piazza amphitheater was built around an ancient roman arena. while the arena's long gone, its oval shape is a reminder of the city's classical heritage. locals have been gathering here for 2,000 years. today's attraction -- a flower market. piazza san michele also has ancient roots. it's hosted a market since roman times, when it was the forum. today it's dominated by the church of san michele. towering above its fancy romanesque facade, the archangel michael stands ready to flap his wings, which, thanks to a crude mechanical contraption, he actually did on special occasions. in its heyday, lucca packed over 100 towers within its walls. each tower was the home and private fortress of a wealthy merchant family. towers were single rooms stacked atop each other -- shop, living room, and then the kitchen. this one, lucca's tallest surviving tower, is famous for being capped with a bushy little forest. those making the climb are rewarded with commanding city views, all in the shade of its amazing trees. nearby, the church of san giovanni hosts night

for now thank you and again sort of pull some clues if roman but i'm sure i could. i want to hear the latest as well well this is what people who are on the train have posted on twitter you can see the master the tangle of carriages want one why one eye witness has a powerful impact through the other end of the carriage another describes what he saw inside that one of the carriages lots of blood and injured people this tweet says that one train carriage was almost ripped into two pieces you can see the scale of the devastation there in those pictures just got through another says passengers had to use their bare hands to break free from the wreckage blogger's also described the panic after the impact there how many passengers had suffered head wounds you can keep up to date with the latest developments of course run in with so awful accident on our twitter feed on our website r.t. dot com and we will continue to update you through the evening here as well. israel has resumed its military offensive against garza just several hours after unilaterally agreeing to a cea

. >> i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there is no end in site to the deadly violence raging between israel and gaza. the fighting between israel and hamas intensifying. an explosion at a refugee camp killing ten palestinians, eight of them children. another blast. hamas blaming israel for both attacks. the israelis insisting they did not fire in that area. conflicts for a cease-fire are fading fast. the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu vowing it will be a lengthy campaign. let's go karl penhaul in gaza. karl, you were on the air last night here and there were moments you stopped speaking so people could hear the explosions behind you and we heard the loud, loud drones, the israeli drones over the area. what have you seen in the hours overnight? has there been a lull in this intensified fighting? >> reporter: you are actually right, poppy. we worked silent to allow viewers to hear what was going on in the air around us. there were also times when we had to

he said i am a roman catholic. i have been to holy communion in all kinds of environments in this war. but he said i was in the most singular one i have ever seen. i heard in the clearing there was going to be mass said and we could receive communion. priest had his communion set out on top of a flat rock with a piece of wood holding it up in a level place. leaning next to it was his flag, christian flag showing we were having a service. but leaning next to that was a carbine rifle. i said, what is with this rifle? he said i am not a combatant, but we are allowed to have weapons to kill snakes. the marines said, i wondered how he defined snake but i decided to receive communion and not go any farther with it. that was one of the interesting sidelights. these are not things i think most chaplains would celebrate and recommend, but it happened. these chaplains were also very human in other ways. they witnessed a lot of carnage. medics put guys back together if they could. they buried tens of thousands of people. how

first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field in 149 we passed two year bushlt. >> hydrahave a healthy budget due to our budget wizards i want to congratulate us was likely the easily budget to move forward because our economy is healthier but we're working together to fourth our top priorities and what we're going to invest in i want this thank obviously there's a tremendous amount of work that happens at the board of supervisors i want to thank the staff and the budget committee their hard work led lbe their fear also leaders supervisor farrell and he can go home earlier to spend time with his kids in the evening supervisor farrell. >> (clapping) >> thank you president chiu and mayor ed lee it's maiming two years in a row we've passed this out of the committee and the board of supervisors. when we started this process i think mayor ed lee and i had a commitment to have an open and transparent process that did as is mayor ed lee respect to every be district to meet with the committee heads and we had a town hall online mee

but it's not supposed to be a roman holiday anymore, right? it's not supposed to be for our mass entertainment in the streets anymore. it's supposed to be a much more sober, quiet process. we keep trying to find quieter and quieter ways of killing people. instead of hanging, they went to the electric chair. instead of the electric chair, they tried the gas chamber. instead of the gas chamber, they tried the lethal injection idea. move toward things that are painless, quiet, medical, professional, and clean. and constitutionally, legally, we have to let people see this process. we will never be a country that carries out its executions in secret. constitutionally, we can't. but if people are going to see it, if we as americans are allowed, at least through the media, to witness this stuff, we have gone through great lengths to make it not so much a spectacle anymore, not like it used to be in the bad old days. what we really are the only country in the whole world that tries to it this way. there's very new countries left in the world that offi

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with prorebels in eastern ukraine finally turning over the boxes in mh17. this is critical. it's been stone walled for days. who fired the missile that blew the boeing 777 out of the sky? was it russian rebels? president obama not satisfied investigators are getting what they need. >> the russian backed separatists continue to block the investigation. they have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. as they approached, they fired their weapons into the air. the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site. what are they trying to hide? >> meanwhile, could it be that russian president vladimir putin is trying to distance himself from the rebels? listen to the ambassador from the united nations that the downing of flight mh17 was nothing but a mistake. >> according to them, if the -- there was confusion. there was confusion, not an act of terrorism. >> it keeps up the spin campaign and the fighting keeps raging around

there was a roman candle mishap and just jacks him in both hands. leave a splinter. >> this video is a perfect reason why -- on what don't do. he was playing air guitar with flaming fireworks. ♪ >> i will preface this next video. this is after a few games of beer pong. you have to admit it. george and max happened to be in the backyard, and they've got some roman candles, and sheer shooting them at george and max, except george and max are butt naked. >> i noticed that. [ bleep ]. >> a lot of people will be looking to see if george and max, the guys are so dumb. i disagree. i hi these guys know how to party. this is a moment that they will remember for the rest of their lives. >>> lots of parades around the nation for the fourth of july, but none quite like this one. this is in wadsworth, ohio, and you can see there lots of people lining the streets. that girl right there in the yellow is tara zilbritch, and she is looking at the boyfriend. look. she wasn't expecting that. >> oh, it's a welcome home moment. >> a welcome home moment because he is rea

. >> i'm christine romans. it's 31 minutes past the hour. we welcome our viewers from the u.s. and around the world. the prime minister of ukraine holding a news conference this morning. let's go there. >> how to explain that and another question is, how could you ensure international rescue team their safety? >> thank you for the question. we are interested in having a comprehensive wide scale, widespread international investigation. but let's speak about facts. what's in the ground? what's on the tape? the first one, ukrainian militaries never use surface-to-air missiles. second one, ukrainian d.o.d. will unfold all information about the locations of anity-aircraft missiles. the third one, we got the russian made anti-aircraft -- in the area that is fully and entirely controlled by russian led groups. the fourth one, we have the pictures of the missile launcher. we got an intercept telephone calls between the russians and the realists. the sixth one, we got the preliminary evidence of the clear effect that mh17 was shot down by surface-to-air missile. the seventh one, in the

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans.welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there is no end in site to the deadly violence raging between israel and gaza. the fighting between israel and hamas intensifying. an explosion at a refugee camp killing ten palestinians, eight of them children. another blast. hamas blaming israel for both attacks. the israelis insisting they did not fire in that area. conflicts for a cease-fire are fading fast. the prime

well, the roman candle mishap. looks like something comes down. just jacks him in both hands. leave blisters. >> this video is a lesson on what nod toot with fireworks. that's why they say don't do this. >> looks like he's playing air guitar with flaming fireworks. ♪ >>> i will preface the next video, after a few games of beer pong. they admitted it. george and max are in the backyard, have roman candles, shooting them, except george and max are butt naked. >> i noticed that. i saw booty. [ bleep ] a lot of people say, man, george, max, you are so dumb. >> i disagree. they know how to party. this is a moment they will remember for the rest of their lives. >>> lots of parades around the nation for the fourth of july, but none quite like this one. this is in wadsworth, ohio, and you see there, a lot of people are lining the street, and that girl in the yellow is tara, and she's looking at her boyfriend. look. he was not expecting that. oh, it's a welcome home moment. not a welcome home moment because he's reaching into his pocket and grabbing something out of it. [ cheering ] th

first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field in 149 we passed two year bushlt. >> hydrahave a healthy budget due to our budget wizards i want to congratulate us was likely the easily budget to move forward because our economy is healthier but we're working together to fourth our top priorities and what we're going to invest in i want this

. >> i'm christine romans. we welcome all the viewers in the u.s. and around the world. breaking overnight, a ban on flights out of tel-aviv has been lifted by the faa. israeli officials pressed hard to convince the agency to reverse their decision. it's up to delta, united and us airways when to resume their flights. we want to get to martin savidge in tel-aviv. you had sirenses and explosions in the air from the iron dome trying to shoot down rockets. tell us what's happening now and whether you are seeing more activity today in terms of take offs and landings than you did yesterday. >> reporter: christine, for the second time, actually in a half hour, more detonations of what appears to be israel's iron dome. to give you an idea of how that sounds, any american listening to fireworks in the air, a loud bang, that is what it sounds like when one of these missiles goes up and makes an intercept. that means it sounded like four of those going off over the span of a half hour. the last ones were sounding more distant. still, you could hear them if you were standing here a

i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans. >> i'm john berman. we welcome all our viewers here in the united states and around the world as well. breaking overnight, we are talking the fighting in gaza. blood has been spilling despice calling for a humanitarian cease-fire. they launched 70 rockets sunday. israelis 40 attacks onuo hamas. jerusalem is denying responsibility for 16 deaths at a school in gaza. they are confirming there was an air mortar that struck the schoolyard. martin, give us a sense of what is happening right now. it is a holiday in gaza. >> reporter: it is, indeed. the celebration of the breaking of the fast, the festival that officially ends ramadan. normally a joyous time. it's anything but that right now. let's talk about the peace process. there's not a cease-fire and there's not going to be a cease-fire for the immediate future. there were hopes yesterday, it might happen. they both agreed to a humanitarian but they agreed at different times. the israelis were first. at that time, they were willing to observe 24 hours of t

and beneath it, the remains of a wall from the roman era. and there, on the other side of the tigris in the caves, there are some roman graves. and above them, christian churches. our ancestors lived here. our culture and everything that makes up our past will disappear when the dam is built. we don't know what the future will bring. >> for thousands of years, the people in this region lived in limestone caves on the slopes high above the tigris. today, the residents of hasankeyf live in low, concrete houses. and soon they're supposed to move here -- to apartment blocks outside the village. next year, a huge dam will submerge the valley and flood the historic town. the turkish government says the dam project will raise living standards in hasankeyf. and it will benefit the children, performing here at a school festival. regional authorities say eastern turkey urgently needs more energy to develop. >> later, they can catch fish or do water sports at the reservoir. they could take a boat to the other bank and visit the caves. we think that it

. >>> joining me now, retired four-star germany army general barry mccaffery and anthony roman. anthony, i want to go to you as a pilot. what do you make of the evidence we're picking up so far in the debris pattern we've seen? >> it's clear that a catastrophic midair event occurred, and in this case the intelligence officials are pointing to the probability of a surface-to-air missile. that particular missile was in range of this aircraft based on the information we have, has a range of about 19 miles and can travel about mach 3 to 46,000 feet. so it appears this airliner was shot down. >> what about the fact that so much of the debris is close together, and it's not as scattered, as wildly scattered as you might expect, because it seems like this was not necessarily the total disintegration of the aircraft in the air. >> well, when you have a catastrophic event like this, the aircraft manipulates itself in a particular way that the aerodynamics at the high speed it's traveling will rip the airplane apart. so it's not uncommon to find a debris field that's compacted like this a

of war, which is again a violation of every known rule of war at the time and is a throwback to the roman empire. and in fact if you add to this jubal early's incursions twice into pennsylvania where he spends his time hunting down blacks to bring them back to the south, the confederate army starts to look like some weird the -- modern version of roman empire going to hunt slaves in gaul or among the germanic tribes. or even more weirdly, it looks like a precursor of the nazis, who spend their time hunting juice and ukraine and russia, rather than fighting the russian in ukrainenting jews an and russia, rather than fighting the russian army. so, i think the question of war crimes and the question of henry wirz is not does henry wirz richly deserve to be hanged? capital punishment, but i am a twin he first century person, not a mid-19th-century person. had i been a mid-19th-century person, i probably would not have been against capital punishment, certainly not for war criminals like wirz. if you believe in capital punishment, there are very few people in american history who wore richly d

. >> i'm christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the intention acrimony between president obama and john boehner take ton a new level. boehner's lawsuit will focus on the affordable care act. changes to the health care law should have been left to congress. the president overtook his authority. only his right to change legislation without congressional approval. listen to the heated sparring between boehner and the president. >> listen, this is a problem of the president's only making. he has been president for five and a half years. when is he going to take responsibility for something. >> you hear them. all right. sue him. impeach him. really? really? for what? you're going to sue me for doing my job? okay. >> john boehner is specifically upset by the border situation. all of this playing out as a funding dead lynn on the $3.7 billion deadline to fix the border crisis. at a senate hearing, jay johnson said doing nothing is not an option. time is of the essence. agencies involved in the plan will start running out of

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.ast the hour, we welcome all our viewers here in the u.s. and all of you around the world. a day of mourning is declared as that nation prepares for the victims of flight 17. it's happening later today. it turns out there were about 200 bodies on those death trains leaving donetsk, meaning the remains of nearly 100 other people on the doomed airliner are still missing. nick paton walsh joining us live on the phone from kharkiv, ukraine, where the victims of flight 17 are being put on a plane there. nick, you say the mood very somber trying to restore the dignity of these people, whose bodies have not been treated with dignity over the last few days. >> reporter: certainly, certainly, the c-130 about to fly a number of bodies. we saw four brought by ukrainian soldiers in dress are uniform. very somber moment, the c-130 engines have started and in fact the door has closed. it's a situation, it's very hard to describe, how sad. people have managed to muster the atmosphere here on this tar

in the army appears to be waning soldiers wounded on the front lines in the commanders in the glen roman costs are found. dozens of wounded minutes or you were able to get out from one circle means by and forces the soldiers to claim that high ranking officers read accounts the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark but you know the. truth of. who was. there was the fall for. this the fellow who would you put the two both. millions of dollars have already been spent by kiev and its punitive action against those they call terrorists now while the countries and leadership they had ordered yes and another mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all that still seems to be drying out he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all this is before the army needs around seven hundred seventy five million dollars with just a week left before the first of august ski of the scrambling for support all that said punitive action in the east of the country but morale of the soldiers on

eastern ukraine experts are combing the area for more bodies as not all of them have not been found roman costs are off is there. body fragments along with the debris of flights and age seventeen are scattered over around a fifteen to twenty kilometer area here in in a rural parts off eastern ukraine farms and villages all around us so it is going to probably take quite a long time to collect all the evidence and the remaining fragments of the victims of flight and age seventeen and while they always see mission monitoring mission along with malaysian experts are continuing their work day here on the ground earlier they expect express their gratitude for the level of access that say they have received to this site some investigators mentioned rumors all losing in this area and they have addressed this issue of i know there's been reports of looting and so on it's impossible for us to verify that. in the lasers and again it's their second day they said they did it to say still a second circuit remember undervalue balls flying around that haven't been taken flight recorders or a company kno

correspondent roman kosar have. as the details of the down the airliner emerge we're getting more and more reaction from the obama administration here and washington today we've heard from the white house and the state department on the incident our team correspondent megan lopez has the very latest. for days after malaysian airlines flight seventeen was shot down by separatists in ukraine harsh words are coming out from both the white house as well as the state department today president obama spoke to reporters this afternoon reaffirming his commitment to finding the facts about this event that led up to the deaths of two hundred ninety eight innocent civilians the president said he has sent a seam of investigators to ukraine in order to help with an international investigation into the crash but accuse the russian backed separatists of quote blocking that afterwards they've repeatedly prevented international investigators from getting full access to the wreckage as investigators approached they fired their weapon

lower case when you can tell difference between titles and body text oh also the phone is times new roman much better than the old roman stuff i just couldn't couldn't handle that and you haven't read the documents i mean what. you have and of the documents. no no i haven't read the documents fully i haven't read the documents look at the world cup is on nobody is doing it like literally around the world nobody is doing anything there's a lifeguard's letting children drown left and right there's firefighters living buildings burned down in the people that are in those buildings they're not trying to escape because they're watching the world cup and yet i'm the bad guy because i didn't read one document you know only i'll tell you what i'll read these tonight the world cups over everything's fine and welcome it's not over. yet is the us lost and when we lose we take all the soccer balls home with us. that's surprisingly feasible and all right well anyway look i filed this report before the world cup started it's about n.s.a. secrets and just how all these secrets could have been revealed i

the main railways into most cars financial center and some key government buildings a correspondent roman culture of. the station where this happened in victory in the west the company let's cut shot with him now trying get the latest high the roman as any mole emerged throughout the day about what went so terribly wrong here in the morning russia. shore kevin wall let me give you the self the latest news for our right now apparently the rescue workers are still trying to on block one body on the casualty that's the results of an accident this morning the rescue service is a still working at the scene here behind me right now in terms of what actually happened well it was indeed a rush hour we are only a few kilometers away from the center of moscow which is that way course right behind me is the victory of bark a place frequented by tourists or russian and for in a like this particular railway link kids so one of the busiest in moscow it's got sets when t. metrolink i'm sorry it's got said twenty two station accommodates about eight hundred thousand passengers per day and the time of the

. >>> joining me now, retired four-star army general eric mccaffery and anthony roman. anthony, i want to go to you as a pilot. what do you make of the evidence we're picking up so far in the debris pattern we've seen? >> it's clear that a catastrophic midair event occurred, and in this case the intelligence officials are pointing to the probability of a surface-to-air missile. that particular missile was in range of this aircraft based on the information we have, has a range of about 19 miles and can travel about mach 3 to 46,000 feet. so it appears this airliner was shot down. >> what about the fact that so much of the debris is close together, and it's not as scattered, as wildly scattered as you might expect, because it seems like this was not necessarily the total disintegration of the aircraft in the air. >> well, when you have a catastrophic event like this, the aircraft manipulates itself in a particular way that the aerodynamics at the high speed it's traveling will rip the airplane apart. so it's not uncommon to find a debris field that's compacted like this a

we have a set of roman ruins that was -- >> i love the roman ruins. get the roman ruins right there in front of you. right in front of you. that's it right there. my camera man. the arches there, those are phenomenal. those are concrete. 50,000 pounds each, right? >> they were brought over directly from rome. >> brought in from rome. that's not true. they're actually stir row foam, but they look real, guys. i got to tell you, really, really cool. it is a beautiful afternoon across our area. here we are in kensington on a beautiful day. take a look at the numbers across our region. temperatures right now in the 80s. we're sitting at the 85 degree mark. at least we are earlier. now we're at 86. winds out of the east with partly cloudy skies. 82 degrees in gaithersburg. nice and comfortable. look at frederick, though. 88 degrees. same thing down towards fridayed ricksburg with a temperature of 88 degrees. as we look towards the next couple of days we're going to be noticing that temperatures will get a little warmer, but we're not going see a lot of rain

. >> at a very, very young age, i had absolute faith and belief and love of the roman catholic church, of its rituals, of its traditions, even as a small boy. >> narrator: at the seminary, peter was a victim of repeated sexual abuse by his spiritual director, father leifeld. in 1988, when peter was in his late 20s, he found the courage to confront his abuser and report to the church authorities. he soon discovered that he was not alone. >> there were survivors just independent of each other, just starting to come forward across the united states, now we know across the world, and we all went down the same path, which was we went to the religious officials and authorities first-- the bishops and the provincials-- and reported to them what had happened to us. and now in my case, there were promises made. the provincial told me, "we're gonna keep father leifeld away from children. we've got him in a secure treatment facility. he's never gonna be around children," this kind of thing. it's when i found out that they had lied to me, that he was in fact around children, that he was under no

yeah you know among the emerging market countries of course people would say well the roman be clearly it's a candidate for being a reserve currency the rest of the world but of course you know in order for that to see come to fruition i think china needs to carry all substantially more financial reform i mean for one thing and probably the most important thing that roman be is not a freely circulated currency so the capital what counts in china is still closed so that people cannot move. into and out of china freely and that's a really big barrier to the right and b. to become a reserve currency there are also a whole host of negro and economic institutional reason why they are in the still not quite ready to be of currency. you know for example there has to be a lot more transparency in the budgetary process and china you know as messy as the u.s. budgetary process is it's actually you know pretty transparent and the whole world can see republicans and democrats debate about the budget you know on t.v. that's not something that you can see in china and so people are you know sometime

correspondent roman cars for a and wide of the reason downing of a malaysian airliner top officials from four international organizations met today in montréal to discuss risks to civilian aviation in conflict zones meaning brought together representatives of the international civil aviation organization and three other groups that represent the world air carriers airports and aaron navigation service providers artie's along the france is in our newsroom with the very latest highlands a. hi there well when malaysia airlines flight seventeen went down on july seventeenth one of the first things people asked aside from how it fell out of the sky was why it was flying through that part of the sky to begin with after all eastern ukraine is a well known hot spot with rebels having bragged about surface to air missile capability just days earlier they had also reportedly taken down two ukrainian military aircraft in the region and the moments after news hit of flight seventeen crashing civil aviation regulators rerouted flights over that entire corridor today at a special high level meeting of

christine romans is joining us from new york. we going to see all the parents get refunds, christine? >> you know what, parents has been complaining about this for a long time and they're suing. they allowed kids to purpose the items without requiring a password for too long. they're looking -- they're looking for money for refunds for all the parents affected. it could be in the millions of dollars because apple -- apple settled with the ftc over a similar issue. that refund was $32.5 million. amazon says it's already refunded some of the charges. amazon says that even recently, now they're requiring passwords for all -- all purchases inside the kindle fire games. but in fact, the government still going after amazon. >> you would expect amazon to settle, what do you think? >> well, you know, amazon is not settling like apple did. amazon is fighting it. they're saying their case is different than apple's. and this is what the general counsel said. it's an understatement to say this is deeply disappointing. the commission's unwill

christine romans has the numbers for you.i, clhristine. >> 2,200 make $172,000 a year but there say pay gap that exists between men and women. i'll break down the numbers for you after the break. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. checking some top stories at 29 minutes past the hour. an important warning for parents. graeco agreed to recall nearly 2 million infant car seats because of a problem with the buckle. apparently some parents had to cut the harnesses to get their kids out of the seat. the models in question were made between 2010 and 2013. the company and the government argued for five months before this recall was finally announced. >>> in california, hundreds of firefighters are facing extremely dry conditions as they battle a fast-moving blaze. the massive wildfire in napa county scorched nearly 3,000 acres and it's only about 30% contained. roughly 150 homes have been evacuated but so far, there are no reports of injury. >>> for the first time ever, nasa has launched a satellite

that was archies roman coaster of now in spite of initial assumptions u.s. intelligence officials released a report stating they could find no evidence of direct russian involvement in the downing of flight seventeen but the officials did accuse moscow of creating the conditions that led to the disaster artie's amir a david has more on the intel and what the state department is saying about the crash. senior u.s. intelligence official blade out the evidence they have regarding who they believe bears the responsibility for the malaysian airliner i was shot down just a week ago early yesterday evening the intelligence community said they use satellite sensors and other intelligence gathering to determine that the missile originated in a separatist held territory officials reiterated that they believe the plane was likely shot down by an take a separatist using and as a eleven surface to air missile they also made clear that they have no evidence at this point that the missile used to shoot down the passenger jet came from russia that being said the u.s. still

people in the west are willing to protest loudly against the violence unlike their governments or roman majority of people are really feeling the pain of the palestinians they really understand that this use of israelis that this massacre is necessary for peace and security they don't accept that and they feel that israel need to be accountable and hold accountable but unfortunately the governments and the media as a whole in the west are totally biased trying to equate. sort of palestinian suffering we did needs an aspiration of israelis and i think this is disparity and this is why people are coming in their houses and millions in the streets to say enough is enough. arabs have also been protesting in israel a rally in jerusalem ended in clashes with police several dozen people were arrested after throwing rocks at the israeli offices the police responded with tear gas and water cannons is our middle east correspondent paula slayer. the situation here on the ground amongst israel's arab population is extremely volatile on friday there were demonstrations here in east jerusalem not far