cannot be used for palestinians in 2018. now, if mr. bennett is saying there's no space between the river jordan and the mediterranean, it doesn't mean he wants two states, he wants me to live under his occupation, he wants me to live in his option of one state to a system that's upper side, up side, upper side and i'm telling you this no palestinian will accept and the other option -- many palestinians are saying they want equal rights, israelis will never accept this. so what does this mean? it means that mr. bennett's ideology is going to lead to deepening the cycle of violence and counterviolence between palestinians and israelis and when i say my only option is a two-state solution, in the state of palestine, to live with security and safety with israel, i'm here to save lives. when abu mazen said in his speech an arabic term that means come on, he said it means to diminish your home. literally yes but if he's a middle easterner he know this is term is about come on and also the lies that we pay to kill jews. that's not

live in and lebanese camps and palestinian camps in lebanon syrians palestinians in syria. we've all seen the images coming out of yarmouk camp caught between different fighting groups. forces nobody else is delivering services but on one we as a norwegian refugee council worked very closely with who are in schools where we do psychosocial support for example in gaza where our children have been living for. under a siege for for more than a decade now and multiple conflicts multiple wars traumatized completely from other eyes that's the kind of services we're offering because our offer is the space where we can work with them we work with and the west bank with biased indians whose houses are being demolished by the israeli occupation all the time and providing them basic services we provide legal services for those people these are all over so what we're really talking vast vast. spectrum of services and people across the board that are going to be affected here and the the earlier the shortfall discovered the more that the crisis can be averted one other thing if a crisis

would a palestinian state be viable? that's a question we should ask if our policy is going to be support to support palestinian statehood. think about this experiment. let's assume you create a palestinian state and counter factually there is no security problem. there is no security problem. no terrorism. it has been removed from the face of the earth. the palestinian state that you have thus created has no port. it has no productive economy. so i would think that the logic would be that that entity is going to be tied to, you might even say fall upon, one of its neighbors, israel or jordan for survival. and the logic of it, i think is the logic that existed decades ago, it makes more sense for it to be related to or in the form of a relationship with an arab-muslim-sunni state than a jewish state. the logic it seems to me is the major city you turn to is amman. to peoplet you turn say it's unrealistic, unrealistic today. i don't think it's so easy to say it is unrealistic 10 years from now. the jordanian population it

the americans to continue financing of palestinian economic development and certainly the palestinian security forces the israeli position on is one that onerous an agency which is staines the refugee issue rather than getting the refugees integrated into palestinian society or into the countries where when really works in lebanon and in syria and in jordan and therefore as an agency for seventy years to sustain the refugee problem rather than helping to resolve it it keeps this dream of going back home which is now the state of israel proper and where those palestinian homes no longer exist so politically israel has taken the position that needs to be closed down entirely so if israel is not going to encourage the american government to continue paying for the room ok well mr bush going to fortunately we have to leave it there but it's been there very interesting though a very troubling conversation i appreciate you being with us and tell our viewers please keep the conversation going on out twitter facebook and youtube pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on w

in volte it's been stated by the palestinians that they cannot deal with the u.s. as an honest broker is that something israel could get behind as a way to moving the so-called peace process forward. absolutely not. look the palestinians are committed in the oslo accords to negotiate with israel not to negotiate with the us not to negotiate with the french and the belgians or anybody else there goes your actions have to take place with israel it takes two to tango it takes two to determine borders it takes two to agree upon the status of jerusalem and the status of the thirty's and all these issues are on the negotiating table now we know i think a lot of talk of international law i don't know whether. the two other people who are being interviewed are international lawyers i am. they met him at the united states has got the sovereign prerogative to determine whatever they want to determine respect to the the capital of a country and where they want to place their embassy but alan is not going to leave it and let them leave it at such an honest broker when it's try

the ground strategy for the palestinians and one of your articles you suggested that if you were a palestinian you would to build on all the palestinian owned land in area c. you would deploy old bulldozers in the west bank to open every road that israel has closed and you recognize that this is going to perhaps bring things to a boiling point what makes you believe that anything good may come out of this i think the key is whether or not the palestinians could couldn't here to a nonviolent popular resistance struggle if they resort to violence and throwing stones in my view was violent as well but you could have a nonviolent struggle where i said if i were a palestinian i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level of the national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation any more we want our independence we want our statehood we want to live in peace. but we wil

with a new more dynamic palestinian leadership. it's obviously not for us to decide who the palestinian leadership is but i would make the point that there's no point in talking about mobilizing international community because to a certain extent this is the palestinian tragedy feeling that the un of the international community will negotiate for them they should look i think the example of the late president sadat and that king hussein who sat with us made difficult decisions recognized israel's right to exist as a jewish state but had hard demands which we said that's the only way there's no other way the international community is not going to war borders between us is not going make acquaintance the palestinians have to sit with us and i understand it's difficult for me to do it but to mystically will eventually do so gentlemen i'm afraid we're going to have to end the discussion many thanks indeed to all of you moral bonnie sable and jeffrey ronson as always thank you for watching don't forget you can see the program at any ti

the palestinian president has to suspend recognition of israel as a further expression of palestinian and a following donald trump's decision on jerusalem but one of the consequences of caution ties with israel and the palestinians have alternative options inside story . and welcome to the program on elizabeth peron i'm palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the century and promised a slap back now the palestinian liberation organization has outlined its strategy to face the u.s. presence recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the core demands are to suspend palestinian recognition of israel and to no longer regard the us as a partner for peace will discuss the implications with our guests and a moment but first the ports from the occupied west bank. late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconcil

and that's not even acceptable by the palestinians the palestinians went hoping that the. rope can lift its circulation. because this sort of mission has not proved and they think. that clinton i mean we have been suffering because of the negotiations processes and that because of the false. promises of the united states mr gray let me go to you and pick up on what mr costin the saying just how realistic is a complete withdrawal from the peace process that has that started with in one nine hundred ninety three with no longer recognizing israel given the reality on the ground the cooperation between israel and palestinian entities in running the palestinian territories i don't think that the p.l.o. was mentioning or even the president himself recognizing israel it's recognizing the leadership of bibi netanyahu as a as a viable partner for peace defacto the peace process is that had it's been dead for a while it's not to recognize the reality on the ground and formally a new paradigm this leadership the palestinian authority led by mahmoud abbas has failed spectacularly they

for us backing for israel and palestinian president mike pence says the u.s. embassy will be moved to jerusalem next year and washington will back a two state solution but only if both sides agree amid so much distrust and despair at u.s. policy is the so-called peace process still relevant this is inside story. hello there welcome to the program i'm laura kyle donald trump's recent recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel provoked protests and outrage among palestinians the allies and other critics worldwide that anger hasn't been placated with the visit of the u.s. vice president the divided city israeli palestinian members of parliament were forcibly removed was listening to his speech the applause in the class it was especially loud when pence promised the move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem will be complete by the end of next year and when he repeatedly referred to jerusalem as the capital of israel we'll get to our panel in just a moment but first harry forsett reports from west jerusalem. on the day he would become the first u.s

that decision astronomy angry reaction from the palestinian liberation organization says palestinian access to humanitarian services is not a bargaining chip but a u.s. and international obligation and twenty nations have agreed to push for tougher sanctions on north korea over its nuclear program after a summit in canada russia and china were not invited to the meeting which they say could jeopardize improving relations with pyongyang. and pakistan thousands of opposition supporters are expected to rally in the city of lahore demonstration it's being led by members of the pakistan of wanting to wreak already is still seeking justice for activists killed in clashes with police and two thousand and fourteen hyder is live for us in lahore so while the opposition is putting pressure on the parental government to step down what is it exactly that they want what is this all about. well as you may concern back in june brandi for dean the local police forwarded moved in wardour described as an n.b.a. and george when dr. ward where the goalposts roll god and the. edwards or whatever doesn't

so what do the palestinians do now?y guest today is mahmoud zahar, co—founder of the islamist movement hamas, which controls gaza and has been at loggerheads with the palestinian authority in the west bank for more than a decade. are the palestinians staring defeat in the face? mahmoud zahar, in gaza, welcome to hardtalk. most welcome. i have to begin by asking you about your frame of mind, your spirit at the beginning of this new year, 2018. i look at the diplomatic, the political and the economic situation in gaza and i can barely imagine anything more bleak. is that the way you feel too? first of all, i'd like to address that this is one of the most important points in our history. yes, our life is very miserable, not because of bad management from our side but because of the crime committed by the israeli occupation and by the cooperation of the palestinian authority with them, and lastly by the impact of the international community represented mainly by mr trump against our human rights in the most important shrine

not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe that rather than creating two separate states, one israeli and one palestinian, that we should have a one-state solution where everyone shares in the same land and has equal rights. i know i'm in the minority with this idea. still, the situation in the west bank and in israel is so complicated now that you have a scrambled situation, where the israelis are living amongst palestinians, and palestinians are living amongst israelis, and the question really is how to separate the two people. onone of the israeli intellectuals that dealt with this binational situation which we are in is the former deputy may

you what the palestinian cause. was and your if your for arab nations. just why is it not worth then to go all out to make their brothers in pakistan. ever very very. poor we have an occupying. force. kicking people out of their rightful home and instead of standing up with it then i'm saying we are. there to washington please please put me in a position of power ok. let's forget nicholai head do you believe with what sammy is saying that the palestinian issue amongst the arabs in the arab region has become a side issue well i agree with much of what was just said that right now i think we're seeing certain governments in the middle east courting trump and being courted by trump and it is about survival we should remember that the middle east today is not the same as the release of thirty forty years ago i think that many governments in the middle east are seizing more immediate challenges in their mind it's about staying in power so they care about for example what will happen with that on what will happen with the blockade what about the protests for e

would a palestinian state be viable? that's a question we should ask if our policy is going to be to support palestinian statehood. think of thought experiment. let's assume su create a palestinian state and counter factually, there's no security problem. there is no security problem. there is no terrorism. it has been removed from the face of the earth. the palestinian entity that you have just created has no port. it has no airport. it has no currency. it has no natural resources. it has no productive economy. so i would think that the logic would be that that entity is going to be tied to, you might even say fall upon, one of its neighbors either israel or jordan. for survival. and the logic of it, i think, is the logic that existed decades ago which is makes a lot more sense for it to be related somehow to or in a form of con federal relationship with an arab muslim, suny state rather than the jewish state. the logic it seems to me is that the major city you turn to is amman, not tel aviv. the airport you turn to is

to the international community there's really nowhere for the palestinians palestinians to go other than to walk away at this time it's just it's hard to imagine how they face their own public and survive in this context you know and presidents president trumps threat to suspend aid to the palestinians. i mean u.s. aid to the palestinians is two percent of their budget no country no person would would give up a core principle core belief over a two percent loss of finances it just doesn't make sense president from said nobody understands the numbers i think the first person who doesn't understand the numbers is president trump because two percent of it is just not enough to transform a foreign policy of. a movement or people or a foreign government but the problem is that doesn't seem to be anyone stepping into the vacuum you have the israelis playing along with trump right now you have a palestinian leadership which is cornered you quite rightly point out that the u.s. is isolated on an international level but the policy is getting very little support from the arab world there isn'

as palestinian yours. but as seen from the. from the israeli point of view and no less than pure evil people who took a firm stand in the palestinian struggle people who killed many israelis and the efforts that israel was ready to devote in order to stop these people in some cases like in the case of phantoms happy to kill them there's also the question. was that effective meaning the killing of fatah scrappy did it change anything. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. however we've got more fun to storms rumbling away across northern parts of argentina without some very lively showers here and some thundering down poles and you say just to the west of us fifty two millimeters of rain in twenty four hours then we can expect a few more showers here she go on through the remainder of wednesday some lobby shows that to just around the eastern side all power while pushing into the southeast of brazil i think that will be the main focus for the heavy rain as we go on through thursday it

interests as well as the palestinian authority interests. i do not think it will lead to the collapse of the policy or thirty but i think it will lead to more violence perhaps not only in palestine but also in the region the u.s. as the previous reports have mentioned that the u.s. is the biggest contributor to the palestinian refugee agency the law it is out of the core budget the u.s. contributor on twenty six percent which is around one hundred fifty two million dollars a year and if you add to that also the u.s. support to the humanitarian projects that they also are implemented through the this number could could go up to three hundred sixty eight million dollars a year so this is basically a huge number and it will definitely affect the situation of the political refugees as they said not only in palestine but also you know in the arab region and the refugees will not remain silent i'm sure this will also lead to a protest would also lead to perhaps more violence will also affect the fragile security situation in also the arab countrie

agency for palestinian refugees slams america's decision to slash funding for the organization dubbing it the worst crisis in its history. and also russia's investigative committee presents evidence that it says refutes a key claim about alleged systemic doping by russia during the sochi olympics. thanks so much for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. north and south korea have agreed to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics and this is according to a statement made by the representatives of pyongyang and seoul following today's talks between the two countries. the north and south will march together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag from a single north south female ice hockey team. south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile western allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure campaign will continue until north korea takes decides t

scott: nabil shaath, former palestinian foreign minister and senior advisor to the current palestiniander, says he, and all palestinians, were blindsided. nabil shaath: everything on their mind had to with mr. netanyahu. palestinians were not on their mind. i don't think they calculate did on the whole the world, actually, not only the palestinians. the thousands of people who took to the streets from jakarta to venezuela. i mean there were so many people who simply found it totally objectionable. scott: and, he says, when it comes to ending the violence in the middle east, this move radically alters the situation. here in the palestinian city of ramallah, many told us they had seen america as an honest broker in the peace process, now, they see betrayal. nabil shaath: you cannot be a broker if you are the enemy of one of the two parties, or if you are only the friend of one the two parties, or if you side with the, with the other party all the time, particularly in important issues, and before you get started. scott: do you ever see yourself at a bargaining table with president trump

palestinian refugees known as that same year under paid for the education of health a million palestinian children in more than seven hundred schools it also funded more than nine million doctors visits and around one hundred fifty primary health clinics in total help to the estimated five million people living in camps in the occupied west bank gaza strip jordan lebanon and syria. well palestinian refugees living in jordan say they're disappointed by the decision. to cut the aid will destroy so many families like my family because we depend completely on the right to educate our children all our medicines and medical treatments also the financial support comes to us from. we are ready to stay hungry and thirsty and to be homeless but you will never give up jerusalem and iraq's a mosque. ok we should. say now who's with the truman national security project she was an advisor to the obama administration she joins us now from washington d.c. it seems that this is yet another ratcheting up of the pressure on the palestinians from the trumpet ministration yes and it is very unfortunate becaus

if i were a palestinian i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level to a national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation any more i plead with the public opinion to do internet nonviolent struggle because if you use violence you will never get the support of the israelis for the world. to one british man using a restoration but instead of a nuclear exchange so legislation there is still thinks it is a good day in this case since there's fear that. we've done just enough. welcome back russian opposition figure alexina valmy has been released without charge off to rallies took place in several russian cities on sunday the demonstrators had been protesting about the upcoming presidential election. reported from central moscow around a thousand people have been gathering here in moscow calling for the boycott of the upcoming this march presidential elect

ok more now on donald trump's announcement that palestinians won't get u.s. aid unless they work towards peace with israel palestinian ambassador to the u.n. in riyadh months or has told al-jazeera that palestinians have lost faith in the trumpet ministration. well the see when when the president and nikki haley say that jerusalem is of the table and there are tacking on a war and with holding money against this humanitarian organization which means that they are saying refugees are of the table then they left nothing on the table there is nothing left and if there is nothing left and they are totally in the camp of the israelis then they lost their capacity to be the mediator between us and there is the very least and to be the only one that is cast through the end of the process that is why we are saying we want a collective process from the international community to play a positive impartial role between us and the israelis that that can lead to the end of the israeli occupation that happen on the fourth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and t

body for palestinians. as head of the palestinian non-governmental organizations network he joins us on skype from gaza and we appreciate your time so. there is a clip that we showed earlier tara secretary-general of the un on camera being surprised. or not aware that the u.s. had followed through on this move were you surprised by it. thank you and just to show the real. situation all that goes do you know right now . with banking outside the post injuries mainly. due to the shortage of funds it is about one hundred million dollars which is a chronic shortage of funding on the only one organization's. now that is sixty five million dollars they didn't got out of the american commitment whereas the only one which means pushing your region is community to. warning them of. well it looks like the lives of hundreds of thousands of children women and has been affecting the from the only way this is from the health education and human services is this something that you think in some way might be. more or somewh