bit more about the situation there on the ground hamas has called for a new uprising for an end to fatah against israel and the israeli army meantime is deploying reinforcements in the west bank it does not seem right now as if anyone is going to the negotiating table quite the opposite it seems as if there is a build up there on the ground of tension are you worried about the prospect of violence. you know under the radar there is a strong cooperation between israel and israeli. security. forces and the but is seen in. and there is a mutual interest here. to really not to live this situation deteriorate so i think after a few days of wrist. we'll see calm again and that was former israeli government spokesman henri dromi speaking with me a bit earlier and other news it is a decisive day for germany's efforts to end the country's political deadlock the social democrats are holding a party conference and to decide on whether to open talks on forming a new governing coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives the parties have been in coalition for the past four years social dem

news a live from bar lead hamas calls for a new end to fatah uprising after president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. palestinians have been protesting in the west bank and in gaza and the israeli army is reinforcing its troops in the west bank there's been international condemnation of trumps decision so far only israel has welcomed it. also coming up greece rolls out the red carpet for red hook type air to want to use the first turkish head of state to visit the country in fifty five years plus. i hope your high score by. a very special performance here in berlin by the stars of the new two we will listen in as bongo and the edge entertain commuters with selections on their new album. i'm sorry. kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us the palestinian group hamas has called for a new and to fatah and uprising against israel this comes after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize to roussillon as its capital israeli security forces have used tear gas water cannon to disperse protesters on the streets of the west bank conflicting

is a strong supporter of egypt's incumbent leader of the fatah sisi. the palestinian authority is calling for emergency talks over the possibility of the u.s. embassy in israel being moved from tel aviv to jerusalem the arab league and the organization of islamic cooperation are being asked to host the meeting israel's government considers all of jerusalem its capital while the palestinians hope that east jerusalem will be the capital of their future state palestinian president mahmoud abbas is warning of a new dangerous phase if the u.s. moves its embassy and recognizes jerusalem as israel's capital on the u.s. president has to decide on monday whether to issue a waiver of that twenty two year old law requiring the state department to move the embassy the waiver has to be renewed every six months trump son in law and white house adviser says the president is still weighing up the matter he's still looking at a lot of different facts and then when he makes his decision. he'll be the one to want to tell you not me so. i'll make sure he does that at the

a senior official in president mahmoud abbas is ruling fatah party says palestinians won't meet u.s. vice president mike pence during his upcoming visit that's because president trumps decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital i mean a lot of these one hundred palestinians have been hurt in violent clashes with israeli troops across the occupied territories russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says kim jong un wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. said young young desire for direct talks to separate state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agr

recognize to whistlin as the capital of israel the palestinian group hamas has called for a new into fatah and uprising against israel and the israeli army is deploying reinforcements in the west bank the un the united nations security council will hold an emergency session on friday trying said that his decision marks the beginning of a new approach to the conflict between israel and the palestinians. with the stroke of a pen donald trump turned the middle east on its head. i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the us president throwing decades of diplomatic caution to the wind he dismissed warnings that his decision could light the fuse of one of the world's most explosive powder kegs this decision is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement we want an agreement that is a great deal for the israelis and a great deal for the palestinians in jerusalem many israelis celebrated trumps announcement it's long overdue the flacks of the two allies waving side by side on

here is part of putin's middle east the visit is off to egypt next to visit the president there abdel fatah el-sisi he will discuss the issue with alongside news about his negotiations with. the turkish president as well as made it clear that while the bulk of the troops is withdrawing those earliest. day in fact the first pilots will be flying back to russia we understand. the military forces will be quick to return if the terrorists in putin's own words rear their heads once again let's take a listen to his statement. i mean you are on there to the defense minister and the head of your general staff and you don't know what would have started to draw of the russian forces to their permanent legacy if you would if the terrorists dared to raise their heads again we will strike back with the strength of your imagination if you will. now of course the base in tartus and attack here will remain all the bunk of the bulk of troops is going home over the last two years the russian troops have played a very important role in backing a syrian army in regaining territory ever again around ninety perc

israel off the map and they run the gaza strip in the west bank you have the palestinian authority fatah and they only want israel to exist if they accept the right of return which means millions of palestinians coming from lebanon and jordan other places which would make israel no longer a jewish majority state so basically the palestinian leadership won't compromise enough to let israel exist so it's a nonstarter of course we have to come up with a different plan because it jadida raise a lot of points that are part of a future negotiated settlement the right of return the existence of israel the boundaries but are you going to be as kind as j. d. and c. chung as the agent who can bring change well that was a valiant attempt to recite the standard apac talking points all obstacles to israeli palestinian peace but the fact of the matter is that there are two primary issues as virtually everyone who seriously examined this issue will tell you the first is the refusal of israel to relinquish its occupation of the post it into or tory's the second is the extreme bias of the united states t

violent scenes expected meanwhile a senior palestinian official in president mahmoud abbas his ruling fatah party says u.s. vice president mike pence is unwelcome in palestine pens was planning to meet with abbas in the upcoming visit over the move to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the shock decision by the u.s. administration has sparked protests in gaza and a smith reports. goal of most of them this is a scene being repeated across the palestinian territories we are like a palestinian people we will not accept this world state to fight and fight and fight to get jurors all i am have a telephone with so. but beyond protesting palestinian leaders are now trying to come up with a unified action plan to respond to donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel most say the oslo accord is dead it's been the basis of twenty five years of u.s. mediated off negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis yeah. and telling my brothers in the palestinian authority that the situation should be clear we will go out of the darkness this decision has killed and. the p.

allies of washington in this case turkey's president is insisting greece extradite members of the fatah group who fled there after the failed coup attempt and his country are so tired berto on is on a historic two day visit to afghans the first by a turkish leader in sixty five years but the encounter has been overshadowed by a long list of grievances as johnson reports. honoring the greek war dead turkish president. embarks on a historic visit that got off to a difficult start in an interview broadcast the night before his visit everyone spoke of revising the treaty which set the border between greece and turkey and nine hundred twenty three official statements from the two sides reflected territorial tensions particularly over two failed negotiations to reunify cyprus divided since one thousand nine hundred seventy four turkish invasion. endeavour's the greek cypriots promised us that we would reach a solution to the cyprus issue and that did not happen recently we had another meeting in switzerland again over cyprus and who walked away there again it was the greek cypriots. i'm forty

in the two thousand and eleven election she figures been a critic of the current president of the fatah sisi. yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh says he's open to talks with saudi arabia to end the war at least forty people have died during infighting between forces loyal to him and the who threw rebels in santa the two sides have been battling with government forces together. police in germany have used water cannon to disperse demonstrators in the city of hanover protesting against the far right party which is meeting to elect a new leadership the party could become the biggest opposition bloc in parliament the chancellor angela merkel forms a coalition government with the social democrats the u.s. senators narrowly passed a bill for the biggest overhaul of the tax system in thirty years it's a political victory for. the house of representatives has passed a separate version now both chambers will have to meet and agree on a final version of the bill as the headlines news continues and there's more of it for you on our web site al-jazeera dot com it's outfront next so stay wi

anything is going to escalate again also remains to be seen we know that there has been a call by fatah the ruling party in the palestinian territories for more protests this coming friday as well as possibly some israeli protests on saturday so those two sides might be tag teaming each other on the same side of this issue or today is international human rights day when the world community marks the adoption of human rights for me talking more about that in a minute but maya for now we'll leave you in jerusalem thank you so much well today the world community is marking international human rights day remembering the adoption of the universal declaration of human rights by the u.n. back in one nine hundred forty eight it's also the three hundredth day that turkish german journalist and as usual has spent in a turkish prison hundreds of artists have called for his release including pop stars bono and sting several nobel prize winning authors are among those who have signed a letter calling to free dennis he's accused of terrorist propaganda but the german government says usuals been detai

challenging israeli policies that are anathema to palestinian interests so my understanding is that fatah and hamas are already talking about what the joint the joint response would be if the announcement on wednesday is bad on jerusalem and what that really would mean on the ground in terms of potentially a really a groundswell of opposition like we haven't seen a groundswell of demonstrations on that we haven't seen maybe in a very very long time. the former egyptian prime minister says he is still considering a presidential bid well though he says he needs to explore the option further comments on egyptian television his first appearance since arriving in cairo on saturday the former prime minister has been based in abu dhabi since losing to mohamed morsi in two thousand and twelve his family said earlier they feared he'd actually been kidnapped would shift week later denied incoming c.c. is widely expected to seek another term. foreign minister says the i mean been hamilton he will attend the gulf cooperation council meeting in kuwait on tuesday the regional alliance is facing its wor

been kidnapped which has since denied us is a strong supporter of egypt's incumbent leader of the fatah sisi. family is an associate professor of political science at long island university she says since his return to egypt should seems less sure of his presidential ambitions. he and the regime were caught off guard by the happiness of the ascii that is you know there's going to be an election next year in each year for president and so having another candidate would give the election some kind of credibility however to be a broad to announce his candidacy he had also said on tuesday that he wanted to have moral core of the egyptian diaspora community now this is important in the last two thousand and twelve election where he ran getting the vote for example in gypsies in the united states gypsies in europe egyptians in saudi arabia getting the diaspora to me to vote was really important and so now that he has come home or been sent home or it's interesting that this part is no longer part in play and so it's easier to gain sympathy when you're abroad but now when you're of whom you ac

withdrawal of his troops from syria then he flew to cairo for plan talks with egyptian president abdel fatah. doubling back and then headed north to ankara for a meeting with turkey's president. hominids oh reports. a warm welcome for russian president vladimir putin in the tuchis capital ankara it is final destination in his whistle stop to he has been to syria and egypt to all in one day the kremlin says the trip is meant to strengthen russian ties with these nations in uncorrupt president putin an ado on what you've got to showcase improving relations between their countries they both criticized president all trumps decision on which it is still in such a world media sure you. should both russia and turkey think that the decision of the us to recognize theresa limits the capital of israel is not helping to solve the situation in the middle east it is destabilizing it and it can wipe out the prospect of peace america this utilitarian to tune in could. the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has caused outrage in the whole world it has caused disappointment and it

a quick recap of the top stories this hour a senior official in president mahmoud abbas is ruling fatah party says palestinians won't meet u.s. vice president mike pence during his upcoming visit that's because of president trump's decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile at least one hundred palestinians have been hurt in clashes with israeli troops across the occupied territories. wildfires in the u.s. state of california have burned down dozens of houses and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate from ventura county north of los angeles where more than thirty six thousand hectares of land and twelve thousand homes are in danger the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong il wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. labral said he passed on pyongyang's desire for direct talks to u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. that is something that foreign minister la

to jews from north korea or any telling fatah. burford captured fascinating shots of everyday life in a regimented society. an exclusive peek behind one of the last iron curtain it's. a north korean dog starting december twenty eighth on t w. they live to surf. danger lurks in the water we were there. surfing ways and. basically in this case of alleged molestation back up a nation full of official. israeli peace it's sad to go somewhere every day and see more and more time the scene gives me everything in the way the wind have to give something back it's like you know blind to its. point waves surfers fighting against unseen pollution the sea.

palestinian political roof occasion a reality number ten it's pretty much short a restart a new into fatah a lot of it will result in the deaths of many israelis lebanese and even more problems than ian's and last but not least it's even further destabilizes the middle east and north africa powderkeg just like everything else the us does in the region. thank you for that comprehensive list and let's talk about the russia being banned from the the two thousand and eighteen olympics from south korea in my introduction as citizens politics is poisonous politics on steroids this is politics at its worst it's a combination of injection of. politics into sports and international sports its way. russian the russian team being banned from the olympics in south korea has everything to do with a new cold war being waged by the united states and its allies against moscow and very little to do with actual scandals let's say man but let's go back to the one thousand. early one nine hundred eighty s. now in one thousand. more than fifty countries boycott it the olympics in moscow but back then they were

off a bit that whole say name hitler skull operator of the ring cycle of world war those who created fatah before nine hundred sixty seven to destroy israel when this resists the same personality it's common to teach us morality listen come on it cannot be defended themselves on somebody else's land that is unacceptable what they done what they do and what i have been doing since one thousand nine hundred seven is an aggression and with your other guests this radical has never been to your land never been your land in the history of those land they were born in russia donald trump. kept his strong and his trying to do it his best way are grateful but the issues not donald trump they issue as these people go in there in a says europeans russians americans and we are here in the middle east the only democracy of the only ally in very smooth has reverberated throughout most decision you were going to is ation of islamic cooperation convened an emergency session into a wednesday story calling the international community to recognize its jerusalem as the palestinian capital. to secure your russ

anything is going to escalate again also remains to be seen we know that there has been a call by fatah the ruling party in the palestinian territories for more protests this coming friday as well as possibly some israeli protests on saturday so those two sides might be tag teaming each other on the same side of this issue ok today is international human rights day when the world community marks the adoption of human rights rumi talking more about that in a minute but maya for now we'll leave you in jerusalem thank you so much. better reporting for us from jerusalem as we said today is human rights day and the world is marking the adoption of the declaration of human rights by the united nations today is also the three hundredth day that turkish german journalist and as usual has spent in prison in turkey hundreds of artists of calls for his release popstars bono and sting and several nobel prize winning authors are among those who signed a letter calling to free dennis he's accused of terrorist propaganda but the german government says usual has been detained on political grounds. and

bethlehem where as you can see clashes have broken out the islamist group hamas has called for an end to fatah. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as attorneys i have worked on the street for many can trust and they have problems with the same point to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption weak on the floor to stay silent when it comes to the fans the humans and see them why do fools who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny paris and i work with. more jail time over diesel gates a u.s. court hands a hefty prison sentence to a false flag an executive over his role in the company's emissions cheating scandal also on the program scavenging abandoned diamond mines in south africa and hoping for a change in fortune for gazans of desperate south africans forced into the black market . seven years behind bars that's the price to pay for lying to consumers this is a business i'm christopher. the fox wagon senior exec

you know they have been until now key broker in palestinian peace talks and talks between hamas and fatah that have been taking place break yulian cairo and this decision somewhat undermined. their efforts in that area and you know it's undermined their ability to continue acting as a real broker peace. journalist with michaelson reporting from cairo many thanks indeed now to some of the other stories making news this hour and iraqi prime minister haidar of bodies says his country's war with the so-called islamic state has been one he says the army has driven i-s. from the country and re secured its border with syria after more than three years of conflict huge wildfires raging through southern california have killed at least one person and forced around two hundred thousand people to flee their homes multiple blazes have destroyed hundreds of buildings and much of the state's valuable of a condo crump and unrelenting winds mean the fires could last until christmas a german village has been sold for one hundred forty thousand euros in auction vina is a small community with fifteen inhabit

anything is going to escalate again also remains to be seen we know that there has been a call by fatah the ruling party in the palestinian territories for more protests this coming friday as well as possibly some israeli protests on saturday so those two sides might be tag teaming each other on the same side of this issue that's my straighter in jerusalem thank you. today is international human rights day when the world community marks the adoption of the universal declaration of human rights it's also the three hundredth day that turkish german journalist dennis usual has spent in a turkish prison hundreds of artists have called for his release popstars bono and sting and several nobel prize winning author is among those who signed a letter calling to free dennis is accused of terrorist propaganda but the german government says that usual has been detained on political grounds and he is not the only one hundreds of human rights workers are behind bars right now in turkey the human rights activist peter lloyd was recently released from prison in istanbul after being detained there for

they need tunnels where inaugurated on saturday and hailed as a major achievement by president abdel fatah c c the four links are intended to improve access to the sinai peninsula from the rest of egypt at port side on the mediterranean and is my left for the south the plan is for them to deliver a long needed boost to the peninsula economy it's a volatile area where an offshoot of the so-called islamic state has a foothold the militants claimed responsibility for the downing of a russian plane in two thousand and fifteen killing more than two hundred people but the peninsula is also receiving investment the plan is for sustainable economic growth bringing jobs martin has an connects company has provided some of the know how the german engineering firm developed the huge drills used in the tunnel project as president of the egyptian president attach great importance to us giving skills to egyptian engineers. trained in germany before working on the project here where. president sisi took part in a tense drawn on saturday up to six kilometers long and seventy meters deep the tunnels will so

on fatah may have posed marks obligations are to moscow to meddle in the us elections as. news conference russia's president also claims to be puzzled by what is going on in the united states. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. and we'll have more on those stories in just a moment first though some breaking news from france we're hearing that there has been a collision between a train and the school bus in the south of the country at least two people are feared dead of the crash happened close to the town of purp in your emergency services are reported to be at the scene we'll bring you more on that as soon as we get. the rest of the day's news european union the leaders the leaders meeting for a summit in brussels could be heading for a showdown over the issue of migration in the run up to the meeting a you council president donald tows has called for the scrapping of the quota system whereby refugees are supposed to be distributed across the bloc described it as divisive and ineffective germany's chancellor going to work for however send a you countries could not sho

the festive season is all about children singing songs and bringing billions of euros el gordo the fatah one is here again the world's biggest paying launcher it has both celebrations and cash to the streets of spain. money welcome to the program spain's prime minister mariano rajoy says he is open to dialogue of to yesterday's regional elections in which song. supper to spot is when a slim majority now a whore says he would talk with the new regional leaders as long as they didn't violate the country's constitution but he did not respond to calls for a meeting by colus pushed on the independence leader is in self-imposed exile in brussels here's what the two men had to say. i'm sure i'm ready to meet prime minister or in brussels or in a different place in the e.u. except spain for his reasons are ready to do that because it's time for catalonia for the spanish and for europe to start a new political phase and this phase needs to be defined by the political solutions not by the by non and dilute he has to pression we've been seeing so far. and how you're. going to have a new era based o

want to put it that way it's probably not going to get better especially with this coffer a new into fatah that's been put out and people here are energized they are motivated they are the palestinians that we've seen today are very upset by this declaration and they feel that the city that they've been trying to declare their capital has been taken away from them and very briefly if you can my own how does really feel about this. some israelis are happy about it they say that this as long overdue and that jerusalem should be their capital is their capital has always been their capital there are a lot of very mixed feelings who say this isn't right that this is going to fan the flames as we see it has been happening and it's going to make things worse it's going to make peace process negotiations worse which is something that we've seen as a likelihood this is an unprecedented move on the part of a u.s. government to throw this sort of monkey wrench into these i'm going to go she actions that have been so difficult for so many decades later reporting from jerusalem in front of the gate tha

news live from berlin and hamas calls for a new end to fatah uprising after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognized as the capital of israel. palestinians have been protesting in the west bank and gaza and the israeli army is reinforcing its forces in the west bank there's been international condemnation of trying to decision so far only israel has welcomed debt also coming up a very special performance here in berlin by the stars of u two we will listen it was bono and the edge i entertained commuters with a selection of i got hi. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. the palestinian group hamas has called for a new intifada and uprising against israel this comes after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize two groups slum as its capital israeli security forces have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters in the streets of the west bank conflicting claims to jerusalem are at the core of the israeli palestinian conflict but trump has ignored international warnings by recognizing it as israel's seat of

in newtonian fatah.

comment in this region yes absolutely we've seen unfortunately a number of attacks are going all the fatah sounds minorities including christians in the last few years christians have always been a soft target in this country as they are is the number more than in the millions really impacts on there about one point eight percent of the population and so there are hundreds of churches across the country and police say that it's while they do it tend to security at time particularly at times like these in the run up to christmas it's almost impossible to secure all of them one of the biggest attacks that we saw was last year of course near easter there was a bombing at a park that was claimed by the pakistani taliban that killed more than seventy five people and was one of the deadliest attacks that year that was dark getting a festival that was being organized for mainly for christians to celebrate easter but they were muslims and all other pakistanis at that park as well this was in the eastern city of lahore we've seen other attacks as well in the last few years generalist in islamabad t

fatah for the good news is our own choices in energy conservation. recycling. and transport can help we draw the line find out what you can do today at redraw the lines. this is d.w. news live from berlin the world is ringing in the new year hour by hour the clock has just struck midnight to something else and asia these are pictures of new year's celebrations in the indonesian capital jakarta return to.

meanwhile a senior official in president mahmoud abbas is ruling fatah party says palestinians won't meet u.s. vice president mike pence during his upcoming visit that's because of president trump's decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile of these two hundred palestinian protesters have been hurt in violent clashes with israeli troops across the occupied territories. wildfires in the u.s. state of california have burned down dozens of houses and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate from ventura county north of los angeles where more than thirty six thousand hectares of land have been burned russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong il wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. labrum said he passed on pyongyang desire for direct talks to secretary of state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conve

when there will be good when the cost must come from all over the area to fatah care or loss from as you had for example for the how many local people come to buy a whole bedroom set off furniture for the bride to run us to visit very good is a bad one to see our cost him or is our engineers and the government to work they buy from us. that is untrue we saw furniture for a wedding dowries as well to muslims and christians a lark. this is not how you heard. the monks want to see if the furniture is comfortable. the a poster is a muslim. even a christian institution like the red monastery sees to it that it employs muslims. any minority demanding acceptance should not practice discrimination themselves. on the way we're all treated the same here we're like brothers there's no marginalization of the whole. people. although it seems to contradict their withdrawn and traditional lifestyle the monks at the red monastery are in step with the times. they're even raising ostriches which is a bit of a new trend in egypt. ostrich meat is in demand here because it's low in cholesterol. i don't k

accords and that's important in terminally because of course they're involved in discussions with fatah political union and if there are elections on the rise and they want to make sure that there's a distinction between themselves and fatah but he also talked about the fact that he'd like to see a day of rage in muslim countries every friday to make sure the world doesn't forget the position of jerusalem and he also said that hamas would never recognize israel the thousands here left happy that their voices had been heard and the intention is that on friday there will be a massive protest stretching the length of gaza they're calling it a million man march and they're expecting a huge turnout here while there are regular updates on the situation in the occupied palestinian territories and israel on al-jazeera dot com this page right there u.s. jerusalem move all the latest where you want to head to for the latest information and you'll find a jerusalem tab on the home page that's al jazeera dot com a medical aid group estimates at least nine thousand died in mean more in just one month

these forces on the ground here then departed for the egyptian capital there he met president of the fatah al sisi the leaders have been strengthening ties in recent years putting n.c.c. also signed a deal on nuclear power the growing ties between russia and the second largest recipient of u.s. military aid after israel egypt could potentially strained relations between cairo and washington and yet another sign of putting attempts to expand russia's influence across the middle east mohammed at all just syria and kyra. mark katz is a nonresident fellow at the arab gulf states institute in washington d.c. he's also a professor of government and politics at george mason university he joins us now via skype from virginia thank you for your time so syria turkey egypt all in one day what do you what do you make of what putin is up to besides frequent flyer miles. well i think you know that with drone syria is a more russian domestic politics that he's announced he's running for a fourth term the one thing the russian public really wants to be reassured about is that they're not going to be stuck

but that didn't stop them attacking fatah for the position particularly on jerusalem saying that their position had always been the one against the oslo accords that that position had proven to be correct because of the developments in the last week with donald trump announcing that he would recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and he said that he would like to see muslim countries organize idea of reads every friday to make sure that people around the world knew their anger at this decision by the americans he also suggested that hamas would never recognize israel particularly because of this and also said that he believed that donald trump's the surgeon had left him his administration on the united states politically isolated because of the condemnation globally that decision. all right fisher there thanks so much. and plenty more still ahead on the news hour including south korean president makes his first visit to china as regional pressure mounts on north korea over its nuclear and missile tests. plus almost two decades on from a global treaty to ban land mines was causing the

gaza of handing over power of gaza back to the palestinian authority in a reconciliation process with fatah or hamas leadership and other smaller factions here in gaza have given their full support behind their backing towards mahmoud abbas supporting him in opposing a new declaration as to roost as the capital of israel so there's full unity here on the palestinian street behind this cause to protest against jerusalem being called the capital of israel marty live in gaza thank you very much indeed for now we can speak to mohammad marandi he's dean of the faculty of world studies at the university of tehran and the spirit the supreme leader of iran ayatollah khomeini has said that u.s. hands are tied on the issue of palestine i'm wondering what does he mean. but i think in iran the feeling is that in a sort of strange way this is a positive development because the hypocrisy has been set aside by the united states previous administrations have basically been very one completely one sided in their dealings with the palestinian issue and. the two state solution has been dead for a very long ti

violence scenes are expected meanwhile a senior palestinian official and president mahmoud abbas's ruling fatah party says the u.s. vice. president mike pence is unwelcome in palestine parents was planning to meet with ambassador an upcoming visit over the move to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital while the shock decision by the us administration has sparked protests in gaza as well as bernard threat reports. this is a scene being repeated across the palestinian territories we are like a palestinian people we will not accept this will stay to fight and fight and fight to get jurors all i am have a telephone to sign. but beyond protesting palestinian leaders are now trying to come up with a unified action plan to respond to donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel most say the oslo accord is dead it's been the basis of twenty five years of u.s. mediated off negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis yeah. i'm telling my brothers in the palestinian authority that the situation should be clear we will go out of the. this decision has killed. the prime mini

welcome to the program thanks for joining us the palestinian group hamas has called for a new and to fatah and uprising against israel this comes after u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize to roussillon as its capital israeli security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the streets of the west bank both the palestinians and the israelis see jerusalem as their capital and the city has been a key issue in decades of conflict but trump has ignored international warnings by recognizing it as israel seat of government saying that it is time for a new approach. and we'll have more on that story a little later in the show but first we want to bring you some other news because in berlin germany social democrats are debating whether to open talks on continuing the governing coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives for the next parliamentary term at the s.p.d. as party conference chairman martin schultz asked his fellow social democrats to give the green light for coalition talks so it's an issue he rolled out the option after the party

but heightened tensions with the fatah faction of the palestinian authority the violent confrontations followed. a rival government in gaza but faced with international condemnation they struggle to govern effectively it's not easy for a movement like hamas as it is distance movement they believe the only way to. to anybody palestine is to continue with the military is that i get. when you start to think to change then the whole war closed the door in front of you. in the eleven years how much ram gaza have been three wars with israel more than two thousand seven hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces israel has sealed off the territory and unemployment is around forty three percent the highest rate in the world according to the world bank. hamas is famous slogan is islam is the solution but people didn't buy it must fail to fix problems of health education economy they got money one way or another but used it for employing that assistance and ignored the obligation of the government that's five board and employment increased under its new political chief a sm

under the influence of michael jackson the give us laws that the us left with us to include turns fatah us up soviet a tosser. oh my goodness i was under the age and my mother was not very happy with my father because i was singing in my father's club and i had to been maybe twelve. ok but that's traditionally club distrust and to go back. and plan b. yes it was yeah there was a plan b. i went to university i studied criminal justice there was a plan b. but even while i was in school in the night i sang in clubs ok so you know what my grades look like. on the good. times on the customer as of this movie i was on the stand by the heat i will fall to the dish and she not. brought me good afternoon if you desire to learn and i thought my done when i was to my own and i'm small. and got to do a scene kind of most of press yeah jethro tull i thought so too much at one time download on the can for the shuffling and. yeah i am buying. up all the. effort to make up i haven't yet splice vendor love to build a good bit of veg am not buying nish yeah i'm staying in the u.k. yeah i'm ok he's with m

so you know that the hamas is in business to kill israelis and to kill political opponents like the fatah and the p.a. uses the day of rage as an excuse in order to avoid making any headway on the peace process nerd intifada really means a popular uprising and a popular uprising can take the varieties of ways and what is going on today is an intifada what went on three months ago in jerusalem was an intifada but it was entirely peaceful and that's what our authority really aims at a popular uprising that is nonviolent is the best way of expressing the feelings and the rejection of the palestinian people of the trump and israeli occupation. on tuesday team russia was banned from competing at the twenty eighteen winter games olympic chiefs reach their decision on the findings of an independent investigation into alleged state sponsored toping however individual athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did ask lee so will participate in between individuals or team competitions under the name olympic else leads from russia. no one

this is meant to lean a macho ski she's a more fatah as a female more father are known she personifiesthe secret knowledge of her homeland like saddam in this they are with that of another one you can't become a monk far you have to be born one would have sacred knowledge that is passed down for generations. but today this book. people here have always been religious there are forty churches for some thirty thousand people in better carving up. and their faith predates christianity. mantilly now shows us the tools of her trade a new york pendulum a dull knife and herbs she says she can use these things to heal people. oracle bones are used to foretell the future they come from rabbits this one helps ward off the evil law i read you can recognize a witch by looking through a witch bone. we buy some bread and water we're supposed to keep them overnight so that a more far can read the future were skeptical. people in the car p.t.s. earn money from tourism and timber their spirituality is heavily influenced by ancient practices magic and shamanism have learned to coexist here alongside chr

so you know that the hamas is in business to kill israelis and to kill political opponents like the fatah and the p.a. uses the day of rage as an excuse in order to avoid making any headway on the peace process word intifada really means a popular uprising and a popular uprising can take the varieties of ways and what is going on today is an intifada what went on three months ago in jerusalem was an intifada but it was entirely peaceful and that's what our authority really aims at a popular uprising that is nonviolent is the best way of expressing the feelings and the rejection of the palestinian people of the trump and israeli occupation well if the palestinians want to wipe themselves off the face of the battle it equally they should continue in this in this line of political violence as well as threats of physical violence i would suggest that they go back to the table where they have israelis with open arms and open hands willing to negotiate with them but this is something they're going to to have. learn to do and stop calling for days of rage in for terror and violence. protest agai

hijab in that whole say name hitler skull operator of the ring cycle of world war those who created fatah before nine hundred sixty seven to destroy israel when this resistance said personality is common to teach us morality listen come on it cannot be defended themselves why they are illegally on somebody else's land that is unacceptable what they done what they do and what i have been doing since one thousand nine hundred seven is in aggression and with your other guests this radical has never been to your land never been the old man in the history of those land they were born in russia donald trump. kept his promises and his trying to do it his best we are grateful but the issue is not donald trump the issue as these people go around to murder in a says europeans russians americans and we are here in the middle east the only democracy of the only all new really alive in this very dark environment trumps decision hasn't won much support at the un either the security council actually condemned the decision by fourteen members to one only the us defended itself or the bodies secretary-gen