With me. Also ahead. Turkey says its offensive the Northern Syria wants the stablished security zone along the border. As liberia. As president of the challenges facing office and ending the trip. And the fallout from the sex abuse scandal. After holding an open air mass. U. S. President. Talks with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu the visit is being boy palestinians angry at the. Declaration on jerusalem penn says the most senior american official to visit jerusalem since the us announced its decision to move its embassy there the city status is a key point of contention in the middle east Peace Process well this is what pans had to say soon after meeting netanyahu. Was great over. Israels capital jerusalem. Following over the story this is. Where he said we were in the. United states and israel. Introduced but also i would call. For speaking with you here over the river. Corresponding to how we force it now hes joining us live from the knesset and as we wait for the Vice President s address i believe hes just and to. Terry what do we. Actually lets go to the live pictures now of the president as we are saying he has entered the knesset and he is about to address the Israeli Parliament lets listen no thanks. So as we wait for us was president to address the Israeli Parliament he is of course the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit jerusalem so the u. S. President donald trump made the declaration in december of israel recognition of jerusalem as israels capital the decision to. The American Embassy and israel from hell of being to traverse them pens delayed his tour of the middle east that was to take place in december until now this is his third stop on the tour hes already been to egypt and met with president adam fatha alfy see second stop was jordan where he met with King Abdullah and of course that very controversial decision. Of recognizing jerusalem as israels capital was brought up between both leaders he has received a very well from unsurprisingly israel and as we can see he is about to address harmony to address the Israeli Knesset. Because one correspondent terry will such as we wait for the wait for the Vice President s address so as were seeing harry he has been welcomed very warmly and israel. What did to him and Prime Minister netanyahu talk about. Well they. Did it for their discussions before he came here and as you heard in that clip he was very clear to say that the United States recognizes jerusalem as the capital that he was founded a great honor to be in israels capital jerusalem that is something that the Prime Minister of israel reciprocated saying that this was the first time in hundreds of meetings with foreign leaders that both he and his guest had been able to call israel jerusalem israels capital that is language that im sure he will use again in this speech is also likely to speak about the wider picture in the region this is an administration which is very closely allied in terms of its view of the region with this particular right wing israeli go. I meant and so theres a lot of shared territory for them to go over and indeed publicly promote during this visit but the visit is also a very stark illustration of the divide between not very close relationship and the kind of relationship that the palestinians have with this trumpet ministration was only a year ago but there was a lot of positivity about the prospects of a trump peace plan by this very particular u. S. President the palestinian leadership was talking about its relationship in washington that it was trying to build now fast forward a year later and we have this situation of a complete disjunct between the palestinians and the u. S. Administration Mahmoud Abbas in europe looking for other potential frameworks for any kind of a Peace ProcessGoing Forward the palestinians saying that there is no prospect of the United States involvement despite what mike pence has been saying during this trip the United States is still in favor of a two state solution if both sides were to agree to one and as youre saying the the welcome from the israeli and kays members of the knesset has largely been extremely warm what were expecting from the Israeli Palestinian members the joint arab list as its known is for them to get up and simply walk out one very Senior Member of that of that joint arab list saying that essentially donald trump and mike pence the u. S. Administration can no longer be part of the solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict it is part of the problem and how have we had any more talk at all about this you know great deal that u. S. President donald trump has promised that hes working on for his antiair presidency have we had any more news of that are we expecting anything from the Vice President on this visit on their plans. I mean the Vice President himself despite the fact that hes talking about the two state solution still being on the table as far as the United States is concerned again with this code or so that the Trump Administration has been very. I apologize we have lost our connection. And harry force that at the knesset where Vice President mike pence is about to speak i believe we can go to our correspondent and. Is live for us so whats been the reaction there and ron to the u. S. Vice president s visit. Well i have to say its been very very subdued theres been very few protests that taken place there were a couple of demonstrations this morning in gaza city most notably led by women but generally speaking gazans are really ignoring this visit because they have bigger problems the economy here is about to collapse the Business Community have held a strike to try to highlight that fact also theyre very concerned about the fact that the u. S. Is withhold withheld story sixty five Million Dollars in aid to Palestinian Refugees to the United NationsRelief Works Agency and then just a couple days later and then sort of this withholding another forty five Million Dollars in food aid now theyre all one point one million palestinians here in the calls this trip that rely on that food to date so theres a lot of concern here but politically speaking hamas have actually reacted they said they dont going to engage in the visit and they reaffirmed their rights to resist the occupation a lot of palestinian politicians lot of Palestinian People who are involved in negotiations will tell you that the u. S. Is now no longer a Peace Program thats what you hear that the u. S. Is now part of the conflict because of recognizing jerusalem as israels capital so weve got a lot of things going on when it comes to what ordinary palestinians what but the the peace visit really isnt one of them has genuinely been ignored here its about how gazans are living day to day because of the now decade long israeli siege. All right and im actually very much for that as. Hey is live for us in gaza. And as weve been saying were covering it we have extended coverage of the u. S. Vice president mike pence is visit to israel as part of his tour of the region where hes first started egypt and then went on to jordan and while the Vice President is in israel the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is in brussels so lets go live to brussels now because thats where our correspondent john king is covering the palestinian president s visit for us so what does nothing with abbas have planned what will he be looking for from european Foreign Ministers from the Foreign Policy chief federica moderating. Well elizabeth there is thats a true targets from this visit as far as really understand the first essentially is something a message even before prince his mouth and that is the fact that he decided to make this trip while mike pence was in jerusalem in palestine in order to essentially ensure that the u. S. Administration got the message very clearly from the Palestinian Authority that not only did the palestinian or thought you know want to meet with senior officials somebody like the Vice President or while they were on the on the visit to the region but also that they no longer accepted the United States as a broker in this decade strong conflict the second maybe aim from this trip is to try and explore or diversify the Palestinian Authoritys options when it comes to political negotiations and its role within the International Community israel understanding was we know. The u. S. Has been pivotal in ensuring the protestant you know story not only received some funds and. Backing but also was present in the discussions that took place internationally now that thats not taken. Theyre not on the same page so to speak as to how to move forward. The particular authorities given to what has also been a significant partner maybe not as strong as the United States but still very significant say in the European Union our boss will be speaking to the twenty eight member Foreign Ministers as well as obviously. To discuss ways in order to maybe push for some sort of a solution but what our bus is main challenges is essentially trying to find not only find an alternative politically but one that is acceptable to his people in the end of the day youve had a political process thats gone on for more than through decades that says its high points of signing deals on the white house lawn in terms of the oslo agreements and others but realistically has brought about very little change through the day to day life of a people that have been under occupation for decades on end and now added to that occupation over the past ten fifteen years youve had other major issues that have challenge them be it the siege on gaza be it several crackdowns into fathers and other things that have taken place and obviously the almost by and you will war that israel decides to wage be its on gaza two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve two thousand and fourteen and other things in between so what our boss really needs to do is he needs to come to the European Union and come away with a pledge on one hand that the e. U. Would still negotiate and would still engage with the Palestinian Authority politically but on the other hand come back to his people and say ok yes maybe the political process through the United States has failed in that the u. S. Has decided to recognize illegally occupied drizzling as israeli land in spite of obviously the u. N. Resolutions that very much consider it to be occupied. So yes the political process has failed as far as washington is concerned but the e. U. Now is willing to engage maybe come up with a new road toward some sort of final status negotiations but this is the first step in what would be much much very very long process if you only what were hearing so. Popular elizabeth is that there may be willing to try and offer some sort of bilateral trade deal between the pier and the European Union some sort of economic incentive to try and bring the p. A. To negotiations with the israelis but weve seen that happen before through tony blair or the quartet some other things where they offer some sort of small autonomic incentive but on the ground really makes no difference at all or thank you very much for that and we are waiting to hear from palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and brussels we will go back to. What. Theres Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu with Vice President mike pence surplus then. You know. So as Prime Minister netanyahu addresses the Israeli Knesset lets go to our correspondent for certain herriot jamal. Talking about the palestinian president s plans you know seeking out someone to possibly replace the United States where the end its role as a mediator in the Peace Process which the palestinians will no longer accept because of that u. S. Decision on jerusalem and yet you have the Vice President on this trip continuing to say that theyre still ready to negotiate to be a mediator what is mike pence trying to achieve on this visit do you think obviously hes welcomed by the israelis but do they are they hearing what the palestinians are saying do they really still see a role for themselves in this Peace Process. Well if they cant. But here what the palestinians are saying theyve been utterly clear about it almost since the moment that the declaration was out of Donald Trumps mouth on december the sixth that they no longer see the United States as a potential mediator however the u. S. Has invested a huge amount of time and effort in laying the groundwork for a trump peace plan which it still says its going to unveil in the early part of this year so for whatever reason that the the administration felt it had to make this declaration as it did i think we can hear Benjamin Netanyahu actually the background if you want to carry yes say im going to interrupt you here because of a less than a now. In america. And his Vice President you have stood shoulder to shoulder with president from with you. So have harry while im going to come back to you while we wait again for the Vice President. Yes. Issues there with Benjamin Netanyahu but as i was saying that the u. S. Is still in this position where it has this peace plan that it wants to unveil at some stage they say early in this new year and so the. Vice president mike pence cannot but say that we are still involved in this we still want if the two sides agree to be there to to facilitate a two state solution but it does really demonstrate that the utter separation between that position and the palestinian reaction to what they saw as this hugely consequential insult really to their aspirations of nationhood and of having East Jerusalem as their capital side by side with an israeli state a palestinian state alongside that written in the in the minutes before the speech this whole. Ordo was filled with israeli members of the knesset and indeed Israeli Palestinian members of the knesset and that disjunct really was was very clear to see that of course right wingers were here saying that the whole idea of the us declaration should be some the palestinians should have capitalized on that this was. Very clear of all of the u. S. Backing of israel is true of jerusalem as israels capital of making that clear and that was the time that the palestinians shouldve really used that clarity in some way unclear exactly how to then pursue their own claims to to a palestinian state and use the United States influence in some way to help that happen the leader in the knesset of the Zionist Union the main opposition bloc told us in slightly more nuanced language that he was here to really warmly welcomed this very close friend of israel although its interesting that the u. S. Vice president didnt want to meet with the israeli opposition leaders hes really suring up what is already an extremely close relationship between the administration and the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu but he was talking inside a more nuanced ways about the need to try and go again so a recognition of the i think the damage done in december and as far as the Israeli Palestinian and k. s that the joint arab list they were saying that look were going to stand up were going to walk out that this has to be very clear that the current u. S. Administration the trumpet ministration has no part to play in any potential solution to this conflict and so really it was clear here that there is this this huge difference in understanding between even mainstream israeli political opinion and what the palestinians view as as having been a total end to any u. S. Involvement in the