running high as israel marks jerusalem day which commemorates israel taking control of jerusalem's old city in the one nine hundred sixty seven war scuffles broke out after israeli police allowed jewish visitors to access the temple mount officers attempted to separate jewish and muslim men in jerusalem's old city temple mount. in arabic is one of the holiest sites in both judaism and islam. the scuffles come just a day before the united states prepares to move its embassy to jerusalem the controversial decision has drawn criticism from both palestinians and america's international partners. well our correspondent my schwager is in jerusalem and she joins us now for more so my and we do know that jerusalem day is usually a day of tension in the city and this year especially so as it's coming just a day before the opening of the u.s. embassy we understand you've seen number of protests today what more can you tell us you know as you said tensions are high in jerusalem and this is a city that's very used to high tensions we've seen at least one incident where police were scuffling on the temp

each religion has its own water and its own sacred sites in the old city it's a wonderful experience to wander around here especially in the colorful arab markets. i love this market the sights the smells the sounds. true adventure for all of your senses. this is my favorite spice that we did with olive oil the bread and i've been a cheese. we now continue on the via dolorosa way of thorough which traces the path of jesus as he carried the cross to respond of course the fiction. is the rule of the rules and me. it's always fascinating to see these groups of christian pilgrims walking in the footsteps of jesus with such an excitement bringing in scenes in religious songs. there are fourteen stations of the cross and it ends at the impressive church of the holy sepulcher. there are many hidden corners in the old city and this is definitely one of my favorites we are facing the holiest sites in judaism temple mount and the western wall the only surviving section of the jewish temple above it lies the dome of the rock and that at some was the third all the rest was in islam. look at this

the old city which is divided into muslim christian and jewish quarter. here on the temple mount the western wall and the mosque holy sites of judaism and islam are crowded side by side. my sis is in you're with them so it's usually pretty harmonious in jerusalem and that's how it should stay but of course there are tensions here the temple mount is a huge religious magnet charged with historical and archaeological meanings and then there's the political aspects and if things get a bit shaky it can lead to one rest now to this after all so i think. i. had a stimulus have staged numerous protests following the u.s. decision to recognize to resume them as the israeli capital. they see it as a move to cheat them out of their rightful heritage. anthropologist is from an old palestinian family with roots in jerusalem that he traces back to the fourteenth century. he would rather not talk about donald trump but about his beloved city which he considers to be the historical home of the palestinians. choose the life if the company were in their words it's the cen

jerusalem day the national holiday commemorates the day when israel took control of jerusalem's old city. discuss this further we're joined by duvalier correspondent who's in jerusalem covering the story for us while come jerusalem day is not without tension to begin with in the city but this year especially there is further strain with the u.s. set to move its embassy tomorrow you've witnessed several protests today what's been happening there. as you said yourself it's a day of high tension and this is a city that's used to high tensions but things are especially heightened right now as we saw there was some at least one scuffle at the temple mount earlier today where police unfortunately punched a man in the head during clashes between police israelis and palestinians up there i myself was following today a group of the left wing israeli peace activists who were marching through the old city handing out flowers and holding heart shaped signs that say we love you in various languages in the palestinian reaction that was fairly mixed some people were very accepting of the flowers very a

was following a group of actually left wing israeli peace activists who were walking through the old city handing out flowers and holding signs in the shape of hearts saying we love you in various languages and i got a very mixed reaction from the palestinians in the area who some of them very much accepted the flowers and were appreciative and many of them tore up the flowers and threw them on the ground and said that this is not at all helping their case now so jerusalem day is always been very much attends day but we've got the collision of the new embassy opening tomorrow the nakba day the catastrophe day for the palestinians the day after ramadan starting later in the week of the holy month for muslims and of course last night israel won the euro vision song contest there's a lot of high tensions and the city of has already used to very high tensions all right so let's talk now about the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem tomorrow it's a highly controversial move why is that. so it's hard to to understand exactly why it's so controversial without going through the entire histor

city they feel. as humiliated as the israelis feel vindicated on the. old adage she resists them as divided between israelis and the west and palestinians and the east. most of the international community views the predominantly arab east and pos as being under israeli occupation. it includes the old city which is divided into muslim christian and jewish courses. here on the temple mount the western wall and the mosque holy sites of judaism and islam are crowded side by side. my sis in your wisdom so it's usually pretty harmonious in jerusalem and that's how it should stay but of course there are tensions here the temple mount is a huge religious magnet charged with historical and archaeological meanings and then there's the political aspects and if things get a bit shaky it can lead to one rest now to this after all so i think. i. have a stimulus have staged numerous protests following the u.s. decision to recognize to resume them as the israeli capital. they see it as a move to cheat them out of their rightful heritage was. anthropologist is from an old p

the israeli police keeping a lot of the palestinians in the old city away and pushed them back. they weren't allowed to access some part of the city to make way for the jewish marchers and the jewish -- these rallies and the parades that were going to celebrate what is in israel's perspective jerusalem day. you know and i know that you couldn't get 30,000 palestinians to march through the old city streets in the same way. is that not a provocative measure for the palestinian residents of the city that you're talking about? >> i think if you look at the daily lives of arabs and jews and drus and christians in the city and this country, you'll find people are living together, working together, talking together and that's exactly the formula for peace. dialogue and discussion, but those same plo folks who you quoted are the same people that are saying there's no place in the middle east for israel. in fact, one day all of this will be ours, and we will conquer this land, and we will throw israel into the sea. that's -- that's exactly why there's a conflict, because there's not enoug

minutes later police decided to seal off damascus gate which is one of the biggest entrances to the old city and were really forcibly ejecting civilians there i saw them wrestling one palestinian woman out of the complex so that they could close it off and allow this march through the city of these mostly religious zionists who were starting to unload from buses as i was walking through there so it's a preview gather a lot of different threads happening this week you have to remember there's the embassy opening tomorrow there's roussillon day to day there's not a bad day the day after which is that what the palestinians mark is that catastrophe day not to mention ramadan the holy month for muslims starts later in the week and israel just won the euro vision song contest last night there's a lot going on here in a city that's already used to rather high tensions well let's focus then just on the opening of the u.s. embassy tomorrow in jerusalem now this decision by u.s. president donald trump has sparked a lot of anger can you give us a brief overview of why this move is so controversial. it'

to access the temple mound officers attempted to separate a jewish and muslim men in jerusalem's old city temple mount or shareef in arabic is one of the holiest sites in both judaism and islam. let's cross over now to jerusalem where our correspondent my is sweeter is standing by so my are quite a lot going on in jerusalem today let's start with jerusalem day it's usually a day of tension in the city can you explain to us what it is and why were there so many angry protests. so today is jerusalem day and it marks the day after the one nine hundred sixty seven war in this region when israel annexed east jerusalem what was supposed to be the capital of the future of palestine and has essentially held on to that area ever since then claiming that jerusalem is united and jerusalem belongs entirely to israel which is obviously a narrative the palestinian side very strongly disputes and has been one of the big sticking points in the ongoing peace negotiations that now today we as you said we saw scuffles on the temple mount at least once including just recently when police were caught punching

in the old city ofjerusalem, which houses the third most holy shrines in all of israel, the dome of israeli flag flying their? first of all, this is the first holiest place to the jewish world all, this is the first holiest place to thejewish world and you must remember that. as you just mentioned, mecca is the first one to the muslims and temple mount is the first one for the jews. that makes your position not inflammatory and makes it acceptable? i'm saying the government policy is very clear, we wa nt to government policy is very clear, we want to keep the status quo on temple mount. temple mount today under israeli sovereignty is the safest place for all religions to go and come up and worship and i think this is the way it should be. u nfortu nately, this is the way it should be. unfortunately, under other controls, jews couldn't go up to temple mount, which is the holiest place in the jewish world. i think it's very clear for us today that the fact the embassy is going to move to jerusalem, another very good decision of president trump, is part of understanding in the arab wor

the old city of mosul where the extremists made their last stand, defeated with the help of unrelenting coalition airstrikes. making the way through the shattered shell of the city, a team of iraqi volunteers is trying to clear the chaos. this was also home to tens of thousands of people trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered noth just wmbs but bodies, too. looks like children in there. there is a body here. they say they have pulled out 130. they could be i.s. fighters and their families. or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. next door, they just found more. in this one room they think they found the remnts of 30 bodies. there is unexploded bombs around here, so you have to be careful. there ise also ench of death. the remains of body of a girl. arone signthat there were i.s. fighters here. civilians. i.s. suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble. kibut many innocents wered alongside them. >> there are a lot of victims from the airstrikes, and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bar

but back in the old city, there is nubt that many were killed by coalition bombs. >> no one destroyed us except nee coalition. look, this was o of my daughters who got killed. this was one of my sons. >> where? where? where did they take care of civilians? there were just families in this house, and in that house over ere. why did they get hit? was isis there? jonathan: the mod says it took extreme care but cannot eliminate risk to civilians. but it has n er had anyone like this on the ground to vestigate.er thare just estimates of the number of civilians killed. what looks like a macabre photol is how these lare trying to keep track of the dead. the coalition did help rid this city of the scourge of i.s., but at what cost? jonathan beale, bbc news, mosul. laura: unanswered questions in iraq. in other news, a fire at a skcraper in brazil's biggest city, sÃo paulo, has left one person dead. the building collapsed after being engulfed in flames. the abandoned offices have been occupied b160 squatters. refighters fear more people may have been trapped inside and others may have been kill

border running through them, of gender, of caste, of religious conversion , sort of, begins in the old city of delhi, and spirals out into the new into -- into kashmir, as you said, but the nerve center of the book is this place that has been shut down, but it used to be the place where protesters from all over india would gather, and it is a place where i spent a lot of time. one night -- i would spend nights there. it was just a most interesting place, and one night when i was baby appeared on the pavement, abandoned, and all of these movements -- all the wisdom, all the politics, they did not know what to do with that baby. -- althoughhink that is not how the book begins, that is the nerve center, with the chapter called nativity, where the baby is the antithesis of christ born, a little black --l swallowed in garbage this story, to me that chapter is like the inversion of the beginning of "war and peace," wherere all ththe beautiful peoe gather. this is the gutter ball. the story takes you out from there. amy: the main other characters outside of the baby -- your main characters. arundh

the old city of mosul, where the extremists made their last stand. help of unrelenting coalition air strikes. making their way through the shattered shell of the city, a team of iraqi volunteers, trying to clear up the chaos. this was home to tens of thousands of people, trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered not just with bombs, but bodies, too. they could be is fighters and their families, or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. and next door, they have just found more. is suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble, but many innocents were killed alongside them. there are a lot of victims from the air strikes and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bare hands. the coalition dropped or fired nearly 30,000 munitions on this one city. mostly american bombs, but british ones, too. the ministry of defence insists it has seen no evidence it caused any civilian casualties. but a source inside the coalition has told us, that is simply not true. we have used

the old city of mosul, where the extremists made their last stand.ty, a team of iraqi volunteers, trying to clear up the chaos. this was home to tens of thousands of people, trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered notjust with bombs, but bodies, too. it looks like children in there. there is a body here. they say they put out 130 from here. they could be is fighters and their families, or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. and next door, they have just found more. in this one room they think they have found the remnants of 30 bodies. there are unexploded bombs around so we have to be careful but there is also the stench of death. the remains of one body is of a girl. the signs are that there were isis fighters here, but also civilians. is suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble, but many innocents were killed alongside them. translation:. there are a lot of victims from the air strikes and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bare hands. the coalit

injerusalem's old city in jerusalem's old city at the weekend, israelis distributed flowers to palestinians apologising for this. an annual march by nationalistic israelis through the overwhelmingly palestinian muslim quarter. the parade celebrates israel's capture of eastjerusalem from jordan in the 1967 war. 0n the streets, the leader to today's events has been tense and angry. —— the lead up to today's events. mostly it was noise and insults. sometimes it boiled over. nobody is saying that arabs can't live here, of course they can live here. sovereignty is a different story. you find it hard to say the word palestinians, don't you 7 there are arabs living in this area. why don't you call them palestinians? there is no reason to. why? there is no such thing as a palestinian people, there never has been. there is always tension and hatred injerusalem and on days like this it is very stark. that is becausejerusalem is right at the centre of the conflict between israelis and palestinians. the future of this city is probably the most politically radioactive issue in the entire middle east. mo

called situation that our entire jewish community in the old city where we have had a majority since the mid one nine hundred century it was ethnically cleansed so who's going to take care of jerusalem us or come us you have to make a decision and it's clear that we will protect the holy sites of all the great faiths christianity judaism and islam ok well ambassador i know that even before the the embassy a democrat embassy was moved to jerusalem you gave a number of public talks including one in front of the u.s. congress on the beach here laid out the the case for the historic connection of jews to the holy city and i don't think there are many people around the world who actually doubt that historic connection but the question is whether the jewish ties to jerusalem should. supersede or even deny the palestinian or muslim ties to that city what's your take on that because please do not talk about the protection of the of all of the holy sites we also need access to the holy sites and palestinians first and foremost also want access to their holy sites without intervention or you k

the old city of course home to the al aqsa mosque compound it is holy to muslims it is holy to jews many people will tell you the palestinians won't accept anything when it comes to the core of the issue i think it's all about concessions we have heard from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman in these radio media as well saturday night saying there is no such thing as a free lunch of course referring to the transfer of the american embassy here to druce and we expect that on the fourteenth of may concessions will have to be made by both sides the trumpet ministration of course donald trump will be incredibly keen to be seen as the man who's been able to resolve the impossible he's calling what we are expecting to hear a new plan that their administrations been working on the deal of the century i think however no one is holding their breath the palestinians increasingly skeptical of the americans as honest brokers following that move however other was will tell you that perhaps the trump administration will be using the move to twist israel to twist this administration in

a festive atmosphere, thousands celebrating thought the day, marching in and around the city and old citybut what we saw from the perspective of the palestinians a very different story. they see this as a very provocative set of protests and marches i should say because many of the protesters and marchers go right through the muslim corridor in the old city. many of them stop outside the compound or temple. they pray there and march there and chant there. in some ways a lot of palestinians who live there see that as very provocative and confrontational. we saw some of that spill over into violence earlier in the morning when in fact a group of those israeli jewish marchers entered the grounds. but they were then confronted by palestinians and that led to clashes where the police had to break them up and escort the jewish marchers back off the compound. so it gives a sense of how tense it is but this city has been shut down as a result of those jerusalem day celebrations lasting all into the night right now. >> ayman, using the word provocative, some people saying really divisive move, obv

worth it i think having talked about all those complexities laura the one main issue here is the old city you can offer the palestinians certain neighborhoods you can try and push may which is what the israeli government is trying to do to sort of get these neighborhoods outside of what they're trying to establish is the new jerusalem proper but without the old city which has the locks a mosque compound which of course is holy to muslims and to jews without the core of the issue where that goes i think all the other things are semantics and i think it still has to be said it isn't in credibly difficult conflict to resolve concessions yes need to be made and i think it's going to be interesting what the trump line is going to produce i think we are expecting to hear details of that all through the fourteenth of may when the embassy is due to move here to jerusalem dekker porting from leicester is from thanks jeff. thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes as mount kilauea on big island continues to erupt volcano began spewing lava and toxic gas through huge cracks in the

richard, you're there overlooking the old city.in the entire mideast? >> well the mood here in jerusalem is that they're taking a victory lap. they feel they won, that they have taken this city and now the united states has recognized it as theirs, or recognized it as theirs, as the homeland of the jewish people for the last 3,000 years as the capital of israel the state for the last 70 years. if you look on the old city wall behind me, and i know it might be hard to see on the monitor, this is the wall to the ancient part of jerusalem, the part that contains the most holy sites for muslims, christians and jews, the most disputed part of this entire disputed land. and on that wall tonight, there are projections of israeli and american flags, and it says thank you, president trump. so they are declaring that this city is theirs, is israel's, and they are thanking in part president trump for making that happen. >> what happens to the -- from the israeli point of view to the arabs that live in the old city? where do they go? do they j

area holds significance for christians jews and muslims alike all regard different parts of the old city to be their holy sites and since the formation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight israel considers jerusalem to be its capital the subsequent conflict with their arab neighbors so israel captured and annex the entire city of jerusalem the move has never been recognized by the united nations stands firm on the idea of establishing the two state solution where israel and palestine exist independently so by president trump announcing moving the embassy to jerusalem he's on the line that the u.s. recognizes the holy city to be the capital of israel for the international community that goes against the notion that any change in the city status should come through negotiations and not a unilateral action has made it very difficult for the palestinian leadership to go into any kind of negotiation. international consensus that was there for almost seventy years but clearly he has made decisions of progress consequences if he has already. including. those already.

was following today a group of the left wing israeli peace activists who were marching through the old city handing out flowers and holding heart shaped signs that say we love you in various languages in the palestinian reaction that was fairly mixed some people were very accepting of the flowers very appreciative and other people were tearing the flowers apart as soon as they were handed them and throwing them on the ground so a lot of mixed reactions around jerusalem day in general and we have to remember that it's not just jerusalem day tomorrow's the opening of this embassy the next day is the knockabout day of the palestinian catastrophe a day end of the week marks the beginning of ramadan the muslim holy month and of course remember last night israel won the euro vision song contest so there's a lot of competing narrative threads going on here that are contributing to as we've said these heightened tensions now with regard to the embassy we know president trumps the fish and to move american operations to jerusalem has triggered some controversy especially since the brakes decades of

it's an old city founded in the 5th century but also a very new city. 1.2 million people building their's a pretty incredible story, strong, rock-solid orthodox christian tradition -- a whole hell of a lot of years under the soviet boot, years of totally wild west gangster-ism, endemic corruption. now, it's a very different story. tbilisi is changing fast. so, i don't know what it says about a place that since i've arrived in this country, i've been in a literally a constant state of, i'm either drinking or hung-over. >> paul: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: or both. >> paul: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: is that normal? >> paul: that's normal, yeah, especially for visitors. >> anthony: they're friendly here. >> paul: but it's a friendly kidnapping, you know? >> anthony: well, i actually -- i've read accounts of people who've actually were kidnapped in this country, who -- >> paul: yeah, yeah. it happened once with, uh, u.n. monitors. they disappeared. >> anthony: they came back like ten pounds heavier and hung-over? >> paul: they -- they found them in a cabin up in the mountains partying. they had b

it is reported on the observer young and old city and country, ireland unite the end of abortion banned has gone through an absolute transformation in the last few years, hasn't it? it is staggering that two thirds backed the repeal of these restrictions. what you heard there was about was that it was, the historic thing was there were many worries that the liberal city dwellers were going to impose their views on the rural dwellers who can —— who are considered to be conservative, it was everyone, rural, city, conservative, left—wing, of right wing, it was across everybody. it was a staggering statistic. i was broadcasting this morning and i was shocked very quickly the no campaign said ok, we have lost. it was quick. and the opinion polls said it would go down to the wire and be too close to call. actually it is a landslide victory, 64%, it is a resounding yes from the people which is great. let's look at the statistics. the irish times on the online pages, i think should show what the turnout was, 64%, which is the highest if not the highest for a referendum and as you say two thirds

it is one of prague's biggest tourist attractions the astronomical clock has been located in the old city for about six hundred years now and now for the third time in six centuries the clock is being cleaned and restored. a hole in prague sold that's what clock master page a scholar thinks of this construction site usually home to the city's astronomical clock. that is it says that this is imagine that he would be told food steel machinery here the timing mechanism the huge key is and the axis and right now all of that is dismantled being repaired. in january the coggs turned one last time and then they are lloyd as the czechs call it was taken apart for repairs just the third time since it debuted in the fifteenth century. probably. hundreds of years of dirt must be removed stone mason remey to cow gets to work on it with a high pressure cleaner the clock master looks on call at the moment a photo rendering of the oil hangs here while such dirt and bird dog are removed from the oldest parts. this is like a crust which church the stone tools approach and precious details are lost like th

on top of the clashes from today, we are expecting on this the, we are looking over old city from theast jerusalem side. --are expecting on this side in the long-term, ththat is a question we wiwill be putting to our panel in a special edition of france 24. this recogognition of jerusalem might signal t the e end of theo state solutition prorocess for . we are going to be asking our panel whether this move by donald trump could stimulate some kind of new impmpetus likee the one a quarter century ago. it is going to be the 25th anniversary of the accords. that will be at 7:10 p.m. paris time. >> thank you very much for that update. with over half the votes counted, the powerful shiite cleric is leading iraq's parliamentary election. the shiite militia leaders block is in second place. it is a setback for the prime minister who despite entering the election as a front runner is trailing as third. >> no final results yet. the supporters are already celebrating in baghdad's career square. the national -- tell your square -- he has upset the parliamentary election and is now looking at fir

for jews muslims and christians here they all come into contact with one another especially in the old city who does jerusalem belong to can the city be divided it's still one of the un resolved issues in the middle east conflict every country in the world should follow the example of president trump and me move the embassy in israel to girls women but simultaneously there should be an embassy of all countries in. the world in east jerusalem as the capital of the state understood. three artists from three generations they all have their qualms about the state of israel yet all of them clearly love their country and they long for a future free of war and violence. we must continue to fight for our existing but in the same time we must. find a way of negotiation in the way of finding the solution in peace and in harmony i think the best option that we have is the two state solution step one to be a vital the house into a total independent apartments personal polling to even fantasizing that after one hundred years of bloodshed and and gary cole fake jews and arabs will jump into a honeymoon b

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