thank you for all of that very full sit in west jerusalem some analysis now from lawrence korb who spoke to us earlier he is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense and says iran's retaliation for the assassination of general sort of money actually puts president trump in a difficult position. president trump has no good options he thought that killing so long and would put a stop to this tit for tat if you will responses he does not want to get the united states and a big war with iran i may not read it much bigger for example that that iraq on the other hand he doesn't want to look weak because basically he thought that killing so all of money would put a stop to fool all of us and remember he ran as the president who is going to get us out of these wars if you count the troops he said then after the recent attacks on the us faces in the semper we have 60000 troops in the region right now and so he has no good options and it will be passe to see what he does we do remember after the iranians blew up the saudi oil fields he didn't retaliate the iranians may have taken that as a sig

harry forsett with the latest there from west jerusalem thank you and now let's go to stephanie decker who is in for us somehow as palestinians in gaza and in the west bank as well reacted to this. well there's been outright rejection in the political leadership from all the different factions and groups that have come together they spoke yesterday they sat together yesterday they sat together today in amman. rejecting it to immunity the palestinians do not speak with one voice when it comes to many things of the factions but certainly when it comes to this they are talking from the same starting point let's say of our rejection that this has nothing to do with palestinian interests and we need to do with israeli interests we are going to see we just announced a group of fatah which is of course present about 6 party coming to gaza next week to speak to have mass these 2 sides have been at loggerheads for a very long time i'm not sure what their strategy is going to be moving forward the leadership of how masses outrightly denied this deal and said it's going to use all means necessary

or we have correspondents across the region harry foresaid has the israeli reaction from west jerusalem stephanie decker is in gaza 1st though let's go to need that you bring him in ramallah need to of course the settlement expansion of illegal settlements in the west bank always a key sticking point to any kind of solution any kind of creation of a future palestinian state so just explain to us as far as the deal goes what would the impact be on the ground. no trump has said that he would see the plan or the plan wouldn't see any israeli or palestinians moving out of their lands that means that illegal israeli settlements or settlers in these illegal settlements will remain as they are so we didn't have clear details but it seems like the u.s. is talking about keeping the status quo as it is we are by israel is creating facts on the ground creating these documents with a network of roads of bio bypass roads taking up resources from the palestinians and saying that this is the southern school we're going to acknowledge it keep it as it is and eating up the palestinian lands the posting

well there's a number of developments here in west jerusalem julie firstly yes you're absolutely right he is returning from greece where he was signing a gas pipeline deal with the cypriots out in the greeks he's cut that trip short we are also hearing that he was briefed before the u.s. action on customs so the money took place by u.s. officials after that they was there was a security cabinet meeting where they decided to really key decisions to up the level of alerts on the u.s. diplomatic israeli diplomatic missions abroad and also to the alert on the border with lebanon and with syria also here and there is troop movement now this is fairly standard when tensions are high towards the border but we are hearing that over southern lebanon on the witness reports of israeli jets flying quite low so clearly israel is very worried about any reaction on its border with syria and lebanon and that means any action potentially with the hezbollah you heard. my colleague talk about hasan the straw that the leader of hezbollah statement a very clear statement this will be of real concern to the

who's director of bets and israeli and he's joining us live from west jerusalem. would you say that this trump plan for peace if you like between israel and the palestinians effectively puts an end to the dreams of palestinians for their own independence 8 now obviously this is not a plan for peace or anything close to it it's a plan that offers but a stain ians neither rights nor statehood but you either a permanent state of apartheid it that's what we're discussing for human rights perspective of course the only future that is conceivable the only future that is legitimate is a future it guarantees the human rights for writing lou political rights for everyone living within the river and the sea old $14000000.00 people that live here this hour this plan would offer as is exactly the opposite of that and because of that we rejected it and so what options then do human rights advocates like yourselves and indeed the palestinians what options are there at this point. discussed back to doing to national community and to the conscience of the of humanity to the ameri

mike for the moment thank you let's go live now to harry foresaid who is in west jerusalem for us obviously the steel is very favorable to israel as we heard there from my hanna as so what steps might israel take over the next few days considering that the palestinians rejected it before they even heard it but they certainly rejected it since. well yes i think the most resonant elements of the plan as far as israelis and indeed palestinians will be concerned firstly the green light that it gives israel to extend sovereignty i.e. annex large parts of the occupied west bank and the fact that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his office says that he will put an accession of west bank settlements to a cabinet vote as early as sunday so that is a hugely significant and consequential step it is one that many on the the right and even the center right in israel may well support certainly on the on the right they will support it but on the further right for instance in terms of his defense minister naftali bennett who is from a separate party in terms of the most influential settlers gr

focused on is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again herefore said out west jerusalem the palestinians are putting pressure on the u.n. to take action against transplant for the middle east as the new president will speak in the security council in the next 2 weeks and the palestinian envoy says he hopes the 15 member group will back a draft resolution on the issue to drag us to negotiate after they steal another 40 percent of the occupied west bank and to negotiate over 4 years that the tears of that left over in which is the ill has the upper hand and security issues in the hands of israel are of paramount is not a recipe for peace or justice it is a recipe for the destruction of the national rights of the palestinian people and it will not fly it is not acceptable and those who think that the palestinian people will evaporate they will not those who think that the palestinian people will pack up and leave there will not was to have a goat is the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative political party he says the past 10 years are united in their opp

statement tomorrow morning here are our correspondents covering developments harry falls that is in west jerusalem we'll be talking to him and a little bit about as you say the threat towards israel there's a summer binge of aid in baghdad then as i said beg in terror from and we're starting with kimberly how could i white house correspondent at 11 pm outside the white house and as donald trump saying kambli we have to wait till the morning to actually hear from him it would appear but take us through reaction in the meantime . yeah our morning wednesday morning you've hit that we haven't quite yet so we expect the president to sleep and then we presume that he will be making some sort of statement but when we got the official daily guidance as it's called from the white house there was no mention of any address by the u.s. president so we're left wondering when this sort of statement of clarity will happen what we should say is that we had been for many hours here in washington and it wasn't just reporters it was or very americans simply holding their breath feeling in a state of heightened secur

of global research that's a political consultancy he's joining us from west jerusalem thanks for your time on al-jazeera so what does that say yahoo have to gain right now by withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution. well i think we have to listen to what he says which is that it has become somewhat of a circus meaning that connected is not a deception that really hasn't been in session for quite a long as week as 2 elections. israel is in the midst of its 3rd election we're in the middle of an election campaign and a lot of people even people that may believe that you shouldn't get immunity for that. belief that it's not a knesset's place right now to call itself back in session to discuss the immunity issue because when the middle of the cafe if you know the saying let the people decide but at this point you know it seems like the question. is become somewhat of a political one even though the justice ministry and the attorney general separate from the 5 minutes ago he just feels that this is electioneering so he had originally asked for the immunity used to at least ho

it is expected to boost his election campaign ahead of a march vote harry fawcett reports from west jerusalem this is historic on this you became the 1st world leader to recognize israel's sovereignty over areas in judea and samaria that are vital to our security and central to our heritage the soaring music and off camera voice had all the hallmarks of a campaign video promising israeli sovereignty in the occupied west bank but to benjamin netanyahu a day after what he had turned a history making event in washington the breaks have been at least momentarily applied he had promised to hold a vote in cabinet on sunday on an exciting the jordan valley and illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank but the united states is now making it clear that it wants further coordination before the process begins so does this hamper netanyahu election campaign one former israeli diplomat thinks not trump thanked him for the difficult work he did in creating this plan so that you know he's behind it so if there is another move with which they can help him be quiet let my government do it. with it

withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution the attorney general filed the allegations in west jerusalem that effectively launched trial proceedings netanyahu was charged with fraud breach of trust and bribery in november he's denied wrongdoing but says immunity proceedings in parliament would have been a circus akiva eldar is a columnist at monitor he says netanyahu has immunity bid was only ever a tactic to buy time. he doesn't have the majority in the knesset to get the immunity so it was just you know a cheap shot at trying to was very transparent to gain few more weeks and it didn't look very presidential so to speak to go through the knesset the you merely ation and every day again until the elections to catch the headlines with the corruption at 1st so i think that now his looking at the elections he is hoping that the deal of the century will hijack the headlines and instead of the immunity process in the knesset and here he can lead with his slogans that you know this is a one time opportunity it's an historic move and blah blah blah and people some people i think the people on

allies and that includes israel so we'll talk to harry force in west jerusalem about that is this to simply say that israel you are an ally of the united states we consider you effectively part of the united states in all of this. yes and i think that will come as no great surprise to the israeli government as you're saying so much of this. finding out and searching for on twitter at the moment in terms of donald trump's reactions and others the iranian foreign minister so far no reaction officially from the israeli government but this does accord in some way with what we were hearing from the security cabinet meeting which took place on monday during that meeting benjamin netanyahu the prime minister telling his cabinet colleagues that this was an american iranian issue that it was an american attack on iran and that israel was not involved in it also leaks from that cabinets to local media suggesting that the intelligence services here in israel have briefed the government that they expected u.s. interests in the region to be attacked and not israeli ones at least in the 1st instan

jerusalem and what the strong doing about it he's recognizing israeli annexation occupation of visual silliman on the recognizing a captive president state a provisional future half a state and half of the west bank in the east of east jerusalem he's also embracing the op partied in is very palestine by accepting and recognizing israel's permanent security control over the palestinians by giving in a different name and some sort of a provisional state down the line as i said on some half of the west bank the same thing goes for the refugees they have an inalienable rights for return or compass all and compensation but basically present trump has written off the entire issue of the refugees and their rights for return and compensation and so on and so forth he's presenting all the problem as if there are solutions but they are not solutions so it's very difficult for me but i'm really trying you know hard to find some good points out there i can throw out the order to our viewers around the world and create some form of optimism of sort what by you know you say you know you can hang your hat on this or that or your hope on this and that but there is essentially nothing in terms of all the maj

is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again very force at al-jazeera west jerusalem the israeli military briefly closed all gates leading to the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem on wednesday it says it believes a knife attack was imminent several palestinians were arrested inside the compound also known as the temple mount the dispute site has disputed pardon me has seen regular outbreaks of violence. well more than 2000000 palestinians living in jordan many of them voicing anger over the u.s. president's plan but the reaction from jordan's king does government has been muted as natasha going to reports from the capital among. mahmoud months or is part of a dwindling palestinian generation born before 948 and what's called the nothing or disaster when the israelis seized homes and separated families for 53 years he's been forced to live in this refugee camp longing to breathe in the air of his homeland. every day i think of my old neighborhood and my family even the soil i walked on i remember if i had the opportunity to leave all that i have here and go hom

we were the owners of these houses 77 percent of west jerusalem before 48 was palestinian owned and when i talk about palestinians i talk about muslims christians and the minority of jewish people. the new 1st train station as they call it a look at the. inside the restaurants most of those people will be palestinians probably from the west bank or from marginalized areas in jerusalem with very low salaries. they are treated like garbage and this alexis that the man. states are going to get that up in no way they say if they have the guts to put up. with i love and that's what when the taliban look this is the way stand. by even the muscle here i mean the outlook nice for me. was you can complete confidence to me and it just it is a website we all feel would be on a bus in amman again we. would have been real this is a good. solution. it's a good place most of. us. in the future i'm sure. there will be a lot of smashing a setting but adds a little. look study on school where he will tell you. if you've never heard of him if it had. been. listening to the local machine the show this. morn

of that will come in just a couple of days harry thank you for that hairy force of there from west jerusalem officials from libya's 2 rival governments fighting has broken out in the western city of misrata the un backed government in tripoli says its soldiers have retaken the town of abu grain misrata is libya's 2nd largest city and is home to groups who oppose the war lord only 4 have to take control of the city is an important part of the government's defense of the capital after have to launch his offensive in april last year tony burke 3 is in misrata live for us with the latest on that fire and what more can you tell us john. or stanley as you said the government forces have retaken graeme and they've gone beyond that we understand into previously controlled have to our territory they've moved on and they are at the moment consolidating the feeling is that they will we retire back to where they were which is where they were the smaller before this whole offensive started but this is actually about 80 kilometers away from misrata to the east this area to give you a picture is very open

that israel's capital jerusalem in its terminology would be undivided the entirety of jerusalem behind or to the west and south of the israeli wall which is obviously inside palestinian territory there are the suburbs or neighborhoods of jerusalem like parts of the swofford refugee camp abu dis which are nominally jerusalem but there on the other side excluded cut off from the city proper it's that part of jerusalem on the other side of the wall that is really the americans are referring to when they talk about a potential future palestinian capital so it's not what the palestinians have been demanding for all these decades proper sovereignty of east jerusalem as it's commonly understood or for that update thanks harry how you foresee the force in west jerusalem thank you. daniel levy now he's the president of the u.s. middle east project which is an independent policy institute and joins me via skype from london good to have you with us on the program mr levy now you have read the plan and had time to dry death digest partly its contents is it viable is it fair. it's giving me indigestion so hell it

we're hearing is that this would offer only limited autonomy to the palestinians in the west bank and east jerusalem essentially this is a redrawing of the west bank border we believe in what this would mean is that the israeli border would now encompass some of those jewish settlements inside the west bank now we're also hearing that there would be in this proposal some form of israeli security control that would remain inside the west bank now apparently this is going to be implemented over a 3 year timeline that there would be a series of benchmarks that the palestinians would have to meet in terms of not only new political measures but also are we now seeing a violent sensually we don't know is how this would handle some of the competing land claims ministration of holy sites in jerusalem what we do know is that what we're hearing so far is that this does seem to fall short of the international standard or goal which would be to have a separate and independent palestinian state now we are expecting to hear the full details of this plan when the president presents it president trump alongside the

is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again very force at al-jazeera west jerusalem the palestinians are putting pressure on the u.n. to take action against trump's plan for the middle east palestinian president mahmoud abbas will speak in the security council in the next 2 weeks and the palestinian envoy says he hopes the 15 member group will back a draft resolution on the issue to drag us to negotiate after they steal another 40 percent of the occupied west bank and to negotiate over 4 years that the tears of that left over in which is the ill has the upper hand and security issues in the hands of. are paramount is not a recipe for peace or justice it is a recipe for the destruction of the national interests of the palestinian people and it will not fly it is not acceptable and those who think that the palestinian people will evaporate they will not those who think that the palestinian people will pack up and leave there will not was to have a secretary general of the palestinian national political party joins me now via skype from ramallah thanks for being with us

is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. you'll see 1000000000 is a former israeli minister of justice and was a negotiator during the oslo accords and joins me now from new york could have you with us on the program note you know full well being a senior advisor negotiator and part of the team that put the oslo accords together how complicated the issues of israeli palestinian peace is and what is or is not required to fulfill sort of the long term peace that so many desire in the region so really we need to know what your reaction is to what was presented at the white house just over 24 hours ago i must say that them and watching this scene and it is really unbelievable i don't understand what does it mean the americans up with something which is in their view a very pro israeli not in my view. they're not all do not want to negotiate seriously with the palestinians it is kind of a peace between israel and the united states of america between attorney hour and. a while there the palestinians are watching. from outside the

or else it will be 2 states on the border of mighty 67 with his jerusalem our capital and the west jerusalem their capital and then agreement of peace between us allowing us to really sit have the right to have that part of the world to have an opportunity for our refugees to make a choice of whether they want to go come back home or go wherever they want to go now and this is another world by this agreement by 2nd by mr trump and mr this is simply we are not going to have a state with israelis are going to take all the land that they have already illegally occupied and turned into colonial settlements they are going to control what he has been winos and jordan and between us and ok ok i think that point he made quite clearly let me jump in and ask robbie this question do you think this is a plan that can last beyond the trumpet ministration ropey because we've seen already a lot of criticism even from within the u.s. senator warren has been critical of this plan joe biden's come out against it bernie sanders. if things don't go well for the trumpet ministration in the upcoming elections for

government house an old colonial building on the green line between what was described as east and west jerusalem you can see buildings that have been built illegally i'm sure from your office there with the sunken garden tell me as you look out on that settlement building how the pace of those settlements has changed let's just choose one time period the last 3 years has changed. i would say it's been it's been fairly consistent it's increased perhaps in terms of. announcements by the governments of plans to build settlements but in terms of the construction rate it's been pretty steady. over the last few years. it is. you know it's a very you know because of the israeli election cycle now we're into the 3rd election and just over a year it's one of the most politicized issues if you wish because some political parties believe that more announcements in terms of service and construction etc wins them votes in upcoming elections. and i think this drives a lot of the narrative in that sense where i see a danger coming up rather rather quickly that is in debates which we've heard over the last few

gabriel mitchell is a policy fellow at the victim institute think tank he joins us by skype from west jerusalem mehmet ojukwu who is chairman of the london energy club and a former turkish diplomat he joins us from london james moran is an associate senior research fellow at the center for european policy studies and former e.u. ambassador to egypt he joins us from brussels a very warm welcome to each of you gents so what does all of this mean i want to kick off with you minutes to help us unpick this potentially deeply complex situation from your perspective how realistic is this pipeline project given the turkish opposition. well i don't think it's only related to turkish opposition if you look at the merits of such a pipeline of course there is a great value in bringing and other gus corridor to europe in addition to what we have you know russia north africa no way f.s.r. you us l.n.g. so there's a there's going to be a gas to gas competition coming from different sources if this new pipeline will bring guys which is affordable cost competitive to other ones and it also overcome this job pol

withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution israel's attorney general fall the allegations in west jerusalem and that effectively launched trial proceedings netanyahu was charged with fraud breach of trust and bribery in november at least 40 civilians have now been confirmed dead in an attractive akina faster they were killed by an armed group in the northern soon province all right those are the headlines coming up next here on out is there americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policy is a matter of fact on the world. treating cancer can be incredibly painful expensive and ineffective is it time that we've changed our approach. here in the stream if cancer has affected your life or that of someone you know we want to hear from you join us on twitter or in our live chat with your story. today we'

government house an old colonial building on the green line between what was described as east and west jerusalem you can see buildings that have been built illegally i'm sure from your office there with the sunken garden tell me as you look out on that settlement building how the pace of those settlements has changed let's just choose one time period the last 3 years has changed i would say it's been it's been fairly consistent it's increased perhaps in terms of them. announcements by the governments of plans to build settlements but in terms of the construction rate it's been pretty steady. over the last few years. it is. you know it's a very you know because of the israeli election cycle now we're into the 3rd election and just over a year it's one of the most politicized issues if you wish because some political parties believe that more announcements in terms of service and construction and such are wins them votes in upcoming elections. and i think this drives a lot of the narrative in that sense where i see a danger coming up rather rather quickly that is in debates which we've heard over

government house an old colonial building on the green line between what was described as east and west jerusalem you can see buildings that have been built illegally i'm sure from your office there with the sunken garden tell me as you look out on that settlement building how the pace of those settlements has changed let's just choose one time period the last 3 years has it changed i would say it's been it's been fairly consistent it's increased perhaps in terms of them. announcements by the governments of plans to build settlements but in terms of the construction rate it's been pretty steady. over the last few years. it is. you know it's a very you know because of the israeli election cycle now we're into the 3rd election and just over a year it's one of the most politicized issues if you wish because some political parties believe that more announcements in terms of service and construction and search are wins the votes in upcoming elections. and i think this drives a lot of the narrative in that sense where i see a danger coming up rather rather quickly that is in debates which we've heard o

stephanie deca is in gaza harry fawcett in the west jerusalem we go 1st to our white house correspondent kimberly hocket way that plan is going to be unveiled at the white house kimberly of course a bit of a change in how it's going to be announced we understand now company that the israeli prime minister is not going to be there with the u.s. president. yet i was trying to get some clarity on that right up until we came on air and there still is very little clarity on why that is the case because that certainly wasn't the case 24 hours ago what we're trying to determine is whether he is the israeli leader will be in the audience or whether he will not be in the room at all but what i can tell you right now per our producer who is in the diplomatic room where this is said to be lodged is that right now there is only one podium that has been set up so certainly this will lot be side by side remarks which is initially what we had expected so again watching the diplomatic room very carefully for the details of this proposal that we have been waiting for almost instead of truck took office a

immunity is likely to delay any potential trial by several months well imran khan joins us now from west jerusalem so he's asked for that immunities bought himself some more time possibly what's next on the agenda for netanyahu. well the process of asking for immunity is actually quite simple all he has to do is make a request of the speaker of the knesset the parliament and then that process actually kicks in the procedure is very complicated because of israel's political situation it's headed into another election the 3rd in a year in march march the 2nd so it can't hear any requests for immunity until a government is formed now even if they are able to form a government and 2 elections previously they haven't been able to form a government that means that the case the committee will hear the case if they agree to some time in perhaps april maybe even may so it delays the whole thing once it gets out of committee goes to a plan and then it gets put to the knesset members to vote on already we're seeing people divide themselves along party lines on this the likud of said he is able to ask for imm

immunity is likely to delay any potential trial by several months imran khan reports now from west jerusalem just 4 hours before the deadline to request parliamentary immunity from prosecution expired the israeli prime minister appeared on television and said he would ask the knesset the israeli parliament to grant him immunity but have an opinion. about its mind tension this time before the court to shatter all the public accusations against me day citizens of israel he mean achievement is meant to protect the elected officials from tided law serving political crises into harming the will of the people. he has filed a request with the speaker of the knesset but it's likely to be months before m.p.'s vote on it israel will hold its 3rd election in a year in march and they said you know his request can only be debated by a parliamentary committee wants a government has been formed it then has to come out of committee and be presented to knesset members to be voted on forming a government could take months. however some politicians are pushing to speed up the process holding the committee stag

said that he would release his much touted middle east peace plan to serious curry forces in west jerusalem says that even without a saudi response this marks a major shift in the country's public relations. in some respects this is a formalisation of something that has been growing in recent years and especially in recent months in terms of the business ties between israel and saudi arabia the generally warming relationship palestinian israelis have gone in groups to perform the the hardship pilgrimage as well but all of this has been done in a pretty clandestine or at least not officially approved way this make no mistake is a very major shift in the public nature of the relationship between israel and saudi arabia now israeli citizens will be able to travel with official invitations from saudi officials not just for religious reasons but also for business visits the israeli interior ministry saying that israelis will be able to seek investment opportunities inside saudi arabia and that as long as they have a visa and an official invitation they will get exit permits from israel lost in u

netanyahu has cut short his trip to greece live there standing by as imran khan joining us from west jerusalem in run so what decisions have been made as a result of these targeted killings. well israel's security cabinet met in the early hours of this morning is worth noting here that we are hearing that term is the benjamin netanyahu was informed of the attack either as it was happening or just immediately afterwards according to local media reports by the u.s. so that's why they had this security cabinet meeting a couple of key decisions taken that firstly see up the. against attacks against any diplomatic missions abroad so the seas abroad are on high alert also that troop movement toward the borders with syria and lebanon also we're hearing that these really air forces flying sorties over southern lebanon certainly now this is the border that's of real concern to the israelis clearly with lebanon it's as below is below of already reacted with a statement saying that they will respond to this killing of qassam so the money this is the real concern for the israelis is what happens on the bo

and on tuesday he withdrew his request for immunity from prosecution very false reports from west jerusalem. for days benjamin netanyahu had been talking up the prospects of a historic opportunity for israel with a plan unveiled he spelled out well that opportunity was for and it's a sure thanks to you mr president these areas and so many others that for millenia have been etched in the soul of the jewish people and in far the imaginations of millions of people around the world and across the world these areas will now be recognized by the united states as a permanent part of the jewish state. the places in quest. israeli settlements in the occupied west bank considered illegal under international law for so long seen as a major obstacle to peace now greenlit by the trumpet ministration to be recognized as sovereign israeli land the us invasion palestinian state would be strung between and around those israeli zones connected by tunnels bridges and highways the prime minister's office confirmed that settlement an accession would be put to a cabinet vote this coming sunday a month to the day

much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again very force that al-jazeera west jerusalem syrian government forces have made a significant advance entering a strategic town in province as part of a push to retake the last rebel held stronghold events of displaced hundreds of thousands of people as victoria gave the report. syrian government forces and the man in the south of italy probing. they're looking for rebel fighters from hyatt to reroll sham and armed groups with formal links to al qaeda. the town is largely deserted and destroyed after months of bombardment. with. its recapture marks a significant advance in president bashar assad's drive to take back all of syria. the general command of the army and the armed forces announce cleansing these villages and towns and it is sure that the army will continue to carry out its constitutional national and moral duty in order to hunt down all remaining arms terrorist groups. rattled the man sits on the m 5 highway which links the capital damascus to syria 2nd city aleppo as well as to provincial capital such as ham and befo

trip to greece to deal with the potential political fallout of all in mon khan joins us now from west jerusalem so he's cut his trip short him bron. what are they going to be thinking that might happen in reaction to these attacks well already the israelis have reacted now what's happened is there is a security cabinet meeting underway right now that happens as any crisis like this develops as a matter of routine they'll meet they'll discuss what they need to do they've already issued 3 directives firstly raising the alert to every single diplomatic mission abroad as a result of these events overnight they are also raising the alert on the border with lebanon and with syria because of this as well and. looking to see what they go to do next this is the neighborhood if there's going to be any reaction it will be within the middle east and israel clearly is in the middle of the middle east and has a shares a border with syria and lebanon and that's hezbollah and that's a real concern to israeli lawmakers and to the prime minister right now however this may well be used as politicking by the proba

out a number of palestinians have been arrested inside the mosques compound harry fossett is in west jerusalem with the details on the incident. the israeli police say they risky to force to say that they had suspicions of an impending knife attack of course it would not be the 1st such events they are they do happen with with some regularity in tension points such as entrances to the old city or to the ox a mosque compound itself they say they arrested 2 palestinian youths and that at least one knife was found and after that after a period of closure of gates into the old city and into the mosque compound itself there were some tensions and scuffles but those gates have now we understand been reopened but it does show there are heightened tensions in the security forces are on alert in the aftermath of the trump plan announcement in washington on tuesday u.s. president donald trump is year to sign into law a new trade deal with mexico and canada it replaces the north american free trade agreement nafta and all this is happening as the president's impeachment trial continues in the u.s. senate

don't trump is expected to release his much touted middle east peace plan our correspondent in west jerusalem harry force that says this is another indication of the warming of relations between the 2 countries. what it does is that it allows anyone with an invitation from a saudi arabian official and a visa to exit israel to go to saudi arabia to pursue business interests seek investment opportunities for a period of up to 90 days now this is a very major change in the public relationship between these 2 countries and it comes at a very interesting time just ahead of the expected unveiling of the trump plan in washington d.c. we believe an event with benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister on tuesday before that on monday president trump will be speaking to both netanyahu and the israeli opposition leader benny gantz and this normalization of relations which this is an increment of between saudi and israel really put saudi arabia at least in tension with its own initiative the arab peace initiative of 2002 which says that normalization can only come about after the palestinian issue is

also harry falls that in west jerusalem starting though where it happened iraq asama binge of a desire kept is our correspondent in the capital baghdad i should say take us through the events which you've been covering asama for a good well i guess 5 or 6 hours now. just about 6 hours now c'mon we started getting reports of missiles being fired from iranian state t.v. which was later on confirmed by iraqi security forces more than a dozen of them landed in the base in our province multiple missiles landed near us bases in erbil as well the iranians saying that all of their missiles hit the targets but so far no reports of damage at u.s. facilities and they're being or at been hearing of some material damage damage but no casualties have been reported it is one of the most significant bases in our problems it's sprawling complex which houses at least a few 100 troops from coalition as well as the united states and then in addition to iraqi security forces as well so we've been hearing reaction from everywhere but the iraqi government so far officially has not responded through the night

is much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again very force at al-jazeera west jerusalem still ahead on al-jazeera coming up in just a moment a standoff in guinea as security forces and protesters battle in the streets of the capital. and a test for french law 3rd world giant total be held to account for actions in western uganda. how the weather pattern in europe has changed but it's been the same to the last few days raining heavily in the northwest of spain 5060 millimeters typical these streets of california used rain and snow recently in poland snow is moving eastwards temperatures in most places are above where they should be the worst weather the worst is the right to in the next 24 hours will be in turkey with snow some considerable depth in central eastern turkey day less own folly but still there in the east look at the temperature change in central europe given the breezes coming from the west all the southwest there's a huge rise in temperature of it is now up to 14 degrees and moscow is to or should be subzero it's not raining as much in the northwest of spai

corruption let's find out more about this and speak to harry fawcett he's joining us on the phone from west jerusalem so what exactly does this mean then for the indictments against netanyahu harry. well it means they can now proceed they have been halted since. few weeks after the last election in september 2nd consecutive inconclusive election leaving israel still with the caretaker government and kazakh a prime minister netanyahu before the deadline for him to do so offers indictment run out did apply for parliamentary immunity presumably in the expectation that because it was a lame duck israeli parliament will knesset that that would hold the entire proceedings until a new election and potentially a new government had been installed at which point there could be a proper consideration of his request instead there was a big legal argument as to whether the current knesset could hear that case it was decided that it could and the timing of this is significant because today is the day that the parliament was due to vote on whether to institute a committee to hear this case netanyahu has immunity al

much shorter the next 32 days until israelis go to the polls again kerry force at al-jazeera west jerusalem fighting has broken out in eastern india between opposition protesters and supporters of a new citizenship law hundreds of thousands of people have rallied against the controversy or legislation since it was passed last month as reports from new delhi activists are accusing media outlets of pro-government bias in their coverage of the protests we'll have that report of little later for you the security company in the united arab emirates is being accused of deception after giving jobs to young sudanese men who say they were then sent to fight in wars dozens of managed to return home but many others are believed to still be in yemen or libya even mortgage reports from cotton. when i added the following got a letter from a recruitment company late last year about work in the united arab emirates he was delighted he would be able to send money back home to help his family he applied for a job as a security guard and was taken on by an emirates a company called black shield but when he ar

is that this plan will offer some form of limited autonomy for the palestinians in the west bank in east jerusalem essentially a remapping of the west bank that will include folding in those israeli settlements already in the west bank into the broader israel proper border now we're also hearing that there would remain some form of israeli security control inside the west bank and that this is expected to be implemented over a timeline of roughly 3 years and during that time there be a series of so-called tests the palestinians would have to meet in terms of benchmarks for example renouncing violence and also coming up with new political measures so this is what we are hearing we of course are awaiting that press conference in the diplomatic room where the u.s. president will be presenting this plan alongside the israeli leader benjamin netanyahu thank you for the moment at the white house let's go to gaza now and stephanie deca the palestinian authority has rejected the plan even before it's unveiled and some palestinian stock option stephanie had called on protesters to turn out for a day of rag