and our correspondent there rob matheson now have a saying rob how the palestinians have given this whole idea complete short shrift no palestinians have have gone to this conference and in fact they're not prepared to engage with it but i'm just wondering whether this this cold new thinking might have any kind of resonance. well i think raul is actually made some very significant points there and one of them is about the level of security that there exists or has to exist in order for all of this to take place if it actually happens at all that can only happen if there is trust particularly between the palestinians and the israelis and they both sides that we have talked to over the last few days have said exactly that how do you demonstrate that trust how does one side show trust to the other as far as the immediate reaction to this outlining of this plan is turns its concerns and i hamas has been caught and other palestinian groups in gaza have been calling for more protests to be held tonight we're also expecting protests to be held in march that's going to be held from the u.n. here

or able to do that is still unclear despite the determination of the united states and israel rob matheson. west jerusalem. iran's foreign minister mohammad. tehran is in talks with a number of countries on using currencies other than the u.s. dollar for trade will be seen as a way to bypass u.s. sanctions more from tehran. according to the arabian foreign minister they are in discussion with a number of countries including china russia turkey and india to try and bypass the u.s. sanctions by setting up a monetary system where they can trade without having the u.s. sanctions affect them this is something that the iranians have been talking about and we know that the russians are behind this idea they said that the russian foreign minister has said that the u.s. sanctions against iran is unfair and the russian government will do everything it can to try and help the rainy and bypass them the foreign minister has said that the already reached some agreements with certain countries and they are still in discussion with others so it's still in the process but in the foreseeable future this cou

who rob matheson is our correspondent using garza and has been listening to this with the same group of course a purpose in your reaction to this announcement of their being an economic phase to this so-called deal of the century the economic phrase they've rejected out of hand saying that there can be no economic plan for revival of of palestinian territory without there being a political solution put forward for us. well jeanne that's absolutely right and that's something that's been made clear by palestinian leaders ever since the details of this plan came out we heard just a question of saying stressing the fact that what was needed was a change of thinking that ideas for a political solution in the past had been tried and failed in different variations had been put forward but none could be accepted and now it was time to as he put it think outside of the box he said at one point we will get to the political issues at the right time but as far as the palestinians are concerned the right time is ahead of any discussion about the economic impact of any plan that might be put forwa

all right let's go live to gaza now our correspondent there is rob matheson and rob the people of. the occupied west bank as well but the people of gaza in particular seem to be enraged by this proposal of their $50000000000.00 investment plan. that's absolutely right monsignor i mean this is the 2nd day of protests we've seen in gaza when people have been voicing their opposition to the baccarin conference we had a general strike on tuesday in the early part of why this is you mentioned there was a large scale protest to the center of gaza city right now just. about a kilometer or so from the israeli border and we've got another meeting this one entitled to confronting the deal of the century but then my message is pretty much the same we had a hamas official who was speaking to listening to the crowd earlier saying that the militants were able to undermine the conspiracy and it had the strength of resistance to be able to deal with this you know hama security has been tightened to keep people away from the border busy as they've been drifting down hamas does not want to have a co

proposal unveiled in a bind rob matheson is in gaza for us rob tell us what's happening in. one of the moment if i just step out of shot has and you might be able to see there are just a thin crowd at the moment turning up outside the office at the border with israel we are seeing israeli security patrols which i'm making no way backwards and forwards on the other side of the border but perhaps a thinner crowd at the moment one might have expected and that's mainly because although there is this protest as you said about the buckling conference on thursday night late on thursday night there.

ok let's cross live now to our correspondent rob matheson joining us this hour from gaza rob what's the atmosphere like there today. well it's been fairly in terms of go at the moment everywhere waiting for more crowds to turn up and just let me just explain to you where we are we're just on the opposite the border with israel i don't know that you can see over my shoulder there the great sort of steal lie in that horizontal line there that's the actual border now as people have been arriving for this particular conference that that this particular meeting that they're having this afternoon. the hamas security have been attempting to keep people back from the border in 5 i don't know if you can see those flagpoles that their security has been standing down there are warning people as they've been drifting down there to start moving back but at the at the moment we're waiting for more crowds to arrive for this particular conference which is being called to the conference to confront the buffering deal and the deal of the century but this is just one of several events that have been happe

proposal unveiled in a bahrain rob matheson is in gaza force so rob tell us what's happening there. one of the moment if i just step out of shot has been you might be able to see there are just a thin crowd at the moment turning up outside the office at the border with israel we are seeing israeli security patrols which are making their way backwards and forwards on the other side of the border but perhaps a thinner crowd at the moment one might have expected and that's mainly because although there is this protest as you said about the buckling conference on thursday night late on thursday night there was an agreement reached between israel and hamas in order to continue the truce that was 1st put in place here back in late may that followed weeks of very violent protests but the deal of that the central part of that was that hamas agreed that it was going to stop people in gaza sending aerial incendiaries over the border and into israel which of israel said had been setting fire to me had been setting fire to agricultural land they said that there had been at least dozens of these

earlier remarks the president said i just strike stop the strike from going forward at this time rob matheson a westerner islam with more on this one what was actually expected to come out of this meeting is the sort of regional trip for john bolton. well it's pretty thin on the ground as far as the detail is concerned because as you can imagine all the parties that taking part in these meetings are playing things pretty close to their chest but what you did here was john bolton taking the opportunity of that press conference to state quite clearly what the u.s. position was with regards to iran and the prime minister of israel did exactly the same thing ahead of these meetings which are going to be taking place here in jerusalem over the next few days and which are also going to include russia the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is very clear on $1.00 thing he wants to have fixed and fixed quickly is iran's military presence in neighboring syria as far as israel is concerned that is essentially a red line and that is something that it will not tolerate and benjamin netanyahu has be

senior leaders still have already rejected the plan and are boycotting the gathering in a moment rob matheson will report from gaza where palestinians have gone on strike in protest against a meeting in bahrain wise in a harder has spoken to refugees living in lebanon whose message is palestine is not for sale and need abraham is in the occupied west bank where people say money alone won't solve their problems for jordan outlines what jared has announced. shows business leaders and government officials are in mahna mahna to discuss the us his latest effort to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict a $50000000000.00 economic overhaul for the palestinian people and the region the us president's son in law has been working on this plan which relies on both private and public funding since 2017 this effort is better refer to as the opportunity of the century if leadership has the courage to pursue it this is about creating opportunity for the palestinian people this is about creating opportunity for the people throughout the middle east if implemented correctly and competently the economic plan

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well our correspondent rob matheson has been at one of the protest singles. this is the 2nd day of protests here in gaza where people here have been voicing their opposition to the barker in conference to say there was a general strike and early on why this day it was a large crowd that marched through the streets of gaza city this meeting which is close to the israeli border is entitled confronting a good deal of the century security i've been trying very hard to keep people away from the border they don't want to risk any confrontations with disagree forces at this time but people here are saying that the deal of the century so hold is simply a u.s. economic deal that it does ignore their demands for a political solution they say that yes they want billions of dollars in investment but they want a political solution to the conflict with israel or the conference in bahrain is juicy and one where the unstable palestinians have been saying that there are about it is very likely to continue. the u.n. has warned that washington's decision to end waivers the coun

then those protests might escalate we'll just have to wait and see all right rob thanks for that rob matheson live in gaza now we can get to wrestle in jordan she's in washington d.c. and rose this is a very important part of what has become the signature certainly for jared. son in law but also a very important part of policy coming out of the white house. it is a very important piece of policy coming out of the white house it's notable that this is something that. was assigned to work on from the moment that his father in law became u.s. president and early 2017 of course what is noteworthy is that it basically ignores the 4 tenets of trying to resolve the israeli palestinian dispute or conflict but has been going on for the last 40 or 45 years looking at the legal status of jerusalem and defining it once and for all dealing with the fate of palestinian refugees and their descendants trying to figure out how to create a palestinian state alongside that of israel along the pre-one $967.00 borders with the green land swaps and also dealing with the issue of israeli security it's one of the ba

tensions with iran let's go back now to rob matheson who joins us now from west to east and rob so as i say the no surprise is iran topping the security agenda in that meeting. and that's exactly what we were talking about just before we cut away to the press statements that were being made there yes the initial intention had been by the israeli prime minister to focus on the trying to get iran out of neighboring syria of course iran and israel a very public enemies in israel does not like the fact that iran has been able to establish military bases as part of its part and the campaign in supporting the regime of president bashar al assad in syria it doesn't want those bases there he wants those bases out but as john bolton was making the points in those statements the situation has developed it's now no longer just the iranian bases within syria that is the subject it is iran itself and interestingly we will not yet have key details about what's going to come out of those meetings although both men obviously setting out their stalls there benjamin netanyahu describing this as this 3

or able to do that is still unclear despite the determination of the united states and israel rob matheson. west jerusalem. israel's prime minister says that he will give us president on trump's middle east peace plan for consideration but the proposal has been criticized by the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas who says it's bound to fail it has more from the occupied west bank the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has reiterated his rejection to the workshop that is expected to be held in a few days he says that while economy is important foreign aid is important the political issue demeans to be the main story here he says that as part of the economy that was released by the u.s. as a part of the whole whole deal of the century the u.s. plans to collect around 50000000000 dollars of aid to the palestinians and said that he doesn't need the u.s. to do so because they want to gather the money from the other countries and he would be doing so himself he said that he's already asking the arabs to help with it's worth noting that the palestinians are now facing a financial crisis as well as

or able to do that is still unclear despite the determination of the united states and israel rob matheson. west jerusalem with us once again abraham for i had an associate professor of conflict resolution institute so last news hour we started to talk about what might happen with iran you felt it wasn't going to go into all out conflict but you said there are some other scenarios. yes exactly now that we also know that my computer is visiting the region as well and you have. both been in tel aviv and to have. bolton netanyahu in the same room definitely sends a lot about what type of escalation to expect because i think one of the things that we're going to see is that the imposition of more sanctions on iran as. stated already that this is going to start on monday but of course this is not going to play well with iran because this is hell thing going on in economy more and more of. iran probably saw when they downed u.s. drawn a few days ago a way out of this continuous pressure out of their imposing on the sanctions on iran so we should expect to see more of it because also now that. di

won't talk business without a political solution will bring in our guests in a moment but 1st rob matheson reports from gaza where people have been protesting against the u.s. plan. when just a question or made his opening remarks at the start of the bartering conference in the state he said the political issues involved in the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians would be discussed at the right time well as far as these protesters in gaza concerned this is the right time there's no question that gaza needs investment there are 2000000 people here and 52 percent of them are unemployed the united nations says it's helping to provide food aid to 1000000 people and the infrastructure is in bad need of rebuilding. but the people in gaza also say that the economic element of the u.s. plan is an attempt to distract them from their political demands they want a right to return to the land that they say is theirs they want a lifting controls on restrictions that have been imposed mainly by israelis on trade and movement and in a right. the israeli say that those restrictions are nece

are of also been protests against what has been called the deal of the century our correspondent rob matheson is there and rob tell us tell us what girl has been like today because of course people in girls have been protesting against this economic proposal from jared for the last week or so. the tribes protests in about 5 different places here in gaza but most of them we understand have been pretty much quiet i don't if you can see over my shoulder there it's actually pretty empty here we did have quite a buildup of people about an hour ago but they have no drifted away having said that in the last 20 minutes we saw some tear gas that was being fired from the israeli side of the border just over my shoulder there into this very small crowds he thinks he's me here and we understand also there are about 21 people from those 5 sides who have been injured either by tear gas or by rubber bullets or by live fire we don't have a breakdown of those injuries but the crowds here very much quieter and one of the reasons could also be because there has been on thursday night there was an agreement reac

a little while 1st so let's find out about how palestinians have been reacting to this speech rob matheson is our correspondent in gaza and rob we knew the palestinians even before this got under way we knew they weren't really going to engage with it until boycotting the event from the get go any idea as to what the feeling is about the tone having been set by jared pusher. well even before john dickerson got up to speak in. going to leader of hamas the controlling group here in gaza was making a very impassioned speech to a group of palestinian faction leaders here in gaza city and reiterating the point that the palestinians have made ever since the details of this plan came out just a few days ago that there has to be a solution to this situation before an economic solution can even be discussed he described it as the common conference being dead already because it carried this seeds of failure it said that it was not to dictate the lives of palestinians let's listen to a little bit more about what he had to say. the conference held at the moment in bahrain is a political conference wit

won't talk business without a political solution will bring in our guests in a moment but 1st rob matheson reports from gaza where people have been protesting against the u.s. plan. when just a question or made his opening remarks at the start of the bartering conference and tuesday he said the political issues involved in the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians were discussed at the right time well as far as these protesters in gaza concerned this is the right time there's no question that gaza needs investment there are 2000000 people here and 52 percent of them are unemployed the united nations says it's helping to provide food aid to 1000000 people and the infrastructure is in need of rebuilding. but the people in gaza also say that the economic element of the u.s. plan is an attempt to distract them from their political demands they want a right to return to the land that they say is theirs they want a lifting of controls on restrictions that have been imposed mainly by israelis on trade and movement and in a run. the israeli say that those restrictions are necessary to

won't talk business without a political solution will bring in our guests in a moment but 1st rob matheson reports from gaza where people have been protesting against the u.s. plan. when just a question or made his opening remarks at the start of the buffering conference and tuesday he said the political issues involved in the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians would be discussed at the right time well as far as these protesters in gaza concerned this is the right time there's no question that gaza needs investment there are 2000000 people here and 52 percent of them are unemployed the united nations says it's helping to provide food aid to 1000000 people and the infrastructure is in bad need of rebuilding. but the people in gaza also say that the economic element of the u.s. plan is an attempt to distract them from their political demands they want a right to return to the land that they say is theirs they want to lifting controls and restrictions that have been imposed mainly by israelis on trade and movement and in a run. the israeli say that those restrictions are neces

the gaza strip put it very simply it's in the said palestine isn't for sale or it's a road matheson in western rob thank you. about the way. hello again welcome back we are cross parts of southeast asia we are seeing some very heavy rain showers here across parts of vietnam and also into cambodia now those storms are going to continue here on monday we could even see some localized flooding later though not looking too bad the rain showers have died down a little bit across much of the region but over here towards the philippines it is going to be very very rainy over the next few days and we could be seeing some localized flooding there as well where here across parts of south western australia we had one funnel boundary come through and that caused a lot of problems in terms of rain actually for perth they saw the highest daily amount of rain that they had seen in about 15 months about 58 millimeters of rain now things are getting better across much of that area the frontal boundary is making its way towards adelaide we don't think it's going to have as much more strain as produce through but 13

discussing regional security as tensions are high but in washington and tehran iran matheson joins us live now from west jerusalem rob so what are you expecting to come out of this meeting with john bolton. well as you were talking there about the press statements that were made by john bolton and benjamin netanyahu vote an hour ago and we started to get a sense of where at least the u.s. and israel were going to stand in these discussions which are also of course going to include the russia prime minister benjamin netanyahu very keen to stress that it was important to also include they the need to get rid as he sees it of iran's military facilities that are currently in syria just across the border from israel out of syria and away from threatening israel but he was also keen to stress that this meeting that he has pulled together is very significant moment for israel and it should demonstrates that israel is taking a significant role on the world stage but it's also important to note as well that from a political domestic point of view this is important for the prime minister to benjamin netanyahu at the end of may