Welcome to the news great seeking a new partner for peace. Calls on europe to play a bigger role in haitis peace efforts a day after the resounding rejection at the u. N. Of president trunks recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. No longer accept any peace plan put forward by the americans but can the u. S. Be easy beside. Also on the brakes lets talk the deposed leader of. Discussions with the Prime Minister. When Regional Elections the polls were supposed to help solve. That case instead instability is set to continue to boss and. The g. C. C. Crisis and the fight for influence. Is on a six nation tour of west. New markets to diversify its countrys economy amid the ongoing neighbors but. Also been shoring up its long held ties in the region well explore what each side stands to gain. And if the confession many of us have waited to hear. For years apple has finally admitted slowing down over i phones on purpose the tech giants explained why but its not enough for those now planning lawsuits i mean to schapelle with all the online outrage and request. The with the news great live on air and streaming online through you to Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com thank you for joining us conason president Mahmoud Abbas is urging france and europe to play a bigger role in peace efforts he insists no longer accept any u. S. Input after the trumpet ministration recognize jerusalem as israels capital abbas is in paris where his tanks french president Emanuel Michel for voting with one hundred twenty seven other countries at the u. N. General assembly to denounce Donald Trumps decision many of washingtons western and arab allies were among those who voted in favor while Nine Countries sided with america including israel guatemala and a handful of Pacific Island nations. Well because. Thank you france and thank you for the vote of yesterday at the General Assembly it shows very clearly that you mr president that france is the country of freedom and democracy it has also shown that the whole of europe supports International Law and justice that is very much sought after in the middle east i have reasserted to president macron that after the decision of President Trump to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and the wish to transfer its embassy the United States is no longer a credible mediator in the Peace Process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties unfeeling and because of this violation of International Law sharply. I told president abbas that i did not approve of the decision taken by the us president with regards to jerusalem and i reassert my support to launch a new policy to have a sustainable policy which is vital relations between israel and palestine it can only exist through a policy that we can help to support on this point i wish to be very clear there is no alternative to the two state solution and no two state solution without an agreement between the two parties on jerusalem. Live not to natasha but in paris natasha Mahmoud Abbas wants france and europe to play a bigger role in the Israeli Palestinian peace efforts but for france this is a very delicate diplomatic game isnt it. It is a very delicate diplomatic game indeed because you have france theres been a very staunch critic of the United States his decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital but of course the french president has good relations with israel and with the United States and he doesnt want to see that change him at all mccaw is very cautious he doesnt want to be seen as somebody who is taking sides in fact in his press conference with a bit earlier he talked about how sensitive this issue was he was asked why france isnt recognizing a palins palestinian state right now maybe this should be the time he said it would be very unwise to do that in the current circumstances in any case frances position is that it supports a two state solution that it has to be directly negotiated by the israelis and the palestinians in a two state solution means recognizing a palestinian state and an israeli state and what about all michael is doing is hes really trying to mediate in this crisis by using frances position as a country that has historically good relationships good a good understanding with all the players in the region and the United States to really try and what he says he really wants to do is trying to revive talks he is not putting forward a new plan hes not putting forward an alternative to the United States he says he just wants to try and bring all the sides together and that is the role that he sees for france Natasha Butler in paris thank you very much for that natasha now as the palestinian president is in paris have been more clashes in palestinian territories between protesters and Israeli Security forces at least two people have been killed in gaza near the border with israel ways really forces used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators who gathered after friday prayers lets go live to gaza and our malcolm web whos been covering the demonstrations there for us just bring us up to speed with whats been happening i know its been a very tense day there. Thats right and were just a few hundred meters from gaza city is just over there about one hundred meters in this direction is the border with israel the fences along there and if we zoom you might still just about be able to see the crowd a small crowd of dozens of protesters who are still here theyve been trying to get as close to the fence as they can all day trying to plan palestinian flags and throw stones in the Israeli Soldiers be retaliating with some gunfire and volleys volleys of tear gas we breathe a lot of tear gas today but every time that the crowns been dispersed theyve gathered somewhere else further up and down the fence weve heard from the ministry of health that two people are being killed in gaza today and one in the west bank and also that dozens have been injured have been ambulances coming and going here all day long taking injured people away to the hospitals but its gone on much longer than then apparently has the last two fridays this is the third friday in the word of the third day of rage as palestinian political leaders have called it ever since trump announced on the sixth of december that the u. S. Would recognize to resell them as the capital of israel so whats been the reaction then in gaza and markham to the u. N. General Assembly Vote yesterday that denounce trumps decision our political leaders on the same page as Mahmoud Abbas when they say you know europe needs to play a bigger role now in the peace epics. Well the political leaders of all the different factions said that they welcomed the vote so that was it was universal this included that view seems to be shared by factions we attended a rally earlier with a few hundred supporters of the Islamic Jihad faction their leaders speaking to supporters said that it was a moral victory but that any substantive any Real Progress has to be made on the ground any real victory would have to be achieved by direct action by palestinians might not i mean this kind of protesting that weve seen here today where these protests have been clashing with Israeli Soldiers malcolm webb in gaza thank you very much for bringing us the latest situation on the ground in gaza now as weve mentioned the u. S. Found itself isolated at the u. N. General assembly on thursday as many of its on lies condemned to president terms recognition of jerusalem as israels capital lets get a recap on the un vote tally one hundred twenty eight countries voted in favor of the nonbinding resolution calling on the u. S. To drop its recognition of jerusalem as israels capital nine voted against thirty five up stayed and twenty one countries didnt show up at all and israeli Prime Minister benjamin thats now picked up on that in his response to the result. Israel completely rejects is preposterous was a drusillas our capital always was always will be but i do appreciate the fact that a growing number of countries refused to participate in this theater of the absurd so i appreciate that and especially i want to again express our thanks to President Trump and of those who do only for their store difference of israel and theres goal difference of the truth. Well lets speak some more about this not to was afraid man who is a professor of law and Global Development at the university of reading in the u. K. She joins us on the news great via skype thank you very much for speaking to us i know youve just returned from the u. N. And youve observed the workings there the dynamics between all these countries only Nine Countries voted with the u. S. Among them honduras micronesia nauru do you think trumps threat to cut funding to countries that voted in favor of the resolution had an effect but i think what we have to look at isnt so much which countries voted with the u. S. But which countries didnt participate which countries abstained because we can see that theres only one hundred twenty eight yeses which sounds a lot but for these emergency sessions that a cold about israel and have been coltons nine hundred ninety seven thats quite a low vote tally in fact it might be to do to the u. S. Pressure it might be too many other factors but i think that we have to reverse the way we look at it and think about why it was so many countries did not vote in favor of the reson why why do you think some countries didnt even bother to show up when you have some small island states who simply dont have representation in the u. N. So when in an emergency session is cold they dont have the money and resources to turn up but we see that there are very many countries from africa and from Eastern Europe that didnt turn up and its likely that they think they dont to be better not to show up in the road and be recorded as having chosen one side or the out of what is the dynamic of the relationship between the u. S. And some of these small countries that voted against the resolution just how dependent are they on america because some of the biggest recipients of u. S. Aid most of them muslim a lot of countries defied President Trumps right to support the motion. Well so many of these small island states they dont have a particular view one way or the other on israel or palestine wheres the muslim countries do have a particular view and therefore well what will advance their ideology in that political viewpoint over their relationship with the us now if we look at the Marshall Islands narrow in some and they were actually halted the us until not very long ago and therefore they that dependent isnt just economically but theres also a great dependence on the u. S. Leadership and for Political Support and we see something similar with the latin american countries which is why we have so many of them abstain not be in the room or even vote in favor with the u. S. This more countries are dependent you say it is ironic though that the u. S. You know is threatening to cut aid to some of these countries and its the u. S. Is also pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and the small island Pacific States have been the most affected by Climate Change how do you explain this dichotomy. Unfortunately what we see in terms of development between sort of the larger developed countries and those that are more dependent on them for aid is that often single issues can become very very important and they and the smaller countries can be coerced or encouraged to vote alone signed an ally who may not have all of their sort of best interests at heart particularly as you say around climate it isnt only the us that does this we see these tactics from china from russia even at times from from western european states but the way that trent went about this over the last week has been very very different anything weve ever seen from the United States previously a question here rosa from one of our viewers on facebook. What can the International Community what can the u. N. Do now do more if the u. S. Doesnt rescind its declaration which are not likely to do i think we heard president abbas in paris say today that the europeans should take on a bigger role in the mideast peace negotiations do you think that this can actually work and the u. S. Being easily sidelined the bigger question is do we want the u. S. To be sidelined the western european states and we should we should acknowledge that there was a split in the European Union between the western and Eastern European states on this vote for the western european states have made it very clear that their position is now much of all moving away from trump and towards palestine now that might be because of the threat of palestinian terror it might be because of anti semitism it might be because every jet and donald trump or it might simply be that they realize that the time has come for viable peace and viable peace means a two state solution with a viable palestine but whether israel will be willing to accept western europe as a partner to peace in the way that it sets the United States its very unclear that Rosa Friedman very interesting to talk to you thank you so much for joining us there from reading Rosa Friedman its a rector of the Global Development division at the university of reading thank you so much for your time. Lets bring in our social media producer to ship out so much conversation online about this story since yesterday in fact right and so many people were following the vote as the debate was taking place and as the tallies were being counted in fact hundred the hundreds of thousands of people following this story around the world then went online to post their reactions thats as the vote was taking place you can see how much it just lights up right after the the numbers start to come in many of them took to twitter especially to express outrage at how a particular country voted or didnt vote or didnt even show up to vote half of the social media reaction that we saw out of the United States but in second place was in india now many are using this image which we showed you a moment ago of that u. N. Vote tally to share some very divided opinions you can see india there voted in favor of the resolution and Subramanian Swamy is an indian politician who says his government made a huge mistake by not voting with the United States and israel so certainly a Big Conversation there related to this story you have others like the cia director former cia director john brennan who say that every nation all nations have a sovereign rights who opposed the u. S. Position on jerusalem he says it shows that trump expects Blind Loyalty and subservience from everyone qualities he says are usually found in narcissistic vengeful autocrats so we received a lot of questions yesterday many questions and comments on twitter as people were following the vote thousands more on facebook so thank you for those honey here honey for other told us that in his opinion this boat shows how people power power of the people is still alive since u. S. Threats didnt really resonate so keep sharing your thoughts with us we asked one viewer beheading in gaza to tell us what the nonbinding resolution means to him. I think the vote of the u. N. Yesterday eliminates the effects of drumstick liberation. For wise of the divil stations all over the world. Provide Political Support for the third intifada called in to follow us now do you think the vote has been useful in any way we would love to hear your thoughts you can tweet us directly using the hash tag news grid or my handle is. Andrew thank you very much for that and theres plenty more on this story on aljazeera dot com of course our web site if you have a chance to read this very interesting piece by how many dabashi was a professor at Columbia University his top ten reasons he says to celebrate the u. N. Vote on journalists and the vote he says expose that the palestinian cause is a towering global concern not limited to arab and muslim countries an interesting piece read it on aljazeera dot com moving on and youve lost and catalonia separatist movement is stronger than ever thats the combative message from the ousted leader qantas puja mond to spains Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy after elections that look to have return Pro Independence parties to power the holy hoped the elections would end efforts in catalonia to break away from spain. Spoke from brussels weighs in south imposed exile. The last of the screen you know that the Spanish State has been defeated roy and his allies have lost and have got a slap in the face from the citiz