and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with who served as israel's deputy foreign minister of the united states and adviser to prime minister. netanyahu i'll challenge him on whether israel shooting of palestinian protesters is all legal and i'll ask him not only about iran's nuclear program but israel's own nuclear weapons tonight a loss will be joined by professor of the renowned israeli british historian paul charney chairman of the u.k. zionist federation and. the palestinian lawyer and former advisor to the p.l.o. . ladies and gentlemen please welcome danny on. currently who heads the truth about israel. because we're going to. thank you. on may fourteenth of this year the israeli government celebrated the seventieth anniversary of your country's independence at the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem i believe you were there as well at that event while over in gaza on that same day israeli army snipers killed sixty two palestinians in cold blood them down in full view of the world's television cameras how do you justify can you justify the killing of u

i'm in the house and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with j.d. gordon the trump campaign's director of national security i'll challenge him on the president's alleged collusion with russia and also whether donald trump is really fit to be the so-called leader of the free world. tonight i'll also be joined by mark porter president of republicans overseas in france another advisor to the trump peds twenty twenty reelection campaign. karen meyer senior policy fellow for the. at least and north africa program at the european council of foreign relations and david cay johnston a pulitzer prize winning journalist and the author of the trump biography the making of donald trump it's even worse than you think what the top administration is doing to a. very diligent please welcome j.d. gordon. davey gordon currently runs for two communications for based in washington d c and the service of national security and foreign policy advisor to three republican presidents. j.d. gordon do you believe donald trump is president of the united states today because of

i'm in the us and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with danny ayalon who served as israel's deputy foreign minister abbas of the united states and advisor to prime minister sharon and i'll challenge him on whether israel shooting of palestinian protesters is warrigal all legal and i'll ask him not only about iran's nuclear program but israel's own nuclear weapons tonight a loss to be joined by professor the renowned israeli british historian paul charney chairman of the u.k. zionist federation and deanna booth a palestinian lawyer and former advisor to the p.l.o. . ladies and gentlemen please welcome danny aiello. currently who heads the truth about israel zionist advocacy organization. thanks. dan we are along on may fourteenth of this year the israeli government celebrated the seventieth anniversary of your country's independence at the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem i believe you were there as well at that event while over in garza on that same day israeli army snipers killed sixty two palestinians in cold blood gunned him down in full view of the

dunning we're going to have to leave it there to show our thanks to our audience here in the oxford union thanks to our panel here and thanks to danny arlen for joining us head to head will be back next week. hello again we've had some severe weather over parts of north america recently and the system responsible is still with us is this one here and is still giving us some heavy downpours watch out for some very gusty winds or some very large hail as well so that system still swirling away as we head through the day on sunday towards the west is generally a fair amount drier here but it's pretty hot for some of us dallas up at forty two degrees a real hot day for us even seattle there will be thirty degrees here that should be a good deal of sunshine as well a bit further towards the south we've got some clouds just drifting its way through parts of cuba and the bahamas so a few showers have been spotted here and we more of them as we head through sunday but really spreading down through parts of jamaica and into his band as well there's more persistent rain through parts of panama and i

position on iran and nuclear weapons we'll be hearing from our very patient audience here in the oxford union to join us after the break. the world's primary cocaine producing nation. is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multibillion dollar industry growth in this business will go on forever change almost global policies do who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes on al-jazeera. piece of the top stories from al-jazeera funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday an israeli soldier also lost his life during fighting along the israel gaza fence a truce brokered by egypt and the u.n. appears to be holding for the moment but has more now from west jerusalem. israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned t

that's the oxford union. he was all sound and fury signifying nothing.more generally feel that, i feel he's been rumbled. i wouldn't write him off as a busted flush, politics is so unpredictable at the moment that i think that's going too far but his problem would be getting into the final two. but i also think there's a perception, certainly amongst the people i speak to, that he is cynical in the sta nces to, that he is cynical in the stances he takes. there's a story of him writing to articles the daily telegraph before he finally decided to go for leave, he wrote an eloquent one for remain before it was the sided. he was worried he would miss out on the anti—government vote that may be going towards a brexiteer. to some people he seems to calculating, he seems to two self absorbed and it seems to two self absorbed and it seems to two self absorbed and it seems to be all about him and that makes him unpopular in some aspects of the party —— too self absorbed. and also hard to elect. let's move on because we need a story for the —— from the telegraph a

dunning we're going to have to leave it there to show our thanks to our audience here in the oxford union thanks to our panel here and thanks to danny arlen for joining us head to head will be back next week. welcome back still looking quite chilly across southeastern parts of australia at the moment temperatures struggling somewhat as a series of weather fronts move through we more for western australia we've got more fronts moving through here so perth can be quite wet and windy at times as these systems push on by so as we get on through into sunday is a pretty cool day across western australia generally and further towards the southeast temperatures dropping just twelve in melbourne for the north fine much as you'd expect thirty one the high in darwin we're looking at some pretty stormy weather for parts of new seeing as well this is an active frontal system coming in the south island getting a bit of a pasting fearing subtly some really heavy rain here and some strong winds of that front will tend to weaken slightly isn't news through we can also expect to see some stormy weather pus

exit from the european union brecht's it trump is adding fuel to that fire by weighing in on the issue. is four day visit with a black tie gala and blend palace near the city of oxford tonight he and first lady . to resign may. visit the two leaders are expected to talk about a bilateral trade deal police expect more than one hundred projects across the country mr trump's visit here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world syrian state television says that government forces have raised the national flag over parts of darius city that had previously been in rebel hands since two thousand and eleven was the scene of the original anti assad protest that sparked the civil war seven years ago the move is a major victory for president bush also israel has released video of its forces attacking syrian military positions near the occupied golan heights the country said its forces hit three targets in retaliation after a syrian drone entered israeli air space syrian forces continue to push towards the goal area israel seized from syria in one thousand sixty seven the u.n. still regards it as syrian territory. the former separatist leader o

of this book as he headed off to the soviet union for the first time is alone, let me assure you, worth the price of the book. [laughter] mike went on to oxford after stanford to receive -- in international relations and wrote a liberation movement in southern africa and particularly the intervention of the soviet union south africa. but even as a dissertation to south africa led him to the soviet union, as a researcher, which is where i first met him at a discussion section at moscow state university. where we talked very debated, democracy with our host. eventually, mike became an activist, helping to support place like the national institute and opened up the moscow office supporting russia's early democratic stirrings. mike then came back to stanford as an assistant professor of political science in 1995. to the hoover institution where he is now the peter and helen senior fellow and to the institute where he has served as director of the center on democracy development in the rule of law and the deputy director of the institute. again, a position i now hold. i feel that my trajectory is quite good! [laughter] since 2015 has been director

oxford as a rhodes scholar. he was deeeply committed to bringing about democratic change in the soviet union as it crumbled in the 1990s. he worked with the u.s. national democratic institute and democratic parties and groups in russia on election strategy and political reform during the time when it seemed possible that russia would become a more that russia would become a more democratic society. he was