and the economic blockade at the gaza strip remains firmly in place. this is the daily reality of the occupation for the palestinians. at the book reading, they made it clear as long as the occupation continues the chain of hatred will never be broken. >> minoru kamata seemed hopeful after his recent visit, but he also understands the difficulties. tell us a little bit about the situation on the ground. >> even now, the progress against israeli occupation in the west bank are being held every week. and palestinians are continuing to die in clashes with israeli military that tries to put down the continuing arrest. israeli forces also detained people without a warrant and sometimes even put them prison. meanwhile, the peace process remains deadlocked, and at the present there is no sign that things will improve. >> nhk world's kohei tsuji in jerusalem. >>> south korea's president says he disputes the islands. he was speaking in fusan at a ceremony for south korea's coast guard. he mentioned his recent visit to the islands. >> reporter: when i visited, i

has been the expansion of israeli settlements in violation of international law and palestine's gaza strip and the west bank now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is intending to enact a report issued earlier this month to legalize settlements in the occupied west bank under israeli law this recent settle the vellum and the palestine israel situation brings us to another recent tragedy. and israeli judge ruled last week that the state would accept no responsibility for the death of rachel corrie the twenty three year old american activist who was run over by a military bulldozer in two thousand and three protests at the demolition of palestinian homes in the gaza strip in effect cory's become an international symbol of palestinian resistance with her parents now actively championing the cause to end the israeli occupation on their daughter's behalf so is the end of the fight for justice or is there somewhere to go from here to discuss the case of war or to producer amir david. so this took so long i remember when i was younger i heard about this case i mean this has been going on f

. >> emake >> we did it in north korea and south africa and cutting off the west bank and the gaza strip and done if with honduras in 2009 and ith the sudan. i think the muslim brotherhood is a long-term event and al-qaida influences. we don't know if our tax money is going to ours and intelligence officials tell me they would support cutting off pakistan as well and the cheap yest best way to do is it is to u.s. companies to stop doing business with pakistan. >> victoria, is there any possibility that the money is going to terrorist who are there killing our ambassadors. shouldn't we cut it off and better to be safe than sorry? >> i think no doubt the money is going to terrorist. but it is not track there is no accountable in foreign aid. can can we need to spread democracy in the middle east. if you cut off nw you wl see the real rise to al-qaida and that is a threat to our national security and don't throw it off. instead of weak commitments from the government leaders, let's hold them accountable. >> that is specifically what senator rand paul is saying. first we must demand accounta

, she is one of the activists on the freedom flotilla and a challenging israel's embargo of the gaza strip. >> we actually tried to cross the water to get to the people of gaza, especially to the children, who need to know that the world is here in the world cares and the world sees. a lot of us love them and we do not agree that they should be brutalized and harm. >> and with less than 40 days to go before the presidential election, alice walker will read her new poem, "democratic womanism." >> you ask me why i smile when you tell me you intend in the coming national election to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. there are more than two evils out there is one reason, i smile. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're on the road in washington, d.c. an attack of a prison in the iraqi city of tikrit has killed at least a dozen people and freed more than 80 prisoners. reports on the details varied. at a local official told the associated press prisoners had seized weapons from a prison sto

palestinian officials in the gaza strip say three people have been killed by an israeli tank shell. these latest deaths, after a separate incident on wednesday when three palestinians were killed during an air raid. a driver who ran over a toddler in a hit-and-run crash has been jailed for three and a half years for negligence resulting in her death. at least 18 people passed by before a rubbish collector eventually stopped to help. thousands of mourners have been arriving in a south korean resort to pay their respects to a religious leader who died on monday. weeping and carrying flowers, they crowded into the quarters of the church during the start of the 10-day wake. bill clinton has made a passionate speech endorsing barack obama for a second term for president. thousands welcomed the return of the comeback kid who reveled in the spotlight. he said the americans have a choice. >> please welcome president bill clinton. >> the man democrats called the big dog. bill clinton is more popular than ever, announcing obama for re-election. >> i want to nominate a man who is cool on the o

rocket attacks from the ban on same with the gaza strip and i believe that it's always better to have them but this is not as problematic as the iranians having nuclear capability but at the same time a strike could ignite a wider regional war if not a world war with major powers like the united states being born in is that a risk that israel is prepared to take i don't know i believe that this is one of the considerations i don't know whether it. is willing to take what about syria and its reported chemical and biological weapons could the fall of bash our side and not see those weapons forming into the wrong hands and also being further spread throughout the region i don't know i know that today i was quite well protected by the army of. bashar assad. in the future depends of the new if there will be in your gym and anything can happen this is a real potential to get into the hands of. of those organizations but you can. work has been through her but i hope song thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. i'm going to work out. download the official publication. choose your lang

israeli forces have killed three palestinians in the northern gaza strip after three other palestinians were killed in an israeli air strike overnight. hundreds of palestinians turned out for funeral processions like this one in gaza city. israel says the three men killed today were trying to plant explosives near the border fence. israel says the militants targeted in the overnight air strike were planning to fire rockets from gaza into israel. >> lufthansa passengers can expect more chaos at the airport. a cabin crew strike scheduled for friday has forced the airline to cancel a majority of its flights. dozens of flights have already been cancelled for today, including long hauls. affected passengers are being notified by e-mail or by text. the union organizing a strike is demanding a 5% pay increase and an end to the use of temporary workers. am staying in europe, leaders in the solar equipment business say today's decision is too little too late -- >> staying in europe. >> the european commission announced it will investigate whether chinese makers of solar panels have used price du

president hosni mubarak strictly controlled the movement of people and goods across the border with the gaza strip. that policy was seen as a gesture of support for israel. many expect israel and its ally the united states would resist a trade agreement between egypt and hamas. egyptian government officials have not made any public mention of the talks. president morsi is scheduled to visit the u.s. next week. >>> french leaders are tightening security at their embassies and other facilities overseas, bracing for the possibility of more violence after a french magazine published satirical cartoons the of the prophet muhammad. the cartoons hit the shelves on wednesday. one portrays the prophet naked. the publication comes amid tensions in the middle east and asia over a video made in the u.s. that ridicules islam. >> translator: religions should accept criticism and satire just like philosophy. >> the foreign minister has expressed concern that the cartoons could fan muslim anger. the government has ordered 20 of its embassies across the world to shut down on friday when muslim prayers. the french

is jerusalem is isolated from other palestinian territories palestinians from the west bank and gaza strip are not allowed to enter the city the only people who can get into a palestinians to live in the areas occupied in one hundred forty eight they can do that because they live there so it's only the people who live in jerusalem in the areas that i mentioned who can come to iraq. these are the people who protect it who coordinate action to preserve it so if these people stop going to iraq there will be no one left to protect it we are grateful to them for what they do their leisure that what do you think about israeli claims that the wall and checkpoints are there for security reasons. at israel's claims that the wall was built for security reasons have nothing to do with reality this is not true because they do not observe the nine hundred sixty seven borders they have occupied a lot of palestinian territory in addition to those that were seized in one nine hundred forty eight secondly making all people feel like prisoners is not the way to solve security issues the way to do that is to

from iraq, from afghanistan, not being able to deal with terrorism in places like syria and the gaza strip and not being able to restrain iran and support for terrorism and nuclear weapons program. all of that continues of the impression of declining united states. >> jamie: and increasing sentiment of anti-americanism in places we wouldn't have expected it and those perceived as allies like pakistan in the news today. the question is, can this sentiment not only be from the protestors and from the treasureists of the world but also from the governments of these countries that we need to count as our allies in a war against terror? >> pakistan is very, very difficult country from the u.s. perspective and in the news recently a call for hundred thousand bounty who kills the maker of this movie. they have repudiated that. the head of the party that made the call got 2% of the vote. i think if the radical forces, the islamist forces in muslim countries are, to go up their demands and rioting in the streets, if the united states isn't prepared to give strong support to those that defend our in

over two hundred smuggling tunnels in the sinai peninsula they were used to move goods into the gaza strip blockaded by israel and cairo had a previously turned a blind eye but lately though it's feared local militants are using the tunnels to smuggle weapons israel which neighbors sinai is worried about egypt's massive military presence and is considering closing its border. well our genetically modified foods are touted by producers as an answer to the hunger risk facing the world's booming population but there is a battle between a consumer groups raising the alarm about possible health hazards sand food producers resisting attempts to force them to label their g.m. products so the resident or lower half of us are went to gauge opinion on the streets of the big apple. more than forty countries around the world have mandated g.m.o. labeling on food products but not in the u.s. is it fair to consumers to not have that information this week let's talk about that you would like to see the labels that absolutely why do you think we don't have them here oh i'm a big conspiracy theorist and i'

in the gaza strip, where the terrorists hamas take power, and that is not democracy at work and wheree consider the kind of society we should live in or really people all over the world want to live in and that misunderstanding of what the objectives of the radicals really are, i think has led the administration into these erroneous policies. >> eric: we thought it was supposed to change. look at president obama's 2009 cairo speech. it was titled "a new beginning." where is the new beginning? >> no, no potentialness, no narcissism there. history began on january 20th, 2009. you know, the forces that exist, existed before he took office and they'll exist after he took office. i think the proof positive that the administration can't understand what is going on, is it continues to insist that the real problem here is the scurrilous movie trailer about the prophet mohammed. that is simply the manifestation of the hatred an extremism and backing away from film is not going to eliminate the hate and extremism. in fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney cor

yesterday there were small demonstrations in front of tunisia, other ones in the gaza strip. it hasn't been a massive international movement, but wherever there is weak security like in benghazi, like in yemen, we're seeing some radicals take advantage of that and using this opportunity to attack the embassy. >> richard, with regards to libya, some have said now that this was a coordinated planned attack, for at least the people who carried out the attack, not so much the protesters was in the works for days, perhaps weeks and had nothing to do with the online video we've been talking about for the last day. can you tell us anything more about the motivation about the attack that killed four americans in benghazi? >> reporter: i can't tell you anything about the motivation. that's hard to determine. it's hard to know how much preplanning went into it. it's not mutually exclusive that this was inspired by the movie and was a somewhat commando-style raid. think about it this way. you have militant groups that are operational in libya. you have many different militant cells, al

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similar calls for protest in iran and the gaza strip, and large protests expected in baghdad and iraq's second largest city basra, as well as amman, jordan. ian lee has been following the developments in cairo. ian, what's the scene like right now? >> reporter: well, right now christine, we still have battles going on between protesters and police. we're still seeing the tear gas used rubber bullets used, protesters responding with molotov cocktails and rocks. this battle has been going on since wednesday night. it's now friday, just about noon, so it's been a sustained battle. really no either side getting the upper hand on the other, but we're seeing injuries and more injuries on both sides as this battle continues. it is happening near the u.s. embassy on a road that goes from tahrir square to the u.s. embassy. right now the protesters are about roughly 80 to 100 yards from the embassy, but the police have been able to hold them off. the military's also building a huge concrete wall on the road leading to the embassy. this wall is about ten feet tall, and we've seen this used in the

deliberately turn a blind eye of course the main shoulders on which falls palestinian shoulders the gaza strip is full of civilians almost every area civilian and for the israeli government to say we refuse to treat anyone in this area additionally given the human rights because we've given it this particular name. closely if you don't know what happy to me i think that's just me serving that responsibility. this week iran was at the center of the global political stage showing the despite economic sanctions and widespread will if occasion is not as isolated as largely believed delegations from a one hundred states gathered in ten run for the known aligned movements on it a group of nations who don't consider themselves part of any power block dozens of country leaders attended including egypt's new elected president mohamed morsi which marks the first visit to iran by an egyptian head of state south in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the significance of the meeting was also underlined by the presence of the un achieve who came despite the u.s. and israel discouraging

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