members so it's very controversial and even benny begun a knesset member from the likud party did not support it the president of israel the attorney general the outgoing head of the jewish agency and other civil society groups all came out against it if this does marginalize a significant section of the israeli population do you think that israel could still be called a democracy. you know rob i think this is a very sad day for democracy in israel certainly not a liberal democracy. i think that there's going to be a lot of pressure on israel to. either amend this bill or probably scrap it altogether once the knesset is back in session and in addition to the parts that we just talked about there are other elements of the bill that are extremely problematic such as the relegation of israel diaspora relations to the dash for community this was basically a demand made by the ultra-orthodox parties in israel and will not go over well with american jewry so this will certainly exacerbate the tensions between israel and the american jewish community in addition to course further marginalizi

the knesset members were playing with different drafts actually you know in the last few weeks the. journey general and the legal advisor on the parliament has managed to convince the prime minister and the knesset members to stop and to make it look a little bit better than the prettiest drive your previous draft. clue of the. paragraph and loud clearly allowed to discriminate arabs when it comes to building community. selecting members. jewish communities and this one is meant that in the language and it looks better than the one that was on the table we could go and i want to get down and just briefly for me that the new law defines hebrew as the state's language and then says this clause does not harm the status given to the arabic language before the law came into effect briefly what is the thinking behind this apparent contradiction. the hundred diction is that the arabic language has been discriminated against and the members of knesset and lobbies were trying actually to upgrade the language and to pass for is this real that would require some. programs in documentaries coul

in the knesset keeping. they ought to discriminate against the citizens against down minority with the basis. said. i know it is in these well my feet and they did and rightly so because the law. making israel more jewish. sure i think this is racist legislation my radical right wing government is creating radical. and is planting the seeds to create one part time to do more good to clean up our time. 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 kept rising. she looked over at her mother and said please forgive me. and 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 langua

israel's new nation state law saying it threatens the future peace with palestinians on thursday the knesset passed a bill defining israel as the homeland of the jewish people prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised this as a defining moment for zionist. syrian state media says that ten government buses vented the southern connecticut province to transfer rebels to the syrian government has retaken large areas of collateral as part of the months long military offensive. egypt's president is in sudan to try to smooth tensions over water security and disputed border regions relations have been strained between the two countries particularly over the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the nile river the turia gating the reports. this is president abdel fattah el-sisi fifth visit to sadat since he came to power four years ago analysts say it was hastily arranged his next trip to khartoum had been shed jeweled full oct hours before c.c.s. arrival the sudanese government banned international media from covering the two day visit it said it was mirroring action taken by the egyptian governmen

the knesset members were playing with different drafts actually you know in the last few weeks the. tourney general and the legal advisor of the parliament has managed to convince the prime minister and the knesset members to stop and to make it look at a little bit better than the prettiest drive your previous draft. include a good. paragraph and loud clearly allowed to discriminate arabs when it comes to building communities selecting members to jewish communities and this one is meant that the. language and it looks better than the one that was on the table week ago and i want to figure just briefly for me that the new law defines hebrew as the states language and then says this close to us not harm the status given to the arabic language before the law came into effect briefly what is the thinking behind this apparent contradiction. the hundred diction is that the arabic language has been discriminated against and the other members of knesset and lobbies were trying actually to upgrade the status of the language and to pass for is this real that would require some. programs in d

bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition arab members of the knesset say the new legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state. i don't know controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another controversy is the status of the arabic language the new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic from second. deputy attorney general says the law also allows the

and go in the knesset and international condemnation as israel passes a law making itself an exclusively jewish nation. this says israel fires on palestinians launching burning cars from gaza killing one man. hello i'm barbara. a live from london also coming up on the program air strikes continue to rain down on syria's quieter province this five rebels surrendering in another victory for president assad french president crawled under fire after one of his top aides is filmed hitting a protester and we'll tell you about the low budget film that's become a box office hit and it pushes china's prime minister to promise cheaper cancer drugs. israel has passed a controversial law that defines the country as the nation state of the jewish people and makes hebrew the only official language downgrading arabic two thousand and big u.s. special status critics say the low marginalizes israeli palestinians make up twenty percent of the population and legalised discrimination stephanie decker reports now from west jerusalem. it's official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of

but there were a position to it within the government the government within the knesset and there was barack obama that opposed any such measures by the israeli knesset today president trump says i to i with prime minister me on most things in fact prime minister netanyahu boasts of having brainwashed president trump when it comes to issues regarding israel iran and others and i think last but not least look i think it's very important for netanyahu to enshrine those sorts of you know israeli centric zionist centric extremist policies within the constitution of israel the basic law because any peace deal coming any international pressure in terms of east jerusalem in terms of the jewish settlements in terms of the return of refugees two thirds of the palestinian people i knew of them to israel would be stopped at the door because there is no basic law that gives instrument to the coalition government in israel to really oppose any such peace factors if you will coming forward within the region well known we'll of course be talking about this in more detail throughout the day here on a

state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty five with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state yes i think most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest illegal settlements for jews are already being bui

state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty five the two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state yes i don't most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest illegal settlements for jews are already being buil

state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty families with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into a fascist state yes. most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest illegal settlements for jews are already being built in b

arab members of the knesset were removed from the hall after tearing up the bill the legislation makes hebrew the only official language in the status of arabic arab members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination but. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into a fascist state. and syria and agreements been reached between the government and opposition in the largest remaining rebel held city in the south and has faced an intense aerial bombardment of the past two days. has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the community a new report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest a twenty two officials and myanmar for making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the twenty seventeen. russians former foreign secretary has accused the prime minister of planning what he called a phony. his resignation address in parliament on wednesd

bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition arab members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. laws loom and this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state. i am the most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlements as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another contriver sees the status of the arabic language a new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic to seconds. the deputy attorney general says the law

all our members of the knesset were removed from the hall after tearing up the downgrade the status of the arabic language and encourages the building of communities exclusively for jews and say plants the seeds of an apartheid state. and syria an agreement agreements being reached between the government and opposition in it is the largest remaining rebel held city in the south and has faced an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days myanmar's army has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the hinge community a new report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest twenty two officials in myanmar for making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the hunger and twenty seventeen donald trump says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election a fallacious shift in language from the us president has been criticized for failing to confront putin at their summit and finland. a south korean court has ordered two hundred mill

was being debated we say it was an eight hour very contentious very dramatic debate and israel's knesset and now after it has passed again much more anger happening because many israeli palestinians are saying that this marginalizes than even further that this means that democracy in israel is dead and they say that this means that it is sensually is fascism that they are dealing with here now. there's a disagreement agreements have been reached between the government position in the city of now why in the province of cannot trust the areas of faith an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days rebel fighters from. some strikes are reportedly still taking place sobbing take it in the north government troops will now return to the two thousand and eleven positions elsewhere two towns besieged by rebels in syria's adlib province have been evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces now thousands were bussed out of one catherine in the north west the shia towns of. under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years regime forces and their

and other arab members of the knesset ripped up copies of it. hours after the bill became law and in this far more serene setting was no less enraged the state is saying to its citizens. citizens you are not equal and you are maybe just and we are not we are the owner of the stand we have a right not in this land but only in this land we are the indigenous the legislation adopted by sixty two votes to fifty five makes hebrew the only official national language and defines the establishment of jewish communities as being in the national interest it also stipulates that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and adds that they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it the law is controversial among israelis many have joined in the protests against the legislation saying it legitimizes discrimination palestinian political analysts say the law gives license to segregation is that a is of telling the will of this is going to be in terms of geography and they're not going to use over the jewish exclusive jewish take it

jail and you know what it was an arab israeli who threw the president of israel into jail when the knesset the israeli parliament passes the boycott law which makes any israeli organization that calls for a boycott against israel's liable to be sued for damages the not by law which cut state funding from any organization which marks the country's independence day as a day of mourning the n.-g. o. law which targets quote unquote foreign funded human rights organizations one parliamentarian israel called it a semi fascistic law that harms democracy and is reminiscent of putin's russia i see israeli politicians but of course because in israel you can say anything and you can at the know but no one attacks the israeli government more than the israelis in their newspapers in israel is a democracy anybody can come and go say and speaks what he wants reuben rivlin who's the president of israel not a liberal and conservative very much anti palestinian state he says israel israeli society is sick it is our duty to treat this disease you don't agree with him either i don't agree with that but i see

bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition arab members of the knesset see the new legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and it creates an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state. i don't know is controversial cause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another controversy is the status of the arabic language the new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic from second. deputy attorney general says the law also allows t

and other arab members of the knesset ripped up copies of it. hours after the bill became law and in this far more serene setting was no less enraged the state is saying to its citizens. citizens you are not equal and you are may be just and we are not we are the owner of the stand we have a right not in this land but only in this land we are the indigenous the legislation adopted by sixty two votes to fifty five makes hebrew the only official national language and defines the establishment of jewish communities as being in the national interest it also stipulates that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and adds that they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it the law is controversial among israelis many have joined in the protests against the legislation saying it legitimizes discrimination palestinian political analysts say the law gives license to segregation is that in his offending the will of this is going to be in terms of geography they're not going to use over into the jewish exclusive jewish take

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status of special status and has effectively been downgraded there were hours of debate in the israeli knesset the israeli parliament prior to this contentious nation state being passed into law a particularly content part of the ball is the whole idea of israeli or jewish settlements now there was a lot of debate about this in the past it was changed because the charge was put forward that it promotes secret geisha and but even with the change critics complain because now for example they say it promotes jewish settlements it caused so much anger in the parliament that arab members of parliament actually ripped the bill to shreds. this is an evil law a black flag hovers over it this is a law over which harbors a black flag. now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that this is a pivotal moment in the history of zionism and israel. this is a historic moment in the history of zionism and the history of the state of israel israel is the national state of the jewish people and national state respects the rights of individuals the rights of all citizens and in the middle east only is

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state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesseton thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty families with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination whether. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state yes i know most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already

well it certainly is controversial we've seen a number of heated debates in the country's knesset the parliament over the fact that there's a contentious nation state bill has now been passed into law and what this effectively means is that enshrined in israel's basic law will be the idea that israel is recognised as the historic homeland of the jewish people and that they have exclusive right to national self-determination not supporters of the bowl say that it essentially equates jewish values with democratic values putting them on an equal footing but critics and there are several if not many they say that it effectively discriminates against the country's arab population and other minorities the bowl also says that jerusalem is the capital of israel it says that the official calendar is the hebrew calendar and it recognizes jewish remember and states it wickednesses the israeli version of independence day and jewish holidays now when it finally was passed in knesset it saw a lot of anger and reaction particularly from members of parliament who essentially ripped it to shreds take

and other arab members of the knesset ripped up copies of it. hours after the bill became law and in this far more serene setting was no less enraged the state is saying no it isn't. citizens you are not equal and you are maybe just and we are not we are the owner of this then we have a right not in this land but only if. we are the indigenous the legislation adopted by sixty two votes to fifty five makes hebrew the only official national language and defines the establishment of jewish communities as being in the national interest it also stipulates that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and adds that they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it the law is controversial among israelis many have joined in the protests against the legislation saying it legitimizes discrimination palestinian political analysts say the law gives license to segregation is that a is of telling the world this is going to be in terms of geography and they're not going to use over the jewish exclusive jewish take it or leave it bu

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the knesset is able to take any votes when it's recalled from recess benjamin netanyahu doesn't appear to be ready to make any major concessions so it's difficult to see where it can go from here but he is also faced with resistance now from the minority druze community they have many soldiers serving with the israeli army and one officer has resigned on facebook it does appear that protests are gaining a head of steam. and a court in israel has jailed on israeli palestinian poet for five months over a poem and comment she made during a wave of palestinian street attacks daryn posted a video of palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs at israeli soldiers with audiotape of herself leading out her poem on facebook and youtube in october twenty fifth prosecutors said the video encourages violence he says the video was a call for nonviolent resistance. at work i think one thing i was expecting to go to prison and unfortunately i was seen via it's not a surprise because this is an israeli court and in the israeli court when the defendant is palestinian there is no justice especially

and other arab members of the knesset ripped up copies of it hours after the bill became law and in this far more serene setting was no less enraged this that is saying it isn't. up that isn't you are not equal and you are maybe just and we are not we are the owner of this then we have the right not in this land but only. we are the indigenous the legislation adopted by sixty two votes to fifty five makes hebrew the only official national language and defines the establishment of jewish communities as being in the national interest. it also stipulates that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and adds that they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it the law is controversial among israelis many have joined in the protests against the legislation saying it legitimizes discrimination palestinian political analysts say the law gives license to segregation is that a is attending the will of this is going to be in terms of geography they're not going to use over the jewish exclusive jewish take it or leave it but you know with aside what would happen on th

new nation state law saying that it threatens the future of peace with palestinians on thursday the knesset passed a bill defining israel as the homeland of the jewish people prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised it as a defining moment for zionism. and syrian state media says the ten government buses have entered the southern connecticut province to transfer rebels to italy syrian government has retaken large areas of connecticut as passing of a months long military offensive. a court in south korea sentenced former president park going to hate to an additional eighty years in prison it relates to the embezzlement of almost three billion dollars of state funds and interfering in the selection of candidates for the twenty sixteen parliamentary election but time is to be served in addition to a twenty four year handed down in a pool of other corruption charges. the south korean government has been ordered to pay two hundred million dollars in compensation to the families of people killed in the twenty four fourteen say well ferry disaster more than three hundred people died many of them

the arab embers of the knesset were removed from the hall after tearing up the bill the legislation also makes hebrew only official language downgrading the status of arabic and the building of jewish communities arab members of the knesset say that legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into a fascist state. and syria and agreements been reached between the government and opposition and. remaining rebel held city in the cell that has faced an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days. myanmar's army has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the hinge a community a new report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest twenty two officials in myanmar for making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the hanjour in two thousand and seventeen donald trump says he holds russian president putin personally responsible

well the reaction to this vote in the israeli knesset the passage of this bill in the israeli parliament has been surprisingly swift and condemnatory here in the occupied west bank the head of palestinian prisoners affairs has said that this is piracy and theft of money which should rightfully belong to the palestinian authority in terms of taxes that are due to it and that are collected by the israeli government and then passed on to the palestinian authority they say that there is no legitimacy in the way that the israelis are now planning to withhold a large portion of that money he also says that this is an attempt politically to did legitimize the struggle against israeli occupation by turning people who should be seen as victims of an occupation as terrorists the bill was passed in the knesset by a margin of eighty seven to fifteen the only people voting against belonging to the left wing meretz party and members of palestinian israeli parties the israeli case for this bill has always been that such payments amount to incitement to attacks on israelis and on the israeli military th