in 1967, after the six-day war, i israel took control of the gaza strip, the sinai peninsula, the the strip, the sinai peninsula, the the west bank, the golon heights and annexed east jerusalem. in 2003, israel began construction on a wall along the green line representing the israeli-palestinian border. the wall now stretches 450 miles. when completed, it will span 700 miles. 85% of it in palestinian territory. on one hand, there's no doubt that the number of suicide bombings fell drastically. on the other, there's this. you cross from jerusalem into the west bank. also called judea, sumaria, also called palestine. since 1967, half a million settlers have moved here, all in contravention of international law. many in contravention of israeli law. though in effect, it seems to make little difference. they're here and in ever-larger numbers. this is one of our drivers from tel aviv who i asked about the graffiti on this house near the settlements. so what is price tagging? >> something happens in a settlement or some attack with jews, kids from the settlement would come and have a pric

violence that had previously been confined to the sinai peninsula is now getting closer to cairo. the government says the brotherhood bears responsibility for the blast and other attacks even though it's not directly involved. >> it was not an objection to the state's economic policy, it was the state's foreign policy orientation. it is clear all of this is a result of the specific situation that the brotherhood is suffering. >> reporter: amid all the turmoil the government is pressing ahead with its political road map which has been significantly rearranged. a presidential election will now likely be held ahead of parliamentary polls. so the ab you dul fattah al sisi could become egypt's second democratically elected president. al jazeera. >> and al jazeera is demanding a release of the team of its journalists in egypt. security forces detaining the form. peter gresti and mohamed fami and bahir mohamed. all we should point out are experience journalists who have worked for multiple international media organizations over the last two decades. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, d

militants who oppose the temporary leadership attacks on security forces are continuing in the sinai peninsula in other parts of the country. the interim government has declared a national referendum on a draft constitution will take place in mid january the japanese government has approved the country's largest ever draft budget for fiscal two thousand and fourteen at a cabinet meeting the government will reduce new bond issuance but will still depend on large amounts of debt. the budget totals about ninety six billion yen or about nine or twenty billion dollars that's up more than thirty billion dollars from the current fiscal year. about seven hundred billion dollars worth of the allotted for policy spending social security is the biggest single item with about two hundred and ninety billion dollars as japan's population ages the government plans to raise revenue by about four hundred and eighty billion dollars through taxes. that's up more than sixty six billion dollars from the current fiscal year. this is due to a schedule consumption tax hike. in an increase in corporate taxes coming in

an armed group, which is active in the sinai peninsula is claiming responsibility for the bombings.laim, rioters have been attacking shops and businesses, associated with the muslim brotherhood. >>> israeli air strikes in gaza have left one person dead. al jazerra has learned that's victim was a three-year-old girl who lived in a refugees camp. the air strikes came after an israeli civilian was shot dead on the gaza border. no one has claimed responsibility for killing the man. it was the first to die on the gaza frontier in more than a year. israel i military says a weapons manufacturing facility and a rocket launcher were among the targets of tuesday's air strikes. a lawyer for an indian diplomat who was arrested and strip searched is accusing u.s. authorities of mishandling the investigation. the diplomat's attorney says the agent who dupe th dupe the chare a key error that led to arrest. the council genoas arrested in new york. and the response has made officials in india angry. >>> paperwork is the only thing standing in front of the freedom of green peace demonstrators jailed

each other elsewhere they should military says it's killed a key al qaeda linked militant to the sinai peninsula it is thought that he was be on the deaths of sixteen soldiers there last august of yet keep abreast of all our news twenty four seven credit see of our web seem r.t. dot com next the story of a homeless man who's found his feet by using his face so we'll stay with us for that. there calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us would just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i'd probably check my email about seven times obama's place you know i said most of us but the president isn't supposed to be like most of us because he represents all of us it's one thing when

the blast underlined the risk of militancy move into the densely populated nile valley from the sinai peninsula where attacks have killed some two hundred soldiers and police since july. egypt has ensured that the bloodiest internal strife in its modern history since the army removed from our c the nation's first freely elected leader after mass protests against him sparking an islamist insurgency in the basque region bordering israel irish bookmaker paddy power has withdrawn its sponsorship of retired u s basketball player dennis rodman visit to north korea saying it was a result of general condemnation of pyongyang. rodman returned earlier in the week from a four day trip to the reclusive country that was arranged by paddy power and followed the rare courage of leader kim jong un is powerful. uncle james song say who was executed this month. north korea's economy once larger than south korea's is now a forty of the size of its neighbor is twenty four million people regularly suffer food shortages the execution reflected in the brutality and regime and its a low regard for human life. us presi

most attacks that occurred in the sinai peninsula under some have occurred further south in recent months . i the rich and aunt j and more. it was i do. y'all. the us. i mean in the uk to. dual nationals gone to play in serie a in a bid to prevent their return to the united kingdom the home secretary has so far revoke the british citizenship of twenty people this year more than the past two and a half years combined in total main engine of the citizenship of thirty seven people since spring two thousand ten according to the bureau of investigative journalism. security sources here in the repercussions of serious civil war because of its proximity to europe making it easier for violin uk based extremists to travel to and from the country however critics warned that the practice of stripping citizenship could leave individuals at risk of torture and ill treatment in their home countries between forty and two hundred forty britons are estimated to be fighting in syria. the syrian civil war has so far raged for more than two years drying combatants from around the world like no other conflict

now egypt's military dictatorship is fighting what it calls terrorists in the sinai peninsula.rebels there want to establish a strict islamic state. the battle has gone largely uncovered-- until now. >> reporter: this is what egypt's war on terrorism looks like up close. these propaganda videos by islamic extremists document one attack after another on egyptian security forces. these are the people behind those attacks. in the desert along the border with israel, a funeral was held for four militants killed last summer. their bodies draped in the black flag of militant islam. the imam called for jihad against the egyptian government and jews and christians across the world. "we will show you the fires of hell" he shouted. "in each and every country." egypt's military has launched a major offensive in this remote and impoverished part of the country. journalists are strictly prohibited from traveling into sinai so we went in undercover. we saw house upon house leveled, cars and tractors burned, evidence of a scorched-earth policy by egyptian forces. owners of this destroyed home

violence that had previously been confined to the sinai peninsula is now getting closer to cairo. the government says the brotherhood bears responsibility for the blast and other attacks even if it's not directly involved. >> it was not an objection to the state's economic policy or to the state's foreign policy orientation. it is clear all of this is a result of the specific situation that the brother hood is suffering. >> amid all the turmoil the government is pressing ahead with its political road map which has significantly been rearranged. a presidential election will now likely be held ahead of parliamentary polls. the army chief abdul fattah al sisi could be egypt's second democratically elected president. >>> detained four al jazeera journalists. correspondent peter gresta have not been formally charged. worked for international media organizations over the last two decades. al jazeera is demanding that our staff be released immediately. >>> well, let's go to sharif mansour. , what about egypt, at the moment? >> well, egypt has seen unprecedented waves of attack, against j

people have held the government responsible for all sorts of acts of conflict, not just in the sinai peninsularoup has claimed responsibility for the bombing, late last night or yesterday morning, the brotherhood is still in the minds of a lot of people intimately linked to that attack. people don't see the distinction between the brotherhood and those organizations. so i think broodly speaking the government will probably have a lot of public support for this -- for this act, and i think that the timing -- i think the attack is perhaps made it a lot easier for them to make the declaration. >> peter the deputy prime minister was the one that made the announcement. and he said there will be punishment to anyone participating in the activities of muslim brotherhood, and punishment for anyone funding it. many don't even have charges against them that are already in prison, but it doesn't bode well for those already incarcerated inside egypt. >> no, it doesn't. and it puts a lot of people who would consider themselves to be peaceful activists in a very, very difficult position. that makes them col

wind storm alexisa dropped snow and ice from turkey far south to the sinai peninsula. for some that meant snow balls and snow angels. for syrians caught up in that civil war and refugees right shoes or clothing living under canvas or more makeshift shelters a harsh reality became more harsh. >> my husband is sick and the cold weather is hurting us, we are getting sick from the smell of the stove. >> in this informal refugee camp. marian had to put shoes on the fire to keep her stove burning. others are burning plastic bags. the choice here is stark. freeze to death, or risk illness from the smoke of the fires. even in neighboring jorched jordan where the u.n. has been allowed to set up this refugee camp. home to 120,000 syrians conditions are hard. ib rahim and his family. >> gas stove but no gas canister. >> u.n. officials say there will be more help. the winter weather is one of the hardships the united nations 6.5 billion effort will help. how to reach the millions of people forced from their homes, but still inside syria. >> we are not doing, as an international co

what's interesting about this is a group based in the sinai peninsula claimed responsibility for thisbing but the government has still decided to levy most of the blame on the brotherhood and right after the hours after the bombing decided to designate the group as a terrorist organization which means anybody who is participating in a protest sponsored by the brotherhood can get up to five years in jail and anyone found leading a pro fest can get life in jail. >> this would seem like a major setback for egypt, not just the muslim brother hood because after all, an the first democratically elected president was from that very group. now for the country to label it a terrorist organization seems very hypocritical and seems like a major setback. is it? and if so, to what degree. >> let's remember the muslim brotherhood has been around since 1928 when it was founded in the nile dealt at that time north of cairo. so they've had long experience with being essentially legal most of that time. abdel nasser who is the president from the 1960s and anhe's the president a lot of people are drawin

violence that had previously been confined to the sinai peninsula is getting closer to cairo.he government says the they have responsibility for the blast and attacks even if it's not directly involved. >> translator: it was not an objection to the state economic policy or the foreign policy mutation. it is clear all of this is the result of the specific situation that the brotherhood is suffering. >> reporter: amid the turmoil the government is pressing ahead with its political roadmap which has been significantly rearranged. presidential election will now likely be held ahead of parliamentary polls. so the army chief who led the july coup, the increasingly popular could by april become egypt's second democratically elected president. and i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: and we have a senior lecture in the study of islam and the muslim world at the college in london and thank you very much for joining us. let's clamp down on the brotherhood and anyone associated or talks about them, how far do you think this is likely to go? >> well, it has gone very far already. the muslim

a group active in the sinai peninsula claimed responsibility. writers have been attacking shops and businesses. egypt's former prime minister is under arrest. this man served under mohamed morsi and is facing a year in prison. the company was originally owned by the egyptian government. the united nations has voted to double as peacekeeping troops. 1300 troops are headed to the region. u.n. relief workers say there's evidence of killings along ethnic lines. one mass grave was found there. it erupted after a power struggle between south sudan. >> santa under attack. in washington d.c. - the nation's capital. arrangemently someone doesn't like st. nick handing out toys for children and a search is under way to find a grinch armed with a pellet gun. syria's refugee children share their wishes for this christmas. plus, the meaning of christmas is changing from americans to a day of significance to a cultural institution. we are looking live at the vatican where pope francis is giving his first christmas message to crowds at st. peter's square. he's

most has been concentrated in the northern part of the sinai peninsula.e seen in the past 48 hours, both in the attack in cairo and north of cairo, it was targeting a police security headquarters, not too far away from the capital. given the fact that it was very heavily fortified according to the ministry of interior. the scope and the significance of the attack is the fact that the would-be attacker was able to get so close to this building and carry out the type of suicide bombing that egypt has not seen for decades. more importantly, it has the hallmarks of the type of violence we are seeing in other countries near egypt. that is what is giving a lot of people in the country and officials here a sense of tremendous amount of fear of what could be coming in the weeks and months ahead. >> of course, calling the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization gives the military coverage to go after them as a so-called war on terror. i'm curious how is that playing on the ground in egypt? does the public believe that that's the case? >> reporter: well, right

the muslim brotherhood in this we've of attack that has crippled the country in the northern sinai peninsulahere in egypt, but there's no doubt from the perspective of ordinary egyptians that there is a groundswell of egyptians against the muslim brother hood. the organization has come out and repeatedly condemned these attacks saying that it is not calling for any types of violence, despite the fact that it wants to maintain its ability to protest and in fact, has repeatedly denounced the use of violence, particularly targeting security forces. nonetheless, the egyptian government are holding the muslim brother hood responsible and yesterday we heard the announcement by the egyptian cabinet that the organization now is being described as a terrorist organization. that gives the egyptian authorities here much more power in going after the muslim brotherhood, its leadership and its finances and assets and it's in the eyes of many going to escalate the situation even further. >> eamon mohyeldin from cairo. stay safe. we appreciate it. >> up next, we'll check in to see if the astronauts' coolin

in this conflict israel was fighting the usual suspects, egypt to the seevet, along the sinai peninsula, and syria to the north. this joint ar ab initiative garnered the military support of jordan and iraq while egyptians received military hardware from the soviet union. egypt and syria lost launched a surprise attack on october 6, 1973, which was israel's most holy day, yam kippur, the day of atonement. the war inflicted heavy initial losses on israel's army and our air force and by october 8 . rael was in serious jeopardy a quick call was made to washington. the operation to resupply israel began. code name, operation nicholgrass. by the end of nicholgrass, the u.s. shipped tons of material to israel. israel received between 34 and 40 fighter bomber, 12 c-130's car-go pleens, eight helicopters and tons more of missiles and artillery pieces. it was one of the largest airlifts in u.s. history. the total cost of the military hardware delivered is estimated to be $4.14 billion. the airlift was a major shift in u.s.-israeli relations, it brought about a greater u.s. involvement in middle e

terrorists and vague bonds in he always lawless sigh nye peninsula are -- -- sinai peninsula are only encouraged. terrorists like al qaeda and hezbollah are streaming in out of sight. israel's east, already fragile jordan is being overrun with syrian refugees and infiltrated by terrorists as well. further east, al qaeda is wreaking havoc in iraq and there's more vibles there than at any point since 2008. to the far east, iran is closer than tover obtain agnew clear weapon that could enable it to fulfill its threat to wipe israel off the map. when i met with prime minister netanyahu two weeks ago he was clear that israel cannot -- -- we cannot accept iran as a nuclear power if israel wants to continue to exist. we not only gave away the farm we gave away the mineral rights as well. we took off our best diplomatic tool, sanctions, off the table. the biggest problem with the deal, it made a peaceful solution more unlikely. with all these threats surrounding it, we need to stand side by side, let the world know our enemies and our friends, that we are allies of israel. they are the u.s.'