Thursday this is a process is rebellion and sedition charges against them for the clearing independence from spain meanwhile prism one says he is not in belgium to see political asylum but the acting freedom and safety madrid imposed that wrecked rule on catalonia on friday dissolving the Regional Government and ordered new elections in the center where the man says he will accept the outcome of that vote. And. In regards to the elections called by the spanish Central Government we think there are democratic challengers and were not scared by democratic challenges quite the opposite if the Spanish Government wishes to carry out these elections to legitimize article one five five use of course we will face these elections. The most creaking there from brussels far from where they were changed in our reports. That oppose Catalan Leader has not said a word for the last four days so he was in the middle of a media scrum today they were very anxious to hear what he had to say essentially he said that he was in brussels not to seek political asylum as many people were speculating a but to use the the freedom and the safety of brussels which he described as the heart of democracy in the European Union to carry on with his hand his campaign he said that what madrid was doing was using violence and intimidation against the project of Catalan Independence and he said that he essentially agreed that he would take part in the imposed election reason election on december the twenty first but he left open exactly how hes going to do that because is he going to stay here and campaign or is he going to go back to spain he said he wouldnt go back to spain without what he called legal guarantees but theyre still preparing charges additions and bezel meant and rebellion against him and some seven of the ministers he had with him here in brussels and so it seems unlikely that will happen somehow hes got to keep this Campaign Going from this distance from inside brussels where he feels safest and over the next few days perhaps well see some more events planned by the Catalan Leader to make sure that the world keeps focusing on this issue and he keeps getting his message across that he doesnt want this to be a violent confrontation he wants peace and he wants dialogue. Kenyas Opposition Leader violently has called for the result of the president ial Election Rerun to be an old president a hurricane yet it was the clear the winner but the election was widely boycotted by opposition supporters kenyatta took in ninety eight point two percent of the vote but the turnout was well below forty percent well i think i made no mention of a legal challenge but warned of the election result will undermine the publics faith in the moxy its bringing some news just coming in to us from the United States police are investigating an incident in Central New YorkCity Police Officials say that one person has been taken into custody after the incident which happened close to the west side highway in Lower Manhattan the gabriel is on the joins us live now on the line from the scene gave tell us a little bit about what we know about this incident. And. Many. More details. Well get more from again for a little later in the hour will be crossing live and bring you the latest on this for the moment aljazeera world is coming up next by. The end. Good. Luck. Thanks thanks. Thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks. Thanks thanks. Thanks thanks. Thanks thanks thanks. Thanks for the voice of David Bengurion declaring the establishment of the state of israel in maine one nine hundred forty eight. The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent by British Foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to a member of the british house of lords child on the second of november one thousand nine hundred seventeen. This letter sent to a leading figure in the British Jewish Community one hundred years ago had repercussions which even its authors cannot have imagined. Whatever its real intentions it went on to have a profound impact on the middle east and its people. And its effects still resonates across the region today. In one nine hundred fourteen these soldiers were fighting on the battlefields of europe in the First World War the allies britain france and russia fought the central powers of germany austriahungary and the Ottoman Empire for four years but the land and sea war was not the only battleground. Muscle was also being flexed behind closed doors as allies conspired to redraw maps to their own advantage when the conflict eventually ceased. Sir mark sykes for the british and french. For the french plotted how to divide the arab lands of the Ottoman Empire assuming it would finally fall. Agreement to divide it into french and british spheres of influence france taking most of the levant southern anatolia and the area while the british extended their control over the southern expanding eastward. And all the land between there. And the french territory. Historic palestine then still part of the Ottoman Empire was a bone of contention and would be put under International Administration. But. That. I dont. Order. Was it that one of them while with your how to have fought can be when i can let you can i cant be sure i think the british felt that there had not been enough government involvement in concluding the states because agreement with the french and in the process they had not really protected their interests well enough for a post world war era in which the British Empire would continue to seek to be a dominant force in European Affairs and so really officials across whitehall including mark sykes himself felt it was a bad deal if you have ilja going to archives of europe must add it in the fuel not the havoc so you need you on every night or just me and you who would have my own. Data for the scene when youre home your new shoot people have seen or people feel well and are second in the have been many who are living. I mean. And i mean i look at that before and its a huge significance that when theyre making these discussions jews and zionism and not discussed jews were not to feature in the new at the middle east which was to be based on the idea of the arab nation. Zionism was the movement supporting the reestablishment of a jewish homeland in the area defined as the historic land of israel. The movement was active in early Twentieth Century london especially because of the persecution of jews in russia and eastern europe. Theodore hurt so had founded the Zionist Movement in the late one nine hundred century but jewish people in western europe had not rushed to support it because they were integrating quite successfully into society zionists believed that all jews should someday return to that country one of the problems was that palestine belong to the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire was not clear that it wanted massive jewish immigration into palestine and the British Government offered to let jews move unimpeded in great numbers into uganda if they wished. But in any event it really didnt happen and it didnt happen because a majority of scientists felt that hurts or was selling them out and that the only place for jews to move back to least conscious zionist jews to move back to was palestine in this i think britain began to look at the Zionist Movement as a possible cartney in justifying a reader goshi a sions of their agreement with the french you see for britain simply to claim territory against what theyd already concluded in the green that with france could create diplomatic problems for the british. If they were to make a claim to palestine not out of selfinterest but in order to advance a great historic ideal of the restoration of the jewish people to the homeland that this could justify an adjustment of the terms of the sites because. In a way that the french would accept the british wanted somehow and more and more increasingly they felt that the jews held the key to winning the war. And so they had to figure out how to bribe the jews to support them. Sir mark sykes had succeeded in drawing the line he wanted from a car in the west to car cook in the east but for some in government this was not enough. The british were using the Jewish National movement to secure palestine for themselves is this is what highlights been is really going to find open ears of ten downing street in the Foreign Office in the Colonial Office and its paving the way towards that critical decision in november of one nine hundred seventeen and so i think you can direct you can draw a direct connection. Between britains sudden acknowledgement of zionism as an idea of an ideal. And what they were dissatisfied with the term the psychs because. I am vitamin was a chemistry lecturer in manchester who had become a prominent member of the british Zionist Movement he was politically well connected and rubbed shoulders with senior figures in government so high in vitamin was russian by birth he was a chemist. And then he joined the Zionist Movement. He climbed in the Zionist Movement he moved to Great Britain before the war well before the war maybe ten years before the war began he was not before the war very well known in the english Zionist Movement he was pretty well known in the World Zionist Federation but he was by no means the most visible zionist when world war one began in Great Britain. Vitamin later wrote in his memoirs about having been introduced to a British Government minister Herbert Samuel. Samuel was jewish but vitamine was apparently concerned that he might be anti zionist. However Herbert Samual turned out to be extremely receptive to vitamin and went on to write an official memo in one nine hundred fifty setting out a number of different possibilities for palestine and the jewish people. And was. So. Through the number. Of us who were caught up with the quran for us the in. Latin have been alamy. Who were. Only markers. Brittany kept up with her kyra. Sure but theres still a philosophy in badminton tell how to help them a lot and then let them a lot and hope see. The. Very funny year for last year. But then he suddenly had the lady who the commonwealth. But he didnt find willing in whitehall or the Colonial Office for schemes that involved the establishment of the jewish state in palestine britain was really concerned with two things by the time that the First World War had broken out they wanted to with the war first and foremost this was an imperative for the survival of britain and its empire and secondly they wanted to ensure that coming out of the war victorious that their empire would benefit from the victory so at this stage high invites and Herbert Samuels ideas about the rights of the jews to resettle in palestine. Did not find much sympathy in the corridors of power in london. Disappointed fights munro to a friend asking whether there wasnt at least a discussion to be had about what he called the chance for the jewish people. I realize of course he went on we cannot claim anything we are much too atomized for its. What the debate did do however was to throw together fights man the russian jewish immigrants searching for a homeland and refuge from persecution with her brood samuel and lord rothschild for members of the british jewish elite established in society and part of the political and capitalist class. So it isnt for the most part of course all of the community was actually in the minority but certainly most of all within the jewish elite because it threatened the notion of them as one hundred percent committed members of British Society and this was complete and that for somebody like me montague to become secretary of state for india for him zionism is his Worst Nightmare the idea that jews are not satisfied simply with being citizens of britain or other countries around the world theyre always longing to go back to the land of israel for him he wanted to demonstrate that the jews of britain were first and foremost british its important to remember that for people like rothschild zionism and actually been a threat you see the elite in british jewellery had fought for generations to gain acceptance in British Society it was only with the arrival of disraeli and that i can century that jews entered parliament and could rise to become Prime Minister and for people of. So high finance or banking interests the really lete of the Jewish Community in britain their struggle to demonstrate their place in British Society then design is with its claims that jews were a people apart and should be a nationalist movement in their own right or another with their early lamba army. And how concerned if they were corrupt. How to get. Hold. Of but i would be when i had the Time Movement get fifty i wouldnt actually be the old the field but i would be everyman german general call up you and i do have the sheer will and no i must lean a bit of time even for my honey brand of beer and damaeus of blush who will live in a salad we dont have if mark you have to say well its an x. Vitamin vien sure in much of the love in your mind doesnt need a mental ability. Keep delaying the instability. Of the. Vitamin. The fim. Its vitamin that makes the difference and i think he was probably unique in his ability to persuade the leading british figures that the jews were in fact a vast sub to raney and influence which they were not. That all jews were zionists which was far from the truth and that therefore the big key to winning jewish support was to offer them palestine vitamine talked up the degree to which the Jewish Community supported zionism in order to get his message across to the government. But for the british it seemed to be about selfinterest about winning the war recognizing zionism would be closely linked to gaining global juice the poor it put the objective on which would start its future arresting so the british motives for supporting zionism when we can boil it down to two elements of british self interest at that time not an emotional interest inside ism or a love of jews and the jewish plight and the desire for a return of the jews to the holy land no for very specific self interest matters of policy they were first of all all of the British Government agreed that they wanted to mobilize behind britain and the allies this idea of jewish power in the world. They were like all of the different policy elites in the war believe in the notion that jews have tremendous influence in the corridors of power around the globe if the British Government appeared to support zionism they would win over. To their side and all that entailed the british were convinced that zionism was really at the center of the jewish heart. In may nine hundred sixteen sir mark sykes had agreed his t. Quit deal with the french psychs because it would form the basis of the future carve up of their own Ottoman Empire. So he immediately turned his attention to palestine still part of the Ottoman Empire and how to use dynasty ambitions to outmaneuver the french. Formal contact between the British Government and the zionist followed he immediately phoned Herbert Samuel and told him about the plan and Herbert Samuel then phoned him vitamin and vitamin brought with him sokolow this meeting took place on the eleventh of april one thousand nine hundred seen it took place at moses castors house in maida vale. And gaster wrote in his diary afterwards how proud he was that this meeting which he thought was the most important meeting that had ever taken place in the history of zionism had taken place at his house. Mark sykes the. Head of the uni i once she doesnt know my guster know where khalil must stand the jelly hoodie but by then. I was one who really. Thought that north who are in the fight that i look. The most disgusting very quickly understands that sykes is looking to gain support from suppose it jewish power in the world and gets to works with this idea and manipulates this to consolidate sykess interest in sign ism and we see actually the British Government becomes very close already nazi sixteen of issuing a public declaration of support for zionism there in the end this doesnt happen that year the planned sikes got Herbert