Decision to return to recognize jerusalem as israels capital palestinian leaders are meeting in ramallah and the arab league is due to convene shortly to discuss the u. S. President s move and theyve been confrontations between Israeli Forces and Palestinian Protesters in occupied East Jerusalem is take you that live now aljazeera alan fischer can tell us whats going on right now i understand more or less in the middle of something thats happening there. Theres certainly been a standoff between the police and protesters it started off as a very peaceful protest the police then decided that they didnt have apparently werent going to go much farther and started to push people back from that the afternoon has unfolded with the police sending in their horses into crowds of people standing by the side of the road theres been a few stones through and i know weve seen people come out with palestinian flags which has then made the police and you can see you know the police are going to come ov
A fourth day or protests against the u. S. Decision to declare a truce on the capital of israel many of them in occupied East Jerusalem where forces fired stun grenades and tear gas as they charge through a crowd of peaceful demonstrators alan fischer was there. Was it is it was it started as a small protest handful of people but as they walked towards all jerusalem dome one of the citys busy shopping streets there was blogged by police and soldiers told they had no permit to march that they were blocking the road they were forcibly pushed back to it was in a city where anger has been close to the surface since Donald Trumps controversial decision it sparked a series of running confrontations was the police sent in horses to break up the crowds creating widespread anger and panic this has been a pattern throughout the afternoon as crowds gather by the side of the street the horses have been sent ten at some pace to try and break those crowds up the writers have even been using their we
In lebanon of a donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital Security Forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds outside the u. S. Embassy in Beirut Lebanon seventy almost four hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says palestinians ought to get to grips with the reality that jerusalem is israels capital in order for all to move towards peace the sooner the problem students come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think President Trumps announcement was so historic and so important for peace on the quest for peace there is a serious effort underway now by the United States and all i can say as i said related to president and mccall i think if youll pardon the expression you should give peace a chance. Venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro has banned the countrys main opposition parties and taking part in next years president ial election comes after three of th
Channels with north korea until any of the terrorists was speaking at the u. N. Security Council Meeting on. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson says hell continue to pursue a diplomatic resolution with north korea but the military remains at the ready but we are not going to accept preconditions you heard others have called for freeze for freeze we do not accept a freeze for freeze as a precondition to talks we do not accept any relaxing of the sanctions regime as a precondition of talks we do not accept a resumption of humanitarian assistance as a precondition of talks so we are not going to accept preconditions for these talks but as i indicated in my remarks our communication Communication Channels remain open north korea knows there are open they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk. Free people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in demonstrations in gaza and the west bank against u. S. President double trumps decisi
Challenges president jacob zuma successor will lead the party in the next president ial election in two thousand and nineteen tanya page is in johannesburg. The African National congress elect of conference is underway and its going to be unfolding here over the next five days but most of the discussion and debate will be happening behind closed doors in those buildings there just in the distance behind the fence we can see some of the delegates there about five thousand or so have come here from branches of the a. N. C. All over the country they want to just be voting for the top job president but deputy and in fact all the top one hundred eighty decisions but of course its the presidency that is the most contested the most important to the future of the a. N. C. And there are really two main contenders the first being and course as many zuma she is a very experienced politician. She was a member of parliament and a minister under successive governments of the a. N. C. Shes a former c