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Conduct even if you were not concerned and i cant imagine what elected leader would not be concerned about a sitting president using his office to gain political advantage for the next election you surely would be concerned about the potential that the white house intervened to stop the whistleblower complaint going its lawfully identified path the path that the whistleblower statute is very clear is required whenever there are a whistleblower complaints which is that it goes to the Inspector General for intelligence and once the Inspector General general says that the complaint is both credible and urgent that from there it must go to congress and the law is one of the clearer laws that we have in the us its a rather clear example of obstruction of justice and abuse of president ial power its hard to overlook it great talking to you thank you so much for your time do appreciate it. 2 other news in the u. S. Secretary of defense has announced america will be sending a battery of Patriot Missiles for Radar Systems and 200. 00 personnel to saudi arabia the move comes after the largest ever attack on the kingdoms Oil Facilities that last month or yemens hooty rebels claimed responsibility washington blames iran while tehran continues to deny the allegations more would share britains e in washington d. C. This is confirmation i guess yeah but what the United States had suggested give us a little more detail. Well there is not much more detail we could do here as you said last friday marc announced that there would be reinforcements sent and as you said for Radar Systems a battery of Patriot Missiles 200. 00 support personnel but also the u. S. Military says its putting additional capabilities on prepared to deploy orders or p. T. D. O. In the lingo which means that. Other infrastructure can be mobilized more quickly old material 2 additional Patriot Missile batteries a terminal High Altitude area Defense System or so another Missile System those can also be deployed rather quicker than they might ordinarily have been in case of in case of emergency its all very symbolic their last friday donald trump often says they do not seek war with iran these are defensive measures in nature and to be honest i mean they are very symbolic especially given they were a Patriot Missile batteries in place they were billions of dollars of u. S. Weaponry deployed by the saudis and the u. S. For that matter and they were able to stop the last attacks on the saudi Oil Facilities so you you know you do wonder i mean the picture of missile batteries anyway were sort of regular skepticism anyway about how good they are despite the propaganda from the military Industrial Complex in the movies of oil from they often fund the now theres this open ridicule about them but this is a deeply symbolic move showing that the u. S. Is standing by the saudi arabia at least at least with their missile Defense Systems. In washington thank you for that. Irans president says his country will of course engage in talks with the United States if sanctions are lifted Hasan Rouhani made those comments at a News Conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in new york he reiterated the trumpet ministrations current tactics on working my home it was very clear that the path chosen by the us from the onset would never succeed so despite these pressures and these wrong choices they kept saying that we wish to speak to iran we have no problem talking or negotiating but we are not willing with the existence of preconditions to enter into talks if america takes the maximum pressure the sanctions off the table and in a way demonstrates its in syria and gives us the needed trust that with this government we are able to talk and reach a conclusion of course that would be a different set of circumstances and a different atmosphere. Has risen and jordan at the United Nations in new york any reaction from the u. S. About this i mean this is what the iranians and been saying all week will talk but youve got to come to the party is whoa. Well there wasnt a direct reaction from the u. S. Secretary of state like pale to hostile honeys comments at his own press briefing it was sort of happening just about the same time but in general pompei o did stress from all that the u. S. Is continuing what it calls its maximum Pressure Campaign on terror because they believe according to mr pompei o that iran is not acting in good faith if it wants to love return to the Global Community of nations the secretary of state underscored the u. S. Belief now bolstered by some key european allies that iran was behind the september 14th attack on the up Oil Processing facility in eastern saudi arabia and that that behavior alone is indicative of irans refusal to try to behave as a worse. Its a bold nation and so what pales stressed was the importance of making certain that iran does not get to continue its belligerent behavior and one thing that paul peo said is underscoring the u. S. The seriousness about this it is cutting off access to Senior Iranian government officials and their relatives to the United States so that they cant come here perhaps to go to university to do commercial work or to come as tourists of course this is something which. Has criticized saying that there shouldnt be this sort of barrier on people especially who are involved in Government Affairs but he also did suggest that the u. S. Is continuing this maximum Pressure Campaign in order to score domestic political points for the trumpet ministration roselyn jordans that the United Nations in new york. Coming up now to 0 the rest of the day use yours for so you know moment. Had there was a very unsettled picture of his across much of europe is that the satellite is huge amounts of cars streaming across central areas eastern regions and to the old west a new ad pressure and now weve seen some very stormy conditions and have a look at this this is the off some all since the van came through some of the islands in greece this is catalonia or off to the storm came through more than 4 times as that time average in just one day about 90 minutes is over and so some widespread damage across the island that storm system working its way further eastwards and moving pretty spiffy say through friday its really going to people garia on interim a new you have to have the threat of some more severe storms and then really across Northern Europe and their Central Regions out to the new. West this is where the next area of low pressure will be so this is where the very heavy rain will be and some pretty strong winds as well time which is their own fighting to bottom even underneath all that rain and clouds 16 in berlin 22. 00 pretty nice images at 28 hours cold up there in moscow 10 celsius but still about 5 degrees below the average and its a very similar story and south of that rain becoming much more widespread and mostly clear skies across much of the south some kara conditions pushing in so much of turkey and as you can see its still pretty warm in the southwest and not about day in paris with a high of 20 celsius. Is a dialogue let you decide not to have children because its what the stake is really human survival everyone has a voice that has started to put our community because of course this is a debate and its a heated one this is a little be asian literally be put into teaching and ideally join the global conversation and people i think if only they knew what is happening to we were muslims. They will be with us and they will be outraged on out is iraq. The top stories this thursday on al jazeera and the acting u. S. Director of National Intelligence has testified before a Congressional Committee over his handling of a whistleblower complaint complaint details of calls in president dont trump urging ukraines leader to investigate his potential election rival. The u. S. Secretary of defense has announced america will be sending a battery Patriot Missiles for right out systems and 200. 00 personnel to. Saudi arabias defense says the move comes after an attack on the kingdoms Oil Facilities last month irans president says his country will of course engage in talks with the u. S. If sanctions are lifted a son rouhani made those comments at a News Conference on the sidelines of the u. N. General assembly in new york. More now from the General Assembly in the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas says israel is holding a reckless war against the palestinians which includes evicting people from their homes and taking away peoples rights to worship souls says all agreements with israel are off if it goes ahead with plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank im not through im merely an give her mad about elian akeelah a week before the israeli elections Prime Minister netanyahu came out to arrogantly announce that should he prevail in the elections he would end next and apply israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley northern dead sea and israels colonial settlements despite the fact that all of these areas. Palestinian territories we reject this plan entirely all responses if the Israeli Government is to proceed with this plan all signed agreements with the government of the occupation and any obligations will be terminated. The u. K. Government has admitted to further breaches of a court order that was made in june which barred arms sales to Saudi Arabia International trade secretary lose trust told the house of commons that export licenses granted to saudi arabia are likely to be used in the conflict in yemen trus also says its possible that more cases will come to light. My department identified errors that had taken place in the export licensing procedure in relation to the saudi coalitions activities in the conflict in yemen. As i stated publicly on the 16th of september i am reservedly apologize for the export licenses that my department issued in error i have also given my own reserved apologies to the court the leader of hong kong has held a Public Meeting to talk about protests that have gripped the city now for 16 weeks for many involved it was an opportunity to vent their frustrations and Scott Hartnell reports. They were the 150 people selected by a lottery to go face to face with hong kong chief executive kerry lamb in a socalled townhall meeting her 1st direct interaction with the people of this divided city she controls after nearly 4 months of protests that were sparked when a bill allowing extraditions to Mainland China was presented lam later shelved the legislation permanently but it was too late for the protesters they expanded their demands focusing on alleged Police Mistreatment of protesters and less control from the yeah. No matter how difficult it is my colleagues and i think that its time to start a direct dialogue because in the last 3 months im sure no matter what political stance one holds they must be feeling very sad and worried or angry. But empathy was met with blunt to statements from some participants i am i only got us thank god that you know we arent doing it is you because youre useless at governing listened youre responsible for what has happened in the protests you must step down. As the to our dialogue continued inside the hundreds of protesters out front continued with their chanting and their demands for kerry land and her government. They listened on their phones as they swarmed the street in front of the meeting venue. This political observer sees the dialogue as too little too late i think its more political show and it all looks to be fossick 0 these days because she talked about engaging in dialogue and since august 18th the massive variety of 1700000. 00 people in half the rain but after more than one month. What people see land made one announcement during the meeting the authorities will end the controversy a practice of taking a rest and protesters to a Detention Center near the border with Mainland China but the concession appeared to have little impact on the focus of the protest movement with many events planned for the next few days its got harder aljazeera hong kong the former french leader juncture rock has died as a lengthy career at the pinnacle of French Public life included 2 terms as president and Prime Minister and 18 years as the mare of paris just about half an hour or so ago the icon of that city the eiffel tower turned its lights off in memory of the countrys former leader Natasha Butler has our report now looking back at the life of Jacques Chirac. People gathered outside former president Jacques Chiracs home in central paris to remember one of frances most famous politicians whose career spanned 5 decades in a t. V. Address to the nation president emmanuel mackerel pay tribute to the conservative leader no posse the people of france have lost a great statesman that we love as much as he loved us. Became a familiar face after being in politics for more than 40 years and with that we share his views all nostra this is all recognize this man who resembled us and assembled us there of paris Prime Minister twice and president for 12 years he held nearly all the top jobs here at his born in paris in 1932 his political prowess was clearly evident he spent the 1950 s. Working in the Civil Service before becoming a protege of Prime Minister 2 after that his climb was steep and fast within 12 years he was Prime Minister his march to the release a palace began after he left the camp and its becoming men of paris in 1987 when he set his eyes on the presidency it would be almost 20 years before he would gain his seat in the only say he was elected promising tax cuts and more jobs but within months there was a general strike bringing millions into the streets the in Foreign Policy chirac was a supporter of multilateralism but he didnt shy away from taking a stand on a trip to jerusalem in 1906 he forced his frustration with the Israeli Security officers assigned to accompany him but i wont go back to my own way and i go back to iran to god i was very late let them go and theyre going to go that will go no dad no no problem with this is the. Vision of procreation of that is no obligation. No. One journalist traveling this year ak at the time. Remembers it 50. And that made him an immediate an overnight hero in the arab world the in the next days we traveled to a man. To cairo damascus and beirut everywhere people had seen that on television and were. Absolutely amazed that the western leader could speak that way to Israeli Forces which no one had done before in 2003 the us president george bush failed to persuade chirac to join the invasion of iraq winning the french leader praise from some quarters memories of his leadership will be sullied by the corruption during his 18 years as paris may 20 levon he was convicted of embezzlement Jacques Chirac though was a consummate french politician a survivor but his legacy is uncertain and damaged by his personal failures Natasha Butler aljazeera paris and zimbabwes long time ruler Robert Mugabe you will be buried in his home district of zimbra instead of the National Shrine as previously planned there has been a public feud between the government and the garveys family of a just where he would be laid to rest of course ruled zimbabwe for 37 years till he was ousted by the military in november 27th he died in singapore earlier this month a. Lot of developments in the news today on aljazeera here is the latest the acting u. S. Director of National Intelligence has testified before a Congressional Committee over how he has handled a whistleblower complaint it is this complaint which details a call from president obama trump urging ukraines leader to investigate his potential election rival trump called the hearing a witch hunt. Its a disgrace to our country its another way john here we go again. At every ship it is crew making up stories and sitting there like i is whatever you want to call of the just a really great its a terrible thing for our country they cant do any work theyre frozen the democrats are going to lose the election they know it thats why theyre doing it and it should never be allowed whats happened to this president and this fight that i think ive done just about more than any president is very still when i have years in office if you look i think youll see very few could compete with the things weve done for our military for the economy now in the last hour or so the u. S. Secretary of defense has announced the u. S. Will be sending a battery of Patriot Missiles for Radar Systems and 200. 00 personal to saudi arabia to bolster the kingdoms defenses the move comes after the largest ever attack on its Oil Facilities last month yemens who the rebels have claimed responsibility but washington blames iran and irans president says his country will of course and gage in talks with the u. S. If sanctions are lifted her son rouhani made those comments at a News Conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly in new york but he reiterated the trumpet ministrations current tactics arent working. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says israel is holding a reckless war against the palestinians which includes evicting people from their homes and taking away peoples rights to worship speaking again at the General Assembly seoul so says all agreements with israel are off if it goes ahead with plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. And france is mourning the death of former president Jacques Chirac his son in law said the 86 year old died peacefully surrounded by his family the veteran politician was the long time mayor of paris it was Prime Minister twice and president of france for 12 years youre up to date with the headlines on aljazeera coming up next it is the stream live from washington. Why is the United States government. Course. It. I really could be today would discuss the trumpet ministrations threat to cut University Funding over alleged pro islam bias so be sure to share your opinion you can tweet us your thoughts or leave a comment in our live chat and then you too can be in the stream. An inquiry by the trumpet ministration into a middle east studies program is raising concerns about Academic Freedom the u. S. Department of education argues that the joint curriculum run by the university of North Carolina and Duke University is misusing federal funds to advance ideological priorities by focusing on the positive aspects of islam but not out of christianity or judaism Higher Education advocates are now warning that the government could be setting a dangerous precedent by injecting politics into academic funding decisions joining us to discuss they seem chapel hill North Carolina i should just and shes a student at university of North Carolina and also copresident of students for justice in palestine and raleigh North Carolina jay shalen hes the director of policy at the James Martin Center and right here in our studio sarah brown Senior Reporter at the chronicle of Higher Education shes also a graduate of the university of North Carolina good to have you here everybody welcome this is an intriguing conversation sarah if you could break it down what would you say simply going on between the department of education and 2 universities in the United States so quickly to explain the 2 perspectives the department of education says were just being a good steward of our federal funding that we dispense and from our perspective the middle east studies center at duke and u. N. C. Is not fulfilling the obligations of the great we gave you and see and do say thats not true at all we are complying with the script and scholars nationwide are saying this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely especially on controversial topics in the middle east right thats a fight right there i show you a protesting just recently what are you protesting about how does this impact you go to the university of North Carolina. Right so students are outraged after reading the Statement Released by the department of education the statement was charged with a some racist essential izing and orientals narratives that we wanted to fight back against and all of us got together we collectively we said no were not going to say yes to an as some of the big education. Middle easterners and muslims as terrorists in the name of National Security are so jay i want to break this further down for our audience because this is been really big on twitter but if youre just tuning in as a casual viewer you may not quite understand whats going on so Christopher Rose on twitter broke it down for a lot of people this is something they got a lot of shares and got people talking he writes in sunday morning i had my 1st cup of coffee and im about to wade into the curfuffle over the duke u. N. C. Middle east studies consortium so lets get started shall we oh to delve into that further he sent us a video comment with his thoughts have a listen one of the most troubling aspects of the duke u. N. C. Inquiry is that its so public normally if there was a question from the department of education about what we were doing with grant money if they want to clarification on how something fit into grand objectives they would simply call us or email us and we would have an exchange send information and usually that was that the fact that this is a public letter that was published in the federal register that it was not written by the staff of the office that administers the title 6 grants but instead came from the assistant secretary of education all raises very interesting questions about why this this particular inquiry is so public and about whether this is the new normal for doing business with the u. S. Department of education jaisha what do you make of his comment there what did you think when you saw the letter. Well i see it not is a question of Academic Freedom but is a question of donor intent. University. Of North Carolina. Signed on to a certain set of criteria and the government is just simply enforcing. And they did not like dismissed their agreement youre just simply saying hey we want things done a certain way and i think what we have is 2 very different cultures that dont quite understand each other completely. Ill jump in if thats helpful and just explain what title 6 grants even are so there are these grants that the federal government the u. S. Department of education dispenses to International Education and language Education Programs and universities nationwide and one of the conditions of getting this funding is that these recordings that Resource Centers like the middle east at the center must present a quote unquote full understanding of the region or area in which theyre focused so one of the core concerns of the department is that they are that the u. N. C. Duke center is not promoting a full understanding of the middle east region by not presenting enough positive aspects of religious minorities so i just want to be clear about where that what the grants are and because youre clearing things up to christophers point in that video comment do inquiries like this usually happen and public do we know about them so typically my understanding is that this is somewhat unprecedented in terms of the federal governments. Interest in the very minute details of a College Course in College Program and so i think yes its true that the federal government does run investigations of universities when they have questions about the funding that they are dispensing but i think a lot of people see this as unprecedented in a number of ways so what well just a little bit just to the logistics of title 6 funding title 6 clearly states that nothing in title 6 should be consumed to authorize the secretary. Ticket to control the Program Curriculum or contact so going back to the talking point that you know this is an issue of donor intent its more than that because that the title sex doesnt get in the state the power to actually control the curriculum this is a larger structural issue of the some of the races are embedded in our government and its reflected on the front row i think that there were some expectations from the government that they were going to get certain things it said they were there all over their document is were concerned about National Security economic stability d and things like that and what they see is many there was there was a situation where you had. Money used for an event with a rapper who made antisemitic comments and im still not thats thats the great identifier its kind of an invalid criminal and of a controversy right now just incredible and so i dont think its safe to say that it was antisemitic but i also took a look at a list of events for 2080 and there were 200. 00 pages i was unable to look at all think but of the 1st 40 or so there were none that dealt with directly with judaism or christianity there were some that were kind of a mixture a few like 2 or 3 that dealt with. All of the religions it wants but it was so overwhelmingly focused on islam and not a particularly. A look at the various aspects of modern culture many of them. Not suffice for what the department of education was expected so it was expected so what you would see and do think that they run many programs courses activities the whole gamut and through those more than 100. 00 activities through the many courses through the teacher Training Programs they offer they present a wide range of views of the region and also through their through professor scholarship through research to graduate education thats the argument that you and so you do have made in response so. If i just i just lost is no can then think you can go how would it be reasonable for the Public Education to say we provide this funding and we want these kind of cool sites and they say we want to do these kind of course if we dont like the courses but dont take away our funding i think thats what scholars across america are most concerned about great because there is an understanding that yes if the department of education gives you federal funding they have a right to ask what is being done with that funding the question is what is it acceptable for the department of education to have such interest in the minute details of particular courses and programs its long been understood in the United States that there is Academic Freedom to be protected where scholars students have the freedom to Teach Research debate about controversial issues thats really core and important to the mission of a university and so thats really the issue at play here so you wonder how tight this is because i was going to go ahead yes so see i think that this is this is a dangerous conversation to engage in because whats being said here is that its not. Too much into politics we when we would in a political area and that is clearly targeting muslims and people who arent even muslim but maybe just well. Welcome middle eastern and pacific we need. Last 3 muslim people. Who we murdered. And yes it so to say about chapel hill for change. Positively is just only insensitive when an entire community of muslims and arabs people and middle eastern people and students here are ok that is something for real with us every single day i hear what youre saying there and i want to bring in another point of view and jail get this to you this is from an academic a historian. And she says there are 3 points to start with that im going to only going to share one with you today she writes the government is exploiting the chronic underfunding of vulnerable language and area studies programs at universities to pursue its security and economic interests with reference to the Higher Education act of 1065. 00 and of course the whole thread there that we can tweet out and so those who are interested can check it out on the streams twitter feed but put very simply its kind of this summary from gordon who says it is not the job of a collegiate program to present quote positive imagery the Education Department needs to go back to school so jay id like your take on gordons view there that positive imagery is not really what this is about but that of course that is what the department of education is asking for well that were going to do education is asking for balanced opinions here or at least a balanced view. I looked at the. 3 main people in the consortium that oversees the these programs and all of them have a very particular view of islam that im not too sure is shared by most of the people in the country and certainly not by our security. So its not what i mean there are. One Charles Kurtzman wrote a book in which he said that he actually asked why are there so few islamic terrorists now Something Like that is not a mainstream view in this country so here you are and its it should be because there is no basis to the claiming that the majority of terrorists are muslim or middle eastern this is literally a son of phobia at its finest and the fact that we have scholars here like Charles Court one of my professors actually they d. Bungle stereotypes and actively producing responsible and scholarship that should not it should not be attacked im not so sure that that is the case when you look at the small percentage of people who are islamic and weve had a long series of incidents of islamic terrorism whether its the Boston Marathon the disco in were lindo 9 alleged in fort hood there has been a long series of islamic but theres also been a long series of white supremacist terror every i would say its well and i wouldnt a College Campus be the best place for those ideas to be debated so ill posit that what you think about that but i want to bring in another viewpoint Laurie Freedman here on twitter she says a lot of the coverage seems to miss the fact that the catalyst for this department of education letter was an attack on the gaza conference and i think that you reference out a little bit earlier she says it claimed antisemitism the fact that the department of education didnt take it up that claim shes referencing demonstrates how thin this is so this is a point that a lot of people are raising in our community and i want to share a video comment from someone who elucidates out a little bit more this is ohashi is a staff attorney at palestine legal heres what she told a stream. The governments letter really seems to be unprecedented in terms of the level of overreach in trying to dictate whats being taught at these schools the context is that the u. S. Government launched a federal investigation into an academic conference on. The as a conference isnt mentioned in the letter but its clear to anyone whos following the story like other middle Eastern Studies departments that depend on federal funding that thats what sparked this investigation the governments trying to send a message that if you talk about palestine there will be consequences supporters of the Israeli Government are really afraid that as americans learn more about the middle east were going to start to question our government as to why its turning a blind eye to the experience of the palestinians and why its providing such unconditional support to the Israeli Government so i shall get back to you because you of course are the co president of students for justice in palestine and your campus what do you make of this point that there is a perceived anti israel bias and for really thats at the heart of this. Yes so his point is on point i couldnt have said it better myself and i think the other thing to be highlighted here is on his point that if people start realizing injustice that israel is perpetual ending were going to draw connections to other roots cases of injustice in our own country this country has a history of systematic racism of systematic oppression of colored people we are continuously oppressing and targeting listen people people who are color there are so many struggles here that need to be connected and i think thats what people are afraid of. Is that all these struggles have been left unaddressed for so long and palestine is the missing piece because it is really an intersection a struggle that people are trying to suppress so that the rest of us are not liberated in terms of the conversation about anti israel and pro israel ill add that theres there is somewhat of a history of sort of questions and criticism of middle east studies as a discipline so during the Bush Administration after the 911. 00 terror attacks there were some attacks on middle east studies that scholars have told me about some of these middle east studies centers did lose their funding and scholars told me there was a suspicion that politics and their bias against israel had something to do with it during the Obama Administration it was less about politics scholars told me and more about there was just less funding to go around and so some of these middle east studies that are so lost their funding but there have also been more recent criticisms right so actually a Top Department of education official wrote an opinion piece 5 years ago arguing that middle east studies centers should lose should be scrutinized more potentially because of their view their lack of Viewpoint Diversity and should potentially lose federal funding for their bias against israel and so that person was not in the department at the time now he is people suggest that there is a connection that clearly someone came into the department with an agenda to take on these centers and to strip them of their federal funding and some people say this is an example this threat to strip federal funding from. U. N. C. Duke center is an example of that jay i want to go to you but i just want to share with our audience just a little snippet of the letter that was sent to jude and u. N. Saying from the part of the education there is a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding that the positive aspects of islam where there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of christianity judaism or any other religion or Police System in the middle east this lack of balance of perspectives is troubling it feels like here what is being said quite explicitly is that these courses should have a role to play in us society and i overstating that do you see that j is for is playing a role society. I mean education is fundamental to. The ideas that are produced macadamia spread throughout the country so certainly they have a rule now the question is what is that role and. There has to be it leap somebody has to share the plate umpire when they see something becoming a bit unbalanced and that seems to be the case as i said. The total focus of middle eastern the middle east studies program is. Islam were not minorities theres very little on jamie just awesome just off setting can you give us a little idea of what you are actually studying not the entire curriculum we dont have time for that just give us a little highlight what do you what he said and right now i mean i dont even want to be apologetic and say im also studying christianity and judaism because we were going to a world where we were in a country where christians are not directly targeted where theyre not a minority but of course im learning a while and get and receive a comprehensive education from professors you have been taught at harvard talking as i shammed you know what are you studying right now tell our audience what i am a student of global studies with a concentration in the middle east and my minor is islamic and middle Eastern Studies. So i want to bring in this is from campus watching this is an account that some people take issue with but theyre raising a point thats not represented very much in our community so i want to share it campus watch as all universities are free to design any curricula they wish but theyre not free to use taxpayer dollars and violation of federal policies we believe americans deserve to know their dollars arent being wasted or used to promote by a scholarship and they go on to say that that by a scholarship is being represented by duke and u. N. C. Sarah ill give this one to you could these universities just give the money back. Right thats a great question because actually there are examples so the requirements around title 6 Grant Funding have been to come more stringent recent years and theres a really prominent example Harvard Universitys middle east studies center no longer accept federal funding because it decided we dont want to comply with the more stringent federal requirements so is there do they have to receive this federal funding note this is a 235000. 00 annual grant for u. N. C. And dukes middle east studies center they could choose to raise that money from private sources or to seek other funding opportunities i think the question is also they so the department of education in its letter raised a couple of events points that it found problematic about the middle east in the center and can you can see universities have said actually the things that you found problematic we dont even use federal funding for those particular activities or programs and so you can see and you will use federal funding for some things and not for other things the 3rd thing ill mention is that when you and see him do just wrist which they just received another approval for Grant Funding under title 6 last year they submitted a lengthy grant proposal to the department of education explaining exactly the courses programs activities conferences they would be offering and so they did explain in detail what they would be doing just a year ago jay and i should we show this to you because it is the response by duke and un same to the department of education and they they say they value the partnership with the palm of education and then in keeping with the spirit of this partnership the consortium is committed to working with the department to provide more information about our programs that is what sarah just explained is not a good resolution to think. I think that things can be worked out but i also feel that. The department of education is going to have to keep a close watch on things i would actually like to see them insist on course cilla by i noticed that in the response by the by u. N. C. Chapel hill and duke that they had courses and one of them was genealogies in the middle east i might not have that exactly right but in the do catalog it was critical genealogies in the middle east usually when you use the word critical in an academic setting today it tends to mean a cultural marxists look and looking at the course description it seemed to be rather a far left who are told i think it was really well tell your reading into the titles but i thought here were the you want more scrutiny and oversight i suppose a lot of us. Were going to explain more about the programs that while the program cell phone and other students. Absolutely not this response is where we insufficient and it actually raises a whole lot of other issues this is scary this is genuinely scary as a muslim arab student on this campus im disappointed i dont feel protected by admit my administration i dont feel like my administration is going to actively stand up against some and racism and one of my professors people who i look up to people who mentor i meet people who are going to hell when i go into the field of middle east studies and hopefully become a scholar in this field theyre not protecting them and theyre not protecting the students theyre being apologetic to a government that clearly does not have the interests of black and brown and large ones people in mind so there are 15 middle east studies centers that receive federal funding across the country and ive talked to a few of the directors of these centers and there is broad concern across the field of middle east studies that there is the trumpet ministration may just be Getting Started that there may be more targeting of middle east studies centers for investigations more probing into whether there was a promo slowed by a certain anti israel bias there is a concern that this is not the end of the story in terms of the trepan ministrations interest in academic courses and programs so if i can just add a point there are things that we need to acknowledge this is certainly not the end of the story and this isnt the beginning of the story this has been going on for decades muslims have been targeted for a very very long time this is something ive had to deal with my entire life this is something my friends my family people i know have dealt with for their entire life but its just coming to mainstream attention now and i think thats a very important not a new wants to this discussion that its not just a trumpet ministration issue this is a structural issue and i think broadly the question is will this chill academic speech on College Campuses about the Israeli Palestinian conflict about whats happening on the gaza strip i couldnt do the opposite. It could make people even more passionate about the causes that they believe in it could im and it certainly sounds like there is some galvanizing of activism around this and certainly theres been a lot of campus activism about it in the past few years sarah thank you so much i. Really appreciate your time today and thank you chris for watching and following on a line that i was seeing next time on the state. October on aljazeera. This month marks a year since the merger of the journalism chimo the shots he made he has signed most a new series of interviews are going to tackling the big issues of our time. World leaders expense and environmentalists will assemble in iceland to discuss the future of the arctic. Blame the percentage of phone lines examining us is thrown in online and well bring you coverage of the announcement of the 2019 nobel peace prize. October on algis in. 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Director of National Intelligence is testified before a Congressional Committee over his handling of a whistleblower complaint this is the complaint detailing a call from president on a trump urging ukraines leader to investigate his potential election rival joe biden did you ever speak to the president about this complaint my conversations with the president because im the director of National Intelligence are privileged and it would be inappropriate for me because it would destroy my relationship with the president in Intelligence Matters to be divulged any of my conversations with the president of the United States but just so we can be clear for the record you are not denying that you spoke to the president about this complaint what im saying congressman is that i will not disclose privileged conversations that i have as the director of National Intelligence with the president the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is adam schiff he accused donald trump of sacrificing National Security for personal gain yesterday we were presented with the most graphic evidence yet. That the present United States has betrayed his oath of office betrayed his oath to defend our National Security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution for yesterday we were presented with a record of a call between the president of the United States and the president of ukraine in which the president our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit and just after the hearing ended us President Donald Trump lashed out at the House Democrats its a disgrace to our country its another way john here we go again. At every ship it is crew making up stories and sitting there like. Whatever you want to call of the just a really great its a terrible thing for our country they cant do any work theyre frozen the democrats are going to lose the election they know it thats why theyre doing it and it should never be allowed whats happened to this president and this fight that i think ive done just about more than any president is very still when i have years in office if you look i think youll see very few could compete with the things weve done for our military for the economy the other headlines and us secretary of defense has announced america will be sending a battery of Patriot Missiles for Radar Systems on 200. 00 personnel to bolster saudi arabias defenses the move comes after the latest of the largest ever attack on the kingdoms Oil Facilities early this month yemens who do rebels have claimed responsibility but washington and saudi arabia blame iran ramana runs president says his country will of course engage in talks with the u. S. If sanctions are lifted Osten Rouhani made those comments at a News Conference on the sidelines of the u. N. General assembly and he reiterated the trumpet ministrations current tactics are not working. Also the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has said israel is holding a reckless war against the palestinians which includes a victim people from their homes and taking away peoples rights to worship speaking at the un General Assembly abbas also says all agreements with israel are off if it goes ahead with plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank im not sure im. A week before the israeli elections Prime Minister netanyahu came out to arrogantly announce that should he prevail in the elections he would end next and apply israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley northern dead sea and israels colonial settlements despite the fact that all of these areas are pied palestinian territory we reject this plan entirely our response is if the Israeli Government is to proceed with this plan all signed agreements with the government of the occupation and any obligations will be terminated and persons are currently lining up at the least a palace to mourn the death of former president Jacques Chirac his son in law says the 86 year old died peacefully surrounded by family veteran politician who was the long time mayor of paris the Prime Minister twice and the president for 12 years. Those are your headlines manmade on the a waste trail is next on our visit. 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