in the middle east peace process mahmoud abbas a speaking role meeting french president emmanuel mccrum about listening in leader call for europe to play a stronger role in peace efforts and live reports from paris. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the. palace emanuel mark karr has been a staunch critic of the united states decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel after talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s. peace plan. for the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties and failing and because of this violation of international law. mccraw has stepped up efforts to mediate in the crisis meeting with the king of jordan and israel's prime minister earlier this month he wants to try and help revive talks but he has ruled out unilaterally recognizing palestine as the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time these americans and the americans have marginalized

donald trump's possible recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital during a telephone conversation mccrum told trump that jerusalem status must be decided in peace talks between israelis and palestinians trance expected to decide this week whether to move the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv. the u.s. supreme court will allow the trumpet ministration to fully enforce its controversial travel bad on till an appeal against it is heard the ruling extends the band to people from six muslim majority countries plus venezuela and north korea russia and the european union said they confident about reaching an agreement on the terms of this so-called divorce bill soon despite failing to reach a deal on monday the main sticking point in bright talks is what the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland will look like those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us what this is coming up next thank you very much for watching. on counting the cost the goldilocks oil price is there such a thing is the price of crude for consumers and producers financial point the future of job

her family is disappointed how little president mccrum has done to help free her so if it is seventy two years old back in twenty sixteen she was abducted in the city of galle by a local terrorists this july she was shown in so-called proof of life that it released by al qaeda showed her alongside five other captives her son says despite an ongoing investigation he's received no information about his mother. the paris prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation but it has stalled we're now trying to find new materials to restart it so that it won't be apparent in due to a lack of results we're establishing contacts to try to trace her and seeking any information to establish with the she's alive and where she might be found so far we have no news nothing concrete be the from the kidnappers nor from any contact persons and also nothing from the foreign ministry's crisis center. over the past five years the number of people kidnapped by terrorists has been rising sharply last year there were almost sixteen thousand kidnappings worldwide after hostage footage of so it was posted online t

france's president among all mccrum celebrated his fortieth birthday on saturday however instead of congratulations the president faced a wave of criticism over the venue he picks for his party. staying in france the altie family welcomes a new member as we launch a brand new french language channel on monday and the studio in paris will bring these to the french speaking wild party is now available in four languages with the new channel joining our english spanish and arabic language versions and our colleagues have been doing their bit to make the new edition feel right at home straight away. you mean you don't usually teach. left in the. cement plant in life you speak french. you will soon they'll say that's a new born again still good people son was busy helping them to discuss. we'll show you these in the days stories by following to us on facebook and twitter i'll be back in about thirty five minutes with the headlines i'll see you then. join me every thursday on the all excited i'm sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. wel

middle east peace process muchmore the boss was speaking while meeting french president amount of mccrum the palestinian leader called for europe to play a stronger role in peace efforts and reports from paris. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the lease a palast emanuel my car has been a staunch critic of the united states decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel after talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s. peace plan. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties and failing and because of this violation of international law. macro has stepped up efforts to mediate in the crisis meeting with the king of jordan and israel's prime minister earlier this month he wants to try and help revive talks but he has ruled out unilaterally recognizing palestine as the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time these americans and the americans of marginalized themselv

important to reflect on the very warm relationship that exists between president trump and president mccrum they speak often and i think as the foreign minister described the relationship that the united states in francaise is one of and allies that is so strong so deep in steadfast over two centuries long now shared values that we are able to be very frank and open with one another and on almost all things we agree but on those that we don't we're very open to express those disagreements and i think both of us benefit from the richness of those discussions and i know president trump values very much present micros views on issues and that's why they speak often as well as the foreign minister indicated i will take a lot of time repeating what he said of so many issues we are very well alive and dealing with the threat of the nuclear weapons program in north korea we appreciate france's steadfast support we appreciate the strong support that we share in the more to defeat isis if you could taint terrorism wherever it shows itself certainly on our joint efforts in the sun held and we appreci

problem is that the european union isn't ready to step in really we've seen that the french president mccrum who's eager to sort of gain profile worldwide as a troubleshooter and mediator in each and every conflict. minute and you know yesterday in paris that he would be sort of ready to step up to a certain point oh ever he has to unify the european union behind him and he doesn't have a plan we just heard the french foreign minister say we've waited for the u.s. plan and we've waited and waited and nothing happened but the e.u. didn't take the interim period to sort of formulate their own goals to sort of make up their own peace plan and sort of push it forward they've just been sitting back and waiting and they somewhat haven't really yet gotten over the shock after the obama years of the very one sided policy that donald trump the american president is presenting at the moment so it's mostly the they would need a lot more time to sort of get together and really push an agenda here ok briefly netanyahu is comment that e.u. country should move their embassies to jerusalem is that just wish