Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 2 in the morning injerusalem where Donald Trumps decision to recognise the city as the capital of israel is continuing to cause unrest. Thereve been clashes in the west bank and gaza. Elsewhere, tear gas was used against protestors outside the us embassy in beirut. But israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made it clear he backed Donald Trumps decision telling palestinians to get to grips with reality. Our Arab Affairs Editor sebastian usher reports. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build mo
This is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london, and 3 00 in the morning injerusalem where Donald Trumps decision to recognise the city as the capital of israel is continuing to cause unrest. Thereve been clashes in the west bank and gaza. Elsewhere, tear gas was used against protestors outside the us embassy in beirut. But israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made it clear he backed Donald Trumps decision, telling palestinians to get to grips with reality. 0ur Arab Affairs Editor sebastian usher reports. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And
Decision to acknowledgejerusalem as israels capital could jeopardise middle east peace efforts. In israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahyu says the sooner palestinians accept the decision the sooner there will be peace. But the change in us policy has been met by widespread anger across the arab and muslim world and as our middle east editor sebastian usher reports, the protests have been escalating. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build momentum across the region against President Trumps decision. In istanbul, thousands turned out to hear president
As israels capital could jeopardise middle east peace efforts. Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, says the sooner palestinians accept the decision the sooner there will be peace. But the change in us policy has been met with widespread anger across the arab and muslim world, and as our middle east editor sebastian usher reports, the protests have been escalating. Tear gas was fired into a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in beirut as they tried to reach the us embassy this morning. Effigies of President Trump and us flags were burned by angry groups of Palestinian Refugees and lebanese activists. Translation we are here to tell the us embassy, the embassy of the aggressor, thatjerusalem is arab, it was arab and it will stay arab. Large rallies have been held in the moroccan capital, rabat. And in cairo too. As protesters try to build momentum across the region against President Trumps decision. In istanbul, thousands turned out to hear president erdogan launch a blistering att
In global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. As we get the first big freeze this winter in europe, should we be marvelling at our Winter Wonderland, or raging at how the weather make our lives and our travel such a misery . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. Will you get to work today . Well, much of Northern Europe has been paying the price of snow blizzards, freezing temperatures as low as 10 celsius, and winds gusting up to 140 kilometres an hour, nearly 90 miles an hour. Tens of thousands of air passengers were stranded over the weekend as airports were closed or flights diverted. Sarah corker has the latest. Heavy snow and seriously low temperatures have grounded hundreds of flight across Northern Europe. Germanys busiest airport, frankfurt, was one of the worst affected. Despite efforts to clear the runways and de ice aircraft, 330 flights were cancelled, stranding hundreds of passengers. In france, 75 mph winds were the