of the palestinian reaction ramallah in the occupied west bank media how are these two results on the prospect of netanyahu serving another term as prime minister of israel being viewed by the palestinian leadership and palestinians as a whole and the west bank where you are. certainly not a sense of optimism folly we've heard from the p.l.o. secretary general about a father who said that the israeli voters have voted yes for patient and no for peace meaning that netanyahu is more likely. to be forming the new government is going to be stronger than he was before and they expect him to fully respond to. the promises he made to the israeli voters in which he said that he is willing to annex some of the the west bank settlements that and put them under the israeli sovereignty so there are fears that under the terms of president trump the u.s. president who has been showing a lot of support to netanyahu that he will be following up on these from is he also said that he's not willing to evacuate any settlers from the west bank settlements so it's certainly not viewed in a positive term he

in west jerusalem for the palestinian reaction nanita abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank how are the results and the prospect of having another term as israeli prime minister being viewed by the palestinian leadership and by palestinians in the west bank. so the p.l.o. secretary general saw a better part has said that israeli voters have bolted made for the continuation of the israeli occupation in the west bank and they've noted it voted no for peace let's note that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said in his election campaign that he's not willing to even talk to any israeli settler from the illegal settlements in the west bank and he is looking into expanding the israeli sovereignty over the west bank settlements now this is a move that the seen in more empowered by having the u.s. president donald trump in power i've spoken earlier to the p.l.o. committee member at hand and ashrawi and this is what she had to say i think the whole goals of the game are changing because now this clearly superimposing the date of all of historical palestine. and therefore

thank you so much there in ramallah thank you thank the states the south korean president when jane has met with u.s. president in washington the aim is to restart to denuclearization talks with north korea mr truong walked away from the failed summit back in february after kim jong il and insisted all u.s. sanctions be lifted on his country mr moon has been mediating efforts between washington and pyongyang white house correspondent kimberly hellcat following that story for so kim billy what did they achieve. that's still unclear we know going in that there was an effort by the south korean leader to try and convince donald trump to agree to potentially a smaller deal that would allow for joint economic partnership some small scale between the north in the south if the north did make steps towards denuclearization donald trump at least in front the cameras would not commit to any of those projects he would only say that he did not consider the summit in hanoi which many people saw as a failure here that's not a view that was shared by donald trump instead defending the slow pace saying

critics including france's rival hamas have accused abbas of a power grab that is live for us in ramallah with more on this where does this government leave the efforts at reconciliation. now this is the first thought that official to be a government since the split happened between the west bank and the gaza strip we've spoken to hamas officials in gaza who say that this government is unconstitutional and they are waiting to see how it will be dealing with the goddess with the gaza strip we have spoken to analysts here in the west bank who believe that the reason for forming this new government does not have much to do with the conciliation efforts or the split between fatah and hamas but rather with the day to day life of the people here the last government has been facing a lot of criticism from the people and it drove part of the largest protests we've seen in the west bank for the past few years so they believe that the main mission of this new government will be focused on the financial issues and the day to day issues of the palestinians the government comes at a difficult time of

one of the first things he said about it was tell the pagan to get out of ramallah, that was is greater than insult as you can issue in the middle east. i wasn't about to allow a foreign leader to dictate our foreign policy. i said, give me some time. that wasn't the answer he wanted. our interpreter, a friend of mine and colin powell's and condoleezza's came in to where we were sitting, because he wanted to be alone. he said, he is going to leave. that would be a disaster for a young presidency to have a major ally bolt the scene. i told colin powell to go in there and fix it and said he could. he said, only you. i did know what to tell him. he was smoking butts in the living room. i said, i heard you're going to leave. he grunts and said yes. i said, before what to do that, i want to talk about two things. religion and i said let me talk to you about my faith. i said i quit drinking because of religion and describe the relationship i had with billy graham and all that. i said i'm curious about your religion. nothing. he wasn't interested. smoking cigarettes. that did not work. i playe

we'll see what the day brings in a moment we'll get the palestinian reaction from meter abraham in ramallah but first to stephanie decker in west jerusalem stephanie no final results yet but we do have a clearer picture than last night. absolutely both men there declaring victory but there is only space for one prime minister vali and it seems that it will again be benjamin netanyahu heading into a fifth term which would make him the longest serving prime minister in the history of the state of israel there's a couple of votes for around two hundred thousand still left to count most of those us soldiers were expecting those results that say within the next twenty four hours it may affect what small parties come into the knesset that's the israeli parliament or not but the bigger picture certainly does seem to be that. netanyahu is best placed to form the block the government so we're going to wait and see but i think that is the consensus the feeling here certainly the people we've been speaking to mixed folly but certainly hoping some of them it will be a national unity government which wo

studio in new york today, but instead he joins us from ramallah in the west bank.mar barghouti is the author of "boycott, divestment, sanctions: the global struggle for palestinian rights." welcome to democracy now! can you describe what happened when you got to the airport in tel aviv on wednesday? >> sure, the airline told me there was an issue with my visa. my visa was valid until 2021, so they called u.s. consulate in tel aviv and after a long delay, just as i was boarding, they prevented me from boarding thing the u.s. consulate had told them that there is an immigration issue, a ban of sorts against me, which was quite unbelievable. i have been to the united states many, many times, including on this same visa. juan: omar barghouti, in the past it has been israel that has tried to limit your ability to travel and banned you. how wewere you able to get suspension of the israeli efforts to stop you from traveling and were you surprised this time it was the united states that stepped in? >> yes, indeed. since 2014, israel has prevented or tried quite a few times

and one of the first things he said to me was, tell the pig to get out of ramallah. now, that is about as great an insult as you could possibly issue in the middle east. and, you know, frankly, i wasn't about to allow a foreign leader to dictate our foreign policy. and i said, now, look, just give me some time. that wasn't the answer he wanted, and our interpreter, who is a friend of mine and colin powell's and condi's, came into where we were sitting because he wanted to be alone for a while with his people, and said, he's going to leave, which would have been a disaster for a young presidency to have a major ally bolt the scene, and it would have been something we would have been dealing with for a long period of time. so i said, colin powell, go in there and fix it. he came back and said, i can't. he said only you. i said, okay. so i walk in there. i don't know what i'm going to tell the guy. he's in there smoking butts like mad in our living room, and so i said, i hear you're going to leave. he kind of grunts yes. i said, before you do, i want to talk about two t

for us in ramallah with the latest where does this leave government efforts at reconciliation. so as the first official to be leading a government since the division between fatah and hamas it raises many questions about the future of that of conciliation specifically is that we've heard from have math officials in the gaza strip who said that this government i mean unconstitutional and that they but they would be waiting to see how it would be dealing from with the gaza strip we know that the palestinian authority has been imposing measures against hamas as rule in the gaza strip this friction has been obvious by one of the ministers the new minister the new culture minister who was seen as limping towards taking the oath now he was recently transferred from gaza to the west bank after being injured and reportedly by. in gaza the president himself has visited him and it's seen that appointing him was a message to hamas in gaza. does this mean for palestinians. know what but esteem is good mostly nowadays is their paycheck they have been getting half of their salaries for two m

life in ramallah. it was previously known as revolution city but today city is one of the poorest most neglected districts of iraq's capital barely hold for baghdad's eight million people live there most of the shia stores are reports they blame politicians for failing to improve their lives. fatima and our ten year old twins they were just four when their father died from a stroke their mother mona is left to provide for them and three siblings they rent their home which was built illegally for about ninety dollars a month that we do it doesn't have a job and barely leaves her home because of her conservative religious beliefs she receives no help from the government so she relies on charity handouts. i only ask for help to buy me a house to live in i live in rental i have no income and i can't leave my neighborhood to live away i depend on charity from other people in the neighborhood because she was widowed she should receive government benefits but doesn't following the fall of president saddam hus

palestinians in gaza to come out to the streets you did not happen and you know why because the people in ramallah but people in the west bank today have a lot to lose their arrest standard of living has gone up so high after their violence stop that they are thinking twice and three times before they want to throw all this the way and at the same time the gaza people under hamas are in very miserable poor conditions because hamas would not put away their arms and would not like to open gaza to free trade under supervision to make sure that they do not smuggle arms so i'm not so much afraid. it's into father now so let's elaborate on this palestinian divide for a second hamas and fatah factions are fighting each other with vigor since like this allows israel to say that there is nobody to talk to so let's just keep on doing what we're doing do you feel like this divide is kind of playing into israel's hands is israel actually interested in facilitating palestinian unity like really ah. honestly well i can tell you that the bottom line is that israel's goal is to have peace and security and we know

there is a new prime minister but the new government faces problems as news abraham reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. this is the first flight to lead the government in more than a decade and has sixteen new ministers out of twenty one but many familiar faces and many in positions of power and the challenges they face are huge the palestinian authority is struggling for cash and the divide between fatah and hamas that i build group that runs gaza is as white as ever culture minister out of a safe was recently transferred to the west bank from gaza for treatment he is a federal official who was beaten up need his home in gaza last month reportedly by have asked loyalists have masses it's investigating how mass has already rejected the new government calling it unconstitutional. previous deal state the need to form a national consensus government of all palestinian parties the formation of a fatah cup win complicates the issue its own hands remain extended for the reconciliation and the agreement of a government but all the palestinian people. but it's not just have mass and

including fats as rival hamas have accused of a power grab need to abraham has this update for us from ramallah. so he's the first official to be leading a government in over a decade since the split happened between the west bank and the gaza strip now we've heard from hamas officials in the gaza strip who said that his appointment is unconstitutional being a government that is led by fatah have a net not to buy a national consensus like the past government however we spoke to analysts here at and who say that the main reason for changing the government has not much to do with the fact that and how massive division order conciliation efforts but mainly due to the growing criticism by the palestinian the palestinians here in the streets of the west bank of the previous government we've seen part of the largest demonstrations in the west bank in the past few years because of social security though that was presented by the past government and it was deleted frozen so it seems that the has been paying a long price for governments that were led by technocrats and they wanted to take matters into t

for america from jerusalem from ramallah. this was the environment that i was born and brought up. using of yours about israeli incursion anticorruption this is interesting to me because i am an expert in encryption and need to feel. the sheer and. extensive surveillance do you remember this story in the book at the house yes i was speaking about. me about how simplicity can defeat complexity. and for example working with the israeli forces in the use very sophisticated technology to have their in their weapons or in their communications. the resistance on the other hand is a popular resistance and out of that most of the young men in that are just some clever ordinary french boys and they come from farms and small towns and they come from an agricultural community. and basically he's a the lot of the they speak an ordinary walking talking to. you there's no there's no complication about it they're very simple devices but when they use the woman who's when they use code they simply use the kind of language that kind of slang that is used in their villages and among that families so

said to avoid crashing out of europe without a new and the family of the murdered saudi journalist ramallah shoji has reportedly received millions of dollars in compensation from the king. in a week from now israelis will be electing their next government fourteen political parties are competing for one hundred twenty seats prime minister benjamin netanyahu of the right wing likud party is seeking a fifth term in office he is the first sitting prime minister due to be indicted on corruption charges he has continued to expand the israeli settlements and no progress has been made towards establishing a palestinian state that now its biggest challenges are from the so-called blue and white coalition led by people which include former military chief benny gantz who led israeli forces during the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen and the centrist candidate yet harry forsett reports now from west jerusalem on the battle for power. which of these men do israelis want as their prime minister for all the myriad parties and themes to loomed over this campaign the real fight remains benjamin netany

people and injuring sixty alba's the magnitude six point three quake hit northwest of the capital ramallah in buildings and knocking out power officials in the town of four x. a three bodies have been pulled from a collapsed building and rescuers are continuing to search for victims. space x. has suffered a serious setback in this effort to launch lesser astronauts and all that this year over the weekend the dragon crew capsule that through to the international space station was engulfed in smoke and flames on engine test and space x. as it was testing the dragon's abort thrusters at cape canaveral in florida when saturday's accident occurred the company's as the test area was clear and no one was injured. now scientists are alarmed at russian government plans to allow increased levels of pollution into the world's largest lake lake baikal contains twenty percent of the planet's freshwater a step vastly reports russian government leaders say they can better protect the lake by increasing fermented levels of waste. the fragile line between water and ice marks the entrance to the world's lar

had to go to jerusalem meet with him, go to ramallah and meet with abbas. go to cairo, meet with the then muslim brotherhood president. i've had a lot of hands on first person experience with him. he's very smart, he's very determined. whether the kinds of actions that this administration has taken will in anyway move toward a two-state solution i think is an open question. and i worry that toward the end of the election bibi was talking about annexing all the settlements. you would start from a difficult position trying to reach some sort of resolution. i'm democracy, i also believe that the palestinian people deserve to have more support, more a autono autonomy, more efforts to practice self-government. and so how we get there, and -- i watched my husband make an offer to the palestinians on behalf of the israeli government, that if they had accepted it, they would have had a state now for more than 15 years. but they didn't. and so i watched in my time in the senate and then as secretary of state with all the efforts that were undertaken, not only by the

critics including fatah is rival he must have accused of a power grab abraham has this update now from ramallah is the first official to be leading a government in over a decade since the split happened between the west bank and the gaza strip now we've heard from hamas officials in the gaza strip who said that his appointment is unconstitutional being a government that is led by five to a net to not to buy and national consensus like the past government however we spoke to analysts he had and who say that the main reason for changing the government has not much to do with the fact that and how massive division order conciliation efforts but mainly due to the growing criticism by the palestinian the palestinians heat in the streets of the west bank of the previous government we've seen part of the largest demonstrations in the west bank in the past few years because of social security though that was presented by the past government and it was deleted frozen so it seems that the has been paying a long price for governments that were led by technocrats and they wanted to take matters into their

but he's got to leave the country next month we can talk now to shakir who is joining us live from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you for talking to us what have you been up to then that the israelis have taken such exception to. the israeli government's deportation order is actually based on human rights watch's research and advocacy specifically around the abuses of private companies and the illegal israeli settlements in the west bank the court has essentially said that that work constitutes a call for a boycott and a twenty seventeen amendment to israeli law says that those that call for boycotts can be denied entry into the country but what the court has essentially done here has taken that a step further and for the first time using that law to deport somebody lawfully present in the country and one whose work consists of human rights documentation advocacy that they seem to be upset by particularly by you'll use of twitter and what you've been putting out on twitter with regard to the f b m b scenario can you explain a bit about that what did you what did you put out sure s

including fast as rival hamas have accused mr abbas of a power grab it for him is live for us in ramallah with more on this where does this leave these government efforts at reconciliation. so he's the first official to be leading a government in over a decade since the split happened between the west bank and the gaza strip now we've heard from hamas officials in the gaza strip who said that his appointment is unconstitutional being a government that is led mainly by five to a net to not to buy a national consensus like the past government however we spoke to analysts he had and who say that the main reason for changing the government has not much to do with the fed and how massive division order conciliation efforts but mainly due to the growing.

sworn in and with it a new prime minister but the new government faces problems as reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. this is the first step to lead the government in more than a decade and has sixteen new ministers out of twenty one but many familiar faces remain in positions of power and the challenges they face are huge the palestinian authority is struggling for cash and the divide between fatah and hamas that i build group that runs gaza is as white as ever culture minister out of the safe was recently transferred to the west bank from gaza for treatment he is a federal official who was beaten up need his home in gaza last month reportedly by have loyalists have masses it's investigating how mass has already rejected the new government calling it unconstitutional. previous deal state the need to form a national consensus government of all palestinian parties the formation of a fatah coven complicates the issue its own hands remain extended for the reconciliation and the agreement of a government but all the palestinian people. but it's not just have mass and its suppor

donna who resigned in january but the new government faces problems as need a brain reports now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. this is the first flight to lead the government in more than a decade and has sixteen new ministers out of twenty one but many familiar faces remain in positions of power and the challenges they face are huge the palestinian authority is struggling for cash and the divide between fatah and hamas that i build group that runs gaza is as white as ever culture minister out of a safe was recently transferred to the west bank from gaza for treatment he is a federal official who was beaten up need his home in gaza last month reportedly by have asked loyalists have masses it's investigating how mass has already rejected the new government calling it unconstitutional. previous deal state the need to form a national consensus government of all palestinian parties the formation of a for talk of when complicates this issue its own hands remain extended for the reconciliation and the agreement of a government or the palestinian people. but it's not just have mass and its