mean the end of fatah and the p.l.o. as well because i mean how can there be a government representing the palestinians which doesn't actually govern anybody. no an end to the palestinian authority would not mean an end to fat or the p.l.o. fatah is an independent political party and the p.l.o. his an umbrella organization national amber logan is asian that the that is that composed of many political organization the person of the four it is something else it came as a result of political agreements between the palestinian and israeli sides and as a result of direct election by the palestinian people and again in spite of all its shortcomings and there are shortcomings nevertheless i personally believe that we should keep the authority and we should push hard in a very serious way to move forward specially with regard to the achievement of our national independence and our state so how is strong's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital going to change state israeli palestinian dispute. well first of all let me let

mean the end of fatah and the p.l.o. as well because i mean how can there be a government representing the palestinians which doesn't actually govern anybody. no and added to the palestinian authority would not mean an end to for the whole of the p.l.o. fatah is an independent political party and the p.l.o. his an umbrella organization national amber logan is asian that that is that composes of many political organization the person of the four it is something else that came as a result of political agreements between the palestinian and israeli sides and as a result of direct election by the palestinian people and again in spite of all its shortcomings and there are shortcomings nevertheless i personally believe that we should keep the authority and we should push hard in a very serious way to move forward specially with regard to the achievement of our national independence and our state so how is strong's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital going to change state israeli palestinian dispute. well first of all

egypt believe that that's potentially a reference to military intelligence that at a time when the fatah has sisi was leading that institution what do you say to that i think putting pieces together just points to general sisi personally and his closest advisors i think it's a very damning. issue particularly and the peace coming now that the military particularly military intelligence and general intelligence have worked extremely hard to undermine their pricing in many ways using propaganda and using. very hard and very cruel tactics like shooting at people killing people where surely snipers were hitting along the brains of people i think it should be exposed and i think. the papers we should know we should actually see these people released to speak to us openly generally good name must the good name our general. general. sami a man they should be released and should not be mistreated because they obviously had their house been ransacked the family of general sami are now on been detained and that is says a lot of things that secy panicked. magic sam and of course has been in the new

explains government workers are still not being paid despite rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah reaching a deal last year. there are hundreds of schools and government fusions right across gaza like this one that are closed today let's give you some background to this story in two thousand and seven when how must took control from fatah in the gaza strip they recruited tens of thousands of the boy now in october last year ten years later a reconciliation deal was signed between hamas and fatah in cairo with the aim of eventually setting up a unity government that the implementation of that deal seemingly remains schools the status of the people that work in institutions like this remains vague and they have barely been played since october. muscular in my left we need a fair and just tell you should we want to be integrated into the official policy me an alternative system we want to live in dignity we want to be recognized as a state employees we have done our duty we now want our rights. because this strike isn't just about wages it shows just how frustrated indeed angry pales

but give you some background to this story in two thousand and seven when hamas took control from fatah in the gaza strip they recruited tens of thousands of employees now in october last year ten years later a reconciliation deal was signed between hamas and fatah in cairo with the aim of eventually setting up a unity government but the implementation of that deal seemingly remains stalled the status of the people that work in institutions like this remains vague and they have barely been played since october. noted had a muscular to my left from what we need a fair and just to you should we want to be integrated into the official policy nion alternative system we want our salaries to live in dignity we want to be recognized as state employees we have done our duty we now want our rights. because the story isn't just about where your job is just how frustrated you did angry palestinians here in gaza all having a good would tell you that the girls learned it would be located in the park with the rubber crossing with egypt in the south but that we should be closed around for years now it

presidential candidate in the twenty two of the elections he's a staunch critic of president abdel fatah sisi and call for a boycott of next month's election others who announced their intention to contest again sisi were either arrested or forced to withdraw including a former army chief zimbabwe's political opposition has lost a towering figure with the death of morgan the founder of the movement for democratic change was being treated for colon cancer in neighboring south africa he was sixty five and at least thirty billion dollars have been pledged to help rebuild iraq after the defeat of eisold there seventy six countries promised money at a summit in kuwait but mainly in the form of loans which will need to be paid back the money folds well short of what iraq's government says it needs you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after risking it all to stay with us. all the benefit of saddam people so bad they see the importance of cards witness documentaries about open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.

and his calls for a renewed into fatah just last month underscore how important today's designation is we will not be distracted by hamas as efforts to obscure its true and bloody nature of the land my honey a call for a new uprising against israel in december because of this we are no to los or to a lasting peace agreement between israel and the palestinians the us president donald trump's decision to recognize your islam as the capital of israel something mandated by congress welcomed by the israeli government and condemned by palestinians who want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future nation while honey i attended a funeral for a hamas member his aides told reporters they don't take the us is move seriously while the other side of. it is clear that putting the name of ismail haniya on the terrorism list by the americans came at a time that the us administration is targeting jerusalem and putting sanctions and preventing the aid of the morra which is a continuation of the crimes against the palestinian people that it is it is not always thought we had looked at this it is

it's been one year since the death of fatah and chalk and one of russia's most prominent diplomats is so vast russia's ambassador to the un enjoying one of the toughest periods in global relations for moscow he died of a heart attack on the eve of his sixty fifth birthday. if you will is to come a country in a commanding time we get. to study to see who is her presence to have to live with her speech as if she was mobile so rings of her selfies remember the trite cringe you country isn't. normally if we needed to be preached to read go to a church if we wanted to hear poetry would go through a few tough words we expect from you and officials of the security council as an object this is. an interest of i don't mind who likes me and who doesn't i'm just doing my job with the russian delegation have just informed us of the untimely passing away of ambassador vitaly churkin this morning. at the un security council new york he was greatly respected this man is our diplomats because. it is our international donald trump has backed calls to improve background checks on gun buyers almost a we

it has been one year since the death of fatah can one of russia's most prominent diplomats he served as russia's ambassador to the un during one of the toughest periods in global relations for moscow he died of a heart attack on the eve of his sixty fifth birthday. if you want to talk to my country in a commanding tone we get. our . m. they stated us who is representative delivered her speech as if she was mother teresa herself please remember the track record of your country is the one on the if we needed to be preached to leave go to a church if we wanted to hear poetry lose touch with fear itself will to expect some u.n. officials in the security council is an objectivist. me an engineer so i don't mind who likes me and who's doesn't i'm just a joke the russian delegation have just informed us of the untimely passing away and then bassett or vitaly churkin this morning. i. was almost at home at the un security council in new york he was. greatly respected this man is on diplomatic license. but says aussie international thank you for sharing a true stay with us so far more of a wor

presidential candidate in the twenty two of the elections he's a staunch critic of president abdel fatah sisi and call for a boycott of next month's election others who announced their intention to contest again sisi were either arrested or forced to withdraw including a former army chief zimbabwe's political opposition has lost a towering figure with the death of morgan tsvangirai the founder of the movement for democratic change was being treated for colon cancer in neighboring south africa he was sixty five and at least thirty billion dollars have been pledged to help rebuild iraq after the defeat of eisel there seventy six countries promised money at a summit in kuwait but mainly in the form of loans which will need to be paid back the money falls well short of what iraq's government says it needs you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after risking it all to stay with us. the benefit of saddam people see. there are cars witnessing documentaries don't open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. camino is a ghost station in the south of the democrat

and his calls for a renewed into fatah just last month underscore how important today's designation is we will not be distracted by hamas as efforts to obscure its true and bloody nature of the land my honey a call for a new uprising against israel in december because of this we are no closer to a lasting peace agreement between israel and the palestinians the us president donald trump's decision to recognize your islam as the capital of israel something mandated by congress welcomed by the israeli government and condemned by palestinians who want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future nation while honey i attended a funeral for a hamas member his aides told reporters they don't take the us as move seriously while the other side of ismail hernia it is clear that putting the name of ismail haniya on the terrorism list by the americans came at a time that the us administration is targeting jerusalem and putting sanctions and preventing the aid of the morra which is a continuation of the crimes against the palestinian people that it is me is not always thought we ought to note t

months ago that is not going very well it's all there's a lot of argument a lot of dispute between fatah and hamas over how the handover of power from hamas to fatah should continue its it's pretty much grinding to a hold to the immense detriment of the palestinians in gaza blockade that they already suffered under the israelis is being intensified by the palestinian authority refusing to hand over funds refusing to pay salaries of civil servants so there's pressure from gaza in immense pressure from gaza really things have never been so bad as they are today in gaza but in the west bank while they're still get to be elections is supposed to be elections later on this year the palestinian authority abbas remains the president and as i say under pressure to come up with some sort of solution for the palestinians here enormously frustrated at how at how following the announcement of jerusalem the capital of israel they really seem to have fallen backwards and this is why there's pressure on abbas and his administration to provide to come up with some sort of solution and this is what they'

born in fatah and that's the essential point is that i should have learned as a citizen to point. b. w. appears to have risen from the ashes of diesel gage but did he go too far in its tests with humans and monkeys it remains to be seen how the company copes with the fallout from the latest scandal. all animal testing is common in medical research and development and other sectors and the tests themselves a vital vital for our health but where do scientists draw the line most experiments are carried out on mice fish rats rabbits even birds but monkeys to the number of animals used in tests in germany alone has risen every year from two thousand to two thousand and fourteen to a grand total of three point three million after the european union banned the practice in the cosmetics industry that figure felt however three million still has animal rights activists up in ops the chilly technology in this day and age would provide us with alternatives a word of warning the following footage may disturb some viewers it's pretty awful stuff it's also reality. this footage was shot covertly

president's approval egypt's denying the report the israelis aren't commenting this is what president of the fatah has sisi had to say to armed forces three months ago. who it is he gave as you allow me to use this opportunity in front of you and in front of the holy gyptian people to assign general muhammad five. you are responsible for killing security and stability and sign only in three months you and the ministry of interior. fighters link to ice will have repeatedly attacked the army police and civilians in sinai at least three hundred people were killed last november in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the northern town of beate aboud one hundred fighters and seventeen soldiers were killed three years ago after simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in north sinai president sisi declared a state of emergency four years ago following the killing of thirty three soldiers in a suicide bomb attack the armed antigovernment campaign in sinai game pace after the overthrow of president mohamed morsi and killing of sixteen border guards six years ago. let's bring in our guests joining us

accused russia of quote behaving like an arsonist and of fire fighters well in syria general joseph fatah lashed out after the planned daily ceasefire collapsed the u.s. state department has also slammed moscow for backing the syrian government russia is certainly not hearing to this cease fire they're not adhering to the cease fire because they continue to sponsor and back the charlotte sides government that is tragic as a result of that we are seeing innocent civilians and you've all seen the video many of you are parents you have seen the children who are suffering and dying you've seen the innocent people doing that the world has come together the world has said that this has to stop i find it ironic when russia calls for a humanitarian road a humanitarian zone you know what humanitarian zone as it's the entirety of syria will break you know hostilities and he's been good to have been ordered by the russian president vladimir putin this followed the international outcry over more than a week of airstrikes on the rebel held region left some five hundred civilians dead but just hours af

mood we're going to enjoy ourselves this is going to be fun where is the broad smile comes from don't fatah i'm friendly i like you don't be anxious i like you very much. to the left you see the equivalent of our cheap smile to decry your c.v. for. a walk in laughter face. even if that studying primate love to means finding ways to make them laugh that's where marina developer ross and the robot are just from the university of portsmouth comes in she's visiting on him to carry out some reset this holiday but this is monday another. he's an expert on chimps for politicians and what we've got to do is to see whether we can make our little. law. is a baby chimpanzee who is just four months old she's being raised outside the colony because the mother was unable to feed. a few of those four of us caretakers ten to juma we alternate me twenty of us takes one week at a time we bring her home in the evening we give her a bottle changing diapers and the next day we bring a back to work and that's me. testing. january fourteenth birthday you know. where the ape or human the first laughs are always to

this though is the most serious round yet since that happened i have been a co-founder electrican to fatah and online is publication focusing on palestine says the air strikes on gaza are a sign of crying israeli aggression. we have to put this in the proper context of israel's tightening squeeze and escalating violence against gaza which many people have been warning for some time could lead to another major outbreak of war and if that happens it will be a catastrophe for people in gaza but will be it will be entirely of israel's making what we can say is that israel is the occupying power in gaza that is subjecting two million people to a brutal sea which is has caused what all aid agencies humanitarian agencies are saying. is a humanitarian catastrophe and military occupation is a dangerous. dangerous activity of course it's far more dangerous for the victims of the occupation but israel context specked its military occupation will be totally one hundred percent safe if you're going to occupy an oppressor of the people you can expect that your soldiers going to get hurt in the process a

planes have been carrying out as strikes in egypt's northern sinai with the approval of president abdel fatah has sisi that's according to a new york times report says on months israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids inside egypt over the past two years egyptian forces have been fighting armed groups linked to i saw which have carried out regular attacks in the region more on this from iran kanu joins us live from west jerusalem and them and i know there's been some reaction israeli reaction least in the media take us through that. well whether it's hebrew language or english language everybody is reporting the story this is mari if that's a picture of the sinai and they reporting it very very similarly let's just take a look at the jerusalem post israel struck over one hundred targets in sinai with clyro supports the english edition again reporting fairly solely israel conducted over one hundred airstrikes on isis in egypt so now this is going to be very controversial for these brady media and full the egyptian media now al-jazeera we actually reached out to the is

was a presidential candidate in the twenty twelve elections he's a staunch critic of president abdel fatah sisi and call for a boycott of next month's presidential election a number of others who had planned to run against sisi have either been arrested or forced to withdraw including a former army chief only a little known politician is left in the race to challenge sisi. still ahead on al-jazeera zimbabwe an opposition leader morgan tsvangirai dies leaving behind it bitterly divided political movement he founded and colombia appeals for international help as more and more venezuelans try to cross the border in search of a better life. i once again well it's not very often i get the chance to say yet remains a rather disturbed across parts of the middle east a fair amount of class just spilling in making its way across the levant easing through iraq into iran and pushing over towards afghanistan so as we go on through thursday it's not too bad there for a good part of iran and afghanistan over to us to understand this becky stan rather more clout which was the western side of the region s

to be substantial were parts of afghanistan probably rain forest in kabul and also some wet weather fatah as well i must say for now in the dryer weather bot that will change and as we head into wednesday we'll see that weather system work its way across us is likely to be turning to snow as it does say we want to once the west still staying quite unsettled to some of us a good deal of cloud around a few outbreaks of showery rain as well some of that cloud still with us every part of saudi arabia particularly in the northwestern parts on tuesday here in doha not a great deal of cloud a little bit dusty and certainly very windy and those winds will stay strong as we head through chews day at least with a strong wind it won't be too hot a maximum temperature around twenty six degrees the winds gradually ease off for us as we head through wednesday and that's as more cloud rolls its way across us and this just the outside chance that this could give us a shower i mean further towards the south and here's where most of the wet weather is stretching down into the eastern parts of south africa

force operation began on friday four egyptian soldiers have been lost in the fighting president abdul fatah told the army to use in his words brute force to restore security after more than three hundred people were killed in an attack on a mosque and november now north korea's olympic delegation has left south korea after a world when three days which ended in a diplomatic offer that aims to end seventy years of hostility the group which included the powerful sister of north korea's leader kim jong un left on a private plane on sunday they wrapped up their visit by joining south korea's president lungi in at a concert given by a north korean troops on saturday kim yong the extended a rainbow taishan to president in to visit him such a good name brings us more from seoul. even as athletes competed on the snow and ice diplomatic developments continue to steal at least some of the spotlight during what's being called the peace olympics the last three days have been historic and a high point in interest in relations north korean leader kim jong il sister kim jong became the first member of the

of both sides to engage in any sort of war a cease fire has largely held since israel and hezbollah fatah war in two thousand and six but the potential for more conflict is always there so now there is either now or a southern lebanon. ukraine's president has dismissed his chief economic adviser after an hour's their investigation showed he received millions of dollars that were raised fortunately. only ukraine's largest media group you have made before selling it in twenty thirteen under serious investigative unit uncovered documents show more than one hundred million dollars in payments for the group was raised as a loan on a company linked to president petro poroshenko eight candidates have been officially named as runners in this year's presidential election in russia vladimir putin is expected to win a fourth term in office opinion polls give him a lead of more than sixty percent the opposition leader alexei navalny who's organized mass protests against corruption has been barred from running elections due to be held on march the eighteenth. venezuela's opposition is deciding whether

it's happening because the fatah dominated palestinian authority in the west bank is refusing to release money until hamas hands over the taxes it gathers inside gaza both sides agreed in october that the p.a. would take over governing here but deadlines keep being missed. this is the intensive care unit and twelve days ago the doctors here take really the incredibly difficult decision to close the unit to save electricity it's very energy and electricity intensive in here and that power can be diverted to keep the rest of the hospital open there are five butts in the three that were occupied or those patients have been transferred to another hospital they get at most six hours of electricity a day here the rest of the time generators keep people alive the hospital director who's worked through all garza's crises and wars over the last twenty five years tells us he's never seen it so bad. if someone comes up to midnight with something critical sometimes we can save his life in five minutes when we have electricity we needed to give electric shocks for resuscitation for x. rays for everyt

we're going to enjoy always selves this is going to be fun where is the broad smile comes from don't fatah i'm friendly i like you don't be anxious i like you harry much. to the left you see the equivalent of our. smile to cry secret of our laughter face. to face but studying primates love to means finding ways to make them laugh that's where marina davilla ross and the robot are just from the university put smith comes in she's visiting on him to carry out some research. ha ha like but this is money another. is an expert on chimps and what we've got to do is to see whether we can make our little. law. is a baby chimpanzee who is just four months old she's being raised outside the colony because the mother was unable to feed her. four of us caretakers tend to do much we alternate meats one of those takes one week at a time we bring her home in the evening we give her a bottle changing diapers and the next day we bring a back to work and for the first year me. january fourteenth for you. where the able all human the first laughs are always touching moments. infants begin to live at around f

have been carrying out as strikes in northern sinai with the approval of egyptian president and the fatah has sisi that's according to the new york times it says unmarked. israeli warplanes and helicopters conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years gyptian forces have been fighting eisel linked armed groups which have launched attacks in the region that have been reports on the corporation between egypt and israel before but has always been denied by both governments and has the latest from west jerusalem. so his the original report in sunday's new york times they'll have to say the reporting is all from british and american former security officials who spoke to the new york times none of it's actually come from either israel or egypt and we reached out to the israeli army for comment they say they weren't going to comment on this case but clearly it's a very big story both in the hebrew language and the english language post now take a look at this this horace they're reporting fairly similar things israel conducted over one hundred strikes on isis in egypt using the new

force operation began on friday for egyptian soldiers have been lost in the fighting president abdel fatah sisi told the army to use in his words brute force to restore security after more than three hundred people were killed in an attack on a mosque in november. the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson is. unsung suchi to carry out a full investigation into the violence that's caused the ranger refugee crisis during talks in may be door johnson call for a safe dignified return for the six hundred eighty thousand range of muslims fled a military crackdown since august he also raised the case of two reuters journalists detained in myanmar for reporting on violence against the minority johnsons also visited northern rock island state the area where the refugees are from almost three years of civil war in yemen is forcing huge numbers of people from their homes activists say in the last few months alone fighting in northwestern areas has displaced more than half a million people and there's no sign of the war ending anytime soon as our ports. and to us slogan is our oldest everywhere in ye

secretary of state two are nowhere to meet three a member of the fatah revolutionary council i'm supposed to have you back on the program how successful do you think rex tillerson this trip is going to be what i assume is his number one agenda here improving relations with middle eastern countries. i think this is doesn't go beyond a public relations effort after the. the mess that was caused by trump's decision on the collaboration on to islam back in december i don't think you will be successful he is known to be a lightweight in the u.s. foreign policy especially pertaining to the middle east as he admitted himself the peace plan that he talks about it's only you have seen it he have seen points in it that these are his words so in other words the secretary of state has no idea what he's talking about. also on the other side we know that how the donald trump runs his white house they're ones that like a corporation and he is all. the one with the idea is his own want to take credit for everything but he will push fairly on everybody else and i believe that tillotson means involvement a

system has a pool safety record due to badly maintained equipment and poor management president abdel fatah sisi recently said the country's railway system needs upgrading to avoid no deadly accidents. teachers and students have returned to marjorie stoneman douglas high school in florida two weeks after a gunman stormed the school killing seventeen people students will attend a half days at the school until further notice the three story building where the shooting took place has been closed indefinitely and will likely be torn down pressure continuing is continuing to mount on republican lawmakers to tighten u.s. gun rules in the wake of the attack meanwhile on wednesday a large sporting and hunting chain announced it would immediately stop selling assault style rifles and would not sell guns to anyone under the age of twenty one and he gallica has been at the school in part in florida and sent this update. well this is big but important day for the students here in parkland florida when they got off the buses in the early hours of this morning the police officers were here by the hundred

election saying it's impossible for a free and fair vote to take place on tuesday human rights watch said fatah cc's government has suppressed freedom arrested potential candidates and rounded up their supporters when a dozen other international and regional rights groups have called on cairo's western allies to denounce next month's election fourteen international regional groups have signed a joint statement accusing president sisi of stifling basic freedoms by arresting potential candidates and their supporters include ramadan ross said that the nephew of former leader anwar sadat withdrew in late january he said it was to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest former prime minister ahmed shafik tweeted his withdrawal from the race earlier last month after he was deported from the us where he was living in exile his lawyers say he was arrested a soon as he landed in cairo another presidential hopeful was the human rights lawyer how did alley who quit two weeks ago citing unfair conditions within the contest and then as army colonel consort he was sentenced by a military cou

create in cairo at the start of his middle east tour to listen also held talks with president abdullah fatah sisi. investigators in russia are trying to determine how a passenger plane crashed just minutes after taking off killing all seventy one people on board the saratoga airlines flight was heading to or squat it plunged into a field in the countryside just outside moscow on sunday. and a number of buildings in tonga including the parliament have been flattened by cycling gaeta a category four storm tore roofs off houses downed power lines and caused extensive flooding in the tiny pacific nation officials have described it as the most powerful storm to hit the capital packing winds in excess of two hundred thirty kilometers an hour officials have declared a state of emergency and set up evacuation centers what's it for myself and the team here in london war news coming up from doha at the top of the next hour off to revel geeks which starts now. al-jazeera. where ever your. digital technology is the promise of intimacy and he's meant and even longer not. the ability to do billions of cal