idea say you know what books have you run on hamas i read books. i'm of hamas salami shot. from the way of a lot of the jihad and another book by. another also read on the member. a few articles from the universities have you written any works on the subject outside the usa they may have been published. and i'm not allowed to do that so i'm sure when. you look horror of any university. you don't hold positions of professor or anything like that. and integrate siller prosecution that started the unit two thousand investigation. that was the beginning of your involvement in this opium that's correct. so all the things we're talking about the glue before two thousand. it done by research. most of it most by search self research have you ever read a book about say cat committees. i didn't read the book issue maybe there is i would like to read it if the defense is on an open and unaware of the identity of the individual was. unable to do the kind of investigation that you would want to do to determine whether the witnesses has any buy you see is or has

supporters like michele to mars zouk who was a hamas supporter in the us when hamas. a son i say and zealots been thousand more most i want to look. a whole man of all of them sought in the communist era in the united states we made it a crime to be a member of the communist party we were afraid of communism and we targeted people not for their acts but for their associations their membership with the communist party ultimately the supreme court said that's unconstitutional you can't punish somebody just because he's associated with the communist party you have to show that he intended to further the illegal ends of the group not just that he's associated with the group well i think this material support statute under which the holy land foundation board was prosecuted is a guilt by association statute in modern garb principle evidence for the defense in the case consisted of testimony from edward abington who had been the u.s. consul in jerusalem. my name is edward abington i'm a former. diplomat i third spent thirty years dealing mainly with the middle east specific

you have sounded like hamas has sounded for many years.t say to you, in may of 2017, your movement came out with a new policy document for the first time, you, in hamas, said you would accept a solution which gave the palestinians a state on the 1967 lines. and it looked as though, with a new leader, mr haniyeh in place, it looked as though hamas was beginning to search for a way to play a role in the peace process. to become, if i may say so, more moderate. have you walked away from that now? are you not interested in being more moderate any more? i'm sorry to understand from you, because we are speaking about establishment of an independent state in the area of the occupied 1967. but this is the continuation of argument. but we are not going to denounce a square metre of our land which is palestine. so you still want to destroy israel, is that it? you still want to destroy the state of israel? it is not a matter of destroying israel, it is a matter of liberation of our land, occupied by foreigners. if you think all of that land from the

hamas. many. had to prove. beyond reasonable doubt to a jury. conspiracy that spanned a thirteen year period to support it curious organization among them in the loop hole while maher you'll probably know when. you're hunting down the murderers you support and we will use this case unjust and unfair to not only the individuals involved in the entire community and for the richardson based charity has been under suspicion accused of funding only do that in two thousand and water and that this work was illegal. didn't work this time with sentences ranging from fifteen to sixty five years in prison for five h.l.l. if we said that this was a political trial and that these were political prisoners and that it was based on association. not based on fact cif willing to speak out and he said the government's case was full of mischief it's clearly a political trial and it was a shame it was a shame. on the americans and we should not have let it happen and we should not let it continue. and that. another. woman was that and was that. no. cystic fibrosis a

state department designates hamas leader ismail haniyeh a global terrorist and announce sanctions against him. this is the e.u. steps up with an extra fifty three million dollars of aid for palestine after the u.s. decision to withhold funding. and i'm glad this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program donald trump signs an order to keep the guantanamo bay prison camp open and possibly send i still faces that. judge says usa gymnastics dog larry nasir is non-dangerous of sexually abused two hundred sixty five. and a triple treat for stargazers as parts of the sea a blue moon a super moon and a total lunar eclipse all rolled into one. so the u.s. state department has designated the political leader of hamas it's not a global terrorist and has slapped sanctions on him it means any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen amasses the palestinian faction which is de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven it's already considered a terror organization by the united states of the hamas officials have also been added to the list. this is not. just for a b

state department designates hamas leader ismail haniyeh a global terrorist announces sanctions against him. and on the clock this is al jazeera life from london also coming up donald trump signed an order to keep the guantanamo bay prison camp open and possibly send i shall fight as that. judge says usa gymnastics don't tell laurie nasir is now known to sexually abuse two hundred sixty five goals. and a triple treat for star gazers his pots of see a blue moon super moon and a total lunar eclipse all rolled into one. the u.s. state department is designated the political leader of hamas ismail haniya a global terrorist and has slapped sanctions on him it means any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen amasses the palestinian faction which is de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven is already considered a terror organization by the united states or the hamas officials have also been added to the list that it isn't is not. just for a beginner. no religion it's for this reason we are considering this statement of is the foolish statement committed by people who kn

state department has designated the political leader of hamas this money or a global terrorist and slap sanctions on him it means any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen amasses the palestinian faction which is a de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven is already considered a terror organization by the united states of the hamas officials have also been added to the list. and here is the president of hamas political bureau is also closely tied to the group's terrorist operations including attacks on israeli citizens and he has been a member of hamas and the one nine hundred eighty s. and he rose through the ranks in large part but continually championing terrorism against israel and he has 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 well how mass rejects the justifications given for the u.s. move. that is it is not we are not that is that is forbidden. now religion is for this reason we are considering this statement of is th

and i'm quoting now is the leader and president of the political bureau of hamas going on to say that he has close links with hamas is military wing and has been a proponent of armed struggle including against civilians continuing to quote he has been involved in terrorist attacks against israeli citizens hamas has been responsible for an estimated seventeen american lives killed in terrorist attacks so what this means barbara is that his financial assets are going to be frozen there will be a travel ban imposed on him and this possibly makes it to perhaps easier for the u.s. justice department to try to bring him to trial for his alleged role in the deaths of these seventeen americans the designation only comes after a considerable review among the various u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies and the designation again does raise the possibility of prosecution if it is smile honey if a case could in fact be put together and is this a surprise that we know that this was going to happen. the u.s. government never telegraphs when it's going to be designating one person or one o

puts hamas leader ismail haniya on its terror list freezing his financial assets. and to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. donald trump orders america's controversial prison in cuba to remain open reversing a key obama promise. british prime minister to resign may signs a billion dollar deals and pushes for free trade benefits with china. and i'm peter stammered in go with all your supporters arsenal sign gagne's striker america obama young for a club record seventy nine million dollars that and more transfer deadline news coming up later in the program. the u.s. state department has put israel the political leader of hamas on the terror list how mouse is the palestinian faction which has the fact of ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven well for more on this let's go straight to rosalynn jordan in the washington d.c. also in the group itself a mouse has been on the u.s. terror list for decades so what is particular about this announcement focusing on his own self. well barbara it apparently comes mr honey and was calling in recent w

puts hamas leader ismail haniya on a global terror list the palestinian group calls it a dangerous develop. donald trump signs an order to keep the guantanamo bay prison open. the children orphaned by somalia's palmas how some of the world's poorest a struggling to help fifteen hundred bereaved youngsters. and the triple trees a blue moon a super moon and a total eclipse all in one. but first the u.s. has designated the political leader of hamas ismail haniya a global terrorists and impose sanctions against him the state department says any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen hamas is the palestinian faction that's ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven until it handed over power to the palestinian authority in december it's already considered a terrorist organization by the u.s. the group says the u.s. decision is a violation of international law. that is me is not always thought we are in the midst of this for a beginning i want to know what religion is for this reason we are considering this statement of is the foolish statement committed by people who know nothing

state department has put israel has the political leader of hamas on the terror list how mass is the palestinian faction which has the factor ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven where in a moment we are going to have reaction from palestine where imran khan is standing by for us in ramallah first though let's get the latest from roslyn jordan who's in washington d.c. you were also in tell us a little bit more about this u.s. announcement. well it comes just about a month or so after is my honey a called for a new into fodder or uprising in israel in response to the u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel though state department officials are not saying that is exactly the reason why they made this designation they do note that he has been involved in the planning and execution of attacks against both israeli citizens and at least seventeen american citizens and so what this does is basically puts a freeze on his personal assets it basically outlaws any financial support from u.s. persons for israel honey and it could set up

because of hamas. i mean, that is -- president a bass was electriced in 2005 -- abbas was elected in 2005. the parliament was elected in 2006. and those were the last elections. and fat arks the fattah party -- fattah, the fattah party is not confident that it will win elections. but that creates a situation where you have a palestinian leadership, whose democratic legitimacy has been severely undermined. and which is looking over its shoulder at hamas, knowing that, let us suppose it signed a compromise, we know exactly what hamas would say. yasser arafat wouldn't sign, you signed, you're a traitor. that's not obviously going to be very practical proposition for anybody in the leadership today. so that makes the possibility that this leadership will sign such a deal much lower. i would add to that that the palestinian people have not been prepared for the compromises that any, any agreement would require, so that you get arafat backing away in 2001 and you get abbas backing away in 2008. i think becau

the lebanese say the attack in the southern city of sidon targeted a member of the palestinian group hamas but he was wounded in the blast but his condition is not yet. at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmonella outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy farms french dairy giant like tellus says twelve billion boxes of powdered baby bill car being recalled more than thirty children have been poisoned in france alone thousands of people are on the streets of the two diseased capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring. many of the issues which brought people to the streets back then are still causing problems today the government's promised more assistance for poor families suffering from tax increases and price hikes after days of recent protests. the arabian oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last week is said to have sunk in the latest footage broadcast by chinese state television the ship is barely visible above the water iranian officials say there's no hope of any of the twenty nine missing crew being

hit close to civilians including families who had fled from earlier bombing attacks in the nearby hama countryside. and can be seen among men women and children trying to find cover. aid agencies say they're overwhelmed by the scale of need in syria and they're warning that if the bombardment continues a million displaced people will amass near the turkish border so they'll corsi all of the ports from the refugee camp in northern italy a province. up to carry mohammed lost his home when the syrian government bombed aniston hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in adler province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old former stays he had a very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to st george first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long and government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife shammy assaye they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one we were

now he is being ignored over hamas.he finds the pretext -- i don't want to go into the details now -- he finds the pretext to try to provoke hamas into reacting so that he can say "you see, there are a terrorist organization." and then it quickly spirals downwards, as it typically does. then israel went in. it was the air assault. and then july 17, the day the malaysian airliner went down usedthe ukraine, netanyahu that moment. the plane was down in the afternoon, and he launches the ground invasion in the evening. you would be surprised how finely attuned the israelis are to the american youth cycle. they begin operation protected ith obama's election november 4. they begin the ground invasion of gaza -- 2004 was operation cast lead. in 2008 when obama is elected president, they begin operation protected edge host of on july 17, when the airliner is downed over ukraine, all of the cameras are now riveted over there. and so they launch the attack. and the attack was -- well, let quote do you did head of the internationa

state department has designated the political leader of hamas as mohammed a global terrorist and slap sanctions on him it means any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen amasses the palestinian faction which is de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven it is already considered a terror organization by the united states the hamas officials have also been added to the list that is me is not. just for the beginning i want to know what religion is for this reason we are considering this statement of the foolish statement committed by people who know nothing about what freedom for. well it's not honey i was born in a refugee camp west of gaza city he was close to her master spiritual leader of the late shake up with yes seen but he was relatively unknown until he headed the hamas list that won the palestinian election in january two thousand and six and then became prime minister he was elected to be her masters political chief in may last year seen as pragmatic and flexible in his attitude towards israel where u.s. state department correspondent robin jordan has m

up til kerry mohammed lost his home when the syrian government bombed aniston hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in adler province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old former stays he had a very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to singe our first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long and government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife shammy assaye they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living like this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one we were hiding in a cave when the regime forces of ponce towards our lads were afraid they would kill us and left in the after the bombardment. a lot of people moved to sunder we faced a few bombardments of deisel of the regime started their fight we had to leave again and stay out in the wild sleeping under trees eight organizations came to us to this camp but you see this is not home. the camp was built only a couple of weeks ago and is already full five th

your other case and he testified that everyone in power stein knew that holy land was connected to hamas even though he'd never been to the west bank and all of his testimony was based on newspaper articles or talking to people a second piece of evidence was from mr robert bryant who came from the treasury department mr mcbride was permitted to testify in the second trial that it didn't matter whether and if he was placed on the list or not that under circumstances that he described contributing money to an organization like that could nonetheless of violate the law and internal support the government was permitted as its third piece of us wouldn't to call an expert witness name stephen side who had been on the national security council who is a well known expert in the area of the middle east and mr simon was allowed to testify that the designation of hamas as a terrorist organization helped the united states in various ways including being able to station troops in the mideast and also avoiding another nine eleven style attack on the united states there was another. piece of evidence i

of course considers hamas a terrorist organization and israel as well all the palestinians said that they would be willing to give it up even though they needed u.s. money how do you think that they'll react this time will trump's threat or his actions in this case have an effect on the palestinian government. i think previous threats actually did work under the u.s. administration of george w. bush continues or rice me multiple threats and she followed through the congress followed through and as a result the palestinian authority that is controlled by the letter party made it clear to hamas that we cannot join a unified government because of these threats so they did really invest impetus to me and disunity and they did a splendid job this time whatever is the front of the pedestal of thirty seats to american demands it will actually be as kind of after political suicide if you will because it is absolutely zero patience as far as the palestinian people are concerned to compromise or to concede interests and it's a red line that no one even yasser arafat himself or was the leader o

we know exactly what hamas would say. yasser arafat wouldn't sign, you signed, you're a traitor. that's not obviously going to be a very practical proposition for anybody in the palestinian leadership today. so that makes the possibility that this leadership will sign such a deal much lower. i would add to that that the palestinian people have not been prepared for the compromises that any, any agreement would require, so that you get arafat backing away in 2000 and you get abbas backing away in 2008. i think because they genuinely wonder whether, i don't know whether those numbers are right today, but they worry that in fact the majority of palestinians would reject those compromises, which would, of course, be rejected by hamas and the islamic jihad and other groups. >> ok. let's go at this point to the floor. we'll ask this gentleman here and then this woman. >> is there any palestinian in any leadership position who has basically said, ok, we've lost, now what happens to us? and if one does, what is israel's reply? >>

towards our lads we were afraid they would kill us and left in the after the bombardment in the east hama a lot of people moved to sunder who faced few bombardments of tyson of the regime started their fight we had to leave again and stay out in the world sleeping under trees aid organizations came to us to this camp but you see this is not home. the camp was built only a couple of weeks ago and is already full five thousand people are here but still more are arriving every day most of them are poor families from instant how much as the weather gets colder the main fear here is illness hygiene is a major issue so much of the prevention falls on the women here as they are the ones responsible for feeding and cleaning in dire conditions. is the primary needs are tents on things like marshes blankets on carpets also i. some sort of specialty leaders by children and women you name it people and syrian leaders even finding a nail clipper is an issue. so a viable mother to cation is the priority here many of these children have been on the run from the bombings for some time some of them haven'

up to carry mohammed lost his home when the syrian government bombed aniston hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in adler province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old former stays he had very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to singe or first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long as government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife sharon asked say they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one well we were hiding in a cave when the regime forces advance towards our lads we were afraid they would kill us and left in the after the bombardment. a lot of people moved to sunder we faced a few bombardments of tyson of the regime started their fight we had to leave again and stay out in the wild sleeping under trees eight organizations came to us to this camp but you see this is not home. was built only a couple of weeks ago and is already full five thous

concerned for the safety and protection of tens of thousands of people in southern italy but in rural hama in northern syria northeastern syria where ongoing hostilities have reportedly calls hundreds of deaths and injuries of civilians tens

impossible to see what happens there good protection from terrorists but also from critics in bush hama harbor these two are planning the next step of their educational campaign. about the horrible snuffle the idea in sweden is to put it in copper canisters and then down into the bedrock. and the problem appears to be that the copper we'll be destroyed much faster than intended so instead of being safe for a hundred thousand years it may break down only after a couple of hundred years as a man but i just know there will be a referendum in hama in february twenty eighth and residents could still change their minds about the final repository project pantheons land knows the likelihood of that is low people in sweden have a high trust of of government of of politicians but especially of the government agencies. and f k b is perceived as being something part of the government and therefore that it's easier for them to have trust. critical over size of the final repository project to. very important but in sweden two the greatest dangers are above ground nuclear waste storage is all about ri

the granite here turned out to be less stable than that of its rival applicant that's why i asked hama won the bid nevertheless further research on final repository safety is being conducted on the outskirts of town four hundred forty nine meters below ground in the s.p.l. hardrock laboratory. the s k b company runs a test lab here one of the things it studies is the clay that would be used to envelop the nuclear waste casks. if i had a responsible for public relations and geologist olga musk and scalia admit that they're still experimenting. sometimes when you do it for a year you see that theory in practice aren't the same thing from the mistakes you learned to do do with their i place or making mistakes is important. and hair. not finding them. trial and error that's the principle nuclear waste disposal escapee has been using for the past forty years to find the best storage method. this film was intended to explain the concept to visitors if you will elements are to be enclosed in copper containers. deep down in the granite special machines then lower the containers into the bore h

post hama and and to go a label of the far north the mayor doesn't want to go into that he has a simple explanation for the residents attitude. we are a new care community we have been your. power plant plant the site up there which means that the understanding and the perception and for that matter the goodwill of the nuclear industry is of course much bigger here that compared to many other places and i think you are a lot of people feel quite proud of the fact that you're participating in the pioneering process. to test homes are currently being drilled at the site of the future depo if environmental officials in the parliament give the green light and construction will begin in twenty twenty two. projects will create up to seven hundred jobs in addition the men negotiated a bonus of one hundred fifty million euros for the town. you may say that we were clever enough to to decide that we we wanted this from the industry and of course at the end of the road there was a threat or whatever in order to be successful with this very difficult program they want they had to make sure that. d

, given they don't list hamas as a terrorist group, but they're opposed to hamas and the uae is engaged in this effort in gaza. so how is that affecting their approach to hamas, if at all? >> thank you, david. there were a couple of key messages that we heard from across top saudi interlocketers that we spoke to. one of them is the most important domestic concerns if saudi right now is extremism. and that's something that, as you know, we need to be careful about, because when the saudis talk about extremists and terrorists, they have a much broader view and broad eer interpretation of that term. there are groups and individuals who they believe fall in that category who we as americans don't see it that way. i think this is something we need to be aware of when we're talking with our gulf partners about their counterterrorist campaigns. that important thing being said, i came away with the impression that there is a palpable change in the way the saudis are pursuing real counterterrorist efforts, as we define them, against isis, against al qaeda. we came away hearing about a widening o