jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict the u.s. moved its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may after thomas has more on that. this was a surprise announcement from australia's new prime minister scott morrison his predecessor malcolm turnbull who was prime minister until august that explicitly ruled out following the united states and moving australia's embassy to jerusalem scott morrison though now says that he is considering such a move that's a long way from considering something to actually doing it nevertheless if it were to go down that path it would make this country only the third after the united states and guatemala to move the embassy to jerusalem and the timing here is interesting on saturday there's a very important by election in sydney the government here already has a one seat majority it's vital for them but they hang on to that seat but binion polls suggest they could lose it that's a instead he has a very high jewish population twelve and a half percent of voters they're all jewish doesn't

writing about israel palestine that jews are more loyal to each other and by extension israel than the countries that they live in the countries that they're citizens of now this doesn't say jeremy corbin's comments about scientists not understanding irony a classic example of this kind of assets here that i've experienced over and over again and i think that is the most wounding and the mace damaging part of this whole thing. sort of drill down into labor in germany to get your sense of where you stand it is your position that jeremy corbyn that he's done nothing wrong and that this is a smear campaign from the right or from supporters of israel or is it your position that perhaps he's used bad language in the past or he's said the wrong thing or does he have a blind spot for this stuff maybe that's what some of suggested supporters of his where do you stand i think the basic mistake he has made mistakes is he hasn't been vocal enough in defying and picking back if you like because he's not a linguist he's not he's a politician and he thinks that he has a normal ball thing to do which

jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict the u.s. moved its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may and malta the family of a journalist killed in a car bombing a year ago once know the government had any role in her death they have demanded an official inquiry. was exposing corruption in business government and the police reports in the capital letter. duffy khurana go the see is death shocked a nation to many she was a fearless anti corruption crusader but she was also accused of scathing even defamatory journalism and of being politically partisan although i wanted to read blog a year after she was killed in a car bombing the reasons for her death are still unclear. and her family wants a public inquiry free from all political interference the focus of that inquiry on like the current processes is to look into whether death needs nice could have been saved so that would mean looking into possible state failure to protect and possible state complicity in the assassination this is where daphne khurana going to se

but that changed since i came here to israel with him and saw the kind of care they gave him israel palestine they aren't important to me now the only thing that matters is my son zachary oh. his road to recovery has overcome barriers physical ones at the checkpoints as well as those between people. and plastic bottles are everywhere four hundred eighty billion was sold well why didn't he thousand and sixteen and that figure continues to rise by two thousand and twenty one it's likely to hit five hundred eighty billion in many regions of the world especially in asia there's a lack of clean groundwater which is why many people opt to buy bottled water in plastic bottles. plastic bottles are made from petroleum they are light practical and can be found pretty much everywhere. globally a million are sold every single minute of the day if they were placed into end the plastic bottles sold in twenty sixteen would form a chain stretching all the way to. planet mercury but we don't need to go to mercury so you've bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens next in an ideal scenar

commentator and they're all in he told me thinks the consulate closures severely complicates israel palestine relations. the jerusalem consulate general reflected two facts one is that under the united states the united nations resolution of one hundred forty seven jerusalem was to be a separate entity unless and until the parties to the conflict decide otherwise which they happened to know the second fact was that defacto it was the embassy to the west bank b. tel aviv embassy took care of gaza which is closer to tel aviv but be jerusalem embassy to care of the palestinians not the settlers don't be doing settlers but the protestants in the west bank now degrees across settler ambassador to israel david friedman who is a close personally to president drum and who is apparently was on the bureaucratic infighting and managed to get the consul general donald blome ousted or demoted and while officially as you quote the secretary. there is nothing their actions indicate otherwise but this move means is that the americans are abandoning the palestinians. in a bid to protect british values the hom

earlier with political commentator i mean he thinks the consulate closure further complicates israel palestine relations the jerusalem consulate general reflect the true facts. under the united states united nations resolution of making forty seven jerusalem was to be a separate entity unless and until the parties to the conflict decide otherwise which they happen to know the second fact was de facto it was the embassy to the west bank b. tel aviv embassy of gaza which is closer to tel aviv but the jerusalem embassy of the palestinians not the settlers going to do so but the problem in the west bank now there is a process ambassador to israel david friedman. close personally to president and who is apparently the bureaucratic infighting and managed to get the consul general donald. ousted or be moved to. officially as you quote the secretary. there is nothing there actions other words but be smoove means is that americans are abandoning be posting and. that's a battle between witches and priests brewing in the us and it's not a pretty neat how do we make of this month when catholic priest is f

in december 2016 secretary of state john kerry during his outgoing speech on israel/palestine speech reiterated obama's words. he based the two states on u.n. general assemble resolution the partition plan which recommended the creation of a jewish state. secretary kerry claimed that, quote, recognition of israel as a jewish state has been a u.s. position for years, unquote. though that had only been true for the last five years of president obama's administration. now despite what secretary kerry outlined in his speech, the partition plan never demanded that palestinian/arabs recognize israel as a jewish state. palestinian arabs would have been almost equal in number to the jewish population inside the territory allotted for a jewish state. what the partition plan did require was that each state uphold democratic principles and protect the civil and political rights of all the citizens under law, forced population transfer to alter the demographic make-up of either the arab or jewish state was specifically prohibited and yet this is exactly what the prestate israel did immediately be

jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict the u.s. moved its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may. twenty four people have died after contracting the virus in the democratic republic of congo in the last week or during that time the health ministry has confirmed thirty three cases of the deadly fever in total more than one hundred thirty people have died from the burner since an outbreak began in the country in july well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost staging thanks for watching by phone. every week brings a series of breaking stories. as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were glued on the stories that matter the most listening pounced on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week a carbon free future we'll look at what the un's deafening climate warning means for businesses livelihoods and the fossil fuel industry. also this week africa

since israel occupied the remainder of historic palestine in 1967, population transfer continued inside the occupied territories. now with this context, we can fully appreciate the significance of israel's recent passage of a jewish nation state basic law. what palestinian international recognition of israel as a jewish state would mean today. i want to focus on three provisions of the basic law that israel passed. and how they function together. the first provision states that only jewish people have an exclusive right to national self-determination in the state of israel. this means palestinian citizens do not have a light right to citizenship inside israel. the idea of a jewish homeland is not defined in the basic law. the area the jewish people might exhibit their exclusive rights has no limit. the third provision encourages and promotes the establishment and consolidation of jewish settlement without identifying where that settlement is to take place and how it is to be consolidated. and the denial of their equal rights under law. thus not only are palestinians second or third clas

jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict the us moved its embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may britain's prime minister says she believes a deal is still within reach to resume a was addressing parliament a day after another round of talks with the european union broke down jonah hill reports. well you have a deal by wednesday prime minister expecting a. british prime minister to resign may find herself fighting for a break deal on multiple fronts this was her message to parliament on monday so much of these negotiations are necessarily technical but the reason this all matters is because it affects the future of our country it affects jobs and livelihoods in every community it is about what kind of country we are and about our faith in our democracy of course it is frustrating that almost all of the remaining points of disagreement are focused on how we manage a scenario which both sides hope should never come to pass and which if it does will only be temporary we cannot let this disagreement derail the prospe

knows when that's going to happen it could happen any moment soon now activists from a cross israel palestine and the world are meeting in this what they call the solidarity tent to show solidarity with the residents of. let me just show you that's the school over there now that's really where all of this started right wing israeli settlers brought a court case to the to the court saying that that was a permanent structure that led to a ten year battle to try and get it demolished alternately the residents were lost and so that school has to be demolished as well as the village down that's the village down there so when the israeli army bulldozers do come in eventually what they'll do have to do is come in. through a little tunnel over there and into the village what activists and residents have told us is that they're going to flood as many people as possible into that area to try and stop the demolition from taking place. more than sixty two thousand brazilians have died as a result of violent crimes in the last year breaking a record of homicides in the country they increase is largely bec

jerusalem scott morrison says australia is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict israeli prime minister tweeted that he had spoken to morris and about the proposal president trying to move the us embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may yemen's president of the his sacked his prime minister outland been that hair will face an investigation over the country's economic crisis yemeni currency has plummeted in recent months sending thousands of people out protesting in the streets food and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the ongoing of. the democratic republic of congo has confirmed thirty three cases of ebola in the past week alone the health ministry says twenty four of those people have died around one hundred thirty people have died since the outbreak began in july. and at least ten people have died and thousands more of been evacuated after flash flooding in southwest france overnight the province of alberta was hit with the equivalent of three months worth of rain in just a few hours there has more. flood water gushed through towns and villages swe

this very individual, very cultivated relationship where they worked on israel-palestine policy planningo worked on how to counter iran together. it's very interesting that the president is suggesting that this is not as strong of a relationship. they don't know each other and they are just two young guys. it doesn't make the son-in-law look as competent as many people made, but it excuses the idea that he is invested all of his capital in this one guy who is now under a lot of criticism in the saudi government structure. >> today the saudi foreign minster placed blame on a rogue operation and claimed that the crown prince had no knowledge of the plan. listen to what he said. >> the crown prince denied this and is not aware of this. this was an operation that was a rogue operation where individuals ended up exceeding the authorities and responsibilities they had. they made the mistake when they killed jamal khashoggi in the consulate and tried to cover up for it. >> i am going to verbalize that again because the audio was dicy there. he said this was an operation where individuals ended

into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. coming up in the program francis famous cuisine and its butchers are under attack to the point where they're calling on the president for help the details on that story and much more after this short break. what holds an institution to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president enjoy. yourself want to be rich. but you're going to be the person that's what the three of the people that. interest are always at the water's edge. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. this is our two international welcome back to the program animal welfare activism under the banner meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in franc

member states criticizing each other what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. imposter in moscow the f.b.i. may release its report on allegations of sexual misconduct against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh as early as today but as scrutiny around the case intensifies questions about protesters putting pressure on republican senators to reconsider best support of capital have arisen. types of book. since brett kavanaugh is controversial supreme court nomination we've seen a number of political confrontations in the u.s. by concerned citizens who have been looking to give their elected representatives and earful some of. this image i don't know what. are you. going to get on our head and i want to hear that moment that night that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on kavanagh a.s.a.p. he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an ele

member states criticizing each other what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. and now the story of a true hero and traffic controller sacrificed his life to save others during the earthquake. and refused to leave an apple control center and instead help the one last plane take off to safety. i heard about the polo earthquake here in memphis are around the month praying time and my wife told of going to one's grandmother directly about what happened and followed his grandmother was worried about his condition and called him all of the family here tried to call ago and many times again has two mobile phone numbers and they both couldn't be reached. we didn't give up trying to call him and then called his father his father is a very calm person and said that a girl in the might still be on duty so that could be why his mobile phone is off maybe after he finishes again we'll call back so we tried to call a go all night but couldn't contact him. and at that

into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most still to come in the program francis famous cuisine and it's butchers are under attack to the point where they're calling on the president for help the details on that story and many more after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. examining documents from an f.b.i. probe the white house has reportedly found nothing to support the sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh all. around the scandal doesn't questions about protesters putting pressure on republican senators to reconsider their support of. court takes a closer look. since brett kavanaugh his controversial supreme court nomination we've seen a number of political confrontations in the u.s. by concerned citizens who have been looking to give their elected representatives and earful certainly this is. what. are you. sorry you are talking. about some of them like that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on kavanagh asap he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an elevator i'm going to. leave me i d

jerusalem scott morrison says his country is still committed to finding a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said in a tweet that he had spoken to morrison about the proposal to trumpet ministration move to the us embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv in may. britain's prime minister believes a little she believes a brick said steele is within reach treason where he was addressing parliament today after another round of talks with the european union broke up over the status of the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland has more from london. and now you have a deal by by when is a very minister i expect. you to meet a very very british prime minister to resign may you find yourself fighting for a break deal on multiple fronts this was her message to parliament on monday so much of these negotiations are necessarily technical but the reason this all matters is because it affects the future of our country it affects jobs and livelihoods in every community it is about what kind of country we are and about our faith in our democ

into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most still to come in the program france's famous cuisine and its butchers are under attack to the point where they're calling on the president for help the details on that story and more after a short break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be old for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and going rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. if you're watching are to international welcome back to the program animal welf

be pro palestinian to be pro israel is to be pro peace you know this narrative in terms of israel and palestine it's a narrative that we grew up with. certain heroes and villains in the story and to question it brought about a raft of media attention in a lot of negativity so that story that official story you're saying needs some nuance and it's a little context you should have been our comms director yeah exactly nuance and so actually when we first started out in year one we thought we only had to change the political money flow. and we quickly realize that members of congress go home and guess what happened and they go home to their home district they get the wrath of the rabbi who has the wrath of the community has the wrath and there's only one way to be pro israel and it's just to say yes to every so we actually had to change the whole communal cultural narrative and so we had to launch organizing and we had to launch student movements and we had to actually change how people understood the conversation that they could say you know what it's a little bit more complicated or it's not blac

into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. animal welfare activism under the banner meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in france the country is witnessing a spike in attacks on slaughterhouses we spoke to one french butcher who says the windows of his shop were smashed by vegans. the incident happened around three in the morning i came down and saw that the door had been hit in three places they also painted. here on the enemy. i took pictures the police arrived i will show you what you want there is the picture of the damaged door. these are the marks on. it is where it says speciesism and these are the rocks they used to smash the glass. his case is one of many including splattering shops selling meat with fake blood setting slaughterhouses on fire and defacing a butcher shop with graffiti the incidents have even prompted excuse me worried butchers to send a letter to the french president emmanuel mccr

israel. does because palestine has signed up and so there is a real question of investigating crimes against humanity by israeli forces against the palace. people and this is one of the reasons why president trump and his national security advisor john bolton who international with a passion have acted to be trump the international criminal court for fear they will make another rod for israel's back he rejects the national security advisor would reject the. because it was quite clear when he said that the international criminal court is dying before. has a hundred twenty three fully signed up members member states many of them american allies and water's a smack in the face for them is this a storm issue three despicable threat strength. if they dare to look at the allegations that come from american human rights groups ironically enough that in two thousand and three and two thousand and four they ran torture and death squads. but john bolton has a long history back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when i published my book on crimes against humanity he reviewed it for the moonie pap

what can resolve the crisis between israel and palestine? well, surely not unilateral initiatives, nor trampling upon the legitimate rights of the palestine people to legitimate peace nor underestimating israelis' fair right to security. there is no credible alternative to the two-state solution, living side-by-side in peace and security with jerusalem as capital. israel is aware that france has unwavering friendship towards israel and it is in the name of this friendship that i call for an end to policies which undermine the very possibility of a peace agreement. continuing along this path would be a mistake. here, i'm ready, and we should all stand ready to go beyond our historical positions, to think out of the box with the real goal of this leading to positive change on the ground. the law of the strongest will only exacerbate tensions and violence as you've seen in the face of today's tensions, i don't believe in this law of the strongest. regardless of what type of legitimacy it masks itself behind. i think there's even a third possibl

rumours of the saudis playing a key role in the company stretch and's peace process between israel and palestinesee the price of oil go up in his country, given the focus that he has had on the economy domestically. a clean—up operation is underway in portugal following one of the most powerful storms to hit the country since records began. the remnants of hurricane leslie swept through the country, bringing down hundreds of trees and power lines. from lisbon, alison roberts reports. across portugal, people are picking up the pieces after a night of hurricane—force winds left a path of destruction. 13 out of the country's 18 mainland districts had been on red alert, and people warned not to leave their homes. hurricane leslie, the first ever to hit portugal, arrived late on saturday. on making landfall it weakened to a tropical storm, but still packed plenty of punch. translation: the wind broke the windows and came in. i told my staff and clients to hide in the bathrooms, in the kitchen, in areas protected by walls, to prevent more serious situation. in central portugal, 61 people were forced t

includes issues regarding iran this includes issues in yemen this includes issues regarding palestine and israel let's remember that one had been said man is an integra part of cushion as deal of the century and he has been a key is very keen and eager to apply significant pressure on palestinians to accept conditions that they would never accept there is an israeli lobby in the white house in the washington right now that is lobbying for what have been so many essentially arguing that there has never been a saudi leader more amenable to u.s. israeli interests in the kingdom we have to balance this out here the devil's forum although that all of the or all of these companies are pulling out and the like there is a great a game here at play we have to understand that for donald trump to back saudi arabia it's not simply because of personal interests it's because there is a very real lobby in washington at this moment in time that is saying that mohamed bin cement is an important ally against iran in the issue of palestine and israel and with regards to forcing back iranian influence that john bol

helping jared kushner with his two state solution which doesn't seem to be going too far between israel and palestineiewed at any rate, murder, and this reckless war in yemen are not our values or interests. i think that in addition to sanctions, it would be good to talk to the king about perhaps moving mbs sideways for a while and putting an adult in charge of saudi arabia. such as, the intelligence chief was widely admired but is now under house arrest because of mbs' decision or even the foreign minister we used to be the ambassador was highly regarded. >>chris: you have a much better sense of this than i do. do you think if the president were to say that to the ruling family, that we have a vote and we can apply pressure? >> i don't think we have a vote but we can apply pressure. it is true that there are major financial transactions pending. not just with aerospace firms but with high-tech firms. i think the modernization program was going in the right direction. it was the excesses that are derailing it. i think saudi arabia needs a modern future. they better do a course correction here. >>chri

the middle east and is helping jared kushner with a request to a two state solution between israel and palestine is our foreign policy is based on two things. our values and our interests. we have an interest in working with saudi arabia but our values are the rule of law and freedom of the press. both of which were violated by whatever happened to khashoggi. by the way, he would have been coming to the wilson center as an arab journalist scholar in the near future and he's well known to many here who are mourning his death. i think this cover up very much hurts the kingdom and as i think the foreign minister has just acknowledged. i think frankly, two fix this will require first of all the world expressing out rage through sanctions but second of all the king to reconsider whether if the crown prince is responsible, whether he really should have the keys to the kingdom at age 33 or whether there ought to be a more senior figure who behaves in a much more -- much less excessive way in charge. >> it is kind of scary even if the united states won't take a harder stand. >> i think the united states

jared kushner with his two state solution which doesn't seem to be going very far between israel and palestinet any rate, murder, i totally agree with newt gingrich, these are neither our values or our interest. i think in addition to sanctions it would be good to talk to the king about perhaps moving them sideways for a while and putting an adult in charge of saudi arabia such as the intelligence chief or even the foreign minister who used to be the ambassador here who is highly regarded. >> you've much better sense of this than i do. do you think if you were to go to the king and say that that we have a vote, we can apply pressure. >> and on that we have a vote, but yes i think we can apply pressure. it is also true, obviously, there are major financial transactions pending, not just with aerospace firms, but also with high-tech firms. i think the modernization program, and i actually think i agree with this was going in the right direction, it would be the excesses that are derailing it. i think betty arabia wants and needs a modern future. they better do a course correction here. >> mark,