And on the diplomatic front the arab league is holding an emergency meeting to discuss President Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. Hello im Maryanne Demasi and under and youre watching aljazeera also coming up. Saakashvili rearrested georgias former president goes on a Hunger Strike saying hes the victim of a politically motivated ploy. A federal emergency is declared as wildfires tathra california homes are destroyed and thousands forced to flee. The arab league is holding an emergency meeting to discuss Donald Trumps formal recognition of jerusalem as israels capital u. S. President s decision has been widely condemned by governments around the world and has also led to protests across the middle east. Meanwhile funerals are also being held for two hamas fighters and two protesters who were killed on friday. They were killed by israeli airstrikes and shootings in gaza elsewhere in the occupied west bank have been violent confrontations between protesters and Israeli Forces. Well now the leader of egypts Coptic Church has declined to meet president Trumps Deputy in response to the now its meant on wednesday the church is excused itself from hosting my pants when he visits the region later this month in a statement it says trumps decision did not take into account the feelings of millions of arab people palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has also refused to meet hence the more we can speak to the abdelhamid who is in ramallah and so what more we learn from this Arab League Meeting in terms of how the palestinians might approach this now. Well we just heard a short while ago from the Palestinian Foreign minister and the message there was very clear very much in line with what we heard from the palestinian representative when he spoke yesterday at the u. N. Security council the issue is that the u. S. As far as the palestinians are concerned cannot be any more a broker in the Peace Process it has taken one side and as the minister said it is part its on the side of the aggressor now there was also he was also he went as far as also saying that when it comes to resume lucians on the Israeli Palestinian conflict that may happen in the future well because the u. S. Is now. A party in this issue in this problem. That it has lost its veto power to Security Council now i think what were going to hear from the Foreign Ministers once they finish their meeting and they come up with their statement is what the palestinians have been saying that regardless of what trump has announced regardless of the fact that he declared jerusalem the capital of israel and the move of the embassy well it doesnt change the facts on the ground it doesnt change the fact that. Jerusalem is an occupied city since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven it doesnt change the fact that the International Community does not agree on that and the palestinians feel very strong about their position and the backing they go to the Security Council yesterday theyre quite confident they will get that same backing at the arab league today and then on wednesday there will be another conference in istanbul this time of the organization of islamic conference where they also are quite confident you have that backing i was speaking earlier to a Senior Palestinian official and he was telling me we have to hammer our point make sure. That the International Community is on board this is actually the time for us to rethink the whole relationship not only with the u. S. But also with israel our whole relationship to hold when we went about the Peace Process bring go on board as many other countries as we can and also send a message to other countries who might be whom id be who might want to follow suit over what the u. S. Did the palestinians are saying that the americans are putting pressure on several other countries to also declare jerusalem as a capital so they want to make sure that their message is heard loud and clear hundred thank you very much and im jill hamid in ramallah said it sounds speak to correspondent alan fischer he joins us from occupied East Jerusalem and so yesterday alan that area was relatively calm to the confrontations we saw elsewhere how have the events unfolded today. Well there was a protest in saladin street which is the main shopping area lot of people go there on the saturday ive been there it is packed its very hard to walk along the pavement the routes are normally busy as well it is about half a kilometer from where im standing and they decided that they were going to organize a protest there no it started on time it was just a small group of people they came out with a poster of jerusalem itself and their intention was to walk here to the damascus gate or to herods gate they hadnt decided which one they got no farther than fifteen meters and they were blocked by soldiers and police who told them they had no permit to march and therefore the protest was essentially over that obviously got people a bit angry there were things exchange of words people were on the pavement they were getting angry talking to the Police Telling them leave no right to do this and then the police moved then the started to push people back and when people got angry with that they then brought in the horses that led to a lot of terrified people the horses coming down the pavement close to people trying to break up the crowds which it dead also created a lot of anger and a lot of panic in the crowd as well what we then saw was over a period of about three hours of the protesters sometimes throwing stones sometimes throwing Water Bottles at the police the Police Responding with sound good needs and we are told there were several injuries recorded from rubber coated steel bullets as well that were fired by the Security Services know as this tune from went on over several hours we also saw people who went dressed in any Security Force uniform but had been taking pictures showing their pictures to the police identifying people that they thought were stormed through or suddenly we saw what would be described to snatch scores of people receive up the street to try and grab hold of them were told that thirteen people were arrested there were a number of injuries as well but this went on for several hours once the darkness came it seemed to calm things down but there is still an era of tension in the area still in the end of concern and of course the what he is that these protests will. For days and weeks to come i was going to ask is there an anticipation that we will see the clashes and what does that mean for the security presence in and around the area. Well i asked people who were there i said what do you want to achieve from this whats the whats the endgame and they said we know what were doing today which is telling america we think they made a bad decision we think they made a decision whats the Peace Process and we think we made a decision which was clearly against the people of palestine and so theyre very angry and all they wanted to do was to make sure that their voices were heard on the streets of jerusalem on saturday afternoon that they were coming out to make sure that the israelis and the americans knew that they werent happy with the decision that had come they are no looking to the leaders in the Palestinian Authority and also much further afield to give them leadership of where this is going to go to see where the diplomatic battle on this front will go and they were heartened by the fact that the Palestinian Authority said they will not meet mike pence when he comes here. To israel and to the occupied territories in the coming days they were also heartened to hear as you said as the head of the Coptic Church in egypt will not meet mike pence as well they see him coming here to try and say this is why i dont know trump made the decision they dont see any question of him reversing that decision and really knowing donald trump and the daughter of white house i think there is no chance of him reversing this decision because it takes a big box of a promise that he made on the campaign trail and so that tension isnt going to go away very easily simply because we dont see this decision being reversed its not going to be reversed by protests on the street they dont see but they do want to make sure that their voices continue to be heard thanks very much and fishing occupy East Jerusalem with me now in the studio is our senior political analyst marwan bashar and said picking up on the point that i was making them are one the Palestinian Authority refusing to meet Vice President mike pence when he comes to the region weve also had the palestinians say that. That decision on jerusalem quit completely disqualifies the u. S. From playing any future role but is it so straightforward so simple to exclude the u. S. From any future process no its going to be quite challenging especially because the by the sea of authority has been quite dependent on the United States for the last quarter of a century but you know like every. Every young. Creature twenty five years late that probably it is time for the Palestinian Authority to get on its own and to for a chart a way that is independent of the United States but the question of pence has a very special quotations i mean he is already of course the Vice President of the United States but for a lot of us whove been observing whats been going on in washington this past year pence doesnt present a set an evangelical orientation influence on the Trump Administration and i think what weve seen from President Trump is on the one hand the pressures of the israeli lobby and on the other hand the pressure of the event jellicoe christian right so for mr pence to justify american decision on good in jerusalem and to base it on the bible on an on the bible you know we move the longwave three four hundred years since secularism took place or took the place of christianity as the decider of International Relations so for for my pains to come back now and to say that american decisions in International Relations will be based not on International Law but on the bible thats a manger a slap in the face to International Legality and for that matter for the entire muslim world and were hearing also about the Palestinian Authority. Reforming itself or evolving into a different type of body that may be. More wide ranging but how much pressure now is there on the palestinian leadership to bring about a significant major shift in strategy you know one of the one of the main reasons why the various policy of factions especially the Islamists Hamas and the more secular fatah the do not unite was because of american pressure america did not want to see that unity come through it wanted always to have the more secular more moderate more. Dependent. Remains separate from hamas but now that there is no american pressure percent say i think weve already heard the policies say that they will they will rush the unification thats very important because as long as the participants are divided theyre not going to be able to have any meaningful strategy moving forward if by tomorrow we hear some serious announcement not only declarations of intentions but real actionable steps on the part of various palestinian factions to say look no we only have ourselves to save ourselves from the mess we are in we cant depend on the United States unless they say that i think were going to see once again the United States dictating to the palestinians what they must do when they must do it and what might the International Response then be to this sort of rebirth of the palestinian leadership we know that they want more of a multilateral approach that they dont want to see a situation that is only dictated by the u. S. Will then again you know this was the. Fascinating seon yesterday at the u. N. Security council is when we watched the israeli ambassador holding a coin and tried to build that entire argument titian on a coin while the Palestinian Ambassador was saying i am talking about millions of palestinians im talking about hundreds of thousands of residents of jerusalem that are not jewish and that they deserve a place in jerusalem when we saw the United States so isolated at the United NationsSecurity Council so in fact the palestinians now have everyone in the world from bolivia to the United Kingdom as allies in their. End their strategy to say we are the more multilateral more legal lets stick more comprehensive approach to the question of israel palestine away from the aggression of the United States against the Palestinian People as weve seen in that decision to basically ignore the other unit them on the question of jerusalem thank you they are watching out is there a much more to tell you about this half hour as we are hearing tensions rising in the west bank create a look back at the first Palestinian Uprising known as the intifada thirty years on. Thousands pour into the streets in paris and farewell to the man known as the french. 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Donald trump has rescinded foreign aid to charities that perform actively promote abortion people and discovers the consequence is a us president. Can have on countless lives around the globe hes completely and just against. A bush. Trump and the ethics of foreign aid at this time on al jazeera. Welcome back your challenges there are lots of take you on the top stories the arab league is holding an emergency meeting to discuss u. S. President Donald Trumps formal recognition of jerusalem as israels capital funerals have been held for two hamas fighters and two protesters who were killed by israeli as strikes in shootings in gaza on friday. And trumps declaration on jerusalem has led to the needer of egypts Coptic Church to decline a meeting with Vice President mike pence who is due to travel to the region in a few weeks. Now its been thirty years since the first Palestinian Uprising known as the intifada began in gaza it became a watershed moment in Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation but in the years that have paused the situation has become whats on it smith reports from gaza. The first intifada was sparked by the deaths of four palestinians in december nine hundred eighty seven. By the time it ended in one nine hundred ninety three more than one thousand one hundred people had died sixteen thousand people had been detained palestinians had already spent two decades struggling with the injustice of living under Israeli Occupation. Intifada mark the first time palestinians from all parts of society began such an intense resistance the protests evolved from boys throwing rocks and people marching to fighters attack