the closure of the p.l.o. office in some sort of punitive measure for that i think also really interesting in this speech was some of the language used on the israel palestine issue saying that the united states would stand with any of its allies especially including israel israel was the only nation that it has explicitly outlined in this speech in terms of fighting back against the i.c.c. if it was accused in the court and he said that's. what he was a loser dating some of the things that the palestinians wanted to prosecute the israelis over he talked about building housing projects on the west bank not even talking about settlement construction any more obviously under international law. it is viewed as illegal settlement construction if you go back to the early days of the trumpet ministration when there was still some optimism among the palestinians that this new president might shake things up and might be someone that they could deal with those that famous meeting in the oval office between benjamin netanyahu

in the occupied west bank john bolton and the state department confirming today harry that the p.l.o. office in washington d.c. will be shut down tell us about the palestinian reaction to this latest move against his leadership. well we've had the most recent reaction just in the last few minutes coming from the spokesman for mahmoud abbas the palestinian president saying that issues such as jerusalem such as the palestinian right of return they were worth a lot more than the relationship with the united states that ties very much with what we heard from eric can't the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization earlier we spoke to him saying that really this is the last thing in a series of moves that the united states could do already we've had the declaration of jerusalem as israel's capital as far as the u.s. is concerned the moving of the embassy there and then in recent weeks we've seen these huge slashes in u.s. aid money two hundred million dollars withdrawn from funding to the p.a. the entirety of the u.s. funding of an ra the u.n. agency that assists palestinian refu

white house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the u.n. refugee agency and to the palestinian authority stopping its donations to a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator on the camp david accords says in light of all this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate involved but this is also about national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now there is no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington australia is offering a reward to find those responsible for putting a sewing needles inside strawberries tens of thousands of kilograms of the fruit have been dumped mill

administration again taking more and more steps against the palestinians the latest being the p.l.o. office is going to be shot by i think the tenth of october is the deadline where to from hand. well i i don't i think we're going to see more of the same and probably even the eighty cuts and diplomatic sanctions imposed on the palestinians and humanitarian sanctions imposed on the palestinian people by this administration i think we're likely to see more instability a lot of frustration on the palestinian street will be channeled toward their own leadership for you know. the palestinian leadership has banked on a u.s. led peace process for all these many years for more than two or three decades and there will be a lot of pressure on this leadership to come up with an alternative what is the plan now. and frankly the p.l.o. leadership doesn't have a plan b. . except perhaps to go back to international forums like the i.c.c. . but whether these forms can be effective in actually securing the primary demand which is an end to the israeli occupation is very very uncertain what mr can the the th

p.l.o. mission office let's take a listen. criminal exposure to the israeli leadership occupation forces and officials who seek to betray it for their war crimes and crimes against humanity through the forcible transfer of the palestinian bid one community of. renewed palestinian. request to the office of the persecutor to move immediately to open an investigation. additional investigation actually. into this jewish and of palestine there is sufficient evidence to compel this needed action we consider israel expanding on your regime and its associated system of discrimination including its court systems the single most important threat against palestinian lives and national rights. is a grave. they have their nationality a racist law i think that's the beginning of them vision of that law by beginning their negligence in. this wider submission that we met today that if. we asked the prosecutor madam if you were to meet the village council and the head of the. minister would it was in charge of countering the image of settlemen

order to afford that amount of money the us had to cut aid to the palestinian people and close the p.l.o. office in washington that's what the plan the money and as scratching together but but but but be honest palestinians were flooded with a they were up to their nose in it so we joked about money and replaced it with israeli weapons money you've heard the expression when life gives you lemons make lemonade well life gave us medical supplies and we made a this. also let's keep in mind israel needs that weaponry because there are more terrorists in the middle east than ever before we should know we created them. in many cases. in many cases we even armed them a new report authored by members of a federal task force focused on extremism found nations around the world have suffered a five fold increase in terrorist attacks following the post nine eleven policies unleashed by the us and its allies that's right our government has admitted that the war on terror has created more terror and you might think that's ridiculous if terrorism increases under the war on terror then step one to stopping terr

israeli policy and this administration's policy on the contrary i think his action against the p.l.o. office looks like they are receiving instructions from mr netanyahu the prime minister of israel and his own side of selection of this alliance between the most extreme most reactionary neo conservatives in the united states and israel is honest movement which is of course going to reflect in a very dangerous manna considering these actions what the united states administration did an effort to exercise pressure on us as palestinians to give up our rights to give up our rights for freedom for independence for our national rights and that will never happen we will never accept to surrender we will never accept the so called the deal of the century which is nothing but about the dating the palestinian rights including our rights in jerusalem our rights for an independent state our rights for having of palestinian refugees and we will never surrender to this pressure ok. you're in washington i mean doesn't come as a surprise that this. was going to happen. not only to trump administration but s

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trumps closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. if european and eritrea say they'll withdraw soldiers deployed at their border to ease tensions earlier there were celebrations after the reopening of a joint border crossing for the first time since the two nations force a war twenty years ago the crossing is on the main road that links the capital's us and as ababa the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight over a dispute in the same border area tens of thousands of people were killed. at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a large crowd of protesters in afghanistan more than one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of the province the protesters had gathered to demand the resignation of a local police commander just hours after a series of bombings in schools across jalalabad monger has seen a spate of isolate tax in recent months the taliban has denied involvem

to close the p.l.o. office in washington d.c. he then announced his epic ignition of jerusalem as the capital of israel and thus transferred his country's embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. and he even boasts that he has removed the issues of jerusalem refugees settlements and security of the negotiation table probably not to form a dog. or to mature and want to move from all such decisions threaten the palestinian national cause and constitute an assault on international law and relevant. you and resume lucian's the us administration twenty even further in its assault by cutting assistance to the palestinian national authority the owner was and palestinian hospitals in occupied east jerusalem. then they are speaking now about humanitarian aid. even they military and aid have been cut off with all of these decisions this administration has reneged on all previous us commitments and even undermined the two state solution and revealed it's false claims and of concern about the humanitarian conditions of the palestinian people it's

forward to today mr bonny ends with the trumpet ministration in power with the closure of the p.l.o. office the moving of the u.s. embassy as you know from tel aviv to jerusalem where does this all leave any sort of hope for peace. well i think if one believes that recent u.s. administrations and particularly the current one have peace between israel and the palestinians as their overriding strategic objective i think it's a misreading of reality yes. this administration no less than a speed assessor the producers would like to see peace in the middle east but that desire for peace is ultimately subordinated to the strategic alliance with israel and the need to insure israeli impunity in its dealings with the palestinian people and the lack of any accountability for its actions and ultimately that's why we see the type of measures that we've seen the trumpet ministration undertaking which again i i think bears pointing out enjoys very widespread bipartisan support if you look at the criticism for example that the trumpet ministration has endured on many of its other not only domestic but al

washington with a little more of the most of thinking as well can be they were closing down the p.l.o. office in washington a series of events which will does this just reflect u.s. policy no put the squeeze on the palestinians. indeed that certainly appears to be the case cushion or in that new york times interview essentially defending the hard line tactics of the trumpet ministration a whole string of them not just the cutting back of aid as you mentioned the closing of the p.l.o. office here in washington just a couple of days ago three days ago i believe and of course the most symbolic of them all in many respects would be the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem despite the sort of string of what many palestinians see as punitive actions essentially side taking if you will on the part of the united states which insists it's still an honest broker. in this interview is essentially saying what we've done is not taking a side we're just stripping away what he called false realities but there is a former u.s. ambassador to israel who fact he was the u.s. ambassador to israe

of the twenty fifth anniversary of the oslo agreement in my opinion the american closure of the p.l.o. office is a declaration from israel and the united states that is that and that is the end of the road the end of the road of wrong good event where palestinians agreed on things they should not have agreed about at least they should have demanded a full and complete cessation of all settlement activities and recognition of the right of the palestinians to have a state of their own this did not happen now we are at the end of that road and we need to choose a different antenna. and we can do it nobody can blackmail us to surrender and give up our rights this is not going to happen and deny my opinion this american position deflects and isolation of american diplomacy look the united states is in trouble to deal with canada in trouble to deal with russia with china with the europeans with the united nations with international law and now they want even to have trouble with the international criminal court just because the international criminal court might criticize israel for the crimes it h

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trump's closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington muslim. leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have reopened crossing points on the border for the first time in twenty years if the o.p.'s prime minister ahmed in eritrea is off work he attended ceremonies at the eastern and western ends of the border to cement the reconciliation between the former enemies each nation's forces which a car is stationed along the border but also be moved back to camps to ease tensions. well chinese president xi jinping says russia and china should work together to oppose trade protectionism she made these comments following a meeting with the russian leader vladimir putin at the easton economic forum in vladivostok it comes as the two nations stage the biggest war game since the fall of the soviet union mobilizing some three hundred thousand troops or a challenge has more now from that of all stuck. with this large awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much

israeli policy and this administration's policy on the contrary i think his action against the p.l.o. office looks like they are receiving instructions from mr netanyahu the prime minister of israel and his own side of flexion of this alliance between the most extreme most reactionary neo conservatives in the united states and israel is honest movement which is of course going to reflect in a very dangerous manna considering these actions what the united states administration did an effort to exercise pressure on us as palestinians to give up our rights to give up our rights for freedom for independence for our national rights and that will never happen we will never accept to surrender we will never accept the so called the deal of the century which is nothing but about the could it in the palestinian rights including our rights in jerusalem our rights for an independent state our rights for having of palestinian refugees and we will never surrender to this pressure ok kelly you're in washington i mean doesn't come as a surprise that this. was going to happen. not only to trump administrati

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trump's closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. there's been thirteen years his evidence former prime minister rafik hariri was assassinated in a truck bombing in beirut a un backed special tribunal has been investigating the murder it's indicted members of the lebanese political movement has bala but isn't expected to issue a verdict until next year zena holder reports from the hague. the men indicted are members of hezbollah hezbollah does not shy away from the fact that they are in fact what what they call the men of the resistance and the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has repeatedly said that they will never give these men up and hand them over to the hague the court has reiterated a call on the lebanese authorities saying that you are obliged to arrest these men and hand them over for trial but levanon as we all know hezbollah is the main political power in lebanon the strongest if you like and it is its military power is stronger in

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trumps closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. ugandan opposition politician bobby wine is calling on the united states to stop its support for the ugandan military he says he was tortured by the army after being arrested last month has been talking to our correspondent hippa morgan. he left his country to receive treatment in the u.s. after being arrested by the ugandan army and charged with treason but once doctors tended to him the musician turned opposition m.p. robert. famously better known as the wind had a message for the u.s. government in exclusive interview with al-jazeera he urged congress to stop the eight hundred million dollars support for the ugandan military which he accuses of torturing him during his recent detention it's important. lack of say especially to the united states taxpayer to know that much of the military aid we get is actually used to oppress and brutalise the citizens of uganda not that the gun that killed my

palestinian participation in that has made it possible and given it more life so the shattering of the p.l.o. offices is a closure and you know obvious to the rest of the world that this fake process is now no longer you know nobody nobody is getting dressed to participate in this political theater anymore but the other part that we should be paying attention to is that what this represents of course is that the u.s. has never been an honest broker in the negotiations and that this is the u.s. is not just complicit but it's a third party in this conflict and the international community never never. never for them it's never as i'm never ever ever ever and i'm a lawyer and i'm a lawyer and i take my word seriously so why why how can i say that with so much confidence if you go back since the one nine hundred sixty seven war in the context of the cold war the us decided in that moment that israel would be its most unique and beneficial ally to achieve its objectives throughout the middle east and has since then provided it with qualitative military edge to be able to defeat singularly or collectively a

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trumps closure of a p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. if here and eritrea so they'll pull back their soldiers stationed at their disputed border to ease tensions well earlier there were celebrations after the reopening of a joint crossing for the first time since the two nations four to war twenty years ago the crossing is on the main route that links the capitals are spot on and at its ababa the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight over a dispute in the same border area tens of thousands of people were killed a medical emergency has been declared in zimbabwe's capital after twenty people died of cholera that's reignited fears of a repeat of the arc break that killed thousands in two thousand and eight how do we toss a has more from her already. patients who are suspected of having cholera have been quarantined in zimbabwe's capital harare health officials say this is an emergency but i realize that the numbers are growing by th

recent weeks the administration has taken a number of hard line positions including closing the p.l.o. office here in washington cutting aid to the palestinians and of course the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem so despite this string of punitive actions christian or says that and insists in fact that this will have no effect on efforts to achieve peace between the israelis and the palestinians in fact he says this will improve chances because what he believes has occurred is that the united states has stripped away what christian are calls quote false realities but a former u.s. ambassador to israel under president george w. bush insists that gerrard kirshner misunderstands the intricacies of the process think with comments reveal is a basic ignorance about how to negotiate a complex deal he thinks as he said in the article that this is another real estate venture and maybe this kind of activity works in real estate but it's not going to work here when you have a party that has independent decision making on the part of the palestinians just as the israelis do the party

white house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the u.n. refugee agency and to the palestinian authority stopping its donations to a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator in the camp david accords says in light of all this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate volved but this is also about national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now there is no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington what began last week as a couple of isolated cases off sewing needles hidden in australian strawberries is now turning into a crisis for the industry more and more contamina

p.l.o. diplomatic office in washington d.c. will be close now the palestinian leadership stopped talking to the chump administration back in may when it moved the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem that is the u.s. of course palestinian see all the bad east jerusalem as the capital of their future state and then washington cut funding to the u.n. agency supporting palestinian refugees on route provides health care education and food to more than five million people also in august u.s. x. two hundred million dollars in aid to gaza and the west bank and then on saturday the u.s. announced it would freeze twenty five million dollars in funding for hospitals that mainly care for palestinian patients who are very very pleased to welcome him to the newshour he's the head of the palestine liberation organization delegation to the us his live from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you so much for being with us. palestinian pressure in trying to bring israel to the international criminal court is also believed to be the reas

palestinian participation in that has made it possible and given it more life so the shattering of the p.l.o. offices is a closure and you know obvious to the rest of the world that this fake process is now no longer you know nobody nobody is getting dressed to participate in this political theater anymore but the other part that we should be paying attention to is that what this represents of course is that the u.s. has never been an honest broker in the negotiations and that this is the u.s. is not just complicit but it's a third party in this conflict and the international community never never. never for them it's never as i'm never ever ever ever and i'm a lawyer and i'm a lawyer and i take my word seriously so why why how can i say that with so much confidence if you go back since the one nine hundred sixty seven war in the context of the cold war the us decided in that moment that israel would be its most unique and beneficial ally to achieve its objectives throughout the middle east and has since then provided it with qualitative military edge to be able to defeat singularly or collectively a

recent weeks the administration has taken a number of hard line positions including closing the p.l.o. office here in washington cutting aid to the palestinians and of course the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem so despite this string of punitive actions christian or says that and insists in fact that this will have no effect on efforts to achieve peace between the israelis and the palestinians in fact he says this will improve chances because what he believes has occurred is that the united states has stripped away what christian are calls quote false realities but a former u.s. ambassador to israel under president george w. bush insists that gerrard kirshner misunderstands the intricacies of the process think with comments reveal is a basic ignorance about how to negotiate a complex deal he thinks as he said in the article that this is another real estate venture and maybe this kind of activity works in real estate but it's not going to work here when you have a party that has independent decision making on the part of the palestinians just as the israelis do the party

plight house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the un refugee agency and to the palestinian authority stopping its donations to a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator in the camp david accords says in light of all this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate volved but this is also about national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now well there's no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. and i get on as if the headlines on al-jazeera south korea's president may end as n.p.l. gang for his third summit with kim jong un as he tries to revive stoltz nuclear d

palestinian participation in that has made it possible and given it more life so the shattering of the p.l.o. offices is a closure and you know obvious to the rest of the world that this fake process is now no longer you know nobody nobody is getting dressed to participate in this political theater anymore but the other part that we should be paying attention to is that what this represents is that the u.s. has never been an honest broker in the negotiations and that this is the u.s. is not just complicit but it's a third party in this conflict and the international community never never. never for them it's never as a never ever ever ever and i'm a lawyer and i'm a lawyer and i take my word seriously so why why how can i say that with so much confidence if you go back since the one nine hundred sixty seven war in the context of the cold war the us decided in that moment that israel would be its most unique and beneficial ally to achieve its objectives through out the middle east and has since then provided it with qualitative military edge to be able to defeat singularly or collectively all of it's

white house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the u.n. refugee agency into the palestinian authority stopping its donations to a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator on the camp david accords says in light of old this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate involved but this is also about national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights. experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now there's no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. once again for the current facebook live canada's conservative party's voting to take away the right to citizenship at birth you can see what that means for state paypal's my

bank accounts and to vacate their offices the trumpet ministration announced the closure of the p.l.o. office that is the palestine liberation organization a week ago palestinian leaders called it a declare. of war all peace smaller on this with patty culhane in washington d.c. what more details if you go patty. over here in the new developments we knew that they were going to close down the office but according to a producer who reached out to the ambassador to washington one of his aides they are confirming that ambassador who saw his wife and two children have had their visas revoked their bank accounts frozen and told to get out of the united states now we've reached out to the u.s. state department to see if we can confirm it from this and it's unlikely that we'll hear back from them given this is a sunday in the government isn't open but this would be just another escalation in the trunk campaigns effort to try and find something that will actually be a pressure point enough to get the palestinians to sit down and negotiate let's not forget the palestinians said they were going to talk

palestinian participation in that has made it possible and given it more life so the shattering of the p.l.o. offices is a closure and you know obvious to the rest of the world that this fake process is now no longer you know nobody nobody is getting dressed to participate in this political theater anymore but the other part that we should be paying attention to is that what this represents is that the u.s. has never been an honest broker in the negotiations and that this is the u.s. is not just complicit but it's a third party in this conflict and the international community never never. never for that host it's never as i never ever ever ever and i'm a lawyer and i'm a lawyer and i take my word seriously so why why how can i say that with so much confidence if you go back since the one nine hundred sixty seven war in the context of the cold war the us decided in that moment that israel would be its most unique and beneficial ally to achieve its objectives through out the middle east and has since then provided it with qualitative military edge to be able to defeat singularly or collectively all of

east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trump's closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price if castro al-jazeera washington. papua new guinea has launched an emergency vaccination campaign to compare to contain an outbreak of polio ten people have been diagnosed since june the first case in the capital port moresby was confirmed last week most of the cases are in young children in remote areas it's been eighteen years since the disease was officially eradicated from papua new guinea a medical emergency has been declared it's embarked ways capital after twenty people died of cholera it's reignited fears of a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands in two thousand and eight ounces here is one of the toss up reports patients who are suspected of having cholera have been quarantined in the capital harare health officials say this is an emergency and i realize that the numbers are growing by the day the number of cases and to date. we have about two thousand over two thousand cases if you talk about are a very big p

closing the p.l.o.'s office in washington d.c. well the palestinian leadership says the u.s. has adopted a list of israeli demands a force that has more. well the polar state of relations between the palestinian leadership and the united states was already in evidence for many months one of those factors is the fact that the head of the p.l.o. mission which has just been closed down has been here in ramallah since he was withdrawn from the united states in may by palestinian president mahmoud abbas he was informed early on monday morning palestinian time by a u.s. official who told him that it was because of the palestinian pressure for israel to be brought before the international criminal court that this decision was being made with the palace in leadership sees this very much in the context of other u.s. measures against them in recent days in fact throughout the trump administration just recently though we have seen two hundred million dollars in aid slashed from u.s. funding to the palestinian authority we've seen the united states and entirely its funding of an rather t

but bolton also ta the palestine liberation thganization, and announce closure of the p.l.o.'s officewashington, d.c. our foign affairs correspondent nick schifrin was in the room d joins us now. nick, why are they closing its plo office? >> the main reason that ambassador bolton and the state department said today was palestinians use ofim international al clip, the icc. the icc is based in the hagueo and designedackle some of wamanitarianities toughes crimes, crimes against humanities. the palestinian said they would go to e icc over israeli settlements in the west bank,er eizure of israeli property, over what palestinian officials call israeli usef force nside of the west bank. that's number one. number two reason why the u.s. says that it is closing the plo office here is that the palestinians aren't going helpful when it comes to peace talks and peace efforts. jason greenblat and jared kushner, the two advisors to president trump who are creating a peace plan, the palestinians have refused to meet them nce the u.s. moved the embassy from tel aiv to swrers lem aw months ago. and t

to close staff bank accounts of vacate their offices within a month it's also revoked the visas of the family of the head of the p.l.o. delegation to the u.s. this comes a week after the trumpet ministration and i was the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office in washington d.c. palestinian leaders have called the move indictive and crew. the woman accusing donald trump's u.s. supreme court nominee of sexual assault has come forward christine ford has given an interview to the washington post she says that brett kavanaugh assaulted her in one thousand nine hundred two when they were teenagers ford says cavanagh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her calls whilst at a party cabin has denied any wrongdoing the white house says it's standing with judge cavernous denial south korea's president is preparing to play chief negotiator between washington and pyongyang at a summit with the north korean leader in will travels of pyongyang on tuesday to hold talks with kim jong un said to be the third meeting between the two leaders and the first since kim summit with u.s. president donald trump back in j

closing of the peerless office going to have on the palestinian leadership and its activities in the u.s. . well i think. in all likelihood this step was probably anticipated by the p.l.o. leadership in golmaal law and as the report just mentioned the palestinian representative here in washington was recalled in may i think you've been many steps that. the trumpet ministration has taken since recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and since then we've seen cuts and palestinian aid attempts to redefine under was mandate and qualifies as a palestinian refugee these are all very serious. decisions taken by the administration and i believe that he will be the ship was probably anticipating this what what it will likely do is is cement the decision of mahmoud abbas his leadership against. any inclination of going back to an american led peace process that decision was made shortly after the gruesome announcement in december and every step that has been taken by the trumpet ministration since then i think is only reinforced that it is unlikely i mean it's difficult to say just how all the actions the u.s. administration has taken will force the piano back to the negotiati

to close the bank accounts of vacate their offices within a month it has also revoked the visas of the family of the head of the p.l.o. delegation to the u.s. was comes a week after the trump administration and i was the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office in washington d.c. palestinian leaders have called the move indictive and cruel well for more on this that speak to mohammed away say he's a palestinian american political analyst and he joins me live from washington d.c. sort of a warm welcome to the program what do these latest moves tell us about the current u.s. strategy. you a strategy if you put your strategy after donald trump became president that means nothing because this president does have any strategy he became the mouthpiece for occupation so what he's doing he's just putting the last cough and it chance for peace in the middle east and by kicking out the two children of the p.l.o. representative to washington he added them to the hundreds of thousands of palestinian children who depend on the honor the united nations work and the relief agency that helps of palestinian children

of the palestinian liberation organization office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts. p.l.o. executive committee member hannan ashrawi has condemned the latest move saying the u.s. has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level the us administration has gone from cruel punishment to revenge against the palestinians and their leadership palaces have been furious with a series of trying to say sions which many say are clearly biased back in january a trump withheld one hundred twenty five million dollars in aid to an award the relief agency that supports palestinians in may the u.s. broke all international norms by moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and then in august the trumpet ministration announced it would end all funding to a new one only in roubini is a senior fellow at the institute for palestinian palestine studies he says the trumpet ministration has shown it can't bring about a peace deal i think the trumpet ministration is dealing with the past sitting as if their talents and one of their slogan all the do what we s

of the palestine liberation organization office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts for the p.l.o. executive committee member had a national army has condemned the latest move saying the us has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level the us administration has gone from cruel punishment to revenge against the palestinians and their leadership when rabbani is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies he says the trumpet ministration has shown that it cannot bring about a peace deal i think that rabbit ministration is dealing with the past sitting as if their talents and one of their slogan all they do what we say or or will look the rational well that and that seems to be what we're seeing here i mean these people genuinely seem to believe that by exercising sure of their treasure and undertaking more any measures against our citizens and american presentation family members and so on now one day they're going to wake up and the palestinians will have capitulated fully to the israelis on every item out of substance i think it just sh

bid to continue his time in office he morgan al-jazeera palestine's chief negotiator says the united states is not a reliable broken any future peace talks with israel p.l.o. secretary general side erekat also accuse the trump administration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cutting desperately needed aid his remarks come a day after the u.s. announced it's shutting down the p.l.o. his mission in washington d.c. . meanwhile in the united states officials are urging residents to flee the coast as a massive hurricane is moving in highways have been reversed in south carolina to make it easier for coastal residents to evacuate more than a million people have already been told to leave their homes ahead of the storm as patty calling reports. it is huge and it is powerful this is hurricane florence as seen from space now tracking toward a direct hit on the coast of the carolinas prompting all kinds of warnings she's a strong girl and is coming to see us and i don't care what you do you better get ready because she's coming to see us officials are more specific telling one point five million people along the atlantic coa

first they closed the office and know the administration seems to be going even farther what's behind it all. hey there julie exactly we've just received a statement from the p.l.o. of her organization here in washington and they say that the trump administration went last week to revoke the visas even though they had two more years on them of the ambassador has some soon lot his wife and his two children a seven year old son and a five year old daughter had to be pulled out of their school here in washington d.c. and they were forced to leave the country apparently their bank accounts of off also been frozen out the ambassador has not been in d.c. since he was recalled because of protests that the u.s. administration moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem but this is really an unprecedented move what we've seen over the past few weeks is the trump administration trying to find a pressure point that will make the palestinians basically give in we've seen them strip money from refugee programs cancer hospitals now programs that actually work to try and facilitate communication between jews and arabs they are systematically going through every friday it seems when ne

closure of the palestine liberation organization office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts p.l.o. executive committee member helen ashrawi has condemned the latest move saying the us has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level the us administration has gone from cruel punishment to revenge against the palestinians and their leadership. palestinians have been furious with a series of trump decisions which many say are clearly biased back in january this year trump withheld one hundred twenty five million dollars in aid to the relief agency that supports palestinians in may the u.s. broke all international norms by moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and then in august the trumpet ministration announced it would end all funding to honor more in rabbani is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies he joins us now via skype from washington thanks very much for being with us so first of all your reaction to this decision. you mean the latest decision to exclude danielle in offices and yes and then i revoke the visas of t

advisor ambassador john bolton made the courageous decision to close the palestinian liberation p.l.o. office in washington. the p.l.o. has taken no steps to advance the peace negotiations with israel. instead they focused their efforts on leveraging international criminal court, which directly disrupts the peace process. unfortunately, the p.l.o.'s efforts to subvert the international criminal court was advanced when former president barack obama refused to stand up for israel in the u.n. security council. while the p.l.o. condemns israel, it is making payments to families of suicide bombers and terrorists and rewards for mass murder. a man who murdered five members of an israeli family received $14,000 a year from the p.l.o. the family of the murderer received benefits as a reward for that murder. the administration has provided the p.l.o. the opportunity to remain when their waiver lapsed, but unfortunately they continue to sponsor innocent violence against american and israeli citizens. president trump made the right decision. our prayers are with the people threatened by hurricane floren