she was born in zanzibar, but 110w hamid.zibar, but now lives and works in preston. her chief preoccupation as an artist is black identity and the representation of the people in art. look at this dinner service, which she has painted over to tell the story of the abolition of slavery. here, the centrepiece of her exhibition is this large, theatrical stage set, peopled by these large caricatures. you can see margaret thatcher flirting with ronald reagan. and the whole scene is being survey by this imposing black figure. the curator sacha craddock is back with me. lubaina hamid is a very political artist. talk us through what she is trying to say and do here? she is a truly political artist. here, and do here? she is a truly politicalartist. here, she is making a two—dimensional painting by hogarth, marriage a la mode, which isa send—up hogarth, marriage a la mode, which is a send—up of 18th—century court life, into a three—dimensional stage. this was made in 1986, and as you said, we have all these different characters. we ha

today we talk to hamid sulaiman. ♪ hamid: when i left syria, i was like, i needed to start a new projecti've always wanted to do a comic book or an animation before, and then i moved more to comics. this wasas also helpining me psychologically,y, as some sortf therapy, some sort of cathartic work to express yourself. it's like some sort of wririti, it's like getting healed. i came here for the first time to participate in this exhibition, and since this moment, i said, ok, this city seems to be interesting. i like the art scene here in berlin. i like this new contemporary culture everywhere. the freedom of speech, it's basic for any artist. in syria, we're not allowed to touch subjects like sex, politics or religion, and this is like, what should youou wok about if you can't speak about any sensnsitive subjects? so here, it's really amazing to have this freedom of speech, of expressing yourself in all kind of forms and media. today, we are here in the gallery to see the work of the french artist, emmanuel tussore. and today we are having a talk here about architecture and how the destruc

i am going to bring in hamid. iwill situation. i am going to bring in hamid. to bring in hamid. iwill in a moment, i beg your pardon. you told us the last time we spoke that you continued to wa ke time we spoke that you continued to wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what happened on the 1ath ofjune. does that still happen? four days ago, i tripped over. . . happen? four days ago, i tripped over... it is something that will be there for a while, until we have a roof over our heads, all of us, there will not be any closure. even if we go for this therapy, if there is no roof for us to call, this is my home, there will not be any closure. when do you think that will be? it depends on the authority. but at this stage, i think the prime minister should try to step in because we are really being abused, is the word. why do you say that? we do not have our self—respect anymore. no dignity. no pride. nothing. no privacy. we have lost it all. six months, this is supposed to be great britain, not africa. even in africa, this would not happen anymore. tha

lubaina hamid is undoubtedly a political artist. lubaina hamid is undoubtedly a politicalartist.presentation of black people. here we have a court taken away from hogarth's painting marriage a a la mode, which showed the total decadence of a certain era, with kings and queens and everyone like that. and here, she has created an aura of authority. here we have a king and leaders and so on. and you have the sense of everything on the stage that she studied stage design. she wants to be straightforward and perfunctory. they are not finished, but in the end you see the black people who would ordinarily in hogarth's painting be servants, setting up their own life and taking control. so this young girl, with her philosophy books, is about to travel and go on a creative journey which in a way is mirroring the artist herself. so she sets black people centre stage. it is a role reversal, but there is also within that the folly of courtly life. thank you. so you have now seen all four artists short listed for this year's turner prize. the question is who is going to win? in an hour or so,

eventually have a palestinian state or who they are best will find a lot of backing how the abdel-hamid meeting is the very latest from thank you very much indeed well kerry forces joins us live from west jerusalem i'm hi i'm just keeping an eye because i think the last speaker has just finished so if i going to go for a vote i'm going to be very rude and pull away from you but just quickly from you you were talking a little earlier about the sort of the real thrust of the israeli member there talking about how those people in the chamber where pop hits now. yes they're saying certainly the donald's speech he said that the palestinians were manipulating people that they were the property years and that those who are preparing to vote against or other sorry for this resolution would doing so unaware of the fact that the strings were being pulled by the puppet masters in ramallah which was one of the more sort of extreme narratives that has come from the israeli representatives in all of this i think the genuine idea of the general idea from both him and from the prime minister of the isr

decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel let's get more now from on the bill hamid who joins us live now from around in the occupied west bank it's dark now it's night but what have you seen unfold earlier today in ramallah. well certainly they were some quite serious confrontation intense confrontations between palestinian youth and the israeli army and i have to say these were probably the most intense clashes i have seen over the past few years now the israeli military was ready for that it had announced earlier today that it had deployed several battalions across the occupied west bank in preparation for such a rest certainly these are very very tense time across the occupied west bank palestinians feeling angry but also feeling betrayed and disappointed feeling that really twenty years of negotiations of efforts to bring about a peace have just gone to waste and we watched every pore from burned its missing gaza earlier where he mentioned there had been a poor two thirds of palestinians were actually at happy with the bus and wanted him to step down i mean during t

territories since president trump's announcement at least fifteen protesters have been killed the abdel-hamid has more now from bethlehem. the festive mood has been somehow dampened ever since the jerusalem declaration by chubb some three weeks ago now no archbishop good but this the future bala who is the highest roman catholic authority not only in the holy land but also in the middle east has said that after the declaration that has been many cancellation food groups that were supposed to come and spend christmas eve at the church of their divinity well have decided to stay away this year business down but almost fifty percent in this city now r.j. bishop beats up by the homes of one herder he said that no one can take any unilateral decision when it comes to jerusalem without this to bring the fragile and fragile balance between the different communities he also said that if that if indeed vice president mike pence does come to the region next month in the generate where he would not be woke up for any official visit at any of the christian holy sites he also was asked if he had any advic

what could come next certainly they are worried about any further political developments on them to hamid thank you very much indeed. well there are about tougher million palestinian christians but many of them live in other parts of the world just over a thousand remain in the gaza strip where small christmas celebrations are planned welcome web reports. this is all of rosetta sires extended family that's what gallo this christmas it's a son went to the occupied west bank three years ago and never came back he took his two sons worried for their future hearing gaza one of her daughters moved to canada six years ago a family that bad other life is very difficult in gaza we live under siege and we cannot move anywhere gaza has become a big prison we've witnessed many was during the bombing we had to sleep in the church for safety the the story of rosettes family is typical among as a small community of christians the gather in just three churches congregations are shrinking. populations just over a thousand it was more than double that ten years ago when the blockade by israel in egypt beg

palestinian president mahmoud abbas has also refused to meet hence the more we can speak to the abdel-hamid who is in ramallah and so what more we learn from this arab league meeting in terms of how the palestinians might approach this now. well we just heard a short while ago from the palestinian foreign minister and the message there was very clear very much in line with what we heard from the palestinian representative when he spoke yesterday at the u.n. security council the issue is that the u.s. as far as the palestinians are concerned cannot be any more a broker in the peace process it has taken one side and as the minister said it is part it's on the side of the aggressor now there was also he was also he went as far as also saying that when it comes to resume lucian's on the israeli palestinian conflict that may happen in the future well because the u.s. is now. a party in this issue in this problem. that it has lost its veto power to security council now i think what we're going to hear from the foreign ministers once they finish their meeting and they come up with their statement

history the war in afghanistan which is why we caught up with the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai at the central london undisclosed location because i. been an atrocity in less vegas that scene making headlines around the world it's always the ads are getting to the fairly five thousand dead or wounded by shootings in the united states far more than military deaths or injuries in afghanistan but immediately after reports came up people suspected isis diaster symptomatic of the fear that extremism is no borders the tragic shooting in in the united states my condolences to the american people and especially sad incident we. feel their pain because we have gone through it a lot and almost every day we can give the criticism of the bomber and ministrations response to violence in afghanistan in a moment but it's clear the president on trump as a candidate was talking about isolationism some said his response to terror in your country has been an in nuclear attack on your country apparently without even the permission of afghan authorities we don't want our country to be bombed

welcome back where with the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai just on this question you're raising about u.s. involvement in support of isis day if there. is no implication that britain will colluded in any of this we haven't heard that you know because he i mean you did say that the girls used to be able to go to school in helmand you know around with fourteen u.s. soldiers when four thousand british soldiers arrived suddenly no one was safe what was the british involvement in helmeted did it improve things will get it you know should improve things was it a waste of turn subsequently things went bad and i mean i you know look i have i have studied britain very well i know this country free will it is a tragic arguably colonial history and you are it can be a true wars that we had all of that but that does not blind me to the facts the many aspects of their presence in afghanistan were also very good it. keast the british government was on a source when mistakes happened in they came and told us there were five hundred like civilian the five hundred civilians were killed j

history the war in afghanistan which is why we caught up with the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai at the central london undisclosed location. been an atrocity in less vegas that scene making the headlines around the world it's always the ads oddly any of the thirty five thousand dead or wounded by shootings in the united states far more than military deaths or injuries in afghanistan but immediately after reports came up people suspected isis diaster symptomatic of the fear that extremism has no borders the tragic shooting in the united states my condolences to the american people and especially sad. incident we. feel their pain because we've gone through a lot and almost every day we can get a criticism of the obama administration's response to violence in afghanistan in a moment but it's clear that president otranto as a candidate was talking about isolationism some said his response to terror in your country has been a near nuclear attack on your country apparently without even the permission of afghan authorities we don't want our country to be bombed with. huge huge. d

from rubber coated steel bullets fired by israeli forces and on the cover of the school's other abdel-hamid has the latest from ramallah. well certainly the anger disappointment disillusionment and this really a lack of hope that anything will get better any time soon now if you ask people how they felt about the speech of mahmoud abbas earlier today they said it was the strongest they heard to him. since a while but they were also disappointed that the final communique thinking that that did not go far enough that there's no concrete steps now what people are feeling is that. they fear that eventually despite all the efforts of mahmoud abbas to go to the u.n. to go to the i.c.c. to exclude the u.s. from any future peace negotiations they start at any time soon they fear that they would be pressure at some point and that he might have to backtrack people say the words are all good but we've heard so many good words in the past so many promises so many. agreements signed and so many. times where peace was hailed as big as being there coming soon well none of that happened twenty five years o

the occupied west bank in ramallah al jazeera as hoda abdel-hamid is that what's the situation now when we spoke to you an hour ago there was a lot of stone throwing going on a burning barricade. well it's still ongoing actually i'm going to step out of the camera so you just can see what's going on you see here the youth are gathering and gathering on this field that's where they pick up a lot of stones some of them are using the sling shots now you can see the israeli soldiers there behind that building just there in the background but they have been firing from a distance tear gas and rubber coated bullets you might hear these bumps going on right now now this has been going on for several hours now and is likely to keep on going on and you would have the same scene repeated over and over again crossed the occupied west bank in many cities have grown bethlehem in another part of ramallah . so far we know from health authorities that more than two hundred have been wounded either by rubber coated bullets or inhalation of tear gas you might want to cameraman pat there you see this now

pope francis was greeted at the airport by president abdul hamid, and given a grand welcome in a countrypulation. he flew in from myanmar, on a visit that has been overshadowed by the rohingya crisis. all eyes were on whether he would talk about the issue more openly than he did in myanmar. during this speech, at the home of bangladesh's president, he didn't use the term rohingya, but talked about the influx of refugees from myanmar‘s rakhine state that this country has been dealing with. translation: the international community must take decisive measures to deal with this grave crisis. notjust working to resolve the political issues which have led to this large migration of people, but also offering immediate material assistance to bangladesh in its effort to respond to the urgent human need. some will be disappointed that he hasn't sent out a stronger message. pope francis is in bangladesh for two more days, but he isn't expected to make any more speeches, so many wonder if this is the last we've heard from him on the rohingya issue during this visit. on friday, he will hold a big mas

the war in afghanistan which is why we caught up with the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai at the central london undisclosed location. been an atrocity in less vegas that's seen making the headlines around the world it's always the ads early any of the fairly five thousand dead or wounded by shootings in the united states far more than military deaths or injuries in afghanistan but immediately after reports came up people suspected isis symptomatic of the fear that extremism is no borders the tragic shooting in in the united states my condolences to the american people in this very sad incident we. feel their pain because we have gone through a lot and almost every day we can get a criticism of the obama administration's response to violence in afghanistan in a moment but it's clear the president on trump as a candidate was talking about isolationism some said his response to terror in your country has been a near nuclear attack on your country apparently without even the permission of afghan authorities we don't want our country to be bombed with. huge huge. destruction of

bring in our panel in islamabad yaz was the former pakistan ambassador to afghanistan and in kabul hamid suborder a lecturer in international affairs at cards on university and in washington richard white director of political and military analysis of the hudson institute gentlemen thank you very much indeed for joining us let me start by asking mr was is this do you think that this is just an anger we are lie asking pakistan to do more. in afghanistan or this is a shifting pattern in the u.s. strategy towards pakistan well it's unfortunate but i would look at it as if they are shifting their failure. into a pakistan sitting the no one has done for so long and they have still not defeated the taliban if you really call them out of having a presence along with nato forces for more than one hundred fifty thousand troops. but the alabama admitted defeated though they claimed i mean by by their i mean american their claim that al qaeda is finished destroyed and taliban are completely been removed and weakened they would not be able to regroup or to be a threat to us but now we see again it i

all religious groups in jerusalem must have their rights protected our correspondent how the bill hamid is interim ally in the occupied west bank she says many palestinians have long been suspicious that the u.s. was siding with israel in the peace process when i would say that the palestinians by and large are furious. you've heard people tell you that this was a disaster in the making some people said that it was utter madness. and there's also a lot of worry i work with happened afterwards russia's leader vladimir putin says he will seek reelection as the country's president next year the sixty five year old us how the post to be the president the prime minister since two thousand that's a coming up next inside story and i'll have more news in half an hour. facing realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong it's the arch of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we needed to go but some of my producers just did hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. does the gulf cooperation council have a few new q

welcome back where we're at the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai just on this question you're raising about u.s. involvement in support of isis de s. there. is no implication that britain will colluded in any of this we haven't heard that no because he i mean you did say that the girls used to be able to go to school in helmand around with fourteen u.s. soldiers when four thousand british soldiers arrived suddenly knowing was safe what was the british involvement in helmand and did it improve things or it initially improved things but in a way as to turn subsequently things went bad and i mean i i look i have i have studied britain very well i know this country very well it is a tragic arguably colonial history in your area the true wars that we had all of that but that does not blind me to the fact the that many aspects of their presence in afghanistan were also very good it keast the british government was on a source when mistakes happened in they came and told us maybe five hundred likes a really five hundred civilians were killed just by british soldiers little doesn't is

well how the abdel-hamid was in ramallah during the height of the clashes and sent. there have been confrontations and clashes for a second day across the occupied west bank you can see and hear typically what happens. is that picking up stones from this field and. they throw them at the soldiers who are further back now there is a direct contact between the two sides but what the soldiers do is that they fire of tear gas and rubber coated bullets to push the news as far as possible now you can see also on that road. and what they do is that they burn tires to create a smoke screen so from behind that they can continue throwing their rocks at the soldiers now we all saw one of these young man. why he was doing this i was he was expecting. we're doing this for jerusalem i don't expect anything from mahmoud abbas he needs to quit a lot of people so if there are problems with his room there have been similar scenes at krusty oaky pied west bank now it's unclear yet whether this kind of violence and unrest will pick up steam but one thing is for sure it is a lot of anger

thirty four when the british agreed a treaty of friendship and mutual cooperation with the man you hear hamid the dean it's recognized the authority of the man in north yemen and of the british in the south who turned it into a colony. you know that. can move. into terror for. america. and i thought than. what i had to eliminate. when i. had to. buy the one nine hundred fifty s. the british were secretly working on establishing the federation of south arabia. it was clearly a sensitive subject as these committee minutes were marked top secrets. but the plans took eighteen years to be implemented. in one thousand nine hundred eighty two the british finally established their federation of south arabia comprising twelve sultanate. didn't join the federation a year later. we had some more good than us that had. a lemon come a little more good in. new albany and we'll get the letter but they. had the. analysis. must help. if at this time some yemenis were thinking of trying to unite the two halves of yemen the british government didn't appear to take it seriously as colonizers of the south they re

uprising forced out longtime president and triggered a complicated struggle for power as how the abdel-hamid explains. in many ways the conflict in yemen underlines the contradictions and rivalries of a post arab spring middle east it was all about reinstating the authority of our bedrock bowman's who are heady the internationally recognized yemeni president he had risen to power after the popular uprising in two thousand and eleven taking over from his boss abdullah saleh who had led the country for three decades had to struggle to impose his authority in a country riddled with poverty the spread of armed groups and corruption he also couldn't fend of the rising influence of the who thieves who had taken control of the northern province of solder and the capital sanaa. once at odds the iranian backed who these and deposed president who still had the support of many in the military became allies and were planning a total takeover of the country. but more than two years later neither side appears close to achieving a military victory and the political cards are being shuffled once again the t

criticism from my own people for strangers off the decades living under israeli occupation while the abdel-hamid reports from the occupied west. he has witnessed every clash for the past three years as so many have erupted near the petrol station where he works he doesn't join in but understands the motivation especially after trump's declaration over jerusalem. it was a real bad feeling for everyone it's like an insult but i want to be able to do anything at all either has only been to dru's a limb twice that's how often israel has granted him permission still like every palestinian he considers it the only capital for a future palestinian state this is the closest point to jerusalem many palestinians can reach even though the city is less than a half hour's drive from this checkpoint but to go through it they need special permission from the israelis and that very difficult to come by. well cohen is from jerusalem he lived abroad for several years but decided to return home so his wife and children could get their residency twenty years later his daughter who is still waiting for hers. i don't

well the bin daily street protests in bethany ham in the occupied west bank al-jazeera the hamid is there. it's been another day of confrontation and clashes and many of the so-called friction points across the occupied west bank here in midland seven and several hours of clashes ongoing between the israeli army and palestinian youths just in the street behind me and we palestinians have been throwing rocks and marbles at these really soldiers the retaliation has been tear gas stun grenades rubber coated bullets and in some places also live ammunition there's been similar scenes in ramallah in hebron and in jericho now this has been going on every single day since drums announcement on jerusalem it hasn't increased in scope however there is widespread anger among the palestinians they want certainly their leadership to do something but you do get a sense really that the situation could explode at any moment and you have a sense when you look at the israeli soldiers operating on the ground that there is a suit in level of restraint at this stage maybe an order not to have this situation es

you it was like putting the nail in the coffin really hammering the nail in the coffin hoda abdel-hamid dinner and i thank you lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has withdrawn his resignation harry respond to political upheaval last month when he announced he was stepping down in a televised address from saudi arabia lebanon's cabinet has held its first meeting since the crisis and reaffirmed its official policy of disassociation or remaining neutral in regional conflicts so no one has more from beirut. apologies for that seem to last as a one hundred are you watching al-jazeera still to come on the program chaotic scenes in ukraine as a prominent critic of the government is a arrested then freed by his supporters plus. in a hole i'll be looking at some of the art on display here that's in the running for this year and a price. hello winter is showing itself and is being felt again from iran westwards towards the levant in the cloud most obvious is this going through ticky and moment that will be great bring rain but more especially to bring snow pretty widespread stuff ready max and

are a diversity of the united states and jerusalem was the ultimate christmas present put up that hamid al jazeera in the occupied west bank bangladesh working on a plan to send back honey. it's of thousands of ranger refugees to me and the plans been criticised by the un and rights groups charles stratford has been talking to one refugee to flood violence in myanmar four times over the last seven decades he says that this time he would return. up to salaam says he is over one hundred years old his wife mustafa begum guides him to the shelter in the coup to prolong refugee camp he says the first time he fled violence in what was then burma was when the british were fighting the japanese during world war two but he has fled military crackdowns on the ranger three times since then in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two and a half months ago and this time he says he won't go back. i feel bad for my home but i'm afraid to go back because they could you know like you says there's no point in sending us back to myanmar because there is no securi

friday prayers all right harry thank you very for said live in occupied east jerusalem now to abdel-hamid it in occupied west bank you're in ramallah where we've seen already scenes of unrest gathering momentum. yes absolutely i mean now also here. the clashes have dissipated somehow but we have seen several hours of quite vigorous confrontations. and the israeli army the israeli military had announced actually. several talian. bag. preparation of what they knew was going to happen and. the palestinians have been warning. they would spill to these trees and they would make their voices loud and clear i have to say that the clashes that we have today have probably been the most intense i have seen over the past few years here and now there were similar scenes pretty much across the. west bank some of the most intense. according to health authorities. people were wounded there have been no deaths. sixteen actually hospitalized. tomorrow friday should be another round of confrontation. where they are face to face with israeli army and then we expect more scenes of violence and unrest across

well ali abdullah saleh was a master of shifting alliances playing both sides abdel-hamid looks back at his eventful life. he once said that ruling yemen is like dancing on a snake's head and no one knew that dance better than ali abdullah saleh mastering every step throughout his three decades in power. believed only he could hold the country together but his legacy is one of corruption war and i deeply divided poor nation. born in one thousand nine hundred eighty two as a young man he joined the army and rose to the rank of qana before taking part in a coup that later saw him become president of what was then north yemen at the age of thirty six for the next decade he oversaw fighting with the communist south the decline of the soviet union weakened his enemies and in one thousand nine hundred ninety north and south yemen became one country with the last as its first president that same year iraq's leader saddam hussein a longtime close ally ordered the invasion of kuwait at the un security council yemen voted against the use of force prompting the us to cut off millions in aid and

cover from rubber coated steel bullets fired by israeli forces on the cover of offices or the abdel-hamid reports from ramallah. well certainly the anger. disappointment disillusion and this really a lack of hope that anything will get better any time soon now if you asked people how they felt about the speech of mahmoud abbas earlier today they said it was the strongest they heard to him. since a while but they were also disappointed that the final communique thinking that that did not go far enough that there's no concrete steps now people are feeling is that. they fear that eventually despite all the efforts of mahmoud abbas to go to the u.n. to go to the i.c.c. to exclude the u.s. from any future peace negotiations they start at any time soon they fear that they would be pressure at some point and that he might have to backtrack people say the words are all good but we've heard so many good words in the past so many promises so many. agreements signed and so many times where peace was hailed as big as being there coming soon well none of that happened twenty five years of efforts have

take a look at what's going on across the palestinian territory then we can go over to her and the hamid she joins us now from bethlehem and i understand though some take gas and clashes going on there how's the situation now holder. well it's actually a sort of ebb and flow. in this confrontation and that's the usual pattern now i don't. know but do you think far away about about one hundred meters between them and israeli soldiers who are just here behind me now what usually happens of passion is that as soon as the youth come a bit too close to the soldiers well then they sort of fire barrels of tear gas grenades and also robert coated bullets now we have the same scene going on in several clash points across the occupied west bank in ramallah for example also in kalandia which is in near ramallah and that's where one of the main checkpoints to go to jerusalem from there it's been ever since the announcement of donald trump there have been these ongoing clashes and confrontations on a daily basis i would say but one can notice though that the numbers have not increased just to clarify

diplomatic convention let's get the latest now live from bethlehem and our correspondent hoda abdel-hamid what's the atmosphere like there today this christmas eve. well certainly there's an atmosphere of the fines that was earlier speaking to the mayor of bethlehem and he said we're going to go ahead with celebrations despite the fact there's been many tourists cancellations and this is really the peak season for this city said well we're going to go ahead with our celebrations we're going to show and he said specifically mr trump that we are able to continue our allies that. are palestinian cities i wish to be intimidated by whatever is coming our way now or aimed if you turn out there's been the festive mood really since earlier this morning we had to have parade of boys and girls twenty one in total coming from bethlehem but also from ramallah from nazareth from occupied east jerusalem the one band could it make. here is the one coming from i didn't get permission by the israelis to cross into this part of the country the reaction today from palestinian leaders because they've had sev

bank thousands heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of rage what abdel-hamid has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. anger and disappointment and a sense of betrayal some of the feelings among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regardless they do consider jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state now this march is a show a few new usually you would see the many flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. for jerusalem that's the only thing we can do this trump declinations a slap for us here to wake up and realize the peace process was just an illusion it's the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians saudi kuwait emirates jordan all of them venture here in palestine we defend it but we can't do without support but if those were peaceful protests there were also clashes across the occupied bus bank usually a distant call friction point that's when palestinian youth come face to face with the israeli army now the military had announced that it has deployed several extra battali

or in a moment we'll speak to her abdul hamid who is in ramallah but first let's go live to kimberly healthcare is in washington d.c. do we know much more about the u.s. presence conversations today. well the white house has been promising that there would be readouts on these calls but we have not received of yet we've been getting most of the information as you point out cautioning the president against any sort of formal declaration and move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by a number of leaders around the world but what's interesting when it comes to these readouts is that we know that the french president crawl on monday did in fact also caution the president against this but we learned that from the readout from the french president's office not from the white house the white house amid that in its readout so one can expect when the white house does talk about this and there is a white house press briefing coming up in the next hour that certainly reporters will be pressing on this but the chorus of sort of condemnation about any sort of announcement with respect

put up that hamid in the occupied west bank let's hear now from someone from the university of oklahoma he says that's trump's to such an as isolated the u.s. i don't think anybody agrees with that and then miss haley and mr trump and people around him everyone has known for thirty years that this is one of the one of the most sensitive issues with regard to the palestinian israeli conflict along with borders along with the plight of refugees and security issues this is a final status issue and so this is an issue that the united states could have used as leverage with both parties with the palestinians and with the israelis to actually reach some kind of peaceful negotiation and solution what the united states has done is provided a huge disincentive for not only misra bounce but for any arab leader to take the united states seriously as any kind of a mediator in this conflict which of course we knew the u.s. was not a neutral mediator some time ago the united states presently is the most powerful country in the world but i think many of us have said for some time that the palestinians

let's bring in hoda abdel-hamid who is in ramallah in the occupied west bank for us or so we understand that the u.s. president has had a phone conversation with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas this is according to a spokesman for mahmoud abbas to we know what came out of that conversation the precise details of it. well so. well so far we only had a statement coming out of the presidency saying indeed that the phone call had happened that president trump has informed mahmoud abbas about his intentions and that president abbas had actually warned the american president of the consequences of such a move not only in the region but also in the wider muslim world he also should have told president truong that it will definitely have a direct impact on the priest process which at the moment is in tatters but certainly on the peace process that still exists somehow and on the two state solution in the past we had heard from senior palestinian officials over the past few days that actually if that move indeed happens then really it would make the u.s. not any more a broker for this ve

bank thousands heeded the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of rage what abdel-hamid has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. anger and disappointment and a sense of betrayal. among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regardless they do consider jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state now this march is a show of unity usually you would see the many flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. and that's the only thing we. this trump declinations a slap for us here to wake up and realize the peace process was just an illusion it's the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians saudi kuwait emirates jordan all of them venture here in palestine we defend it but we can't do without support but if those with peaceful protests there were also clashes across the uk you paired burrs bank usually a distill called friction point that's where palestinian youth come face to face with the israeli army now the military had announced that it has deployed several extra battalion to the occupied west ban

across the west bank after israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets hoda abdel-hamid has the latest from ramallah. well certainly the anger disappointment disillusion and this really a lack of hope that anything will get better any time soon now if you asked people how they felt about the speech of a mood a buzz earlier today they said it was the strongest they heard him since a while but they were also disappointed of the final communique thinking that that did not go far enough that there's no concrete steps now people are feeling is that . they fear that eventually despite all the efforts of mahmoud abbas to go to the u.n. to go to the i.c.c. to exclude the u.s. from any future peace negotiations indeed they start at any time soon they feared they would be pressure at some point and that he might have to backtrack people say the words are all good but we've heard so many good words in the past so many promises so many. agreements signed and so many times where peace was hailed as big as being there coming soon well none of that happened twenty five years of efforts

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