eight missiles landed altogether in the haifa and tel aviv central area.o warning of them. >> it was a fairly clever ploy by saddam hussein to split apart the coalition and it took all of the diplomatic wherewithal of the president to keep israel out of the war. >> the coalition will give saddam hussein until noon saturday. >> if he doesn't begin moving his forces, the allied coalition is on the verge of invading kuwait and iraq by land. >> we tried to give him some good advice a few months ago. we told them, move it or lose it. they wouldn't move it, now they will lose it. >> colin powell, then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, believed in exerting maximum power on the ground so that you wouldn't be fighting a prolonged war, that this would be quick, decisive. it became known as the powell doctrine. >> the ground war started this morning as the americans and their allies attack with massive fire power that shook the earth. >> we're about 15 1/2 hours into a ground war that from all of the sketchy reports that we're receiving is going well. so far the

on one side we have areas in tel aviv in the centre and some parts ofjerusalem even that we feel that want to love and be who we want to be, but there are a lot of places in israel where it is still not that situation. the new law has touched a nerve in israel which does recognise same—sex unions performed abroad, however gay relationships are still considered taboo among religious conservatives. jorginho smyth, bbc news. —— georgina smyth, bbc news. the roman catholic cardinal of nicaragua, leopoldo brenes, says the church is being persecuted by the government of daniel 0rtega. church leaders have been attempting to mediate during months of anti—government protests. the un says more than 300 people have been killed. churches have been vandalised in recent weeks and cardinal brenes said he had been manhandled by the security forces. church leaders are expected to meet on monday to decide whether to continue the mediation effort. sweden is appealing for international help to tackle dozens of forest fires raging across the country. firefighters are continuing their struggle to put out t

on one side, we have areas in tel aviv, in the centre, and some parts ofjerusalem even, that we feelwe want to be. but there are a lot of places in israel where it‘s still not that situation. the new law has touched a nerve in israel, which does recognise same—sex unions performed abroad. however, gay relationships are still considered taboo among religious conservatives. georgina smyth, bbc news. one of germany‘s star football players, mesut 0zil, says he will no longer play for the national team. in a long and heartfelt statement on twitter, he also accused the german football association of racism. 0zil, who plays for arsenal and is of turkish origin, has been widely criticised in germany for being photographed alongside the turkish president at an event in may. aaron safir reports. he plays at the heights of european football at british premier league side arsenal. he has 92 caps and has scored 23 goals for his country. in 2014, he was part of germany‘s world cup winning side, but a lot has changed since then. in may this year, 0zil and another player were photographed with turke

tens of thousands of israeli protesters have rallied in tel aviv against a law denying surrogacy to gayed to continue seeking surrogate mothers abroad, for large sums of money. activists say the strike was not only about the law, but the place of the gay community in israeli society. georgina smyth has the story. rainbow flags fly high, as thousands push for equality in israel. it is the end of a day—long strike in protest to the exclusion of gay men from surrogacy legislation passed last week. we came here today to say to the government, no more. we want equality, and we want equal rights for everyone. previously, only heterosexual married couples were able to use a surrogate. under the changes, women can access a surrogate. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu didn‘t extend that to single men and, by extension, men in same—sex relationships. he says the entire bill would have otherwise been blocked in parliament. on one side, we have areas in tel aviv, in the centre, in some parts ofjerusalem even, that we feel that it‘s very liberal and that we can be open, and love who we want to l

controversial bill suffer an al is the head of her its foreign news desk joins me now live from tel aviv in israel thanks very much for joining us sir now this new legislation formalizes to a certain extent the segregation and discrimination that was already in play and informally. yes hello i think that first of all a law that was passed last night didn't change anything substantial about the of life we need to have a start from the language which will top of the language you need to learn now he downgraded to a special status but if you walk into public space in his lair usually because not . when you try to get services in government offices ability to get to get them in now because very limited if not possible not to mention banco and the other private . in the top four to. within all big and. probably the most from one proposal policy about they're encouraging jewish settlements. in the government attorney general said that this phrasing was only the clarity of which means that there is no actual legal and move that you can do based on it but some commentators some of that is. doing

is a senior columnist for al monitor news website he joins us now via skype from tel aviv so good to have you with us once again to forty targets struck by israel today in the biggest daylight raids in four years most of them on targets in open ground after these hamas rocket launches thirty one of them into southern israel overnight what do you make of it. what i make of it is that this is an unfortunate collation that nobody wants not this well neither the harm us but you know something sometimes things have to happen because the leaders are not doing the right thing and the right thing right now is both these wellies and hamas have to agree on what not the hamas has offered it to israel which is kind of a cease fire as you mentioned before at me and it lasted for about three and a half years and now there is a new kind of struggle that israel has not faced in on it and now is just just agreed with. putting on the kind of an arrangement in syria to get the iranian out of the israeli border but it is same time israel has no answer to the kite attacks of children and since its launch

community also held a one day strike ahead of a mosque rally on robben square in tel aviv. whose ecuador could be close to a fix in wiki leaks founder julian i thought from its london embassy u.s. journalist glenn greenwald was forcing ecuador's president to travel to britain last week to finalize the deal activists was granted asylum in twenty twelve to avoid extradition to sweden where he faced sexual assault allegations. tropical storm song tin has his northern vietnam leaving thirty two people dead and more than a. a dozen missing loads have been triggered by heavy rains severely affecting coastal areas around the capital hanoi chasms of homes have been damaged and the extreme weather is forecast to continue for the next few days. while u.s. president donald trump has lashed out at his former lawyer after secret tapes emerged of the two men talking about payments to a former playboy model and tweets child said the recordings made in the run up to the twenty sixty u.s. election by his that authority michael cohen were unheard off and could have been illegal f.b.i. agents

mother as the country's community also has a one day strike ahead of a mass rally on robben square in tel aviv. ecuador could be close to if they take wiki leaks founder julian assange from its london embassy u.s. . and that's the thing greenwald is reporting that ecuador's president travels to britain last week to finalize the deal straight in october as was granted the thought of him and twenty twelve to avoid extradition to sweden where he faced sexual assault allegations. from tropical storms on tin has his northern vietnam leaving thirty two people dead and more than a dozen missing have been triggered by heavy rains severely affecting coastal areas and the capital hanoi in the homes have been damaged and the extreme weather is forecast to continue for the next few days. to be here as president donald trump pozen lashed days at his former lawyer after secret tape the merger of the two men talking about payments to a former playboy model in a twenty's trump says that the recordings made in the run up to the twenty sixty u.s. election by his then a tornado michael cohen were on herself and

breast milk you could this very hard to find anything i agree with except moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem might read with that and i'm always going to agree with some presidential actions and disagree with that as i greet with most of president obama's actions but i disagreed with him when he didn't veto the un resolution declaring jerusalem to be illegally occupied territory or do you think a brett kavanaugh. well i don't know him i you know shaking hands with him in the harvard factually lounge but i don't know him but people i know generally think he's a gentleman and brilliant a great scholar i will disagree with probably ninety percent of his opinion he's a certainly qualified by his background i'm going to wait to hear how he answers questions before i make a final decision but i certainly wouldn't join those and say i'm in order magically vote against i'm not going to do with the republicans that the republicans stole the nomination from barack obama not allowing merrick garland case to even be considered that i think was a violation of the constitution but i don't thi

people and israel enemies could use it as a weapon protest as against the new law march through tel aviv on saturday. oh my god oh i love him very slowly and thousands of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism. they are your creed and i came today to see that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior nations to discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinian see the law as legitimizing apartheid the silver al-jazeera donald trump now says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty six in presidential election it's a lazy

but instead of returning direct to washington kissinger made a stopover in tel aviv for a few hours. that's off to news twenty second of october he would give his blessing to israeli plans to violate a cease fire even before the time of god. on the sick for the toba nine hundred seventy three the egyptians mounted a lightning attack across the suez canal. their goal to liberate the sinai peninsula occupied by israel sixty is in the six day war. to field all means one hundred thousand men had established bridgeheads ten kilometers deep into sinai. during the first week of war the israelis had lost equipment at an unprecedented rate. five hundred tanks. and fifty aircraft. to an egyptian army equipped with the latest soviet weaponry can tell the anti-tank rockets. and sophisticated sufis to add missiles. right on the political system away from the soviets were trying to impose their will on the middle east to regain a position data supplied mashable forms to the arab world. united states had to respond and it had to make sure that weapons were not perceived as being inferior in the sov

it isn't serving any useful purpose it was minister of difference ya'll diane is deputy mayor of tel aviv but probably better known for being the daughter of moshe dyan the hero of the one nine hundred sixty seven war in which israel alec's the west bank this current war she argues is not the answer. it's not effective. because instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in the sense that it is a provocation it's not a peaceful partition it became a political statement and it's a very bad to deep feelings of occupation and. a speaking it doesn't have legality from anybody in displaced. and. yet the israeli public went along with the idea of highly decorated army pilot believes they allowed themselves to be duped with catastrophic results. naive u.t. i am not using the war stupidity to signal everything to the people who are you know that eighty percent of the jews in israel are were working in the morning oh my god i want peace oh my god so much of the left in israel is praying for you who will give you his mother for the peace. oh my goodness. and stup

reaction that they might have had in a different situation i think moving the israeli capital from tel aviv to jerusalem which was a campaign promise of the president president trump that he followed through on definitely embolden the israeli government to do this but the problem is they've got two million palestinians there and they have legislated them into basic non-citizen oblivion and the only way you're going to turn this around is with international outrage twenty four hours later that's not really happened rob meanwhile prime minister benjamin netanyahu.

i was in tel aviv, actually, doing this show, and you were doing a concert.r this, but everybody noticed you, obviously. and they played one of your songs, and you were doing air guitar. you were singing at the table. and you seemed so happy, and i thought, "god, after all these years, he gets a charge out of it still." i was really moved by that. i do get a joy out of it. i like it. i feel like things people feel, i can feel it inside. i can see it in their eyes and their mannerisms. so when the waiters and waitresses come up and they act a certain way, it's like, "i'm yours. i'm yours." it was really apparent, and it was great. yeah. oh, good. i'm glad you saw that. i remember you once said, and it struck me so, that "the front row is my family," when you were at concerts. and i found that interesting because you had a real family. i was high, didn't pay a lot of attention to my family, and it's just one of those things you pay for. you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let's say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed.

but instead of returning direct to washington kissinger made a stopover in tel aviv for a few hours. that's off to news twenty second of october he would give his blessing to israeli plans to violate a cease fire even before the dawn. on the sixth of the toba nine hundred seventy three the egyptians mounted a lightning attack across the suez canal. their goal to liberate the sinai peninsula occupied by israel six years earlier in the six day war. to field all means one hundred thousand men had established bridgeheads ten kilometers deep into sinai. during the first week of war the israelis had lost equipment at an unprecedented rate. five hundred tanks. and fifty aircraft. to an egyptian army equipped with the latest soviet weaponry can tell the anti-tank rockets. and sophisticated sufis to add missiles. right on the political system way from the soviets were trying to impose their will on the middle east to regain a position data supplied mashable forms to the arab world. united states had to respond and it had to make sure that weapons were not perceived as being inferior in the so

embassy in tel aviv to palestine's capital during the may oppose the embassy move and urged greater restraint by israeli soldiers but it is clear who britain's minority government support here's a video posted on israeli pm netanyahu as you tube channel we are proud of our pioneering role in the creation of the state of israel we are proud to stand here today together with prime minister netanyahu and declare our support for israel predictable then the british arms sales to israel under tourism may reach the record levels according to the campaign against the arms trade just ahead of prince william is a meeting with netanyahu but some believe like pink floyd legend roger waters that a boycott is required here he is urging one to irish politicians if this bill is passed. it would become illegal in ireland to import products wrong settlements in palestine which is we all agree are illegal they contravene the fourth geneva convention while that may be international or other musicians certainly haven't called for the cultural boycott of israel demanded by waters in the neck of the campaign agains

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jewish people and israel's enemies could use it as a weapon protestors against the will march to tel aviv on saturday oh my god oh i love him very slowly in the house of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism they are your credit i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinians say they see the move as legitimizing apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them until stephanie decker al-jazeera them well to syria now agreements have been reached between t

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they've been grassroots protests from some schools and the principal of the school in north tel aviv to one it says that the new law will not stop him from telling his students both sides of the israeli palestinian story as a principal as an educator it is my duty to stand up and say no more these laws are meant to harm democracy i should not be part of it i do not agree with it and i should object to it it runs against freedom it has not been challenged in the high court yet because the legislation is fresh the ngo law is another dark step in the road towards the end of democracy in israel israel these standing on the verge of because this is only one piece of legislation in a long list. which intend to curtail freedoms of speech. over six decades worth of arms exports by the us have been revealed now in a new project mapping the flow to all major recipients using information from an arms transfer database will carry created a float map of u.s. weapons across the globe spanning from one. nine hundred fifty two last year it tracked a shift in recipients from europe japan and canada t

reaction that they might have had in a different situation i think moving the israeli capital from tel aviv to jerusalem which was a campaign promise of the president president trump that he followed through on definitely embolden the israeli government to do this but the problem is they've got two million palestinians there and they have legislated them into basic.

that it isn't serving any useful purpose it was minister different ya'll diane is deputy mayor of tel aviv but probably better known for being the daughter of moshe dyan the hero of the one nine hundred sixty seven war in which israel alec's the west bank this current war she argues is not the answer. first it's not effective. because instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in the sense that it is a provocation it's not a peaceful party. it became a political statement and it's a very bad to deep feelings of additional patients. a speaking it doesn't have legality from anybody in displaced. population. yet the israeli public went along with the idea of highly decorated army pilot believes they allowed themselves to be duped with catastrophic results. naivety i am not using the war stupidity to signal everything to the people who are you know that eighty percent of the jews in israel are working in the morning that oh my god i want peace oh my god so much of the left in israel is praying for you who will give you his mother for the peace . oh my goodn

violence a few hours ago the top echelon here in israel the military and political brass met in tel aviv we are hearing from a high ranking israeli official that in the coming hours the country will decide what to do in gaza and how to proceed it comes after the israeli defense forces threatened a response and they continue to blame her must for this flare up. the i.d.f. use today's. activity is treated by hamas throughout the last month with great severity hamas chose to escape the security situation and move the consequences for its actions. now israeli civilians who live along the gaza border have been ordered to stay near bomb shelters and at the same time hamas has been evacuating commandos and posts in a in anticipation that the violence could intensify now there has been massive strikes earlier in the week that comes after the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu also threatened that he would strike back. during the summer we hit hard my policy is clear when anyone seeks to harm us we will strike back with great force. now late on friday afternoon there was again protests a

people and israel enemies could use it as a weapon protest as against the new law march through tel aviv on saturday. oh my god oh i love him very slowly and thousands of israelis came today protest to. test against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism they are your credit i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law will discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinian see the law as legitimizing apartheid from the silver al-jazeera well guys if it is an assistant professor of u.s. foreign policy and the middle east at the american university and he called it a sad day

and they've been grassroots protests from some schools and the principal of the school in north tel aviv to one it says that the new law will not stop him from telling his students both sides of the israeli palestinian story as a principal as an educator it is my duty to stand up and say no more these laws are meant to harm democracy i should not be part of it i do not agree with it and i should object to it it runs against freedom it has not been challenged in the high court yet because the legislation fresh the ngo law is another dark step in the road towards the end of democracy in israel israel is standing on the verge of because this is only one piece of legislation in a longer list. which intends to curtail freedoms of speech. ever more white farmers in south africa are considering emigrating as cases of violence against them rise at home now see russia as a suitable place to resettle and start over. our descendants of dutch speaking saddle errors at the eastern cape frontier in south africa during the eighteen and much of the one nine hundred century. people moved in the nineteent

commitment to the interests of tel aviv there will remain however donald trump did say that the militaries of the two countries work together better than. and the governments the white house and the kremlin so we did get a message from the few presidents that perhaps soon of the militaries can work together other authorities as well and in that case some specific arrangements on bringing peace to syria together could be made. artie's. cross the story line for us in helsinki thank you for bringing us that report. that we can now cross live to . a top level soviet conference interpreter for us thank you so much for joining us on the program today now the interpreters are usually the only people to know what was really said in the meeting how much of such secret talks are usually made public by leaders. while i think this press conference was actually quite useful because they talked at some length about what they. actually discussed to the press conference last two or. more than half an hour and they read statements that i think describe. quite fully perhaps not fully but. at length so what

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tel aviv. we spoke to political commentator i may or he thinks they're both sides are to blame for the latest escalation. well come us does not recognize israel he does not even recognize the oslo agreements which created the palestinian authority come out has more of a chair of blame but israel too is not blameless because rather than. take a corny a serious consideration of the so-called saudi peace and we should be drawing her story and while it is stalling more and more settlements are being built in the west bank and the chances for a deal between israel and the palestinians get slimmer by the day so yes there's enough blame to go around and even though hamas should take the largest share israel too has to answer for it. the country back at the top of the hour with all the latest news headlines at each end end if. but if you're standing in the middle of the street and someone reaches in their back in their back with a waistband the cop is not going to sit there and know give them the benef

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increasingly tense ok paula thank you for those details those paulus lee is speaking to us live from tel aviv. a hard one nuclear deal was struck between global powers and iran back in two thousand and fifteen in its run agreed to some limitations to its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in may other signatories are determined that the agreement stays in place former u.s. diplomat and jim dower trust says that the u.s. intentions in iran are clear it wants regime change. i think the symbolism of giving this speech at the reagan library was that he was drawing an analogy to the fall of communism and somehow that he says regime change is not the goal but frankly from what he describes it's seems to me that it amounts to regime change would have to be entirely different motive governance in iran from what he describes to satisfy what he laid out so i think he's basically saying that we want to support a popular movement to bring down the ayatollah was regime in the same way that communism fell in soviet union and the east

tel aviv we spoke to our political commentator amir oren the things that both sides are to blame for the latest escalation. well how much does not recognize israel he does not even recognize the oslo agreements which created the palestinian authority come out has more. share of blame but israel too is not blameless because rather then. please. take a corny a serious consideration of the so-called saudi peace and we should be driving to school and while it is stalling more and more settlements are being a good deal in the west bank and the chances for a deal between israel and the palestinians get slimmer by the day so yes there's enough blame to go around and even though hamas should take the largest share israel too has to answer for it. either so bring in some live pictures for you right now not that much to see but the expectations are very very high and live pictures here from helsinki international airport where president putin's plane is about to land at any moment now of course vladimir putin is set to meet his american counterpart donald trump it will be in about an hour or s

breast milk you can this very hard to find anything i agree with except moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem might read with that and i'm always going to agree with some presidential actions and disagree with that as i greet with most of president obama's actions but i disagreed with him when he didn't veto the un resolution declaring jerusalem to be illegally occupied territory or do you think a brett kavanaugh. well i don't know him i you know shaking hands with him in the harvard faculty lounge but i don't know him but people i know generally think he's a gentleman and brilliant a great scholar i will disagree with probably ninety percent of his opinions a certainty qualified by his background i'm going to wait to hear how he answers questions before i make a final decision but i certainly wouldn't join those and say i'm going to order magically vote against i'm not going to do with the republicans that the republicans stole the nomination from barack obama. allowing merrick garland case to even be considered that i think was a violation of the constitution but i don't think

people and israel enemies could use it as a weapon protest as against the new law march through tel aviv on saturday. oh my god oh i love him very slowly and thousands of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism they are your credit i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law will discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights by. the government led by prime minister benjamin now. yeah insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people have the sole right to national self-determination palestinian see the law as legitimizing apartheid when the silver. well guys if isn't this isn't professor of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east at the american university he called it a sad day for democracy in israel

reaction that they might have had in a different situation i think moving the israeli capital from tel aviv to jerusalem which was a campaign promise of the president president trump that he followed through on definitely embolden the israeli government to do this but the problem is they've got two million palestinians there and they have legislated them into basic non-citizen oblivion and the only way you're going to turn this around is with international outrage twenty four hours later that's not really happened rob meanwhile prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called his one galeon counterpart a true friend of israel despite allegations of i'm t. semitism viktor orban has visited jerusalem's holocaust museum during his first official trip to israel it was an outcry among jewish groups last year when oregon praised the man who ruled hungary jewing world war two and who collaborated with the nazis netanyahu says audubon has been an advocate for israel on the international stage. an israeli air strike has killed a palestinian man in gaza who was suspected of flying burning kites across th

tel aviv we spoke to a political commentator who thinks that both sides are to blame for the latest escalation. well come us does not recognize israel does not even recognize the also agreements which created the palestinian authority come out has more. share of blame but israel too is not blameless because rather than. least. take a corny a serious consideration of the so-called saudi peace and we should be trying to stall and why with these stalling more and more settlements are being built in the west bank and the chances for a deal between israel and the palestinians get slimmer by the day so yes there's enough blame to go around and even though hamas should take the largest share israel too has to answer for it. bring in some live pictures for you right now that is downtown helsinki the capital of finland where the motorcade making its way now to watch the presidential right now it's five minutes to two pm there is actually the same as moscow time a beautiful sunny day for this historic summit between the american president donald trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin of course

minister benjamin netanyahu is again meeting with the top military and political echelon here in tel aviv now earlier we did hear from the country's defense minister avigdor lieberman he threatened a large and painful military operation he said that israel would go to ball if the kites and balloons that are constantly flown from gaza into israel and has been for the past few weeks do not cease now the deadline given was friday afternoon and of course that deadline has passed the kite's continued and that again will be a contributory reason as to why we witnessing this flare up in violence there was earlier a meeting between netanyahu and the top brass the same time we're hearing from a senior israeli official that the coming hours will tell what will be israel's response now the israeli army has threatened that it will respond harshly and it continues to blame how much for the flare up in violence. the i.d.f. used today's it's like activity is treated by hamas throughout the last month with great severity hamas chose to skule the security situation a move the consequences for its actions.