the west bank town is surrounded by israeli settlements.auck said that access to education is essential for all palestinians. >> that is what a future palestinian state needs, just like germany and every free and democratic society in the world. mature citizens who can take over responsibility, every country needs that. >> some were hoping for a clear statement from jaochim gauck against israel's settlement policies, but the president kept a low profile, stressing the importance of education to resolve conflicts. jaochim gauck was a bit more outspoken in a ramallah meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. he told him he called on israel to show restraint with his settlement, but that was not enough for abbas. >> i told the president that israel is violating international treaties. that concerns its settlement policy in the west bank and in jerusalem. >> jaochim gauck said all people in the region yearn for an end to the long-running conflict. >> well, some of the girls we saw in school at the start of the report may become police o

he ended up documenting the resistance movement to the separation wall in the west bank village of bil'in. >> it takes a bullet three milliseconds to hit my camera. in that time, before the experience becomes a memory, everything i know vanishes. >> we will stick with the film's palestinian and israeli director. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. pro-government forces in syria are being accused of committing a new massacre with reports of more than 86 dead in the village in hama province. residences' during forces shelled the village before pro- government militants entered and killed dozens of civilians. the alleged attack comes less than two weeks after more than 100 civilians were reportedly killed in houla. the syrian government has denied the latest allegations and u.n. monitors say they're attempting to their -- verify the death toll. afghan officials and witnesses said the death toll from a u.s.- led nato bombing in logar province on wednesday included 18 civilians. the victims had reportedly gather

on thursday israel handing the bodies of ninety one palestinian militants to authorities in the west bank in an attempt it said to encourage the stalled peace talks so why are we seeing this sudden increase of tension now. well i think all militant faction at this time to be announced they did not have any responsibility was such operation and. everybody knows now when it goes astray was committed by a palestinian militant a young man who as i said before that he feels the frustration against israeli policy against the palestinian people and old palestinian factions to be insisted be still focused on the. call with their israeli side and i think up to this mormon the situation has been. not much tension despite this people have the fear that the israeli military might to strike overnight. the night is coming now in gaza strip as you can see there people come to have such fear that such an attack by the israeli military might be over might so we're seeing fear on behalf of the palestinians against israelis but we are seeing some positive signs are we not within gaza itself the political fa

at one point, they said, we want the west bank and gaza. the words of a turn to a friend of mine, who went to see the film with, i said -- ohil, what you think the appeal of the film would be that they said it they wanted west bank, gaza, and israel? he said, the filmmakers would take it out pretty >> we have to leave it there. we will post our discussion on gandhi online. norman finkelstein, "knowing too much: why the american jewish romance with israel is coming to an end." his other book, "what gandhi says: about

angry protests and benjamin netanyahu orders the removal of a west bank settlement. and 2117 will be the next time venus moves across the sun's surface. what light does it throw on our universe? >> hello. it's midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington and 1:00 p.m. in brussels where the european commission has proposed new rules on how governments must deal with failing banks. with growing fears there will be more shocks, the credit agency moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of six german banks including the second biggest lender. with the latest from brussels, here's matthew price. >> from royal rock and the royal bank of scotland and limaens and beyond, the banks collapsing continues to mount with governments picking up the tab. when this belgian bank was bailed out twice, it cost the government here billions, and that cost is still going up. when governments step in to save banks, debt builds up in the private sector and it's passed on ultimately to the taxpayer, and senior officials here are saying that must end. >> step forward the european official in cha

and it turned out to be it rd i wsssed us had the disgruntled majority population in the west bank. so it's always been, you know, a very tenuous thing there. they would be better off. yo t ifu [inaudible] said you -- can you quote him exactly about the -- you n't until you have the borders that guarantee the nest? >> he said that the oldotion rdasoerntirely right unless it made the next one inevitable. and that was true. and for a century in european history, and i think there's a problem here in the middle east generallythat thebde re r that paris peace conference. and th don't match. there's an overlap and difficulty. i think in the long rn that the there will be. reorsen the wiy palestinian and the israelis and anufoyrlantees on both sides. examples that get close to a place that you feel comfortable writing about as he example. we reached a break point in the e k. tofere itgoeomee heth you find interesting and troubling? >> the obvious one is former ing involve ya. --inauble] it feel apart. one 69 reasons it feel apart in 1990 germany recognizes croatia as a independent country

the palestinian president in the west bank town of bethlehem. he held talks with benjamin netanyahu. the russian president criticized the israelis for building settlements for jewish immigrants in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. he called on the palestinians to exercise self-restraint in seeking u.n. recognition for the independent state. abbas said negotiations with the israelis reman hin his key goal. he said only talks can achieve peace. he asked for putin's cooperation in restarting the process. the talks were suspended two years ago. >>> monday after the credit ratings of spanish commercial banks were downgraded by moody's. italian leaders are also struggling to shore up their finances. they say an injection of state fund into an ailing major bank is inevitable. the italian authorities decided to give a capital infusion to the bank. the amount will be up to 2 billion euros or $2.5 billion. the government will buy up the bond issued by the bank. this will then boost the capital foundation of the financial institution. european uni

new film that tells the story of a palestinian farmer, his wife and four small children, and the west bank of bil'in. emad burnat got a video camera in 2005 when his youngest son, gibreel, was born. at the same time, the israeli army began building a separation wall between bil'in and a nearby israeli settlement, cutting off residents from the olive tree groves that are their livelihood. he turned his camera on his fellow villagers as they responded with non-violent protests, including marches to the wall every friday. the result is, "5 broke cameras." today, the directors join us for part two of the look at the film, but first, a clip narrated by emad burnat. by emad burnat. >> emad burnat, their reading from his film, "5 broke cameras." it focuses on emad burnat and his family, exploring the intersection of their life with palestinian and israeli politics. >> an excerpt from the documentary "5 broke cameras." to in the course of the film, one camera after another is smashed or shot as emad burnat, his village's resistance movement. with each camera, a part of the story unfolds. emad burn

in the war of 1967 is when israel occupied east jerusalem the west bank, gaza strip, sinai, and beforeegan and the dumb beat to war started to picking up in volume and intensity. rumors starting flying. he was the 5-year-old kid. the whole world was his neighborhood. the dividing line between east and west. it was already part of israel, east was under control before the 1967 war but the wall that celebrated east from west, just maybe 20-30 merits from sami's door. it could have been a million miles away for all he knew. i'm bad at geography. it was really close. i don't know exactly. the kids he was playing all the rumors started circulating about the jews that lived on the other side of the wall. one rumor fascinated sami in particular was what the kids were telling him that the jews on the other side of the wall had tails like a cat. sami thought that was cool. he was 5 years old, he never seen anybody who a tail. he wanted to see one. then the war happen, they were hiding in the bakery. the next morning he ran up to the room. the jews are coming to count us. they're two houses down

abdullah, then the king of jordan, absorbed the west bank, which was full of palestinians. and they were different from the jordanians which were just tribesmen. and it turned out to be a very bad for the jordanians and that he was assassinated because he had this disgruntled majority population in the west bank. so it's always been, you know, a very tenuous thing there, and they would be better off. you don't have -- a friend of ours once said, you know, you don't have -- can you quote him exactly about, you don't come in until you have the borders, guarantee the next work? >> he said that the old notion about frontiers was that no border was considered entirely right unless it made the next border inevitable. and that was true in european history. and i think there's a problem here. in the middle east generally, that the borders were imposed arbitrarily after world war i at the paris peace conference, and they don't match -- there's an overlap, a difficulty. but i think in the long run, that there will be a settlement based on mutually agreed borders between the palestini

observers say that has cemented the political gulf between gaza and the other palestinian territory, the west bankfree and fair elections are long overdue in gaza. many have little confidence in politicians. almost 50% of young gazans are unemployed and social restrictions have increased over the last few years. the locals are being squeezed on two sides. >> five years ago, we still thought we have a future. with our school exams in the hope of finding jobs and being able to fight for our freedom of the same time. instead, we're constantly dealing with internal problems. were having to defend our personal freedoms and freedom of speech. -- we are having to defend our personal freedoms and freedom of speech. in the absence of reform -- >> in the absence of reform, people remained apprehensive about the future. this mechanic is in demand in gaza. he repairs generators which are essential with the territory for help frequent power test. he has little confidence in the future. >> no one knows what's going to happen next. the only thing we can be sure of is the next day is going to be worse than the da

he has been in the west bank town of bethlehem for talks with palestinian leader abbas. mr. putin has called on both sides to resume dialogue. abbas is refusing to re-enter negotiations until israel halts the settlements in the east bank. john joins me. what leverage, if any, does vladimir putin have in the middle east, especially on this peace process? >> there are not too many optimists in the region in terms of peace talks. the have been stalled since 2010. russia sees itself as a big player in the region. it is a member of the middle east quartet. in that respect, it does have leverage. there was not too much coming out of the press conference today. mr. putin and his huge entourage are about to leave actually. both men gave brief statements. mr. putin said that he wanted both sides to take the necessary measures to get back to negotiations. mr. abbas move to the idea of an international peace process to be held in moscow. it will be interesting to see if that gets any traction. there were no questions. you get the impression that mr. putin in particular did not want to t

in the meantime, obviously israel has been saying they're going ahead with 851 new homes in the west banke's been a real criticism out of the united states over the past two days on that. here's the u.s. state department spokesman mark toner on that. >> we're very clear that continued israeli settlement activity in the west bank undermines peace efforts and contradicts israeli commitments and obligations. >> so israel doesn't -- i mean i'll just be blunt here. israel doesn't care what the u.s. says, right? >> i don't think so. i think that during the era since 1967, we can find two different -- there is bipartisan supporting israel but bipartisan opposition to the idea of the settlements. it doesn't matter who was in power here in the united states. we think differently. we believe that judari sue mar ya had no sovereignty, never belonged to anyone and we have the right to be there. >> the prime minister told me he supported a contiguous state, no swiss cheese. is that still the goal? it would seem like putting more homes and settlements is exactly the opposite. >> i will tell you somethi

criticized israel for building settlements for jewish migrants in the occupied west bank and easteralem and called on palestinians to exercise self-restraint for seinanndenntta. abbas restated that negotiations with israel remain his key goal. he asked for russian cpeti to resume the peace talks that were suspended two years ago. >>> a taliban officials say the afghan insurgent group i willing to resume peace talks with u.s. negotiators but first he says the obama administration needs to make good on its agreemen thbendheces talks between the two sides have been stalled since march. din hads a member of the taliban's political bureau and represents the group in peace talks with the u.s. he spoke with nhk tuesday during a si to kyoto. mohomed says he opening the discussions is not possible right now because the u.s. has not followed through wit eaie reen. one of them includes releasing taliban members in american custody. he says the taliban is ready to advance the dloef.s leaders show good faith. mohamed also spoke to nhk about thu. pn lveome of its troops in afghanistan after ending it

trying to do to achieve what we were before are you afraid that israel will attack gonzo on the west bank because of the increased power of the muslim brotherhood maybe is. looking for some. some reasons or some. something to to to for what could cause a stir or any countries but this is. if you can either the host of the israeli bonuses or the sort of israeli doing was doing. their neighbor for their for the governments or countries. then they want to stop the war and the. fourth is fifty's sixty's seventy's is that their own was there is a war between israel and the me and the. people of rwanda is that if. this is the you don't talk in the world special case approach to the israeli israeli look at their own was looking after to make a war against the others most of them as ok thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you would come. in. the world with. science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. up on both of the war logs walk in the notes we have a lot of groups the causes of the sluices also i've used in the right enou

trying to do to achieve what we were before are you afraid that israel will attack gonzo on the west bank because of the increased power of the muslim brotherhood maybe is. looking for some. some reasons or some. something to do to what could cause a stir or any countries but this is. if you look at the history of israeli bonuses or israeli doing what they are doing. with their neighbor to their for our governments or our countries they never stop the war and the. forty's fifty's sixty's seventy's that their own was there is a war between israel and their. people around the. this is not the you don't talk in the world special case approach to israeli israeli look they're always looking to make a war against the west most of them as ok thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. he would come. good leverage surely to mccurry was to build a new age most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in green fish is why you should care only. we have a vote before the horse was given notes

trying to do to achieve what we were before are you afraid that israel will attack gonzo on the west bank because of the increased power of the muslim brotherhood maybe is. looking for some. some resumes or some something to a story or any countries but this is. if you look at the history of the israeli bonuses or israeli doing what they're doing. their neighbor to bear for our governments or our countries they never stop the war and the. forty's fifty's sixty's seventy's that their own was there is a war between israel and the. people around the. this is not the you don't talk about special case approach to israeli israeli they're always looking to make a war against the west most of them as ok thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. he would come. today children play war in the old case me. but in june one hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi troops on their way to moscow and. funders of the rest of us were dying one by one under seize the sun. water. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words very well mother i'm dying but i'm no

decision as a step forward in their quest for global recognition of an independent palestine in the west bank. in colorado, searing temperatures along with strong, erratic winds, have made battling the state's most destructive blaze in history even harder. so far, nearly 350 homes have been destroyed. more than 35,000 people have been evacuated from the state's second-largest city. today, president obama went to survey the damage for himself. >> from thousands of miles above the earth, smoke pours into the sky. colorado is burning. the flames have lived ever closer to the state's second city, colorado springs. 35,000 people have been evacuated. searing temperatures, low humidity, and whipping winds have provided the perfect conditions for this blaze. >> i was standing outside my apartment, and you could just see the fire coming down here. could not grasp that it was actually real. >> already, homes have been turned into little more than piles of ash. some residents were given just minutes to abandon their homes and nearly all their possessions. >> i love my home. i love the area we live in. t

minister blocked the bid by far right lawmakers to legalize on authorized jewish settlements in the west bank, but he was left having to justify his action. >> there is no government that supports or will support settlements more than the government by lead. i also say that there is no government that has withstood such heavy pressures that could harm settlements. >> these jewish settlers demonstrating in jerusalem, the vote is a personal blow. the illegal housing must now be demolished by july 1. >> i feel that destroying homes of people that they themselves have approved -- these people have bought the homes. they have paid for the money. they have got mortgages. >> the palestinians are also unhappy. to appease settlers, the israeli government has ordered construction of another 300 houses elsewhere. >> week ended the existence of settlements and any new construction. whatever the reason, a delegitimizes settlement activity at the expense of our rights and our land and is undermining the two-state solution. >> israeli settlement policy remains the main obstacle to restarting the middle east

clashes with israeli forces in ramallah marking the fortieth anniversary of israel's occupation of the west bank and gaza israeli soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds after some protesters threw stones the day commemorates the six day war with israel that in ended with the defeat of the five arab armies in one nine hundred sixty seven. around one thousand people rallied outside ukraine's parliament to a new language law when an initial majority if passed it will offer should be allowed russian to be used in some regions opponents of the bill are mainly nationalists keen to keep ukrainian as the only official language russian speaking citizens make up around half of ukraine's population. russia's the state has approved a new law that ramps up fines one hundred fifty times for participating organizing unsanctioned protests the final sitting made a new record last eleven hours the law now has to be possibly the upper house of the russian parliament and our t.s.p. to oliver brings us the background to the highly debated proposal. the state duma approved the changes to the

they might have a few issues, terrorists, west bank expansion. they had a few things in common. but it wasn't what you have today with the parties marching in lockstep on almost everything. doesn't matter whether it's a stimulus package or a supreme court nomination. all the democrats are on one side. all the republicans are on the other side. actually, if you can bottle this, it's an amazing thing that's been worked here because by some magic, you could have this group of people to be either party. so you have white, black, hispanic, old, young, urban and rural, and yet, somehow, they all think alike. i mean, it's just amazing, isn't it, how you're able to make that happen? so you have the democrats over here, and you have the republicans over here, at war with each other all the time because it's become how can my party win the next election. one example of all of you, if you decided that because this university is so good. and has such great facilities and you owe a lot to it. and you want to do something for them, you might say, well, we're going to get together as a big gro

with israeli forces in ramallah marking the forty fifth anniversary of israel's occupation of the west bank and gaza israeli soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds after some protesters threw stones. day commemorates the six day war with israel that ended with the defeat of arab armies in one nine hundred sixty seven. around nine thousand people rallied outside ukraine's parliament where new language norwan an initial majority if passed it will officially allow russian to be used in some regions opponents of the bill are mainly nationalistic ukrainian as the only official language russian speaking citizens make up around half of ukraine's population. and coming up next artie's gannett she can talk to the indian economy it's. about the contrast in economic agendas in the u.s. china and russia china relations stay tuned for that. i'm sitting down with arvind subramanian leading economist fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and the center for global development his book is called eclipse living in the shadow of china's economic dominance and he

the israeli pament amount is to vote on a proposal to legalize a west bank settlement. the supreme court has ruled that it's built on palestinian land and should, therefore, be demolished by july. prime minister benjamin netanyahu opposes the retrospective bid to legalize the outpost. you're watching "bbc world news." i'm david eades with the headlines. at least 22 people have been killed by twin suicide bombings near kandahar, apparently aimed at drivers supplying a huge nato military base there. the credit ratings agency moody's has downgraded six german banks, including the country's second biggest lender. abu yahya al-libi was a legend, a prisoner of the united states army in bag ram who escaped. now the americans say the man they believe was second in command of al qaeda has been killed in a drone attack in pakistan's tribal region of north waziristan. the taliban deny that he's dead. they say he's been injured. pakistan's government has again protested the use of drone attacks on its soil. >> this is the face of al qaeda's elusive second in command. now the americ

provide safety during the london olympics the forest also operates in the jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem which are illegal under international law this year journalist tony guzzling says companies with full reputations are using the olympics to gain respectability i'd like to see a bit of spine from our parliament to say that these are not appropriate people to be doing that while a lot of people involved in pictures you probably know who aren't really appropriate such as the dow chemical company who when they bought union carbide really took on the responsibility for the deaths of four thousand people in a gas cloud in india and the maiming of countless more who were poisoned by the by the dow chemical company i think there's been a real complete kind of mismatch in this olympics with trying to bring in really it's pretty essentially prostitute the olympics and given a lot of these poisonous very profitable actually very dark nasty companies trashy greenwash for them that is to say to sanitize their images so show it in them with the olympic event and that is not what

british government is facing questions over why a security firm accused of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hard for the olympics. and somali islamists wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars have come up with a culture proposal offering ten camels for president barack obama get the full story and our team will call. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak has reportedly worsened he's currently serving life in a car a prison where he said to be slipping in and out of consciousness thousands of people have been drawn to tell his square this week angry at the verdict in mubarak's recent trial that demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising there also angry that his former prime minister has made it to the presidential election runoff next week where he's facing the muslim brotherhood candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by the first of july or of a journalist in the future and ali says people are furious at the lack of positive change. it seem

he was a research staff member for the institute of defense analysis with a focus on west bank and gaza, another garden spot. but you are involved in. during the 2002 and 2005 he served as chief of staff for the u.n. assistance missions in afghanistan. prior to that assignment he was a consultant to the afghan government in support of the afghan constitutional jurga after which he was awarded a constitutional medal by president karzai. mr. sampler did his undergraduate work in physics and electrical engineering at georgia tech, has a master's degree in diplomacy from nor winorwick university and is an army veteran that served with the special forces. you're on the hot seat now. but we appreciate you being here. we appreciate a very serious and frank dialogue with you today, but you may proceed with your opening statement and we'll go from there. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'll be brief and leave as much time as possible for questions. thank you for the opportunity to testify. i do represent the office of afghanistan and pakistan affairs at usaid, and i would like to begin the way i alw

british government facing questions of a wise security firm acute of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hired for the london olympics is an interesting story is just reading through south or online at r.t. dot com and somali is less wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty of come up with a counter proposal offering ten candles for president barack obama won an award will find it at r.t. dog. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak has reportedly worsened he's currently serving life in a cairo prison where he said to be slipping in and out of consciousness thousands of people have been drawn to tahrir square this last week angry at the verdict to mubarak's recent trial they're demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising but also angry that his former prime minister's made it to the presidential election runoff next week where he's facing the muslim brotherhood candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by the first of july out of the firs