Hello im so this is the aljazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. When the people of iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship i did not stay silent donald trump uses his state of the union speech to lash out at iran to bring you the arabian response. Also the humanitarian crisis in gaza and donor countries meeting in brussels. And some of these afghan refugees have lived in pakistan for generations but the deadline for them to leave is just hours away. Also it just happens once every one hundred fifty years whats called the soup up blood blue moon eclipse will be as close as it gets to us in the next sixty minutes. Welcome to the news hour an appeal for unity at home and a message of strength and power abroad Donald Trumps delivers his first state of the union speech highlighting what he sees as the successes of his administration now hes outlined a plan for tougher immigration policies a powerful military and a Strong Nuclear terence program from washington d. C. Alan fischer reports. Oh. Thats got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washington was marked by protests. I. Got the president of the United States. Inside a much warmer welcome for donald trump. The state of the union traditionally when a president leaves oak his vision for the future the state of our union is strong for donald trump a chance to look back at the tumultuous first year he boasted about his economic successes since the election we have created two point four million new jobs in the morning to us including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone but he talked about cutting black unemployment is a story reaction from some democrats the row over immigration help close down the government earlier this month he appealed to democrats to what with him and republicans to finally sort the issue so lets come together. Set politics aside and finally get the job done. And as he talked about chain migration there were audible boots under the current broken system a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives under our plan he talked about the battle against im still claiming huge success the pledging there was more to be done and of the need to invest more in americas military in a line not trailed by the white house the president revealed a new policy on the Detention Camp a guantanamo being cuba overturning a decision by barack obama i just side prior to walking in an order directing secretary mabus to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay alley and after a u. N. Vote which criticized the u. S. Decision to recognize to receive them as the capital of israel it was a clear threat to those who stood against his administration i am asking congress to pass legislation to help ensure American Foreign assistance dollars always share american interests and only go to friends of amanda knox and allied there was no mention of the Russian Investigation but there was mention of iran and north korea but the president ended with a familiar message and its the people who are making America Great again the democrats reply came from the son of a Famous Family congressman joe kennedy his great uncle was president john kennedy their record is your view to our highest american ideal. The belief that we are all worthy that we are all equal that we all count donald trump wanted to bring the country together and believes this speech will help democrats want to see if his actions match his intentions alan fischer aljazeera washington. Temples or used his state of the union speech to criticize the iranian government hes urging congress to address what he calls fundamental flaws in the Iran Nuclear Deal when the people of iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship i did not stay silent america stands with the people of iran in their courageous struggle for freedom. The Iranian Foreign minister jobs of reeve responded on twitter saying that trump again confirms his ignorance of iran and the region everyone knows where he stands and is certainly not with the iranians sarcastically added his virtuous democratically elected clients in our region we cheer but not those on the receiving. End of their tyranny and weapons including yemeni children lets bring in earlier for the job hes a visiting fellow Brookings Doha Center joins me here in the period before we sort of detail on iran just your impression of his comments about Guantanamo Bay and the fact that hes going to keep it open of course that contradicts everything that obama had wanted to do in his presidency and of course i mean president obama did pledge that he wants to close down guantanamo but he ended up not doing so so mr trance state means on guantanamo to keep it open and in the kind of descriptions and words he uses to describe the detainees in guantanamo has been in line with his you know other statements previously so its not so not a surprise that he doesnt intend to close down guantanamo i mean iran figured high in his state of the Union Address along with north korea and cuba he has to deal with the e. U. And the u. N. In terms of this terrible nuclear deal that he keeps going on about. He has set his own course in terms of implementing his own form of sanctions unilaterally i mean what effect does this have diplomatically because its a nonstarter in terms of both sides about how you negotiate this issue i mean basically we didnt hear much about iran and not much about iran policy there have been working groups between the United States and the European Union going going on now for a few days to address the issues of concern for the tribe administration and so basically his statements on iran policy were not concrete. This is also strengthening the u. S. Hand because its not showing to the europeans where he intends to go so everything that he also sat on iran has not been something new of course his pledges in support of the iranian people are somehow not really credible but in terms of that you know he says he stands with the iranian people we heard that just now its a generic statement weve heard from successive president s thats nothing new while the military conflict is out of the question in terms of tehran sanctions or not as we mentioned when he says the iranian all he stands with the iranian people do the iranian people stand solidified with the youre a new government against the u. S. I mean sometimes we dont really ask about the way the iranian people are thinking they might not like america all the time but do they do they agree with the way that the iranian position is i mean its fair to say that most iranians do not have any illusions about mr trumps support for democracy and human rights and his pledges in support of the iranian citizens are also undermined by his the fact a travel ban of iranians to the United States so basically trumps support for any kind of protests in iran plays into the hands of the hardliners in iran that can you know brand iranian protesters to be stooges of the u. S. Government so trump support statements are counterproductive while european support statements for solidarity with the iranian people would have been important but they were indeed missing in terms of sanctions that could be applied. Are sanctions in place by the u. S. Are they hurting iran coming here to a will later on in the future i mean of course i mean there is still the u. S. Extraterritorial sanctions that are in place that have not disappeared and which is a major bulk for example for Foreign Investment but when it comes to irans economic problems you cannot only talk about those remaining u. S. Sanctions there is a great part of responsibility with the iranian government and their kind of economic policies as well well see what does happen certainly what the fallout from this state of the Union Address is for the moment ali thanks so much for joining us. Just crossed over straits to brussels where. Fredricka the e. U. Policy chief is talking about the palestinian humanitarian crisis lets just listen to what she has to sign. The ministerial level which shows strong interest and a shared sense of purpose in the International Community and also in the region it is also the first opportunity is for the parties and not only for the parties but also for the partners in the region and International Community to sit together since the december announcement by President Trump. It is an opportunity we all have to engage to have everybody around the same table and for us to use our convening power and the good it at the service of peace and security in the middle east and beyond the base is an objective of our engagement is and remains the two state solution with terrorism a future capital of the states the state of israel and the state of palestine this is a position based on the oslo accords and on International Law in particular the relevant u. N. Security Council Resolutions the reason that one of the of dr years in committee is and remains the shared objective of two states solution we must always remind ourselves and we will do that todays a good moment for doing that again that the other key is one committee has never meant to substitute political progress by Economic Development it is always meant to accompany to facilitate to underpin political progress and the adult years on committee and the two state solution for us two sides of the same coin and today we will look together with our partners and ways to resume a political process that would lead to distort state solution any framework for negotiations must be multilateral and must involve. Of all players all partners that are essential to this process a process without one or the other would simply not work would simply not be realistic which is why we are happy to see that the quartets is continuing to meet we had a court that meeting just a few weeks ago we are as the European Union engaging within the quarter with United States the Russian Federation and the United Nations and we are looking at ways to closely associated its work some of our partners namely jordan or egypt more weight cells in the past few weeks we have been as the European Union extremely engaged with a part of this you know that had the pleasure to host the first Prime Minister netanyahu here in brussels and then president abbas we had as i said the quartet and voice meeting in jerusalem a couple of weeks ago and we are in Constant Contact with our partners in the region and we are convening this meeting today with a regular one that will follow up in march we need to maintain the political horizon for the two state solution as we believe there is no outer negative that would be both politically viable and sustainable and that would fulfill the legitimate aspirations of both parties including the legitimate security concerns of israel in the meantime there are many practical steps that can advance on the ground and we will look at the steps also today continue our support for the Palestinian Authority continue our support for only one work for the security of all because we know the more we can achieve progress on the ground the more this can help prevent violence and the more this can help also receive a political process so in this context we believe it is important that the Palestinian Authority is committed to unite the west bank and gaza on the one single and legitimate. It was already and in this regard we strongly support the indispensable egyptian role and engagement that we value as extremely positive the political situation in gaza is that actually linked to the security situation in the entire region and to our common fight against terrorism and we believe israels legitimate security concerns must be met also in that context we are thinking first and foremost obviously to the population in the us the daily life of citizens has been very difficult for too long time and this despite the Large International humanitarian help including by the European Union the European Union and its Member States are collectively by far the largest donor including through on russia to the palestinians but also bilaterally and we are ready to increase our support if the political conditions are met for instance through the deployment of the Border Assistance Mission of the European Union or after all through immediate help with us and im glad today to announce that we have just adopted a new package of forty two point five Million Euros including activities in East Jerusalem and support to the building of a democratic and accountable palestinian state through targeted policy reforms Fiscal Consolidation forcing businesses and small and Medium Enterprises strengthening the Palestinian Civil Society in providing access to water and energy this comes on top of several other packages of support including one hundred seventy Million Euros provided to order this to show that together with a political purpose of this meeting there is also a lot of concrete projects and concrete support that is going on thanks to an excellent cooperation we have established on an International Level and i would like to thank to conclude norway for its leadership and. Strength in. Leading this Work Together with us and others and reassure once again the part is first of all the citizens on the ground the people of the region and our regional and all our International Partners that they can count on the European Union always and. I mean mr dixon said i dont think you very much and i would first and foremost like to thank that rica for hosting this meeting and i think its very good that we can convene the parties at this juncture i could of course echo everything better because as and i will not repeat all of the points but i would like to make a couple of additional points one thing is that everyone knows that we are in a very difficult situation in the region then we had two choices we could either wait for the scheduled meeting in march which is primarily a practical and technical meeting and then for the police or political meeting in september in h. L. C. Or we could try to convene an early and extraordinary meeting even though its the first time this has been tried the response from the parties in the region has been very positive and i think that we are entering into this meeting today on a realistic but even though positive note because it seems like everyone has the interests of trying to make the most out of a very difficult situation and just because the situation is so difficult that is also the reason why it is so important that we meet at this time around the table when we enter into the meeting room we will have all the key actors all the key players who are vital to contribute to restarting the Peace Process again and we have all the actors and all the players who can also make sure that there are changes on the ground and improvements on the ground the reason for convening this meeting is as frederica has been pointing out to. There is a need for the International Community to recommit to a common strategy of building the institutions that will ultimately lead to a negotiated two state solution and there is also a need for a comprehensive plan in supporting. The resumption of p. A. Controls in gaza as fredricka also mentioned we will not achieve any lasting improvements unless we have negotiations and they conclude the outstanding issues that are related to territory to borders to security access is movements just status of jerusalem refugees and Natural Resources to names and also the need for that in the norwegian foreign minister. Eriksson. Just really really forcing exactly the position and norways of where they stand in terms of looking after moving forward with the Peace Process in the middle east of the a very contentious issue that they need to discuss and they will behind closed doors lets join Christopher Gunness spokesman for the un relief and works agency on raw joins me now via skype from East Jerusalem fredricka maga really really really iterating where the e. U. Stands mr got us also norway itself but the harsh realities of that at the a and the help and assistance that comes from the International Community has to go physically through israel in some shape or form before it arrives at its intended destination. Well thats only if you think that we only work in the guards on the west bank and we also work in syria in jordan and in lebanon on and we have extremely expensive programs in education in health and of course our