offer the palestinians or what might they offer the palestinians to entice them back to the table we've had they're not in the best of me sabin acacia any time soon now. right well the united states is already support of the palestinians with funds that's how the palestinian authority is able to pay the salaries of the government workers there because in large part u.s. funds but the u.s. could also help the palestinians to understand that it's very important for the israelis to maintain a military presence in the jordan river valley between the west bank and jordan if israelis pulled out of that region which the palestinian leadership demands they do it would be suicide for israel if the king of jordan should fall god forbid because the king of jordan has been a partner in peace with the united states and with israel but if jordan gets taken over by a hostile regime towards israel and there are no israeli troops in that river valley the jordan river valley it's lights out suicide for israel but the palestinians want to accept it so the united states can help persuade the palestinians t

there are more than 320,000 palestinians in east jerusalem. the vast majority are permanent residents whose permits can be revoked at any point. if they move away from the city, israel does often not allow them back. if they marry, they faced obstacles and bring their spouses. if they apply for israeli citizenship, and most do not, a high proportion of applications are projected. their status must not be forgotten. all partiest, if can truly take bold steps in the spirit of compromise, i have no doubt an agreement can finally be reached. this is the only way to ensure the wrong term -- the long-term security that israelis deserve and the statehood and an end to occupation palestinians are calling out for. this is what both peoples ought to have. it has been denied to them for too long. to give the floor to the representative of the russian federation. amb. nebenzia: thank you very much, president. we have listened carefully to the views of the un's special coordinator on the middle east. on the statement by washington on the recognition of jer

in the eyes of the palestinians. this summer good question because i just had the hardest times of counsel to the palestinian leadership from the front to this front will have to meet with the first. point like all the decisions what we have to offer if i were commitment going to a national i want commitment to do what the solutions and all the previous agreements have signed up to respect and we were just getting reaction from cyber erekat the secretary general and the below executive committee let's take a listen to their step is he judged pre-judging dictating closing the doors for negotiations and i think president trump tonight disqualified the united states of america to any or all in any peace process plus the new leadership will call for an emergency session for the past time since the council to study this speech and to review all the options available and take the proper decisions concerning many issues and the same time i would say that crossing these headlines tonight for president from speaking about mod

can no longer play a role as a mediator in the israeli palestinian conflict that's the message of palestinian leaders after donald trump ignored global opposition to formally recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital a general strike has been called in the occupied palestinian territories in protest and leaders there have called for three days of rage how the force that begins our coverage from occupied east jerusalem. this announcement had been trailed for days now it was up to donald trump to make the case that a wildly controversial move opposed by the palestinians arab states and most of the international community can advance the peace process it would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result therefore i have determined. that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel trump said he was directing the state department to begin preparations to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv talk of architects and engineers confirming earlier suggestions that this would be a matter of years not days we

palestinian rights not to live in fear of palestinian rights not to be settled by a colonial power like israel palestinian rights not to be oppressed by amongst other is american arms sold to is a etc etc but you don't see any of it i mean this speech was empty of any attempt at balance so there was this long attempt at saying this was a historic religious capital of the jewish people even though for example but the simians where living there for the last thirteen centuries without any significant jewish presence in jerusalem or in palestine for that matter. to say that this is jerusalem is palestinian in every possible way in every meaningful way with its architecture its its stones its culture its cruising in for god's sake it mean everything about it is palestinian or for the rest of the west bank and gaza not to speak of twenty twenty five percent of the israeli population that is not jewish and that is that is living like second class citizens in their own homeland for the present time to call it the prosperous you know successful democracy the middle east when it's not it is a com

the palestinians rejected it. the head of the palestinian s said, there is no such thing as a palestinian people, we are just part of the greater arab nation. we do not want a state, we just want their not to be a jewish state. that happened in 1937. in 1948 when the united nations divided the mandate of palestine into two areas, the jewish area had a majority of jews sought it was not a colonialist are settler regime. those were allocated were jews in the majority allocated to the arab state or arrows. -- arabs. israel is accepted it, the palestinians joined by every other arab nation engaged in a genocidal war. there were refugees on both sides. approximately 750,000 jews were forced out of countries they lived in for 3000 years. in babylon called iraq, in persia called iran, in a aleppo where jews have lived for thousands of years. there was an exchange of population. 750,000 jews left and a move to to israel, where they were immediately accepted and became part of the population. approximately the same number

another of the palestinian side the palestinian side. have not a lot of choices and the people who are looking for an independent. freedom from liberation from occupation they understand that the main even if they will fight eventually that has to be a negotiating in my opinion negotiation was misused oh. are used. to bring into the new situation where only delaying the the problem and creating facts on the ground is any negotiation has to happen it has first of all to be sponsored by an international international community and not only by the united states then our states of america is not an objective. power in what's concerning israel and palestine second it has to be clear from the beginning that it is heading for a two state solution on the borders of the night is sixty seven and the thirty three it and to start all from the beginning settlements is the main obstacle if it's not to freeze then we are actually killing and liquidating the two state solution now you just mentioned the united states and i'm sure your heard the trumpet

talk to the countries of the world in order to support the palestinians and further the palestinian cause. and anything that is different from the nineteen sixty seven borders. including judicial and eastern jerusalem as the capital. will be refused and we hope that we present i. proposal to the security council in this respect. we ask all the countries of the world to come quickly to visit jerusalem and to denounce the american decision and the israeli decision which i will support the palestinians in this respect. and to stop. dies ation of jerusalem the holy land. and also to support jerusalem as an arab capital and you do. recognize that all are muslim and christians have rocked it will be no peace. with palestine and palestine will never be. in existence without judicial lim we hope that you support palestine and generous and thank you. i thank you dr riyadh in multi before jordan's like to thank you for somalia who attend for the first time the. we've been listening to the imagine succession of the arab league foreign ministers in cairo first of all we heard from the arab league gen

with the palestinians. hello i'm see chance and this is al jazeera long from london also coming up on the united nations an emergency meeting is how to react to donald trump's decision on jerusalem. breck's him break through the u.k. and you work into the night to reach an agreement that paves the way on the issue of trade and high winds have the upper hand as fire crews battle several dangerous wildfires in california. thank. one palestinian has been killed and more than seven hundred injured in violent clashes with israeli forces across palestine thousands of palestinians on said their leaders call to rally against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel there have been solidarity rallies across the world including in the cities of karate cairo istanbul london and berlin these pictures show demonstrators gathered outside the u.s. embassies in the muslim majority countries of malaysia and indonesia and the u.n. security held an emergency meeting to discuss trump's de

i must support the palestinian people including recognizing the palestinians within the 1967 border. in our historic lines and desire to achieve freedom and dignity and are hope to achieve dignity and welfare is renewed every day, however israeli occupation is taken away the dreams and futures of the palestinian people. a person was shot by a sniper in his wheelchair. the child was shot in the face and attire for telling the soldiers have surrounded an unarmed young man, the kidnapping and of brave girl child in the middle of the night from her parents. when will it end? when will we achieve our freedom and live in peace? this is celebrating the birth of christ over the next two days. but the lace will not be lit in the land of christ in jerusalem and bethlehem as a response to an attempt to eliminate the islamic identity of the city and an affirmation of the unity of the palestinian people around their cause. history is taken its position colonialism and apartheid. in palestine cannot remain alone, hostage to the tragedies that they have rejected. the palestinian people hold fast in

and israeli court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager on time mother after the girl was caught on video hitting two israeli defense force soldiers the court says the pair pose a danger to the idea sixteen year old i had to mimi confronted the two soldiers in front of her house in the west bank an hour after her cousin was hit by a rubber bullet there a video of the incident with the head went viral with some hailing it a symbol of palestinian resistance. and. look. at the footage shows a fed along with one of her cousins kicking and shoving the i.d.f. soldiers another kind also be seen in the video heads cousin was also arrested but released after forty eight hours the pair were angry after another overheads cozzens a fourteen year old boy was injured after being hit in the face by an israeli rubber bullet heads father has defended his daughter saying she feels she had no choice but to take action. we like to call itself as a freedom fighter what a fighter for the palestinian issue to believe that we must struggle directly or the phone she needs to be in the door of

every day talking to the palestinian people the palestinian authority are have become a cynical terrorist supporting entity that is not working towards peace and that have no interest in at this point coming to the negotiating table negotiating with israel and this is against the will of its own people and if you were here in the areas of drusilla and gone through the west bank and have real conversations with palestinian professionals you'd realize that they're all saying palestinian authority and my what about us are working against the interest of their own people and that's why you could never get elected again if you went to elections opposite hamas well mr dyker as you know they're a number of countries in the region dividend bishan of playing a role in the middle east peace process and one of them is turkey which already announced its help to move its palestinian embassy to is charles lane now president i don't is that far more ambitious and i think cunning figure than trump and i suspect he may be in power for a bit longer than trump if having trump siding more explicitly with the

palestinians are calling for a day of rage against u.s. president all trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the departure from seventy years of u.s. policy on the contested city has been widely criticized and has prompted. worldwide protests including in the cities of kharaj cairo istanbul london and berlin these pictures show demonstrators gathered outside the u.s. embassies in the majority in the muslim majority countries of malaysia and indonesia also thousands of people have been rallying across the palestinian territories including the occupied west bank gaza strip and occupied east jerusalem in other developments the united nations security council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss trump's declaration the united nations secretary general antonio good terrorise insists that the status of jerusalem must only be resolved through direct israeli palestinian talks alan fischer is life first now in occupied east jerusalem who just talking there alan about some of the violent confrontations that have taken place around

officials or palestinian. residents i guess over the palestine you cannot even refer to them as citizens who have a very strong feeling that. this negotiating process about the palestinian state would has become a means of denying them that statehood because the negotiations have been going on for so long in so many formats usually leading to nothing to benefit di cost and prolonging the occupation and and the end of the day advancing these really policies do you think it's fair do you think it's genuine and you know honest to call for more negotiations or to try one more time when at the end of the day it all adds up with palestinians being disappointed even more well i think the word should ask questions about the will. of negotiation really on the israeli side another of the palestinian side the palestinian side. have not a lot of choices and the people who are looking for an independent. freedom from liberation from occupation they understand that the main even if they will fight eventually that has to be

in terms of the tone of the speech of the of the palestinian claim or the other palestinian identification with jerusalem or force that they're joining me live from my system harry frontal. well the status of jerusalem is the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict and it is hugely symbolic for both sides and to understand why we need to go back seventy years while the u.n. vote carved up a palestinian land into two states a jewish one and an arab one in one nine hundred forty seven but under this partition plan the holy city of jerusalem was given a special international status to be governed by the united nations but a year later during the first arab israeli war israel captured more territory leading to division of jerusalem west jerusalem came under israeli control and east jerusalem came on the jordanian rule but in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven after the six day war israel unlawfully occupied east jerusalem it's still on the israel's illegal occupation despite u.n. resolutions well in one thousand eighty israel for the consolidated its grip over the city that's when it's cl

it is a very long battle for palestinians. said it is not in the white house, the palestinian identity of jerusalem is tonight. it is in the streets of jerusalem that people will continue to reinforce and stress the palestinian identity of this city. amy: dr. hanan ashrawi, do you with erekat that the two state solution is dead? >> it has been for some time now. but it was a very convenient myth they kept the facade of a process ongoing and was used constantly to pacify those who international duty by saying we are committed to the two state solution, but standing aside and allowing israel to destroy it single-handedly. so i think, yes, it is final now. at the issue is, what will take its place? i do not like to see any vacuum in terms of political vacuums or even vacuums in terms of struggle and internal reform and so one. we need, as i said, new national dialogue and we need to reform our institutions and our strategies in order to face this -- these tremendndous challenges we arere seeing before our eyes. amy: dr. hanan ash

palestinians outraged. is one of the holiest sites in islam more than three thousand palestinians and one thousand israelis died over the next five years this is the spot in jabalya refugee camp where the first intifada started thirty years ago an israeli patrol who was surrounded by hundreds of teenage boys in the soldiers ran for cover into these buildings here and from there fired indiscriminately into the crowds and since then life for the palestinians here has only gotten worse there are virtually no opportunities for the young people here with gaza and the blockade the malice to me and he will tell you that after twenty five years almost all of the talks with the israelis they've seen nothing to come from the furnace with al-jazeera gas. iraq's prime minister has declared the end of the war against i sell in iraq hyderabad he says iraqi troops are now in complete control of the iraqi syrian border it follows an iraqi forces operation to push the last i saw fight has out of the area. u.s. president don

of the palestinian state a.j. is sent to the israeli jews the name if we are going to the world and saying hey here is the solution you should recognize both capitals is part of the whole agreement and we are not going to give up on it only because the president of united states wanted a day to appease his own base i think that it will be much wiser than now demonstrating in the streets losing people the problem is mr beilin is the vast majority of the israeli government which is coming from the hard right of politics doesn't have the same view as you they will see this as a cop wrong for them to claim the whole of jerusalem as the capital of israel and forget it pretty much of the palestinians and any potential future state for them. but the majority of the people in israel according to the last four of the last months. is for sure for the two state solution and this is on the palestinian side the same so hamas does not recognize present now the mood on palestine and i can also say that the majority. is quite aga

palestinians responded with. in the wake of the announcement palestinian protesters clashed with israeli security forces. the decision was welcomed by many israelis who've always regarded jerusalem as israel's attorney and undivided capital. for palestinians the move means giving up hope that east jerusalem would be the capital of a future palestinian state. the us appears to have extended formal recognition of israel's occupation of the west bank and it's an extension of east jerusalem which began more than fifty years ago. in one thousand nine hundred forty nine after the arab israeli war a line of demarcation was drawn in green ink under the armistice agreements the line divided the land and the city of jerusalem into east and west forming the de facto border of the new state of israel since its victory in the six day war of one nine hundred sixty seven israel has repeatedly redrawn this line mainly through the expansion of jewish settlements in the west bank. several times a week a yellow fact goes to the gre

a weapon of war against the future of peace both for palestinians and israelis the palestinian authority actually mobilized the unesco to cancel out any connection between the jewish people and its own historic capital in jerusalem now if that isn't pure hypocrisy and if that doesn't cancel out any moral and ethical fiber of the united nations i don't know how it will in nascar ok do you trust the un ad general assembly do you trust u.n. general assembly as a neutral representation of the international community voices on that well that the united nations general assembly has passed more resolutions against the democratic state of israel that it has against north korea and iran and syria combined so that you know it is a bubbling cauldron of hatred and and anti democracy and the security council it made a shameful decision in approving un security council resolution two three three four back in december of sixteen which is a which represented a new low point in a dear for the moral clarity or i should say cloudiness of the security council the united states unfortunately in an unpreceden

it is an israeli city and a palestinian city. it should come in the future, become the capital of two states but it is already the city of the two populations which coexist there. fourth point, the historical and religious importance of jerusalem makes it a key part of solving the israeli-palestinian conflict but also makes it important to reach an international stability. more than ever before there was a need to preserve the status quo on the holy sites of jerusalem and more specifically the status quo of 1967 on [inaudible]. this must be reaffirmed. over and above this any approach to the question of jerusalem overall must avoid focusing attentions in the city. the risk that we really do have to be aware of is that a political conflict which could be subject to compromise as such could be converted into a religious conflict which by its very nature it would be regrettable. only the radicals would gain to the detriment of the moderates and region. finally, this is my 25th and last point following with concern the situation on t

there needs to be an end to the israeli occupation of the palestinian people and the palestinian people need to have their freedom and israel needs to be recognized by the palestinians as being legitimate so this is a difficult task maybe trunk trump with all the surprises that he's he's already made in in the future will bring can do it i am skeptical about whether or not the israeli prime minister is really ready to make the kind of compromises necessary to make peace with the palestinians and mahmoud abbas the aging palestinian leader has very little legitimacy within his own people so we may have to wait until their leadership changes on the ground here before someone new to national community could step in and help us make peace what do you think you know judging from what happened today what do you think that. impact will be on the region. i think it's very difficult to see in the next year is will be critical of whether or not there is a flare in violence and whether the israeli response to that violence will be the use of massive force or not or whether we can contain the anger

or promise will have no consequences in the subject of the palestinian occupied land all the palestinian people's rights. palestine refuses unequivocally and to strongly and thank all the arab sr arab countries for this stance and then it's time you know we saw it published by and support in them in many respects. and also. we thank the. kingdom of jordan and. the foreign minister. who called for this to convene this meeting and where they faris to help us do and also like the frank egypt saudi arabia. morrocco qatar. tunisia and everyone who has been in contact with us in the past few days. there has been a reaction in all of the capitals of the world and where we would support the rights of the palestinian people that are protected by international law and we call upon all countries of the world to refuse this unfair decision which is illegal and to protect the palestinian people's rights that are non-negotiable and that. is to recognize the borders of nine hundred sixty seven with jerusalem as its capital and that it is very encouraging to hear the support from many countries of the w

the 31st of october, 25 year old palestinian man was shot dead. on the 30th of november, is really civilian shot a palestinian man in the west bank in may through stone at the group of israelis. both shooting incidents are under investigation. 28 rockets were fired. the defense forces continue to target hamas and jihad military post a cost that gaza strip in which two militants and one civilian were killed with at least 20 people injured. there has been a visible increase in rockets fired by militants. 27 have been launched since hamas called for. [inaudible] one intercepted rocket caused damage to a kindergarten as well as vehicles resulting in no injuries. mr. president, allow me too turn some of the comments of inflammatory response. during the reporting period on a visit to they continue to make deplorable comments to the destruction of israel. it has heightened sense december 6 including calls for escalation, and violence. on social media pages they continue to ca celebrate perpetrators on attacks against israelis including the h of november

for the palestinian people. how can they have much expectation that their problem might come to an end tomorrow is a very daily kate a very imbalanced situation. finding a very out appears to be very difficult how can this be if if somehow the islamic world starts implementing decisions who are enough. like. the seventy's then perhaps something can be done but at this point no government in the area feel secure enough to challenge the american leadership the other upspringing in coats or are fired visual you know you look at it is the information mines what happened in syria is there what happened in iraq is there the libya situation where they are who are taking very much. real courage to get in the u.s. vice president mike pence is in the region next week what sort of reception to that is going to get. first of all the palestinians declare that they are not going to accept him and receive him and i hope i must say frankly i hope they will stick to their word because also this ritual in which americans and othe

state a palestinian entity jerusalem may be. part of jerusalem may be the capital of that state as well. you know it was actually russia back in april made the first declaration of any country rule to recognize that western would be the capital of israel and there were these protests there wasn't this mass rage so it's quite interesting you know you bring up a point about this is something that is just a statement of fact the u.s. administration they are trying to portray this as them having nothing especially controversial and recognizing jerusalem so why now while the protests across the world because of america's declaration. well the protests i think it's just popular in this region to be leading to be seen in the media to be seen by your peers to be seen in politics as leading up. against israel and in the states but as far as why now you know i think. that a straight action is open to changing the approach of the last thirty years were also sold as falling apart. you know we haven't seen anything tangible actually emerged

home to a palestinian state. as its capital has more now from they were. born in exile because raised not to forget their identity these are the children of the refugees of the one nine hundred forty eight more palestinians who were forced to leave their homes in what is now israel. lebanon is where they live but they want their homeland back we want a country these children. the jews of them as i was five year old says promising that no one will be able to take it away from them. i will hussein was younger than what his family fled palestine he was too young to remember his country but for him palestine remains home he has a message for u.s. president donald trump. if points to donate to israel he crossed the red line he should donate one of his country's states to israel. and palestine is jerusalem. there is anger there is the jurors of the status is extremely sensitive in the israeli palestinian conflict. palestinians say they will never give up jerusalem but there is a reality many of the refugees here say th

palestinian territory it's all good to call for protests and so on what is a palestinian authority going to do concrete lee to make sure that the palestinian people have an independent state. well the thing is the question is freedom and it's the p.l.o. not the palestinian authority that takes political decisions so the p.l.o. has to determine a new course of action i think this is a game changer this is a serious transformation of the strategy that has been adopted since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when the pm see the palestine license council accepted the two state solution as a major and painful compromise by the way it's not the decision of choice i mean it's something that we did as a concession in order to have a two state solution on historical palestine now that is sexy being in superimposing greater of all of historical palestine this means that the time has come to reconsider this strategy and to convene the bodies that will take that action a strategic direction as a result of a comprehensive national dialogue and i think this is crucial because right now as i said

hours of this week post jerusalem we believe there now the palestinian leadership the palestinian authority the p.l.o. committed to two states or one state it's a very simple question i'm just asking but you are if you know if you want to position now if i did what i know what your position on i don't want to live in is that such an announcement that was made by president trump has definitely reversible three things that the us start us as a mediator damaged the prospects for a two state solution because most of them is at the heart of it and damage the consequence of peace now what would be the consequences of that is something for the palestinian national leadership to make not for me one last question as a palestinian leader what's your message to young palestinians maybe watching the show with this interview who feel hopeless who feel desperate who feel the world is against them who feel that they'll never be free and this latest jerusalem is asian is just another blow to their hopes and aspirations what's your message to them it was a catastrophic moment it was a very helpful moment i

side the palestinian leadership is also not in the position to really make any big decisions the palestinian leadership is very fractured your you all don't own and so you know for all of these reasons sort of i don't think that the peace process has been going on in a negative so we really can't say that this announcement as you know devastated and not exist in peace process. in terms of the reaction though we've got the u.s. administration trying to trade having done nothing especially come to virtual by recognizing jerusalem but we're seeing protests across the world so he's got this right and he's misjudged it. well in a way this is a continuation of u.s. policy i mean most americans for guard troops alone as the capital certainly western roussillon most americans would consider to be. israel's congress has essentially stated that it regards jerusalem as the it's really out all that said there was always this understanding that the u.s. wouldn't prejudge the so-called final status issues and that the core final status issues including jerusalem would have to be negotiated by the parties

well i think there are a number of steps that the palestinian leadership and the palestinian political elites should take and i would put them in a succession of priority i think it would be important right now for the p.l.o. as well as the palestinian authority the current leadership will want. to call for an emergency session or to postpone national council to empower as well as to really get a new round of the election that will include palestinians from inside palestine as well as. apologies we seem to have lost talkin next with our guest there. is he still with us ok we've lost him apologies for that hopefully we'll be able to get him back on later on al-jazeera. moving on in egypt has ordered al-jazeera journalist mahmoud was saying to remain in prison for another forty five days he was arrested in egypt a year ago while visiting family is now the tenth time his attention has been renewed al-jazeera continues to demand his release he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. zimbabwe'

palestinian cause to get rid of the right to return prevent a palestinian state many palestinians feel that now more than ever the dream of their own state is fading away so. well the u.s. president donald trump has been talking about yemen as well he's called on saudi arabia and its blockade immediately here's a portion of that statement directed officials in my administration to call the leadership of the kingdom of saudi arabia to request a completely allow fuel water and medicine to reach the yemeni people who desperately need it the u.s. has been backing the saudi led coalition in its fight against the rebels twenty fifteen thousands of people have died in the war there and thousands more are facing famine and starvation. well the crown prince of abu dhabi has met with the son of yemen slain ousted president. mohamed bin ziad offered his condolences to the saw there has been under house arrest in the u.a.e. since his father made an alliance with the hole with these in twenty fourteen the u.a.e. is part of the saudi led coalition to join the yemen war in twenty fifteen so expel the

about a third ofjerusalemites are palestinians. the old city here has some of the holiest sites for muslims and christians as well as jews. and palestinians want occupied eastjerusalem as the capital of their future state. they object to the us announcement. translation: as a palestinian, this is a mistake. jerusalem is the capital for the palestinian state. that is not negotiable. translation: there will be troubles over this. it will not pass smoothly. there will be opposition and there will be chaos. jerusalem is probably the most sensitive issue in the israel/palestinian conflict. this ancient city has great religious and political significance and we have seen many times howjust small changes made here can quickly flare up into unrest. during the summer there was deadly violence when israel put in new security measures at al—aqsa mosque compound, after two israeli policemen were killed there. these were later removed to keep the status quo. now palestinian officials say mr trump is raising tensions again. this is a declarati

this is a new aggression against palestinians it is a dangerous new phase they want to destroy the palestinian cause to get rid of the right to return prevent a palestinian state. many palestinians feel that now more than ever the dream of their own state is fading away there are people. who say fight is a broken up a rare protest by dozens of yemeni women in the capital's. women gathered outside the military hospital demanding a proper burial for the president ali abdullah saleh who was killed by the rebels on monday after switching alliances to the side to lead the nation. nepal will go to the polls on thursday as part of the second phase of the country's elections well in two years after a devastating earthquake survivors so hope their new elected representatives will help them rebuild so many reports i've kept wondering. political party flags flutter in the outskirts of guttman do reminding everyone of voting day on thursday a series of small explosions in the past few days doesn't seem to have deterred these new parties security staff are watching every polling booths and final preparatio

flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. and that's the only thing we can do this time declinations a slap for us here to wake up and realize the peace process was just an illusion. the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians. wait emirates jordan all of them then to us here in palestine we defend it but we can't do without support but if those were peaceful protests there were also clashes across the uk you paired bias bank usually a distil called fiction point that's when palestinian youth come face to face with the israeli army now the military had announced that it has deployed several extra battalion to the occupied west bank because it was preparing for the eventuality of unrest now friday is another day of rage and more of these kind of violent scenes i expected well there have also been protests outside the old city in occupied east jerusalem a general strike is in place across the occupied territories closing shops businesses and schools have a force that has more. the day after the u.s. president recognize

in palestinian territory under palestinian authority for them it would be hard to accept that would be a solution for them to accept that these territories and says settlements also are ruled by palestinian institutions a palestinian government why not if it's a government under the rule of law this could be accepted it but he must be of course a government under the rule of law was out and he remained should without violence but it's imaginable if good will prevails mr thomas shot is that the settlement issue in essence a lot more important to the conflict and a status of jerusalem. the settlement issue is extremely important. you know would it to bring the recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel brings every seeing into focus. and the fact that these settlements are growing it's very. i can recall in disconnection of the advisory opinion of the international court of justice which sad that these settlements are unlawful under international no doubt about it just as walty into the cold which are so sad and we have to respect it. all right thank you very much for this intervi

it is an israeli city and palestinian city. in the future it should become the capital of two states that it's already the city of the two populations which coexist. the fourth point, the historic and religious accordance of jerusalem makes it a key part of solving the conflict but also important to reaching the international stability more than ever before there's a need to preserve the status quo and more specifically the status quo of 1967 this must be reaffirmed. but over and above this, the question overall must avoid the focusing tensions in the city. the risks that we do have to be aware of is a political conflict which could be subject to compromise and such for a religious conflict whereby its very nature with the intractable only the radicals would go to the detriment of the moderates in the region. finally, this is my fifth and last point following with was concerned the situation on the ground we've seen ten days of confrontations which have led to the deaths with hundreds of wounded in the west bank into several ar

she joins us now she's a palestinian lawmaker and a member of the palestinian liberation organization's executive committee she is in ramallah mr showing a very good evening you were an op ed for the new york times today where you call trump's decision a huge mistake why. us it's a huge mistake because he's not on the undermining the trances of destroying the very foundations of peace is destroying america and what situation when it is justice by finding such appalling clues and will become complicit in the crime is also inflaming the public of the will provoke a will people out the region and beyond and we had supporting extremists and this certainly will have its our relentless extremism and violence. leon and of course by giving an example of violating international law and you know what the. restrictions work together but. arab countries that have predictably reacted in horror to this decision but the size the usual condemnations they're not suggesting any solutions do you feel that a palestinian still at the arab world has given up on the palestinians at this stage. when we tried v

at the same time palestinian factions making up the palestinian liberation organization and also hamas called for strikes and processed marches in the palestinian territories on the west bank of the river jordan and also in gaza. in moscow the decision announced in washington was greeted with serious concern. we are of the view that a fair and reliable settlement of the long standing palestinian israeli conflict should be reached on the well known basis of international law including the corresponding resolutions of the security council and the general assembly of the united nations the stipulate the settlement of all aspects of the final status of the palestinian territories. including the so sensitive question of jerusalem through through the course of direct palestinian israeli negotiations. we are worried by the fact that the new position announced by the united states on jerusalem risks further complicating the situation in palestinian israeli relations and in the region as a whole. therefore we call on all parties involved to exercise restraint and to refrain from actions which m

palestinian leader's saying this is a death knell for the palestinian -- this is a death knell -- we heard palestinian leaders saying this is a death knell for the two-state solution. the two-state solution has to happen because it is the only solution which gives palestinians at least part of what they want and enables israel to remain as the jewish and democratic state in the since it is the home of the jewish people, not in the sense that it is a religious state, not unlike iran, which is an islamic state. interesting that the one state which refuses the two-state solution is iran itself because everyone thinks if we had one state, palestine, the jews would be marginalized. they would be a minority, and we would have a situation like in lebanon or syria or so on. that is what they want, so it's obvious the two-state solution has to happen. , if mr. trumpins says jerusalem -- recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel or not, it is one -- if anyone recognizes it or not. it will not happen tomorrow. it will not happen in a year. it will not happen in five years. melinda: is a pal