president of the council on parliament and ally of this push for more he joins me now from barcelona mr gaza thank you so much for being here let's start very simply what has been your reaction to prison last arrest today. well we were expecting. the president would have to appear before the courts somewhere we were expecting that he would be going to back home in belgium and he would have to undergo the same procedure of. brussels. that. he had to undergo some three or four months ago so we basically. expected this. we really hope that whatever the country whatever the court provided it's a european democracy will that the word that he's made it and that this this warrant shouldn't be valid and the council on message that we heard today is that this arrest is threatening the values that europe was built on but. these are there an argument to say that undermined those values knowingly when he broke with the spanish constitution and declared independence. but that's not that's never been a crime. that i know of so there may be a political problem there may be a political conflict there's no c

numerous international ports that have confirmed the deterioration of living conditions in gaza mr president if there is no response to these policies these attacks these violations against the defense's palestinian people and against their rights this is the with what results and we are going to see members of the security council come on to. me as mr serry who stated this needs to remind us that we want to see the last thing and this is just and sustainable lasting peace in conclusion we would reiterate the importance of israeli occupying power respecting and implementing is critical to resolutions we would reiterate that a comprehensive just peace is a strategic choice it is a precondition for. in order to achieve this the israeli occupation needs to come to an end all the inalienable rights of the palestinian people must be respected including its right to establish an independent. state within one nine hundred sixty seven borders on all its territories based on resolutions of these good account of the principle of land for peace the. road map and the arab peace initiative thank you very

right of peaceful protest there also note with concern there are strikes carried out by israel in gaza mr president this iteration should not be a surprise to this council special coordinator warner's only a few days ago about the risks for escalating violence in and around gaza the situation is extremely worrisome our focus must now be on avoiding further violent escalation on the ground or parties and in particular these really security forces must exercise maximum restraint is the president as we know from previous previous briefings in this chamber the humanitarian situation in gaza is terrible gaza is on the verge of collapse a sustainable solution must urgently be sought including an end to the israeli closure policy in gaza is an integral part of the state of palestine and cannot be separated from the broader political context including the much needed peace efforts leading to a two state solution i think you i think are obscenity of sweden for his statement and i'll give the floor to representative of a cultural guinea. yes you know. if you're joining us here on al-jazeera what yo

suffering for a place to live your jesus and the palestinians inside with bank in jerusalem and gaza that mr international put it since two thousand and eleven the overwhelming majority of credible allegations of torture another serious violations by security forces have not been independently and impartially investigated is that the sort of country that you want to preside this is not that they're going to think it's not about making this stuff up mark most of last most most of the tunisian people most of the political families in tunisia this is not the kind of country they want they want to full fledge democratic country we are proud of the she went we have already made we are not yet a democracy to be honest we are not yet a democracy we never pretended that we are full we finished actively our promises says we are on the path of reaching a democratic system where transparency the rule of law will be respected whatever line you turn you down for well mr been gagged ways hostage to the brutality of the brutal record of zanu p. you cannot theory his period as head of central intelligence i

israel no one has the ability to extract from us recognition of the occupation this is what mr siniora of hamas in gazastrip said here and it's still the west with this unit is not i must by the way for how mr putin has israel or the fact that little bit as israel but we understand that the state of palestine is recognizing israel and be a road accompanist and we signed that. by a little recognition nineteen ninety three when we stand also look so the factions is not a must for them because i look like what's what's going on and it is a different political they didn't organize even the distance of the palestinians who are looking there is a united by god look at him is elected them there are armed forces then he bade him a civilian administration in israel you don't have that you have you have different voices you have hamas you have islamic jihad you haven't thought about any of the any details and call it international and israel international christiano a lot of people are going ok all israel is also they have different views developed forces it's not quite the same out this is a i understand it's n

extract from us recognition of the occupation this is what mr cin one of hamas in gaza strip said and it's still there always with best medicine and i must by the way for how mr putin has israel or the fact that a good as is it again but we understand that the state of palestine is a mess and it's a and b. a lot of hope and eyes and we're saying that the violet and recognition nineteen ninety three when we stand also look so the factions is not a must for them because i look like what is what's going on and is a different way because they didn't organize even the quota systems of the palestinians you are talking there is a united by government to look at him isn't it them there are armed forces that he bade him a civilian administration in israel you don't have that you have you have different voices you have hamas you have islamic jihad you haven't thought about any of the any details and call it international and it's a very international place and the only one people are going to negotiate with israel is also they have different views developed forces it's not quite the same out th

today, an explosion targeted the convoy of the palestinian minister as it was traveling in gaza. per mrllar was not hurt. mahmoud abbas says he holds the military group hamas responsible. witnesses say a passenger on a motorcycle through an expose of device at the left car in the prime minister's convoy. >>> people in austin, texas, are very concerned after a deadly package bomb killed two people, injuring two others. three packages exploded in the last 10 days. a teenager any 39-year-old man have both been killed. investigators say in each case, a plain looking box placed outside the victim's house overnight. the bombs exploded when they were open. police say it is too soon to say whether the incidents are the work of a serial bomber. but there are some similarities in all of them. the recipients are minorities, black and latino. the devices are very sophisticated. they also say this is not the work of an amateur. >> to be able to build a device like this and then deploy it to your intended target without having it explode in the process, there is a certain level of skill that is going

each ansft thousands of weapons to mrs charlie james has the story. gun running from gaza israeli authorities have charged an employee of the french consulate in jerusalem for allegedly smuggling between e gaza strip and the west bank. ramon phoned is a twenty three year old french national. lloyd as a driver diplomatic staff. is accused of transporting seventy pistols and two during fives using a conflict car a vehicle subjected to light security checks due to diplomatic status. the israeli foreign ministry spokesman emphasize the severity of the offenseseset with the utmost gravity. valfre newsday cases in which you see somebody using l sing his say. smuggling weapons which could be used against israeli citizens the israeli security agency says strong perceive the weapons from a palestinian employed at th french cultural center in gaza. one smuggled the guns or transfer to palestinian arms dealers in the israelie small the eight percent is monday over revelations of a data breach. consultancy found that worked on donald trump's access tdetails will the fifty million user

israeli territories and put himself and his life in danger all the participants in the gaza strip a say but how mr. the lives of women and children in danger when it sent them to the security wall to infiltrate israel and still male borders or palestine has been slowly disappearing from the map since the first world war this is what it looked like a hundred years ago when jews only made up three percent of the population that pictures changed dramatically palestinians are now only allowed limited self-will in small pockets under israeli military occupation which is the longest modern history funerals been held for a palestinian farmer killed while tending to his own there the gaza border twenty seven year old omar some more was collecting par stay in a field when he was hit by israeli artillery fire hundreds of mourners carried his body through the streets of hong yunus the israeli military said the farmer and another man who was injured were acting suspiciously as they approached a fence along the gaza strip. mall a little man that looks a little every day he goes picking powerfully from two am t

had really just been inside gaza for a matter of seconds before this attack took place it hit the tail end of the convoy damaging a number of cars injuring likely seven people mr handle himself was uninjured he went on to his engagement here in gaza inaugurating a water treatment facility and he spoke there about the need to carry on with the reconciliation process between fatah which governs essentially the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank and hamas which has been in power here in gaza for more than a decade and had given up its de facto government here to try to rican sile with the palestinian authority the p.a. is blaming hamas for this hamas has condemned it it is also condemned the accusation that it was in any way responsible other factions also have condemned the attack including islamic jihad the p.f. lp the rival fatah a breakaway group led by mohammad dahlan but this is a major event here both in terms of security and in terms of the politics at play the attempts to reconcile these two different palestinian political factions have been going for some five months now egyptians and egyptian delegation is still in gaza trying to review th

from mr romney hamdullah has escaped unhurt for a bomb exploded his convoy was traveling in gaza hamas is denied responsibility. one hundred fifty people have been allowed to leave the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta which has been under intense government bombardment for three weeks . president trump has examined border wall prototypes for his proposed project to separate the u.s. from mexico in an attempt to curb illegal immigration it was shown eight towers that will be tested for thirty to sixty days which design is best trump said he liked a fully concrete wall because it was the hardest to climb but says it needed see through capabilities as well some experts estimate the wall could cost as much as twenty billion dollars and funding is yet to be secured. head of the president's arrival dozens of protesters took to the street to sun. sunday those border with mexico to denounce the immigration crackdown let's go to who joins us from miramar in san diego so what does said while visiting well. well the president as the left this arena here station here in san diego the air force

gaza strip. we can now speak to some harm done he's a senior hamas official joining us from beirut mr hamdan good to have you with us on al-jazeera once again saw bess's directly blaming hamas for what he's calling that assassination attempt against the law in gaza what is your official response. well it's clear that condemned and rejected what. i was saying there is an important fact which has to me and else that we are investigating about this explosion and with the point that we need the community of the communication which was supposed to be introduced by the prime minister of and from the law we asked him twice about this issue and here is shifted to compare it with the investigation and last received by abu mazen himself it seems that they are awarded about this issue because this will show who are the people who are behind this explosion who were. planning to do this i don't want to do the same as my best to jump to the conclusions but i have to say when i will madam the chick to give us the data that means he knows exactly who will be home always behind that and he want to hind this to te

behind last week's attack on the prime minister mr blamed his political rivals for the roadside bomb explosion while the romney ham dollars convoy was entering gaza. hurt in the attack. we offer well wishes and safety to our brother. the prime minister and merging the head of intelligence and the rest of our brothers from the security detail that went through this despicable incident that was done by hamas in the gaza strip. a packages exploded at a fed ex distribution center near san antonio in the us eight of texas a package is said to contain nails and other shrapnel of the seventy five people working there only one is reported to have been injured but police are now investigating if this explosion is linked to a series of paso bomb attacks this month in the state capital austin four attacks there have killed two people and wounded four others. the seven day deadline for twenty three russian diplomats to leave britain is due to expire at midnight on cheese say the british prime minister ordered them out of the russian embassy in london after the poisoning of the former spy said gates and his daughter with a nerve agent british diplomats have b

mr putin is pushing collapsed dialogue on his terms. thank you, sarah. killed by israeli security forces along the israel—gaza border.other palestinian groups. israel's military doubled its usual deployment of troops in the area just ahead of the jewish passover holiday, and said it would act to stop any breach of its borderfence. yolande knell is injerusalem. this has been one of the largest palestinian demonstrations on the israel gaza border in recent years, and an israeli military official told me around 30,000 people took part. there were some family entertainment in encampments that we re entertainment in encampments that were set but as the day went on many palestinians approached gaza's perimeter fence where there were israeli forces. a chaotic rush to the hospital, with hundreds of palestinians injured in gaza. a call for peaceful marches turned to violence, as protesters headed towards the israeli border. israel's military says it used tear gas and opened fire to stop anyone illegally crossing into its territory or attacking soldiers. and this was just the start. palestinians are planning a series of protes