they are gathering now in ramallah. for them, they this will allow them to grieve. they regard their family members as heroes. some people fighting for freedom. but the view in israel is totally different. and these people, many of them were suicide bombers, and they killed scores of civilians inside of israel over the last three decades. so as is so often in the conflict, depending on where you're sitting, you get an entirely different point of view. >> all right. john. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. behnke moon said massacres of many in syria could plunge the country into a catastrophic civil war. more than 100 people, many of them children, were killed in the town of hula over the weekend. provoking international outrage. 13 people were discovered shot dead near the city and in neighboring turkey, behnke moon said syria may never recover from a civil war. >> kofi annan has expressed his concerns that we may have reached a tipping point in syria at the massacre of civilians seen last weekend. it will pl

jaochim gauck was a bit more outspoken in a ramallah meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbashim he called on israel to show restraint with his settlement, but that was not enough for abbas. >> i told the president that israel is violating international treaties. that concerns its settlement policy in the west bank and in jerusalem. >> jaochim gauck said all people in the region yearn for an end to the long-running conflict. >> well, some of the girls we saw in school at the start of the report may become police officers. >> the number of female police are growing. >> they are realizing how important it can be to have a woman with a badge at their site. >> until recently, this was no place for women. at this training groundrtrainingiot police -- at this training ground, riot police are being drilled. two female officers are training for raids in crowd control. >> sometimes people just stop and take photographs of us. they are glad to see as with the police. many people are proud. >> they tell us we're something new. we're the very first female officers to join a specialist uni

joining me from ramallah is the bbc's john done i son. the handover was done in a very ceremonial way. >> that's right, the transfer began soon after dawn this morning, the bodies brought in from israel. they soon arrived at the presidential compound in ramallah. that's the compound of president mahmoud abbas, fairly simple wooden coffins being draped with the palestinian flag. we're expecting a ceremony there in two or three hours' time. it's a very emotional issue for palestinians. i've just been listening to relatives. some of those bodies have been returned to them, they say it gives them a chance to grieve, a chance to visit a gravesite. of course, in israel, a very different view. israel regards these people as terrorists responsible for the deaths of scores of israelis. >> part of a deal to end the hunger strike of palestinian prisoners, john, but in what sense is this as it's described, a confidence-building measure? >> well, look, confidence from both sides is in pretty short supply. when you speak to israeli and palestinian offi

we have this report from ramallah on the west bank. >> for palestinians, a long overdue funeral. some of the dead were killed more than 30 years ago. they included suicide bombers. up to now buried in unmarked secret graves inside israel. for most palestinians these were martyrs finding to end israel's occupation. now finally allowed to come home. this woman's husband blew himself up in jerusalem in 2004, killing eight israelis. she says the transfer will change her life and give her a chance to visit his grave. palestinians do not have a state, but these events today certainly have some of the trappings of a state funeral, a real military feel to it for these men who died over the course of the last three, four decades so people here fighting for the palestinian cause. as you can imagine, that does not go down well in israel. for israelis, the bodies return today belong to terrorists, militants who murdered scores of civilians. some were not happy with the transfer. people -- >> people who were victimed by terrorists, somehow it became a political issue. we are against it. we se

rally just not far from the united nations building there and that is to commemorate the day in ramallah city itself protesters marched from the tomb of the format of the p.l.o. yasser arafat's to the palestinian authority government building but on the whole things are relatively quiet certainly compared to last year when twelve people were killed when they try to storm the israeli lebanese and syrian borders but the police remain on a state of high alert because certainly the day is young and there is a fear that these commemorations could descend into violence as the day progresses . so paula what efforts are approach more being made between these two sides. while this past weekend to be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent a letter to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and then that may take recon firmed israel's commitment to peace and restarting negotiations that was in response to a letter that a bus sent netanyahu last month and then again we heard the same words being expressed at the weekly cabinet meeting on sunday by netanyahu saying that he hopes that the adva

i went home through the checkpoints to ramallah, but of course i wanted to return to the hospital at once. at the checkpoint the next morning, the soldiers refused to let me through. so for the next three or four days i walked through the mountains to get to the hospital and see my baby. i carried with me milk that i had pumped during the night and brought it to give to my daughter. meeting the soldiers wasn't like meeting the kind doctor or the many other israelis i worked with for peace. still, i said to them, in spite of what you have done to me, i have hope that i can work with y you. this is the trust that the women in israel and palestine know. we don't need to destroy others. we need to live with them. we need to understand that they have a stake in the future. that we must speak to one another face to face and that ultimately we must trust one anoth another. with women, i know this can happen, it already has. we have been working together for peace since the first day i left college. today -- we both want borders that allow and give access for both of us to reach the school a

ramallah to further push mtc to work with the transit operators and jurisdictions to identify new revenues for transit operations. that is over the -- jumping to slide 20 in your enclosure. commissioner avalos: that is across the region as well. >> on the mainland side, even though we are putting 80% of the plan in two minutes, their huge shortfalls on the transit side and local streets and roads side. this is sort of treading water. the third strategy you are familiar with, and the one bay area grant from work. this is one of the standout features of this rtp in terms of this being the first time mtc has linked transportation revenues to incentivize good land use. they are falling transportation towards para development areas to be transportation and development. the proposal has been out there for awhile. the most committed and recent changes a three-year funding cycle coming up. that has been moved to four years. that gave mtc more money to address things like people wanting more money in the original safe routes to school program. it also deals with the concerned of product delivery ar

rally just not far off from the united nations building there and that is to commemorate the day in ramallah city itself protesters marched on the scene of the format of the p.l.o. yes our fight to the palestinian authority government building but on the whole things are relatively quiet certainly compared to last year when twelve people were killed when they try to storm the israeli lebanese and syrian borders let's pass weekend to be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and that may take meat recall israel's commitment to peace and restarting negotiations that was in response to later that a bus said netanyahu last month and then again we heard the same words being expressed at the weekly cabinet meeting on sunday by netanyahu saying that he hopes that the advancement of dialogue will see the resumption of diplomatic talks between both sides but no one here is holding their breath and certainly the word coming out of the palestinian camp is that netanyahu government remains as right wing as ever just last year the government approved a c

have the stop and frisk policy where we have a just a couple months ago a brother bought a name of ramallah graham was killed in his home on armed new york state we have a brother named kenneth chamberlain who was a marine who was killed in his home at midnight with a false alarm so these things happen normally in our community and then we see the combination when people exercising their constitutional rights peacefully protesting for what the constitution says petition our government for redress of grievances and we see that the cycle of violence that the police use normally in our communities is now being brought to bear on peaceful protesters i feel absolutely violated i feel like the american public should be outraged when we saw the images of new in new york city we saw the images of oakland and oakland p.d. poppy. the canisters of basically teaching or coups in the streets about guerilla him to hand combat warfare in there peacefully protesting i think it's a dangerous situation i think we need absolute oversight as a congressional candidate is one of my platform issues to call for co

what it feels like to be on the receiving end when i was teargassed in a little village south of ramallah. i apologize. my favorite poet says affirm life. that is exactly what we have to do. the only metal i will keep is the humanitarian service medal when i was in new orleans. >> i was in the u.s. navy, i am a gi resistor. i received an honorable discharge. i am on a roll and all of the gi resistors that refuse to fight an unjust war is honorable. this is for all of the gi resisters of unjust mores. >> my name is mark. how i just want to say thank you for being understanding, inviting, and wonderful, even these guys in black and blue. good conduct medal. >> i am dick crawford. i went to iraq and afghanistan. when they gave these may metals, i knew they were meaningless. i only regret not speaking up on how silly the more was sooner. i am giving these up. free bradley manning. >> my name is jason heard. i spent 10 years in the army as a combat medic. i deployed to baghdad in 2004. i am here to return my global war on terrorism service medal in solidarity with people of iraq and afghanista

the effect of the coast, you think about our ally in morocco and the stability is going over from ramallahcord and called him an ally but i'm not sure we want to see them destabilized any further than they are but i think we benefit from stability in general, and the instability in general harms us anywhere because we are -- with global reach and global interest. so, while we may have tempted them down to a great extent, i didn't address counterterrorism in my talk and i'm not sure i have a good message for them. i think that admiral mike grayson has a pretty clear idea of what he wants to come and maybe that is the idea of the long war which i think that we abandon may be that needs to be brought back in. >> you got your earlier question on the third party intervention is a measure of understanding, understood response in such that you could take afghanistan and sometimes the question is maybe the navy recruiting to the impetus for the insurgency is the presence of the counterinsurgency. so you have to make the decision as to whether your intervention and character of intervention is exac