the trial of a palestinian teenager charged with assaulting an israeli soldier will be held behind closed doors the military judge overseeing a had to me this case banned media from the courtroom as proceedings began the seventeen year old was arrested in december after a video of her slapping and hitting an israeli soldier went viral to me is facing twelve charges and could spend up to ten years in prison if found guilty harriet forces has more now from outside the military court near ramallah in the occupied west bank without trial is ongoing. so the trial proper had some meat is now under way with this two are proceeding on tuesday the prosecution once again set out its case against the seventeen year old she's charged with assault and incitement among twelve charges the defense set out its case that this entire process is illegitimate the result of an illegal occupation the main difference between what we saw today and the pretrial hearings is that the judge decided the media outside observers would be allowed to witness proceedings inside the court i think this is one of the court is

dramatic step of flying to the united nations this month it means a showdown with the americans and the israelis on the floor of the un security council every month the council meets to discuss the conflict normally ambassadors of israel and of palestine attend but in a deeply unusual move mahmoud abbas will himself be there he's angered by the trumpet ministrations decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to cut a large chunk of its funding to the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians the last straw was president trumps attack on him last week at davos he said he disrespected vice president mike pence declined to give an audience to when he visited the middle east the decision of the palestinian leader to come to the u.n. it was announced by the incoming president of the security council what do you hope it will achieve having him here in the council chamber. president abbas will come it will be a good thing in that it will be a good thing for the members of the security council to listen to the president himself it will be beneficial for everyone th

israeli media is reporting that a former confidant of prime minister benjamin netanyahu will testify against him over corruption allegations shlomo felber a former director of the communications ministry was arrested on sunday and stored he'll get a lighter sentence in return for his corporation brazil's senate has passed a decree which puts the military in charge of security in rio de janeiro the measure allows the army to take command of police forces in the crime plagued state where violence has spiked by eight percent in the last year well those are the top stories i'm going to have more news for you in just under half an hour do stay with us coming up next on al-jazeera its witness thank you for watching as you soon. about a man. most on the balcony. with a. little boy in the back left engine last. live manual. this kind i gave the moon to. and if it's an over the moon. does so does so. it's an x. oh i just thank channel that and a half hour wife a man could not. open as slack then that battle over. the bow. and. yeah. there's no listening. to me. would you. want. them to. say.

analyst called the move in date very bad foreign policy rather than just giving jerusalem away to the israelis what he could have done is sad we will acknowledge jerusalem as the capital of israel if you dismantle all the illegal settlements and so what he stand now isn't given away very big valuable check and essentially gotten nothing in return the ambassador david friedman and a few aides will join current consular staff at their office in jerusalem a new building won't be built for several years there's no denying the embassy move will affect any and all peace talks going forward roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. yes president donald trump says the government is imposing is largest ever sets of sanctions on north korea to isolate and put pressure on pyongyang to give up its nuclear missile program the measures specifically target the country's maritime activity sixteen north korean shipping companies have been sanctioned along with several based in hong kong china and taiwan twenty eight ships are on the list again mostly north korean but two are from panama and one from congress and an

study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want to do and if you don't say it when i go let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al jazeera. hello again adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera russia's president has ordered a five cease fire in syria's east and beginning at seven hundred hours g.m.t. a humanitarian corridor will be opened allowing people to leave at least twenty six people were killed on monday in the rebel held on klav. following the order of the russian president with the aim of eliminating casualties among the civilian population of eastern ghouta a daily humanitarian pauses being introduced starting february twenty seventh from nine am to two pm and a humanitarian corridor will be created for the exit of civilians its cordon its have been prepared and will

still to come here and there an israeli lawsuit reopens wounds for the family of a palestinian killed in clashes three years ago. and a show of force peddling by usual standards north korea holds a military parade on the eve of south korea. how low we have got more wintry weather coming into northeastern parts of the u.s. this latest band of cloud now in the process of clearing away slightly khwaja weather coming in behind to just see this area cloud here which will bring some when she weather that just around the midwest seeing some snow pushing across pennsylvania upstate new york to new york struggling to get to two degrees celsius that will continue to make its way east was it links back into the rockies server to the west coast is five ads right celsius in seattle not see bad here l.a. gets up to around twenty five degrees far to try but it will cool off as we go on into sas day no warmer than about nineteen celsius in l.a. at this stage not much warmer than the sort of weather will say in atlanta or actually with a cloud of dry coming into that southeastern corner just around th

to middle east the way israeli media say a former confidant of prime minister benjamin netanyahu may testify against him in a corruption case. is a former director of the communications ministry but he was arrested on sunday by police looking into government benefits that were offered to a telecoms giant investigators say there's sufficient evidence to indict netanyahu ben smith has more from west jerusalem. until now benjamin netanyahu is in a circle of friends confidants and colleagues has kept a tight circle around the prime minister if shlomo filbert gives evidence against netanyahu then this really is the first fish or the first crack in that tight circle filbert was a former head of the communications ministry he was put there by netanyahu he's been arrested along with executives from bezerk telecom the largest telecommunications company in israel and the police suspect that bezerk got regulatory favors from netanyahu is government and in return netanyahu got favorable coverage on one of the most popular news websites in israel that was controlled by a former chairman of basic

we hear to jerusalem bureau coverage israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of internet we cover it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being a government source a very important to be a journalist you know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. the rhythm or is a vital source of substance to the countries it flows through this not all the single owner who can lay claim that would build a little. this is going to give me. but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry country suspicious of each other's intentions in the battle for control of the river transporting. was not up to me. because i worked on the field struggled a bit but this time on al jazeera. and i'm down in jordan doha with the top stories here on al-jazeera samsung's vice chairman lee j. young has been freed from jail with a suspended sentence a south korean appeals court reduced his jail ter

one would say if the israeli were genuine about the need to solve this issues they should have meant a status quo that has prevailed since seventeen fifty seven when the ottoman osman the third implemented the third man or the decree that paves the way for columbia station for the maintaining and also the management of holy sites and lands pertaining to different denominations within the christian faith why would you suddenly decide you know what we would like to change that studies quo. like i'm not sure that even in the seventeen hundreds or eight hundred any of the church properties were used to make a commercial profit. in the form of hotels and restaurants and things like that so that the situation has changed somewhat and now i hope in the same way that the hotel which is next located next to. the hope deck steward hotel run by a church an ordinary hotel has to pay our no no but the church hotel we also makes the same profit and charges very similar rates is exempt from tax now that you agree this is a situation that's existed for many many years and there personally i'm not su

study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera. lucky to be alive galliano. children are among at least eighty five fatalities in syrian government airstrikes on rebel held eastern guta. hello i'm not matheson this is all just here on live from doha also coming up tensions escalate further in syria's north and turkey warns the government against helping the kurds are nothing. but testers take their message to the white house as pressure mounts on politicians over the florida school shooting. you believe it to link is clear we will prosecute don't spam eighty three and threatens action against a british charity of allegations of sexual exploitation by its staff provan. united nations is calling for an end to

israeli media is reporting that one of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is closest confidantes will testify against him on corruption and accusations shlomo silva has been arrested and questioned by police israeli police say that there's now sufficient evidence to indict netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases netanyahu denies the allegations a prominent rights activist has been jailed in bahrain for five years an appeal rajab was a leading figure in the two thousand and eleven pro-democracy protests he's been sentenced to tweets criticizing bahrain's intervention in the yemen war and the prison authorities use of torture rajab was already serving a two year sentence for accusing the government of torturing political prisoners and students survivors of the shooting in the u.s. state of florida taking action to push for tougher gun control they're set to hold talks with legislators in the state capital tallahassee seventeen students and staff were killed in the attack last week in parkland. here with the news grid and a little over twenty five minutes on

so unless they have the first israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will continue to run the country that's despite the police recommending he be charged for corruption and bribery was accused of accepting the three hundred thousand dollars in gifts from billionaire benefactor he's also suspected of backroom deals with the publisher of an israeli newspaper for favorable coverage. i mean it's a good first of all i want to reassure you the coalition is stable and no one not myself not anyone else plans to hold elections we will continue to work together with you for the people of israel until the end of the term after i read the reconditioned report i can say it is biased extreme full of holes like swiss cheese . a financial crisis in gaza is forcing hospitals and clinics to close patients can't use intensive care beds and those with contagious diseases have to stay in overcrowded room is cut out in the u.a.e. or provided money to install generators in hospitals but it could be another week before it's put into plan ben a smith reports from gaza. mohamed el sir he has sever

at the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. but on the show yesterday we landed hard blows in forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to holler for any blown flick to join us this is been our policy and this remain our policy. the incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone launched from syria that had crossed into israeli air space iran continues to deny the charge the secretary of the national security council saying the allegations by zionists that they hit iranian bases in syria is a lie we are in syria as consultants we don't have the kind of military presence for them to make this allegation the years israel's government has been talking about a mounting iranian threat on its northern borders i don't think we we that we were not to vulnerable but we certainly didn't expect it to happen this quickly so that's why i'm sayin

well let me just bring you up to date with the latest fuss i've spoken to the israeli army in the last five minutes i also very bluntly whether the operation was still continuing and what targets they hit in syria overnight they declined to comment on both of those questions but what we're hearing from retired israeli generals or briefing local media is that this is the biggest operation launched against syrian air defenses units since one thousand nine hundred eighty two so clearly a very significant operation that's going on that the israeli army declined to comment on what we're expecting to see out all the west them in the next few hours two very crucial meetings the first one will be a cabinet meeting and this is a regular schedule cabinet meeting but clearly the focus will be on vents in syria and what to do next now we also heard from media sources close to prime minister benjamin netanyahu who told his cabinet not to talk about this publicly so it's unlikely that we're going to see any kind of announcement but perhaps more crucially we might see an announcement from the securit

israeli forces have arrested one thousand palestinians in the occupied west bank off of the arrest took place in the village northeast of ramallah they included a palestinian teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullets last december israeli security forces say they arrested jews to an increase in violence in the area. an investigative journalist and his girlfriend have been shot dead in slovakia in an attack police believe was linked to his reporting which focused on tax evasion bodies of twenty seven year old siac and his partner were discovered in their home by minister robert fico has condemned what he calls an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press and democracy and is off a million dollar reward. germany's ruling christian democrat party has overwhelmingly approved an all the coalition deal with the social democrats at its party conference in bubblin this means i'm going to muckle is a step closer to a fourth to a chance of the social democrats now have to approve the deal themselves results of that postal vote will be announced next monday. now if yo

that injured four israeli soldiers along the border israeli jets launched a series of air strikes on a number of sites in the southern gaza strip its military blames hamas for saturday's explosion several palestinians were injured in the israeli raids today's incident on the girls' the street border was severe we were responding appropriately i said my wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded. it's going to hairy forces in west jerusalem what is the situation. well as you say those the most recent development is the discovery of those two bodies what the medical sources in gaza the minimal of the health ministry in gaza is saying is that they were two seventeen year olds who were discovered east of rafa down in the south of the gaza strip near the egyptian border also presumably close to the israeli border if it was east of the town of rougher the medical sources yesterday night were saying that the israeli tank had attacked a gathering of people in that area israeli media reports suggesting that four people had actually tried to breach the border fence and were fired on by tank fi

army in the occupied west bank city of nablus thirty people wounded as israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets during protests on tuesday on monday and israeli settler was stabbed and killed in the illegal settlement of. billionaire entrepreneur company space x. has successfully launched its most powerful rockets yet the twenty three story falcon heavy blasted off from the kennedy space center in florida. a tesla sports car inside representing the car company that he owns right those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream that's coming up next thank you for watching. news has never been more available but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream you do narrative at this time on al-jazeera. ok add your own history today should u.s. president donald trump be actively resisted i guess today has been a vocal part of that leave but for more than a year now you may not know his name but it's likely that you know it's work today meet michael skolnik and they could be loud and i'll be

military there are consequential elements of the story as well now during that operation an israeli f. sixteen that took part in the israeli army strike inside syria for some reason was quote abandoned over galilee whether that means the aircraft was shot down on not at this moment we simply don't know it remains unclear whether the jet was hit by syrian regime anti aircraft fire more on that for you just as soon as we can. the un's refugee agency is raising concerns about growing violence in yemen which it blames for an increase the number of people forced from their homes since december the u.n.h.c.r. is estimating more than eighty five thousand people have been displaced across the country more than sixty thousand have fled regions near the west coast in the have died governments yemen is the world's biggest humanitarian crisis twenty two million people are in need of aid the civil war intensified early in twenty fifteen when the saudi led military coalition intervened in support of the governments which is fighting against the three rebels shall be a man too is a us yemen spokes

and the israeli army is suing the family of a palestinian man crushed by one of the jeeps to compensate them for the damage vehicle a bill of in a month was accused of throwing a fire bomb at the cheap he was pursued by israeli soldiers when the vehicle crushed him. those are top stories i will be back in a few moments time with the big picture which examines the present day crisis and venezuela more news coming up after that stay with us. venezuela is gripped by crisis. ravaged by economic collapse and mobbed by political to k. . the government of nicolas maduro faces an existential threat. mother who has been a bully in the middle of a big storm. latin america's once model democracy struggles to maintain order and feed it divided people. have never seen a detour a show of living standards of this moment almost anywhere in the world a nation boasting the world's largest oil reserves fight the economic survival as it's called further apart. polarization is the racial it is there regionally is there by choirs it's there in lol to pull multiple ways. but the seeds of its current demise wa

in twenty fourteen boko haram abducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of chibok israeli media say a former confident of prime minister benjamin netanyahu may testify against him in a corruption case shlomo filbert is a former director of the communications ministry he was arrested on sunday by police looking into government benefits that was offered to a telecoms giants and tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have shut down the center of argentina's capital but desirous that demonstrating against the president's austerity measures those were the headlines i'll be back with more news in thirty minutes next it's risking it all here on al-jazeera. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed job as a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily the start news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. i heard. you. in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle

in gaza women have to contend with life under the israeli blockade and within a conservative restrictive society female unemployment stands at seventy one percent women with jobs on average about a quarter less than men one recent study suggests more than ten percent of females have suffered physical abuse. minorca. a woman isn't free to make her own decisions to choose her education the husband she wants or how to plan her family we see this during our work men a dominant political decision making despite the fact that there are lots of well educated intellectual women in the public arena. it's a picture those are the type of t.v. want to help change by talking directly and frankly to garza's women for a full suit al-jazeera gaza you are out as they are still ahead want to send the half of the council of oxfam that we are ashamed of what happened in haiti an apology and an admission oxfam says it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual misconduct unicef singled out pakistan as one of the riskiest countries the newborns but says infant deaths that could be prevented and it's for f

israeli planes have been carrying out air strikes in northern sinai with the approval of the egyptian president. that's according to the new york times egyptian forces have been fighting i saw a link to armed groups in the region zeros in noncom reports from western medicine so his the original report in sunday's new york times they'll have to say the reporting is all from british and american former security officials who spoke to the new york times none of it's actually come from either israel or egypt we reached out to the israeli army for comment they say they weren't going to comment on this case but clearly it's a very big story both in the hebrew language and the english language post now take a look at this this horace they're reporting fairly similar things israel conducted over one hundred as strikes on isis in egypt using the new york times as a base the jerusalem post here as well to take a look at this israel struck over one hundred targets and sinai with caro's ok now this is going to be controversial for both countries there's a hard right in israel that says it doesn't

palestinians at the moment no longer see the americans as independent arbiters in negotiations with the israelis and the us defense secretary says turkey has legitimate security concerns along and southern border with syria he also admitted some american backed kurdish forces had moved to syria's border region about frayne or turkey on shop aeration last month to push kurds out the u.s. has supported kurdish forces in the fight against isis severely straining ties with turkey which sees them as a terrorist group. and the un says the syrian civil war has intensified some of the worst fighting since the conflict began nearly seven years ago it says hundreds of people have been killed injured or displaced in the past week activists in rebel held eastern ghouta are turning to social media to highlight the suffering of around three hundred fifty thousand people trapped in the besieged area. reports from beirut on. appeals for help coming from the children of eastern. we are being killed by your silence before it is too late mohamed says. opposition activists have launched a campaign on social media t

prime minister called it an attempt to rewrite history demanding the proposed legislation be amended israeli government says it adamantly opposed to this second vote adding that no law can change historical truth and there is support in the israeli parliament the knesset for a bill here to challenge the polish one by offering protection legally to anyone prosecuted for their views on the holocaust overseas and making it illegal to deny complicity in the holocaust as well as the event itself opposition leader ya appeared his great grandmother was killed in poland is one of the law's sponsors if you see the candle for does this and it is that it was for our share of the last couple of weeks important to this you understand why is it so important for us to be able to maintain the memory of the holocaust isn't what really happened during the years of the forty five jews were murdered and poles were helping israel's holocaust memorial yad vashem pays tribute to nearly seven thousand poles who didn't save their jewish neighbors at the height of the holocaust but one of israel's leading scholars on

involvement for any new form to work though the israelis would have to be willing to take part with trump at his back there seems little incentive for now the prime minister binyamin netanyahu to change tack i doubt that can be and the renewal of the peace process especially that the alternative sponsorship will be refused by israel we will witness a period of no process no solution what's a period i mean probably the coming one to two years at least a massive fairly bleak outlook isn't it that's right but this is less harmful to the palestinians from continuing with a process in which the sponsor of the united states might come up with a proposal. that can be even more harmful than the continuity of the current difficult and please reality that we're living. anger with donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital came with criticism of the palestinian leadership but depending on the u.s. mediation for the last twenty five years it's felt the pressure to come up with an alternative we have no other option we don't want to go back to violence we are not abandoning our commit

and israeli media say the police will recommend the prime minister benjamin netanyahu indicted on corruption charges plus. why donald trump is facing a backlash over his desire for a military parade. welcome to the news hour almost two hundred people have been killed in the past three days in rebel held parts of syria after some of the most intense airstrikes fighting and shelling in months thirty four people died on wednesday in eastern guta a rebel on klav on the outskirts of the capital damascus where four hundred thousand people estimated to be besieged by government forces since twenty thirteen four others died in italy a province which has been the target of recent chemical attacks and a government offensive backed by russian air support has been underway there for three weeks now russian bombing in the area has been ramped up since a pilot was shot down and killed on saturday but it lived and. guter are supposed to be part of a so-called deescalation zone where fighting and their strikes were to be scaled back the attacks take the death toll to at least one hundred eighty four after a

the new york times says that israeli planes have been carrying out airstrikes in northern sinai with the approval of egypt's president fattah el-sisi it says unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids over the past two years egypt has been fighting isolating armed groups in the region germany's chancellor angela merkel has warned that more tough talks lie ahead before a government can be formed her conservative party is negotiating with the social democrats on forming a coalition. goals here with the news grid in a little over twenty five minutes here on al-jazeera right after this week's edition of the listening post next. on counting the cost some of the biggest names in take out with record earnings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being called at the sec clash a look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german auto industry counting the cost at this time. russia. and mike. in the west. hello richard gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories we've been t

is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with detailed coverage the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one beijing shelter is giving them a home when he speaks of the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time on al-jazeera. it was auriol upon which modern day venezuela was a stop. for over a century of this lucrative resource has divided the people both less than coerced with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time on al-jazeera . hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the united states has accused the syrian government of continuing to use chemica

and israeli jets bombing bombing. and the summer of nine hundred eighty two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its income and some southern border with israel what's an israeli army doing here in beirut the answer is that we are now dealing with an imperial israel which is solving its problems in someone else's country world opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two was a watershed it was israel breaking out beyond its immediate region to aggressively attack another country and it was a bit of a shock to many people in the interests of self-defense that gallant little underdog israel as suddenly started behaving like the neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the israeli military would to seventeen thousand lebanese and palestinians and the other thirty thousand almost all of them civilians and when they were over in the end they are become so why is everything only. right to recruit others because.

workers of you were in the lemme tell you that one at the end don't know if it was the new with the israeli you are those people in israel today like president rivlin who call for a bi national state they ask they insist. on. civil rights for the palestinians and human rights for the palestinians equality for the palestinians in terms of economic social and cultural issues etc but not political. that these days will remain the state where jews would have the upper hand politically speaking and that by national state would be open to jewish immigration but not the palestinian immigration i mean what kind of test that is going to be it is going to be as i say the south african state without the south african solution. like palestine iraq has also been affected by the legacy looks like speak of. in two thousand and three a u.s. led coalition declared war on iraq believing it to possess weapons of mass destruction and aiming to oust president saddam hussein. however the coalition did in taba clear recovery plan for a post saddam iraq and six tarion and ethnic armed west seriously destabilize th

is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with detailed coverage on our children government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. and young so molly refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. and i was lucky too good to hear i was a really really hard to go down said my prayer but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera world asks ali was whether his american dream is still alive and so molly in america at this time on al-jazeera we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incr

the israeli army killed a name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars for damages to this jeep to crush the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues then in january this year the army build the family. this is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. well. they reopened this so shameless that they are demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians it's not about the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you won't break because. in june two thousand and fifteen there was a raid by the army. leader mullah that turned violent the israelis say ability through foible of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldn't allow medics to treat of the law as he lay beneath the jeep he eventually played to death the entire village turned out the funeral. lawyers say asking for compensation is part of a new strategy to penalize palestinians fo

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has made a rare visit to the occupied golan heights where he issued a warning to syria while appearing across the nearby border into the south he warned israel's enemies quote not to test its resolve he has also been cautioning a role model deepen its military foothold in syria or construct missile factories in lebanon a court in pakistan has delivered verdicts for fifty seven people including a death sentence in the case of a student who was lynched after being accused of blasphemy thirty people were given jail sentences while twenty six others were acquitted hundreds of students dragged out of his university dorm in the northern city of marjah in april last year he was beaten before being shot dead police determined during the investigation there was no evidence can committed blasphemy. people living in ended administered kashmir say their villages have been destroyed by shells fired by the pakistani army over the past three weeks and it's forced hundreds to leave their homes but torah gate and the reports. this is what's left of two hundred

it says unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids over the past two years egypt has been fighting isis groups in the region. who has warned that more tough talks lie ahead for a government can be formed a conservative party is negotiating with the social democrats on forming a coalition. here with a little over twenty five minutes on al jazeera. this week's edition of the listening post next. some of the biggest names. but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in. business relations between. in the. industry. at this time. i. call. it the listening post here are some of the media stories we've been tracking this week.

have attended a rally in tel aviv protesting israel's plans to deport african migrants in february the israeli government started handing out notices to twenty thousand male lichens saying they risk being jailed if they didn't leave by the start of april. those are your headlines let's get you back now to rewind islam in america. a mom wallerstein muhammad lives modestly here in chicago he became the head of the nation of islam when his father in larger mohamad died in one nine hundred seventy five dean persuaded most of the nation to adopt mainstream islam and he changed the nation's name to the world community of islam in the west there were some very startling ideas. yes tell us about some of the it was a myth mr destroyed we had a myth. there origins of the white race as grafted there was a black man you know it's mind blowing you know and the blood and blood people were gods and the whites were devils and exactly. exactly but what made you break with the nation of islam that it didn't it didn't take nothing but a child's brain for me to do this out about eleven or twelve when i was there

your forty's there are some voices that question when that gives too much power in the long term to israeli authorities well in the short term it does seem that they've backed down the standoff has been resolved the differences that created it have yet to be. afghanistan's president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political group as part of negotiations aimed at ending the more than sixteen years of war are so funny was speaking at a meeting of nations trying to build a framework for peace talks but he reiterated that the group also needs to recognize his government has proposed releasing prisoners and a review of the constitution officials from twenty five countries the e.u. and nato are meeting as part of the kabul process in the afghan capital let's bring in tony berkley he is live in kabul one in twenty can we expect any significant developments anything new coming out of this. well actually very very little new but it is quite notable that this is the first time the president danny has mentioned this in public previous presidents president karzai for example said s

palestinian conflict both sides have suffered greatly so many innocent israels israelis have been killed or injured by suicide bombings stabbings and other sickening terrorist attacks israel has been forced to live under constant security threats like virtually no other country in the world it should not have to live that way and yet israel has overcome those burdens it is a thriving country with a vibrant economy that contributes much to the world in the name of technology science and the arts it is it is the palestinian people who are suffering more the palestinians in gaza live under hamas terrorist oppression i can't even call it a governing authority as hamas provides so little in the way of what one would normally think as government services the people of gaza live in truly awful conditions while their hamas rulers put their resources into building terror tunnels and rockets the palestinians in the west bank also suffer greatly too many have died and too much potential has been lost in this conflict we're joined here today by the palestinian authority president abbas i'm sorry he

no the israeli lobby is attempting to sue the twenty one year old family and his entire village for the damage caused to the military jeep they accuse get about of throwing a fireball the vehicle has been called ripples. the israeli army killed a name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars for damages to this jeep to crush the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues then in january this year the army build the family. this is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. they reopened their so shameless that they are demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians it's not about the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you won't break because. in june two thousand and fifteen there was a raid by the army and later mullah that turned violent the israelis say a below three of five all of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldn'

made growing allegations of corruption the israeli prime minister is confident that he won't be charged. the un's human rights chief challenges indonesia on its plans to criminalize same sex and sex outside marriage. but first the syrian government backed by russia is continuing to bomb and to shell the two parts of the country that remain in rebel hands in the three day period almost two hundred people have been killed in eastern guta. that's close to the capital damascus and in the northeastern province of italy thirty four people were killed on wednesday in eastern guta that's where four hundred thousand people are trapped without food and medicine for the government has laid siege to this area since twenty thirteen and it's a similar story for it live were at least four people died in the ongoing government offensive which is backed by russia russian bombing of in libya in fact has increased since one of its planes was shot down in the pilot killed by rebels on saturday and the irony is that both italy and goods are supposed to be so-called deescalation zones where violence was supp

sixteen fighter jets the israeli prime minister was blunt israel iran and its syrian coast responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the crash followed the shooting down of a drone israeli army video shows what they say is the iranian drone flying towards the norden golan heights before it was downed in retaliation israeli air force at targets in syria including the suspected drone command center iranian targets and syrian air defense syria launch surface to air missiles during the israeli raid and says it shot down the f. sixteen which crashed in northern israel at the hands of. the syrian political leadership took a decision at the highest level to face to thaw simply any israeli military aircraft of a syrian in space today syria did what it promised to pipe down in israeli plane and striking at other planes this is clear for syria it is the decisive decision to confront the israeli air force and its careless behavior. both pilots ejected and parachuted to these re side of the border one is critically i

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is remaining defiant despite to being in broiled and two more bribery scandals on top of an ongoing corruption investigation police knowledge one of his closest advisers tried to bribe a judge into dropping a criminal case involving net a news netanyahu his wife back in two thousand and fifteen efforts is accused of using a middleman to offer the judge help and being elected attorney general if she closed a case against sarah netanyahu excessive household spending on tuesday police also revealed that half its was one of several netanyahu confidence to be arrested over a separate probe into allegations of corruption at israel's biggest telecoms company last week investigators recommended the prime minister be indicted in two corruption cases involving bribery and fraud netanyahu says he's the victim of a witch hunt i'm sure. what's happened in recent days is simply total madness scandalous they bring to crazy fabricated claims as part of a witch hunt against me and my family that has gone on for years but any claim that i acted on the benefit of

were killed in raids by israeli security forces across the occupied west bank in recent weeks in the search for the suspect has been named as twenty one year old ahmed gerard. the crisis in the movies is deafening two supreme court judges and an opposition leader been arrested hours after president jemaine declared a fifteen day state of emergency last week the court ordered the release of nine leading opposition figures. global stock market suffered serious losses after the us dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark why thing out all the gains that it made over the past month. and u.s. vice president mike pence hasn't ruled out the possibility of meeting north korean officials during the winter olympics in south korea. al-jazeera world is next. it was. was it. was. and in the orchestra semi security in the corner in no small orchestra symphony for us the look at some of them looked a lot but on the scent of a slight evil of crystal so limited as it was a look at philistine. as if he had fallen landed had it and has an advantage with. it should i leave the

israelis have demonstrated their support for thousands of africans who are facing deportation the rally in tel aviv follows one notices being sent to twenty thousand mostly sudanese and eritrean men have been told they risk jail if they don't start to leave by april have been offered three thousand five hundred dollars and a plane ticket the israeli government says they'll be flying to a safe place in sub-saharan africa. now because it was prime minister is promising to revive one of the region's largest companies to help fight youth unemployment as planned is far from straightforward because neighboring serbia says it is the mining company treacher anderson's report from matter of it sir. trap show used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs because of those war changed that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've rec

well this weekly cabinet meeting the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was talking about severe blows being struck by israel against both iranian and syrian forces inside syrian territory in response to this downing of an israeli fighter plane the first such incident since one nine hundred eighty two meriting as far as israel israel is concerned a very serious response targeting twelve separate installations within syrian territory he said that it demonstrated that israel retain the right to act and strike back in any way it sees fit this is despite the message coming from the russians which is that israel needs to be careful not to escalate tensions further israel not really talking about russia and its language very much targeting its are at iran and syria but israel has been trying very hard to improve relations with the russian government especially trying to coordinate on exactly how it can and intends to act inside syria in response to what benjamin netanyahu is talking about as a growing threat from iran as the syrian security situation remains so unstable we are also get

authorities there are some voices that question whether that gives too much power in the long term to israeli authorities well in the short term it does seem that they've backed down the standoff has been resolved the differences that created it have yet to be. and that is it from london now let's go back to come out of a barber thank you for that the former campaign chairman for u.s. president donald trump is appearing in court to answer a thirty two count indictment against him for faces charges including conspiracies and launder money conspiracy to defraud the united states failure to file as a foreign agent out of the lobbying work he did on behalf of the pro russian ukrainian party of regions four was indicted by special counsel robert muller who is investigating of course the alleged russian interference of the twenty sixteen election and also us media reporting donald trump's son in law and advisor. has lost his access to top secret security briefings he's one of several aides under scrutiny about the level of information they have been allowed to see we will discuss both of these with

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a potential corruption indictment against him will come to nothing there are reports police will recommend the indictment over allegations that netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer who's also accused of doing a deal with a newspaper to weaken a rival publication and return for friendly coverage a man can has the latest from west jerusalem. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says this is going nowhere now the case has been really recommended by the police they say an indictment should be issued that's been given to the attorney general if any general then has to discuss with the state's attorney and come up with a decision whether to indict or not promise to benjamin netanyahu much like president donald trump uses social media to get his message across he's been on his facebook page he's been saying that this is going nowhere let's take a look at exactly what he had to say. many of you asked what will happen so i want to reassure you there will be nothing because i kn

signal a change in the way gas flows from new fields in the eastern mediterranean sea this week an israeli energy company announced a fifteen billion dollars deal to export natural gas to egypt cypress two said it was nearing a supply agreement so what's this all about well egypt once it becomes self-sufficient in gas wants to transform itself into an energy export hub on europe's doorstep a fast food giant k.f.c. was left counting its chickens on monday it was forced to close hundreds of stores in the u.k. after it ran out of poultry products the chicken crossed the road just not to our restaurants k.f.c. said on twitter carefully recently switched distributors to d.h.l. from bidvest at the end result job losses at bidvest no chicken at k.f.c. and unhappy customers of the company said the shortage will be sorted soon now twenty six of the world's leading experts in emerging technologies are warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence from cambridge in the united kingdom emma hayward reports it is the stump of science fiction or at least it used to be a computer able to master an anc

amid growing allegations of corruption the israeli prime minister is confident that he won't be charged. and north korea nothing of a arrived in pyongyang shying to join with the south to compete in the winter olympics. but first the syrian government backed by russia is continuing to bomb and shell the two areas of the country that remain in rebel hands in a three day period almost two hundred people have been killed in a single which is close to the capital. masculist and in the northeastern province of italy had thirty four people were killed on wednesday in eastern that's where four hundred thousand people are trapped without food or medicine the government has laid siege to this area since twenty thirteen and it's a similar story for italy where least four people have died in the ongoing government offensive which is backed by russia russian bombing of it live in fact has increased ever since one of its planes was shot down and the pilot killed by rebels on saturday and the irony is the both. a supposed to be so-called deescalation zones where violence was supposed to be much reduc

is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with detailed coverage the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. you're watching all jews are absurd hole robert these are all top news stories athletes from north and south korea of march and a unified korea's flag for the opening of the winter olympics and sharing so korea's president in the use of ceremony to reach. to pyongyang shaking hands with the north korean leader's sister. u.s. president donald trump has blocked the release of a classified memo written by democrats in the house of representatives now this memo rebuts a document prepared by republicans in the house which was made public last week the republicans had alleged that the f.b.i. was biased against trump during his investigation into his presidential campaigns alleged links with russia now the republican memo was released despite public opposition from the f.b.i. tr