the palestinian cause for once and your four arab nations. just are wired in no way then to go all out to make their brothers in pakistan. ever very very. poor we have an occupying. force. kicking people out of their rightful home and instead of standing up stand up and saying we are. there to washington please please put me in a position of power ok. let's forget nicholai head do you believe with sammy saying that the palestinian issue amongst the arabs in the arab region has become a side issue well i agree with much of what was just said that right now i think we're seeing certain governments in the middle east courting trump and being courted by trump and it is about survival we should remember that the middle east today is not the same as the release of thirty forty years ago i think that many governments in the middle east are seizing more immediate challenges in their mind it's about staying in power so they care about for example what will happen with that on what will happen with the blockade what about the protests for example what

do you believe with what sunny is saying that the palestinian issue amongst the arabs in the arab region has become a side issue well i agree with much of what was just said that right now i think we're seeing certain governments in the middle east courting trump and being courted by trump and it is about survival we should remember that the middle east today is not the same as the release of thirty forty years ago i think that many governments in the middle east are seizing more immediate challenges in their mind it's about staying in power so they care about for example what will happen with that on what will happen with the blockade what about the protests for example what we call the arab spring so i think that there is much truth in what your guest has just said i think that support from trump is also another factor there are some who argue that trunk for example influenced the tsunami been solomon's position has come prince there are some who argue that he also gave the green light to the current blockade so it would appear that some strong men if you like including in egypt they w

starting off with arabs, it was arab and muslim isn't synonymous. arabs were trailblazers in american comedy. we have danny thomas, this great comedic figures. posted 911 we became caricatures of terrorists and nothing more and so that was something i was really concerned about shifting and giving arabs the opportunity to be seen on screen as something other than a taxi driver terrorist. but also being the person of colour is a challenge and arab is considered a person of colour, so you have to break through that barrier. i was going to say, couldn't it be an advantage? one arab actors said recently that when he complained about being depicted asa he complained about being depicted as a terrorist and saying it was racial profiling he was told, you're lucky and you can use your ethnicity asa lucky and you can use your ethnicity as a playing card in which the industry overlooks white actors. that's an obscene comment, that people even consider that being a minority in hollywood is a good thing. it's not. we are still com pletely thing. it's not. we ar

leadership that's what they thought of his efforts but let's be clear if arab residents of jerusalem utilize the ability of the democracy actually participated in useable elections maybe they'd have more political on the political clout on the council to actually get the bread and butter issues that they would be if you gave them full status and equal status with israeli jews they would feel like having a stake in that society only status as you know the only status sent to them in east jerusalem is that of permanent residence a status which confers far fewer rights than citizenship let's stop for a moment we have the jerusalem their arms and jerusalem have full rights to vote in municipal elections not in national airspace that you were talking to me specifically your question was about them in a way the municipal government drew some hands out its resources that was what your question was about surely the palestinians the arab population obviously would be doing itself a failure a favor if it fully participated in the democratic process they can't fully publish it is there a simula

and attempts to regain the lost arab territories began. israel had tripled its size capturing the sinai peninsula the gaza strip the west bank eastern jerusalem and the golan heights. we tried everything we went to the united nations we tried mediation we tried to contacts with different countries and it was clear that all this was to no avail. the mood was let's give nothing back if you don't have to there are songs there were victory albums there were the huge intoxication of victory. this huge unique miraculous victory. in death war war the greatest tragedy in the history of islam. the israelis basked in an aura of invincibility. but their victory was just the start of even greater complications. which still plagued the middle east to this day. israel found itself governing and being responsible for a million palestinians in the newly occupied gaza strip west bank and jerusalem. to could vote six months to. those. both in the west bank and then they came back and they said. there was other people there and they haven't there's not a mov

/israeli conflict between israel and the palestinian arabs. until you do that, you can't do anything else. i never bought into that from the time i got to congress. and i think that there are very few members of congress who really think that that view carries water anymore. and i think the trump administration is showing that that view is not the view that really represents the reality on the ground in the middle east. it's important to think about what this administration had inherited when they took over. you had a middle east that really was in chaos. the islamist regime in iran was ascendent, flush with a lot of money due to that iranian nuclear deal. they were fomenting problems in yemen and syria, funding groups like hezbollah and were in defacto control of baghdad in iraq. you had the emergence and growth of the terrorist group isis that happened after american troops pulled out of iraq in 2012 and, of course, the deepening conflicts in syria, yemen and really israel isolated on the world stage in part by u.s. actions such as the obama

that's all true but there has been a sense here that behind the scenes many of these arab leaders of any of these governments. realize that this is something that is probably going to go forward and that they're not going to keep talking about it and keep trying to raise the issues so i expect that in the coming hours we will be hearing more once this report from the new york times in the denial from the egyptian government becomes more widely disseminated. in the occupied west bank but for now having spoken to so many people about this issue in the last week or so i can tell you that i believe that it is something that they will say well this really kind of confirms our worst suspicions and the arab league meanwhile is looking for international recognition of a palestinian state they have been meeting in amman again the question being whether there is consensus among arab leaders as how to move forward. well publicly at the moment there is consensus obviously this was not a meeting of the arab league in which every member state was there but the public spin on it is that the arab le

from berlin of a nation shaken by days of unrest should museum marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring amid fears of fresh protests over economic hardship a reporter in china's has been speaking to the family of a man killed during a protest this week also on the program today do you think they also want never forget shamefaced apology from authorities in hawaii this after a message is mistakenly sent towns warning of a missile approaching the audience panicked residents feared for their lives for almost forty minutes before the arrow was corrected we'll tell you what went wrong . and in german soccer life's a show to get their second tough of the season off to a final stop when they hosted shall go last night with the second place in the bundesliga for grabs. you and me. alone welcome my name's christopher spring thanks for joining us chin is your is bracing for more street protests today as the north african nation marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring uprising that toppled its former dictator zina eleventeen ben ali since monday june is eons have been demonstrate p

claim for the bad boy are watching al-jazeera live from doha and also coming out the arab league seeks global recognition of a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital thirty two sailors missing after an oil tanker collides with a congo ship in the east china sea and the italian coast guard says at least eight people have died and eighty six others have been rescued from a boat off libya's coast. several pakistani groups which are facing pressure from the government are holding a demonstration in the northwest and city officials are they include jamaat ud dawa the organisation led by the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks suspect toughies saeed pakistan has recently brought so nations two groups named in a u.n. security council sanctions list the u.s. has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars of security aid to pakistan accusing it of being a safe haven for terrorist groups come on hyder is in with more. as sure as dollar data do with the palestinian people after the ball gets down to french guns. which will be taking place in different cities across pakistan the las

of holocaust survivors quit his berlin high school after suffering mobbing and abuse at the hands of arab and turkish classmates living in fear how anti-semitic is germany that's our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests it's a pleasure to welcome kristen hell back she's a freelance journalist who recently wrote a book about syrian refugees in germany and the fears and prejudices they evoke she says germany needs a more inclusive memorial culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we're very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper he says jews every. where are held responsible for every bring real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome ventre mccaskey to the show he's the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the problem we're talking about first he says anti-semitism in germany is escalating and increasingly normalized and the state is responding to slove. it was indeed your son who suffered the abuse that i referred to at the open

and turkish fellow students is that correct in this case it is correct mostly turkish and also arabs and he was not the only one who was bullied kurdish black gay students and girls were also. badly abused at the school did nothing but in his case because it was jews it was extreme it was even worse because they didn't beat up other kids now your opening statement indicates that you definitely don't see this as an isolated phenomenon and yet the government's anti-semitism report and i'm more or less quoting here comes to the conclusion that in comparison with any other time before world war two or thereafter open anti-semitism has rarely been less tolerated by the broad majority of society than today so how do you reconcile that statement with what your child experienced well firstly we germans. how to oncet questions about and to semitism no joke. i would say i'm an semitic or i hate jews so people find their learned in rituals remember and stays in all this how to how to answer these questions so they don't appear and to semitic they are i mean the fact that the. message went off t

for them an arab is an arab. in september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. ♪ >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >>

states, of which there are 22, the arab states were quiet. i mean, they made modest condemnation and the saudis called it irresponsible, but they didn't want to deal with it, and there was an extraordinary "new york times" piece a week ago which had the tapes of an egyptian policeman calling up talk show hosts and saying, leave jerusalem alone. remarkable. a policeman calling up a talk show host, saying stay off this subject. it's not an egyptian national interest for you to talk about this. we only have that one concrete incident, but clearly across the board this is what we're talking about. this is not arab israeli. this is palestinian israeli. it's very different. while there are so more arabs than israelis and so many more tanks and everything, they have very little economy. this looms large over them. winning a war is rather simple. not talking about winning over morocco or malaysia. talking about winning over the palestinians alone. what is also striking in contrast to the arab states being quiescent is that the hotbeds of hostility we

live from berlin a nation shaken by days of unrest to newseum out of the seventh anniversary of the arab spring amid fears of fresh protests and the economic hardship of a reporter in june as has been speaking to the family of a man killed during a protest in this week. also on the program was killed anything also let's never forget a shamefaced apology from authorities in hawaii this offer a message is mistakenly sent out warning of a mistrial approaching the island panicked residents fearing for their lives for almost forty minutes before the era is correct it will tell you what went wrong. and the first baby panda ever to be born in france makes its public debut at a zoo just outside paris and just five months of age she's already crawling his way into people's homes. hello and welcome my name's christopher spring a good to have you with us tonight is your is bracing for more street protests today as the north african nation marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring uprising that toppled its former dictator. ben ali since monday tunisians have been demonstrating against price r

and muslim worlds and the leaders of the arab and muslim world and. the palestinian equation itself has to also. come to terms with the with the with the problem with the arab and muslim worlds and the palestinians themselves have to be take up the mantle for their own. cause let's move on to other news now u.s. president donald trump has reacted to accusations that he's mentally i'm set for office describing himself as a stable genius follows publication of a book that question of his ability to do his job at a claim his staff you have as and gentile as john hendren reports from washington tom places a tax on orphan michael will have again a shadow of his policy agenda and i did a quick interview with him a long time ago having to do with an article this book clearly has donald trump rattled the suggestion in firing fury the cabinet members and allies to question trying to intelligence and his fitness for office had gotten under the president's skin the. book has driven a wedge between trump and his one time closest adviser steve bennett but i don't

a member of the qatari royal family who said he was being held against his will in the united arab emirates has now been released shaikh abdullah bin ali of me has now left abu dhabi for kuwait on sunday he released a video statement saying that if anything were to happen to him qatar is not at fault the u.a.e. had denied the allegations saying he was free to leave whenever he chose. pope francis has expressed what he's called his pain and shame over treaties sexual abuse scandal is the first time he's commented on the crisis surrounding a former priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys in a song no which is in south central chile but officials from twenty countries are meeting in canada to increase diplomatic and financial pressure on north korea to give up development of long range nuclear missiles in bangladesh as well one hundred fifty thousand ranger refugees will be repatriated to neighboring min mark within two years as part of a deal agreed by the two countries there's no official date for when the repatriation will begin and concern remains for the safet

that revolt sparked uprisings across the arab world. our correspondent mark lowen reports from tunis. a rallying cry by tunisians that their revolution should not be in vain. seven years since toppling their dictator, the cradle of the arab spring has not fallen silent. they called for the basics — jobs and a better life. anger burned last week amid plans to raise prices and taxes, to satisfy tunisia's lenders. more than 800 people were arrested and a protester died. shots and government buildings were torched. poorer parts of the country feel the promise of change has died. nine governments haven't eased economic pain. youth unemployment is over 35% with terror attacks, tourism plummeted. the prices are so high, i had to borrow this money to survive, this woman told us. "we don't have anything, we are in need, we can't live." oil, sugar, even rubbish bags are too expensive now. we're miserable. ahmed was detained for two days on suspicion of fermenting the protests, which he denies. the government says they're destroying state. he be

and muslim worlds and the leaders of the arab and muslim world and. the palestinian equation itself has to also. come to terms with the with the with the problem with the arab and muslim worlds and the palestinians themselves have to be take up the mantle for their own. cause in fairy at least seventeen people have been killed by government s. rice and shelling in the rebel how suburbs of damascus to when a spike in violence in eastern guta in recent weeks activists say is coming under bombardment almost every day about four hundred thousand people are believed to be chapstick amish the breton gordon is an advisor to a coalition of medical charities in syria he says there can't be more than one hundred twenty children in need of urgent medical care in eastern built. the last ten days it's been horrific the about tax particular. christmas and new year period we've seen over ten hospitals attacked and put out of commission in both. the damascus suburb the rules say in live we currently have on twenty point children and four hundred i don't see any urgen

the news live from the nation shaken by days of unrest unity amongst the seventh anniversary of the arab spring amid fears of fresh protests over economic hardship our reporter into this has been speaking to the family of a man killed during a protest earlier this week. also on the program it is the day that most of us never forget the shame faced apology from all thought she's in why this ultra messages mistakenly sent out a warning of a missile approaching the island panicked residents feared for their lives for almost forty minutes before the arrow was corrected we'll tell you what went wrong . and in german so-called lights were hoping to get off to a final start in the second half of the season the team hosting shall come last night to its second place in the business leader up for grabs. the. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us the protests have begun in tunisia as the north african nation marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring uprising that toppled its former dictator zene ben since monday to his ins have been demonstrating against

to be part of this tribe, to work hard, because you carry the last name, that is so crucial in our arab culture. your last name means a lot. - we americans are as yet ill at ease with tribes. we see them as backward, we see them as illiberal, we see them as unprogressive. they are anything but what the stereotype is. they are in many ways the social glue that certainly holds saudi arabia together. - [narrator] saudi arabia is known for its adherence to wahhabism, a religious branch of sunni islam known for its fundamentalist interpretation of the quran. - in order for a tribe to rule, they need, especially in the gulf region, they need to bring god through the presentation, to give them some legitimate right, to give them some rights to rule. - the alliance between the saudi royal family and the wahhabis has really sustained their ability beyond the throne. and so, the fact is the saudis are in a very paradoxical position where they are promoting an ideology, wahhabism, which if taken to a very militant kind of extreme, you end up with al qaeda, and al qaeda's goal, principal goal is to

and muslim worlds and the leaders of the arab and muslim world and. the palestinian equation itself has to also. come to terms with the with the with the problem of the arab and muslim world and the palestinians themselves have to be take up the mantle for their own. cause. u.s. president donald trump has reacted to that he's mentally unfit for office describing himself as a stable jenius that follows publication of a book that questions his ability to do his job and claims his staff view him infantile well as john hendren reports from washington d.c. trump's latest attacks all the michael wolff of again his policy agenda and i did a quick interview with him a long time ago having to do with an article this book clearly has donald trump rattled the suggestion in fire and fury the cabinet members and allies to question trump's intelligence and his fitness for office they've gotten under the president's skin the book has driven a wedge between trump and his one time closest adviser steve bennett but i don't know this man i guess sloppy steve brought him

melinda: according to many newspapaper reports, other students included arab students. is that correct? mr. michalski: mostly turkish. and he was not the only one who was bullied. kurdish, black, gay students and girls were also badly abused. and the school did nothing. case, because he was jewish it was even worse. melinda: your opening statement see this asu do not an isolated phenomenon and yet the governments anti-semitism report comes to the conclusion that in comparison with any other time before world war ii or thereafter, open anti-semitism has rarely been less tolerated by the broad majority of society than today. how do you reconcile that statement with what your child experienced? mr. michalski: firstly, we germans have learned how to answer questions about anti-semitism. would say -- i am anti-semitic or i hate shoes. people have -- or i hate jews. people have learned how to answer the questions so they do not appear anti-semitic. but they are. the fact that the management of the school, the headmaster did nothing to protect my son, even after we asked him a

and muslim worlds and the leaders of the arab and muslim world and. the best in an equation itself has to also. come to terms with the with the with the problem with the arab and muslim worlds and the palestinians themselves have to be take up the mantle for their own. cause. in syria at least seventeen people have been killed in the latest government as try since shelling a vessel how suburbs of damascus activists say at least in ghouta is being bombarded almost every day about four hundred thousand b.c. cherie and her son to be chop same hamish to brighton gordon is an adviser to a coalition of medical charities working in syria he says at least one hundred twenty children in eastern guta urgently needed medical treatment. the last. record. tax particular. christmas and new year period we see ten hospitals. commission in. damascus say in their lives we currently have one hundred twenty five children and . we really need is a season seriously injured children. meanwhile in southern syria refugees who fled the fighting are facing a battle of a differe

the arab world itself and there it is not normalization in my view but if we must be speaking about who might defend the palestinians not not by asking them to begin now terrorism it will bring them no well or bringing hill five million new refugees then it is of course the the end of israel for israelis like myself the issue of the refugees should be solved but not in that in that way at the end of the day my believe is that what we have to do is to defend each other the peace camp in israel which is big it is not a marginal one and the peace camp in palestine which is also being should help each other i mean we went to all slow without the americans or dual koreans or anybody the norwegians will facilitate those that's all they went out of the room when we negotiated we negotiated we didn't we out president clinton we out the americans they all helped us eventually we with financial us assistant and whatever but not in the initiative and not in the negotiations we don't need a kind of help from the parents in order to see together we know each other well we can talk to each other

when i asked google to change heart into arabic, it gave me cob as expected. but when i asked google to switch cob into english i got heart, center, middle, transformation, conscience, core, marrow, pith, pulp p, gist, essence, quintessence, topple, alter, flip, tip, overturn, reversal, overthrow, capsize, whimsical, capricious, convert, change, counterfeit. counterfeit? that's what google translate said. in addition, the word meant substance, being, pluck. i am in love with this word, i thought. what is all this movement about? my concept of heart didn't include flip, capsize, reverse. our two cultures didn't have the same idea of what was happening at the core of our beings. there was are something stolid about my sense of heart whereas the idea of heart these kids possessed appeared to have a lighter, more nimble quality. whatever it was, cob seemed more fluid and less constrained than anything i had ever imagined happening inside of me. thanks. i wanted to leave a lot of time for q&a, so i'm, i'm happy to answer any questions that you guys have about the b

news live from berlin tunisia is on a beach is it marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring g.w. funny shot in choosing this for us as fresh protests get underway. that the people and that's. going to take to the street to call for a cut of the revolution there are fears the situation could escalate has been north african nation struggles with deep seated economic problems also on the problem kitty also points number for you a shamefaced apology from authorities in hawaii this after a message is mistakenly sent out warning of a missile approaching the island panicked residents feared for their lives for almost forty minutes before the arrow was corrected we'll tell you what went wrong . and the first baby panda ever to be born in france makes its public debut that is just outside paris at just five months of age he's already calling his way into people's homes. hello and welcome my name's christopher spring a good to have you with us fresh protests have erupted into his year as the north african nation marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring uprising that toppled its fo