with a 10.1 km time trial in the hilly city, followed by road races on the next two days — between haifailat. it's the first time one of cycling's grand tours will begin outside europe. this is a great honourfor us this is a great honour for us to host this. i think this is a state of confidence about the abilities of the state of israel to organise a very big sports event. they think that everyone who will come here will enjoy an unbelievable experience and of course this will be an excellent exposure for all the things that tourists can enjoy. an endurance cyclist has completed a challenge first set in the famous novel byjules verne. travelling around the world in 80 days. mark beaumont reached paris on monday, the same city from where the briton set off in earlyjuly. so he completed his journey more than a day ahead of schedule, cutting the previous world record by almost a third. a small crowd of well—wishers greeted him on the way to the arc de triomphe. where he completed his 29 thousand kilometre odyssey. some real eccentrics in montgomery —— mongolia. i had a preacher reciting to

a city in northern israel she is christian by feet and arab by ethnicity born in haifa. the oldest of four children. my actually is from lebanon protestants cause i'm from them and went to the high school the greek orthodox high school lie decide to be a nurse when i was sixteen see somebody walk into the hospital and he was my sweetheart time and i was busy sixteen hours a day taking care of these patients and he said i'm coming here to get married five weeks later we get married and the great united states i was here in one thousand nine hundred eighty two christmas time i had three kids since my kids grew up i can't rely on them to feed themselves i volunteer with a mission of good and bad back i have with them. before thanksgiving. i was at the church when abraham my friend get to me he said did you get to north about there is. a child with a grandma here at. lee's open door i don't care. i proud the child under grandma to my house at the beginning she was stop or if she said she wanted everything there and if you told her to pick what she dropped she refused and she

like despite the fact that her life in haifa was much, economically more prosperous and she had more freedoms, she would come to ramallah and go to a place in ramallah, you probably know it and you could see she was alive because for her, right, she wanted a purely palestinian space, a space where she just could be herself and not like be politically correct, careful what she says it comes out wrong and what have you. so it struck me-- this was coming out of my seventh year in palestine and i was getting-- living in the functionality of palestinian society, a lot of it a result of the occupation, but we still have functionality weighing on me and i felt like i was getting jaded, i was feeling that we as palestinians have a lot of work to do regardless of the occupation and internal fight. ... in a state where the jewish is, the israeli oppressor would be there equal. we would say god help the jews when we take control because we are going to do worse things to them them they did to us. that sentiment is there. more importantly, the need to cleanse the land from the oppressor. we cann

eight missiles landed altogether in the haifa and tel aviv central area.rly clever ploy by saddam to split apart the coalition and it took all of the diplomatic wherewithal of the president to keep israel out of the war. >> the coalition will give saddam hussein until noon saturday. >> if he doesn't begin moving his forces, the allied coalition is on the verge of invading kuwait and iraq by land. >> we tried to give him some good advice a few months ago. we told them, move it or lose it. they wouldn't move it, now they will lose it. >> colin powell, then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, believed in exerting maximum power on the ground so that you wouldn't be fighting a prolonged war. that this would be quick, decisive. it became known as the powell doctrine. >> the ground war started this morning as the americans and their allies attack with massive firepower that shook the earth. >> we're about 15 1/2 hours into a ground war that from all of the sketchy reports that we're receiving is going well. so far the offensive is progressing with dramatic suc

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