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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR December 9, 2017

Hello im Adrian Finnegan with the news hour from aljazeera live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Four palestinians are killed while protests continue against President Trumps move to declare jerusalem the capital of israel. Georgias former president Mikheil Saakashvili says that hes on Hunger Strike after police in ukraine arrest him again. This is a clear example of collusion with a foreign power you questions about the trump president ial campaigns relationship and spying by a foreign power this time its not russia but israel. The huge crowds fill the streets of central paris to say farewell to french rock star johnny hallyday. The arab league is holding an emergency meeting on saturday to discuss Donald Trumps formal recognition of jerusalem as israels capital the us president s action has been condemned by a host of governments and has prompted protests across the globe. Funerals are being held for to hamas fighters to protesters who were killed by israeli airstrikes and shootings in gaza on friday elsewhere in the occupied west bank there have been violent confrontations between protesters and Israeli Forces palestinian leaders are meeting in rome allah to firm up a response to trumps announcement of five european nations have asked the trumpet ministration to put forward a detailed proposal for peace between the israelis and the palestinians in a joint statement britain france germany sweden and italy called trumps decision on jerusalem unhelpful the u. N. Security council has held an emergency meeting on the issue as mike hanna reports. An animated discussion between the u. S. Ambassador and the palestinian representative just one of the urgent conversations taking place around the room even before the session began the packed chamber testament to the depth of International Concern and some argue the credibility of the Security Council itself is under attack if the council does not. Act accordingly to what its mind it which is present in peace and security then the council might become another occupied territory speaking by video link from Jerusalem Bureau and a special coordinator condemned the unilateral u. S. Action if the Israeli Palestinian conflict is not result in line with relevant un resolutions and in a manner that meets the legitimate National Aspirations of both peoples interests being engulfed into the vortex of religious radicalism that has taken over the middle east either his position on jerusalem remains unchanged speaker after speaker reaffirmed the uns position on the status of jerusalem and we believe that the future status as i said of jerusalem can only be resolved through negotiations criticism too from the staunchest of u. S. Allies. The British Ambassador also called on President Trump to make good his purpose commitment to a Peace Process we welcome his commitment to a two state solution the u. S. Representative decided the best form of defense is attack over many years the United Nations has outrageously been of the worlds foremost centers of hostility towards israel the un has done much more damage to the prospects for middle east peace than to advance one of the one thousand nations represented in the chamber on this day the u. S. Position was shared only by israel the United States had the courage and to understanding of just the door physically state or the already been known the you as this engine to reward israelis impunity undermines and essentially disqualifies its leadership role to seek peace in the region. By the jordanian ambassador exchanges high fives of the palestinian representative a key question remains hanging in the chamber how can the u. S. Continue to be regarded as an honest broker in attempting to resuscitate a long dormant negotiation process mike hanna aljazeera United Nations as we reported protests in the palestinian territories are continuing some of the violent aljazeera as alan fischer is in the midst of one such protest in occupied East Jerusalem and whats happening. Well we had some calm for thirty minutes there was a standoff really between some young palestinians and the Security Services theres wise heads among the young people saying look dont go recent towards the lines and then suddenly with the Police Moving in in numbers to break away to push the young men back excuse me im catching my breath from the smoke here weve had a few. Needs just in the last thirty seconds or so you see how heavily armed the Security Services are here but throughout the afternoon there have been running clashes weve seen a number of people who started out with a very peaceful small protest they wanted to march to make their opposition to Donald Trumps decision to. Recognize jerusalem as israels capital they came out onto the streets to make sure that their voices could be hared they tried to marched on this street they got no more than ten meters when the police told them they didnt have a pen and couldnt march and at that point they started to be some confrontations people came out with flags they were taken off them by. The Security Services the Security Services then sent horses into the streets to try and break up the crowds and a number of people were injured when they were used that was also quite frightening for those who were on the streets as well you could see that they were very disquieted by all weve seen people who were holding a poster one Police Officer didnt like the poster who went in to take it from a woman the woman objected and he punched her full in the face so there has been its not huge amounts of violence but there have been violent exchanges over the last two hours on what was meant to be a protest starting from the street that intention was to go down to harrods gate which is no more than three quarters of a kilometer away from where im standing just to voice their concern and you can see no were going to spend the camera and that yet again the the Security Services are moving back towards the Police Station dont towards harrods kate theyve been out in a lot of numbers here in East Jerusalem. Over the last couple of overs and in fact things did come down for quite a bit when they pulled back initially but that gave us the stood there in their numbers that gave time for the palestinian youngsters teenagers young men in their twentys to get together to start chanting in they were doing no more than that then as the police moved up we started to see a few missiles being thrown from what i could see was mainly water bottles. But there has been a bit of violence here this afternoon and people on the streets certainly very very scared when the Police Forces started coming into them to them to break up these crowds. Of many thanks alan fischer there live in occupied East Jerusalem lets take you live now to Gaza Aljazeera but it smith is there for palestinians killed by Israeli Forces and air strikes in gaza funerals been held for those for today but whats happening where you are now. On the eastern edge of gaza city close to one of the close of the border with israel its less busy than it was yesterday this perhaps several dozens of protesters down there confronting Israeli Security forces on the other side of the border fence mainly through stone throwing the israelis are responding with live fire heard some cracks of gunfire in the last few minutes or so and theres one other location further down to the south of gardening harness where there is a slightly bigger crowd maybe a couple of hundred protesters down there but much less than there was yesterday mainly because yesterday was the main day off and saturday is a working day for those in gaza lucky enough to have jobs adrian this as i study and marking the thirtieth anniversary of of the first intifada. Yeah coincidentally the thirtieth in. Version the first intifada today and it started here in gaza and it was a small incident that sparked that intifada or it was obviously there been a build up to it with palestinians for straighted it is really oppression even thirty years ago circumstances have much havent changed much since then but thirty years ago yes a small spark here in gaza that sets off that first intifada. The first intifada was sparked by the deaths of four palestinians in december nine hundred eighty seven. By the time it ended in one nine hundred ninety three more than one thousand one hundred people had died sixteen thousand people had been detained palestinians had already spent two decades struggling with the injustice of living under israeli occupation. Intifada mark the first time palestinians from all parts of society began such an intense resistance the protests evolved from boys throwing rocks and people marching to fighters attacking Israeli Soldiers and military targets palestinians went on strike and boycotted israeli products yet to demand the police pursued our young people because they refused to turn themselves in. So the intifada was called by a number of groups affiliated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization the p. L. O. The group hamas stepped in as well saying on the resistance was the only effective resistance to israeli occupation. From the moment hamas shifted from a peaceful resistance to an armed when israel started to feel the real power of the intifada. Israels military back thousands of palestinians were arrested on in one thousand nine hundred to four hundred twenty five many of them hamas members were exiles in lebanon former police. Prisoners say the israelis tortured them. So i did my feet were tied under an iron chair during interrogation they hit me in the stomach in genitals. The second intifada began in two thousand when al sharon visited a mosque in jerusalem he was leader of the Opposition Likud Party at the time and said every israeli had the right to go there palestinians were outraged. Is one of the holiest sites in islam more than three thousand palestinians and one thousand israelis died over the next five years this is the spot in a refugee camp where the first intifada started thirty years ago an israeli patrol who was surrounded by hundreds of teenage boys in the soldiers run for cover into the buildings here and from there fired indiscriminately into the crowds and since then life for the palestinians has only gotten worse there are virtually no opportunities for the young people here with gaza and the blockade the malice to me and he will tell you that after twenty five years almost all of the talks with the israelis theyve seen nothing to come from. Burnouts with aljazeera. Redwine was a child when he took part in the first intifada thirty years ago this is his story my name is enormous you have won. Thirty eight years old. I was born in bethlehem and grew up in that if you can of what im audie to d. M. Musician. And composer and activist. I think this was on the first these of the intifada uprising and in that if you can. At the time i would remember that these bunch of soldiers. You know who came and just. You dated a lot of space which was the camp we were playing in or the kids you know we dont play in the house because our house is very small and in the camp the street is your playground you know and then we suddenly story and so we started to understand that this is the occupier from the story that our grandfathers and mother were telling us i remember that there were many soldiers i dont know whats happened but i just ran. Towards soldiers and i wanted to go as close as as much as close to to be able to kick them out of from the camp. The. First intifada show you how we were all involved and having one object of you know what and all together we missed that because we are confused between if we are free or im free we are in the new zealand that we supposed to have a state if we dont have a state thats why we dont have a common. A common goal. Today every time i try to go and travel and or go to other city to all these checkpoints and all the settlement i get angry lucky today because i have an instrument. That hit me to express myself differently and still get my message to the world that i am unhappy. Now to the rest of the days news the former president of georgia has gone on Hunger Strike at a ukrainian Detention Center according to his lawyer because saakashvili was rearrested in ukraine four days after his supporters freed him from a police van he says the charges against him are politically motivated peter shop reports. Mikhail saakashvili the former president of georgia was arrested late on friday following a police raid on an apartment block in kiev hed been hiding there since his escape from custody after being picked up by the Security Police on tuesday. Really has been fronting of his campaign to remove the countrys president Petro Poroshenko criticizing his failure to hold corruption in ukraine. Press secretary confirmed his arrest on than he was elizabeth. Really was detained and now judging from the number of police men he has kept there they dont let anyone in i dont know who managed to get in that i cant get in thats his press secretary i hope there are lawyers in there and more of our people. Scores of his supporters who gathered outside the Detention Center promised to stay until he was released. The key there trying to set up a regime like that in russia and belarus here if people dont rise up against it now ukraine is finished theyll be no fight with corruption no change and no investment because no one will want to give money to a corrupt country. On tuesday. Briefly by the Security Police during a botched attempt to take him into custody the supporters besieged the bus where hes being held and set him free. Back in custody his future looks bleak hes now stateless hes been stripped of his ukrainian and georgian citizenship and faces extradition back to georgia where hes wanted on corruption charges. Peter shop al jazeera. A Global Affairs analyst joins us now via skype live from kiev michael good to have you with us this is a former head of state were talking about here whats going to happen to saakashvili now will he be extradited back to georgia. Well its unbelievable what has happened here i mean this is like shooting steroids into a tiger its like us really is not a man who goes down without a fight he what he said he was staying in ukraine until the end it looks like the authorities have to realize the seriousness of what theyve done and they may release him with an electronic bracelet and some other eye conditions as well but like he said i think whats happened here adrian is that the portugal government which has been very desperate to silence him because after all he did call for part of some costs french is that you know the but theyve turned not only really into a martyr but theres also kind of let the spheres of just content among the populace here and ukraine many people angry about the slow pace of corruption about oligarchs who are corrupt not getting arrested but about attempts to kill the corrupt and to corruption body here so he was day if he goes back to georgia he will be arrested there as well so i think the only options for him if he does have to leave the country is poland or the United States he says the charges against him both in ukraine and in georgia are politically motivated are they. Well thats how theyre saying here in fact a lot of analysts including myself see this as part of sheinkopf administration again very desperate to get attention away from their lock about and im crushing to cause a distraction and you know i dont saakashvili but look up. Really i dont think hes our names are we there but however he is saying the right things that are attracting attention here and i should add to that just today speaking of sleeping tigers Yulia Timoshenko at the former Prime Minister has issued a very very harsh statement against polish im criticizing his actions so it looks like she may actually ally with with some kind of really Incredible Team given their resources and their strong rhetoric so all of this is galvanizing support for both the second shrilly and for than his newly formed political party. I believe so i know his numbers are not big and however there are and there is around him there is a protest camp by the way which he was part of starting this protest camp has been here for weeks now adrian and its in the center of the government quarter so it shows you with their resources their billet to mobilize their tenacity to really stick around even in cold temperatures so i dont think this is going to go away any time soon but you know it needs to be said that the International Community is watching this very very carefully but at the same time there are harshly criticizing part of shankar and his allies for trying to stymie anticorruption efforts here especially kicking that chick wrote kicking down the entrepreneurs from body more has been done to tarnish ukraines image in the past week then in months and months and months of positive p. R. Push echo hired seconds for the to be governor of a desk they used to be friends Old University chums whats gone wrong in th

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