A listen around here in the Western Region after calling for a long day of work to the beauty of yeah its finally burning to fix things up one of the worst massacres in colombia history to take up to the fact. The u. S. Has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them illegal this latest pro israel move puts the us at odds with most of the International Community and the Un Security Council was in jordan reports now from washington d. C. For 41 years the u. S. Has called israeli settlements built in the occupied west bank illegal under International Law that u. S. Policy changed on monday calling the establish of civilian settlements inconsistent with International Law hasnt worked it hasnt invents the. As of peace this is a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians pump ailes announcement is the latest in a string of Controversial White House moves designed to support israel recognizing jerusalem as israels official capital moving the u. S. Embassy there from tel aviv in 2018 and forcing the palestinians to close their office in washington leaving them no diplomatic presence in the u. S. Apart from at the United Nations pomp a. O. Said the policy change had nothing to do with benny gantz afeard to form a new Israeli Government so the timing of this was not tied to anything that had to do with domestic politics anywhere in israel or otherwise this was about we were done we finished we conducted our review and this was the appropriate time to move forward the current Israeli Government was thrilled. This is a historic day and another great achievement after President Trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of recognize all sovereignty over Golan Heights and now put an end to the lie that settlements are illegal condemnation from jordan and from hamas we warned against dangerous consequences of the us change of position a continuation of u. S. Policy to support occupation from the palestinian leadership not just anger but also a call to action thats prole is that i was a compassion war crimes and this is constituent a major threat to International Peace and security and this is. International community from the orders of International Law that all wars of solving conflicts by facebook means and to the horrors of the jungle the European Union and many other countries say the settlements violate u. N. Security Council Resolutions and undermine the chances of a 2 state solution but even with what the u. S. Says are the hopes of renewed peace talks the embassy has issued a security warning knowing some could target. Interests in israel and the occupied territories in protest roslyn jordan aljazeera washington. Well the move is the latest shift in israels favor under President Donald Trump in december 27th seen trump formally recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel he then ordered the us embassy to relocate from tel aviv to jerusalem this angered palestinians and drew Widespread International condemnation in march this year trump recognize the occupied Golan Heights as part of israel the directive made the u. S. The 1st country to recognize israeli rather than syrian sovereignty over the region or this is trump is also promising a socalled deal of the sentry to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict and bring peace to the region. Is executive director of the arab center of washington he says the decision doesnt come out of the blue. Im not surprised at all with regards to the content of the statement by the secretary of state im so surprised though like everybody else probably by the time you know the statement itself was somewhat inconsistent i think it was definitely. Considered despite the fact that the secretary said it comes after a long period of 3 assessment of the policy the fact of the matter it wasnt accidental that so many different administrations prior to this one looked at the israeli settlements in the west bank in gaza not in the golan and as illegal and a violation of International Law there is a universal consensus about this issue so what is inconsistent is not what the secretary is accusing which is the wrong position by the Obama Administration or blaming it on former secretary of state kelly what is inconsistent here is this administration that is leaving if you will that International Consensus and clearly itself an accessory to an International Crime meanwhile israel says its intercepted 4 rockets that were fired from syria towards the occupied Golan Heights warning sirens were heard in the area as the rockets were down by israels iron dome ed Defense System israel has occupied the syrian territories since 1973 taliban commanders have been released by the Afghan Government as part of a prisoner swap sources have told aljazeera theyve landed in qatar seeing a taliban leader and as a county is among them in exchange 2 professors in the u. S. And australia have been released after spending 3 years being held by the taliban afghan president ashraf ghani announced the swap last week. Well a 4 day standoff at a Hong Kong University appears to be coming to an end as more student protesters surrendered to police theres been violent scenes as police and demonstrators for using tear gas and petrol bombs leader has condemned the demonstrators behavior accusing them of destruction so oclock reports from hong kong. This is the aftermath of monday night street protests roads blocked with burnt out cars tables and chairs strewn across major briards in Hong Kong Central kalin district at Polytechnic University protesters started to emerge from the campus after a not a violent confrontations with police the choice to surrender we just want to leave you know why did you not only. Because i have a lot of political we are also afraid of water police say on the air and because we dont know what will happen and some people. Are coming out always because they are. Also injuring some cynical or Something Like police set up a checkpoint to the campus for questioning those charged with brushing face up to 10 years in jail some students managed to escape on monday they were met by Police Firing tear gas and rubber bullets on tuesday University Professors school teaches and principals negotiated a deal allowing students to leave the campus peacefully with those pages and they keep me in october at. The time. I might even held in photos in the media but i do think. We can reach the police based on the arresting them. Make sure that they are they dealt with before the. Meeting these protesters have emerged voluntarily for the still hard core group of protesters holed up inside the campus despite attempts by police to negotiate their exit they were facing to leave. Hong kong. Chief executive carrie lam condemned the protests she says 600. 00 have been arrested 200. 00 of them are under the age of 18 she appealed to the remaining group to give themselves up we will use whatever means to continue to persuade and arrange for the remaining protesters to leave the campus as soon as possible so that this whole operation could be able to end in a peaceful manner and laid a basis for the subsequent work by the police to stop the violence in hong kong this protest at the university by almost be over but the cleanup is still underway with the added Government Movement vowing to continue the demonstrations which is now entering this 6th month sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Protesters in lebanon are attempting to stop politicians from entering parliament which is due to sit for the 1st time since antigovernment demonstrations began a month ago as a heavy security presence around Lebanons Parliament and groups of people have been seen attacking cars near the building meanwhile banks in lebanon have reopened on tuesday after a weeklong strike by stuff across the country where they know how to joins us live now from the lebanese capital as a mass of Parliament Sitting for the 1st time since these protests began tell us whats been happening. On the street is a tense there have been sporadic scuffles between the protesters and Security Forces as you can see this is one of the roads leading to Parliament Building since the early hours of the morning protesters have been blocking the road so doing their best to prevent members of parliament from reaching that building and holding a session they believe will be illegitimate but we understand this after 6 members of parliament have managed to make their way. Building but you are going to 65 he actually wanted to have the last one or only needed in order for this session to go. Ahead so these protesters doing their best to stop members of Parliament Everybody that was a convoy of a member of parliament trying to make their way in so the street is technically really a politicians are going to possible laws especially a controversial general amnesty law thats going to protect them in the event that there are Corruption Cases taken to court because that general amnesty bill is very ambiguous in its tact so people hear very much the fire and the politicians are very much a defiant because they are refusing to give up power what people here want is the formation of a cabinet of independent politicians people who are not affiliated with any Political Class in order to enact Economic Reforms and pave the way for early elections and center we understand the banks of reopened today how significant is this given that theyve been closed for most of the month since protests began. Yes the bank briefly opened joining the one month period but then Bank Employees decided to go on strike because they said that they were being harassed by customers people who were demanding to withdraw more money because right now there is a weekly cap on how many how much dollars you are allowed to withdraw from the bank up to 1000. 00 a week and youre not allowed to transfer any money abroad clearly officials are putting in Place Capital controls because theyre worried about the devaluation of the lebanese currency and the economy is in a dire condition and it is on the verge of collapse officials have been warning that so banks have reopened schools and universities what those in power have been trying to do really is restore a sense of normalcy to the country in the hope that these protests will just fizzle out no doubt the numbers are much less than in the past but people here are vowing to stay in the streets in order for their demands to be to be met sign up thank you. All right time for a short break here and ill just say right when we come back an escalation of tensions in iran through Security Force members a spam to death by protesters im going to quote what happened in georgia after the government rejected proposals for Electoral Reform or in that state that. Weve got more snow and rain in the full cost for italy and austria that brings with the added threat of avalanches saying lots of clouds showing up around central parts of the mediterranean pushing over towards australia and thats going to continue making its way through the race as it will turn a little dry as we go on is into the middle part of the way but the winds they will come in from a southerly direction around this area of low pressure amaldi direction that does add to the problems this is the picture in northern italy around the italian alps where we have already got a major disruption a widespread problems in and around the region as we go on through cheese they can see how the southerly winds pushing across much of italy rome at around 16 celsius 4 celsius the full 0 with that line of snow just around more than parts of the region heavy rain coming through his Stormy Weather very strong winds or nothing a little further east which as we go on through wet and stay dry weather does come back in behind you can see the rain just makes its way over towards the balkans behind me we got some wet weather making its way into western parts of europe as you go on through wednesday say some cloud of rain there into portugal all the way up to the British Isles could see some weather to into the far northwest of africa with a chance of heavy shower was from the and cinesias. Sponsored by. Protesting about how does. Their on line life. Directly translate slavery or if you join us this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice Climate Change is real the discussion is real and im here to talk about the solutions on now to 0. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on aljazeera the u. S. Has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them illegal palestines president has condemned the move but its been welcomed by israels Prime Minister and says it writes an historic wrong. Chief executive asserting prodemocracy protesters have barricaded themselves inside a university to leave peacefully. Also asked police to treat them humanely. And protesters in lebanon are attempting to stop politicians and from parliament there due to sit for the 1st time since antigovernment demonstrations began a month ago and groups of people have been seen attacking cars near the building. Now 3 members of irans state Security Forces have been stabbed to death by protesters their tear on thats according to state media at least 11 people are now thought to have died during nationwide demonstrations against fuel prices they began on friday after the government announced gasoline rationing and a cost increase of up to 200 percent but also jabari joins us live now from tehran dorsai so the death toll from the protests continues to rise do you think were seeing an increase in the violence. No there and i think were seeing an increase in the information flow thats coming through through the official channels here we know of the deaths that have occurred over the past few days since the protests began but the official state media has been announcing those death toll slowly and that is when we get the results and the state t. V. Has been saying that these deaths we dont know when they occurred but that over the past few days these 3 security members were stabbed to death near a suburb of tehran this is all part of an ongoing dispute between demonstrators and the Security Forces because the Supreme Leader on sunday made his position very clear that he supported this fuel increase and then following that announcement we heard from the Intelligence Ministry as well as the revolutionary guards on monday saying that they will confront these people and that they will restore calm and security in the country the officials here are calling these demonstrators not ordinary iranians theyre being referred to as thugs and that they are also being true is that being fueled by outside forces so there is being seen as taking advantage of an opportunity inside iran to sow discontent and insecurity and thats why they are being met with such heavy handed force president rouhani promised that subsidies would be paid on monday the people seen any of that yet. Yes as of midnight this morning about 20000000. 00 iranians received their share of subsidies they range from about 5. 00 to about 18. 00 depending on how many members are in the family this subsidies will continue on a monthly basis the next batch will be released on thursday and then the final batch on sunday so in total about 60000000. 00 iranians were receiving government subsidies this is what the government is trying to do it theyre trying to help low income families deal with the economic crisis that is happening in this country inflation is i dont know 40 percent and unemployment is at over 30 percent and this is the reason the president has said that the government has decided to increase the fuel prices or i dont sort of are we there in tehran thank you south korea has confirmed 2 of its vessels have been seized by yemens who the rebels in the red sea soul is now lost in the u. S. And saudi arabia to help recover them who say theyve also taken custody of a 3rd vessel which is saudi alone all 3 of being held in the data lets out the governments describing the incident as a terrorist operation earlier who thier fishel told al jazeera their release the ships once theyre sure they belong to south korea airstrikes have killed at least 7 people and injured more than 30 others in southern areas of libyas capital according to government sources more than 101. 00 have to drones targeted a factory where the victims are working the mostly from bangladesh some of t