Vice president addresses the israeli parliament. Also politicians unhappy with the u. S. Vice president calls a commotion under a jek to from the knesset. Welcome to the heart of their arms the whole raman these are our top stories turkey says its offensive in the Northern Syria wont stop until its established a security zone along the border plus. Im Robert Bryden and avoid problems with the solar panels that are helping china float to the top of the green i mean julie. Welcome to the program mike pence has become the First AmericanVice President to speak at the Israeli Knesset pences speech was initially interrupted by protesting Israeli Palestinian politicians in the room after they were thrown out and spoke of the u. S. Friendship with israel and its commitment to recognize in jerusalem as the countrys capital words welcomed by his audience. For while the United States recognized your nation one and ministration after another refused to recognize your capital but just last month President Donald Trump made history he righted a seventy year wrong he kept his word to the American People when he announced that the United States of america will finally acknowledge jerusalem is israels capital. Where weve got demolish l. Standing by in brussels where palestinians president is meeting with the European Union but first how the force that joins me now live from west jerusalem we may you could say how he that weve heard a lot of this before but he was very clear on certain points especially the embassy and he got a very warm welcome from knesset members. Yeah i mean we may have heard some of this language before indeed as you say a lot of it but that the way it was concentrated so much in this very Significant Location and the way in which he allied the Current Us Administration so closely with the current Israeli Administration was really remarkable to behold as you say there was this. Protest a stand up of the Israeli Palestinian members that the joint arab lest some shouting slogans that jerusalem is the capital of palestine and then there was there was some scuffling as they were taken out of the knesset and that extended out here into the corridors outside as well at one stage an israeli member of the knesset who has a reputation for staging public showdowns in order to be on camera it seemed all of the time he was constantly shouting at one of those members calling him a terrorist saying he had no place here but that really did leave the way clear for mike pence to speak largely to two audiences his evangelical christian base back home in United States a lot of religiosity in this speech talking about the significance of the hebrew bible not just the creation of israel but in the creation of the United States as well and in terms of its politics really almost in lockstep with those of Benjamin Netanyahu there was very little for the palestinians who of course have rejected pences visit said that they wont be meeting him because of this declaration from the United States seeing to some is the capital of israel but there was very little for them beyond what he said was final status negotiations still being left open to be negotiated that the United States would still support a two state solution if both sides agreed but really the emotional heart of this was entirely in favor of the israeli nation the israeli people the current Israeli Government so Mahmoud Abbas as im sure you hear from jamal in europe he has already made it clear that he will not be. The United States as a partner or an honest broker or mediator in any Peace ProcessGoing Forward that the distance between the two messages was extremely stark in the comments from mike pence here at the knesset and of course he did focus on another topic thats very close to the heart certainly of israeli politicians at the moment and thats their position on iran. Yes he talks not just about that about the the shared view of iran promising the United States would not allow iran to get a Nuclear Weapon to great applause here in the knesset hall also talking about the wider regional picture and that the burgeoning alliances that he was talking about between the United States and arab states of course talking about egypt jordan indeed saudi arabia and the big indeed is one of the other issues that the palestinians are concerned about that there is this potential for some kind of imposition of a deal that the palestinian leadership would not be happy with coming from some some wider arrangement between those nations if theyre worried about that they would have heard nothing to lessen those worries in mike pence his words and of course there was the news line that came from all of this the declaration very clear that all the talk about timing over the last few weeks of this embassy move was put to bed it seemed he said the United States would move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by the end of twenty nine well leave it there for the moment thanks very much for joining us tonight palestinians have boycotted pences visit to the region Andrew Simmons has more reaction from bethlehem. The graffiti illustrates the feelings of people on the occupied west bank here in bethlehem at a security checkpoint a short distance away you start to drive for about five kilometers and youd be right where mike pence is right now its a major occasion for the israelis but its being boycotted by palestinians they feel that no way in any way whatsoever can they engage with this whole visit they held a protest here in bethlehem when pencil rived on sunday nights the now right now in manger square the biggest activity is taking down the Christmas Decorations pence said wanted to make this one of the focal points in his visit he wanted to spread a message that christians throughout the middle east should be treated with more dignity more recognition and should have more protection this clergyman is one of many saying that pence is a member of a sex they describe as christian zionists these are groups that read the bible a new way that actually. You know instead of focusing on liberation they focus on occupation they are interested in out of might get done in war this is the pilgrims continue to arrive in bethlehem palestinians and christians right the way across the occupied west bank feel frustrated about this situation there is a subdued anger however there are calls from the palestinian leadership for demonstrations protests on choose day and also a call for a general strike. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has urged the European Union countries to recognize his state is holding talks with e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels abbas wants the block to step up political efforts in the middle east as our correspondent in brussels tomorrow earlier you know you spoke about what abbas has to try and garner get achieve wileys in brussels but one of the Big Conversation points since the jerusalem declaration back in december was how other blocks or countries could step up to the mark to the level that the United States is as a general mediator in this whole conflict mediator that the palestinians do not want does the e. U. Want to give a bus that prize. Well i mean the European Union is heavily invested in the palestinian israeli conflict both financially and even Member States militarily by supplying weapons at the early ages of the creation of the jewish states and obviously in terms of security elements as well but there what the European Union understands is that there does need to be some sort of resumption of a political process which has essentially been left in tatters now the also accords although they were finally signed on the white house lawn they were hatched in a european country obviously namely norway and that is a testament to the fact that the europeans maybe have a better or maybe less worse reputation so to speak when it comes to one side in the palestinian israeli conflict than maybe that is something thats Mahmoud Abbas is trying to tap into by shutting the United States will not only do we no longer recognize you as the in the honest broker but we are now going to try and put all of our weight and all of our push behind a european proposal however so now the reason no european proposal marini the from policy chief she spoke just before our bastid and she said that as far as the europeans are concerned theyre still very much stick to the oslo accords but what are the oslo accords right now today so hell deals records were meant to stipulate some sort of Self Governance for the palestinians while the president who signed that Yasser Arafat was besieged in essentially led to his demise and death. By the israelis in the very building which was meant to symbolize the oslo accords the movements of palestinians and that hasnt happened which was meant to be selfgoverned is under siege of over the past ten years and even more so all of these achievements of the political process so to speak i do not merits any sort of celebration as far as the palestinians are concerned because they havent done anything to them on the ground so what humbugs needs from this visit is to come back and say ok here is a new approach but thats something people are skeptical about because it will get more analysis from us and when we get more statements from those politicians that are in brussels for the moment jamal thank you. Now turkeys president has revealed that he had an agreement with russia to launch a military operation north and syria although moscow has declined to confirm it and as angry continues to attack the area with artillery aircraft and Ground Forces there are indications its actions are widening the conflict the operation initially focused on african districts in syrias northwest corner but turkey has now expanded it to another border area town of science it says the city of beach further east is next in the past two years russia has offered broad support for the operation also warning that it doesnt support turkeys plan to keep control of a thirty kilometer deep strip of land once what it calls Operation Olive Branch is complete the offensive focuses on the y. P. Geno thats a u. S. Allied Kurdish Group that turkey considers terrorists other y. P. Ji is part of a broader coalition known as the Syrian Democratic forces or the s. D. F. Now a short time ago the s. D. F. Issued a statement defending itself and insisting that its only enemy is i saw Stephanie Decker is the turkey syria border. Turkey has now the start of the Eastern Front these are the Free Syrian Army fighters inside syria. They join what has been pretty much on the western border and the northern border weve had f. S. A. Fighters backed by Turkish Forces move in from this area and also from the north intensive shelling weve been hearing here throughout the day that weve also been speaking to. Will tell you that people are resilient that they will not give up their city they will not give up their. Fighters are well trained and they have prepared for this they also say that. The city that there hasnt been on the city itself mostly along these border. Villages are now somewhat empty as people have made their way further in to this region as this offensive goes on iraqs parliament. As the date for National Elections the deeply divided parliament struggled to settle on a date the Sunni Community wanted to be delayed or wanted it to be delayed to allow for the return of three Million People displaced by the fight against i sold the vote in may it will be the fourth since the two thousand and three u. S. Invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein still ahead here on aljazeera the. Attempt to arrest one. Welcome back as we look at the weather across central and southern parts of china still looking fairly quite a moment same goes for indochina annoyed though looking fairly bright highs of twenty four degrees but this area is going to develop into ranger in the course of choose dainty with some snow on its Northern Edge but hong kong fuzhou still looking dry foods are not particular wolf fourteen shanghai youll notice just four degrees quite a lot of cold air around the eastern parts of china now for surf asia or pretty quiet for the most part you should problems with winter time visibility because of smoke but we have got this area of low pressure affecting delhi in particular so miserable conditions there was some heavy rain coming down in temperatures of only sixteen degrees it will feel quite cold but it will improve as we head into wednesday should be fine across much of pakistan twenty six and sunny in karate here in the Arabian Peninsula weve lost the fairly strong wind which has been bringing dust over the last couple of days so fine conditions but not particularly warm twenty two degrees present enough twenty six likely in riyadh and then heading on through into wednesday warming up a bit a bit here in qatar on the other side of the potential there is some cloud around but it shouldnt spall the weather conditions in mecca too much thirty one expected here and twenty seven further north matina. Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter the mean maher government calls you a gringo lead terrorist hear their story on talk to aljazeera at this time. New yorkers are very receptive to aljazeera because it is such an International City they are very interested in that global perspective to see our lives. Welcome back youre watching after their arms a whole robin a reminder of our top stories the u. S. Vice president mike pence is address the Israeli Knesset and the speech was initially interrupted by protests by Israeli Palestinian politicians in the room he says the u. S. Embassy will be live to jerusalem before the end of twenty nineteen also palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has urged European Union countries to recognize his state hes holding talks with e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels about whats the block to stop a political efforts in the middle east. While bashar is aljazeera senior political analyst joins me now from london lets just talk. First about your reaction to pences speech a bit of a History Lesson a bit of a religious lesson but very clear on two things one that the embassy is going to move to jerusalem and the store to support the u. S. A staunch support for israel is unfailing. Yes i think some of the interesting things that weve heard when he spoke about the community of history and the commonality of religious values and the community of threats to israel in the United States he said the number of things that are of course are important and known what he omitted is probably the more interesting part for example when you talked about the common history according to some sort of a biblical reading he didnt mention that the american first colonialist wiped the indian nations and created slavery in the United States similar to what israel did in a temper to wipe the palestinians and create a new call on your old slavery like reality in the west bank and jerusalem so you know theres a lot of things been omitted for example he spoke about Iran Nuclear Program if one does not have Nuclear Weapons but of course he would think black to mention that israel has hundreds of Nuclear Warheads he would neglect to mention that so theres a lot of things where he emphasized criminality but he would not emphasize those sorts of insights that everyone in the middle east realizes but america refuses to admit its one of the things that we asked before i asked you was you know watching peds is achieved and you told very eloquently about the american position his evangelical roots when he did achieve was not actually reaching out with the olive branch to the palestinians except saying there is a role for them at the negotiating table if they come to it. And thats the scary bits this is the this is the part of the evangelical christians the types of mike pence who grew up conservative catholic become event genic a conservative and by the way he identifies himself that way conservative christian and then republican and then american the problem in his reading of the middle east slash israel palestine and reality is that israel is necessary for the prophecy he believes in and palestinian victimization is also necessary to the prophecy he needs so he not only rejects the idea of Palestinian States not only he does not see or recognize palestinian suffering under occupation for the likes of mike pence this is necessary i want i wont even say Necessary Evil this is just necessary for the prophecy to come through thats what he sees in israel not so much as a modern you know high tech militarized. Nation sparked out of sort not what he sees it in it most importantly is a fulfillment of his reading of biblical prophecy and this again the other scary part. Is his reading of the bible is literal so he thinks of as really a guy who walked around that he has sons and so on and so forth and he has a way of looking at things and the did jews are the promised people he actually thinks of god as a real estate agent. Who promise is rare and that now all of the grandchildren i was fighting over a promise made to the jews thats how we think of the history of israel so really quite disturbing reading from a crusader. You know Vice President american leader today something that to be honest with you so i have not heard from most of not all of rice president s in recent American History well we show it to see what else is as he leaves israel in time for the moment marwan thank you very much lets go to europe now where catalonia is Parliament Speaker has proposed ousted leader colors pujol as the candidate to form the regions new government the nomination comes as arrived in denmark despite threats from spain that he would be detained there on sunday spains state prosecutors said it will reach activating the arrest warrant. If he leaves belgium but the Supreme Court has rejected that request the former president of catalonia fled to brussels in october after his Regional Government declared independence from spain in a referendum ruled illegal by betrayed your sort of. By certified that the only candidate proposed as mr card is going to be more. I have been able to confirm that he is the one with the most i will propose was the coldest push to more customers hold this chamber as candidates for the presidency of the catalonian government as a measure i also want to say that i am aware of the personal and traditional situation of mr pushed i am aware of the warning about him i am also aware of his absolutely be a candidate for peace more attended a debate on the university of copenhagen he accused the Spanish Government of treating Pro Independence catalan politicians like terrorists in the last months fundamental freedoms have been undermine it. Democratic democratically elected policemans have been sent to preventive prison and have been treated like terrorist all the worse by myself or others members of my cabinet a hug zeile themselves to avoid prison. Freedom of assembly has been tailored schoolteachers are being rules trial for take. About the referendum on day even for be that yellow color during the electoral campaign. Well saudi arabia plans to donate one and a half billion dollars half of the uns humanitarian appeal for yemen as the war continues the situation is also deteriorating in areas controlled by the saudi backed government in the southern port city of aden secessionist say they want to overthrow the internationally recognized government as a solid binge of its reports. Much of. The u. N. Says three billion dollars will be needed if yemeni children to stop eating out of dumpsters. Not money will also be used to provide Health Sanitation and basic necessities to eleven Million People desperate for humanitarian aid. Part of the three billion has been promised by saudi arabia as it continues to carry out attacks in yemen. Its targeting hooten rebels but Rights Groups say most of those dying are civilians its not just the directly because of the war the conflict itself is those people who are silent and no villages in the towns where they havent been able to access. Or Access Medical facilities and die for the preventable diseases faced the children the conflict in yemen is complicated the column in the port city of aden deceptively hides a political Storm Brewing between opposing parties supported by the same coalition u. E. Back said in the session ists are threatening the saudi backed and internationally recognized government was. This is session this have thought for control of air and sea ports the sudden forces led by the man appointed by president the governor of aden have announced the beginning of the process to overthrow the government not of i say you know what is your money if you know we reject the deployment of any northern forces to the south while we appreciate their military role and then assess it to your forming lord and Resistance Forces to fight in the north. Aden is the de facto capital of the ha the government of president hadi has been based in saudi arabia due to security concerns. His Prime Minister ahmed been governor has struggled to control southern yemen despite support from saudi arabia the u. S. Gives logistical guidance at the saudi military headquarters in riyadh as well as selling them weapons russia also wants a role in yemen but theres concern based on other middle eastern conflicts it would tilt in favor of the iran backed hooty rebels russia insists it just wants peace. In the complicated chessboard of war babies are dying of hunger yemenis just wanted to end regardless of who can make that happen. In job aid as their schools churches and markets in zambia are reopening three weeks after the government introduced imagines the measures to contain a cholera outbreak at least seventy four people have died in the disease since september victoria be how small. Its time to go back to school to the zambians a week later than usual was. The start of term was delayed to allow inspectors time to check every schools malta and sanitation system to try to bring a cholera outbreak under control. And. Allowed us to. Control the recorder and the we have now to go to class and start teaching you know what youre. Since september more than three thousand two hundred zambians have been infected with cholera most live aid or around the capital lusaka its a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water left untreated it can kill with an ounce. Earlier this month the government deployed the army to lead a cleanup of public spaces banned public gatherings and introduced a curfew it says sufficient progress has now been made for it to east some of these restrictions were getting back to normal so we want people to begin to trade again because we understand traders have had to pass through a rough time of not trading two three weeks of disruption is this is big enough to disrupt their normal lives you would as well farmers welcome the reopening of market places but say the outbreak has badly damaged their livelihoods it reached a level where even outlets such as become so bright could not have a stumbles because farmers could not bring in the vegetables from us could not bring in the tomatoes farmers could not bring in the fruits and so the impact was was very bad on the farmers but again it also impacted on the turnstiles the government says the number of new cholera cases has dropped significantly since it introduced the emergency measures but the zombies ambiens its too little too late they queues ministers of mismanaging lusaka is water system and causing the outbreak in the first place the tory gave to be out there the oil spill from the sunken iranian tanker in the East China Sea has tripled in size the oil slick has expanded to three hundred thirty two square kilometers in a week scientists have warned of a massive environmental catastrophe the iranian tanker sanjay was carrying a one Million Barrels of oil when it collided with another ship earlier this month. Well staying in the region china invest more than a year each year in wind hydro and solar power than any other country as the Worlds Largest emitter of Greenhouse Gases is lawful ambitious plan to replace carbon with Renewable Energy that path includes the largest floating solar farm on earth as bob bryant reports. They float in the winter sunshine shimmering islands silently generating enough power for a small city on the shore new sections of solar panels are bolted together and then floated out to join the others the lake they occupy was formed by the collapse of a disused coal mine underground that would otherwise go to waste to design these sections like this especially for this area they werent you know matter how much of the land flows. The water helps cool the panels and keeps them free of dust to make them more efficient. And hoyt like other provinces is experiencing an unusually severe winter. If its the result of Climate Change its a reminder that a country which is built its prosperity on coal must look to Renewable Energy for its future with its demand for energy china is still burning about half the worlds coal but that is fast changing the government has promised to spend three hundred sixty billion dollars on clean energy by twenty twenty and the difference is clear to see quite literally. Beijing and other cities in northern china have been enjoying blue skies this winter largely because of a restriction on coal burning its a controversial policy thats left many people shivering without enough alternative Energy Sources but its given a glimpse of a smoke free future without coal. Back in the coal mine and power station can be seen beyond the solar panels. Juge when used to work that but says the soul of a bomb pays him twice as much and hes happy to work above ground. My son also works in the industry its got a job putting panels on peoples roofs. Part of a huge workforce that will eventually number in the millions finding a clean a life in green Energy Bright aljazeera and whole province china. Youre watching all just their homes the whole rob and a reminder of our top stories mike pence has become the First AmericanVice President to speak at the Israeli Knesset pences speech was initially interrupted by protesting Israeli Palestinian politicians in the room after they were thrown out hence both call the u. S. Friendship with israel and its commitment to recognizing jerusalem as the countrys capital. For while the United States recognized your nation one and ministration after another refused to recognize your capital but just last month President Donald Trump made history he righted a seventy year wrong he kept his word to the American People when he announced that the United States of america will finally acknowledge jerusalem is israels capital. Now the European Union says it supports palestines demands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a palestinian state the president Mahmoud Abbas is holding talks with e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels hes urging the block to recognize the state of palestine immediately about also was eager to step up political efforts in the middle east. Turkeys president says that hes had an agreement with russia to launch a military operation in Northern Syria although moscow has declined to confirm it the offensive initially focused on targeting kurdish y p g fighters. But has now expanded to. Turkey wants to create a buffer zone to protect its border. Catalonians Parliament Speaker has proposed ousted leader colors teachable as the candidate to form the regions new government the nomination comes as proof of all rived in denmark despite threats from spain that he be detained on sunday spains state prosecutor said it will reactivate and arrest warrant for pujol if he leaves belgium but the Supreme Court rejected that request. Former football star george weah has been sworn in various new president the fifty one year old won a landslide in a runoff vote in december against the outgoing Vice President joseph because those were the headlines taught to aljazeera is that because there is next. On counting the cost why the jurys still out on tampa now makes despite wall streets delight we delve into chinas better than expected growth story and count the past the negative brand populace and the. Counting the cost at this time on aljazeera. In the world is all good to. See. With wars and conflicts continue to rage and crises after crises threatening the safety and well being of millions of people around the world the question is who and how