Arms christians over certain 86 percent. Of christians of have left the wall is being blamed for that as well as illegal new or patients around bethlehem when we talk about the christian presence in palestine and in general and the christian presence in bethlehem in particular the political situation since 1967 enhanced and then forced and encouraged the degrees of the christian presence and migration of christians from bethlehem in specific many of the christian bethlehem ites before 967 immigrated seeking the Job Opportunities seeking better conditions other parts of the world including latin america the u. S. The moment israel did its consensus all who were not inside lost their national id number thus. The continuing political factors coming from the 1st intifada the 2nd intifada and the war mainly the war encouraged many of the Young Palestinian families to immigrate so we are talking about 2 very important things the prevention of those christians who were outside before 96. 00 to 7. 00 to come back as palestinian citizens to live in the west bank and gaza and East Jerusalem plus the political situation ensuing the building of the wall which by itself prevents Job Opportunities it prevents normal conditions this encourage the Young Christian families as well as the muslims but actually due to the fact that christians are less in number it was more recognisable unfortunately in 2007 the palestinian Statistics Department did its last consensus the number of the palestinians living in the west bank are 3000000 and in gaza 2000000 the number of the christians living in gaza in the west bank and East Jerusalem are only 67000. 00 it is even less than one percent and to be clear this divert do with a big cleansing about as julian christians as predated Donald Trumps rise in the United States when you were mayor in 2016 you said the christian world relational drop 12 percent thats 11000 christians leaving do you expect more christians to leave the threads of israeli arbitrary detention in the coming weeks even as we approach christmas definitely i hope not but another very important point that we should not wait for more christians to leave until we find a solution usually this is the question that is raised all the time do christians leave because of the predominant. Political actions are run by israel or the decisions and policy of the us the words the palestinian israeli conflict today my question is when this resolution will take it before strand with equitable situations where the 2 state solution that ensures the big nitty of all of us palestinians as christians and muslims the question is not why the christians leave the question is when to that is or who should and should take place to ensure the presence of justice solution football sites do you expect many of gazas christians to visit bethlehem this year israel of course has been bombing at the gaza strip in the bar 726 hours definitely depends on the israeli permissions to the christians usually and normally it is not a big number it doesnt exceed 100. 00 would you go so far as to agree with say there was a University Study that suggested theres been an actual de facto ethnic cleansing of christians because of the occupation because of discrimination and. Theft let alone the economy which has been impacted of course by by the u. S. U. K. Armed occupation and definitely the absence of a Peace Process and then just resolution for the palestinian israeli conflict affects the presence of the christians in this part of the world the conditions on ground creates combined of willing immigration but the conditions on the ground like countries cation walling checkpointing in bethlehem we have the highest rate of unemployment 27 percent the wall is disastrous the checkpoints are disastrous people are sandwiched people are poor and by itself. This is discrimination no human rights witness it is not the matter of that you live inside the wall to eat work and sleep no it is more than that palestinians are like the rest of the word global citizens and what is applied on every citizen in the world should be applied on the palestinian including its muslim and christian in habitants and population of course the british and American ArmedIsraeli Government claims they need a wall circling jesus says birthplace for Israeli National security you know this is a very important question are we as a palestinian as palestinians in need as well for is sense of security as peace is important for us security for Israel Security is also very important for every palestinian the absence of security is also a very predominant factor for the people to leave the area usually it is always discussed that israel is predominantly need to ensure its security and thats where they need to build all. Actually within the war inside the war we live with this sense of insecurity especially since im not sure whether the archbishop of canterbury represent a reality and church as messages but pope francis i understand is sent relics this year from the vatican. City from jesus is a manger are you surprised that more christian leaders around the world are not making more of an issue the de facto ethnic cleansing of christians from bethlehem yes this is strained and dirty turn and there it is the return of the relic to bethlehem is a message by itself immobility the word to the Nativity Church the words the nativity of peace today when the lake of the cradle of the nativity is back to bethlehem definitely pope francis as well approving this return of the relic has a message. And are the world a word that we need to turn of peace to the cradle of peace in bethlehem in particular as lot guess peace is absent from bethlehem as long as speace is walled in bethlehem peace would never prevail because the main act of defiance on behalf of Palestinian Christians and muslims and atheists and in other communities has been the great march of return in gaza how is bethlehem taken the news that on last friday is pretty much returned some 64. 00 civilians have been wounded nearly 20 children including a paramedic according to palestinian sources bethlehem is part and parcel of the palestinian pain what took place in gaza it during this time of christmas when we all pray for peace what they express in gaza today while we are celebrating peace definitely enhances another meaning why do we need. To celebrate christmas since christmas is that message of peace with the we direly need. We are talking about children we are talking about injuries we are talking about as douras and definitely those people when they go when they conduct whatever it is considered a right of existence is very important not only for girls and but for every palestinian the pain is our pain. And that is a message to every citizen in the world enjoying this christmas time to see what they explain its a right to fix this since it said id of dignity. Like you after the break. Walking in the head of tomorrows christmas election we speak sounds like a boozer a classic christmas composition the snow bowl the small going over budget going underground. Tax and stacy are continuing on our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in Rio De Janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country can transition. My name is sucking. On the world social media to jackson seeds which i. Have enough. To cause. The movement. Not the speech and i use down 6 to make it very very easy no food for me to school on drugs used to be able. To be forced to close because clubs do really hes trying to shift the life of a music that. I love to jazz people its too big for me to copy i love he dies because he meets me copy playing full time for. And when you say its a bad thing. Because if. You loved our. Welcome back were in the studio one of britains most renowned composers outbreak as well as iconic music from the snowman hes composed for everyone from Princess Diana to ridley scott to the United Nations and tomorrow he plays his piece walking in the air with legendary mentor soprano Katherine Jenkins at the Royal Albert Hall howard thanks for inviting us into your studio we cant talk too much about tomorrows general election in britain because of reporting restrictions and lets hear about your performance tomorrow with the legendary metzer soprano Katherine Jenkins at the Royal Albert Hall yes id like. To be asked to do it i did it a couple of years ago. On the spur of the moment because. I have a dear friend musical director and he said you know my bit of fun for you to come along and conduct walking in there would you do so he said you only live next door so the minute would be too difficult to get to the other faltering albert hall and me being surprised when i was successful it is i think youre saying when you choose hundreds of millions of hits millions of hits very surprised indeed and in fact the week after the film came out it was nominated for an oscar but of course you have famous for many other things not just going to christmas composition but on the snowman i understand it was one of channel 4 the british brands we knew t. V. Stations 1st ever films and you said it should be your music row. Other than any dialogue a friend of mine a. Film director had come over from canada Jerry Patterson and he said im just going to pop into this. Animation studio called television cartoons. And we walked in there and the director of the company john coats he said would it be possibly city could you spare a couple of minutes because ive done a little demo of something called the snowman an 8 minute and a matic pencil only. I said yes but id love to see it. So he put it on and the minute i sure this image of the snowman and the boy flying. I thought its a marvelous image and i said i have had a coon in my head for years that ive never known what to do with i think it would work for this and i think more than that i think you could make a whole film without dot org and just do it with the music and joan said no no i dont know what youre talking about so i say well can i do a demo for you he said if youd like to and john took it to the new director of channel 4 it had literally opened that d Jeremy Isaacs looked at it and he said absolutely bring that will make i think you know it was in a way it was something i had wanted to do all my life id always believed you could make a film and a story weve just musing tell me about bernard famous for citizen kane forever hitchcock how he kind of took you under his wing. And it. Through my agent lees keys and she said to me would you like to me that herman i said i would love to because of course he is absolutely the doyenne of of film composers of all time with citizen kane behind him and psycho and so on and hes the 1st thing he said me do you know where i could find a thera main in london and i said ive never seen one of them i dont think there are many a fair man is an electrical musical instrument. The eightys also affected by me so i said to her in a while i know what it does but theres a new machine that ive just bought cold a mood synthesizer and not just bought it from dr american self and it will do exactly what a turban does and even more and its got its got a ribbon control which you can control with your finger and he said great i want to hear it where is it i said this in my flat he said lets go so thats how by relationships i played on the next film that he did which was cool twisted nerve bolting and he said would you also various pieces of jazz need to be written for it i said to do what have i have a very extraordinary career in a way that i started as as a as a classical pianist i want a classical scholarship the world economy. Piano but while i was there more interested in film i got very interested in film 0 spent all my turn in National Film theatre some. And after i left the academy there was a projectionist i was there for about 2 years and then i missed music so much and i thought i actually want to know how to play it will be so music and all that music and rock this is the music if i want to know about it i left there and got a job in a pub would you believe where you had to play im sure everything one day i was playing in a band in the club and a guard came up through and he said would you would you do. Would you would you come along to abbey road and tune or dition i went along and i became a pianist in residence at abbey road and i also played on films and then it was the avengers film music pretty score theyve put in so many different films you made the hunger the avengers was extraordinary because id actually started. Playing piano out of inches and Laurie Johnson actually wanted to go to to leave he would he had always written me as if ventures which was huge was going out in 93. 00 countries it was the biggest Television Show in the world and but he wanted to do this film and he said to determine it was a great friend of his he said is there anybody who could actually take over from me and just well he said you know youre pinnace could and he knows your style and so i took over as as a musical director and composer at elstree so thats well then led me into from they i started to do feature films i started to be offered them or at. Another thing i did in the same way was i did a commercial which won the prize for the best commercial of the year which also brought leads to work that i nearly died thats another story ok but then how come you may be transferred from film music to become in a way a kind of cooled composer understand you did the music for Princess Dianas 30th birthday how did you make that transition i thought our current keep writing commercials and commercial music at that point i moved to south 6 and i started to study. Serious music and Chamber Music and Everything Else and the music that i really felt was my own music i was it was then asked to write the dualists by ridley scott which was his 1st great film studio. Again with the establishment you can get more establishment than quite clearly not more establishment than writing music for the United Nations or going to tell me a bit about the un the un. I mean via Buckingham Palace and and the foreign and Commonwealth Office the head of the foreign called both those office called me and said we want we want to write a piece or we want you to write the piece because its the 50th anniversary of the United Nations president will be the whole of the all of the top growth of the of the you know the nations plus. The house of lords and a lot of and piece of the Prime Minister and the whole royal family and i wrote it in fact and the last minute i called it a charter for peace because it with it was written at the end of the war but general smuts and Winston Churchill and. Offering to say this organization is to preserve peace but it was seen as controversial that the u. N. Of truly which is founded for world peace i for some reason i think if we had a vast array of media all lined up ready to film it. And at the last minute it was decided from above that it would not be filmed and it would not go and serve virtually nobody knew about it and i mean. Perhaps the worst because id call the charter for peace is there is there a tension between being in an establishment composer and famously played at the iraq war demonstrations in Trafalgar Square or spoken about un rights peace around the world is there a tension there no i dont see that at all i mean. I think the great advantage of being in this country has always been that one has the right to express ones opinion and one hasnt brought hold any opinions which. Which one chooses to hold and i have many very very unorthodox opinions all various things there has been a lot of. Stuff written recently that the 3 big hangal can coral. Pioneers will coax clear bree legit theyre all dead you worked with one of them. Yes ive just been asked to write a piece for. France yes it made such an impression that i was also then if i could score for a large monastery in mid sussex. With worth abbey at the end of the abba said to me he said next year is the 1500s of benedict and i wrote this very big oratory on. It last about 70 minutes. And it was 1st performed in in with me and and amazingly which is right out in the country to an audience of 1700. 00 which was sort of extraordinary then nothing much happened until it was taken up by. So David Wohl Wilcox and he said i want to do this all over the world it is it is a great piece he called it actually a work for all centuries which was a very nice thing to say. Thank you a great pleasure well before how it plays of the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow hell play us out with walking in the air in a moment thats it for the show will be back on saturday with ledger journalist and filmmaker john pilger to take us through the aftermath of the u. K. 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