In this court filing recesses children now aged 20 and 21 with being hildas what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senators concerns in a letter to senator leahy it described. As a valued partner to the u. S. Government working closely with the u. S. To ensure the safety of americans and saudis it also states that any persecution of algebras family members is unacceptable adding that it has made repeated requests to the saudi government about the status of his son and daughter. He was an advisor to the previous crown Prince Mohammed bin i hear that in his court filing he says he left saudi arabia because he feared what would happen if and when muhammad been summoned took over the state Department Says its concerned about the alleged activities that resulted in algebras exile to canada it says that any saudi accusations of wrongdoing against him must be and i quote address through established legal channels with full transparency and respect for the rule of law interpol rejected a saudi request for algebras arrest saying it was rooted in political and not criminal grounds president trampas continued to express his support for the Saudi Crown Prince despite the repeated allegations of Human Rights Violations describing him as an ally and friend but increasingly this is very much at odds with the prevailing view in Congress Mike hanna aljazeera washington lebanese president michel aoun has launched an investigation into tuesdays devastating explosion in beirut he says the blast which killed at least 157 people could have been caused either by negligence or external interference by governments facing widespread anger over accusations of mismanagement and corruption. U. S. President donald trump says hell be joining other World Leaders on a Donor Conference call for lebanon on sunday he also said aid from america is already on its way at 3 pm this afternoon and spoke with president. Of lebanon to inform him that 3 large aircraft are on the are on the way and there are fully loaded fully loaded with medical supplies food water and many other things. Lots of emergency equipment also 1st responders technicians doctors and nurses are on their way 17 people have died after a plane crashed on landing in india the Air India Express jet broke into what it overshot the runway at an airport in the southern catalysed state it was bringing indian nationals home from dubai weve been stuck overseas because of the pandemic. But as areas has begun causing thousands of jobs because of the impact of the pandemic many of those who remain will face steep pay cuts and lose benefits but as airways says more than 6000. 00 workers applied for voluntary redundancy the u. S. Is imposing sanctions on the leader of the Hong Kong Government in the territories callant and former Police Chiefs among 11 officials targeted sanctions were prompted by president trumps executive order last month and a bit to punish china over a sweeping National Security of all imposed on hong kong and those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the new job means goodbye. My name is wrong. Im a newspaper editor and syrian Asylum Seeker in germany. I arrived in this country in 2014 a new asylum law dictated that i should live in cologne and that evil german city that ive come to love. Im one of nearly a 1000000 ethnic arabs who have come to germany since 2015 freend war and violence back home. Initially we received a warm reception by the germans but what happened here in this square on new years eve 2015 when young men said to be arab were accused of robbing and attacking german women brought that welcoming to an end. German police encountered distraught women and girls who reported fights thefts and sexual assaults against women by groups of male immigrants. Life here has not been the same since that night. There widespread calls to halt the entry of arab refugees and the party of chancellor Angela Merkel who championed the cause of refugees is losing votes in the polls. How do we stay here and how do we survive learning german is my 1st essential task. Arabs began coming to germany in the late 1950 s. There were nearly half a 1000000 arabs already here when the most recent influx began. Why did they come here. Were they welcomed. How did they survive what has become of them. Im preoccupied with understanding the historical relationship between arabs and germany. Klaus leg of a is a professor of Cultural Studies an advisor to the German Government on Islamic Affairs the. Monsoon notes from fitzgibbon im annoyed. And visits a slant on a pulley djs of any ted are not done. To connect. After his defeat in world war 2 germany was occupied by foreign powers something many arab countries have experienced throughout history. Stanzel the us. Inspires on the. Ends of world and i put it take them to the scope of the kind of political. Game much fun in kaiser and so fan it is and it will solve all of us done. From the top there come a funny business in lloyd said he had taken. To the engineer of a. Comfy diddy and. In 1960 the German Academic Exchange service opened that 2nd Foreign Office of the postwar era in cairo egypt. Using the promise of free Higher Education germany specifically courted arab students for its universities with the aim of supplementing its ranks of white collar workers and professionals who had been decimated in the war. I met had come out to lead the shortly after i arrived here he lives in the suburbs of cologne and the scene as a mentor to young arab journalists in the country he came here to study economics in 1958 ww a lot of money i couldnt. 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Believe that who have the had you know my lady when i can is admin ang hello maybe you could overstay mean with a hello make good or be in a hurry. At the turn of the 20th century germany was in colonial competition with france and england. As a result it created alliances with countries wishing to end french or British Colonial rule. In 1005. 00 the german cars are threw his support behind moroccos bid for independence and to underscore that position the kaiser made a state visit to morocco that year. Germany lost 8000000 citizens to world war 2 and faced the postwar years with a severe manpower shortage. To rebuild germany needed men and negotiated guest worker agreements with countries across Southern Europe and by the mid 1960 s. Morocco and tunisia. Shift boss sabri a german of tunisian descent. Ive been a spiritual guide to many arabs who came from north africa since the 1960 s. But that. Is. The statement from my home. Stereo well im your. Mother. Jenny. Hamel. 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Since the beginning germany was a country from the creation and he want to show the creations from the fiftys up to now when he see a little bit how people were coming how they would see fit and what was the view from the german side as well on these guest workers who are coming. All ready in the sixtys germany had the same to cream in a cream and so with with my rocor and 2 music right with turkey so that came already as well and from tunisia as well but basically from morocco guest workers it passed a little bit a notice. Me train with them and you know it was some whole invisible but is interesting for me also to see how the people tried and im damon try to do to invoke themselves in that Political Movement some to ask for that rights and. That is what we wanted to show here as well that the migrants were in tier like then its not something that you only can talk about but they have and wants to so we show on this side we showed when we have here in the opposition that is one of the voice of the my concern here as well the wards of. The discussion in the German Society with all the fears and. Prejudice and already in the in the in the eightys the ship is full and here we have a sense that its fascinating. Character to chose the current dorm the cathedral in cologne surrounded by minarets so representing the fear of a completely overwhelming that. Movement in germany and that is 4986. Despite islamophobia dating back decades the overall attitude towards foreigners in germanys is still inclusive in de mass indium yet stiffish thing in mass and after scenes in the news for fellow hero and sylvester gave him how to shoot him with a stack of kept that also would a game like that in. The exhibit 0 tax cuts here. In 2015 Frank Walter Steinmeier germanys foreign minister explained to government critics that with a shrinking workforce and an aging population the German Economy needed the manpower refugees could provide. German trains are a lifeline in my search for fellow arabs across this past country. Analyst and. Maddy allaire we came to cologne to study sociology in 1902 hes an activist trying to stop deportations of young arabs and the aftermath of the cologne new years eve events close to 20 have already been deported and 2 arrested. Yeah yeah yeah. That was a donor of money at about. The what the world know about me at the bat. Oh the. Mossad. Yeah. The queen. And how he. Let the. What the cable done with. His. Maties words reflect my own belief that our exile may be rooted in our nations lack of democratic rights and responsibilities. In the small town of copelands just outside cologne a syrian refugee couple have settled in the countryside. I want to know how they are doing out there in the german woods. And you know sort of. In the way in farsi. They have. Houses. In the exact are somehow. So my you spend several months in an apartment in cologne and hated that. Imagine a candidate about iran for. A full. Year any markdown feel. Like me im on as im a deputy im on you guys and didnt diminish my asshole and. How does she ever get for money back. As it is just a yup. White kid and im not going here saudi you submissive was the one with the real hi nicky the dad can im ali. Abdullah and so may i have differing views on raising their daughter and the possibility of returning to syria. In effect could be a promise and a lottery although some of. Them to simulate most the hard muslim one in kenya that must have a message to it thats what im about. Right. Now are you right here dr gaby viber is a german physician and one of the founders of cafe palestina a Cultural Organization promoting arab and Palestinian Issues in the Southern City of hi brooke. When she found out about my newspaper she invited me to come and meet members of the Arab Community there including her own family. Im glad gaby speaks very good english because for me doing an interview in german is still very difficult. So you see we have all different kinds of things people from the region they are selling their products and. You know they work in the field steering that we can this is the ok shoes for them to to come and sell also to make some profit and people love to come here because the atmosphere is very special. Going on i think up to palestine we have been lets say there were times where we have been between 5 and 10 women who are doing a lot of things they 6 years we did more than one to 120. 00 events and here is the. One. Hand. On the table. So i decided that the from the end. Was this is around me and that. Gaby introduces me to a german palestinian im going to gyptian friend over coffee in the sky book market cafe. The mystery of what happened to germanys earlier our community is about to unravel before my eyes. I mean how dad was born in germany to a palestinian father and a german colombian mother. Im in the comfort of god beavers garden he explains his relationship with his are a parrot age the nice thing about it is that my father was able to transmit through music his love and his appreciation to his own culture so it was really always a living the arabic culture is very emotionally attached and with the food and with this nice combination of sharing Community Food music art that was basically you know im able to feel like an arab feel like a south american or feel like a european like a german of course my name sometimes they would make a little bit fun because its like me asylum mia salami you know the salami you know they exempted kids would Say Something about it but i was laughing at it too i mean i made the best of his multi ethnic heritage his experience gives me hope get his daughter marry mock you like is also another half german half arab child of an earlier arab immigrant like never and thats in german you know you know. Just. Dish but. In this especially assamese. Mislead us into a freedom a sewer palestinians are as affable in the promise you know. And you also. Saw mine leave. Some except sash they are so. Have i dont mind a foreign and im not. Only still finish. Me off. But i shouted stunt of the and. My part is to you know. Im like i mean maybe im faced considerable prejudiced at school. Hes been on all cylinders and i wasnt just meet him hes been this interview and to come nates minus from media. On my mommas its not so hows. Dispiriting endorsement is on s. S. Man in my mother and i was tortured so many gang is so bizarre. My mama scabby reba its been. A listen or. Beyond. The difficulties maybe im faced growing up here me pause for thought. Im beginning to realize that the journey of germanys arabs as a times been a painful one. How was it. Difficult i think it started at that time picture of. People who are not. Being fanatics like today also. What made it difficult for me was the environment and fear of my parents and trying to manipulate and influence me and at a certain time to kick me out of the house. And. It was very heavy of want to go to children they have named me. First and last which was also a big problem for my parents they wanted them to be have to german last name at least and they asked me all the time why do you choose arabic names they have names they live in germany. They should consider being germans it makes it not easy for them as well sometimes in school or even if they apply for jobs and so. They can have a disadvantage of course with names. Came to germany in 1980 to train as a psychotherapist his motives father and gardens exhusband. You saw the miners or money on a money out there yet when i lived. In the match from which the amount of money said youd been. Im of iraq that had the. Money and can she and force on the other side gun it in the beaches did a stop in marriage and i can at the nest make them a few no more damage to the terrified little asian i asked him how he perceives the identity of his children a sort of a what must. You know and if. So which to me in the kind of between your dorm a small money at the powell and a little small town in the middle easts in. Money at the good ole good but. If you want to help save the world. Sneeze enduro. Kervyn daintiness you know war of words escalate between the us and china all challenge us general Robert Spaulding and british diplomat and also kerry brown on whether the west is entering into a new cold war with china in a special edition of head to head you want to travel ban on china to match the muslim to quite stark proposal we need a stricter vetting process is the tide finally turning against beijing we have a china centric world and then a world which is not china centric head to head on out his iraq history has called it the great war in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the. World war. On aljazeera one half scottish and half lebanese so diversity is really important to me and aljazeera is the most diverse place ive ever worked so we have so many different nationalities and this is a nice book together in this one Nice Organization and this diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on and thats a key strength of aljazeera. Oh. Im about this in in doha the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. State department is spoken out in defense of a former top sidey intelligence agent who was allegedly targeted in a foreign assassination attempt its described sagal jabali as a valued part them being filed a lawsuit in washington d. C. On thursday accusing the saudi crown