It is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of kobe had 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a culture of virtual sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent that hurt spending it was already suffering from the lingering effects of a typhoon then of course that all of its economic problems are really now being compounded rolling into this year with the onset of kobe had 19 the delay of the summer olympics it was about this time that Many Companies throughout japan were expecting to be ramping up massively employing thousands of people as the country was preparing to welcome the world well as we know all of that is now been delayed by at least a year and just in april we had a the Prime Minister declaring a National Emergency that further kept people at home that kept people away from going out closed many more businesses in fact many economists are predicting that this quarter that were in now the 2nd quarter of 2020 is when well see the real economic pain with some predictions that the economy is likely to contract at an annualized rate of more than 20 percent now that is depression sized slump the worst in living memory shinzo of it is already declared a stimulus package of a trillion dollars well that frankly at this stage does not seem enough and hes likely to expect to announce more help to help the economy through this india has extended a nationwide lockdown for another 2 weeks schools malls and other Public Places will be remaining closed the shutdown has forced thousands of Migrant Workers to head back to their home states often on foot. Brazils president jetted also nado is rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown there this despite 15000 couldna by its debts more than all other latin american nations combined. With more and more the sort of residue we will change brazils destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to ministers thanks for the wonderful people here we are together brazil is ours. The u. S. President has hit back at criticism from barack obama who said the government has fumbled its response to the pandemic he was the president thats all i can say roughly. Speaking is iraq back at the white house from his weekend retreat at camp david to donald trump again said that a cure would be found by the end of the year contrary to what medical experts believe that he was a branch of americas military the space force has launched its 1st mission. A United Launch Alliance atlas 5 rocket with us young man spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral in florida after being delayed for a day by bad weather officials havent revealed the purpose of the mission and nor are they saying how long it will remain in orbit its malaysias parliament has convened for the 1st time since the resignation of its Prime MinisterMahathir Mohamad was replaced by his deputy morkie dean is seen in march after he failed to form a unity government is as you scenes appointment is illegal. Scuffles have broken out in hong kongs parliament between prodemocracy and probate jane politicians there are erupted over the failure to elect a new chair for a Key Committee thats meant to scrutinise bills backlog of bills includes one that would criminalize abuse of chinas national anthem. Meditator of a prominent egyptian online newspaper has been released on bail after outrage over her arrest of publication says lena tyler was arrested outside the top a prison complex in cairo she will appear in court on monday those are the headlines the news continues here on alt is it off to jerusalem a rock and a hard place to buy. When i asked my mother when was the last time she took the train in and where did she go and she tells me yes of course i took the train because of this trade in jerusalem connects us with the rest of palestine when you look at old photos and you imagine how their lifestyle was at that time and when you visit the train station today its like a disney bar its full of restaurants full of people who are completely indifferent to the history of the of this space who are completely ignorant words to research they dont belong you know my son often tells me you know mama these people they dont seem to belong at all to this city it doesnt go with the spirit of the people today. We were the owners of these houses 77 percent of west jerusalem before 48 was palestinian owned and when i talk about palestinians i talk about muslims christians and the minority of jewish people. The new 1st train station as they call it a look at the. Inside the restaurants most of those people will be palestinians probably from the west bank or from marginalized areas in jerusalem with very low salaries. They are treated like garbage and this alexis then is a man. Just usually kept out of it no way they say if they have the guts to put up. With i love the less but so what when the taliban look this is the way stand. By even the muscle here i mean the outlook nice for me. Was you can complete confidence to me and it just it is what we all feel would be on a bus in amman making me. Look at the will this is a good. Solution. Its a place where somebody has. Given up on the face of. The 5th wheel on the smash set in baghdad. Im looking study up squiggle for you. If youve never heard of it if it had. Been. Listening to the local machine the show this. Morning out of the whole thing im assuming its not mechanical so feel this i like it that its not a sound and i want to see a command that i will only pay out on he bought some having bought a. Good. Leader. My Fathers House is exactly opposite this street which becomes said. In arabic or. The so lets go to my Fathers House and i hope they wont call the police so well do it very quickly. This is my Fathers House the house of the amount my father lived in this house for 8 years from the fortys until 48 with his mother he was chased out of the house like most of the palestinians because they wanted to confirm the statement of golda meir that this is a country a land without people but all these people who are living in these homes in the 1998 netanyahu came into governance and as. A money money maker and many money lover he wants to privatize palestinian houses in the same time as Israeli Telecom and and electricity water all these elements which which can be privatized so that he can gain more money my Fathers House was sold for 4000000. 00 by plan who is a Real Estate Agent who came from america and. Neither my mother nor my son agreed to the fact that i am very passionately and emotionally involved in the past you can see that he didnt even come with me because hes he wants to avoid all these emotional issues when i came here last time. From outside i was taking a photo the people inside the house saw the flash they parked the car in the middle of the street they called the police they arrested me they put the handcuffs in my feet and in my hands i told them but what crime have i done whats my case i just took a photo. Not a Banana Republic we have a court system we have a court system who is definitely not in the pocket of the right wing or the religious in this country no one can get away with just driving someone in house of anywhere in this country i mean we know the british were here we know exactly who was kicked out in what ease and 948. 00 the jews also kicked out of the area taken as prisoners of war thats real being kicked out and evicted by the arab world no arab is being pushed out or kicked out of anywhere actually been driven at no such thing. They have been was he was saying this country since 17 conquerors were familiar with wars that have tried to driven us out when brought here is imperialists we have returned home as the Indigenous People to our own homeland and theres basically nothing that the world or the arab world can do about it whatever attempts theyve tried one succeed the make or timid jew living in some ghetto or statue under the nazis or under the czar or under whoever it may be the parents we are today a strong people who have come back to our lands were back here now and no amount of arab terrorism violence or hatred is going to keep me up and they will be eaten up referenced you know its a sign from a stranger that maybe taken the wrong why but it doesnt mean that me personally will handle it because we have already. Any arab that wants to drive me out someone that wants to see someone wants to drive me out. Someone that wants to stab my god forbid much like weve seen before you know that person will be eaten up for breakfast now that one beat that would be something i would do personally the jewish people the state the police whatever has to be done that will be handled. Not only are we looking over the temple mount seir the place where the golden dome is you know thats the place the holy of holies this is what the arab world wants and this is what theyll never get. Abrahams children dont get along some brothers dont get along in this particular case in fact its even worse because theres parts of a very very violent streak in a south and l. Which is the combination and part of the muslim world today. Theres addict in that says a south hates jacob was he obsessed that abraham or isaac only gave certain listens to him and certain other blessings the him the children of a ram have been blessed in many different ways that the jewish people i am isaac jacob King David King solomon all the way to little daniel luria today in jerusalem is this one chain thats been blessed in a different way the little land of israel we have the covenant with god. We have returned home design is dream is being realized all the time and as the Indigenous People here the world and especially the arab world is going to have to understand that at some point in time. Today i live in ships around where i live spiritually if i may say saw in the western part of the city i wasnt born yet in 1948 during that akbar but i feel that the dark but is grounded in. These times are times which i got from my Fathers House actually id processed. When the house was put on sale and there they were uprooting all the ties and or what is in the house i chose to put them and document my history and my story. Our ultimate goal is actually to preserve Cultural Heritage and. Culture and heritage in. Very well. Everything. And anything therefore you think how you want to preserve and protect your traditions. Whether its. My Fathers House and i thought ok. Except. For the sake of my. Very very very very depressed. The mother will be very emotional and very. Boxers and im about her Fathers House the toy store and about. All this stuff so shes very attached to the. To the past and to the emotional heritage thats called it. For me for example in life i try to focus more on the present. What to do in the present like well what more can i make my life better now. Im an artist so this is important for my art because my art is not a ready made its also about exploration and investigation. I had my 1st exhibit when i was 16. And it was photography and that time it was the 1st intifada all the streets who were filled with stickers and posters and. I regret fijis everywhere so it was like walking in there big piece of art the series is called reconstruction because its about reconstructing. The reality of the city so this series off work is my latest work its called wonders and signs one can see it as a metaphor of jerusalem because of the layers on top of each other and layers of history the layers of writings of messages or political messages. And then you have the soldiers coming in and covering them with white paint and after its covered with white paint and the palestinians come back and they put a new message on it. Jerusalem is also a big bowl a big bunch of things so its not easy to find your place you feel like youre an intruder paradoxically the people that come from abroad they feel home because its their Promised Land and. For whatever reason you know. Most people think that the space has been or was a battleground between religions and thats not true because before 948 whether you were jewish muslim or christian we all saw ourselves as palestinian muslims but as the new christians but a sunni and jews. You have to know the truth but you have to understand the context most of the population of the country was palestinian mainly muslim and jewish and christian but mainly Muslim Minority was christian at all 10 percent and 5 percent were jews and there has always been synagogues churches and mosques. The shared values but the underlines the relationship between us that theres a book that religion i dont care if they play on friday or set of their sunday i care about how the treaty we are one people but what is divisive is where do you stand on the policies are fewer government when it dehumanizes. Either read the bible through palestinian eyes and we read it in the context of living under occupation jesus lived under occupation became a refugee under occupation his miracles were what done under occupation the thousands gathered around him and that occupation so we see how deeply jesus resisted occupation and we tried to walk in the same footsteps. Samjhauta is one of the founders of simeon and she is an excellent writer and she has an excellent blog. Most of the israelis are secular jews but of course they use this to justify. That this is the city and then you find all these crazy christians i call they call themselves christian zionists their theory is completely untrue because i mean when they say all the jews have to gather here the jews that israel is a happy about this part of the bit here but then so that the messiah can come and when the messiah comes they have to become christians and those who dont become christians then there would have to be kid i mean what kind of a religion is this what kind of a god is this god when the messiah comes if they dont believe then they have to be killed israel goes along with them to accept the fact the 1st part of it which is having them come over here but that makes many people say well if this is if this is gods will and i mean who wants gods will. Im a professor articles university and my campus is basically the main campus is about 3 minutes my coffee before the warning today i have to drive depends on the traffic if im lucky thatll be like between half an hour to 45 minutes thats family. Im going to lucked on but i almost kicked the war. I feel this was terrible because at one point i had 3 kids at the university studying University College to be would waste 8 hours every day going and coming back from the university. Its a separation war its a part its an apartheid wall is superior spot a scene from palestinian only. Reason. I started this building i mean ive thought of this building for many years and i would have but i have now i have to go visit me for about 45 minutes around the north side of the vans ive just arrived this makes sense i think the people who live in egypt and they were just a normal a few jews you know not all of it but the only way one day we just like to believe in war but you wanted to use your low. About 15 years of the school that was used to but has learned before i was. In britain because of the lack of sunshine for most of the time people talk when they meet each other they greet each other and they speak about the weather they would make a different story were a Beautiful Day and he and i have not to speak at one point they speak spontaneously about the checkpoint. Today the checkpoint is interesting what. The new one is definitely different from the walls of the whole city except the walls of the city. Good moving from one jerusalem neighborhood the other through to the middle of. This is on the 4th but assyrian neighborhood i mean you this is a good day before many people you know its in the morning during rush hour its the most difficult time when you have students sick. People going to make it to work. To be being counted especially the incidence of something that would make you what id like. There was a was there a woman mean when i got on my right here when she was trying to go to free the soldiers were not letting go they were asking her you have a good look she would say no in front of the sorceress you sat down and she said i want to listen to me. And the so i just started making fun of what so i remembered me and other young people and other people and the funny thing is that the just one good thing going to grandmas if you need to go back you to do good. Theyre not going to let you but she insisted she stepped on the mound and said i want to go to do is tell him to do. So of course the army but the son. And he come come in. Who said the cutting pressure on her to leave started encouraging we saw in her leadership thats not in us. And i remember. The boys body enforcement other 4 soldiers came in and they said grandma with guns you need to go and she said no im not going anywhere i want to go to jerusalem to preach she was insisting then 4 soldiers tried to carry her they could not then the soldiers give up and this said you know it this is how you would you go to play and i remember she couldnt move she couldnt walk and so on she jumped. And then like a 3 year old kid without the support of the Community Without the support of any but on god. She made it but you know sort of. Trains one of the worlds oldest cities seen through the eyes of those who know it best they seem. To shake it a few. Aljazeera world goes on the road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of one of the most hockey contested locations on a. Jerusalem is a palestinian cabbies on how jazeera as we embrace new technology is rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the Chemical Exposure and the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok well send our e waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe d