if you look at israeli public opinion you will see that the majority of israelis actually do want to state solution a majority of israelis accept a solution that is based on the vision of the land between two states i think what a visitor but i think is unfortunately inaccurate even in her own read of the israeli political system ultimately look i mean if you use the you referred to the oslo agreement and terrorism of course there were terrorism there were many many mistakes in the was the period i hope that we have learned from them i know the palestinians have learned and them by creating this new leader constituted. the security forces that do that are completely by israeli security officials the admission are doing an amazing job in terms of called terrorism at the end of the day i want to go exactly what i was before there is a chance for peace you know i was in camp david i was in all these negotiations. there was never a full deal that was put there but we got close and we're getting closer by the day we know what the solution is and again if we have an israeli right wing prim

we began with israeli novelist david grossman. his book "to the end of the land." >> writing this book was an act of choosing life against the temptation of despair, against the gravity of despair and grief and the book is about the wholeness of life. it's a very vital book. >> rose: and the power of story of african american from the south to the north. isabel wilkerson's book is called "the warmth of other suns. " i grew up the daughter of people who migrated from the south to the north. you could say i've been writing it all my life. it was a story i was surrounded by in washington, d.c. where everyone around me, the parents were from south carolina, north carolina, georgia. my mother was from rome, georgia migrated to washington, d.c. my father migrated from southern virginia to washington, d.c. different decades, would never have met had there been no great migration, had they not left the south and landed in the same city. so in some ways i exist because of the great migration and i think i've been in some ways writing it al

it looks as if the israelis are just trying to buy time for more... for changing more facts on the ground which will prevent any kind of two-state solution. >> rose: roll tape, here it is. >> we saw the men trying to push the soldiers and none of them could doll that. but i think the girls could do it. >> rose: these are people who taking their own futures with courage, sacrifice. >> absolutely. they realize that they couldn't wait for the palestinian authority to take any action, which is a very important thing to mention. this is a small village of 1,500 people. >> rose: and the palestinian authority was doing nothing to stop? >> absolutely nothing. the separation barrier was being built, confiscating a large percentage of several villages and still is, especially now around jerusalem and the palestinian authority is not taking action so what's happening right now and what happened in budrus is that the communities are realizing they have to rely on themselves and on their israeli neighbors and what happened in these villages starting in budrus is t

and it's a shame that the israeli government is supporting. in this initiative it's only purpose is to bring to school still it's interim all to students between arabs and jews within the state of israel where it will leave the last where we do thank you very much indeed. from jerusalem and also that's all we have time for but we really do appreciate your time here thanks very much for that that debate here that discussion here live on r.t. we appreciate time thank you. all immigrants in germany should actively integrate into society the german president said in an address to the turkish parliament christian wolf. is the first german president to visit the country in over ten years his statement and reiterate chancellor angela merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed and as it grapples with integrating its three and a half million mostly turkish muslims german identity is in the spotlight for now i'm joined in london by keith best and he's a former british m.p. and chief executive of the foundation for care of victi

israeli arabs to swear allegiance well despite the israeli government now extending to jews arabs still refuse to state that is persecuted them as. reports. this photograph is all that remains from some mere why these family home the house survived for generations but it couldn't survive an israeli demolition two years ago the other coalition i started to have problems with the circulars ten years ago they wanted to take all of my land they took one house and then they wanted to take this house since then he started rebuilding. things god the supreme courts discovered that big documents they changed the name of my grandfather papers but the discovery didn't help him hang on to most of his grandfather's learned a family of israeli settlers now lives on property near insists is his and his story only one of many. in the two hours we spend here therefore a wrist and the usual round of tear gas rubber bullets and blame and they are because the union shouldn't complain about anything they should say thank you thank you that we are still here. and they'll be saying a lot more than that if the

those stories still to come but first a law forcing prospective israeli citizens who are non jews to pledge allegiance to a jewish state has unleashed a storm of anger among arabs there was an aversion issued last week required only israeli arabs to swear allegiance well despite the israeli government now extending the oath to jews arabs still refuse to swear loyalty to a state that they say has persecuted them as artie's paula smith reports. this photograph is all that remains from some mere will why these family home the house survived for generations but it couldn't survive an israeli demolition two years ago there was a code i started to have problems with the circulars ten years ago they wanted to take all of my own land they took one house and then they wanted to. since then he started rebuilding. the supreme courts discovered that big documents they changed the name of my grandfather on the papers. but the discovery didn't help him hang on to most of his grandfather's land a family of israeli settlers now lives on property to samir insists is his and his story only one of many

israeli farmers received water year round at sub diesed rates. their palestinian neighbors must rely on rain-fed springs which flow only in the winter, says this man. >> if you look around us, you will see that the palestinian land is totally bare now. there is no farming here because there is no water. next to us here we can see a big farm owned by one israeli settler who is taking the water from a well while the palestinians have no access or right to dig any new wells to have the ground water. >> reporter: palestinians complain that israel controls water sources that should be shared even though there's a joint committee set up under the 1993 oslo accords that must approve water permits. palestinian water minister says israel's water policies imperil any permanent peace plans. >> when you talk about a two- state solution and enable a viable palestinian state imagine there's no water. there will be no viable state if there's no water. >> reporter: international agencies like the world bank estimate that palestinian per capita water consumption

court on a recently adopted loyalty oath bill is straining on easy israeli palestinian relations even further also the. potential drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a course like this one that we're on right now as well as study the different tactics of driving from a written test but that's not exactly how it happens in most cases around moscow russia is renowned for its bad roads and reckless motorists you can find out how driving licenses come at a cost quite literally. the first russia's president dmitry medvedev will attend the nato summit next month in lisbon welcomed as a major move towards closer ties with the e.u. the announcement came during talks between the russian french and german leaders in the french resort to deal with. is the following the meetings. yes to nato russian president dmitry medvedev showed relations between his country and the european union are on the mend by agreeing to attend the nato summit in lisbon next month speaking at a joint press conference with angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy the russian leader spoke of a growi

society itself how would you explain the right wing shift in israeli politics i think israel is one of the most open democratic countries in the world today and the accusations about it. being an extremist society are way off the mark so you don't see any any worrying signs in israel. that israel you know many other democratic countries in the world is different. no have. they have the ability to see political shifts take place over time but they never see you know what but the political shifts go center left or center right i don't see an extremist element taking hold in israel today well actually president bill clinton former u.s. leader he does see. signs of the rise of the n.f.l. we have in israel and here's how he tries to explain it. an increasing number of the young people in the israel defense force are the children of russians and settlers the hardest core people against a division of the land. this presents a staggering problem it's a different israel sixteen percent of israelis speak russian. would you agree that israelis of russian and soviet origin are really less toler

we kept seeing those videos that we later found out had been edited and they were handed over by israeli forces we saw them played over and over again of them descending on to these ships and so this time around now that the report has come out why is the media silent why do we not you know this is a very interesting question and i've been thinking about this a lot and i have a couple of observations about this one is that you know i have seen a very strong tendency of the corporate media in the united states to decide what is news and what is not news in large part based on what the power in washington tells them or implies to them is news are not news in this case i think it's clear the news media understood that the obama administration did not want this to be covered i was told by a state department official off the record not for the attribution that we don't think that this report first of all it's not it's not objective in our view but more important they told me look we don't want this report to be used to disrupt the talks between the israelis and the palestinians now i have hap

ship guards are being instruct by retired israeli commandos. >> earlier this year private israeli guardson an italian cruiseship successfully thrwarted an attack, wherein in the last year somali pirates have capture dozens of ships. the security company, which has no connection to the guards from the italian cruiseship is trying to cash in on the incident, boosting of israeli's unique experience and his combat philosophy. >> we do not give up. we not give up. we create conditions that i will say "the american way." so we give them an offer they cannot refuse. >> reporter: and it was also a chance for representative from israeli's main weapon manufactures to show off their latest deadly wares. >> you can see a very short weapon that i can hide it. >> reporter: the apartments are playing the roll of pirates boarding the ship and instructors hope that the graduates of this course will make it much more difficult for anybody to get this close. they believe with arm and potentially dangerous guards on board ships, the pirates themselves may end up walking the plank. ben weidman in northern is

this presents a staggering problem it's a different israel sixteen percent of israelis speak russian. would you agree that israelis of russian and soviet origin are really less tolerant than the rest of the jews absolutely not i think that. israelis of russian origin may be more on the on the conservative side of the political spectrum but i don't think they're any less the less tolerant and i think having had the privilege of working with president clinton in his administration for eight years on these types of issues i suspect that his words and not by you but the original report may have been just misinterpreted or misunderstood right out of the context and maybe out of him because this quote was all over the person not only or something a lot of the absolutely but i think i think the point president clinton may have been making is where where are the israelis of russian origin stand today in political life and nothing more who maybe maybe what he means i'm just suggesting is that is that the russians who came to israel to live for good they want to be as the french say. at least c

and the young men in their head scarves are all israeli citizens, arab israelis. they are protesting the arrival here of a group of right-wing israeli extremists. across town, under tight police guard, the jewish hardliners are shepherded to buses. among them are several leaders who used to belong to a far right-party. before it was banned, it advocates the expulsion of israel's arab population. >> this is the second-biggest arab town inside israel, and the local population considers this protest to be a deliberate and extreme provocation. although there have only been about 50 israeli protesters to come here today, the local population is determined not to allow this protest to go ahead. the violence was more symbolic than real. 10 arab israelis were arrested and a handful of people might be injured. but the fact that seems like this are happening inside israel is symbolic of the growing tensions here between israel's increasingly powerful right and it's increasingly militant arab minority. bbc news in northern israel. >> the latest headlines for you on bbc world

through will be abuse of palestinians carried out by israeli soldiers so how where are the israeli public do you think i've been turning a blind eye till now. look i think in that case the israeli public is not different than any other public when you do bad things you don't want to face the america this is our nature as human beings we find it very easy to look through a window at someone else we find it very difficult to paint one side dark and face america and this is our job our job is breaking the silence as israelis as people who are work comp that soldiers are people who today some of us served today still is to come back to our society raise up to america and try to demand from our society to take responsibility over what has been done in its name we as a society as a democratic society must debate and decide for ourselves what are our board red lines and that's in a way the job of breaking the silence is coming back home and demanding from our society to know the truth. thanks for being with us i really hope that these former israeli soldier and founder of the breaking the silenc

light on the democratic find out how the recently adopted loyalty oath bill is straining on easy israeli palestinian relations even further loss. of tension drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a closed course like this one that we're on right now as well as study the different tactics of driving from a written test but that's not exactly how it happens in most cases around moscow. we look at what puts russia on top of the list when it comes to road deaths. before the european security is under scrutiny as the leaders of france germany and russia meet in the french resort of deviltry president medvedev is to push his proposal yet again for a new security framework to replace the current system which he says is outdated are discussing as are has more. they're going to be some very serious issues of course on the table as the three leaders tackle various issues relevant not only to the european community but also to the international agenda issues such as stability and the middle east the ongoing situation in afghanistan and iran is nuclear agenda those are all

the current israeli government, but every israeli government going back to 1967, whether it be a labor government. with that, this israeli government understands that the palestinians have their own position on jerusalem and they understand the palestinians will bring that position to the negotiating table and that we will discuss it. the united states and israel have often had a disagreement over the issue of settlements. the united states has long asked israel to refrain from building communities in the areas captured by israel from jordan and in 18676 day war. and for many years the united states hoped that those areas would be the basis of a peace treaty with jordan. and since the signing of the 1993 oslo accords between israel and the plo, that help that area would serve as the gambit for resolving the palestinian question. israel's position has always been that the areas we call judaica and samaria by the ancient hebrew names of the ancient homeland of the jewish people. if you look at your bible, haifa is not in there. look in there. but for tel aviv. it's in there, but at the t

night on the democratic find out how the recently adopted loyalty oaths bill is straining an easy israeli palestinian relations even further plus. trouble drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a close course like this one that we're on right now as well as study the different tactics of driving from a written test but that's not exactly how it happens in most cases around moscow. and we'll look at what puts russia on top of the list when it comes to grow deaths . european security is under scrutiny as the leaders of france germany and russia meet on the french resort of deville president yet it was pushing his proposal yet again for a new security framework to replace the current system which he says is outdated are just following the talks. the concept of global european security is something that the russian president had proposed a while ago actually and it was frequently discussed by himself and various european leaders during meetings one to one meetings and various group meeting such as the g eight in the g twenty and this is definitely something that is

but he's also got his detractors arabs and many israeli jews are up in arms this country defines itself as a jewish and democratic state but if you ask just about any arab here they'll tell you it's heavy on the jewish and rather light on the democratic. angry demonstrators take to the streets claiming the next step transferring arab israelis to a palestinian state but the government is doing its best to accommodate lieberman's demands and recently approved the loyalty bill by a twenty two eight majority and the government decided upon it because it wants to make sure that lieberman sparky is a manger is a government it's a lot component of the coalition and. the government under american pressure to freeze settlement building and needs lieberman support but arab citizens like the windy will never give in all or most of the hell that argument i'm a muslim i'm not allowed to swirl the world you two are jewish the world should i use word two in the first word to them what do i think them for. and those jerusalem announces preliminary plans for two hundred thirty eight new secure homes see