well i mean he remains the leader of the you know is this he's remains the leader of the palestinian authority that is the dominant or thought that runs affairs here in the west bank of course over in gaza the palestinian or fartsy fattah dominated block of the palestinian authority was trying to work out a reconciliation with hamas in gaza that began a few months ago that is not going very well it's all there's a lot of argument a lot of dispute between fatah and hamas over how the handover of power from hamas to fatah should continue its it's pretty much grinding to a hold to the immense detriment of the palestinians in gaza blockade that they already suffered under the israelis is being intensified by the palestinian authority refusing to hand over funds refusing to pay salaries of civil servants so there's pressure from gaza in immense pressure from gaza really things have never been so bad as they are today in gaza but in the west bank while they're still get to be elections is supposed to be elections later on this year the palestinian authority abbas remains the president and as i say u

in 2005, maw hood abbas was elected chair the palestinian authority. there world hope he would follow in the courageous footsteps of president -- and forge the best future for palestinians but he let his people down. since the day hi atm toast took office, peace plan after peace plan has been accepted by israel and reject bid mr. abbas. his leaders, three different israeli prime ministers, three different american presidents, at every time there's an inch toward progress, mr. abbas runs away. in 2007, by mr. up uhlmert -- directly link to the gaza victim and offeredder to played jerusalem, the gateway to our holiest site, under international control. mr. abbas' response was simple. an unequivocal no. two years later, prime minister netanyahu did something unprecedented in an attempt to restart negotiations. he initiated 10 month freeze on jewish construction. it was precondition that no israeli prime minister, not even perez or ranin, ever agreed, to but sure enough, the ten months passed and mahmoud abbas pass nowhere to at the found. he never came to

we need to -- should allow the palestinian authorities to fully exercise its authorities in the gaza strip. including in the area of security. this process has to translate itself into improvement for the people in gaza. it also has to be accompanied by the lifting of the blockade with credible security guarantees for israel. we stand ready to accompany these efforts. we also should not disassociate the situation in gaza from the general palestinian situation. gaza is an integral part of palestinian territories, it will not be possible to have palestinian state or a peace agreement with them without gaza. a palestinian unity is art and parcel to peace in middle east. my second point, the conflict as a whole. the conflict is the oldest in the middle east. but it is also the only conflict whose solution is shared. this solution is based on the principle of two states living with ae and security safe and recognized border. the border is along the lines of -- with a mutually agreed jerusalem is the future capital and agreed,tates realistic, and fair solution for the refugees. any negotia

with elected to chair the palestinian authority the world hoped it would follow in the courageous footsteps of president sadat and king hussein seek peace with israel and forge a better future for palestinians. but he let people down since the day it took office peace plan after the peace plan i've been accepted by israel and rejected by mr abbas is very leaders of fit with mr abbas time and again three different israeli prime ministers three different american presidents but every time there is an inch toward progress mr abbas runs away in two thousand and seven by means they would all milt or failed their most generous deal things through with pollution one hundred one in almost complete withdrawal from today in syria in a direct link to the gathered to be the awful even included a plan to place the old city of jerusalem the gateway to our holiest sites under international control mr ambassador response was simple in an equivocal no. to use later by mr netanyahu did something and president did in an attempt to restart negotiations initiated ten months freeze on jewish construction in jude

no and added to the palestinian authority would not mean an end to fat or the p.l.o. is an independent political party and the p.l.o. his an umbrella organization national amber logan is asian that that is that composed of many political organization the person of the four it is something else it came as a result of political agreements between the palestinian and israeli sides and as a result of direct election by the palestinian people and again in spite of all its shortcomings and there are shortcomings nevertheless i personally believe that we should keep the authority and we should push hard in a very serious way to move forward specially with regard to the achievement of our national independence and our state so how is strong's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital going to change state israeli palestinian dispute. well first of all let me let me reiterate once more that that that. a violation. of international law of the relation of security council resolutions two to which the united states itself was a party it was a departure from and established to

no and added to the palestinian authority would not mean an end to for the whole of the p.l.o. fatah is an independent political party and the p.l.o. his an umbrella organization national amber logan is asian that that is that composes of many political organization the person of the four it is something else that came as a result of political agreements between the palestinian and israeli sides and as a result of direct election by the palestinian people and again in spite of all its shortcomings and there are shortcomings nevertheless i personally believe that we should keep the authority and we should push hard in a very serious way to move forward specially with regard to the achievement of our national independence and our state so how is strong's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital going to change state israeli palestinian dispute. well first of all let me let me reiterate once more that that that. a violation. of international law of a relation of security council resolutions two to which the united states itself was a party it was a departure from and establish

have some disagreements here on among ourselves as palestinians but again i think that the palestinian authority should continue should not give up our responsibilities the wars our people but what this is being discussed what the current officials will any does aleutian of the p.a. mean the end of fatah and the p.l.o. as well because i mean how can there be a government representing the palestinians which doesn't actually govern anybody know an end to the palestinian authority would not mean an end to fat or the p.l.o. is an independent political party and the p.l.o. his an umbrella organization national amber logan has ation that the that is that composed of many political organization the president of the four it is something else that came as a result of political agreements between the palestinian and israeli sides and as a result of direct election by the palestinian people and again in spite of all its shortcomings and there are shortcomings nevertheless i personally believe that we should keep the authority and we should push hawgs in a very serious way to move forward specially with reg

has never been a party to the negotiating talks with the israelis it's always been with the palestinian authority we don't recognize hamas as a legitimate government and city and so it doesn't quite accomplish any political and national security space again it's just more a talking point added to the trump administration's rhetoric that he's supposedly fighting back at terrorism and today the state department officials remarks specifically quoted mr hani is comments on a nother intifada but i think it's important for english speakers to understand that the word intifada translates to uprising in anguish and that was a direct response to president donald trump's decision to unilaterally recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel which is exactly why u.s. national security experts for many years have warned against the united states unilaterally making this decision because it would precisely do that foment tensions and increase risk for american citizens and the european union has pledged an extra fifty three million dollars in aid full the palestinians following the u.s. decision to withhold fu

hell to all that. >> why continue -- why then does the palestinian authority continue to cooperate on security in helping to police and silence the will of the palestinian people? >> you have to distinguish between our ability to maintain an unviolent confrontation and what you just described as preventing people from the demonstrating. they have been demonstrating with full support of the leadership as happened in july with jerusalem and so many other areas from all of these wonderful examples. and the latest war i can't remembers of popular resistance are members of the pa itself by the way and they have been rounded and present only in the past few weeks. no, but we don't the case of blood. we don't want it. we're not bluffing when we say our commitment to an unviolent way of enkbajing the occupation. we mean it. sir, we mean it. some would say that you know, this is really being part of the status quo. no this is challenging the st status quo. violence does not work. it doesn't help us. we are a nation with a calling and rights and international support. for too long, this has bee

has never been a party to the negotiating talks with the israelis it's always been with the palestinian authority we don't recognize hamas osa legitimate government and city and so it doesn't quite accomplish any political and national security space again it's just more a talking point added to the trump administration's rhetoric that he's supposedly fighting back on terrorism and today the state department officials remarks specifically quoted mr henry is comments on a nother intifada but i think it's important for english speakers to understand that the word intifada translates to uprising in english and that was a direct response to president donald trump's decision to unilaterally recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel which is exactly why u.s. national security experts for many years have warned against the united states unilaterally making this decision because it would precisely do that foment tensions and increase risk for american citizens the european union has pledged an extra fifty three million dollars for the palestinians after the u.s. decision to withhold funding these fore

foreign aidholds that americans generously give to the palestinian authority until it can be certified to the secretary of state that the money, $350 million in 2017, is debt tog used to fund a fund such a program. thatso funds -- palestinian law stop encouraging these acts of terror. palestinian authority and leadership tells the world these payments are simply social welfare payments. suckers.e not we know these are u.s. taxpayer dollars being used to incentivize and fund terror. been an emotional and distressing to relive the loss of our son over the past two years. we have come to realize there are so many more good people in the world then there are evil ones. evil ones seem to get all the attention online and in the media. the good people of the world deserve better. passing the taylor force act and passing the terror funding is a great place to start the process. the house has passed its version isthe act, and the next step -- for the senate to pass its version, reconcile them, and send them to president trump for his signature. with believeseak this is not a partisan issue, it

palestinian people. david: here now is brent gleason, former navy seal, author of, talking point, a navy seal's 10 fail-safe it appears we're on the cusp change here. we've been taking crap from the palestinian leadership, not the people, palestinian leadership has been taking all the money for decades, not distributing it out to the people, living in huge houses up on the hill, i have seen where they live, it is extraordinary, doing nothing to help u.s. interests in the region. looks like we'll not take it anymore. >> based on comments made today, which is fueled further fire both between palestine, israel and international community, saying yes, we want to come sit down at mid-year conference having actual peace talk, at same time they no longer want the united states as lead negotiator. want to lean more on the u.n. to come step in which of course israel is not happy about. they feel that there is non-biased feelings, u.n., just as long as palestinian authority has been around, u.n. has been essentially their mouthpiece, their pr machine for the palestinian authority. they accompany them in their lies ab

. >>> tempers flared as the president of the palestinian authority accused the trump administration ofommitment to a peace settlement. during a meeting of the u.n. security council, abbas called for an international conference to restart peace negotiations, but in a clear jab at washington which has historically has been at the center of those talks, abbas asked that the conference be under the u.n. sponsorship rather than the u.s. the moved by abbas came in the wake of president trump's decision in december to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to move the u.s. embassy to that is it i from tel aviv. following his remarks, you can see there that the palestinian leader immediately walked out of the securities council meeting. u.s. ambassador nikki haley criticized that move you and stressed that it is up to palestinian leaders to make the first move in the talks. >> we are joined here today by palestinian authority president abbas. i'm sorry he declined to stay in the chamber to hear the remarks of others. even though he has left the room, i will address the balance of my

in the area palestinian authority is calling his rail's actions a serious escalation that israel is blaming the armed groups hamas and israel's prime minister says that iran is the greatest threat to the world at the munich security summit edge of netanyahu has warned that iran one iran other than israel is prepared to act if it continues with its nuclear ambitions. kosovo is confronting increasing lawlessness in a serb dominated regions ten years after independence a political leader was killed last month in the town of attributes of al-jazeera is andrew symonds a spoken to journalists and politicians who say they now face constant intimidation it's a daily ritual lighting candles and paying respect to a politician murdered a month ago in this lawless city all over event of a leader of a minority cause of all serb party spoke albanian and have been trying to foster better relations with the government in pristina he was shot dead and no one seems to know who did it. organized crime is rampant here and there are suspicions there could have been a political motivation the darkness people get

the process here in gaza because he's been involved in hamas hearing guards and dominated palestinian authority in the west bank handing over power to them it's not going very well hearing garza there been lots of sticking points but hamas is political leader has that at the same time is tell us in his egypt in egypt has been in egypt discussing the problems of handing over power here in the palestinian territories so the israelis or the egyptians and the americans it seems still want the americans to be involved in any future final settles settlement negotiations here and the right interrogator bernard many thanks to brenda smith lived in gaza let's bring in sunny handy who's editor in chief of international interest which is a current affairs magazine he's live for us in london good to have you with us sunny what do you make of what you heard. i think it's very interesting i think to distance trip in general like you said he's dealing with very difficult issues but there are a lot of goals that he has to achieve during this visit and i think with regards to egypt i know we mentioned a lot abo

there were representatives of the palestinian authority, and all of this has culminated into a protest movement. now, they are seeing as a victory the fact that the prime minister has announced he would shelve all the plans for taxing properties. we are talking about properties that belong to the church. but these will not be taxed for now. another lelegislation anand parliament that was supposed to go touough and t tt would gigive the israeleli governmentnt possibilitity to confiscate chuh land -- that would also be frozen. anchor: to venezuela now. the countries president, nicolas maduro, has been jubilant. he was seen dancing on stage in caracas in front of crowds of supporters after he presented his candidacy for reelection this april. his opponents have already said they will be boycotting those elections, describing them as being a farce aimed at fostering maduro's leadership. one opposition politician has gone against the views of maduro rivals by announcing h he will e standing against the president. let's listen to what they have been saying. we have, in the name of millions o

we just saw today prime minister abbas of the palestinian authority came out and said that vladimir putin -- told him that donald trump gave him authority to negotiate on the united states part. that was not released by the state department. the russians are playing this game well. they know how to play it. and the united states, they're amateurs at this game. and we're going to get taken. we're going have our lunch eaten. >> that would be a revolting development if i were trump and i find out that vladimir gives away my big game which is to somehow bring a big peace to the middle east thanks to the palestinian authority, and then to have the russians give that away. i don't think the russians are good players. anyway, is that all right to say? is they're not your best friends. thank you, julia ainsley. great reporting. and malcolm nance for your analysis. and prognosis too. >>> up next, as president trump wrestles away control of the republican party, where are the moderates and the regular conservatives? how long can they stay in hibernation? we're going to ask the former governor of ne

and the palestinian authority it's fairly well it is still on a trip to the middle east aimed at shoring up alliances the u.s. secretary of state claimed the u.s. peace plan being worked out by trump's son in law george cushion or and mideast envoy jason green is progressing. the plan the elements of the plan has been under development for a number of months but it appears the white house is distracted by ongoing questions. about inappropriate security clearances among top aides and the ongoing russia investigation the disparity really drawn from syrian territory into israel and as tensions flared last weekend on the israeli syrian border with israel losing and steen while shooting down an iranian drone the white house appeared equally unfocused its press office not commenting on the escalation and till a day later you know the trumpet ministration which seems to have not just no vision but no sense of responsibility and really no understanding of what the stakes are they are dodging distractions that appear to be hurting president trump's ability to manage the mideast peace crisis the w

it's not inevitable because they are also citizens so inhabitants of the palestinian authority and they have also voice and they should have a voice and they have also rights so they should have rights would he move them busy to jerusalem and in this same time the clear jews in east jerusalem as the future capital of the palestinian state then i see it would be quite reasonable step but when you do it so one side you declare a very clearly that you are always the occupier and the oak you played one doesn't interest you whatsoever getting you say the things won't change much by six o'clock or so down the road but we have seen before haven't we be so named days of rage by the palestinians so i mean by such a move know that this is going ahead. do you expect more violence to break out. unfortunately yes but not in a very big scale there were tens of palestinians who live in the life for this for the first decoration and unfortunately there will be more tense of palestinians who will pay in the live pay their lives but by the end of the day there will be another uprising another intifada in

we are joined here today by palestinian authority president of us -- president abbas. i'm sorry he declined to stay in the chamber to hear the remarks of others. even though he has left the room i willaddress the balance of my remarks to him. president of us -- president abbas, when a new american administration came into office last january, we did so against the fresh backdrop of the passage of security resolution 2334. in the waning days of the previous administration, the united stakes made a serious error in allowing that resolution to pass. resolution 2334 was wrong on many levels. i am not going to get into the thetance now, but beyond substance, perhaps its biggest flaw was that it encouraged the false notion that israel can be pushed into a deal that undermines its vital interests, damaging the prospect for peace by increasing mistrust between the israelis and the palestinians. in the last year, the united states has worked to repair that damage. i have opposed the bias against israel as any hour i should do, but that does not mean i or our administration is a

really has no option but to ask israel to come back as an occupying force and to dismantle the palestinian authority now. i'm sorry just germany described as an authority without authority now i mean i thought without authority it's an oppressive authority to some extent they get larger portions of the population it's an authority that has lost its legitimacy it has no stable revenue it relies on israel interest on the americans drugs and the europeans to keep it going so it's a very funny set up and under that sort of it's impossible to set up institutions that really are going to serve a sustainable peace of any form so the palestinians have given it a long time twenty five years is a long time in a fifty year occupation you know half of your of the time has been occupied and the other half has been engaging in talks and i think that to me is probably the most important aspect of it the rest of it he tried to assure the international community that the lines of the palaces us are committed to peace and offered kind of a road map to through our conference leading to a stablish mentor for multinatio

and the palestinian authority it's fairly well it's still on a trip to the middle east aimed at shoring up alliances the u.s. secretary of state claimed that the u.s. peace plan being worked out by trump's son in law's cushion or and mideast envoy jason green is progressing. the plan the elements of the plan has been under development for a number of months but it appears the white house is distracted by ongoing questions about inappropriate security clearances. among top aides and the ongoing russian best occasion the spirits of the renewed room from syrian territory into israel and as tensions flared last weekend on the israeli syrian border with israel losing and steen while shooting down an iranian drone the white house appeared equally unfocused its press office not commenting on the escalation and till a day later you have a trumpet ministration which seems to have not just no vision but no sense of responsibility and really no understanding of what the stakes are they are dodging distractions that appear to be hurting president trump's ability to manage the mideast peace crisis t

it's happening because the facts are dominated palestinian authority in the west bank is refusing to release money until hamas hands over the taxes it gathers inside gaza both sides agreed in october that the p.a. would take over governing here but deadlines keep being missed. this is the intensive care unit and twelve days ago the doctors here had to take really the incredibly difficult decision to close the unit to save electricity it's very energy and electricity intensive in here and that power can be diverted to keep the rest of the hospital open there are five beds in the three that were occupied or those patients have been transferred to another hospital. they get most six hours of electricity a day here the rest of the time generators keep people alive the hospital director who's worked through all garza's crises and wars over the last twenty five years tells us he's never seen it so bad. if someone comes up to midnight with something critical sometimes we can save his life in five minutes when we have electricity we needed to give electric shocks for resuscitation for x. ray

against them this is a this is an acceptable on the contrary i think the hesitation of the palestinian authority should be finished and i think what. should do now is to join the twenty two organizations of the united nations that mr trump does not want us to join including the organization of intellectual property including the world health organization we should challenge them and the starburst also to do his best to get clear palestinian unity as soon as possible because mr feels that we are weak because we are divided and we should immediately deal with this issue of division and create unity as soon as possible third that i think the palestinian liberation organization and the p.a. should immediately implement what it promised which out of that is allusions of the security council resolutions of the central council of the p.l.o. including eliminating and stopping all forms of security coordination with israel we should not we should not look passive we should not look weak we should respond to these aggressive and provocative acts by president and his team was about getting thank you very m

on the border and follows an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area the palestinian authority is calling israel's actions a serious escalation the israelis blaming the armed group hamas. israel's prime minister says iran is the greatest threat to the world at the munich security summit benjamin netanyahu has warned iran that israel is preparing to act if it continues with its nuclear ambitions mystify booty is sigrid general of the palestinian national initiative and a former palestinian information minister he says international pressure needs to be put on israel to end the violence in the palestinian territories. the only resolution is to end occupation on the resolution is to end the system of apartheid and allow palestinians to finally be free let me remind you that during the last three months since mr brown declared his her orderable position about jerusalem we had peaceful demonstrations taking place in the west bank and gaza but these peaceful demonstrations were met with severe israeli violence no less than twelve people have been killed in gaza by israeli soldiers wh

risk the shortage stems from a dispute between gaza's palestinian group hamas and the rival palestinian authority both signed a unity deal last year but have failed to finalize the details. italy's foreign minister says there's a real threat real risk of ice of fighters returning to europe on the boats used by migrants to cross the mediterranean and lino are found i was speaking at a conference he's been hosting in rome to discuss migration security representatives from several african countries with her as well as from the e.u. and the united nations. south africa's parliament has delayed president jacob zuma state of the nation address amid fears opposition m.p.'s would disrupt his speech zuma is under increasing pressure to resign because of corruption scandals that have caused widespread protests and calls to step down from members of his own party south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has called for a special meeting of his top committee to decide zimmerman's fate. three high profile student leaders in hong kong are free after the city's highest court unanimously quashed their jail sentences jo

. >> why continue -- why then does the palestinian authority continue to cooperate of security and helping to police the silence of the palestinian people? >> you have to distinguish between our ability to maintain a nonviolent confrontation and what you just described as preventing people from or not. people have been demonstrating with the full support of the leadership as happened in july and happened in so many other areas to all these wonderful examples. the latest warriors of popular resistance are all members and they have been imprisoned only in the last few weeks. no, we don't want it. we are not bluffing when we say our commitment to a nonviolent way of engaging the occupation . we mean it. sir, we mean it. some would say that you know this is being part of the status quo. but no, this is starting the district violence does not work. it doesn't help us. we are a nation with rights and international support. for too long this has been confused with us. >> why do it yourself and then not do it with the israelis? whoo and see all of those have been leading their efforts check the na

gaza many blame israel for gaza's current state but others also say that the rift between the palestinian authority and hamas the largest political group in gaza has meant that things have stagnated gaza remains under siege imran khan. in other news thousands of syrians who've claimed refuge in the united states will be allowed to stay for at least another year and a half the trumpet ministration has decided to extend temporary protected status to the seven thousand syrians it currently is. but it won't be accepting any new applications from the syrians for the program over twelve million syrians have been displaced since the conflict began back in two thousand and eleven. morse most of the fires the executive director of the syrian emergency task force an advocacy organization involved in this issue and he told us syrians in the u.s. will be pretty happy to hear this news well temporary protected status means that individuals that are in the united states under a student visa a work visa any other views are able to remain in the country and are not sent back to syria or any country where there is

[applause] why does the palestinian authority continue to cooperate on security to police the will ofsilence the will of the palestinian people? husam: you have to distinguish between our ability to maintain a nonviolent completion and what -- confrontation, what you per -- asas people preventing people from demonstrating. people have been demonstrating with the full support of the leadership as happened in july and happened in so many other areas to all these wonderful examples. the latest warriors of popular resistance are all members of the [inaudible] and they have been imprisoned only in the last few weeks. resistance are all members of want to cast not blood appeared we don't want it. we are not bluffing when we say our commitment to a nonviolent way of engaging the occupation, we mean it. sir, we mean it. some would say that you know this is really being part of the status quo, no. this is challenging the status quo. violence does not work. it doesn't help us. we are a nation with a calling, rights and international support. for too long this has been confused with us being sca

tension on the border it follows an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area the palestinian authority is calling israel's actions a serious escalation that israel is blaming the armed group hamas. iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty six people are feared dead a passenger aircraft was traveling from the capital to in the southwest. airlines plane went down in a mountainous area near the town of. emergency services have struggled to reach the crash site thirty five refugees are heading for the u.s. after leaving australian run prison camp on the pacific island nation of nauru it's part of a controversial resettlement deal that was reached between australia's government and the obama administration zimbabwe's president has paid his respects to opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who died on wednesday and. visited family home in the capital where a small service was held the sixty five year old died following a long battle with colon cancer. live in celebrations in kosovo's capital to mark ten years of independence from serbia sec

resistance the occupation is alive and well in the occupied west bank despite the fact that the palestinian authority have a security coordination agreement with the israelis this was an operation that last a few hours it was confirmed by the israeli army however the family having been given the body of ahmed to rob back also another man was killed on a genuine june seventeenth generally seventeenth rather that body hasn't been returned to his family as well it was a case of mistaken identity they thought they'd killed all major on the seventeenth of january so those bodies haven't been returned a number of palestinians were injured during the clashes that took place in. a judge has ordered the release of a kenyan politician charged over his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of main opposition leader. who is currently in police custody was arrested at his home during an early morning raid on friday the lawyers to decided last week's mock integration protesting last year's election results. let's get more now from catherine so he joins she joins us from nairobi sick after winter expected bec

. >> my continue -- why then does the palestinian authority continue to cooperate on security and helping the police to silence the will of the palestinian people? distinguishave to between our ability to maintain a nonviolent confrontation and what you just described as preventing people from administrating. no, people have been demonstrating. that happened in july in jerusalem. and it has happened so many othe r areas, t hrough all these wonderful examples. the latest worriers of popular resistance are all members of the pa. they have been imprisoned in the last few weeks. want thewe don't castle of blood. we don't want it. we are not bluffing when we say our commitment to a nonviolent way of engaging the occupation -- we mean it. yes, we mean it. someone say that you know, this is really being part of the status quo. no, this is challenging the status quo. violence does not work. it does not help us. we are a nation with a calling and rights and international support. for too long this has been confused with no resistance. peacefulll on mass presentations. [indiscernible]h husam: check

chief palestinian negotiator said palestinian authority president voiced concerns during a meeting withunion representatives. against -- the israeli government orders to apply property taxes on the charges and property of churches. that is absolutely unacceptable. benjamin netanyahu says a team is being set up to negotiate with church officials to reach a resolution. government has eased capital controls put in place turned the summer of 2015 at the height of the countries financial troubles. the finance ministry says it is raising the amount that account holders can withdraw each month and is allowing greeks to open new bank accounts without restrictions. bailout monitors are in advance for final review before the third bailout program and's in august -- ends in august. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david: dick's sporting goods is the latest company to weigh in on the question of goods and the company announced they will no longer sell ar-15 rifles that were used in the

narrative and this is not your identity, [inaudible] >> why continue -- why then does the palestinian authoritycontinue to cooperate of security is helping to police in silence the will of the palestinian people? >> you have to distinguish between our ability to maintain a nonviolent completion and what you just described as preventing people from or not. people have been demonstrating with the full support of the leadership as happened in july and happened in so many other areas to all these wonderful examples. the latest warriors of popular resistance are all members of the members of the [inaudible] and they have been imprisoned only in the last few weeks. but we don't want the [inaudible] and we don't want it. we are not bluffing when we say our commitments to a nonviolent way of engaging the occupation and we need it. sir, we mean it. some would say that you know this is really being part of the [inaudible] but no, this is starting the district violence does not work. it doesn't help us. we are a nation with rights and international support and for too long this has been confused with us a

at the united nations, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas has called for an international conference to restart the israeli-palestinian peace process. in his speech, abbas said the united states could no longer preside over the peace process, because it had "contradicted itself and its own commitments and has violated international law." last year, president trump sparked widespread international outrage after he announced the united states was recognizing the contested city of jerusalem as the capital of israel. the israeli government has begun indefinitely jailing african asylum seekers who refuse to leave israel amid israel's threats to jail or expel up to 40,000 africans fleeing war and persecution in eritrea and sudan. on tuesday, the israeli government indefinitely imprisoned seven eritreans after they refused to be deported to rwanda or eritrea. the move sparked protests, including at the ben gurion airport were five people were arrested and put into an israeli detention center, where hundreds of asylum-seekers launched a hunger strike. in bahrain, human rights activ

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the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas and hasn't called for an international peace conference to provide a long lasting solution to the mideast crisis and ensure a palestinian state appearing before the u.n. security council abbas also criticized america's decision to move its israeli embassy to jerusalem. iran says it has located the wreckage of a plane that crashed into a mountain two days ago with sixty five people on board rescue workers will have to recover bodies from the debris by foot due to the rough terrain records show the plane only recently resumed service after spending six years in storage. a new suspension bridge with a glass floor has brought the rails and delight to tourists in china. province the bridge some one hundred sixty meters above gorge was opened to the public just in time for the spring festival holiday. very brave souls here in germany the center left social democrats have started voting on whether to enter a second coalition with americans conservatives party members have a little over a week to cast their ballots and the results will be announce

there is a sort of special relationship if you like between the palestinians and the indians talking more about this now with akiva eldar author and israeli columnist for the monitor joining us from tel aviv akiva politically what i know is only a three hour trip but what does india get out of a trip to the palestinian territories given we know how strong the relationship between india and israel has been particularly recently. well modi is trying to dance in two wedding parties he was here just a few months ago and ateneo was as was mentioned before in delhi but in the meantime india has voted against the drums decision to a recognition of jerusalem is the capital of israel and from here he is going to visit other countries the trade of the indian trade with arab countries primarily with the gulf and the amount of oil energy they are buying from the gulf countries is tremendous is it was just mentioned that they buy arms from israel which is true but israel is amounting of no more than one percent of the total trade of india with middle east countries now i think that also modi. has a mission is when he realizes that the pale

it's happening because the fatter dominated palestinian authority in the west bank is refusing to release money until hamas hands over the taxes it gathers inside gaza both sides agreed in october that the p.a. would take over governing here but deadlines keep being missed. this is the intensive care unit and twelve days ago the doctors he had to take really the incredibly difficult decision to close the unit to save electricity it's very energy and electricity intensive in here and that power can be diverted to keep the rest of the hospital open there are five beds in the three that were occupied or those patients have been transferred to another hospital. they get most six hours of electricity a day here the rest of the time generators keep people alive the hospital director who's worked through all garza's crises and wars over the last twenty five years tells us he's never seen it so bad. if someone comes up to midnight with something critical sometimes we can save his life in five minutes when we have electricity we needed to give electric shocks for resuscitation for x. rays for ever

risk the shortage stems from a dispute between girls as palestinian group hamas and the rival palestinian authority both signed the unity deal last year but have failed to finalize the details. the supreme court of the moldings has an old it sound order for the government to release a number of imprisoned opposition leaders this after the president accuses of engineering a coup president yeah i mean abdullah guy you refuse to comply with the order instead him post a fifteen day state of emergency and arrested two senior judges and the former president and his half brother assad binge of a hassle. just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent opposition leader to the country's main jail on a remote island the. moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. his family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. in this police came to arrest me i'm going with them i don't even know why they are arresting me i've done nothing wrong or unlawful i