to be alive and researching and doing theoretical physics. who else could draw crowds like this? the man who gazed at the stars became one himself. his story poignant and up

the farmer is being expropriated but he's unwilling to sell up he's attached to his land here in theremote spanish countryside near salamanca. and i mean this beautiful expert on a personal level because i lose my work. my business is small but it's my livelihood. and international corporation plans to extract eight thousand tonnes of uranium oxide here it's a valuable raw material for nuclear energy. the land is already being prepared for the mine after a long tradition of farming it will soon how is the biggest uranium mine of its kind in europe. the mayor of the municipality of year is against the mine core here it says the radioactive material will be harmful to the environment and the economy. will not mean dumbing down out of this will primarily impact the farmers. and their products will get a bad reputation. in the whole region it will be tarnished in the same way. i mean them and they meaning that. but regas has driven to a nearby disused uranium mine it was closed down eighteen years ago. the mine changed the landscape and an area of several square kilometers is still restr

in which six palestinians were killed in protest against israelis illegal expropriation of thousands of the unknowns of palestinian land in one nine hundred seventy six and to reiterate the right of return for palestine refugees in this regard i recall that seventy percent of gaza's two million palestinians are really just started refugees whose the right of return has been systematically been denied by israel the names of some of the palestinians tragically killed mohammedan a jar aged twenty five mahmoud mom aged thirty eight mohammad omar age twenty two. age and nineteen jihad training age thirty three mahmoud sadly rami rami age thirty three abdul fatah abdi nabil age twenty two brahim abu. her age twenty as well as. abdul qadeer of al how a jerry sorry. i'm sheesh jihad moves but there are some bad analogy gee who whose ages remains unknown moreover earlier on friday. wahid some more farmer from the gaza strip was also killed by israeli artillery artillery fire while standing on his land new york and eunice just hours ahead of the peaceful and nonviolent demonstrations regimes t

parliament has backed a motion that calls for changing the constitution and allowing for land expropriation without compensation essentially white south africans will lose their land they will not be compensated this despite the fact that it flies in the face of the current constitution it follows the inauguration of the south african president several opposed two weeks ago he has said that he wants to speed up the transfer of land from white to black south africans now despite the fact that a party had ended two decades ago you still have a situation in south africa where most of the land is owned by whites this is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party now it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair had this to say. the time for reconciliation is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land malema is a controversial and s

seventy six is when israeli security forces are shot dead six israeli arabs who were protesting the expropriation of what they say was arab owned land to northern israel to build jewish communities we also understand that backed by the hamas government in gaza palestinians intend to establish a thousands of people to stay in a whole bunch of tents and these live pictures here thousands will come near the fence and told not to day in mid may we expect weekly demonstrations on friday for the meantime. this report. tensions are running high as palestinians commemorate land day the preparations are massive and the numbers of people expected to turn out and demonstrate offshoot. like this. but. we know that for example in gaza alone some one hundred thousand people are expected to attend the day prayers along the israel gaza border fence and from there to hold protests and demonstrations the israelis are on high alert for any kind of potential violence as far as the palestinians go they have set up tents in five different locations we are expecting that these protests and demonstrations will last some

of misbehavior or whatever and there is a law which enables theoretically their regulation of expropriating but esteem and land in the west bank and so on and so forth so they can come before the next elections with a long list of things which did not which are not changing the situation on the ground but they can say all these dings we did for the first time and it is the law of the laws or whatever but they know that there is thanks heaven a supreme court in israel and there is the media and there is the parliament and there is that only general and it is not so easy to change the situation even in the case of capital punishment that our defense minister is promoting today but he knows that even if there is a change in the law is where we know all that use capital punishment he did not to do that in the past and it will not do it in the in the future but it can be and that liberation not a house for me here in doha some of described this is a dangerous turning point for me is it even with some of its most contentious elements removed. well we have to wait to see but if this has the status

gathered at the state capitol then to south africa what impact will a controversial proposal for land expropriation.

gathered at the state capital then to south africa what impact will a controversial proposal for land expropriation have but first to the border between ireland and northern ireland an issue that.

with everybody watching he would point to a certain building and say expropriated in spanish and peopleoved it. it is similar except for the obvious, donald trump's base is exactly the opposite, it is largely white and donald trump is also not a socialist, he is a billionaire. you still have the exact same populist dynamic. that is, you have a group of people that are viewed, i guess you might call them coastal elites. they are not all coastal, live in cities and they are not all wealthy, but they are professors, journalists, bankers and lawyers who are seen of controlling the leaders of washington. silicon valley, hollywood. ande really multicultural liberal, not always, they are politically correct. thehave all these people in heartland, the south, in working-class white communities, blue-collar communities who have felt shut out and look down, and excluded. you're a racist, you are not speaking the right way, you are feltt, and they have just powerless. somehow, donald trump was able to tap into those people. it was not just economics. it was the way they related to him culturally. h

some of the princes were arrested, their wealth expropriated.radical changes that have taken place? >> there are actual changes. not radical changes. they are quantum leaps in terms of taking saudi arabia into the modern era. >> what about due process? >> you do to deal with corruption from the bottom-up. it didn't work. people were shown the evidence and were told if you acknowledge your wrongdoing and give back the funds you stole, you can walk. if not, you go to trial. the public press will take care of it and you could end up in jail for many, many years. they were during this time accommodated to a seven-star hotel rather than a jail cell. >> it is a seven-star hotel, yet there are credible, multiple reports that there was some harsh treatment, some were even beaten, tortured. can you respond to that? >> absolutely not true. absolutely not true. we have a number of clinics in the hotel to deal with people with medical conditions. some of them were people with medical issues, medications and so forth. we make sure they have all the health ca

and with everybody watching, he would point to a certain building and say, "expropriate it," in spanishand people loved it. so, flipping to the united states, it's actually quite similar, except for the obvious, which is donald trump's base is exactly the opposite. it's largely white. and donald trump is also not a socialist. he is a billionaire. but you still have the exact same populace dynamic, that is, you have a group of people that are viewed -- i guess you might call them coastal elites. i mean, they're not all coastal. they live in cities and they're not all wealthy, but they are professors and journalists and bankers and lawyers who control , or seen as controlling the levers of power, washington, silicon valley, hollywood, and they're very multicultural and sort of liberal, usually -- not always, and very politically correct and very cosmopolitan, and you have all these people in the heartland, in the south, in working-class white communities, blue-collar communities who have felt shut out and looked down and excluded, "you're a racist. you're not speaking the right way. you'r

known as mbs, the future king has locked up fellow princes, expropriated more than $100 billion of theirh in the name of cracking down on corruption, giving women new rights like the right to drive and attend sporting events, but also mired his country in a civil war in yemen consequence iranian militias. david me is "washington post" columnist david ignatius. his book "men delandela's way" being re-released today. nbc national political reporter carol lee is here and still with us, nbc national security analyst, jeremy bash. you have perhaps the most important arab leader in line with donald trump against iran but also looking for foreign investors, trying to communicate that this is a new saudi arabia despite the harsh tactics he has used against fellow princes to gain power and also fellow investors. >> yes. he's an extraordinary figure. he's a mix of good and bad. i met with him during the last year of the obama administration at a midnight meeting at the palace, which is the saudis, as most of you know, have very late meetings. he has done some extraordinarily good things about allo

yesterday she said you know we should become a rating land they every day because confiscations an expropriation have continued ever since that day in one nine hundred seventy six. it's a day that's been marked since one nine hundred seventy six then like now palestinians are protesting the confiscation of their land it's also they weighted demonstrate their attachment to that land. the big one if we want to impose a presence of planted lands a hard to take over israel always says it's only taking a barren land promised that's why we need to play it everywhere and what. use is his property shrink by four hector's and has received notice that another fourteen could be taken away soon. much of the land goes to was building illegal jewish settlements and the exploitation of natural resources or in the case of rafa meant for the construction of a bypass road that now goes over part of his land he can only reach it via this underpass but axes isn't always guaranteed. to get is closed we're stuck for hours everyone wants freedom of movement i want to be able to come home here and build a shack to stor

stuart: expropriation in ritz-carlton in riyadh, he took them for 100 billion, that is what he said onon. stuart: that is revenue raiser, ritz-carlton, revenue raiser. ashley: very eu-like. stuart: this one for you. the federal aviation administration says the number of commercial drones could absolutely skyrocket? liz a quadrupling by 2022. liz: to 450,000 drones. 450,000 drones by 2022. double number of aircraft in the united states. question what will they be doing up in the sky? it is not all package deliveries because they're not as advanced to package deliveries. it is about date, monitoring oil pipelines, crops for farmers. even prisons. so it is about that. it is recreational use has skyrocketed this is a problem for privacy. it is a problem for the faa, air traffic control. it is a problem for nuisance laws in the country. we're on it. here we come. stuart: i don't concentrate on the problem side of it. i see it as liberating. there are some uses for these things. liz: can find big foot. stuart: you're in a mood, lizzie. liz: sorry. stuart: fascinating to me. think what you ca