people it's not a jewish theocracy or a jewish. religious or a religious state the way you have in iran or saudi arabia it's a state it's a liberal democracy with a jewish majority character but if we talk sort of practicality you mention all the middle eastern countries don't protect minorities but i mean it is fun to stop this bill correctly if the arab language is going to lose its status as an official language within israel but i would risk make up twenty percent of the population i mean that's a very sizable chunk of the population that will lose their official language status. no you must understand you need to understand what has happened here this shift in status merely allows israel to in shrine in the law that hebrew is the official language of the state arabic is a language with special status meaning that it is included in all of the products in the supermarket it's included in all of the public institutions in all of our hospitals any kind of institutional organization association will continue to have arabic as a spe

the israeli parliament has been decided in favor of jewish war jewish less democratic and for many of the coalition members in the netanyahu government the boast about that you know who cares about democracy what we care about is what we are jewish we are in our historic home land etc etc what does the world say about israel and who cares what the world says about israel you know that the world can complain but israel would do what is our needs to do now this might be good enough for you know the neo fascists if you will in the netanyahu government but for the fifty five other members of the israeli parliament for the majority of the jews in the united states elsewhere around the world for most of the liberal voices within within the the region and beyond of course is not acceptable that that jews in particular who suffered for many decades for many centuries from discrimination by the europeans and even by arabs and others because they were jewish autumn now. under the zionist ban they're discriminating against by the senate we will actually be speaking a little later in the program

second degree citizens of israel that israel is a jewish state and if you are not jewish you are not part of this state. and were young of the supporters the one and so for the supporters of this law is that if you are german ok you live in germany germany is the state of the germans and israel is not only the state of these where is the state of the jews and according to these really law every jew who lives in new york or in berlin can move tomorrow to israel and become an israeli and will be entitled to vote but he held his meeting in its tail that allow me to jump in because what you're saying is really critical can we then at this point still call israel a democracy. you know the definition of israel as a jewish democratic state looks like. we have managed to live with a fine tuning edging to maneuver between those two so good power docs a good definition but this is. treating this like you know a ball in china straw. you know i was born in this well i already mr i was jewish but mr believing that was misspelled i'm sorry i'll have to cut it short we've run out of time but thank

voices there are humanist jewish voices there are progressive jewish voices who do not prescribe to that type of discriminatory slash as some would say a racist policies by the new coalition government in israel we'll see how this transpires for the moment to moment bashar our senior political analyst thanks for joining us from london well sitting in the region garza's health ministry says one person has been killed in an attack by the israeli army on palestinians flying burning balloons towards israel for nearly four months protesters in gaza have been flying kites carrying petrol bombs over the border fence not the group hamas has told protesters they have every right to keep doing it that's despite reports the israeli army is preparing for an offensive along the gaza strip if the kites continue to be flown. let's head to the u.s. where there's even more confusion about what donald trump believes or doesn't believe about russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the latest twist see him at odds with his aides and contradicting his own statements can rea

when the jewish people come to israel, we come home. [cheers and applause] >> the palestinians spread this lie because they recognize that if their own people and the world believe the truth, then they will ultimately accept the legitimacy of israel, and the entire scaffolding of their rejectionism will collapse. no one is palestinian rejectionism greater and more than in jerusalem. yasser arafat said to president clinton there never was a temple on the temple mound. president abbas denies jewish history in jerusalem, calls the western wall occupied palestinian territory, and says that the jews are trying to ju daif ych daify jerusalem. like satisfies that the russians are trying to rushafy mass cow. moscow. >> jerusalem has been israel's capital and the seat of the government for decades. and it's the center of the jewish life for 3,000 years. [applause] a thousand years before the birth of jesus, 1500 years before the birth of mohamed, king david declared jerusalem our capital uniting the 12 tribes of israel. there, his son solomon bu

[applause] the jewish people do not occupy the land of israel. they are the land ofisrael by divine covenants from god almighty . yes, the tide is turning on jerusalem and turning on iran. for years we had a president determined to make a deal with iran no matterthe risk to israel's national security or the well-being of the world . now we have a president who recognizes iran for what it is. the number one state sponsor of terrorism and our most aggressive adversary in the middle east. while iran is down, it is not out. iran's influence don't exists as an arc of evil from tehran through iraq and syria all the way to lebanon.you are watching the rebuilding of the persianempire . pulling out of the iran deal was only the first step. iran is steel seeking toplant itself on syria's border . with israel. they are building a jet strip 20 miles from israel's northern border, agent strip with jet airplanes can only mean warfare. iran is still proving israel's defenses. iran is still the head of the snake in the middle east. hamas and hezbollah are huge t

is making israel more jewish let them across. opponents are likely to challenge the law before israel's supreme court. all right let's talk now to akiva eldar an israeli political columnist for the monitor a very a good evening sir why does this matter. fantastic question actually matters because you're asking the question that is because i keep getting calls from all over the world asking this question why did we do it is is still a democracy. and actually goes even deeper than that people are. asking whether. again to say the question. was turned into a u.n. resolution in the seventy's is a zionism racism and if you discriminate twenty percent of the israeli citizens is ready for it and i'm not talking about the occupied territories i'm talking about israeli citizens like me if you tell them and you tell the world that they are second degree citizens because they are not jewish. this is shameful and this is why i guess your interviewing me why why do you think the government has decided to do this right now what's what's the po

anti-semitism is not a jewish problem., it damns the soul. therefore, it's important to everyone that the tide is turning at the united nations and it's also turning in the fight against terror. with cufi leading the charge last year resolved at taylor for become law. you did that. you did that. you did that. for those of you over television who are hearing this for the first time this law ensures that until the palestinian authorities stopping terrorists the us government will not provide aid to the palestinian authority. can you imagine that the mac. [applause] listen to this because you did this. our members had over 1 million e-mails to congress on this issue and we could not have done it without you. our united voice had political power that turned the tide in behalf of democracy. now we are going on the offensive ensuring that it ends in all of its forms. recently, the families of american victims of boston in terror and their successful lawsuit against the palestinian authority overturned on the legal technicality.

at the summit ism is been the scourge of the jewish people for thousands of years. it claimed horrible. tragedies committed in the greatest tragedy of them all the holocaust in the twentieth century it must be fought continuously relentlessly unambiguous slipped. into laws on the response word the statement in the u.n.h.c.r. condemning on to some it is in march you are not doing to the renovated synagogue is bucca you said it was quote a moral duty to the jews live without fear and practice religion freely at least eleven people died when a tourist boat capsized and sank in the us state of missouri thirty one people were on board when the amphibious vehicle of a during a storm on table rock lake divers are searching for the remaining passengers seven people were taken to hospital. and that is the headlines will have more news here here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. they are in sick when he's worth millions of dollars to the nepalese they are living god's one to one east investigates the fight to reclaim nepal's stolen i don't. doubt his era. israel

character in law was there ever a point at which that jewish character was at risk of being lost. not really i think the entire world understands that israel is the nation state of the jewish people but there is also another people who live there and the arabs and the that cooperation of independence made it crystal clear that equality was a fundamental principle in which israel would be established and unfortunately this bill was completely unnecessary and doesn't mention equality in fact. i would call it a racist bill because the downgrades the status of the arabs in israel and the status of arabic from an official language to a quote unquote special status whatever that means what do you see is the driving motivation behind the next a new government bringing this bill. well i think actually the israeli arabs who are palestinian citizens of israel have very little to do with the motivations behind this this particular piece of legislation you have to see it as part of a series of illiberal nativist pick populist bills that have been proposed in the knesset in the last several ye

jewish kid in this is a jewish settlements and if so which of course of the rich with me that did him or christmas in the spirit in it or see it in terms of locations. they were went. on and so far as he says here are the data they live with it was she who also. sitting in the in this case r.h. for a shingle of the kitchen and he gives his political posts are you so admission i thank you very much for speaking to us two of us and for the poor audio quality but we got the gist of what you were saying there thank you very much for explaining it to us now let's take a quick look at the breakdown of israel's population to further understand how this new law impacts people since the creation of a state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight and what palestinians car the catastrophe is our population has increased ten times to record nine million jews. a couple most seventy five percent of the population that's almost eight out of ten people among them forty four percent identify as secular eleven percent as religious and nine percent as for orthodox jews meaning they follow a very stric

you know there is an inherent kind of paradox between the jewish character that. israel wants to keep and the democratic fashion of these really establishment and the israeli social life. and. this is a very interesting challenge and it's a very delicate. kind of walking on that very thin rope between the two that look production we have for instance the low off return that allows any jew that never visited israel doesn't know anything about jewish history to become an israeli citizen and vote in the elections while if you are a palestinian that lived here for many years but you left the country and you lived in berlin or in the united states in new york you will not be eligible to even to get a visa to israel but you know since we want to be boast israelis and jewish there is we need that the israeli minority which is the arab minority which is twenty percent of the population will feel comfortable and i want them it's my interest that they will feel comfortable here and that they we can say i am an israeli and they're israelis and we both live in democracy and y

it is making is well more jewish let them across. opponents are likely to challenge the law before israel supreme court. akiva eldar an israeli political columnist with the al monitor online middle east news organization welcome to what do you think is this new law racist. well you know the fact that you are asking this question. makes the point that i would ask this question about is germany or great britain or of the united states are they racist i think that the fact that this question is asked and rightly so i mean it's a very legitimate question today more than it was yesterday is a clear indication that israel has put itself in a problem. worse is the entire international community. it breaks back to my mind the. resolution from seventy five at that u.n. that israel was struggling for many years to delete it from the history of israel and its international relations that zionism is racism and it raises the question because the fact that israel is supposed. expiring to be post that mcgrath tick and. sounds like a paradox and we

the jewish people remember jerusalem. we year and to return to zion -- we yearn to return to zion and rebuild jerusalem. eespite this unique bond in th history of nations, and nearly 70 years after israel declared jerusalem its capital, not a single nation recognized it. so many new the truth but no one had the courage to speak it. until president trump made history by recognizing history. in doing so, president trump punctured the great lie, and made clear that the jewish people are in the land of israel, not only by might, but by right. president trump's decision will surely echo across the ages. some 2500 years ago the persian the jewsyrus enabled to return to the holy land and rebuild the temple. i don't know if the persians remember cyrus the great, but the jews do. he is inscribed in our internal book and has been carried for millennia in our collective memory. trump's president decision will never be forgotten. was the ninth day of the hebrew month. like so many jews around the world, i fasted and mourned the destr

>> this is the trailer for the 38th annual san francisco jewish film festival. we kick off july 19th through august 6th. we'll be in five bay area cities, including oakland, albany, pala alto, marin and of course the castro theater in san francisco so we're really looking forward to seeing everybody there. >> wonderful. and i know every year there's a special opening film and closing film and a lot of stuff in between that we'll get to, but you want to maybe talk a little bit about what those films are and kind of get us started? >> sure. our opening night film on july 19th at the castro is "love gilda" and this is a film about the late, great comedienne gilda radner, who was the first cast member cast for ""saturday night live,""and it's a wonderful documentary by lisa doppilito and covers gilda's life and her time as a cast member. and has great clips, talks about her relationship with gene wilder, and also when she got cancer. we're going to have lisa, the director there, on opening night and also original not ready for prime time cast member, saturday "satur

community the jewish community does not speak with one voice the jewish community has never done so and it's important that diversity and plurality within the jewish community are recognised and encouraged and we would argue that we speak firmly within the jewish humanitarian internationalist tradition and that we are basing ourselves on jewish values of respect for the other respect for all religions agalloch terry innocent and not making the kinds of legal distinctions between citizens which is now occurring in israel this is not acceptable democratic. and jerry israel wishes because i look rule democracy it has to abide by liberal democratic found during the term is going to talk or see it can continue along the line it is going on getting germany organised crime is will be cowed by all this type of criticism of the less critical of those policies you dislike of the israeli government i hope that jeremy abel continued to be cherami can stand up for what he believes in and speak openly and honestly and pursue the values he has always stood up for international standards to kalak t

is making israel more jewish let them. opponents are likely to challenge the law before israel's supreme court. i want to talk about the implications of this contentious law we can now talk to akiva eldar he's an israeli political columnist for al monitor mr eldar very warm welcome to d.w. news let's talk about this nation state building bell excuse me it makes no mention of minority rights it doesn't mention democracy how is prime minister benjamin netanyahu defending that spell actually he is loud and clear that we have to realize that the jewish people the majority here and the majority takes it all he's into potations of democracy is that the majority of these really people who voted for him and other right wing and theocratic proxies and this is there will also democracy we want and we can do whatever we like and this is not the only thing to put it in the right context we can add to do is build that was ousted this week that allows the minister of education who is the leader of another ultra right wing quality. to de

community the jewish community does not speak with one voice the jewish community has never done so and it's important that diversity and plurality within the jewish community are recognised and encouraged and we would argue that we speak firmly within the jewish humanitarian internationalist tradition and that we are basing ourselves on jewish values of respect for the other respect for all religions agalloch terry anderson and not making the kinds of legal distinctions between citizens which is now occurring in israel this is not acceptable democratic practice in jericho israel wishes to be called a liberal democracy it has to abide by liberal democratic values during a journey called a national autocracy it can continue along the line. it is getting old getting jeremy called in his prime minister will be cowed by all this type of criticism of the less critical of those policies you dislike of the israeli government i hope that jeremy abel continue to be cherami can stand up for what he believes in and speak openly and honestly and to see that the values he has always stood up for

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let me quote you a jewish, not an arab palestinian, but a jewish ngo who studied this, they say 8% ofpermits for housing units into rizal and have gone to palestinian neighbourhoods. 8%. 40% of this city is arab. gone to palestinian neighbourhoods. 896. 4096 of this city is arab. in my ten yea rs 896. 4096 of this city is arab. in my ten years as mayor that is totally nonsense. in the past, if you couldn't prove that you owned a piece of land, it you wouldn't get approval. we have created all kinds of structures to enable giving people permits. so we had lots of challenges to overcome for the benefit of enabling more building. and we've done that. that is total nonsense. how and we've done that. that is total nonsense. how many and we've done that. that is total nonsense. how many houses have been demolished under your watch, palestinian houses, injerusalem? demolished under your watch, palestinian houses, in jerusalem?” think, if i remember correctly, there was about 200. hundreds, yes. 200 per year. half in the west side, half in the east side. i take extra care. when i look at how

emblem as the official emblem a jewish the jewish language of thirty seven hundred years which is hebrew as the official language jewish holidays is the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world it is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever. white foam as in south africa are increasingly looking at russia as a place to resettle amid a rising tide of violence against them that. our descendants of dutch speaking saddle errors at the eastern cape frontier in south africa and much of the one nine hundred century the people moved in the nineteenth century they tried to act in the way they were surveyed their joy to negotiate negotiate officially they tried to avoid conflict the land in this area for example was never taken of the taken by whites from the legs with violence or in an unjust law. the expropriation of land or. settlers of the sixteenth century without compensation is in visit just as one of the measures that we will use to exhilarate redistribution of land to black south africa. i recently visited russia with my family to explore possibilities of rec

there's nothing wrong with there being one jewish state now or trying to figure out what it is. usually basic laws and constitutions of the four inclusiveness not for segregation and this is i think one of the ideas that people are here talking about is that this basic law does not show any clear indication that is there to reach out to the minorities in israel. and you've got to understand you spoke about the basic issue of the we know that we know that israel does not have a constitution it is having a basic law which ultimately will become in shrines as a constitution in the new future. but that's what i'm trying to explain to you we have a series of basic while this one is one of we also have a basic law that is called human dignity and freedom that talks about the rights of minorities we had well already we have different basics but until today we never had a basic law that spoke about the identity of the state as which is always always part of our constitution you know hoffman just mentioned a labor truck sample the french constitution in its second article says the french

emblem as the official emblem a jewish the jewish language of thirty seven hundred years which is hebrew as the official language jewish holidays is the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world it is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever about at the top of the hour with the latest to see that. since communicating with your embassy even here in the week even your did leave us with is a good idea but i think a lot of americans this winter stand being stupid which the ways in which we're here is to communicate for example where their military operations are in syria or even about the baltics lewdly as they do they are making. a bunch of misunderstandings at the end of which you could be in a catastrophic war which would be crazy for russia would be crazy for you a. four man are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what. one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. u.s. president donald trump is repeatedly said he w

jewish settlements and the. arctic is downgrading. the status of that to begin and. for more on this i'm now joined by acura eldar he is an israeli political columnist for oil money dot com news website thank you for joining us so what do you think benjamin netanyahu is trying to achieve with this law. to score points actually it's meant to make sure that the other right wing quality or the extra large right wing party which is led by minister of education mr bennett will not get the credit for this law this law is actually just declaring that israel is and not as was mentioned before is not a democratic state it isn't turning point in the history of zionism but not because you change is the reality which is i'll give you one speaker since israel was established in forty eight there were dozens of new cities that were iraq but not a single palestinian arab israeli new city so it is just. giving a kind of a legitimacy to. on equal reality that. we know in israel this is has been here for many years now and this since you know the first one that interview me this is ge

i don't know jewish state whatever and i really feel ashamed i'm disgusted by this because i i think sees another sign of us. all people who are not jewish but especially the palestinians and i think we lose our own humanity by doing so so my message to these rallies is stop while you can too you know to save your own souls basically we cannot keep living there we have to leave together with our neighbors and incident israeli and as a human being he's my obligation to make this crime so thank you very much to live together as human beings this is the message of one of the main participants in the freedom flotilla coalition this year. a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against livia's coast guard they say a woman in a child died when they and another woman were left stranded and their boat deliberately destroyed. has more. than. a desperate rush to save lives it's the moment to rescue workers the stranded migrants in the mediterranean forty year old woman from cameroon are still alive but for another woman and a toddle

defining israel as a jewish nationstate. u.s. auto industry's stand up to trump tariffs in washington. protest against the multi-billion-dollar duties. also on the program, if you put a -- ethiopia takes more steps to normalizing relationships. appoint ambassadors. the latest in a peace process moving a dizzying speeds after decades of hostility. ♪ >> will -- welcome to the program. downgrading arabic to special status. only the country's jews have the right to exercise self-determination. then not give -- netanyahu described both as a defining moment. reporter: protests in parliament against a law that is tearing up relations between jewish and arab israelis. politicians were rejected as a spoke against the law which gave jews the unique rights of self-determination. they pass with a narrow majority. prime minister described it as a historic day. >> this is a defining moment for the history of the state of israel. it declares jerusalem as israel's capital and supports the capital of -- development of jewish communities. hebrew i

and i think he's got it wrong the fact that he's jewish is irrelevant that doesn't provide any support for his opinion i just don't think he gets the situation. really the people who deny the whole of course. prachi i should imagine there's no survey i've seen on it but ninety nine point nine nine percent intended hurt the jewish people and his example that are people who like motor pool mistakes that i can't believe i've ever come across anyone who does make mistakes in the level of the large that's out there in the research you can just look online go to libraries and even going as yet our streets to make logical mistakes are venturing some of going to pull you up quite quickly and what you are saying this idea that he's trying to stop the spreading of faith yes well this is there's no more fake news than holocaust or not it's been documented it's been researched it's been proved and if you are going to deny the vote only meanness amount of research you go to your dress shame in jerusalem you go to the concentration camps still existing if you're going to deny six million jews died t

claiming to have reunited the ancient jewish city. but there is little unity to be found in a city which palestinian arabs regard as their occupied capital. and in the struggle for the soul of this city even food has its parts through it is an important marker by density in all countries what we eat expresses our history culture and values the palestinian was denied to states and with the national identity constantly undermined food place an even greater role in defining who they are. the food on sale here snacks such as. as well as olives nuts and sweets will be familiar to any. one who's visited arab cities like damascus a man who kyra. with the appearance of uniformity can be deceptive the palestinians have put their own distinct mark on many dishes. i arranged to meet anthropologists and local food experts. to find out more. this is my favorite place it's fifty years old at least they use has had many kinds of with the far left but you told me it was from us for the morning but after event if they stop the from the other b.s. and

abstained on the un general assembly motion to condemn excess force by the self-proclaimed jewish state one hundred twenty countries voted in favor of the resolution titled protection of the palestinian civilian population while eight members including the united states voted against it forty five nations abstained france and twelve other e.u. countries along with russia and china supported the resolution britain state well israel says it is merely responding drawn provocation from hamas israel just had to wound or killed sixteen thousand palestinians since march thirtieth those are palestinian health ministry figures well joining me now to discuss the atrocities taking place of the so-called guards of border a senior hamas official and former deputy foreign minister of gaza ghazi hamad thanks so much for being on going underground ghazi so on thursday israeli security minister. said two important things arguably one that assad of syria is part of an axis of evil and two israel is being dragged into a campaign against hamas what happened to the un brokered cease fire. ok i think israel

state or a democracy it has always chosen jewish state which means that she wish privilege exists and we see this through everything from the sixty laws that directly discriminate against palestinian citizens of israel to the way that people such as i align and others deal with palestinians for everything from calling for our heads to be chopped off for us to be drowned for oaths of loyalty what they fail to recognize is that that we didn't come to israel we didn't immigrate to israel israel came to us thank you many would say you are on the left of the political spectrum when you look at israeli society today do you worry about the trends do you share president rivlin view that this is a quote unquote sick society that needs some kind of treatment i'm very troubled about the trend in israeli society israel within its original borders is a democracy it's a flawed democracy but so are all other democracies but if you look at least in the west bank and gaza israel most emphatically most decisively is not a democracy it's an ethnic recy it's a system in which one ethnic group dominates t

settlers who are wearing that's because today is a jewish holiday known as to shop that is a holiday that commemorates disasters throughout jewish history now earlier in the day there was tension here in the old city you had at one point a thousand jewish settlers that had gone into the end of some mosque compound they are allowed to do so twice a day and then later in the day you had about three hundred fifty settlers that went in now whenever a jewish settlers go into the end of the mosque compound or gather around it many of the palestinians that are here many of the muslims they see that as a provocation because of that this is one of those days where there were clashes there was tension because there has been so much tension that's been escalating lately because so many different things well there was worry that it could become even worse now it's in the afternoon things have really calmed down these are subsided things are back to normal the way they would be any other day here but the fact of the matter is really goes to show that here at any time something that happens could

is making israel more jewish. i think this is racist legislation my radical right wing government that is creating radical last three and is planting the seeds to create an apartheid state to work for to clear up or. also on the program on sunday just three hours of rain in juba and north of nigeria was enough to sweep away hundreds of houses and the people living in them. i really don't know what i should say the water was up to her neck and kept rising. she looked over at her mother and said please forgive me. when she went under and part of the building collapsed on her i had twenty two children and now one of them is simply no longer here. israel's parliament has passed a controversial law that explicitly defines the country as the national homeland of the jewish people it also makes hebrew the country's only official language downgrading arabic to special status and then states that only the country's jews have the right to self-determination prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the votes a defining m

all jewish people. but not its citizens. that was 60 years ago. land laws were set up in such a way that it was recognized. in fact, internally. is state land, effectively under the administration. an array of legal and administrative practices were details. ensure those book that went through the documents. and basically, a complex array was set up to ensure the jewish national fund would be in control, amounting to over 90% of the country's land. it has a contract with the state of israel, which determines that the mission is to work for the people of jewish race, religion or origin. what you expect to follow from this? would you expect to follow is , 93% of the land of the country is effectively reserved for people of jewish national origin and it is what played out. this did finally come to the court, the israeli court in the year 2000. the association in israel brought a case where plaintiffs wanted toab couples, buy a home. in a jewish settlement. which was, like most of the country, restricted. the court finally ruled in their favor. pretty

the law also says it promotes jewish settlement.ans that settlementes that are not jewish, many areas in the north and south of is thaz are concentrations of palestinians descen palestinians citizens they won't have the same access to resource that's jewish citizens will. it really is -- and shifting of arabic from being an official language to unofficial language tells the palestinians that they're second class citizens in this country. >> i think that is wrong on all the points. >> it's factual. >> arabic was never the official language of israel. they had a league under a british mandate order from the 1940s. they never legislated this matter. it doesn't change the status quo. every country that has self majority, it means that israel is the self-determination home for the jewish national people. another country can be the self-determination people for the palestinian people. >> it's doing so based on religious. >> there is nothing religious in this. >> you know very well. you know very well that if you had an israeli citizen who

a jewish nation states we look at how a new israeli law both defines and defines its citizens. so obama you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes what's been seen as a major victory for syria's president rebels agree to surrender their weapons in the southern province of truck. also who poisoned a former russian spy and his daughter british police are reported to have identified the suspect. and accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide a human rights group details how soldiers and meum are prepared to attack civilians . be with us welcome to al-jazeera israel has passed a controversial law that for the first time declares the country to be the nation state of the jewish people it makes hebrew the only official language downgrading arabic to an ambiguous special status and it also promotes the construction of jewish only communities however critics say the little marginalizes israeli palace . in minority who make up twenty percent of the nine million population is really palestinians have the same rights as jew