yossi merkel professor of international relations and associate fellow of the middle east and north africa program at chatham house and in boston rami corey senior public policy fellow and professor at the american university in beirut rami is also a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school a warm welcome to you all it like to begin occupied east jerusalem with the. we've seen of fictions like this take place over several decades they've happened in other neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem yet this one seems to cut right to the core of what is going on between the israelis and the palestinians and has become a very popular cause why is that. and when you know if another as i have since a. many cases happened before but not one of them as in charge this is like and if it. came same exact is taking place it's not is there are 20 tremendous so it's become better of persons. to be kicked out of their own houses and we are we are we are. accusing is that. those who are. we to kink a really is a justice taking away in who it is or says who are taking their inhuman t. action anti are the irish n

arab social movement in london you'll see michael berg associate fellow of middle east and north africa program at chatham house and in dublin yes a lot of assistant professor at trinity college dublin and academic member of the center for palestine studies at university of london so us a warm welcome to you all sally let me start with you today from your perspective is what we're seeing here the beginnings of a 3rd intifada. i don't think you're going to get an answer from me a yes or no answer i'm going to tell you what feels different this time. but feel different this time. this time i think we have accumulation many many things that are happening. in the past few years we are seeing a tremendous development in the settler movement and you know they are settling in mixed cities such as. such as. a eastern jerusalem. exchanges and it is really a very very special case but really you know. they are going into israel. not occupied territories. according to international law and they are actually settling there and. creating many provocations these things are happening and they are you know esc

. >>> for more i'm joined by a senior consulting research fellow at the middle east in north africa programhouse. thank you so much for joining us. things as we just saw vividly there in that report seem to be getting worse. you've written that this risks blowing up into a full scale uprising, that the violence could spiral into something that could go on for months, or even years. that's the worst case scenario. but is that likely? don't both sides have too much to lose here? >> i think we -- good morning. it is only a week ago we spoke about jerusalem and you see how it moved to gaza and what is happening in israel. it shows the fragility of the situation, how quickly it can escalate and deteriorate from more limited conflict or clashes to something much bigger. but now between hamas and israel, the rising number of casualties, the conflict will go on, the question what happened the day after the resistance. >> that is exactly the question. i want to focus on that. where we go from here. you have written, quote, the lesson from the last few weeks is that the gridlock in resolving the isra

where you are see michael berg who's a senior consulting research fellow of the middle east north africa program at chatham house he joins us now live via skype from london you know where do you see this going from here. sadly i think this kind of level of violence is not going to proceed any i'm so. it's almost incomprehensible that the security council can't reach an agreement. when the this kind level of violence on on on both sides and we see in the speech or the fight civilians on the both sides and the fatalities and the destruction and the security council. resolution of all sides to immediately called for a ceasefire rich sends a message that the international community is not invested enough in the conflict at least to 2 cold focuses but i think what we saw i think we need to look at the bigger picture and all happened in the last few weeks serious of footage your response will decision on the israeli side when it comes to shift when it comes to not knowing is john was my stool in there in the palestinian an election every handed approach but it did police enjoy muslim doing the holy mo

. >>> now, i spoke earlier to a senior-consulting research fellow at the middle east and north africa programchatham house and we spoke about how badly the violence could escalate. listen to this. >> only -- only week ago, we spoke only about jerusalem. and you see how it moved to -- to gaza and what happening in israel. which shows the fragility of the situation. how quickly it can escalate and deteriorate, from more-limited conflict or clashes, to something much bigger. that's now between hamas and israel, the rockets, gaza. the conflict will go on even if there is a ceasefire taking place. the question is what happen the day after there is a ceasefire. >> yeah. that is exactly the question. i want to focus on -- on that. you know, where we go from here. you -- you've written, quote, the lesson from the last-few weeks is that the gridlock in resolving the israeli/palestinian conflict and the stalling on a two-state solution is creating the conditions for the most extreme elements in the conflict to thrive, and trigger more suffering and misery. so, as you say, i mean, even if egypt were to

palestinians have been wounded juliette touma chief of communications for the middle east and north africa spoke to the program earlier. violence should stop violence wherever it is should come to an end violence will not bring the violence will only bring more violence and with that it means that the children will suffer 1st and they will suffer more asked and so violent needs to come to an end only in the past 5 days we have reported to at least 4040 children have been carried in the gaza strip and it's a terrible situation 1000 people have been reported injured we are giving supplies to many can facilities that's what we are focusing on right now and we also were painting in the water area and we also documents we document what's happening we're not doing that unicef has been present on the ground for more than 50 years in and in the gaza strip and across the state of palestine and so it is important and we do have supplies so what we're doing is we're seeing where the needs are so that we are able to send to supplies to those who need the most and the needs right now are more in the medically areas so that

the tax also on the program morocco step, step security, disbursing people attempting to enter spain, north africa unclaimed from some of the thousands trying to swim to a new life. opposition to the tokyo have been fixed as japan visa spiking cove in 1900 inspections. but the head of the international olympic committee in the summer games will go ahead the me i'm still going to welcome to the program german foreign minister, high co masses in israel today and is due to visit the palestinian territories later in the hope of brokering a seas 5 between the 2 sides were rockets were fired from gothic overnights, injured several people. israel responded to the series of air strikes. so this morning with at least one death report. just by this a cd. how much the official says he expects his group will reach c spot with israel within a day or 2 or 200 people have been killed since fighting began 10 days ago. many of them, a children o, a young girl, rescued from what was once her family's home, destroyed in an air strike. she was buried in the rebel for hours, as her siblings and mother died around her,

well i'm very happy to welcome on to the program now juliette touma juliette is unicef's chief of communications for the middle east and north africa thanks for taking the time today julie had more and more children as we're hearing in our news report they're being caught up in the escalation losing their lives what is unicef's work there at the moment tell us. it's a very fine situation only in the past 5 days now we have reports of at least 4040 children have been carried out in the gaza strip is a terrible situation 1000 people have been reported injured we are giving supplies to medical facilities that's what we are focusing on right now and we also were cleaning the water area and we also documents we document what's happening and we take advantage of this interview to call you on all those fighting to put an end to this violence it is killing many many children children are children and they need to be protected at all times is unicef have a particular position on the violence in gaza why it's happening on violence through and stop violence wherever it is should come to an end violence will not bring good sushi and violence w

the tax also on the program morocco step step security near to discussing people attempting to enter spain, north africa on play, on some of the thousands trying to swim to a new life. opposition to the.

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north africa. why are these people taking this risky route, and how does it affect migration across europe? this is open inside story." -- this is "inside story." hello and welcome to the programny migrants using dinghies have often made the dangerous journey from morocco into spain, but this week, an influx of at least eight thousand was unusually high, threatening the humanitarian crisis. many were young men, but there were also families and unaccompanied minors. at least one person died making the crossing. thousands have been expelled by authorities. campaigners worry migrants' rights have been violated in what they describe as a rapid expulsion. police scuffled with people as they tried to force their way into the spanish enclave of seo to. the event has caused a diplomatic route between the countries. we will get to that in a moment, but first, let's hear one boy's story. >> you watch your parents unable to work. the education system is very weak. what can i say? people don't have much to eat. my parents thought that if i came here, i could have a future. i'm cold. all i want is some clothes. i don't have anything. >> why has this become a flashpoint? it is one of two sp

regional director of the c international middle east and north africa he joins says from ramallah by skype skits have you with us on the program. let's focus on the attack yesterday say with the attack there were there were several attacks several buildings were brought to him but the striking difference with the el gelateria that was brought down is that it had stu. international media organizations in there we heard from. the c.e.o. of a piece saying that this will make it harder to get the story in the testimony from gaza outs so the wider world what is your assessments of that particular attack. relationship i mean it is seems israel israel is trying to hide what it is doing in gaza and the people in gaza just want to remind the arms international has been prevented by the israeli authorities from entering the gaza strip since 2012 so it was a pattern of trying to. buy vision is going to happen but i just also want to remind we know of an international criminal court investigation into the situation in the occupied palestinian territories since 2014 this is crucial we are calling on the look into this incident because imme

much more still ahead for you on the program. cannot stay in a place that does not want me. thousands of migrants have been sent back from a spanish enclave in north africa, but i still hope opposed to atlanta. a plenty of sun can be found across australia, high pressure in charged, but there are still some clouds to be found. as we head toward sidney, we are getting pitcher as seen. so this is a bell moral beach and i think this type of cloud cover we can expect to see as we head towards sunday. the precipitation should stay off shore and we do have a front cutting across western australia, some instability for perth over the next few days. take you to the north island of new zealand. weather alerts already in play for heavy rain and winds is going to impact give been big time. so i show you a 3 day forecast. by monday we could see winds whip up to 70 kilometers per hour. things will improve as we head toward tuesday, temperatures a bit below average. ok, for se, china. the rain is falling in between the gang, see, and the pearl river, but really fragmented as it pushes out toward the pacific. we've got a dry day for japan and some heavy rain, something

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north africa into the usa. so why are these people taking this risk route and how does it affect migration across europe? this is inside the door. ah, hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim, jim. many migrants using ding ease have often made the dangerous journey from morocco into spain. but this week, an influx of at least 8000 people was unusually high, threatening a humanitarian crisis. many were young men, but there were also families and unaccompanied miners. at least one person died, making the crossing thousands have been expelled by the spanish authorities. campaigners worried the migrants rights have been violated during what they described as a rapid pace of expulsions. the number of arrivals has now dropped in what appears to be an attempt by moroccan authorities to tighten border controls. police scuffled with people as they tried to force their way into the spanish enclave of se utah. the event has caused a diplomatic route between the 2 countries. we'll get to that in a moment, but 1st, let's hear one voice story. what do you want to appearance on able to work? the education system is very weak. what can i say? people don't have much to 8.

africa vaccination program. as it enters its 2nd wave of cove it and joe biden will hold his 1st face to face me seeing with his south korean counterpart, can the us help the north and the south mend broken, thomas? ah, ah, it's time for the journey. the weather sponsored by kettle airways. hello, we got lots of lovely, warm sunshine across the mediterranean. that's the good news. elsewhere is lucky sherry and it's cool as well. well, it just down towards the balkans towards the black sea more. whether to just around the, the axis states just pushing a little further eastwards and we got this next area of low pressure, this dart board low rolling in from the atlantic. that's a sort of thing you expect to see in october. not may disappointedly, wet and windy then across much of the purchase off, over the next couple of days and times as winds creep, guston excess of 100 kilometers per hour, some very wet, very windy weather piling in across the british. charles, it will, we can steadily as we go on 3 friday into saturday, but still very windy and wet and windy weather will tumble down across the low countries through france, into germany, whether there which was

pace of south africa's vaccination program as it enters a 3rd way of coping and joe biden will hold his 1st face to face new thing with his as korean counter product can the us help the north and mend broken times? ah hello, nice to see. we have been dealing with our usual heavy rains across areas of indo china. let me show you what he did in bangkok, 80 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. it's not an extraordinary amount, but still quite soaking rain that you had now on saturday. the heaviest concentration of rain will be towards southern sections of cambodia and vietnam. i think we'll get into some breaks for bangkok actually on saturday. and the rain is easing across tomorrow. and borneo as well, that's not to say that there are still won't be heavy pockets, but we're getting a bit of relief here. k off to australia and high pressure is really the driver of the school bus here. we may just see shower toward the sunshine in the gold coast. nothing major. maybe just a bit of increasing cloud cover. but here's what we're watching toward western australia, a friends going to swoop in. it's going to bring some gusty winds and some rain as we head toward perth, over t