be here when the peace but then mr maher i guess he encountered the same thing in every conflict and to be honest with you in all my experience of war and fighting i have never met anyone on the ground who would say that we won the war to go on indefinitely everybody sas that they won. as soon as possible but unfortunately these type of conflicts they tend to be very very protracted and the israeli palestinian conflict is perhaps their worst example i want to ask you whether these kind of misery that you just described especially in the palestinian territories and especially in gaza whether they have already been institutionalized is it still perceived as an aberration or as you said already the norm. well let me first come to your comment and then i'm happy to say a few things about gaza but with regard to your comments let's let's nevertheless forget that i.c.r.c. gaging in a very positive way on detention issues on the conduct of hostilities of. fighters in gaza as well as palestinian police as well as the israeli army we have seen so phases of tranquility like in the last couple

to discuss that i'm now joined by peter president of the international committee of the red cross mr maher it's great to talk to you again thank you very much for your time thanks for having me now you are currently on a trip to israel and palestine which comes on the fiftieth year of these really occupation do you think your staff will ever have a reason to not be there can the fallout of these very protracted conflict be made to get it let's say in another within another fifty years well i definitely hope so . i think it is even today there is always hope that people are working towards peace everybody all the interlocutors i meet agree that this is a difficult conflict but it needs to be solved and resolved through peace negotiations i haven't made an actor since i arrived here who would not have been committed to it our problem. in the short term we are confronted with important challenges with. dislocations disruptions of life since the economies of people with policies. which are difficult for the populations occupation policies settlement policies which are that have consequences fo

we are protesting mr maher calls label it's a bad law against workers. but what these union members see as important protections and global financial institutions such as the i.m.f. see as deep rooted structural rigidities france's complex employment laws and tax regime often act as a disincentive for companies to expand present micron's proposals would for example allow companies with fewer than twenty staff to negotiate pay and conditions direct that the workers instead of having to involve the unions. jex parties is a small but successful french surveying company which checks buildings for structural movement its boss agrees that more streamlined employment laws are over due so. employers and employees want to talk to each other they want to decide their common future they no longer want to. one or two percent of the population telling them what we have to do and telling them that they know better what's best for them. the marches though are clear who they trust to do what's better for them a september showdown is looming here in france the president